I hope that this message finds you all healthy and safe! Despite my plans to send out more frequent updates with new content and less repetitive release information, I definitely got off track. So, as a quick catch-up...
- All scheduled live shows (Anatomy of Habit, BLOODYMINDED, Mark Solotroff) have been canceled or postponed, due to COVID-19
- The Intrinsic Action S/T CD with 1985 recordings is nearly ready, according to the pressing plant. Pre-order details can be found below
- I released a new solo recording at the end of last week. See details below
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- New: Mark Solotroff "You May Be Holding Back"
- Now Nightmares "Sub-Sonic Language Transmission"
- Now: Intrinsic Action 1985 - T-shirt
- Now: Super Eight Loop - 001-100
- Next: Intrinsic Action S/T CD
- Next: Super Eight Loop - Book
- Next: Slogun "This Way Comes" CD (Compiles 7-inch singles and rarities - This will be the final release in the BloodLust!/C.O.S. anthology series)
- Next: Ensemble Sacres Garcons "Demonization: These Worldly Powers" LP
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IN ROTATION
Some recent (and older) recordings that I've been listening to. I'll add and remove albums to reflect my listening habits. Some things may linger... I also post things that I'm listening to during the day in my Instagram stories
- ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead "X: The Godless Void and Other Stories"
- Brainbombs "Cold Case"
- Exhumed Corpse "I'll Never Reach Your Plain"
- Lethvm "Acedia"
- Lord Mantis "Universal Death Church"
- Sightless Pit "Grave of a Dog
- Sutcliffe Jugend "The Deluge"
- Tindersticks "No Treasure But Hope"
- 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.
- Thanks to everyone who came out to support us at Cobra Lounge, earlier this month. A few video clips and photos were posted to IG/FB. Thanks again to Kayo Dot and Psalm Zero for asking us to join them.
- We regret that our April 17 show with Liturgy and Leya at the Empty Bottle is postponed/canceled
- While we wait for album mixes from Sanford Parker, we're writing new songs, although we're holding off on meeting until the shelter in place order is lifted in Illinois
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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.
- We regret that our show next month with Puce Mary at the Empty Bottle has been canceled
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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.
- After reviewing the songs that Paolo mixed, we sent the files to Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room, yesterday, to be mastered for LP. As it turns out, we recorded so much music last year, in Milan, that we decided to organize the songs into two LPs. The first one will be titled "Demonization: These Worldly Powers"
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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.
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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.
- Pre-orders are now open for the seventh CD in the Intrinsic Action archive series. The self-titled cassette from 1985 will be available digitally, for the first time, and it will include three edited bonus tracks from the same time period. My thanks to everyone who saw my posts on IG/FB and who already placed orders! If you order now you will have access to the song, "At the Base of the Stairs"
Intrinsic Action "S/T" (1985) CD/Digital
https://intrinsicaction.bandcamp.com/album/intrinsic-action
- Thanks to everyone who ordered the new shirt! Pre-orders were shipped ahead of schedule. It's available via Bandcamp in S/M/L/XL
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.)
- Thanks to everyone who enthusiastically supported the release of the new Nightmares cassette+book! The digital version is available via our Bandcamp page:
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
- My new album is out now. It contains two 30-minute tracks of cavernous synth mixed with processed field recordings. As I've been working on new music this winter and building on my solo work from the last few years, I've been considering the intersection of urban alienation and human desire. For now, this is a digital-only release
- Here's an excerpt from the first review that it's received, by Chris Groves/Night Science:
Mark Solotroff’s work is redolent of isolation. ‘You May Be Holding Me Back’ treats field recordings with careful synthesizer infiltration, the sounds of the city kept at bay through “A Literal Territory Occupied Literally” by a thick treatment of billowing synth fog, an insistent dying wind chime, and a slow delay which accents moments of occasional field recording clarity. The claustrophobia is gradual in onset but intense: slivers of Mark’s field recordings emerge as increasingly worrisome moments while the bilious synth coagulates unperturbed, smothering the broader city’s interactions in its cloud. The isolating effect in “All In The Straw Together” is even more intense, the walls having closed in and starting to crawl with visual infestation. The field recordings are barely discernible and the thrum of the city has disappeared, replaced with a multi-layered haze of vibrating high end hallucinating and cyclic mid-toned insomnia. “All In The Straw Together” doesn’t pretend isolation is loneliness; rather, isolation manifests as apparitional disturbance wrapped around a depressed core, flickering in and out of reality as images of the chaos outside manifest as self-isolated mania.
https://night-science.blogspot.com/2020/03/moral-order-and-mark-solotroff-you-may.html
Mark Solotroff "You May Be Holding Back" (Digital)
https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/you-may-be-holding-back
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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.
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THE SODALITY
BEYOND UNKNOWN PLEASURES
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