Another major milestone in Vinyl On Demand's on-going deluxe documentation of the furthest fringes of the European underground, Viva Negativa is the culmination of several years worth of commissioned remixes, extrapolations on and collaborations with the work of The New Blockaders, the UK's most consistently feral noise group. The quality of the track listing is pretty staggering – a testament to the liberating effect those early TNB sides had on a whole generation of otherwise culturally disenfranchised post-punks – and plays even better as a state-of-disunion round-up than recent attempts at void-articulation like Gold Leaf Branches, Invisible Pyramid et al. Almost every major contemporary noise artist is featured and Volume One has tracks from Oren Ambarchi, Anomali, Ashtray Navigations (a beautiful slice of slow blown-to-smoke tone), Emil Beaulieau, Benzo, Cisfinitum, Controlled Bleeding, Dieter Muh, Evil Moisture, Freiband, Grunt, The Haters, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Komafuzz, Kraang, Lockweld, Massimo, Daniel Menche, Thurston Moore, MSBR, Nocturnal Emissions, KK Null, Pita, Plethora, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, Scanner, Silvum, srmeixner, Asmus Tietchens, Treriksroset, uh…V/VM (woops!), Vortex Campaign, Keith Fullerton Whitman, John Wiese, Nobuo Yamada and Z'ev. The whole deal comes packaged in a beautiful full-colour/laminated hard card box with the LPs pressed on 180g vinyl in hand-numbered sleeves and bundled with a poster/manifesto. This one knocked us clear on our asses, a staggering document. Highest recommendation.

Another amazing box set from the label that brought us the great Hijokaidan, Bianchi and TNB sets, Die Grosse Untergangsshow features extensive documentation of a legendary concert that took place at Berlin’s Tempodrom 4th September 1981 and featured a particularly choice selection of the city’s subterranean music scene, including performances from Blixa Bargeld und Gudrun Gut, Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frieder Butzmann, Leben und Arbeiten, Sprung aus den Wolken, Sentimentale Jugend and more. This deluxe edition features a DVD and CD as well as a longer-unedited/alternate audience recording of the gig spread across a double LP and a deluxe booklet with pics and info. Possibly the ultimate document of Berlin’s uniquely interrogating early-80s new wave scene

Fairly staggering overview of the activities and off-shoots associated with Belgium’s legendary Industrial/underground group/venue/publishers Club Moral aka Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) and Danny Devos (DDV). Forming in Antwerp in 1981, they soon became a lightning rod for the burgeoning Industrial scene, with their in-house zine, Force Mental, becoming one of the main channels of information on extreme culture at the time. This amazing set bundles alla the key early recordings to come out of the collective, collecting DDV’s 4 Sept and A Sound Atlas Of Venerology albums, Club Moral’s classic Mit Neuen Waffen (alongside a ton of live and compilation tracks), a selection of tracks from The Parts (DDV + AMVK + Erik Vloeberghs) and Etat Brut’s 1982 Noise classic Geometrie D’Un Assasinat. The Club Moral approach combines classic punk/synth heckling with that amazing Belgian OTT style, blasts of harsh noise, ritualistic electro/acoustic Industrial tactics and a ton of conceptual/performative smarts and heard together like this it makes a stunning case for Club Moral’s inclusion in the long-list of oddball/freak/underground Belgian units that have worked to explode and exaggerate inherited form, from The Kids to Dennis Tyfus. Highly recommended!