Cold Spring 2022 End Of Year Playlist...

We look back on another proud year of releases for our label.

2023 will see new releases on Cold Spring from the likes of BEF (post-HUMAN LEAGUE / pre-HEAVEN 17), Psychic TV, Sleep Research Facility & Llyn Y Cwn, Drew Daniel / John Wiese, Khost, Satøri, The Telescopes, FM Einheit, Zoviet France, 400 Lonely Things, Sputnik OST along with some yet to be revealed Cult soundtracks, and more to be announced.

Thank you for your continued support...

COLD SPRING 2022 RELEASES:

LULL - 'That Space Somewhere' CD (CSR321CD)
MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) - 'Malfeitor' CD (CSR318CD)
GENESIS P-ORRIDGE & DAVE BALL - 'Imagining October' (Dir. Derek Jarman) O.S.T. Etched 12" (CSR300LP)
KOLLAPS - 'Until The Day I Die' CD/LP (CSR309CD/LP)
DEAD VOICES ON AIR 'Abrader Redux' CD (CSR320CD) - feat. cEvin Key
JAGATH 'Svapna' CD (CSR304)
COLOSSLOTH - 'Promethean Meat' CD (CSR315CD)
VA - 'Visions Of Darkness (In Iranian Contemporary Music) Volume II' 2CD (CSR316CD)
MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) - 'Macht Durch Stimme' CD (CSR306CD)
WE BE ECHO - 'Ceza Evi - Compleat Edition' 2CD (CSR311CD)
MERZBOW - 'Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty' CD/T-Shirt (CSR314CD/TS)
TENHORNEDBEAST - 'The Lamp Of No Light' CD (CSR312CD)
SONOLOGYST - 'Interdimensional' CD (CSR305CD)
BURIAL HEX - 'Gauze' CD (CSR301CD)
LLYN Y CWN - 'Du Y Moroedd' CD (CSR302CD)

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

Cold Spring 2022 Releases

Artists :  
Tolga one of the key figures symbolizing Turkish techno, Tolga Baklacioglu is an artist pursing his musical journey in a steady-state flow, progresses, evolves, and challenges both in his studio and on stage. Besides being an associate professor in aeronautical engineering at the faculty of aeronautics and astronautics, he has been steadily building a body of work that explores the outer boundaries where techno and abstract textures merge and blur since a long time. Recently, Tolga has become an artist of Berlin’s Tailored Communication and started making international collaborations and releasing works with several artists including Keren Batok (Georgia), Darja Kazimira (Latvia), Dagmar Gertot (St. Petersburg), Dee Grinski (Moscow), MAYa (New York), Victoria Keddie (New York), KLEFT (Glasgow), Caline with C (The Hague), Chrysa Tsaltampasi (Greece), Ece Ozey (Berlin), Victoria Mussi (Paraguay). His collaborative Your Secret Face lp album with Dee Grinski has dispatched from crumbling power station cooling towers where each sound is caked with concrete, shrouded in a mesh of whirring mechanical sounds. On the other hand, Tolga and MAYa’s Kına double lp album has been reviewed by the renowned The Wire Magazine and is something of a slow burner but reveals itself as a wonderful distillation of their disparate approaches where MAYa's effortlessly cool vocals and delivery are energised by Tolga's relentless beats and abstract textures, which bridges Tolga's industrial and techno infused rhythms with MAYa's more evocative atmospheric work and her vocals pitched somewhere between Nico and Leslie Winer.
Multi-disciplinary  artist  Keren Batok of Isotropia and  Psi Project  who also worked with artists like Anna Nin , Metal Disco , Vero Motta and more  . Keren is lyricist and vocalist who usually provides visuals and  builds costumes for the projects she works on . 

 Music / Mixing by Tolga Baklacioglu .
 Lyrics/ vocals/ visuals : Keren Batok .

Lyrics:

I can record my voice -
then send it to several radio stations .
I know how I would do it ,
if communication could save me ,
but it's only an aphrodisiac
and words tie us more -
than the knowledge ,
that we live in the same time interval ,
perhaps in a different time zones ...
And since , we all have our own words -
you won't understand mine as I mean them -
You translate me to make bearable for your system .
I can leave my voice everywhere I go :
in a taxi cab , in a bus ,
in your mouth, on your skin, and hands -
even in your ear and hair...
But now you have to listen and understand -
 I desire we could be in synchrony here ,
I want memories of me to be protected -
I will speak only in case ,
if I could say for everyone -
on the language they hear :
I too was here .
It wasn't good or bad ,
but it was presence which no one could repeat ,
My presence no one could repeat ...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw570vWUax0

Keren Batok & Tolga Baklacioglu - Writhing Under The Rain

part of [ABS002] Termoiónico V.A. by Absu Lab (Chile)
https://absu-lab.bandcamp.com/album/abs002-termoi-nico

Disociacion - Complexity

BURIAL HEX 'Gauze' CD (CSR301CD)

Horror Electronics and Phantasmagoric Post-Industrial usher in the brand new ritual offering from Burial Hex.

The impulse for Gauze is to be a prophylactic talisman and ward for the families directly involved with the Burial Hex project, though it can be effective for anyone who needs an extra layer of defense. The art, lyrics and sound were all layered together with supersensible content generated specifically for this purpose. Beyond just protection and defense, Gauze is an invitation to transcend sclerotic ways of experiencing incarnation, by freely juxtaposing increasingly divergent forms, and reconciling all with warmth and passion. Such has been the work of the Burial Hex project since its inception, striving towards a gestalt of timeless and enduring realms via a benign spiritual interaction with conflicting beings.

With Gauze we hear the mouths of Burial Hex spit in the face of those who would reduce psychic experience and spiritual feeling to material processes, penetrating the density of human denial and cracking the electronic shell which crushes much of our humanity. CD in digipak.

RIYL: Coil, SPK, Psychic TV, Trepaneringsritualen.

Track Listing:

1. Lost Sailor (4:05)
2. Lion's Breath (3:34)
3. Treasure Spirits (3:48)
4. Auspices (6:32)
5. Sed Libera Nos A Malo (3:48)
6. Double Scorpio (7:55)
7. Gauze (4:55)
8. Two Rivers (7:38)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr301cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/gauze-csr301cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/burial-hex-gauze

Watch: 
'Gauze' Album Promo: https://youtu.be/tKMvcxgyCD0
'Lost Sailor' Video: https://youtu.be/6SDrAlON8hA
(Videos by Abby Helasdottir)

BURIAL HEX:

https://burialhex.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/burial-hex
https://www.facebook.com/burialhexofficial
https://coldspring.co.uk/burial-hex

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Out 11th March 2022

BURIAL HEX Lions Breath

like a wind blowing between concrete monuments of your bleak estate, coldwave-inspired NGC 68 stubs out uour cigarette with industrial synths and reverb-shrouded vocals. EP consists of five tracks, four of which being original compositions.

TRAVESTY

VIDEO
https://youtu.be/cTECrusCU88

ALBUM DOWNLOAD
https://twoonesix.bandcamp.com/album/night

Joyride

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) - 'Macht Durch Stimme' CD

"Macht Durch Stimme" - the debut release of Maschinenzimmer 412, a.k.a. MZ. 412 - is the milestone in the history of Swedish Black Industrial music. This is the release that initiated a 35+ year long career of relentless industrial rituals; darkness fused with machines, your fears and your power all fused into an expression of the coldest music imaginable.

In 1987 Henrik Nordvargr Björkk, Jouni Ulvtharm Ollila, and Leif Holm forged a band that would be an outlet for blasphemous prophecies, yet from a unique sonic spectrum. The unholy triumvirate were already hitting hard as Pouppée Fabrikk, with Maschinenzimmer 412 unleashing their deepest, darkest personas. Jonas Drakhon Aneheim joined in 1995, replacing Holm and thus enacting the change of name to the abridged MZ. 412.

Originally released in 1988 by Swedish tape label Mechanik Cassettes (run by Memorandum's Petter Marklund) in a tiny edition of just 50 copies, this definitive edition has been painstakingly remastered from the original 4-track tapes. It also contains a previously unreleased, exclusive track that was rediscovered when listening through the old master tapes.

MZ. 412 are an act that continues to cover the earth in a nightmarish black veil. Rare releases and even rarer performances have only added to the cult status of these prime movers.

Digipak with elegant new artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja).

Out 12th August 2022.

Track Listing:

1. Ecaf Dloc (6:01)
2. Interektion (4:31)
3. Dissekt (5:33)
4. Aptionstheorie (8:36)
5. Rood (1:45)
6. Sequela (6:59)
7. Rood (Tape Manipulation Version 1991) (3:39)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr306cd 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/macht-durch-stimme-csr306cd 

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr306cd

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/maschinenzimmer412-machtdurchstimme

MZ. 412:

https://www.nordvargr.com/mz-412
https://mz412.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/MZ412official
https://coldspring.co.uk/mz412

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) Dissekt

JAGATH 'Svapna' CD

Jagath is a ritual / industrial / dark ambient act from Perm, Russia.

"A portal to another world is located inside an abandoned Soviet-era
swamp drain near a residential building in the Zakamsk suburb of Perm, Russia, 58.0122, 55.9623. A ritual was performed here, so now we are living in an inside-out world.

This is one of the last recordings inside our Temple - the oil tanks are finally scrapped. I hope this is not the end.

This album is dedicated to the victims of totalitarian regimes".

Jagath create their music at abandoned industrial locations - the bottom of a moist underground sewer shaft and inside huge hollow oil tanks - without using digital synthesis. Simple, mostly hand-crafted instruments, found objects and voices are used to share their vision of decaying post-industrial age, to unleash the spirit of deep beyond-world and unveil life in the abyss.

6-panel glossy digipak. For fans of: Shibalba, Phurpa, Raison D'etre, Arktau Eos.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr304cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/svapna-csr304cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr304cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/jagath-svapna

Album Teaser: https://bit.ly/JagathSvapna


JAGATH:

http://www.jagath.ru
https://facebook.com/jagath.industrial
https://jagath.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/jagath.industrial
https://vk.com/jagath.industrial
https://coldspring.co.uk/jagath

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

#darkambient #ritualmusic #postindustrialmusic #industrialmusic #esotericmusic

JAGATH Unmada (excerpt)

JAGATH Vyayana (excerpt)

JAGATH Svapna (excerpt)

Out 7 Oct 2022: DEAD VOICES ON AIR 'Abrader Redux' CD.

The debut album from DEAD VOICES ON AIR (Mark Spybey of DOWNLOAD / ex-ZOVIET FRANCE), feat cEvin Key (SKINNY PUPPY / DOWNLOAD). "Abrader" blends processed sounds from primitive instruments and found objects into hypnotic looped rhythmic structures, with dark clusters of heavy ambient washes into what could be described as Organic Panambience, or 'music for the eyes'.

The hugely sought-after "Abrader" was the first of over 80 releases (so far) by Mark Spybey using the name DEAD VOICES ON AIR. It was recorded over the space of days in Vancouver in 1993 and released as a tape the following year by Akifumi Nakajima (AUBE), for his G.R.O.S.S. label. Chronologically, the material was recorded after most of the music that made up his first two releases on compact disc - "New Words Machine" and "Hafted Maul" - however, "Abrader" was released before both of those albums. 

"Abrader Redux" features the three lengthy tracks that were released on the original cassette, plus the bonus tracks that were included in the 2009 reprint as part of the "Fast Falls The Eventide" double CD, and now with two 'new' previously-unreleased bonus tracks recorded 1994 - taking this masterwork up to 7 tracks and over 67 minutes of exceptional music.

"If most ambient is the laudanum of the new fin de siécle, then Dead Voices on Air are the absinthe" (Village Voice)

This release is dedicated to the memory of both Akifumi Nakajima and Zev Asher who both passed away in 2013. Spybey was introduced to Akifumi by his friend from Vancouver, Zev Asher. Zev had a noise project called Roughage and was also in a band called Nimrod, that had at one time been based in Japan. 

The album for Cold Spring has been remastered by Martin Bowes from Attrition. Packaged in a matt-laminate digipak with art by Spybey, beautifully laid out by Abby Helasdottir.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr320cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/abrader-redux-csr320cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr320cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/dvoa-abrader

Album Teaser: https://bit.ly/DVOA-Abrader

For further reading on the back story on the recording process, please visit the Bandcamp link above!


DEAD VOICES ON AIR:

http://www.deadvoicesonair.com
https://deadvoicesonair.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/dvoaspybey
https://soundcloud.com/deadvoicesonairofficial


COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

DEAD VOICES ON AIR Concretion - Excerpt

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) 'Malfeitor' CD (CSR318CD)

A history lesson, recorded in autumn 1989. Unavailable for over 20 years in any format, we proudly present "Malfeitor" - the now classic album from Maschinenzimmer 412. This was the last release under that name, and what seemed like the final nail in the coffin for the Swedish Black Industrial act. 6 years later they rose from the ashes, restructured and resurrected as MZ. 412.

This is evil incarnate, staring into the abyss. Relentless industrial rituals; darkness fused with machines, your fears and your power. An expression of the coldest music imaginable. With a more lyrical approach than the predecessor "Macht Durch Stimme", "Malfeitor" explores themes of death, with an unequivocal dystopian outlook. Cavernous heavy industrial, primitive machine rhythms, and cold metallic loops created on old synths with very little post-production. What you hear is how it sounded on those original sessions.

Originally released on LP in 1989 by Cold Meat Industry, this monumental album is now available for the first time since 2001. Also available on digital for the first time ever! This definitive edition has been painstakingly transferred and mastered from the original 4-track tapes, with no unnecessary 'padding'.

Listen to Nordvargr discuss "Malfeitor" with Noisextra in 2021: https://www.noisextra.com/2021/06/16/maschinenzimmer-412-aka-mz-412-malfeitor

In 1987 Henrik Nordvargr Björkk, Jouni Ulvtharm Ollila, and Leif Holm forged a band that would be an outlet for blasphemous prophecies, yet from a unique sonic spectrum. The unholy triumvirate were already hitting hard as Pouppée Fabrikk, with Maschinenzimmer 412 unleashing their deepest, darkest personas. Jonas Drakhon Aneheim joined in 1995, replacing Holm and thus enacting the change of name to the abridged MZ. 412.

MZ. 412 are an act that continues to cover the earth in a nightmarish black veil. Rare releases and even rarer performances have only added to the cult status of these prime movers.

Digipak with elegant new artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 28 Oct.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr318cd 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/malfeitor-csr318cd 

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr318cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/MZ412-Malfeitor

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/maschinenzimmer412-malfeitor


MZ. 412:

https://www.nordvargr.com/mz-412
https://mz412.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/MZ412official
https://coldspring.co.uk/mz412

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) Public Worship

Out now: KOLLAPS 'Until The Day I Die' CD/LP (CSR309CD/LP)

"Until The Day I Die", the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit KOLLAPS, is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and continues the trajectory of the band's idiosyncratic approach in their creation of sound. The album showcases an uncompromising force of harsh post-industrial music narrated by overarching themes of condemnation and redemption; of violence, romanticism, sexuality, and addiction. Much of the creation and lyrical conceptualisation of the record has been stylised and presented using William S. Burroughs' cut-up method.

A wide variety of metals and raw materials were used in the creation of the album including metal grates, a rusted hoist, cement cylinders, field recordings, hammering of various decrepit objects, broken amplifiers, an exposed reverb tank, various synthesizers, and the infamous metal coil; a crudely self-constructed artifice that has become iconic in its use across KOLLAPS' triptych of releases and lengthy touring history in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

"Until The Day I Die" has had a tectonic shift in production methods compared to its predecessors and was entirely written, recorded, and mixed internally the self-constructed ILoveHeroin Studios built above a sculpture museum in Lugano, Switzerland. All instrumentation was handled by Wade Black except for bass guitar by Andrea Collaro recorded at Hangar 121 in Lenate Pozzollo, Italy on all tracks except "D-IX" and "I Believe In The Closed Fist", handled by Black, and additional sound design and percussion by Giorgio Salmoiraghi. 

Mastered by James Plotkin.
Cover artwork by Nullvoid (Thomas Ekelund | Trepaneringsritualen).

CD in 6-panel digipak || LP with full colour matt-laminate sleeve and printed inner lyric sleeve.

Out Now!

Track Listing:

1. Relapse Theatre (3:13)
2. D-IX (3:06)
3. I Believe In The Closed Fist (8:02)
4. Hate Is Forever (4:35)
5. The Hand Of Death (5:55)
6. Until The Day I Die (3:08)
7. Iron Sight Halo (5:35)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr309cd
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr309lp

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/until-the-day-i-die-csr309cd-lp

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr309cd

Watch the incredible video for 'I Believe In The Closed Fist': https://bit.ly/Kollaps-ClosedFist

Album Teaser: https://bit.ly/Kollaps-UTDID

https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/kollaps-utdid


KOLLAPS:

https://kollaps-noise.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Kollapsmusic
https://twitter.com/Kollapsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/kollapsmusic
https://coldspring.co.uk/kollaps

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KOLLAPS LIVE 2022

10/12: Laiterie - Strasbourg, FR ᚯ

ᚯ with She Past Away

Until The Day I Die

KOLLAPS Hate Is Forever

LULL 'That Space Somewhere' CD

Cold Spring proudly present the first new album in 14 years from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH).

EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM AT THE SLEEPING SHAMAN: https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/streams/premiere-lull-that-space-somewhere

LULL was conceived by Mick Harris in 1990, in an attempt to create music that would stretch, if not forsake entirely, the structures of conventional music by developing and exploring sound without beats.

MICK HARRIS ON LULL: 

"I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that’s what I always tried to do – to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call "a droner" or "a drift",  I’d use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I’m doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that". 

THAT SPACE SOMEWHERE:

"I haven't made Lull records since 2007 so... with this pandemic, I have time on my hands. I've used that time, I think, to the best. Going to the music-room is pretty much an everyday thing to me. Which has been the best thing because I’ve not been able to do this since the 90's when I had various studios... Since the lockdown I had all this time on my hands and I created a lot of good music, which I'm actually happy with.

I'm a fisherman. It gives me a lot of space. It gives me immense pleasure. For me it's about going to the river. I like moving water. The seasons change, the river changes with the seasons. It clears my mind, gives me ideas, gives me the space to be by myself and with nature... just listening to the sounds around me.

LULL is quite natural for me. It's an extension of me. Drifting. Just going to darkness. Into a space. LULL is drifting and droning, discovering more and more what can be done with sound. These soundscapes hugely appeal to me".

Mick Harris interview August 2020, courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Magazine.

http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/mick-harris-scorn-lull-ex-napalm-death-2020

Matt-laminate digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 2nd December 2022.

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr321cd

Order: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/that-space-somewhere-csr321cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr321cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/LULL-TSS

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/lull-that-space-somewhere


LULL / MICK HARRIS:

https://mickharris.bandcamp.com
https://coldspring.co.uk/Lull

"Though this is dark ambient, the tone here is more meditative than menacing, something the name of the project has always made obvious and which always set Harris' work apart" (The Sleeping Shaman)

"The first really minimal music I encountered that really captivated me... It seems to exist somewhere on the threshold between consciousness and the unconscious" (Aaron Turner).

LULL Range (Excerpt)

Stuck in the mud is a post punk track which draws influence from industrial and EBM. The song highlights the harsh realities of teenage hood and feeling out of place, longing for a sense of belonging.

Stuck in the mud ( Radio Edit )

The Residents - Loneliness
Aska - andfélagslegar tilhneigingar
VILLA 21 -  my last chance
NICO - purple lies
Yell-O-Yell - crow'a complaint
The Associates - a matter of gender
THE WAKE - give up
CHRISTIAN DEATH - Romeo's Distress (Deatwish)
CINEMA STRANGE - sadist sagittarius
MECANO - to life's re-union
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES -arabian knights BBC
NEW ORDER - Denial
Metro Decay - Σκιές
Sad Lovers  Giants  - 50 - 50
Alternative TV - Obsession
Ashinoa - Oma Gamara
BAUHAUS - Silent Hedges
Asmus Tietchens - Grössenwarnung
SIMPLE MINDS - 30 frames a second live

// 30 FrameS A SeconD !!! //

Cold Spring is the UK's premier record label / mailorder for: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Esoteric, Japanese Noise, Ritual, Power Electronics, Noise, Drone, Death Industrial, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Doom, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music.

Cold Spring Records has primarily been a label since 1990, releasing such influential artists as Coil, Laibach, Psychic TV, Merzbow, MZ. 412, Z’EV, Skullflower and more.

http://www.coldspring.co.uk / http://store.coldspring.co.uk / info@coldspring.co.uk

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