Tracklisting
A1 The Strangler of the Swamp - Animals
A2 The Strangler of the Swamp - Get up (Ripley Sucks)
A3 The Strangler of the Swamp - Pu sh t
B1 The Strangler of the Swamp - Inside
B2 The Strangler of the Swamp - Bloody Beach
B3 The Strangler of the Swamp - King of Pain
C1 The Swamp - Driver
C2 The Swamp - Hard Core Bodys
C3 The Swamp - Ground II
C4 The Swamp - My Body Rip Up
D1 Bande Berne Crematoire - Days of Tears
D2 Bande Berne Crematoire - Sex and Wars
D3 Bande Berne Crematoire - Creepshow
D4 Bande Berne Crematoire - Show me the Pain
E1 Bande Berne Crematoire - Rosa Bernet
E2 Bande Berne Crematoire - Kranzø Røses
E3 Bande Berne Crematoire - Ende
F1 Bande Berne Crematoire - Devil
F2 Bande Berne Crematoire - Maid to be Laid
F3 Bande Berne Crematoire - Example of BBC
F4 Bande Berne Crematoire - Leaving Risk
F5 Bande Berne Crematoire - The Electric Chair for Atomic Spies

Sales Note
Throughout the 1980s, Michael Antener, born and raised in Bern, Switzerland, initiated an array of sonic endeavours in the realm of industrial, dark, aggressive music. Of his times as a post-apocalyptic hunter, he says today: I found a musical niche where I could express myself, along with other people who were not afraid of dark themes. It would have been hard to sing about love in my music, so I included sounds and cries of pain taken from horror movies.

It was a fortunate coincidence to come across one of his self released records, the 1986 EP Strangler of the Swamp, which marked the beginning of our quest to find this all but forgotten musician whose work seemed nowhere to be found. Eventually, we got in touch with Michael, who is still living in Bern, and began the process of searching through all his surviving musical and visual material.

The triple vinyl release is all about documenting Michael Anteners adventures during that intense 1980s period. We tried our best to select the most interesting material from his two earliest projects, The Strangler of the Swamp and Bande Berne Crematoire, comprising materials from vinyl records, cassettes, and live recordings, some of it unreleased. The release also includes a deep dive into Michaels visual archive of posters, photos, and sleeve artworks.

The disjointed, tumultuous body of work presented here marks the testament of a fringe musician who was disruptive and confrontational, keen to shock and alarm people (much to our liking), and who could easily have been lost in oblivion.

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Tracklisting:
A1 Nam's - Kill!
A2 Nam's - I want you dead
B1 Nam's - Chaos
B2 Nam's - Spiral Vision

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Tracklisting
A1 Claus Fovea - Are you Depressed?
A2 Claus Fovea - Dreams
A3 Claus Fovea - Minimal und Monoton
A4 Claus Fovea - Brecht
B1 Claus Fovea - We are Machines
B2 Claus Fovea - Make you Mine
B3 Claus Fovea - Eyes Open
B4 Claus Fovea - Eyes Shut
B5 Claus Fovea - Harmony

Release Note
In 2012 Claus Fovea self released a cassette containing 10 tracks, he was at his Swedish beginnings. 9 years later Lux Rec re-discovered his tape and it still sounded so true and relevant to them that they decided to release it on vinyl. Claus then reworked some tracks, scrap some, and made few new. Florin Buchel mixed them down and Andrea Merlini mastered them. The result is a picture frozen in time, in between now and then, the struggle, and sadness, that fragile construction of hope shattered as time goes by, like nothing ever change. It is indeed, as he sings, just the same song playing all the time. Over and over.

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Karl Kave makes his appearance on Lux Rec for their first release in 7" format. Four terse tracks influenced by his past experiences, high and low as they come, tumultuous thoughts and life events. The result is a sombre nostalgia for all that is not there anymore. Coming from Rheintal, a valley on the eastern part of Switzerland, he uses English, German and his native Swiss dialect to sing. Dive into it, meet sadness.

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Teatre hails from Lithuania, a place especially dear to the Lux Rec team both for personal and musical reasons. For his first vinyl release Teatre produced six tracks which span from powerful, vital straightness to brooding resonant laments.

This record would not have been possible without Ernestas Sadau, Roman Sputnik, Kestutis Lingys and Eivydas Kantautas of Digital Tsunami. Nor without Kotryna Lingiene, who helped finding and contacting Paulius Lileikis (the photographer), and Paulius, that granted the permission to use the picture on the front cover.

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