Well just fuck - these releases should have been ready earlier in the year, and some of them were. This is the last time I'll consolidate such a large number of new titles: despite best intentions it only takes a problem or two to delay the whole lot.
I've also finally opened a Bandcamp page, to allow proper previewing of titles. I don't intend to do digital sales, other than for some sold out releases which will get listed when time permits.
The webstore has been updated with these new titles, as well as a run of excellent international titles! Your support is crucial, so - thankyou!
At long last:
(sic 122) Wertham & Strom.ec & Josh Lay St Valentine's Day 12"
In 2005 I released ‘St Bartholomew’s Day’, a four artist double cassette, each act tasked with finding their own artistic expression of the French religious massacre of 1572. Finally, 20 years later, comes ‘St Valentine’s Day’: another historical lodestar of unhinged and inexplicable violence, updated to the Prohibition-era streets of Chicago.
Each artist was carefully selected with a view to intersecting their own stylistic and thematic interests with the subject matter of the release, and wanting to realise a release which harnessed the uniqueness of each while linking a shared stylistic energy. The result is this long-overdue LP of which I am incredibly proud: threads of religious penance, unapologetic bloodshed, conspiratorial intrigue and political collapse all leech from the given theme, and each act delivers a harrowing set of power electronics compositions rich in detail, compositional depth, potency and crimson.
Edition of 200 LPs, mastered by Grant Richardson, cover artwork by Scott Candey (Crionic Mind), individual artist inserts.
(sic 159) Naxal Protocol The Phobosphere Truth C-48
Naxal Protocol returns, with another suite of detailed and highly evocative industrial constructs steeped in extended lore and bristling with resonant themes of fear, mortality, and technological and governmental overreach. Piero Stanig is an undeniable force in Italy’s rich industrial/postmortem genre history, and ‘The Phobosphere Truth’ is a stunning, unique and nuanced piece of modern dysphoria within that legacy.
Includes guest vocals by Andrew Grant (The Vomit Arsonist) and cover artwork by R.P. Black button and string envelopes, multiple inserts, chrome tapes. Edition of 60 copies.
(sic 162) Dodge Jones Rage West Coast Power Outage VIII C-40
The trio of Chris Dodge, Mason Jones and WM Rage funnel collective decades of experimental experience into distorted overload, their releases all sharing a maelstromic nihilism while varying in instrumentation, textural detail and refinement. ‘West Coast Power Outage VIII’ revels in grit and rancour, preferring lines of sonic profusion over nuance: 40 minutes of texturally rich but merciless noise, with due regard for Americanoise histories such as Skin Crime and early Daniel Menche.
60 copy ‘regular’ edition in logo-embedded rigid plastic envelopes. 15 copy ‘special’ edition embedded in driftwood/fencing wire/sacrificed cassette tape/dog tag packaging. Artwork by Paul van Trigt.
(sic 165) Parasite Nurse Twilight Song C-28
I could not be more pleased to announce new recordings from Samantha Hernandez’s Parasite Nurse, adding some cut-up studio sculpting to Samantha’s incredible run of live performances in 2025. For ‘Twilight Song’ Parasite Nurse drops high stakes tension, relentless split stereo sparring and flurried modular snowstorms into two tightly edited works of dynamic composition. Glimmers of tranquility radiate through ‘Twilight Song’’s urban spalling, the artwork mirroring the audio’s moments of reflected beauty within frayed urban chaos and sensory overload.
A few copies of ‘Twilight Song’ found their way to attendees during Parasite Nurse’s mid-year touring, with the release now welcomingly available more broadly in a run of 70 copies. Full colour oversized artwork in a ziplock bag, chrome tapes.
(sic 169) Industria Masoquista & Richard Ramirez C-30
Two senior purveyors of rough-hewn noise face off across a strip of ferric oxide. Both Richard and Javier contribute a hulking slab of industrial grit to their already iconic discographies.
Splashed heavily with sleaze, Javier’s ‘Vibraciones’ bristles with domineering feedback and unashamed heavy electronics hedonism, while Richard’s ‘Elastrator Perverse Mix’ slowly entangles cruel slabs of bareback distortion which plateaus into a cold industrial simmer peeking glimpses of smut.
Heavy cardstock covers, coloured tapes, fittingly disciplined artwork for adults only. Edition of 70 copies.
(sic 173) Praying For Oblivion Genuflektion 10"
Praying For Oblivion emerges from the farthest reaches of the underground with this limited new release. The title track is a disturbing haunt of poltergeist concrète, hostile voices and bladed electronics which evokes similar dread to the project’s recent collaboration with Nerthus on E.C.T. B side ‘Traum Urlaub’ is a harsh collaboration with American noise wall project Hana Haruna, PFO pressing gasps of crepuscular asthmatic grain into Hana Haruna’s billowing noise textures.
Lathe-cut 10” with printed silver labels and artwork. Limited edition of 40 copies.
(sic 175) Andrew Coltrane Distant Music To Crown A God With Street Dust C-60
‘Distant Music To Crown A God With Street Dust’ is a 60 minute exploration of raw noise and experimental artefacts which embraces the best features of harsh exorcisms, ghastly appropriation, industrial site clatter, post-Berlin school synth depression, tape mishandling, and outsider anti-music. A 60 minute pastiche of Andrew Coltrane in all his guises, bound by an unshakeable dismal decrepitude and an inch of analogue grime.
Chrome cassette in oldschool ‘library’ snapcase with cover and label artwork sourced from old true crime magazines. Edition of 50 copies.
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