Various Artists: Dissonant Sructures (FRAC01)A double cd compilation containing 30 tracks (mainly exclusive and previously unreleased material), covering such diverse styles as dark electro, rhythmic noise, ambient, experimental and power electronics. Features local and overseas artists. Price: only AUS$25 for double cd.Email us to order.
Navicon Torture Technologies: Power Romance (FRAC02)This album was originally produced as a CDR on Annihilvs Records in 2001. The first printing sold out in days. Cranial Fracture Recordings has re-released this album with two bonus tracks: Postcoital (an Egosplint remix of the track "I want to commit a crime of passion") and a new exclusive track, Blood Spatter Evidence. New York artist NTT is currently one the most prolific and respected artists worldwide in the style of Power Electronics. This album marks an essential release in NTT's impressive discography. Price: only AUS$20. Email us to order.
Neon Womb: Intimate Moments (FRAC04)Neon Womb fuses together crushing beats, complex rhythms and sinister ambience, with a twisted sadistic mindset. This is a work of great originality and impact from a talented Sydney artist. Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
Prometheus Burning (Hive Records)Stunning release from this new artist. The sound is very difficult to describe, but it's certainly very industrial. If Skinny Puppy went on a drug bender with Converter, they'd come up with an album half as crazy and brilliant as this. Highly recommended. Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
Pneumatic Detach: Vis.cer.a (Hive Records)Very impressive album from one of the main "up and coming" power noise artists. A crushing, brutal relentless attack of thundering beats and dominating rhythms. Includes remixes by C2. Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
Various Artists: FUCK (Hive Records)Hive Record's essential compilation has been repressed due to extremely popular demand! This disc features a "who's who" of hard industrial electronics today, including Converter, Manufactura, Iszoloscope (amazing track), Exclipsect, Censor and Unter Null. Totally essential. Get this while stocks last! Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
Navicon Torture Technologies: Pure Skin (NCC Records)The first NTT album since 2004's Arrow and the Wound, and a stunning return to form this essential New York artist. This is easily the best thing Leech has put out since Church of Dead Girls; an absolutely stunning and mindblowing album. Get this now! Limited stocks! Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
Maison Close: Maison Close (Force Majeure / Nuit Et Brouillard)For my money, one of the most underrated industrial albums ever. Brilliant, subtle, chilling and powerful, this album gradually builds up over subtle swirling waves of ambience and noise to a stunning intense conclusion. Listen to this at night with headphones, trust me! Based on the cult film Johnny Got His Gun (inspiration for the Metallica song "One"). Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
LAW: The Black Lodge (Nuit Et Brouillard)LAW is a truly unique artist; very intense and personal, his music moves beyond cliches of dark ambient and neo-folk to create a solid confrontational sound that really grabs you and never lets go Chilling, unforgettable music (brilliant artwork also). The final LAW album ever made, and easily one of the best. Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
DVT: DVT (FRAC03)Powerful debut of this Sydney-based artist. DVT combines a deadly fusion of dark industrial, harsh noise and power electronics, amidst a tense ambient atmosphere. Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
Sulphur: Der Fluch des Lebens (FRAC05)Sulphur is a dark ambient / death industrial project founded at the turn of the millennium to capture both bleak emotions and a value for the sanctity still inherent in life. Hailing from the confused landscapes of Adelaide, South Australia, deep rumbling tones and layers of noise were combined in a search for transcendence in a wall of sound. Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
N0nplus: Keep me hereFollowing the well received "still" limited cdr debut, n0nplus return with a stellar new ep entitled "keep me here". building off the sound and feel of "still", n0nplus push the envelope even futher, in both creativity and production, by meshing heavy layers of melodic, moody ambience, unsettling noisescapes and crushing, intelligently programmed rhythms. "Keep me here" digs deep and hits hard, bringing forth a fine example of whats sure to be a promising future for this rising australian talent. Artwork by Eyelyft. Mastered by John Sellekaers. Price: only AUS$15. Email us for availability.
Manufactura: Precognitive DissonanceThe eagerly awaited second album by Auricle Media artist Manufactura! Never one to repeat himself, Karloz.M brings us a new evolution in the Manufactura sound, this time brilliantly melding deeper atmospheric sensibilities and pounding EBM influences with his signature brand of crushing powernoise rhythms. This is music made for movement, preferably violent movement. Featuring a collaboration with Notime [the newest project by Scott Stugis aka Converter] as well as an excellent remix by aggro stalwarts Aghast View. Price: only AUS$20. Email us for availability.
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