Date: February 11th, 2008 7:53:53 p.m.

Greetings to you! We have a new CD release now available: Akai Ikuo "Language Without Words" CD. I first encountered the music of Akai at the end of the last Green Milk from the Planet Orange N. American tour. They were spending a couple of weeks hanging out with us before heading back to Japan. I walked into my office and heard this amazing trippy, weird, psychedelic music. dead K told me it was his friend Akai, an amazing musician based in Tokyo. We played it non stop after they left to go back home here at BlRR Centraal. Well, we are pleased to release this gem of a CD: Registering on the Richter scale somewhere between Squarepusher (Music Is Rotted One Note) and Terje Rypdal (Odyssey) with little Thromboses of Seefeel, Deodato, Coil and The Orb congealing around the edges, Akai has an expansive sound, but leaves a lot of space, which keeps the cool cool....

We are taking pre orders for albums by Ariel Kalma, Nurse With Wound, The Silverman, Volcano the Bear.


Releases following that will be new albums by Anakrid (CD/LP), Uw Hypotheekadvies (CD), Stimulus (CD), The Long Dead Sevens (CD + bonus CD), Eyeless In Gaza (2CD plus bonus CD), Andrew Liles/Daniel Menche (CD), Andrew Liles (lim. LP), Legendary Pink Dots (DLP), Edward Ka-Spel (DLP), Anakrid (lim. LP), Aidan Baker (CD/LP), Songs of Norway (CD), Textile Orchestra (CD), Christus & the Cosmonaughts (LP, 12" pix disk), Nurse With Wound (CD, LP, 12" pix disk), Expo 70 (CD), Nick Grey (CD), three CDs with Jazzfinger and 5 CDs with Brunnen, plus a reissue of an early album with MB and a split album with Volcano the Bear and La STPO……..

We have added several new titles to our mail-order catalog. Of note is the new Troum on Equation Records available on either colored vinyl or picture disks, a great compilation on Urck Records "Post-Asiatic Lost War Dream Music", Ride For Revenge "King of Snakes" which I just recently discovered thanks to Tyrsson from Waldteufel. The album reminds me of a Black Metal version of "Alomoni 1985" by Karuna Khyal - just so recommended. Two new deluxe hard linen bound LPs by Raymond Dijktra plus albums with Aldebaran, Anakrid, Coffins, Coffins/Otesanek, Corrupted, Cult Of Daath, Death In June, Deathspell Omega, Drastus, Il Sangue, Inanna, Mortuus, Pulse Emitter, Raymond Dijkstra, Ride For Revenge, Tecumseh, Thralldom, Whitehorse.
Full list below or follow this link to blrrecords.com
Note: If you already have an order pending for shipment, we can always add items to reduce the postage costs. Please place an order for extra items and we will refund some of the postage back to you.

Artist:ikuo, Akai Language Without Words
Format:CD
Catalog #:mt143
Condition:new
Price:$15.00

Tracklist Samples
1	Cha-ri Trip
2	Night In November
3	Red Hot Noodle
4	Playing a Guitar
5	I Don't Like Such A Hot Day
6	Heart Beat
7	Step, Step, Step
8	Rain In Mitaka
9	Dual Ole Attack
10	Omake

Description:

Black Series - 19. Ed. of 300 copies. Poppy red is the colour of Akai’s cracked fusion. Their downtempo psychtronica rises and ripples like exhaust from a resin caked hookah. Registering on the Richter scale somewhere between Squarepusher (Music Is Rotted One Note) and Terje Rypdal (Odyssey) with little Thromboses of Seefeel, Deodato, Coil and The Orb congealing around the edges, Akai has an expansive sound, but leaves a lot of space, which keeps the cool cool. Exotic percussions cut the strangely metered cocaine of jazz rhythms and glitchy sequences with soothing, tropical diazapams that transform the frenetic beats into hallucinations of quiet grandeur. The gamelan/steel drum-like din offers pleasing, almost Lou Harrison moments that tweak into metamorphs of the third stream. This bitches brew is spiked throughout with tinctures of guitar psychedelia and drams of electronic chirps and whirs. And a subtly stumbling, matte finish bassline bubbles just beneath the meniscus. A long, strange trip into a morphine drip.

Artist: Aldebaran
Title: Dwellers In Twilight
Label: Parasitic
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: aldedwel
Status: in stock
Price: $15.00
Debut full length. 3 long tracks of suffocating doom/sludge. With excellent layout/packaging... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Anakrid
Title: Pos Load: Nihilsurrealisme
Label: Stereonucleosis Records
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: anakposl
Status: in stock
Price: $30.00
Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. Pos Load Nihilsurrealisme answers Joyfear with a worst case scenario detonation. The absurdism of its dada-esque title only vaguely hints at the art-cum-noise inside. It’s the opposite extreme from... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Coffins
Title: Mortuary In Darkness
Label: Parasitic
Format: 2xLP
Catalogue Number: coffmort
Status: in stock
Price: $25.00
Old-school death/doom metal LIVES!! Japan's COFFINS have brought back the horrific sounds of this destructive form of metal with their debut album, "Mortuary In Darkness"...now out on Razorback Records! This is one of the supremely... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Coffins/Otesanek
Title: Split
Label: Parasitic
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: coffspli
Status: in stock
Price: $16.00
This well-matched split album featuring Japan's COFFINS and Philadelphia's OTESANEK pairs two acts that go about achieving utter sonic repulsion in slightly different yet equally twisted ways. The sickening death-doom of COFFINS lurches like an... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Corrupted
Title: El Mundo Frio
Label: HG Fact
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: correlmu
Status: in stock
Price: $30.00
Whereas 2006 has shown critics stuck on Japan's Boris' fine trick of gluing glam and shoegaze to lugubrious drone on the almost-bubblegum breakout Pink, fellow countrymen Corrupted keep creeping toward the blackest of tarpits at full bore. Corrupted... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Cult Of Daath
Title: Slits Throats And Ritual Nights
Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions
Format: 2xLP
Catalogue Number: cultslit
Status: in stock
Price: $25.00
CULT OF DAATH is like an infected sore eating away at the roof of your mouth that you cannot stop tonguing. This US band is a vile concoction of Death Metal with a sparse amount of fetid Black Metal seasoning spread liberally in the mixture. The... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Death In June
Title: Brown Book (Stone Box)
Label: Soleilmoon
Format: 2xCD Stone Box
Catalogue Number: deatbrow
Status: in stock
Price: $80.00
Double CD in stone box - limited edition of 1000 copies. NERUS, in association with Soleilmoon Recordings, announces the 20th Anniversary commemorative release of Death In Junes Brown Book. Considered by some to be one of the most influential albums... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Deathspell Omega
Title: Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: deatfasi
Status: in stock
Price: $30.00
"Although this is primarily a review of Deathspell Omega's newest release, it can also serve as a brief intro for those unfamiliar with the band. The descriptions of the preceding works can also serve as reference points leading to a better... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Deathspell Omega
Title: Kenose
Label: AJNA
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: deatkeno
Status: in stock
Price: $30.00
"lack metal is usually associated with bands like Venom and Deicide -- speedy tempos clashing with growled vocals. On the 2005 offering from France's Deathspell Omega, Kenose, the group follows this formula closely. But there are a few added... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Deathspell Omega
Title: Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice.
Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli
Format: 2xLP
Catalogue Number: deatsimo
Status: in stock
Price: $40.00
"In a genre torn between elitists and innovators that so often alienate each other, "Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice" is an immense breath of fresh air that unites the two. This is underground and minimalist enough to appease the... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Drastus
Title: Taphos
Label: Flamme Noir
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: drastaph
Status: in stock
Price: $16.00
This is an EP from Drastus, a French one-man band playing black/ambient metal. The sound on this record is somewhat distant and muffled, sort of your typical "raw black metal" production. That said, it certainly fits the music, and the... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Il Sangue
Title: Elegia 4: ...In Still Desolation
Label: Parasitic
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: ilsaeleg
Status: in stock
Price: $20.00
Debut from this atmospheric, minimalist, melancholic doom band, on vinyl format. In a similiar vein as Deinonychus and such acts. Ebbs and flows between distorted and clean passages, mixing harsh and minimal clean vocals. Hate and despair... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Inanna
Title: Day Of Torment
Label: Cold Spring
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: inandayo
Status: in stock
Price: $16.00
Reissue of the massive Death Industrial album from this Archon Satani side-project, originally issued by Staalplaat in 1993. Inanna were at the forefront of a new force in Doom Ambiance way back in the early '90s. This stunningly remastered and... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Kalma, Ariel
Title: Le Temps des Moissons
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: mt189
Status: Preorder
Price: $20.00
First ed. of 500 copies packaged in a book bound CD case available late March 2008. First time on CD for this classic prog album! This has been the first solo recording LP from Ariel Kalma, recorded in 1975. After a long... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Mortuus
Title: De contemplanda Morte; De Reverencie laboribus ac Adorationis
Label: AJNA
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: mortdeco
Status: in stock
Price: $17.00
"Dreary as hell, but in a good way - Sweden’s Mortuus drags the listener on a gentle descent into the abyss. After an initial self-titled 7″, this duo returns with a fully-formed full-length. Church bells sound all over the place... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Nurse With Wound
Title: Images/Zero Mix (Deluxe Ed.)
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: Book+2CD
Catalogue Number: mt103 Deluxe
Status: Preorder
Price: $75.00
No Discounts! Deluxe Edition (220 page hard bound book with full color dust jacket, the album “Zero Mix” plus the bonus album “Requital for Lady Day” packaged in full color heavy book... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Nurse With Wound
Title: Images/Zero Mix (Standard Ed.)
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: Book+CD
Catalogue Number: mt103 standard
Status: Preorder
Price: $35.00
STANDARD EDITION (220 page hard bound book with full color dust jacket, the album "Zero Mix"). Available early April 2008. Hardbound book featuring paintings created to celebrate the... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Nurse With Wound
Title: The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: mt056lp
Status: Preorder
Price: $20.00
Available early April 2008 on dirty brown vinyl and a book bound LP sleeve. In the terpsichorean tradition of traumatizing and titillating treacalese collector geeks the world over, Beta-lactam presents a limited LP release by Nurse With Wound. This... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Pulse Emitter
Title: Progression To Desolation
Label: Black Horizons
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: pulsprog
Status: in stock
Price: $20.00
Finally Pulse Emitter gets the treatment he deserves, a full 12" of vinyl to lay down two prog flavoured tracks of synth drone. Created using home-built synth modules, and meticulously contructed into a sci fi storyline, this could be a... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Raymond Dijkstra
Title: Die Sonne
Label: LE SOUFFLEUR
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: raymdies
Status: in stock
Price: $150.00
"LP in linen hardcover box with embossed and gold lettering, edition of 100 copies - very deluxe!" "Its perhaps no big secret that I am a big fan of the work of Raymond Dijkstra, and maybe reviewing all of his previous work, entitled... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Raymond Dijkstra
Title: Die Wille
Label: LE SOUFFLEUR
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: raymdiew
Status: in stock
Price: $150.00
"LP in linen hardcover box with embossed and gold lettering, edition of 100 copies - very deluxe!" "Its perhaps no big secret that I am a big fan of the work of Raymond Dijkstra, and maybe reviewing all of his previous work, entitled... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Ride For Revenge
Title: The King Of Snakes
Label: Northern Heritage
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: ridethek
Status: in stock
Price: $20.00
Highly Recommened! Kind of like a Black Metal version of Karuna Khyal. Some names are evocative enough to say more about music than a pithy writer like myself ever could. Ride For Revenge; three short words that conjure images as dramatic as a... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Silverman
Title: Blank For Your Own Message
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: mt208
Status: Preorder
Price: $20.00
Available late March 2008. First ed. of 500 copies in a full color book bound case. Silverman should be given a degree in bio-melodics. This most recent body of collaged constructions pulsates with aspects of a living system. Slurred drones rush... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Tecumseh
Title: Crossing Divides
Label: Black Horizons
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: tecucros
Status: in stock
Price: $20.00
Co-released between Black Horizons and Anarchymoon Recordings, this is the first release from this Portland (OR) group that creates drone metal of the heaviest variety, although with more forward movement than some of their peers, and the addition... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Thralldom
Title: A Shaman Steering The Vessel Of Vastness
Label: Parasitic
Format: LP
Catalogue Number: thraasha
Status: in stock
Price: $20.00
Shaman, ostensibly the swan song from Thralldom members Killusion, Jaldagar and the ever mysterious Wolfmaster, is the group’s finest effort, surprisingly steering itself clear of nearly any notion of Black Metal; instead offering a recording... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Troum
Title: SEN (Picture Disk)
Label: Equation Records
Format: 2xLP
Catalogue Number: trousen
Status: in stock
Price: $35.00
217 picture disc sets."Troum mines the nether regions of the subconscious to create waking replications of the nightly visions. Their recordings are far from mere transcriptions of dreams to tape: they are the gossamer residues of once vivid... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Troum
Title: SEN (Tan, White, Black)
Label: Equation Records
Format: 2xLP
Catalogue Number: trousen
Status: in stock
Price: $35.00
Ed. of 147 copies on tan, black, halo vinyl. "Troum mines the nether regions of the subconscious to create waking replications of the nightly visions. Their recordings are far from mere transcriptions of dreams to tape: they are the gossamer... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Ulkomaalaiset
Title: Two
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: mt153
Status: in stock
Price: $20.00
(Electro-improv album with Edward Ka-Spel.) Ed. of 300 numbered copies.  Ulkomaalaiset is a rather different kind of Gharbzadegi or Fremd. In this context it speaks to a disconnection to place rather than to people. Fitting a square peg into a... (More Info. Here)

Artist: V/A
Title: Post-Asiatic Lost War Dream Music
Label: URCK Records
Format: 2xCD
Catalogue Number: urck2021
Status: in stock
Price: $18.00
MP3 samples and artist list below. The West has always held a complex fascination with the art and philosophy of the East and in turn the East has both voluntarily and involuntarily adapted and mutated aspects of Western culture. This cultural... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Volcano the Bear
Title: The Mountains Among Us
Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: mt200
Status: Preorder
Price: $20.00
Available late March 2008 as an edition of 500 numbered copies in a full color book bound cd case. This year sees the eruption of the Volcano with a myriad of releases leaving the town folk covered in a fine and mysterious silt of musical entropy... (More Info. Here)

Artist: Whitehorse
Title: S/T
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Format: 2xCD
Catalogue Number: whitwhit
Status: in stock
Price: $18.00
Known in their native Australia as the country's most prominent underground Doom band, Whitehorse are now poised to make their worldwide debut for 20 Buck Spin with their self-titled 2xCD. Collecting brand new studio material, along with tracks from... (More Info. Here)