The Columns: III // "The Fix" b/w "Engram"

Digitally released courtesy of Thisco Records
Written, Recorded, Mixed, & Mastered by The Pop Ritual
Artwork by J. Benjamin

The Fix

Official theme song for Resurrection Festival, Aldeia de Maria Gomes, Portugal Aug 2009. 

SFI + Broto Verbo - Electrocuta-me

Experimenting with very limited set-up.
XR20 beats and as a 2-track midi sequencer. Bass and lead synth from the Blofeld. FM radio noise provided by 1990's walkman.

Tomb Boys - Ps@lm25

SFI - Gropius' Room

Alasca (First Light Impressions, 2018)

Alphaxone is back with a new futuristic album ripe with detailed space sounds 

The map is old and quite inaccurate. The slow creeping of years and centuries have wrought much change, even in these somnolent spires.

As you stride amongst primeval pillars, covered in moss and lichen, the whimpering of old gods can be heard in the grey and listless heavens above. 
Their impotent tears spatter on your coat, each splash birthing translucent snakes, ever slithering southward to rest again in the blackened soil and mud. 

The shimmer that surrounds the crash site is unmistakable, imbuing the mists and rain with a sickly pallor. 
Dilapidated excavations loom around the edges of the gigantic crater, the darkness of their maws whispering of things best left buried. 
After a brief climb, your boots find firm purchase on the charred glass of the site. A shiver works its way down your spine as understanding arises in your cortex. 
You have arrived at the Chronosphere. 


Exploring particle storms, floating spheres and ancient grounds it invokes the key of old to unlock the future. 

With soothing synths, brooding space swells and mysterious overlays it comes highly recommended for fans of cinematic space ambient. 

Available in 24 bit 

Alphaxone Solo Discography: 
cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-the-grayland 
cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/altered-dimensions 
cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/absence-of-motion 
cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-from-outer-silence 
cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/edge-of-solitude 
cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/chronosphere

Chronosphere

Bandcamp

Floating Spheres

Ah Cama-Sotz remix for Sci Fi Industries Rehability track, taken from 2001' "Dead People on Stylish Chairs"

Rehability (Ah Cama-Sotz remix

Cos Cob (Logo, 2020)

This is an intentionally strictly personal view, over 40 years of industrial music.
I tried to embrace the original industrial sprit as much as possible by merging distinct “styles”, moods and ages together. Moreover, I found interesting overlap the most rhythmic tracks onto the ambient, noisy songs.
It comes directly from my heart (and naturally from my stack of old records)


40 years of Industrial Music in 4 minutes

Null A Records presents its fifth release with Circular Structure Отряд Машин (Squad Machines). Hailing from St PetersBurg, Russia, Circular Structure offers haunting pulsating rhythms dominated by industrial drones. Circular Structure's sonic landscape that pulls you into a dystopian cyberpunk realm. Null A Records is honored to feature the following artists on this release:
Data Domain hails from Burgos, Spain. Artists Discknocked (Guillermo Arroyo Sancibria'n) and Randoom (Javier Martin) deliver a driving techno remix of Syntha that commands you to loose yourself in its dark groove.
Discknocked (Guillermo Arroyo Sancibria'n) gives us a deep interpretation of TDO5. The remix takes you into the bowels of an unknown machine with industrial organic elements.
Infomorph debut's with his first release on Null A Records. Infomorph a Chicago DJ/producer and member of Nexus 6, offers his remorphed mix of TD04 a hard hitting techno stomper.
Rayaline aka WWD contributes a minimal dual restructured mix of TD05/Syntha. The mix he takes you into a dark dub landscape haunted by broken lofi textures.
Infamous Rob Threezy, Chicago house DJ/Producer rocks us with a pounding techno mix of TDO5.
The Pop Ritual, Memphis Tennessee's Industrial Psyche-Punk band ignites TD04 with a mix that drops you into an apocalyptic wasteland.

Circular Structure - TD04  (The Pop Ritual Cut - -kill- Mix)

Textural soundscapes with deep valleys and high peaks filled with sonic lusts, aural fascinations, and dreams of vast wastelands. 

Industrial Psyche-Punk.

Colin Wilson // Scott Nivens // Michelle Karl

The Fix

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