LULL 'Journey Through Underworlds' CD

The classic, genre-defining 1993 album from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS of SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH - is a dark journey through the Stygian netherworlds of Hell. The listener is left with the impression of a final escape into reality; a return upon waking, with only wispy trace memories and the heavy rush of blood-pumping fear as a keepsake.

With this album, we are plunged back into a dark pit of noise - all escape barred, all hope dashed. The nightmare continues, the journey through underworlds descends deeper. These are soundtracks for Nightmares. Despite there being just three tracks on the album, it lasts just shy of 75 minutes. 

Originally released on Sentrax (the label of the late John Everall / Tactile), the CD suffered the 'disc rot' fate of many PDO pressings from 1988-1993, rendering most of that initial run unplayable. 

Mixed by Justin K Broadrick (GODFLESH). Remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage Studios) from the original recordings supplied by Mick Harris.

Matt digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 12th January 2024.

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".

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr329cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/journey-through-underworlds-csr329cd

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Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/lull-journey-through-underworlds

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

LULL Journey Through Underworlds

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

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BILL LASWELL & PETE NAMLOOK 'Outland' 6CD Boxset (CSR327BX)

The 'Outland' album series was a collaborative endeavour by the visionary US bassist-producer Bill Laswell and the late German musician Peter Namlook that pushed the boundaries of dark ambient and electronic music. 

Spanning five albums released over a thirteen year period from 1994, this new boxset serves as a testament to the creative synergy between the two masterminds.

At the time the duo joined forces, the New York-based Laswell was already a famous producer with a massive client list that included cutting-edge rock, pop, funk, jazz and electronic artists, but he had also founded the Axiom label in 1989 and been responsible for groundbreaking work in genres that included ambient, dub and world music. Namlook was recognised as a pioneering figure in the ambient techno scene, having founded the label FAX +49-69/450464 in his native Frankfurt in 1992.

'Outland' became a fusion of their individual musical sensibilities that resulted in a unique set of releases. At the heart of the series is an exploration of sound as a vehicle for emotion and contemplation, with Laswell's signature basslines and experimental soundscapes interweaving seamlessly with Namlook's ethereal textures and intricate sonic layering. Each album is characterised by a sense of expansiveness, taking listeners on a voyage through rarely charted sonic dimensions. All have the ability to evoke a wide range of emotions and have their own distinctive sonic palette, ranging from ambient tranquility to cosmic intensity.

'Outland' has endured as an influential touchstone, its impact felt not only in its captivating soundscapes but also in its invitation to engage in deep introspection and cosmic contemplation. With each album, the duo beckoned listeners to transcend the mundane and embark on a sonic voyage into the extraordinary, where sound becomes a conduit for spiritual and artistic expression.

The lavish matte-finish boxset opens to the 5 "Outland" albums in separate matte sleeves, with all-new designsby Abby Helasdottir (Gydja), and all audio completely remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage). This box also contains a new addition to the OUTLAND series - an album of dense, bass space drone by Bill Laswell, entitled "Blackland". The boxset also contains an exclusive card with an essay about the project written by BIll Laswell, July 2023.

Order 6CD Box: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr327bx

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/outland

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/outland

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr327bx

Out 13 October 2023.

BILL LASWELL & PETE NAMLOOK - Outland 4 - Physical Transformation

BILL LASWELL & PETE NAMLOOK - Outland 3 - Keeper Of The Purple Twilight (exc.)

BILL LASWELL & PETE NAMLOOK - Outland 2 - African Virus - Part 2 (exc.)

BILL LASWELL & PETE NAMLOOK - Outland 1 - From The Earth To The Ceiling - Part 1

LULL In The Distance (excerpt)

LULL Journey Through Underworlds (excerpt)

LULL Downwards (excerpt)

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)

The Dark Side of the Moog, Vol. 5

Psychedelic Brunch, Pt. III (feat. Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook)

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