A great shame that the German sound artist Rolf Julius died in January 2011, a fact which I have overlooked
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Aethyrvorous (self-titled demo): an intense and deeply committed immersion in the black art
Aethyrvorous, self-titled, self-released cassette tape (2009) While looking at something else on Youtube.com, I glanced to the right-hand side of
Continue readingBreed in Me the Darkness: demon hybrid child needs to spread its wings and rejoice in full satanic blackened noise glory
Sutekh Hexen and Andrew Liles, Breed in Me the Darkness, Aurora Borealis Records, cassette (2012) (NB Album scheduled for
Continue readingFragments from the Aethyr: black ambient experimental soundscapes teamed with near-hysterical solo violin wanderings
Funerary Call, Fragments from the Aethyr, Crucial Blast Records, CD CBR100 (2012) A celebration is in order for Crucial Blast Records
Continue readingMiniature Candies
The Replace (EDITION DEGEM DEGEM CD10) compilation was put together by Marc Behrens for a Berlin label. He poses pointed
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Got another couple of outlandish cassettes from Bryan Lewis Saunders which arrived 12 April 2012. I will declare an interest
Continue readingMonopoles and Nightingales Walk these Hills
Nothing’s Gonna Touch Ya Nice modern instrumental music from Trapist on The Golden Years (STAUBGOLD DIGITAL 19). This is the
Continue readingThe Talking Animals
Fuck 2012 by Spirit Animals is a double disc set in a screenprinted wallet. All nicely home-made and very well-presented
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Last heard from Parisian-based electroacoustic musician Éric Cordier in 2009, with a batch of items from his own Prêle Records
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Roxy Music Mark Vernon has created entertaining and witty radiophonic records as one half of Vernon & Burns, and has
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