SUB007 Subterrestrial - "The City Beneath" (REMASTERED)

"The City Beneath" is a longform dark ambient piece inspired by the epic, groundbreaking 1927 science fiction silent film "Metropolis" by German director Fritz Lang. The composition explores the themes presented in the film and in particular, the subterranean city of the oppressed working class. The City Beneath" was composed and recorded in early May of 2010 and released as a CDr on Black Drone: 13 Series on May 13, 2010 (catalog # 13-7) in an edition of 26 copies. By 2011, "The City Beneath" was completely sold out and had gone out of print. The original recording was very slightly tweaked, cleaned up and overall remastered in late July 2011 and re-released on Subterrestrial Netlabel. New front and back covers were created from the original graphic materials.

Tracklist:
1. The City Beneath 47:57

Total length: 47:57
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps

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v.a. - "Sounds Behind the Corner Vol. 2"

Sounds Behind the Corner is a prolific Italian-language webzine which covers a broad spectrum of dark underground music and Subterrestrial was very proud to be asked to contribute an exclusive track to their second free sampler. Please give this sampler a listen and help support the artists and Sounds Behind the Corner! Below are the release notes for this collection:


"Valerio Orlandini (here as Symbiosis) was several times in our writings, with his ascetic, dilated and rarefied sound: we present him here with a typical passage, he's an artist we want, also in the future, as a witness of a no-space, no-body sound.
http://www.symbiosis.tk/

Ira K-Organisation has the task of defending harsh industrial, he completes this mission with an obscure sense of pathological sound, phobic but dancey.
http://www.myspace.com/irakorg

Adam Castillo lives in French Polynesia, one more reason why we have elected him as an appendix of our dreams! He's a great composer, that blends, as in an elegant long-drink, local ethnic flavors with world trance.
http://www.adam-castillo.com/

Meeting Art Of Empathy means to be captured by dark-folk, born between chanson-noir and languid melancholy: Rome or Death In June of “Accidental Protegé” live today in him, with the great cinematic meaning of his sound.
http://www.artofempathy.be/

Emelyan XIII; It was immediate love for the romanticism of this Eastern boy: romantic is his land, full of literary links took by improbable or impossible love, and ideological death. His full-length conquers us between a smile and a tear, a drop of red blood in b/w background.
http://www.myspace.com/emelyanxiii

Gary lives in the Bay, and there's only one bay in the world, all the other ones are derived: it's California Bay, where dreams of freedom was born in S. Francisco, then there are the Concorde with which you can fly to slavery or liberty, Berkeley and ancients forests. Contradictions of a Nation, that Subterrestrial translates in music with phobic or ethereal, glacial or introspective albums: here it's a perfect and algid interlude, aesthetic without reverberations, linear as lot of his music.
http://subterrestrial.blogspot.com/

Russia again: a land rich in underrated talents, because of the limited opportunities. We're not the mainstream, who seeks for profits in return, although we're asking for approvation, and Veell deserves to be hold in due consideration: his kind of IDM is linear, composed of regular geometries, sometimes cosmic sometimes watery. Listen to him and allow a chance to a great talent.
http://www.veell.net/

White Label Music gives us this track of the new English talented duo we loved immediately, maybe we're the first in Italy who have had the honour to talk about The Horn The Hunt. Music and theater, pop and wave, ethereal and fine brit rock are also in the track donated by the label.
http://thehornthehunt.com/

French, and as in most of french combos there are a beautiful girl and a good musician; we hope that this rule remains, over time, and that it goes on to donate us an high-level eletroclash, like Shygirl's music.
http://www.myspace.com/shygirlmusique


Sagnik And Krishnaroop lead us in India, with their world-trance, which sinks the keyboards in the tradition and the tablas in the future, reversing any order, creating the new course of a nation that looks at the future, strong for cultural and mystical power of thousands of years.
http://www.facebook.com/sagnik24


Namastè to all of you who have listened to Behind The Corner Sounds Vol.2.
As with Vol 1, thanks to Jamendo, always a source of scouting, the opportunity to get in rope and watch the ocean of sound art, capturing the nuances, the small ripples, and proposing the best.
We thank all the labels that help us to grow, the artists who rely on us with confidence even in their first page, to which we respond with love for the music of a small site, but big in intent.
The editors (Nicola, Phaeton, Valentina), thanks all those who in the future will want to subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed:
http://www.soundsbehindthecorner.org/newsletter.asp
We are committed as ever to introduce the big names of the dark world, and the small certainties that come every week."

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v.a. - "10b1t"

Sirona-Records celebrates their 101st release with a massive lobit compilation covering nearly the entire spectrum of underground electronic music, from IDM and electronica to dark ambient and noise. Tracks range from 8 to 32kbps, for all of your mega-aliased audio needs.

Tracklist:

CD1:

01 - Syndrom - Fleeting Movements (0:50)
02 - Pollux - 02.20 (2:48)
03 - The Captain Kirk On LSD Experience - Overrated (LowBitEdition) (2:24)
04 - Ambiant Konnekt - Citrus (32kbps Edit) (3:48)
05 - Euan Cai Atkinson - My Music Coursework (Low Bitrate Version) (2:44)
06 - Graffiti Mechanism - Weak (1:37)
07 - Toxic Chicken - Beautiful Girl (2:53)
08 - Nuno Maltez - 32kbps Guitar For Sirona (2:34)
09 - Genetic Trance - Cassette Home (5:05)
10 - RO-or - GUITARRRing 32kbps (1:55)
11 - d0x10 - yxTqXot (3:14)
12 - Fabiorosho - ZRZ (3:14)
13 - Hlo - Anal Tapeworm Rave (Mash-up Of Tooth_Eye (Tooth_Eye Lobit Mix) (2:24)
14 - The Ambience Project - TAP Contre La Machine A Wub (3:30)
15 - Psycho Mum - I Hate Kids (2:43)
16 - Gert 2012 - Bye Bye $ (Bitcoin Flash Crash Mix) (2:52)
17 - Sven Meyer - A Game Boy In Africa (3:20)
18 - Koobaatoo Asparagus - Gas Went Up Agian Gosh Pitch in a Dolla (6:00)
19 - Lee Rosevere - City In The Cloud (5:54)
20 - Creix - Fogs Of Time (11:13)

CD2:

01 - Panterhead - Backwards Uretro (3:17)
02 - Agent Switters - Hikikomori 32 kbit (0:49)
03 - Ghoul Skool - Untag Me On Facebook (2:19)
04 - The Pink Blob - Sexy Cat (2:17)
05 - Covolux - Till Death Do Us Part (6:10)
06 - Moonsugar - Suicide (4:44)
07 - Flashroyal & Vziel - Collabse)) (5:14)
08 - Packert Hell - We Fist Your Ears With Lobit Till It Hurts (PoptartMix) (3:33)
09 - Microbit Project - Sir Da Da (4:03)
10 - Hectic Head - Why You... (Hey Fuck) (lobit edit) (3:40)
11 - Subterrestrial - Incomprehensible Air (7:00)
12 - TTTRRRAAASSSHHH - Round One Scared Of Spiders Mix Mess Up (1:35)
13 - Iamdeadsmiles58 - Numb (Low Bitrate Version) (3:58)
14 - Lofist - Everyone Is Illigal (feat. Kai Nobuko) (2:48)
15 - Frikan Rhym - Duck Quack (1:41)
16 - Trans Atlantic Rage & Balogh - Red Bull And Speed (1:23)
17 - jjoth - NVDE (4:40)
18 - Khepera - 3 Over The 5 Carry The 1 (0:29)
19 - Sonore Fiction - Musrhum Party (2:02)
20 - Ploof - Lob1tribe (11:00)

CD3:

01 - Cryovolcano - 138 (2:00)
02 - Elechronica - Telemetric Sky (3:27)
03 - Kai Nobuko - Lazy Times (2:36)
04 - Las Tocayas Tomateras - Me He Enamorado De Mi Tele (Natsunogogo Remix) (2:21)
05 - neuroSampler - Moon Scan 32kbps (3:25)
06 - Diamond Sea - Weeping Egos (3:37)
07 - arxo - Battery Free (3:45)
08 - Postmeshische - Glossy trousers out (1:50)
09 - Zoo Blot - Just Because You Are Blind (6:54)
10 - Gameboydork - Power Pill Dance (3:06)
11 - Lo Fi Rave Busters - 1997 (3:05)
12 - Sascha Muller - Mixomat (6:26)
13 - Arrhythmic Buddha - Azyl (2:41)
14 - Golgotha Communications Ltd. - Pink Point (1:59)
15 - Hlo - Clock Cant Set Who Fucked It Up (1:30)
16 - Master Toad - Tormentor of Time and Space (3:03)
17 - Zreen Toyz - Lost In Sewers (7:17)
18 - Ethnomite Pux - Track28 (1:02)
19 - Bedawang - Pepperhead (8kbps edit) (3:33)
20 - TO· GO· RO· NO· MI· KO - 2011/6/21 performance in Kouenji, Japan (10:54)


Total length: 03:39:42
Encoded at: 8-32kbps MP3, OGG

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Subterrestrial - "Plasma Weapon"

"Plasma Weapon" is a new album by Subterrestrial on Sirona-Records. Something a little bit different, this time out. The album features both dark ambient and lighter, ambient electronica. Very soundscape/soundtrack-ish, as I was channeling my passion for '80s video games and anime, movies like Blade Runner, etc.... for this one. Open your mind and give it a try!

Tracklist:
01 - Mega City Tokyo (6:57)
02 - Plasma Weapon (5:51)
03 - 2032 (6:36)
04 - Morrigan (6:03)
05 - Night On The Galactic Railroad (4:06)
06 - Medusa (4:25)
07 - Trouble Consultants (4:42)
08 - Ghost Squadron (4:15)
09 - Born In The Lab (5:09)
10 - No-Fly Zone (Devil's Triangle II) (5:10)

Total length: 53:15
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps MP3, VBR MP3 & OGG

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Sirona-Records is the new netlabel of French multi-genre producer Arnaud Barbe, AKA Pollux. He releases and promotes all styles of underground electronic music. Please download, give feedback and help support this great, new netlabel!

Mind Plug Records - The First Anniversary

Celebrating the first year of Mind Plug Records, label head Marc Fischer presents a free ambient intermix of some of the great music released on this label so far. A message and track list from our esteemed label head follows.

"This has been an exciting first year with some really great releases. Thanks to all who supported us!

We would like to celebrate this first anniversary with a special free download for all our fans - The First Anniversary mix: we have woven a track from each release that came out this year into to a dark, meditative, ritual, noisy soundscape.

We take off with Mikan's delightful Spacefalls. Subterrestrial's meditative High Sierra Breeze and Sunset Beach arise together at around (3:53). They are joined by Seetyca's ethereal Swamp Temple Sun (6.06), together melting their way throughout the first part of Mikan's mesmerizing The Way Back (6:52). Siamgda's ethnic Tribal Gathering takes over at (12:56), briefly visited by Siamgda feat. Morty's ritual Golden Prayer at (13:47), just before Neti Neti's harder-edged Circumdance (17:52) climbs its way through the Gathering up to the climax joined there by Siamgda's pulsating Mind Rotation at (18:15)."

Please feel free to download this free mix and help support Mind Plug Records.

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Subterrestrial - "Nature is Infinite"

"Nature is Infinite" is Subterrestrial's first album for that foundation of ambient and experimental net audio; Webbed Hand Records. Richly orchestrated synth ambient inspired by experiences of the natural world. Featuring softsynths, classic keys and field recordings. Available now as high quality 320kbps MP3s.

Track List:
01 Nature is Infinite [06:02]
02 A Walk Along the Bank [06:33]
03 Cathedral Amongst the Redwoods [04:03]
04 The Lava Tube [04:06]
05 On a Clear Night You Can See for Light Years [07:25]
06 Shooting Stars [06:16]

Total length: 34:24
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 320Kbps MP3

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SUB006 Subterrestrial - "We Live Inside"

The second installment of Subterrestrial's series of hollow earth themed albums, "We Live Inside" is inspired by 19th century Utopian mystic Cyrus Reed Teed and his principle of "Cellular Cosmogony" or concave earth. Teed believed that the earth was not only hollow, but that we live on the inside surface. Subterrestrial channels atmospheric drone doom sounds for this outing. Interestingly enough, I actually uploaded this album earlier this week as I had time and it's already been downloaded 17 times!

Tracklist:
1. The Cellular Cosmogony 9:30
2. Seven Mercurial Disks 7:48
3. The 24 Year Cycle 6:26
4. In the Hollow of His Hand 5:35
5. A Gently Oscillating Ocean of Magnetic and Spiritual Ecstasy 2:06
6. Invisible Sun 5:45
7. Beyond the 17 Layers, a Void 6:16

Total length: 43:24
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps

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v.a. - "BeSt of 10-11"

"BeSt of 10-11" - collection of the best tracks released by Black Square netlabel in the first year of its existence. 28 crucial tracks, including Subterrestrial's "Ezhdehā " from the album Esoteric Zoo released by Black Square back in October 2010. Tracklist includes:

01 Black Mouse - Soon I Will Be...
02 Gabran - Risotto & Mushrooms with Friends
03 Cagey House - Champion Major Monk
04 Cezary Gapik [aka CEZAR] - #0441
05 Bose Ensemble - UHT milk trauma
06 Melophobia - 02
07 Subterrestrial - Ezhdehā
08 Christophe Meulien - I can`t open the door
09 Thus The Tinsilemen - Fortune Teller
10 Yajna Vedana - Atma Shatakam
11 In_Cognitus - solv
12 Carlos Lemosh - Metal Meal Menu (不论什么)
13 Cameron Steele - Circa Circus
14 Syrtis Major - Death In Springtime
15 Paul Bailey - Music for Controllers VI
16 Radio For The Daydreamers - Leavin On A Sunday
17 Sanmi - I wish I could play Jazz
18 Geronimodeleon - A Cycle of Goodness
19 Fescal - Scampi with Marmite
20 John Storm - Lisa Carol Freemont
21 A Screaming Comes Across the Sky - I Love 1970s Experimental German Music
22 KraftiM - Jonoo
23 ZMG - p5
24 Skerror - Arboretum Interrogatum
25 Psychaotic - Monologue of Silence
26 Speculativism - I'm Not a Mouse
27 Hyaena Fierling Reich - rosa de lobo
28 Alexei Biryukoff - back home

Black Square netlabel is about synthesis between image and a sound, music and a photo.

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Subterrestrial - "Lake Tahoe" digital album

Formed some 2 million years ago by glacial action, Lake Tahoe is one of the world's deepest and largest alpine lakes. It is an area of unprecedented natural beauty and is something of a muse to Subterrestrial.

The album of the same name was composed and performed using acoustic (albeit sampler based) instruments and sounds exclusively. Drawing influence from dark ambient, darkwave, ethereal and world music, "Lake Tahoe"conveys the profound, divine natural beauty of the region that inspired it. This 14-track digital album can be previewed online now for free and the full download can be purchased in high quality MP3, FLAC and many other formats of your choosing. Over one hour of music for €8 EUR.


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SUB005 Subterrestrial - "Transmissions from the Hollow Earth"

Subterrestrial presents "Transmissions from the Hollow Earth," minimal dark ambient dronescapes inspired by the electroacoustic musical explorations of '50-'60s radio labs. Composed and performed entirely in Berna, a software simulation of a late 1950s electroacoustic music studio.

Tracklist:
1. Transmission 01 10:00
2. Transmission 02 10:00
3. Transmission 03 9:34
4. Transmission 04 9:59
5. Transmission 05 9:43
6. Transmission 06 9:44
7. Transmission 07 9:53
8. Transmission 08 9:23

Total length: 1:18:15
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps

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v.a. - "Chain Reaction"

Another new, epic compilation. Kopp Netlabel presents an ambient journey of vibrant soundscapes that tear the very fabric of time & space, taking your ears to places you never thought existed. Featuring excellent contributions from The Hare And The Moon, Bpolar, Dolorism, Lunatic Moe, Loki fun Lilith + Halgrath, D_e, Herr Schmitd hat Krach, Nosens, Intergalactic Wizard, Cousin Silas, Subterrestrial, Cezary Gapik, DEDALE(S), Wulgata, Petstov, No Way Out, Black Era, Mentalny Kolaps, d-brane, This Playground Earth, Hazelpark, Heirdrain, Covered Faces, Ablaze Eternal, Sanderson Dear, Mark Bradley, God Pussy and Tarmacians.

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v.a. - "Owl Eater Hex"

The sixth and final volume of the Owl Eater project is now online.
A monster compilation covering the spectrum of underground experimental music, from noise to free jazz, to avant garde experimentation. 29 tracks by 29 artists, almost three hours of music. Featuring Metal Mother, Eraritjaritjaka, Jamison Williams, Subterrestrial, Abusive Consumer, Welby, Creep City, Churner, Loopool, Richard Kamerman, Second Thought, Cannibalistic Humanoid, Tree, Inappropriate King Live, Sick To The Back Teeth, Tracy Widdess, PBK, Atomic Populist Melt Machine, VWLS, absence.insolution, Sleep of Ages, Rain Symbols, A.R.GH, Arvo Zylo, Travis Johnson, Uncle Dave Lewis, Monuments Are No Good To The Dead, Screwtape and GET HARD.

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SUB004 Subterrestrial - "Conspiracy Music"

Subterrestrial welcomes the new year with our first new release of 2011. Inspired by secret societies and conspiracy theories, "Conspiracy Music" features over an hour of ethereal and hermetic-sounding melodic dark ambient music.

Tracklist:
1. Bovine Mutilator 7:50
2. The Bohemian Grove 8:00
3. 322 8:08
4. October 13, 1307 8:04
5. Black Helicopters 8:08
6. Illuminati 15:34
7. Things Seen in the Sky 8:18

Total length: 1:04:01
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 320Kbps

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Subterrestrial - "Forgotten Places"

"forgotten places is an album where the mind gets immediately immersed. through it, subterrestrial pulls us out of the strictly functional roles we play in our societal wheel of change and reminds us of our own existences beyond that, opening ways to the finitized being's reabsorption in the vaster and obscured realm of reality where stillness rules."

New album by Subterrestrial on Fm-Ra's brand new Rejected Netlabel.

Tracklist:
1. Ghost Town 5:55
2. Where Rain Goes After the Storm 8:58
3. Alone in the Woods 5:25
4. The Cistern 10:17
5. Abandoned Skyscraper 6:01
6. Ocean of Voices 19:45
7. Stairway to Nowhere 6:00

Total length: 1:02:21
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz VBR MP3

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Subterrestrial - "Esoteric Zoo"

New album by Subterrestrial on Black Square Netlabel, catalog number BS033.
"Esoteric Zoo" is inspired by fantastic creatures from Persian and Medieval European mythology. Seven tracks of rhythmic dark ambient and tribal industrial sounds, available now as a free download in your choice of super high quality MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.

Tracklist:
1. Melusine 6:32
2. Ezhdehā 3:45
3. Gryphon 7:09
4. Mantikhoras 2:53
5. Ophidian 6:40
6. Melek Taus 4:36
7. Leviathan 7:15

Total length: 38:48
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 320Kbps MP3 and OGG

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v.a. - "8th Circle Below" CD/digital album

"8th Circle Below," the latest release on Chimera Central. 8-bit noise from various artists around the world! Eleven original tracks that focus on the afterlife and range from peaceful moments to harsh, hellish oblivion. Now available as both a CD and a digital download in high quality MP3, FLAC and other formats. Artists include Subterrestrial, Sadore, Platzangst, La Flore Intestinale, Cementimental, d0us, Vi11AiN, Zomvor, Byrant Davis, Sick To The Back Teeth, DCLXVI and Cursed Chimera.

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v.a. - "The Seven Deadly Sins Compilation: IRA"

“In 2010, Schattenspiel and Neofolk And Martial Forum Franken decided to release a compilation about the seven deadly sins.

The seven deadly sins are Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride.

Every sin will be given a separate part of the compilation, and every compilation will be containing 30 tracks of 30 artists and bands.

These artists and bands are coming from all over the world and from the broad fields of neofolk and dark ambient music to take part of this project. The artists and bands interpret their desired sin in a religious or philosophically meaning by using their own musical meaning of expression.

The first Compilation - “Ira” (Wrath) was released in 10/2010.” -from The Seven Deadly Sins Compilation website

"Ira" is divided into two virtual discs, with the first "disc" given over to neoclassical and neofolk while the second "disc" features dark ambient and experimental sounds. Artists include: No Way Out, Karma Marata, Nihil Novi Sub Sole, Schattenspiel & Verney 1826, J Orphic, Nigri Solis, Striider, Erntegang, The Hare And The Moon, Prioratvm, Kazeria, Jörvallr, Aelia Capitolina, Sinweldi, Front Sonore, Nors'Klh, Heresiarch Feat. Andraste, Cezary Gapik [aka CEZAR], Ambient Fabric, Radio Salva, MaCu, The Grave Dominion, Nepenthe, Subterrestrial, Mike Radice, Sonisk Blodbad, Ritus, No-xygen, Arbeiter und Flüchtlinge and Eighth Evening.

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Subterrestrial - "The City Beneath" CDr

A deep, immersive soundscape inspired by Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis. The City Beneath is a 48 minute magnum opus of dark ambience. The CDr was released on May 13, 2010 and is available from Black Drone as part of their 13 series and is limited to 26 copies. Catalog number 13-7. 7AUD (approx. $5.50)

Tracklist:
1. The City Beneath 47:48

Format: CDr, paper cover

PLEASE NOTE: This item is out of print

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SUB001 Subterrestrial - "The Goddess of Atvatabar"

The debut album from this San Francisco Bay Area artist, The Goddess of Atvatabar is inspired by the 1891 hollow earth adventure novel by William R. Bradshaw and leans heavily on dark ambient, tribal ambient and middle eastern musical themes. The Goddess of Atvatabar is a self-released web album and is available as a free download in a zip file with high quality MP3s and covers.

Tracklist:

1. Sailing Into the Polar Abyss 6:17

2. The Goddess of Atvatabar 5:24

3. Spiritual Battery 10:10

4. The Sin of a Twin-Soul 3:21

5. The Garden of Tanje 4:57

6. Glorious Annihilator of Time and Space 4:13

7. Egyplosis 3:55

Total length: 38:14

Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps

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