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Foetus - LIMB: Download
EctEnts030Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
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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.
Sick Minutes (Ectopic Version) 8'39"
Ezekiel's Wheels 1'38"
Te Deum 4'50"
The Anxious Figure 4'03"
Primordial Industry 6'12"
Industrial Go-Slow 3'37"
That We Forbid 2'49"
Sjogren's Syndrome 7'17"
Echolation 1'22"
TO 45 Tag 1'37"
Piano Piece 4'03"
The Caterpillar Kid 5'52"
Bonus track: You Have To Obey 20'00"
Foetus - Damp: Download
EctEnts028Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
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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.
I Hate You All
Antabuse
Chimera
Into the Light
Shrunken Man
Mine is No Disgrace (w/Melvins)
Hemo the Cuckold
Not In Your Hands
Paging Dr Strong (w/Rotoskop)
Blessed Evening (Phylr remix)
Sieve
Cold Shoulder
Foetus - Vein: Download
EctEnts029To 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.
Pareidolia (Fennesz remix)
How To Vibrate (Mike Patton remix)
Mon Agonie Douce (J.G. Thirlwell remix)
L'overture (Jay Wasco remix)
Don't Want Me Anymore (Tujiko Nuriko remix)
Not Adam (Jason Forrest remix)
Thrush (TRZTN remix feat. Jennifer Charles)
Aladdin Reverse (Tweaker remix)
Not in Yr Hands (Matmos remix)
Corrodia Gravis (Tom Recchion remix)
Foetus - Love: Download
EctEnts027LOVE 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!
(not adam)
mon agonie douce
aladdin reverse
miracle
don't want me anymore
blessed evening
pareidolia
thrush (w/ jennifer charles)
time marches on
how to vibrate
Foetus - Flow: Download
EctEnts020The 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
1. "Quick Fix" – 4:06
2. "Cirrhosis of the Heart" – 4:02
3. "Mandelay" – 8:21
4. "Grace of God" – 5:42
5. "The Need Machine" – 4:53
6. "Suspect" – 5:54
7. "(You Got Me Confused With) Someone Who Cares" – 3:45
8. "Heuldoch #7b" – 4:47
9. "Victim or Victor?" – 5:03
10. "Shun" – 3:23
11. "Kreibabe" – 12:52
Foetus - Blow: Download
EctEnts022The 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.
1. "Cirrhosis of the Heart (Amon Tobin Mix)" – 6:35
2. "The Need Machine (Franz Treichler Mix)" – 5:49
3. "Victim or Victor (Jay Wasco Mix)" – 3:58
4. "Mandelay (Phylr Mix)" – 4:59
5. "Quick Fix (Charlie Clouser Mix)" – 5:28
6. "Kreibabe (Pan Sonic Mix)" – 4:19
7. "Shun (Kid606 Mix)" – 4:08
8. "Suspect (DJ Food "Feed Em Their Rights" Mix)" – 6:02
9. "Grace of God (Kidney Thieves/Sean Beavan Mix)" – 4:25
10. "Heuldoch 7B (Panacea Mix)" – 3:48
11. "Someone Who Cares (Ursula 1000 "Sheracer" Mix)" – 4:16
12. "The Need Machine (J. G. Thirlwell Mix)" – 7:28
Foetus - Null/Void: Download
EctEnts009/010Null and Void were conceived as companion EPs that 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
Null
1. "Verklemmt (Vid Mix)" – 4:43
2. "Be Thankful" – 4:50
3. "Verklemmt (Protecto Mix)" – 8:54
4. "Butter" – 4:05
5. "Into The Light" – 6:49
6. "Verklemmt (Queef Mix)" – 3:52
Void
1. "Friend or Foe" – 4:27
2. "Incesticide" – 3:42
3. "See Dick Run" – 4:49
4. "Flux" – 4:39
5. "Friend or Foe (Unhugged Mix)" – 4:23
6. "Iris Evergreen" – 9:25
Foetus - Gash: Download
EctEnts008The 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
1. "Mortgage" – 6:19
2. "Mighty Whity" – 3:56
3. "Friend or Foe" – 4:27
4. "Hammer Falls" – 5:34
5. "Downfall" – 2:58
6. "Take It Outside Godboy" – 4:54
7. "Verklemmt" – 4:45
8. "They Are Not So True" – 3:34
9. "Slung" – 11:21
10. "Steal Your Life Away" – 4:42
11. "Mutapump" – 5:33
12. "See Ya Later" – 4:48
Foetus - Ache: Download
WOMBOYBL 002The 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.
1. "Dying With My Boots On" – 2:16
2. "J. Q. Murder" – 4:21
3. "Gums Bleed" – 4:21
4. "Mark of the Ostracizor" – 5:59
5. "Exit the Man With 9 Lives" – 3:44
6. "Get Out of My House" – 5:05
7. "Wholesome Town" – 4:24
8. "Whole Wheat Rolls" – 0:59
9. "Kid Hate Kid" – 5:24
10. "Instead… I Became Anenome" – 4:37
Foetus - Deaf: Download
WOMBOYBL 001The first Foetus album, released in 1981 is a wild eccentric collision of ideas and mania from music concrete, funk, no wave to noise.
1. "New York or Bust" – 2:00
2. "Is That a Line?" – 7:09
3. "Why Can't It Happen to Me?" – 3:14
4. "I Am Surrounded by Incompetence" – 4:52
5. "What Have You Been Doing?" – 5:32
6. "Today I Started Slogging Again" – 5:48
7. "Harold MacMillan" – 3:35
8. "Thank Heavens for Push Button Phones" – 4:26
9. "Flashback" – 3:37
10. "Negative Energy" – 15:55
Foetus - Male: Download
EctEnts005A 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)
1. "Free James Brown" – 4:36
2. "Fin" – 1:56
3. "Hot Horse" – 5:08
4. "English Faggot" – 6:25
5. "Faith Healer" (Alex Harvey / Hugh McKenna) – 7:20
6. "Honey I'm Home" (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann) – 9:25
7. "Butterfly Potion" – 3:09
8. "I'll Meet You in Poland Baby" – 7:43
9. "Anything (Viva!)" – 8:41
10. "Death Rape 2000" – 1:59
11. "Puppet Dude" (Thirlwell / Don Fleming / Jay Spiegel / Jim Dunbar) – 4:56
12. "Stumbo" (Thirlwell / Mosimann) – 7:55
13. "Someone Drowned in My Pool" – 9:25
14. "Behemoth" (TAD) – 8:05
15. "Your Salvation" – 14:24
Foetus - Rife: Download
RIFE-FullRIFE is an official raw live album recorded in Europe, 1988. The lineup is:
J.G. Thirlwell/Vocals
Algis Kizys/Bass (Swans)
Norman Westberg/Guitar (Swans)
Ted Parsons/Drums (Prong)
Raymond Watts/Keys and Guitar (Pig)
1. "Fin" – 2:58
2. "Honey I'm Home" – 7:47
3. "The Dipsomaniac Kiss" – 5:51
4. "English Faggot" – 6:12
5. "Grab Yr. Ankles" – 6:00
6. "Slut" (Thirlwell / Marc Almond) – 3:25
7. "A Prayer for My Death" – 6:26
8. "¡Chingada!" – 8:00
9. "Hate Feeler" (Alex Harvey / Hugh McKenna) – 8:10
10. "The Fudge Punch" (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann) – 8:02
11. "Clothes Hoist" – 4:37
12 "Private War/Anything (Viva!)"
Steroid Maximus - Ectopia: Download
EctEnts023Steroid 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!
The Trembler
Seventy Cops
L'espion Qui A Pleure
Naught
Chain Reaction
Bad Day In Greenpoint
Aclectasis
Tarmac a Gris Gris
"Pusher" Jones
Wm
Chaiste
Enzymes
Steroid Maximus - Gondwanaland
EctEnts003The 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.
1. "¡Quilombo!" (J. G. Thirlwell / Raymond Watts) – 4:22
2. "Radio Raheem" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:25
3. "First Movement: The Trojan Hearse" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 2:38
4. "Second Movement: The Auctioneer of Souls" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 4:36
5. "Third Movement: Crawling Goliath" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:42
6. "Fourth Movement: Erupture" (Thirlwell / Watts) – 3:13
7. "Life in the Greenhouse Effect" (Thirlwell / Lucy Hamilton) – 5:52
8. "I Will Love You Always (Wild Irish Rose)" (Thirlwell / Don Flemming) – 6:14
9. "Cross Double Cross" (Thirlwell / Mark Cunningham) – 4:08
10. "Destino Matar" (Thirlwell / Away) – 3:32
11. "Volgarity" (Thirlwell) – 2:36
12. "Öl (Kwik-Lube)" (Thirlwell / Roli Mosimann) – 1:56
13. "Powerhouse!" (Raymond Scott) – 4:06
14. "Homeo" (Thirlwell / Away) – 2:34
Steroid Maximus - Quilombo: Download
EctEnts002Originally 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.
1. "Life in the Greenhouse Effect" (Thirlwell / Lucy Hamilton) – 4:21
2. "The Heidnik Manoeuvre" – 4:17
3. "No Joy in Pudville" (Thirlwell / Away) – 2:18
4. "Fighteous" – 2:24
5. "Big Hedda Meets Little Napoleon" – 4:21
6. "¡Quilombo!" (Thirlwell / Raymond Watts) – 4:22
7. "Phantom Miscarriage" – 4:58
8. "Ogro" – 2:23
9. "The Smother Brother" – 7:07
10. "Transcendental Moonshine" – 3:43
Manorexia - The Radiolarian Ooze: Download
EctEnts024Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
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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.
Planet Of The Aches
The Harpoon Jockey
Backwards From "Z"
Confessions Of Zsolt Vadaszffy
Fluorescent Radiation
Canaries In The Mineshaft
The Edison Medicine
Ataxia
Chloe Dont Know Im Alive
Cosmos Brutile
Armadillo Stance
Self Inflicted Concussions...
Manorexia - Volvox Turbo: Download
EctEnts021Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!
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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.
The Hardened Artery
Ice on the Equator
Zithromax Jitters
Impedimentia
A Womb is Waiting
Helicobra
Tiki Envy
Toxodon Mourning
The Cringe Factory
Melting at the Temple
Tongue of Uncertainty
Bruxism
Tubercular Bells
Tranque