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This label compilation was released for the 10th anniversary of the FORMS OF HANDS Festival and is a great collection of rhythm’n’noise, idm and electronica tracks. You will get an exclusive studio track of all performing artists. Beside well-known acts like Orphx, Mono No Aware, Xabec, Geistform, Nullvektor, S.K.E.T., From Syntech To Greyhound and Heimstatt Yipotash also newer acts on HANDS like Last Days of S.E.X., The Pcp Principle, 13th Monkey, 16Pad Noise Terrorist, Nullgrad and Morbus M. present a new non-album track. Limited numbered edition of 1000 copies.

After his Albums >Sounds Without Souls<, >40 Minutes Into The Future< and after many shows like for example at Maschinenfest, Forms Of Hands and DeciBelio here is the long awaited 3rd release of this Madrid based electronica act SHORAI. It’s a musically journey through virtual spaces from intelligent laser drills over hyper cubes to artificial sunsets. The sound universe of Shorai has become over the last years even more unique more and can be described somewhere between idm, electronica, industrial sound design and a little boing bumm tschak. It was listening with mechanical Precision includes 10 tracks and each is exact 5:00 minutes long and are the recommended dose for both robots and human beings.

Nullgrad’s first album release is one of the most complex and diverse but also exciting releases of the year. Its ingenious sound design covers a wide range from electro industrial and idm over electronica to scifi-ambient. Epic melodies meet industrial sound research and amazing analogue as well digital sounds. Those 12 tracks of the album will take you to places human beings will never be able to visit. Intelligent and kicking beats, spherical electronic sounds and a pulsating bass push the listener to planets far away from earth. Enjoy your trip to the shepherds satellite!

René Klimaczweski aka Morbus M. presents on his album >Forget the Past< dark, forcefully and threading electronica tracks and in some subtle ways also a very hypnotic and attracting album. On one hand his tracks have an intense atmospheres on the other hand there is always a groove or a repetitive structure. So industrial trip hop rhythms and electronica sound design meet electronic soundtrack tradition. Further on media samples, field-recordings and the beat structures generate and build up finally an almost too intense and deep atmosphere. In total >Forget The Past< is an album that breaks the borders of genres and is an emotional trip in the inner apocalypse.

After their debut Audiophobie Maschinenkrieger Kr52 Vs. Disraptor has become within a very short time one of the most high appreciated rhythm’n’noise projects. Many club tracks on their last album and their high energetic live performances assured within a short time that hey became a must for industrial djs. On their second album they developed their sound further and became more diverse but kept their typical and unique straightness of the tracks - so the new 16 tracks will function even more perfect in the club. Strict driving distorted beats, samples and minimal sequences are melted to an exciting rhythm’n’noise inferno full of energy. We don’t need breaks!

16Pad Noise Terrorist is a project by the S.K.E.T. member Candy Schlüer which appeared in the dark drum’n’bass scene in 2006. With his first album release mastered by Dj Hidden 16Pad Noise Terrorist hits direct the headquarter of the dark drum’n’bass genre. The tracks on Utopia are a quite diverse blend of club tracks in a wide range from high-speed hardcore tunes to slow-steady tracks. In total they all have a quite unique symbiosis of melodic sounds, industrialized sounds, forceful and powerful beats and distorted infectious basslines. Let’s terrorize the world with 16 sample pad guns!

This is the 5th and long awaited album by American east coast industrial drum’n’bass producer Joshua Colella. Merciless Protraction, quite possibly scrap.edx’s most essential work to date and the anticipated follow up album to 2006’s Recoil the Void, is a journey through the circuitry of advanced industrialized electronic music. This album narrates the story of technological singularity collapsing on the linear reality of today’s human world and challenges the listener to ask questions about our intentions as a continuously advancing and evolving civilization. Merciless Protraction samples, bends and manipulates countless genres of electronic music into a cohesive and innovative body of work; a signature of scrap.edx’s high digital production quality and complex, stylized programming skills. Consisting of industrial drum and bass, breakcore, rhythmic noise, dark ambient and IDM production styles, Merciless Protraction is a futuristic journey through the universe of hardcore electronic dance music. Featuring the spoken word talents up upcoming American writer Craig Marchinkoski, Japan’s Kenji Siratori and the remixing skills of Canada’s Liar’s Rosebush, Merciless Protraction is an essential album for fans of advanced industrial music.

The Mortusae double cd album is an epic release produced by Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe, aka Sal-Ocin (This Morn' Omina, Tzolk'in). This amazing album includes new, rare and long deleted tracks and is a journey through time, regions and atmospheres. Mortusae is a retrospective of different periods of Empusae’s almost decade long existence. The album includes rare tracks from his first albums which were not released on HANDS, including also the first ever Empusae album, more recent collaborations with close friends, tracks from the legendary Maschinenfest 10 year anniversary performance and comic book soundtracks. All the material has been re-mastered by Mike Goedrijk (This Morn' Omina, Pow(d)er Pussy). The red line through Mortusae and Empusae’s essence consists of a dark, melodic, danceable and atmospheric body of electronic music based on the human gift of fantasy. Immerse yourself within its beauty and decay, darkness and melancholy, tribal ceremonies and unearthly misery… enter into oblivion!

On their 4th studio album release, Tactical Evolution, Greyhound expresses how they view the situation on planet earth in the year 2009. This album is their musical interpretation of the daily global events happening on Planet Earth. This 2cd features 26 intense, powerful rhythm’n’noise tracks for industrial clubs worldwide. In reflection of the current violence and recklessness sweeping the globe on a daily basis. Greyhound has created a sound track of aggressive rhythms and threatening atmospheres. Hard, pounding distorted beats and heavily distorted sounds are melted to the unique mixture greyhound has become well know for. Changing pulses, information overload, the surveillance fight and fast moving life resonates in each second. Be prepared for the Tactical Evolution!

HEIMSTATT YIPOTASH’S third album, Urban Night Motifs, is a genius mixture of both danceable electro industrial and electronica influenced noise based sound research. Heimstatt yipotash turn away from the deep sea of Storegga Effect (2007) and the world wide web within Perpetual Beta (2007) back into the action and energy of the streets of urban landscapes with this essential new release. Urban Night Motifs tells the story of modern urbanity characterized by the numerous daily news reports of so called social coexistence without the common glitter and stories of success turning various spotlights on an inapproachable, dismissive, dangerous and crude modern metropolis inspired by the aesthetics and flair of movies like Renaissance and Sin City. The album, quite possibly the soundtrack to some sort of mental cinema, narrates a very accessible and identifiable story consisting of track titles like Mindcartridge, Metro Dwellers and Pavement Chicks and composed utilizing vocal samples and fluid song transitions creating anything but a buoyant mood. Despite these uncharming atmospheres, the tracks are very danceable, vivid and forceful. Now turn off all those shiny city lights and get an idea of the Urban Night Motifs.

After Last Days of S.E.X.’s debut, First S.e.x.ual Experience, comes the follow up two CD album from this Greek rhyhtm’n’noise act entitled, Great Irony and the Politically S.E.X.plosive. Rhythmic Industrial and breakcore are combined into absolute harsh and complex passages while kicking beats deliver an experience between agitation, provocation and irony. Great Irony and the Politically S.E.X.plosive narrates stories of restless motion, obsession and and urges through the use of words and sound frequencies. Manos X, the man behind this project, aims not only to create harsh sound atmospheres consisting of distorted rhythms breaks and noises but also to stimulate the senses through the use of references, to pose questions in order to transfuse inspiration, to wake desire up and to utilize irony as criticism’s purpose.

Redefining The Paradigm of Bang is the best description for this 100% club compatible Techno Industrial project by the two sound artists and producers Andreas >Thedi< Thedens and Harm Bremer. While this project is based in Lüneburg, the album demonstrates that there is more than simply calm and beautiful landscapes and curly black haired sheep called >Heidschnucken< in the Lüneburg Heath. If you dive-bomb into the subsurface blow-hole you will find yourself in the middle of a wired rebellion and even cross the way of an anthropoid on the run: the 13th Monkey. The 11 tracks on this album were completely constructed using an array of tabletop hardware instruments programmed in real-time without the use of overdubbing, the mainstay of this project’s energetic live sets, in a style self hailed as, Digital Tech Fractures. The final >bang< of this project’s debut album was added by legendary speedcore producer Bobby Tense at the famous Kevorkian Mastering Studio in New York City. Expect 68 minutes of bass-driven and pounding tech-industrial tracks with distorted and screaming acid-like 303 sounds as extra ingredients. Monkey bites!

ADMX-71 is a new project created by well known techno producer and Dj, Adam X of Brooklyn NYC, who now resides in Berlin, Germany. This first album release of ADMX-71 is an incredible, various and unique masterpiece of contemporary electronica . ADMX-71 presents an hour-long journey of industrialized techno interspersed with deep, atmospheric soundscapes, set to the backdrop of downtempo rhythms. The mood of ADMX-71 weaves it way through darkness, futurism and self-reflectiveness. Though in a unique style of its own, it’s Adam’s true love for boundary-pushing music by artists such as Monolake, Biosphere and Mika Vainio that have inspired him to create this new project. The result is a deeply introspective soundtrack that seamlessly shifts between the cavernously earthly and the futuristically sci-fi.

This is the annual label compilation that was released for the Forms of Hands 09 festival. The compilation features beside well known label acts like Winterkälte, Synth-etik, Ms Gentur, Edgey, Geistform, Empusae, Shorai and Maschinenkrieger KR52 v. Disraptor also 5 new signings like Incite/, Angina P, Syntech, The Pcp Principle. Limited numbered edition of 1000 copies.

Electronica Album of Saverio Evangelista (Esplendor Geométrico, Most Significant Beat) and Frederico Spini. Works II features 7 tracks in the vein of experimental ambient with great atmospheres, complex track structures and exciting sounds. Somewhere between Documenta, Kassel and soundtracks for art house movies. Deep soundscapes - electronica fractals – molecular sound research.

Finally the first audio release of incite/. This international well-known audiovisual electronic duo of Kera Nagel and André Aspelmeier performed over the last 10 years more than 100 times on many important multimedia festivals. Mindpiercing offers weird glitch and quasi-danceable grooves - kicking idm beats with fragmented electric junk, fragile bursts of static noise and extra-charged sub-bass-kicks.

After some years of silence Angina P is back with her 2nd album and her first album on HANDS. Sensitive Files is an intelligent and innovative kicking but also diverse and subtle IDM Album. Breaky Beats meet bright electronica sounds. Get ready for Angina P - she breaks your beats.

Rising from the Ashes is the first album of Syntech - a new project of Steffen Lehmann (Greyhound). This time you will get a scifi trip with very intense electronic tribal beats and hypnotic sounds. There are again the typical Greyhound loop structures but Syntech is less harsh and convinces with more diverse sounds and effects.

This is the first album of this British rhythm’n’noise project. R. Challenger aka The PCP Principle combines hard intelligent and kicking distorted beats with cinematic sounds, classical disharmony and ambient sounds. In total Electronic Violence Phenomena is a refreshing, very diverse and unique rhythm’n’noise album with many potential club smasher.

Just a Grain of Sand is the first DVD for veteran artist Xabec. After 10 years of live performances, not to mention the stellar CD releases Seelenschiff, Using Unused Methods, and Transformed, an audio/visual release from this seminal Hands Productions act was long overdue. The DVD includes a full recording of Xabec’s live show at Maschinenfest 2009, beautifully recorded on seven high-quality cameras, as well as the 25 minute portrait film, der innere kreis, by director Daniel Fischer which offers an intriguing overview of Manuel Richter’s work, plus video clips for two new tracks and one remix done by incite/. HANDS D128 oversize hands paper pack.

After a two year break to concentrate on studio work, Synth-etik has returned once more with a follow-up to his 2007 CD, Phantom. On his fourth release, Waiting for the Rapture, Frank Macros proves yet again that he is a force to be reckoned with in the field of intelligent electro-industrial club music. Over the course of Waiting for the Rapture’s 13 tracks, Synth-etik demonstrates a compelling fusion of hard electro-industrial-tech beats with a trained ear for haunting and unusual sounds. Waiting for the Rapture is the ultimate balance between electro and hard industrial tech. To celebrate the release of his latest album, Synth-etik will be returning to the live arena once more with an exclusive European appearance at Forms of Hands 09. HANDS D130 hands paper pack.

On their debut album, Aktivist, S.K.E.T. made a name for themselves with a sound that was both energetic and rhythmically complex. Now with their third album, Depleted Uranium Weapons, S.K.E.T. takes their unique electro-industrial sound to the next level. Combining layers of noisy electronica sounds with groove-laden electro beats and the rhythmic intensity that has become their trademark, S.K.E.T. are primed and ready to reinvent the genre. The CD is packaged in the typical Hands paper pack with a 12-page booklet designed by Nicola Bork. More on the concept behind Depleted Uranium Weapons: Different sources state about 330 - 375 metric tons of DU ammunition was fired in the 1991 gulf war, 7 - 20 metric tons on the Balkan conflict in 1999 and about 1000 metric tons in the 2003 Iraq conflict, mostly in cities or urban areas. DU ammunition has also been used in the Afghan conflict and in Somalia. After almost twenty years of using DU weapons the long-term consequences are still unknown. After the first gulf war in 1991 in the area of Basrah (south Iraq) cases of cancer rose ten times and there have been twenty times more babies with congenital deformities. Current studies of the effects of the use of DU show there is no doubt that uranium ammunitions are to blame. HANDS D127 hands paper pack 12-page booklet.

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