NEW RELEASES ON ANT-ZEN: EMPUSAE & SHINKIRO. ORGANIC.AURAL.ORNAMENTS. CD. ANT-ZEN ACT252 empusae is a project created by sal-ocin who is also a member of various other projects such as this morn' omina, tzolk'in, project arctic and also works as a live member of ah cama-sotz and in slaughter natives. sal-ocin is always open-minded about working together with other artists, as can be heard on this album: a liaison with manabu hiramoto a.k.a. shinkiro from osaka, japan who collaborated with artists like contagious orgasm, hybryds and jack or jive, and who has also made releases under the name kotodama. organic.aural.ornaments is based mostly on track-sources from manabu supplemented by sal-ocin. both artists' aural characteristics merge perfectly: shinkiro's cinematic dark soundscapes with a meditative touch blend with empusae's haunting ritualistic ambience and enthralling melodies. varied rhythmic structures ranging from tribal to minimalistic sequences loom out of the vast, lamenting synth sounds - a kaleidoscope of ethereal atmospheres, both enthralling and enchanting. in sal-ocin's words, the term 'organic' fits perfectly concerning the result of this collaborative work. two artistic minds fused into one, creating a movie without visuals or dialogue. organic.aural.ornaments is waiting for you to step through the frame and into an imagined world, and we highly recommend taking the chance. available: 23february2k11 PHILIPP MÜNCH. INTO THE ABSURD. CD. ANT-ZEN ACT255 philipp münch has worked as an active musician since the beginning of the 90s and has formed countless projects covering all facets of electronic music like ars moriendi, the incredible three, monokrom and synapscape. during the last two years he has recorded the first album to be released under his full name: into the absurd. the sound design shown here certainly contains repetition, but intelligent and well thought out repetition. a masterful demonstration of minimalism and animalism initially designed to rethink the boundaries of popular music and influenced by pioneering groups of the british industrial music scene in the mid 70's, such as throbbing gristle, cabaret voltaire and clock dva. these artists were the genesis of the sound that legions of followers would mutate in a myriad of directions into genres that you know and love. pulsing drones, dark ambient soundscapes, analog style drum machines, hard dark synth lines and monotonous bass loops distorted to the point where it borders on harsh noise. these sounds merge together with treated voices and samples. occasional distortion gives the music a rough edge, but elements of beauty are also expressed within the landscape philipp paints. this album will take you to amazing places. play it in the dark, or set your analog television between channels and watch the static while listening. available: 11february2k11 NEW DIGITAL RELEASE AVAILABLE: KLANGSTABIL. SENDEN UND EMPFANGEN. ANT-ZEN DIG020 this very first klangstabil release 'senden und empfangen' was originally published by the german label shokoy on 12'' vinyl in 1995, limited to 999 copies. the sounds of fm transmissions, manipulated voices, harsh synths and distorted beats resulted in dark, minmalistic industrial soundscapes. even though, surprisingly, the project was not influenced by this genre at all. the vinyl version is long since deleted, so this important klangstabil release is now available again, this time in a digital format. available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/senden-und-empfangen/id404922965 available on eMusic.com: http://www.emusic.com/album/Klangstabil-senden-und-empfangen-MP3-Downlo ad/12283908.html NEW ITEMS IN THE ANT-ZEN DISTRIBUTION: MILLIPEDE. powerless. cd. hymen. ¥789. available: 24february2k11 JEROME CHASSAGNARD. the time from underneath. cd. hymen. ¥790. available: 17february2k11 5F-X. flight recorder 5.0. cd. hands. hands-d155. available: now!!! SCHACHTANLAGE GEGENORT . DENISE RITTER. aufgelassen. cd. hands. hands-d156. available: now!!! EDGEY. misfire. cd. hands. hands-d157. available: now!!! THE PCP PRINCIPLE. rhythmus ex heretica. cd. hands. hands-d158. available: now!!! GEISTFORM. transistor music. cd. hands. hands-d159. available: now!!! V.A.. the reconstruction of fives. cd. n5md. md182. available: now!!! SYLVGHEIST MAËLSTRÖM. lahar. cd. connexion bizarre. ncb024. available: now!!! LAURENT PERNICE VS. LAURENT PERRIER. play piano and sounds. cd. sound on probation. sop013. available: now!!! SEMIMOMINE. from memory. cd. ad noiseam. adn139. available: 11february2k11 BALKANSKY & LOOP STEPWALKER. . 12". ad noiseam. adn141. available: end february2k11 BLACK. black compendium 2010. magazine. black. black2010. available: now!!! FORTHCOMING - MARCH 2k11: PORT-ROYAL. 2000-2010 - the golden age of consumerism. 2cd. n5md. md183 NEAR THE PARENTHESIS. japanese for beginners. cd. n5md. md184 SUBTRACTIVELAD. kindred. cd. n5md. md185 NEWSFLASH - SALT @ GRAPHIC BEATS DESIGN BOOK http://www.flickr.com/photos/salz/sets/72157625580945266 graphic beats independent record covers and packaging. book. isbn: 978-84-96823-13-6. monsa. 2010. barcelona, spain. published design projects by salt: imminent - cask strength ant-zen act239. talbot & deru - genus ant-zen act236. graphic beats has collected a large number of covers from all over the world in which we can find an enormous range of graphic images from dozens of artists and music genres. and we thought it would be a good idea to play a little game. we highlighted the music genre for each project at the top of the page. are we able to tell the genre of each album merely from the visual impact of its cover? http://www.monsa.com - http://www.monsashop.com NEWSFLASH - MANDELBROT REMIXED FREE WEB RELEASE ON AUDIOPHOB on "remixed" 14 projects present their interpretations of mandelbrot tracks from all three releases on audiophob. of course, other projects already known from audiophob - namely spherical disrupted, alarmen, zero degree and phelios took the chance to contribute to this release, but so did a lot of other well known projects, including imminent, salt, p·a·l, bipol and frl. linientreu. beyond doubt a quite impressive list of remixers, but with nearly 90 minutes of free music this is also the most extensive auphnet-release so far. download link can be found at: http://www.audiophob.de/auphnet010.shtml NEWSFLASH - BODYSTYLER MAGAZINE ANT-ZEN ARTISTS INTERVIEWS nin kuji interview: http://www.electrozine.net/interview/nin-kuji-2010.html zero degree interview: http://www.electrozine.net/interview/zero-degree-2010.html NEWSFLASH - IMMINENT TRACK NOMINATED FOR CATEGORY 'DANCEFLOOR' @ QWARTZ 7 these tracks were nominated out of 3.904 tracks / 456 albums: avalanche by erol alkan & boys noize in avalanche/lemonade - phantasy [united kingdom] bock by imminent [belgium] in cask strength - ant-zen [germany] campane by i cani [italy] in concerto 001 - 51 beats [italy] mind damage by xenia beliayeva [russia] in ever since - shitkatapult [germany] rabbit by paral-lel [france] in monkey money - bee records [france] raga bhairav by charanjit singh [india] in 10 ragas to a disco beat - bombay connection records [netherlands] tear by neurov - pharmacom records [germany] the beat of the heart by daniel meteo in working class – shitkatapult [germany] the floor filler by anthony 'shake' shakir [united states] in frictionalism 1994-2009 - rush hour recordings [netherlands] all nominated releases will be presented online on http://www.qwartz.org. internet-users are invited to listen and vote for the releases in each category from january, 31, 2011 prize-winners will be known at the qwartz 7 awards ceremony friday, april 1, 2011, at le théâtre du trianon (paris 18e) NEWSFLASH - MONO-AMINE PRESENTS HARDCORE STAR TREK on the 25th of february darkforce will present a unique and one time event; hardcore star trek. on this event we can celebrate the birthday of mono-amine in an atmosphere of on the one side star trek and on the other side the experience of some of the best dark uplifting adventurous and intense music the low lands (and belgium) has to offer! madness and kickass music will set the tone of the night. theme and dresscode will be ...star trek, so all klingons, borg, ferengi, federation staff and all other related individuals are welcome to come and celebrate this night of madness with us! all performers will present unique live and dj-sets also in startrek theme. this will be something you do not want to miss! the venue only has a capacity of 250 visitors so we decided to use a facebook event and the emailadress jwf.gransjean@ziggo.nl as ways where you can put yourself on the reservationlist. all reservations will be contacted one week in advance of the party for confirmation. location: korsakov, lijnbaansgracht 161, amsterdam time 22.00 to 04.00 damage 7,5 euro lineup: mr gasmask (binairy bassline) be - http://www.mrgasmask.com mono-amine (darkforce, ant-zen, vendetta music) - http://www.myspace.com/monoamine http://www.facebook.com/monoamine oozi (kxstarter) - http://kxstarter.freetekno.nl/ dj violence will be brought to you by: stefan (zmk) - http://www.myspace.com/stefanzmk dj distortedchaos - http://www.myspace.com/dj_distortedchaos david k (storm, area 51) - http://www.stormparty.nl star trek porn visuals by neko vleer lets make this one night we wont be able to forget! to boldly go where no freak has gone before! when you are interested; reserve and come early!!! for more info or enquiries contact joost mono-amine thru facebook or jwf.gransjean@ziggo.nl CONCERTS AND DATES: 12february2k11 ah cama-sotz @ pmk, innsbruck, austria 19february2k11 ultra milkmaids @ echos flottants, strassbourg, france info: http://www.ososphere.org 25february2k11 klangstabil, mono no aware @ matrix, bochum, germany 25february2k11 mono-amine @ korsakoff, amsterdam, the netherlands 04-05march2k11 empusae, tzolk'in, imminent, flint glass and more @ dark sun club, athens, greece 08march2k11 thorofon, red chamber, the on/off corporation @ rhiz, wien, austria info: http://rhiz.org 12march2k11 frl. linientreu, nin kuji @ dark dance treffen, lahr, germany info: http://www.dark-dance.de 18march2k11 empusae @ baroeg, rotterdam, the netherlands 19march2k11 empusae @ de klinker, aarschot, belgium 20march2k11 empusae @ werkstatt, köln, germany 01-02april2k11 elektroanschlag no.12 feat. ahnst anders, bad sector, dive, cent ans de solitude, ex_tension, feine trinkers bei pinkels daheim, gjöll, ic 434, igorrr, le moderniste, mezire, näo, nullgrad, the pcp principle, republik of screens, saturmzlide, transistor, tzolk'in @ tenne brauerei, altenburg, germany info: http://www.elektroanschlag.de 02april2k11 klangstabil, @ club centrum, erfurt, germany synapscape russian federation tour 2011: 08april2k11 - ekatarinburg 09april2k11 - moscow 10april2k11 - rostov-on-don more info t.b.a. 15april2k11 klangstabil @ tivoli de helling, utrecht, holland 16april2k11 klangstabil @ muziekgieterij, maastricht, holland 24april2k11 asche, frl. linientreu @ bastard club, osnabrück, germany info: http://www.myspace.com/zeitfuerlaerm 25april2k11 genevieve pasquier @ rhiz, wien, austria info: http://rhiz.org 06-07may2k11 forms of hands 11 feat. empusae, winterkälte, edgey, greyhound, maschinenkrieger kr52 vs. disraptor, angina p - more t.b.a. @ zeche auguste viktoria grubenausbauwerkstatt, marl, germany info: http://www.formsofhands.de 18june2k11 100blumen, objekt/urian, drape excrement, flutwacht @ kontrastbühne, zweibrücken, germany info: http://www.deluidspreker.de 25june2k11 klangstabil @ haus 11, stuttgart, germany 08july2k11 klangstabil @ markthalle, hamburg, germany 16july2k11 klangstabil @ amphi festival, tanzbrunnen, köln, germany 03september2k11 klangstabil @ nocturnal culture-night, deutzen, germany 30september - 02october2k11 maschinenfest 2011 line-up t.b.a. @ turbinenhalle, oberhausen, germany info: http://www.maschinenfest.de unsubscribe this newslist http://www.ant-zen.com/newsletter or send us a note at unsubscribe-newsletter@ant-zen.com ant-zen. audio & visual arts. p.o. box 1257. 93135 lappersdorf. bavaria / germany http://www.ant-zen.com . http://www.myspace.com/antzen . http://www.facebook.com/antzen.official . info@ant-zen.com