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pump - Sombrero Fallout
From the annals of '80s tape culture Plague Records have uncovered raw gold in the form of Pump's semi-mythical 'Sombrero Fallout' album. Previously known as MFH on their own YHR label, Pump were Andrew Cox and David Elliott, a pair of like-minded electronic music fiends who met at Brighton uni in '79. After spilling five cassette albums of underground industrial strains inspired by Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Faust and Heldon, they spent the middle of the '80s largely estranged, with David writing for the notorious Sounds magazine alongside David Tibet, and Andrew working in Cornwall. In '87 they finally recorded new material, heard on 'The Decoration of The Duma Continues', before colluding for this, their final album which was supposed to emerge on Trident Music International, but sadly didn't due to unknown reasons. The untimely death of Andrew in 2009 prompted a resurgence of interest, and with the utmost respect, we're f*cking blessed that it did as it's just the find of the year. Quite interestingly the album was mixed by Colin Potter of Nurse With Wound, which goes some way to describing the close, dark ambient nature of their sound, but there's many more factors at play which make 'Sombrero Fallout' so riveting. 'A Knife, possibly' sets a sour atmosphere with chugging slow drum machines and a guitar drone industrially dubbed for arcing, widescreen effect, while 'Yukiko' features spiraling marimbas diffused into stereo patterns with mournful, ghostly synths sounding like Zoviet*France gone strangely new age. At the mid way point we enter 'The 'Wife' Container', an incredibly claustrophobic and sickly doomscape with over-saturated bass hum and the distant sound of groaning guitars tortured in some sadistic dungeon ritual for over nine minutes. No sh*t, this is intensely dark stuff! Next, 'Apolinaire Enammelled' combines a reverb laden motorik backbeat somewhere between Stephen Morris and Klaus Dinger, with twirling raga-esque psychedelia, again benefitting from the Colin Potter treatment to sound drugged to the nails, followed with the stoically centred 'Etoile de mer', a blissfully darkside arrangement of beatless ambience. Their swan song 'Falling From Grace' approaches the end with a chilling display of unholy, crawling synth tones and spectral axe work shielding a lone vocal, delivered with reserve and an arcane sense of timing. Fuuuck. This album has really touched a nerve in our office, reminding us of our favourite Industrial, darkwave and New Beat, or all those other '80s genres whose unholy allure we've always been susceptible to, and best of all, it does it without the slightest hint of fromage or pastiche. Honestly, this is beyond essential for anyone with a darker soul.
Wierd Records
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12 tracks of evocative and bleached concrete, early '80s cityscapes and synthesized sci-fi tensions.
Sacred Bones Records
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Oh, WOW! Nika, aka Zola Jesus, and Nick Turro making towering R&B trance-pop synth jams. ESSENTIAL!
BA DA BING
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The Dead C's Michael Morley returns to his long-dormant Gate moniker on this brilliantly weird new LP
BLAST FIRST PETITE
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3 tracks of locked drum loops and monotone riffage with incredibly tight arrangements - on Blast First Petite.
Hippos In Tanks
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Essential debut of layered dreampop from Laurel Halo, featuring a remix from Oneohtrix Point Never.
Part Time Punks Radio Sessions
Ghostly International
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Excellent split EP from Ghostly featuring tracks from the highly rated HTRK and Tropic of Cancer.
Wierd Records
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Minimal, triplet-shifty drum machine patterns synched with darkly seductive vocals.
VARIOUS / INTERDIMENSIONAL TRANSMISSIONS
Interdimensional Transmissions
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NOT NOT FUN
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Incredible LP somewhere between Nite Jewel, Hype Williams, Julia Holter and James Ferarro. Don't Miss.
The Decoration of the Duma Continues
Forced Nostalgia
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1987 debut of one of the great forgotten bands of the post punk, dark-industrial era. 500 copies only.
Plague Recordings
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Incredible dark-wave and industrial ambience on this semi-mythical album, DO NOT MISS.
Forced Nostalgia
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Dark and accursed early Industrial music from a pair of producers who later became known as Pump.
Plague Recordings
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Killer blackest metal atmospheres, cracked tongues and petrified synths for those who know...
Plague Recordings
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Martin Kränzel further develops the nightmarish scapes of 'Officium Nocturnum' with this strong new album.
Plague Recordings
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Martin Kränzel conjures a harrowing episode of Hellraiser-esque atmospheres on 'Black Tourmaline'.
The River Disappeared Sidewards
Plague Recordings
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The pitch black debut album from German dark-ambient maestro Wicked Messenger
The Immutable Paradox Of The Chronograph
Plague Recordings
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Mysterious dadaist experimentalism from the brilliant Plague Recordings...
Vision Rites And Techniques Of Ecstasy
Plague Recordings
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Blood-curdling dark-ambient concoctions based on "Mesoamerican cultural practices", from Plague Recordings
Plague Recordings
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Darkest drone and blackened post-industrial ambience from Martin Kränzel aka Wicked Messenger.
Black Death Series: Best Of Chillopia (Vol. 1)
Plague Recordings
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Digital-only compilation release from dark ambient overlord Audela
Plague Recordings
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Gloom-laden new-age ambient electronica from the Plague Recordings camp
Plague Recordings
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Deep-freeze electronic drones and cloudy ambiences from Plague Recordings
Plague Recordings
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'Aethyr Jumpers' marks the unheimlich return of Mark Godwin and Gareth Ormerod aka zK.
CIVIL MUSIC
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Om Unit presents a killer EP of fractured Electro for Civil Music, one of his very best to date.
MIRACLE (STEVE MOORE AND DANIEL O'SULLIVAN)
House Anxiety
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Techno-Pop side-project of Steve Moore (Zombi) and Daniel O'Sullivan (Sunn O))), Guapo, Mothlite, Æthenor)
Keys Of Life
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Exquisite electro-pop jewels from Villa Nah and Au Revoir Simone.
Captured Tracks
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Canny synth-pop craft from Portland duo of Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall. Awesome.
FRUSTRATED FUNK
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Excellent electro mechanix in four parts from Chris 214
Hippos In Tanks
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Of Hippos In Tanks' carefully assembled roster, White Car are the label's darkest, sexiest operators.
Disco Activisto
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Remixes by Chris & Cosey, Aerea Negrot, Kim Ann Foxman, Disco Bloodbath, Terranova, and many more.
Output Recordings
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Absolutely classic material from Atom Heart in his LB guise - the best covers album ever?
INTERNATIONAL FEEL
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Romantic analogue synth-pop and disco from Ben Williams for DJ Harvey's International Feel Recordings.
Bustin' Out 1983: New Wave To New Beat Volume 3
Year Zero
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Volume 3 of this killer compilation series spanning New Wave and New Beat and all points in between.
OLDE ENGLISH SPELLING BEE
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Autre Ne Veut has possibly made one of the weirdest and most memorable pop albums of the year..
