A new DCD compilation set by the German SkullLine mail order service, which is pretty much dedicated to present you a wide-ranging overview through different rather underground-based music styles. Even if this compilation and ist participants follow pretty much a mutual main and Military-based theme (dedicated to document the loss of women during the world wars), the music remains diverse. Be it Military, Neo-Folk, Minimal, Electronica or Dark Ambient – you’ll get it all and complete. And almost all of the signed label artists of SkullLine are featured on here, too. One of them, GRABSTEIN opens this comp with a Dark Ambient-tune, which follows after a sampled classic introduction. IN SCHERBEN stands for clear Neo-Folk music, while PARA-DIOXIN offer harsh and minimal Electro-Powernoise music. CHAOTICUM, a newcomer to SkullLine offer an extra-ordinary mix between Ambient, Experimental and Psychedelic elements and that rather on DIVE-related tune of BLEIBURG featuring Russian voice samples is one of the best tracks this act has produced so far! AYWASSCREAMING convinces with a staccato-like rhythm work wide driven in the stereo field and voice samples related on a battle at WWII at Sewastopol. The productive duo of TRITON 83 is still one of my personal favorites of the SkullLine roster, this new track "Alptraum" reminds strong on some classic recordings by PIERREPOINT for example. GENOCIDE LOLITA, well behind the cool band name hides a US-based project offering an Ambient/Experimental tune featuring a harsh and overdriven vocal performance. CD 2 starts with the Italian ZR.19.84 project with a new tune, and that harsh Japan-Noise-like tune of KADAVER – "Heart-Shaped Torture" doesn’t take prisoners. Dark and ominous growling Dark Ambient pieces you’ll get offered by both MANIFESTO and ZYANKALI, while the international known act FORTHCOMING FIRE offers a smooth and danceable Electronica tune. More and more Ambient tunes are following, some with Noise infiltrated (NOCTURNE, B-MACHINA, but all of them with that thematically fittig Military thing. Last but not least also KREPULEC, an act we had presented on here with an interview is featured as well und closes this satisfying DCD set. Nearly 150 minutes of exclusive music out of this wide field of different styles – this compilation reminds a lot on the last years "New World Order" compilation by the German collegues of Thonar Records. As usual it comes out strictly limited and only available at SkullLine directly, be it a normal 200 exemplar-edition, or the strictly limited release to 100 exemplars (including a special bag).

Track list:

CD1:

01. Grabstein - Kraft durch Freude
02. In Scherben - Ein letztes mal
03. Para-Dioxin - 1942
04. Kenji Siratori - Nietzsche Girl
05. Chaoticum - Occultique
06. Bleiburg - Mirogojske Svijece
07. Aywasscreaming - Sewastopol Bunkerlinie
08. Riccardo Z. - Einsamkeit
09. Triton 83 - Alptraum
10. Melek-tha - Le triumphe de la volontée
11. Waffenruhe - Todgeweihte (BDM Version)
12. Hybryds - White Snow (excerpt)
13. Heiliges Licht - Crime Against Humanity
14. Stormfagel - Mitt Hat (Fritz version)
15. Genocide Lolita - Bilderberg Silent Order
16. SnowWwhite - Der Fruehling

CD2:

01. Zr19.84 - Non Un Passo Indietro! (CCCP)
02. Kadaver - Heart shaped torture
03. Kammer Sieben - Altes Lied (piano) Musik: Butow Maler. Text: Heinrich Heine.
04. Rose Rovine E Amanti - False Priests and Homo Nazi
05. Manifesto - Discipline
06. Zyankali - Evakuierte Zone
07. Forthcoming Fire - Achtung Achtung (wir kommen wieder)
08. I Hatt einen Kameraden - Feilds of Honor
09. Der Feuerkreiner - Sie gehen daher wie ein Schemen
10. Nocturne - Winifred Wagner
11. B-Machina - Willkommen zur Gewalt
12. Lifes Decay - Orguanium
13. B.L.O. feat. The 120 Days - End Of The Game (Baader-Meinhof_Mix)
14. Exemtum - Infestus
15. The Pride of Wolves - Will you?
16. Fourniersches Gangraen - Steyrermühlener Klangdruck
17. Krepulec - Warschauer 1944

Stirner is the harsh noise project of Tony Mulder of the Netherlands. Incubator of Hate is one of many releases currently available from this artist. Incubator of Hate is a four track release, two tracks are only approximately two minutes of length, and two are approximately 20 minutes long.

Incubator of Hate is brutal and painful from the very first second. High-pitched drones tear through the foreground, digging into the listener’s brain and causing what feels like a temporary form of brain damage. Warring distorted factions of aggravated noise argue and toil menacingly in the background. Throughout the album the high-pitched drones and distorted factions battle for attention, both either jumping forth or dropping out randomly, only to be replaced by other, more aggressive twists with each movement.

To say the least, this album is made for fans of noise. On that note, this is a great taste of what underground noise should be. Incubator of Hate lives up to its name. There were times that I was convinced that the noise really did not like me as a person, and was looking for a way to cause me harm. Good stuff.

Mixturizer is the experimental noise project of the co-owner of Spanish label, RONF Records. Exploratio – Saturatio is the first Mixturizer album to be released by Australian label, Smell the Stench. Exploratio – Saturatio is a collection of five songs, ranging between 5 and 20 minutes in length.

With Exploratio – Saturatio, Mixturizer manages to find an equilibrium between structure and chaos. The chaos, often what sounds like guitar-generated noise, becomes a dynamic voice of its own; a polar-opposite of the stability provided by the ever-churning rhythm. It is easy to fall into an uneasy trance listening to this album, only to have all peace ripped away at the slightest change in structure.

Exploratio – Saturatio takes a different angle than I have previously been exposed to in Mixturizer’s work. The sound of Exploratio – Saturatio is a mix of dominating, rhythmic layers of stability accompanied by dynamic, harsh screeching tones of chaos. Each track is writhe with sounds, densely compacted, and neatly exploding at the seams. Mixturizer’s Exploratio – Saturatio is definitely a worthwhile addition to an already worthy discography of sounds.

Pneumatic Deatch’s latest release "Ko-Mor-Bid" offers a relentless onslaught of fast paced industrial rhythms and machine like synth leads that is sure to blow away everything else of the dance floor. When listening to this album I am reminded of the stories of a young Richard D. James creating 200 bpm plus tracks to tire out dancers at raves, as "Ko-Mor-Bid" is the industrial/EBM successor to this tradition of messing with dancers as some of the cuts on this album are impossibly fast and distorted. What’s great about this album is that the rhythm tracks are not repetitive like so many albums of this type, as the drum tracks for most of the songs dispense with the standard 4/4 techno groove and utilize a variety of timings and changes that keep things interesting throughout. Moreover, all of the tracks on the album flow seamlessly into one another which give the album a tight delivery. Some of these fast paced tracks include "How You Forget" "Grinderscraper" and the album’s closer "Automatic Nation," which makes Ministry’s "Twitch (Version III) sound like the Carpenters. Overall, Pneumatic Detach’s latest offering is a high powered fast paced attack that is great for working out, venting some anger, or tearing up the dance floor at your local club’s industrial night.

Kind of a new format for this German underground label, which could match with three well recognized simply entitled "Electro Arc Compilations". A new name and a quite different concept to distribute the ongoing compilation series of the Electro Arc label, more based to be reachable via a digital downloading procedure at Finetunes for example but at least also a few exemplars as physical CDR will be available too. The conceptual idea behind the compilation releases of Electro Arc hasn’t changed. Michael "Intrendent" Maier has again collected some classic and veteran acts plus he added multiple newcomer acts and insider tips under his roof. The original Canadian Wave-/Pop-legend PSYCHE opens this compilation with a danceable Futurepop-tune which features Darrin Huss’ usual charismatic vocal performance. Harsh EBM then is the name of the game by the German act CONCRETE/RAGE, not a pearl of a composition, but it kicks asses. The duo of JÄGER 90 is a sort of NEP/DAF-copycats with a humorous background – well, this world has already seen and heard similar stuff, but filled with more dedication. One of the highlights, if not the best piece at all on this compilation is the appearance of Latvia’s finest Harsh Electro/Powernoise-act ROSEWATER, who like to praise their own label with "In The Name Of Sturm" – what a harsh and kicking smasher! UGH...! seems to be a side-project for the both musicians behind the German Dark Electro project NORDSCHLACHT, because they present an old-school NEP-like EM track which pokes fun on "legendary" quotes out of classic tunes ("Kalt Wie Stahl", "Wahre Arbeit, wahrer Lohn" or "Body To Body") this genre had to offer. Hungarian-based INDUSTRIAL WAVE STUDIO (again, I hope it isn’t only a software providing the music...) then come up with a tasteful instrumental Electro-tune, which convinces through its layer sounds. CRYO-TEKK, well, doesn’t this band name not already sound like Hellectro – are providing a track named "Damage" with harsh distorted vocals, an easy-to-pick-up melody and that typically booming Techno-bassdrum. What else do we have? Well, E:O:NITY have already visited earlier issues of the Electro Arc comp series. Their "Church Of Blood" satisfy with well worked out sequencer line programming, but the boring spoken female vocal performance ruins the first positive impression. The Belgium-based cult project LIQUID G. returns also on this compilation and provides with "Are You" a track which sounds like a live gig improvisation. MAXX:IMPACT is the side-project of LIQUID G. and offers unspectacular rhythmically Powernoise. With highs and depths, as usual from Electro-Arc, but the sense to fish into the underground and to pick up some sleeping talents is still the strongest attitude of this label. Keep them coming and continue!


1. Psyche - Murder In Your Love
2. Concrete/Rage - Catch My Speed
3. Jäger 90 - In Der Hitze Der Nacht
4. Coma Noir - Wasted Life
5. Rosewater - In The Name Of Sturm
6. Mystery Hearsay & Mental Anguis – Spacegloss
7. The Last European - Hairy-(Ass)ed
8. UGH...! - Bananen Beat
9. Industrial Wave Studio - Beast In The Cave
10. Slipstream One - Hillclimber
11. Cryo-Tekk - Damage
12. e:o:nity - Church Of Blood
13. Maxx:Impact - Talk To The Machines (Part 4 V2)
14. Liquid G. - Are You (Arc Mix)
15. Sick En For - The End