Wardrobe Memories has been around since 1999 - serving Drones and melodic dark ambient on CD-R, vinyl and Cassette.
After releases on Dhyana Records, EE Tapes and several other hard-to-purchase longplayers, sparsely spread in very limited runs, a new LP on shhhh records appeared in 2011 with foggy soundtracks and subtle beats.
Now after 2 years (and almost one year in the making) the new album by Wardrobe Memories appears with a green C-50 audio cassette on Voluntary Whores, strictly limited to 48 copies.
"The Mean" can be described as the most sophisticated work by Wardrobe Memories to date, serving 14 soundtrack-songs for a never released steampunk-darkfuture-movie. Wardrobe Memories has always been a soundtrack-project - and this release points it out more clearly than ever
before. 

Release comes with a futuristic object and oversized printed artwork.

[VOWHO009] Wardrobe Memories - The Mean

The mysterious project "Menthe De Menthe" from Italy and other obscure eastern European areas (whoever knows) has always been a transmitter between old hardcore, industrial, drones, noise and ambient with different CD-R releases in 2012 and 2013.

"Amore" is a very sarcastic payback to over-sweetened album concepts and positive vibes, turning every possible positive thinking into dark and negative energy. While love has always been either something sad or an exaggeratingly happy occasion in music industry, Menthe De Menthe proves every singer/songwriter-protagonist wrong by mixing pale nostalgia with shivering cold electronics. This baby blue C-30 tape is limited to 50 copies and comes - as usual - with a nice object and 21cm x 21cm big sized cover artwork.

[VOWHO010] Menthe De Menthe - Amore

Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer are well-known to the crafting art scene in Germany with their extreme live performances and sculptures/pictures they regularly exhibit.
Mama Bear's new solo release includes 3 tracks (Khmerzen 1 to 3) with very strange and dark soundtrack-ambient accompanied by crying / alienated voice overs - and on B-side the 10-minute madness "for the maincontrol" - a walk through non-existing forests.
If you are into deep and scary soundscapes, this might be the right tape for you. Transparent C20-tape comes with natural object and is limited to 41 copies only.

[VOWHO011] Mama Baer - mitten im wald

The other half of the artist couple that recently shakes the ground in germany's underground art scene releases a new interesting collaboration with ex-national opera singer gui rong from China. One of the most disturbing hard listening-tapes on Voluntary Whores combines pieces composed only with the help of bicycle components, strange chinese singing and  abnormal field recordings. Comes as C-50 indigo blue cassette, 21x21cm big art cover and a semi-tasty art object. Limited to 70 copies worldwide.

[VOWHO012] Kommissar Hjuler & Gui Rong - Erzaehlung der roten Gaslampe

In summer 1999 turgut kocer found the drone ambient project „wardrobe memories“ back then in aix la chapelle, germany. just with a simple plain old personal computer he started to program his ideas about dreamy droning ambient, not knowing that he will soon finish the debut album. back then the first self-titled wardrobe memories album (also sometimes called „1999“ in some circles) was released on CD-R with a do-it-yourself plush artwork - the first catalog number on the small underground label „schneetreiben“. with just a limitation of 20 copies this handmade item was quickly sold out. in the same year wardrobe memories released its second album „grand canyon tracks“ - again on label schneetreiben with the same strict limitation. these first two albums already shaped an ambient sound far away from earth, like a distant transmission from another solar system. the master tapes came to surface this year again - and it was an obvious step to make both albums available again. all the found material was left to its own devices - neither re-mastered nor pimped. this double cassette documents the first wardrobe memories years. Comes with button-object, postcard and yellow shell coloration. Limited to 50 copies.

[VOWHO013] Wardrobe Memories - The Early Years. 1999 & Grand Canyon Tracks

This is the first time Voluntary Whores releases a "real band" album - and what could it be else than something from the metal genre? Chochos Y Moscas is a fantastic underrated underground grindcore-band from Spain with several digital releases on Bandcamp, some hard-to-purchase limited CDs and even cassettes. Their live-performances are quite disturbing. In absolute contrast to the recent grindcore-scene they always try to inject a kind of absurd humour to their works instead of focusing on the "standard" gore-topics. So this very short album with more than 20 tracks on a total duration time of 5 minutes(!) is all about fruits and the uncomfortable grotesque themes evolving around the fascination for vitamin c. "The Shake Of Fruit To Come" serves big cartonage 4c-printed fold-out cover, orange cassette shell and a very fruity neat object. Limited to 50 copies only.

[VOWHO014] Chochos Y Moscas - The Shake Of Fruit To Come

Oh - how we waited for so long (both you and the label) to reveal new material by the secret Italian producer Christine Nogociella who debuted our beloved and already massively sold out VOWHO003. Now she returns with an epic journey through satanistic rituals she has been part of long time ago (as she proclaims). A massive drone-laden 4 x MC (240 minutes duration in TOTAL!) and possibly the most thrilling work we released so far on our label. This orange translucent 4 x MC is limited to 50 copies and will be distributed by Drone Records only. Check their site to grab yourself a copy.
This is a legendary painful release that will change your mind entirely.

Drone Records

[VOWHO015] Nogociella - Satanismo Di Basilica Concattedrale Di San Marino

This material was found on a CD-R in Toscana without any information. We decided to release this obscure material - whether it's authentic or not. A deep journey into processed violent recordings with devil voices from another world.
This army green C-25 comes with a very special unique handmade painted artwork, limited to only 34 copies worldwide. Includes a phiole filled with poison to make suicide easier.

[VOWHO016] Unknown Artist - Agusta Lecetta, 1926

Whenever there is an interesting process in metallic reactions prone to produce sound in the more obvious or rather totally unobvious way, noise enthusiast HgM ("(H)organismo. (G)ravemente. (M)alato") from Italy starts an experiment to record certain reactions and processes. The result shows always a very alienating and totally different listening experience. In his recent contribution to our label he collects several works he has recorded over the last years.
 A very interesting world between field recordings and noisy drones is spread over two golden C-30 chromedioxid tapes, housed in a foil with a warning sticker (yes, these cassette shells flake and wear off over time!) and embedded in a high qualiy oversized cartonage 4c cover and a rusty metallic object. Limited to 42 copies.

[VOWHO017] HgM - Martensite

The new cassette on Voluntary Whores travels to the harsher side of noise - not made for too faint-hearted listeners and consumers. Daniele Perra from Sardinia/Italy spills out a hateful trip, manifested in two tracks - each of them 15 minutes in duration - where religious and sexual suppression overtakes pleasure and positivism. 

Like a torture chamber arisen out of the physical desires suddenly exploded from burdened discipline and social / religious ethics, explicitly talking about homo- and antisexual expression in contrast to what ideologies of most religions never took into consideration while developing the own manifesto and truth of human evolution.

This release comes in oversized art-package as a 30-minutes-cassette, a quite disgusting object and a baby-pink colored design. Limited to 50 copies worldwide.

[VOWHO005] first we must deal with the light of nature and then with decency. eating cum is safer.

It is difficult to find out how long Big City Orchestra have been exploring their own world of sounds in the matter of surprising listeners with each and every
release, but it is safe to say that they are one of the big legends from the 70s still releasing on Vinyl, CD and tape - and after an uncountable amount
of releases (I bet there is no one in the world owning all BCO releases, must be around 500+), Voluntary Whores is very proud to present their newest addition
to the cassette roster: "6 fairy tales", being buried almost 12 years in our office (back in Dusseldorf then), comes as a bi-colored C-60 audio cassette,
including an oriental object, packed in a 21+21cm oversized artwork and limited to 120 copies. This time dAS and Ninah add even more obscurities to their sound world - a rhythmic unexplainable maelstrom of oriental workouts and atmospheres, combined with drones not from this world. Hard to explain stylistically, always following their own rules in the mystic world of UB. A must-have cassette!


[VOWHO007] Big City Orchestra - 6 Fairy Tales

The newest contribution to Voluntary Whores is no one else than "Flutwacht" - a project deeply connected to the label "The Tourette Tapes" which has always been a secret hint in the noise- and drone-scene.
What we hear in this 100-minute-madness is a dark descent into the most hostile caves after a bloody battle has ended. Dark and dry noise-drones and devil-ish soundscapes take you to a ride into a black/white landscape. Like the soundtrack to an imaginary dark future movie. In this land no one could possibly survive. 

This grey-colored C100-tape comes with a big photo cover and is strictly limited to 70 copies worldwide.

Teaser-video: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQF9ohTNisU

[VOWHO008] Flutwacht - Leichenlandschaft

Voluntary Whores started in late 2012 as an experimental tape label with very limited runs. Turgut Kocer - founder of shhhh records - felt that sound material exceeding the limits of DJ culture is still quite underrepresented. With piles of material not fitting to the more clean sound of shhhh it was a predictable step to start a new label that focuses on Noise, Ambient, Musique Concrete, field recordings and Drones.

Please visit our Mixcloud-dungeon as well -  free DJ mixes of experimental and rarely found cassettes, vinyls and CDs: http://www.mixcloud.com/VoluntaryWhores/

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