ossia finally delivers his debut longplayer via blackest ever black.

the italian artist has been a fixture of the underground since her precocious teens, clocking up many miles in control unit with ninni morgia (“it’s like catherine deneuve dumped two cases of post-repulsion psychiatric notes over pere ubu’s dub housing, lit the fuse and, ahem, stood well back” – julian cope), including collaborations with the likes of smegma, factrix, gary smith, aki onda and gate (michael morley of the dead c). through her own label, ultramarine, she has released music by the likes of raymond dijkstra, blood stereo and bene gesserit.

sleep-deprived, breakbeat-driven vignettes of unclear authorship, from somewhere west of lake lagoda, near the russia-finland border.sekundenschlaf has significant points of correspondence with contemporary european electronic music, as well as the golden age of (early) jungle and ambient techno. but its response to tradition, and to the zeitgeist, is idiosyncratic to say the least – with an atmosphere and psychogeography rooted in the tranquility and majesty of western russian nature, and the anxiety and distress of the country s post-soviet working class. pastoral calm meets dissonance and unease. the music has a loose, improvised feel, but its arrangements are intricate, its melodies iridescent: cascading arpeggios that stir a sense of optimism and renewal, sighing string-pads that evoke the deepest melancholy. rhythms simultaneously hyped-up and burned-out, collapsing in on themselves as they race to destinations unknown. all bound together with field recordings of eavesdropped conversations, blurred into abstraction, a droning subliminal menace.trust me, you ll be fine

12 inch housed in die-cut sleeve. vinyl-only release. -trust is good but control is better.-

an ep from carla dal forno containing four new, obliquely confessional dispatches from the edge zones of feeling. it marks both a refinement of the dub-damaged, inward-looking bedsit pop essayed on her 2016 debut album you know what it’s like, and an evolutionary leap.
the vinyl release includes a download code.

available in an edition of 500, housed a in picture sleeve with a printed insert featuring the text reproduced in full, and download code.

high-tech dancehall battering ram with an ethereal, mournful edge… rhythm and blooz for sentimental gun man dem. deep and desolated pop-ambient. canonbury after the rain. vocals from the source squished, hacked and splattered across an infinite horizon of vaporous, funereal string-pads.

a new long-form offering of poignant, isolationist machine music from secret boyfriend. eschewing the cryptic and compact song-sketches that characterised his 2013 blackest ever black lp, this is always where you’ve lived, ryan martin instead guides us through vast interior topographies and nerve-damaged ambiences that comfort and deceive like memory itself. the vinyl release includes a download code.

faith coloccia and alex barnett return to blackest ever black with their second duo album, weld. working with synthesizers, affected vocals, raw electrical noise, field recordings, evp techniques, tape manipulation and drum machines, barnett + coloccias special facility with the interpenetrating mechanisms of time, space and tone yields a music at once lucid and mystic. the vinyl release includes a code for album download in mp3 & flac format.

blackest ever black presents red x, the debut release from young echo member ossia. 10 unyielding minutes of noise-strafed, rootical techno backed with two more abstract, uncanny studies in reverb and delay. vinyl-only edition of 500 housed in beautiful screen-printed sleeve designed by studio tape echo.

it is said that the gods of the dead demand you ritualistically commit to each intensely hot beat of the ceremonial drum. now, here, is the music for their celebration of death, music to dance together with, to oblivion, a music both spectacular and ecstatic where, like never before, the spirits of santería and vaudou mix with raw electricity into burning diabolical polyrhythms. we here present cut hands and festival of the dead.
the double vinyl lp comes in gatefold sleeve and includes mp3/flac download code.

dark pool is the new studio album from black rain, the projects first in 18 years. produced in new york city by stuart argabright, black rains founder and figurehead, dark pool is a work of hard-edged sonic fiction rooted in cyberpunks quintessential neo-noir cityscape/dataspace but projecting into a farther future of biotechnological advancement and alienation.
the vinyl lp includes a download code.

will to be well is the new studio album by dalhous, their second for blackest ever black. this double-lp reflects writer-producer marc dalls continued interest in the life and arcana of r.d. laing, but also alludes to more universal and enduring mysteries: the relationships between body and mind, illness and wellness, the physical and the metaphysical.
the double vinyl lp includes free download of the full album.

visibility is a trap is the new ep by dalhous, comprised of four originals together with a masterfully understated regis remix of *he was human and belonged with humans*. the ep heralds the arrival of the edinburgh-based projects sophomore album, will to be well, due out on blackest ever black in early summer 2014.

oblique soundsystem murderers from the trio of amos childs, seb gainsborough (vessel) and sam kidel - members of bristols noted young echo collective. killing sound make their full recorded debut on this self-titled 2x12 inch, with four tracks cut obnoxiously loud across four sides by matt colton at alchemy.

limited 10inch release

retrieval is the debut collaborative album from faith coloccia and alex barnett. artist and composer coloccia was a founding member of everlovely lightningheart, and is perhaps best known as one half of mamiffer. she has contributed to recordings by house of low culture, boris and william fowler collins among others, and collaborations with circle and daniel menche are forthcoming. alex barnett played in oakeater but since 2009 has been active primarily as a solo artist, with releases on catholic tapes, draft, nihilist and others.

blackest ever black presents the first vinyl edition of dickon hinchliffes original score for 1980 - the second part of channel 4 and revolution films red riding trilogy, adapted by tony grisoni from david peaces quartet of novels and first screened in 2009.

damballah 58 is the monstrous sequel to last years deadly *black mamba 12 inch (blackest010). the title tracks diabolically addictive vaudou rhythms insinuate deeply before uncoiling convulsively into an irrevocable reclamation of the consciousness. the b-side features *mamba muntu* (sister track to the previous *river mumma* and *witness the spread of the dream*), the treacherously beautiful *belladonna theme*, and the marauding burning rush of *immersion*. written and produced by william bennett. original vévé artwork by mimsy deblois. cut by noel summerville at 3345 mastering, london. 12 inch vinyl housed in reverse board picture sleeve.

following their 2012 split 7inch with pete swanson on blackest ever blacks confessions sub-label, the furtive moin deliver their debut proper, a three-track 12inch on beb proper

restless idylls is the first full length album from tropic of cancer, the solo project of los angeles-based camella lobo.
comes as double 12 inch vinyl in gatefold sleeve.

the alias of welsh-born, california-based brian williams, lustmord first emerged as an associate of spk in the early 80s, before embarking on a solo career that has yielded such classics as heresy (1990), the place where the black stars hang (1994) and (with robert rich) stalker (1995). lustmord has also contributed to numerous hollywood films as music and sound designer, and collaborated with the likes of clock dva, chris & cosey, geir jenssen, the melvins, tool, aaron turner, monte cazazza and coils jhon balance. often seen to epitomize dark ambient, it would be more accurate to say that his work simply goes deeper, further, than conventional ambient dares, or is able, to go. half a decade in the making, the word as power is his new studio album and an exploration of ritual music without dogma.

dalhous is the latest collaborative incarnation of marc dall and alex ander, who have previously released on blackest ever black as young hunting. the change of name reflects a new clarity and conviction to their work, and while certain sonic signatures, not to mention certain extra-musical influences (particularly the films of jack bond and jane arden), have carried over from their last project, they are handled here with a newfound sophistication and restraint. mitchell heisman marks the beginning of a new chapter in the precocious duos development, and heralds dalhouss debut album on blackest ever black in 2013.

ltd regis and monoton remixes !!

repress !! great original cuts - regis remix carries on where >in a syrian tongue< left off with increased club appeal... dominick fernow arrives on blackest ever black as vatican shadow. two tracks remastered from the the debut vs cassette on hospital productions, byzantine private cia, and a powerful regis remix of another early cut, >church of all images<. in the words of hospital: >militant religious industrial. music for assassins on the world-scale board game upon which it isnt clear who is winning or what side you are on.<

limited 1st edition in lp style sleeve!! great original cuts - regis remix carries on where >in a syrian tongue< left off with increased club appeal... dominick fernow arrives on blackest ever black as vatican shadow. two tracks remastered from the the debut vs cassette on hospital productions, byzantine private cia, and a powerful regis remix of another early cut, >church of all images<. in the words of hospital: >militant religious industrial. music for assassins on the world-scale board game upon which it isnt clear who is winning or what side you are on.<

limited 1st edition in picture sleeve, 1st ever vinyl outing for these long lost post-industrial classics... this lp release on blackest ever black is a selection of the best black rain instrumentals from those 94-95 sessions: seven richly atmospheric, brooding rhythm tracks that together constitute a lost classic of post-industrial music, and a genuine cyberpunk artefact, remastered and cut to vinyl for the very first time

a new and troubled addition to the blackest ever black family, the night of the burning is the debut vinyl offering from young hunting - edinburghs marc dall and alex ander. a masterful melding of lavish orchestration, arcane lyricism, sewer electronics and militaristic drumming. a meditation on madness, ritual sacrifice and erotic servitude. the most pungent, passionate articulation of youthful desire and disquiet to emerge from the uk underground in years.

raime return on blackest ever black with hennail, their first 12 inch release since 2010s >if anywhere was here we would know where we are<. a double-a-side comprised of >told and collapsed< and >you will lift your frame clear<, its the most potent and substantial document of their militant dysphoria yet

raimes 2nd release on blackest ever black comes backed up with a regis version of >this foundry<. / repress

edition without picture sleeve but with a new printed insert. blackest ever black return following tropic of cancers recent hit (blackest003). blackest ever black is proud to present in a syrian tongue: karl o connors first solo ep as regis in ten years. on the a-side is >blood witness<, is sleek, predatory techno for sex workers and serial killers, on the b-side a slower, noisier live edit of the same track by o connor and mick harris (aka scorn) that accentuates its rugged breakbeat architecture, and then >blinding horses<, a suitably pummelling, punishing hymn to desert conflict ancient and modern. across these three tracks, regis showcases a sound that delivers the industrial intensity of his vintage downwards work, the elegance and swing of his sandwell district contributions, and a seemingly new ingredient: something powerfully, irreducibly blackest ever black. blackest ever black is a london-based label home to releases from raime, regis and tropic of cancer. this is regiss second contribution to its catalogue, following his remix of raimes >this foundry< (blackest002).

first 500 pieces only in limited printed sleeve - first come first served. second edition repress will ship at the same time without picture sleeve but with a new printed insert. blackest ever black return following tropic of cancers recent hit (blackest003). blackest ever black is proud to present in a syrian tongue: karl o connors first solo ep as regis in ten years. on the a-side is >blood witness<, is sleek, predatory techno for sex workers and serial killers, on the b-side a slower, noisier live edit of the same track by o connor and mick harris (aka scorn) that accentuates its rugged breakbeat architecture, and then >blinding horses<, a suitably pummelling, punishing hymn to desert conflict ancient and modern. across these three tracks, regis showcases a sound that delivers the industrial intensity of his vintage downwards work, the elegance and swing of his sandwell district contributions, and a seemingly new ingredient: something powerfully, irreducibly blackest ever black. blackest ever black is a london-based label home to releases from raime, regis and tropic of cancer. this is regiss second contribution to its catalogue, following his remix of raimes >this foundry< (blackest002).

blackest ever black returns for 2011 with a new ep of crushing, sensuous darkwave pop from tropic of cancer follow up to the two much-loved 10inchs on downwards, >the dull age< and >be brave< tropic of cancer is the la-based duo of camella lobo and juan mendez. mendez is best known as silent servant, venerable techno producer, former cytrax boss and core member of the sandwell district collective. with lobo he makes raw, visceral music in the loose tradition of minimal synth, post-punk, industrial and goth, produced with authority and a supremely evolved grasp of spatial arrangement.

repress !! blackest ever black is a new london-based label that seeks to re-establish electronic music as a poetic, provocative and emotionally inquisitive force. music by artists, not engineers. its first release is a self-titled ep by raime, a british duo who draw explicit inspiration from the marginal mavericks of early european goth, industrial and synth wave - artists largely omitted from the current master narrative of post-punk history, and who strove to make music at once cerebral and visceral, futuristic and atavistic. well-versed in the language of club music, but rejecting its typically rigid sequencing and arrangements, raime use technology pensively - to convey a sense of crisis, collapse and longing. transporting and disorienting though their work might be, its narratively taut and has no truck whatsoever with the cosmic, its too aggressive and engaged to be called psychedelic.