This is the 5th and long awaited album by American east coast industrial drum’n’bass producer Joshua Colella. Merciless Protraction, quite possibly scrap.edx’s most essential work to date and the anticipated follow up album to 2006’s Recoil the Void, is a journey through the circuitry of advanced industrialized electronic music. This album narrates the story of technological singularity collapsing on the linear reality of today’s human world and challenges the listener to ask questions about our intentions as a continuously advancing and evolving civilization. Merciless Protraction samples, bends and manipulates countless genres of electronic music into a cohesive and innovative body of work; a signature of scrap.edx’s high digital production quality and complex, stylized programming skills. Consisting of industrial drum and bass, breakcore, rhythmic noise, dark ambient and IDM production styles, Merciless Protraction is a futuristic journey through the universe of hardcore electronic dance music. Featuring the spoken word talents up upcoming American writer Craig Marchinkoski, Japan’s Kenji Siratori and the remixing skills of Canada’s Liar’s Rosebush, Merciless Protraction is an essential album for fans of advanced industrial music.
The Mortusae double cd album is an epic release produced by Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe, aka Sal-Ocin (This Morn' Omina, Tzolk'in). This amazing album includes new, rare and long deleted tracks and is a journey through time, regions and atmospheres. Mortusae is a retrospective of different periods of Empusae’s almost decade long existence. The album includes rare tracks from his first albums which were not released on HANDS, including also the first ever Empusae album, more recent collaborations with close friends, tracks from the legendary Maschinenfest 10 year anniversary performance and comic book soundtracks. All the material has been re-mastered by Mike Goedrijk (This Morn' Omina, Pow(d)er Pussy). The red line through Mortusae and Empusae’s essence consists of a dark, melodic, danceable and atmospheric body of electronic music based on the human gift of fantasy. Immerse yourself within its beauty and decay, darkness and melancholy, tribal ceremonies and unearthly misery… enter into oblivion!
On their 4th studio album release, Tactical Evolution, Greyhound expresses how they view the situation on planet earth in the year 2009. This album is their musical interpretation of the daily global events happening on Planet Earth. This 2cd features 26 intense, powerful rhythm’n’noise tracks for industrial clubs worldwide. In reflection of the current violence and recklessness sweeping the globe on a daily basis. Greyhound has created a sound track of aggressive rhythms and threatening atmospheres. Hard, pounding distorted beats and heavily distorted sounds are melted to the unique mixture greyhound has become well know for. Changing pulses, information overload, the surveillance fight and fast moving life resonates in each second. Be prepared for the Tactical Evolution!
Last Days of S.E.X. - Great Irony and the Politically S.E.X.plosive
After Last Days of S.E.X.’s debut, First S.e.x.ual Experience, comes the follow up two CD album from this Greek rhyhtm’n’noise act entitled, Great Irony and the Politically S.E.X.plosive. Rhythmic Industrial and breakcore are combined into absolute harsh and complex passages while kicking beats deliver an experience between agitation, provocation and irony. Great Irony and the Politically S.E.X.plosive narrates stories of restless motion, obsession and and urges through the use of words and sound frequencies. Manos X, the man behind this project, aims not only to create harsh sound atmospheres consisting of distorted rhythms breaks and noises but also to stimulate the senses through the use of references, to pose questions in order to transfuse inspiration, to wake desire up and to utilize irony as criticism’s purpose.
HEIMSTATT YIPOTASH’S third album, Urban Night Motifs, is a genius mixture of both danceable electro industrial and electronica influenced noise based sound research. Heimstatt yipotash turn away from the deep sea of Storegga Effect (2007) and the world wide web within Perpetual Beta (2007) back into the action and energy of the streets of urban landscapes with this essential new release. Urban Night Motifs tells the story of modern urbanity characterized by the numerous daily news reports of so called social coexistence without the common glitter and stories of success turning various spotlights on an inapproachable, dismissive, dangerous and crude modern metropolis inspired by the aesthetics and flair of movies like Renaissance and Sin City. The album, quite possibly the soundtrack to some sort of mental cinema, narrates a very accessible and identifiable story consisting of track titles like Mindcartridge, Metro Dwellers and Pavement Chicks and composed utilizing vocal samples and fluid song transitions creating anything but a buoyant mood. Despite these uncharming atmospheres, the tracks are very danceable, vivid and forceful. Now turn off all those shiny city lights and get an idea of the Urban Night Motifs.
13th Monkey - Redefining the Paradigm of Bang
Redefining The Paradigm of Bang is the best description for this 100% club compatible Techno Industrial project by the two sound artists and producers Andreas >Thedi< Thedens and Harm Bremer. While this project is based in Lüneburg, the album demonstrates that there is more than simply calm and beautiful landscapes and curly black haired sheep called >Heidschnucken< in the Lüneburg Heath. If you dive-bomb into the subsurface blow-hole you will find yourself in the middle of a wired rebellion and even cross the way of an anthropoid on the run: the 13th Monkey. The 11 tracks on this album were completely constructed using an array of tabletop hardware instruments programmed in real-time without the use of overdubbing, the mainstay of this project’s energetic live sets, in a style self hailed as, Digital Tech Fractures. The final >bang< of this project’s debut album was added by legendary speedcore producer Bobby Tense at the famous Kevorkian Mastering Studio in New York City. Expect 68 minutes of bass-driven and pounding tech-industrial tracks with distorted and screaming acid-like 303 sounds as extra ingredients. Monkey bites!
ADMX-71 - Luminous Vapors
ADMX-71 is a new project created by well known techno producer and Dj, Adam X of Brooklyn NYC, who now resides in Berlin, Germany. This first album release of ADMX-71 is an incredible, various and unique masterpiece of contemporary electronica . ADMX-71 presents an hour-long journey of industrialized techno interspersed with deep, atmospheric soundscapes, set to the backdrop of downtempo rhythms. The mood of ADMX-71 weaves it way through darkness, futurism and self-reflectiveness. Though in a unique style of its own, it’s Adam’s true love for boundary-pushing music by artists such as Monolake, Biosphere and Mika Vainio that have inspired him to create this new project. The result is a deeply introspective soundtrack that seamlessly shifts between the cavernously earthly and the futuristically sci-fi.
