We’ve made it to the end of another productive year with the two final releases for 2010. First up is a release I’ve been working on since 2009 and I am so proud to have yet another band from my teenage soundtrack on my record label: Borghesia!! This release marks many “firsts” for Dark Entries: blood spattered red vinyl, large fold out poster acting as the record jacket and our first hand-numbered edition of 1000.
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DE- 010 Borghesia – Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti LP LP
Borghesia is an electronic music group from Ljubljana, Slovenia, created in 1982 by Aldo Ivancic and Dario Seraval who were members of the alternative theater troupe FV-112/15. Along with Laibach, Borghesia is the most successful band from the territory of former Yugoslavia who launched the activist movement and managed to turn sexual freedom into an important political issue by creating the New Slovenian Art scene.
After two cassette-only releases the band recorded their debut vinyl LP Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti (“Love Is Colder Than Death”) during the winter of 1983-84. The band was eager to use early sampling techniques to construct tracks from cut up radio noises and movie dialogue. They developed their own brand of EBM (Electronic Body Music) that combined symphonic synthesizers (Korg PolySix), funky basslines, military drum beats (Roland TR-808) and harsh, crisp sequenced rhythms that repeat in trance-like loops (Roland TB-303). All songs from Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti are sung/recited in Croatian and use the imagery of the prohibited, tabooed and repressed. Equal parts Chris & Cosey, Cabaret Voltaire, Art of Noise and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
All tracks have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studio in Berkeley. Pressed on blood red vinyl, each disc is manufactured with its own unique pattern: no two discs are identical. Each LP is housed in an exact replica of the original large 6-panel fold out poster with lyrics and photos. Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies. And for a limited time add an additional large fold-out Borghesia poster to your order for $4.
Sound samples HERE
$16
ORDER NOW and pick up some newly distributed records/CDs as well!
If you are interested in a wholesale quantity send me an email (darkentries[at]darkentriesrecords.com) requesting exact quantity and shipping location.
2011 Release Schedule:
DE-012 xex – group:xex LP
DE-014/15 Jane & Jeff Hudson – Flesh 2xLP (co-release with Captured Tracks)
DE-013 Various Artists – BART (Bay Area Retrograde) LP
DE-016/17 Vita Noctis – Against The Rule 2xLP (co-release with Daft Records)
DE-018 Xymox - Subsequent Pleasures + 4AD Demos LP
Thank you for your support always!