Female
(Peripheral - PR014) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Angst-ridden experimental noise utilizing tape, field-recordings and various electronic sound generators. A true nightmare of epic proportions from Mattias Gustafsson. Edition of 250.
ANEMONE TUBE / DISSECTING TABLE
This Dismal World
(Peripheral - PR010) split LP $20.00
A concept album about the Four Noble Truths -- the central teachings of Buddhism explaining the nature of suffering -- using field recordings from a mausoleum and buddhist temples in China. Anemone Tube’s dark industrial epic conjures up a sinister, threatening atmosphere and crushing power-electronics. Dissecting Table’s monumental industrial track includes a recitation of the complete 25th Lotus Sutra, ritual drumming, diverse analogue treatments and deep growls. A threnody for today’s dejected world. Edition of 200 with insert.
Beauty
(Peripheral - PM6) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Soundtracks of human erosion, soul disgust, sorrow and violence and brilliance, and refusal. Hexes cast back harder and blacker, sublime and childlike and concrete and diamond. Special sleeve, insert. Edition of 99
Demonstro: 1982 - 1985
(Peripheral - PM5) CD $16.50
Twenty primordial tracks — rough outtakes and previously unreleased alternate versions — that burn with desperate intensity. Naked, savage and crudely abrasive, this era of Attrition was extremely minimal. A couple synth lines, some jarring percussion, Martin Bowes bellows, Julia Niblock rasps and wails. The pacing is manic, the production definitely shoe-string. No clever hooks, no catchy choruses. This is the bare bones skeleton of Attrition. The free-form electronic experimentation here predates their later refinements. Highlights include a demo of “Monkey in a Bin” and another take of “Mind Drop.”
Aeternum Aevum
(Peripheral - PR013) CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two long, slowly whirling pieces of ambience dedicated to the Conrad Schnitzler. Edition of 250.
DEAD BODY COLLECTION / THE RITA
SLC Engine Decima MAS b/w Amore, Morte, Amore
(Peripheral - PR017) split 7-inch $14.25
A terrifying odyssey into harsh noise by two of the world’s hardest hitters. Uncompromising walls of icy static that soothe and hurt. Edition of 200
Assassin
(Peripheral - PR015) LP $20.00
Six cuts of torrid, industrial drum machines and coruscating noise infiltrated by field recordings and ethereal samples, originally released on JFK / Artaman Tape in 1988. An impressionistic account of the assassination of Jackie Onassis’s first husband, as well as its implications and ramifications: the collective trauma and psychosis, the invasive cold war paranoia, rumours of shadow governments and the implied presence of the hidden, alien hand that guides and shapes human affairs to who-knows-what end. Our friends at Boomkat place this collaboration by Anthony DiFranco, David Padbury and Trevor Ward “somewhere between The New Blockaders and MB, and The Caretaker and Justin K Broderick, ribboning as it does from grinding machine rhythms and ferric-infused atmospheres to bombed-out dystopia and an excellent final collage of mulched news reportage, stray TV signals and greyscale drone apparitions.” Red vinyl. Edition of 300.
Sky Burial / Self
(Peripheral) split 10-inch $17.00
Haunting industrial ambience by Mike Page on one side (“Dis Manibus Sacrum”), made from the low hum of sound generators; black dark-ambience by John Balistreri on the flip (“Three Times Twenty Three”), evolving around lo-fi loops filtered through stomp boxes. Includes insert. Edition of 250.
I Will Bury You
(Peripheral - PR012) LP $20.00
(Peripheral - PR012) Used LP $14.00
Ten harsh bursts of brutal noise and monosyllabic vocal stabs, plus an extra track from John Balestreri’s darkly ambient side-project Self. With insert. Edition of 250
Highgate b/w Mysteries Of Chance
(Peripheral - PM2) split 7-inch $13.65
Highly infectious minimal synth wave. Clear vinyl. Edition of 250
Musique de l’Indifférence
(Peripheral) LP + CD $22.00
One continuous track of battering, unmoving and crude walled noise, spread across side one of the LP at 33rpm, then the CD, then the second side of the LP at 45rpm. Simultaneous play is also encouraged. Artwork by Strom_Varx. Edition of 350.