Three new releases are available today, with clandestine copies of the cassette releases initially making their way to the merch table at Harmony Syndicate's January 2026 show with Linekraft & supports.
The distribution page has undergone another impressive update, and I have finally succumbed to making releases available on Bandcamp. I am still not enamoured with the idea of making downloads available for titles when the release remains available, but if you want a download alongside the physical edition that is now available. I will also begin to upload some sold out titles to Bandcamp which will be made available price sensitively.
Distribution imminent at Freak Animal, Satatuhatta, Cloister, Skeleton Dust, BlackSound Records, NatureStrip, and more to come.
If you purchase via the webstore and want a download, send me a message.
(sic 181) Grafted Soma
St Quentin's Enigma C-20
In the wake of the late 1990s Claremont serial killings, T Wojcicki (Empty Vessel) and H Gillett (Pterygium) embarked on a series of late night collaborative sessions sparked by the shadow-clad violence, urban paranoia and intemperant isolationism of the killings’ social grip. Their nocturnal sessions manifested four tracks at the subgenre crossroads of dark ambience, power electronics and death industrial: the duo carefully constructed four haunts of clouded electronics, stygian melodics, effected vocals and crevices of lividity which then leeched out across a mere 19 cassette copies on the duo’s Cabin Fever Networks label.
A decade on, Cipher Productions reissues this obscurity of the Australian underground which glimpses elements of its authors’ central projects while finding new voice in the cross-section. New, expanded artwork and an improved permeation of 50 copies, housed in a manila envelope and clinging to related visual ephemera. Chrome tapes, handstamped enveloped and labels.
(sic 177) No Guard & XAL C-30
During a 2024 mischief hunt in Osaka, shortly after my release of the project’s self-titled tape, Mr No Guard told me he had some earlier project recordings for potential release. Hearing those five primal manifests of dismal electronics, blunt power electronics strike, and evocative samples I fully agreed, but thought the missive needed a different context to best appreciate its thematic misgivings.
Enter XAL, the post-industrial formation of Am Not, A and Mollusk King, equally in need of exposition. The XAL contribution of “Death Desire (Faith & Value)” is a bleak construct of sombre synths, junk percussion vibration and voices from the void, which draws on the compositional strengths of its collaborators and stalks out its own genre place with a slow boil of dystopian regret and incremental dynamics.
The resultant split cassette is released in an edition of 100 copies, chrome tapes in Norelco cases with art from Thomas C celebrating the fall of mankind.
(sic 166) Hate Activist CD
Hate Activist is the power electronics cross-border collaboration of Helin Erdo (NeolithicNihilism) and Dave Kirby (Satøri), finding common ground in primordial violence shaped through modern power electronics constructs and careful composition. Building on the skilled layering and brutal saturation of recent Satøri material, and Helin’s unnerving delivery, the two find a nihilistic common ground steeped in the blood and hatred of generations.
The symbioses are undeniable, and the pair seem intent on dragging one another into further isolationist focuses with each drenched texture, curdled vocal and compositional trigger. The best of any collaboration is found in the peaks formed between individual capacities; Hate Activist instead finds new depths: greater disdain, deeper rejection and more fuelled in its abhorration.
Hate Activist finds physical form in a pressing of 200 digipack CDs, including the tracks from the teaser online release ‘I Am Ready To Die’ for ten total. Front cover artwork by Nora Egloff (Spiteful Womb).
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