Industrial Dada sonic collaborations, after a lengthy hiatus this was constructed via mail exchanges! Think Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle, and lots that's our own unique invention.

Zircon & Te Burning Brains - Leave The Substance For The Shadow

Vintage Rancid Poultry from the new reissue of Loudliveandlumpy

AMA - The Loud One

A wonderful dedication to Peter Frohmader's Neropolis from the legendary Yorkshire underground band, now due for reissue soon!

Rancid Poultry - Necroborborygmus

Short fragment from this hyper rare 80s cassette, reissued on Auricle in October 2016

Two lengthy excursions of intense minimalism (drones, loops, echo, fold-back) meeting industrial nightmare tonalities. For fans of Kluster/Cluster, the abstract Throbbing Gristle, Alto Stratus, Laughing Hands, Asmus Tietchens, Zoviet France, et al.

Clothearz - Stig Part One (random fragment)

This track came on a cassette (that I got back in 1980) with Amon Duul II live at the Blow Up in 1969, and was tagged "Embryo Jam" - but is clearly not Amon Duul II (of that era) or Embryo. To me it sounds like Thirsty Moon, but band member Jürgen Drogies says it isn't. Anyone know the track, or know who it is by?

Mystery Track

One of 6 choice tracks available on the bargain download compilation "Look Out!" a cassettes selection 1986-1992 available via RouteNote distribution, from most favourite download market places

6 Untitled 3 (from Live In Leeds, But Steve Doesn - T) 1992

Certainly an air of Public Image Limited circa Metal Box to this track. Ruin are always a surprising band! This is one of a few select tracks featured on two special download compilations - which will be available as bargain downloads from all the best known places like Amazon, iTunes, etc.

05 Go Into The Light (from The Clockwork Movement Of Plasma)

Quadelectronic is an improvisational "workshop" of sorts, held once a month in Leicester, UK. A unique event, that intitially grew from gigs organised by Chris Conway at The Musician in 2004 to 2006, involving the Freeman brothers and others. The monthly session is held on the third/fourth Tuesday of the month. An improv, jam, event for those that love to experiment and interact in free improvisation, with a focus on electronics.

You can now listen to all the recorded events and download or purchase via https://quadelectronicdocuments.bandcamp.com/

This particular track was celebrating the 10th anniversary of Endgame, a "cosmic" focused free-improv trio.

QE14 - 1 Endgame - 10th Anniversary

A very obscure rare track from Rancid Poultry in their early madcap days, from the Land Of Yrx Products various artists cassette

Rancid Poultry - The Ghost Of Hildegard Coccyx, From The Canilevers Of Passion

From the deliberately different 2006 album REWIRED which involved lots of guitars and wiring up relays of effects in unusual ways. In some tracks this meant we came up with stuff that even we had never heard before. Industrial rock, with churning guira modulations, whirring gyrating mutilated sounds, it covers a lot of ground. "Gristle" is not really dedicated to Throbbing Gristle, but it's in that spirit, a bit "Heathen Earth" I guess.

Alto Stratus - Gristle

Ultima Thule is the specialist music mail-order and retail operation of the brothers Alan & Steve Freeman. We have been keen collectors of progressive and experimental music since the mid-1970s. Krautrock, electronics, and all sorts of weird stuff have been the staple of our obsession. It all grew as a hobby in the 1980s, as an independent outlet for our own music (brothers Alan & Steve Freeman) and our various projects (including Alto Stratus and ZBB), and Audion magazine.
After establishing our own cassette label, albums by friends, local talents, and other musicians soon followed. The focus of Auricle has been on making available music we personally like, promoting new talent (we introduced the world to Peter Frohmader, Robert Rich, Djam Karet, Tangle Edge, Ole Højer Hansen, Courtyard Moth and others) and unearthed classic lost albums by the likes of Günter Schickert and Asmus Tietchens.
This has been our ethic ever since, and it all blossomed when we established Ultima Thule in 1989, opening the Ultima Thule record shop in 1991. Since the late 1990s our own musical activities had a rebirth, with Endgame (our prolific electronic improvising band with over 100 releases, the return of Alto Stratus, new project Triax, and the now regular Quadelectronic: lots of videos on YouTube). 
You can find much more about all this on our own web site and various other places. Here you'll find a few tasty album samples to start with. If you love adventurous music, I'm sure you'll find much to savour here!

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