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CSR 329CD
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The classic, genre-defining 1993 album from Lull -- the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of Mick Harris of Scorn, Fret, ex-Napalm Death -- is a dark journey through the Stygian netherworlds of Hell. The listener is left with the impression of a final escape into reality; a return upon waking, with only wispy trace memories and the heavy rush of blood-pumping fear as a keepsake. With this album, the listener is plunged back into a dark pit of noise -- all escape barred, all hope dashed. The nightmare continues, the journey through underworlds descends deeper. These are soundtracks for nightmares. Despite there being just three tracks on the album, it lasts just shy of 75 minutes. Originally released on Sentrax (the label of the late John Everall/Tactile), the CD suffered the "disc rot" fate of many PDO pressings from 1988-1993, rendering most of that initial run unplayable.
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CSR 321CD
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Cold Spring present That Space Somewhere, the first new album in 14 years from Lull -- the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of Mick Harris (Scorn, Fret, ex-Napalm Death). Lull was conceived by Mick Harris in 1990, in an attempt to create music that would stretch, if not forsake entirely, the structures of conventional music by developing and exploring sound without beats. Mick Harris on Lull: "I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that's what I always tried to do -- to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call 'a droner' or 'a drift', I'd use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I'm doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that. Lull is quite natural for me. It's an extension of me. Drifting. Just going to darkness. Into a space. Lull is drifting and droning, discovering more and more what can be done with sound. These soundscapes hugely appeal to me."
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CSR 295LP
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Isolationist, minimal, alienating drone/dark ambient from Mick Harris (Scorn, Fret, ex-Napalm Death). Staggeringly beautiful, glacial sub-bass sounds, deep ambient and thunderous tones, with subtle shifts. Originally released as a 99-track continuous CD in 1998 (Relapse), now presented on vinyl for the first time, Moments is expanded to 100 cuts, with bonus material from the original recording sessions. File next to Lustmord, Sleep Research Facility, Thomas Köner. Double LP in a textured gatefold sleeve.
"Tectonic rumblings and icy sound slivers move and swirl around each other, slipping into spaces between the molecules which make up your physical body and then break it apart in preparation for rearrangement. Moments of expansive emptiness and claustrophobic terror overlap one another and then overcome your mind as you journey through this bleak void of sound. At one moment warm and organic, the next, slowly slipping into a machine-like coldness to freeze and paralyze... Sound as a vehicle to bring you through that doorway towards dimensions previously unknown. Hypnotic and soothing with a lingering sense of dread throughout" --Carrion Kind.
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