industrial

Estado De Bienestar – La Escorpiona y Guataque Punk [OR141]

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Estado De Bienestar is the new project by Nico Cabañas, co-founder of Ombra Festival and Oráculo Records. The project was born out of a personal transformation following the closure of his previous musical ventures, such as Synths Versus Me (last release: “So Far“, on 22 Recordings) and Almax und Forte (last release: “Nois d’Avui”, on Oráculo Records). The latter already hinted at the sonic direction Nico has taken: a “proto” style that is raw, visceral, and entirely analog. In Chapters 1 and 2 of Estado de Bienestar, you’ll find all kinds of twisted darkwave sounds – fused, reimagined, and reinvented. Subgenres intersect and musical boundaries dissolve. EBM blends with breakbeat, industrial goth with trip-hop, and industrial dub with jazz.

Estado De Bienestar – La Escorpiona y Guataque Punk [OR141]

Celldöd – På Liv Och Död LP [EE043RTM]

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Swedish EBM hero Celldod is back on Electronic Emergencies with a full album on transparent magenta vinyl! På Liv Och Död is an electronically driven emotional bomb with references to D.A.F. and Front 242. It features collaborations with Leroy Se Meurt from Paris and Michael Zodorozny of Crash Course in Science, as well as Anders Karlsson’s own Swedish lyrics about death and the meaning of life. Each track is a wild invitation to dance away our fears in this complex world of impending doom.

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Celldöd – På Liv Och Död LP [EE043RTM]

Another Body Found – Scooterboys From The Pool LP [CITI033]

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Cititrax presents ‘Scooterboys From The Pool’, the debut LP from Another Body Found, the latest project from A//, best known for his pioneering work as Le Syndicat Électronique. Emerging from the depths of the French underground, ABF fuses dark electro, industrial, minimal synth, and wave into a sound that is both stark and visceral. With a focus on raw energy and haunting atmospheres, the project strips electronic music down to its essence – mechanical, hypnotic, and unrelentingly evocative. Blending commanding rhythms with melancholic undertones, ‘Scooterboys From The Pool’ is a descent into shadowy textures and dystopian landscapes, where driving basslines meet icy, mechanical beats in a pulsing haze of underground spirit.

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Another Body Found – Scooterboys From The Pool LP [CITI033]

Schulverweis – Chacha LP [OR137]

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“Chacha” is the third album from one of the most groundbreaking European acts of the moment. Schulverweis, the collaboration between the prolific Levente Pavelka and the elektro enfant terrible Johannes Haas (aka L.F.T.), delivers an exceptional blend of eerie, lo-fi post-punk. This album breathes new life into an otherwise seemingly explored genre, making it an undeniable must-have for collectors drawn to the experimental edge of darkwave sounds.

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Schulverweis – Chacha LP [OR137]

Machinete – Cost to Cost [CM25]

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Comprised of raw recordings, spontaneously conducted between 2012 to 2020 in Venice and later in Milan, Machinete are Marco Segato (La Serpiente) and Pietro Giubilato (TLXCO) executing and modulating rough post-industrial beats into pummeling electro structures with a brute sense of nocturnal acid in the air which strives to bring power to its knees.

All revenues from this album will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund (gascf.org). The fund provides medical assistance to children in critical need and supports the medical sector in Gaza and Lebanon.

Machinete – Cost to Cost [CM25]

Lagowski / Chromium – Chromium Industries 1991-1992 2xLP [MNQ162]

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Mannequin Records present the upcoming release of Chromium Industries, a double LP (MNQ 162) capturing the innovative spirit of two pioneers of electronic music: Andrew Lagowski and Paul (Howie D) Howard. This long-anticipated album marks a return to the seminal sounds of the Chromium Industries label, which emerged as a crucial platform for boundary-pushing techno and electronic music in the 1990s. Chromium Industries 2xLP is more than an album; it’s a legacy preserved and reimagined. The double LP transports listeners to an era when electronic music was in full experimental bloom while showcasing the genre’s continual evolution.

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Lagowski / Chromium – Chromium Industries 1991-1992 2xLP [MNQ162]

Harlem Electronics – Cage LP [VEYL043]

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Harlem Electronics, the Stockholm-based duo of Martin Thomasson and Johan Skugge, returns to Veyl with a new 8 track LP titled Cage, diving deeper in to their infectious cocktail of menacing electronics. The pair fuse electro, no wave, post-punk, disco, proto-body, dub, hip-hop, and grime, creating a unique sound that cannot be categorized.

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Harlem Electronics – Cage LP [VEYL043]

Tassel – V. Crawling/ X. [OR133]

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Tassel is an emerging industrial punk trio from Phoenix, Arizona. Oráculo Records present their first vinyl EP to date, featuring the two singles from their acclaimed debut album A Sacrifice: Unto Idols, along with remixes by Kontravoid, Plack Blague, Black Light Smoke and Lana del Rabies.

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Tassel – V. Crawling/ X. [OR133]

JG Outsider – Cruzier [OR132]

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JG Outsider is returning to Oráculo Records to once again deliver his unique blend of twisted modern EBM, advanced industrial, and power electronics. This time, he’s joined by Nightcrawler and Spammerheads with two dancefloor-filling remixes. Tracks are taken from JG Outsider’s album “Despierto” released last year by Cold Transmission Music.

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JG Outsider – Cruzier [OR132]

Happy707 – Ascensor Para El Cadalso [DISI-003]

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Rising from the core of the underground in Latin-America, the Buenos Aires duo makes its debut on Disidencia Records with a powerful 5 track EP which includes a remix by none other than Dutch synth wizard Legowelt. Pungent vocals, accurate distortion and fierce kicks surround beautiful and alluring melodies created throughout the whole record. Happy707 forges energetic beats accompanied by a meticulous flow of electro, wave and industrial sounds.

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Happy707 – Ascensor Para El Cadalso [DISI-003]

S. English – Impossible Furniture LP [LIES215]

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The return of Texas heavy electronics, S.English is back on the label with a new 10 track tape of tense, metallic textured sci-fi slowbeat At this point English has honed in and perfected his own style of reaching some sort of unreal middle ground sitting between muslimgauze, s-core, and seico corp. Absolutely mindbending, headcrushing outsider electronics.

S. English – Impossible Furniture LP [LIES215]

Ron Morelli – Extinctionist [LIES212]

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In your face new 8 track LP of vicious beat driven warehouse electronics from the L.I.E.S. boss, Ron Morelli. Straight and to the point, “Extinctionist” stands very much in line and continues further in the sonically unapologetic L.I.E.S. Records tradition of the last 15 years.

Ron Morelli – Extinctionist [LIES212]

Abe Schwartz – Schwarze Leidensleider [LXRC52]

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Lux Rec number 52 presents Abe Schwartz aka Giulio Parzino, a musician from Milano with strong ties to Zürich. Active since years in the industrial and cassette culture scene he delivers this time 7 astonishing emotional, danceable, yet potently noisy tracks.

Abe Schwartz – Schwarze Leidensleider [LXRC52]

Nicolas Balmer – Nein Nein [LXRC51]

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Nicolas Balmer hails from Zürich and he is an integral part of the underground alternative music scene there since forever. This record was entirely written, produced and recorded by Nicolas at Zimmerlistrasse in Zürich, between the 21st and 29th of December 2023. A time where everything that could have happen just happened. He poured all that pain and drive into this. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.

Nicolas Balmer – Nein Nein [LXRC51]

JG Outsider – Despierto LP [CT184]

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After a long period of inactivity, during which he recharged his batteries for his return to music production, JG Outsider took up the challenge of recording his first solo album in this new phase of his musical career. EBM, industrial sounds, post-punk songs with his own vocals and high-level collaborations make up this work. It is undoubtedly a musically mature album that shows the identity of this chameleon-like artist with a career spanning more than 30 years. The album also includes great remixes by Nightcrawler Music and Spammerheads as well as a collaboration with Ruth García/From Hell.

JG Outsider – Despierto LP [CT184]