Rayna's fifth full-length under the Black Meteoric Star again serves as a vessel for her lifelong love of dance music alongside spiritual themes, drag and her formative experiences in S/M culture. Since focusing it in Berlin in 2006, the project from the former member of LCD Soundsystem has always carried an avenger quality and here that energy is aimed directly at the current political moment. Wet celebrates the long shared history between electronic music and queer leather/SM culture, imagining a future where the two are fully reconnected. The sounds are sleek, stripped back electro worlds with sci-fi overtones and retro machines used to conjure everything from proto-rawness to ice cold minimalism.

TRACK LISTING

5am Open Air Sunrise
Buttplug Thumb Drive
Control Top
Feel The Energy
Pombagira
S Weat
Squuezed Into These Jeans
Subwoofer Speaker Freaker (feat. Scotia)
The Calling

Severed Heads' decapitation count is larger than Henry VIII's, Cuisine (With Piscatorial) being the Australian group's ninth guillotining in LP-length coldwave sound, from 1991. Now with its first-ever vinyl pressing on Dark Entries following Rotund For Success, its inspiration lay in anti-music-consumerist sentiment: "people have records like they have cups of coffee", Tom Ellard is known to have once said. Where drawly 80s voice meets guerrilla jank and IBM, it's packed full of shearing-cold synths, gothic mallet outgrowths and comparatively faint vocals, best cases in point being 'Estrogen', 'King Of The Sea' and 'Twister'. Most tracks running at a demented pace, like car-chase music for a cursed William Friedkin film.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Dark and moody, yet baggy and psychedelic, kinda poppy but also chuggy as hell. First ever vinyl pressing!!! Cosmic goths of the world unite!

TRACK LISTING

1. "Pilot In Hell"
2. "Seven Of Oceans"
3. "Estrogen"
4. "King Of The Sea"
5. "Host Of Quadrille"
6. "Life In The Whale"
7. "Twister"
8. "Ugly Twenties"
9. "Piggy Smack"
10. "Golden Height/I'm Your Antidote"
11. "The Tingler (They Shine Within)"
12. "Goodbye"
13. "Finder"
14. "Skippy Roo Kangaroo"
15. "Quest For Oom Pa Pa" (part 1)
16. "Quest For Oom Pa Pa" (part 2)
17. "Quest For Oom Pa Pa" (part 3)
18. "Estrogen" (demo)
19. "Seven Of Oceans" (Early version)
20. "Her Teeth The Ally"
21. "Ottoman"
22. "Wonder Of All The World"

Edgar debuts on Dark Entries with Pavor, an 11 track LP of sleazy disco, warped synthpop, and gothic cumbia. Veteran musician Luis Gutierrez has spent the past two decades touring in bands, running Lalalandia Studio, and building his practice in Oakland and Guadalajara. But now, for his first solo outing, he has become Edgar, a pop star who knows no limits! "Edgar feels mightier than anyone but is always reduced to his vices" says Gutierrez, and Pavor delivers vices in spades. From the opening salvos of 'Otra Agua', it's clear we're in for a wild ride: seasick synths slide along slamming disco beats, menacingly chanted vocals sit amid a flurry of careening horror movie samples. The mischief does not abate as we're guided through a demented funhouse of genre detournements. Edgar puts his indelible fingerprints over every inch of this vinyl, from uptempo numbers like the spooky chip-tune frenzy of 'Nunca Mas' to the twisted cumbia of 'Panteon'. We're even treated to a fairly faithful (and majestic) Spanish-language cover of Amanda Lear's 'Follow Me', here titled "Sigueme." EBM, space disco, and horror movie soundtracks all find their way into the mix on Pavor, but the diverse palette comes together perfectly, like a Yello album for the 21st century. Edgar brings us a healthy dose of pure excess, reminding us that dread can be a hell of a lot of fun.

TRACK LISTING

Otra Agua
Teoria
Panteon
Pavor
La Cuca
Rostro
Sigueme
La Tez
Lechuga
Nunca Mas
Te Amo

NYC-based Moroccan artist Selwa Abd's latest as Bergsonist moves on pure instinct rather than pre-determined structure, as ideas seem to naturally surface and recede across 12 unusual sounds. 'Drift' shifts between abstraction and rhythm with ease, where tracks like the deep techno leaning 'Trust the Current' and thumping 'Underwater World Pursuit' feel fluid, never fixed in place. There's a colder edge to 'Again' and 'Higher', while 'Breakthrough' and 'Ode to Life' bring a more unhinged groove. Throughout, textures carry as much weight as drums or melody on what is a personal, exploratory LP that sits in a class of its own.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A deep, rhythmic selection of hypnotic instrumentals and slowly morphing percussive loops tempered by wisps of glitch and swathes of traditional Moroccan groove. Incredibly engaging, textured synth music with momentum and plenty of surprises.

TRACK LISTING

Trust The Current
Ode To Life
Odyssey
Breakthrough
Depths
Higher
Loin De Toi
Again
Amour Interdit
Underwater World Pursuit
Femme
End

This is a superb reissue - is there any other kind when it comes to Dark Entries? - of a stark club document from 1984 that still cuts deep. 'Our Darkness' is denied by tension and mechanical rhythm and spoken with steely poise by Anne Clark in a way that captures alienation, heartbreak and late-night city unease, while producer/collaborator David Harrow drives it forward with pounding drum machines and shadowy synth arpeggios. This edition gathers the original 12" remix, the Razormaid mix and a previously unheard dub unearthed by Harrow. Also included are 'Sleeper in Metropolis' and 'Poem for a Nuclear Romance' whose chilly moods and icy metallic textures echoed through synth and waves scenes all over the world.

TRACK LISTING

Our Darkness (Remix)
Our Darkness (Dub Mix)
Our Darkness (Razormaid Mix)
Sleeper In Metropolis (Extended Remix)
Poem For A Nuclear Romance

Group Rhoda is the solo project of Oakland, California artist Mara Barenbaum and she's been active since 2009, dropping four albums on Dark Entries so far. Now she sharpens the songwriting blade on Phase 5, a sleek, shape-shifting synth LP that refuses to sit still as Mara blurs art-pop, darkwave, dub and electro into something fluid and hypnotic. Tracks mutate mid-stride: 'Field Tone' slips from ominous and spooky synths into space-disco seduction, while 'Dragon Pine' ricochets between cosmic dub and cybernetic dancehall. Nothing is fixed as lyrically and sonically, Phase 5 lives in the in-between where nature and machine, dream and reality collapse into one. A cerebral work that thrives on tension and nocturnal energy.

TRACK LISTING

Field Tone
Dragon Pine
Formless
White Fur
Sunseer
Aeolian Crossing

Brandy Dalton's legacy gets the respect it deserves here from Dark Entries with the first-ever vinyl release of Fallen Angel, a vital artefact from the queer underground's most shadowed corners. Remastered from the 1999 CD and expanded with six bonus tracks, this edition brings Dalton's sweat-slicked, leather-soaked electronica into sharper, deeper focus. From the snarling cyber-rave pulse of 'Swelled' to the humid, trance-infused swirl of 'FA2', the record captures the raw intensity Dalton honed with Drance and in LA's Club Fuck scene. Paired with Eloise Shir-Juen Leigh's artwork and archival stills, this reissue preserves a fierce, defiant soundworld forged before AIDS claimed Dalton in 2006.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. "Fallacy"
2. "Interlude One"
3. "Swelled"
4. "Interlude Two"
5. "Spooks In The Well"
6. "Interlude Three"
7. "Fa2"
8. "Speaking In Tongues"

Side 2
1. "Interlude Four"
2. "U Like Me 2 Ulysses"
3. "Dante's Swell"
4. "Interlude Five"
5. "Feel Fall"
6. "Tall Tales Two"
7. "Dungeon Master"
8. "Interlude Six"

The vinyl edition of Surge Studio Music gives punk and glam rock pioneer Spider Taylor's archival pornographic soundtracks the physical presence they deserve. Sourced from his 1985-86 work for Al Parker and Steve Scott's iconic Surge Studios, these tracks, which were crafted with drum machines, analogue synths and Steve Conrad's engineering, unfold with tactile depth. The reverb-soaked ambience of 'Rainforest,' the nocturnal pulse of 'Tech' and the sleazy, cinematic grooves take on a new dimension and highlight Taylor's adventurous blend of post-punk, synthwave and erotic atmosphere. Wrapped in Gwenael Rattke's striking artwork and with detailed liner notes, it's a definitive document of a lost queer musical world.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1."Stairs"
2."Rain Forest"
3."Cobra"
4."Coming Soon"

Side 2
1."Slow Bug"
2."Tech"
3."Hi Tech"
4."Strange Places, Strange Things"

Bezier is multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang, and the Dark Entries label fittingly describes his sounds as "doomed spa music". Decompose is his latest LP of introspective, brooding work; it spans hi-NRG disco to gritty and unhinged techno, always with a rather metallic, monochromatic edge. The album was more than a decade in the making and meditates on life, loss, and self-discovery while honouring victims of Pulse Nightclub and the genocide in Gaza. From the chant-like title track to cavernous, reverb-drenched pieces and spartan synth cuts, this is a hard-to-date work of electronic invention that packs a lot in.

TRACK LISTING

Egg
New Age
Decompose
Peat Moss
Marionette
Rippling
Merciless Timeline
A Fading Citadel Atop Black Sand Bluffs
Pulsate
Split A Path Towards The Thicket
Inner Grace
Codebreaking
Anstrengend

Bay Area underground mainstay Brian Hock aka C.L.A.W.S. returns to Dark Entries with a ferocious new 12". Splat City II blends Giallo-streaked electro, Chicago acid minimalism and post-punk eccentricity into a journey that charts a dystopian metropolis that is both alien and familiar. Expanded from its digital release, the vinyl edition adds two new cuts alongside collaborations with Tyrel, Solar and Paul Costuros while weaving through mutant disco, slow-motion funk and eerie downtempo. C.L.A.W.S. refines his darkly cinematic sound here and while he never forgets dancefloor hypnosis, he also dips into sci-fi delirium. It's an otherworldly record packed with vivid imagery.

TRACK LISTING

1. Route 505
2. One Tear
3. Vigilant Slimy Monsters (Tyrel Edit)
4. Black Magic Carpet Ride III (feat Solar)
5. Wild Slugs United (feat Paul Costuros)
6. Don't Flip The Crystal Ship

Dark Entries honours the late disco innovator Patrick Cowley with Hard Ware, a special double 12" released to celebrate what would have been his 75th birthday. The legendary American hi-NRG favourite has many groundbreaking synth-driven anthems to his name and left behind a vast archive before his untimely death in 1982. Since 2009, Dark Entries has unearthed his lesser-known works from porn soundtracks to unreleased demos. Hard Ware concludes a trilogy that began with Male Box in 2022 and went on to From Behind 2024. It offers ten tracks of cosmic funk, sleazy synthpop and disco oddities and some fine collaborations with Jeanie Tracy and Peggy Gibbons. This expansive collection really underlines that Cowley was a visionary lost too soon.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A masterclass in huge, funky synth grooves and powerful disco chug. Cowley's reissues catalogue seems to span everything from funk to floaty Balearic-tinged downbeat, to hi-nrg dancefloor business, and here we get it all in one fantastic place. Legendary.

TRACK LISTING

1 Hellfire
2 Tech-No
3 Spellbinding Lover (feat. Jeanie Tracy)
4 Pajama Party Massacre
5 Big Ass In Motion
6 Shake It Up
7 Perk It Up
8 Jungle Jump
9 Megablue
10 Ice Age (feat. Peggy Gibbons)

Dark Entries is a treasure trove of synth and wave music from all sorts of scenes and eras. With Testpattern, the label offers up its first release of vintage Japanese electronics from Evelyne/Masao. The project began after Masao Hiruma, who was formerly of cult synthpop act Testpattern, met French-American model and poet Evelyne Bennu in 1984. Together they recorded 17 tracks in Hiruma's home studio that continued the lush, sophisticated soundworld of 1982's Apres-Midi, though they never saw the light of day at the time. They are now assembled here, and from the Hosono-inspired 'Sakuramochi' and 'Bird Island' to the quirky 'Alien Go Home' and skewed 'Singin' in the Rain,' the duo spans irony, minimalism and DIY eccentricity. Bennu's voice ties it all together with liner notes adding extra context.

TRACK LISTING

1. "Ich Weiss Nicht Mehr"
2. "Watashino Shonen"
3. "Paradis Perdu"
4. "Sakuramochi"
5. "Le Soleil Se Leve"
6. "La Jungle En Folie"
7. "U Clair De La Lune"
8. "Singin In The Rain"
9. "Ird Island"
10. "Lien Go Home"
11. "Tu Te Fous De Moi"
12. "Time Out"
13. "Role Doiseau"
14. "Time To Party"
15. "Tabac"
16. "Tale Of A Lizard"
17. "Moonman"

Misty Lane is vocalist Elaine Desjardins who worked with producers Michel Bibeau and Ralph Mashats in the mid-80s. Two tunes from that time, 'Energy' and 'Controle', brim with charm and analogue warmth all these years later as they get served up in all their quirky synth-pop style with unmistakable Quebecois flair via Dark Entries. The opener pulses with snappy Roland TR-808 beats and proto-house vibes carried by Desjardins' refreshingly unpolished vocals, while 'Controle' slows things down into a tropical mid-tempo groove that echoes the atmosphere of Junior Byron's 'Dance to the Music.' This reissue is a delight for lovers of Italo, Canadian disco and eccentric synth pop.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Unlike many other euro pop songs, 'Energy' manages to balance on the tightrope of cheesiness without ever falling off, enthusing those that love a catchy melody and appalling those that don't just enough to keep them interested but without scaring them off completely (although it could be argued that the chorus comes pretty close). 'Controle' on the other hand gives me balearic video game soundtrack vibes - make of that what you will!

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. "Energy"
2. "Energy" (7" Mix)

Side 2
1. "Controle"
2. "Controle" (7" Mix)

Dark Entries welcomes back the Brussels brothers Jean-Marc and Pierre Pauly for this superb collection of B-sides and unreleased tracks. Formed in 1981, Parade Ground pioneered a more emotional take on their homeland's signature electronic body music sound by blending drum machines, icy synths and guitars with Jean-Marc's powerful vocals. The Hidden Side spans 1982 to 1989 and explores their cold, dark aesthetic from menacing coldwave tracks to danceable cuts like 'Hollywood (The Sexiest Fish') to magically melancholic freakouts like 'Looking Through Keyholes'.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: On "The Golden Years", which has been repressed to coincide with the first time release of "The Hidden Side", Dark Entries unearth the Belgian post punk duos singles and big hits (if you can call them that) while this compilation focuses on their b-sides and previously unreleased tracks and is definitely darker/eerier than its companion... goths of the world unite!

TRACK LISTING

1. "Riddle In The Stained Glass Windows"
2. "When The Fever Stops"
3. "Looking Through Keyholes"
4. "This Luxury"
5. "The Net"
6. "Snake"
7. "Off Balance"
8. "The Chosen One"
9. "Hollywood (The Sexiest Fish)"
10. "Marble Mind"

Dark Entries calls on Philadelphia experimental duo The Ghostwriters to resurrect their 1981 LP of minimalist mayhem, "Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear". The late Buchla maestro Charles Cohen and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Cain joined up in 1971 to craft electroacoustic chaos as Anomali, later renaming themselves The Ghostwriters. Their collaborations with choreographers and visual media artists led to their singular style, straddling improvisation and composition, the oneiric and the immediate. 1981 saw the release of their debut album, "Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear", a whirling, messy, telepathic slipstream cascading across an imaginary landscape. Recorded in Don Buchla’s childhood home, "Objects..." offers 8 cuts of minimalist electronic bliss, equal parts icy and quirky, with standout cuts including the grooving havoc of “Fix it in the Mix” and the otherworldly hymn “Moon Chant.” These angular pearls will be cherished by fans of John Bender, Ceramic Hello, and all strains of outsider 80s electronics. Objects In Mirrors Are Closer Than They Appear has been freshly remastered and includes an insert with photos and liner notes. Proceeds from the album will be donated to SOSA (Safe from Online Sex Abuse), a nonprofit that combats online child sex abuse and trafficking.

TRACK LISTING

1. Sleedermauseman / Reference To Rota 
2. Emotional Momentum 
3. Swizzle 
4. Fix It In The Mix 
5. Moon Chant 
6. Quirks Of Quails
7. ON/OFF 
8. Tarpit 

Romanian producer and DJ Miruna Boruzescu aka Borusiade has always dealt in brilliantly futuristic sounds that are both austere yet hypnotic. Now they're back on Dark Entries with third full length THE FALL: A Series of Documented Experiences after many great outings on the likes of Comeme, Pinkman and Cititrax. This latest work explores memory and embodiment through nine moody tracks that blend melancholic synths, deep basslines and powerful drums into introspective soundscapes that muse on love and loss. We're told that 'Save Me' and 'The Fall' are born from heartbreak but distil pain into something beautiful while tributes to artists like Porn Darsteller and Genesis P-Orridge also appear in this fantastically personal album.

TRACK LISTING

1. Save Me
2. Darsteller
3. Credo
4. Rapture Capture
5. Lurking
6. The Fall
7. Pandrogyne
8. Eerie
9. Recovery And Redemption

Villa Åbo is the alternative solo project of Swedish musician and producer Jan Svensson, who has been making electronic music for the best part of 30 years. The artist behind such aliases as Frak, Studio SS and Alvars Orkestra, Svensson also runs legendary Swedish dance and experimental music label Börft, the product of a mutual appreciation for Severed Heads and Terse Tapes. As Villa Åbo he released two records in 1997 on Börft and remained inactive for 17 years until the Dutch label Bio Rhythm coaxed him into revisiting the project and released a double 12″ in 2014. Jan has since followed with a steady stream of 12” singles for Kontra-Musik, Noise In My Head and Radio Lundberg.

“Magnetic Moves” is Villa Åbo’s debut album, originally released in an limited edition of 65 hand-numbered cassettes by Funeral Fog in 2016. Clocking in at over 46 minutes, this first-ever vinyl edition spreads the 8 ragged techno tracks across four sides for maximum loudness. Some songs are aggressively potent, with cyclical synth riffs and razor-sharp acid lines riding a heavy, funk-fuelled techno groove. Others tracks are more fluid, vintage Underground Resistance or Derrick May with killer drum machine workouts that come in handy as DJ tools. All songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The record is housed in a custom made jacket designed by Eloise Leigh, featuring a photograph of Jan’s mother’s house, the meaning behind “Villa Åbo”. Each copy includes a double-sided postcard with notes. 

TRACK LISTING

Again Again
The Tiny One
Doortest 
Dreams Of Italy 
Assiduous Dreams 
Massive Duometer (Raw Mix)
Bianco Festival
Water Galaxy (Version D)
Short Relaxing End

IMA (Intense Molecular Activity) is the duo of Don Hunerberg (synthesizers) and Andy Blinx (drums and percussion). Based in New York City and active between 1979 and 1982. Don, a studio Sound / music engineer and musician, Andy an electronic clothing designer, drummer and sound reinforcement engineer at downtown clubs like Max's Kansas City, Mudd Club and CBGB. In between doing sessions at Radio City Music Hall Studios for groups such as Ramones, Richard Hell, Sonic Youth, Liquid Liquid, John Zorn, Glenn Branca and many others, IMA took advantage of off hours to create their own music. As far as influences go, Don's background was in electronic music and Andy's in prog rock.

To produce the songs, Don used his own method of creating patterns from 2-track tape loops and then edited them together on to a 24-track recorder adding more tracks of overdubs, In a very similar way that sequencers are used today. By 1980 the duo honed their own unique sound and version of post punk and no-wave with the tools of the trade of the early 80s. Situated above the proscenium of the Radio City Music Hall stage, the studio was outfitted with a variety of orchestral instruments (timpani, bells, xylophone, etc). They self-released a 4-song EP titled “IMA” on an 8” flexi-disc which was distributed by Ed Bahlman of 99 Records. The music bridges the wild psychedelic-rock of the 60s, the synth-punk of the late-70s and the elaborate constructions of progressive-rock. There are nods to the freak-outs of Chrome and the super neurosis of Suicide, but IMA takes a more clinical approach which also takes notice of Hawkwind and Pink Floyd's interstellar overdrive. Dark Entries have added 4 bonus tracks recorded during the same studio sessions and included them here for the first time on vinyl. DJ Hell lifted elements of IMA's song "Blurb" virtually intact and unaccredited for his electroclash club hit "Keep On Waiting" 20 years later. All songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. 

TRACK LISTING

Blurb 
Points In Space 
Just Testing, Blinxong
Beat Street
Battery Life 
Rapid Ear Movements 
The Look.

X Ray Pop are the synth-pop duo of Doc Pilot and Zouka Dzaza from Tours, France. They got their start in the no wave art group Bocal 5 in 1981 and split off in 1984 to focus on their own brand of quirky synthesized electronics. Influenced by Erik Satie, Brigitte Bardot, Suicide and Young Marble Giants, they call their music “minimum naive new wave.” Armed with a Casio PT-20 keyboard and a rudimentary Yamaha MR10 drum machine they recorded their demo cassette and first 7″ “Eurasienne”/ “La Machine à Rêver” in 1984. Upgrading their synthesizers and adding some saxophone and guitar, they recorded the “Alcool”/ “Amazone” 7″ in 1985 and the “DS”/” El Gato” 7″ in 1986.

“The Dream Machine” collects X Ray Pop’s first three 7″ singles plus 8 songs from their demo cassette, never released on vinyl before. Their songs are short, concise and well structured; richly textured, moving at a quick speed with hardly a pause. The demos show a sense of humor, vitality and carefree playfulness. Zouka’s pouting, tongue-in-cheek vocals (sung in French) come together for a catchy, sensuous, danceable, eccentric psychedelic ride. Reminiscent of the Mo-dettes, early OMD or Algebra Suicide, X Ray Pop could be the missing link to Stereolab.

28 years later, this is the first time since the original issue that the songs of X Ray Pop are reappearing on vinyl again, but is the world ready?

TRACK LISTING

01. La Machine á Rêver
02. L´Eurosienne
03. Alcool
04. Amazone
05. DS
06. El Gato
07. Playgirl
08. Mina
09. Analphabelfe
10. Contakt
11. Louphoque
12. Madison Fraise
13. Bobby Bonbeck
14. Revers