Wool-E Shop: News

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(29/08/11)

Expected in stock on wednesday: ASP - Wechselbal MCD, Birthday Massacre - Imaginary Monsters MCD, Brighter Death Now - Very Little Fun 3CD, Diary Of Dreams - EGO:X, Eisenfunk - Pentafunk CD, Jäger 90 - Fleisch Macht Böse CD, Merciful Nuns - Infinite Visions DVD/CD, Placebo Effect - Gargoyles & Galleries CD, Project Pitchfork - Quantum Mechanics, Santa Hates You - Jolly Roger CD, Sopor Aeternus - Have You Seen This Ghost CD, Vic Anselmo - In My Fragile CD, Simon Hinkler - Loose The Faith CD, Blood Axis - Ultimacy CD, Death In June - Nada! Plus 2CD/DVD and more....

(10/08/11)

Het verven is gedaan, een deel van de kasten is ineen gevezen en er is licht, maw we kunnen open gaan (voor even) Vandaag terug een normale woensdag-opening tussen 11.00 & 19.00.

The painting is done, a portion of the cabinets is screwed together and there is light, ie we can open ( for a little while) Today once again a normal Wednesday-opening between 11.00 & 19.00.

Lots of stuff that's still in boxes will gradually be available in the shop today. So be shure to come around ;o)

It will also be put gradually on the site :D

(04/08/11)

This month we'll be at least open every wednesday that's still left in August :o)
10, 17, 24 & 31 August from 11.00 till 19.00!!!
Maybe other days will be added, but that depends on how we progress in refurbishing the shop.
Fase 1 Electricity has been done
Now all the rest :D

(30/07/11)

Today open between 12.00 & 18.00!!!
Last chance to check the sales!!!!

Next wednesday we'll be closed for a quick paintjob.
Check the site next week thursday for the openinghours in August!!!

(17/07/11)

Last chance to get your hardcopy Shadowplay tickets (weekend- or sunday-tickets) this wednesday 20/07 between 11.00 & 19.00 at the shop or at appointment on other days this week.

Openinghours for the rest of the month:

Wednesday 20/07 - 11.00 to 19.00
Wednesday 27/07 - 11.00 to 19.00
Saturday     30/07 - 12.00 to 18.00

During August the shop will be renewed (read: painted and doing a permanent job). We'll be open during this chaotic times. The opening hours will be revealed by the end of July.

In other news: The Minimal/Maximal-label has been revived.
First release will be the vinyl version of the two latest Absolute Body Control remix EP's.

ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL - LP "MINDLESS INTRUSION“
Out on MINIMAL/MAXIMAL - Releasedate 1 August 2011
In a limited edition of 520 handnumbered copies, 180 gramm vinyl, no re- press !!
A collection of remixes and unreleased material, original versions can be found on the latest album "Shattered Illusion".
Produced by Belgium electro pioneers DIRK IVENS and ERIC VAN WONTERGHEM

    Tracklisting :

    A1. INTO THE LIGHT                             - Beat-less version

    A2. SORROW                                         - Daniel Myer mix

    A3. SATURNIA CALLING                      - (Unreleased)

    A4. SORROW                                         - Trisomie 21 mix

    A5. SHATTERED ILLUSION                  - Monolith mix

    B1. SURRENDER , NO RESISTANCE - Crash Course in Science Mix

    B2. FEELS LIKE LOVE                          - (Coverversion of a Luc Van Acker track)

    B3. SURRENDER , NO RESISTANCE   - Covenant Mix

    B4. TEARS                                              - (Unreleased)

    B5. TALKING TO THE MEN                   - Amictric Mix

We accept your pre-orders now.

Minimal Maximal 003 Absolute Body Control

Minimal Maximal 003 Absolute Body Control

(28/06/11)

Saturday 02/07 will be the first day of Wool-E's summersales, find CD's and vinyl at discounts till 50% (only in the shop, not online or anywhere else!! Want to profit from the sales? Come to the shop!!
This saturday there's also the annual flea-market, find hundreds of second hand vinyls and CD's at 1,2,4 or 5 euros!!

Openinghours for this week:

Wednesday 29/06 - 11.00 to 19.00
Saturday 02/07 - 10.00 to 18.00

(13/06/11)

Due to a change in our agenda's Wool-E Shop will be open on saturday 18/06/11 (12.00 to 19.00) next to the weekly wednesday opening.

Schedule for the next weeks:

Wednesday 15/06 - 11.00 to 19.00
Saturday 18/06 - 12.00 to 19.00
Wednesday 22/06 - 11.00 to 19.00
Wednesday 29/06 - 11.00 to 19.00
Saturday 02/07 - 10.00 to 18.00

(27/05/11)

Wool-E Shop will exceptionally be open this Saturday (28/05/11) between 12.00 & 17.00 (tomorrow that is)
Next Saturday-opening will be on July 2nd (10.00 to 18.00) during the annual Fleamarket

(18/05/11)

From today we'll be open every wednesday from 11.00 till 19.00
(All other days are still on appointment)
The shop is still located at Lossystraat 17, 9040 Gent (St Amandsberg)

Here are some pics:

Wool-E Shop

(14/05/11)

A Message from OnderStroom Records:

"Due to a pressing error on LP1 the Snowy Red 5xLP box is delayed for three weeks. Estimated shipping time is now the 10th of June. Polar Praxis LP and Neon Judgment CD are ready to ship at the end of next week."

(11/05/11)

Doesn't Murphy work in predictable ways?
Just sent out newsletter with a small update and there is the postman with a large packet. Oh well head over to the catalog-page quick :o)

(05/05/11)

From 18th of May Wool-E Shop will take it's first steps into becoming a real store, one you can come in to listen to records, to feel them, touch them and even smell them (if you're into that kinda stuff - you know who are). We'll be open on wednesday from 11h till 19h. Every wednesday that is, untill further notice.
All the other days we're open on appointment, if we're not somewhere else with the Wool-E Stand.

You probably already heard the buzz about The Exploding Boy. In 2009 they were on top of almost every reviewer's list at Dark Entries magazine with their "Afterglow" album. It landed them a spot on the 2010 Gothic festival. And now almost 2 years later there's finally a new album, very appropiately called "The Black album".
To let you taste of what's coming they already released a download only 3-song EP "The Human EP" and some youtube clips.

The official releasedate of the album is 20th May and we are offering it at a special pice of 8€. Yes you read it right: 8€
This price will remain untill the gig with SX at 't Kompas on the 3rd of June, after the price will go up to normal.
We are taking pre-orders now.
Pre-order it and get it at this very low special price.

And while we're at it why not plug another very good band from our stock: Denner.
Watch their selfmade video for one of the tracks from their exellent album

(23/04/11)

Three new releases coming soon on OnderStroom. Expected mid May!

    * An Ultimate Edition box of Snowy Red 70€ (5LP Box!!! CD version will probably come later)=> For tracklisting, see entry of 23/03/11
    * CD version of the Early Tapes by Neon Judgement 15€
    * Re-issue of Music For Fireworks by Polar Praxis on coloured vinyl. 17€

We accept your pre-orders now.
As with the VOD releases we ask payment in advance for the Snowy Red box.!!

(21/04/11)

Peek-a-boo is a quarterly magazine and has been accomplished as a result of the combined efforts of:

The Black Cave (Waregem, West-Flanders)
Body Beats Productions (Antwerp, Antwerp)
Bunkerleute (Leuven, Flemish-Brabant)
Le Fantastique (Brussels, Brussels)
New-Wave-Classix (Ghent, East-Flanders)
Wool-E Shop (Ghent, East-Flanders)

The main purpose was to create a new kind of magazine, free of charge, with integrated information around upcoming events, interesting CD reviews, interviews as well as an overview of flyers/events of several organisations.
The magazine will be distributed on various parties & concerts all over Europe but of course, our focus lies on our own Belgian underground scene!
From this starting point, peek-a-boo has decided to evolve also to an online magazine, with even more extended information, calendar, CD reviews, interviews and photo shoots.
http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be
We hope you'll enjoy our efforts !
The Peek-a-Boo team!

peek a boo

(20/04/11)

6 new Releases out on VOD-Records beginning of May.
We accept your pre-orders now. Mind you, since it's such a big load of stuff that will all come in one go, we ask for payment when ordered, or at least a downpayment.

- TARA CROSS 4LP,

- VAN KAYE + IGNIT 5LP

- M.A.L. 1LP,

- PSYCHE 3LP/7”/DVD

- FOCKEWULF 190 2LP

- ATTRITION 2Lp

VOD85: TARA CROSS „Tara Cross 1982-89“ 4LP-Box 65 €

Box incl. Spurt Ditties (1982); Waiting for the War (1983); Concocting Chaos (83); Collaboration-Tracks with Unovidual; Searchlight & Torch (84, with Stefan Tischler of Port Said); Limelight (85); Compilation-Tracks 83-89, Tempus Fugit (88)

Excellent wide-ranging minimal/synth & Wave-tunes by one of the most outstanding female artists in the 80’s cassette-culture and wave/underground releasing a total of 4 Tapes, one Lp and contributing to numerous Cassette- and Vinyl-compilation.

Tara Cross was always exposed to music as a child.Her family, being second generation in the United States from Ireland, kept their roots by filling the household with lots of Irish and American music. Her father was a great singer and an admirer of Bing Crosby and Perry Como. Tara's interest in music awakes at age 13, when she begins to play the guitar. She studies at Hunter College of New York, where she majors in Music and Psychology, yet she decides not to pursue her musical studies in an academic institution, since her primary interest is centered in the performing arts.. Despite the opposition of her family, she devotes her time to her musical career while keeping a full time job in the corporate world. Her jobs ranged from secretary, typist, microfilm supervisor, librarian, magazine publishing company, etc. Tara is the first of six children and needed to help with family finances. In the late 70's and early 80's she moves from Brooklyn into the ! "village" in Manhattan, the center of the art scene in NY, forms punk rock bands and later goes onto experimenting with an Electro-Harmonix mini synthesizer and a primitive drum box. She develops her efforts into a very unconventional, experimental kind of music. In the early to mid 80's, she herself produces, composes and performs her own works, acts as her own public relations, takes care of the administrative and secretarial work, etc, She works mainly at first with cassettes, later going onto reel to reel 4 track, then 8 track, recording everything at home and releasing it worldwide. In 1997. she opens a hair salon, getting out of the corporate environment, called Le Chandelier Salon. As a musician, she considers herself as some sort of sound structurer who experiments with sound the same way as a painter would experiment with colors.

VOD86: VAN KAYE + IGNIT „Anthology 1980-85“ 5LP 75 €

Great, fantastic Minimal-Synth-Tracks from legendary dutch duo Van Kaye and Ignit. Van Kaye alias Ed Van Kasteren (studying history of the arts and being singer of Monomen in the late 70’s) and Ignit Bekken (performing artist, painter and studiying to become an art-teacher) meet in early 1980 and started woking and experimenting with synthesisers. The result was the minimal/synth-classic and highly sought-after Tapes 'A Slight Delay' and "With a Little Help" which they distributed and pubslihed through their own Ding Dong Discs label. Another ex-Monoman, William Wiusselink alias "Wizzkopf", joined the project in 1982 VK&I did run the famous record-label Ding Dong Records & Tapes which published beautifully designed releases of Independent/Wave-artists such as Legendary Pink Dots, Bene Gesserit, Anne Gillis and many more incl. the All-Time-Classic-Must-Have-Co! mpilation „Film Noir“. This Box includes both Tapes „A Slight Delay“ (as 8-Track Demo an 11-Track original Release) and „With a little help“ as well as the ultra-rare "Picasso on the Wall 7“-Tracks, 17 compilation-contributions from 1981-85 (incl. the Radionome-Tracks), 7 unreleased-Tracks/Demos recorded between 80-85 and a 30 minute Live-Concert held in Rotterdam 1983.

VOD87: M.A.L. „The M.A.L.-Tapes“ LP 16 €

One side full of great Minimal/Synth-Tracks from his early 80’s Tapes „Chemistry“, „Two Faces“ and „Outlaw“ on labels like Grafika Airline and Insane Music; the other side with two mind-blowing and -opening electric-guitar-tracks from 1971-74 which will definately touch your consciousness for music-history and hopefully help re-writing it. Alain Neffe of Pseudo Code / Bene Gesserit (Insane Music) participated on two of the pieces. M.A.L.'s cassettes have been remastered in superb sound quality by Anders Peterson almost 40 years after it was recorded for the first time.

VOD88: PSYCHE „Insomnia Theatre - 83-86 3LP-Box with DVD/7“ 55 €

It all started sometime at the dawn of the 80s by two Canadian brothers, Darrin and Stephen Huss while living with their parents in Edmonton, Alberta.

The first and only synthesizer based act in our whole region, we were joined by third member Dwayne Goettel and subsequently formed the band PSYCHE.

A combination of horror and electronics that in the area of Western Canada was completely unheard of and would continue to be considered quite shocking until the music finally caught on. By the time of our highlight performance as support to Britain's ALIEN SEX FIEND in 1984, PSYCHE had lost Dwayne as a member, but with several songs on file, and a number of performances under our belts, we persevered.

PSYCHE started out with a Mattel Synsonics, a little black square that had 4 drum pads (to be heard clearly on Wrench II). The Dr. Rhythm Drum Machine followed, and until we upgraded to the DR. 110 we were recording & performing with our basic set-up of Korg Mono/Poly, Sequential Circuits Pro One, Davolisant String synthesizer, and Dr. Rhythm with which our entire legendary Halloween 1983 performance "Live At Belevedere Hall" was created. It is a small recording wonder that this cassette remains preserved to this day after travelling from Canada throughout Europe, and back again. This entire concert remains one of the most intriguing, and fascinating listens since it was performed, and after a limited CD-R release, several highlights of this, and all other demo recordings from this time appear remastered to vinyl along with our everlasting debut album "Insomnia Theatre". Available once again in it's original format for the first time since it was ! released, and sold out in 1985.

When the Huss family moved to Waterloo, Ontario, Darrin and Stephen took time out from their school work to lay down what would become this official debut album of PSYCHE's music. With fearlessly experimental electro-titles such as "Children Carry Knives", "Psychic Vampire", "Maggots", and "The Brain Collapses". Under the disguised names Evan Panic (Darrin), and Anthony Red (Stephen) PSYCHE, with release on hand prepared themselves for a proper onslaught on the further unsuspecting Canadian audience, and the rest of the world.

This 3 album edition of "Insomnia Theatre" also contains the 4-Track recordings while Dwayne was a member, as well as several rare direct to cassette demos, the tracks of "Tales From The Darkside", as well as our now collectable 12" of "Thundershowers". Plus the monumental "Unveiling The Secret" appears in it's album version to round out the complete vision of PSYCHE's early beginnings from 1983 up to this 1986 breakthrough club hit!

We are proud to present you this deluxe audio experience just over 25 years since we began creating this music for generations to come.

Listen, cherish, relive, and pass it on.

"Insomnia Theatre" Promo video.

VOD89: FOCKEWULF 190 „Microcosmos 1981-1986“ 2LP 23 €

Suberb Synth- and Wave-tunes of Fockewulf 190 incl. the two Italo-Disco-Classic 12“ Body Heat and Gitano plus more demos and so far unreleased treasures like Orient „Express“ collected from the archive of Victor Life

Victor once stated: The Fockewulf 190 project was created as a shape equal to a substance, experimental analogyc electronic music connected to the theatrical and mimic power of rock and the romantic and esthetic force of the electronic dance of thr 80s.We translated those expressive channels with the force of a psychedelic mind folded into a magic and evocative world, an profound research into ourselves. This personal and futuristic mistycism originated the dark side of italo disco .

The publishing ,25 years later, of what should have been our first album in 1986, "Microsmos", shines a light on the sonic creativity of the Fw 190, also because it's a record composed only by simple original demos; something pure and synthetic, uncontamined by commercial compromises.

VOD90: ATTRITION „Demonstro 1981-1986“ 2LP 23 €

Slices of Attrition's earliest existence. A Double-Lp with previously unreleased, rare and demo recordings from the earliest days on Third mind records and beyond. From the initial post punk line up to the early experiments with analogue electronics in the bands fledgling home studio. Rescued from forgotten cassette mixes and 4 track tapes, restored and remastered by Martin Bowes, including sleeve notes by Third Mind's Gary levermore, unreleased photos and artwork and available for the first time on vinyl

(06/04/11)

Seems we're only speaking gigs in the last newsupdates :D
Anyway here's a new one:
While we wait eagerly for the Vylies EP and the Living Tapes delivery with Mater Suspiria Vision vinyl & Neud Photo & SURVIVE tapes to arrive The Black Cave has added a Friday the 13th gig to their roster @ De Kreun in Kortrijk with Sonar, Spectra*Paris, Mildreda & Der Klinke.

(04/04/11)

Wool-E Shop will not be part of the Project Pitchfork-gig in Edma, Vorselaar.
No communication at all. A simple answer to our mails with yes or no would have done wonders!!

Nevertheless there's good news also: mark 8th October in your agendas; because then there will be the second part of Body Farm (30 Years Parade Ground), this time at L'Orangerie of the Botanique in Brussels with none other then the pre-Front 242 projects Underviewer (JL De Meyer & Patrick Codenys) & Prothese (aka Daniel B- together with Dirk Bergen performing as Nothing But Noise), but also Dive, Morpheus Secrets (aka Minimal Compact Redux) and of course Parade Ground + guests & Tzii. With afterparty by DJ Borg.

1 new name added to the Shadowplay line-up: Agonoize

(01/04/11)

Due to circumstances the location of the Sudeten Crèche-gig in Antwerp on 16th April has changed:
It will now take place at JC Den Eglantier - Zillbekelaan 6 - 2600 Berchem (a few minutes walk from Berchem Station).
This is no April-foolsday-joke!!!
I hope to see you all there.

(31/03/11)

Live-updates: The Soft Moon gig on 14th May in Gent is cancelled, that day they will be playing Amsterdam. The tour is not cancelled as far as we know, they still will be playing Italy, Spain, Germany, France, UK & Holland. For the complete tourdates check The Soft Moon Facebook page.

Cold Cave in De Kreun, Kortrijk on 6th April has been added to our ongoing list of Wool-E Shop outtings :D See us there with a small recordstall from 20:00 onwards.

Antwerp's being very busy on the front of minimal-gigs these days: 11th June Kavka will be the place to be for Daybed, Newclear Waves aka our Italian pal from Mannequin Mailorder and French 80's (or was it 2008?) mysteryband Violence Conjugal.

(23/03/11)

Tracklist for upcoming Snowy Red box revealed. The boxes themselves will be released somewhere in May.

CD/Vinyl #1 - SNOWY RED 1. How Funny Are These Explosions 2. Don't Loose Control 3. Still Human? 4. Maud Is Dead 5. Deep Desire 6. The Wild Boys 7. Sinking Down 8. Baby Tonight 9. Blood, Blood, Blood 10. Come On Dance
CD/Vinyl #2 - SNOWY RED - THE DEMO TAPE 1. Sinking Down 2. Blood Blood Blood 3. Maud Is Dead 4. Movin' In Twilight (Deep Desire - early version) 5. Wait For Me (Still Human? - early version) 6. Don't Loose Control 7. The Wild Boys
CD/Vinyl #3 - THE RIGHT TO DIE 1. Euroshima (Wardance) 2. Going Nowhere 3. I'm Hurt 4. Never Alive 5. Relax 6. Opium 7. Lies In Your Eyes 8. Madman 9. The Right To Die
CD/Vinyl #4 - B-sides, Unreleased & Demos 1. Breakdown 2. So Low 3. Breakdown (alternate take) 4. Breakdown (instrumental) 5. Red Skies (unreleased track) 6. Lies In Your Eyes (early version) 7. Megadeath (I'm Hurt b-side) 8. Psychoscratch (The Long Run b-side) 9. Back In My Room (from Walking After Midnight) 10. Reputation (demo version) 11. The Long Run (demo version) 12. Torpedo Good Luck (demo version)
CD/Vinyl #5 - VISION 1. The Long Run 2. Reputation 3. Breakdown 4. Sayonara 5. Back To Reputation 6. Torn Curtain 7. Frail Memories 8. Torpedo Good Luck 9. Vision In Cairo

(22/03/11)

In stock soon, the brand new Wierd release by Staccato Du Mal. You already bought the 7" en masse, now it's time to do the same for the full-length. Here's a nice preview.

Staccato du Mal - Solo Baila Sola from WIERD Records on Vimeo.

Today we recieved a huge box from Infrastition: "Cryopack- Cryogénisation Report" 4CD has finally arrived. All 4 tapes that Yves Royer, singer of Guerre Froide, released on his own label Cryogénisation Report in the 80's: two Guerre Froide tapes, one by industrial cold wave sideproject Gegenacht and one from post-Guerre Froide project Pour L'Exemple. All restored and remastered for CD. Released in the same way as the original tapes were in the 80's: in a brown postal envelope. In the case of Pour L'Exemple also the Flashbacks Futurs tracks from the sole 12" and the "E Pericoloso..." tape from '92 are added.

For those people who thought Editors went too electronic on their last album here's The Chapman Family (Myspace) postpunk back to its roots with even a little noisy shoegaze element in the mix.

Who thought Neo-Folk started with Death In June should check this out:

Taken from Cromagnon's 1969 Cave Rock album. Now in stock.

(16/03/11)

3 new releases in stock:

Brand new Belgian label Testtoon Records brings us their first release Terra Incognita LP by Oubys. Experimental dronish ambient, depending on what track you're listening to ;o)
Here's what U-Cover has to say about it:
"Terra_Incognita by Oubys is the first release on the new Belgian label Testtoon Records. Following up on his two acclaimed CDr releases on the U-Cover label, Oubys Terra_Incognita vinyl release delves into even more vast territory. Essentially an exploration of different spaces and different modes of energy, Terra_Incognita uses a distinctly analogue production and mastering design
to lure the listener into a trance-like lullaby, a hypnotic state of altered consciousness if you will. At the same time though, the music plays with a direct expression of organic elements, earthing the listening experience, thus giving it a solid base. The sound of the album should be felt, should be lived. At maximum volume or at low volume, the experience is one of a beautiful paradox. A continous counterpoint of energy materializing and matter being transformed into energy. Mellow washes alternate with sharp, almost piercing sounds, deep sub-tones alternate with hiss. Oubys intention is to confront and subdue, to make space be felt and to translate and transmit energy."

(T)Reue Um (T)Reue are doing their very best this year to release on a regular basis. This time it's a full length by Fiendish Fib and a 12" by their spacy italo disco offshoot France.
For audiosamples check the respective pages on the TUTRUR site: Fiendish Fib or France

(15/03/11)

7 more names for the Shadowplay Fest:

THE MARCH VIOLETS - CRANES - FIXMER / MC CARTHY
LOVE LIKE BLOOD - A SPLIT SECOND - PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE (best of show) - LIZARD SMILE

Making it thusfar 17 names

More info soon at http://www.shadowplayfestival.be/

The Fischer-Z/Bollock Brothers Gig at Vooruit on 15/04 is sold out, but no worries New Wave Classix announced a new gig with Godfathers & De Brassers for all your pleasures on 26/06 also at Vooruit

And some minimal news: Greek label Geheimnis Records will reissue The Vyllies 12" EP 27 years after its initial release.
We're looking out for that one. yummie :o)

(05/03/11)

3 new names for the Shadowplay Festival in Kortrijk (former GothicFestival Waregem):

DIARY OF DREAMS - BLOODY DEAD AND SEXY - NTRSN

(04/03/11)

People have been mailing me for Porta Nigra tickets. I do indeed sell Porta Nigra tickets for the gig at JH Klinker in Aarschot, but only at gigs, fairs & in my own shop at home, NOT ONLINE!!!

For online tickets and payments in other means then cash please mail to info@portanigra.be

(01/03/11)

22nd/23rd/24th of July 2011 - XPO Kortrijk - Belgium

SHADOWPLAY is the sequel of 5 years GOTHIC FESTIVAL in Belgium!

(15/02/11)

A new Spanish minimal/coldwave reissuelabel came to life in 2011: Domestica
Take a look at their youtube-chanel for what they're up to in the coming months.

And finally out on 28th February on Mannequin: Mushy CD & LP

(11/02/11)

News from Infrastition
The first release of the year is the Cryopack, 4 cd gathering the works of Guerre Froide, Gegenacht and Pour l’Exemple released on the Cryogenisation Report tape label between 1980 and 1986, backed with Pour l’Exemple complete works, a booklet with the label aesthetic and a badge, the whole in a brow enveloppe numered to less than 500 copies...

Soft Moon will play at the Charlatan in Gent on 14 May in an organization of Democrazy.

Now taking pre-orders for the new Vinyl-On-Demand-Boxes:
VOD82: Various Artists “German Punk and Wave 78-84 Vol1” 5Lp/10”-Box 75€
(with PVC, White Russia, No More, Didaktische Einheit, Die Werkpiloten, Off Band, Poison Dwarfs, MDK, Din A Testbild, Funtastiklons, Die Gesunden)
VOD83: PSYCHIC TV with White Stains “at Stockholm plus Jarman Themes / Live New York 17-11-83 plus Unclean and unreleased rarities “ 4LP 67€
VOD84: LAIBACH „Gesamtkunstwerk - Dokument 81-87“ 5Lp-Box 89€

(09/02/11)

The Sopor Aeternus vinylsets are now sold out in pre-order!!

The new Martial Canterel CD/LP "You Today" is in stock!! To prepare you all for the various wild intricacies and complexities of You Today Wierd has a retrospective of Sean's early releases dating back to 2003 available for free download over on the 'News' page of their website. Included here are several Very Rare gems, including two trax from the long deleted Austerton LP, a track from the ultra limited, self-released CDR Coercion, and an unreleased track from Moravagine, Sean's alias before Martial Canterel.:
http://www.wierdrecords.com/news/index.htm

The entire new album is streaming online for your listening pleasure over at Spinner.com, enjoy!
http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/11

Coming soon (April) on Mauerstadtmusik

MAUERSTADTMUSIK 08. International Compilation 1980 - 1987

Tracklist:

Mutter - Es Ist Dein Problem (Rauchhaus, West-Berlin'87)
Baader Pop Gruppe - Krieg Und Leichen (Kalkulator Vers.)
Rob Van Wijngaarden - Boule
Spotch Forcey - On Descend
Voice Patrol - You Could Be So Cruel
Beerdigung - Gedanken Sind Frei
De Brassers - Kontrole (Live, Levend Tape'81)
Stigma - Last Japan Dream
DDAA - Bacterial Voice Epidem
Menn - Snigill5

And finally we got our salesresult for 2010 in! Yipee!!!
Yes I know we're already februari ... But counting to 10 is easy, when it gets more i have to use my toes too and when those are outcounted.....

Top 15 Sales 2010

1    The Neon Judgement - Early Tapes    (Dark Entries)
2    Absolute Body Control - Shattered Illusion     (Daft)
3    VA - Cold Waves + Minimal Electronics Volume One    (Angular Recording Corporation)
4    Xeno And Oaklander - Sentinelle    (Wierd Records)
5    Stephan Eicher - Spielt Noise Boys    (Born Bad)
6    VA - Danza Meccanica - Italian Synth Wave 1982 - 1987    (Mannequin)
7    Dark Day - Window    (Dark Entries)
8 Zwischenfall - Heute    (Dark Entries)
9    Led Er Est - Dust On Common    (Wierd Records)
10 Kebab - We Live In A System    (Soft Spot Records)
11 VA - Genotypes    (Genetic)
12 The Cultural Decay - Eight Ways To Start A Day (Singles & Demos)    (Sacred Bones Records)
13 Second Decay - La Décadence Électronique    (Dark Entries)
14 Absolute Body Control - Tapes 81 - 89     (Daft)
15 Aroma Di Amore - Onverdeeld    (Onderstroom Records)

Only 3 "new" releases and two of those from recent bands ( Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est), all the others are either reissues, band compilations of out of print material or various artistscompilations.
Luckily there's still Absolute Body Control to prove that WES-customers don't all live in the past

(05/02/11)

Just one day ago we reported that BI would be playing the next Les Nuits Fantastiques, well here's the complete program & more info:

7/05/2011 - Fantastique.Night XXXI
TAG - Rue Popelinsstraat (Rogier) - 1000 Brussel / Bruxelles

BAKTERIELLE INFEKTION (d - minimal electro)
http://www.myspace.com/bakterielleinfektion

ECHO WEST (d - minimal electro)
http://www.myspace.com/echowest

JEWELS OF THE NILE (us - minimal wave)
http://www.myspace.com/jewelsofthenilemusic

0:30 MINIMAL ELECTRO & WAVE AFTERPARTY

Tickets: 10€ (FNAC) / 13€ (Doors)
Afterparty only: 5€ (Doors)

....And the catalog has been updated ;o)

(04/02/11)

News from Walhalla Records : due to high demand volume one of the highly apraised Underground Belgian Wave will be repressed. Available in about 4 weeks time. Other forthcoming releases: The Withered Land by Somnambulist, a full release by Secret Life & Underground Belgian Wave Volume 3.
As we already mentioned before: on 16 April Walhalla organises a minimal festival with Somnambulist, Daybed and Sudeten Creche, for a short blip this festival was cancelled because of lack of a venue, but luckily enough the search goes on. We'll keep you posted.

And speaking of minimal in a live setting: Les Nuits Fantastiques found a new place: Passage Charles Rogier and their first gig will be Bakterielle Infektion on 7 May.

Pre-orders needed!!

SOPOR AETERNUS – Have you seen this Ghost?      ltdCD+DVD Box/ltd2x12" Vinyl

This is what the distributor has to say about it:
'The second chapter of the trilogy "A Triptychon Of Ghosts - or: El Sexorcismo de Anna-Varney Cantodea"
It's beautiful. It's dark, it's sad and it's ... - so beautiful.
We have no words to adequately describe the enchanted music(k) of SOPOR AETERNUS & The Ensemble Of Shadows' new release. Those of you, who are familiar with ANNA-VARNEY CANTODEA's art, know that s/he (literally) plays in her own league. Generally speaking, her work is always like the forgotten soundtrack to a phantastic, gothic horror film that was never meant for a human audience to see ... - and this album is certainly no exception: Building a bridge from the dark chamber-music of the transitory Death-suite of "Dead Lovers' Sarabande" to the playful frivolity of "A Strange Thing to Say", this highly anticipated second chapter of the trilogy »A Triptychon of Ghosts« marvellously captures the true essence of what once used to be called Goth, as our beloved Goddess ANNA-VARNEY CANTODEA is travelling on her lonely journey through the realms of darkness beyond the grave. – This is definitely THE BEST ALBUM s/he has created so far!!! ATTENTION: WE EXPECT these versions to be sold out VERY FAST.'

Prices:
ltdCD+DVD Box: 74€
ltd2LP: 42€
CD+DVD Box +TS: 93€
2LP+TS: 62€
Please let me know asap. If you want a set with T-shirt, don't forget the size!!

Under the slogan "Join In The Rhythm Of Machines" NITZER EBB & DIE KRUPPS will be touring in europe for 9 exclusive shows. Besides an EP, which is being recorded at the moment and, which will only be available at the shows, you can expect more surprises on the night of the event.
The Belgian date will be 24 April, the day after Body Beats, which will make this a 2-day festival!! (for more info on the BB line-up, check www.bodybeats.be, for more info about the complete tour check neuwerk.de

(02/02/11)

prelisten the new Anna-Logue releases here:

ANNA 028/MNQ 010 CHROMAGAIN Any Colour We Liked (1982-1985) LP/digi-CD (+6 tracks)

ANNA 029/MNQ 011 INTELLIGENCE DEPT. Sleeping City (1984/85) LP/digi-CD (+5 tracks)

ANNA 030 PAUL CHAMBERS Stations/Absorptions (1979-1983) LP+CD set

Get your pre-orders in now!!

(01/02/11)

We have an exclusivity for you!! Wool-E Shop has been chosen to distribute the new Frozen Autumn single!! Only 250 copies made, already 100 have been sold by the band directly.
Be forwarned, it won't be cheap: 28€
Get your pre-orders in now!!
Expected mid-februari!

THE FROZEN AUTUMN is back with "RALLENTEARS", another milestone in pure "Frozen-Wave" style, (as their music is now usually defined); this fantastic brand new EP features an engaging blend of catchy tunes, electro-sound filigrees, exciting guitar lines, amazing male/female vocals and it's excusively available as ltd. ed. 10" vinyl (250 copies only)! A collector's must-have for sure!

(TFA-01/EAN 8016670207641)

Tracklist
side A: Rallentears, So Brave Tracklist
side B: The Last Train, Wait For Nothing (Froxy Vox Version 2010)

Rallentears is the first release of The Frozen Autumn's freshly started own recordcompany Calembour Records.
Next releases during 2011 will be:

THE FROZEN AUTUMN: new album (title to be announced soon) CD jewel box. (most probably September)

THE FROZEN AUTUMN: "Emotional Screening Device" reissue (regular edition in CD jewel box with previously unreleased bonus tracks + ltd. edition on vinyl featuring a different tracklist)
THE FROZEN AUTUMN: "Is Anybody There?" reissue (regular edition in CD jewel box with previously unreleased bonus tracks + ltd. edition on vinyl featuring a different tracklist)

SIR JOE : "The Observer" debut album CD jewel box featuring Froxeanne of THE FROZEN AUTUMN
Sir Joe a.k.a. Sergio Bersanetti was the coordinator of Depeche Mode 1st Italian Fan Club founded by Giorgio Minale in the early 80's. Thanks to his wide-range music background he has developed his own emotional music style reminding of artists such as Martin Gore (especially the vocals), Erasure, Gary Numan, Kraftwerk with chill-out, italo-disco, goa-trance, blues and minimal electro influences. With one his tracks he also took part to a compilation on Future Music magazine.

NABLA OPERATOR**: "tba" debut album CD jewel box featuring Froxeanne of THE FROZEN AUTUMN + a couple of international artists
Nabla Operator is the solo project of The Count, additional keyboarder of THE FROZEN AUTUMN since 2009. Coming from a classical music as well as a gothic-EBM background, he played in several dark-wave and harsh electro bands as well as a well-know Depeche Mode tribute band. With Nabla operator he now proposes a striking, raw yet extremely original, melodic and heavily dynamic electronic music.

(29/01/11)

Tomorrow (30/01) we will be at the Record fair in Leuven http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=158431564204055 check the catalog-section for some new goodies.

News from Vinyl On Demand reached us through a small backdoor, releases planned for mid-February:

VOD82: Various Artists “German Punk and Wave 78-84 Vol1” 5Lp/10”-Box
(with PVC, White Russia, No More, Didaktische Einheit, Die Werkpiloten, Off Band, Poison Dwarfs, MDK, Din A Testbild, Funtastiklons, Die Gesunden)
VOD83: PSYCHIC TV with White Stains “at Stockholm plus Jarman Themes / Live New York 17-11-83 plus Unclean and unreleased rarities “ 4LP
VOD84: LAIBACH „Gesamtkunstwerk - Dokument 81-87“ 5Lp-Box

Pieter from Wierd whispered in my ear that the next VReleases will be ready by March, next to the already announced Kindest Lines 7", there will also be a new Staccato Du Mal CD/LP. But first the new Martial Canterel, expected in stock the first week of February.

That other Pieter from Onderstroom Records revealed this week that his next release will be Polar Praxis' Music For Fireworks LP. One of many sought after Belgian LP's. Where industrial, minimal & ambient meet. Hopefully next step will be à;GRUMH... itself ;o)

Tryghed & Tristesse, home of End Of Your Garden & De Må Være Belgiere, recently released by Dark Entries on split-12", provided us with a bandcamp site were you can prelisten their most recent signing The Silent Section: http://thesilentsection.bandcamp.com/

Also on bandcamp are Denner a 3-piece post-punk /cold-wave band that consists of two New Yorkers and a Frenchman. Le cold Français (Trismoie 21 or Complot Bronswick) meets His Name Is Alive & Chameleons. We have their self-released LP La Nouvelle Bretagne in stock
http://denner.bandcamp.com/

Partynews, or rather gig-news:
Announced since long: Parade Ground celebrate their 30-year anniversary at Brussels Magazin 4 on 18/02 with special guests Mono Electronic Density, Red Sniper, Solar Skeletons, Le Syndicat & :Codes. That same :Codes will open the small Bal Minimal festival at 't Kompas in St Niklaas, for Nine Circles & Das Ding on 26/03 (other gigs from the same organiser in 't Kompas: Dive & Stin Scatzor 26/02 & The Exploding Boy 03/06)
Speaking of minimal: Lieven from Walhalla (of Belgian Underground Wave-fame) organizes his own minimal festival somewhere in Antwerp on 16/04 with Somnambulist, Daybed and Sudeten Creche.

Ticket-time: we now have tickets available for three upcoming shows: Combichrist/Mortiis at Trix in Antwerp (03/02),Ext!ze, IC434, NTRSN at Comma in Brugge (05/02) & the Belgian leg of the Porta Nigra festival with Spiritual Front, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, In Slaughter Natives, Raison D'être & Empusae at De Klinker in Aarschot (19/03) => get your Porta Nigra ticket at the Wool-E Shop & get a free exclusive poster.

And last but not least: congratulations to Der Klinke !! The signed with Echozone and their debut album will hopefully be ready by their first official gig for a big audience at the second Rewind-Fest in the Vooruit on 25/02 opening for Covenant, A Split-Second & The Arch (for those that can't wait to hear how Der Klinke sound live: there's a try out with The Arch on 08/02 in Bredene http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158112730887931&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=179564795409293

(13/01/11)
The cattle has been counted...twice ;o)
Some lambs wandered off, pity, but nothing to do about it now.
Also I want to get rid of some stuff, there will be sales at discount prices at the recordsfairs in Mechelen (23/01), Leuven (30/01) and Kortrijk (06/02)
And at the Combichrist/Mortiis gig in Antwerp (03/02) & Ext!ze, IC434, NTRSN-gig in Brugge (05/02) [For both shows tickets available, btw ;o) ]

On to the new stuff now: lots of boxes were left at our barndoors, check the catalog-page to see what was in them ;o)

A small addition to my latest post of what's coming up:

From Mannequin

MNQ 004 - Mushy - Faded Heart LP (rel. date 28th feb 2010)

From Musamore/Zusammen

ZN 4 10"
From Onderstroom Records

OS08 Snowy Red – Compilation 5CD or 5LP

Slowly but certain we get to know what the Snowy Red Estate has to bring us in 2011. Once in a while they show us pictures and give us clues.

Here's what Snowy Red Jr. has to say:

"Five discs:
1/ First album + demo of the first lp
2/ The Right To Die + extra disc with rarities, b-sides, alternate takes and a few demos of The Right To Die and Vision
3/ Vision
...+ a 24 pages booklet
Available in cd or vinyl.
The thing will released through Onderstroom Records, hopefully in the first half of 2011"

And some pics of how the CD's will look like:

Snowy Red ultimate collection

WARNING!!
I don't have a releasedate nor price yet. They will come in due time. Don't ask me because I don't know and won't guess either ;o)
You can pre-order at info(at)wool-e-shop(dot)be and I'll let you know when I know more myself
Don't forget to mention if you want CD or LP!!

(25/12/10)

Coming up in 2011
Send your pre-orders to info(at)wool-e-shop(dot)be

From Wierd Records

VR012 - Staccato du Mal Desespero 7" (Jan)
VR015 - Martial Canterel You Today 7" (Jan)
VR017 - Martial Canterel Occupy These Terms 7" (Jan)
VR019 - Xeno & Oaklander Vigils LP (Jan)
VR018 - Martial Canterel You Today CD/LP (Feb)
VR020 - Kindest Lines Destructive Paths to Live Happily 7" (2011)

VR018 MARTIAL CANTEREL YOU TODAY CD/LP

Wierd Records is proud to present the new LP by Martial Canterel entitled You
Today. Since his first live performances in 2002, Sean McBride, aka Martial
Canterel (who also performs as half of the duo Xeno & Oaklander), has produced a
rich catalog of self-released and limited edition LPs, cassettes, and compilation
tracks. The carefully crafted, private, raw, and often feverishly aggressive 'minimal
synth' sound he has pioneered has been a pillar influence for the Brooklyn minimal
electronics scene and and beyond. Merging the influences of the first wave of
relatively unknown minimal electronic bands in northern Europe, and seminal
industrial noise bands such as Throbbing Gristle and SPK, with the smoothly stylish
songcraft of early British New Wave, Martial Canterel records and performs using
analogue synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines exclusively. Thoughtful yet
distinctly danceable and infectious, this record is the apex of McBride's icily
idiosyncratic sound.
You Today incorporates bright, urgent melodies that snake and and swagger between
major and minor keys. The songs emanate a subtle melancholic darkness and a
rhythmic, militant propulsion keeping things moving against all odds. Lyrically, the
album continues McBride's exploration of the increasing difficulty in trying to
connect with real people and real things as technology renders the material
substance of bodies and objects ever more abstract and distant. This yearning for
unmediated human contact with the world is appropriately echoed throughout the
album by the hands-on, entirely live approach to recording and performance (”the
molding of electricity” as he has referred to his compositional technique.) “Market”
and “Sidestreets” each delve into the disconcerting atmospheres of crowds,
buildings, objects and intimates; the city with its boulevards, by-ways, and dead
ends complicating the meeting of two lost and wandering figures (perhaps lovers?)
The restrained, sensual haze of “The Empty Sand” conjures oceanic imagery while
the title track is a lament to love lost, ambiguously addressing the listener as a
memory image of potential connection and attraction.
The solitary listener can certainly enjoy the music of Martial Canterel, but its
visceral intensity also translates directly to the dancefloor. Amidst a flurry of flesh
in motion, in a blissful atmosphere of material connection with others, the concepts
that permeate the music and its creation become a reality.

RELEASE DATE: February 8th, 2011
TRACKS:
1. Occupy These Terms
2. Market
3. Sidestreets
4. The Empty Sand
5. Still a Part
6. Some Days
7. You Today
8. Secret Stores
9. Don't Let Me Go
BONUS CD ONLY TRACKS:
10. Playfair
11. For Us

http://www.myspace.com/martialcanterel

VR019 XENO & OAKLANDER VIGILS LP

Wierd Records is proud to announce the release of a vinyl edition of Xeno &
Oaklander's Vigils EP, originally self-released by the band as a limited edition
CDR in 2006, here remastered with a previously unavailable bonus track.
Merging the cold, cinematic aesthetics of artist Liz Wendelbo with the
architectural exactitude of Sean McBride (a.k.a. Martial Canterel), Xeno &
Oaklander have been the sharpest spearheads of twenty-first-century minimal
synth since their formation in 2004. Using analogue synthesizers and
instruments exclusively, the duo record all of their songs live in the studio, a
challenge to the common practice of cut and paste recording where immediacy
is often sacrificed in favor of a far-removed drag and drop electronic
pop.
Recorded in one continuous take on October 1st, 2006, and played to loving
death by all of the DJs at the weekly Wierd party for the past four years,
Vigils has long been a cornerstone and inspiration to a new young generation
of electronic bands in the Brooklyn synth scene and beyond. Uptempo,
echo-laden synthesizers and drum machines provide a spacious backdrop for
Miss Liz's ephemeral vocal presence. Their melodic, mournful oeuvre is an
invocation of a lost future that was abandoned years ago in favor of something
less human. These 8 tracks are both fragile and psychedelic, suggesting
an electronic equivalent of the British shoegaze bands while maintaining the
wildly aggressive stripped-down, raw and unmediated spirit of punk and the
seminal industrial noise groups that informed the ideals of the original wave
of European minimal electronic bands.

RELEASE DATE: January 11th, 2011
TRACKS:
1. An Introduction
2. Départ
3. Zurück
4. Blue Flower
5. Non Senti
6. Vigils
7. Two Eyes
8. Ransack (unreleased)
9. Blue Flower (Live at the Wierd Party, NYC 2008)

http://www.xenoandoaklander.com

From Onderstroom Records

OS07 Mensen Blaffen – Compilation CD
OS08 Snowy Red – Compilation
OS09 Polar Praxis – Music For Fireworks LP
OS13 Bene Gesserit LP
OS14 Human Flesh LP
OS15 Richting Huiswaarts 7"
OS16 Tranquil Eyes LP

snowy red 2011

1980-84 The Ultimate Edition, 2011 - 5 discs set (vinyl or cd)
Onderstroom Records OS08
Cover design by Michaël Thiel, based on a photography by Stéphane Sergeant.

From Dark Entries Records

2011 Release Schedule:
DE-012 xex – group:xex LP
DE-014/15 Jane & Jeff Hudson – Flesh 2xLP (co-release with Captured Tracks)
DE-013 Various Artists – BART (Bay Area Retrograde) LP
DE-016/17 Vita Noctis – Mad In Belgium 2xLP (co-release with Daft Records)
DE-018 Xymox - Subsequent Pleasures + 4AD Demos LP

From AnnaLogue Records

Coming early 2011:

ANNA 028/MNQ 010 CHROMAGAIN Any Colour We Liked (1982-1985) LP+7”/CD

The first one is the highly anticipated release in co-operation with the wonderful Mannequin label from Rome, Italy. Top-notch Minimal Electro Wave from CHROMAGAIN, hailing from Torino, Italy. Includes their ultra rare and sought-after MLP “Any Colour You Like” from 1985, the song “Ethnicbox” from the “Tracce” LP compilation plus four additional unreleased earlier tracks on the LP+7” vinyl version, and a total of nine additional tracks on the CD version!!! And all those tracks are nothing but amazing, with a more raw edge (wonderful Roland TR-808 drum machine action!) and also showing their (post-)electro-punk roots on their earliest tracks! Surely a true classic and not be missed!

Listen: http://www.myspace.com/annaloguerecords
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/chromagain

ANNA 029/MNQ011 INTELLIGENCE DEPT. Sleeping City (1984/85) CD

The second release is another co-operation with the Mannequin label from Rome, Italy. Again, top-notch Minimal Electro Wave from INTELLIGENCE DEPT., hailing from Ferrara, Italy. Includes both their complete and impossible-to-get demo cassettes “Sleeping City” (1984) and “The Big Trouble” (1985), thus also including their well-known beautiful tracks “Sleeping City”, “Anger Inside”, “Too Late To Love” which were also featured on the 1984 LP compilation “A White Chance”, and “Loneliness” from Mannequin’s “Danza Meccanica – Italian Synth Wave 1982-1987” LP/CD compilation, as well as a cover version of “Sister Europe”, originally by The Psychedelic Furs. Additionally, the CD includes four live tracks, “Sleeping City” and “Too Late To Love”, as well as the two previously totally unknown tracks “Nice Faces” and “Black Widow”, recorded live at the Arena Nuovo in Ferrara in 1985, so a total of 13 amazing tracks, beautifully presented in a six-panel digipak.

Listen: http://www.myspace.com/annaloguerecords
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/intelligencedept

ANNA 030 PAUL CHAMBERS Stations/Absorptions (1978-1983) LP+CD set

The third release will be a comprehensive LP+CD set by PAUL CHAMBERS hailing from the UK and being known for his contribution of the two stunning tracks “Steering Solo” and “Take A Ticket” to the “The Apprentices Dance” LP compilation from 1981. PAUL CHAMBERS was quite a pioneer of dark minimal electronic music, starting to record already in 1978! He used a Boss DR-55, Roland SH-1, Korg MS-20 and EDP Wasp, just to name a few and nothing but pure analogue synthesizer bliss! The LP “Stations” comprises 12 tracks including the majority of his rare vocal tracks (thus also including “Steering Solo” and “Take A Ticket”), recorded between 1979 and 1983, which mark milestones of the Minimal Electro Wave genre. The CD “Absorptions” comprises instrumental tracks recorded between 1978 and 1981, which can easily be lined up with the recordings by Chris Carter/Throbbing Gristle from around that time! Finding Paul and unleashing his archives was truly a revelation, so that a total of 27 raw minimal electronic wave tracks from the very early days are now finally seeing the light of day after 30 years time!

Listen: http://www.myspace.com/annaloguerecords
Listen: http://www.myspace.com/paulchambers7

From Mannequin

MNQ 008 Janitor of Lunacy LP
MNQ 010 Chromagain - Any Colour We Liked LP+7"/CD (collab. w/ Anna Logue Records) see above
MNQ 011 Intelligence Dept. - Sleeping City CD (collab. w/ Anna Logue Records) see above
MNQ 014 The Gentry 2CD (collab. w/ Infrastition)
MNQ 015 The Metronomes - The Ballad Of The Metronomes 2LP+7''
MNQ 016 Opera Multi Steel - Rien MLP 1984 reissue deluxe edition

From Infrastition

END 005 Coïtus Int.- 1980-1982 CD
END 007 Bazooka - 1980-1984 Plus 2CD
FIN 054 Palo Alto - Time Capsule / 1990 - 2010 CD

Other news from Infrastion:

“Cryopack” is the name of the boxset
gathering the tapes released on the
Cryogénisation Report label to be reissued
soon on Infrastition, with Guerre
Froide, Gegenacht and Pour
L’Exemple.
Also to come, soon or late, Tom’s
Midnight Garden, English band in the
way of Crisis whom unique album
recorded in 1984 was never released, the
re-reelase of Dutch band Flue “Vista”
album and the one of “Regard Extrême”
by Brigade Internationale with many
bonuses.

From Str8Line

S8L-MO03/11 VA - Movement One Vol 3 CD
S8L-IBE01/12 In Broken English - Sometimes The Scars CD

And in other news: Paul Fiction No Tears keyboard player and Str8Line headhoncho promised us a soloalbum :D
Whether it's true or not, we'll see ;o) , anyway check out the very promising demorecordings here: http://soundcloud.com/paulfiction

From Captured Tracks

Probably a lot, we'll keep an eye on it, promised.

First release that's coming in early January after all distributors come out of their winstersleep is:

CT-85 The Soft Moon - The Soft Moon CD/LP

(22/12/10)

We're back....alive....or something like it :D
BIMfest was great.
Walhalla had it's release of the second Underground Belgian Wave compilation LP, Onderstroom came with two new releases (Siglo XX LP & Koude Golven Compilation 2CD or 2CD/LP) and Genetic surprised us (and themselves) with the CD-release of Sixth June debutLP (who were great on Friday if anyone would be interested)
Catalog has been updated with the new releases, but not everything that's been sold has been taken out. That's something for the end of the year inventory.
But first party next sunday in Kortrijk at Back In Black!! New wave for the new wavers :o)

(16/12/10)
One day before BIM-fest! Get your orders in before 11h tomorrow morning (CET)
After that I won't answer my mail anymore, because I'm off to the pre-BIMfest, only returning on monday.

(09/12/10)
One more week to go before the annual BIM-festival.
It isn't sold out as yet, so still tickets available.
Want a ticket without the extra costs? Give us an email and come pick it up!
Pre-BIM: 20€
BIM: 35€
Ticket for both days: 50€

(25/11/10)

At the KDX recordfair this sunday we'll receive the new Exetix LP..... very excited :o)

(19/11/10)

Coming up part 2:

BIAS 331 CD	Grauzone	Die Sunrise Tapes	CD	PIAS
1C6446500	Grauzone	Die Sunrise Tapes	LP	Weltrekord
BAMCD03	Chameleons	What Does Anything Mean? Basically	2CD	Blue Apple Music
ARC067	VA	Cold Waves + Minimal Electronics Volume One	2LP	Angular Recording Corporation
MRD-113	Organ, The	Thieves	MCD	Mint
TV-6090-2	Cinematics, The	A Strange Education	CD	TVT Records
META25CDDVD	John Foxx	D.N.A	CD/DVD	Metamatic
5330331	VA	New Wave Club Class•X - Sinner's Day 10	3CD	Universal Music
06025 2750243 4	Alphaville	I Die For You Today	CDs	We Love Music
ROTORCD0014	Vivenza	Réalités Servomécaniques	CD	Rotorelief
ROTORCD0010	Current 93	When The May Rain Comes	CDs	Rotorelief
rbbd003	White Car	White Car	12"	Rainbow Body Records
FTH068CDC	School Of Seven Bells	Alpinisms	CD	Full Time Hobby
FTH094CDA	School Of Seven Bells	Disconnect From Desire	CD	Full Time Hobby
AHOY CD 211	Toy Dolls	Absurd-ditties	CD	Captain Oi!
AHOY CD 217	Toy Dolls	Orcastrated	CD	Captain Oi!
8483480	VA	Castle Party 2010	CD	Big Blue
ROTORCD0023	Vivenza	Modes Réels Collectifs	CD	Rotorelief
NNF195	LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus	LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus	12"	Not Not Fun Records
UAR063	Love Of Diagrams	Nowhere Forever	CD	Unstable Ape Records
FIRECD156	ESG	Dance To The Best Of ESG	2CD	Fire Records
RABID039J	Fever Ray	Fever Ray	CD	Rabid

(18/11/10)

Coming up in the next few weeks:

TWANG09	Exploding Boy, The	Afterglow	CD	Ad Inexplorata
Yellow 2201-2	Twice A Man	From A Northern Shore	CD	Yellow
CITI001	Z-Factor	Dance Party Album	LP	Cititrax
	Psychedelic Furs	Original Album Classics	5CD	Columbia
DE-006	Dark Day	Window	LP	Dark Entries
DE-008	Pesteg Dred	Years Of Struggle Against The Lies, The Stupidity And The Cowardice	LP	Dark Entries
DE-009	Nagamatzu	Sacred Islands Of The Mad	LP	Dark Entries
fact 3093	IC 434	Bacteriate	CD	Infacted Recordings
FACT 3137	U-Tek	Das Mass Der Dinge	CD	Infacted Recordings
FACT 3157	Iris	Blacklight	CD	Infacted Recordings
FACT 3158	Weathermen	Ultimate Poison	CD	Infacted Recordings
FACT 3159	Heimatærde	Unwesen	CD	Infacted Recordings
FACT 3162	Detroit Diesel	Terre Humaine	CD	Infacted Recordings
FACT 3165	Heimatærde	Unwesen	2CD	Infacted Recordings
MNQ 015	Metronomes	The Ballad Of The Metronomes	2LP/7"	Mannequin
MW001	Oppenheimer Analysis	Oppenheimer Analysis	12"	Minimal Wave
MW006	Somnambulist / M. Bryo	Split	7"	Minimal Wave
MW013	Linear Movement	On The Screen	LP	Minimal Wave
MW014	Sudeten Crèche	Are Kisses Out Of Fashion	12"	Minimal Wave
MW018	Circuit7	Video Boys	LP	Minimal Wave
MW024	Martin Lloyd	L'Amant Electronique	7"	Minimal Wave
MW025	Ruins	The Art Dance	LP	Minimal Wave
MW026	Das Ding		7"	Minimal Wave
NLW006	ExKurs	Fakten sind Terror	CD	NLW
NLW014	VA	Hamburg Hit News	10"	NLW
NLW016	Charles Lindbergh n.e.V.	Nix los	7"	NLW
NLW024	Bal Paré	Sommerwind	10"	NLW
RUR015	Wermut	Ether	2LP	Reue Um Reue
RUR016	Escama Serrada	Echis Carinatus	LP	Reue Um Reue
RUR017	1997EV	Zeta reticuli	LP	Reue Um Reue
825646839476	Sisters of Mercy	Original Album Series	5CD	Rhino
RACD101	Fra Lippo Lippi	Early Years	CD	Rune Grammofon
RACD102	Fra Lippo Lippi	The Best Of	CD	Rune Grammofon
schaul006	Various 41/2 Meets The Hormonic Calves	Dance With The Butterflies	7"	Schallplatten Aus Lurup
Schaul880	Der Hall	Choräle der Apocalypse	7"	Schallplatten Aus Lurup
SPECTRO	Spectrometers, The	1/2 Mechanism 1/2 Organism	10"	SPECTRO
TUT014	Narrow	From DiY With Love	LP	Treue UmTreue
TUT015	Ich Wollte, Ich Könnte	At The Gate	7"	Treue UmTreue
WS201001	Short Wave Mystery, The	Down And Out In A Town Of Yardsales	LP	W\|S Collective
VR001	VA	Wierd Compilation	3LP/7"	Wierd Records
VR008CD	Xeno And Oaklander	Sentinelle	CD	Wierd Records
VR009	Led Er Est	Dust On Common	LP	Wierd Records
VR009-2	Led Er Est	Dust On Common	CD	Wierd Records
VR015	Martial Canterel	You Today	7"	Wierd Records
D083	Klinik, The	Black Leather	CD	Hands
RUR015	Wermut	Ether	2LP	Reue Um Reue
RUR016	Escama Serrada	Echis Carinatus	LP	Reue Um Reue
RUR017	1997EV	Zeta reticuli	LP	Reue Um Reue
TUT014	Narrow	From DiY With Love	LP	Treue UmTreue
TUT015	Ich Wollte, Ich Könnte	At The Gate	7"	Treue UmTreue
CT-001	Dum Dum Girls	Dum Dum Girls	LP	Captured Tracks
CT-033	Led Er Est	Poll Gorm	7"	Captured Tracks
CT-047	Soft Moon, The	Breathe The Fire	7"	Captured Tracks
CT-050	Blank Dogs	Phrases	12"	Captured Tracks
CT-055	Cosmetics	Sleepwalking	7"	Captured Tracks
CT-069	Soft Metals	The Cold World Melts	12"	Captured Tracks
CT-072	Soft Moon, The	Parallels	7"	Captured Tracks
CT-083	Blank Dogs	Land And Fixed	LP	Captured Tracks
CT-083CD	Blank Dogs	Land And Fixed	CD	Captured Tracks
WOODSIST 021	Blank Dogs	The Field	LP	Woodsist
WOODSIST 021CD	Blank Dogs	The Field	CD	Woodsist
WOODSIST 038	Moon Duo	Escape	LP	Woodsist
WOODSIST 038CD	Moon Duo	Escape	CD	Woodsist
Messthetics #100	VA	Messthetics Greatest Hits 1977-80	CD	Hyped To Death
Messthetics #102	VA	Messthetics London 2 DIY 77-81	CD	Hyped To Death
Messthetics #103	VA	Messthetics Midlands 1 DIY 77-81	CD	Hyped To Death
Messthetics #104	VA	Messthetics 104	CD	Hyped To Death
Messthetics #105	VA	Messthetics 105	CD	Hyped To Death
Messthetics #107	VA	Messthetics 107	CD	Hyped To Death
Messthetics #201	Animals & Men	Revel In The Static	CD	Hyped To Death
Messthetics #218	God's Gift	Pathology	CD	Hyped To Death
IMSO000	Electric Eels, Die	Agitated / Cyclotron	7"	Agitated Records
SLR 99	Dum Dum Girls	Bhang Bhang, I'm A Burnout	7"	Slumberland Records
SLR 125	Weekend	Sports	2LP	Slumberland Records
SLR 125CD	Weekend	Sports	CD	Slumberland Records
TMU-205	Zola Jesus	Tsar Bomba	LP	Troubleman Unlimited
TMU 207	Tamaryn	Led Astray Washed Ashore	LP	Troubleman Unlimited
28165-9	Ignorant, Steve	The Rest Is Propaganda	BK	Crass
YouDo 04	Raudive Bunker Experiment	Raudive Bunker Experiment	2LP	Youdonthavetocallitmusic
YouDo 04	Raudive Bunker Experiment	Raudive Bunker Experiment Box	2LP/7"/CD	Youdonthavetocallitmusic
YouDo 04A	Raudive Bunker Experiment	Falling / The Message Is Received	7"	Youdonthavetocallitmusic
TU-134-01	Systematics	What We Did In The Afternoons	2LP	TU-134
LT008	Pharaohs	Pharaohms/Haraohms	K7	Living Tapes
LT013	Black Church	Heel	K7	Living Tapes
LT015	Autumus	Nox Noctis Leo	K7	Living Tapes
LT016	Epee Du Bois	Open Water	K7	Living Tapes
stx.12	Troum	Mare Idiophonika	CD	Silken Tofu
stx.13	Temple Music	Soon you will die and your lives will have been as nothing	CD	Silken Tofu
SPECTRO	Spectrometers, The	1/2 Mechanism 1/2 Organism	10"	SPECTRO
DR001	Spectrometers, The	Dead Soul Music	LP	Decasian Records
	Decima Victima	Decima Victima	3LP
U-7C0-A9	Grauzone	1980-1982 REMASTERED	2CD	Mital-U
PYLON 010	Iron Curtain	Desertion 1982-1988	CD	Pylon Records
PYLON 012	Iron Curtain	Desertion 1982-1988	2LP	Pylon Records
PYLON 013	Iron Curtain	Artifact	LP	Pylon Records
PYLON 016	Iron Curtain	Shadow	12"	Pylon Records
PYLON 017	Iron Curtain	Terror Story / Anorexia	7"	Pylon Records
PYLON 018	Iron Curtain	Like A Family / Telephone	7"	Pylon Records

(23/10/10)
New ABC albums are in stock now and going fast!!!! Shattered Illusion is at it's second press already!!

Coming soon: new Dark Entries releases (Nagamatzu & Pesteg Dred LP's), new Minimal Wave & Cititrax releases (Martin Loyd 7", Das Ding 7", Ruins LP, Sylvi Foster 12", Oppenheimer Annalysis reissue), new Avant! (Scorpion Violente), new Sham Recordings (Swedish Oldschool EBM Ep 2010 7", No Sleep By The Machine LP), etc...
It's gonna be a busy fall & winter....

(14/10/10)

NOTE TO ALL WHO PRE-ORDERED: We will (hopefully) receive the new ABC-album & Tapes Compilation Box this Friday (15/10). We will get back to you with shipping costs this weekend!!!

In stock now: the new Genetic release (including the rerelease of the long sold out We. debutalbum), De Brassers 79-82 compilation 2LP with all studiotracks and a selection of livetracks, the latest Plastic Frog releases including the ADN'Ckrystall/Nina Belief 7", the wondeful Acid record "10 Ragas To A Discobeat" by Indian Bollywood sessionmusician Charanjit Singh from 1982!! Released 5 years before the first Acid(house) record was released.

JM Lederman 's latest pet project La Femme Verte digipackCD electrolounge or Nouvelle Vague for the twisted mind :o) featuring ao For Greater Good's Sam Devos, All About Eve's Juliane Regan, Gene Loves Jezebel's Jay Aston, Bertrand Burgalat and the girls from Dark Poem

And finally the last batch of the Gerda85 CD/DVD :o)

(30/09/10)

In stock soon: the new Absolute Body Control Album "Shattered Illusions" 12€ (available 15/10)
abc - shattered illusion

& the CD-version of the long deleted VOD-Box "Tapes 81-89" 40€ (09/10)

abc -81-89

New VOD releases available end October:

VOD78: HUNTING LODGE “Shadows out of Time - 82-83” 3Lp/7”-Box - 55€

Shadows out of Time is a collection of three LP's with unreleased and formerly
cassette-only material from Hunting Lodge, representing the first blush of their
creativity, a time when each sonic experiment festered into a beautiful sore.
Dark Ambient, Noise, Power Electronics, all represented here before these pigeons
had holes in which to fit. One LP is comprised of the now-legendary EXHUMED,
which was formerly released cassette-only, heard here in better shape than ever -
direct-metal mastered from the original two-track mixes.
The second LP is all unreleased material, highlights of which include never-heard
gems from the recordings for the promotional cassette 23 MINUTES OF MURDER.
On the flip-side, both literally and figuratively, are the electro-disco-teckno recordings
used for intermission music at Hunting Lodge live shows in 1983.
The final LP contains Live material which was formerly cassette-only, including tracks
from AT THE HARRINGTON BALLROOM and S/M OPERATIONS LIVE, as well as
much of the formerly unreleased LIVE AT THE LODGE.
Oft-bootlegged, this performance is pressed here direct from the original masters,
representing the two-piece early noise-unit of Hunting Lodge in harrowing live
intensity. Furthermore featured in the Box-Set is an additional Bonus 7"
including studio cover version of John Wright's „Stellazine Shuffle“ b/w „Learn
to Will II“,formerly released on Nekrophile Rekords "Beast 666" cassette
compilation in 1983 These LP's and 7“ are presented with period-accurate,
gloriously bold, black and white artwork. Each LP comes in it's own printed sleeve
inside of a box printed with the Thomas Nordstrom artwork previously only seen on
early Hunting Lodge stationery. Also included are liner notes by Jeff "Central"
Chenault and recording details, including information on equipment used, and never
before seen photos of live Hunting Lodge and of collectors minutiae. The scars will
never completely heal.

VOD79: SLEEP CHAMBER “SixSixSix“ 4LP with 7“ / Booklet - 67€

Six Six Six iz a collection ov material from the first 6 years ov SLEEPCHAMBER.
Mastermind John Zewizz gave permission to Brad Miller
(theebradmiller.blogspot.com) and Frank of VOD to choose the tracks.
The outcome reveals and demands for a renewed and extended perception of Sleep
Chambers artistic synthesis of the last 30 years
On Lp1 as well as the 7“ you will find pure and very strong minimalsynth-tunes from
his very early "cassette"- only releases like „Ze Wizz Kidz“(released 82 but recorded
in 79/80), „Dream Distillate“(82) or „Music for Mannequin“(83).
Lp2 and Lp3 reveals so far unreleased recordings from 82 to 87 that range from
minimal to the typical percepted Sleep Chamber-Sound as known from the mid 80’s.
The two Lp’s are furthermore riddled with alternative versions, demos and
unreleased tracks, based around the Admit to Desire-period.
Any SLEEPCHAMBER admirer would be in the Garden ov Eden with such a selection
especially when listening to Lp4 which is an unreleasd Lp called „Seremony“,
recorded in the beginning of thee Satanic Sanction Session in 1985/86.
This completes the leak ov the SLEEEPCHAMBER vaults for another six years...

VOD80: VOICE OF EYE 2LP „ Anthology One 1989-91“ 2LP - 23€

Anthology One is culled from the first three cassette releases by Voice of Eye;
Isolation, Voice of Eye and Resonant Fields / Hot Gypsy Fink Hell, all three Tapes
released on thier own Cyclotron Industries Label between 1989-1991. These are the
earliest recordings by Voice of Eye. Voice of Eye can be doubtlessly described as
the protagonists and godfathers of the special genre of Ambient-Ritual-Music. Their
specialty is "organic sound sculpting": a form of electronic ethnic ambient music that
relies mainly on electronic drones and manipulated instruments including
instrumentation with special self-built instruments. The music is all improvised over a
period of two years and covers the evolution of their early sound. It will immediately
catch your attention and pulls you into an altered but extremely positive state of mind.
This is the first in a series of Anthology releases documenting hard to find Voice of
Eye material and previously unreleased recordings to be released on several labels
in the near future.

VOD81: RAPOON „Ghosts from a machine“ 1989-94 3LP-Box - 50€

Rapoon is the ethno-ambient solo project of Zoviet France co-founder Robin Storey.
The music of Rapoon reflects the fasctination for the minimalistic but rhythmic music
of West-Africa and India.
Rapoon uses the musical construction techniques of loops and rhythmic repetition as
a kind of platform for inducing a sort of trance like reception.
The tracks chosen on this Box-Set are taken directly from the original 4 track
cassettes. These recordings are sometimes copies of complete mixes that found
their way onto released albums , sometimes sub-mixes and parts of mixes, and
sometimes elements that were never used in any released material.
Working with multiple 4track machines which remained non-synchronised, these are
the re-discovered compositions which have remained hidden until now.

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