Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Kites/Prurient
The Hidden Family/+White+

Load 062

LP
£11.99


Great split LP that pairs the black/ritual noise of Prurient aka Dominik Fernow with a killer side from Providence’s Kites that almost matches Jessica Rylan’s work in terms of hands-on primitively rendered electronics married to sing-song kid’s melodies and fucked-up dunderhead keyboards. Parts of this sound like the kinda K Records/New Blockaders hook-up you never even took the time to imagine. But here it is and it sounds fucking fine. Recommended.

Prurient & Carlos Giffoni
Heavy Rain Returns

Ideal Recordings Ideal-030

CD
£8.99


New collaboration between Carlos Giffoni and Dominik Fernow. Starts off in an intense, minimal-beats Suicide style before Dominik erupts with classic Beelzebub throat contortions and Giffoni lays out blankets of loud chattering insect invasion over what has got to be the ginchiest rhythmic base ever eviscerated by Prurient. Levels of fuzz are beautifully eruptive and the second track gets even further into the whole "we're all Frankies/we're all lying in hell" feel.

Prurient
Pleasure Ground

Load #101

LP
£10.99


Vinyl version of the new album from Dominik Fernow's Prurient pushes the high-energy quotient all the way into the red, with lots of shredding vocals driven way up front and some absolutely gorgeous repeat-synth melodies torn to tornado-parts in the background. Anyone who has 'enjoyed' any of the recent Prurient shows where Dom has been working more subtle, melodic material into the overloaded electronics and vox will find plenty to submit to here. Parts of the hysterical vocal attack almost remind me of Nick Cave circa The Birthday Party's "Big Jesus Trash Can" while some of the synth work is as epically Teutonic as Klaus Schulze or even Coil's "Are You Shivering?" and as infectiously maniacal as Incapacitants. There's a spoken word track that sounds a bit like late-Whitehouse and another that sounds bizarrely close to TG circa "Something Came Over Me", which feels oddly appropriate. Either way, this tops even The Black Vase in terms of immolating euphoric energy. Highly recommended.

Prurient/Kevin Drumm
All Are Guests In The House Of The Lord

Hospital Productions HOS-201

CD
£9.99


CD edition of the very limited cassette collaboration between these two modern masters of extreme electronic architecture. But it’s not the 100 mile head-fuck that the combination of these two names might suggest, with long passages of electronics and hand-drums that almost touch on the endlessly still waters of Popol Vuh circa Affenstunde all cut up with portentous narration and glissing drones. Later tracks combine almost Neu Wave-styled Industrial ritual with peaking Penderecki-esque tone annihilation and the sound of heavy machinery dreaming itself.

Prurient
Arrowhead

Editions Mego 091

CD
£11.99


“New York based Prurient (aka Dominick Fernow) has been an active instigator of the Power Electronics and Noise genres for well over a decade, with 100+ releases issued so far, usually limited and over all known formats. Its with great pleasure that Editions Mego present this new set of Prurient compositions. Comprising of 3 ear splitting tracks of high end quality feedback, disturbed vocals and twisted percussion. While previewing this work for release on a flight from Milan to Vienna it came to the attention of the listener that an irritated passenger 2 rows in front complained of high pitched whistling in the air conditioning. Such is the power of Arrowhead.” – EM.

Various Artists
Old Tyme Lemonade

Hospital Productions HOS-91A

CD
£5.99


Compilation of Providence and Rhode Island area free/rock/noise artists put together by Domink Fernow of Prurient and featuring tracks from Landed, Noise Nomads, Necronomitron, Mindflayer, Knights Of Timbre, Em Dath Rir, Prurient, Dropdead, Mahi Mahi, Seratone, Football Rabbit, Suffering Bastard, Smashed Femur Dance Party, Throne Of Blood, Kites, Lightning Bolt, Kinfestorm, Meerk Puffy, White Mice and Patootie Lobe.

Various Arsonists
Showtunes Of The Condemned

Hospital Productions HOS-93

CD
£5.99


Compilation put together by Dominik Fernow of Prurient and featuring a buncha tracks by Kites, Sinking Body, Pleasurehorse, Smashed Femur Dance Party, Work/Death and Meerk Puffy.

Prurient/Mindflayer
Split

Important Records Imprec-123

7"
£5.99


Limited to 500 copies split single with double-sided screen printed jackets and coloured vinyl. Bundles early ultra-primitive material from both groups that makes for an endlessly flippable slab of wax.

Death Unit + Prurient
Terminal Cases

Archive 32.5/33

2x3" CD
£14.99


Warehouse find of this long sold-out double 3" CD set, originally released in a limited edition of 500 copies packaged in wraparound art sleeves. One disc from Death Unit, one from Prurient, both recorded live at Tonic, NY, 22/7/06. Death Unit set is particularly phenomenal, opening with an insane, pummelling dual drum barrage from Chris Corsano and Trevor Tremaine (Hair Police) that you never want to end while Carlos Giffoni on synth and electronics and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus) on guitar slowly integrate jabs of fuzz and feedback until they've intuited a huge monolith of nowhere sound that just sits there and fucking judders, despite all of Corsano and Tremaine's juggernauting. A wild side. Prurient side is a very tactile granite-crunching feedback set that sounds as if it was scored for a drunken ballet of heavy machinery. Dominik's vocals are a little more to the fore than usual, a development that effectively amps up the tension level.

Panicsville + Prurient
The Rubber Baron

Rococo Records RCC-0038

8"
£11.99


New collaboration from US scuzz/noise units Panicsville and Prurient in an edition of 300 copies on opaque red vinyl and already sold out at source.

Sutcliffe Jugend/Prurient
End Of Autumn

Troubleman No Cat

LP
£16.99


Live collaboration between UK power electronics/Industrial avantists Sutcliffe Jugend and Dominik Fernow aka Prurient recorded April 19th, 2006 in the UK. Features lyrics appropriated from Japanese death poems written by monks. Comes in a full-colour gatefold sleeve.

Nihilist Assault Group
Silent Movie

Hospital Productions HOS-142

LP + DVD
£15.99


Wild document of classic noise action from this alter ego of The New Blockaders featuring Richard Rupenus alongside Dominik Fernow (Prurient) and Ron Lessard aka Emil Beaulieu. Recorded live at the No Fun fest 2006, Silent Movie also comes with a silent DVD of the show that makes for pretty surreal viewing when viewed without the record spinning in the background. DVD also comes with a commentary by G.X. Jupiter-Larsen. Edition of 500 copies.

Cold Cave/Prurient
Stars Explode

Hospital Productions HOS-266

12” EP
£13.99


Limited vinyl edition of the Cold Cave/Prurient collaborative UK tour cassette that came out in an edition of 100 copies in 2009 with the addition of a brand new track. Very different in tone from what either group has done before, Stars Explode presents a series of very beautifully slow-moving drone compositions that have all of the ancient tectonic power of Nijiumu’s Era Of Sad Wings. Heavenly choirs of synth vibrate on the very edge of the horizon while arcs of symphonic underwater keyboards bubble to the surface. The beats break through on the third track, a jack-hammer Suicide-style instrumental before breaking into a final track that combines epic/euphoric drone melodies with macabre F/X-contorted vocals. Aspects of Coil, Klaus Schulze, Walter Wegmuller.... but truly its own thing. A major step outside. Highly recommended.

Wolf Eyes/Prurient
Split

Musikzimmer No Cat

7”
£7.99


Split single that pairs a particularly dark track from Wolf Eyes that starts off with a mangled little girl vocal before the beats kick in for an alien vox/locomotive noise juggernaut. Massively fucked vocals/electronics from Prurient on the flip. Full colour covers with double-sided insert.