MAUVE ZONE RECORDINGS

OUT NOW: James Champagne: Halloween Time [MZR026]

2011-10-17T10:44:00.000-07:00

In the spirit of the holiday season, MZR is pleased to present the live performance of my poem "Halloween Time." The following poem was composed when I was a student at Bernon Heights Elementary School, probably when I was in the second or third grade. It won some kind of school-wide poetry contest that was being held then, and I and the rest of the winners had to go down to a local radio station and read our poem on-air, which was, needless to say, an interesting experience. This recording is taken from that broadcast, and features myself reading the poem I had penned.

"Halloween Time"
by James Champagne

It's Halloween, and the Ghostly Queen,
is sending out monsters all slimy and green.
On the streets are headless goons,
and a wicked witch flies past the moon.
Jack-o-lantern's eyes are bright,
as people run in terror or fright.
A ghost goes and haunts a house,
scaring away a giant mouse.
The werewolves run and bite people they've never met,
causing many horrible deaths.
Vampires bite people on the necks,
a giant frog says "Blech!"
But out comes the sun, the monsters run,
and Halloween is all done.

It can be downloaded for free at MZR's Internet Archive page:
http://www.archive.org/details/MZR026

A video has also been posted on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVjwSkH3LYM&feature=share

OUT NOW: NEW SYPHA NADON LP: 4NIC8 [MZR025]

2011-08-22T10:40:00.000-07:00

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of 4NIC8, the fifth full-length studio album from Sypha Nadon and his proper follow-up to 2009's Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night. Imagine J.G. Ballard going Witch house, Salem trying to record their own dirty cover version of Pretty Hate Machine. Due to the sexual content of this album it is recommended primarily for adults, though Wilhelm Reich would probably disagree on this point.

"All things fornicating all the time." -Austin Osman Spare

Tracklisting:

1. ! (2:03)
2. Orgasm (4:49)
3. STRIPPER (3:03)
4. Kit10's Shower (0:55)
5. Fucking Lichelle (4:01)
6. Sara's B00bz (5:09)
7. Piano Piece for Cocksucking (2:40)
8. Slutz (6:00)
9. Room Service (7:27)
10. Booby Luvin' Alien (0:14)

Total Running Time: around 35-36 minutes

Personal:
Sypha Nadon (all drones, beats, guitar, bass, electronics, noise, organs, sexophone)
James Champagne (samples, + piano on trax 1 & 7)
DJ Munge: (turntable scratching on trax 5)

Guest performances: Kitten Natividad (trax 4), Lichelle Marie (trax 5), Sara Jay (track 6), Brent Corrigan and Carson (trax 9). The performers on trax 2,3,7 & 8 wish to remain anonymous

Samples from tracks 1 & 10 taken from the Japanese anime film "Anyone You Can Do I Can Do Better." Track 4 is a sample from the film "Takin' It All Off" (1987). Samples from track 9 taken from a Brent Corrigan film entitled "Room Service." Many of the other samples on this album were taken from videos found on the Dailymotion website.

All songs by Sypha Nadon
Recorded 2011 at Mauve Zone Recordings Studios
Produced by James Champagne
Front and back cover art assembled by James Champagne (with special thanks to AOS)
Front cover model: Leanne Crow / Back cover model: Brent Corrigan

As always the album may be downloaded for free at our page at the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/MZR025

New Blog: The Onyx Glossary

2010-12-03T12:27:00.000-08:00

MZR is pleased to announce the launch of "The Onyx Glossary," which shall serve as the official blog in regards to the literary career of James Champagne. It may be found at the following link:

http://onyxglossary.blogspot.com/

OUT NOW: T3: Frag Out [MZR024]

2010-10-29T08:49:00.000-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce the release of our 24th album, T3's "Frag Out!" Featuring 16 tracks of innovative cyberpunk electronica, this album is also enhanced with a sci-fi/horror short story entitled "Fragment."

T3's Myspace Page: http://www.myspace.com/T35513R

As always, the album may be downloaded for free here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR_024

OUT NOW: Sypha Nadon: "Orheculegenias" [MZR023]

2010-08-14T13:05:00.000-07:00

"Orheculegenias" is not a proper studio follow-up to 2009's "Our Lady Of The Flowers Of The Red Night." Rather, it is a sort of odds and sods collection, or clearing house, of various songs I recorded during 2010, along with a handful from 2009. Many of the tracks here are ghosts, or skeletal pieces that never became full-fledged songs. Others were recorded specifically for this collection. Consider this release an aural curiosity shop, with hopefully something in it for everyone.

Tracklisting:

1. Black Insekt Laughter (6:24)
2. Everything Dies (4:49)
3. Anthem (4:37)
4. Ceremony (7:46)
5. The Immaculate Decay Of SHODAN (2:05)
6. Doom Drone Number 23 (6:50)
7. EM04: The Gash (2:36)
8. Worship The Glitch (3:43)
9. LSD 666 (2:34)
10. Tarkussukrat (5:42)
11. Rock And Roll (0:50)
12. Yotsuba Corporation (2:57)
13. Necrotic Mutox (2:25)
14. The Devil You Know (5:59)
15. Bela (0:59)
16. Silent Scream (3:32)
17. Evocation of Yog-Sothoth (8:03)
18. The Dark Dark Song (0:29)

Total running time: 74 Minutes

The album, as always, may be downloaded for free from the Mauve Zone Recordings page at Internet Archive, at the following link:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR023

New Volume of Poetry from 1/2 of The People's Tongue

2010-03-17T20:26:00.001-07:00

One of my long-time online friends, Laurence Lillvik (who is one half of the duo that makes up the band known as The People's Tongue) has just published through Lulu a collection of poetry entitled "Tongues Tied to Anchors." It can be purchased from the Lulu website here:

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/tongues-tied-to-anchors/8259771

Apparently this book is the first release of The Cartophile Imprint, which is based in Portland, Oregon. Larry says the Cartophile Imprint's website should be up soon, so I'm very curious to see what that will be like.

New Bryce Clayton Eiman album for sale online

2010-02-09T18:28:00.000-08:00

Our friend Bryce Clayton Eiman has a new album out. Entitled "Bryce Clayton Eiman," it can be purchased through iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bryce-clayton-eiman/id352862897) and on Amazon for those who wish for a physical copy (http://www.amazon.com/Bryce-Clayton-Eiman/dp/B0031DRYSY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1265689827&sr=8-2). I just ordered mine through Amazon, and I can't wait to hear it!

OUT NOW: M. Karo: "Funky Afternoon + The Slow Fish Remixes#1-5" [MZR022]

2009-12-19T15:44:00.000-08:00

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of Michael Karo's "Funky Afternoon + The Slow Fish Remixes# 1-5", a most fascinating Eno-esque experiment in which he takes one song and does a multitude of different remixes of it, each one being equally fascinating. Besides being an incredibly prolific musician, he is also a very skilled photographer, and MZR is very thankful that he is allowing us to release one of his many musical projects on our netlabel. As always, it may be downloaded for free at the MZR download page at Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR022

Earlier this year, he released an album entitled "Music With Horns" which can be purchased through both iTunes (http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/m-karo/id319232548) and Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Music-With-Horns/dp/B002CD6IMC). This album is really great and we highly recommend it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mkaro

Happy holidays!

Happy Holidays from MZR

2009-12-19T13:09:00.000-08:00

"Rise Horus Rise" surpasses 10,000 download mark

2009-12-17T11:50:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Boy Destroyer's Rise Horus Rise album for being the very first MZR release to surpass the 10,000 download mark.

The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis

2009-12-04T21:31:00.000-08:00

Mauve Zone Recordings highly recommends The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, the new novella written by the very talented Mark Gluth and published by Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery press in conjunction with Akashic Books. Gluth's writing has previously appeared in the classic Userlands anthology, and it is our hope that his new work will get him the accolades he deserves.

http://www.amazon.com/Margaret-Kroftis-Little-House-Bowery/dp/1933354941

OUT NOW: Boy Destroyer: Socialist Boy Scouts [MZR021]

2009-12-04T21:01:00.000-08:00

Tracklisting:

1. Destroy Everything! (7:47)
2. Going Nova (6:09)
3. Fuck-War (4:49)
4. Assassins at Alamut (5:58)
5. Minraud Riot Control (4:08)
6. Astral Terrorism (5:45)
7. We Wear Carrion Like Perfume (6:58)
8. Mainstream Gynocide (5:49)
9. Bomb Squad (6:50)
10. Industrial Espionage (7:15)
11. Dancing on the Ashes of Capitalism (6:02)
12. Kollaps Metal (4:43)
13. Elegy for Dead Roads (7:06)

Running Time: 79:54

Personal:

Sypha Nadon: programming, beats, rhythms, percussion, piano, bass programming, noise, strings, drones, sound effects

Isabelle Ducasse: guitar, feedback

Ray Pissed: song titles, concepts, art design

James Champagne: producer, engineer

Recorded October-December 2009

All songs on this album are first takes created using FL Studio 9. No post-production work has been done on them.

For Kyosuke Higuchi.

As always, it may be downloaded for free at our Internet Archive page:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR_21

Coming Soon From MZR: new Boy Destroyer album!

2009-11-28T11:18:00.001-08:00

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the rebirth of Boy Destroyer, now composed mainly of the duo Sypha Nadon and Isabelle Ducasse (Ray Pissed no longer performs musically in the band, but still plays an active part in coming up with song titles and planning the artwork). The new Boy Destroyer album, due out sometime in December, will be the band's first instrumental album, and features a much slicker and more dance & rock-based sound than their earlier albums, though the leftist political stance and experimental edge remain. Entitled "Socialist Boy Scouts," the album will contain 13 songs, and is 79 minutes and 54 seconds in length.

Tracklisting:

1. Destroy Everything! (7:47)
2. Going Nova (6:09)
3. Fuck-War (4:49)
4. Assassins at Alamut (5:58)
5. Minraud Riot Control (4:08)
6. Astral Terrorism (5:45)
7. We Wear Carrion Like Perfume (6:58)
8. Mainstream Gynocide (5:49)
9. Bomb Squad (6:50)
10. Industrial Espionage (7:15)
11. Dancing on the Ashes of Capitalism (6:02)
12. Kollaps Metal (4:43)
13. Elegy for Dead Roads (7:06)

Personal:

Sypha Nadon: programming, beats, rhythms, percussion, piano, bass programming, noise, strings, drones, sound effects

Isabelle Ducasse: guitar, feedback

Ray Pissed: song titles, concepts, art design

James Champagne: producer, engineer

OUT NOW: James Champagne: Grimoire [MZR020]

2009-10-30T22:07:00.000-07:00

For H.P. Lovecraft and the Cobwebbed Ones.

Written August 25th, 2008-October 31st, 2009.

Contents:

1. London After the Rain
2. Under The Leaves
3. The Nightmare Syndicate
4. Mauve Movies
5. 18 Fragments of a Nightmare
6. Mr. Orwig's Midnight Monologues
7. They Came From The Shadow Of God
8. The Old Chemical Factory
9. The Onyx Glossary
10. Reaping Time Has Come
11. Nihil

220 pages, PDF format

Cover art copyright Stafford Stone: http://www.staffordstone.com/

Mauve Zone Recordings would appreciate it if you alert us to any major typos in this collection. We may be reached at mzr777@gmail.com. Periodically, we will update "Grimoire" so that these typos and errata may be fixed. We thank you for your assistance.

Item Description:

If all books are gateways to other realities, then Grimoire is a portal into a realm of the most profound darkness, a twilight world of black flowers thriving under the monstrous shadows cast forth across time by the writers and poets of the 19th century French Decadence, the art of the Surrealists, and the weird fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and his acolytes. Each of the eleven stories, or Neo-Goth Narratives, which make up this collection presents the reader with a worldview of cosmic nihilism, a morbid atmosphere haunted by the revenants of the fin de sicle practitioners of black magic. Those who lose themselves in these sunless and Satanic vistas will learn arcane words of power, experience forbidden knowledge, and encounter fantastic and grotesque alien beings whose forms and powers we are unable to comprehend, whose very presence can drive one to insanity. Grimoire is no mere book: it is a 90,000 word scream from the Abyss of non-existence, a descent into Hell itself, a dream journal of God's nightmares. Let the Danse Macabre begin!

As always, it may be downloaded for free at our Internet Archive page here: http://www.archive.org/details/MZR020

Happy Halloween!

Coming soon from Mauve Zone Recordings: James Champagne's "Grimoire" [MZR020]

2009-10-24T18:27:00.000-07:00

On October 31st, Halloween, Mauve Zone Recordings, in conjunction with Black Dulia Press, will be releasing Grimoire, the new short story collection by James Champagne. A project that has been in development for over a year, this will be the first book released by Mauve Zone Recordings, who up until this point have released only sonic artifacts. It is hoped that with Grimoire, we will begin to see the appearance of other interesting non-musical products. The book will be in PDF format, is 220 pages long, and consists of 11 short stories, or Neo-Goth Narratives, with a cover created by Typhonian artist Stafford Stone (http://www.staffordstone.com/).

Item description:

If all books are gateways to other realities, then Grimoire is a portal into a realm of the most profound darkness, a twilight world of black flowers thriving under the monstrous shadows cast forth across time by the writers and poets of the 19th century French Decadence, the art of the Surrealists, and the weird fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and his acolytes. Each of the eleven stories, or Neo-Goth Narratives, which make up this collection presents the reader with a world view of cosmic nihilism, a morbid atmosphere haunted by the revenants of the fin de siècle practitioners of black magic. Those who lose themselves in these sunless and Satanic vistas will learn arcane words of power, experience forbidden knowledge, and encounter fantastic and grotesque alien beings whose forms and powers we are unable to comprehend, whose very presence can drive one to insanity. Grimoire is no mere book: it is a 90,000 word scream from the Abyss of non-existence, a descent into Hell itself, a dream journal of God's nightmares. Let the Danse Macabre begin!

Sypha Nadon ver. 2.0.

2009-10-05T13:22:00.000-07:00

After ten years of using the Voyetra Digital Orchestrator for my musical compositions, I have decided to utilize a new program for my sonic endeavors: FL Studio. Thus, the most recent Sypha Nadon album I did earlier this year, "Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night," was the final album of mine to be done on Voyetra. At the moment I am using the demo version of FL Studio and familiarizing myself with how it functions, but later on this month I plan to purchase it for real. Some of these initial improvised demos and sonic experiments will be released on Mauve Zone Recordings later on this month, as a documentation and historical data related to the birth of the next era of the Sypha Nadon alchemical experiment. This album of improvised demos and free-form experiments will be entitled "Xperiment XX" (in homage to Wilhelm Reich), and the cover art will be the following:

(Yes, that's the face of Christ superimposed over an orgone device. No one ever accused us of subtlety).

Mauve Zone Recordings: Angelic Nightmare Music of the Near Future.

English Heretic's "Tales of the New Isis Lodge"

2009-08-17T16:38:00.001-07:00

Oh man, if ever an album was designed for me.... a British society known as "English Heretic" has recently released an album inspired by the rituals carried out by Kenneth Grant's New Isis Lodge from 1955-1962. Entitled "Tales of the New Isis Lodge," it could very well be the first album of music inspired entirely by the writings of Grant. From the website:

"Probably the first Musical inspired by the creative occultism of Kenneth Grant, Tales Of The New Isis Lodge presents 65 minutes of lush and occult exotica issuing from a transplutonic transmitter. Drawing its structure from the ultra decadent and ornate rituals described in Grant's book Hecate's Fountain English Heretic guide you through Egyptian pre-history to the fungi of yuggoth, re-imagine flower power in an indian tantric idiom, describe the workings of Chinese sorcerers, realise the neither-neither hidden within the jump rhythms of Count Basie and invoke Choronzon in the Crimson Desert. Aeons in its reification and packaged in delicious artwork, stylised as a homage to Grant's Typhonian tomes."

CD Track Listing:
1] Typhonian Museum Piece
2] She Comes In Kalas
3] Tales Of The New Isis Lodge
4] Earth's Lament To The Stars
5] Cult Of The Ku
6] Vevers Of The Void
7] Les Voltigeurs
8] Secret Organization Of The Zotzil
9] Rite Of Kepra
10] Demon Feast / The Dagger Of Bou Said

From the album's liner notes:

"Tales of the New Isis Lodge is a homage to the creative occultism of Kenneth Grant. It is a conscious attempt to fight the ambivalence and lack of imagination which critics of Grant employ in their attacks on his colourful other-world view. More specifically, this release is probably the first Musical based on the rituals of the order that Grant headed between 1955 and 1962 and draws its primary structure from his book "Hecate's Fountain." First published in 1993, "Hecate's Fountain" is a study of what Grant terms Tangenital Tantra- anomalous ricochets that occur during ceremonial magic. Each track has been inspired by one of the ultra decadent, ornate lodge workings that illustrate Grant's attempts to explain these Tantra. The value of the anecdotes for this project is Grant's wondergully choreographic eye- indeed one of his key phrases throughout his work is the term "oneric perichoresis." According to the magical lexicographer E.E. Rehmus, the word perichoresis, bastardised by Machen to explain the interpenetration of strata of reality, shares its etymology with choreography. Most importantly, Grant's work has a deep and often eccentric musicological vein. His rituals are accompanied by soundtracks- Lovecraftian flutes, off-kilter Petro drums, the ghost of Lelia Waddell's violin, "the glissading shawms" of the Drukpa and Nyingmapa Buddhist sects of the Bhutan, teh Jump rhythms of Count Basie, the insectival chatterings of the Old Ones. It is this lush cocktail of occult exotica broadcasting from the Abdominable Plateau of Leng that "Tales of the New Isis Lodge" attempts to capture."

Naturally, I had a huge interest in getting this album. Kenneth Grant is my favorite occultist (and these days, the only occultist I can be bothered to read), and his books have been an endless source of inspiration to me. "Grimoire" is heavily influenced by Grant's occult theories, and it was Grant's theory of "The Mauve Zone" (first mentioned in "Hecate's Fountain") that gave me the name of my netlabel. "Hecate's Fountain" has been my favorite Grant book for years now, mainly because I love reading Grant's descriptions of the rituals carried out by his New Isis Lodge. I don't even care if Grant is making it all up... it's still great writing. So the idea of a group doing an album based on these rituals was very exciting to me.

I got the album in the mail today. First off, the packaging is very clever: the cover is designed to resemble that of "Hecate's Fountain," with a funny illustration of Grant and the logo of the New Isis Lodge, while the back cover replicates Grant's magical sigil. The liner notes give the background material for each track. It appears that the music, words and arrangements were all done by one guy, Andy Sharp, though some violin was provided by a Phil Legard on one track, and another guy named Arild Stromsvag does spoken word on a few songs. The album was recorded in Suffolk, from 2007-2009, and is a very well-done and professional-sounding affair, mixing atmospheric rock music (featuring much cosmic guitar and keyboard) with alien-sounding electronic experimentation (the liner notes mention how the rock aspect is a sly wink at Grant, who railed against the dangers of rock music in his book "Outer Gateways"). Many samples are utilized on the songs, including Boris Karloff's "The Mummy," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," Count Basie's "Jumping at the Woodside" (one of Kenneth Grant's favorite songs, naturally), Crowley chants, etc. Much of the words are taken from Grant's texts themselves, along with H.P. Lovecraft's "The Fungi From Yuggoth," Crowley's "Book of the Law," an invocation to Nyarlathotep, a 1933 journal on the Cult of the Ku, etc. The tracks "Vevers of the Void," "Secret Organization of the Zotzil," "Rite of Khepra" and "Les Voltigeurs" are particularly well-done, though all of the tracks are great in their own way. It is obvious that the people who created this album did their homework.

The liner notes conclude with a summary of the album itself: " an absurd attempt to cast the chaos of Grant's waking dream as a West End Musical now playing somewhere beneath Soho, in the venereal theatres of Parfaxitas."

Mauve Zone Recordings highly recommends English Heretic's "Tales of the New Isis Lodge," not only to fans of the books of Kenneth Grant but also to admirers of good music in general. It can be purchased from the English Heretic's website here:

http://english-heretic.org.uk/Shop.htm

OUT NOW: Sypha Nadon: Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night [MZR019]

2009-06-28T19:19:00.001-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce the release of Sypha Nadon's fourth official full-length studio album, Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night. This album, nearly 8 months in the making, features 13 all-new songs, one of which previously made an appearance on "The Nightmare Factory" greatest hits anthology. This album is dedicated to Saint Jean Genet, Saint William S. Burroughs, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Rose of Lima, and also to all those who took part in the Stonewall Riots of 1969.

Tracklisting:
1. Invocation (4:02)
2. Disko of Shadows (4:31)
3. Receiving the Logos (4:00)
4. Obsequies for Charlie Newton (4:04)
5. Choronzon Says (5:41)
6. Midnight in the House of Hurt (7:00)
7. Virus B23 (2:24)
8. Funeral Music for Konstantin Raudive (5:09)
9. Interzone (4:58)
10. Horse Rotorvating (4:15)
11. The Demiurge Descends Through Oceans of Blood and Chaos... (2:50)
12. The Interior Castle (8:03)
13. Epilogue (0:19)

A special director's cut interview with Sypha Nadon related to the creation of this album and an explanation of is themes will also appear in the coming weeks.

As always, the album may be downloaded for free at Mauve Zone Recordings' page at Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR019

Japanese Alice debut release: Pacific Blush's "Skeletal Gardens"

2009-06-27T10:37:00.000-07:00

One of my online friends, Joseph Marcure, has recently started up a virtual label known as "Japanese Alice" with his younger brother, Matt. Their first release is "Skeletal Gardens", by Matt's band Pacific Blush (he does all the guitar, lead vocals, organ, keyboards, drums, and other instrumentation). It can be downloaded from the Japanese Alice blog here:

http://japanesealice.blogspot.com/2009/06/pacific-blush-skeletal-gardens-lp.html

From the website:

Japanese Alice is proud to present the debut album by Pacific Blush, Skeletal Gardens. Recorded between May and late June 2009. Pacific Blush has also released two EPs under the name of International Broadcasting Bureau. Of these two EPs Thomas Moore wrote, "Seriously, this stuff is special. It creeps in this often really unsettling way, it evokes memories I’ve never even had. It makes me think of David Lynch, and a more sombre Animal Collective - both good things, duh." And Dennis Cooper said, "I adore his music."

This album sees Fresno, California native Matt Marcure going further into his own world that somehow is both lush and bleak. Incorporating more instruments and new techniques this is his most accomplished recording yet and definitely something, as has been pointed out, special.

Tracklisting:

1. maples
2. plastic snowman
3. skeletal gardens
4. light diving
5. through lavender
6. can't write
7. skulk trains
8. winters
9. dream collective
10. speak softly
11. listening to mountains
12. fields of alice

* * * *

(Thomas Moore might be better known to some of you as Thomas Moronic, another good online friend of mine, and a very talented musician in his own right).

Anyway, give the album a listen, it's really very good!

Coming Soon from MZR: Sypha Nadon's "Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night" LP [MZR019]

2009-06-26T22:49:00.001-07:00

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Sypha Nadon, MZR decided to release three Sypha Nadon albums this year. First there was "Universe C: Beyond", the third volume in the Sypha Nadon anthology series. This was followed by a greatest hits retrospective entitled "The Nightmare Factory". Now, coming hot on the heels of those two releases, MZR is pleased to announce the third album, "Our Lady of the Flowers of the Red Night" [MZR019]. This album, Sypha's first of all-new studio material since "The Black Omen" soundtrack nearly a year and a half ago, features 13 songs, and will be about an hour in length. We hope to release it this coming MOnday. With material inspired by William S. Burroughs' "Cities of the Red Night," Gnostic mythology, and Christian Mysticism, it sounds unlike any Sypha Nadon album ever before conceived. The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Invocation (4:02)
2. Disko of Shadows (4:31)
3. Receiving the Logos (4:00)
4. Obsequies of Charlie Newton (4:04)
5. Choronzon Says (5:41)
6. Midnight in the House of Hurt (7:00)
7. Virus B23 (2:24)
8. Funeral Music for Konstantin Raudive (5:09)
9. Interzone (4:58)
10. Horse Rotorvating (4:15)
11. The Demiurge Descends Through Oceans of Blood and Chaos... (2:50)
12. The Interior Castle (8:03)
13. Epilogue (0:19)

A special director's cut interview with Sypha Nadon related to the creation of this album and an explanation of is themes will also appear in the coming weeks.

New Release: Sypha Nadon: The Nightmare Factory [MZR018]

2009-06-17T09:46:00.000-07:00

This album, a ten year retrospective of Sypha Nadon's musical odyssey, collects many tracks from Sypha's previous albums, along with a track from the new upcoming album (more details on that coming soon) and a new song recorded specifically for this retrospective (entitled "The Nightmare Factory"). Thank you to anyone who has listened to my music over the last ten years, and whether you have enjoyed it or not, I am pleased that you took the time to listen to it in the first place.

This album is dedicated to the Voyetra Digital Orchestrator. And also to the two bands who initially inspired me to begin making music in the first place: Throbbing Gristle and Nine Inch Nails.

Tracklisting:
1. Hyla
2. Sonic Lwa
3. Enter Horus
4. Security Gauntlet
5. Z-Note
6. Threnody for Zumb Zumb (Remix)
7. The Ignored
8. Maggots
9. The Fabulous Mr. Meaningless
10. Kind Hands is the Cure
11. The Glow
12. Stop It!
13. Machine Elves
14. Horse Rotorvating
15. The Mauve Zone
16. Ginen
17. The Nightmare Factory

(running time: 78 minutes)

Trach 14, "Horse Rotorvating," is a demo track of a song off the upcoming, still untitled Sypha Nadon album due to be released this year. The final track, "The Nightmare Factory," is an all-new song created especially for this retrospective collection. With the exception of these two tracks, all of the other tracks on the album have previously appeared elsewhere:

Tracks 3 & 13 off the "Enter Horus" EP (plague002), on the This Plague of Dreaming netlabel (2005)
Tracks 1 & 9 off the "11 Chants For Russolo!" LP (plague 005), on the This Plague of Dreaming netlabel (2005)
Tracks 2, 10 & 16 off the "Threnody for Zumb Zumb" LP (plague007), on the This Plague of Dreaming netlabel (2006)
Tracks 7 & 8 off the "Universe A: Distant" anthology (MZR002), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2007)
Track 5 off the "Universe B: Closer" anthology (MZR003), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2007)
Tracks 11 & 14 off the "The Black Omen" LP (MZR012), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2008)
Track 15 off the "A Dream as White as the Death of a Seagull" LP (MZR014), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2008)
Tracks 6 & 12 off the "Universe C: Beyond" anthology (MZR015), on the Mauve Zone Recordings netlabel (2009)

Cover illustration from a 1972 textbook entitled "Biology Today," done by Larry
Sharp, depicting the tracheal tube respiratory system of a generalized insect (as found on the "A Journey Round My Skull" blog: http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/).

Cover design by James Champagne.

All songs recorded in the period from 2000 to 2009.

As always, the album may be downloaded for free from MZR's page at Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/MZR018

Tracklisting for Sypha Nadon: The Nightmare Factory [MZR018]

2009-06-13T14:04:00.000-07:00

1. Hyla
2. Sonic Lwa
3. Enter Horus
4. Security Gauntlet
5. Z-Note
6. Threnody for Zumb Zumb (Remix)
7. The Ignored
8. Maggots
9. The Fabulous Mr. Meaningless
10. Kind Hands is the Cure
11. The Glow
12. Stop It!
13. Machine Elves
14. Horse Rotorvating
15. The Mauve Zone
16. Ginen
17. The Nightmare Factory

(running time: 78 minutes)

Trach 14, "Horse Rotorvating," is a demo track of a song off the upcoming, still untitled Sypha Nadon album due to be released this year. The final track, "The Nightmare Factory," is an all-new song created especially for this retrospective collection. With the exception of these two tracks, all of the other tracks on the album have previously appeared elsewhere.

Boy Destroyer RIP

2009-06-01T20:22:00.000-07:00

The Boy Destroyer project has been officially terminated as of June 1st, 2009. No more Boy Destroyer songs will be recorded, and likewise no new albums will be released. Also, the Boy Destroyer MySpace page has been removed. This is mainly because we want to start a new MySpace page with that particular e-mail address. On this subject, we can say no more at the present time, other than the Aeon of Horus is well under way, and we no longer feel the need to document it. The Boy Destroyer has grown up into adulthood and moved on. Thank you to anyone who has listened to any of the Boy Destroyer albums over the last two years or so, and we hope the albums will continue to find new fans. But MZR is no longer interested in indulging in anger and negative energy, and it saddens me to say that certain individuals and groups totally misinterpreted the band's message, the imagery associated with the band, and so on. Then again, Throbbing Gristle had the same problem with its use of Nazi imagery, so what can you do but laugh?

Also of note: new links have been added to our MZR blog's "links of interest" subsection.

Coming soon on MZR

2009-05-25T13:55:00.001-07:00

Sypha Nadon: The Nightmare Factory: A Sypha Nadon Retrospective 2000-2009 [MZR018]

This album, a ten year retrospective of Sypha Nadon's musical odyssey, will collect many tracks from Sypha's previous albums, along with a track from the new upcoming album (more details on that coming soon) and a new song recorded specifically for this retrospective (entitled "The Nightmare Factory"). More details, including the full tracklisting, will be posted shortly.

This album will be released on Mauve Zone Recordings on June 17, 2009.

Ugly Man

2009-05-24T20:09:00.000-07:00

Dennis Cooper's new short story collection, Ugly Man, is now in bookstores. Mauve Zone Recordings highly recommends this book to our audience.

New Release: MZR017: Bryce Clayton Eiman: Sex in Heaven

2009-05-18T15:07:00.000-07:00

"Sex in Heaven" is the third Bryce Clayton Eiman album to be released by Mauve Zone Recordings. This concise album is sure to please his audience of adoring tween fans. Many thanks again to Bryce for allowing MZR to release this work.

Link: http://www.myspace.com/bryceclaytoneiman

Immodicus amor libertatis effecit ut diu cum perfidis amicis et pertinaci paupertate colluctarer.

Track listing:

1. Living in the Bad Part of History
2. 90 Degrees in the Goddamned Shade
3. Sex in Heaven
4. Fleshpots
5. Swallowing Stones
6. Last Day of Spring

As always, it may be downloaded for free here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR017

New Release: Cat Band Anthology Vol. 4: Off-White

2009-04-24T20:47:00.000-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce the official release of the long-awaited fourth volume of the Cat Band Anthology series. Subtitled "Off-White," this 15 track collection includes some of the Cat Band's most trademark tracks, such as multiple versions of "Blue Cat" and "Magic," along with some obscure songs such as "In a Box" and "Bad Luck Song." The collection concludes with a bracing cover of The Kinks' "You Really Got Me." As always, the album may be downloaded for free here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR016

The fifth (and final) Cat Band Anthology volume will most likely be released later on this year. A two disc affair, it will include the Cat Band's final "live" show from 2002, along with many rare tracks culled not only from the Cat Band archives but also from the solo careers of the various band members. But for now, we hope you enjoy this release, arguably the creative zenith of The Cat Band.

Cat Band Anthology 4 Tracklisting

2009-04-23T10:27:00.000-07:00

1. Blue Cat (Original)
2. Magic
3. Watch Your Back Jack
4. Yours to Keep
5. Soviet Union
6. Bad Luck Song
7. In a Box
8. By The Way
9. Magic (acoustic)
10. Racist Cops
11. Last Rock & Roll Star
12. Harlem
13. Crestfallen
14. Blue Cat
15. You Really Got Me

Cover art coming soon...

Cat Band Anthology 3 Update

2009-04-16T10:30:00.001-07:00

As noted in the previous entry, the third Cat Band anthology consisted of the Cat Band's Greatest Hits Vol. 1 tape, with the exception of one missing track, track #13, "When We Were Kings." It pleases me to say that the track has turned up and has now been added to the release known as MZR011: Cat Band Anthology 3. As a result, the tracks on said album have been renumbered to reflect this addition. Those who wish to have the now complete album are in luck.

MZR 2009 News

2009-04-16T07:00:00.000-07:00

Sometime this month MZR hopes to release the fourth volume of the acclaimed Cat Band anthology series. This release, whose tracklisting will be announced soon, concentrates on material culled from the band's 1999-2001 period, which followed the release of "The Cat Band's Greatest Hits Tape Vol. 1" (which was collected on the third Cat Band anthology release) and involved my youngest brother, Andrew, joining the band as the official drummer (prior to that, my other brothers had used either keyboard drums or unorthodox objects such as coins for percussion). This anthology will contain some of the Cat Band's most classic songs, including "Magic", "Harlem", "Watch Your Back Jack", and perhaps their trademark song, "Blue Cat". It will also feature many rarities and other obscure curiosita.

A fifth (and, at the moment, final) Cat Band anthology will be released sometime over the summer. This will simply be the Cat Band's final "live" show, recorded in 2002.

Prior to that, however, MZR will release an "best of" Sypha Nadon collection, celebrating Sypha Nadon's ten year anniversary. It will be released on June 17, 2009. A new Sypha Nadon album is expected to be released sometime this year.

Boy Destroyer is also planning on returning to the studio sometime soon.

We also eventually hope to finally release Bryce Clayton Eiman's "Sex in Heaven" album sometime over the summer. More details soon.

Finally, if anyone reading this has a copy of the old "TRANS/MISSION 2" PDF, could you please send me a copy through our label's e-mail address (mzr777@gmail.com)? We lost our only copy during a computer crisis in late 2008.

Mauve Zone Recordings on Facebook

2009-03-02T16:54:00.001-08:00

This group is open for anyone to join:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=54709013924&ref=nf

New Sypha Nadon Anthology Release: Universe C: Beyond [MZR015]

2009-02-28T13:58:00.000-08:00

2009 marks the 10 year anniversary of Sypha Nadon's musical career. To commemorate the occasion, Mauve Zone Recordings hopes to release three special Sypha Nadon albums this year. The first is the third volume of the Sypha Nadon anthology series, entitled Universe C: Beyond. The second, due to be released on June 17, will be a "best of" collection, which will have tracks from every Sypha Nadon album up to this date, as a career retrospective (the tentative title for this album will be "The Nightmare Factory"). Finally, sometime during the Fall/Winter of '09 we hope to release the latest Sypha Nadon studio album, "Funeral Music For Horselover Fat." In any event, as noted just now, today marks the date of the first of these projected releases. So, without further ado, we present MZR015, the third Sypha Nadon anthology:

Front Cover:

Back Cover:

From the liner notes:

Third in a series of anthologies collecting rare material by Sypha Nadon. "Universe C: Beyond" collects a further 13 tracks from the infamous "120 Songs of Sodom" box set, along with 3 tracks from the unreleased "The Great Conjunction" album of 2007, and 3 tracks that up until this point have only been avaliable on the Sypha Nadon MySpace page.

Track listing:

1. Teutonic (2:55)
2. Eskimos Open the Space Gate (3:12)
3. Glinka the Bassett Hound (5:40)
4. Pan Dance (6:04)
5. Andy Warhol (4:15)
6. Existentialism (4:36)
7. Windy City (5:20)
8. Zumb Zumb is Here (4:27)
9. Coke Bugs (4:40)
10. Anal Sex (4:11)
11. Song for Oerg-8 (4:45)
12. Nightside of Eden (3:14)
13. Stop It! (1:53)
14. Anxiety (4:01)
15. Homo-Russia (2:26)
16. Throbbing Gristle (3:30)
17. Sawmill (2:25)
18. Nature Dirge (2:58)
19. Threnody for Zumb Zumb Remix (5:37)

Running Time: Over 75 minutes!

As always, the album may be downloaded for free from MZR's Internet Archive webpage here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR015

Thank you for your consideration.

Hospital

2009-01-09T07:02:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine, the talented poet/writer/musician Thomas Moore (who let me release an album of his music on MZR under the name Thomas Moronic) has just put out his second collection of poetry, "Hospital" (following 2008's "Surfaces").

Says Thomas:

I’m happy to announce the release of my new book HOSPITAL. It’s been hovering around for a little while now, so it feels good (and also very strange) to finally send it into the world. HOSPITAL is a collection of 19 poems that I started work on over the summer. I guess anyone who knows what that period was like for me will know that it was perhaps the hardest time of my life so far. Because of that I feel very different to the majority of the new pieces in HOSPITAL than I do to the rest of my writing. In a lot of ways I just feel that I have no distance from the work. While my mother was dying I didn’t know what to do with myself, and I guess in many ways I still don’t. The only thing that I knew I could do during that time, was write. I don’t know whether it helped me work myself out of certain things or if it had no effect at all. I just knew that I didn’t for one second want to stop writing. I wanted to get some things down – I think I felt that I had no choice in a way. I don’t know how I will feel about some of these poems in a few months, in a few years time. I don’t know if I’ll be able to look at them. At the moment, some of them feel too raw to think about. HOSPITAL is a book so close to me right now. This isn’t in any way meant to sound melodramatic or anything like that. I guess I’m just introducing the collection and putting it in some kind of context. I don’t know whatever. Here it is anyway. This is dedicated to the memory of my mother.

BLURBS:

“Thomas Moore's HOSPITAL is a harrowing, dazzling, magnificent collection of poems. From its rigorous mapping of the jagged miscommunication that dogs online conversation to its intensive, exquisite search for words precise enough to bear the meaning of an incommunicable sadness, this is a more powerful, brilliant book than I could have imagined.”
- Dennis Cooper, author of God Jr, The Sluts, and The George Miles Cycle.

“Moore made a striking debut with Surfaces, an edgy suite of poems on yearning, resistance, and beauty. Here he goes magically deeper, hammering his wrists on the door that separates the dead from the living—thin membrane on which this writing inscribes itself like a breath. It’s more fluid and persuasive now that it’s known tragedy. “Let me know,” Moore pleads, “when your body is tired/ So I can run water under every word that/ You say.” His prosody’s sometimes bumpy, but it gives him the leverage to heave the whole world from one level of consciousness to the next. Even in his sweats he is the most attentive of poets, attentive of sons.”
- Kevin Killian, author of Shy, Little Men and Action Kylie

HOSPITAL is a Broken Blood Press book.

It can be purchased off the Lulu website at this link: http://www.lulu.com/content/5617629

Dimension Set

2008-12-13T05:58:00.000-08:00

The space-spider overlords of the star known as Mizar (which is both the cosmic home and the extraterrestrial point of origin of Mauve Zone Recordings) have issued to our terrestrial outpost here on Earth the discovery of the so-called "Dimension Set" (or, as a variation, "Dimension Seth"). This dimension, which in some manner is identical to what Kenneth Grant refers to as "The Mauve Zone", is a source of great occult power and also a fountainhead for the so-called Typhonian (or Necronomicon) Gnosis. A good idea of its visual appearance can be provided by consulting a certain stage in the Nintendo DS game known as "Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin" (the stage in question being "The Forgotten City"), a screenshot of which can be found below:

At the moment our established colleague, Frater Tsalal, is projecting himself into Dimension Set and, thus observing the alien sigils, is translating them into human language afterwards. The end result will be a curious document known simply as "Grimoire." This book will contain the secrets of the Sodality of the Holy Shadow and Mauve Zone Recordings, masquerading under the subtle masque of "weird fiction."

Due to this new project (and the fact that Frater Tsalal's human avatar, James Champagne, is planning on getting back to work on his second novel in 2009), Mauve Zone Recordings will be going on temporary hiatus. However, we are always on the lookout for new artists, and of course this blog will be updated with news on a regular basis. And, needless to say, one can still download all the current albums released on the label thus far off our page on the Internet Archive.

We thank you for your interest,

Arthur Limbo

Dark Tentacle RIP

2008-11-25T09:46:00.000-08:00

The Dark Tentacle website is no more. With all of the computer problems I had, the original files I had for the pages I had up already were lost, thus making it impossible to edit (even though the site remained online). Even more galling, I lost the original HTML NTS pages, so almost all of the documents I had related to the NTS are gone (with the exception of some of the artwork and a few text documents). So I cancelled the site today. Probably for the best, really... trying to run 4 "secret" socities had become kind of a pain in the ass, to be honest. I still want to have an MZR website up one day, but it seems that now is not the time. I'm trying to simplify my life as it is right now. And it kind of makes sense to bring The Dark Tentacle to an end around the same time that the Black Glove storyline on Batman comes to an end.

MZR on temporary hiatus

2008-11-16T19:36:00.000-08:00

Due to catastrophic computer problems as of late, Mauve Zone Recordings (and all other organizations linked with The Dark Tentacle) will be going on a temporary hiatus, until I can get a new computer (the crippled one I have now is currently unable to even play sounds). In a way this is almost a blessing as MZR has been eating up much of my time lately, and I've been neglecting my writing, which I hope to get back to now. Hopefully by 2009 MZR will be operational again. In the meantime, the label's blog, webpage, and Internet Archive page are still operational.

-Arthur LImbo

Dark Tentacle Website

2008-10-30T21:33:00.000-07:00

www.thedarktentacle.com

Just in time for Halloween, at last, the official Dark Tentacle website (which also includes the official Mauve Zone Recordings website). It is still in a larval stage at the moment, so please excuse the raw look it has at this point. A work in progress, it will be ever mutating over the coming weeks, so keep watch everyday for new content. More details coming soon...

Oh yes, and Happy Halloween!

Dark Tentacle Website News + MZR Political Endorsement

2008-10-28T21:37:00.001-07:00

The official Dark Tentacle website is set to be unveiled to the public this Halloween. As The Dark Tentacle is an umbrella organization, the website will be a portal of sorts, also housing the following organizations:

Organization Name/Head of Organization/Purpose of Organization
==============================================================

Mauve Zone Recordings: Arthur Limbo (Music)
Necronomicon Transhumanist Society: Administrator Zlaxalah (Philosophy)
The Sodality of the Holy Shadow: Sister Zillah Champagne (Religion)
Dark Tentacle Publishing: VACANT FOR NOW (Literature)

Generally speaking, we here at MZR generally do not discuss politics all that often. Then again, the Surrealists were never one to shy away from the issue, so, with that in mind (and needless to say the stance of the heads of MZR does not in any way reflect the political viewpoints of all the artists on our label), I would like to say here that Mauve Zone Recordings supports Barack Obama in his bid for Presidency of the United States.

We Have A Special Plan For This World

2008-10-18T11:29:00.001-07:00

Everything you've heard about Mauve Zone Recordings is true.

We are operators at the highest level.

And now, dear listener, the Dark Tentacle is pointing at you.

Come, take your place for the Danse Macabre!

Here at MZR, we want to party like it's 1899.

Masked balls and opium orgies, green tea and the recital of Baudelaire poetry, seances and haunted ouija tables.

The Name of the Party: "A Dream as White as the Death of a Seagull"

Where: The Mauve Zone.

When: now, within the adumbration of some future nameless Aeon.

This season's theme: 19th-century style French Decadence.

Special guests in attendance:

J.K. Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Remy de Gourmont, Rachilde, Octave Mirbeau, H.P. Lovecraft, the Abbe Boullan, Dr. Johannes, Canon Docre, Durtal, Maldoror, Antichrist, St. Moravagine, St. Teresa of Avila, The Black Glove, Dr. Simon Hurt, The Joker, Set, Kenneth Grant, Michael Bertiaux, LAM, William S. Burroughs, Jean Genet, Arthur Rimbaud, August Strindberg, Bruno Schulz, Leonora Carrington, Andy Warhol, Richard Marsh, Sax Rohmer, The Fabulous Mr. Meaningless, The Crying Spider, Lord Cthulhu, Patrick Bateman, Choronzon, The Kliphotic King of the Larvae of the Dead, and the Booda Carrot himself.

Portraits of guests being provided by Odilon Redon.

This event is being sponsored in collaboration with Mauve Zone Recordings, The Necronomicon Transhumanist Society, The Sodality of the Holy Shadow, The Ghooric Order of the Shoggothian Nuns, The Final Church of the Zumb Zumb Apocalypse, The Cultus of the Locusts, and, of course, The Dark Tentacle itself.

All guests will be receiving a special party favor, which is the soundtrack to this event:

This album, the very first compilation album from Mauve Zone Recordings, features tracks from every artist who has contributed to our label up to this point in space-time. It also features guest appearances from other interesting parties (such as To Repel Ghosts), to say nothing of artists whose work will be showcased in greater detail in the future (in particular, Serapeum and Orchestra 23). This album also marks the worldwide debut of Moya Sestra, who we are very happy to unleash on the populance. In addition to all of this, the album comes with a short story named Mauve Movies, a Neo-Goth Narrative that illustrates the sort of ultradimensional perichoresis we strive for. A big thank you to every artist who has contributed to not only this album but also to MZR thus far, and also we would like to thank those of you who have listened to our albums.

This album was channeled to Earth from a nameless Aeon of the future. To be more precise, March 15, 2337, a date highly significant in that it marks not only the 400 year anniversary of the death of H.P. Lovecraft, but also the discovery of the Ghooric Zone on one of the moons of Yuggoth by a group of space-traveling sex-crazed cyborgs.

Finally, we would like to dedicate this album to Fire Hydrant 451 and One Hundred Years of Salad Two.

Running time: 60 minutes

Track listing:

1. Orchestra 23: Intro (4:29)
2. The Cat Band: Goods in the Hood (3:12)
3. Sypha Nadon: The Wish Wish Song (4:22)
4. The People's Tongue: Staunch (2:14)
5. To Repel Ghosts: Blow (4:43)
6. Serapeum: Fansystem (4:39)
7. Zyklon Vagina: The Creeping Sickness (2:42)
8. Orchestra 23: Intermission (1:38)
9. Bryce Clayton Eiman: Sex in Heaven (4:22)
10. Thomas Moronic: Boulder Dash (5:12)
11. Moya Sestra: Spider Joe (5:40)
12. Boy Destroyer: Wild Boys Remix (3:20)
13. Sypha Nadon: The Mauve Zone (7:33)
14. Orchestra 23: Outro (2:56)
15. James Champagne: The Lord's Prayer (2:38)

album front cover artwork by Erik Visser.

You may download your party favor for free (as always) here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR014

Questions and concerns may be directed either to one of our gargoyle staff members or sent to mzr777@gmail.com.

MZR 014 update

2008-10-08T12:13:00.000-07:00

MZR 014, A Dream as White as the Death of a Seagull, is set to be released the week of October 12. Due to various circumstances the tracklisting has been enlarged. More details to come.

Perichoresis

2008-09-28T21:25:00.001-07:00

2009 will see the release of a new Sypha Nadon album. This album, which originally was to have been a self-titled release, will now be called Perichoresis. In addition to new music, it will also come with a special short story written specifically for the album. More details in the coming months.

The Dark Tentacle

2008-09-19T20:44:00.000-07:00

We would like to tell our dedicated listeners that recently Mauve Zone Recordings was purchased by the Dark Tentacle. This will not change our present direction or ambitions.

Mauve Zone Recordings is now the musical branch of the Dark Tentacle, just as the Necronomicon Transhumanist Society is the philosophical branch, and the Sodality of the Holy Shadow is the religious branch (more on this later). Coming soon will be Dark Tentacle Publishing, our literature and publications branch, whose purpose will be the distribution of Neo-Goth Narratives.

We would also like to welcome aboard our Insect Trust a new member: Dr. Gargoyle. A mastermind at sound experimentation, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Induction Trigger Phrases, he'll be hard at work on the ultra-secret Project Noir, which will be released to the public next year. More details to come.

The Insect Trust:

H.P. Lovecraft: Our Spiritual Founder
Arthur Limbo: MZR founder and owner
James Champagne: Art, Production, Text, Promotion
Sypha Nadon: Mauvian Symphonist
Dr. Gargoyle: Science, Sound Experimentation
The Fabulous Mr. Meaningless: Dada Muse
The Booda Carrot: Our Godhead

MZR compilation album update

2008-09-05T08:54:00.000-07:00

The upcoming release of the first MZR compilation album will be slightly delayed to the influx of new material we have coming in. Rest assured that this new material will only serve to enhance the listening experience.

Also, in addition to the extensive liner notes, a short story written by James Champagne will accompany the album. This story, called "Mauve Movies: A Neo-Goth Narrative", will be around 20 pages long, and is his first new short story since "Kali Yuga" (which was written in 2006). It is hoped that this fictional work will compliment the sounds on the album itself. At the moment James is only 7 pages into the story, so he is almost half done it. Which also accounts for the delay of the compilation.

Future MZR albums may also be enhanced with prose artifacts and other various objets d'art noir. On this subject, however, we cannot elaborate at the moment.

The art book "Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy And Art" is highly recommended, despite its hefty price tag (well, it is an art book, after all). The lover of Max Ernst, Carrington is an accomplished surrealist artist in her own right, and also a novelist. Her art perfectly captures a certain atmosphere that we find evocative and delightful. One of her works ("The Ancestor") can be seen adorning the top of this press release.

MZR PRESS RELEASE

2008-08-24T22:34:00.000-07:00

Coming September 2008:

A Dream as White as the Death of a Seagull [MZR014]

We are pleased to announce the imminent arrival of the first compilation album from Mauve Zone Recordings, featuring nearly 50 minutes of new music from all the artists who have thus far appeared on the label (along with a few extra special guests)!

Tracklisting (may change before the final release):

Orchestra 23: "Intro"
The Cat Band: "Goods in the Hood"
Sypha Nadon: "The Wish Wish Song"
The People's Tongue: "Staunch"
Zyklon Vagina: "The Creeping Sickness"
Bryce Clayton Eiman: "Sex in Heaven"
Orchestra 23: "Intermission"
Thomas Moronic: "Boulder Dash"
[Special Mystery Guest]: "Spider Joe"
Boy Destroyer: "Wild Boys Remix"
Sypha Nadon: "The Mauve Zone"
Orchestra 23: "Outro"

[Running time: 46 minutes]

With special cover art by Erik Visser, based on a concept of Arthur Limbo:

This stimulating and arousing digital miasma will derange the senses of humans and NON-humans alike!

Mauve Zone Recordings: We curse all gold and silver.

MZR recommendations #1: Artists

2008-08-24T09:04:00.000-07:00

Mauve Zone Recordings recommends the following artists:

Andy Warhol
Odilon Redon
Max Ernst
Edward Gorey
Salvador Dali
Austin Osman Spare
Paul Laffoley
Yves Tanguy
Dorothea Tanning
Louis Wain
Francis Bacon
Damien Hirst
Steffi Grant
H.R. Giger
Gilbert & George
Jenny Saville
Erik Visser
Hans Bellmer
Leonora Carrington
Gahan Wilson
Grant Cook
Trevor Brown
Luca Signorelli
Math Tinder
Kier Mcgregor
David Tibet
Babs Santini
Man Ray
Egon Schiele
Camille Rose Garcia
Hieronymus Bosch
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Jean Theodor Toorop

Coming at midnight: exciting new information about the upcoming MZR compilation!

Press Release

2008-08-12T09:09:00.001-07:00

Also coming soon from MZR: official recommendations!

Nocturne

2008-07-26T17:09:00.000-07:00

Be assured.

Mauve Zone Recordings is a seal of absolute quality and esoteric satisfaction.

Mauve Zone Recordings aims to deliver a deluxe service high stake's audio experience at the very highest levels of the international game.

Tonight, for your delication, a song to revive your jaded senses: we offer you a new track by Sypha Nadon, named "The Mauve Zone." It is one of two new Sypha Nadon tracks, which will appear next month on the MZR album "A Dream as White as the Death of a Seagull" [MZR014]. "The Mauve Zone" is like no other Sypha Nadon song. Juxtaposing the atmosphere of a Kenneth Grant poem of the same name with new and exciting musical and recording techniques, it marks the second coming of the Sypha Nadon sound, a nocturnal symphony that evokes the miasma of a nightside dream. In fact, it could very well be the official anthem of Mauve Zone Recordings. Inspired by the sublunary literature of the Mauve Zone and also H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", it is bound to excite the phantom flowers which grow in the deepest soil of your soul. The new song may be heard at the Sypha Nadon MySpace page, here:

http://www.myspace.com/syphanadon

Also coming soon from MZR: a new album by Sypha Nadon, plus two new albums from Bryce Clayton Eiman (one in 2008, the other in 2009).

This news has been brought to you by the Dark Tentacle in league with the Final Church of the Zumb Zumb Apocalypse.

Mauve Zone Recordings: providing moving arias for a vanishing style of mind.

(SYPHA NADON POSTER)

SURFACES

2008-07-21T21:15:00.001-07:00

MZR (and the Final Church of the Zumb Zumb Apocalypse) would like to draw attention to the fact that noted musician/writer Thomas Moore (also known as Thomas Moronic) has just put out his first collection of poetry, named "Surfaces". Published by Broken Blood Press and distributed via Lulu, it may be purchased at the following link (I just bought a copy myself a few minutes ago):

http://www.lulu.com/content/2054435

Also coming soon from Thomas Moore is his first collection of short stories, "People Are Not Like Trees". He's also at work on a novel, excerpts of which he's been posting on his blog here:

http://thomasmoronic.blogspot.com/

Coming soon from MZR...

2008-05-29T20:48:00.000-07:00

New review for "Sonny Bono's Favorites"

2008-03-19T08:36:00.000-07:00

mike-floyd recently posted a review of The People's Tongue album "Sonny Bono's Favorites" at the homemade lofi psych blog yesterday. The full review may be read at the following link:

http://homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com/2008/03/peoples-tongue-presents-sonny-bonos.html

New Album: BOY DESTROYER: Wild Boys EP [MZR013]

2008-03-14T18:06:00.000-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce the release of BOY DESTROYER's second digital bullet, the Wild Boys EP.

From the liner notes:

“What you call monsters are superior forms simply beyond your understanding. Aren’t the gods monsters? Isn’t a man of genius a monster, like a tiger or a spider, like all individuals who live beyond social lies, in the dazzling and divine immortality of things? Why, I too then- am a monster!”
-Octave Mirbeau, "The Torture Garden"

For BOY DESTROYER:

Ray Pissed: Vocals + Lyrics
Sypha Nadon: Rhythm Loops + Beats
Isabelle Ducasse: Noise Guitar + Feedback

All songs by BOY DESTROYER except "Discipline" which is a Throbbing Gristle cover.

Recorded, Produced, and Mastered by James Champagne at Mauve Zone Studio

Recorded 2007-2008

The band members would like to dedicate this album to William S. Burroughs and Saint Moravagine.

Visit BOY DESTROYER's MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/theboydestroyer

As always, the album may be downloaded for free from MZR's Internet Archive webpage here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR013

Thank you for your consideration.

BOY DESTROYER on MySpace

2008-03-13T13:16:00.000-07:00

I forgot to mention it on this blog, but I created a MySpace page for BOY DESTROYER a little over a month ago. Link here:

http://www.myspace.com/theboydestroyer

Alongside four tracks off the debut BOY DESTROYER album "Rise Horus Rise" there are now two new tracks off the upcoming BOY DESTROYER EP, which will be due out this weekend. Tracklisting as follows:

1. Fucking Guilty (4:32)
2. The Secret (2:48)
3. Disobey! (2:08) *
4. Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (6:41)
5. Wild Boys (3:03) *
6. Discipline (8:23) ^

*= instrumental
^= cover of Throbbing Gristle

Tracks 4 & 5 can be heard on the aforementioned MySpace page.

3,000 download milestone

2008-02-09T18:37:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to The People's Tongue for hitting the 3,000 download mark recently with their MZR album "Sonny Bono's Favorites."

Also, we're glad to report that MZR's very first release, Boy Destroyer's "Rise Horus Rise," recently hit the 2,000 download milestone.

New Album: Sypha Nadon: "The Black Omen" soundtrack [MZR012]

2008-01-28T16:14:00.000-08:00

MZR is pleased as always to announce the release of a new item. Today, it is Sypha Nadon's "The Black Omen," which is the soundtrack to a non-existant computer game. This is the first full album of Sypha Nadon material since 2006's "Threnody for Zumb Zumb" (which was released on the This Plague of Dreaming netlabel).

From the liner notes:

"In the summer of 1995, I was contacted by a man named Alex Gibson, founder and CEO of Young Gods Studios, a tiny software development company that had formed earlier that year. Though they had yet to release a game, they had many ideas that were innovative and cutting-edge. In particular, they were inspired by another small software development company called Looking Glass Studios, who of course are well known for the Thief and System Shock series. In fact, Young Gods Studios was even based in the same building as Looking Glass Studios. At the time, Young Gods was working on a first person POV Sci-Fi horror/survival game known as “The Black Omen.” It was very much influenced by System Shock, which had come out the previous year to great critical acclaim. However, the Black Omen was to have had a more accessible UI, better graphics, and more action-packed gameplay. They wanted the complexity, atmosphere, and brains of System Shock along with the muscular brawn of Doom. The game was also influenced by films like the Alien series and the Evil Dead series, along with Stephen R. Donaldson’s Gap Cycle novels, along with a dollop of H.P. Lovecraft. I was hired to create the game’s soundtrack. They gave me a list of all the songs they needed for the game, including a main theme, a song for the opening cinema, a game over song, an end credits song, and music for the game itself, the songs that would be heard during the missions. Many of these songs were meant to be background music that was supposed to be looped repeatedly until the player completed the level. Which is why some of them are kind of bare bones. At the time, the music for many games was done using MIDI, so that’s what I used for the Black Omen soundtrack. Every single sound on the soundtrack came via MIDI; no samples of any sorts were used. The music I created was influenced by a lot of things, including Bobby Prince’s music for Doom (which was also all MIDI, with the exception of the game’s sound effects), industrial dance music that was popular in the 90’s (such as Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, and so on), stuff like that. Sadly, funding for the game ran out at a very late period in the game’s development and it was never officially released. However, bootlegs have been cropping up over the years, being sold at very high prices, mainly on eBay. Too bad, it was a great game; it could have sold well, even though it was very derivative of System Shock."

The album, as always, may be downloaded for free from the MZR page at the Internet Archive, here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR012

Thank you for your consideration.

2000 download milestone

2008-01-12T11:13:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to The People's Tongue for being the first band on MZR to hit the 2000 download mark (with their album "Sonny Bono's Favorites").

Sypha Nadon: Black Omen soundtrack: Tracklisting

2007-12-22T12:56:00.001-08:00

(subject to change in the future)

1. Black Omen Title Screen Song (2:29)
2. Black Omen Theme Song (3:29)
3. Through the Meteor Storm (3:44)
4. Hunting Mutants on Medical Deck (3:14)
5. The Reactor (5:05)
6. Futurist Elevator Music (1:57)
7. Mutant Massacre (3:21)
8. The Science Deck Sabotage (3:14)
9. The Haunted Maintenance Tunnels (2:51)
10. On the Executive Deck (4:18)
11. Flight Bay #23 (5:46)
12. Zero-G (4:01)
13. The Glow (6:26)
14. Operations Deck (2:56)
15. The Museum of Atrocities (3:33)
16. Crew Quarters (4:05)
17. The Security Gauntlet (3:50)
18. The Bridge (3:40)
19. The Crooked Universe (3:16)
20. The Final Boss (3:16)
21. Black Omen End Credits (4:32)
22. Game Over (0:19)

Total running time: 79:33

TRANS/MISSION Vol.2

2007-12-22T12:52:00.001-08:00

MZR is pleased to announce the release of the label's second newsletter, volume 2 of TRANS/MISSION. It may be downloaded from the following site:

http://www.necronomicontranshumanism.com/MZR.html

At the moment there are 3 formats avaliable: Word 97-2002, MS Works Word, and Rich Text. In the future, we will also offer PDF versions starting in 2008. If none of these formats work for you contact MZR at mzr777@gmail.com. Also, if you wish to be added to the TRANS/MISSION subscription list, let us know. This new issue may take a slight longer time to download than issue 1 as it is twice as long and has many pictures, some quite large. It is the MZR holiday issue and it features, among other things, extensive inteviews with Thomas Moronic, The People's Tongue, and Bryce Clayton Eiman, along with the rest of the lyrics off the first Boy Destroyer album.

TRANS/MISSION 3 will be devoted to the Cat Band and will include many lyrics from the recent anthology releases.

New albums: The Cat Band Anthologies Vols. 1-3 [MZR009-011]

2007-12-15T09:31:00.000-08:00

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the official release of the first three volumes of the Cat Band Anthology box set (AKA "The Cat Box"). Two more releases will follow sometime in the future, but for now, these will satisfy any kind of Cat Band fix. As always, they may be downloaded for free from MZR's page at the Internet Archive (just follow the links below). For many years, these recordings have been heard by just a small handful of people living in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Now, I unleash it on the world. Would you kindly give the Cat Band a listen?

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR009

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR010

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR011

I would like to add here that anthology volume 3 contains the album "Cat Band's Greatest Hits Volume 1," which I sometimes rank in my top twenty favorite albums ever.

Lyrics to Cat Band songs will appear in an issue of TRANS/MISSION next year.

New Album: Bryce Clayton Eiman: "Mono" [MZR008]

2007-11-03T14:11:00.000-07:00

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of Mono by the talented "drums & drones" experimental musician Bryce Clayton Eiman. This is the second of two releases from Bryce.

From the liner notes:

"Think of this album as my homage to the cassette culture of the '80s. In fact, these pieces I recorded to tape in 1988, and digitized earlier this year, preserving the original monaural sound. I would caution my younger listeners that once upon a time people considered distortion a simple fact of life. "

The album, as always, may be downloaded for free from the MZR page at Internet archive, here:
http://www.archive.org/details/MZR008

Bryce Clayton Eiman's MySpace page can be found here:
http://www.myspace.com/bryceclaytoneiman

Thank you for your consideration.

Sypha Nadon on the radio

2007-09-12T16:10:00.000-07:00

This is older news, but on the week of August 9th a Sypha Nadon song ("Sonic Lwa," off the album Threnody for Zumb Zumb) was played as part of the Pinwheels of Your Mind program on WZBC 90.3 FM Newton, along with several other artists from the This Plague of Dreaming netlabel, such as To Repel Ghosts and The Threshold People.

It has also recently come to our attention that a video on YouTube uses an old Sypha Nadon song ("The Ignored") as it's musical backdrop. The video may be watched here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMV3Kye5MDQ

Boy Destroyer hits 1000

2007-09-07T23:30:00.000-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce that our very first release, Boy Destroyer's Rise Horus Rise, has now surpassed the 1000 download mark. A huge thank you to everyone who has taken the time to download this album and listen to it.

New Album: Bryce Clayton Eiman: "I'm Not My Type" [MZR007]

2007-09-06T14:54:00.000-07:00

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of "I'm Not My Type" by the talented "drums & drones" experimental musician Bryce Clayton Eiman. This will be the first of two releases, the next one being "Mono" (due out next month at the time of this announcement). We're very excited (both intellectually & sexually) by this release and we're sure you will be also.

From the liner notes: "Most of my drone I do onto a Yamaha MT120, using a chrome cassette with the Dolby switched to off. I record samples on a Casio SK5 and run them through a distortion pedal, a one-second digital delay (weight: 5 lbs), and a Yamaha R100. Basically, nothing made in the past 15 years -- and yet the sounds I come up with on that rig are soooo fucking cool. On the other hand, I love playing around with GarageBand, especially the preset loops: so quick and so predictable and so very clean. That program accounts for most my dancey material. I personally think that the difference between my get-up and software is the same as that between standard and automatic transmissions. Using a stick, a driver feels like part of the car; one the other hand, it's hard to strip gears with an automatic. Life isn't digital, but information never dies."

The album, as always, may be downloaded for free from the MZR page at Internet archive, here:

http://www.archive.org/details/MZR007

Bryce Clayton Eiman's MySpace page can be found here:

http://www.myspace.com/bryceclaytoneiman

Thank you for your consideration.

New MZR Blog

2007-09-06T13:12:00.000-07:00

Mauve Zone Recordings (MZR) is pleased to announce the birth of its very own blog (prior to this, all MZR news had appeared on the LiveJournal Text Slimes). From now on, all MZR news will make their debut on this blog, though announcements of new releases will still be mentioned on Text Slimes.

MZR is a nonprofit netlabel that also serves as the musical branch of the Necronomicon Transhumanism Society (NTS).

If you're interested in contacting us for interviews, general comments, or if you wish to submit work to us, we may be e-mailed at mzr777@gmail.com.

All older MZR news articles have been included in this blog. From this post on, all announcements will be totally new.

COMING SOON: New album from Bryce Clayton Eiman, second issue of TRANS/MISSION, + BOY DESTROYER MySpace page.

Afro Noise

2007-09-06T13:10:00.000-07:00

Sypha Nadon recently sent its MySpace page in as a submission for record label Susan Lawly's "Afro Noise" project. It is now featured on the Afro Noise blog here:

http://afronoise.blogspot.com/

SYPHA NADON on MySpace

2007-09-06T13:05:00.000-07:00

This is older news, but a few months ago Sypha Nadon got its very own MySpace page, which can be found here:

http://www.myspace.com/syphanadon

At the moment the page features four songs, including an older track ("Ginen") plus a new version of "Threnody for Zumb Zumb" and two new bonus tracks avaliable only at the Sypha Nadon MySpace page: "Song for Oerg-8" and "Andy Warhol." These are the newest Sypha Nadon songs since the three that appeared on "Malkunofat Disko."

Also of interest in regards to MySpace is the new Threshold People page, which can be found here:

http://www.myspace.com/thethresholdpeople

This Plague of Dreaming also has a new blog worth checking out:

http://plaguedream.blogspot.com/

MZR Interview

2007-08-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

Recently I interviewed Thomas Moronic for the upcoming second issue of TRANS/MISSION. Thomas Moronic, of course, is the mastermind behind "Hard & Evil," a recent MZR release. Those who want to read the interview right now can check out the most recent entry in his blog, here:

http://thomasmoronic.blogspot.com/

The second issue will also have interviews with The People's Tongue & Bryce Clayton Eiman.

MZR news

2007-08-18T02:01:00.000-07:00

Coming soon from Mauve Zone Recordings, the incredible "drums & drones" sounds of Bryce Clayton Eiman! I met Bryce through MySpace and we've quickly become very good friends. A few days ago he sent me a very nice package containing two albums, "I'm Not My Type" and "Mono." Both will be released through MZR very soon. Bryce has a MySpace music page which I highly recommend. Link here:

http://www.myspace.com/bryceclaytoneiman

Also coming soon from MZR, a new edition of TRANS/MISSION featuring interviews with Thomas Moronic & The People's Tongue. Also coming soon, the long-awaited Cat Band anthologies.

MZR006: The People's Tongue presents Sonny Bono's Favorites

2007-07-08T00:39:00.000-07:00

Yet another new MZR release, hot on the heel of Thomas Moronic's "Hard & Evil." This one forms a nice contrast, being 56 short one minute tracks (therefore, it is best to download it in one swoop: That's what the "Whole Directory" link on the left side of the page under "Download" is for, hint hint).

Check it out:http://www.archive.org/details/MZR_6

As always, MZR thanks you for your attention. And of course I am very grateful to my friend Winter Rates for letting me release this album on my netlabel (like Thomas Moronic, he's one of my friends from the Dennis Cooper blog community).

MZR005: Thomas Moronic: Hard & Evil

2007-06-30T18:11:00.000-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce the release of a new album, provided to us by noted UK musician Thomas Moronic. The name of the album is "Hard And Evil" and it consists of one very long, very hypnotic track that we find to be very soothing & relaxing (while, at the same time, also being very unsettling!)

The new album, as always, may be downloaded off the MZR netlabel page, at this link:http://www.archive.org/details/MZR005(album cover art by Sian McFarlane).

COMING SOON: album by The People's Tongue, and much more, including the first few Cat Band anthologies later on this summer. Sypha Nadon is also working on a new album.

MZR004

2007-06-08T22:47:00.000-07:00

New release on MZR posted today: "Malkunofat Disko" split EP between Sypha Nadon and cult German noise band Zyklon Vagina. A stopgap release, paving the way for the future (lots of exciting new acts are on the way). May be found here:http://www.archive.org/details/MZR_4

MZR Press Release

2007-06-08T01:51:00.000-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce that BOY DESTROYER's debut album has recently passed the 200 download mark. Thanks to anyone reading this who took the time to download and listen to it.A split EP between Sypha Nadon and legendary German noise band Zyklon Vagina will be appearing on MZR in the coming days. This is intended as a stop-gap release, paving the way and wetting the appetites for more ambitious albums in the future... more info coming soon.

It has been decided that TRANS/MISSION (the official MZR news organ) will now be a quarterly periodical (rather than a bi-monthly affair). New dates for its release will be March, June, September, and December.

That will be all for now.

MZR news

2007-05-26T00:30:00.000-07:00

On the MZR front, changes are in the air. The James Champagne solo album due for release next month has been scrapped, mainly because- after listening to the final masters- it was dubbed to be subpar (at best). Still, two good tracks came out of these sessions ("Worm Food" & "Vow of Violence") and these might appear on a future MZR release, perhaps the compilation album. During these same sessions Boy Destroyer recorded 2 new songs (a cover of TG's "Discipline" & an original track called "Viscous"... the former will appear on the Boy Destroyer EP "Disobey" while the latter will manifest on the afore-mentioned comp.) In regards to Sypha Nadon, there will be no new album this year but possibly one in 2008. However, a third anthology of old material is in the works, and recently SN recorded a new song called "Prelude to Mass Slaughter" which will appear on the MZR comp. (another new SN track will appear on the upcoming This Plague of Dreaming compilation album in the future).

This does not mean that MZR will be inactive, however. I've kicked up production on the release of the Cat Band anthology project. At first, these were to be spread out, but now I plan on releasing all five volumes at once (even though volumes 4-5 haven't been converted to digital format yet). Hopefully this release will appear in late summer/early fall. In addition, a friend of mine is currently hard at work on a double album for MZR... in fact he's locked himself into his closet/recording studio, where he is currently in contact with beings from outer space. I'm very excited about this. recently I was also contacted by another online friend who is sending me some of his music, and when I mentioned I had a netlabel he said I could post it if I wanted, so we'll see... I just love the fact that other people will be providing me with content now, as it takes the pressure off me to be constantly working on music (I'm not feeling very inspired musically at the moment) and gives me more time to work on the Warhol book, which at the moment is my number one priority.

MZR Press Release

2007-05-20T00:21:00.000-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce that we recently passed the 200 download mark. Thank you to anyone who has downloaded any one of our products.

Work is currently underway on the second issue of TRANS/MISSION, the label's official news organ. It should be ready by the end of May. This issue will concentrate on the music of Sypha Nadon. Also, it will include all the other lyrics from the first BOY DESTROYER album that did not appear in the first issue. Plus album reviews, an essay on Michael Bertiaux (which first appeared on the NTS website), and much more! It is hoped that one day issues of TRANS/MISSION can be collected into a large volume, along with press releases and other artwork, but this may not be likely (as they use a lot of pictures, very few of which we have official permission to use).

June will see the release of the first James Champagne solo album. Orginally called "James Champagne 1" then "Imagine the Music", at the moment it has no title. In the interests of duality the first half of the album will be noise while the second half will be more mellow and atmospheric.

This summer we also hope to release something from international recording artist L'EXORCISTE, who are currently at work on a double album in their own right: more details on their Myspace page here: http://www.myspace.com/theexorcism

This fall should see the release of the first Cat Band anthology, along with the first MZR comp. And maybe a BOY DESTROYER EP. More details to come in the future.

MZR Press Release

2007-04-28T19:11:00.000-07:00

MZR is pleased to announce that the label's first release, Boy Destroyer's "Rise Horus Rise", has reached the 50 download mark.

This is truly a triumph.

Mauve Zone Recordings now has an official logo

2007-04-23T21:44:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I've got the label, I've got some downloadable items, I even have a digital newsletter. Now all I need is a website...

We Declare Total War On Sanity

2007-04-13T23:40:00.000-07:00

Today MZR posted two new releases, which collect various Sypha Nadon music. They can be found at the following links:

Anthology 1: http://www.archive.org/details/MZR002

Anthology 2: http://www.archive.org/details/MZR003

Further info will be released in the second issue of TRANS/MISSION (due out next month).

Coming to MZR This Friday the 13th...

2007-04-09T22:29:00.000-07:00

MZR 002: SYPHA NADON: "UNIVERSE A: DISTANT: ANTHOLOGY 1"

MZR 003: SYPHA NADON: "UNIVERSE B: CLOSER: ANTHOLOGY 2"

Featuring 40 rare songs from the archives, including choice selections from the infamous "120 Songs of Sodom" boxset, and all 14 tracks from the legendary cassette tape-only release "Distant" (2000), some of SN's earliest recordings. For the die-hard, obsessive fan.

"From now on the word fun takes on a new meaning."-Genesis P-Orridge

TRANS/MISSION

2007-03-20T17:09:00.000-07:00

When Throbbing Gristle formed Industrial Records back in 1976 as a vehicle for distributing their music, they eventually went about creating an official newsletter of sorts, which they called "Industrial News." All in all, it was published once a year, usually in the Fall, and there were a total of three (though a fourth one was included with the TG24 box set). Likewise, William Bennett's Come Organization put out it's own newsletter, "Kata," every two months or so, and in that case there were 20 issues.

Following their example, I have decided that my netlabel Mauve Zone Recordings should also have it's very own newsletter as a way to get information to the fans. The name of this newsletter is "TRANS/MISSION" and I hope to have a new issue out every 2 months or so. The issues (most of which will run to around 25-30 pages) will be posted on the MZR page of my Necronomicon Transhumanism website, in the following link:

http://www.necronomicontranshumanism.com/MZR.html

There are three seperate files to choose from: MS Works Word Processor, MS Word, and Rich Text Format. The latter two programs don't work on my computer, so I don't know if they look any different from the Works Word Processor one, which is what I created it on. Let me know if you encounter any difficulties downloading/opening it.Issue 1 is mostly devoted to Boy Destroyer, as that's currently the only release on my label. Issue 2 (due out in May) will mostly revolve around my Sypha Nadon project. It's 23 pages long.

MZR001: BOY DESTROYER: "RISE HORUS RISE"

2007-03-06T15:39:00.000-08:00

Mauve Zone Recordings is pleased to announce the release of its first digital bullet, "Rise Horus Rise", which is in turn the grand debut of noise supergroup BOY DESTROYER. This supergroup is composed of the following individuals:Ray Pissed (Vocals and Lyrics). The lead singer for underground punk rock band Ricin, which has released many bootleg singles and is currently signed to Fireball Records, where they are recording their debut album, "Drunk on the President's Blood." Their live shows are legendary.Isabelle Ducasse (Noise Guitar/Feedback). Isabelle Ducasse is best known as a "Feedback Artist", world-renowned in the avant-garde community for her sonic sculptures of noise. Speaking of noise, she's also the noise guitarist for the noise-drone band Deathdrone, who last year released the now-classic (and impossible to find) EP "Drone Moon Headache." Sypha Nadon (Rhythms). The cryptic Sypha Nadon is best known for his releases on the esoteric This Plague of Dreaming netlabel, namely the albums "11 Chants for Russolo!" and the more recent "Threnody for Zumb Zumb" (not to mention the "Enter Horus" EP). Currently planning an EP for late 2007/early 2008.

From the liner notes:This is sacred racket, pure fucking aggression, punk noise of the highest order Thelemic Anarchy The conquering child manifested in this Aeon as ultra-noise music to immolate yourself to A symphony heralding the downfall of the right-wing reign This is a campaign, it has nothing to do with art BOY DESTROYER is a three piece group who are violently uncompromising both musically and lyrically while possessing a new sense of direction in the spectrum they have very little in common with the current crop of electronic bands and this album should not be confused with such

Track listing:

1. Welcome to the Machine (4:55)

2. War (4:49)

3. Spill Blood (1:53)

4. Intellectual Punk (5:09)

5. Raped by a Deer (3:56)

6. Rise Horus Rise (5:20)

7. Human Lab Rats (4:39)

8. We Hate You Conservatives (5:12)

9. Retail Hell (5:28)

10. Electro-Sadism (5:07)

11. Scream (For Terror) (3:56)

12. Boy Destroyer (10:00)

Total running time: 60:31

Recommended for fans of Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Sutcliffe Jugend, Wolf Eyes, Crass, Big Black, Foetus, and other sonic trouble makers. This album can be downloaded for FREE from the MZR netlabel here:http://www.archive.org/details/MZR_1

Tracks & artwork can be downloaded one by one, or you can just click on the "Whole Directory" link under the "download" banner on the left side of the page if you want to download everything in one swoop.

Says Isabelle Ducasse: "Boy Destroyer declares war on civilization, on society, on reality itself. We will destroy anyone who gets in our way. We're interested in chaos and anarchy, uranian poetry, Apollonian Beauty and Dionysian Homosexuality. The world isn't ready for Boy Destroyer. Too bad for the world, but it had it coming anyway, smug bastard."

Says Ray Pissed: "I had to change my vocal style a bit for this one, as it's the first noise record I've ever sang on. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. Seriously, though, this is some intense shit. Hardcore with a capital H. Total punk rock, just not rock & roll."

Says Sypha Nadon: "The edge or stick some crush see baby not insect."

James Champagne (who produced, recorded, and mastered the album), was lucky enough to score a brief interview with Mauve Zone Recordings founder Arthur Limbo, which can be read below:

JC= James Champagne

AL= Arthur Limbo

MZR= Mauve Zone Recordings

JC: Your netlabel, called Mauve Zone Recordings, just released its first product, "Rise Horus Rise," by the noise group Boy Destroyer. What made you decide to make this your first release?

AL: When I first started MZR I thought it would be cool if the first release would be an unabashed noise album.

JC: How did Boy Destroyer come to be? I assume the concept was yours?

AL: Yes. A few months ago I was flipping through some of the old katas put out by the Come Organization back in the early 80's and I got to the one where they talked about how Philip Best from Consumer Electronics and Kevin Tompkins from Sutcliffe Jugend had left their bands to merge with William Bennett's Whitehouse, to create a "super powerful" group. I had the brainstorm that it would be cool if I managed to get three of the big names from today's noise scene and convinced them to do an album together. So I contacted Ray Pissed, Sypha Nadon, and Isabelle Ducasse, and they all agreed.

JC: You also gave the band its name. Why Boy Destroyer?

AL: The inspiration for the name came from this magazine from Sweden called "Destroyer", which is a magazine celebrating the beauty of teenage boys. They just released their third issue last month, actually. Destroyer is such a cool word and seemed to fit the band's music, so I chose to call it Boy Destroyer. Having said that, despite the origin of the band's name, it's not about destroying boys as one would assume. It's more a reference to Horus in his conquering child form, juxtaposed with William S. Burroughs "Wild Boys" concept.

JC: Do you want to comment on the album's artwork?

AL: The photo on the front cover was taken by Larry Clark. I think it's from his book "Teenage Lust" or something like that. I don't know who took the photo on the back cover, but we got it off Dennis Cooper's blog. He said it was taken by some weird Russian photographer or something like that. I think both photos pretty much sum up what the music is trying to say.

JC: Well, despite the fact that this is a noise supergroup I can't help but notice that Isabelle Ducasse isn't on as many of the tracks as Sypha and Ray Pissed. In fact, she isn't on the first three tracks at all, same for tracks 7 & 9.

AL: Due to her busy schedule with Deathdrone her studio time with Boy Destroyer was sadly limited. Hopefully she'll do more in the follow-up, whenever that will be. However, she is the only member of the group to get her own solo track, the feedback solo that is track 6, "Rise Horus Rise." The title song, in fact.

JC: Regarding the album intro "Welcome to the Machine." Is that a reference to Pink Floyd?

AL: No, but I can see why some would think that. It's actually a reference to a line spoken by Mr. Quimper in Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles." The title for "War" was inspired by the U2 album of the same name (I've always loved that album cover). The lyrics and vocal stylings of "We Hate You Conservatives" was inspired by the old Throbbing Gristle single "We Hate You (Little Girls)."

JC: What other releases are in the works at MZR?

AL: This Spring we'll be putting out an anthology of never-before-heard Sypha Nadon material, plus the Ross Gellar EP. This summer we hope to release your first solo album. What's it going to be called again?

JC: "James Champagne 1."

AL: Right.

JC: Thanks for the interview.

AL: No problem, the pleasure was all mine.

Coming soon: The lyrics for the songs off MZR001 (also known as MZR01).

MZR

2007-02-19T23:30:00.000-08:00

Mauve Zone Recordings is now an official netlabel, though at the moment there's zero content. Hopefully this will be fixed at the end of the month when the Boy Destroyer album will make it's grand debut. Actually, that album isn't even done yet, but it's almost finished. I'm just waiting for Ray to go into the studio next week and record the vocals for one last song. In the meanwhile, Arthur Limbo has chosen my LJ as the official mouthpiece for Mauve Zone, so all news about upcoming releases will be heard here first.