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BloodLust! New Release
Artist: The Fortieth Day
Title: "Pelusium: 540 AD"
Format: CD (Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert, black and white artwork; jewel box with shrinkwrap)
Catalog Number: BloodLust! 145
Genre: Experimental / Drone / Dark-Ambient / Noise / Industrial
The Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key players in the power-electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a unit known for its confrontational live shows. The two also record primitive minimal-synth music, exclusively for Wierd Records [NYC], as A Vague Disquiet. In The Fortieth Day, Reyes and Solotroff utilize guitar, bass, and synth to improvise "sustained, withering blasts of high-pitched noise that are as distinct from one another as spotlights sweeping across the night sky; jackhammer clatter, jet-engine whines, and forlorn keyboard melodies dart in and out of those huge sounds with the grace and impunity of plovers picking a crocodile's teeth" [Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader].
This CD contains the remastered, 58-minute-long version of the "Pelusium: 540 AD" recordings, previously released in 2007 on cassette by Cipher Productions [Australia], in a handsome limited edition of 100 copies. Drawn from the last of the first wave [2005-2007] of recording sessions made by Reyes and Solotroff, this release sees the duo delving deeper into a heavier drone mode, allowing thick walls of bass and guitar noise to envelop the mix, creating a contrast for the occasional loop, melody, or slothful beat to rise to the surface. These recordings were re-mastered for the digital platform but allowing for true cassette saturation to work its magic. These are professionally duplicated CDs, with single panel, double-sided inserts, featuring black and white artwork; in jewel boxes with shrinkwrap; released in 2010.
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1. Part 1 (29:15)
2. Part 2 (29:05)
(Total running time: 58:25)
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http://www.discogs.com/Fortieth-Day-Pelusium-540-AD/release/2088779
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BloodLust! New Release
Artist: Mark Solotroff
Title: "Archive01"
Format: CD (Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert, color artwork; jewel box with shrinkwrap)
Catalog Number: BloodLust! 131
Genre: Noise / Industrial / Experimental / Power-Electronics
BloodLust! is pleased to finally announce the first release in the Mark Solotroff "Archive" series. In the planning stages for over two years, this series of seven CDs will cover all of Solotroff's solo output, released under his own name in 1995 and 1996. All of these recordings were originally released on cassette by a small group of labels, including BloodLust!, G.R.O.S.S. [Japan], Less Than Zero [Italy], Old Europa Cafe [Italy], and Slaughter Productions [Italy]. Each release will include bonus material, consisting of either compilation tracks from the same labels, or newly created remixes. At the time that these recordings were made, Solotroff had switched gears between Intrinsic Action and BLOODYMINDED and he had recently completed the recording of the first 50 analog synthesizer-based Super Eight Loop cassettes. This small body of work gave Solotroff the opportunity to put away the synths and to try something different. In 1995, the idea of using guitar effect pedals as ones primary "instrument" in making heavy noise was still fairly novel, and Solotroff made use of an arsenal of distortion, delay, flanger, phaser, and other pedals, running either radio frequencies [scanner or shortwave] or his voice through the complex chain of FX. The results fit squarely into what was, at the time, being discussed as a new American noise style that was developing away from the power-electronics scene, and which eventually evolved into the harsh noise subgenre of today.
For the first entry in the series, the lead track is taken from Side-A of the very first BloodLust release, "Instrumental Demonstration Of Death-Noise" [B!000 - 1995], a cassette that was released in a numbered limited edition of 100 copies. The bonus track is remixed from an edit of that material. The second entry in the series will be drawn from Side-B of the same cassette and it will feature a similar remix. The packaging for these releases is based upon the format established with the two Mark Solotroff + Sshe Retina Stimulants CDs that were released by BloodLust! in 2008 [B!101 + B!102], and the entire series will follow this unifying template. These are professionally duplicated CDs, with single panel, double-sided inserts, featuring color artwork; in jewel boxes with shrinkwrap; released in 2010.
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Tracklisting:
1. 45 Minutes Of Rape And Murder (44:57)
2. Instrumental Demonstration Of Death-Noise (Edit/Remix 01) (24:53)
(Total running time: 69:55)
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