The latin origin of the word conclave translates to 'with key'. The music selected for this album is designed to unlock, by way of machine / human synthesis, ceremony previously hidden from public view. The Conclave, traditionally designed to introduce something important, is a tool of power and of powerful...

The promising Swedish gothrocker MONUMENT release their debut EP "Teeth & Tails", which offers traditional gothic rock at its best. Female vocals, dominant guitars, coated into the dark atmosphere of an early 80s gothrock release makes today's goth rocker's heart beat faster. The vision of Monument took...

George Scarlatos was the bass player and mainly the composer, of nearly every Magic De Spell 's song during the 80s. During the summer of 2011, while he was listening to an old cassette tape of Magic De Spell supporting The Fall at their 1982 concert in Sporting stadium, in order to find the track Crime...

Grab your white laboratory coat, pull out the RadioShack science kit, stick on that vhs copy of Dr Strangelove and enjoy these two beautiful, quintessentially english minimal wave tracks from synth pop duo Oppenheimer Analysis . " Science " and " Washington " are two marvellous and catchy treats that...

Staatsfeinde Dutch synth duo Staatseinde finally releases their debut EP on vinyl after two 7 s on Enfant Terrible they present this 6 track EP stripped down through the years from a band to a duo the sound also changed the songs on this EP are more up-tempo, louder, more beat orientated and also...

Norma Loy's UsherSan, who occasionally released music under different monikers, left important traces in my music collection. Of course, because you really must be completely devoid of a heart not to love Norma Loy and the brilliant DZ Lectric and Anthon Shield album Lickin, just to name two, not to...

The damn "Movida" ... The best that can be said of that phenomenon is that it was the starting point and the trigger of something else, of that movement that garnered not fame but was far more interesting musically and intellectually, although the glow of glamor went to the fatuous flames of superficiality....

Edition of 300 numbered copies. Hand silkscreened cover. It includes an insert (26,5x26,5 cm) and free download code. Mastered by Xavier Alarcón, 2015 . Doric is the alternate persona of the multitalented Stathis Leontiadis , mostly known as the one half of the Greek purists, Human Puppets . He is, without...

ZOS KIA was formed by John Gosling ( MEKON ), John Balance ( COIL ) and Min - with guest Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson ( THROBBING GRISTLE ). Their one and only album, Transparent, was released August 23rd 1983 in a cassette only edition on the now defunct Nekrophile label, Austria. They were the first...

Since 1983, Bow Gamelan Ensemble have inspired generations of artists with their radical practices and explosive performances. Charged with their individual virtuosity in performance art, avant-garde music and kinetic sculpture, their sound installations and performances are immersed in an orchestra...

... an experimental music duo formed in the UK in 1983, when school friends Clive Weston and Steve Lippert bought some very cheap instruments - a Casio SK-1 and a Casio VL-Tone. They also had a TV nearby and a cheap tape recorder. During the next couple of years they created about 10 tunes. Very very...

Noisy and cavernous post-punk, drawing on the likes of Rudimentary Peni, Amebix, Rikk Agnew's guitar work in Christian Death, and Killing Joke. It's dark and distorted, gothy but aggressive, and the opening salvo in a slew of music we hope to be hearing from these folks.