Tag: Dark Ambient
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TL 1012 | Dead Red Velvet | Skeleton Shore
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Skeleton Shore by Dead Red Velvet Tape Life Records presents Dead Red Velvet’s second release, Skeleton Shore, a six-song romp through dark techno, gritty electropop and cinematic dark ambient. The follow-up to The Ghostly Divide drops the guitars in favour of Mohr’s trademark synth work, seducing with urgent songs touching…
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TL 1009 | Dead Red Velvet | The Ghostly Divide
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. The Ghostly Divide by Dead Red Velvet The debut release from Dead Red Velvet, The Ghostly Divide, picks up where Karl Mohr Audio-Yo left off, with a grave shift towards heavy, mood-laden songwriting. Flirting with gothic rock, Mohr’s 6-song collection of dark, slow burners features his best work from 1997-2001.…
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TL 1008 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Standard Deviation
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Standard Deviation by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo Tape Life presents the eighth and final Karl Mohr Audio-Yo release: Standard Deviation, a dark ambient film score. Following his 1997 techno-industrial tour de force, The Heck, Mohr switched gears into songwriting as Dead Red Velvet, but not before composing this dire soundtrack to…
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TL 1007 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | The Heck 2017 Edition
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. The Heck 2017 Edition by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo Tape Life presents the seventh Karl Mohr Audio-Yo album, The Heck 2017 Edition. This twentieth anniversary re-release has been meticulously remastered and features updates to the original 1997 track list. Featuring material recorded 1993-1997, the critically acclaimed The Heck was a future-forward…
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TL 1006 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Transgalactic
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Transgalactic by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo The sixth release from Karl Mohr Audio-Yo, Transgalactic, presents instrumental material from 1993-1995. It’s a wild, electronic ride spanning many genres and would foreshadow in flavour Mohr’s critically acclaimed 1997 follow-up, The Heck. The basement outtakes feel goes deep with spacey ambient, maximal house boppers…
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TL 1005 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Galaxy Overmind
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Galaxy Overmind by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo A major milestone release for Karl Mohr Audio-Yo, the fifth album Galaxy Overmind (1993-1995) sets an extraterrestrial techno-industrial world alight with grinding songs of dystopian iconoclasm and anguished precognitive future shock. Featuring the Canadian campus hits “Highway” and “Famously Famished”, this sequencer-directed energy blast…
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TL 1004 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Skyfire Sessions
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Skyfire Sessions by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo The fourth album from Karl Mohr Audio-Yo explodes with a technicolor splash of Nineties rave power. Skyfire Sessions is a psychedelic dance trip navigating techno, house and ambient grooves, featuring recordings from 1992-1993. His prodigious techno recording sessions were inspired by the burgeoning rave…
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TL 1003 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Strange Tides
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Strange Tides by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo Tape Life presents the third Karl Mohr Audio-Yo release, Strange Tides, a moody journey into ambient instrumental works recorded 1991-1995. Five pieces demonstrate a vastness of desolation in pensive electroacoustic art, conjuring images of tidal flats, pagan ritual and surgical purgatory – an opening…
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TL 1002 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Psychocinematic
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Psychocinematic by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo Bristling with industrial dance vitriol, paired with estranged romantic introversion, the second collection of Karl Mohr Audio-Yo, Psychocinematic, focuses on an edgy period (1990-1992) rich in dire poetry and heavy-handed drum programming. A well-balanced presentation of Mohr’s varying musical spaces, this short and jagged album…
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TL 1001 | Karl Mohr Audio-Yo | Into The Doomhole
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Into The Doomhole by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo A riveting collection of early experiments by Karl Mohr Audio-Yo, Into The Doomhole reveals earliest recordings (1988-1991) by the musical mastermind behind Dead Red Velvet. Industrial, gothic, minimal synth, dark ambient are influences within Mohr’s strange, shifting environment. Recommended for fans of dark…