For all who perhaps missed this a few days ago, The Scriptures of Illumina (Edward Ka-Spel) from 1995 has been remastered and the sonic improvement is seismic.

This download is available on EK’s and TLPD’s Bandcamp pages.

Fragments of Illumina is just short of 20 years old by now so it felt like a good moment to revisit this old chestnut and give it some serious sonic enhancement as well as a new cover.

Available as a download and a limited edition CD-R of 69 copies, you can find this album on both EK’s and TLPD’s Bandcamp pages.

Pink Dots’ guitarist Erik Drost is super excited! This Saturday, we’re bringing our noisewave to the Reeperbahn! (Not the Pink Dots, but there’s a connection somehow)

Next Saturday we invite you to the fanshop Kultur Vol.89: D U S T B O M B E R S

Dustbombers ist ein Post-Punk-Duo aus Arnhem/Nijmegen, bekannt für ihren dunklen, harten Sound, der mit einer Dosis Lärm und einem Rand von Psychedelik gefüllt ist. Die Band, die ursprünglich als eine Noise-Rock-Band begann, wurde durch Gruppen wie Big Black, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry und Distorted Pony beeinflusst und im Jahr 2012 von Joost Reijnders und Erik Drost gegründet. Sie zeichnen sich durch ihre Vorliebe für düstere Texte, Fuzz-Gitarre und Bass aus, wobei die Dystopie immer eine Bedrohung darstellt.
Los geht’s um 20 Uhr

Dustbombers are a post-punk duo from Arnhem/Nijmegen, known for their dark, hard sound that is filled with a dose of noise and an edge of psychedelic. The band, which originally started out as a noise rock band, was influenced by groups such as Big Black, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and Distorted Pony and was formed in 2012 by Joost Reijnders and Erik Drost. They are characterized by their penchant for dark lyrics, fuzz guitar and bass, with dystopia always posing a threat.
We start at 8 pm @fcsp_fanshop_reeperbahn

For this month’s Bandcamp Friday:

It’s Springtime, it’s raining. It’s London…and the seasons just seem to blur into each other in these sadder times. Nevertheless it’s also the first ‘Bandcamp Friday’ of the season and following a number of requests, two titles which were formally just available on vinyl are now being issued as very limited handmade CDR editions .

An expanded version of O Darkness, O Darkness as a CD-R, limited edition of 69 copies

And The Concrete Diaries as a CD-R, limited edition of 99

You can find these on the Bandcamp pages of both Edward Ka-Spel and The Legendary Pink Dots.

The first day of March, the first day of Spring (perhaps) and Bandcamp Friday all rolled into one. For the Pink Dots it’s a quieter occasion than usual but I have cleaned up a pair of past live shows, wildly different in atmosphere and quality from 1994 and 2009 respectively. Both are audience recordings from Frankfurt at the notorious Negativ club, truly a place that lived down to its name, and the impressive Ikra venue in Moscow. Even so, there is also a special new release featuring fellow Pink Dots Randall and Erik, namely “I’m not supposed to be here” by Orbit Service.

Negativ ’94

Ikra ’09

i’m not supposed to be here

…And in the ongoing mission to gather all solo releases in one place with enhanced quality, today’s additions are the uncanny ‘Spectrescapes’ Volumes 2 & 3. Number 3 boasts a new cover too!

Spectrescapes 2 (2024 remaster)

Spectrescapes 3 (2024 remaster)

Outsideleft Music magazine just published an interview of Edward Ka-Spel by Alan Rider.  You can find it here.

Bandcamp Friday makes a welcome return today and two fresh releases are on the menu from Chez Dots. From the shadowy past, “Traumstadt 2” has been given a new master and cover for it’s release as a double CD by the excellent Klanggalerie label – it can be found here:

Meanwhile a title that was missing from the platform by accident (not so much a senior moment, more a senior decade..) has been newly covered up and greatly expanded. You’ll find “One Last Pose Before the Ruin” here (LPD) and here (EK).

One Last Pose Before the Ruin (Deluxe)
Disc 1 is the original cd, Disc 2 is a new (complimentary) work entitled “The Ruin” on CD-R. New artwork by EK and assembled by Ray Steeg in the Netherlands. A thing of beauty!  Limited edition of 86. Find it here.

The Ruin
For all who already own the original CD, this is the standalone version of “The Ruin” on CDR. Artwork by EK, lovingly handmade. Edition of 60. Find it here.

Also added to Edward’s Bandcamp page:

A Pleasure Cruise Through 9 Dimensions (Enhanced 2024)
At last available here and sonically enhanced thanks to the wonder tools available in 2024.  Digital download.

O Darkness, O Darkness (Remastered & Expanded 2024)
Digital download.

And finally, a track by Edward Ka-Spel that is included in the compilation 2023 – 2003 = 20 Years of 4mg Records limited edition cassette release.