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ZHARK ARTISTS
Abelcain
From the first note of any Abelcain production the environment instantly shifts, stretching your limits of perception through his finely tuned sense of sonic ferocity. Ripping dancefloor tracks transcend their boundaries by becoming magical spells unto themselves. Abelcain desecrates the conventions of breakcore while adding a depth of both sound and context rarely found in the underground. His forthcoming album will demolish the sound system with excruciating monstrosities of frequency and shattering rhythms.
Artist Profile Coming Soon!
Baseck
If you're looking for the hottest in experimental turntablism and spot on scratching, Baseck is your man!
http://baseck.com
Base Force One
Praxis label founder and datacide editor Christoph Fringeli graces Zhark with his left radical interpretations of tightly defined beats and bass.
http://praxis.c8.com
The Betrayer
The sound of weird lyric melodies was what aroused me, chords, vibrations and harmonic ecstasies echoed passionately on every hand while on my ravaged sighte burst the stupendous spectacle of ultimate beauty.
Artist Profile Coming Soon!
Bong-Ra
The rave maker, the soul taker, Bong-Ra rocks our world.
http://www.bong-ra.com
CDatakill
Hailing from the mountains of Colorado Zak Roberts shares a sinister split EP with Abelcain under the title "The Six Stigmata" (Zhark Int 12005), his gift for creating sliding atmospheres and decayed dissonance merges with metallic breaks delivering some of the best in industrial breakcore.
http://cdatakill.c8.com
email - cdatakill@c8.com
Christoph de Babalon
dangerous. one word to describe the music of christoph de babalon. just like clint ruin once said 'gotta choose between suicide and genocide' . well, we don't think christoph had decided yet and perhaps he really gives a fuck who dies as long as it's painful for all parties involved, himself included. going through crisis after crisis in his own life, his music gets better with every painful event of it. in a perfect world of surface that we are living in today his music is a demonic call from the past, a bad dream and a haunting conscience
http://cfet.com
Doormouse
Founder of Addict Records, Doormouse is one of the most infamous in breakcore not without reason.
http://addictrecords.com
Fanny
Offering disjointed aesthetics of the most demented sort, Fanny continues to reinvigorate splintered electronics.
Fanny Website http://fanny.gabber.org
Merchandise http://girlcum.ca
Harpsicorpse
After a two week total possession of mind and body by an unnamable baroque composer of ages past, an ineffable collection of evocative pieces came into being in the form of a suite for the harpsicord. No rhythms besides the maniacal melodies of a midnight journey into madness. Like a soundtrack to spliced up copies of silent movies on overload, the Harpsicorpse brings a new facet to Zhark International.
Hecate
Head mistress of Zhark International, Rachael Kozak, lives to annihilate the constructs of the innocuous trends of modern music by confronting them with substance and emotion. Creating a portal to the unspeakable abyss on a multitude of allied labels, Hecate has released over 30 records which makes her by far the most prolific female producer in hard electronic music. Thoroughly immersed in the amalgamation of the esoteric arts, science fiction and nightmare landscapes, Hecate transgresses the boundaries of all known genres.
Discography
The Leyton Breakers
Purveyors of South London electro bass, DJ Controlled Weirdness and Black Mass Plastics join forces to bring booty to the next level.
http://unearthly.c8.com
Richard for Cerebellum
Richard for Cerebellum creates richly textured film score music for a film that never existed. From grandiose orchestrations to the lonely clatter of machines with some very effective contrasts in between.
http://www.winternet.com/~r4c
Ripit
A fixture in the Parisian noise and breakcore scene, Ripit starts off 2005 with a blistering 3-tracker in his first appearance on Zhark International. Crunchy and distorted pummeling percussions attack your synapses cause grievous harm to your preconceptions.
http://ripit.widerstand.org
http://www.radonstudio.com/ripit
http://www.radonstudio.com/riposte
Slutmachine
Our most recent addition, Slutmachine weaves a dense carpet of breakcore, dark experimental electronic & neoclassical. Glitchy breaks & tortured atmospherics are distilled from a wide palette of circuit bent instruments, lock groove & modified records, cello, guitar, gameboy, experimental software and found sounds. Slutmachine has an upcoming CD release on Zhark under the Richard For Cerebellum moniker and a 12" due in the spring. Slutmachine will suck you into his black hole of sonic destruction!
http://www.livejournal.com/~r4c
http://www.soundclick.com/slutmachine/
http://www.soundclick.com/nautipuss/
http://www.soundclick.com/loworbit/
Somatic Responses
Relentlessly spawning an abundance of quality releases, the Healy brothers have created a genre of their own. Eerie synths meet grinding industrial meltdowns to create exceptional compositions which can be utilised both on the dancefloor and on a stormy night.
http://somatics.c8.com
Venetian Snares
Since his first European release on Zhark International in 1999, Aaron Funk has gone on to become one of the most sought after electronic music producers around. Constantly churning out tightly produced and demonically structured albums, Snares has created a world of his own.
http://vsnares.com
VIle Enginez
This 22-year old Swiss-based producer already spent half of his life experimenting with digital sequencing. Influenced by Hip Hop, Death Metal and
Industrial Goth, Vile Enginez promises to be one of Zhark's most energetic new artists.
Artist Profile Coming Soon!
Xanopticon
Xanopticon's science fiction blasts of densely structured breaks defy description. The human capacity for assimilating these broken atmospheres and deconstructed rhythms is pushed beyond its dimensions as he slaughters you with his laptop based live set. Rounding off this most sinister of artists rosters, Xanopticon will bring the noise and sound the sirens of the impending apocalypse.
http://rhinoplex.org/xanopticon |