PACIFIC 231 is the brainchild of French multimedia artist Pierre Jolivet, currently residing in Dublin, Ireland. While Pacific 231 has its roots in the 1980’s industrial noise underground, Pierre Jolivet has since then consistently sought out and found new sounds and new compositional themes, venturing into unfamiliar aesthetics but always maintaining the rare quality of a steady evolutionary path.

BARDOSENETICCUBE was formed by Russian artist Igor Potsukaylo in 1998. In his work, surrealism is key: “pure psychic automatism willing to express the real functioning of the reflection orally, written or in any other form. Dictation of mind without any control from the intellect, outside of any aesthetic of moral considerations.” (André Breton) 
One of Russia’s leading experimental drone acts, Bardoseneticcube has a quite extensive discography, having released on labels such as Drone Records, Aquarellist and Monochrome Vision.

This collaborative composition consists of 6 movements, leading the listener through a utopian sonic maelstrom in a modern re-interpretation of some sections of ‘New Atlantis’ (Francis Bacon, 1624-27). Psychedelica, field recordings and abstract electronics create a ‘New Language’ with a slippering affect from quietness and by dint of colliding utter chaos.

NOTE: Preferably listened to in total for coherence and surreal storytelling projection.

Limited to 300 copies 
Packaged in a 6-panel A5 folder with soft-touch finishing and UV spot varnish

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Pacific 231 & Bardoseneticcube - The Traditions Of Changes

dB/Mz - The Light To Come - Track 05

Track #4 from B°Tong's highly acclaimed album 'Prostration Before Infinity' (Silken Tofu 2014)

B°TONG - Interspersed

An intense 37-minute trance, starting of as a slowly progressing meditative soundscape that radically changes into a raw ritualistic inferno fueled by social criticism and discontentment. Without a doubt one of TZII's best recordings, it will leave you bewildered, forcing you to rethink your life and habits, who you are and what you should be.

TZII - The Black Pile (excerpt 1)

Kollaps - Streets

B-side of Onrust's first vinyl release 'Taghore/Luthuli'

ONRUST is Dutch for unrest, turmoil, agitation, disquiet.

Wendy Mulder, the sole member of ONRUST has been succesfully exploring the wondrous world of analogue synths, drum machines, strange pedals and cable spaghetti for a while now. She describes her music as spherical electronic industrial but that just doesn’t do her work justice. Think of a hypnotic yet minimal and old-school sounding mixture of ORPHX, ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO and PAN SONIC instead, combining cold industrial beats with a distinct feminine sublety and attention for detail.

'Tagore/Luthuli' is her first vinyl release, after having released the 3” cdr 'Nelson/Marquez' (Usain Bolt Records) and a split tape with Belgian droner MONNIK (Wool-E Tapes/Consouling Sounds) and having been featured on 2 compilations.

Musically, the two tracks presented here are a logical continuation from her previous work. 'Tagore' is a brand new track, while 'Luthuli' was already featured on the split tape with Monnik. Luthuli has since been re-recorded and is presented here in its full glory.

As a bonus, three Belgian artists were invited to remix tracks of their choice:
- ANUS NOCTURNUM, aka the modular madman from Izegem, turned ‘Tagore’ into a hypnotizing industrial monster track, combined with poetry by Rabindranath Tagore.
- Brussels-based industrial techno duo ORPHAN SWORDS provided a highly psychedelic interpretation of ‘Tagore’.
- Belgian dark techno producer NOSEDA chose to remix ‘Hesse’, which resulted in a moody and haunting mid-paced track that deserves to be included in many DJ-sets.

This new release was presented at the prestigious BOZAR ELECTRONIC ARTS FESTIVAL in Brussels, which only proves that ONRUST is an artist on the rise. So keep your eyes peeled, ONRUST is going to be big.

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Onrust - Luthuli

Written and recorded by Brandon Malzahn
From 'Sleep Paralysis'
Artwork & imaging by Silken Tofu
June 2006 - st01

Chromascope - Shoehorned Into An Ashtray

Chromascope - Who Broke My Damned Wind Chimes

Chromascope - Quit Drugging My Violinist

Chromascope - Tinnitus, Sing Me To Sleep

Chromascope - Poor Pitiful You

Formatt - N'Institu
3" cdr released in December 2006, limited edition of 100
st02

Formatt - N'Institu

TZII - Individualism EP
st14 - 2009
3" CDr in mini DVD case, limited to 100 copies

On this 3" cdr, released in 2009, individualism was the inspiration for two experimental tracks with a distinct hint of oldschool industrialism.
Recorded in one take with no editing, using selfmade instruments, microphone interferences, flutes, vocal sampling,...

Performed and recorded at Vautour homestudio in Brussels (Belgium) on 19th of March 2008

Rough individual sounds for a selfish world.

TZII - Individualism EP - Track 1

Silken Tofu presents: W/V 

The first thing to say about W/V is that this project makes a lot of sense. The ‘W’ part is James Welburn - a man whose spirit resides in both his mortal flesh and the subterranean drones of his bass guitar. Many know James for his grand LP of epic narratives, Hold (Miasmah, 2015), but throughout the years leading up to this display of imposing composition James was involved in a number of fruitful collaborations and played many an improvised noise / drone set. As a matter of fact, this is the second Silken Tofu release he’s had a hand in, the first being Barchan’s Soliton – a lengthy, intense improvisation recorded together with Motorpsycho and Zu drummer Tomas Järmyr. 

The 'V' stands for Juliana Venter, a vocalist and composer as audacious as her native South Africa. And who better to pair with a drone musician than an opera singer known to accompany an orchestra of motorcycles and string instruments? Juliana has an otherworldly voice with the uncanny ability to transform from beauty to beast mid-word, which she combines with a visionary, political mind that entertains ideas most would dismiss as ‘too extravagant’. She has been quite the collaborator in her own right, working with Phil Winter and Benge, Joseph Suchy, Thomas Mahmoud, Ramsay Mackay and many others. 

This improvisational record consists of two parts, both quite different from each other. Side A was recorded in Berlin over the course of one cathartic session, delivering 15 minutes that sound less like a piece of music and significantly more like an exorcism seance gone horribly wrong - there are explosions of blood, shit and slime, there are appendages spinning at unseemly angles and the windows have long shattered, unleashing the terror inside. It all begins with Juliana Venter’s shriek capable of penetrating the soundless vacuum of space and a vicious assault of James Welburn’s pounding bass guitar. Having drawn their initial kinetic limits in the most violent manner, the duo then proceed to maneuver, testing each other in various sonic areas like a pair of murderous flâneurs. There is a distinct feral giddiness to Side A which can only be achieved by two unfamiliar musicians excited to go blindly into the unknown. With the versicoloured facets of Juliana’s mercurial voice and James’ sharp sense of structure and musical ability, ‘the unknown’ can stretch far indeed. 

Side B was recorded over 3 sessions in Oslo and exhibits a more polished sound - Welburn and Venter becoming W/V. There is purpose, direction and wise restraint to this atmospheric, colossal drone track. It expands like a scroll, slowly, imperially, illuminating hidden caverns by bathing them in monumental soundwaves. Each whisper or touch of the string is so palpable you could crush bone with it. No longer is this an elemental clash - the voice and the instruments weave a potent singular narrative, each emboldening and revealing a form of the other never quite heard in the past.

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James Welburn: electric bass, objects & effects 
Juliana Venter: voices & objects 

Recorded in Berlin & Oslo - 2016 
Edited & mixed in Lillehammer - 2017 

Mastered & cut by Frederic Alstadt at Angström Mastering - Brussels 
Artwork & design by Thisiscorrosive - Paris 2018 

Text by Tadas Švenčionis

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