“Why be Blake when you can be Bleak?” is a compilation featuring not only netlabel artists, but also contributions from renowned artists from the Industrial/Experimental genres, and plain legends from the early 80’s Industrial scene.

The compilation strives to provide a “cause and effect” overview of Avantgarde art, especially from the viewpoint of Industrial/Experimental and Electronic music.
All artists have agreed to provide their tracks for free download, which is very uncommon these days, given the fact that non-mainstream artists probably suffer the most from illegal file sharing, and usually hesitate to give away albums for free.

The result is a download package in the size of a 3CD-compilation, containing early unreleased tracks as well as exclusive versions of new material.
The list of contributing artists is a mixture of Industrial dinosaurs and young or new obscure artists from all over the world.

Proving that original, or “old school” Industrial is still as influential and exciting as it has been since the very beginning in the late 70’s and early 80’s, The Bleak Compilation continues the tradition of compilations like “The Elephant Table Sampler”, “Three Minute Symphony” or “Ohrenschrauben/Ohrensausen”, presenting a mixture of difficult, at times disturbing and confusing music, totally apart from any mainstream intentions.

The painting on the cover is by Jonathan Canady, an american musician (Deathpile) and artist, whose work is so close to what Bleak stands for that we couldn’t resist asking him, and we are happy he agreed!

The list of artists who agreed to contribute is nothing less than amazing:

Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Konstruktivists, Attrition, Mushy, Cultural Amnesia, SLEEPCHAMBER, The On/Off Corporation, Wave Tank, John Zewizz, Perikomo, Josco, Das Fleisch, FRzO, MRT, Portion Control, The Altai Chamber Orchestra, Coil, Choronzon, r.A.C.K, Cultural Amnesia, Red Chamber, Bath feat. OROBL, 53, Nocturnal Emissions, Background Projection, Paluch Y, Josco, Critical Theatre, Pure, Josef Nadek, Job Karma, Firnwald, Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, Cezary Gapik, Stormhat, Dr. Nachtstrom

We hope that with this compilation we also draw attention to our own Bleak artists, who deserve to be presented to a wider audience.

Bleak would like to thank everyone involved.

No single track downloads, please download the complete album.

Here are the tracks:
cd1, 01 Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words (SWE) – Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows
cd1, 02 Konstruktivists (UK) – Thrice Is Just As Nice
cd1, 03 Attrition (UK) – The Internal Narrator (Alternate Version)
cd1, 04 Mushy (IT) – Le Ultime Ore
cd1, 05 Cultural Amnesia (UK) – Little Blue Grains
cd1, 06 SLEEPCHAMBER (USA) – Into The Crypt (Alternate Version)
cd1, 07 The On/Off Corporation (FR/AT) – Think Dark
cd1, 08 Wave Tank (GR) – Let’s Go (Get Cruel)
cd1, 09 John Zewizz (USA) – 2012 (Inner-X-Musick Mix)
cd1, 10 Perikomo (UK) – Keskitalvi
cd1, 11 Josco (IRL) – Proboszczewice
cd1, 12 Das Fleisch (AT) – The Final Beauty
cd1, 13 FRzO (NOR) – Sinkhole
cd1, 14 MRT (SRB) – Forest
cd1, 15 Portion Control (UK) – Sex Drive
cd1, 16 The Altai Chamber Orchestra (AT) – Law (International Audio Losers Version)

cd2, 01 Coil (UK) – Manifesto
cd2, 02 Choronzon (USA) – Formula
cd2, 03 r.A.C.K (AT) – We Will All Be Pvnished
cd2, 04 Cultural Amnesia (UK) – Brand New Day
cd2, 05 Red Chamber (AT) – Coming Forth By Night
cd2, 06 Bath feat. OROBL (USA) – Pooled OX
cd2, 07 53 (AT) – The Art Of Self Deceit
cd2, 08 Nocturnal Emissions (UK) – Revolutionary Industrial Trance
cd2, 09 Background Projection (GR) – Labioveral Ectoplasm
cd2, 10 Paluch Y (AT) – Maldoror Is Ded Ded Ded (Live)
cd2, 11 Josco (IRL) – Denial/Realisation
cd2, 12 Critical Theatre (USA) – Robot Flesh
cd2, 13 Pure (AT/GER) – Mladost

cd3, 01 Josef Nadek (AT) – Carrion Angel, Sing Me A Song
cd3, 02 Job Karma (PL) – Hydroxizinum City 2
cd3, 03 Firnwald (GER) – Invasion (Remix)
cd3, 04 Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt (USA/GER) – The Benefits Of Being A Burrnesha
cd3, 05 Cezary Gapik (PL) – #466
cd3, 06 Stormhat (DK) – I Den Polykrome Grusgrav
cd3, 07 Dr. Nachtstrom (AT) – The Second Coming

This is the second official release by red.chamber, the project of Laridae third Bernhard Hansbauer.
Invasion is a 45-minute piece of dark ambient drone sounds… not the easiest Laridae album so far, that’s for sure!
Imagine earth being invaded by not so friendly, discarnate entities, that’s what Invasion is all about.
Listen in solitude, in a darkened room… loud and open minded.

Download the whole package here for free:

laridae046 – Red.Chamber – Invasion (Paranoid Mix) – mini album

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Red.Chamber is the experimental electronic project of Bernhard Hansbauer, who is running the Bleak label, and co-ran the Laridae netlabel.
Bernhard is also singer / bassist / guitarist of NEED and formerly T.R.S. / Torso.
Listen In Solitude was released on Laridae in 2006 as free download.

The mini album contains 5 tracks that draw a dark picture of a world that appears rather lonesome, hurtful and dystopian.

Heavily influenced by post industrial artists, Red.Chamber produces minimalist noisy tracks.

• 1. Rotating
• 2. A New Dismal Night Starts
• 3. Null, Nihil
• 4. Whose Demons Hold You?
• 5. Rotten In Nihil

Download the whole package here for free:

laridae023 - Red.Chamber - Listen In Solitude - mini album