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Not the best live recording ever, but the only published live recording of this band. Nox was amazing live, really amazing. In studio, they would meticulously work with mix and recording of all the drums, guitars and metals. But live, they were going... See full review

The 1982 Biota album is between the 2 Lps you mentioned and is the other hidden masterpiece of the Mnemonists gang, magic.

Glenn Branca had never been considered as the exceptionnal composer he really was. This very work, with homemade string instruments specificaly designed to play such music, the density and intensity of the magical composition, the careful use of... See full review

Gerome Nox and Arno who were in Kalashnikov would create with Cécile Babiole, soon after this record, the band Last Disease who became quickly Nox :
https://www.discogs.com/artist/177367-Nox-2
All this in the quiet town of Metz in eastern France,... See full review

If someone is interested, i have an extra booklet of this publication. Contact me if you want it.

Seriously underrated gem of dark experimental music. A peak made out of tortuous paths, screechs, echos of heavy things moving in the distance, stuttering machines, mechanic tensions and electric storms.
Somewhere around the spacial poetry of folks... See full review

I use to have the Psilotripitaka boxset, but except Merzbild Schwet that i love, i always found the two first LPs a bit too long. These shorter edited versions are perfect to me and i prefer listening to this record than the entire original LPs. Plus,... See full review

I bought this one a french small town flee market when i was in my last days of high school. I was a teenager deeply involved in cold wave, post punk and by the time the most extreme form of music i've ever heard was "Seele brent" by Einstürzende... See full review

A masively cool band, not enough remembered. Their compositions, mood, sound are mesmerizing and clearly announce most of the shoegaze sound to come. Tome Rice's guitar is a large generator of mass and space, drowning you into waves of swirling... See full review

Two beautiful sides of foggy thick frequencies droning in and out ouf silence, filling the space, thundering at some point and having this unstable behaviour like planes crossing a distant sky or echos coming from the clouds.
(Somehow, the texture of... See full review

I do love the white vinyl version, because it looks really beautiful and i love coloured vinyls. But for this record, i'm happy i've also bought the CD version. Because if you want to be able to "Hear loud in the night in the dark" this amazing and... See full review

Remember all the beautiful sounds hidden in the mix of "The light is leaving us all" in the background ? They were the secret magic making this LP so beautiful.
Now they are in the foreground. Or in an upside down - behind the mirror way, you are now... See full review

I remember meeting Bernhard Günter in 1998, a short time after the publication of "Details agrandis". Beyond the wonderful experience of a concert he gave (and for that he brought his own Celestion hi-fi speakers to make us experience his music in the... See full review

I must say i'm really fascinated by the most atmospheric, ambiant, trippy, experimental works (call them the way you want !) Current 93 has been producing recently. And to be honnest, i prefer them to the songs LP. This quote is totaly personnal, but... See full review

A contemplative masterpiece.
Two sides based on the same harmonics drone and ghostly voices in the background creating an hypnotic listening. A girl says a few words, repeated again and again... "Who is the sufferer ? What is a suffering ? Who is the... See full review

I have no idea how much this works of Karel Goeyvaerts might have influenced Current 93 work, but just look at the title of the first piece... "Ach Golgota" will sound familiar to any C93 fans, and "Pour que les fruits murissent en été" sounds (to my... See full review

I found about this record by total chance, and don't regret the buy. The music is wonderfuly beautiful and this red and black splatter fit the mood with perfection ! There's not so many exciting bands these days to my taste, but this Dronecaine is... See full review

EP always sounds to me the perfect format for Foetus hysterical energy, and to say the least, this one is by far one of the best record ever did by Sir Thirlwell.
The two sides burst into a mad party soundtrack, flirting with funk and drunk, blinking... See full review

I love this picture disc publication ! A perfect visual for this minimal drifting in early electronics mesmerizing journey.
Surface noise ? May be but i personaly don't give a damn and i like surface noise... I mean look at these patterns whirling on... See full review

A short but magnificient dip in Hafler Trio sound-worlds.
Side A is a quiet absurd and poetic spoken word speech about the efficiency of machines with a kaleidoscopic background of mesmerizing sound collage. This has a phenomenal narcotic effect on... See full review

The other side of the mirror of NWW Sylvie and Babs LP. Same sources, different territories. Disorienting and mesmerizing at the same time. If you love this NWW mad masterpiece, then you do need this one to expand your experience

All time favorite and one of the most powerfull H3O record ever composed. Super intense rythmic patterns dissolving in heavy drone and physical echoes of shocks. A masterpiece and an adventure at every listening.

A perfect compilation with excellent works by each of the artists, who show themselves at their best. Ritualistic, contemplative, kaleidoscopic, it is rare that a compilation reachs such a level of bliss.
Do yourself a favor and get a copy asap