(dis)PERSE Dispatch Episode #36

(dis)PERSE Dispatch is a weekly broadcast on DFM RTV, Netherlands produced and hosted by Alan Herrick of Auricular Records. He's played Subterrestrial's music on previous podcasts, though on a recent show he actually opened and closed the program with "The Old Water Tank" and "The Gate at the Beach" respectively from Subterrestrial's recently released album "The Old Water Tank" on Treetrunk Records. Please check out the archived podcast and help support this great broadcaster!

Download & Stream | Visit (dis)PERSE Dispatch

This Blue Lawn - Sadayatana Podcast #43

Another recent show by internet broadcaster/podcaster John Tocher and his great show Sadayatana. His September 3 show featured the title track from Subterrestrial's recently released album "The Old Water Tank" on Treetrunk Records. Please check out the podcast and help support this great radio show!

Download & Stream | Visit Sadayatana

REVIEW: Infinite Inertia - "The Colour Out Of Space"

It isn't often that I write and post a review for this blog (chalk it up to my own laziness/selfishness) but when I do it's usually of The Netherlands' Infinite Inertia. Usually known for producing some of the deepest, darkest minimal ambient atmospheres, he's really outdone himself with this latest, Lovecraftian-themed release. "The Colour Out Of Space" presents us with a decidedly more dense and complex soundscape where ancient monstrosities call from the deepest depths and snatches of melody lure us into madness like a siren's song. Highly recommended if you're looking for your next "soundtrack without a movie."


Download | More Infinite Inertia

Unknown Pleasures Vol. 45

Temple of Despair Radio recently featured Subterrestrial's "H-21" album in it's entirety on their show Unknown Pleasures. The show is quite lengthy (the archived podcast is divided into two parts) and features blocks by several other artists as well. Please check out the podcast and support this great internet broadcaster!

Part One | Part Two | Visit ToDRadio

Subterrestrial - "The Chemical Marriage"

Just released by Sounds Behind the Corner Production, a netlabel division of the Sounds Behind the Corner webzine, "The Chemical Marriage" is something of a virtual soundtrack to the old alchemical text of the same name. Subterrestrial creates dark ambient atmospheres with progressive electronic influence. Featuring back cover and liner notes by Nicola Tenani.

Tracklist:
1. Invitation to a Royal Wedding 7:15
2. Four Paths 7:00
3. Weighing of the Virtues 7:30
4. Beheading of the Royal Persons 7:30
5. Tower of Olympus 7:00
6. Restored to Life 7:45
7. Knights of the Golden Stone 7:15

Total length: 51:15
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps MP3

Download from SBTCP | Visit the Website

Subterrestrial - "The Old Water Tank"

New release on Mystified's Treetrunk Records netlabel. "The Old Water Tank" is Subterrestrial’s latest installment in an ongoing series of isolationist ambient works focusing on nature and it’s interaction with civilization. Subterrestrial presents four tracks composed of field recordings (both processed and unprocessed) and minimal synth. Water erodes stone and structure alike and nature reclaims it’s providence.

Tracklist:
1. The Methuselah Tree 10:16
2. The Old Water Tank 9:24
3. The Gate at the Beach 10:00
4. Water and Stone

Total length: 39:27
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz VBR MP3

Download from Treetrunk Records | Visit the Website

Between Stations - Sadayatana Podcast #39

Sadayatana is a live internet broadcast and archived podcast featuring Dark Ambient, Space Music, Experiment, Soundscapes and related styles. Focus is on both live performance and tracks culled from various netlabels. Their August 6th broadcast featured "Leviathan" from Subterrestrial's "Esoteric Zoo" album on Black Square Netlabel.

Download & Stream Podcast | Visit Sadayatana

(dis)PERSE Dispatch Episode #17

This podcast (apparently uploaded some time in April) features Subterrestrial's track "The Lava Tube" from our album "Nature is Infinite" on Webbed Hand Records. (dis)PERSE Dispatch is a weekly broadcast on DFM RTV, Netherlands produced and hosted by Alan Herrick of Auricular Records. Offerings include ambient, experimental, noise, soundart, shoegaze, glitch and difficult music as well as explorations of some of the latest offerings from netlabels and some rare archival material. Don’t be surprised if we have the occasional live in studio performance and/or interview as well.

Download & Stream Podcast | Visit (dis)PERSE Dispatch

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

Download from Subterrestrial

Two New Subterrestrial Videos

It's amazing, the things you discover when you Google yourself. Or maybe I should just pay more attention to my YouTube friends? Anyway, this morning I discovered two new videos for Subterrestrial tracks on YouTube.




f1kc1a77 who previously released a video for "The Cellular Cosmology" has outdone herself again with a great video for "Beyond the 17 Layers, a Void."




Much love also goes out to GodofGUFT for his video of "The Bohemian Grove" from our album "Conspiracy Music".

Thanks, as always to the wonderful people who take the time to create these videos. As always, you have my eternal gratitude!

Sirona-Records - [Siro071] to [Siro080]

From time to time, Sirona-Records releases album packs of ten consecutive albums from their rapidly growing catalog. The following pack contains roughly half a gigabyte of great music, including Subterrestrial's "Plasma Weapon". It's a great way to grab a whole bunch of wonderful creative commons music at once!



Download Album Pack [Siro071] to [Siro080] | Visit Sirona-Records

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."

Download the sampler | Visit Sounds Behind the Corner

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

Download from Sirona-Records | Visit the Website

REVIEW: Static Soma "Ultrataker"

Introducing the latest side project from the Dutch dark ambient/industrial orb that is Vulture, Static Soma takes a decidedly minimalist approach. Eschewing dense layers of sound, "Ultrataker" focuses on dark, isolationist soundscapes. Sometimes pychedelic, sometimes with an ethereal feel. Equally palatable to fans of both noise and more ambient type of music.

Download from Vulture | Visit the Website

Jamendo Awards Contest

Jamendo is currently holding their first awards ceremony for creative commons artists and they are taking online nominations. If you are a Jamendo user or have considered signing up (it is free,) I humbly suggest you consider nominating Subterrestrial for the EXPERIMENTAL category. You may do so even if you have already nominated another artist for the experimental category (though you may only do so once per day.) Please consider nominating other artists as well for the experimental category, in addition to the other categories available. Contest details from Jamendo are as follows:

"From now until July 10th, nominate your favorite Jamendo artists in our seven categories. You can nominate once per day in each category.

After the nomination period, the top five artists in each category will move on to the final voting round.The voting round will run from July 11th-15th and each user will only be able to vote one time for each category.

The winning artist for each category will receive a $500 USD prize! Spread the word and support your favorite Jamendo artists!"

I'm not usually in the business of seeking monetary compensation for Subterrestrial's music, but a little extra income in these tough economic times is always welcome. Plus, who doesn't want fame and eternal glory? :) I thank you all for your consideration and support of Subterrestrial's music.

Vote in Jamendo Awards 2011 Contest | Sign on or register at Jamendo

v.a. - "Now That's What I Call Retro-Futurism Vol. 2" 2 x Floppy Disk

The second in Diskette Etikette Rekords' series of retro-futurist compilations is out now! 14 tracks across 2 floppies, in plastic cases and limited to 35 copies.


Diskette A

1. Heirdrain - ...Be Scared
2. Consistency Nature - Omnipotent Bedlam at Bombay
3. Ugly Rumors - Eat Hamburger and Die
4. Zebra Mu - Mess
5. D//Cereghini - 121 Songs
6. Graffiti Mechanism - Ghetto Blaster

Diskette B

1. Subterrestrial - Amphibient
2. Rectal Twat - I Never Knew the Meaning of Disgust Until You Opened Your Legs
3. Paregorik - bn10
4. Meatpacker - Cages
5. Bjerga/Iversen - Chicken Run
6. Back to the Fucking Future - SD1
7. 1 + 1 = A Window - Wallpaper
8. Sascha Müller - Safety Through Seatbelts


Email neil.jennings84@googlemail.com to order a copy (£3.50 UK/£4.00 everywhere else), or visit the shop.

Also Subterrestrial's "Map of the Interior World" floppy disk ep which DER released last summer is down to it's last few copies. Order a copy from DER while it's still available!

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

Download from Sirona-Records | Visit the Website

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!

TIBOL lobit radio show (episode 4)

TIBOL is a radio show (podcast) completely dedicated to lo bit music,
their artists and the unstoppable lobit netlabel scene. Their frequent broadcasts are hosted by dj Pollux (Pollux/Sirona Records) as well as various guest DJs. Their most recent show features a wealth of great tracks, including "Lost in the Games Grid" from Subterrestrial's "Insert Coin" ep on 4m@-records, as well as an interview with Consistency Nature! Please help support this great podcaster.

Download Podcast | Visit Tibol Lobit Radio

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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Download mirrors and Soundcloud

As you may know, in addition to Internet Archive all Subterrestrial Netlabel releases are also available from our download mirrors on Jamendo and Sonic Squirrel.

Also, the Subterrestrial Soundcloud page is now open. This page features demo tracks and works currently in progress. Downloading is disabled (they are works in progress, after all) but you are free to listen to tracks as many times as you like. Feedback is always welcome!

Subterrestrial - "The Cellular Cosmogony" music video

Just recently discovered a second fan created video from Subterrestrial's "We Live Inside" album, this time featuring the track "The Cellular Cosmogony." Thanks go out to Youtube user f1kc1a77 for creating this!





Previously, I posted a video featuring "Invisible Sun" and "Beyond the 17 Layers, a Void" from the same album. Please check it out, if you haven't already!

Subterrestrial interview

Subterrestrial was recently interviewed by University of Oregon Journalism student Ian McKivor. The interview has been posted on his journalism classes' blog and I'd like to invite you all to give it a quick read. Thanks!

Read the Subterrestrial interview

Xiled Radio - Show 70

Xiled Radio's April 21, 2011 broadcast, Show 70 by DJ Arcanus features dark ambient from First Fallen Star and Mind Plug Records. Subterrestrial's "High Sierra Breeze" from the recently released "Lake Tahoe" album on Mind Plug Records was amongst the set. Here is the complete set list:

Secret Druid Society - Restless (Foreboding) (00:00:00)
Innfallen - Light Returns (00:09:58)
Karsten Hamre - Darkness Gently Falling (00:17:43)
Dense Vision Shrine - Time Lost In Oblivion (00:26:15)
Seetyca - Swamp Temple Sun (00:33:32)
Mystified - Something Approching (00:39:14)
Subterrestrial - High Sierra Breeze (00:44:34)
Aspectee - Stuhlmann (00:51:01)
Siamgda - Paan Mouth (00:56:35)

Total length: 01:02:43
Encoded at 192Kbps

New shows from the Xiled Radio crew are posted weekly on Thursday evenings. You can download the podcasts or visit the website to stream and subscribe to their RSS feed. Please help support this great podcaster and the artists and labels who contribute their music!

Download podcast | Visit Xiled Radio website

"We Live Inside" promo video by InfernusGate

YouTube user InfernusGate has created a promo video for Subterrestrial's recently released "We Live Inside" album, featuring the tracks "Invisible Sun" and "Beyond the 17 Layers, a Void." Check it out and thanks for watching!


Visit InfernusGate's YouTube channel

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

Download from Webbed Hand | Visit the Website

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

Download from Subterrestrial

Not the normal Shit radio March 19th 2011

NNSR is your weekly dose of experimentalism and street-art. Last Saturday's broadcast featured two tracks from Subterrestrial's recent "Transmissions from the Hollow Earth" album, amongst other sonic goodies. An archive file of the podcast can be downloaded. Please check it out and support this broadcaster!

Download podcast | Not the normal Shit radio

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.

Download from Black Square | Visit the website

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.


Preview & Purchase | Visit Mind Plug Records

"Editions of You" exhibition of special packaging releases

The Popular Music Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, UK has an ongoing project called Editions of You, whose aim is to celebrate and showcase self-publishing and self-releasing musicians and the handmade and unique editions and releases they create. They are holding a One-of-a-kind exhibition at the achingly chic O3 Gallery at Oxford Castle. The Exhibition is open from Saturday 26th March through Sunday 24th April 2011. The gallery is open 12 – 5 weekdays, 11 – 4 weekends, closed Mondays. They will be exhibiting, amongst other things Subterrestrial's "Map of the Interior World" floppy disc EP, which was released last summer by Diskette Etikette Rekords. They should also have a few copies on hand for purchase. If you are near the Oxford, UK area during this time feel free to drop by the exhibit and let me know what your impressions are (and send some photos please!)

Editions of You | 03 Gallery | Oxford Contemporary Music

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

Download from Subterrestrial

"8th Circle Below" digital version now available as "name your price" release

"8th Circle Below," from Chimera Central features 8-bit dark ambient and noise from various artists around the world! Eleven original tracks that focus on the afterlife and range from peaceful moments to harsh, hellish oblivion. And for a limited time, the digital version of this compilation will be available as "name your price," meaning you can preview it for free and give whatever monetary compensation you feel is appropriate to the label! CD version also still available for purchase.

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Sounds Behind the Corner

Sounds behind the corner is a new Italian language webzine focusing on dark ambient, industrial, drone, darkwave, neofolk, synthpop, EBM, ethereal and much more. They present insightful reviews, interviews and live reports. If you can't read Italian then Google Translate will be helpful (works for me!) Webmaster Nicola Tenani recently gave Subterrestrial's "Conspiracy Music" a stellar review. Send him your physical releases and download links for review!

http://www.soundsbehindthecorner.org

nicola@soundsbehindthecorner.org

Nicola Tenani
Via Bentivogli 46
40138 Bologna

REVIEW: Joris J/Ratbag - "Liar Paradox" split

New from kulturterrorismus netlabel comes a split by two great artists who I am getting to hear for the first time. Joris J and Ratbag epitomize true, traditional industrial music as it's meant to be played. Ratbag starts it off with some dark ambient atmospheres, punctuated by clangs and scrapes that are dampened, not jarring and mix well. The second track is a tightly composed harsh noise piece with low rumbles, high-pitched chirps and mid-range metallic drones. More industrial atmospheres are followed by Joris J's contribution, their first track starting off with some distorted bell tones that evolves into some aggressive sample & hold electronics. The next track starts off with some unplaceable '60s sample, then moves into a multi-layered drone passage. More ambient industrial atmospheres follow, with a short noise piece wrapping the split up. Diverse sounds that you can play in order or random for different flavors with every listen. Available as both VBR MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, highly recommened!

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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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v.a. - "Fakebit Compilation 2011"

The 8bc Fakebit Comp 2011, fulfilling your non-purist chiptune needs for the front end of the new year :D This collection features some excellent contributions from Fragile Chaos!, FantomenK, Seence, Starpilot, Hexwolves, Awesome Force, el Musho, Byzantine, Subterrestrial, Decktonic, Knot_L0, _ensnare_, Dj Hollow Life and ant1.

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REVIEW: Hellhaunt - "Filth Beast of Chaos"

As an old school metal head I am morally obligated to post a metal review at least once in a while on this blog. The only way to really describe Hellhaunt is to say that they sound like "Haunting the Chapel-era" Slayer in a knock down, drag out fight with Bathory in a dark alleyway, with an open sewer with dead bodies floating past. Likely to appeal to both old school metal heads and open-minded black metal fans alike, Hellhaunt is blackened thrash at it's filthiest. They have several albums on both CDr and net audio as well as their first two demos; "Hatecraft" and "Sea of Nausea" recently re-released on one ultra limited cassette. But my favorite is "Filth Beast of Chaos," maybe because it's the first HH album I heard, or maybe because it's just a great album to introduce someone to the band with. Get it now or have your face ripped off by undead wolves!

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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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v.a. - "TONES OF THE APOCALYPSE"

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v.a. - "M2F2 (Music to Fuck To)" 3xCD

"M2F2 (Music to Fuck To)" is a newly released compilation on Pigdurt Productions, featuring 50 artists and 240 minutes of noise ranging through all forms on three professionally pressed CDs. A preview featuring a medley of all tracks included is available at Pigdurt's website. Artists involved: mono no aware, wormhead, false flag, black lung, half an abortion, vomir, jerk keroua, hypnoskull, mongolian blooming, cowper’s fluid, griaule, petals, ritual stance, fuck, the retarded girl, neurotic envelope, travis johnson, worry wort, hidden illness, welby, subterrestrial, art schnurple, a night to dismember, hjorten, shalocins, arvo zylo, raytownian(s), churner, breakdancing ronald reagan, hippycrack, 100blumen, second thought, clitoris less cunt, loathings, zz, my lovely figmen, sunao inami, synapsis, sick to the back teeth, snog, eraritjaritjaka, tufftitz, nxfxtxex, awesome bin laden, josh lay, waratah, jesus is angry, sleep of ages, pilegesh, the smudge & cory rowell. This compilation is limited to 1000 copies and is available now for $15 PPD worldwide from Pigdurt Productions via PayPal.

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Bloodlust Episode 16

I don't think I've ever posted this, so being the end of the year it's probably a good time to do so. Bloodlust is a program hosted by Bekk on Australia's Temple of Despair internet radio network. The following episode was broadcast and archived earlier this year and it was the first time Subterrestrial's music was ever featured in a radio/podcast program. The program opens with "The Sin of a Twin-Soul" from our debut album "The Goddess of Atvatabar" and is followed by music from Sunn O))), Profetus, Agalloch, My Dying Bride, Solitude Aeturnus, Conifer, Hawkwind and Melvins. The program is still available on archive.org as both VBR MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. If you're a metal head or just looking for a new interesting mix to listen to then be sure and grab this while you still can!

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"I was almost swallowed by the earth...."

True story. Earlier this evening, I avoided falling into a sinkhole by literally one second. On my breaks at work, I go walking. There are a lot of hills in the neighborhood and one particular alleyway runs up a very steep hill. I was coming down this alley for about the hundredth time this year when I heard a rumbling behind me, not terribly loud but sounding like something very large falling. I spun around to see most of the ground where I'd just stepped a moment ago collapse and go sliding sideways, under the fence into someone's backyard. They'd done some work in their yard recently and apparently had tried to level it out by removing all of the dirt along the fence between their yard and the alley. Obviously, they didn't think to install a retaining wall or anything because recent heavy rains have apparently washed out the dirt under the alley and now they have a huge slab of asphalt in their backyard. Sometimes I wonder if this subterranean thing isn't going to get the better of me?

Subterrestrial - "The Burning Earth"

"The Burning Earth" is an elegy for Centralia, PA where a coal seam fire has been burning since the early 1960s. Four tracks of experimental noise build in intensity, then disintegrate. Available now as a free download on Datahex Records.

Tracklist:
1. A Solitary Ember 7:38
2. Smoke and Heat from the Basement 10:14
3. The Burning Earth Opens to the Sky 9:59
4. Desolation 21:55

Total length: 49:46
Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps MP3

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Klangboot Radio #020 Berlin Moscow Transit

Klangboot Radio is a podcast show, featuring ambient, electronica and soundscapes. Their November 3rd podcast featured "Ghost Town" from Subterrestrial's latest release "Forgotten Places" on Rejected Netlabel as well as some 2 hours of music by many other great artists. Please see Klangboot's website for complete playlist, streaming and download options.

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Klangboot Radio #020 ~ podcast ~ Berlin Moscow Transit by klangboot

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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Black Square Cloudcast - The Machinery of the Universe

The latest installment of Black Square Cloudcast - one of Black Square netlabel's components. Featuring music from Subterrestrial as well as many other artists. See download link for detailed playlist.

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REVIEW: Infinite Inertia - "The Watchers"

The latest in a string of fantastic albums by Vulture's dark ambient side project Infinite Inertia. This is the last II album for awhile, as he switches focus to his main project and there's no better way to go out. Deep atmospheres evoke the most ancient darkness of unknown space.

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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. - "20 TONES OF THE APOCALYPSE Vol.1"

A new, mammoth compilation of harsh and experimental noise and powernoise on Datahex records. This collection is, of course a free download from the netlabel. Artists include: BREAKDANCING RONALD REAGAN, JERK KEROUAC, GLOGA, RITUAL STANCE, DIM DUSK MOVING GLOOM, SUBTERRESTRIAL, A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER, CRAWLING CREATURE, GRANDMOTHER, KINGDOM OF SHARKS, ERARITJARITJAKA, HIDDEN ILLNESS, SICK TO THE BACK TEETH, SECOND THOUGHT, AWESOME BIN LADEN, ABSENCE INSOLUTION, TOMES, CHURNER, THEE CRUMB and PIGSWILL.

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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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v.a. - "HHHH006 1:01:36"

The second in a series of two harsh/static noise compilations on the Hum and Hiss netlabel. Artists include: Oblive, Plastic Boner Band, Miscreant, Griz+zlor, Hidden Illness, Potier, Subterrestrial, and The Mechanic.

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SUB003 Subterrestrial - "Camera Obscura"

"Camera Obscura" features 79 minutes of psychedelic noisescapes generated through data bending techniques and Michael Oster's soft bent Reaktor Ensembles.

Tracklist:

1. Magic Lantern I 2:00

2. Camera Obscura 25:00

3. Fantasmagorie 25:00

4. Zoopraxiscope 25:00

5. Magic Lantern II 2:00

Total length: 1:19:00

Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps

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SUB002 Subterrestrial - "H-21"

Subterrestrial's "H-21" is inspired by early 20th century exotic dancer Mata Hari, who was executed for treason in France during World War I after being accused of spying for Germany. Subterrestrial uses harsh, 8-bit noise and heavily aliased exotic rhythms to explore her often violent life and tragic death. It is believed that she was wrongly accused of her crime and made a scapegoat. H-21 was her alleged codename.

Tracklist:

1. H-21 I 8:07

2. H-21 II 5:03

3. H-21 III 7:10

4. H-21 IV 5:09

5. H-21 V 5:30

Total length: 30:58

Encoded at: 44.100 KHz 192Kbps

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v.a. - "RAW File - A glitch/noise compilation"

Compilation featuring music composed in part or entirely from sonification of RAW data files. Includes tracks from Codice!, Subterrestrial, Christopher_Voss, Whitely, The Mist Toggles and The Raytownian. Cover art by Subterrestrial, layout by Codice!.

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Subterrestrial's music appears in nature video

Recently discovered on YouTube, nature videographer Seahue captures an assassin bug nymph while filming leafhoppers and sets the video to the title track from "The Goddess of Atvatabar." Check it out.

NEWS: Subterrestrial's Bandcamp site will be shutting down soon

In an email this morning, the staff of Bandcamp.com announced that due to “a few outliers giving away hundreds of thousands of free downloads,” they were going to have to start limiting free downloads (unless you actually sell your own music, which I don't.) While new accounts are limited to 200, existing accounts such as Subterrestrial's are limited to 500. Bad news for the many artists who generously share their music for free with the general public. The good news for Subterrestrial is that our Bandcamp page is basically redundant anyway. Releases are always free for download from this page (thank you archive.org) and if you really want other formats, such as OGG there is always our jamendo.com site. Bandcamp was really only useful if you absolutely had to have it in FLAC, AAC or whatever (and if you really want our releases in those formats, all you have to do is email me and ask.) We did start to get a decent amount of traffic to that site, which I'm hoping I can redirect. If you know anybody who uses our Bandcamp site, please direct them towards http://subterrestrial.blogspot.com. Thank you!