Cold, cold industrial music

That Liaisons Dangereuses album has been reissued

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_sAH2QGotE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTLFhT4uYo

I read that the term 'coldwave' was first used to describe Siouxie and the Banshees

Don't know how "cold" this is but this thread seems like a nice place to tout this press release I just received...

DAIS RECORDS TO RE-ISSUE U.S. INDUSTRIAL CLASSIC:
HUNTING LODGE - WILL
LP OUT MAY 26TH
FULLY RE-MASTERED TO IT'S ORIGINAL SONIC STANDARDS

During some brief encounters in 1981 behind the counter at Full Moon Records in Port Huron, Michigan, record store clerk (and member of local “industrial” band Hate/Grey) Lon Diehl started receiving tapes of self-made amp-noise, feedback and field recordings adorned with disturbing medical images entitled “Screw Machine” from regular customer Richard Skott. Instantly, Diehl and Skott struck up a friendship over their appreciation of Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Dome. During this time, Diehl was producing the music fanzine “Smarm”, but due to the sudden change of artistic direction and collaboration, both Diehl and Skott started a new imprint which would become the legendary S/M Operations, home to their new experimental/ industrial project Hunting Lodge.

Hunting Lodge’s initial foray into musical performance during the Summer of 1982 involved both members to enlist the assistance of Karl Nordstrom, while Nordstrom’s brother Thomas aided the band in their visual art realizations. Soon after, Hunting Lodge played their first show on September 9, 1982 at the now infamous Harrington Ballroom in Port Huron which was released as a private edition cassette that same year. After this performance, Hunting Lodge recorded their much-coveted 23 Minutes of Murder cassette, though soon thereafter Karl Nordstrom left the band, leaving the line up to consist of the original core two members.

Upon the request of Andreas Muller of the German label Datenverarbeitung to record extra material for the Exhumed cassette, Hunting Lodge started to regularly record material and in the coming months would pull together tracks that would become their first full-length album entitled Will. Drawing references from Crowley, Nietzsche and G. Gordon Liddy, Hunting Lodge collaged together industrial percussion patterns, live recordings, early sketches and synthesized noise into nine compositions which also included vocal appearances by Andreas Muller, Francisco Lopez and Masami Akita a.k.a. Merzbow. The final product would serve as a blueprint for later generations of industrial noise music and plant the influential seed for the years later Michigan noise output.

Dais Records is proud to release the official vinyl reissue of Hunting Lodge - Will. Fully remastered to its original sonic standards by Michael Rozon.

PRE-ORDER: Hunting Lodge - Will
http://shop.daisrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/hunting-lodge-will-lp

I wish they'd do a CD reissue. On Amazon the CD is going for $45.

Can we have tracks with guitars in this thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmCIOA9L-N0

(At least I think that's a guitar in there)

Even though it almost feels like springtime I've been listening to this stuff all afternoon because I found out that Twitch from Optimo is putting out a compilation of cold/minimal wave soon. Interview and mix here - http://thequietus.com/articles/19653-listen-jd-twitch-cold-wave-mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dn9_NvG-5o

Hard Corps - Je Suis Passee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1JVqA1AxoI

Insomnia twofer. Section 25 - Looking from a Hilltop

^ that is a jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNM2xGZRVJ0

Gesloten Cirkel is better known for making amazing techno but this has got a nice cold wave vibe about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56GkjyG2fzg

Minimal wave at its punkiest

I found out that Twitch from Optimo is putting out a compilation of cold/minimal wave soon. Interview and mix here - http://thequietus.com/articles/19653-listen-jd-twitch-cold-wave-mix

This is proper good and the artwork features a picture of what I believe is Cumbernauld's grim shopping centre. Brutalist as fuck

The compilation is called So Low by the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eKNwrRmNiQ

This is a cover of a John Bender song from that So Low compilation. I believe that Kubler-Ross is also Sparky, Glasgow techno don

yup, same artist. hopefully there will be a kubler-ross release of original music this year. he's also started doing it live as a three piece - synths, drums, vocals.

Simon Reynolds reviews a forthcoming compilation of UK experimental electronic music from the seventies and eighties. Looks good

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21653-close-to-the-noise-floor-formative-uk-electronica-1975-1984/

DISC ONE:
1. FIVE TIMES OF DUST – Computer Bank
2. THE KLINGONS – R.A.M.
3. CHRIS AND COSEY – Re-Education Through Labour
4. MALCOLM BROWN – Sedation Strokes
5. STORM BUGS – Little Bob Minor
6. THOMAS LEER – Tight As A Drum
7. BLANCMANGE – Holiday Camp
8. INNER CITY STATIC – Fractured Smile
9. WE BE ECHO – Sexuality
10. BOURBONESE QUALK – God With Us
11. NAGAMATZU Faith
12. O YUKI CONJUGATE – Disco Song
13. BRITISH ELECTRIC FOUNDATION – Optimum Chant
14. KEVIN HARRISON – All Night Long
15. VOICE OF AUTHORITY – Stopping And Starting

DISC TWO:
1. COLIN POTTER – I Am Your Shadow
2. BRITISH STANDARD UNIT – D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?
3. FIVE TIMES OF DUST – The Single Off The Album
4. SPÖÖN FAZER – Back To The Beginning
5. GERRY AND THE HOLOGRAMS – Gerry And The Holograms
6. THE PASSAGE – Drugface
7. JOHN FOXX – A New Kind Of Man
8. 100% MANMADE FIBRE – Green For Go
9. THOSE LITTLE ALIENS – Sentimental
10. FINAL PROGRAM – Protect And Survive
11. THE HUMAN LEAGUE – Being Boiled
12. INSTANT AUTOMATONS – New Muzak
13. CULTURAL AMNESIA – Materialistic Man
14. WORLDBACKWARDS – (Leaving Me) Now
15. ALAN BURNHAM – Music To Save The World By
16. ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK – Almost
17. EYELESS IN GAZA – Kodak Ghosts Run Amok
18. SCHLEIMER K – Broken Vein
19. NATIVE EUROPE – The Distance From Köln

DISC THREE:
1. ZORCH – Adrenalin (Return of the Elohim Pt 1)
2. SEA OF WIRES – Robot Dance
3. RON BERRY – Sea Of Tranquility
4. MFH – Mistral
5. ADRIAN SMITH – Joe Goes To New York
6. MARK SHREEVE – Embryo (Extract)
7. EG OBLIQUE GRAPH – Triptych
8. CARL MATTHEWS – Encounter
9. PAUL NAGLE – Ynys Scaith
10. O YUKI CONJUGATE – Sedation
11. KONSTRUKTIVIST – Western Vein
12. ATTRITION – Dead Of Night (Excerpt)

DISC FOUR:
1. THROBBING GRISTLE – What A Day
2. A TENT – No Way Of Knowing
3. PORTION CONTROL – Go For The Throat
4. DC3 – Eco Beat
5. RENALDO AND THE LOAF – Dying Inside
6. BLAH BLAH BLAH – In The Army
7. LEGENDARY PINK DOTS – God Speed
8. MUSLIMGAUZE – Muslin Gauze Muslim Prayer
9. SUISSE – Live At Longborne
10. ALIEN BRAINS – Menial Disorders, Extract B2
11. STORM BUGS – Himeal (And She Blew)
12. THIRD DOOR FROM THE LEFT – In The Room
13. AL ROBERTSON – Dignity Of Labour
14. bcGilbert, gLewis, russell Mills – Mzui (Extract)

saw this a few days ago, trying to not impulse buy it

Gerry and the Holograms!!!

I thought they were Japanese and not from the UK.

They're from Manchester. I think all the Absurd records were Manchester bands.

so was it a UK person doing a Japanese accent then?

I don't remember it sounding japanese, just like a dalek or something. Been a while though!

there was the r/l thing going on in the vocals that I associate with Japanese English speech -- like it sounds like "Jelly and the ..." not "Jerry" ...

it was two members of Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias

yay Hybrid Kids! Hopefully that's the single mix of "D’Ya Think I’m Sexy?"

cold, industrial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqajweKCWos

that comp sounds good

possibly not the coldest industrial-est track there but I only know Kevin Harrison's "Fly" single and am very keen to hear more (a quick Google says his 1981 LP was reissued too so I guess I should get on that)

that comp looks awesome and except for like being boiled or whatever totally not your standard batch of tracks. i would buy it if i saw it. and it wasn't a zillion dollars.

Kevin Harrison has tons of stuff going back to the quite fun band Urge and lots of cool stuff on Glass records now getting re-released via bandcamp Glass. History and samples here:

http://www.marzimprint.co.uk/

he's also on facebook of course.

Hmm comp is on Cherry Red which probably means dubious sound quality and incorrect tracks but will also probably be cheap.

Thanks Dan! Will check out all the samples/bandcamps.

(Glass Records Redux sites for anyone else interested, seeing as it took me marginally more than the obvious 3 seconds of Googling: digital at https://glassredux.bandcamp.com/ and CDs at http://glassrecordsredux.bigcartel.com/)

there was the r/l thing going on in the vocals that I associate with Japanese English speech -- like it sounds like "Jelly and the ..." not "Jerry" ...

this is def a thing with some British accents (see: Edward Ka-Spel); the vocal treatments probably help emphasize that effect too

Yeah I relistened to that song (because it seemed really bizarre that someone could think they were doing Japanese accents) and yeah I think it's just a NW English accent, I think there's a more gritted teeth mouth position (NB not a linguist) to the R sound that's all.

Ol' Gerry's getting a whole lot of reissue treatment:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-So-Low-Remixes-/release/8318172 being a remix of the eponymous track..

https://www.discogs.com/Various-So-Low-/master/973389 A Different comp (the 7" version)

https://www.discogs.com/Gerry-And-The-Holograms-The-Emperors-New-Music/release/8407728 The other single..

Yeah I relistened to that song (because it seemed really bizarre that someone could think they were doing Japanese accents) and yeah I think it's just a NW English accent, I think there's a more gritted teeth mouth position (NB not a linguist) to the R sound that's all.

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, May 4, 2016 12:12 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Back whenever, I thought it sounded a bit like Genesis (Gabriel days), but then what do I know..?

Really like this 2016 single, recommended for fans of Portishead's "Machine Gun":

These Hidden Hands feat. Lucrecia Dalt - These Moments Dismantled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDOUHXVelok

Fantastic mix from Helena Hauff. HER VOICE IS EXACTLY LIKE I IMAGINED IT WOULD BE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08gwqy7

1. Le Chocolat Noir - Voyage d'Esprit (CHARLOIS)
2. Ceci N'est Pas - The Last Time (ELECTRONIC EMEGENCIES)
3. Minny Pops - Time (FACTORY BENELUX)
4. Skanfrom - British Cottages (SUCTION RECORDS)
5. Hyperkut - Elevator Without Exit (AEROBIC AUDIO)
6. Pankow - Gimme More (Much More) (CONTEMPO RECORDS)
7. Zarkoff & Cyborgs on Crack - Penalty For Violation (RETURN TO DISORDER)
8. Amato - The Labyrinth (CITITRAX)
9. Silent Servant - Speed & Violence (CITITRAX)
10. Drinking Electricity - Breakout (SURVIVAL RECORDS)
11. GNR - Bar Da Morgue (VALENTIM DE CARVALHO)
12. Children Of Lier - Sirene (SIMULATIONS)
13. Chris Carter - Beat (MUTE)
14. Glamour Cult - Afterglow (TABLE THIRTY)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpR-wY56I1g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZlBKXi82Fs

Not sure where to put this, but there's been some good EBM/industrial revival lately.

that last post with Helena Hauff’s mix tracklist reminds me: I ended up listening to a couple Cititrax compilation eps a while back and they were definitely my shit

Loving this band rn, female vocals over unholy clanking beats

http://hide3.bandcamp.com/album/castration-anxiety

A SOUND THAT BOTH PUNISHES AND EMPOWERS

bless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KU2v-Z1m4A

I can recommend the debut album from De Ambassade if you're in the mood for some minimal wave type music that sounds a lot like it was made in the Low Countries about 25 years ago. Just in time for winter too.

yes, it is fab. 10/10

yep

I am always in that mood tbf

15. VOICE OF AUTHORITY – Stopping And Starting

give the VOA album back to adrian ya bastards so he can remaster it and make it sound the way it should !

(its one of my fave on-u albums, but cherry red have this and a few others when adrian needed ££ to keep things going)

xxxp I only heard about that because it was an Optimo album of the month at Monorail, so ta

yr welcome.

would follow. I’ve posted about similar things in that vein across a half dozen threads because I wasn’t sure a new thread would take off

I love that stuff but have no way to know what's new and worthwhile. Every once in a while I remember to do an "ebm" search on Bandcamp and buy a few things, but a thread would be great.

for your EBM and industrial techno needs

Soul Jazz have a new comp out next month that's looking good

'Soul Jazz Records new ‘Cold Wave’ is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s.

This is the first release of Soul Jazz Records’ new Cold Wave overview and a second volume will be released just four weeks later.

This first edition of Cold Wave comes in two vinyl editions – a one-off pressing orange coloured vinyl edition and a black vinyl edition. Both come as heavyweight double vinyl housed in bespoke individual inner sleeves and the limited edition first pressing of this album comes with its own free pull-out fanzine on the groups featured. The CD edition comes with artist booklet/fanzine and slipcase. All editions are printed in special dayglo colour finish.

These first artists created new electronic musical landscapes as well as pursuing a stubborn D-I-Y aesthetic, often releasing material on cassette and pioneering use of lo-fi technology, primitive drum machines and home-recording techniques. As part of this continued evolution today many of the artists featured here also self-release their own material, run labels, publish fanzines, or are part of wider musical collectives.

Aside from the first electronic, no wave, and post-punk artists cited as influences –Suicide, Patrick Cowley, The Normal, Martin Hannett, Laurie Anderson, Public Image – this new generation of artists also show an exquisitely open source of electronic and disparate influences, everything from Underground Resistance to Purcell, from Scientist to New Beat and more besides.

Most of the featured artists are based in Europe and include Krikor, Dissemblance and VQOA from France, De Ambassade from the Netherlands, Moisture from Sweden, Kriedler from Germany, Céline Gillain and Carcass Identity from Belgium. One exception is FIT Siegel out of Detroit, connecting the electronic pathways of Europe to the Motor City.

All of the bands featured here make distinctive contemporary music out of the 80s roots of the first cold wave movement.'

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/cold-wave