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)

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Cold Spring 2024 Releases

Corell - Under The Surface

Radiants

Wale

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

Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige! Recorded in The Hague in the sultry plains of summer soaring through relentless angst. 
 
Captivated by the North Sea, its dune landscape and surrounding dark forests, Dim Garden's music expands into swampy synthesis, gothic electronic experimentation, bedroom ballads, field recordings and noise.

Tracklist:

Idypoto Roumpini – Lena Platonos
DX7 Improv ('Random') – Legowelt
Contort Yourself – East End Butchers
Die Kälte – NONE 
Bon Voyage – Dissemblance 
Subarashi – Colectivo Vandalismo
Pas Attendre I – Sprung aus den Wolken
SsSs – SHXCXCHCXSH
Zeevlam – Dim Garden
Judy Knows How to Use a Gun – Violent Quand on Aime
Forja Real – Radiante Pourpre 
Off You Go – Matiajka
The Fetch-Execute Style – Rogue State 
The Tunnel – Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt
Entropic – Egil Kalman 
We Will Meet Again in Abfallberg – Smackos 
Ghadr – Liliane Chlela
Seven Murder – Haus Arafna 
Untitled (cello improv) – Dim Garden

Dissemblance Carte Blanche w/ Dim Garden [02.07.24]

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

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1 Gamajorba (intro edit)
2 Garret's Plea
3 Secret of Heather Ale (synthetic demo) (Robert Louis Stevenson)
4 Contentment (Thomas Paine)
5 The Old Priest (William Butler Yeats)
6 And If (Mihai Eminescu)
7 I Serve A Mistress (Anthony Munday)
8 Convalescent Crescent Groans 
9 Who Cares
10 Nervous
11 Here Comes a New Life 
12 Fate of Sakartvelo
13 Swanheart (Nightwish) 
14 I Fear Thy Kisses (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
15 Lies About Vietnam (Adrian Mitchell)
16 The Twin of Sleep (Robert Graves)
17 Addison’s Ode (Joseph Addison)
18 Blakehead Babyhead (Adrian Mitchell)
19 Friends Who Write, Draw and Carve (Christopher Logue) 
20 There Are No Millers Anymore (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
21 As Phantoms Go (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
22 The Initiation (Manly P Hall)
23 Life Is Not Easy 
24 I Only Ever Have Bad Ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqevCB1ZoI

The Initiation(0018)

A harsh and adventurous selection picked by the legendary techno innovators Teste. https://secretthirteen.org/stm-137-teste/

Secret Thirteen Mix

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STM 137 - Teste

An enchanting sonic journey by Rafael Anton Irisarri, a.k.a. The Sight Below, takes us across soundscapes as expansive as mountains, valleys, and deserts. https://secretthirteen.org/stm-088-the-sight-below/ @the-sight-below @irisarri

STM 088 - The Sight Below

I'm delighted to present my Bodañ show on @noodsradio . Bodañ, which means "to come together" in Breton, is a one-hour journey through styles and genres, with no limits. 

TRACKLIST :

Leopold Cordier - Narrativa
Morpha - Memories
Eliane Radigue - Le soleil
Black Zone Myth Chant - Spiritual Decay Dub
Tradecraft - Black Mist
The Prince Stoner - UV DUB
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys - Auditorium
The Empty Quarter - Black Sage - 1
FOQL - Escapist Dubbbbb Machine
Aymeric De Tapol - a4_terror dub
Neinzer - Nabi
El Mahdy Jr. - Gasba Grime
Reymour - On a Pulse
Les Rythmes Digitales - Scimitar
Twoman - Stratosphere
Baird Remo - Emojerk
Truant - X2
Fergus Jones - Heima with Huerco S. and James K
Jichael Mackson - Shangri La
Kinkajous - Still (Drifts)
Basses Terres - Yōru no Satori (with Mika Oki)
Couronne de Merde - The time that remains
Territroy - I Meant You, Not You
James K - Blinkmoth (July Mix)

Bodañ with Speechmaker - 06/11/2024

VA 'Noise Forest' CD / 2LP / Ltd 2LP

A classic compilation that emanated out of Osaka, "Noise Forest" brings together a powerhouse of early 90's Japanese noise stalwarts: MERZBOW, C.C.C.C., SOLMANIA, DISLOCATION, MONDE BRUITS, MASONNA, VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA, and INCAPACITANTS. 

The ultimate Japanoise collection, originally released in 1992 on the cult Les Disques Du Soleil label / record store on CD-only, and now impossible to find. Remastered and presented here on deluxe 2LP in matt-laminate gatefold sleeve (first time on vinyl) and new CD edition, all with new artwork.

A forest isn't something normally associated with noise; it brings to mind silence and solitude. However, the ominous cover art here - and the artists within - bring to mind the notorious suicide forest Aokigahara. Despite all tracks falling into the Japanoise genre, the tracks are very diverse, yet every track is so distinct it could only be by that artist.

"One of the most unique and stand-out noise comps of the 90's". For mini-reviews of each track, please visit the release pages, or listen to Noisextra's 'Noise Forest' special: https://www.noisextra.com/2024/01/10/various-artists-noise-forest.

OUT 6th DECEMBER 2024:
 
• CD in matt-laminate digipak.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr340cd

• 2LP Black in matt-laminate gatefold sleeve.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr340lp

• 2LP Forest Green in matt-laminate gatefold sleeve. Ltd 250 copies.
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr340lp-green

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/noise-forest-csr340cd-lp

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/noise-forest

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr340cd

INCAPACITANTS - Automatic Loss Cut

Night Foundation - Ghost Dance

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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)

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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