Monolith:

Eric Van Wonterghem is presenting his long awaited NEW Album with Monolith, etnic samples & deep beats,the Disco Buddha is back.
MONOLITH Conceptual solo-project of Belgian electronic music veteran and producer Eric van Wonterghem(ex-KLINIK,Insekt, Sonar, Absolute Body Control,), MONOLITH has always provided long days of bewilderment to journalists who never really managed to pigeonhole his music in any specific music sub-genre. Renown for his elaborate electronic music arrangements which speak to both body and mind, MONOLITH takes us on a sonic journey cleverly departing from his most recent ritual oriented work to explore new territories. Repetitive loops, hypnotising electronic sequences and carrying rhythmics take you into a multi-coloured journey through electro and industrial landscapes, each time incorporating new exotic elements, using vocal samples and distinctive guest vocalists. Featuring a more direct song writing approach, our Belgian studio guru meticulous production talent and a depressive apocalyptic central theme, He effortlessly delivers to us the ultimate hi-energy cocktail of modern urban industrial with some surprising minimal electro/clash tonalities intelligently blending our 80s analog music background (fortified by excellent real time synth performances) with futuristic fx and mesmerising electro sequences. And the addition of female guest vocals by Hilde Ivens, on several tracks widens once more the music spectrum of MONOLITH. A band having the rare privilege to appeal to a very diversified audience, ranging from the Ant-zen harsh ambient/industrial camp through Novamutemore intellectual electronic dance experiments or yet Gigolo Records electro clash gang. A strongly recommended and uplifting sonic experience.

N.U.Unruh

In the beginning there were brandnew aircompressors...
One of the underlying themes of E.N.’s “Perpetuum Mobile“ is air. I decided to do some more musical research in that field: Inspired by tracks like “Boreas“, “Summerly Installation“, “Paradiesseits“, “Säuseln“ and “Perpetuum Mobile“ and the making of the “Aircake“ the AIRSHOW is a continuation and supplement of that period. The utilization of PVC-tubing on “Youme & Meyou“ / “Compressors In The Dark“ and the aircompressors gave me the idea to operate with more items like ventilators, balloons, propellers, blow torch and so on, for a performance based on the element air. Editing all the videomaterial of the webcast-live-performance was a long process, a specific language of pictures was achieved, the sound got completely reworked. Musically, you can find these 12 ambiences somewhere between a noisy dream an a contemplative soundtrack...
literally building-collapsing fashion.
www.potomak.de/pages/releases/nu_airshow.html

Red Sniper

 Objekt/Urian

The German Band OBJEKT/URIAN founded in 1998.
Last year in Oktober - after more than six years - OBJEKT/URIAN release their
long-awaited second CD «Agitation» at the famous label «Tesco Organisation».
These days of the 'post-industrial' time offer divers views of the inheritance of bands like TG, SPK and others. Music, content and ambitions might have changed according to the perspectives. We can find a combination of yesterday and today in OBJEKT/URIAN.
They stroll down the old paths by building instruments by themselves as well as they use analogue technology. The result is a quite distinct sound yet it always reveals the nearness to Power-Electronics and Noise. The incredibly blurred and ugly aspect of social and political issues is almost foist on the listener with the aggressive vocals.
OBJEKT/URIAN's live performances are dynamic dismantlements of society’s deceiving illusion of an ideal world. They built oscillatory objects by themselves. Along with analog synthesizers and aggressive vocals they provide the sonic framework of an angry impeachment, that is performed with a lots of sweat and sometimes even blood.
http://www.myspace.com/objekturian

Mandelbrot:

about: Mandelbrot was born as one of the many projects of P. Muench (Synapscape, Monokrom, The Rorschach Garden, Templegarden's etc.) to experiment with Dark Ambient sounds. Even if he just started Templegarden's as a joined project with Asche, he was in the need for another project to create music with a less ritual and sacral character. Until 2002 he released several tapes and CDrs on Fich-Art, Old Europa Café and sub.ver.siv. In 2005 B. Teichner (who is also part of the lineup of The Rorschach Garden and other projects) joined Mandelbrot. From 2005 on they released 4 cd albums on Audiphob, and the performance at Schlagstrom- Festival this year can be considered as record release party of the 4th audiophob album, called 'Distant Travellers'.
Generally you could put Mandelbrots music under the dark ambient music file with lots of different influences like occasional rhythms and sometimes electroacoustic and traditional instruments like a slicer for hard boiled eggs.

Sandblasting:

SANdBLASTING is the Italian Industrial / Noise project of Luca Torasso since 1997. At nowdays have been released 6 official full lenght albums, remixed NO MORE, HANIN ELIAS,
CERVELLO ELETTRONICO, XOTOX, MANUFACTURA, ... and played at international festivals and clubs: SCHLAGSTROM, ELEKTROANSCHLAG, SLIMELIGHT, ANTAGONY, ....
Also have been released exclusive tracks on various compilations and on the Rustblade " Tribute To Pasolini " limited box with COIL, IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES, AH CAMA-SOTZ,....
At SCHLAGSTROM 2011, SANdBLASTING will play and present many new tracks taken from the outcoming new release: another concept work... SANdBLASTING this time will
introduce you to a journey trough.... "....Watching the fear of death, the pinnacle of all dread approach, that was the limits....".
Are you ready to face the beast inside everyone of you ?

  proyecto mirage

proyecto mirage was founded in 1990 by alicia h. willen and francisco planellas. they were initially influenced by the classic electro-pop of the early nineties (a sound which is still present in the side project bubble gum) but the duo was also attracted to industrial-music projects like s.p.k., whitehouse and - of course - esplendor geométrico. their first release saw the light of day after nine years, and their creative output since then has evolved into more complexity. the hard-floor oriented aggressiveness was enriched with electronic ingredients of all kinds - ranging from electro and electronic body music to techno, drum'n'bass, or even sounds similar to those of experimental 'bridging artists' like aphex twin and pan sonic. artists who share p.m.'s taste for alarming atmospheres, broken melodies and distorted rhythms.
this is what they are, this is where the project is today
always keep in mind: proyecto mirage is not just an illusion but a concrete reality!

  Darkrad (dark electronics / Moscow, Russia)

The project Darkrad was found in 2008 by a famous figure on Moscow underground scene DJ JanaDark. Being the only member she realizes herdeepest feelings and thoughts in it. Experiments with voice, gloomyelectronic beats and mysterious fragile melodies - all this is Darkrad. In thename of the project the word "Windrad" is used, which in German means"Windmill". The "Darkrad" is a windmill, which blades capture the hiddenenergies of a human's soul and transform them into the dark soundscapes.For relatively short period of time the project had participated in a number of events in Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Germany, Czech Republic... The live performance of Darkrad is an ocean of feelings from the somber corners of the sub consciousness, which doesn't suppress and turn off the emotions,but sharpen them to a sometimes frightening peak. The release of the debutalbum of Darkrad is planned for the end of 2011.

  Joke Lanz: turntables

Turntablist Joke Lanz creates autonomous sound-cells that melt into a language free of any function.
He combines ritual reductionism with anarchistic playfulness, atmospheric soundscapes with cut-up noise and physicalness with unpredictability.
Massive scratches, walls of sound, grooves, loops, noises and voice modulations lead you on a journey into a world of unknown sound holes and deep abstract rhythm constructions.
Best known for his international acclaimed Noise project 'Sudden Infant', Joke Lanz is presenting his work since 25 years all over the world. Born in Switzerland and currently operating out of Berlin, Joke Lanz is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet Improvisation and Noise. In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes etc. The result is an extreme form of musique concrète that juxtaposes spasmodic gibbering with a battery of disorienting electronics.
His activities in various solo and collective guises (for music groups, radio projects, theater and dance endeavors) have included Sudden Infant, Schimpfluch-Gruppe, WAL, Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather, Jaywalker, Tell, Opposite Opponents, Psychic Rally and countless others. He has also toured the world over with various acolytes and has released his works on some of the most prominent record labels in the noise underground (RRR, Schimpfluch, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Entr'acte, Artware, SSSM, Klanggalerie, Some Bizarre, iDeal Rec and many more).
http://www.suddeninfant.com/
http://suddeninfant.blogspot.com/

Tardive Dyskinesia

Tardive Dyskinesia stands for storytelling ambient, noisy landscapes mixed with different fragments of experimental electronic. All of this was and will be deeply impressed by industrial music and all kinds of sounds around us
Tardive dyskinesia is a difficult-to-treat form of dyskinesia (disorder resulting in involuntary, repetitive body movements) that can be tardive (having a slow or belated onset).It frequently appears after long-term or high-dose use of antipsychotic drugs, or in children and infants as a side effect from usage of drugs for gastrointestinal disorders prevention. (Wikipedia)
Ronny Herlings project Tardive Dyskinesia, changing between Ambient and Electronica gives a slight touch of the mindset behind this disease. The strange electronically sounds he provides drill holes into “normality”, sucking the listener deeper and deeper into really dark worlds, thereby unfolding landscapes of internal horror and loneliness. But the crackling mid-tempo beats drive the listener to even lighter places – sometimes there is even a spot of hope...
Tardive Dyskinesia came into live in 2002, at this time still a side project, by the time becoming Ronny Herlings main focus. First album “Abuse” was released in 2004 and later transformed into an audio-visual experience released as a DVD on Thonar Records. Three other studio albums and a live recording were released in the last years as well as a couple of tracks for compilation of Labels like Steinklang, Tosom or Krachcom records. Actually a new album is in progress.

  100blumen

since the beginning 100blumen have constituted a firm combination of powerful electronics and political acuteness. started as a one man project in 2004 by  marcel van blumen, the project amplified to a duo after chris van blumen's guitar supported marcel during live performances and on a few past tracks - now chris is a permanent band member and together they're stronger than ever. their versatility
is audible on each track, way beyond any 'industrial' or 'electropunk' clichés. a multilateral spectrum of vibes ranging from melancholic violence to belligerence. a multitude of rhythmic variations - broken and straight - appended with stirring basses lay the groundwork for subtle melodic excursions and synthesized fury.stylistic boundaries are non-existent: rhythmic noise, ambient, technoid industrial,
punk and breakbeat add up to an explosive bouquet!

  Capsular

Capsular is a project by Mirko Hentrich, who is also active in electronic music scene with Spherical Disrupted etc. Capsular produces quiet, loud, but always dark and menacing soundscapes by using field recordings and cascaded effects. Live this soundscapes are accompanied by adequate mono movies.
Website Capsular: www.disrupted.de/caps/
Label Krater Recordings (incl. download release): http://www.disrupted.de/krat/
Capsular released one download release on Krater Recordings (Audiophob) so far. An album is intended.

  Morbus M.

René Klimaczweski aka Morbus M. steht mit seinem Projekt und auf seinem Debut Album >Forget the Past< für düstere, kraftvolle und zuglich bedrohliche Electronica Track die auf subtile Wiese hypnotisch und anziehend sind. So treffen intensive und eindringliche Atmosphären auf stets eingängige und repitative Rhthmus Sturktuen. Industrieller Trip Hop trifft auf Dark Electronica Ambient Scores, Field Recordings und TV Samples. Morbus M. durchbricht die Stilgrenzen und steht für einen emotionalen Trip in die innere Apocalypse.

Schlagstrom! artists 2010

RASPUTEEN__founded in 2003 by a worthless bunch of unemployed subhumans. various activities since then...

Nullvektor [D- Electrophrenique - Industrial - Techno]

TWINKLE [Fr- Industrial Electro Breakbeat]

Mercydesign [D- music is made of metal, thoughts are made of vapour]

New Album! Record Release concert

@ Schlagstrom Festival (Sleepless Records Berlin)

CX2 CX2 ist die Forf..hrung des Projektes Chapter X von Themothy Moldrey und IotaFx (Yoanes). Mitglieder von CX2 sind IotaFx und Tube. Angestrebtes Klangziel ist es, Musik mit Elementen aus allen Musikrichtungen zusammenzuf..hren getreu nach dem Motto "Weg hauen, was nicht nach L..we aussieht, den Pegel hochziehen und den H..rern ordentlich was auf die Ohren geben!" Das Ergebnis ist rhythmischer, industrieller Krach. CX2 verstehen sich als groovige, industrielle Avantgarde.

SCReening IPT [Bln/dk- because you are worth it]

SCReening IPT is an interdisciplinary project between greta christensen [aka vinyl horror] (dk) and dr. nexus (de) with focus on sound and installation:
presented in a complex system of hundreds of meters of wires connecting inventions and modified hi-fi equipment. turntables,
rythm-mashines, radios, effects:
feedbacking, looping, playing forwards, backwards, side ways, up-side down:
mixed into a dark and atmosferic sound experience.
http://www.the-script.de

Yura Yura & Macha Mélanie

Live performance and dance by Macha Mélanie (Darklight creature with bright
and fluorescent clothes) on Yura Yura's rhythmic noise music.

Alarmen [D- Abstract - Ambient - Industrial]

OKO is a musical and visual collaboration between two artist,both with an interest in improvising agressive noise - performed live.Neither the sound nor the spektacle take center stage,but costantly wrestle for the spectator..s attention.The performers are Robert Heim on electronics and Aleks Slota on voice and visuals.Heim has a long history of musical innovation,starting his musical career as bassist in a variety of bands,moving on to creating live electronic dance music,ambient soundscapes and now live noise,in some ways coming full circle.Slota has been creating visual art for well over a decade,with a strong emphasis on performance art.He also provided vocals for the math metal band,Hexacron.OKO is an attempt to create a total environment,enveloping the audience in its presence and communicating through multi-sensory,abstract impulses that are intended to provoke a deep individual experience.

SKRØDER [dk- Sonic solutions and loud breakdown by a one man band]

EUCLID // INDUSTRIAL // POWER ELECTRONICS // NOISE
TARGET // MOVEMENT // CONTEMPLATION // ACTION

Sonar started in 1996 as a project from Dirk Ivens (Dive / The Klinik / Absolute Body Control ) and Patrick Stevens ( Hypnoskull ) with the aim to create rhythmical noise and dark soundscapes, music with a combination of analogue and digital instruments. Patrick left in 1998 and was replaced by Eric van Wonterghem ( Monolith / Insekt / Absolute Body Control ). The rhythms remind to working machines, the soundscapes to droning planes. The sound of Sonar is made to make you move in another way, to tune you into a hypnotic beat. It is a straightforward sound which goes further on classic industrial but never without an extra dimension of powerful dynamics and tuned electronics. Sonar is looking for a contemporary definition of danceable industrial and tries to discover this by controlling electronic devices.

Portion Control are one of the most influential and copied harder edged electronic bands in the world. They have been honored and name checked by the likes of Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, NiN & Orbital. Formed in London in 1979 they have produced a stream of critically acclaimed releases. 2006 saw the release of archive a boxed collection of 5 CD's that included all the portion vinyl now they forge on unfettered by typical genre thinking, continuing to deliver a unique, innovative, updated and relevant sound that is theirs alone                                                                           

Morgenstern's dark music consists of strange, hypnotic loops, distorted powernoise and heavy death industrial tunes. Deep drones with occasional samples are slowly transformed into a quiet wind tunnel groan with sporadic echoes of thumps and bumps from far-off objects in the background. The music flows into a rythmic tribal drum ceremony where various pitches of wind noise through a pipe are layered in, while electrodes snap, a rythmic helicopter sounds and firecrackers pop. War-torn screams and cries are blended way into the background. Tribal powernoise rhythms and dark ambient: from ceremonial processions to hypnosis and hysteria, being relaxed on the outside and at the same time restless on the inside. Morgenstern was founded in '93 as the solo project of Andrea Börner, who was also a member of the legendary project Ars Moriendi (1990-95). She's still a part of the ambient project Templegardens. The production of Morgenstern's works is actively supported by Philipp Münch of Synapscape and Andreas Schramm of Asche.

HYBRYDS since the mid 80 -ties working in the ritual - mythical -industrial and magical music scene. This band is known for its mind-expanding sound. Primitive ethnical and contemporary industrial influences are blended to create a unique style that has influenced many who were looking for spiritual dimensions. In the beginning of the 80 -ties, Sandy Viktor Nys, (aka Magthea,)the male side of the HYBRYDS was involved in THE KLINIK, in the mid 80 - ties he worked on his own personnel music style. Based on ancient influences and modern technology. release concert - Urban rituals by Hybryds on Sleepless Records Berlin

incite/ is the Hamburg-based audiovisual electronics duo of Kera Nagel (solo: axiomatic integration) and André Aspelmeier (solo: GradCom). Mixing eye-catching experimental audiovisual art with dynamic distorted IDM grooves, the duo criss-crosses art and club worlds, creating intense experiences for ears and eyes. Fragmented electric junk, fragile bursts of static noise and extra-charged sub-bass-kicks join abstract monochromatic imagery. incite/ play seriously weird glitch and quasi-danceable grooves in synced conjunction with intense grayscale visuals.
Live shows are the main focus of incite/. Since April 03 Kera and André have played far more than one hundred gigs: tours in Europe and the US, and many gigs on international media festivals

Job Karmapostindustrial group based in Wrocław, Poland, started in 1998.
The group employs a wide variety of means of expression, ranging from synthetically prepared electroacoustic structures and sampling, to distorted or processed rhythms or even melodies. Through their music and carefully selected and prepared imagery and videos they seek to deal with the dysfunctional elements of contemporary civilization, the looming war and annihilation, the inimical political and religious system and the slow decline of all values due to the progressive commercialisation of the day-to-day life of an individual and society.
Since 2000 they have been running an on-going project "RYTUAŁ," concerned with the effects of civilisation’s progress on the human condition, and involving site-tailored music and video materials to be performed at specific locations, such as a thermal power plant, a cathedral, a synagogue or Chernobyl. Since 2001 FRETT teamed up with BAGIŃSKI and together they have been organising the annual WROCŁAW INDUSTRIAL FESTIVAL, a major contemporary event designed to popularise the contemporary varieties of industrial music and culture.

Wieloryb was established in 1994 in Gdansk, Poland.
At first it consists of four members from different formations from the Tri City. They play quite experimentally. In the same year they release their first album called “I”. Wieloryb, as one of the first Polish industrial bands, starts playing live in the country and abroad. Wieloryb plays with such musicians as Jimi Tenor and Pan Sonic. In 1995 they release their second official album: “II”.
The current musical path WIELORYB decided to walk along is industrial rhythmic noise, inspired by ever existing rhythm.
The city noise, the heart beat, the rhythm of machines, the pulse… Consistent, regular, repetitive… Birth, pain, sex, death.

SUDDEN INFANT Joke Lanz aka SUDDEN INFANT creates a unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocal expressions, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises. Member of the infamous SCHIMPFLUCH collective, singer of the notorious CATHOLIC BOYS IN HEAVY LEATHER and long time accompanist of Rudolf Eb.er, he's presenting his work since more than 20 years all over the world. Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz has collaborated with the likes of Z'EV, Carlos Giffoni, Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Norbert Möslang, DJ Olive, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Christian Weber, Charlotte Hug, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Roger Rotor, Strotter Inst, Evil Moisture, Astro, Small Cruel Party and many more. Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and films. Innumerable releases on international labels e.g. Entracte, RRR, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Artware, Klanggalerie, SSSM. Artist residencies in Berlin (1999) and London (2004). Composition assignment by Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland (2006).

Schultz and VDREY

SCHULTZ was a projected created in 2002.

The project really took-off in 2006, when Schultz joined VDREY. (www.vdrey.canalblog.com), a talented painter and on-stage performer, who was herself looking for a musician to perform with.

Since then, they have been performing on stage together, Schultz playing his harsh-industrial music Live (mostly influenced by M-Tronic, Hands, Parametric, Ant-zen, Hymen recordings) and VDREY painting erotic and fetish oriented shapes.

With 3 albums and several participations for international compilations, this project have played in countries like France, Latvia, Germany, Uk, Swiss, Holland in small events and big events like WGT or Dark Dance Treffen.

Zuckendes Fleisch [Bln /Ir- the twitching howl of a city of insects]

Havblik Audio are exploring the area between sound and music,
improvising with the use of effect machines, tape recorders and circuit noise.
Our reference point is our common fascination of the ocean, as well as
our environmental awareness.
Havblik Audio is the sound of the pristine nature below the surface,
as well as the pulsating beat from a coasters engine room.

Vinyl-terror &-horror [dk- "disasters" - a composition for 8 turntables]

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