Over the last few dogs days of summer 2008, Italy’s OvO and Canada’s Nadja got together in their adoptive city of Berlin at Einstürzende Neubauten’s andereBaustelle Studio. With engineer Boris Wilsdorf at the board, each duo began two songs and had the other duo finish them, Bruno and Stefania adding heavy, pounding rhythms and harsh, eerie vocals to Aidan and Leah’s ambient textures and bass-heavy drones. The album, while still heavy and still retaining signature sounds of both groups, turned out mellower than either band expected. But this mellowness gives the songs a greater sense of presence and allows for the intricacies and nuances of each individual’s contributions to be properly heard. With a final mastering by James Plotkin, this album sounds simultaneously harsh and lush, aggressive and warm. Having coffee after the sessions in the back garden, a wasp drugged on sugar flew into Leah’s coffee cup and drowned itself, traumatizing everyone at the table. Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl.

• All Nadja Titles
• All OvO Titles
• All LP / 12" Vinyl

First vinyl LP release on CX Records, Italy. Ultra bleak monotonous analogue synth mass from MB, everybody's dear noise grandad, and haunting subtle horror music from not-so-newcomer Cris X. The LP features new and exclusive tracks - a dark and deep experimental masterpiece. "Isolated in a fully aware immobility, the dramatic intensity of this unhealthy and plain sonorous document, provides peculiar experimental characteristics connected with animated views of a post-modern technology converging into a modulated transportation of collapsed particles" (M.B.). Pure Italian black quality! Ltd x 300 copies in a glossy sleeve with 2 inserts. Few copies in stock - ACT FAST!

• All Maurizio Bianchi Titles
• All Cris X Titles
• All LP / 12" Vinyl

"Fabrication 2" is the sequel to "Fabrication”, the first collaboration between Richard Chartier and Asmus Tietchens released in 2007 (Die Stadt). Whereas for the first collaboration the idea developed from the project around reinterpretations of Chartier’s "Postfabricated”, this time the efforts were directly focused on the reinterpretation of specific basic sound material. This material can be found on the first disc of "Prefabrication 2″, which was constructed by Richard Chartier alone in Montreal and Washington, DC. "Fabrication 2″ is the reworking of this sonic basis by Asmus Tietchens. Whereas the first CD has traces of subtle dematerialised rhythmic structures, the second disc is a study in minimalism and concentrated sound manipulation. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digifile, with original artwork by Richard Chartier.

• All Asmus Tietchens Titles
• All Richard Chartier Titles
• All Auf Abwegen Titles

A really stand apart Luasa Raelon recording, so well-conceived and composed. This 40-minute long journey is inspired by the art of Bocklin, Caspar David Friedrich, Fulci and classic B&W horror movies. Very well-crafted Dark Ambient / blackened Death Industrial sounds, for fans of Lustmord, Wilt etc. Ltd x 500 copies.

• All Luasa Raelon Titles
• All Fatal Beliefs Titles

Droning Ritual Dark Ambient.  All tracks were recorded at live session back in December 2007 with only natural acoustic instruments: 3 dung chen, ting gzhang, lag rnga, drill bu, rkang gling, damaru, Tibetan singing bowls, physharmonium, bells and chimes. All music perfomed by 121 & Vishudha Kali (Andrei Bulin / Komarov). Throat singing & Shree Ishopanishad Divine Mantra chanting by Vishudha Kali (Andrei Bulin / Komarov). This album is dedicated to devotees of ancient times, explorers of the Eternity and of the reverse side of being. People are coming and passing away, life is too short, and the secret of Nature is still transcendent - impossible to be understood. Ltd x 976 copies in a foldout card sleeve. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

• All Velehentor Titles
• All Vishudha Kali Titles
• All Closing The Eternity Titles
• All Vegvisir Music Titles

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TENHORNEDBEAST | Hunts & Wars
CD(CSR130CD)
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MACHINEFABRIEK | Daas
CD (CSR128CD)
£9 / £10 / £11 [ MP3 ] | [ MP3 ]

Shipping: 19th April
TenHornedBeast’s third album for Cold Spring was recorded from 2006-2009. This album introduces subtle changes to the established THB sound with delicate interludes separating longer tracks that rage with heavy distortion and doom-drone barbarism. "Hunts & Wars” progresses the established THB sound using leaden, sub-tuned bass guitar to create rhythms and riffs that dominate a battlefield of vast ritual percussion and droning walls of electric dissonance, creating epic and expansive textures that by turns burn with frost and freeze with fire. Presented in a 6-panel digipak designed by graphic designer Kevin Yuen (Sunn O))), Wolves In The Throne Room).

Shipping: 19th April
The tracks on "Daas" have been carefully picked to form a provoking, haunting journey. What the tracks have in common is a sense of nostalgic graininess. As with the music of Philip Jeck, The Caretaker or William Basinski, these tracks are full of degrading melodies and dusty ambience. 'Daas' is the previously unreleased opening track of the album, and features contributions by the great Richard Skelton. 'Flotter', 'Koploop' and 'Grom' were previously available on small run self released EPs, while 'Onkruid' was a track previously released on 'A Room Forever', as an expensive and extremely limited 12" boxset. All are now brough to a wider audience. Presented in a matt laminate digipak.