Big Vinyl Sale

 

These LPs are on sale now!

I'd like to clear some space for incoming vinyl, so for a limited time, I'm drastically reducing the prices of these LPs from $15.00 to only $5.00 each. This sale applies to orders through my webstore (not Discogs or Ebay). No codes are necessary; prices have been adjusted in the store. Sale prices are effective from Friday April 1st through Friday April 8th. B!181 IUGULA-THOR "CHOOSING YOUR OWN BRAND OF EVIL" http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-181-iugula-thor-choosing-your-own-brand-of-evil-lp B!179 ENVENOMIST "BLEEDING OUT" http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-179-envenomist-bleeding-out-lp B!172 CHRIS CONNELLY "ARTIFICIAL MADNESS" http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-172-chris-connelly-artificial-madness-lp B!171 SUN SPLITTER "III" http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-171-sun-splitter-iii-lp B!170 ARRIVER "TSUSHIMA" http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-170-arriver-tsushima-lp B!169 RABID RABBIT "CZARNY SEN" http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-169-rabid-rabbit-czarny-sen-lp B!162 REDROT "PSYCHO BONDAGE" http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-162-redrot-psycho-bondage-lp B!158 JOSH HYDEMAN "MADISON'S FENCE" http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-158-josh-hydeman-madison-s-fence-lp Shipping costs are automatically calculated in the cart: USA: $5.00 for 1st LP, $1.00 per each additional LP Canada/Mexico: $21.00 for 1st LP, $6.00 per each additional LP Everywhere else: $26.00 for 1st LP, $8.00 per each additional LP

Ensemble Sacrés Garçons “Demonization: These Worldly Powers” LP out now

 

LIMITED EDITION LP NOW SHIPPING (Note: reverse of poster sleeve shown for illustrative purposes) (Note: this is a single LP - A and B sides shown for illustrative purposes) Ensemble Sacrés Garçons is a post-industrial band that was formed in 1994, by Paolo L. Bandera (Sshe Retina Stimulants, Sigillum S, The Sodality, Iugula-Thor, etc.), Andrea Chiaravalli (Iugula-Thor), both from Milan, and Mark Solotroff (Anatomy of Habit, BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day, Intrinsic Action, etc.), from Chicago. “Demonization: These Worldly Powers” is the band’s second album. It contains seven songs that are characterized by dense foundations of magnetic tape processing, spectral analog synth, and layers of opposing vocals. The album is pressed on 160 gram black vinyl. It’s housed in plain, glossy black LP jackets, with wrap-around 12”x24” poster sleeves, printed on both sides, in metallic silver ink on heavyweight black stock. There are individually numbered, double-sided 8.5”x11” cardstock inserts included, with credits and lyrics, as well as separate download codes. Track Listing: Side A: I'm Your Nightmare (3:34) Death Inflates (3:28) Velocity (5:32) Devil's Still On That Seat (4:25) Side B: Voice Stealing (4:47) Dead Band (7:50) Suffers (3:44) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ORDER THE LP VIA BANDCAMP: https://ensemblesacresgarcons.bandcamp.com/album/demonization-these-worldly-powers Please note that the price of $30.00 includes postage in the US, EU, and UK. Additional postage of $15.00 will be added for all other countries/regions. EU/UK orders will ship from Milan each Saturday. All other orders will ship from Chicago each weekday. Tracking numbers will be provided. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrea, Paolo, and I are very pleased to finally release the new album by our group, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons. We’ve been anticipating it for a long time… for over 25 years, in fact. We recorded our debut in 1994, in Brooklyn, at Bass Mind Studio. Andrea and I got to work utilizing recordings that Paolo had prepared in Milan, in advance. Megan Emish from Intrinsic Action/BLOODYMINDED produced those studio sessions for us. It was released on CD by the Italian label Old Europa Café in 1995.   We decided to start on our follow up, right away. To begin, Paolo again prepared material on analog tape, which he brought to Brooklyn, in 1995. I then manipulated these recordings in the manner of the SCTL (Source Control) style that I used on multiple Intrinsic Action releases. Roughly eight months later, after I completed my mix, Megan mastered the album for CD, at Acme Soundworks, NYC.   As 1996 continued on, Andrea, Paolo, and I considered and discussed the results. I think we all new that there was great material on the DAT master, but across the 12 songs and 70+ minute running time, it began to feel somewhat impenetrable. Amidst its thick walls of synth noise, tape distortion, and destroyed vocals, it was lacking in the appealing immediacy of its raw and primitive sounding predecessor. Time passed, and every so often, the three of us would discuss resurrecting the recordings, doing some judicious editing, and preparing to release it.   Finally, in 2018, a solid plan was put together. Paolo would focus on adding some minimal yet dynamic synth, I would write new lyrics, and Andrea and I would take a new and more direct approach to our vocals. In April of 2019, studio time was booked at Soundcheck Studio in Milan, and I flew there to record and to perform at our debut live show. I believe that our concert was particularly important, because it further solidified Ensemble Sacrés Garçons as more than a collaboration and more than a many-years-long series of face-to-face visits, video chats, emails, and faded out faxes. It felt like we really functioned as a band. During the recording sessions, Andrea and I were focused on our vocals, while Paolo was working his magic in the control room with the engineer, Matteo Pace. By the time I returned to Chicago, we knew that the tremendous chemistry of that week, grounded in our long friendship, had given us just what we needed to complete the album.   Paolo then got to work on his final synth tracks, as well as the challenging process of mixing the album. After just a couple of rounds of mixes, we knew that we were ready. But the album still seemed too long, especially if we were going to move forward with releasing it on vinyl. Our next step was to consider whether we had two solid albums, and if so, how we might divide the twelve songs between them. This actually turned out to be easier than we thought it would be, and two discrete albums materialized with very little effort.   We then sent the songs for the first LP to Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room, in Chicago, and we were thrilled with the results of his mastering work. As we were putting our plan together for the LP, the global pandemic hit and things slowed down again. We decided to use a relatively new pressing plant in Chicago, Smashed Plastic, which was doing some great work on albums that I’d heard. Once they were able to reopen their facilities our album went into the queue. After a few months, we had our vinyl in-hand. Staying local, we also decided to have a Chicago printer and friend – Erin Page/Kill Hatsumomo – screen print the sleeves that we designed. The three of us simply couldn’t be happier with the final outcome, especially after all of these years that have passed. As for the future, we’re already discussing plans for our third album, “Sanctification: Seeing the Singularity”...   (Mark Solotroff, February 2021)

Ensemble Sacrés Garçons T-shirts In Stock

The Ensemble Sacrés Garçons T-shirts are now in stock. I'm heading to the Post Office now with the pre-orders. Thanks!

http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/ensemble-sacres-garcons-t-shirt

Ensemble Sacrés Garçons T-shirt Update

Ensemble Sacrés Garçons T-shirts are now in production. Thanks to those of you who pre-ordered one!

http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/ensemble-sacres-garcons-t-shirt

BLOODYMINDED "True Crime" Remaster out now

BLOODYMINDED "True Crime" Remaster

http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-040-bloodyminded-true-crime-cd-re-issue

2017 re-issue in 8-panel digipak

BloodLust! is very pleased to announce the re-issue of the previously out-of-print second full-length from BLOODYMINDED. Originally released in 2002, True Crime was conceived as an urgent follow-up to the band’s debut CD, Trophy (1995), and it was intended as a final word on true crime and serial killers, themes within the power-electronics and post-industrial scene that seemed to have little left to offer. Song titles and lyrics were drawn from noteworthy true crime books read by BLOODYMINDED front man Mark Solotroff. Things don’t always go as planned, and the intended short gap between albums widened when the band relocated from New York to Chicago, as ideas about guest contributors slowly expanded, and as a period of inactivity set in.

For this recording BLOODYMINDED was Megan Emish, Ed Knigge, Steve Marvin, Pieter Schoolwerth and Mark Solotroff, with a number of special guests. P.NG5361.B (Sshe Retina Stimulants/Sigillum S) and Akifumi Nakajima (Aube) both contributed analog synth tracks to multiple songs, adding to the deep layers of synth and bass frequencies that are at the foundation of each selection. Guest vocals were recorded by John Balistreri (Slogun), Andrea Chiaravalli (Iugula-Thor), Jonathan Canady (Angel of Decay/Deathpile/Dead World), and Xavier Laradji (Timeless). Following the release of True Crime, Laradji would go on to become a permanent member of the band.

After failing to capture the low-end sound they wanted on the raw and stripped-down Trophy, despite working at a renowned Brooklyn dub studio, the band sought a Chicago studio and engineer known for bass-heavy house music. True Crime was recorded in multiple stages, first by Mark Solotroff at Brooklyn Electrical, Brooklyn, 1997, and then by Jack Letourneau and Tomas Ford, with Mark Solotroff, at Satellite Studios, Chicago, during 1997 and 1998. Additional contributions were recorded in various locations in Italy, Japan and the USA. The album was mixed by Jack Letourneau, with Mark Solotroff and Ed Knigge, at Satellite Studios, in 1998 and it was initially mastered by Chris Greene, at Alien Soundscapes, Inc., Chicago, during 1999 and 2000. The following two years were relatively quiet for BLOODYMINDED, prior to releasing this album and increasing the frequency of live performances.

For this re-release, graphic designer Daniel Regueira worked with the original creative concept, based on autumn leaves, overhauling the design to better align with the digipak format. Restrained re-mastering was completed by Collin Jordan, at his Chicago studio, The Boiler Room, in late 2016. Full-color, 8-panel digipak, in shrink-wrap.

Track listing: 
1. Angel Of Darkness (6:00) 
2. The Killer Department (6:10) 
3. Blind Fury (6:25) 
4. 29 Below (6:31) 
5. Deadly Thrills (6:10) 
6. Bound To Die (6:11) 
7. Rites Of Burial (6:06) 
8. The Misbegotten Son (4:51) 
9. The Killer Next Door (5:34) 
10. St. Joseph's Children (6:13)

Brainwashed on Iugula-Thor

Thanks to Creaig Dunton at Brainwashed!

http://bit.ly/2jyhPVm

After a lengthy dormancy, Andrea Chiaravalli reinstated his long standing harsh electronics project Iugula-Thor in 2012 and has been active ever since, releasing some of the strongest work of his career.  This is the first full fledged release since then, with the prior ones being largely splits and singles, and also features Chiaravalli partnering with Paolo Bandera (Sshe Retina Stimulants, Sigillum S) to create a bleak, but multifaceted record of diverse electronics.

Iugula-Thor never fit in quite as specifically as many other Italian artists associated with the power electronics scene.  Their work largely took on a grey aura simultaneously colored by Marizio Bianchi's depression and the violence of giallo films.  It is a distinct and great style, but it is always great to hear an artist breaking away from what is expected. Iugula-Thor’s influence has drawn more heavily from the thrash and speed metal scenes, and while that may not be immediately apparent these days, I think that influence adds a lot to the duo’s unique sound.

Rhythms play a notable role in the sound of Choosing Your Own Brand of Evil.  "Unknown Third Party" is driven by a crashing loop and an insistent, throbbing bit of bass, as the two work a multitude of weird synth sounds in, at times twinkling and almost light, and other times dark and sinister.  The overall effect is wonderfully schizophrenic.  The terse "One Mind No Views" is a bit less subtle in rhythm:  a big, rib cage pummeling kick drum that never subsides for the pieces' brief two minute duration, with other bits of trash percussion and simply oscillating noise synths stay prominent.

Even a more noise oriented composition, such as "n.a." has some semblance of rhythm with the crunchy static-laden loop that underscores it, but the tasteful applications of filtered noise and other bursts of static place it somewhere on the spectrum between avant garde experimentalism and outright noise brutality.  There is a similarly tenuous balance to be found on "First Time My Wrists Opened", though the grinding electronics and sinister slowed voice passages nudge it a bit more in the death industrial direction.

The moments where the duo take a "throw everything together and see what happens” are the ones that stand out the most for me, however.  For example:  "I'm Not" is at first all noise loops, but with an almost toy-like synthesizer line.  Voices appear here and there, and the whole song alternates from lighter bits of electronics into vaguely industrial stomping.  The voices and what almost could be horn samples make for a confusing, scatter-shot quality in instrumentation but it all manages to work together.  The album closer "Hammer" is also a bizarre mix of marching band like rhythms, largely clean synth sounds, and what could almost be a violin here and there.  Compared to what preceded it, it is lighter and less oppressive, but still just the right amount of abrasive and weird.

For their first full album release in nearly two decades, Chiaravalli and Bandera have put together an excellent, fully realized album with Choosing Your Own Brand of Evil.  The mood and style may not be a surprise, but the actual work from the two artists is a unique, idiosyncratic mass of collaged electronics and abrasive electronics that comes across as composed, rather than just improvised.  The music itself is where the unpredictability lies, and that sense of the unknown is where it excels the most.

Iugula-Thor Video Premiere

Thanks to Heathen Harvest for premiering the new NSFW Iugula-Thor video by Dominic F. Marceau of F Squared Media, and for announcing the new LP!

https://heathenharvest.org/2016/12/08/exclusive-premiering-im-not-the-new-video-from-iugula-thor/

Iugula-Thor :: I'm Not [Official Video] from F Squared Media on Vimeo.

New Envenomist and Iugula-Thor LPs out now

Please visit the BloodShop! to order:

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Iugula-Thor Test Pressings

Iugula-Thor test pressings arrived today

#iugulathor #choosingyourownbrandofevil #bloodlust #vinyl #testpressing

Envenomist + Iugula-Thor LPs - Update #1

Two new LPs are now at the pressing plant. Details, including anticipated release dates, to follow...

B!179 Envenomist "Bleeding Out" LP

B!181 Iugula-Thor "Choosing Your Own Brand Of Evil" LP

BLOODYMINDED "True Crime" CD SOLD OUT

The BLOODYMINDED "True Crime" CD is currently out of stock and a new digipak edition is being planned for release this winter.

This is the band's second full-length release and guest artists include Xavier Laradji of "Timeless" magazine (now a full-fledged band member); Paolo Bandera of Sshe Retina Stimulants/Sigillum S; Andrea Chiaravalli of Iugula-Thor; Akifumi Nakajima of Aube; Jonathan Canady of Angel of Decay/Deathpile/Dead World; and John Balistreri of Slogun.  The CD was Recorded at Brooklyn Electrical, Brooklyn, NY and Satellite Studios, Chicago, and it features a Quicktime video for the song "Chinatown," from the "Trophy" CD.

Rare Intrinsic Action on eBay

A very rare (and rather costly) copy of the "Exploration One" compilation released by Body & Blood Exploration is currently on eBay, with Intrinsic Action, along with Iugula-Thor, Brighter Death Now, Anenzephalia, Orphyx, Deutsch Nepal, Con-Dom, Sshe Retina Stimulants, MSBR, Genocide Organ and Sigillum S: http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXPLORATION-ONE-CD-SIGILLUM-S-DEUTSCH-NEPAL-Brighter-Death-Now-ANENZEPHALIA-/160971023443?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123

I-T/IA on eBay

There is a copy of the rare Iugula-Thor/Intrinsic Action "Ensembles Sacres Garcons" CD on Old Europa Cafe currently on eBay.