Ideologic Organ record label
(curated & art direction by Stephen O'Malley, manufactured & distrubuted in collaboration with Editions Mego)
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Media
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- Escape From Modernism (misc)
Great text from Fredrick Turner.
Originally appeared in Harper's 269, 1984.Essential reading.
- DESCENT MAGAZINE vol 1 1994 (music)
The debut issue of DESCENT MAGAZINE, created in 1993 and published May 1994.
Interviews with Burzum, Emperor, Accursed, Beyond Dawn, Solemn, In The Woods…, Necrophobic, Sigh, Bestial Warlust, Manes, Savior, Mangled, Nagual Mag., Immolation, an article on Gorgoroth, article on heathenism in classical music, USA black metal scene, and many reviews.
A handmade/computer generated layout shows the determination to get these ideas onto paper, and is a classic format of the time which we have all but lost.
"Coming from the enthusastic and obsessive mind of a 19 year old metalhead, who'd spent his years in the north Seattle suburbs reflective the ...all considering... incredible the amount off access that the underground offered back then. This opened my geocultural viewpoint and led to many paths, in it's own way, including nearly 20 years of art direction work. The issue originally had interviews penned with EARTH, MORBID ANGEL, CATHEDRAL and others but were all abandoned as the black metal influence overwhelmingly diseased my open curiosity of the time. Only print is real." —Stephen O'Malley
DESCENT MAGAZINE was a fanzine published between 1994-1999 by Stephen O'Malley, many issues were in collaboration with Tyler Davis (The Ajna Offensive). In total five volumes were produced over that period.
- MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA modes (music)
Thank you Gentry Densley.
- An Individual Note (music)
"An Individual Note" by Daphne Oram
Brilliant text by the pioneer of the electronic music world in the 40s-50s BBC Workshop.
- Texts on Haitian Voudoun Zombies (misc)
"I Walked With A Zombie" by Hamilton Morris 2011
"The Pharmocology of Zombies" by W. Wade Davis 1983from Harper's Magazine
- Formalized Music (misc)
Formalized Music
THOUGHT AND MATHEMATICS IN COMPOSITION
Revised EditionIannis Xenakis
Additional material compiled and edited by Sharon Kanach
HARMONOLOGIA SERIES No. 6
PENDRAGON PRESS STUYVESANT NY
This version published in 1992Chapters I-VIII of this book were original published in French.Portions of it appeared in Gravesaner Blatter, nos. 1, 6, 9, 11/12, 18-22 & 29 (1955-65).
Chapters I-VI appeared originally as the book Musiques Formelles, copyright 1963, by Editions Richard-Masse, 7, place Saint-Sulpice,Paris.Chapter VII was first published in La Nef, no. 29 (1967); the 22, and 29 (1955-65). English translation appeared in Tempo, no. 93 (1970). Chapter VII was originally published in Revue d'Esthitique, Tome XXI (1968).
Chapters IX and Appendices I and II were added for the English-language edition by Indiana University Press, Bloomin 1971.
Chapters X, XI, XII, XIV, and Appendi.x III were added for this edition, and all lists were updated to 1991. - DESCENT MAGAZINE vol III 1996 (music)
Third issue of DESCENT MAGAZINE (fanzine), originally published in 1996 with the collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Tyler Davis, and with contributions by Runhild Gammelsæter, Bard "Faust" Eithun and others.
Magazine continues to focus primarily on the black metal being released at the time, although with issue editorial began branching out to noise, post-industrial, World Serpent, ambient and even music-related visual art.
Interviews with: Blood Axis, Monumentum, Cradle of Filth, Emperor, Brighter Death Now, Satyricon, Ved Buens Ende, Death In June, Dissection, Allerseelen, Sol Invictus, Gehenna (NOR), MZ.412, Coven, Evoken, Smell & Quim, Trial of The Bow (ex-DISEMBOWELMENT), Kari Rueslatten, Taint, Tor Lundsvall, ATWA (Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme & Sandra Good), plus hundreds of slanderous and praise-filled reviews.
Layout hugely inspired by Roger Karmanik / Cold Meat Industry design of the time, albeit with a naïve touch of junior typography and hard to read in many places. 1500 copies of this "tome" were printed.
DESCENT MAGAZINE was a fanzine published between 1994-1999 by Stephen O'Malley, many issues were in collaboration with Tyler Davis (The Ajna Offensive). In total five volumes were produced over that period.
- Motörhead 1978 tour program (music)
- Ivan Bilibin (165 page portfolio) (misc)
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (Russian: Ива́н Я́ковлевич Били́бин)
16 August [O.S. 4 August] 1876 – 7 February 1942http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Bilibin
Thanks to the symbolist Denis Forkas Kostromitin for these images.
- BLOW TO MY SOUL! (music)
BLOW TO MY SOUL!
16 Garage Funk Hits
Seidr 025
2005Amazing 70s garage funk compilation... I have ripped it all to mp3 and you can download it here. 75 meg zip file will be available as long as my bandwidth limits arent decimated.
- Die Reihe 1, Electronic Music (1955) English Edition (music)
Die Reihe was a German-language music journal, edited by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen and published by Universal Edition (Vienna) between 1955 and 1962 (ISSN 0486-3267). An English edition was published, under the original German title, between 1957 and 1968 by the Theodore Presser Company (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), in association with Universal Edition (ISSN 0080-0775). A related book series titled Bücher der Reihe was begun, but only one title ever appeared in it, Herbert Eimert's Grundlagen der musikalischen Reihentechnik.
Die Reihe became the most important source of information about European serial and electronic music, thanks in part to the appearance of the English edition.From UbuWeb
- Eugen Herrigel "Zen in the Art of Archery" (misc)
Eugen Herrigel "Zen in the Art of Archery"
1953
- The Long Draw - on the trail of an artistic mystery in the American Wesy (misc)
By Jeremy Miller
Photography by Lena Herzog
Originally appeared in Harper's 1940, 2012. - DESCENT MAGAZINE vol II (1995) (music)
Second issue of DESCENT MAGAZINE (fanzine), originally published in 1995 with the collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Runhild Gammelsæter, Tyler Davis, Antoinette Flynn, Nebel and Tania Steine.
Magazine continues to focus primarily on the black metal being released at the time, specifically the Norwegian and Greek scenes, with occasional forays into black metal related ambient music (an article titles "Ritual.Ambient.Sound") and feature with the Black Metal related artist (at the time) Tania Steine, also a member of Aghast. The highlight in this issue was a huge interview with the legendary Quorthon of Bathory done by fax around the time of the "Blood on Ice" album.
Interviews with: Bathory, Darkthrone, Enslaved, Ulver, Thorns, Abigail, Mystifier, Thou Art Lord, Primordial, Sabbat, Satyricon, Fleurety, Typhon, Hades, Unpure, Metalion (of Slayer Magazine), Necromantia, Mortiis, Equimanthorn, Darkness Enshroud, Aghast. Additionally, included scores of enthusiastic album and demo reviews.
Layout and design was an improvement to the debut issue, although still quite a naïve experiment with QuarkXpress by a beginner to junior level designer. The magazine was web printed on newsprint, the cheapest option available, using paper plates. 1000 copies were printed.
DESCENT MAGAZINE was a fanzine published between 1994-1999 by Stephen O'Malley, many issues were in collaboration with Tyler Davis (The Ajna Offensive). In total five volumes were produced over that period.
- DESCENT MAGAZINE vol 5 1999 (music)
The Death Issue. Fifth, and final, issue of DESCENT MAGAZINE (fanzine), originally published in 1999 with the collaboration between Stephen O'Malley and Tyler Davis, with contributions from Spider, Runhild Gammelsæter, Alexandre Heine, Kadmon, JC Smith, Taint and Markus Wolff.
Penultimate and ultimately mercurial form of this project. Smaller square/widescreen spread format, spot colors on cover… decent layout. The magazine continues to focus on the black metal but heavily walks amongst the "esoteric & obscure microcosm transmissions" as stated on the cover.
Interviews with: Angelcorpse, Blood Axis, Bethlehem, Brocas Helm, Coil, Control Resistance, Darkthrone, Der Blutharsch, Destroyer 666, Dream Into Dust, Enslaved, Ernte, Eyehategod, Genocide Organ, Stephen Kasner, Marduk, Mayhem, Orplid, Pentacle, Psywarfare, Boyd Rice, Tiermes, Turbund Stermwerk, Valefor… and hundreds of bitter and hateful reviews. The ultimate coup and probably the grail interview for Tyler and I was the SLEEP feature. We still worship at the altar of this band... more to say than many of the others featured. There was a time, once upon a time.
The magazine was properly printed offset. 1000 copies were produced. Aesthetically and atmospherically very influenced by the LOKI Foundation and TESCO Organization labels, looking in retrospect.
When I look at this well worn scan I am proud and consider that the project was completed in a noble way, and a great result of the strong collaboration between Tyler and myself. I decided to kill the magazine (and stop writing about music in other publications) to remove the literal criticism of music from my life, and in order to find my own way musically… and to try to make a life properly in NYC.
The project of significance immediately following this was KHANATE. SUNN O))) had primordially started between issue IV and V. Tyler focused strongly on AJNA and the growth was immediate and important for us both in all respects, if difficult.
DESCENT MAGAZINE was a fanzine published between 1994-1999 by Stephen O'Malley, many issues were in collaboration with Tyler Davis (The Ajna Offensive). In total five volumes were produced over that period.
- DESCENT MAGAZINE vol 4 1997 (music)
Fourth issue of the magazine.
The personal frame around the publication of this cannot be understated.
In retrospect it was the most transitional period of my life to that point.
And the first of several such angular transitions which have structured my personal and creative life since.
1) Moved to UK (leaving Seattle for the first time, breaking up BURNING WITCH [yeah, that's the real reason], leaving friends and family for the possibilities... of what I cannot recall.)
2) First "art director job", at Misanthropy Records (thanks and apologies to Tiziana Stupia for that opportunity). How this managed to continue/spiral into the opportunities and careers since is one of the mysteries of my life.
3) First European travels. Meeting many people/correspondents for the first time. The fantasy fueling the interest in black metal begins to evaporate. Quickly.
In some ways, looking at this issue again now, the tremendous flaws are blatant. The flame was beginning to be extinguished by the winds of life. Those painted with negativity and bitterness in our reaction to the hundreds of music submissions of the third issue were simply left out of this one (see reviews introduction). I'm surprised of the amount of reviews which still managed to escape that cut, and the negativity which followed. A flood of desperation in the music.
Tyler and I were no longer collaborating on the construction in a room together. So the paths forward around the magazine started to change, became more individualized. This belies the tremendous amount of time, energy and effort which was put into the creation of this issue however. Tyler did an incredible amount of work, and was more or less navigating the vehicle on this one, I was simply the pilot.
Personally, the passion certainly had certainly begun to wane for the music we covered, although paradoxically we had some of the best features, and certainly moments inside (ABRUPTUM rorschach test may be the highlight of the entire series in some ways, AIN SOPH, Attila Csihar, many difficult to arrange interviews). The magazine's popularity was just over it's crest (third issue), we printed 1000 copies but this is the issue you would probably be able to find, physically, the easiest, now. Perhaps it reflected the underground current we were on in a whole?
Burroughs died that year. IntraDESCENT Sabbath worship was as high as ever.
Tyler and I were trying to do something more, yet the autodidactic approach to design and publishing smothered it's potential. It's ambition wasn't met, this was the evidence. I personally wasn't educated in these matters, unprepared. Yet there is a striving for aesthetic principle, albeit without guidance or strong direction. The possibilities after this issue would either be ballooning it into a business enterprise (a discussion... yet we were also uneducated in business beyond black market mailorder), continue dumping money in a hole of a hobby, or to try and move to a creative piece... which I think is how we settled on the fifth issue.
And then it ended.
Perhaps the most telling element is the Serrano image used on the cover, 10 years after it's creation. There was a fuss around an exhibition somewhere of that piece in 1997, and it's notice fell into our lap. Contemporary art was now entering into the perspective (easily appealing through this piece). It began to bring much more possible perspectives ... at least to me. We also sprung for spot metallic color, a design move which has cursed many of my clients in the 15 years since.
Interviews with Abruptum, Aeturnus, Ain Soph, Allegory Chapel Ltd., Atrax Morgue, Beyond Dawn, Trevor Brown, Con-Dom, Attila Csihar, Darkstyle, Dødheimsgard, Gorgoroth, Grey Wolves, KDNR, Laibach, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Opeth, Pan.Thy.Monium, Pazuzu, Plecid, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Sutcliffe Jugend, Waldteufel, Label Spotlight: Old Europa Café, Malicious Records, L.O.K.I. Foundation, Tesco.
DESCENT MAGAZINE was a fanzine published between 1994-1999 by Stephen O'Malley, many issues were in collaboration with Tyler Davis (The Ajna Offensive). In total five volumes were produced over that period. - PDF portfolio of all 5 issues of DESCENT MAGAZINE (1994-1999) (music)
You can now download a free PDF portfolio (360mb) compilation of all five issues of DESCENT MAGAZINE.
The issues are also individually available for download above. Please read the notes on each issue as well.
DESCENT MAGAZINE was a fanzine published between 1994-1999 by Stephen O'Malley, many issues were in great collaboration with Tyler Davis (The Ajna Offensive).In total five volumes were produced over that period.Many other friends and colleagues were invaluable in the construction of this fanzine. A final thanks to all of you.
List of bands/musicians/artists we featured in those five issues:
Abigail
Abruptum
Accursed
Aeturnus
Aghast
Ain Soph
Allegory Chapel Ltd.
Allerseelen
Angelcorpse
Atrax Morgue
ATWA (Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme & Sandra Good)
Bathory
Bestial Warlust
Bethlehem
Beyond Dawn x2
Blood Axis x2
Brighter Death Now
Brocas Helm
Trevor Brown
Burzum
Coil
Con-Dom
Control Resistance
Coven
Cradle of Filth
Attila Csihar
Darkness Enshroud,
Darkstyle
Darkthrone x2
Death In June
Der Blutharsch
Destroyer 666
Dissection
Dødheimsgard
Dream Into Dust
Emperor x2
Enslaved x2
Equimanthorn
Ernte
Evoken
Eyehategod
Fleurety
Gehenna (NOR)
Genocide Organ
Gorgoroth (interview + "an article")
Grey Wolves
Hades
Immolation
In The Woods…
Stephen Kasner
KDNR
Laibach
L.O.K.I. Foundation
Tor Lundsvall
Malicious Records
Manes
Mangled
Marduk
Mayhem
Metalion (of Slayer Magazine)
Monumentum
The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud
Mortiis
Mystifier
MZ.412
Nagual Mag
Necromantia
Necrophobic
Old Europa Café
Opeth
Orplid
Pan.Thy.Monium
Pazuzu
Pentacle
Plecid
Primordial
Psywarfare
Boyd Rice
Kari Rueslatten
Sabbat
Satyricon x2
Savior
Sigh
Sleep
Smell & Quim
Sol Invictus
Solemn
Sshe Retina Stimulants
Sutcliffe Jugend
Taint
Tesco
Thorns
Thou Art Lord
Tiermes
Trial of The Bow
Turbund Stermwerk
Typhon
Ulver
Unpure
Valefor
Ved Buens Ende
Waldteufel.. - 1970 New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (misc)
Designed by Unimark International, New York 1970
This site is dedicated to serve as an archival record of a first edition NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual designed by Massimo Vignelli of Unimark International. The manual was found in a locker beneath old gym clothes. Roll over the images to magnify. Enjoy.
Brought to you by the collective efforts of Niko Skourtis, Jesse Reed, Hamish Smyth
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