Original copies of a beautifully destroyed 1994 side from this revered underground UK free/noise group with connections to Skullflower and the whole Broken Flag scene. Released on Hasan Gaylani of Jazzfinger’s long-defunct Format Supremacy imprint. Recommended.

New studio album from the Ramleh duo of Gary Mundy and Anthony Di Franco, this time out in their power electronics mode. More hi-fi and deliberately nuanced than their early Xeroxed style, Mundy’s delivery is at its most hysterical while the noise is almost technicolour in comparison. Also some great sludge bass noise/rock stylings courtesy of Di Franco. Full colour gatefold sleeve with insert.

Edition of 200 copies with ink-stamped sleeves that reissues the rarest release on the Broken Flag label. Violence was released as a cassette in 1982. It’s a solo recording by Gary Mundy that predates the beginnings of Ramleh, Mundy’s solo Kleistwahr recordings etc. Using the same equipment as on the early Ramleh recordings, Violence is a claustrophobic slice of grainy electronic excess with a murk of psychedelic electronics and tortured vocals in the style of the early BR power electronics sides. Mastered direct from cassette for maximum skin burn.

Fantastic new Japan-only CD from UK ‘power electronics’ innovators Ramleh, released to coincide with a series of live dates there. Beautifully packaged in a hard card gatefold sleeve with classic austere Broken Flag-style artwork and obi strip. There was always something particularly psychedelic about Ramleh’s vision of noise, which fed into their parallel incarnation as a rock band, and here the noise it as its most brain-arranging and oddly ‘beautiful’. Pulsing and drilling electronics complete with mangled shortwave sonorities are bathed in distant ghostly/choral vocals, giving the first track “Guidelines” the feel of an unholy ascension cut w/aspects of radical 20^th century composition. The second piece, “Memories Of Empire”, is a little more blunt, with harsh walls of feedback and the kind of dense microtonal minimalism of Phill Niblock set to stunning effect. Hands-down some of the best of the revived Ramleh material from the duo of Gary Mundy and Anthony Di Franco. Highly recommended.