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KOLLAPS

Ritual Industrial Drone Witch

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Ritual Industrial Drone Witch

"It used to be so easy, I never even tried
Yeah, it used to be so easy
But the last day of summer, never felt so cold
The last day of summer, never felt so old
Never felt so
All that I have
All that I hold
All that is wrongAll that I feel for or trust in or love
All that is gone"
The Cure "The Last Day Of Summer" (2000)

The Last Day Of Summer - AUGUST 2017 \\ Coldwave/Post Punk/Minimal Synth/Synthpop/Goth

Recommendations for Sept/Oct 2017. Enjoy!

Essential Listening Sept/Oct 2017

yellow and blue night explodes

FVTIGUE

Want

LR068 Odd Nosdam - Sisters
LP | VHS | DIGI avail now:
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/odd/sisters-1

SISTERS VINYL

Odd Nosdam - Sisters (Boards of Canada remix)

Since 2015’s debut EP Heartworm, Melbourne industrialists Kollaps have refined their restless brand of harsh, post-industrial noise. Recruiting doom/noise veteran Damian Coward [Heirs, High Tension] to bass/percussion/production in 2016, Wade Black (vocals) and Robin W. Marsh (drums, programming) offer up SIBLING LOVERS, an LP that intensifies the conflict between the twin energies of confusion and control at the core of Kollaps’ sound.

The band’s distinctive jarring textures and crude tones are created using re-appropriated waste materials like scrap metal, raw plastics and steel beams. For the band, this isn’t an empty gesture to the industrial genre, it’s a way to literally use the detritus of postmodern society against itself. The band also subvert convention by bypassing the desk and running their vocals directly through amplifiers, thereby injecting a hint of their live intensity into the recording. The overall effect is again of contrast- the band’s raw, provocative voice is amplified by the record’s subtly confident production. 

Conceptually, Sibling Lovers follows Heartworm’s exploration of a societal sickness that manifests itself in the debasement of the individual soul. For lyricist Wade Black, Sibling Lovers is introspective and confessional; images of actual physical sicknesses (cancer, colostomy bags, heart worms) are used to make sense a malignant world of slaughterhouses, incest and alcoholism. 

But it’s their intensity as performers, rather than their gruesome lyrical content that has built Kollaps a reputation for ferocious live shows and violent performances. Steadily drawing raucous crowds around Australia, alongside some of the best local and intentional underground performers [All Seeing Hand (NZ), Armour Group, Military Position, Mensch, Complete, DIM, Elisabeth Dixon, Primitive Calculators]. 

Mixed by Ivan Lisyak (now of Siberia Records) and mastered by James Plotkin (Sunn0))), Khanate) Sibling Lovers is released September 29th 2017 on TRAIT RECORDS (AU) & SILKEN TOFU (EU) - TRT005/STX.57

KOLLAPS - SUCK
TAKEN FROM "SIBLING LOVERS", RELEASED ON VINYL / DIGITAL 29.09.2017 ON TRAIT RECORDS(AU)AND SILKEN TOFU(BE)
PERCUSSION/BASS/NOISE RECORDED BY MIKE DESLANDES @ THREE PHASE STUDIOS
VOCALS/SAMPLING & ADDITIONAL NOISE RECORDED BY BEN ROBERTSON @ COMMON ERA SOUND
EDITING BY DAMIAN COWARD
MIXED BY IVAN LISYAK
MASTERED BY JAMES PLOTKIN @ PLOTKINWORKS
ADDITIONAL NOISE COURTESY OF LUKE HOLLAND/TRAPDOOR TAPES
ALL SONGS WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY KOLLAPS

Sibling Lovers

Suck

BUY VINYL / DIGITAL

Kollaps - Suck

Alice

Cosmonauta es el segundo sencillo de la agrupación y el que también hará parte del EP que saldrá a la luz en las próximas semanas.

Letra:

He pensado que esto ha ido más allá de la perdición
y que no es sano para ti...

Ya lo he visto antes y no quiero hacerte pensar que el problema siempre ha estado en mí...

Coro:

¡Y el culpable fue y siempre lo será
un cosmonauta que se ahoga en altamar! x2

Ya lo he visto antes y no quiero hacerte pensar
que el problema siempre ha estado en mí...

He logrado ver aún más allá de tu corazón
y es la razón que no cuadra en ti...

Final:

¡Y el culpable fue y siempre lo será
un cosmonauta que se ahoga en altamar!

¡Y el culpable, todo lo que querías cambiar
ahora es preciso que volvamos a empezar!

¡Y si esta vez no fue mañana lo será
porque una y otra vez nos volveremos a encontrar!

¡¿Lo puedes entender?! ¡¿Lo puedes entender?!

Cosmonauta

Taken from 'Contravveleno' out Sep 15th 2017 on Maple Death Records.
Order & Infos: http://www.mapledeathrecords.com/releases/mdr017/

Havah - L'accettazione

Co-produced by WIFE.  'Okovi,' out now on Sacred Bones Records.
http://hyperurl.co/okovi

http://zolajesus.com/
http://www.facebook.com/zolajesusofficial/
http://twitter.com/zolajesus
http://www.instagram.com/zolajesus/

Zola Jesus - Siphon

motorväg (demo)

Valentina

Taken form ultra limited collector's lathe cut 7" EP Zero (VOX 35 EP)

Pre-order here: https://othervoicesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/zero-vox-35-ep

Кофе - Zero

"Noćne šetnje" ("Night walks") is a song originally written and performed by Borghesia. Originally appearing on their 1985 studio album "Ljubav je hladnija od smrti" ("Love Is Colder Than Death"), this particular song has recently been revived in a cover version form, recorded exclusively for the compilation album "Their Music, Our Lives" - a v/a collection of tributes to Borghesia, initiated, curated and released by Domagoj Kršić on his Room Tracks label. This cover version also features a secret guest appearance by the gorgeous Popsimonova, without whom...

For more of Borghesia, please link to @darkentriesrecords who re-released their aforementioned studio album, plus recently even more desirable collection of obscurities, "Clones".

A complete collection of Borghesia covers was previously available as free download at cyborgsoncrack.bandcamp.com/album/their…c-our-lives (the link now dead). For more information on the full tracklist, please follow the link - https://www.discogs.com/master/view/891267

Noćne šetnje

Taken from Dmitry's forthcoming 'Comprehension Of Light' album, which will be released on FatCat's 130701 imprint on October 6th.

The stunning ‘Comprehension Of Light’ marks a sizeable step forward for Dmitry. A must-hear for fans of fellow 130701 alumni Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka, the LP is Dmitry’s first ever vinyl release and is a wonderfully conceived and realised work. Where ‘Collage’ was heavily augmented with an expansive use of electronics and virtual instrumentation, the new album sees Dmitry upgrade to real strings / orchestral instrumentation with a more limited use of software. ISKRA String Quartet (The XX, Radiohead, Jóhann Jóhannsson) contributed strings. Other contributors include William Yates (Memotone), Abul Mogard and Benoit Pîoulard. It was mixed by Addi 800 (Ólafur Arnalds) and mastered by Martyn Heyne (Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, The National and others).

In places recalling Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hauschka, in others the work of Leyland Kirby / The Caretaker, or Eduard Artemiev's score for Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’, 'Comprehension' is a stunning album which traces a redemptive narrative arc and bears witness to a rising young talent in the field of modern composition.

LP includes dig download card (inc. 2 dig-only tracks which don't appear on the vinyl)

Comprehension Of Light

Dmitry Evgrafov - Znanie (feat. Abul Mogard)

the gift of life is a given,
-when are you gonna wrap it up?

Recorded with Mattk @ neo116 earlier this year.
Will feature on upcoming cassette on Tropical Cancer Records.
thank you and good bye.

Glen Schenau - The Gift Of Life

http://hyperurl.co/human-age

From forthcoming EP Last Breath/Human Age. Due for release on 28th October via digital download, accompanied with Zine, Print and T Shirts.

Fehm are a post punk band from Leeds. Originally consisting of singer Paul Riddle, bassist Amy Fishlock, and drummer Chris Lodge. The band released their debut EP Circadian Life on Art is Hart Records in 2016. Shortly after members of fellow Leeds band Gundogs, Darren Lord on synths and Ben Holmes on guitar joined to complete the lineup. Since then the band have been earning acclaim for their live shows and working on new material.

The songs represent a transitional period for the band. The first songs written as a five piece, they demonstrate the beginnings of a new direction in Fehm's sound, experimenting further with electronic elements and fuller arrangements. They are being released as a double-A side digital single in Autumn 2017 to bridge the gap between Circadian Life and the bands forthcoming album, to be recorded in 2018.

Human Age is about the post truth era we're living in.

'It's the human age, we decline as we progress,
It's all too late, the unproductive success'

The direction in which humanity is going, with Brexit happening and Donald Trump being elected it feels like us as a species is regressing and going backwards.

There are some lines of optimism however...

'Will we fail in the moment?
Or we sail through the ocean'

It's about getting to the other side, going through an uncharted area where the outcome can seem bleak but you feel hope for the other side.

The EP was recorded, mixed and mastered with Matt Peel at the Nave recording studio in Leeds in 2017.

Human Age

Corona Barathri: 
corona-barathri.bandcamp.com 
facebook.com/Affectvs218

Corona Barathri - Oraculum Tenebrosum

Second undertheskin album NEGATIVE - OUT NOW!

VOCALS, LYRICS & ALL INSTRUMENTS BY MARIUSZ ŁUNIEWSKI

MUSIC WRITTEN, RECORDED & PERFORMED BY MARIUSZ ŁUNIEWSKI

EXCEPT:

\\BURN\\ [MUSIC BY MARIUSZ ŁUNIEWSKI & TOMTYLOR]

\\POISON\\ [ADDICTIONAL PROGRAMMING BY TOM TYLOR]

MIX, PRE-MASTERING BY KAMIL ŁAZIKOWSKI - SOYUZ STUDIO

MASTERED BY ERIC VAN WONTERGHEM AT PRODAM BERLIN

BAND PHOTO: LIUDMYLA RADYK.

COVER PHOTO & DESIGN: BARTOSZ HERVY

\\\\\ BORDERLINE

\\\\ WAVE

\\\ DROWN

\\ BURN

\ POISON

KOLLAPS 'Mechanical Christ' CD/LP/DL/TS/LS (CSR261CD)

Australian post-industrialists KOLLAPS are a three piece creating a unique brand of primitive noise “intended for degenerates and outsiders”. The bands’ distinctive primordial tones are created using appropriated waste materials like scrap metal, raw plastics and steel plates combined with blistering percussion, bass and vocals. This is no empty “industrial” gesture, for the band this process of creation facilitates the literal use of postmodern society against itself.

‘FLESHFLOWER’ PREMIERE AT CVLT NATION: https://www.cvltnation.com/watch-this-eye-blistering-kollaps-video-fleshflower

Mechanical Christ, the bands’ sophomore release, is a conceptual continuation of its predecessor Sibling Lovers. This release sees Kollaps further their exploration of the inherent societal sickness of our times, one that manifests itself in the debasement of individual morality. Themes of exploitation, vengeance, drug addiction, paranoia and slave labour are part of a dissonant, inverted morality play. Testament to the bands’ evolving conceptual depth are the overarching themes of love, life and death that offer a sense of shared experience in the discomfort of the universal human experience. Known for their violent and nihilistic stage performances, this recording encapsulates with harsher clarity the visceral confrontation that is Kollaps’ live act.

'LOVE IS A WAR' PREMIERE AT HEATHEN HARVEST: https://heathenharvest.org/2019/04/18/timeless-struggles-in-a-postmodern-world-premiering-love-is-a-war-by-kollaps/

Mechanical Christ was recorded and mixed over a two-month period at Aviary Studios by Mike Deslandes, and mastered by James Plotkin/Plotkinworks. A journey into the desperation and lack of resolve that is both the crux of modern social ills and at the very heart of the human condition.

CD in gatefold digisleeve / LP presented on black vinyl
T-Shirt / Longsleeve Shirt

Track listing:

1. Ankara
2. Crucify
3. Fleshflower
4. Blood Premonitions
5. Traducer
6. Mechanical Christ
7. Love Is A War

CD Barcode: 0641871745296
LP Barcode: 0641871745302

Order via Cold Spring: http://coldspring.co.uk/discography/csr269cdlp

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/mechanical-christ-csr269cd-lp

For Australasian customers: http://www.mechanicalchrist.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/Kollapsmusic/

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http://coldspring.co.uk/discography/csr269cdlp

Album Out 3rd May 2019