Tag: industrial
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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 1011 | Rex Ramsa | Stamina Charge
Available for purchase at Bandcamp. Stamina Charge by Rex Ramsa Rex Ramsa is an industrial-inspired hard techno project rigorously delivering the most demanding metal-tech psychic-stamina experiments. Engrossed in recording material for Full Moon Film in 2006, Karl Mohr took pause to let off steam with his minimalist hardcore machine-music effort Droid Charge: punishing techno tracks…
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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…