DRONE RECORDS ҉ NEWSFLASH ҉ OCTOBER 2019 ҉ Dear Droners, Mind Travellers and Sound Explorers, we gladly present you the Newsflash for October 2019 (6th update this year)! This update serves as a kind of ZOVIET FRANCE special, as VOD Records re-issued all 11 single release from the immediately sold out "Chasse" box as "stand-alone" items. We now offer all LPs + 2 x 7" from the Chasse box as set for a special price! + AS USUAL, SOME PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS from this list: DANIEL MENCHE - Melting Gravity LP (SIGE Rec.) : most dense & compelling transcension drones, start loosing your gravity! KEVIN RICHARD MARTIN - Sirens LP (ROOM40): first solo album by the legendary UK underground figure, " It's nothing short of an isolationist classic" [Boomkat] (...) - No Title 12" (Sähkö) : most abstract droning mystery sounds by an anonymous project MOLJEBKA PVLSE - Komoku CD (Cyclic Law): multi-layered drone bliss based on Tibetan instrumental sounds and desert field recordings.. JACOB KIRKEGAARD - "Phonurgia Metallis" CD and "Black Metal Square" LP (important rec.): resonances of freely hanging metal sheets, played by the atmospheric pressure around.. VELGENATURLIG - Anahata CD (Reverse Alignment) : a dark ambient / drone jewel - "Most easily described as a ocean, waving back and forth" .... and so many, more 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] The Listening / Streamling URLs are NOT viewable anymore for all items in the e-mail as it leads to a higher activity of Spam filters. Sorry! BEST DRONES !! BarAka[H] NR. TITLE FORMAT LABEL & CAT-NR YEAR? SHORT INFO / EDITION / LIM.?/ SPECIALS PRICE anonymous artist with no artist name on the Finnish SÄHKÖ - label (which was co- curated by MIKA VAINIO), this is a 45 rpm long play 12" (36+ min.) with two highly abstract pieces based on sizzles and crackles, low hummings and feedbacks, 1 (...) - No Title 12" Sähkö 030 2019 flickering sounds like shimmering light, metallic vibrations, shortwave blinks and other €18,50 mysterious and almost never recognizable noises and drones.. pretty phantastic, in the vein of HAFLER TRIO, etc.. (there are rumours KEVIN DRUMM has something to do with it...) this LP in the FLUXUS+/- series contains a rare piece (only available here it seems) by ALFRED 23 HARTH / JONATHAN MEESE / ALFRED 23 HARTH (CASSIBER, etc.), plus more material by JONATHAN MEESE Psych.KG - PSYCH.KG LP 2017 ("Jonathan Meese ist der Deutscheste Cowboy"), and a new side-long piece by the 2 KOMMISSAR DIONYSOS UND ARIADNE - 451 €23,00 HJULER couple ("Die Kirche wird hier abgebaut und auf Kepler-452b neu errichtet"); Aufbruch zu Kepler-452b lim. 100, hand-assembled and oversized cover ALIO DIE in collaboration with LORENZO MONTANA, Italian IDM producer known for his releases with PETE NAMLOOK, they manage to merge their much different ALIO DIE & LORENZO MONTANA - Projekt Rec. PROJEKT approaches into floating and highly emotional / mournful ambient beauties... (64 min. 3 CD 2015 €15,00 Holographic Codex 311 playtime).. "a mixture of atmospheric ambience, IDM sequences and psybient textures; these cult Italian musicians create a blending of ritualistic soundscapes and technogenic landscapes" - lim. 500 copies only expanded re-issue and re-working of a cassette project from 2015 (with bonus material feat. PACIFIC 231, POST SCRIPTVM and MONOCUBE!) with a strong relation to ANEMONE TUBE - In the Vortex of Dionysian NIETZSCHE's philosophy of the Dionysian, a wall of sound oscillating between 4 LP The Epicurean cure.13 2017 €17,00 Reality expressive distortion and melancholic beauty, a melodramatic maelstrom of noise.....music seen as the primordial form of expression! - this LP version (lim. 200) has one extra track not on the CD version four experimental collaborations on this colourful designed LP, feat. re-workings of A.M.T. and PBK basic materials... "one will experience, thoroughout the whole album, ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE / GERALD Attenuation Circuit ACW a change between very different sonic textures and temperaments that showcase the 5 LP 2019 €18,00 FIEBIG / EMERGE / PBK - Fiction Circuit 1007 wide range of expressive possibilities of electroacoustic music. This is not the product of good luck, but of planned collective composition.." lim. 300 copies on green-marbled vinyl, hand-numbered and with download code 1 the first album for this well established Danish electronic ambience / deep dub techno producer... "The musical content varies from stark pulsating rhythms, like the heartbeat of a commuter train filled to the brim with muted spectres, racing through a grey CD Gterma 024 2012 6 AS IF - Faraway Trees standing still suburbia and exploding into a sudden vastness of nature where you find yourself €13,00 overwelmed by open vistas of pure colours and fresh air." - for fans of BVDUB, ROD MODELL, etc.. 16 page full colour booklet, 75+ min playtime the ultimate DRONEWORK re-issue, surely one of the best BASS COMMUNION drone pieces, the CD contains: a re-mastered version of the original piece (once BASS COMMUNION - Dronework (2019 - Headphone Dust recorded in 2003), a long exclusive remix by ZOVIET FRANCE, and two new versions 7 CD 2019 €12,00 extended, incl. ZOVIET FRANCE remix) HDBCCD31 by STEVEN WILSON (entitled "Requiem" which is even longer than the original, and "2019 v. 4" ; 77 minutes of exquisitive woven, phasing, waving, crackling nautic transcension layers... comes in gatefold mini LP sleeve more unreleased sculpture recordings from BERTOIA's archive, which was now fully BERTOIA, HARRY - Experimental I / opened to issue his earliest recordings... - " Like his sculptures, Bertoia never titled his 8 LP Sonambient FW1035LP 2019 recordings but frequently referred to specific concepts he was pursuing. These are €25,00 Mechanical I among the earliest known examples of Bertoia using terms which would become more common in the years to come: 'experimental', 'mechanical' " everyone who knows their first fine collab album "Concredrones" (CD, Korm Plastics 2013), will be delighted to see this 2nd cooperation - [MB: minimalwaves, electroloops and periphetronics; Sostrah Tinnitus: black magnetic tapes, old electronics,clocks, BIANCHI, MAURIZIO (M.B.) + SOSTRAH 4iB Records 4iB CD 2018 strange forgotten objects] - again we enter realms of 'nostalgic' ambient noise with far 9 CD/0916/032 €13,00 TINNITUS - Peripherycal Minimaltronics away and forgotten melodies, humming echoes, low-fi found sounds, also field recordings and instrumental sounds (piano) can appear in this dream-drone stream... great! ...the perfect "BIOSPHERE"- album of 'Arctic Ambience', with these 17 tracks of field recordings and additional studio improvisations all made on the island of SENJA in Biophon Records CD 2019 Northern Norway... "Some of the sounds are astonishing, not least the opening track, a 10 BIOSPHERE - The Senja Recordings BIO31CD €13,00 recording of ice being thrown onto a newly frozen lake - taken from under, with a hydrophone." [Spectrum Culture] awesome recordings and remixes of boat fog horns by this French composer, made at the port of Piraeus, Greece - the various types of massive drones interact in a polyphonic and almost orchestral way, on the B-side there are three remixes of the raw LP Discrepant CREP62 2019 11 BLUME, FELIX - Fog Horns sounds, filled with darkness and tension... "You quickly forget you’re listening to €21,50 prosaic industrial sound and interpret it as an immersive piece of neo-classical." [Chain D.L.K.] - ed. of 500 copies CD re-issue of the much requested second CARETAKER album from 2011, it could be seen as a forerunner to the "Everywhere at the End of Time"-circle. .. "By now regarded CARETAKER - An Empty Bliss Beyond this History Always Favours an absolute classic of haunted ambient music, An Empty Bliss Beyond The World 12 CD 2019 €14,50 World the Winners HAFTW008 returns the doddering protagonist to the deserted ballroom, wandering its waxed floor and dilapidated grandeur in an attempt to capture an era which has long since disappeared but still haunts the atmosphere..." the third and final album by the project of CHRIS CARTER, COSEY FANNI TUTTI and NIK COLK VOID - "The rhythms, created by Chris Carter, formed the foundation and Conspiracy International starting point from which the process began of melding the live instrumentation of 13 CARTER TUTTI VOID - Triumvirate LP 2019 €26,50 CTICVLP2019 Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void’s searing guitars, vocals, effects and the arsenal of sounds each had amassed from a variety of sources, some sounds manipulated to extremes, all fed into the mix.." lim. vinyl version a collection of 18 ambient miniatures, fourth volume in the "Circle of Days" series, lim. ed. with ull colour cover; "The mind empties, your biorhythms adapt to Chalk’s excruciatingly slow pace, and you become aware only of where individual sounds MC Faraway Press 2019 14 CHALK, ANDREW - The Circle of Days 4 begin and end....This is sculptural, present music, for which background details €12,00 ultimately seem superfluous, and which makes the past as well as the