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Swedish-born Martin Bladh is a contemporary multimedia artist who has resided for a decade in London, England and established himself as a unique proponent of the New Theatre of Cruelty adhering to the original Antonin Artaud’s disrepute legacy. Hybridizing genres of drama, poetry and fiction Bladh gravitates toward performance art, actionism in particular, with its main focus on stage performativity based on Wiener Aktionismus (Viennese Action Art movement) of the 1960s to purposely shock through self-torture actions. Solidly accompanied with music and photography Bladh’s theatrical arsenal transcends the subject-matter traditionally tabooed by the mainstream, including the objectives of death, necrophilia, sadomasochism, pornography, narcissism, lustmord and monomania. The 2nd issue of the “Contemporary” series traces Bladh’s artistic genesis analysing his works throughout a 2004 – 2019 period to revisit the concepts of cruelty and violence as segments of the current underground art, a built-in element of the counter-culture superstructure. All the presented literary analyses are exclusively supported by the authorial photographs and collages, both disturbing and fascinating, therefore 21+ readers’ discretion is advised: nudity and acts of torture are graphically reproduced without condescension or censorship as homage to the artist’s intentions. The edition also includes the recent interview with Bladh as well as a substantial cross-cultural entry on his genre fundamentals: the Theatre of Cruelty retrospective and three influential artists, Antonin Artaud, Francis Bacon, and Hermann Nitsch, the artist finds relevant to his method. 2019 Contemporary #2: English Drama: Martin Bladh. Book. A5 format, 416 pages, an interview and analysis, 200+ pictures; full colour, digital press. A hardbound cover with a tassel. R 21+

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A musical application of a geometric symbolism of certain mechanisms of the psyche. Aptly conceptualized as fractal musical geometry. Signals of interval logic, rhythm, construction and instrumentation, and sound are used for this purpose. A simply structured but emotionally tense atmosphere is created in which instrumentation plays the role of inner structure, industrialized sound that of the chaotic and the vocals a passionate element, significantly potentiated by fiery existential lyrics. Limited to 300 copies in a full-colour gloss-laminated Digipak.

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Originally released over 15 years ago, “Tearing Up Your Plans” is a landmark release in the Slogun discography. Initially produced by the Armed and Loaded label (aka Sounds For Consciousness Rape) in 1999. This full-length features some of the strongest titles in the Slogun arsenal such as: “Scum Junkies”, “Slobland” and “You and I”. Delve into some of the original material that set the Slogun path on its course through crime, self-loathing and the human animal’s worst traits, FTW. Re-released by Old Captain in 2015. A 2019 repress in a glossy black and white Digipak with the original artwork specially revisited by Mauro Berchi (Eibon Records) for this reissue. Limited to 100. A special re-edition comes with an A3 poster and a limited T-Shirt.

“Decadimento Del Nastro - Decadenza Di Tutto” is the first album by Tape Dekay, BJ Nilsen’s (Hazard, Morthound) analogue musique concrete / noise project whose first and only appearances date decades back: 1999 on the Cold Meat Industry sampler ‘Estheticks Of Cruelty’ with ‘Försökspersonerna’ track and ‘Jonestown Revisited’ track from a 2009 cassette compilation ‘White Nights’ released by Private Edition. The conceptual content of the current CD has been created with the Automatic Music Control System developed by ONKYO and the Elettrocardiograf by Officine Galileo informed by psychotronic distress, thought insertion, electronic harassment and the Frey effect. These 7 recordings reveal harsh and fragmented soundscapes tainted by disembodied voices, squelch and hyper charged feedback. Co-released with Narcolepsia and limited to 300 copies in an uncoated Digipak.

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