I hope that everyone is staying healthy and keeping busy, while many of us are still under quarantine... I've recorded a new album with my dear friend Paolo from Milan (Sshe Retina Stimulants, Sigillum S, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, etc.) called "Geological Plots And Subway Rifts," and it's released today on Bandcamp. It's an eight song album and the download includes a 40-page PDF with a short sci-fi story by Paolo, and with images sourced and manipulated by me. Please see below for more information...
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- New: Paolo L. Bandera + Mark Solotroff "Geological Plots And Subway Rifts" - Digital+PDF
- New: Intrinsic Action S/T - CD/Digital
- New: 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: Super Eight Loop - Book
- Next: Slogun "This Way Comes" - CD
- 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
- A Beautiful Machine "King Tide"
- Brainbombs "Cold Case"
- FACS "Void Moments
- Haptic "Uncollected Works (2005-2010)"
- Metgumbnerbone "Anthropological Field Recordings For The Dispossessed"
- My Dying Bride "The Ghost Of Orion"
- Reivers "Bleed"
- Sightless Pit "Grave of a Dog
- Sutcliffe Jugend "The Deluge"
- 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.
- Our show with Liturgy and Leya at the Empty Bottle has been rescheduled for August 21. Fingers crossed!
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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.
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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.
- We're hanging tight as we wait for our LP master...
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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.
- The new CD is also available from:
Cloister Recordings (USA)
https://cloisterrecordingsus.bigcartel.com/
and copies were sent to:
NEdS (Japan)
http://www.neds-records.com/
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
Paolo L. Bandera + Mark Solotroff
"Geological Plots And Subway Rifts"
Digital+PDF
https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/geological-plots-and-subway-rifts
Paolo and I discussed this collaboration when Paolo was last in Chicago, in November 2019. He proposed creating a set of songs to go with a text that he was thinking about and that I might add images to. During this period of "shelter in place" during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been communicating on a daily basis and we certainly had the time to get to work on the music and the companion book. It turns out that Paolo wrote a short science fiction story and I was quickly able to visualize the type of images that I would source and manipulate to go with his text. For the music, Paolo sent me eight synth tracks that he wanted me to react to. His tracks seemed like "lead" tracks to me, so I created eight tracks that I thought would function more as "foundations" for each song. Paolo executed the first mix and I then did some additional processing and editing. This process was very different for us, compared to when we sent cassette tapes back and forth through the mail in 1996 to create our four-cassette box set, "Excellent Manipulation Of Distorted Tape Death," but the spirit of working together felt the same. Just faster! And maybe it seemed a bit "heavier," especially as Milan and the rest of Northern Italy was suffering such great loss during the time we were working on this together. At some point in the future, we may revisit this material to see if we want to create a physical release, but for now, we're happy to share the music and the companion PDF. Enjoy...
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. 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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