March 28, 2025 Update

 

Hello! My new solo album was announced yesterday and you can read more about it, below, along with news about related live dates. Anatomy of Habit is listening to test pressings and things in that department are starting to move along. I've had some questions about ordering merch across my multiple Bandcamp platforms, but as I'm not set up as a label, the pages all have separate shopping carts. If you're looking for t-shirts, I highly recommend going the route of Threadless [https://bloodyminded.threadless.com/], as I'm slowly letting my stock of many designs sell out. You can always buy vinyl, CDs, cassettes, etc., for my solo work and all my bands from my webstore [https://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/] which is up-to-date with in-stock items. As always, thanks for reading! Mark   PLAYLIST Here are some new/recent (and deeper into 2024) things I've been listening to, in alphabetical order:   Amorous Sickness "Modern Antipathies" [As a big fan of The Siamese Pearl, this was a highly anticipated release for me] The Cure "Songs of a Lost World" Ethel Cain "Perverts" FACS "Wish Defense" The Horrors "Night Life" Manic Street Preachers "Critical Thinking" M.I.A. + Mass Marriage "Drying Up The Streets" [I'm just starting to dig into this LP and I enjoy the synth I'm hearing] Patient K "Dead Man Walking" Sutcliffe No More "Diving Board" Wrekmeister Harmonies "Flowers in the Spring" [Highest recommendation] The new Hospital version of Slogun's "Will To Kill" is really beautiful. The book, the poster... Lot's of care went into this package.  TDSOGF might be no more, but Ted and Shane have both released new albums and they were both kind enough to share them with me. The grinding, chaotic spirit of the band lives on through both albums, but both releases are deep, complex listens: Problem Masturbator "The New Golden Age Of Partying" [Plus an honorable mention for Emil Bognar Nasdor's great artwork!] Ted Sweeney "Extremist Dream Sequence"    Anatomy of Habit Formed in Chicago in 2008, ANATOMY OF HABIT has been described as a hybrid of doom metal, post-punk, death-rock, early-industrial, psychedelic, and shoegaze. Although they’ve experienced significant membership changes since forming, today’s band, which includes Alex Latus (guitar), Isidro Reyes (metal percussion), Skyler Rowe (drums), Mark Solotroff (vocals), and Sam Wagster (bass + lap steel), represents their longest-standing and most prolific lineup. The band credits their treasured chemistry to their intertwining histories as friends and collaborators. Rowe and Latus have made music together since they were teenagers, growing up in Indianapolis’ heavy music scene, while playing in the band Still. Rowe and Wagster create sweeping, pastoral instrumental music together in Mute Duo. Reyes and Solotroff are old friends who’ve played together for many years and they continue to record and perform in both BLOODYMINDED and The Fortieth Day. This deep connective tissue contributes to what the band describes as consistently effortless writing sessions and innately unified live performances. "Paired Sentinels" LP + 7-Inch/CD/Cassette/Download At the pressing plant... Website Bandcamp Instagram Facebook Spotify Apple Music   BLOODYMINDED BLOODYMINDED is a heavy electronic band, formed in New York, in 1995, after the dissolution of the pioneering American post- industrial noise group Intrinsic Action, 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.   As we continue working on our next album, certain lyrics have been inspiring visual references. This comes from a song with the working title, "Beneath The Strobe."      https://bloodyminded.threadless.com/designs/bloodyminded-beneath-the-strobe Bandcamp Instagram Facebook Spotify Apple Music   Ensemble Sacrés Garçons Ensemble Sacrés Garçons is a post-industrial band split between Milan and Chicago and composed of Paolo L. Bandera, Andrea Chiaravalli, and Mark Solotroff. The three members are connected to numerous groups including Sigillum S, Sshe Retina Stimulants, The Sodality, Iugula-Thor, BLOODYMINDED, Intrinsic Action, Anatomy of Habit, The Fortieth Day, etc. "Sanctification: Seeing The Singularity" LP/CD/DL    For US orders, please visit: https://ensemblesacresgarcons.bandcamp.com/ For EU orders, please visit: https://paololbandera.bandcamp.com/  Rest of world based on proximity to USA/Italy Bandcamp   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. All of our albums, dating back to 2006, are available to stream on all major platforms. A limited number of LPs, CDs, cassettes, and shirts can be found on our Bandcamp page. There are also shirt designs available on Threadless.           Bandcamp Threadless Spotify Apple Music   Intrinsic Action Intrinsic Action was an early American power-electronics band founded by Mark Solotroff in 1984. Intrinsic Action albums and archival releases, dating back to 1984, are available to stream on all major platforms. CDs and shirts can be found on our Bandcamp page. There are also numerous shirt designs available on Threadless. Bandcamp Threadless Spotify Apple Music   Mark Solotroff   Mark Solotroff formed the band Intrinsic Action in 1984 and he's a founding member of Anatomy Of Habit and BLOODYMINDED. His other bands include The Fortieth Day, A Vague Disquiet, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, The Mercury Impulse, and Nightmares. He recorded 100 cassettes of analog synth music under the name Super Eight Loop and he releases synth-based and feedback system music under his own name. Mark Solotroff "In Search of Total Placelessness" CD/Download Pre-orders are now open: https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-total-placelessness You can read the full release announcement from EarsplitPR here Upcoming shows: Saturday May 3, 2025 Cole's Bar - 2338 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647 with Burndy (Megan from BLOODYMINDED's band - their record release show!) + TBA Saturday June 7, 2025, 2:00 PM Richard J. Daley Branch (Bridgeport) Chicago Public Library - 3400 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608 with Exhumed Corpse + TBA     My contemporary recordings are available to stream on all major platforms. CDs, cassettes, and shirts can be found on my Bandcamp page. There are also numerous shirt designs available on Threadless.  Bandcamp Threadless Spotify Apple Music   The Mercury Impulse The Mercury Impulse was created in 2024 by JR Robinson and Mark Solotroff. Robinson is well known for Wrekmeister Harmonies and Solotroff is best known for Anatomy of Habit and BLOODYMINDED.          Our debut album is available on CD and it's streaming on all major platforms. Bandcamp   The Sodality   Originally created in 1984 by Andrea Cernotto and Pierpaolo Zoppo, The Sodality bloomed under Andrea‘s guidance across seminal works in the 80's and 90's. The project was revived by original members Paolo Bandera and Eraldo Bernocchi for a 2014 concert in Rome, with Mark Solotroff on vocals, and again in 2023, for a live show in Dresden, and new recordings with that line-up, along with founding member Andrea Cernotto. All of The Sodality's albums and singles - including remastered versions of all older releases - are available via Bandcamp.   I have copies of our "Unburdened Underpass" CD via my webstore. Bandcamp   Super Eight Loop MINIMAL SYNTH MUSIC FOR ANALOG OBSESSIVES. Overloaded magnetic tape saturation - no FX.       100 remixed and remastered Super Eight Loop recordings are exclusively available on Bandcamp T-shirts are available via Bandcamp and Threadless   Website Webstore Instagram Facebook Bandcamp Spotify Apple/iTunes Amazon (author page) Threadless

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