Hello!
My new solo album, "In Search of Total Placelessness," has been out for just over a month and I appreciate the support and positive feedback that I've received. I had a really great experience at my album release show and I'm looking forward to playing again next week.
I'm also starting to add some odds and ends to my Soundcloud page. For now, I expect things to be temporary. A weird recording from my last solo show - recorded way in the back of the room - is there now.
The next Anatomy of Habit album is finally in the final design phase, but timing has been pushed back due to issues with the test pressings.
BLOODYMINDED is quiet, but we're thinking about our approach to our July show with Primitive Man and Huntsmen.
If you're looking for t-shirts, I recommend checking out my Threadless site. As mentioned, I'm slowly letting my stock of many designs sell out.
Along with Bandcamp, you can always buy vinyl, CDs, cassettes, etc., for my solo work and all my bands from my webstore which is up-to-date with in-stock items. I also have any BloodLust! releases that are still available there.
I'm also maintaining a Discogs store (all in-stock releases, select out of stock items, rarities, etc.) and an eBay profile (all in-stock releases).
As always, thanks for reading!
Mark
PLAYLIST
Here are some things I've been listening to, in alphabetical order: Amorous Sickness "Modern Antipathies" Burndy "S/T" (Megan from BLOODYMINDED)
Dead Meadow "Voyager to Voyager"
Kevin Drumm "Sheer Hellish Miasma II"
Ethel Cain "Perverts" FACS "Wish Defense" The Horrors "Night Life" Huremic "Seeking Darkness"
Mortido "S/T"
In Covert "Bleak Machinery" (thanks to Rennie for the tip!)
Public Image Limited "First Issue" (US Version, RSD)
Lou Reed "Metal Machine Music" (50th Anniversary, RSD - the vinyl sounds great!)
Rwake "The Return of Magik"
Sex Pistols "Live in the USA 1978" (3-CD set)
Wrekmeister Harmonies "Flowers in the Spring"
YHWH Nailgun "45 Pounds"
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
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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. Bandcamp
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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.  For US orders, please visit: https://ensemblesacresgarcons.bandcamp.com/
For EU orders, please visit: https://paololbandera.bandcamp.com/
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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. 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.
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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
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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/Downloadhttps://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-total-placelessnessWebstore: https://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/mark-solotroff-in-search-of-total-placelessness-cdDiscogs: https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/3628083948Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156951993466You can read the full release announcement from EarsplitPR hereEverything is Noise song premiereNew Noise Magazine album premiereBrainwashed reviewInterviews:Alex's Love Sugar ShowHéctor's The Chill Dude on a Couch ShowUpcoming show: 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 https://www.facebook.com/events/672221555529928/https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6824c26f0537f314d2fda534
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
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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.JR recently shared two work in progress tracks that feel complete and sound really good to me! 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. 
I have copies of our "Unburdened Underpass" CD via my webstore.
All of The Sodality's albums and singles - including remastered versions of all older releases - are available via Bandcamp.Bandcamp
Super Eight LoopMINIMAL SYNTH MUSIC FOR ANALOG OBSESSIVES.
Overloaded magnetic tape saturation - no FX. 
100 remixed and remastered Super Eight Loop recordings are exclusively available on Bandcamp
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