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  • Nurse With Wound – Gyllenskold Geijerstam and I at Rydbergs
    Nurse With Wound – Gyllenskold Geijerstam and I at Rydbergs
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    2022 restock. “This 1983 period in which Gyllensköld was recorded was a fantastic time for the evolution of Steven Stapleton’s audio art. His collaborations with Diana Rogerson, [...]

  • Einsturzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
    Einsturzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
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    2023 repress; LP version. This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost [...]

  • Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
    Nurse With Wound – Homotopy To Marie
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    What our staff has to say: “Definitely my favorite Nurse With Wound release and probably one of my favorite pieces of experimental music. Frightening, funny, surreal and everything in [...]

  • Einsturzende Neubauten – Kollaps
    Einsturzende Neubauten – Kollaps
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    2014 reissue. Includes a large format 12-page booklet. Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten [...]

  • Coil – Queens Of The Circulating Library (Transparent Baby Blue Vinyl)
    Coil – Queens Of The Circulating Library (Transparent Baby Blue Vinyl)
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    Queens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound’s Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone. Crafted by the [...]

  • Fear Before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union
    Fear Before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union
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    Alienation, generational tensions, rampant nationalism and the pervasiveness of atomic danger are all topics that haunted late Soviet citizens, and those fears are reflected in the films meant to [...]

  • Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
    Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
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    Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to Sawney Bean, and from the Ghuls of ancient Persia to […]

  • Eugene Thacker – In the Dust of This Planet
    Eugene Thacker – In the Dust of This Planet
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    “Thacker’s discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating…” Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human [...]

  • Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances
    Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances
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    Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism–when Victorians were [...]

  • Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
    Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
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    Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]

  • William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
    William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
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    Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]

  • Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
    Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
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    Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage [...]

  • David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
    David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
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    John Cage’s disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues […]

  • Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
    Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
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    In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]

  • Maurice Blanchot – The Book to Come
    Maurice Blanchot – The Book to Come
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    During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, […]

  • Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
    Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
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    In his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a [...]

  • Maria Negroni – Elegy for Joseph Cornell
    Maria Negroni – Elegy for Joseph Cornell
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    Elegy for Joseph Cornell is at once a monologue; a collection of metafictional microfictions; a series of prose poems; an artist’s quest; the hero’s journey; a filmography, biography, [...]

  • Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor, 1977-1982
    Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor, 1977-1982
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    Available now is the authorized history of the obscure and influential Los Angeles art and music collective World Imitation Productions (WImP). Emerging as creators of collaged and photocopied [...]

  • The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
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    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]

  • The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind
    The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind
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    This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an [...]

  • Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
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    In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]

  • Tony Conrad: Writings
    Tony Conrad: Writings
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    Essential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a legendary multidisciplinary artist known for his [...]

  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
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    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

  • Ibn Khaldûn – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
    Ibn Khaldûn – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
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    The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]

  • Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
    Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Moondog is one of America’s great originals.–Alan Rich, New York Magazine Here is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth […]

  • Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment — Expanded Edition
    Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment — Expanded Edition
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.   Love, Sex, Fear, Death […]

  • Victor Segalen – Journey to the Land of the Real: A Translation of Equipée
    Victor Segalen – Journey to the Land of the Real: A Translation of Equipée
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    A masterpiece that effortlessly takes its place among the classics of travel writing Victor Segalen (1878-1919) was a French doctor, archaeologist, explorer and author who traveled extensively in [...]

  • Joseph Cornell – Dreams
    Joseph Cornell – Dreams
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    A selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]

  • Dating Ai, a Guide to Falling in Love with Artificial Intelligence
    Dating Ai, a Guide to Falling in Love with Artificial Intelligence
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    Dating AI is “a meditation on how to prepare for the unknown,” a thought experiment designed to stimulate new ideas about issues that are important now as well as in […]

  • Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden
    Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden
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    Interest in heroin is surging back after years of dormancy. Why? Supply and demand! Drug cartels have increased the supply of heroin, so that it is cheaper and purer than […]

  • John Fahey – Vampire Vultures
    John Fahey – Vampire Vultures
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    A wide range of memoir-like pieces, including interviews, letters, and verse, makes this collection a fitting companion to Fahey’s How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life. Published [...]

  • DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
    DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
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    DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known […]

  • Einstürzende Neubauten ‎– Live At Rockpalast 1990
    Einstürzende Neubauten ‎– Live At Rockpalast 1990
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    CDr packaged with fold over cover in polybag. When the band Einstürzende Neubauten was being founded in 1980 there were hardly any others that could have been compared to them. […]

  • Wolf Eyes w/ Spykes – S/T
    Wolf Eyes w/ Spykes – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Always loved this one. Wolf Eyes on the brink of solidifying themselves as the classic trio of Nate Young, Aaron Dilloway, & John Olson. […]

  • Nordvargr* – Pyrrhula
    Nordvargr* – Pyrrhula
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    Partly based on an old Swedish folktale, Pyrrhula (“doomlord”) is a pitch black journey into utter darkness. This is a tale of foreboding doom… a portent of dark times to […]

  • Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
    Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
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    Vinyl edition of T x R x P’s Swedish Ritual Industrial masterpiece, originally released 2011. Out of print since the 2015 CD edition, we’re very proud to announce ‘Veil The […]

  • Coil + Zos Kia + Marc Almond – How To Destroy Angels
    Coil + Zos Kia + Marc Almond – How To Destroy Angels
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    Cold Spring are proud to announce the complete recording of ‘A Slow Fade To Total Transparency’. Recorded 24th August 1983, at the Air Gallery, London, UK. All audio has been […]

  • Lull – Moments
    Lull – Moments
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    Isolationist, minimal, alienating Drone / Dark Ambient from Mick Harris (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH). Staggeringly beautiful, glacial sub-bass sounds, deep ambient and thunderous tones, with [...]

  • Hive Mind – Elysian Alarms CD
    Hive Mind – Elysian Alarms CD
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    “Surfacing from deep eddies of despair, brined in nearly a decade of retrograde emotions, Hive Mind extends and surpasses 2011’s Elemental Disgrace with a new vision of blurry, bleary [...]

  • Heart of Palm – Tropique Concrète: Collected CD
    Heart of Palm – Tropique Concrète: Collected CD
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    “The palm tree leaves have been uprooted. Each petal turns pink, shedding the season’s rime” The side project of Clotting’s Shea Hardacre, Heart of Palm is a fading audio [...]

  • Hive Mind – Hollow Slumber CD
    Hive Mind – Hollow Slumber CD
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    WARNING: EXTREME LOW MODULATION PC SPEAKER PLAYBACK NOT RECOMMENDED Initially inaudible on the wrong set of speakers – not to mention potentially damaging – Hollow Slumber is a slow [...]

  • Trepaneringsritualen – Perfection & Permanence
    Trepaneringsritualen – Perfection & Permanence
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    Trepaneringsritualen explores themes of religion, magick and the hidden realms of consciousness, taking its musical cues from the old school of ritual ambient & death industrial. Rhythmic and [...]

  • Kreuzweg Ost – Gott Mit Uns
    Kreuzweg Ost – Gott Mit Uns
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    2nd monumental album from Kreuzweg Ost for Cold Spring, headed by Michael Gregor (SUMMONING / AMESTIGON). “We see a light through the dim and cloudy shadows of our existence. In […]

  • Sistrenatus – Sensitive Disturbance
    Sistrenatus – Sensitive Disturbance
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    Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. “Sensitive Disturbance” is [...]

  • Kollaps – Until The Day I Die
    Kollaps – Until The Day I Die
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    “Until The Day I Die” is the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit KOLLAPS. “Until The Day I Die” is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and [...]

  • Fire In The Head – Confessions Of A Narcissist
    Fire In The Head – Confessions Of A Narcissist
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    “Confessions Of A Narcissist” marks the final full-length release by Fire In The Head ending six years of sonic warfare with an assault of manic, self-indulgent industrial [...]

  • K. Reinshagen Technik – I Am Seeing Fear 7″
    K. Reinshagen Technik – I Am Seeing Fear 7″
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    Transitioning from from his longtime LFA/Liable moniker, Nostilevo label head K. Reinshagen delivers two sides of lurching tape loops and unvarnished industrial rhythms perfectly suited for the [...]

  • NDE – Krieg Blut Ehre Asche
    NDE – Krieg Blut Ehre Asche
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    Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. No website. No social media. No contact details. The […]

  • Pod Blotz – Light Mass Body LP
    Pod Blotz – Light Mass Body LP
    $14.00 | Add to cart

    Confidently realized and sonically arresting, Light Mass Body perfectly encapsulates Pod Blotz’s unique fusion of pulsating synths, throbbing rhythms, blasts of metallic percussion and [...]

  • Splinterskin – Wayward Souls
    Splinterskin – Wayward Souls
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    Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied […]

  • Murderous Vision – To Know How It Will End LP
    Murderous Vision – To Know How It Will End LP
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    A much needed vinyl reissue of one of the most intense, masterful and strangely prophetic titles in the vast Murderous Vision catalog, newly remastered and expanded with two extra tracks. […]

  • Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
    Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
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    »All seals have been broken« proclaims a demonic voice on the titular track of Veil The World, and that is something terrifyingly evident in the music contained therein. On Veil […]

  • Coil / Nine Inch Nails – Recoiled
    Coil / Nine Inch Nails – Recoiled
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    “Recoiled” is a rambunctious alchemy, of magikal Coil sensibilities and hi-tech home circa 90’s mixing technique, all fused in the cave-like early studios of Danny Hyde (Coil, Electric Sewer Age) [...]

  • Spiteful Womb – Interior Castle
    Spiteful Womb – Interior Castle
    $28.00 | Add to cart

    the debut LP of Nora Zimmerman’s project Spiteful Womb. ‘Interior Castle’ coalesces so many of the elements which have coursed through Nora’s near-decade of cassette and CDR releases, combining [...]

  • P16.D4 – Kuhe In 1/2 Trauer
    P16.D4 – Kuhe In 1/2 Trauer
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    Reissue, originally released in 1984. P16.D4 was a German electronic noise music collective, active primarily from 1980 to 1988. P16.D4 embraced tape cut-ups, musique concrète, endless recycling, [...]

  • Nurse With Wound – Homotopy Of Marie (2xCD / Book)
    Nurse With Wound – Homotopy Of Marie (2xCD / Book)
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Double-CD version includes 30-page metallic hardcover book (15 x 20 x 2cm) containing color and black-and-white art by Babs Santini (Steven Stapleton). Rotorelief present a reissue of Homotopy To [...]

  • A Something Else Reader
    A Something Else Reader
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    A previously unpublished anthology of classic texts from Something Else Press, assembled in the 1970s by Dick Higgins, with works by John Cage, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg and many more […]

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
    Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
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    Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard: Germany Nine Zero, The Kids Play Russian, JLG / JLG, 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema, For Ever […]

  • You’re with Stupid: Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
    You’re with Stupid: Kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
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    In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair to the national stage. The musical ecosystem from which these […]

  • Clarice Lispector – Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
    Clarice Lispector – Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
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    The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni […]