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Polish version

:: new in distro ::

TROUM - "Autopoisies / Nahtscato"

HOROLOGIUM - "A Handful of Dust and Ashes"

SEELENLICHT - "Love And Murder"

MAAAA - "Sampo Distortion"

MAAAA - "Decay and Demoralization"

ARDITI - "Standards of Triumph"

JOB KARMA - "Punkt"

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI "Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript)"

CYCLOTIMIA - "Music for Stockmarkets"

CYCLOTIMIA - "Styx"

CYCLOTIMIA - "TimeBank"

CYCLOTIMIA - "Deja Vu"

CYCLOTIMIA - "New Death Order"

V/A - "RED SYNDROME act.1: 1966~1976"

GOL DOLAN - "The Traces of Mist"

BAISHUI - "Yu Lai"

L'EFFET C'EST MOI - "Les Voix De L'Apocalypse"

M.O.T.T - "Архипелаг Гулаг"

DEMONS THAT DROVE - "Kraft"

ATARAXIA - "Cavaleiros Do Templo (Live in Portugal) Re Edition"

AMYGDALA - "Memento Mori"

EONIC - "Secret Land"

ANTHESTERIA - "Phobos 1953 (OST)"

NOISE OF RUSSIA - "Humility"

NOISE OF RUSSIA - "Experimental Structure"

SISTER LOOLOMIE - "Signals"

I.M.M.U.R.E. - "The New Circle"

AIDAN BAKER THE INFANT CYCLE - "Rural Sprawl"

ÜL - "III"

TOPOGRAFIA - "Genius Loci"

TAPHEPHOBIA - "Access To A World Of Pain"

ROME - "Nos Chants Perdus" digibook CD + T-shirts [Limited Collector’s Set]

SUMMONING THE ELDER ONES - "A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft by KZERIA & IGNIIS"

AMBIGUOUS - "Stone Cross"

DISHARMONY - "Malignant shields"

DISHARMONY - "Evolution"

SIEBEN - "Star Wood Brick Firmament"

GRUNT - "Petturien Rooli"

CONTAGIOUS ORGASM - "Thin Skinned"

EGOPROBLEM (Lasse Marhaug) - "Exit/tape/Kill"

SMELL & QUIM - "The Christmas Album"

SMELL & QUIM - "A Sod's as good as a wank to a blind arse"

STREICHER - "Hammerskins / Der Sturmer / 90's compilations"

VON THRONSTAHL / THE DAYS OF THE TRUMPET CALL "Pessoa / Cioran"

YARN - "Eraltet Gott"

YAROVIT – "Simargl`s Call"

INITIAL CHAOS – "Ego Splitting"

INTERIOR DISPOSITION "Taedium Vitae"

OBOZDUR – "Winter Canabinol Essence"

OPUS NIGRUM - "Journey In The Dark"

JARBOE – "Alchemic"

STEREOCAINE – "We are the Clay"

HOARFROST & INNER VISION LABORATORY - "Decline"

:: N E W S ::

:: !! attention !! ::

We add new e-mail address: beastofprey@op.pl

:: !! New Beast Of Prey releases !! ::

DREDDUP

"El Conquistadors"

digipack CD 2010

/ industrial / post-rock / machine sounds /

DREDDUP is an industrial, machine, dynamic, and energetic project from Serbia. It is a rare occasion to see a project from the Balkans on the European market. DREDDUP has huge creative potential, and its performances are particularly dynamic, which places it in the forefront of the European industrial scene. Their truly apocalyptic lyrics touch on subjects such as time, transience and existence.

'El Conquistadors' gives you 70 minutes of hardcore, dynamic industrial/rock music similar in fashion to Einstürzende Neubauten, The Young Gods, or Laibach. It is their third album, and it constitutes the last part of the trilogy preoccupied with the notion of time. 'El Conquistadors' tells a story of the here and now and of the boundaries of the human soul.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present a cry from the Balkans, a manifesto of the realm of machines, dust and rust...

This 70-minute album contains 15 tracks and is available in a
full-colour Digipak. Edition of 500 copies.

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INNER VISION LABORATORY

"Anywhere out of the World"

digipack CD 2010

/ dark deep ambient / darksounds /

This new album by a Polish group explores the phenomenon of Ambient music. The project's use of surround sound, its combination of various styles and field recording methods makes it characteristic and easily recognizable. 'Anywere Out Of This World' will take you on an amazing journey into the world created by INNER VISION LABORATORY, a journey which will inspire your heart and spirit. This journey resonates with echoing sounds and folk songs invariably connected to Mother Earth. This album has a spirit - the spirit of Earth.

On 'Anywhere Out Of This World' you will find perfectly arranged and well-balanced ambient compositions, spatial collages underpinned by folklore, which emphasizes the album's specific nature. As usual, suitable piano parts reflect the record's character.

This over-50-minute album contains 11 tracks and is available in a full-colour Digipak. Edition of 500 copies. The album should appeal to those who enjoy tranquil, diverse, dark-ambient sounds similar in fashion to Raison D'etre, Desiderii Marginis, Asmorod, etc.

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Paweł Zaremba

"SEZON KULTURALNY W SODOMIE"

book 2010

/ literature - the volume of the poetry /

Format: Book A5

Language: only Polish

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:: releases Beast Of Prey ::

	GROBBING THRISTLE
	"Hidden Strategies" CD 2009
	/ experimental ambient / noise with postindustrial /
	Who would expect that under the name Grobbing Thristle are hidden mutated clones of Genesis P. Orridge, will be surprised by the amount of sound strategies used by the Poznań's ensemble.
Despite that GT knowingly place themselves in continuum named by the creations of 20 Jazz Funk Greats”, their noise-electronic collages with every listening bring new musical universes. On one of the levels Grobbing Thristle play steel symphony of postindustrial earthy Inferno. Noisy wind of clicks, cracks, laptop grinds, insect like microsamples and psychotic looped vocals lead into paranoic world like in novels of Philipa K.Dicka. The thing that scares here the most is by paradox, the most common and accustom element - voice. The words "...So yes I have to go now, so bye bye..." opening the album sound like a goodbye before descending into the abyss. But this is a hell of cybernetic robots - this is a music that brings pain. Fortunately for artistic might of the recordings GT knows how to dose it.

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	ATUM
	"Legendy Miejskie" CD 2009
	/ dark ambient / darkdrone /
	The best album in Beast Of Prey!
"Legendy miejskie / Urban Legends", the latest album by ATUM, has just arrived! "Urban Legends", arguably one of the strongest titles of the Beast of Prey label, is an extraordinary album, composed mostly of field recordings registered in Jaworzno, the home town of ATUM. It is an attempt at reconstructing the surroundings in order to distill something that eludes the every-day experience. Despite its private character, the message of the Legends is universal as well. Everyone of us passes dozens of places we think are "tamed", places seemingly devoid of meaning. Just a little effort is what it takes to dispel this illusion. Musically, the album is rather varied. It's a combination of field recordings, drones, whispers, and sounds of different acoustic instruments. The purpose is to reveal the oneiric dark side of the surrounding world. Guests such as Infamis (acoustic guitar), Tomasz K, Rafał Pach, and Piotr U (the author's friends from Jaworzno) contributed to the making of the album.

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:: ! News in distro / catalog ! ::

!! NEW PATCHES !!


	"Triskel"		"Hands of God"


	"Chaos Star"		"Pentagram"

Black patch in the shape of the disk, height - 8 cm, width -6 cm, sewn with white thread and with grey thread the folia.

"MACHINE" (laibach) Grey patch - black thread - round 8 cm.

Black, height-11cm, width-8cm, sewn with white thread.

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:: ! New items in catalog ! ::

TROUM - "Autopoisies/Nahtscato" digipack CD 2010 (Zoharum Records) Two elder vinyls first time on CD. These vinyls materials aren't unvailable. Packaged in exclusive 3-panel digipack.

HOROLOGIUM - "A Handful of Dust and Ashes" digipack CD 2010 (Zoharum Records) „A Handful of Dust and Ashes” is a collection of tracks recorded during various occasions, but united here by a peculiar sediment of dust and rust; it’s a journey in time to strictly limited “A Handful of Dust”, published by Cynfeirdd, and to “Opium”, amounts of which are long sold out and yearned for by those in search of lost time. The (re)collection is crowned by three tracks performed live in Barcelona and Bologna in 2008 and 2009. The artwork by Fab and Sophie embody fin de siècle that has never been that convincing and tangible. Packaged in 3-panel digipack in new design

SEELENLICHT - "Love And Murder" digipack CD 2010 (Trutzburg Thule) Two years after the debut album, "Gods & Devils", Butow Maler (Kammer Sieben) and Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R.) present "Love and Murder". Accompanied by psychedelic guitar riffs, this album is far more song-based than their debut and follows the neoclassical path with sophistication and dynamism. From the social abyss of humanity and bittersweet murder ballads, to dark rune-prayers and the absurdity and brutality of World War I upon the bloody fields of Flanders�"Love and Murder" also devotes attention to Romantic literature by setting to music the poetry of Novalis and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Guests including Dev (While Angels Watch), Josef K. (Von Thronstahl) and Wulf Ingessunu (Woden's Folk) complete the apocalyptic cocktail of darkfolk and neoclassical music. Digipak with booklet.

MAAAA - "Sampo Distortion" digipack CD 2010 24919 Records) New album of ex-Karelian project Maaaa, now residing in Warsaw. Maaaa has created completely pitiless thing, both in sound and in it's sense. The mythical coffee-grinder of Kalevala like mighty annihilator rises from the bottom of the sea and grinds all this ugly world of evil and progress down. "Everything crashes, at out place everything crashes, here, now and then" - as one unknown lady said. And she was right, "Sampo Distortion" comes to you! This is a real CD, digipack with 4 pages insert. Limited to 500 copies.

MAAAA - "Decay and Demoralization" CD 2010 (Mid Flare Media) MAAAA comes at you with 6 tracks well over 60 minutes in length. This stuff is harsh and without a doubt the most extreme band coming out of Poland's underground today. Decay and Demoralization includes tons of power electronics and bizarre recordings that create an odd, otherworldly atmosphere stuck in a white noise frenzy. Banging metal, shrieking, dying, the cover of this album should say it all. These guys like to take the energy of punk rock and fuse it with noise, creating a sound all their own. An excellent showcase of what's to come.

ARDITI - "Standards of Triumph" Digipak CD (Equilibrium Music) - Boasting the unique personality of this Swedish combo, "Standards of Triumph" taps further into the darker tones of Militaristic Neo-Classical ambiance that has become the band's trademark, resulting in their strongest effort so far - ever effective in their use of crushing orchestrations and evocative speeches, Arditi hereby drags the listener around muddy trenches, leaving aside overly pompous festive marches or alcohol fueled merry bunker songs which seem to have become the norm as of late, and casting an hypnotizing veil over the turmoil of warfare-inspired Industrial soundscapes.

JOB KARMA - "Punkt" digipack CD 2010 (Obuh Records) Those who follow post-industrial music know well (or at
least they should know) the name of JOB KARMA. We present with utmost pleasure a still-hot fresh album of this merited duo, who are gradually becoming the spearhead of landscapists of the genre. These two brave-hearted boosters of post-industrial tradition are now forging hit by hit 8 well-shaped and perversely tuneful pieces, which form an ideal soundtrack for an apocalyptic soap opera that eats up bits of our lives every now and then. Escape from...but where? Everywhere is the same in the giant guts of the mechanical Leviathan. Cosmos serves more and more dark lards from the frighteningly far galactic preserves, the black hole gets bigger and bigger. But do not be afraid. The Mind Grinding and Oppression Machine (the fearful MGOM), choking and wheezing with its own enormity, gets jammed and broken more and more often. Somewhere in a System bowels a new Snake Plissken is born. The fight goes on. As ever. And me... Well, I recommend to you the most sensational album this Spring. Covered as it should be, in a three-fold digipack with a phenomenal cover design by Arek Bagiński, let happiness and joy be with him for now and ever.

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI - "Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Saragossa Manuscript)" digipack CD (Obuh Records) Having been introduced to Penderecki's work through film, this 2005 Polish Obuh label (one time, 500 copy numbered edition) was certainly unexpected news to me, not even having seen the 1965 movie and all (a widescreen restored edition DVD with an isolated score option is in print), but one can certainly make out some of the creepy/surreal elements pointed out in the book, various online reviews, as well as the quasi-quotation of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.

This slippery score, made in 1963 at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (Warsaw), with the Polish Radio Grand Symphonic Orchestra also displays elements such as a recurring Spanish barroque like acoustic guitar motive (first heard after about two minutes into side A), some voice/sound tape manipulation and studio electronics, in this way conjuring a climate of at times both isolated calm and claustrofobic storm, partially insinuating the composer's later return to a more traditional music, but at this time still incorporating more abrupt elements into his work.

Some portion of the music on here (Aria, Menuetto I and Menuetto II) was also published as vocal and sheet music as "Drei Stücke im alten Stil (nach Filmmusiken zu `Tagebuch von Saragossa`)" by Schott.

Penderecki also scored Wojciech Has' The Codes from 1966.

CYCLOTIMIA - "Music for Stockmarkets" CD (Zhelezoboton) The music material itself is nothing like the one heard in the previous records of Cyclotimia. There is no apocalyptic soundscapes of "Wasteland" times, no cybernetic hi-tech and media madness of "E$chaton", no cosmic downtempo of "Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music"... Minimalism, academic sterility, surgical accuracy and meditative ataraxy prevail on "Music for Stockmarkets". Then again it is not the familiar "idm", "glitch", "noise", "clicks and cuts" and not "minimal techno"... The sound of the album is chrystal-clear and warm at the same time. "Vintage" lovers have a wonderful chance to listen to the masterpieces of Soviet music production (such as Rhythm 1, Rhythm 2, Aelita, Formanta UDS, Formanta EMS-01, Polyvox) in pure sound, unprocessed by effects.

CYCLOTIMIA - "Styx" CD (Zhelezoboton) 7th full-length album from the masters of "stockmarket industrial". "Styx" is the most mainstream-oriented work in the Cyclotimia discography. The music here is free of experimental and academic explorations traditional for the band; here the emphasis is made on the rhythmical component. Inexorable like an economic recession and steadfast like a financial indicator chart, eleven compositions depict the sickly technogenic reality of the planet wrapped by networks of global capital, media glamour and ideological obsessions. In the ancient Greek mythology Styx was the embodiment of primeval dread and gloom, from which the first living creatures emerged. This was a personification of the underworld river whose pestilent currents seclude life from death... Similarly to this mythic river, currents of credits, percent, funds, financial quotations, capital issues, barrels of oil and advertising spaces flow on the Cyclotimia album to the accompaniment of hard, sterile and atmospheric electronic music.

CYCLOTIMIA - "TimeBank" CD (Zhelezoboton) "TimeBank" is a collection of exclusive compositions recorded by Cyclotimia in 2003-2007 and for some reasons left out of the main albums. The material presented here is hard to fit in the Procrustean bed of common musical styles, but we can try to list the ingredients from which this post-industrial "dish" was cooked: both cyber jazz and idm, neoclassics and trademark technological ambient, old-school electronics and atmospheric new age, experimental and many more can be found here... Despite the seeming stylistic incompatibility the band succeeded in creating a self-sufficient album with a spectacular plot no worse than a good Hollywood thriller. A special jewel of the disk is the track "Nocturne" combining aerial melodies and uneasy sonic "cinematography". Also worth mentioning is the "live" 10-minute prog-industrial suite "Economic Meditation", imbued with psychedelic dramatism.

CYCLOTIMIA - "Deja Vu" CD (Shadowplay Records) The Moscow project CYCLOTIMIA is not needed to be present. It's albums were released at the cult western electro-industrial labels and also in Russia. It's music were sent even in space. During the period of 9 years there are lot of reviews about this band almost all sites and magazines that are devoted to the electro-industrial music mention CYCLOTIMIA or write articles about it. But you could make your own opinion about it - just listen the CD... All songs from the album were written in 2001 year and were released as two vinyls "Same Time Same Place" and "Metamorphosis" in 2002 year. But were difficult to buy because of the very limited edition... Chronologically the album "Deja Vu" is between "Wasteland" and "E$chaton"

CYCLOTIMIA - "New Death Order" CD (Ewers Tonkunst) This is a re-issue of the first MCD by Cyclotimia which has been released by the now defunct State-Art back in 2000 and now is a very hard-to-find collector item. This depressive gloomy work is closer to the early band's vinyl releases than to more electro-oriented latest albums. The claustrophobic aura of the world dying in the strangling embraces of the new world order, the total horror of everyday life, the omnipresent tentacles of consumerism - all the distinctive conspirological Cyclotimia topics are already here on this debut work, and lo-fi industrial-oriented sound makes it all totally revealed and free of any veneer. This album is a brilliant soundtrack for pre-apocalyptic times which could appeal not only to Cyclotimia fans, but to all the lovers of obscure atmospheric industrial in a vein of Schloss Tegal "Oranor III" or some 90-ies Sigillum S works. In addition to the initial MCD material, the release includes 8 previously unreleased tracks from the same period and comes in a cardboard full-colour envelope limited to 500 copies only. Total length is 74 min.

V/A - "RED SYNDROME act.1: 1966~1976" - CD / format A5 (Midnight Productions) Compilation From Chinese Martial / Industrial / Dark Ambient / Power Electronics / Nosie. This compilation bases the theme on the Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution), commemorating and retrospecting the 10 years of turbulence, misery and inhumanity in the darkness. Limited to 444 copies, A5-digifile.

GOL DOLAN - "The Traces of Mist" digipack CD (Midnight Productions) Gol Dolan are a Neoclassical / Neofolk band from Beijing, China. "The fresh smell of grass, blended with the mist on the lake penetrate into the long long silent night. The remembrance comes insurgently just like the water flows. At this moment, I am keen to touch and feel it, touch it softly and feel the memory flash down my heart... You point to the star which is at the south end and whisper to me softly if one day we get lost and are apart, you will be there waiting for me, holding the lights for me. Time and tide always make people miss the lapsed words in the past. Now, I am getting old. The very star that we promised to still shines brightly and stays there. It is the home of you and me in the sky, and also the home for both of us to return to". Digipak

BAISHUI - "Yu Lai" digipack CD (Midnight Productions) The third album gestated by the Neo-folk artist BAI SHUI from Si Chuan, China. Still, enriched mainly based on the traditional Chinese folklore musical elements along with the deep emotions regarding the friendship and farewell throughout the whole album. The most fantastic work created by BAI SHUI thus far - you'll be falling deep inside....Limited to 500 copies, DigipackCD.

L'EFFET C'EST MOI - "Les Voix De L'Apocalypse" digipack CD (Midnight Productions) The brand new album from the Italian Medieval-Martial-Neoclassical project! Greatly invoked by romanticism as well as a martial spirit, "Les Voix De L'Apocalypse" is more epic sounding music-wise than their last full-length "Tomber En Heroes" (War Office Propaganda), with a great mix of more medieval melodies. CD Reissue of the 2008 release on SkullLine (100 copies). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.

M.O.T.T - "Архипелаг Гулаг" digipack CDR (Midnight Productions) The newest conceptual mini-album from the Chinese Industrial Martial Ambient act Most Of The Taciturn created on the basis of the immortal masterpiece "The Gulag Archipelago" as the chief source, written by Russian literator Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Five repressive Dark Ritualistic Industrial Ambient tracks present the distressful experiences under the cruel reign of Stalin. Pro-CDr on 6-panel digipak in limited edition of 200 copies.

DEMONS THAT DROVE - "Kraft" digipack CDR (Midnight Productions) The latest album from the Swedish Industrial Ambient & Power Electronics act Demons That Drove, with stronger and more powerful soundscapes in comparison with Kraft's older materials. Unlike many other similar artists that handle the themes of anarchism and terrorism, DTD is walking on the path of building up the malefic vision of the underworld. The vocal within his music works as creating the atmosphere of making listeners feeling personally on the scene.Pro-CDr on 6-panel digipak in limited edition of 200 copies.

ATARAXIA - "Cavaleiros Do Templo (Live in Portugal) Re Edition" Digi DVD+CD / format A5 (Dying Art Productions) Neo classic/Medieval empress ATARAXIA from Italy.which was originally released by Portugal The only official recognition Portugal Knights Templar live site VHS + CD edition, the first edition in 1998, out of print for many years. Does not need more introduction, The new edition Through professional digital video restoration (2 x A5 Digipack CD + DVD + poser + Knights Templar Badge + Kraft paper bag + Handwritten Number)

AMYGDALA - "Memento Mori" Digi CD / format A5 (Dying Art Productions) Originally released on the legendary (and now defunct) Hyperium label, this early work of dark Neoclassical / heavenly voices music is now made available again. This unique album of German act Amygdala (Dirk Schölmer, Christian Schuh and ELA Hermes) started the fire of European neoclassical campaign way back in 1997 and had been out of print for a long time. This 2009 edition of "Memento Mori (A Mosaic Of Transitions In IX Parts)" comes with the bonus track 'Barbarosh Canthos'. Ltd x 500 copies in an exquisite A5 Digipak CD.

EONIC - "Secret Land" CD (Zhelezoboton) Secret land lost in an unknown dimension... Like ancient ruins this place hides the traces of stories, which are told in this new album by the St. Petersburg project Eonic. This is their 6th release (and 2nd "professional" CD) and it easily combines different stylistic approaches, making its own way to the listener's heart. Ethno-gothic in vein of Dead Can Dance and Arcana is layered over tout electronic rhythms a la Delerium and Enigma and spiced by pleasant psychedelic arrangements. Musicians don't hesitate to step on the territory of pop-ambient and even new-age, and it just adds more lightness and airness to their energetic music. A firm and masterful work.

ANTHESTERIA - "Phobos 1953 (OST)" CD (Zhelezoboton) After releasing the appreciated game "Sublustrum" ("Outcry") filled with the spirit of decadence, steampunk and sombre surrealism, spring 2010 saw the release of a new psychological quest - "Phobos 1953". The action takes place in March 1953 in an abandoned Soviet bunker - a place of strange experiments on the human psyche. The game explores such themes as the limits of mental possibilities, the electronic voice phenomenon, experiments with thought-transference and impact of fear on the human organism. The game soundtrack, presented on this CD, embodies the project's concept in sound. Imbued with an industrial atmosphere, leisurely soundscapes turn into states of calm estrangement and isolationism. Excursions into the unknown corners of the consciousness bring to its surface old memories and long forgotten yet vaguely familiar images... and laboratorial claustrophobia grows into light melancholia. This musical picture is performed in the trademark style of Anthesteria combining abstract dark ambient, melodic neoclassics and experimental sonic artifacts. The release is packed in a DVD-size double cardboard sleeve with full-colour cards depicting game locations and fragments of a book about mental suggestions from 1962. Released in cooperation with 7Hz Publishing.

NOISE OF RUSSIA - "Humility" 2CD (Zhelezoboton) Under the cover of the 3rd studio album of Noises Of Russia - a project which has chosen Tanatos to be their perpetual muse - there are two post-modern mysteries at once, two doors to the viscous and twilight space encyclopaedically oversaturated with the symbols of death of various traditions. The final countdown turns into a long immersion in a cold cerbal-sonic abyss where it's impossible to find out for sure if you are calmed or frightened, comforted or sneered at... if they mourn for you, a mortal, or are they glad for you, an immortal. The album also contains a ritual video for the track "Spirit", not however making the issue more clear.

NOISE OF RUSSIA - "Experimental Structure" CD-R (Zhelezoboton) Nowadays Noises Of Russia is one of the most known groups on the Russian experimental post-industrial scene, mainly because of their numerous concerts and CDR-releases, published by their leader - Gosha Solnzev aka 1g0g ("Van Gog") - on his own label ElectroIndustria. This release has captured one of such concerts which took place at the Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21) in St. Petersburg in October 2008. This concert was peculiar because of the non-traditional band line-up which aside from 1g0g included some of his friends: musicians Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna), M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk), Igor Potsukailo (Bardoseneticcube) and Evgeny Savenko (Lunar Abyss Deus Organum), and also VJ Alco (video projection) and Grigory Glazunov (ODDDance Theatre, butoh dance). By common efforts these comrades performed totally improvised material quite typical for the "St. Petersburg post-industrial wave" and combining elements of collage, industrial, noise and ambient. Field recordings and voice manipulations, metal percussion and rough analogue signals, guitar semi-melodies and various sound effects - all this is harmoniously blended in the unified psychedelic soundsphere.

SISTER LOOLOMIE - "Signals" CD-R (Zhelezoboton) Sister Loolomie is one of the offspring of [S]ergey (or just [S]), a musician from Moscow region, known for his projects Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music and some others, as well as for his labels Still*Sleep and Semperflorens. The musical style of [S] is notable for its delicate and gentle approach to sound, the keywords for its definition are: ambient / drone / experimental / electroacoustic. In Sister Loolomie [S] utilizes deliberate sonic "digitalizing" and at the same time manages to keep the warmth and cosiness of sound in his own way, resembling tape drone music. [S]ergey uses guitar, electronics, radio and computer processing in creating his soundscapes, both abstract and sensuous at the same time. The compositions move calmly and slowly, sound loops draw in attention like spirals and dissolve it in their textures. Shivery signal waves and soft generated rasp form an aerial atmosphere, in which crackle the discharges of digital interference, and bright yet slightly melancholic melodies bring serenity and tender contemplative sadness.

I.M.M.U.R.E. - "The New Circle" CD-R (Zhelezoboton) The project i.m.m.u.r.e. is a part of St. Petersburg based musical foundation Forbidden Sounds Group and "The New Circle" is its first release on physical media. Before this the project successfully performed live several times and released a number of recordings on the net-label DNA Productions. The music of i.m.m.u.r.e. combines serious dark ambient, rhythmic electronics and psychedelic industrial in vein of English school a la Coil. It is full of gloomy melodies, light noises and sonic experiments, and is flavoured with morbid vocals narrating about infinite love to the dog and other schizophrenic joys of life. Part of the compositions from the album appeared to the author in his dreams. A nice soundtrack for an introspective pastime.

AIDAN BAKER THE INFANT CYCLE - "Rural Sprawl" CD-R (Zhelezoboton) Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Jim DeJong (aka The Infant Cycle) have used the "gentleman's kit" of modern experimenters for creating the compositions of this disk: guitar, bass, tapes, samples, feedback generator, playouts and thumb piano. Four album tracks correspond with four seasons, four states of the soul... Summer - repetitive loops become overgrown with the juicy flesh of atonal sound and transform into sampled rhythms flown over by a soft guitar tune. Autumn - the rhythm is reduced to a hardly evident monotonous shroud, the atmosphere becomes more melodic and melancholic and in the end turns into a heart-piercing guitar solo. Winter - time for sleep and detachment: icy ringing, the slow breath of bass impulses, the rustling of electronics and sluggish drones painting vast snowy soundscapes. And finally spring - the drone ambient nature unfolds large as life, majestic sonic waves sweep accompanied by a swarm of tiny sounds awoken to life again.

ÜL - "III" CD-R (Zhelezoboton) ÜL was formed in 2006 by Argentinians Alan Courtis (Reynols), Fernando Perales and Charly Zaragoza. They have performed live many times in Argentina and released two albums: "Astropecuario" on the Scottish label Pjorn Records and "II" on the Argentinian Facon Records. This is their third disk containing material recorded in 2007. The goal of ÜL is the exploration of timbric possibilities of electric guitars in their own way, combining elements of noise, drone music and free atonal improvisation. Their compositions immerse the listener into an abstract world of electromagnetic interaction between acoustic and electronic medium. A world glutted with raw sounds of string vibrations, droney feedback resonances, acute work of limiting amplifiers and layering echoes of effects.

TOPOGRAFIA - "Genius Loci" CD (Greytone) "Genius Loci" uses deep drones, ambient soundscapes, acoustic instruments alongside field recordings captured near Jaworzno, Poland. The project was inspired by the author personal fascination with the diversity of nature and the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who considered nature to be one of the most primaeval manifestations of a blind and aimless will, a will which we too are a part of. Topografia is Maciej Banasik (founder of ATUM). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.

TAPHEPHOBIA - "Access To A World Of Pain" digipack CD (Greytone) The Dark Ambient music Taphephobia (aka Ketil Sřraker, ex-Northaunt) makes is mostly based on manipulated guitars. Taphephobia tries to express the feelings Ketil has at the moment he composes his music. The idea is to create an atmosphere that is sometimes scary and sometimes beautiful, like, for example, a good thriller movie. Taphephobia is very skilled in the creation of cinematic atmospheres, combined with personal feelings of fear, hope, hate, regrets etc. The main goal is to make the listener able to dream away with the music. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.

ROME - "Nos Chants Perdus" digibook CD + T-shirts [Limited Collector’s Set] 2010 (Trisol) /size M or L/ This serves to create a new kind of intertextuality between word and sound. Following on from their EP ‘L’Assassin’ (2010) ROME assiduously develop their sound further on the minimalistic, simple singer-songwriter album ‘Nos Chants Perdus’, slowly leaving the apocalyptic realms behind them. Catchy melodies, which breathe the timeless atmosphere of the metropolis on the Seine, impress themselves on the memory. The sonorous voice bears the weltschmerz as well as the yearning for freedom and peace. Apart from the French song titles the lyrics are primarily performed in English, while the music is constructed primarily with acoustic instruments: piano, guitar, touches of strings, accordion. They have largely relinquished electronic elements, which marks ‘Nos Chants Perdus’ out as a further stride in the work of the band. ‘Nos Chants Perdus‘ by ROME is an exceptional and valuable example of the art of singer-songwriting, the likes of which haven’t been heard in this concentration and with such gravity for a long time.

SUMMONING THE ELDER ONES - "A Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft by KZERIA & IGNIIS" CD 2010 (GH Records) Summoning the Elder Ones was conceived by the two of us: Kazeria & IGNISS, and also shared with some friends. We wanted to express the visions, feelings, pleasures and fears that the magnificent opus of H.P.Lovecraft has provocated in our minds and spirits thru the years... A work of epic proportions, with mystical ambience that immerses us in the unique cosmology of this fundamental writer. Martial, Dark Ambient, Dark Folk music !!

AMBIGUOUS - "Stone Cross" CD (metal box) (Aliens Production) This year's frozen winter brought cold into the womb of this new Slovak Dark Ambient project - a horrifying, deeper and darker form of Slovak terror! This mystical project, in which the protagonist combines beautiful moods with destruction, combines deathly atmosphierics with deep space textures, covered in a veil of mystery. The soundtrack for a movie in another time and place... for cleansing the soul or looking into an imaginary world to escape from reality. Ambiguous take you through the darkest corners of Slovakia's woods. Ltd x 333 copies in a metal box.

DISHARMONY - "Malignant shields" CD (Aliens Production) Cold atmospheres, samples from movies, hypnotic rhythms, crystalic electronics and distorted vocals are the main elements of the music, which was reflected in their first release, Moonflower. Endless transformations and experimenting with sounds is natural phase that brings Disharmony to their next work. This is the fifth album which opens their next phase into the space of electro underground. Combining industrial elements and IDM, puts Disharmony into the modern, electro revolution, including the ambient waters covered into hybrid structures that seconds cinematic moods and lived vocals. Destructive and at the same time beautiful, those who listen to DIsharmony from their beginnings will hear a primary root that has put their electrodes into the time depths. Electronic vibrations are pulsating between organic frequencies and beautiful moods. Disharmony has moved one level higher.

DISHARMONY - "Evolution" digipack CD (Tympanik) Disharmony's new album, and these guys' second CD for Tympanik (following a remix album) repeats how deeply rooted in 90's dark EBM this slovekian band is. Save for a few pads here and there, this is a very nostalgic CD that should appeal to all of you who still remember fondly the days of Yelworc, Zoth Ommog & co: 4/4 beats, über distorted voice, and the most goth / emo atmosphere you can think of. Black clad people, this one's for you, and just for you.

SIEBEN - "Star Wood Brick Firmament" digipack CD 2010 (Redroom Records) new album!! SIEBEN is unique. There is nothing like him. Words flow from a silky voice and notes slide off the bow with ease. In this there is magic. Chemistry happens. The strings loop, the songs unfurl and the images in your head blossom. You are drawn to this world, compelled. "Star Wood Brick Firmament" envelops you. It enchants. Its stories are rich in life and human warmth and, sometimes, cold reality. This is the mighty SIEBEN, better than ever. Every track is memorable. Beautifully produced by the man himself, Matt Howden.

GRUNT - "Petturien Rooli" CD (Freak Animal Records) industrial / noise

CONTAGIOUS ORGASM - "Thin Skinned" CD (Industrial Recollections) industrial / noise

EGOPROBLEM (Lasse Marhaug) - "Exit / tape / Kill" CD (Industrial Recollections) industrial / noise

SMELL & QUIM - "The Christmas Album" CD (Industrial Recollections) industrial / noise

SMELL & QUIM - "A Sod's as good as a wank to a blind arse" CD (Industrial Recollections) industrial / noise

STREICHER - "Hammerskins / Der Sturmer / 90's compilations" CD (Industrial Recollections) industrial / noise

VON THRONSTAHL / THE DAYS OF THE TRUMPET CALL - "Pessoa / Cioran" - Digipack CD 2010 (Infinite Fog Productions) martial industrial / neofolk / neoclassic

STEREOCAINE – "We are the Clay" profi CDR (Snowy Tension Pole) dark ambient

HOARFROST & INNER VISION LABORATORY - "Decline" digipack CD 2010 (Zoharum Records) "DECLINE" dark ambient / industrial

}E{NIGMAPLASME & X-NAVI:ET - "Sote / the experience of losing control" profi CDR 2010 (Eter Records) electro-acoustic, industrial

SIMULACRA - "There is a fountain filled with blood" CD 2010 (No Angels Prod. / Consouling Sounds) dark ambient

STEREOCAINE – "We are the Clay" profi CDR (Snowy Tension Pole) dark ambient

:WULGATA: - "Eastern Sons / fourth journey into the heart of the ancient" CDR 2010 (Inchiostrum Records) dark ambient music, with elements of eastern folk and ancient culture

new Beast Of Prey:

DREDDUP "El Conquistadors" digipack CD 2010

INNER VISION LABORATORY "Anywhere Out of this World" digipack CD 2010

Paweł Zaremba "SEZON KULTURALNY W SODMIE" book 2010

GROBBING THRISTLE "Hidden Strategies" digipack CD 2009

ATUM "Legendy Miejskie" digipack CD 2009

BEAST OF PREY - label of dark music

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