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Conjecture is the personal music/sound design project of the visual artist Vasilis Angelopoulos. The project started in 2012 in order to complete musically his visual projects in the installation and sculpting fields. The project evolved quickly and took its own way almost appart from the visual arts. In 2014 Conjecture made his first release from the Greek independed label Ars Nocturna, "Enter The Grove" in CD and after a year, a second release followed as a CD by the German IDM/Ambient label Raumklang. This release was focused, inspired and named after the traditions and history of the northest frozen land "Nunavut". In 2016 "Urbanitarianism" came to continue the electronic work of Conjecture, this time using urbanism, urban shamanism and modern occult as an inspiration. The 3 releases led the artist in multimedia lives arround Europe in local clubs, underground squads, DIY lives and major industrial festivals combining his music with video art. In 2017 Conjecture released a tape E.P. "my body, your temple" from both Raumklang Music and Amek Collective. His research in the connection between the body and divinity led him to his final release V that came out in vinyl in 2019 and followed by the "completion" tape E.P. ∫V. In 2021 Conjecture signed in Zoharum label and released "Hydra" in digipak.  	The project roughly stays in a fixed musical pattern as its experiments are moving between different genres and concepts, using mostly hardware synthesizers, metal sheets, piezo microphones, DIY impulse resposes "collected" from abandoned buildings, and tape-manipulation to express his manifestos  upon human existence and religious folklore stereotypes and transcendence through archetypal rituals, body deconstruction, human subtraction and murder. His live performances constitute a combination of sound and visual arts, using doubled projections and sculptures.
Collaborations: Mytrip Lith Mourmansk150 Zandoz Corp. Талос Infekkted Aevin Antechamber Interstice LATE The man & his failures NULL404 SIVA SIX xTHUG15x(Psycorepaths) Filipos Tsoulias (Septuagint) Chris Zindros (Aenaon)
Lives: Conjecture, LΔΤΞ, Kosnost’ // Πρώτος Όροφος, Thessaloniki – 2019 Martin Bland and Karolina Urbaniak & Conjecture // Dark Sun, Athens – 2019 Conjecture & Millions of dead tourists // Chimeres.space, Athens – 2018 Amek X // Mixtape 5, Sofia – 2018 Талос, Conjecture, Inconnu // Factory, Florina – 2018 Aevin, Талос, Conjecture // Πρώτος Όροφος, Thessaloniki – 2018 Stendeck, Poordream, Mytrip, Cryintro, Conjecture // Modu, Athens – 2017 Elektroanschlag // Altenburger Brauerei, Altenburg – 2017 Hologram_ & Conjecture // Dark Sun, Athens – 2016 Conjecture, Талос, Aevin // Death Disco, Athens – 2016 Dirk Geiger, Memphidos, Tape86, Conjecture, Талос , Aevin // The Place, Athens – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Czech Center, Sofia – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Studio 11, Subotica – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Trafik Klub, Budapest – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // AU, Vienna – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // (A)void floating gallery, Prague – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Institut fur Neue Medien, Frankfurt – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Nordstadtpalast, Kassel – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Ma Thilda, Berlin – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Alte Feuerwache, Dresden – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // LAS, Poznan – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Moskva Kavezo, Oradea – 2015 Conjecture & Mytrip // Kino Kosmos, Plovdiv – 2015
More info: www.vasilisangelopoulos.com

Podcast 010 - Conjecture Live x Brutal Forms

XTR HUMAN stands for Gothic electronic club force with danceability and HD club accessibility. The melding driving EBM and coldwave atmospheres are influenced by the pop hooks of Austrian New Wave legend Falco. Berlin based producer Johannes Stabel started the project in 2012 out of the South German Coldwave scene.

Podcast 012 - Xtr Human x Brutal Forms

Augurio Drama is a project forged to create sound material outside the conventional rules. Slightly ambient, dirty, dark and drab soundscapes.
Minimal and claustrophobic sounds made with any component that generates noise, formed under simple structures and without any connection, only the primitive human instinct and the use of electronic machines.
Aware that just only a small social minority can understand this concept, Augurio Drama moves away from the social hypocrisy, the absurd rules and stereotypes that we have today in our society.

Podcast 014 - Augurio Drama Live x Brutal Forms

Originally from WV, I moved to Dayton, Ohio in 2013. Fortunately, this led to more accessibility to shows/scenes that weren't so prominent where I'm from. I would call my sound style a concoction of ambient, drone, and noise...for this Hearse Case Scenario project anyhow. I use the term Ambientdronoise. I have a few other projects that have various amounts of each of these elements, 
depending on the project. Prior to now, I have put out Noise releases under Stalk Market, Conviction Notice and Nephesh. On the ambient side of things, I recently started releasing material under the moniker Pharos, which has gotten decent reception. But Carbon Son has been my main ambient drone project since late 2019. I started that project first, mainly due to my fascination with ambient and drone music. Afterwards, it seems that it was in the cards to 
incorporate some Noise textures in there, hence creating the other projects. Moving forward with Noise, I'll be performing as Hearse Case Scenario mainly although I may pull a Stalk Market track out of the blue occasionally.

Podcast 015 - Nine Circles Live x Brutal Forms

LIKE WEEDS is the Tokyo based industrial noise project of exiled Englishman Kenny Sanderson.
After putting “cut-up` noise project FACIALMESS on indefinite hiatus in 2018, Sanderson turned his attention to a new unit.
Initially focusing on field recordings and industrial loops; recent LiKE WEEDS material has concentrated on the more rhythmic aspects of the project. Centred around an ever present kick drum and Trogotronic noise textures, and 
exploring themes of alienation, anxiety  and injustice LIKE WEEDS aims to give the listener a stark battering.

“Drown Nation (FUCK YOUR OLYMPICS AND YOUR 30 BILLION DOLLAR BAILOUT)”
This one hour set was recorded live in August 2021 using a Vermona Kick Lancet , Trogotronic m679, Trogotronic m669 , Trogotronic m658, Korg SQ-1. Some additional samples were added post performance.

Podcast 016 - Like Weeds Live x Brutal Forms

« Sangre Sagrada » is the recent side project
of the Industrial Techno maniac « Spitting Ashes » focusing on some of the harshest underground music you’d ever heard called « Minatory Deathstep  » which is basically a
clash between « Dubstep » and « Deathcore »
resulting in nothing but total auditive anarchy. He also blend « Minatory » with « Dark Soundscapes » with a touch of « Noisy-Electronic Leftfield bass music » from the likes of « Wolf Camo, Sectra, Trisicloplox » to name a few. Now about his Brutal Forms guest mix:

« The following sequence contains depiction of graphic audio violence and material that may not be suited to societal’s standards. Listener discretion is strongly advised. »

Podcast 017 - Sangre Sagrada x Brutal Forms

After several years of research thru the whole world of electronic music, the solo project Archaix is born. Hailing from Italy and recently based in Berlin, Archaix is inspired on a dark and harsh industrial techno with experimental influences, deep sounds and summoning textures to drive the listener into an aggressive journey and thru hypnotic perspectives.



Vinyl set recorded

Podcast 018 - Archaix x Brutal Forms

Masterminded by Francesco Presotto, Søulless employs the use of mangled metal percussions and harsh, saturated noise however atypical to his contemporaries a focus is placed on the blending of unusual and lush electronic music textures. With the music and composition predominately relying on improvising, Francesco seamlessly melds together the dualities and schisms of these opposing sonic worlds into compositions that are truly singular which is intended to target the listeners wounds of trauma and sear them closed by offering a unique world of escapism.
Touring heavily through the 2000’s as a session musician and having performed at various high profile festivals throughout the world including Vans Warped Tour (US), Impericon Festival (DE), Pukkelpop (BE), Gods of Metal (IT), Wacken Festival (DE), Resurrection Festival (ES) and also having contributed to releases on major labels such as Century Media and Rise Records, Francesco ultimately abandoned the heights of the commercial music industry in exchange for the underground music scene and in 2019 conceptualised and founded Søulless, preferring creative freedom and dedicating himself entirely to the project.
The latest offering by Søulless was the March 2021 self-released two-track digital EP ‘Under The Skin’, a precursor to upcoming full-length ‘Razors for Breakfast’ album scheduled for late 2021 that will see the debut of the new version of the project that includes as permanent member the singer and musician Virginia Bertozzi aka Queen V.
Previously, Søulless has collaborated and released through a slew of significant underground music labels including Clan Destine, Occultists, Phage Tapes, Drøne, Industrial Complexx, Correspondig Positions.Mostra meno

Podcast 019 - Søulless x Brutal Forms

Since 2014, Untitled Noise is a sound project (founded near Milan) by Michele Lombardelli and Luca Scarabelli, artists whose common interests have often led them to collaborate.
In the past years we have had many live shows in art galleries, museums, concert halls and on some festivals too.
Untitled Noise experiences the creative dimension of sound through improvisation, conceived as a philosophy and compositional methodology that allows dialogue between the two artists who experience sound with different analog systems and tools. The choice refers to the unfinished, to hypnotic flow, different repetition, to the suspension of time: it tells through sound and image, the hypothetical journey into the deep, with the ancestral anxieties of an expected non-return.

Podcast 020 - Untitled Noise Live x Brutal Forms

Italian producer and live performer, L \ R D identifies himself in forceful and dynamic sounds, represented by heavy percussions and harsh tones.
As result of his fascination for electronics and synth hardware, he set up his performances mainly on modular synths.

Attracted also to more melodic and ambient sounds, including tribal and ethnic ones, it allows him to experience and contribute to his musical foresight with new perspectives and challenges.

Podcast 021 - L \ R D x Brutal Forms

MAREK. SELECTOR FROM KYIV, UKRAINE. I LIKE PRETTY HARD MUSIC / SLOW HARDCORE / MELANCHOLIC TRACNE. NOW IM WORKING ON MY OWN MUSIC AND TELLING STORIES BY MY MIXS.
THIS ONE IS ABOUT EMOTIONAL INTRODUCING MY DARK SIDE. HERE IS EBM AND SOME HARDCORE. enjoy

Podcast 022 - Marek x Brutal Forms

Opake is an experimental/techno project coming from Lima, Peru.
His sound approach moves between dark, cathartic atmospheres and aggressive tribal rhythms.
Currently resident artist in georgian label, Borders of Known.

Podcast 023 - Opake x Brutal Forms

667 Fatal is project run by young Georgian artist , based in Italy . Oriented in dark sounds of body , industrial , and heavy music. Has released 2 solo albums plus also some collaborations as various artists , 667 Fatal is resident of OSM Tapes label , Xtraperlo Records , Still Distant Records .

Podcast 024 - 667 Fatal x Brutal Forms

Volsent has explored a plethora of music genres, all feeding into his current combination of disturbed
sound, based on powerful kicks, funk and breaks, augmented with classical melodies. His journey as
an electronic music producer began with hip hop and jungle breaks, eventually leading down a path
to his current, visionary experimental techno-industrial sound. Today, Volsent's music is
characterized by a modular, synth-heavy approach to sound design, fusing heavy beats with thick,
distorted synth riffs. He joined the London electronic experimental scene in 2010. Surrounded by
crazy musicians and toy circuit benders, he found himself in an underground community that helped
him explore and develop a passion for analogue equipment. As a performer, he believes in the power
of live analogue performances. This allows him to shape sound for the dancer, generating
unexpected switches from acidic industrial techno to trippy power-breaks.

Podcast 025 - Volsent Live x Brutal Forms

Gruntsplatter solidified in 1994 after a year or so of experimenting. I've always sought to weave together elements that span the spectrum of dark experimental music to create a soundtrack for the concepts that inspire me. Disregarding the bramble of sub-genre feels like the best way to evoke my intentions. The ideas are the impetus for each release, they allow me to find a focus and score a narrative. However, I'm not dictating. What the listening experience produces is up to the individual. I prefer people to stumble on something of their own.

After a break from music for a number of years I was reinvigorated in 2016 by discovering modular. It's been cathartic and fascinating to start again. I hadn't played a show in well over a decade, so playing this set was a puzzle I'm glad to have cracked.

My other projects include The Corvidae Cabal, and collaborations with a number of fine folks over the course of doing all this. I've also run Crionic Mind Records off and on since 1995.

Podcast 026 - Gruntsplatter Live x Brutal Forms

Slovenian DJ and producer, operating at the crossroads of techno, electro and bass music, and founder of independent label and event series DE/FRAGMENT. A skilled selector and proficient mixer with a wide musical pallette, his sets traverse everything from funk to punk and beyond. He has played clubs and festivals such as Klub K4, MENT Ljubljana, Drops Festival, SubArt Festival and many others, and is currently working on the follow-up to his 2019 debut album "A Lumberjack's Smile", to be released on Singularity Recordings.

Podcast 027 - Douchean x Brutal Forms

Codex Fatale is a Ukrainian Di based in Kyiv.His Sound can be described as Industrialised body techno music to create waving between the lines of EBM and Techno.
DΛRKSTØNE Dj lives in Donbass, experiments with different styles, Techno, EBM, IDM,
 philosopher of electronic music.

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Podcast 028 - Codex Fatale x Brutal Forms

The origins of Envelope Muse can be traced back to the early 2000s in the coastal deep south of Western Australia. A profound connection to dark 
ambient, harshnoise, industrial, soundtrack and film composition inspired early experimentation with a 4 track recorder, a guitar, a mic and effects pedals, and from those humble beginnings the work of Envelope Muse 
evolved into the dark ambient industrial soundtracks the artist produces today. These heavily textured and moving visions are made possible through the integration of field recordings, modified equipment, film/audio
 samples, voice, synths, guitar and bass. Dialogue runs as a theme and the music is carefully constructed for film and live performance. 
Envelope Muse soundtracks evoke feelings of solitude, melancholy, 
confinement and isolation through their foreboding, ominous and 
discordant overtones. Envelope Muse: Dystopian sound for a dystopian world.

Podcast 029 - Envelope Muse Live x Brutal Forms

Wilted Perch emerges from a pile of half devoured ideas and 
abandoned projects. Still fairly young (formed in 2018), Wilted Perch crudely stitches together dreary, isolating and sometimes stagnant soundscapes from various sources both digital and analog as well as half broken machines, creating the soundtrack to a confused and collapsing mind while swimming in a 
hodgepodge of doom/sludge, dark ambient, post-industrial and leaving behind an ethereal stench interspersed with 
minimal and subtle rhythmic elements.

Podcast 031 - Wilted Perch Live x Brutal Forms

Poets Of Mundane is project of to Georgian artists Leonti
Kvaraia aka Mbodveli and Nika Baidauri aka Loss Of Rays.
Music of this project contains EBM, Industrial and techno
sounds. With this project we are showing listener our
emotions.

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