It has been six years since PHOSGORE rocked the electro scene to its very core with their debut DOMINATION. In 2011 the follow-up WARHEAD sparked acoustical warfare once again. Scarcely any scene club managed to avoid this electronic monster. When playing live, PHOSGORE demostrated again and again that their project stands for uncompromising music in its purest form. PHOSGORE fans always got what they deserved – be it at the Wave Gotik Treffen, the Amphi, Etropolis or Resistanz festival or at one of PHOSGORE´s countless club shows. 2015: Time has come for the third album by the German electro outfit. With PESTBRINGER, the creative (and blasted) minds behind PHOSGORE – Flo and Sonja – managed to reinvent and increase their already hard-line noise. Brutal bass lines congregate with shattering drums and extremely aggressive melodies. This is music that infects its listeners like a virus.

With Pestbringer PHOSGORE sound darker and dirtier than ever before, always remaining true to their relentless style, but also undertaking some musical experiments. You survived WARHEAD. For 4 long years, you have been feeling safe and sound. This is now a thing of the past. Expect agony and decay. PHOSGORE awake the Pestbringer. Embrace their gift.

On the occasion of NOISUF-X's 10th anniversary, ProNoize releases a career-spanning retrospective double-CD in deluxe Digipak, that features ALL hits from the debut ‘Antipode’ to the latest album ‘Invasion’. Plenty versions are deleted for years or previously unreleased. 10 years Tam-Tams, 10 years Tinnitus, 10 years Hit Me Hard, 10 years Orgasm, 10 years Krach Bumm and 10 years full of club hits. Therefore we say THANK YOU!!! As a special thank-you gift for all fans, which have supported the band within the last 10 years, the limited first edition (in a beautiful digipak) includes a bonus cd with 4 new tracks and previously unreleased material from the project's early days. We are looking forward to the next 10 years (and more)! …cause silence is a privilege! 
 

music taken from Prager Handgriff album "Roburit" released at 26th February 2015 by Infacted Recordings (FACT3257)

John Carpenter, the Legendary Director and Composer behind Halloween, Escape From New York, They Live, Assault on Precinct 13 and many more recently released the critically acclaimed Lost Themes LP on Sacred Bones. Today he is sharing the brand new music video for album closer "Night." Watch it here.

It was directed by Gavin Hignight and Ben Verhulst who collaborated on all aspects; pre-production, production and post-production. Hignight had this to say of the video: 

"Upon hearing NIGHT by John Carpenter my head was instantly filled with these nighttime highway road dreamscapes. Someone or something, haunted, traveling the road alone in the late hours.

Our goal was to take that feeling and put it into a video that paid tribute to the film work of Carpenter but at the same time gave him a new world to play in... in this case literally through Virtual Reality."

John Carpenter has been responsible for much of the horror genre’s most striking soundtrack work in the fifteen movies he’s both directed and scored. The themes that drive them can be stripped to a few coldly repeating notes, take on the electrifying thunder of a rock concert, or submerge themselves into exotic, unholy miasmas. It’s work that instantly floods his fans’ musical memory with imagery of a menacing shape stalking a babysitter, a relentless wall of ghost-filled fog, lightning-fisted kung fu fighters, or a mirror holding the gateway to hell. Lost Themes asks Carpenter’s acolytes to visualize their own nightmares and in the new video for "Night" Carpenter himself is seeing someone else's through virtual reality. Watch it below!

FLICKER ALLEY PRESENTS

DZIGA VERTOV: THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA AND OTHER NEWLY-RESTORED WORKS

Flicker Alley, in association with Lobster Films, the Blackhawk Films® Collection, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, and EYE Film Institute, brings the extraordinary collection of Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and Other Newly-Restored Works to Blu-ray in its North

American premiere.

 Release Date: May 26, 2015

(Los Angeles, CA - April 16, 2015) - Flicker Alley, Lobster Films, and the Blackhawk Films® Collection are proud to present pristine restorations of four cinematic masterpieces from one of the pioneers of Soviet film.

Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera

and Other Newly-Restored Works

Deluxe Blu-ray Edition

M.S.R.P. $39.95 

Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and Other Newly-Restored Works / 1924-34 / Directed by Dziga Vertov / 279 minutes / U.S.S.R. / Produced by VUFKU, Goskino, Ukrainfilm, and Mezhrabpom

UPC: 6-17311-67929-2 ISBN: 1-893967-92-1

"I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it." - Dziga Vertov ("Kino-Eye")

These words, written in 1923 (only a year after Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North was released) reflect the Soviet pioneer's developing approach to cinema as an art form that shuns traditional or Western narrative in favor of images from real life. They lay the foundation for what would become the crux of Vertov's revolutionary, anti-bourgeois aesthetic wherein the camera is an extension of the human eye, capturing "the chaos of visual phenomena filling the universe." Over the next decade-and-a-half, Vertov would devote his life to the construction and organization of these raw images, his apotheosis being the landmark 1929 film The Man with the Movie Camera. In it, he comes closest to realizing his theory of 'Kino-Eye,' creating a new, more ambitious and more significant picture than what the eye initially perceives.

Now - thanks to the extraordinary restoration efforts of Lobster Films, Blackhawk Films® Collection, EYE Film Institute, Cinémathèque de Toulouse, and the Centre National de la Cinématographie - Flicker Alley is able to present the four films featured on Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera and Other Newly-Restored Works in a brand-new, Blu-ray edition.

The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) - Named the best documentary film of all time by Sight and Sound, it is presented here in its entirety for the first time since its original premiere. Discovered and restored at EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam - with extensive digital treatment by Lobster Films - the 35mm print from which this edition is, in part, sourced is the only known complete version of the film.

Kino Eye/The Life Unexpected (1924) - A cinematographic poem in which Vertov lays the foundation of his Kino-Eye principles, the film shows the incredible force of his theories, but also the beauty and energy of a society fresh from revolution, ready to face the challenges of a difficult future.

Enthusiasm - The Symphony of the Donbass (1931) - One of the first Soviet sound films, it deals with the Five Year Plan of the late 1920s, and represents Vertov's radical attempt to link economic progress with the introduction of sound in cinema.

Three Songs About Lenin (1934) - Arguably Vertov's most personal work, the triptych celebrates the Soviet leader 10 years after his death as seen through the eyes of the people.

The Man with the Movie Camera and Kino Eye feature musical accompaniments by Alloy Orchestra and Robert Israel respectively, while original soundtracks have been restored for Enthusiasm and Three Songs About Lenin. Bonus features include Kino Pravda #21, a newsreel made in 1925 to mark the first anniversary of Lenin's death, as well as a booklet featuring information about Vertov's life and works.

*English and French subtitles available with original Russian intertitles.