It's easy to order a record from one of my favorite labels WV Sorcerer Productions. It's incredibly hard though to leave it at just one. So here's my latest package, fully dedicated to music you best listen to as loud as possible.
After P/O Massacre featuring Alex Buess + Merzbow and Fossa Magna these new releases seriously double down on the label becoming a high quality source for brutal but sophisticated Electronic Noise.
SECOND SPECTRE - A Cast Of Memories (Pale Rose vinyl LP) (2020/2023)
Being a cooperative release by WV Sorcerer with Strange Therapy, this badass leveling album by the French Electronic Noise duo Second Spectre had already been released on tape by the latter label three years ago. And it's great that it's back to find new listeners!
Since my repertory of references in this direction is rather overseeable, I'll take the save route to say that the deep drones, booming basses, sharp noises and heavy yet danceable beats should speak to anyone who loves the Electronic works of Kevin Martin aka The Bug and Justin Broadrick, especially under his moniker JK Flesh.
This stuff is harsh and mighty, but not too alienating to instantly enjoy, since Second Spectre bring a great variety into the arrangements of their pieces and dunk the whole album into a beautiful tar of Ambient and almost clerical synth sounds, which gives it an extra level of profound and sometimes even touching depth.
The presentation of the vinyl version is a thing of beauty as we're expecting it. The only little flaw is that twelve inches aren't quite enough to fit "Wisdom" and "Fear God", tracks 8 and 9 on the record, so there are only available as digital bonus on Bandcamp. And you don't want to miss these two bangers!
Since my repertory of references in this direction is rather overseeable, I'll take the save route to say that the deep drones, booming basses, sharp noises and heavy yet danceable beats should speak to anyone who loves the Electronic works of Kevin Martin aka The Bug and Justin Broadrick, especially under his moniker JK Flesh.
This stuff is harsh and mighty, but not too alienating to instantly enjoy, since Second Spectre bring a great variety into the arrangements of their pieces and dunk the whole album into a beautiful tar of Ambient and almost clerical synth sounds, which gives it an extra level of profound and sometimes even touching depth.
The presentation of the vinyl version is a thing of beauty as we're expecting it. The only little flaw is that twelve inches aren't quite enough to fit "Wisdom" and "Fear God", tracks 8 and 9 on the record, so there are only available as digital bonus on Bandcamp. And you don't want to miss these two bangers!
MAI MAI MAI - Πέτρα (Petra) (Grey Marble vinyl LP) (2023)
Deeper, noisier, gnarlier and definitely weirder than Second Spectre. But experimental Electronic Industrial artist Mai Mai Mai, who opened the Roadburn warmup night last year, also gives his sample-heavy sound a transcendent touch achieved by a sense of World Music buried somewhere beneath the sprawling chaos.
This album too is a re-release, originally having been a one-sided EP in 2015. The B side of the WV Sorcerer version, which comes with a beautiful upright-format art booklet, is filled with three tracks from other sources, including one I actually already own, as "Anatole" is also featured on a split single with Sly & The Family Drone + Dead Neanderthals from 2018.
Since Mai Mai Mai has been very influental on the idea of what this label could be, WV Sorcerer inroduces "Πέτρα (Petra)" as being a very personally important release. If the expectations are raised by that - they still turn out to be fully warranted.
This surely isn't always the easiest sound collection to get into and might need a couple of spins for acclimatat, but once you're immersed into it, this sick shit will reward you greatly.
This album too is a re-release, originally having been a one-sided EP in 2015. The B side of the WV Sorcerer version, which comes with a beautiful upright-format art booklet, is filled with three tracks from other sources, including one I actually already own, as "Anatole" is also featured on a split single with Sly & The Family Drone + Dead Neanderthals from 2018.
Since Mai Mai Mai has been very influental on the idea of what this label could be, WV Sorcerer inroduces "Πέτρα (Petra)" as being a very personally important release. If the expectations are raised by that - they still turn out to be fully warranted.
This surely isn't always the easiest sound collection to get into and might need a couple of spins for acclimatat, but once you're immersed into it, this sick shit will reward you greatly.
