Cold Spring 2024 End Of Year Playlist...

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

2025 will see new releases on Cold Spring from the likes of: T.A.G.C., Anni Bandez (with Coil, Marc Almond, Swans), Trepaneringsritualen, Derek Jarman LP, Satøri, Colossloth, Zoviet France, COIL reprints, along with some yet to be revealed Cult soundtracks, and more to be announced.

Thank you for your continued support...

COLD SPRING 2024 RELEASES:

VA 'Noise Forest' CD / 2LP / Ltd 2LP (CSR340CD/LP)
PITCHSHIFTER - 'Peel Sessions 1991-93' CD / LP / Ltd LP (CSR344CD/LP)
BESTIA ASTRUM - 'Fury 161' CD (CSR342CD)
THE SEA OF WIRES - 'The Sea Of Wires' 2CD (CSR345CD)
KHOST - 'Many Thanks Afflict Us Few Things Console Us' CD / LP / Ltd LP (CSR313CD/LP)
400 LONELY THINGS - 'The New Twilight' CD (CSR341CD)
JAC BERROCAL + DAVID FENECH + VINCENT EPPLAY feat COSEY FANNI TUTTI and JAH WOBBLE - 'Broken Allures' CD / LP / Ltd LP (CSR339CD/LP)
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'The Totality of Death (Α)' CD / Shirt (CSR335CD/TS)
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'The Totality of Death (Ω)' CD / Shirt (CSR336CD/TS)
THE NEW BLOCKADERS / GRINDER-WITHOUT-ORGANS / THE THEATRICAL PANOPTICON Present: 'The Stage As Antiworld' 2CD (CSR337CD)
COIL / NINE INCH NAILS - 'Recoiled' LP / Ltd LP / Shirt (CSR193LP/TS) - 10 year anniversary edition!
TENHORNEDBEAST - 'Capra Hircus' CD (CSR338CD)
LLYN Y CWN - 'Megaliths' CD (CSR334CD)
MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO & MERZBOW - 'Extinct' CD / LP / Ltd LP (CSR330CD/LP)
CORRUPTED - 'Felicific Algorithm / Mushikeras' CD / Shirt (CSR333CD/TS) - sorry, no audio by request of the band!
LULL - 'Journey Through Underworlds' CD (CSR329CD)

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

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Cold Spring 2024 Releases

LLYN Y CWN - 'Megaliths' CD

Step into the shadows of ancient mysticism as Llyn Y Cwn, the maestro of Welsh dark ambient, unveils the mesmerising odyssey that is "Megaliths". A profound exploration of the sacred resonance embedded within stone circles, capturing years of field recordings from the silent and enigmatic monuments that stand as timeless witnesses to the ebb and flow of existence.

Ben Powell has crafted a sonic voyage that mirrors the sacred spaces marked by stoic pillars of rock, each track representing a specific site. Delving deep into the esoteric significance of stone circles, the album portrays these structures not merely as historical relics but as religious ceremonial sites where the veil between our world and the eternal realm becomes tantalisingly thin.

Extracting ambient soundscapes from burial chambers, Ben has utilised convolution reverbs to replicate the ominous ambiance of these ancient spaces. A veteran of stone circle exploration, Ben's decades-long journey has yielded field recordings that capture the haunting whispers of wind and the solemn caws of crows, enveloping the listener in a ghostly atmosphere that transcends the ordinary.

Guided by the wisdom found in Julian Cope's "The Modern Antiquarian" and Aurbrey Burl's "A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain", Llyn Y Cwn embarks on a sonic pilgrimage across the country, exploring the remote bleakness of these sites. The album transitions from the cramped, gloomy chambers of tombs to the unroofed, wide rings - a journey from darkness to light, from the dead to the living, and from the grave to the sky.

"Megaliths" is a ritual, a sonic séance that beckons listeners to commune with the ancient energies that saturate these sacred circles - an atmospheric descent into the heart of mysterious realms, where the boundaries between the earthly and the spiritual blur into an indistinguishable, haunting atmosphere. Embrace the darkness, and let the stones speak. The journey begins now.

CD presented in a 6-panel flood-printed digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist. Out 29th March 2024.

Order CD: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr334cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/megaliths-csr334cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr334cd

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/llyn-y-cwn-megaliths

LLYN Y CWN:

https://llynycwn.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/llyn-y-cwn
https://facebook.com/llynycwn
https://instagram.com/llynycwnmusic
https://coldspring.co.uk/llyn-y-cwn

LLYN Y CWN Bryn Cader Faner

JAC BERROCAL + DAVID FENECH + VINCENT EPPLAY feat COSEY FANNI TUTTI and JAH WOBBLE - 'Broken Allures' CD / LP / Ltd LP

"Broken Allures", the fifth LP from trio Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay (following releases on Blackest Ever Black, Akuphone, KlangGalerie), furthers their unique recording style with a musique concrète approach to mixing, characterized by the distinctive sound and technique of musicians and producers. Fenech and Epplay have paired with legendary French musician Berrocal, renowned for his collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Vince Taylor, Jaki Liebezeit, Pascal Comelade, Sunny Murray etc. "Broken Allures" is arguably their most coherent and fully accomplished album to date.

For this album, the trio has invited two fantastic musicians to compose with them: COSEY FANNI TUTTI and JAH WOBBLE.

COSEY FANNI TUTTI (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, COUM Transmissions) contributes vocals, cornet, and electric guitar in her unique style. She has also written lyrics for two tracks on the album and brings a radical touch to the instrumental track 'Viva la Hacienda', which, in her own words, recalls her time recording with Throbbing Gristle.

JAH WOBBLE (founding member of Public Image Limited, and collaborator with African Head Charge, Brian Eno, Björk, Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Bill Laswell, Primal Scream, Evan Parker, Sinéad O'Connor etc) plays a deep bass line on one track. He adds his signature industrial dub sound, with deep sub-bass frequencies.

File next to Throbbing Gristle, early Clock DVA, Chris & Cosey, Bill Laswell, Master Musicians Of Jajouka.

• CD in a matt-laminate flood-printed digipak.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr339cd

• Ltd Ed 150 copies on transparent yellow vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve with full-colour insert.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr339lp-yellow

• Black vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve with full-colour insert.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr339lp 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/broken-allures

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/broken-allures

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr339cd

Video by Vincent Epplay (YouTube): 'Outspoken Caress' feat Cosey Fanni Tutti: https://bit.ly/Outspoken-Caress

Tracks:

1. Warszawa
2. Tones Of Blue And Red
3. Cerbère Passage
4. Outspoken Caress
5. Viva La Hacienda
6. Zadar Melodia
7. Morocco Shanghai
8. Broken Allures
9. Coiffeur Pour Vince
10. Christal Venus
11. Sondelimosa
12. Preacher Feature

DAVID FENECH: https://davidfenech.fr
VINCENT EPPLAY: http://www.viplayland.net
JAC BERROCAL: https://facebook.com/jacberrocal
COSEY FANNI TUTTI: http://www.coseyfannitutti.com
JAH WOBBLE: https://jahwobble.com

OUT 30th AUGUST 2024

JAC BERROCAL + DAVID FENECH + VINCENT EPPLAY feat COSEY FANNI TUTTI - Viva La Hacienda

400 LONELY THINGS - 'The New Twilight' CD. Out 6th September 2024.

Tumble back into the nebulous and murky psychedelic haze of 70's-80’s VHS horror!

Explore grimy palimpsests from the film studio to the grindhouse with 400 Lonely Things in "The New Twilight": eleven creepy yet sublime analogue microdoses of vintage genre and exploitation audio sampled and filtered through the darkly ambient, melodically droning, melancholic nerd soul.

CD pack / Download includes a fascinating booklet of tantalizing visual clues!

Adjacent genres: hauntology • dark ambient • experimental ​electronics • psychedelic • drone • soundtrack • plunderphonics

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It's been said by many over the years that Horror is the most flexible genre. So many ideas, themes, and styles flow through it.

Craig Varian of 400 Lonely Things has spent a half-century on earth exploring almost all of it, and finds a particular sweet spot in the glut of films released in the VHS boom of the 80's.

Varian developed a fascination for the worlds of sound revealed by audio sampling after first encountering an Ensoniq Mirage in the 1980s. While he found sampling music interesting and often surprising, it was the overlooked moments in the audio environments of horror films in particular that seemed to provide the most fertile wealth of inexplicably sublime material. More often than not, samples from these sources seemed eager to twist themselves into moments of smeary, effusive beauty and when looped and treated, often veered directly into mysterious assemblies of warm melancholia - meditative poetics that were never implied in their lurid lo-fi grindhouse presentations. And, of course, sometimes they were just creepy.

While a couple previous releases by 400 Lonely Things in this realm have focused on specific film-titles (2008's "Tonight Of The Living Dead" and 2022's "Nigths And Profecy") with similar results, their 17th album "The New Twilight" is the first 400 Lonely Things release to take a slight step back to widen that perspective a bit, to focus on the overall genre itself. With the exception of one single track, each song (and song title) is sourced from a single film. To further this theme, the chronologically ordered booklet included in the physical packaging (and digital booklet included with Bandcamp purchases) uses the same techniques to extract a hazy and dreamlike visual reference from the murky celluloid sources.

• CD in flood-printed matt-laminate digipak with 12-page booklet.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr341cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-twilight-csr341cd

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/400lt-the-new-twilight

Watch the eerie video for 'VHS-M155': https://bit.ly/400LT-VHS-M155 (YouTube)

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr341cd

400 LONELY THINGS:

https://400lonelythings.com
http://facebook.com/400lonelythings
https://instagram.com/400lonelythings
http://twitter.com/400lonelythings
https://coldspring.co.uk/400-Lonely-Things

400 LONELY THINGS Life Plus

PITCHSHIFTER 'Peel Sessions 1991-93' CD / LP / Ltd LP

We're extremely proud to announce the first ever release of PITCHSHIFTER's legendary BBC sessions for the late, great John Peel. 

These ultra heavy industrial metal tracks were recorded over two sessions at the iconic Maida Vale studios: 28th April 1991 and 30th March 1993 and were sourced directly from the BBC Archives (with thanks), with careful remastering for CD and vinyl.

The 1991 session was recorded during the same period as "Industrial" (Deaf Records / Peaceville), with the 1993 session recorded around the time of "Desensitized" (Earache).

Out 22nd November 2024: CD / LP Black / Ltd 500 White LP / Ltd 100 Black/White Swirl LP - Pitchshifter UK tour only - dates below!

"If you look on your PITCHSHIFTER albums you will see that we always credit John Peel. He was instrumental in getting the band out there and often played our music on the radio when no one else dared. The 'Peel Sessions' we did were a great honour and every time I met John he was always such a great guy... a legend" (JS).

Founded in Nottingham in 1989, PITCHSHIFTER's early style was heavy industrial metal, being cited as one of the originators of the genre along with Godflesh - a style which they termed "Death Industrial". These sessions and albums mark the end of that classic period, before a shift towards the more commercial, beat-driven Industrial style from the mid-90's onward that they are still known for.

Tracklisting: 1. Gritter, 2. Tendrill, 3. Dry Riser Inlet, 4. (A Higher Form Of) Killing (Radio Phuque Edit), 5. Diable (Wayco Survival Mix), 6. Deconstruction (Reconstruction).

Line-up: Jon Clayden, Mark Clayden and Jonny Carter, with Stu Toolin ('91), and Dave Walters ('93).
 
• CD in matt-laminate 6-panel digipak.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr344cd

• Black heavyweight 180g vinyl in matt-laminate sleeve.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr344lp

• Ltd Ed 500 copies on white heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr344lp-white

• Ltd 100 copies on Black & White swirl heavyweight 180g vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve. Only available at Pitchshifter UK tour.

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/peel-sessions-1991-93-csr344cd-lp

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/pitchshifter-peel-sessions

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr344cd

PITCHSHIFTER UK TOUR 2024:

26th Nov: Thekla, Bristol
27th Nov: Gorilla, Manchester
28th Nov: The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
29th Nov: The Garage, London (sold out)
30th Nov: Rock City, Nottingham

Tickets: https://linktr.ee/pitchshifter


PITCHSHIFTER - Gritter

THE NEW BLOCKADERS / GRINDER-WITHOUT-ORGANS / THE THEATRICAL PANOPTICON Present: 'The Stage As Antiworld' 2CD

This double CD set includes an extended collaboration between The New Blockaders & Grinder-without-Organs, and two live recordings of anti-theatre premiered at Cafe OTO (London, UK) and Audio Foundation (Auckland, NZ).  The set also includes a link to access a bonus film and extra, printable material: https://coldspring.co.uk/TSAA.html 

CD1 features Ein Glücklicherer Zufall: Genau Zu Lang (trans. A Happier Accident: Exactly Too Long), an hour-long part studio / part live collaboration between seminal anti-music stalwarts The New Blockaders, and purveyors of the absurd Grinder-without-Organs. Ein Glücklicherer Zufall... shows a different side to TNB's trademark obliterating noise offensives with a more collaged, musique concrète approach. 

CD2 opens with G-w-O Live at Cafe OTO - "Showcasing a singer who has no voice, musicians who have no instruments, and a bandleader who has no direction."

The set concludes with The Theatrical Panopticon - "A stage play performed in a void infected with accidental somniloquies."

Fans of Noise music will need no introduction to the work of TNB. Ron Lessard, of legendary US Noise label RRRecords, once stated, "I'd give the nod to TNB as being the first truly devoted Noise artists". TNB served as a major influence on legendary Noise pioneers such as Merzbow and their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Wolf Eyes is immeasurable.

Double CD in a 6-panel matt digipak with 8-page booklet featuring TNB and G-w-O artworks. Out now.

Order 2CD: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr337cd

Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/the-stage-as-antiworld-csr337cd

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/tnb-gwo-ttp

Videos by Jonny Halifax (YouTube): 

Grinders-without-Organs - Live At Cafe OTO https://bit.ly/GWO-OTO

The New Blockaders: Die Bahnbrechenden Schallplatten Zerstörer: Part 4 - https://bit.ly/TNB-DBSZ4


THE NEW BLOCKADERS:

https://www.thenewblockaders.org.uk
https://instagram.com/thenewblockaders
https://facebook.com/thenewblockaders
https://twitter.com/newblockaders
https://coldspring.co.uk/the-new-blockaders

GRINDER-WITHOUT-ORGANS

https://www.deathenteredinerror.com
https://www.facebook.com/deathenteredinerror

GRINDER-WITHOUT-ORGANS Noise/Theatre In One Anti-Act With Film (Excerpt)

Available on Bandcamp:
jeanroupech.bandcamp.com/album/robots

Composed by Alexis Levavasseur in 2012, edited in 2025.

Robots

"Robots Dream..."

Adrenaline Slip (µ-Ziq Remix)

“Not nostalgia, but memory.

Do the warped boleros on water-damaged tape sound the same in Saigon as they do in Havana? Is it the trait of memory or the Romance of dancing cheek to cheek that is the real undercurrent of boleros, or is it the sleeping warmth of memory being invented by the synesthesia of a true listener?

I believe these are some of the questions raised and cryptically answered by doris dana’s 𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒂 mixtape. Mónica Mesa, the Colombian sound artist who now works out of North Carolina, conjures up imagery so vibrant and familiar that to say it is “cinematic” would not do justice to the narrative the music produces. Through field recordings, indistinct chatter, and the bolero music itself, Mesa invents a new form of the genre, much like the permutation of boleros in Vietnam, which are slower in tempo.

Mesa recalls the sounds of their parents and grandparents and how she associates the ever-present musical style throughout their life. In this hour-long mixtape, we share in her imperfections to recall memory as we slog through the haze of what is remembered, what we are fed in culture as memory, and how we interact with others to clarify recollection. Where nostalgia seeks to implant memory in your mind and heart for the purpose of selling you a past that glosses over imperfection, true memory is foggy, left-handed, and rubbed dark with eraser marks of corrections made and made again.

A depiction of one’s own recollection is often brightened and polished for consumption, but this mixtape truly shows the cracks in our foundations. Not unlike a Frank O’Hara poem, in which trying to remember which day or month it is enters the lines of the poetry, or how in Calvino’s 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, Marco Polo begins recalling billboards and discarded refrigerators in his tale of the Orient to Kublai Khan, showing that the narrator is faulty in further presenting memories of another’s memories. This complexity draws you in, and you are rewarded with a sonic envisioning that many have attempted but few have achieved so deftly as doris dana.”

- David Coccagna, September 2025

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doris dana is the sound project of Colombian-born artist Mónica Mesa, exploring the emotional tonalities of liminal spaces through field recordings, slow-moving drones, whispered vocals, and sparse, reverb-soaked electro-acoustic instruments. Named after Gabriela Mistral’s editor and confidante, doris dana gestures toward the study of quiet forms of intimacy and memory in sound.

Their latest album, 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 (Somewhere Press, 2024), offers a meditative, immersive listening experience. Mesa is also one half of the duo bad lsd trips, whose self-titled album and most recent release, 𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕 (enmossed, 2025), expand on similarly experimental sonic territories.

In addition, she hosts No era sólida on Radio TNP—an hour-long mix series delving into the most introspective edges of sound, featuring experimental, cinematic, and free-form compositions that invite deep emotional engagement. 

recorded by Mónica Mesa
audio finalized by Glyn Maier 

lado b [Preview Clip] (ENMX-xe)

ENV(itre) - Crevuss

woven ambient, dub, experimental, idm, and glitch.

Life as Collage w/ yusk: 23rd November '25

@leo_la_vie

LÉO LA NUIT released her album LE DON DES LARMES on Knekelhuis.
Out September 12.

LÉO LA NUIT - LES BOURGEONS

LP available as a digital and new and recycled cassettes accompanied by printed black and white zine with lyrics and ink illustrations by chereshenkaa.

Order: https://biardo.bandcamp.com/album/reed-flutter/

@minereed
@biardo-records

PREMIERE: minereed - In HeaveN (biardo records)

ixqzm is an electroacoustic composer and electronic music producer based in Paris. Her work stems from a deep sensitivity to an observation of natural sounds. Driven by intuition and improvisation, she reinterprets the diversity and vitality of sound through her connection with nature, creating dreamlike sonic landscapes.

Empyrean Wave w/ ixqzm (live) @ Kiosk Radio 03.12.2025

DMX Krew - No Way To Control It - snippets Side C

C1 The Outlaw 
C2 Rephlections in Time
C3 Dinosaur Reaction	

About:
Ed DMX has been part of Shipwrec since the label’s inception. Under his DMX Krew moniker, this analogue wizard has released four Eps and one LP on the Nijmegen imprint. DMX Krew returns to Shipwrec for a brand new album, a collection that displays yet another side of this sculptor’s sound. Brutal and cold, shadows are long and shades dark from the outset. Drum patterns twist in tempo and intent, from hard and punishing to gentle and fragile. Elements of breaks and industrial are also present in the percussion, this fragmenting allowing deep and soulful melodies to counter the battery. In fact, echoes of electronica permeate the harmonies across the LP such as deep and divergent “Interrupt.” No single style is adhered to. Instead, the full palette of machine music is employed. From the squelchy Tudor electrofunk of “I Wonder Why” to the melancholic braindance of “Rephlections in Time”, genre boundaries are given little credence. Instead, Ed DMX draws on his decades of experience to create sounds that are both familiar and completely one of a kind. The deep-sea dive of “Final Comedown” is juxtaposed with the ambling calypso of “Dinosaur Reaction”, styles reimagined and reshaped to the creator’s evolving purpose. Echoes of the halcyon days of Rephlex permeate the 2LP. The harshness and softness of the Cornwall imprint being present throughout, those more subtle tones coming to the fore in the delicate beauty of the “Phaser Level 2.” A transcendent album and a certified future classic.
To accompany this very special release, there will be a limited edition run with full cover art by Ruwedata. An artist very close to Shipwrec’s heart, Ruwedata was responsible for the sleeve work on DMX Krew’s Cosmic Awakening.

Release date vinyl: 19th of January 2026
Release date digital: 26th of January 2026

Cat# Shiplp010
Written and produced by Ed DMX
Artwork by Studio Ruwedata
Mastered by Johanz Westerman 
Distributed by Clone Distribution
© DMX Krew & Shipwrec 2026
All rights reserved


DMX Krew - No Way To Control It - snippets Side C [Forthcoming]

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.

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