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New 180g vinyl double LP in gatefold sleeve bw Mick Harris (Scorn, Quoit etc) = USED COPY, minor signs - only played a handful of times. Label info: MICK HARRIS (SCORN, QUOIT, PAINKILLER) returns after several years of hiatus with ten tracks of blasting landmine bass and interlocking shrapnel rhythms. I’ve been asked to write a press piece for the dark lord MICK HARRIS. Where does one even start? Especially for someone with decades of releases over various solo projects, collaborations and pseudonyms, whether it’s doing blast beats in the original NAPALM DEATH to crushing techno brutality as MONRELLA, or savage drum & bass as QUOIT. Then of course there’s the mighty SCORN and his numerous collaborations with fellow luminaries such as JOHN ZORN and BILL LASWELL (in PAINKILLER). Rather than being tied to genres or scenes, MICK HARRIS is one of those producers who creates a whole sonic world uniquely of his own, in which varying tracks, styles and tempos take form, but yet in which everything sounds unmistakably characteristic of the creator. Needless to say his work has influenced legions of producers like SURGEON, REGIS, ONTAL, VATICAN SHADOW / PRURIENT, FAUSTEN, SHAPEDNOISE et al, and pretty much anyone in the world of powerfully dark, abrasive music you could name-drop. And yet after all this time, it is impressive that HARRIS still stands way above his successors and has never been surpassed in his own production/performance game. After a hiatus of several years, he is back with a new album under the guise of FRET. Working at a faster tempo than his SCORN material, the FRET project first surfaced years ago on the DOWNWARDS label, rooting it firmly in the dark, industrial and technoid world, and appeared more recently on Tresor (Kern mix by OBJEKT), maintaining the characteristic colossal bass-heaviness and textural depth. And now a full album on KARLRECORDS, Berlin. HARRIS fans will be delighted to know that despite the 130 bpm tempo, the newest FRET still resolutely avoids any straight four-on-the-floor kickdrums; every track lurches, stumbles, staggers and charges forth with beats in beautifully broken asymmetry. We get 10 tracks of crushing, percussive destroyers, each itself a storm of precision chaos, with colossal low-end frequencies that’ll cause stampedes in the right circumstances. The classic HARRIS sound is there; searing waves of feedback distortion, intricate, interlocking rhythms and cold, abattoir atmospheres, especially track 6 “Stuck in the track at Salford Priors” which sounds like you’re being continuously suspended in the air from multiple explosions all around, each kickdrum throwing you up in the air, the next one going off before you can fall completely back to the ground. The lazy-minded would probably lump it in with the term “techno”, but the disciplined brutality, blasting landmine bass and interlocking shrapnel rhythms are clearly HARRIS’ own trademark style, sitting somewhere between SCORN and QUOIT. The tracks appear deceptively chaotic on the surface, yet each is meticulously and masterfully composed with great attention to layering and detail. MICK HARRIS fans rejoice, the dark lord still remains at the top of his game. (Derek Szeto / Fausten / Combat Recordings)

copy from shop stocks, no previous owner, minor storage wear, practically NM. A bit of wear on sleeve, possibly played at the shop a few times

Nice dubbed out tracks from Projet 2501 and Mafucage. Back in stock. Shop copy, no previous owner, some minor signs of wear. VG+/NM - sleeve has a couple of creases and light ring wear. A1 - Projet 2501 – Neo Reality B1 - Mafucage – Birth Of Living I B2 - Mafucage – Time Bug B3 - Mafucage – Le Nom De Ta Mere B4 - Mafucage – Conspiration

Number 5 in PCP's Techno Tribe series. Used, in VG+ condition.

Death To Vinyl Vol. 1Copy from shop stocks, no previous owner, practically NM

Limited to 100 copies. Last copy in the store - VG+. Insert is missing!

2006 recut and re-pressed version of the 1999 hardcore/hardtek classic. Overall NM copy from shop stocks - no pervious owner, but has one small mark on side B.

Hard tekno free party style originally released in December 2004 on Hydrophonic Records from Milano. One copy back in stock. Vinyl is NM, sleeve has a bit of storage wear / ring wear on the back side.

More on a quiet and minimal tip, this Hydrophonic release from 2004 just got one copy back in stock. NM

Rare IOT release from 2004. Copy from shop stocks, no previous owner, minor storage wear, practically NM Our copy looks A LOT better than the one on the YouTube clip ;-)

OPtimum PRoduction release from 2001, somewhere between dub techno and experimental hardfloor - near mint copy from shop stocks. A tiny bit of storage wear as you can imagine, but definitely an excellent copy.

Recorded in Los Angeles & Portland, using various instruments & computer. near mint copy from shop stocks, outer PVC sleeve is present, but has partial seam split

near mint copy from shop stocks, minor storage wear. shrink wrap is still on but has been opened

Co-release of Urbanoide, Fougere Musique and Aloardi. NM

Near mint copy from shop stocks, very minor wear. Original from 2007.

Edition of 300 copies. Comes with printed inner sleeve and postcard. Recorded in Berlin, Winter/Spring 2021.Released February 2022. NM

A1. Untitled Vito Acconci / New Humans, 2007 Recorded live by [...] at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, Spring 2007 An unreleased live recording of a collaborative performance by Vito Acconci and New Humans that took place within the sculpture installation "Disassociate" by artist Mika Tajima at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, in Spring 2007.During this improved music performance with New Humans, Vito Acconci reads permutations of text from a set of seminal audio works he chose - recombining lines and phrases on the move against a shifting, acute and minimally deadpan sonic progression.Text include "V.D. Lives / TV Must Die" (1978), "Now Do You Believe The Dirty Dogs Are Dead" (1978), "An Idea Of Storage At A Small Gallery In Downtown Chicago" (1979), "Cry Baby!" (1977).B1. Sympathy For The Devil New Humans, 2007A song stripped leaving only the minimal register of anonymous static noise. A shadow of itself it now the resembles the crackling prelude on a vinyl record. The cue is the replacement.B2. Waiting Game New Humans, 2007The anticipatory humming drone produced by a guitar amp becomes substance. The performance of the void, a lost reference.Producing used Sunn Beta Lead head with Peavey 4x12 Cabinet and single coil American Fender Stratocaster.The sound pieces on Side B were an ongoing sound element in the "Disassociate" installation in which the performances and recordings occurred. The pieces were playing during the Vito Acconci / New Humans recording and subsequently buried by the live performance.Special thanks to Elizabeth Dee, Jenny Moore, Acconci Studio and C. Spencer Yeh NM copy

“Each of us is beginning to feel the ground slip away beneath our feet. We are discovering, more or less obscurely, that we are all in migration toward territories yet to be rediscovered and reoccupied” (Bruno Latour, Down To Earth: Politics in the New Climate Regime, 2018, Polity Press. Cambridge). released June 26, 2020 Vinyl mastering and lacquer cutting by Jason Goz@TransitionMastering Digital mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY)

On her latest release, chra aka Christina Nemec is sketching out a psychogeographical map, that guides you to the border of the internal and external world - ‘on a fateful morning’ lets you enter a sphere where the imaginary and the subliminal cross. Evoking abstract images that transcend reality, chra installs an autarchic time-and-space-continuum of vague, nocturnal beauty. Pastose bass drones, airy ambient synths and processed audio-samples form a hypnotic stream that lets you enter an altered state of mind. By subtly intertwining musical and non musical sounds chra is weaving an intensely atmospheric, poetic tableau of emptied spaces left to our imagination. It's the pulse of arcane memories that is filling these sonic landscapes, operating deep within our subconscious. ‘on a fateful morning’ is haunting music to play in the dark - conspirative, uncanny, with a dystopian smack.NM

2014 by Kaumwald release on Opal Tapes. Shop copy, shrink wrap is open, vinyl looks perfect.

M.E.S.H.: Hesaitix vinyl album on Pan from 2017, still sealedFurther departing from both the cinematic abstraction of ‘Piteous Gate’ and the hectic drums of ‘Damaged Merc’, Berlin producer M.E.S.H’s new full-length, ‘Hesaitix’, is marked by its hyper-ornamented rhythms and a sense of pensive, moonlit spaces. The atmosphere has shifted; the radical deconstruction of previous releases has given way to subtler interventions, building new structures in strange territories. Shifting from the meditative to states of manic unease, Hesaitix is an unnerving injection into both the social space of club music and the interior space of digital audio fantasy. How did I become so stupid? A sound can be both formless and over-rendered, like a boneless but fleshy hand from a life drawing class. What agent could set these broken sounds in motion? A laugh behind an evil curtain. A drummer that’s cool and grotesque, a detuned siren. A brushfire under a full moon. Recorded in Berlin and Umbria, Hesaitix sees Janus resident and PAN staple M.E.S.H. firmly engaged in a kind of sonic worldbuilding, a place where the unconscious and the alien intersect. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Michael Guidetti & James Whipple released November 10, 2017

Dalhous double vinyl on Blackest Ever Black from 2016. Mint & sealed! A little bit of storage wear on sleeve, right corner slightly bent (still sealed though)

Excellent CDatakill release on Detroit's Low Res! One copy back in stock, 

Great comp with Reeks, Dan Hekate, The Priory, Drexxell, Fire At Work!Shop copy, no previous owner, but somesigns of wear from getting played afew times in the shop. VG+