Monday, June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020 Update

The latest news from Anatomy of Habit, BLOODYMINDED, and Mark Solotroff


JUNE 29, 2020 UPDATE

I hope that this message finds everyone feeling well.

As I've been mentioning, I'm continuing to reduce my social media footprint. The Super Eight Loop Facebook page has been deactivated and I started the same process with the BloodLust! label Facebook page, as well as the profile for The Fortieth Day, which will both be deactivated in about two weeks. My goal is to focus on my own artist pages on IG/FB, as well as those for Anatomy of Habit and BLOODYMINDED. I'm encouraged by the many conversations that these updates have generated and I plan to continue trying to find ways to add value to these communications.

Take care and stay safe, Mark


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- New: The Fortieth Day "03/30/07" - CD/Digital
- New: The Fortieth Day "02/20/07" - CD/Digital

- Now: The Fortieth Day "Narratives Of Cultural Alienation" - Cassette/CD/Digital

- Now: Intrinsic Action S/T - CD/Digital
- Now: Paolo L. Bandera + Mark Solotroff "Geological Plots And Subway Rifts" - Digital+PDF
- Now: Mark Solotroff "You May Be Holding Back" - Digital
- Now Nightmares "Sub-Sonic Language Transmission"
- Now: Intrinsic Action 1985 - T-shirt
- Now: Super Eight Loop - 001-100


- Next: Ensemble Sacres Garcons "Demonization: These Worldly Powers" - LP/Digital
- Next: Intrinsic Action "Early Action" - CD
- Next: BLOODYMINDED "Synths Up!" - CD (Live)
- Next: Super Eight Loop - Book
- Next: Slogun "This Way Comes" - CD


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I'm adding items to the BloodLust! Discogs store, including in-stock and extra personal copies of out-of-print label releases, as well as used items and rarities. Please check it out here:
https://www.discogs.com/seller/bloodlustchicago/profile


I'm maintaining in-stock items and adding some rare items, such as test pressings, to my eBay store. Please check it out here:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=bloodlustchicago&_sop=1

 
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IN ROTATION

Here are some recent (and older) recordings that I've been listening to. I add and remove albums to reflect my listening habits. Some things may linger:

- A Beautiful Machine "King Tide"
- Einstürzende Neubauten "Alles In Allem"
- Exhumed Corpse "DEADBEAT"
- FACS "Void Moments
- Göden "Beyond Darkness"
- Iugula-Thor "Sisters"
- Martial Canterel "Objet Trouve"
- Oranssi Pazuzu "Mestarin Kynsi"
- Slaves No More "The Unravelling"
- Sshe Retina Stimulants "Murked Clutter + Grandiose Punk"
- The Warlocks "The Chain"
- Wrekmeister Harmonies "We Love to Look at the Carnage"


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ANATOMY OF HABIT

Anatomy of Habit formed in Chicago in October 2008 and is composed of Alex Latus (guitar), Isidro Reyes (metal percussion), Skyler Rowe (drums), Mark Solotroff (vocals), and Sam Wagster (bass + lap steel). The band encompasses elements of doom metal, post-punk, death-rock, noise-rock, industrial, psychedelic, and shoegaze. The band's last album, "Ciphers + Axioms," was released by Relapse Records.



Following a couple of changes that we requested, we're waiting for final mixes from Sanford Parker, and then we'll be moving on to mastering.

Our show with Liturgy and Leya at the Empty Bottle remains scheduled for August 21, pending changes to stay-at-home orders, Liturgy's tour plans, etc.


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BLOODYMINDED

BLOODYMINDED is a heavy electronic band that was formed in New York, in 1995, after the dissolution of the pioneering American post-industrial noise group Intrinsic Action, which was founded by Mark Solotroff, in Chicago, in 1984. BLOODYMINDED’s live shows are exceptionally energetic and are characterized by physical engagement, layers of abrasive analog synthesizer, aggressive vocals, and abundant feedback. In a live context, BLOODYMINDED celebrate and deconstruct the rock and roll performance.


(James, Mark, and crowd, Milwaukee Noise Fest, Darling Hall, Milwaukee, WI, 2007)

New album:
The foundations of ten new songs are shaping up very nicely, as band members have been sharing their work 
over the past few weeks. We'll keep assembling things remotely until we're ready to head into the studio with Sanford Parker to work on "amplified" sounds, vocals, and mixing.

Live Album:
We're also compiling a live anthology of recordings from our 2019 shows. It'll be titled "Synths Up!" Editing is underway now. More news about that, soon...

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ENSEMBLE SACRÉS GARÇONS

Ensemble Sacrés Garçons was initially billed as a collaboration between Iugula-Thor and Intrinsic Action (with support from Sshe Retina Stimulants) and we released our debut in 1995, on Old Europa Cafe.

New album:
Following the mastering stage with Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room, in Chicago, our forthcoming LP, "Demonization: These Worldly Powers," was sent to Smashed Plastic, a pressing plant in Chicago that opened in 2019. Cover artwork is still in progress but we anticipate working with a Chicago screen printer on that element..

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THE FORTIETH DAY

The Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key players in the heavy-electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a band known for its aggressive and confrontational live shows. In The Fortieth Day, Reyes and Solotroff utilize guitar, bass, drum machine, and analog synthesizer to create epic, blackened, psychedelic-industrial drone soundscapes.

We have two new CDs out this week. They are newly remastered editions of long-out-of-print cassettes from 2007, which document our first two live shows in front of an audience, and which also include processed versions of the shows, in the vein of Intrinsic Action "SCTL" material.



"02/20/07"
Bandcamp for CD/Digital:

https://thefortiethday.bandcamp.com/album/02-20-07
BloodShop! for CD:
https://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/the-fortieth-day-02-20-07
iTunes:
https://apple.co/2Adgkti

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Y9lAsUfYzQDiHTYt6SLYX?si=UjTpPGicRUy_zn_4FpRDjA




"03/30/07"
Bandcamp for CD/Digital:

https://thefortiethday.bandcamp.com/album/03-30-07
BloodShop! for CD:
https://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/the-fortieth-day-03-30-07
iTunes:
https://apple.co/3h4CvCB
Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4rmmCvqrXuSoB4cxxD7QGx?si=O2p0fdu-RfK8FdVJHaXMZw

Thanks to everyone who has supported our latest album, "Narratives Of Cultural Alienation, which is still available on CD/Digital.



"Narratives Of Cultural Alienation"
Bandcamp for CD/Digital:
https://thefortiethday.bandcamp.com/album/narratives-of-cultural-alienation
BloodShop! for CD:
http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/the-fortieth-day-narratives-of-cultural-alienation-cd
iTunes:
https://apple.co/2xoQzF0
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4dZ4480FOXlL9qT7vxqhHR?si=G5DVxf9hTAO2MABWKLqtcg

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INTRINSIC ACTION

Intrinsic Action was an industrial/power-electronics band, founded by Mark Solotroff in 1984, in Chicago, and dissolved in 1995, in New York, when BLOODYMINDED began.

New album:
The forthcoming CD of recordings from 1984, which will be titled, "Early Action," was sent to Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room for mastering. I'm anticipating a release in late summer.

In the meantime, the self-titled CD of 1985 material is finding its way further into the world...




Intrinsic Action
"S/T" (1985)
CD/Digital

https://intrinsicaction.bandcamp.com/album/intrinsic-action
iTunes: https://apple.co/2TKgwXX
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4tJRKpz7Mo8nOVULSO0RXx


https://intrinsicaction.bandcamp.com/merch/intrinsic-action-1985-t-shirt

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NIGHTMARES 

Nightmares is the synth trio of Jonathan Canady (Angel of Decay, Dead World, Deathpile, etc.), David Reed (Envenomist, Imvixor, Luasa Raelon, etc.) and Mark Solotroff (Anatomy of Habit, BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day, Intrinsic Action, etc.)



Nightmares
"Sub-Sonic Language Transmission"
Digital + Bonus Mix + PDF

https://synthnightmares.bandcamp.com/album/sub-sonic-language-transmission
The digital version includes a 41-minute bonus track, "A Detachment Of The Soul," which is a decidedly different sounding mega-mix of select tracks from the new album, created by David Reed. The download also contains a PDF of the companion booklet.

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MARK SOLOTROFF


(Solo microphone feedback performance, viral:CULTURE Symposium, Columbia College, Chicago, 2007)

My recent solo album, "You May Be Holding Back," now has expanded availability via all major digital platforms



Mark Solotroff "You May Be Holding Back" (Digital)
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2PCefAEqmGnK3EGEB25723
iTunes: https://apple.co/2CI84m7
Google Play: https://bit.ly/2VlDcOR
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3i0OXE9
Bandcamp: https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/you-may-be-holding-back





Paolo L. Bandera + Mark Solotroff
"Geological Plots And Subway Rifts"
Digital+PDF

https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/geological-plots-and-subway-rifts



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SUPER EIGHT LOOP

MINIMAL SYNTH MUSIC FOR ANALOG OBSESSIVES

Super Eight Loop is series of 100 hour-long analog synth recordings by Mark Solotroff, launched in 1993. Digitization of all 100 cassettes began in December 2018 and finished in December 2019. All 100 recordings are available to stream and download, exclusively via Bandcamp.


                       

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THE SODALITY

BEYOND UNKNOWN PLEASURES

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Destination Morgue VII

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In response to the current situation in the USA, and amidst the increasingly global fight against racial injustice, I unequivocally state that I am against the discrimination of African Americans. Further, I want to reinforce that I absolutely condemn white supremacy, racism, bigotry, chauvinism, sexism, homophobia and other oppressive beliefs.

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