Nekrophile Rekords
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Let's have a thread all about Nekrophile Rekords. Does /mu/ like anything from this label?
Nekrophile was an Austrian music label founded by Michael Dewitt, in the early 1980s. The label specialized in ritual, industrial, and what we would now call "dark ambient" music, with a distinctly 80's sensibility. In general, the artists were not above using simple synth effects of the day.
They put out a handful (eight by my count) of casettes during the mid-1980s, generally in limited editions, and featuring similar artwork. Most of this material was later re-pressed in CD and sometimes vinyl form, with the help of third-party labels. But everything derives originally from the eight above tapes.
Since Austria borders Italy, the label also featured artists from there. Nekrophile is also notable for having released early material from Coil, and a Genesis P-Orridge split project with "Stan Bingo". Furthermore the most notorious release, Zero Kama's "The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.", has become slightly internet-famous again in the past few years. According to the liner notes, it was purportedly recorded using human skulls and bones as musical instruments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCI8CVcJJ2M
>>64031954
a quick look through their discogs page tells me I've listened to a handful of stuff they've put out and I thought it was all at least passable ritual industrial. zero kama is one of my favorites from the genre.
>>64032048
THIS track has really been sticking in my craw for the last few days. LAShTAL, "Nu Iside":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hkrtS4vFpk
And as you can see from pic related, the artwork on the cassettes was very uniform. Lots of the artists had at least some interest in Crowley (founder Dewitt sure did), so Crowley permeates the whole label.
Basically, since there's only 8 tapes, I've set myself a project of collecting these tracks....
>>64032142
>since there's only 8 tapes
discogs lists 13 releases
>>64032142
>I've set myself a project of collecting these tracks....
digitally or on physical?
>>64032178
And a careful review of that page demonstrates that the CD releases are all re-releases of the content from the eight 80s tapes, as I've already explained (had you read the OP).
This is what I'm coming up with as a task sheet... I'm going to dump grabs of the cassette artwork now.
>>64032236
lol I also could've properly read the discogs page too, this is why I shouldn't drink before dinner
>>64032199
To my surprise, these cassettes/CDs apparently circulate, according to discogs! But since they have a certain "cred", they fetch from 20-50 bucks. Too spendy and my car's old cassette player is mothballed. So I would like to put together a digital collection.
This is where /mu/ comes in. I'm a bit of a luddite and I hate downloading software/creating new accounts unless I know I want something. Therefore, I appeal to you. Most of these tracks are in listenable (not great) quality on youtube, but if you know off the top of your head of a place where it would actually make sense for me to sign up/download better tracks, I'd appreciate it. Bandcamp, last.fm etc. I'd prefer not to set up some download client except as a matter of last resort.
I'm also mucking around with youtube -> mp3 options as a first option, but I'm not finding the download button I'm supposed to have via a recent firefox add on. any thoughts are welcome.
>>64032376
desu you should just get soulseek, I've been able to download about half of the catalog since you first posted this thread. setting it up is really not hard and it opens up access to a ton of experimental releases.
The very first catalog number. NRC01, by "Korpses Katatonik". This was one of two handles that label founder Michael Dewitt released music under (along with Zero Kama).
The first three catalog numbers and their artwork repeat an "S.L.A." motif: the full title of this release is a word salad, but it usually gets shortened to the thing on the tracklist side: "Sensitive Liberated Autistiks". Note above on the Gen/Stan artwork the phrase "sense linkage Agony", again, S.L.A."
I really really really really like this track. Zombies softly crunching bones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_0ukUEnTg
>>64032440
>you should just get soulseek
/thread
>>64032376
I'll get it on mega in a couple minutes m8
>>64032440
That's twice it's been recommended, guess I'll go that route. Thx anon.
One of the two mixtapes. Note the presence of an early Coil track (on the list). "Hunting Lodge" is also a great American group.
The Hebrew at top right, from left to right, is "Samekh, Lamed, Aleph". S.L.A., yet again. I don't know what it means!
>>64032535
oh you would? Bro. bro.
Where Zos Kia started to be abandoned, and Coil started doing their thing. I guess the Coil people/"estate" took over this recording later, it wasn't re-issued in association with Nekrophile. It contains some funny samples of Charles Manson.
>>64032668
Yeah, sure. I already have Korpses Katatonik, Transparent, and Secret Eye downloaded if you want me to put those up to; your posts weren't clear if you had them or not.
The second mixtape. This is one I haven't really heard, but Metgumbnerbone is a GREAT English(?) group. They find a spot somewhere, make ad hoc instruments, and just start going. Very nature-y, tribal sounding. It sounds corny but they're very good.
>>64032749
>>64032668
Oh, also, do you want Zos Kia - Rape?
>>64032749
I would appreciate those links very much, yes please. I've heard them on youtube but files would be great.
The final release NRC08, to my knowledge. There's like some other prog rock group also called "Ain Soph" (a concept from Kabbalah), so searching can be tricky.
Ain Soph did a later recording which is darkly funny. Wailings, minor/dissonant synth chords, muffled voices, and a constant droning, crying voice: "JESUS, where is your father?!!?... Jesus.... Jesus. Jesus... WHERE IS YOUR FATHER NOW" repeat for like 8 minutes.
>>64032820
plox plox
>>64032834
Well, here's the first thing:
Korpses Katatonik - Oeuvres Complete [2012]
>industrial, ritual, etc
I think this is a compilation of the Sensitive Liberated Autistiks tape and, like, a track or two from other things they were on.
https://mega.nz/#!S41VGJ7Q!rflvV4LiEK03Iu2Jo-0BLWBux1zCC6o9b0v52vTxWSA
Zos Kia & Coil - Transparent [1984]
>industrial, etc
Was this the first Coil release? I don't remember.
https://mega.nz/#!HxcC1KQT!yt-WnUtu8CzhgQEZaf0o9Xd6A7tUBBhEWfiVtHKPnTU
>>64033010
I'm breddy new to Coil, but How To Destroy Angels is their first stand-alone release as-such, I believe. The timing would have been very close to the Transparent stuff in any event.
Zos Kia - Rape [1985]
>industrial
https://mega.nz/#!6ssmwRwS!eAEEAVoazqWql1CrqGNwmc2uKKnX-XG45PUBV53GCRI
great thread, keeping it bumped
>>64033251
Cheers lad, and a very special thx again to the anon who is obliging me.
It may have been years since I extracted anything, listening now. didn't know what a 7Z was. :^)
Since someone else is interested, let me turn you onto Metgumbnerbone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUDmoCxBQ4I
I like the lo-fi feel of the youtube links, which is how I've been experiencing the music. the 80s seems to have been a good period for ritual stuff; youtube recommends me "newer" stuff which I tend to dislike because it feels too polished, and somehow "takes itself even more seriously", if that makes any sense.
An exception to this is the fairly recent "The Haxan Cloak"'s release, however. the one with the noose on the cover.
>>64033357
>very special thx again to the anon who is obliging me.
Everything I do, I do for you ;3
Zero Kama - The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.
>ritual industrial, dark ambient
>HUMAN BONES
https://mega.nz/#!rt9w2QbB!NangEZmqKk5BFFQp3vU_BOSFvrUz6cma_1lHR382ebQ
Next ones up should be Genesis P-Orridge and then Ain Soph (Ars Regia and then probably their I, II, & III tapes altogether since I think they're wee tots).
>>64033427
Two more amusing things: half of Throbbing Gristle contributed to Nekrophile (Gen and Sleazy), via other projects.
Furthermore, two of the earliest contributors grew up to be tranny hons. Gen, and also label founder Michael Dewitt took the er, common tranny name of "Zoe". Simply search Zoe Dewitt to find the artist's personal page (I already found one NSFW link there, so use caution).
>>64033621
I always wondered what happened to Michael after all this business, but I can't say I really expected that. Too bad she doesn't pass - though being about fifty can't help.
Genesis P-Orridge & Stan Bingo - What's History? [1982]
>industrial
Genesis P-Orridge (of Pigface fame) and his good pal Stan faff about for a spell.
https://mega.nz/#!L9lVDIjZ!me8VRtlpxxORY1PtByYpjoTaXcsp8-C1MCez0ul6C6I
...however, the above site does contain an excellent archive of the catalog, which is this whole thread's subject:
http://www.zoedewitt.com/pdf/nekrophile_catalogue.pdf
Notice how this document boils down to the same 8 tapes I've already identified.
Ain Soph - Ars Regia [1986]
>ritual industrial
https://mega.nz/#!zxNCWLAI!8_rsnllrv1UGOQB2Y6ercw3vFe6Dm2pRVeHGHTNJkoE
>>64031954
itt: music for fuKKKed up psychopaths
Ain Soph - I [1984]
>ritual industrial
https://mega.nz/#!foF2xZYb!72jHIgToyk3q2O6jfHXfvsP09-sw_bHucDSotD9bonw
Alright, so right now I'm downloading Beast 666, Archangels of Sex, and LAShTAL. LAShTAL should be done first, then it might be a while until the two compilations are done. Until then, I'll dump a touch more industrial idiocy.
>>64034034
Splendid.
The short ends (left) of the cassette liner notes >>64032754 sometimes consisted >>64032834 of quotations from >>64032142 The Book of the Law, which can be compared here:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/engccxx.htm
However, I have been unable to find this same "left" liner note except in the discogs JPG, pic related. When you zoom in, the text looks like "Devils and Lovers" maybe, but it's too fuzzy to be sure.
Thanks for this thread OP, I can only bump this to show my appreciation
also, do you like The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud?
>>64032535
>Roses&
Is that Roses & Penetration, by any chance?
Hello from Malmö
very unexpected to see a thread on this label. not much to add, but Zero Kama really fucked me up when I first heard it years ago. the mystique of the recording and the music itself truly made me feel like I was listening to something "forbidden", which hadn't really ever happened since I heard Slayer - Hell Awaits when I was young.
>>64034269
TMLHBAC was such a cool project. Managed to get physical copies of most of their music after lots of searching and $$$.
>>64034269
I haven't really been, though the phrase sounded familiar. I see the "Austria Connection" now. I'll have to check them out next.
>>64034324
Dunno, probably lol
Greetings from Texas.
Ain Soph - II & III [1985]
>ritual industrial
https://mega.nz/#!u0d0DIRR!AQMN08cPKX-CUDlLa6dNXIErkJk0fjC8nzlRgoQjB2o
Pic related is from a Zero Kama live performance, IIRC.
>>64034362
>psysical copies
I'm proper jelly man, one of my favourite bands in the genre
>>64034440
yeah they were also austrian, I think you might like them m8, finding their stuff on slsk is very easy
bumping the best thread I've seen in a while
greetings from NoDak
any other charts for this type of stuff?
>>64034362
The other thing that is so remarkable about LAYLAH, regardless of the truth of its selling point, is that I made up my mind a while ago that no matter how it was made...
It sounds really /good/. Simple, un-pretentious compositions, with hints of melody. Maybe you're running through a forest, or you're in a hut, at night, in Charleton Heston's bible-days, Kenneth-Anger style.
As for its track titles, they are most readily explained in terms of Crowley's other very short book, "The Book of Lies", which is here.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib333.htm
"Laylah" refers to a lover of Crowley's who had come from Australia. Simply ctrl+f the track titles (where they may be found), and you'll see that several pop up in this short work. See especially #28, which contains "love alway hardeneth, love alway yieldeth", and #77 which is Crowley's little love poem to Laylah. Suddenly, "NRC07" makes more sense as a choice of catalog number in this context. The phrase "V.V.V.V.V." also appears in the link.
Crowley had an autistic obsession with multiples of 111, and 333 also frequently stands for Choronzon (a Korpses Katatonik track), mentioned generally in heavy metal.
>>64034872
Same link as the Ain Soph 2&3, bro.
>>64034939
I am retarded
LAShTAL – Thoum Aesh Neith [1986]
>ritual industrial
https://mega.nz/#!L4VDXZwI!IBoKZ9BX5V-AsfNgJt2TEIX7Qw5wZ59eFW5jZ8xDD-g
>>64032376
Now that I've heard NRC02, it reminds me of First Annual Report. the melodic bits remind me of things that (TG band member) Chris would favor, IIRC.
Encouragement bump with similar music, mentioned here: >>64034725
Sigillum S: "Bardo Thos Grol".
Sigillum S is another Italian "ritual" group who participated in cassette culture, like others in the thread. They also created a band logo using letters of the "Enochian" alphabet, a purported angelic language described by the Elizabethan magician John Dee, and later popularized by Crowley in Equinox publications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4iDloZpSco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian
One more encouragement bump, the other excellent anon has come through big. Only the two compilation tapes have yet to be linked.
>>64035716
Yeah, those'll be ready in about an hour. Sorry they're taking so long, and sorry I'm not bumping the thread! I've got a bit going on.
If nobody else bumps, I'll link to some other industrial-type stuff already on my mega.
>>64035745
OP here, I'm on bump detail. thx for update, I didn't want to be a pest.
Meantime here's a link to another related work, Hunting Lodge: Exhumed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVDDBQR0xto
>>64034701
Hello to NoDak, I'm (OP) in Meme-sota.
Michael and some other folks going NUTS in Arnhem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVDDBQR0xto
And a live performance by Vishudha Kali, mentioned in this picture >>64034725
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0d63f8LqI0
>>64037025
my turn to be retarded. Here's the first link I meant just now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jmbL_yLHbc
Various artists - The Beast 666 and the Archangels of Sex Rule The Destruction Of The Regime [1983 & 1985]
>industrial, ritual
https://mega.nz/#!W081Tb5b!pHwFUEPwnGJ0aHmNW_xOKGNrmTQGKt2h7TPPhjxE2JY
Sorry for the way this is organized, I took this from the compilation, which doesn't have all the tracks, so I had to add those in a separate folder.
Anyway, that's every record on Nekrophile Rekords.
>>64037215
>I had to add those
The tracks it's missing, that is to say!
>>64037237
>>64037215
thank you based anon
>>64037505
No problem, I hope you enjoy these albums! Be sure to try slsk.
>>64037733
That wasn't me (the OP), but "thank you based anon" doesn't go far enough. Here is a more fitting sentiment.
"Well fuck my ass, drink some goat-blood and light a candle."
I declare this thread to be a 100.000% success. For any who want it, THE ENTIRE LABEL'S CATALOGUE is in this thread, together with original cassette liner material. Everything in the last link maps one-to-one with the tracklists in >>64032236 . Everything bears spot-quality checks.
There's really nothing else to say, this made my week. Now I get to re-organize tracks.
On the original compilation tape, The last recording is the sound of the sea by Cefalu, Italy, attributed to "Zero Kama" but according to one youtube description, actually (possibly) recorded by someone else. Cefalu is on the north coast of Sicily, Italy, and is the site of the Abbey of Thelema, which still stands as a rubbled ruin. Here, almost a century ago, Crowley practiced depraved sex magick and ran his little cult, until being kicked out of the country by Mussolini, after a follower Raoul Loveday took ill and died (possibly from drinking cat's blood, but accounts vary):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saj9-FIzyFY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Thelema
From the Beast 666 tape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RlBeeW59vc
I'm just so pleased with how this thread went. re-arranging tracks now as I see fit.
all this shit is amazing, thanks for posting. I've been getting in to Nurse With Wound and different stuff on Cold Spring Recs but this is even crazier
>>64039514
Another unique poster! Glad you like it too, anon.
I've taken a more dour tack in this thread (the music in here is esp. gloomy at times), but for me, it all started with Nurse With Wound, so I'm glad you mention them.
Heard Homotopy to Marie like 12 years ago and instantly dug it. But I was busy with other things and youtube wasn't very good with other videos yet, so it sat there for some years.
Over the past 2-3 years I've been getting back into NWW myself, and YT was much better with recommendations, etc. That's how this started for me. I just keep loading NWW vids and finally I caved and started clicking on some of the rec's, and that's where the impetus for this thread came from. I've been into this shit for about two years but never really DL'd any.
I did send away to Ireland for some NWW discs recently though, and I'm happy with them. Let me rec you some stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ti8PlcSiBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKj0lSE9zI
These are the two tracks from the third NWW album, "Merzbild Schwet", personal favorites. Unfortunately I didn't see an edition in the store (very recently set up). YT lists their track titles as such-and-such, but I've read other things which suggest that the album packaging was ambiguous, such that the album's two tracks could have their track titles mixed up. Take them with a grain of salt, in other words. Finally since you like this thread, here's some "serious" hardcore shit from the same period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HAg7D_nYow
I like that Steve can play both serious and funny, though. He has plenty of slapstick-y things in his catalog, but then it waxes scary, depending on the track.
