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ART 41  SKADI - Eliwagar
Format: 	CD		  	               		            Style: dark ambient
Artwork: 	jewel case / clear tray 	   			Edition: 300 copies 

After his online debut-album “Vergangenheit und Gegenwart” wich received very good reviews - released at www.lichttaufe.de - follows his first official CD release on ART-KONKRET. The Goddess of hunting and of the winter in the germanic mythology is Skadi. So the CD starts with cold and mystical soundscapes, followed by rituell percussive elements. Skadi creates a dark athmosphere with chants, dark dronings, strings, natural sounds but also with percussions and bells. Because of this SKADI is an interesting mixture of various dark ambient soundscapes.

The project is attractive in its diversified parts. Similarities to projects like Sephiroth respectively Ulf Söderberg, Triarii or Vinterriket can be noticed, without being another copy of them. Opposingly to many monotonous dark ambient projects - which only well disposed listener will be able to differ one track from another, SKADI appears as a catchy project by its rhythmic and melodical elements with Tune Wedgie character. Eliwagar is the soundtrack for the forthcoming cold wintertimes.

Skadi ist das jüngste Projekt des Tonkünstlers Alexander Leßwing.Nach seinem viel gelobten Online-Debütbum "Vergangenheit und Gegenwart", erschienen auf www.lichttaufe.de, folgt nun die erste offizielle Veröffentlichung auf dem Industrial-Musiklabel ART-KONKRET. Skadi, ist aber auch in der germanischen Mythologie die Göttin der Jagd und des Winters. Daher beginnt das neuste Werk von Skadi mit kalten mystischen Klangcollagen und rituellen Elementen.  Musikalisch findet man bei Skadi eine interessante Mischung aus Dark Ambient Soundscapes, Chorälen, Streichern, aber auch tanzbaren Percussions. Das Projekt besticht durch seine abwechslungsreichen Stücke, die in keinem Moment Langeweile aufkommen lassen. Ähnlichkeiten zu Projekten wie Sephiroth bzw. Ulf Söderberg, Triarii oder Vinterriket lassen sich durchaus feststellen, ohne dass Skadi sich den Vorwurf gefallen lassen muss die x-tausendste Kopie genannter Gruppen zu sein. Im Gegensatz zu vielen monotonen Dark Ambient Projekten, bei denen nur der geneigte Hörer die verschiedenen Lieder auseinander halten kann, ist Skadi durch die rhythmischen und melodiösen Elemente ein eingängiges Projekt mit Ohrwurmcharakter.
Format: CD  Price: 14,00 EUR 

ART 40 / DAS 03  SKALPELL  -  some of nothing
Format: 	CD		  	               		     Style: dark industrial
Artwork: 	17 x 17 cm artprint in plastic packing up 	   Edition: 300 copies (lim edt.)

With some of nothing ART KONKRET label presents the third release in the dark ambient series. The CD comes out with a 17 x 17 cm printed artwork in a plastic packing and is strictly limited to 300 copies.

Crushing fluid ambient sounds are descending upon the listener, slowly moving waves of pulsating machine sounds and cold atmospheric elements mixed together with urban athomspheres. Hollow vocal samples and echoing percussions in the behind pull the listener in their ban. The album includes also very dark tracks with high pitched sound and dark cut up´s but also tracks with slow
rhythm. You will discover also ritual incluences but also dark ambient soundwork. The some of nothing album is all in all very varietal and you will never get bored. 
Format: CD  Price: 14,00 EUR 

ART 39 / DAS 02  THO-SO-AA  -  Minus
Format: 	CD		  	               		        Style: dark ambient
Artwork: 	17 x 17 cm artprint in plastic packing up    Edition: 500 copies

With “Minus” by THO-SO-AA the ART KONKRET label presents the second release in the dark ambient series. The CD comes out with a 17 x 17 cm printed artwork in a plastic packing and is strictly limited to 500 copies.

On “Minus“ THO-SO-AA finds the way back to his roots. The new material is different to the “Absorb” release. It is very dark, like the early THO-SO-AA material, but with a lot of new influences. You find drones, pushing down bass sounds and ghostly voices. Song titles like "Introduction for a demon", "It's a nightmare", "Below peace & happiness", "A perfect collapse", "Darkness" speak their own language. The dark frequencies corrode slowly deep into the inner life and spread out their blackness.

This release is the soundtrack for an intensive search for a physically noticeable zool sound, the "place where the black stars hang" as Brain Lustmord expressed it. For all who black is not dark enough.
Format: CD  Price: 14,00 EUR 

ART 38 / DAS 01  NERTHUS – s/t
Format: 	   CD/ 54.29 min  	               		    	Style: dark ambient
Artwork: 	17 x 17 cm artprint in plastic packing up 	Edition: 300 copies

With Nerthus ART KONKRET start a series of dark ambient releases”called dark ambient sieries”. Every releases comes in an 17 x 17 cm printed artwork in a plastik packing up and is strictly limited  to 300 copies.

NERTHUS is well known from his great split LP with Sonne Hagal and a live concert with Vidna Obmana. This project exists sincs 4 years, but the person behind NERTHUS makes music since 8 years. His influences are the early dark ambient and industrial bands.
 
The release brings very athmosperic dark ambient creations. Dark dronings are combined with echoing soundwalls. Dreamscapes dissolve into nightmares from which you can't awaken, perhaps because you really don't wish to. Exceptionally well conceived sonicscapes culled from the wastelands of the netherworld.  

You will discover on the CD also some ritual influences. This is a very good release in the field of ambient music. The aim of the mastermind behind NERTHUS is that his soundcreations always have affects to the limbic system.
Format: CD  Price: 14,00 EUR 

ART 36  In Death's Throes - Tactical Disorder
Format: 	   CD/ 61 min 	               	    Style: power electronics/death industrial
Artwork: 	   jewel case/clear tray 	    Edition: 500 copies

After their glorious first CD Infernal Deities Transcending on their own label Live Bait Recording Foundation we can offer  the new CD on Art Konkret.

The recordings are more powerful than the first CD.  This American artists combine  different styles of nowadays postindustrial culture. Songs like CONTROL are a uncompromising attack of harsh power electronics with a burning, corrosive intensity. Numbing frequencies, uneasy drones, and low level pulsations with processed vocals. Dark rumbling Death Industrial tracks with droning and atmospheric sound layers mixed with samples andrhythms can also be found on this release. Promising cut-ups, gloomy
rumbling droning soundwalls with echoing frequencies, give the songs a special character. The sound material creates an atmosphere between dark, hopeless soundwalls and aggressive noise assaults. From the beginnig to the end the CD never looses its intensity. Tracks like Call To Arms, Control, D-Generation Wasted, Pure Nothing speak their own language.  The last track on the album is eclusively remixed by Richard Schneider of Schloss Tegal.
This CD is a must for all lovers of Death Industrial and power electronics.
Format: CD  Price: 13,00 EUR 

ART 37  Drape Excrement – Borrowed Time
Format: 	   CD / 70 min.			Style: 	   	   death industrial 
Artwork:   jewel case/clear tray		Edition: 	   500 copies

Drape Excrement is still several years active in the experimental music scene. The mastermind behind the project is also kown as a part of Söldnergeist. The sic transit gloria mundi tape, the born dead lp, a split 7inch with Söldnergeist, a split cd with catharsis and several tracks for compilations are the history of drape excrement. Now the new full time CD is finished. The recording includes nearly only brand new material, which sounds more like ambient death-industrial. 
Dark soundwalls are combinded with deep crunchy sounds. Urban voices create a menacing athmosphere. Dark bass-droning and atmospheric, rattling and crackling sounds rise and vanish. Slow rhythmics filled with black walls of corroded atmospheres and ghostly wails and moans. The last three tracks are older and still unreleased recordings in a more dark power electronics style. A masterpiece of dark ambience combining hovering sounds with rumbling dark noises. A classic union of darkness, anger, and power that's a must for death industrial admirers. Punishment never sounded so good!". Drape Excrement captures sounds of agony and inner torment, of madness and glorious insanity
A release that explores the blackest depths of man's soul.
Format: CD  Price: 13,00 EUR 

ART 35  THO-SO-AA – Enrielle CD
Format: 	   CD / 71 min.			Style: 	   	   dark ambient 
Artwork: 	   A5 special artwork		Edition: 	   limited to  500 copies
The re-release of the praised Enrielle tape Art Konkret 15 is finally finished. The CD includes also three previously unreleased tracks. THO-SO-AA ´s dark sound reflects the dreams and visions of the person behind THO-SO-AA. The sounds are created with acoustic instruments and this makes it more interesting, than the normal dark ambient music. You can think about of ambient death-industrial with a lot of different faces. It takes you in another world, the dark world of THO-SO-AA.The CD comes in special A5 artwork created by drape excrement. The release is strictly limited to 500 copies.
Format: CD  Price: 13,50 EUR 

ART 32  Narbenerde – BPD CD
After several releases like a CD-R on VEP and a 7inch in the USA the first CD release of NARBENERDE on art konkret is ready for the interested audience. The three tracks are a great mixture of all kinds of post-industrial music, with lots of different sides. It starts with bits of power electronices and changes to ambient sounds mixed with cut-ups. Mysterious cold sounds representing a kind of Death Industrial together with distorted vocals and echoing noises. The work is an excellent sound exploration produced on a high standard. The more death industrial oriented material casts a spell over the listener. It´s difficult to put this surprising structured recording in any drawer of the wide industrial culture genre. This conceptual album has a total runnung time of 61 min.
Format: CD  Price: 13,00 EUR 

ART 34  PPF – Les annèes des soviets
After the great LP on a german label Art Konkret can present another production of the french project PPF. The tracks range form distorted rythms to crunchy sounds mixed with intensive cut ups.  Low frequencies and noise effects, combined with distorted french vocals put the listener in a jouney back to the roots of industrial music. You can file the sound under power electronics, obviously produced with analogous equipment. But the sounds are not so dirty and in a more rhythmical way. You will find intensive bassy drones and also interesting feedback noises. French power electronics at it´s best for those who love this kind of muisc in a more rhythmical way. 
Format: CD  Price: 15,00 EUR 

ART  30      THO - SO - AA    -    index 1.0 coma
Art Konkret ART 30. After the second  sucessfull diamond of dark ambient soundwork     „Epoch Pt. 1“ , the third pearl „index 1.0 coma“ is finished. This record comes in a total silver artwork with with printings in a jewel-case with clear tray. The music is more ambient and athmospehric than the first album. The listener expect deep and subtle soundscapes. Be open to listen to the ambient creations of THO-SO-AA.  Take the time to listen to their unique dark soundcreations and you will fall down deeper into the world of THO-SO-AA, start another the journey into your innermind.)
Format: CD  Price: 13,00 EUR 

Nymph Faithest - Longing for the Otherworld
This is the first CD of the In Slaughter Natives singer Janne. Two tracks are written with together with Peter Andersson from Raison d´tre. Beside the excellent musical score, the vocals are intense, creepy and nightmarish. Further Info see http://www.algonet.se/~nymph/. Stil: Dark Eternal Ambient, Spielzeit: 42 min	Artwork: 6 sides colored booklet in jewelcase
Format: CD  Price: 13,00 EUR