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DRONE RECORDS ҉ NEWSFLASH ҉ MARCH 2019 ҉ Dear Droners, Atmospherics and Sound Explorers, we gladly present you the 2nd NEWSFLASH for 2019 (March) LABEL RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT, OUT NOW! : IRR.APP.(ext.) - Are All Things Equivalent ? 10" VINYL (Substantia Innominata SUB-26) € 15,00 Two new tracks by the master of surrealistic, mysterious sound (and visual) worlds, whose collages and titles often reveal a cryptic and thought-provoking nature... lim. 300 on clear vinyl + some of our PERSONAL HIGHLIGHTS, these artists really deserve to be DISCOVERED by more listeners!! : FOSSIL AEROSOL MINING PROJECT - The Recounting of Night Time CD : the project from Chicago with a very droning, mysterious, loopy sounding album... "The mechanisms here may be incredibly fussy, but the atmosphere is somewhere between dreamlike and hypnotic, leaving you in a bit of an unexplained stasis." [Toneshift] ARASH AKBARI - Perpetual mCDR - discovery from Iran with an absorbing long drone piece that creates lots of suction and width, revealing slowly micro-sounds and harmonies.... CLOAMA - Embargoed CD : impressive post industrial from the Finnish project, ranging form monumental drones to more collagic material, takes you on a journey.. MATTHEW SWIEZYNSKI - The one who modifies Time and Light CD (Invisible Birds) : strong 'etnno-ambient' experimentalism in the way of old ZOVIET FRANCE, based on sounds from old films from India FALSE MIRROR - Sigint CD (Malignant Records): newest album by the German dark ambient project, careful constructed, highly emotional and ambitious.. LIONEL MARCHETTI - Jeu du Monde 6xCD BOX (Sonoris): impressive collection by the French composer who often creates very dense, dramatic, unsettling or ritualistic musique concrete so INTENSE you can hardly stand it TAINNOS - Kierto mCDR incredible mighty dronescape full of tension, by the ex NO XIVIC from Finland, symbolizing the complete evolution of life on our planet!! Masterpiece! .... and so many, more "unknown" acts and releases from the ever fascinating, sublime and visionary world of atmospheric and experimental sound creation... Pre-orders & reservations are possible. Please note the PRICES with your order! Most of the titles listed are in stock, others are backorderable quickly. All prices are in EURO and do NOT include postage & handling costs! Usually the minimum order amount is 25 Euro. The FULL mailorder-backprogramme is viewable (with search- & orderfunction) on our website www.dronerecords.de . Please send your orders & all communication to: [email protected] BEST DRONES !! BarAka[H] NR. TITLE FORMAT LABEL & CAT-NR YEAR? SHORT INFO / EDITION / LIM.?/ SPECIALS PRICE URBAN GAMELAN was the third LP by 23 SKIDOO, originally released in 1984, an all- LTM Publishing LTMCD time classic with a unique and very percussive industrial-funk mixture.. this re-issue 1 23 SKIDOO - Urban Gamelan CD 2008 €14,50 2530 comes with 4 bonus tracks from two rare 12"es: "COUP" and "LANGUAGE".. back in stock! first album on Backwards by this Italian guitarist, known for his psychedlic, ornamental ways of playing, recorded in Cairo, Egypt, absorbing the atmosphere and sounds of the 2 ABATE, MAURIZIO - The Maadi Sessions LP Backwards BW27 2018 city... "During my first visit, I was especially struck by the sounds, so I recorded some of €16,00 them over my following stay, and I tried to mix them with my electric guitar, a sort of conversation between the inner world and the outside one.." lim. 200 black vinyl third solo-album by the ex AMBER ASYLUM and current member of IONOPHERE, the death metal band VASTUM and many others projects => harmonic, lonely instrumental Malignant Records ambience with much warmth and emotion.. "generally longer than previous works and 3 ABDUL-RAUF, LEILA - Diminution CD 2018 €13,00 TUMORCD109 feel more spacious and open, where sparse melodies and gentle textural flow meet ethereal choral vocals, distant trumpet, delicate guitar, and luminous, yet melancholy drones and warm tonal drift." highly impressive collection of electroacoustic pieces from the 60's and 70's by this Greek composer (* 1929) who built the first Greek "electronic music laboratory" back in ADAMIS, MICHAEL - A Selection of 1965 => "These works offer a remarkable example of his pioneering and diverse 4 do-LP Rekem Records rekem 03 2013 €25,00 Electroacoustic Works 1964-1977 creative course, revealing a search for new means of expression. Tape, voice, distortion, concrete and electronic sounds, use of early synths." comes w. oversized DIN A5 cover and 24 page booklet, documenting his art 1 it seems in IRAN an interesting experimental / electronic / sound art scene is evolving, ARASH AKBARI is one of those new discoveries from Tehran, with 'Perpetual' he 5 AKBARI, ARASH - Perpetual mCD-R Taalem alm 122 2018 presents a very absorbing long drone piece that creates lots of suction and width, €5,00 revealing slowly micro-sounds and guitar / synth-like harmonics.. ... excellent piece, highly recommended ! re-issue of recordings from 2007 (Osaka) (so far only on a very limited CDR), a most experimental and concrete guitar-noise duet... "Putting drills, hammers, nails, screws AKIYAMA, TETUZI & MICHEL HENRITZI - Rekem Records REKEM and saws into good use, and with maximum amplification, the two artists manage to 6 LP 2018 €17,00 Broken Blues 11 bridge the distance between the freely atonal sketches of post-Derek Bailey guitar music and the Fluxus tradition of more overtly disruptive actions." ed, of 192 hand- stamped copies highly interesting work by this researcher and writer who often cares about the 'threshold states' of consciousness, this is about the phenomenon of "Autoscopy" (i.e. BAILEY, THOMAS BEY WILLIAM - La the visualization of phantom doubles / Doppelgängers)... "Split into a purely 7 MC Elevator Bath eeaoa049 2018 €10,00 Production Interdite instrumental half-hour side and a vocally-enhanced side in which TBWB narrates accounts of autoscopic events, this new album oscillates between moments of narcotic consolation and moments of sharp poignancy... " C-60, lim. 50 "the powerful second full length album from analog synth composer Caterina Barbieri. Gorgeous high resolution analog textures and algorithmic melodies unfold under BARBIERI, CATERINA - Patterns of Important Records Barbieri's careful control, exploring the basic nature of sound and consciousness. 8 do-LP 2017 €35,00 Consciousness IMPREC 449 These pieces are minimal in arrangement but maximal in presence asserting Barbieri as a unique voice in contemporary electronic music composition"; black vinyl, gatefold cover.. "An imperial, exacting beauty." ~ Wire four long pieces by the US-American drone/noise composer, recorded 2016 in Porto, Portugal, dedicated to Z'EV: "balancing drone feedback states with instrumental and vocal elements - controlled eruptions, seeping slowly with the force of geologic do-LP Elevator Bath eeaoa048 2018 9 BELLERUE, BOB - Music of Liberation synthesis." "In the realm of noise and experimental music, Bob Bellerue elevates his €25,00 recordings beyond the mere level of harshness into three-dimensional soundscapes that can be felt as well as heard." [Chuck Foster] lim. 250 copies collection of the solo albums plus unreleased early material 1973-1977 by the industrial legend, re-mastered / first time mastered! Comes with 24 page 12" sized booklet 6 x LP BOX MUTE CCBOX1 2018 10 CARTER, CHRIS - Miscellany featuring rare and unseen images, hand-drawn synthesiser schematics and other €90,00 ephemera from Carter’s archive; the vinyl version is limited to 1000 copies collection of the solo albums plus unreleased early material 1973-1977 by the industrial legend, re-mastered / first time mastered! "Here you can understand the kernels and/or 4 x CD BOX MUTE CCBOX1 CD 2018 11 CARTER, CHRIS - Miscellany influence of his part within the backdrop of the TG quartet. As bombs drop a murky €36,00 brew of drone and tone percolates." [Toneshift] CD-box with 24 page booklet third album by the "trancepunk" trio from Berlin (GARETH SWEENEY - bass,; FELIPE SALAZAR - drums, AIDAN BAKER - guitar) => "Baker’s multi-layered, heavily affected Drone Rock Records LP 2018 guitar overlays Sweeney and Salazar’s driving, propulsive rhythm section creating 12 CAUDAL - Fight Cry Fight DRR015 €18,00 music equally influenced by krautrock, post-punk, and spacerock" ; lim. 150 copies on BEER-COLOURED VINYL impressive solo LP by the radical Swiss sax-player and sound artist, based on live- material recorded 2010-2015, with two very different approaches to sounds and Rekem Records REKEM textures on each side; "...a formidable tour-de-force, a developing field of distortion in LP 12 / Fragment Factory 2018 13 CHESSEX, ANTOINE - Subjectivation which tenor saxophone adds on a metal-tinged sludgy tonality, wedged through dense €17,00 [FRAG45] masses of sound.... a rapid-fire of voices from the horn that gets enveloped in a back- and-forth between electroacoustic structures, psychoacoustics, and pure tone." lim.323 the solo project of MARTIJN PIECK, known as part of the [LAW-RAH] COLLECTIVE, CINEMA PERDU - 2 Compositions with Found with two excellent drone-based compositions, evolving around found sounds in an 14 mCD-R Taalem alm 123 2018 urban environment... "This is quite an un-earthy rumble that is going on here, exactly €5,00 Sounds the spooky tone in combination with a delicate atmosphere that I like so much" [FdW / Vital Weekly] exciting new album by this Finnish ambient / doom industrial act (active now since Freak Animal Records fa- CD 2018 about 20