

“Hamrer Hippyer” is a song from the band Heilung. Quite a challenge to cover it alone as this piece usually involved many musicians that orchestrate their singing and drumming in a way that I can’t do. Though I could mimic it with loops, and started to work on this way; also “Hamrer Hippyer” was the most “adaptable” of their song as a lone musician.
This song is usually played at the end of their rituals, and is a blessing. It involved rhythmic throatsinging inspired by Arctic tribe (such as Inuk/Inuit), several names of Wodan/Odin (the high god of germanic tribes) and also part of the Merseburg charms, which are old germanic incantations preserved by the christians around the 9th century, in Old High German language.
This spell can be found in several european cultures and similarities can be found in Atharvaveda hymns from Ancient India, hinting an ancient Indo-European roots.
At the end of last year, we celebrated the release of Jo “Schlammpeitziger” Zimmermann’s brand new album “Meine Unterkunft ist die Unvernunft” on his 60th birthday at Kompakt Recordstore. Now we are delighted to present the accompanying remixes. An illustrious group of long-time companions has come together to pay tribute to the master of electronic eccentricity with remixes. Schlammpeitziger says thank you in his own way by immortalizing all the contributors with finely selected photos, hand-decorated on the cover.
Hans Berg readies another machine-made EP via his own label UFO Station Recordings. ‘Cave Dwellers’ is a collection of sparse modular Techno: 4 candlelit trips built using the Nord Drum synthesiser as a melodic lead.
As usual, Hans marshals his machines in a way that enables them to breathe and grow naturally and the result is a deeply hypnotising set of side quests into 4 dank, chilly caverns.
On the Air is an American television sitcom created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It was broadcast from June 20 to July 4, 1992 on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The series follows the staff of a fictional 1950s television network, Zoblotnick Broadcasting Company (ZBC), as they produce a live variety show called The Lester Guy Show, often with disastrous results. On the Air was produced by Lynch/Frost Productions and followed Lynch and Frost’s previous series, Twin Peaks. A total of seven episodes were produced; only three were aired on ABC, though the full run were broadcast in the United Kingdom and other European countries
Geinoh Yamashirogumi – 翠星交響楽 = Ecophony Gaia (1990)
Third album in a trilogy proceeding Geinoh Yamashirogumi – 輪廻交響楽 = Ecophony Rinne and Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Symphonic Suite Akira
Tucson, Arizona’s CRIMEKILLZ had an all too-brief history. Forming in 2008, singer N8NOFACE & producer Scumbag Tony released two blistering synth punk EPs in 2010 (“Kills Kids”) & 2011 (“Never Dies”), plus a great (delayed & generally unheard) album “Destroy Stress” in 2013. A split 7″ with N8’s blood brother Zackey Force Funk, then one more self-released mini-album that year (“Slauson EP”) and they were gone.
N8NOFACE created the sophomore album to his 2014 debut demo compilation “The Dolo Tape”, with a newly crafted collection entitled “Stories Of Those” [HNR69]. Stories that are not commonly told are the stories of those. Fourteen minimal wave post-punk tales from inside, creep onto ill-lit streets and recede into a looming electronic shadow.
Our co-sign starts off by familiarizing us with his methods, only to report “The scene is dead… the scene is soft… the scene’s not real” on lead banger ‘Trucha’ (with accompanying music video & collectible flexidisc [HNR70). Paying fitting tribute to the author’s narco-torius former hometown with the track ‘Drugstore’, and with pledged devotion just wants the kids to know ‘It All Goes Away’ (the second single & video). Spectral Gonjasufi halfway-materializes from the aether, blessing some enduringly haunting bars on ‘Hello God’, however disappears just as fast, with the narrator taking exit close behind. In less than thirty minutes the album ends, though with as much as you were just told, explicit details remain dark and for the life of you cannot recall actually seeing a face…
“Stories Of Those” is released on MAY 8, 2017 with the first pressing of 300qty limited-edition White or Bloodstain 12″ vinyl records (each housed in a screenprinted monochrome cardboard jacket), compact cassette tapes, 7″ flexi-discs (with the non-album B-side ‘Full Clip’), plus special bundles with collectible handmade zines, buttons, stickers & more.