The challenge of asking two bands evolving in two different sonic universe to collaborate is not quite one, but asking two bands consisting of the same members to collaborate with each other is a real one! When asked by Hushush to confront Kapotte Muziek’s sound - made from instruments consisting of discarded objects, discovered by the trio on locations and played in combination with prerecorded found sounds - with Goem’s pulses and shifting layers of rhythm, the three Dutch minimalists were enthusiastic and dived into the studio, only to discover that trying to combine the two trio’s was near to impossible. So a different course was decided on. A Kapotte Muziek live recording was edited and subsequently used to create Goem tracks, which were then mixed back into the live recording. Complicated you ask? "Well, in a way it is, but the result is definitely worth the trouble!" are saying the three brains from this double trio collaboration. Kapotte Muziek’s sound is an electroacoustic experience with many subtleties and almost cinematic qualities. Frans de Waard’s interest in Roel Meelkop’s Student Stimulator, a device discovered in a thrift shop and made audible by Roel led to the creation of Goem. Their minimal sound consist of simple pulses used by Frans to create dense layers to which on Roel’s suggestion they added analog synthesizers and filtering. Goem makes electronic music in its purest form (very dutch, really). The confrontation of both universes bring this release a crispy, dense, well defined and minimal sound. A very "boeiend" experience. Never before you heard Goem nor Kapotte Muziek sound that way! Short and sweet.

1. KGM

Comes in a limited edition hand made hand folded cardboard cover


EN FRANÇAIS

Demander à deux groupes évoluant dans des univers sonores différents de collaborer sur disque représente, certes, un grand défi, mais demander la même chose à deux groupes comprenant les mêmes membres constitue un défi beaucoup plus grand! Lorsque Hushush a demandé à ces trois minimalistes hollandais de mettre en face à face le son de Kapotte Muziek - fait à partir d’instruments constitués d’objets mis au rebut, découverts par le trio en différents endroits, et joués conjointement avec des sons préenregistrés de différentes provenances - et le son de Goem, fait de pulsations et de couches rythmiques en constante mutation, les musiciens ont été emballés par l’idée et se sont aussitôt enfermés dans leur studio, pour ne découvrir que la combinaison des deux trios était pratiquement impossible. Une autre approche a donc été convenue. Un enregistrement en spectacle de Kapotte Muziek a été édité et subséquemment utilisé pour créer les pistes de Goem, qui ont alors ont été retravaillées et réintégrées dans l’enregistrement en spectacle. Compliqué, me direz vous? « En effet, d’une certaine façon, ça l’est, mais le résultat en vaut vraiment la peine! », déclarent les trois cerveaux de cette collaboration à double trio. Le son de Kapotte Muziek est une expérience électroacoustique comportant nombre de subtilités et présentant des qualités presque filmographiques. L’intérêt manifesté par Frans de Waard à l’égard du Student Stimulator de Roel Meelkop, appareil trouvé dans une boutique d’occasion et dont le son a été rendu audible par Roel, a mené à la création de Goem. Leur son minimal se compose de simples pulsations employées par Frans pour créer de denses couches sonores auxquelles, à la suggestion de Roel, ils ont ajouté des synthés analogiques et différents filtres. Goem crée de la musique électronique sous sa forme la plus pure (dans le sens hollandais authentique du mot, vraiment!). La confrontation des deux univers confère à ce disque un son croustillant, dense, bien défini et minimal. Une expérience des plus "boeiend". Jamais n’aurez-vous entendu Goem ou Kapotte Muziek de cette manière! Court, mais efficace.

Release date: 02/2007

This is a truly unique release Hushush (Canada) is very proud and excited to make available to the public. Created from various sessions and live sets, this collaboration in between two of the Americas’ most original improvisation acts has a distinctive sound. The Nihilist Spasm Band has existed now for more than 40 years, these forerunners of the current noise and improvisation scenes know no artistic borders and have no boundaries to their imagination. By building their own instruments and by making no compromise on the form of their musical output, this Canadian band has acquired a huge well deserved worldwide reputation. NSB crossed the path of Reynols, an Argentine improvisation trio of globetrotters headed by Miguel Tomasín, a drummer who suffers from the Down’s Syndrome. This equally emancipated combo remixed some of the Nihilist Spasm Band’s sounds, adding their own mojo and giving them new dimensions. With the recent Reynols’ disbanding and NSB’s bass player Hugh McIntyre’s death, this disc is due to become a priceless document of the original spirit of border-less improvisation music.

1. Acrostics (Infinite version)
2. Destroy all the borders
3. No Remix (No Canada, No Argentina) with Joe McPhee (didgeridoo) & Greg Curnoe (drums)

Comes in a limited edition hand made hand folded cardboard cover

EN FRANÇAIS

Il s’agit d’une production des plus uniques que Hushush (Canada) est vraiment fière et enthousiaste de rendre accessible au public. Créée à partir d’enregistrements de différents spectacles et séances, cette collaboration entre deux des projets d’improvisation les plus originaux dans les Amériques présente un son distinctif. Le Nihilist Spasm Band existe depuis maintenant plus de 40 ans; ces précurseurs des scènes improv et bruitiste actuelles ne connaissent aucunes frontières sur le plan artistique et leur imagination est sans limites. En construisant ses propres instruments et en faisant aucun compromis quant à la forme de son expression musicale, ce groupe canadien a acquis une solide réputation mondiale des plus méritées. Le chemin de NSB a croisé celui de Reynols, trio d’improvisation composé de voyageurs argentins dirigé par Miguel Tomasín, percussionniste qui souffre du syndrome de Down. Ce combo tout aussi émancipé que le premier a remixé certains sons du Nihilist Spasm Band, leur a ajouté ses propres éléments et a donné au tout de nouvelles dimensions. Compte tenu de la dissolution récente de Reynols et de la mort de Hugh McIntyre, bassiste de NSB, ce disque devrait devenir un document indispensable pour quiconque veut goûter l’esprit original de la musique d’improvisation sans frontières.

Release date: 02/2007

The monorail provided by les Enterprises Hushush will take you on a journey to our own World Fair, an exhibition for advanced technologies and oddities. Recorded on this seven inch vinyl is a visit to the Birds Pavilion, "le pavillon des oiseaux" as well as an overview of the site. Often remembered for the showing of tomorrow’s technological advancements, World Fairs presented many mechanical, electronic and magnetic types of equipment. Thought to be the way of the future, some of them remain now very odd pieces of history, yesterday’s tomorrows. This recording is the first collaboration effort for Vromb. The Montreal dark electronica wonder has teamed up with an almost Canadian fellow, Hushush’s headhoncho project, Szkieve.

A. Le pavillon des oiseaux
B. Le monorail

Release date: 05/2003

Mémoires paramoléculaires is Vromb’s first release on a Canadian label since his debut album Jeux de terre (1993). We at Hushush are very pleased to present you this fine piece of electroacoustic music composed especially for us by Hugo Girard. Inspired by the emerging Hushush sound, Mémoires paramoléculaires is a digital sequencing of analog sources. This is the result of a process of understanding Heurel Gaudot’s participation to Vromb’s musical output. It is constructed as the first chapter in an electronic opera for ultratonical machines. Questioning our link to reality, this sci-fi musical project is a reflection on our condition as organic machines.

As always with Hushush, much attention has been put in the making of this release. Vromb’s Mémoires paramoléculaires is available as a limited item of 700 copies only. The CD comes in a hand made and stamped CD sleeve as well as a luxury colour cardboard packaging accompanied by several inserts showing drawings of prof. H.Gaudot by Steve Deschênes.

NOTE: Mémoires paramoléculaires is pronounced in English as: May-mwar Para-mole-aykh-lair

01. Diffusion en boucle
02. Calibrage
03. Facteur humain (ligne courbe)
04. Vue - éclipse
05. Subréalité
06. Assemblage - A
07. Assemblage - B
08. Hypnose
09. Songe artificiel
10. Ailleurs
11. L’appareillage ultratonique
12. Conclusion vers le silence

Release date: 06/2002 (deleted)

Imagined Compositions for Water uses a single theme to produce its effects without synthesizers or traditional instruments. Just as Stone (Sub Rosa, 1992) used stones, rocks, etc; and Redwing (Sub Rosa, 1995) used air; "ICFW" uses source audio and video recordings made exclusively from oceans-rivers-lakes-waterfalls-etc, modified using analog & digital filters and effects, and only minimal computer processing. Homemade electronic controllers are used to direct many of the effects.

This album contains recordings of two live performances, at the ARS Electronica Festival (Austria - 1997) and at the Comandini Theatre in Cesena (Italy - 1998). The recordings from these performances were combined to create the final album-document. A video footage of the performance is available on this CD as a quicktime movie clip. The CD comes in a limited edition light blue tinted jewel case.

01. Mission Bay
02. Mississippi River
03. Minnehaha Waterfall
04. Roanoke Sound
05. Devil’s Millhopper
06. Pacific Ocean
07. The Gulf of Mexico
08. Atlantic Ocean
09. Lake Michigan

Release date: 06/2002

We at Disques Hushush are very happy to make this project finally happen. Mentioned several times in interviews, this collaboration between Christina Sealey, Richard Oddie and Mark Spybey was recorded at the end of the 1990’s. SOS had never seen the daylight before this release. Oddie and Sealey active under their project Orphx met Dead Voices on Air’s Mark Spybey and the three decided to work together. The release of the recorded project was aborted when Mark Spybey returned to his native England after having spent almost a decade in Canada. Thanks to a long time friendship with the artists we were able to secure a release for this document in the history of electronic music. After so much time spent since the recording, they all decided to return to the tapes, the best moments chosen; a state of the art mastering has enhanced them. Full of very fine ambiences and drones, SOS is old school organic and abrasive ambient music with trance inducing pulses. Sealey and Oddie are giving this release the signature of their more minimal and experimental incarnation, Antiform. Spybey’s contribution to this release consists in his trademarked treated voices and eclectic modified instruments.

01. 01
02. 02
03. 03
04. 04
05. 05
06. 06
07. 07
08. 08
09. 09
10. 10
11. 11

Release date: 04/2003

Des rythmes de passage (DRDP), literally Rhythms of passage, is Szkieve’s second long-playing CD for Disques Hushush. Almost three years after debuting with Des germes de quelque chose, Szkieve has gained critical reputation worldwide. His truly distinctive sound is constituted of both suiting chords and strings and high-pitched synthetic sounds. DRDP is in continuity with Szkieve’s precedent releases, however, this disc incorporates new tones and techniques. Silk Saw’s Rob(u)Rang contribution of ebow guitar sounds and Vromb’s Radiodrome studio facilities’ addition of many analog synthesizers are at the very heart of this lively mix where the calm and the disturbing are reacting in unpredictable ways. "Eleven is a number beautiful by its simplicity. Its figures are like rods raised against the skies, tearing up apart the relentless passage of time" says Szkieve’s Dimitri della Faille.

01. Janvier
02. Février
03. Mars
04. Avril
05. Mai
06. Juin
07. Juillet
08. Août
09. Septembre
10. Octobre
11. Novembre

Release date: 03/2003

Improvisation was once the privilege of multiple decades of classic instrumentalists. With the introduction of a wider range of electronic devices such as synthesizers, samplers and mini disks a new generation of artists has taken over the improvisation scene. Offering more diversity and sometimes depth than classic improvisation could provide, this new generation of electronic improvisers changed forever the face of non-written, non-composed music. Named after Fredric Brown’s seminal sci-fi novel, Martiens Go Home! (MGH!) has nothing to envy classic improvisation. Not missing a single week since they started their radio show many years ago on Radio Campus (Brussels, Belgium) the trio has always played with the contingency of live experience. With the live sequencing of found sounds and various samples they developed their own approach to electronic music. Far from any rigid and binary compositions, their sound is organic and complex.

On ”Une occasion de chute” MGH! collected many improvisations they did with numerous like-minded artists from Brussels such as Frank Pay, Szkieve, Moonsanto, Ultraphonist and TMRX. MGH! and their side-projects have already pleased listeners from respected labels such as Staalplaat and Sub Rosa. This CD is a collaboration release between Hushush and MGH’s own imprint, Kalinka Vichy.

01. MGH
02. MGH & Frank Pay
03. MGH & Szkieve
04. MGH & Moonsanto
05. MGH & Ultraphonist
06. MGH & MGH
07. MGH & TMRX

Release date: 02/2002

Bastard child of incestuous relations, the Belgian Quartet Moonsanto is proud to present itself to the world in the form of its first long-playing compact disc. Active performers from the Brussels’ scene, members of Silk Saw and Xingu Hill teamed up in 1999 for a very exclusive limited CD EP entitled "Dogme" (HSH06). This long time sold out item was presenting Moonsanto’s interpretation of the current uses of biotechnologies by global companies. "Fraud - Hell - Dope" being the follow up to this first opus, you can expect similar viewpoints on biotechnologies. But what "Dogme" wasn’t able to achieve because of its length restrictions, "Fraud - Hell - Dope" takes to another stage. Beyond the first experimentations of "Dogme", this debut long-playing CD gives us a full spectre of what very talented people can do when they are given full artistic freedom. Inspired by surrealist poets and painters as well as early experimental noisemakers, Moonsanto is actually a very solid yet diverse project. Deconstructed rhythms and guitars are on "Fraud - Hell - Dope" the neighbours to tape loops and voice treatments. Ranging from very melodic moments to more experimental cut-ups, this disc has everything to please to the most difficult ear as well as the most adventurous listeners in search for a strange discourse on contemporary society.

The quartet is active from the Moonsantist Ranch Company, of which very little is known. Only few materials are making it through the outside world. Most of it has been released in the form of "Fraud - Hell - Dope", but some unreleased pieces are made available here as "the Pesticides Forever Kit". Along with an exclusive t-shirt, a tape and a genetically modified furry wrapping, this kit is available for a limited time only from Hushush.

01. Sanctomoon (an introduction by Professor Dr Goodseed)
02. We are the only remedy
03. Dogme 3
04. Le séminaire
05. A bright future
06. Dogme 2
07. Kili is good for you
08. What to do if there is a war
09. The seed of death
10. To concurrence
11. The joy of transgenesis
12. Le blues du fongicide
13. Gem mod farmers (aka Kili robots)
14. Our statistics : sixty per cent
15. Governments are useless
16. Fraud - Hell - Dope

Release date: 11/2001

Bastard child of incestuous relations, the Belgian Quartet Moonsanto is proud to present itself to the world in the form of its first long-playing compact disc. Active performers from the Brussels’ scene, members of Silk Saw and Xingu Hill teamed up in 1999 for a very exclusive limited CD EP entitled "Dogme" (HSH06). This long time sold out item was presenting Moonsanto’s interpretation of the current uses of biotechnologies by global companies. "Fraud - Hell - Dope" being the follow up to this first opus, you can expect similar viewpoints on biotechnologies. But what "Dogme" wasn’t able to achieve because of its length restrictions, "Fraud - Hell - Dope" takes to another stage. Beyond the first experimentations of "Dogme", this debut long-playing CD gives us a full spectre of what very talented people can do when they are given full artistic freedom. Inspired by surrealist poets and painters as well as early experimental noisemakers, Moonsanto is actually a very solid yet diverse project. Deconstructed rhythms and guitars are on "Fraud - Hell - Dope" the neighbours to tape loops and voice treatments. Ranging from very melodic moments to more experimental cut-ups, this disc has everything to please to the most difficult ear as well as the most adventurous listeners in search for a strange discourse on contemporary society.

01. Sanctomoon (an introduction by Professor Dr Goodseed)
02. We are the only remedy
03. Dogme 3
04. Le séminaire
05. A bright future
06. Dogme 2
07. Kili is good for you
08. What to do if there is a war
09. The seed of death
10. To concurrence
11. The joy of transgenesis
12. Le blues du fongicide
13. Gem mod farmers (aka Kili robots)
14. Our statistics : sixty per cent
15. Governments are useless
16. Fraud - Hell - Dope

Release date: 11/2001

It takes a special person to conduct successfully two different musical careers at the same time and Japanese KK Null is truly one of the few. He has gained recognition for his work with terror punk rock project Zeni Geva as well as his self-titled solo works. 1987 witnessed the birth of Zeni Geva and in the years following an impressive history grew. They recorded a session for BBC’s famous John Peel; worked intensively with Steve Albini; were produced on Jello Biaffra’s label (Dead Kennedy’s), Alternative Tentacles; and supported on tour influential bands such as Neurosis and the Melvins. All the while, KK worked on his solo career. There he experimented with guitars to creating striking and rich noise textures. Due to the honesty and quality of his compositions, he has worked with other musical innovators which reads like a who’s who of experimentation: Merzbow, James Plotkin, Zbigniew Karkowski (Sensorband), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Keiji Haino and David Brown to name a few. The partnership between Jim O’Rourke and KK Null has produced several collaborations including the very influential New Kind of Water released in 1992. KK Null has also supported bands on tour like Sonic Youth and Mike Patton. Due to his solo work and main project Zeni Geva, KK has performed and toured in many countries across the globe over the years, gaining the reputation of giving the audience a strong performance.

Hushush is proud to announce the release of KK Null’s Peak Of Nothingness. This disc was recorded in the summer of 2000 and is being released in January 2001. Having both short and long tracks on this album, it is an experiment in minimal noise and bleeps gauging the limits of structured noise and repetition. A blend of improvisation and compositions, we at Hushush believe this latest offering of KK’s will continue his legacy and perhaps raise the bar to the next level. While only recently bleep core and laptop music gained visibility, KK proves with Peak of Nothingness you can continue doing difficult music through the years and still please an audience interested in extreme experiments.

01. 1:12
02. 1:00
03. 5:12
04. 3:00
05. 3:39
06. 1:30
07. 3:05
08. 4:25
09. 3:50
10. 8:42
11. 3:47
12. 5:00
13. 7:11

Release date: 01/2001 (deleted)

Multifaceted artist, academically trained musician and drummer, C-drík Fermont is electroacoustic composer Annette Vande Gorne former student. He takes his influences from varied sources such as child tales, dark humour and inu chanting. Dissolution, his first solo album, consists of pieces composed in between 1997 and 2001. This is more than just a collection of carefully chosen tracks. With simple melodies, minimal drones and a lot of nostalgic harmonies, Dissolution, has a strong feeling of unity. Through a personal approach of sound he developed in the past years, C-drík’s Dissolution is always precise and clear. It would suit fans of Rapoon and Thomas Köner.

01. Immersion
02. Macronaute
03. Jardin abstrait
04. Trêve
05. Balade au pays de nulle part et partout
06. Au fond, les murmures voguent au gré des vents
07. Fanfare cosmique
08. Traits anodins
09. La mer
10. Ballet optique
11. Exil [histoire d’un asile fantasmagorique et fantasmatique]
12. Chimère

Release date: 2001

Moonsanto is here questioning with the help of their best mastered tool (music) the use of so-called junk science (biotechnologies, genetics etc) in the contemporary era. What the essence of being when confronted to manipulations of its most nature. In a situation when technology is helping to modify or to fastened existing power connections is science still able to propose us a project for humanity?

But don’t let the very solemn subject fool you, for this limited edition disc total artistic freedom was given by Hushush to Moonsanto. The content is totaly delirious. Strange voice treatement with cut-ups experiments are creating the particular athmosphere of this very fin de siècle kind of project. Humor is always present and you have to read between the lines to actually catch the whole idea behind this release.

01. Dogme 1
02. Dogme 2
03. Dogme 3
04. Dogme 4

Release date: 02/2000 (deleted)

Third and final instalment in the Hushush Threesome Series, "Dys", is the collaborative effort of Mick Harris (UK) and Ambre (Belgium). In his legendary Birmingham studio The Box, using the many samples the Belgian trio prepared for him, Mick Harris constructed a very original and dense piece of contemporary electronic music. Hushush provided the artistic freedom many labels would not give him and in return, Mick provided another distinguishing development of his musical career. Being never really far from the sonic studies Mick Harris conducted with Lull, Quoit and Scorn, this release is nevertheless distinctive in the way it treats the very concept of music. Abandoning the usual structure of chorus and verse. They instead use effects such as motion in space, textures, colours and sudden disruptions. Mick Harris and Ambre are taking their audience on a trip into a very dense and subtle universe of sparkling and colourful sound experiments. Dys’ five tracks are a tribute to the true innovations given to contemporary music by the European school of electro-acoustic music. In order to get more information on this release, on the Threesome Series or to download sounds samples, we invite you to visit our website.

The Threesome Series started in February 2000 with the release of "Sfumato" (HSH03) by Ambre & Mark Spybey. The second release, "Bad Roads, Young Drivers" (HSH04) saw Mark Spybey (Dead Voices on Air, Download, Zoviet*France, SPASM, CAN etc) collaborating with Mick Harris. The subscription for the series came with a very limited, now deleted CD by Moonsanto. All three CD’s of the series are now available separately.

01. Ome
02. Blaste
03. Algie
04. Lithe
05. Phane

Release date: 06/2001 (deleted)

This disc is the second instalment in the Hushush Threesome three CD’s series that will see Mark Spybey, Mick Harris, and Ambre (Imminent, Axiome, Xingu Hill etc) collaborate successively together. Mark Spybey has recorded this disc, from tapes provided to him by Mick Harris, at the Klaverland, Netherlands nearby the Rhine River. The two got help on this disc from Niels Van Hoorn (Legendary Pink Dots) for Saxes.

In fact, this album is incorporating material from many different sources and is certainly a shift in what Mark Spybey and Mick Harris did in the past. Usually in a collaborative release, you can expect to recognize the parties’ different styles. But here on this very rhythmic release, Mark Spybey and Mick Harris managed to successfully blend and transcend the differences in sounds and in music conception into a very achieved result. From its noisy moments to its drum’n’bass experiments, from its ambient atmospheres to its weird sound treatments, this album is leading you through a journey into a warm wall of sound and beats. The two of them are delivering us eleven tracks for a total of more than one hour of dirty sonic experiments and distorted killer beats. This is certainly one of the most unexpected result from the Threesome Series although we thought we were prepared to everything. It’s a very good surprise for which artists were given total freedom of creation. Freedom they certainly made themselves for the pleasure of us all.

01. Good Way to Start a Bad Day
02. Institute Good Motoring on Bad I Mean Bad Roads
03. Bad Way to Start a Good Day
04. Mister Bod
05. Muffel
06. Dschungel B-216
07. Aeper
08. Der Regen
09. Bad Honey
10. Misery Gote
11. Waaal

Release date: 07/2000

This disc is the first of the Hushush Threesome three CD series that will see Mark Spybey, Mick Harris (Scorn, Lull, Painkiller etc.) and Ambre collaborate successively together. The album has been recorded during an epic two weeks session at l’Auberge de la Mouette Rieuse on the North Sea shore in De Haan (Belgium) in September 1999 by Ambre with tapes provided by the English artist Mark Spybey. well known as ex-member of Zoviet*France, Download (along with cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy) and SPASM.

While Ambre’s other side projects such as Torsion and Axiome are more focused on distorted industrial chaos, this collaboration with Mark Spybey is exploring the universes of electro-acoustic, ambient music and minimal electronic. It’s giving the listener the opportunity to discover a very singular world made out of random jazzy samples and very touching harmonies. The result is very well organized but as none of the members of this collaboration are well behaved, this disc is giving you the chance the get many surprises even if you are already familiar with the former productions on the two entities. We hope at Hushush that many of the new ways explored here are going to give birth to new projects.

01. Citadelle intérieure
02. Visite au zoo triste
03. Corrosion
04. La cantatrice mauve
05. L’horloge de calcutta
06. J’irai cracher sur vos ombres
07. Zéro cinquante-neuf
08. Le clown baxir kodek
09. La loge dorée
10. Poussière d’absinthe
11. Derrière le rideau de verre
12. À quoi servent les morts?
13. Machine d’esprits
14. Le printemps des abîmes

Release date: 02/2000 (deleted)

It is neither ambient nor noise music. It’s somewhere in the universe separating those two not necessary oxymoronic concepts. This eleven-track debut opus is going to deserve you a feeling of uncomfortable flimsy silence, very low frequencies and unheard artifacts. "Do you really think this was made on purpose?" is often saying Szkieve’s front head Dimitri della Faille. This album is disturbing the mind of the honest person by the use of very extreme frequencies and unusual compositions. Only original sources were sampled for this record. Szkieve used for this album his own technique called "Palimpseste" by the name of his first demo. It is actually referring to the fact that most tracks are made by two or even more layered tracks. This is the secret of his very rich and textured sound.

01. Silence Fiction
02. Two Green Jumpin’ Dragoons
03. Piano aqueux
04. Grotesque Wounds
05. Des fois j’attends vite
06. Il faut allécher le coiffeur
07. Leipzig Zig Spoutnik
08. Monoise
09. Tes mots insultent le silence
10. Ce soir, c’est la samba du démon
11. Farsifalafel / Heavy Métal

Release date: 02/2000 (deleted)

The world is paying a tribute to the Hafler Trio. This is not the kind of tribute you might be expecting It doesn’t contain any cover versions. All tracks are exclusive material.

The four artists here, Aube (Japan), Lilith (US of A), P*A*L (Germany), Propeller (UK- Canada, aka Mark Spybey of Dead Voices on Air) are giving us a 15 minutes track each. Each artist is giving here his own interpretation of the legendary experimental act. And there’s even a a fifth secret one!

The Hafler Trio is a seminal experimental industrial band who started in the early eighties. Then they quickly gained notoriety thanks to their diverse and intense material. Each new release is requestionning the pertinence of the previous. They started by doing cut and paste and loop based music. The band is now fronted by Andrew McKenzie and concentrate itself on minimal beatless music.

01. Aube : Clarity Bounce
02. Lilith : Tributorium
03. P*A*L : When You Thought Your Hard Disk Was Going To Die
04. Propeller : Mouths Like Bailing Twine

Release date: 02/1999 (deleted)

The most anticipated Hed Nod release ever, Session 04 by Mick Harris is finally made available. Released on red transparent vinyl, Session 04 contains thirty minutes of minimal and obsessive beats. These downtempo hip-hop and dub influenced beats are a perfect soundtrack to a chill out moment in a fast paced urban environment. Mick Harris hard-edged rhythms are a remedy against weak and made-to-please dark rhythmic music. In the spirit of the Zen doctrine, the Hed Nod Sessions remain a hidden complexity in a world of visible simplicity.

Mick Harris was provided all musical freedom that he used to experiment. Unlike most experimental music, Session 04 is not only unconventional music; it is also a real journey into its creator’s mind. The integrity of his music gave the Birmingham Mongoose the reputation he’s known for. Session 04 is as hard as you can get if you think superfluous is useless. It is in the light of the previous releases in the series probably the most achieved Hed Nod output.

Limited to only 300 copies, the apex in the Hed Nod series is the last session to be released on vinyl. Forthcoming sessions will be available on CD as a split release with young and talented new artists.

12" Coloured 33RPM

Long Playing Vinyl (30 minutes)

Limited edition of 300 numbered copies

SIDE A

1) VISITING OFFICER 2) HIDING PLACE 3) SHORTING

SIDE B

1) SWEET AS 2) WHERE 3) THEN 3 MORE

CREATED AND MIXED BY THE MONGOOSE IN THE BOX

RHINOCHARGE BOX PRODUCTIONS

Release date: Summer 2000 (deleted)

12" Coloured 33RPM

Long Playing Vinyl (30 minutes)

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies

SIDE A

1) RED TRIANGLE 2) STICKER 3) DIPPERS

SIDE B

1) THE SHED 2) SIDEWALK 3) BACKROOM

CUTS ON SIDE A #2 AND SIDE B #1 DJ BRE-AD (PEACE)

CREATED AND MIXED BY THE MONGOOSE IN THE BOX

RHINOCHARGE BOX PRODUCTIONS

Release date: Spring 2000

12" Coloured 33RPM

Long Playing Vinyl (30+ minutes)

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies

SIDE A

1) ASTRAY 2) DROPPED 3) CAUGHT UP

SIDE B

1) LOCATE 2) ONIT 3) BALE

CREATED AND MIXED BY THE MONGOOSE IN THE BOX

RHINOCHARGE BOX PRODUCTIONS

Release date: January 2000 (deleted)

12" Coloured (Transparent Ambre)

33RPM Long Playing Vinyl (32+ minutes)

Limited edition of 500 numbered copies

SIDE A

1) CURE PERIOD 2) MAP 3) ANYMORE

SIDE B

1) SOUNDCOAT 2) DO ONE 3) BLAG 4) BEAT 9

CREATED AND MIXED BY THE MONGOOSE IN THE BOX

RHINOCHARGE BOX PRODUCTIONS

Release date: June 1999 (deleted)

Limited to 100 copies.

This CD was given for free with a subscription for the Hed Nod Series.

1) SCREENER 2) DO ONE 3) ITIN 4) DROPPED 5) TOUCH 6) THE SHED 7) LEAD IN 8) THEN 3 MORE 9) PHOTOGRAPHIC

Track 02 from Session 01. Track 04 from Session 02. Track 06 from Session 03. Track 08 from Session 04.

Cuts on track 06 by DJ Bre-Ad (Peace)

Tracks 01, 03, 05, 07 and 09 exclusive to this release.

CREATED AND MIXED BY THE MONGOOSE IN THE BOX

RHINOCHARGE BOX PRODUCTIONS

Release date: 2000 (deleted)

Since the mid-seventies when DJ’s gave it a name, dub music has evolved into many distinct forms. From rock to techno music, the vitality and strength of dub has proven that its influence is not a trend but here to last. The mid-nineties saw a very important event in contemporary electronic music with the arrival of Scorn. The English band Scorn showed, the world that dub music could now offer a very strong image of introspection and inner emotions. Dub was not the dancehall music it used to be. Since then, it has been given many names such as dub terror, illbient and dark hop to name a few. Each incarnation of dub music has its own unique sound. Dark hop focuses more on the influence of hip-hop culture on current electronic music. Dark hop is especially interested in instrumental music with minimal yet strong rhythmic structures. Dark hop known for its down tempo beats really succeeds to give despaired urban landscapes the appropriate soundtrack.

Hed Nod (Canada) and Empty Light (USA) gathered fifteen exclusive tracks on a single compilation from outstanding artists in the various genres. We gave these artists the opportunity to express themselves in this ever-developing brand of music. Several artists are experimenting here for the first time with dark hop and are revealing tracks that we believe will be influential for dark hop as well as their original fields of music. With artists hailing from Canada, the United States of America, Belgium, Switzerland and the United Kingdom this compilation presents an international state of dark hop. The bands include OCOSI, Larvae, NOS, Turn, Dustmite, Not Breathing, C-drik, Silk Saw, Mick Harris, Su8m3rg3d, Olivier Moreau, Dijislov, Montagnn, Alien Radio Station and Zero id vs. Shinitaka.

This compilation is the first collaboration between the Canadian label Hed Nod and the American label Empty Light. Empty Light is a new label with this being its first release. Hed Nod, a subsidiary label of Hushush, has released a several exclusive and limited edition colored vinyls by Mick Harris as well as a limited edition CD EP.

01. Mick Harris - Cards
02. OCOSI - Jackal Head
03. The Dustmite - Pressure Drop
04. Zero ID vs. Shinitaika - Genetic Talk Radio
05. SU8M3RG3D - 201
06. Olivier Moreau - Dash Kop
07. Silk Saw - Say No
08. Nos - Elephant (Remix By Erem)
09. Y-drík - Hesitation
10. Montagnn - You Kant Skip Hegel
11. Larvae - Red Line
12. Turn - Chainsaws
13. Alien Radio Station - Deep Inner Mental Forces
14. Dijislov - Madness March
15. Not Breathing - Short Bus Blues

Release date: February 2001