POEME ELECTRONIQUE oh didnt we all dream of finding their only original 80's vinyl release, The Echoes Fade / VOICE 7 single (Carrere Records, 1982) some day? Well, most of us didnt and probably wont, and finding the members was equally hard, but thanks to J. Langes investigative nature (hey, youre great!),...

Die Selektion have been catering to your dark needs for a while, but whilst that is true, they havent really rang a bell over here. It seems like they faded away into the peripheral, as we were to busy with everything else. Since their latest release Gottes Wille was put out by aufnahme + wiedergabe...

"The second of January s new Polytechnic Youth releases is a 6 trk 7 EP of lo-fi, 4-track home recordings of minimal synth | primitive drum machine goodness. With heavy leanings towards PY s favourite era of killer small run, often private press experimental electronic releases, dressed in hand assembled,...

Located in The Netherlands Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen region, Danny Bosten originally operated Tear Apart Tapes between 1980 and 1985. In the 2010s, the cult artist, better known as Das Ding , revived the imprint, releasing new music as well as reissuing older material. In addition to cassettes, some of Tear...

Klirrfaktor is Berlin-based producer Hanno Leichtmann 's second release as Gesetz Der Oktaven, once again on Third Ear. Gesetz Der Oktaven is strongly influenced by 80's bands Liaisons Dangereuses, CH BB, and sporadically DAF but goes more in the direction of Techno and Electro. As before, the musical...

"German electronic producer Hanno Leichtmann describes his new Gesetz Der Oktaven project as being influenced by classic electronic dance artists such Liasons Dangereuses and DAF , and there s certainly a palpable EBM-centred feel to the five muscular tracks that comprise this debut 12 EP "Semen Contra"....

The Second of these last PY 45s sees a lovely 5 track 7 EP from Irish minimal synth musician ph Pete Hamilton , with 5 tracks from his finally acclaimed rich body of work in electronic music. From Dublin, Ireland, in 1982, ph emerged from the demise of the peridots lower case p that previously had arisen...

Boy Harsher sate demand for their early gear with a new edit of "Pain " , backed with a mean remix by The Soft Moon in deadly EBM post punk mood. The wickedly gaunt title cut from Boy Harsher 's sought-after 2nd EP is here nipped and tucked with classy back alley surgery for optimal drive and bite in...

Mannequin Records is elated to present a rare lost demo tape recording of Caroline K - real name Caroline Kaye Walters - founder member of Nocturnal Emissions , one of the best UK experimental/industrial music groups in the 1980's. When we asked Nigel Ayers about the possibility to press a small batch...

Dopplereffekts unparalleled timeline extends with Athanatos, their fourth release for Leisure System. Advancing the considerations of growth and decay as presented on their Cellular Automata LP, the duo Rudolf Klorzeiger and To-Nhan here explore genetic conditions and chromosomal influences defining...

Dark Entries returns to the New Jersey basement studio of Smersh to unearth an 18-minute jam session from 1989, backed with two contemporary remixes. Smersh was the duo of Mike Mangino and Chris Shepard from Piscataway, NJ who began making music together in 1978. They were uninterested in traditional...

The second release on Artefakt 's De Stijl expands the sound of the imprint introducing three new names to the catalog. The record ascends into a subterranean rave with Aphelions ' " Temple 7 " depicting a ritualistic gathering carved out in distorted analog transients, shimmering melodies and modulated...