_ electro industrial / electro ambient _Set 15

WL//WH - SEPTEMBER 2019 // Electronic - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Ambient

September 2019

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The Brvtalist is pleased to present a new track from Autumns. The Irish producer returns to Clan Destine Records for the smash LP, Suffocating Brothers. "Focused Youth" is a crushing production of industrial, techno and more. Visit:  www.thebrvtalist.com/focusedyouth/ 

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SUFFOCATING BROTHERS

Autumns - Focused Youth

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After his appearance on the “Rough Treatments part 1” compilation, Shrouds returns on the label leading this next session. His "Pagan Blood Rituals" is a powerful package of atypically structured tracks. It inescapably immerses you into its raw, ritualistic scenes that shake the fundaments of faith.

With Heresy of Ignorance, the ceremonial stage gets a successful sound check. Buzzing and droning begins this delicately dark dub. Sonic fragments of the organic blended with the metallic drift above the echoing pounds of drums. The drumming dies off only shortly until Pagan Blood Rituals, a crystal clear clash of pagan percussion, follows with a reverberated heartbeat pulse. Angelic yet demonic singing preludes a snappy shift in the percussive pace that draws the blood from your brain. Drop for drop, beat for beat. Litany of Curses replaces the empty space in your brain with more heathen horror: the fiendish voice returns for a duet with a deeply distorted guitar, guided by glitchy goodness, a broken pattern of bass kicks and distant drums with shout-like sounds.

Matriarchy Roots digs up the pagan legacy, preserving its original power while pushing it in a new direction. The ritual gets re-packed in thick layers of gruesome grit, filled up with fresh blood, and tied together with an extra dense tension. The last piece of heathen heritage, Pagan Curses, is left by Zosima. Merging A2 and A3 into an entirely new piece. This occult oddball of a track squeaks, squelches and screams a way into your skull to stay there until the end.
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Title: Pagan Blood Rituals
Artist(s): Shrouds w/ Matriarchy Roots & Zosima remixes 
Label: Strange Therapy 
Cat nr: ST004
Format: digital + cassette 
Release date: 06/09/2018
Artwork: FTartestudio
Mastering: NIUMEN Studio

Shrouds | Pagan Blood Rituals w/Matriarchy Roots & Zosima remixes [clips]

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English aural terrorist Never Worse debuts on Strange Therapy with the 6-track cassette Gutter. Being true to its name, the work is a series of grinding assaults in which modern industrial/noise music with rhythmic tendencies becomes a template upon which brooding soundscapes are sculptured.

Bite The Concrete welcomes us with its haunting dark vibes, before it explodes in an industrial march made of mechanical movements and ominous lines. The rhythmic mantra uses pauses in order to convey a sense of dread. The listener will find himself crushed under the obsessive track. Dead Tooth presents grinding distortions and shrilling effects, evoking a factory-in-hell wherein an obscene ritual is consumed amidst the ever-functioning machines. An eerie atmosphere pervades the number, but the grittier side of the music is not forgotten. Cannibal is a dissonant tour de force with ritualistic noisescapes among which ghostly harsh vocals moves, preying on our fears. An ancient world made of prehistoric rules collides with the industrial setting, fusing past and present in an ominous mantra. 

The Title Track is a dark dimension with grim landscapes and underlined tension, an affair full of grit and epochal visions. It slowly adds the usual ritualistic elements in a well-crafted structure in which a suspended tension never find its climax, losing itself instead into nothingness.  Misery is a dark ambient voyage exploding with considerable disturbances and droning effects. A crawling movement guides us toward ominous moments of silence, ready to be assaulted by obsessive marches. The last track is a remix of Bite The Concrete by experimental artist Oil Thief, who reworks the track into a more experimental take on noise music, full of shrilling effects and compulsive stomping attacks. Rhythmic noise innuendos enrich the palette here used, offering a hypnotizing repetition. But it doesn't end here: the second half sees a different course dwelling in melancholic synth-lines, before returning to harsher territories.

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Title: Gutter
Artist(s): Never Worse
Remix(ers): Oil Thief
Label: Strange Therapy 
Cat nr: ST006
Format: digital + cassette 
Release date: 13/03/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Studio

Gutter

Never Worse | Gutter w/Oil Thief remix [clips]

Control

L'immodéré bien être de l'imbécile Gabe Knox remix

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German industrial radicals MDS51 grace us with a new release for Strange Therapy. The 10-track cassette Sickness and Ruins consists 3 new cuts, 3 tracks previously released only on CD, and some live-tracks recorded on Wroclaw Industrial Festival in November 2018.

DNA is a death-factory made music, an industrial inferno with distorted rhythms and sharp lines, conjuring a thundering crescendo of obsessive nature. The majestic atmosphere is enriched by well-placed samples and screams, recalling a tension akin to a real horrific experience. Tunnel is a static attack with subtle distorted motifs with a hidden melody, endorsed by a mechanical rhythm upon which female shouted vocals are layered. The track grows into a hypnotizing movement with seductive passages, while keeping its menacing soul. Torn showcases grinding lines and orchestral dark ambiances, reaching a film-score structured with sudden stark percussions and mesmerizing motifs. A dystopian sci-fi atmosphere dominates the number, while sparse vocal samples enrich the track with an almost narrative quality. Death-industrial moments surprise us with distorted vocals and steady paths. LCF is a noisescape made of hellish distortions and a stomping drum, interrupted by alarming screams. An old-school industrial atmosphere permeates the episode, conjuring a new steel-like obsession, and during the second half hateful vocals complete the climax. Fear Reactor is a destructive affair made of abrasive distortions and the usual well-placed samples, soon reached by strong rhythmic patterns and declaiming shouted vocal deliveries. Grinding moments with a crawling movement characterized by a broken structure. Pendu employs minimal elements and suspended atmospheres upon which a crooning voice layers its dark secrets. A sharp affair with an eerie sense of danger, a well-crafted industrial-pastiche ends the A side.

Propagation is the first of the 4 live tracks and welcomes us to the B-side. This track is a raw rendition with an almost punk feeling, a compulsive motion with steady cymbals and imperative vocal samples. The industrial march knows no pause, delivering some furious crescendos. Monochrom showcases minimal droning structures and rhythmic mantras with a serpentine nature. Then, shouted vocals enrich the track with a soulful performance. WHM is a percussive affair with sudden burst of noise and stomping beats, a menacing soundscape which grows with the continuous adding of elements. During the second half it sees riffing sounds and a starker drumming. Enfer ends the cassette with cinematic undertones with ritualistic rhythms and seductive female vocals in French. A dark crescendo shows itself among the crawling movement, keeping a restrained tension never really climaxing.

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Title: Sickness and Ruins
Artist(s): MDS51
Label: Strange Therapy 
Cat nr: ST007
Format: digital + cassette 
Release date: 28/05/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Mastering

MDS51 | Sickness and Ruins [clips]

Nass El Hal - A Ya Maskine (Arabian Panther Remix)

Recorded by White Bleaches
Mixed by Stu Mackenzie
Mastered by Mikey Young

Jack The Dancer

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From the corner of a waking eye
A glimpse of treasure caught
As darkness comes and lights the way
Silence bends the thought

Lover
I heard you calling out to me
Heavy
Through the fog I couldn’t see

In a casket made of blackened stone
At the bottom of the sea
Its keeper holds an hourglass
Our flesh and blood its key

Drifting
Don’t drift away in silence
Holding
Tightly to the razor wire

All the beauty all the pain
Ours forever more
The river running blue and gold
The ecstasy of all

Hold me
Hold me in your arms
Help me
Help me from this agony
Slay me
Slay me with your subtle knife
Holy
In death we’ll have it all

Lyrics by Andrew Dalziell
Music by Night Tongue
Produced by Night Tongue

The Stag King

Drift

Another single of Shari Vari (Sophia Kennedy & Helena Rakta)'s debut album on Malka Tuti. You Can preorder the album here:

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A3. Shari Vari - New York City

Candy Cigarettes

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After earlier appearances on the label, Dimitris Doukas, better known under his “Restive Plaggona” moniker, returns as his industrial oriented alias “Matriarchy Roots” on Strange Therapy. A highly engaging and confrontational project influenced by anti-patriarchy ideas and industrial music. “Changing Habits” will guide us among creepy atmospheres, sharp noises and destructive soundscapes made to question our way of thinking and our society's structures.

Where Is Your Toughness Now (No Forgiveness) finds the listener surrounded by a sense of dread and imminent doom, a collection of shrilling glimpses and brooding ambiances, distant broken memories made sound and sudden disturbances. At the end of the track added piano notes will increase the creepiness, preparing us for what will come next. More More More More (Courting Insanity) dwells in deep power electronics territory, and we will find ourselves in a bleak sea of chaos and madness. Obsessive rhythmic patterns and majestic effects impose a robust march, evoking a mechanical world inside our vicious mind. Just when you think this is it an eerie melody complete the scenario. Breasts In Sight (Demand A Choice) surprises with delicate ambient synth sounds and crystalline atmospheres in a droning course, reaching after a while a stomping movement with martial innuendos and distorted kick drums. The listener finds himself in a complex mix of emotions underlined by melancholic notes and ominous soundscapes, perhaps showing us personal facts from the author's life.  

Lifestyle (After The Rise Comes The Fall) is a rhythmic noise affair with cinematic elements and abrasive atmospheres with suspended parts and heavily manipulated vocals. A nightmarish voyage into anarchic assaults and controlled darkness reaching orchestral greatness. Monogamy Rules (Not Belonging To Anyone) uses suspense as a device showcasing broken sounds and shrilling lines, conjuring an alarming sonic world for us. The tension grows as the highly cinematic crescendo reaches an industrial climax with sci-fi qualities. Inner thoughts and ideas become a compulsive soundtrack to the demise of our preconceptions and in-built credos, leaving us with a sense of uneasiness.  The last track Masculine Norms (The Many Faces Of Manhood) drives the message home by the means of eerie soundscapes and cut-up sounds, giving us a crawling movement with sparse rhythms and soothing hidden melodies. Distant laments evoke a deeply disturbing portrait of struggle and mixed emotions.

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Title: Changing Habits
Artist(s): Matriarchy Roots
Label: Strange Therapy 
Cat nr: ST008
Format: Vinyl 12", cassette and digital
Release date: 26/09/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Mastering

Changing Habits

Matriarchy Roots | Changing Habits [clips]

B1 track of "Changing Habits" by Matriarchy Roots. 
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Lifestyle (After The Rise Comes The Fall) is a rhythmic noise affair with cinematic elements and abrasive atmospheres with suspended parts and heavily manipulated vocals. A nightmarish voyage into anarchic assaults and controlled darkness reaching orchestral greatness.

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Format: Vinyl 12", cassette and digital
Release date: 26/09/2019
Mastering: NIUMEN Mastering

B1. Matriarchy Roots - Lifestyle (After The Rise Comes The Fall)[ST008]

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