It has become a yearly tradition that during the 'Gentse Feesten' (the Ghent City Festival) Consouling Store and Wool E Shop join forces and become the Con-Wool-E-Store. Both enterprises also release and promote music, and also try to find occasions to collaborate. Consouling Sounds and Wool-E Tapes for instance released a split cassette between Monnik and Onrust last 'Gentse Feesten'. This year, something similar is in the pipe line. Something similar but not quite the same, as we’re very excited to announce the inaugural release of Wool-E Discs. That’s right, besides the cassette label, Wool-E branches out and also will release on the cd format under the Wool-E Discs imprint.
For this year’s collaboration Consouling Sounds has asked Empusae to partake in the split release. Empusae is the moniker of Nicolas ‘Sal Ocin' Van Meirhaege. He has built on an impressive back catalogue of organic, ritual, electro-acoustic, ambient, doom and post-industrial soundtracks. Wool-E Discs invited Klankdal to the split release, and they graciously accepted. This duo, consisting of Sebastian Crusener and Glenn Dick, works magic with guitar manipulations and field recordings, which results in both captivating and ominous soundscapes.
Art direction and design by Silken Tofu.
SPQR is delighted to announce next Death in Rome album release on 6.6.(201)6. The "Hitparade" album will be released in a special cd digipack ltd to 300 copies, featuring an extra bonus cd called "Rip Lounge".
Bureau B releases two classic albums by Rolf Trostel.
DER PROPHET
Electronic Pop was the musical goal of the Berlin School musician Rolf Trostel on his third album, which was released in the same year as its predecessor ,Two Faces". ,Der Prophet" is the culmination of this phase of Trostels oeuvre, which was tightly coupled to the PPG Wave Computer.
INSELMUSIK
Rolf Trostel is a protagonist of the so-called Berliner Schule / Berlin School (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze). On his first album "Inselmusik" (1981) he explores the sonic possibilities of the recently introduced PPG wavetable synthesizer. The music is based on live performances from the late 1970s by Trostel and Krautrock guitarist Guenter Schickert.
Now out on Bureau B.
CAMERA - PHANTOM OF LIBERTY
The beat hammers like the pulse of a pair of lovers on the run from a gang of racist thugs - the sound is manic, but from it speaks a seemingly insurmountable inner strength. This arch of tension is home to Camera. The Berlin band is rightly compared with icons of seventies Krautrock such as Neu! and La Dldorf, with a tight and driving sound, yet they are still somehow unpredictable.
Hardly any other band understands how to mutate tiny musical nuances into volcanic eruptions like they do. Camera is a motor running at full throttle, where an explosion could occur at any second. Once you have embarked on this crazy journey, you will be fascinated by the alternating current somewhere between a flash flood and roller coaster running off the rails.
The cascades of sound convey a blurry image of a boundless desire to revolt, with each blink of an eye threatening to end in purgatory, yet it is damned near indestructible. Michael Drummer is the ethereal Indian paleface who pummels his drums at every show as if we're in the midst of a 17th Century incarnational ritual. In Steffen Kahles, who hails from the world of film music, he has found the musical partner he needed to enrich the tribal kraut beat with diverse motifs and bold sounds.
On the third Camera album "Phantom of Liberty", we hear the clever use of playful sounds such as synths that beam us back into the Commodore 64 computer games of 1984; or slightly cranky keyboard pads, as if created by deliberately manipulating the speed of an old tape machine. With "Phantom of Liberty" Camera show that they have become more mature and complex without losing any of their tremendous energy.
Out on Munster Records now.
VEGA, ALAN -& MARC HURTADO- - SNIPER
A collision between Suicide's legendary Alan Vega and Marc Hurtado, the sonic warrior from Etant Donns. Lydia Lunch features on 'Prison Sacrifice'. Originally released in a limited edition in 2010, this special reissue includes one bonus track.
TRACKLISTING:
01. INTRO
02. BANG BANG
03. IT
04. JUKE BONE DONE
05. SATURN DRIVE DUPLEX
06. FEAR 07. SNIPER
08. CRISS CROSS
09. SACRIFICE
10. CRAZY DRIVER
11. WAR
12. LET THE BLOOD DRIP
13. PRISON SACRIFICE
14. SATURN DRIVE DUPLEX REDUX (BONUS TRACK)
