A remix of the forthcoming single by Attrition.

Attrition-The Alibi (Codename:Lola Remix)

"Dying for love
And this kind of fire inside
My blood is blind
I'm dining on a silent mind
And several other friends of mine"

A slice of history. A slice of life. 40 years of history and almost from a forgotten dream this is a collection from ATTRITION's prolific heyday....
releasing albums, almost all on CD... as we thought we had seen the death of vinyl.... on labels in the USA (Projekt and Invisible) and Europe (Contempo and Hyperium).... Here is a selection of music from those times....many for the first time on vinyl...
Enjoy.

Martin Bowes. Coventry. England. March 2021--


OUT ON FEBRUARY 18TH

ATTRITION - A Great Desire

1. Morbid Frost "Grey" (single) [2021 self-released (Alberta, Canada)]
2. Aesthetic Perfection "A New Drug" (single) [2021 self-released (Austria)]
3. The Crüxshadows "Deception" Frozen Embers [2003 Wishfire Records]
4. Attrition "The Alibi" (single) [2021 self-released]
5. Blutengel "The Victory of Light" Erlösung-The Victory of Light [2021 Out Of Line Music]
6. Panic Lift "Tribute" Split - EP [2021 self-released (Newark, New Jersey, USA)]
7. Carnal Machinery "Turn Off The Lights" Cluster A [2021 self-released]
8. Electronic Frequency "Generation One" (single) [2021 DK Records]
9. Silent Flag "Enter The Batcave (single) [2021 (Belgium)]
10. Cute Heels "Metal Disco V" Future Facts - EP [2012 Black Leather Records]
11. Unknown "Sexual Intercourse" Lack of Resources [2021 X-IMG (Berlin, Germany)]
12. Silence Complot "Chaos and Capital" Capital and Chaos Illumine Concrete Remixes [2021 Black Leather Records]
13. Attic Frost "Chasing A Mirage" Now Is All I Have [2021 self-released (Bremen, Germany)]
14. Rise Black "Martillo" (single) [2021 Black Leather Records]
15. Unitcode:machine "Buy Me Now" Tyrant [2020 DK Records]
16. Structure "Body Man Nature" S/T [2021 Black Leather Records]
17. Substance "Lullaby" (single) [2021 self-released (Indonesia)]
18. Karl Rotciv "IX922393" Numerikals [2021 Black Leather Records]
19. Church Group "Misery" S/T [2021 self-released (Perth, Australia)]
20. Circle of Dust "Dissolved (Ivardensphere remix)" (single) [2021 self-released]
21. Kwark "Mäimon" (single) [2021 self-released]
22. Crying Skies "Eternal" Expressing Ways - EP [2021 Black Leather Records]
23. Adrian Marth "Hypnotic Eyes" Red Nights - EP [2021 ITALO MODERNI (Barcelona, Spain)]

DARKWAVE 07-15-2021  Batcave  Death-Rock  Industrial  Dark-Synth

ATTRITION - The Switch
Taken from the upcoming new ATTRITION album, The Black Maria, with accompanying remixes... (and of those more to come)... 
and featuring the original line up of Martin and Julia for the first time in 20 years...
Streaming on all platforms from March 17th... and available now on our bandcamp site
https://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/album/the-switch-ep

Martin Bowes – Vocals and all Electronics
Julia Waller – Female Vocals
Anni Hogan – Grand Piano
Mixed and Mastered by Martin Bowes in the Cage. 2022-23

Cover photo of Martin by Antony Weir
A Two Gods Production: 58GODSDIG

The Switch

Inspired by the Vinyl On Demand Festival held at Kulturhaus Caserne (Friedrichshafen) on July 18-20 2025, as well as albums found at Pinart/VOD warehouse. Frankensteined with love in Geneva using audacity. Support the artists. Poster made by Karim Gabou, thanks to him for sharing. Play it loud, be merry and careful.
 
ⒽⓐⓒⓘⓔⓝⓓⒶ - Field recording of rain falling in Friedrichshafen-West
Zero Kama @https://zerokama.bandcamp.com/ - Azure Lidded Woman (Pregnant Womb of Non)
https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france - Field recording of culverted stream below Fallenbrunnen
Pierre Perret ‎- Gaïa, La Terre
https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france - Soft Helion
https://soundcloud.com/asmustietchens - P.I.G. Derivat
Coil - Red Skeletons
https://soundcloud.com/thelegendarypinkdots - Gone to Pieces
https://soundcloud.com/hundschopf-966735362 - Ravers_of_Babylon
Nocturnal Emissions @https://nocturnalemissions.bandcamp.com/ - Even the Good Times are Bad
https://soundcloud.com/attrition - A Great Desire
Clock DVA @https://clockdva.bandcamp.com/album/white-souls-in-black-suits - Brigade
https://soundcloud.com/absolutebodycontrolofficial - Waving Goodbye
Portion Control @https://portioncontrol.bandcamp.com/ - Telekinesis.V2
Severed Heads @https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/ - All Rights Resevered 
https://soundcloud.com/esplendorgeometrico - Chile al Dia
https://soundcloud.com/suicide-official - Harlem II
https://soundcloud.com/ramlehofficial - Do Not Come Near
https://soundcloud.com/ken-ishii-70drums - Decoding
Panasonic @https://sahkorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/remix-ep - Zoviet France (Remix)
Planetary Assault Systems https://soundcloud.com/luke-slater - The Dream
Severed Heads - (This Track Doesn't Exist)

(This Isn't A Festival) Mixtape

Eric Random started in the band The Tiller Boys, which included Buzzcocks's Pete Shelley, who played at some of those legendary Factory showcases at the end of the 1970s. Their last date was sharing the bill with Cabaret Voltaire on that night captured as Live at the YMCA on October 27th (yeah, you missed my birthday again this year) in 1979. Following the split, Random (who was only 18 in 1979) began working closer with the Cabs, recording at their Western Works studio in Sheffield with Stephen Mallinder at the desk, joining the Cabs following the departure of Chris Watson in 1981 and appearing on 2x45 and The Pressure Company, and even playing a one-off show billed as A Certain Random Cabaret which included members of A Certain Ratio.
Random's music fits in appropriately between contemporary music of 23 Skidoo and Cabaret Voltaire. Structured rhythms provide the backbone for songs which often push the ten-minute mark, never straying from the established tempo, while a bass line frequently remains fairly constant throughout each piece. On top are layers featuring tape manipulations, faint guitar, horns, melodica, and muted vocals, soaked in primitive echoes and delays found primarily on early recordings from the mightiest dubmasters.

Once again LTM's presentation is classy and respectful, including an informative booklet to accompany the music. Disc one captures singles and compilation tracks from 1980-1982 while disc two features the 1982 album Earthbound Ghost Need (a Burroughs reference from Naked Lunch) in its entirety.

Random's inclusion of a cover of "Bolero" by Ravel at the end of the Earthbound Ghost Need album is hardly a surprise, as the structure of that song is almost a blueprint to the main ideas of most of Eric Random's music: songs are very long and simply do not stray from their main theme. (It's a formula that shouldn't be unfamiliar to Cabaret Voltaire and Richard H. Kirk fans.) Songs like this work well in clubs and in other social settings but two discs of long cuts is a lot more to ask of a listener as opposed to an extended 12" single here and there. The four songs from the That's What I Like About Me EP open the first disc and the muddy footprints left by Stephen Mallinder and Western Works are all over it. (It's not a bad thing, honest.) The length of these four songs is an album in nearly anybody's book, which makes it somewhat unbalanced when compared to the following six tracks, which average around 4 minutes each.

There is plenty more Eric Random yet to compile and reissue, as following these recordings Random traveled to India to study non-western musics, continued his friendship and alliance with Cabaret Voltaire, playing various concerts with them (including a show with Richard H. Kirk as recently as 2000), releasing music on their Doublevision imprint, and performing in other projects like The Free Agents, and The Faction (Nico's backing band in the 1980s). CV fans should especially be anxious to see the Mad As Mankind single released again but as this stuff was out around 1984, it simply wouldn't have quite fit in to the material collected on Subliminal 1980-1982. I'll wait patiently myself and take the time this material needs to settle in completely.

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Akon - Lonely Remix 
Junior NRB
Coventry, UK
instagram - @junior.nrb

Junior NRB - Mr Lonely (Freestyle)

Taken from the forthcoming Peripheral Minimal release:

PM29 Attrition / Alu "Attrition / Alu" CD Album. 

Out January 2020. 

Limited edition of 200 copies, beautifully designed by Oleg Galay. Comes in an, "Ecopak" digi-sleeve CD. Remastered in 2019 by Martin Bowes @ The Cage, Coventry.

Pre-order now:

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Attrition / Alu

Attrition "You Will Remember Nothing"

The Great Derailer

The Pillar I (For Ossington)

FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER 'Hammerschlag' CD (CSR281CD)

"Hammerschlag" - created by FM Einheit (member of Einstürzende Neubauten early 1980's to mid-1990's), with Andreas Ammer -  features many percussive industrial elements and 'machine music' (chains, scraping, coiled springs, objects), noise, experimental electronics and provocative musical compositions familiar to the ears of Neubauten fans. An oratorio with prelude and two noise interludes, based on Russian futurist Aleksej Kapitonovič Gastev, the "bard of the machine age".

FM Einheit (Mufti) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor, primarily known for his percussion and compositional work with Einstürzende Neubauten, notably on the classic albums: "Kollaps", "Halber Mensch", "Haus Der Luege", "Tabula Rasa" and "Ende Neu".

He played the lead role in the 1984 feature film Klaus Maeck's "Decoder". He has also collaborated with musicians such as: Diamanda Galás, Eraldo Bernocchi, Mona Mur, KMFDM, Goethes Erben and many more. Andreas Ammer has been creating works with FM Einheit since the early 1990’s.

"Just a moment longer, and through the confused chaos of these days, the legendary realisation of the future roar of events is triumphant" (A.K. Gastev, "A Bundle of Orders").

CD in glossy digipak.

Track listing:

1. Amoeba (7:07)
2. Order 01 (2:59)
3. Order 02 (4:09)
4. Order 03 (3:40)
5. Order 04 (3:39)
6. CIT (4:04)
7. Order 05 (5:07)
8. Order 06 (4:19)
9. Noise Orgy (4:37)
10. Order 07 (4:46)
11. Order 08 (2:50)
12. Order 09-10 (4:07)
13. Epilogue (3:40)

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Album Out 15th May 2020

Hammerschlag

FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER Order 08

Dark industrial music since 1980.
http://www.attrition.co.uk
Production and mastering in The Cage since 1993.
http://www.thecagestudios.co.uk

"Inside a cage of sound,  Cold waves of electronics are juxtaposed against voices that seep through cracks in the walls of machinery and wires. Lyrics dart out in bullets from soundscapes peppered in sharp vocals and sound bites. A viola plays in the distance, giving life to this inorganic mass... 
Such is the imagery that spawns Attrition, who, with its marriage of the classic and modern, has brought to music the equivalent of a surrealist painting. From its earlier sparse and stark soundscapes, to a more expansive palette of orchestral work, Attrition has successfully melded several genres into one. The music flows - from gothic to industrial to experimental to classical - so smoothly, they might as well be making their own category. 
With more than twenty albums of constant variety, and an ever-expanding sound, they remain one of music's darker and fascinating lights."  
Akane

ATTRITION

Album Discography

1982. This Death House- a soundtrack
1983. Action and reaction
1984. The Attrition Of Reason
1985. Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club
1986. In The Realm Of The Hungry Ghosts
1988. At The Fiftieth Gate
1991. A Tricky Business
1993. The Hidden Agenda
1995. Ephemera a soundtrack
1996. Three Arms & A Dead Cert
1997. Etude - classical interpretations
1999. The Jeopardy Maze
1999. Esoteria - a collection of ambient works
2000. Heretic Angels - live in the USA
2000. The Hand that Feeds the remixes
2001. Keepsakes & Reflections rarities
2003. The Eternity LP - a collection of classical remixes and rarities
2004. Dante’s Kitchen
2006. Something Stirs. The beginning. 1981 – 83
2008. All mine enemy’s whispers. The story of Mary Ann Cotton
2009. Kill the Buddha! - Live in Europe & the USA
2010. Wrapped in the guise of my friend. Covers. 17 songs re-interpreted.
2010. Dreamtime Collectors. 1980 - 2010. A best of
2011. Demonstro. 1981 - 86. double vinyl LP of rarities
2011. The truth in dark corners: Live in Holland. 1985
2012. Invocation. film soundtrack.
2013. The Unraveller of Angels....
2015. Millions of the Mouthless Dead

The Switch

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