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THE WIERD COMPILATION VOL. II :
ANALOGUE ELECTRONIC MUSIC 2008
4LP + 32 PG BOOK
2008 (VR004)
$40
Release date : 05.15.08
Wierd Records is proud to present the Wierd Compilation Volume II : Analogue Electronic Music 2008, an international collection of 39 trax by 30 bands producing contemporary music with analogue synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. This release is made up of four vinyl
LPs packaged in a deluxe gatefold sleeve and accompanied by a 32 page 12" x 12" book containing lyrics, band bios, and over 300 photos, many taken from live performances at the weekly Wierd label party, which has been active in New York City since 2003. Also included in the booklet is a statement of purpose for this vast project entitled '2008 : The Analogue Synthesizer as a Folk Instrument of Humanist Resistance' that is as ambitious conceptually as it is musically.
Over the past several years, electronic musicians have slowly removed
themselves from the visceral aspect of musical expression as they have
more completely embraced the computer as the generator of
contemporary sounds. It is in this climate that the Wierd Compilation
Volume II proposes that analogue electronic music no longer represents a
post-apocalyptic vision of an uncertain 'post-human' future as it once did
at the inception of New Wave in the late 1970's. Today, the situation is
precisely the opposite. In the world of 'click and drag' virtual software
synths, the analogue instrument represents a new form of resistance by
preserving and affirming the human presence of the artist through his
direct interaction with the machines and the electricity that runs through
them. In doing so, the supposedly outdated instrument is reborn as a folk
instrument not unlike the acoustic guitar, violin, or hand drum.
Inspired by the seminal compilations of early industrial music such as
Xtract Records' 'The Elephant Table Album' and 'Three Minute
Symphony', Third Mind Records' 'Life at the Top', and the 'Insane Music'
cassette series, the Wierd Compilation Volume II brings together
independent artists from the new minimal electronic music scene
emerging in New York, Miami, and all throughout continental Europe
with the the firmly established Noise scene in the US. In the same spirit
that these early genre-traversing compilations brought together both pop
and experimental artists who were united by their resistance to
the superficial excesses of commercial New Wave, the artists on this
release are united by their DIY attitude and their resistance to the virtual
excesses of modern laptop pop. All have found analogue synthesizers to
be the ideal instrument for producing raw, emotive music in a world
where the human touch and presence is quickly getting clicked and
dragged into oblivion.
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Track Listing:
SIDE 1
1. Xeno and Oaklander - 'A Beginning'
2. Martial Canterel - 'Windscreen' [CLIP]
3. Envenomist - 'A Vague Disquiet'
4. Staccato du Mal - 'Su Ultimo Secreto' [CLIP]
5. Demons - 'Sick by Water' [CLIP]
SIDE 2
1. Spine Scavenger - 'Weighted Ghost 2'
2. Epee du Bois - 'Misery' [CLIP]
3. Xeno and Oaklander - 'Blue Flower'
4. Angel of Decay -
'Malignant Tumor of the Heart' [CLIP]
5. Flesh Graey Display -
'A Smoke Filled Room' [CLIP]
SIDE 3
1. Wave Tank - 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
2. Hive Mind - 'Omission' [CLIP]
3. Human Puppets -
'Faces(Behind Walls and Closed Doors)' [CLIP]
4. Waves - ':59'
5. A Squared - 'Soulfood'
SIDE 4
1. Carlos Giffoni - 'There are Other Gates' [CLIP]
2. Xeno and Oaklander - 'Celeste' [CLIP]
3. Pax Titania - 'Cycles:13'
4. Audiodakt - 'Wahrheit'
SIDE 5
1. The Siamese Pearl - 'Destroying the Prefrontal Cortex'
2. Vendome - 'Lightwave Emissions' [CLIP]
3. Waves - ':10'
4. Sleep Museum - 'Nepal(Departure)' [CLIP]
5. Charlie Draheim - 'Guts on the Dancefloor'
6. Private Entertainment - 'Serenade(For a Changed Heart)'
SIDE 6
1. Martial Canterel - 'Pathway Splits Apart'
2. A Vague Disquiet - 'In Fives: Failure Edit' [CLIP]
3. Angel of Decay - 'Cold White Beds'
4. Three to Forgotten' - 'Frostbite' [CLIP]
5. Tobias Bernstrup - 'Enemies of the Earth'
SIDE 7
1. Sleep Museum - 'We Who Are'
2. Opus Finis - 'Perplexed Pathos'
3. The Siamese Pearl - 'The Rape of Persephone'
4. Led er Est -
'Woman in a Cafe/Communication' [CLIP]
5. Hive Mind - 'Templar'
SIDE 8
1. Cadaver in Drag - 'Hair, Skin, and Teeth'
2. Epee du Bois - 'Jurieux in the Garden'
3. Ronin - 'For a Dead Lady’
4. Zug Im Veins - 'Je Suis un Autre' [CLIP]
MARTIAL CANTEREL
Refuge Underneath CD
2007 (VR003)
$12
Wierd Records is proud to present Martial Canterel‘s first full-length CD release entitled ‘Refuge Underneath‘, a compilation of the artist‘s first two long-deleted self-released cassette tapes ‘Drilling Backwards‘ (2006) and ‘Sister Age‘ (2004) as well as 5 previously unreleased tracks, all digitally re-mastered.
Over the past 5 years the state of electronic music has seen artists slowly remove themselves from their work and visceral musical ‘expression‘ in general. Traditional electronic machines have been replaced by the computer as the dominant generator of contemporary sounds. It is in this climate that Sean McBride, aka Martial Canterel, began performing at bars, clubs and private parties in Brooklyn, NY in 2002, functioning singlehandedly as the pioneer and instigator of what has now become a new movement of minimal electronic bands in the United States.
Martial Canterel records and performs using only vintage analogue synthesizers and sequencers, producing a highly-crafted, complex, and idiosyncratic form of electronic music that is simultaneously romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggressive. Inspired both by the first wave of relatively unknown minimal electronic bands in Northern Europe(a musical genre also often referred to as ‘minimal synth‘) and the seminal industrial noise bands such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK, and Cabaret Voltaire, Martial Canterel presents a new optimistic paradigm for electronic music in which the analogue synthesizer functions anew as a folk instrument of humanist resistance to a virtual ‘soft synth‘, iPod, and iTunes saturated world of ‘click and drag‘ dematerialized abstraction.
Track Listing:
1. Refuge Underneath
2. Lips Not Listening
3. Two Before Four [CLIP]
4. Frozen Ghetto
5. Foreign Birthplace
6. Drilling Backwards
7. Open and Shut
8. 3 Days
9. Assault
10. Vision
11. Sister Age [CLIP]
12. Silence
13. Firmament
14. Listener Dead
15. Hausmann [CLIP]
16. Harbors and Martyrs
17. Instincts
18. Page and Fold
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BLACKLIST
Solidiare CDEP
2007 (VR002)
$5
Inspired by groups such as The Comsat Angels, The Manic Street Preachers, Suede, The Sound, and For Against, Blacklist is simultaneously celebratory and melancholy, replacing the hysterical protest song of the 20th century with anthems for a new generation weaned on amusement and starved for confrontation. In today‘s world of faith-based violence, global disjunctures, and volatile identity politics, they create the soundtrack to an explosive resistance. The snide refusal of nihilism makes a loud and heavy romantic sound.
‘Solidaire‘ is a warning shot EP, readying audiences for their upcoming LP due out on Wierd Records this Fall. Featuring the propulsive cosmological love anthem, ‘Blue Shifted,‘ the filthy, sexy ode to George Orwell and P.O.U.M., ‘Shock In The Hotel Falcon,‘ and their version of one of the classic tracks of the French coldwave, ‘Pure Joy In My Heart,‘ ‘Solidaire‘ is a taste of things to come. Cosmopolitan coldwave rock and roll, bridging the gap between the north of France and Budokan, from the pathologically mobilized world outside to the elusive human experience.
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Track Listing:
1. Blue Shifted [MP3]
2. Shock In The Hotel Falcon
3. Pure Joy In My Heart
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THE WIERD COMPILATION
3LP + 7" + 32 PAGE BOOK
2006 (VR001)
$40
Wierd Records in New York City is pleased to present as its innaugural release the “Wierd Compilation”(VR001), featuring 32 tracks by 15 bands which have performed live at WIERD - Brooklyn’s premier weekly DJ and live music party showcasing artists and DJs working within the post-wave, coldwave, and minimal synth genres of alternative pop and dance music since 2003. The sound of this international collection of bands ranges from uptempo analog synthesizer based electronic dance music influenced by early minimal synth and industrial dance to post-wave guitar driven music suggesting the influence of the European Coldwave and classic British and American post-punk sounds. The “Wierd Compilation” is made up of 3 vinyl LPs and a 7” vinyl single packaged in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, and is accompanied by a 26 page 12” x 12” glossy print book containing over 500 pictures of the bands, and live performances at the WIERD Party. The Wierd Compilation was Produced by WIERD Party founder, artist and DJ Pieter Schoolwerth, and engineered by Marco Corales at Bonus Room Studio in Atlanta, and will be pressed in a hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies.
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Track Listing:
SIDE 1:
1. Silent Signals - ‘Exit Out‘
2. Martial Canterel - ‘Never Wind‘ [CLIP]
3. Sleep Museum - ‘Butterfly‘
4. A Vague Disquiet - ‘The Lower Lifestyles‘[CLIP]
5. Xeno and Oaklander - ‘Non-Senti‘ [CLIP]
SIDE 2:
1. Flesh Graey Display - ‘Under Attack‘
2. Tobias Bernstrup - ‘Surround‘
3. A Vague Disquiet - ‘Heatshock: Type 1‘
4. Staccato du Mal - ‘Departures‘
5. 2VM - ‘Let‘s Play‘
6. Echo West - ‘My Dream is Still There‘ [CLIP]
SIDE 3:
1. Blacklist - ‘Dawn of the Idols‘ [MP3]
2. Column - ‘She‘
3. Staccato du Mal - ‘No Veo‘ [CLIP]
4. Fanuelle - ‘Here is a Life‘
5. Diako Diakoff - ‘Western Ego‘
SIDE 4:
1. Tobias Bernstrup - ‘Into the Abyss‘ [CLIP]
2. Three to Forgotten - ‘Azuli‘ [CLIP]
3. A Vague Disquiet - ‘Splitting Image: Breakdown‘
4. Opus Finis - ‘Havoc Heap‘ [CLIP]
5. Sleep Museum - ‘Porcelain‘ [CLIP]
SIDE 5:
1. Martial Canterel - ‘Arctic Invention‘
2. Epee du Bois - ‘Tracking Shot‘ [CLIP]
3. 2VM - ‘Unscathed‘
4. Diako Diakoff - ‘By the Lake‘
SIDE 6:
1. Three to Forgotten - ‘Ktano‘
2. Xeno and Oaklander - ‘Cold Forever‘
3. Opus Finis - ‘Scrying Formation‘
4. A Vague Disquiet - ‘Instrumental: 1-2-6-2‘
5. Blacklist - ‘Exit‘ [MP3]
7" EP:
A. Epee du Bois - ‘An Image‘ [CLIP]
B. Flesh Graey Display - ‘Insurmountable Typification‘ [CLIP]
THE SIAMESE PEARL
Temple purification #0 CD
(2008)
$10
From years of homemade tape releases here is the debut CD from Miami's Experimental/ Ritual music project The Siamese Pearl, the newest solo project from C.E. Oni of Opus Finis This release features 8 tracks plus one mystery track. Intended to evoke and relocate the state therein.
Track Listing:
Approaches
Crystal Aspersorium
Primitive Genius
Feeding the fire Minotaurs
Pallas Athene
Oxtails
An Acacia over the grave of my brother
..............Shadows are temporary
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XENO & OAKLANDER
Vigils CDEP
(Xanten 003, 2007)
$11
Wierd is happy to announce the debut EP from Xeno and Oaklander is back in stock! Recorded entirely live in one go on October 1st, 2006, and played to loving death by all of the DJs at the Wierd weekly party for the past two years, 'Vigils' is now a classic document of the many multifaceted musical activities of Miss Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride(aka Martial Canterel). Uptempo cold, distant, echo-laden synthesizers and drum machines provide a spacious, melancholic backdrop for Miss Liz's complex ephemeral lyrical presence. These 8 trax are both intimately fragile and psychedelic suggesting an electronic equivalent of the British shoegaze bands while maintaining the wildly aggressive stripped-down DIY spirit of punk that informed the ideals of the originary wave of European minimal electronic bands. This second edition of 150 copies also contains the additional track 'Cold Forever', recorded in late 2005 which originally appeared on the Wierd Compilation(2006).
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LED ER EST / S.S.P.S.
split 7-inch
$8
Split 7" from two new NYC synth-punk outfits, pure raw analogue electronics at its finest. Led er Est's 'Fingers Curling Up' is an epic pop track, owing as much to guitar-wave bands as to the minimal synth canon. S.S.P.S (Secret Servants of the Private Sector aka Jon Porkchop from Excepter) mines even bleaker terrain with the sprawling aggro industrial nightmare 'Sweet Children'. Both trax mixed by Veronica Vasicka, limited numbered edition of 500, complete with hand-made silkscreened glow in the dark covers!
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CULT OF YOUTH
s/t 7-inch EP
(Axiom 01, 2007)
$8
Debut 7" from New York's own post-industrial/neofolk sensation. Includes three tracks of Cryptic, savage, aggresive melodies rooted in the tradition of bands like Death in June or Current 93, yet completely contemporary. Released on white vinyl in a strictly limited edition of 325 handnumbered copies.
Track Listing:
1. Train To Kill
2. Nature
3. Eye To Eye
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SLEEP MUSEUM
Core CDEP
(Bloodlust! B!096, 2008)
$10
Another fantastic Sleep Museum release from Mark Solotroff's Bloodlust label in Chicago following the 'Street' private series 7-inch single. Four tracks of rhythmic, darkly melodic minimal electronics and drum machine-with Robert Anthony's signature twisted yet utterly romantic echo-laden melancholic lyrics. The fifth track is a frozen-cold 27-minute long experimental analogue synth piece, far closer to the M.B.-style of experimental industrial electronics; We are calling this an EP, even though it clocks in at 46-minutes; Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; color and black and white artwork; in jewel box with shrinkwrap.
Track Listing:
1. Shunned (Again) (3:09)
2. About Nothing (4:23)
3. Exultant Trees (5:41)
4. Ice Wall (5:39)
5. Night In Wire (27:07)
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SLEEP MUSEUM
Street 7-inch
(Bloodlust! 061, 2007)
$8
New 7" from NYC's Sleep Museum. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies on Mark Solotroff's(Bloodyminded, A Vague Disquiet, ex-Intrinsic Action) Bloodlust! label; White vinyl; White labels with minimal black text; Unmarked white cardboard sleeves - sealed on three sides; Black and white inserts; True minimal electronics, rhythmic, darkly melodic synth, unrepentantly eccentric vocals and dour lyrics; Utterly contemporary, yet also reminiscent of certain early-1980s "cold" music, or even electronic-era Death in June; private series number ten.
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OPUS FINIS
Penance 7-inch EP
(SDM-005, 2007)
$8
WIERD is honored to finally have available the 'Penance' EP by Miami's Opus Finis. 3 new drippping wet trax of Venezuelan-Cuban analogue electronics to assure the Neo-Classical nightmares will never leave you alone in the cold.
Track Listing:
A1. A Black Spring
A2. Inextinguishable Pyre
B1. Penance
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FLESH GRAEY DISPLAY
'Persecution' b/w 'That's My Plan for Today' 7-inch
(SDM-006, 2007)
$8
2 new killer trax from the Very Rare duo of 8* on vox and Ramiro Jeancarlo on synth. Frightening epileptic electronics with intense childlike vocals for long lonely nights in the dark synth psych ward.
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STACCATO DU MAL
‘'Foto Sin Fin' b/w L'Armee des Ombres'’ 7-inch
(SDM004, 2007)
$8
Two new amazing uptempo classics from the dark synth king of Miami Mr. Ramiro Jeancarlo. Pulsing, dirty, hedonistic electronics with Spanish vox.
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MARTIAL CANTEREL
‘Austerton LP’
(Xanten Records 003, 2006)
SOLD OUT
Martial Canterel‘s second LP release is entitled ‘Austerton’, recorded in 2003. The synth process is pared down even further. One of the foundational principles he abides by is for all of the music either live or in the home studio to be accomplished - performed - live in one push. The reconstructed ruins of Xanten inform the claustrophilic narratives of loss, indecipherability, and betrayal. The analog synthesizer is now becoming a folk instrument...no longer necessarily an attempt at some conception of the future, but, rather, its impossibility, a lament for its ultimate undoing.
SLEEP MUSEUM
‘Mysterium Organum EP’
$8
From Annalogue Records. 3 new tracks from Sleep Museum.
- 7" black vinyl, 33 1/3 rpm
- high quality pressing made in Germany
- limited pressing of 400 copies
- 3 previously unreleased tracks
- full colour sleeve and black & white labels
- black and white one-sided lyric sheet, hand numbered
- polyethylene inner sleeve for vinyl protection
- transparent record sleeve for sleeve protection
- PLUS: bonus photo image
Track Listing:
A1 Underground Maneuvers
A2 No Hope
B1 Mysterium Organum
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SLEEP MUSEUM
‘Mask’
(Secret Of The Empty Room 001b CD)
‘Flower’
(Secret Of The Empty Room 002b CD)
SOLD OUT
These are limited editions of 300 each, and differ slightly in track content from the original sold-out edition of 50. Printed cover, slim-jewel box, hand-titled and -numbered disk.
Sleep Museum has scratched a few rare tracks from the barren earth that lines the floor of the empty room. Sleep Museum‘s explores the mute futility that is always bound to longing in a marriage of paroxysm and desire. The human condition, thrust out into a concrete future, skin on skin and the mirror image of the soul. These three CDs represent a broad selection of Sleep Museum‘s ouevre — from synth-based dance numbers to dark experimental tonics.
SLEEP MUSEUM
‘Dreams Of The Dead Underwater, Lightning Overhead’
(Secret Of The Empty Room 003 CD)
SOLD OUT
An edition of 100 — hand-stamped and numbered white cardboard cover, hand-stamped disc.
MARTIAL CANTEREL & SILENT SIGNALS split CD:
‘Views Beyond the City Wall’
Tarantulla Productions (TNT002)
Release Date:
2007
$13
This CD release, founded upon the time-honoured friendship of these two DIY synth enthusiasts, embarks on a journey beyond the Maginot beyond the City Limits. Years wasted watching the erosive consequences of history, the synthesizer, having been, through the years, punned and parodied, reclaims its necessity as the final instrument in resisting the waves of tomorrow.
Track Listing:
1. Martial Canterel - 2 Passengers
2. Martial Canterel - Vichy Girls
3. Martial Canterel - Heresy & Innocence
4. Martial Canterel - Curses
5. Martial Canterel - Parapraxis
6. Martial Canterel - Unique No More
7. Martial Canterel - Backwards Falls
8. Silent Signals - Other Countries
9. Silent Signals - X-Ray-Z
10. Silent Signals - Banshee Girl
11. Silent Signals - Nordstern
12. Silent Signals - Just Lost
13. Silent Signals - Not Alone
14. Silent Signals - Poppy Grow (In Flanders Fields)
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XENO & STACCATO
7-inch
2007 (SDMX-007)
$8
Xeno and Staccato‘s 7" vinyl single, with 2 songs,
‘Cara‘s kiss’ and ‘Jardins d‘ete’.
Haunting female vox with pulsing analogue electronics. Self-made design, specially printed cover with insert on quality paper, limited numbered edition of 500.
Released on Ramiro Jeancarlo‘s new label Staccato du Mal Records.
Xeno and Staccato is a collaboration between Liz Wendelbo of Xeno & Oaklander (Brooklyn), and Ramiro Jeancarlo of Staccato duMal (Miami).
Track Listing:
1. Cara‘s Kiss
2. Jardins d‘ete
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