We have been preparing for the arrival of the Goddess of Death, she who unmakes all structures with a cold entropic wind, transforming signal into noise and magic into nonsense, draining the things we relish of their true substance, threatening the very existence of our tradition with a tidal wave of crud.

Her followers are legion, oblivious gulls filling the heavens with worthless shrieking, bloated toads clogging the streams with craft-less effusions. We shall harass the flanks of this incoming army in the wastelands of the North, meet it weakened at the very gates of our city, deploy our wicked weapons most grimly, and rout them after a ghastly flight, watch them run for the hills with a hearty laugh, and return to our halls, crack open a case of vintage brandy to sip slowly, puff on colossal cigars while the vilest sounds spill from our speakers.

May I introduce you to our champions?

//TENSE// has animated with his EMB throb many a bout of filthy cruising in the pleasure satellites that the Harkonnen troops favour during those rare intervals of R&R that interrupt their galactic warmongering.

In his relentless remix of Disconnect Myself, Beau Wanzer takes it to the next level in pure necromantic techno styles. This one is for the Sardaukar.

//TENSE// – Disconnect Myself (The Beau Wanzer Adjustment)

I dare you brave DJs to drop it in Sonar at 5 O’clock in the Morning, Ishimura that dancefloor.

German Army headhunt for hades with the zest of the Children of the Corn, if only their harvest grew in a forlorn industrial park, and He Who Walks Behind the Rows had the perverted allure of one Genesis P. Orridge.

Folded Skin reaffirms them as one of 20jazzfunkgreats favourite acts to play before going out skirmishing: an abattoir raga whose bass resonates like a glass harmonica performed upon vats overflowing with rank blood, grafted on Cluster’s mechanised motorik chug after a 180 degrees deviation. We don’t even dare trying to decipher the lyrics, least our evil thoughts turn into evil deeds.

German Army – Folded Skin (Vox)

German Army have diverse releases coming out on Skrunk Up, Hobo Cult and Night People. Keep your antennas up.

And here is the lovely video for the instrumental version.

Notes: Images above related to William Hope Hodgson’s literature, and Moebius sketches for the Dune adaptation that never happened. General vibes inspired by Ursula K. Leguin’s and M. John Harrison’s fantasy work.

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