Name: Down But Defiant Yet / Acceptance is Not Respect
Brand: Kleistwahr

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FD2LP144

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-23

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Kleistwahr

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Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

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Fourth Dimension

Kleistwahr is an influential artist known for their unique blend of noise, industrial, and experimental music. With a career spanning several decades, *Kleistwahr* has established themselves as a pioneering force in the underground music scene.

Similar to artists such as Ramleh and Vatican Shadow, *Kleistwahr* pushes the boundaries of sound with their intense and immersive compositions. Drawing inspiration from diverse genres like power electronics and post-punk, their music captivates listeners with its raw energy and atmospheric textures.

With a discography that includes notable releases like "Over Your Heads Forever" and "This World Is Not My Home," *Kleistwahr* continues to create thought-provoking sonic landscapes that challenge conventional notions of music. Their collaborations with other experimental artists further showcase their versatility and innovative approach.

Fourth Dimension is a music label founded by Gary Levermore of Third Mind Records in 1983. However, it was later taken over by Richard Johnson (aka Richo) from Grim Humour fanzine after the first release. This label is dedicated to showcasing various genres of underground music, ranging from noise-rock and post-punk to Japanese noise, improv, abstract electronics, and so-called 'outsider' music. With its DIY sensibility, Fourth Dimension continues to thrive alongside Richo's other labels - Lumberton Trading Company and Winter Hill Recordings. In addition to his occasional Adverse Effect journal and his groups Splintered and Theme, Fourth Dimension has also ventured into publishing books.

Newest Listed Items

In August 2020, following some typical delays at the plant, Fourth Dimension Records released the limited edition 2LP (and now sold out) set of Kleistwahr's This World Is Not My Home and Over Your Heads Forever albums, originally released by the same label in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Packaged together in a single sleeve with printed inners reproducing all the artwork found on the original CDs, the 2LP was always designed to represent the first volume in a series of them. This next volume gathers everything on the next two albums, Down But Defiant Yet and Acceptance is Not Respect, both also initially released on CD in, respectively, 2017 and 2018, and presented in the exact same way. 2017's long sold out at source album, Down But Defiant Yet, collects four lengthy cuts which catch Gary Mundy (also known for Ramleh, Breathless and Broken Flag Records) furrowing his distinct and recognisable take on a kinda contemporary psychedelia with dystopian leanings. Each piece nods towards the fug generated by certain ‘krautrock’ groups whilst retaining threads of those uncompromising power-noise surges he built his reputation on, this is music guaranteed to take you to new spaces before forcing you to nervously look over your shoulder. 2018's Acceptance is Not Respect collects two lengthy pieces themselves broken down into seven parts often tempered to the point restraint assumes new, often disturbed (and disturbing) psychedelic or even filmic, properties, this music arrives like a spitting and foaming scream into the insanity of the void and the myriad challenges and questions it inexorably keeps hurling at us.

Down But Defiant Yet / Acceptance is Not Respect

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