"Shingo Ogata, the aged protagonist of Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound Of The Mountain awakens from sleep in his family home one late-winter night,
to a sound of uncertain source and unknown origin; "...like wind, far away, but with a depth like a rumbling of the earth."

The sound queuing a vast, abstract and unconscious awareness, as though a tone had been struck deep within the self, harmonized, resonating in key, with
one's sense of mortality. Ogata's epiphany, rather than a looking inward, as morbid obsession on the self as finite, was to instead to see out; to 'hear' the
massive near-silent symphony who's volume dwarfs all things, on a scale that is the vocalization of all things in their totality, with the self recognized
as an aspect of one's place within it, yet expressed unto oneself as their own.

It's the rare work that adeptly chronicles the inward tunings of that awareness. The reciprocation of the 'tone' struck within the self and the expression
outward to the natural living world; not a simple matter to dedicate to canvas, celluloid, printed page, magnetic tape or the plethora of digital recording
formats. The North Bend depicts a deeply personal, and at once universal resonating of/with that world, impressing sound upon it and charting what
comes back; valleys, mountains, the nearly endless sea of trees - like furrows, peaks, dynamic points on the soundwaves. The vast natural splendour
of the pacific northwest of the United States may just be the most sublime sounding board for such a dialog. Deeply rich in lore both ancient and
current, that of the native Snoqualmie and Wenatchee people, David Lynch's television narrative redefining Twin Peaks, this is a region that has
long-inspired these very same 'resoundings'. The North Bend being a continuance of, and contributing a new form to those traditions, that of
neoclassical, spectral and ambient sublimity. Irisarri's depiction of that process, in the form of this recording, is a chronicle of just such a
dialog between the self impressing sound on the natural world and it's resounding
response expressed through the work in turn." - Jefferson Petrey

PRESS (Various)

“Irisarri stretches the boundaries of pop music to flirt with much more openly experimental angles; investigating desolate territories
and bringing them to life by subtle melodic touches…a complete master at his art” - THE MILK FACTORY

“These expansive instrumental epics start out icy, but melt easily enough with proper
application of the human ear.” - WIRED

Commix
Be True (Burial Remix)
(Metalheadz)

The long awaited Burial remix of 'Be True' by Commix is finally here on Metalheadz, released as a one-sided etched super limited 12" vinyl.This will be a limited release, and we expect this to go very quickly. The trademark sound from the enigmatic producer again dominates this whole track. Layered filters, skipping two-step percussion, and an ambient symphony that is quintessentially ... well.. Burial sounding. Do not miss out on this.

This a pre-release order. We expect to be shipping this item on the week beginning 4th October.

….Even Though You‘re With Another Girl‘ is the amazing second single to be taken from Trentemøller‘s stunning new album ‚Into The Great Wide Yonder‘.
After the huge reaction to the beautiful longplayer, which mixes classic Trentemøller production mastery with more of an analogue feel, it’s time to carry on with this intriguing set of remixes.

Side by side comes a 12‘‘ that features remixes by Kollektiv Turmstrasse and Pantha Du Prince. The Kollektive‘s half of the record slaps a heavy dose of deep,
dark funk into the mix, with this ingenious lo-slung version. Post-minimal-punk electronic drums meet warbling synths and reduced,
subliminal use of the vocals in a delicate and stylish mixture of pop-meets-deepest-electronic beats.

Dial‘s man of the hour Pantha Du Prince creates a typically high-end remix based on his trademark twinkling melodies and warmly grooving understated beats.
The Dub version twists and turns with unpredictable laid-back intensity as a rousing chorus of strings and harmonic elements fuse under dubbed out vocal elements.

Trentemøller: … Even Though You’re With Another Girl (Kollektiv Turmstrasse Remix)

Trentemøller: … Even Though You’re With Another Girl (Pantha Du Prince Dub Version)

Trentemøller: … Even Though You’re With Another Girl

Trentemøller: … Even Though You’re With Another Girl (Mikael Simpson Version)

Trentemøller: … Even Though You’re With Another Girl (Pantha Du Prince Vocal Version) (iTunes exclusive)

Trentemøller: … Even Though You’re With Another Girl (Alternative instrumental Version) (Digital exclusive)

The limited edition double-vinyl set, credited to "Caribou Vibration Ensemble Featuring Marshall Allen", comes with a DVD of the show and the ridiculously great cover art you see above. It'll only be available at Caribou shows, not at record stores

Digital only EP featuring four previously unreleased tracks and a video for "TOTALLY TOGETHER" (98 MB Quicktime file).

Originally released in 1984, The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall was the band’s eighth studio album and their first for Beggars Banquet. This release chronicles that year; from the full integration of Brix Smith into the group, the introduction of John Leckie as the recording producer, the BBC sessions, live shows, changes in the line-up and the rise of a wider appreciation for The Fall’s music.

The first CD edition (issued in 1988) followed the extended track sequence of the cassette but for this Omnibus Edition the album has been re-mastered from the studio analogue tapes and restored to its original nine song format with all additional tracks on disc 2.

Disc 3 gathers all the relevant BBC sessions: not only a predictable John Peel session recorded in December 1983 (the earliest recordings of TWAFWOTF material) but also previously unreleased sessions from David Jensen and Janice Long as well as a ‘Saturday Live’ recording.

Disc 4 is a live recording made by VPRO radio at Pandora’s Music Box festival in The Netherlands and is remarkably perky considering The Fall took to the stage for their headline set at 3.15am on a Sunday morning.

Compiled for fans, the Omnibus Editions are intended to expand and illuminate the development of specific albums, bringing together all the relevant single releases with previously unreleased studio, session or live recordings. Omnibus Editions are presented as limited edition box sets and include CD’s in the Japanese-style paper sleeves, reproducing the original vinyl cover art, with a 48 page book. Despite the de-luxe packaging the sets are great value and priced to retail below £20.

The Fall made the leap to a semi-major label – Beggars Banquet – with The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, hooking up with noted producer John Leckie to create another smart, varied album. Contemporaneous with the slightly friendlier “Oh! Brother” and “C.R.E.E.P.” singles without actually including them, Wonderful and Frightening World makes few concessions to the larger market – every potential hook seemed spiked with the band’s usual rough take-it-or-leave-it stance. Mark E. Smith’s audible, tape-distorting spit on the descending chord blast of “Elves” – already spiked with enough vocal craziness as it is – gives a sense of where the album as a whole aims. Brix Smith co-writes about half the tracks, creating a strong partnership with many highlights. It may start with a semi-low-key chant, but when “Lay of the Land” fully kicks in, it does just that, Craig Scanlon in particular pouring on the feedback at the end over the clattering din. Smith sounds as coruscating and side-splittingly hilarious as ever, depicting modern Britain with an eye for the absurdities and failures (and crucially, no empathy – it’s all about a gimlet eye projected at everyone and everything). Two further standouts appear on the second half – “Slang King,” a snarling portrayal of a cool-in-his-mind dude and his increasingly pathetic life, and the concluding “Disney’s Dream Debased.” Though unquestionably the most conventionally attractive tune on the album, ringing guitars and all, Smith’s lyrics portray a Disneyland scenario in hell, however softly delivered. Elsewhere, Gavin Friday from the Virgin Prunes takes a bow with his own unmistakable, spindly vocals on the trebly Krautrock chug of “Copped It” and the slightly more brute rhythm of “Stephen Song.”
41/2 out of 5 stars – Ned Raggett – All Media Guide

CD1 The Wonderful And frightening World Of… THE FALL
Lay Of The Land
2 By 4
Copped It
Elves
Slang King
Bug Day
Stephen Song
Craigness
Disney’s Dream Debased

CD2 SINGLES and ROUGH MIXES
Oh! Brother
God-Box
O! Brother
c.r.e.e.p.
Pat – Trip Dispenser
C.R.E.E.P.
New Fiend (2 By 4) *
No Bulbs 3 (Unedited Version) *
Slang King 2
Draygo’s Guilt
Clear Off!
No Bulbs
Lay Of The Land (Rough Mix) *
Pat – Trip Dispenser (Rough Mix) *
New Fiend (Rough Mix) *
Slang King (Edits Version 1) *

CD3 BBC SESSIONS
Creep (Peel session)
Pat – Trip Dispenser (Peel session)
2 By 4 (Peel session)
Words Of Expectation (Peel session)
God Box (Jensen session) *
Lay Of The Land (Jensen session) *
Oh Brother (Jensen session) *
Creep (Jensen session) *
No Bulbs (Long session) *
Draygo’s Guilt (Long session) *
Stephen Song (Long session) *
Slang King (Long session) *
Copped It (Saturday Live) *
Elves (Saturday Live) *
Fortress / Marquis Cha Cha (Saturday Live) *

CD4 Live at Pandora’s Music Box Festival *
Lay Of The Land
Craigness
2 By 4
Draygo’s Guilt
No Bulbs
Kicker Conspiracy
Stephen Song
Copped It
Pat – Trip Dispenser
Middle Mass

*PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

On 15 July 2010, Enslaved announced Axioma Ethica Odini as the title of its eleventh studio album, scheduled to be released in Europe on September 27 and in North America on September 28.