JG Thirlwell
Foetus, Steroid Maximus, Manorexia, Venture Bros. and More.

Dinoflagellate Blooms features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell.

The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities.

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File size: 135mb

HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a
“neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear”. Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell’s twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.

Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music. Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell’s Manorexia ensemble on violin. In additionElliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).

File Size:106.7 mb
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‘Hide’ unquestionably marks yet another fantastic addition to the already astounding Foetus catalogue, and is one of those albums that demands repeat listening, and lots of it

Christopher Nosnibor -whisperinandhollerin.com

Ambitious, overwhelming, rough, rugged…. saddle up for a blaze into a flawed but ambitious psychedelic opera.

-sputnikmusic.com

Hydroze Plus is Fred Bigot: instruments/music & JG Thirlwell: vocals/lyrics
Composed by Fred Bigot (GEMA) and JG Thirlwell (Ectopic Music)
Recorded at Nolite Studio, Berlin, 2005-2009 with additional recording at Self Immolation Studios, Brooklyn.

1. Overcoat (4′45)
2. Belladonna (4′18)
(CalmCalm remix by Fred Bigot)

3. Epi-Dose (4′18)
(Overcoat remix by JG Thirlwell)
4. CalmCalm (5′36)

File Size: 43.3 mb

Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

LIMB is an archival release of experimental and minimalist compositions recorded from 1980-1983, from the early days of Foetus and pre-Foetus. Though the material is largely unreleased, some of the pieces have been previously released on the compilation albums by Coil and United Dairies. Some were excavated and some of it was reconstructed or re-edited from compositions on cassette. One piece is constructed from an organ part written in 1982, which JG took the liberty of finishing in 2008. These pieces were made before the introduction of MIDI and sampling technology. It shows the lineage and genesis of some of the methods that JG is working in today.

File Size:165mb

Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

Ectopic Ents has released DAMP, a new Foetus album which is a “satellite appendix” album, exclusively thru the Shop page on this website. The music consists mainly of unreleased material as well as some rare material.

File Size: 165.6 mb

To regard VEIN as purely a remix album is to underestimate its intentions and ambitions. VEIN has material from 2005′s LOVE fractured and re-imagined by some of today’s most notable artists. It is an immersive, powerful and sometimes harrowing cinematic journey through sound and emotion. Includes contributions by Fennesz, Mike Patton, Jay Wasco, TujikoNuriko, Jason Forrest, TRZTN (of Services), Tweaker, Matmos, TomRecchion and J.G.  Thirlwell.

File Size: 106.1 mb

LOVE is a sweeping dramatic epic drenched in harpsichord and orchestras with jarring left turns, bombast and seduction. It features duet with Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields and an appearance by the amazing Pamelia Kurstin, the world’s foremost thereminist!

File Size:128.5mb

The album which remixes FLOW, featuring monster mixes by Amon Tobin, Kid 606, Pan Sonic, DJ Food, Franz Treichler (Young Gods), Phylr, JG Thirlwell, Ursula 1000, Charlie Clouser, Kidney Thieves with Sean Beavan, Panacea and Jay Wasco.

File Size: 144.4 mb

The mighty millenial debut features eleven fresh monsterpieces from the driving hits “Need Machine” and “Quick Fix” to the dramatic churning epics “Mandelay” and “Kreibabe” to the cinematic bombast of “Suspect:” and breakneck bigband of “Heuldoch” this is an exhausting,exhaustive roller coaster thru the fevered imagination of JG Thirlwell.

“Equal doses of rock thunder and jazzy sleaze, spiked with orchestral grandeur and vocal dynamite set the stage for 1000 petty crimes, prostitution, gambling, divorce, dipsomania, assaults, bribery, craven depravity, driving while putting on your makeup and talking on the cell phone, mayhem and murder……Flow is more than an album – it’s an extravaganza! ” – Legends magazine

File Size: 145.8 mb

Null and Void were conceived as companion EPs that were released at the same time as GASH. They were later combined into this album. It features many tracks unavailable on other releases plus several remixes of the “hit” “Verklemmt”. It also features “See Dick Run” from the Spooky songs For Kids EP and “Incesticide”, previously a Reflex magazine flexidisc . Running time is 64:51

File Size: 137.3 mb

The classic bone quaking, pulverizing release. The only Foetus album on Sony. Orchestras, horns, guitars and noise collide and erupt in this sick symphony.

“Finally swept into major-label clutches in ’95, Foetus spewed up Gash, a magnificent chopper of industrial gruesomeness, vintage horn jazz (check the eleven-minute extravaganza “Slung” for snappy music your grandparents would not condone), sly samples and what can only be described as the string-laden lullaby of hell. Presumably working with the first big studio budget of his career, Foetus gets it all in the grooves, lashing together an eclectic collection as advanced and ambitious as anything he’s done.” -Trouser Press

File Size: 134.1 mb

A huge live album originally released as a double CD and live DVD, recorded at CBGB. You get the entire whopping 100 minute + double album for the price of a single album.

The lineup on this album is JG Thirlwell – vocals; Algis Kizys – bass (Swans); Norman Westberg – guitar (Swans); David Ouimet – keys/trombone (Cop Shoot Cop/Motherhead Bug ; Hahn Rowe – violin (Hugo Largo/Liminal); Vinnie Signorelli – drums (Unsane/Swans)

File Size: 237mb

RIFE is an official raw live album recorded in Europe, 1988. The lineup is:

J.G. Thirlwell/Vocals
Algis Kizys/Bass (Swans)
Ted Parsons/Drums (Prong)
Norman Westberg/Guitar (Swans)
Raymond Watts/Keys and Guitar (Pig)

File Size: 189.2 mb

The second album from Foetus released in 1982. Intense songs that explore cyclical systems like building vocal and piano layers with clattering percussion, tape loops and various paranoid manias.

File Size:96.6mb

The first Foetus album, released in 1981 is a wild eccentric collision of ideas and mania from music concrete, funk, no wave to noise.

File Size:134mb

Steroid Maximus is the instrumental guise of the inscrutable J.G.Thirlwell (aka FOETUS). This highly acclaimed long awaited album contains the cinematic stylings of JGT encompassing twisted neo-blaxploitation, spy/crime noir-intrigue, haunting soundscapes, sinuous carnal funk, exotic soundtracks of the unimagined and ethnic music from civilisations yet to be invented!

File Size: 123.8 mb

The groundbreaking instrumental epic of “soundtracks for imaginary films and ethnic music for civilsations yet to be invented”. A classic. Featuring contributions from Away, Mark Cunningham, Don Fleming, Lucy Hamilton, Hahn Rowe and Raymond Watts.

File Size: 126.1mb

Originally conceived as two EPs (hence the inclusion of Quilombo and Life in the Greehouse Effect, which also appear in slightly different versions on Gondwanaland). This cinematic album creeps into the recesses of your brain in a rapturous, ravenous seduction.

File Size: 98.9mb

Sometimes darkly disorienting, sometimes rhythmic and occasionally almost treading on Steroid Maximus territory, the first thirty-five minutes (eight pieces), gradually build to a frenzy, through soundscapes, alien ethnicities, passing the eavesdropped sounds of sinister goings-on, on into haunting lullabies culminating in a epic eleven-minute-plus chase-opera…

The second part of the album, the final four pieces, are beautiful and twisted and enveloping, sometimes best listened to in a semi-somnambulistic state; by the end, the listener may find themselves in paroxysms of ecstasy at the beauty and sadness and strangeness and other-wordly quality of this cycle.

File Size: 144.9 mb

Tapping into his instincts, Thirlwell completed the instrumental Volvox Turbo, album within six weeks (a record time for him) and released this exclusively through the online shop. An intensely psychological symphony, the album orbits several multiethnic soundscapes – from Moroccan to Martian – and manipulates those studio mistakes others try to avoid into 14 strangely compelling merging movements. It’s been called “a noir narrative filled with anticipation, foreboding and icy climaxes.” It resonates more with deep listening. Itâfi™s a killer acid trip
without the LSD.

File Size: 146.4 mb