Downtempo Beats
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)
Limited to 100 copies. Last copy in the store - VG+. Insert is missing!
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 ;-)
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
Great 4-tracker of experimental broken beats from 2003!One copy back in stock in NM condition, no previous owner.
Multi-label co-release of the 2011 split EP by Orphan Oliver and Lafidki. Dumpster Diving Lab – DDLP0001, Steak Au Zoo – STKZ013, Jozik Records – JZK015, Heia Sun – HEIA005, Neh-Owh Records – NOV007
Restock! One copy, has some minor wear (no previous owner). Dan Hekate - here as Dan H - with a four tracker from 2006 on the Dutch Grijs label.
Excellent double album by Dan Hekate on Coven H! Warped sounds and twisted beats in the Hekate Sound System tradition! BACK IN STOCK! 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)
Crazy mashup with samples of Public Enemy and Herb Alpert. Used copy in VG condition - some surface noise
Original 7" edition of the first release on the Homewrecker Foundation from 1999. Used copy, VG
Scorn on Hymen from 2002, used copy but in excellent condition.
Scorn double vinyl edition of Greetings from Birmingham on Hymen from the year 2000. Used copy in excellent condition.
More Scorn from 2000 - used copy in excellent condition!
Used copy in excellent condition, has a visible but inaudible hairline (thin shallow scratch) on one side, otherwise practically NM.
Scorn release on Ohm Resistance from 2019. Used copy in great condition, some hairlines and faint surface marks (mostly from taking in and out of sleeve) only minor storage wear on sleeve
2011 EP by Scorn on Ohm Resistance - used copy in excellent condition, a tiny bit of surface wear from taking it in an out of sleeve
Recorded in 1996 and released in 1999 as a double 10" on Praxis this shows Somatic Responses and Christoph Fringeli team up with some serious industrial broken beats and a 180BPM hardcore track. A couple of copies have shown up from deep in the label archives. Records are unfortunately a bit worn with some hairlines and surface marks, also sleeves a bit worn around the edges and lightly bent corners. Not sure what happened there. No serious damage (seam splits etc) though.
The brooding cycles of Christoph De Babalon's work have never readily leant themselves to the customs of genre and function. And the shadowy mechanics of his breakbeat turbulence altogether contradict the promise that rhythm's accents resolutely sustain. Rather than winding us in along its patterned coil, setting us down in a spiral motion with the bait-and-switch of a drop, his version of hardcore is pure fight-or-flight response. Its hardest edge is its sober presentation of distress in the familiar, the totalising anguish of perceiving a threat in everything you always welcomed. This is swing as recoil. Christoph De Babalon's discography reads like a program for decoding the physiological darkside to the inhuman speed-test that hardcore first found the keys for. Set against the aching bellow of an orchestral, and almost floral, sensibility for windswept duration and exacting drone-tactics, there's no sleep for the raver and no mantle for the chin-stroker. 'Grim Zenith' cuts a sharp figure in Christoph De Babalon's oeuvre. With a menacing propulsion, there's a certain pace across his new EP that keeps the cryptic, rapid-fire detail in a fractal constellation of fallout. High definition despair arcs through high-tensile ambient passages, and swarming synthetic platforms gather around the agitated strings that close each side of the record. Released in a numbered edition of 300 copies, this fifth record from V I S is a crucial dose from one of the most unrelenting practices to have been founded in the rarely shared vessel between experimental music and hardcore. That this nexus should elicit such a gothic poetics is singularly Christoph De Babalon's program. Text: Patrick Quick SECOND PRESSING. identical, but not numbered! Lower price!
ZHARK 023 RUN by Kareem featuring DÄLEK A final chapter of the Zhark doctrine> Electronic violation in 5 different facetsused copy - VG+
Release copy with printed labels in great condition.Double copy from collection, only played a few times.
White label copy in pretty dodgy condition. It plays fine (no skips), but has noticeable surface noise. But it does come with the original promo- and reaction-sheets.
Howard Slater's magazine Break/Flow appeared in two paper editions - and this record. Features System UCS, Christoph de Babalon, Peter Edwards, Eric Random, New Acephale, The Narrator. used copy in VG condition. Some surface marks and light scratches - not the best, but a still a fine playing copy and a great record we haven't had in stock since 2012 (!)