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After taking a break, Saoulaterre is back with a strong release on the new Cas imprint! Radical music rave combat! Also check out his wicked book about the Paris catacombs!

The third installment in the Dirty Needles series features the bassheavy knowledge of The Warlock, Blackmassplastics, Scan One, and The Crooked Man to combine the best of electro and dubstep once again! Officially deleted! we just got a few returns - last copies! A1 - Warlock: It's In My Brain A2 - The Crooked Man: Zoot Shit B1 - Scan One: Providence B2 - Blackmass Plastics: Prime <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8dnRSCbr3iw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

On this turnover of electronic hardcore music, üBERGANG are transcend ing the past and giving new directions. üBERGANG are working without conditioned, cheap references to create a new style of digital electronic music - fresh, contemporary and without compromises. Their debut EP 'fear leader' on detroit's electronic hardcore techno label lowres (http://lowres.com) will be out in october 2006. Four smashing tracks of the freshest breakbeat manipulation and annihilation, delivered with an innovation we've come to expect these days from the hotbed that is Berlin. Featuring members GG + JC (aka Christoph de Babalon), this is all-out audio warfare with exquisite production and superior engineering. Assume greatness, and ready your listening sensibility for seduction. A1 - Polyptychon A2 - Correct Hesistance B1 - Wolfgang B2 - Fallout

"The Holocaust... cannot be understood so long as anti-Semitism is viewed as an example of racism in general and so long as Nazism is conceived of only in terms of big capital and a terroristic bureaucratic police state. Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Maidanek, Sobibor, and Trenlinka should not be treated outside the framework of an analysis of National Socialism. They represent one of its logical end points, not simplyits most terrible epiphenomenon. No analysis of National Socialism that cannot account for the extermination of European Jewry is fully adequate." In this excellent essay Moishe Postone, author of the critically acclaimed "Time, Labour and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory", develops a profound analysis of the relationship between modern anti-Semitism and National Socialism, which deepens our understanding of the Holocaust.

The back cover blurb: Down & Out in Shoreditch & Hoxton is a slice-and-dice splatter novel in which time-travelling streetwalkers hump their way from the trendy east London of today back to the skid row mutilations of the Jack the Ripper era. As gentrification forces the hookers from their age-old beat along Commercial and Wentworth Streets, they don Victorian Widows' weeds and ply their trade in local graveyards. Amid these psychogeographical dislocations, warm blood isn't the only thing that gets sucked by the night creatures who haunt Home's anti-narrative. This is without doubt the weirdest book ever written, the illegitimate offspring of the Marquis De Sade balling a post-modern literary extremist at a ladies of gangster rap convention. (It also reveals the true identity of Jack the Ripper.) Alternatively: Down & Out In Shoreditch & Hoxton is a quirky book that provides a very different picture of what is now London’s most fashionable quarter to Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. Although it is not a work of realism, it does benefit from the fact that for many years I lived on a council estate a couple of minutes walk from Brick Lane. This book is both shorter and denser than Monica Ali’s novel since it self-consciously fuses poetry and prose. It was generated using the restriction that every paragraph should be exactly 100 words long. So what I’ve produced is both a novel and a prose poem. It is also simultaneously subtle and gross, lucid and outrageous, profound and glib. In this book I look at how gentrification over the past few years has transformed Shoreditch and Hoxton. One of the most visible signs of this is the way in which prostitutes have been shifted around as pressure has been put on them to leave the area. There are literary references to prostitution in the locale going back four hundred years and the book is informed by both this history and the more general history of the representation of prostitutes in English fiction. In the book I imagine prostitutes ultimately being forced off local streets and into Tower Hamlets Cemetery where they are able to plough their trade unmolested by the police after disguising themselves in widow’s weeds. My interest in prostitution emerges at least partially from the centrality of 'the whore' as an iconic figure within modernist culture. The heart of the book is a parody of de Sade in which a succession of prostitutes try to fuck a john to death. Other literary figures who play an important role in the novel include William Burroughs who is revealed as having mastered time travel prior to his death and who I am therefore able to finger as the 'real' Jack The Ripper. Among other things this solution to the riddle of The Ripper’s identity is intended to illustrate the absurdity of much discourse on the subject and the ways in which a culture predicated on celebrity places a greater value on the activities of a serial killer than the lives of his victims. In its earlier parts the book is about consciousness whereas towards the end it slips into sleep and death. Thus since this is a work in which form and content are self-consciously fused, as the female narrator describes sleepwalking, the prose is made to stumble. Down & Out In Shoreditch & Hoxton is a book in which there is something to delight and offend everybody. This is the perfect read for anyone fed up with bland novels and who wants to try something different. There sheer oddity of the book ensures it will appeal to anyone wanting a change from their usual literary diet.

Quality quiet electronica on Bohnerwachs. Back in stock at half price!

Vinyl NM, sleeve has some wear, mostly on the back girard's intention on 'rayons' is to translate several kinds of rays into music - ranging from sunbeams to optical rays. so, 'rayons' can also be seen as an aural sight-seeing tour. the 'speed' factor is that of a person moving (whether by foot or in different vehicles). this movement was transformed into rhythmic patterns. imagine the aural equivalent of taking a walk during a thunderstorm ('éclairs') or feeling the sun peaking through a clouded sky while window shopping ('boulevard'). all sounds were generated with analog and digital synthesizers. the listener might believe that they are hearing modulated samples but this is not true. it is once again, an example of girard's virtuosity in creating 'naturalistic' soundscapes with pure electronic equipment. for the images on the album cover, girard gave the photographer, alain gauvin the basic audio tracks for inspiration. the final musical structure on 'rayons' is based on inspirations from gauvin's pictures which were taken in the montreal area.

4 tracks by Zombie, Likka & Mör Brekunit, GVK, Zombie!

5th installment in the series of 6, this time a homage to Kraftwerk! Strictly limited edition! RESTOCK - mint copy! <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kSqbTMoRSoY?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Excellent double album by Dan Hekate on Coven H! Warped sounds and twisted beats in the Hekate Sound System tradition! A1 - Rotastation A2 - Shidubamma (Co-written with Marco) B1 - An Ode To Frankie B2 - Roadkiller C1 - Rusty Cervello C2 - Ms.Automatic C3 - The Spectrum Spirit D1 - The Reset Provoker (Co-written with Enreset) D2 - Information Muncher D3 - The Real-Frumpos De La Gom (Co-written with Dayf Stitch)

Mint copy of the collaboration of Praxis and Widerstand, a double album by Eiterherd inspired by the development of surveillance technologies and the book and movie 1984.  Mint copy from the label archives. Minor storage wear on sleeve. I know you can find this cheaper elsewhere, but you do support the label by buying it directly from us!

on Lux Nigra

Limited to 250 copies this is one of the coolest Vision releases - an experimental DJ tool 12" with tracks by all the MELX members. Most copies had a silk-screened sticker on the red cover, but this one does not, as it's one of the last copies (there were slightly more records than stickers made). opportunity!!

3 tracks - MP3 snippet is from "Vicious Exit - Volum Remix"

Original from 1999! Only one copy left which was listened to in our shop a few times, hence the lower price. Umkra on the pre-Marasm Myzé label.

Excellent split release by Martel en tete and VDZ whose long epic track make this record a must! highly recommended - !

Mint copy of the classic LFO Demon 7"!! <iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zvSznR6gdMY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rwm9u2hY78Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

A1 - Vile Enginez: Same World Different Day A2 - Strident Vortx: Julius Ethal B1 - Mute (CC & MH): Soirée Cagoule B2 - OlgaZzz: B = A

First release on Berlin's ragga jungle imprint Tricky Tunes.

new lower price! Parts & Labor "Escapers One" 12" EP (BB27) Williamsburg punk noise band drops their all-electronic debut with anthemic melodies of noise and distortion creating a blurred-out landscape of grand proportions.

Technoid electro-breakz on this label from Italy! This Side A1 - Dormi Bambino A2 - Virtual Sex - Other Side B1 - Dental Drill B2 - Marcio Dentro

LAST SHOP COPY - slight signs of use - VG+ tributo iniziale a dario argento con il pezzo ''le tre madri'' darkissimo e sinfonico, dai risvolti ambient. lost in exile è isteria drill'n'bass con le sue batterie frantumate su un groove che rotola via tanto potente da poter essere mixato anche con la drum'n'bass più incazzata. il lato b non concede tregua. do u know lucifer è pura cattiveria con valanghe di effetti che sciolgono ogni singolo suono e lo ricompongono in un magma fluente di onde tenute insieme da fucilate di drum machine. chiude venus, sregolato break post-moderno che incanala tutto il disco in una spirale discendente.   <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pm7ghcDbLRk?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

First 12" release by Diskore of Darkmatter Soundsystem on the Detroit label Void. 2 Tracks. Sleeves hand silk-screened with design by Diskore