Every few months for the last four years, the Milan-based label Heimat der Katastrophe has been releasing batched drops of three or four blasts of retro electronic music, the kind that have put the label at the forefront of the dungeon synth scene. Working in a genre already powered by nostalgia, Heimat der Katastrophe’s cassette-only releases feel like they’re arriving through a portal from an alternative 1982, with throwback graphic design and typography paired with the vintage soundscapes. (Unsurprisingly, the limited-edition batches consistently sell out within hours, if not minutes.) [read full article]

HOGMAIDEN

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She journeyed through the cursed Black Woods, where milk-eyed things lived midnighted lives. Bone-fingered branches caught her braided hair, gnarled roots tripped her age-worn boots, thorn claws tore at skin and cloth. Her path along the over-grown ancient track lit dimly by the eerie glow of death-skull toadstools. On and on through the shunned wood, for hours which seemed like days. Until, at last, the twisted canopy unknotted to admit the sun’s light, and to reveal the sky above. The grey-blue twilight mirrored in the still, stagnant waters of the vast Glunkken Mire.

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Hogmaiden – cassette + mini-novel from HDK

Released February 5, 2022

Composed by GLOG
Story by John Reppion
Cover art by Goran Gligovic
Interior art by Justin David Russell

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