Dominick Fernow Moved to Los Angeles to Make Some Noise

Last year New York City's experimental music scene took a major hit when Dominick Fernow closed his store, Hospital Productions. The shop was much more than a place to buy a limited-edition cassette tape packaged in human hair, it was a landmark location for noise enthusiasts. Dark-clothed men would line the shop's blood-red walls foraging for the latest black metal or power electronics releases while debating which labels and bands sucked, who was an asshole, and bemoaning the shows they felt obligated to attend. In those regards it was very much a typical record store, but it was also a bold statement showing that a store only selling avant-garde music and garnering little mainstream coverage could survive in the East Village.

Dominick, recording under his moniker Prurient, released his most beat driven album, Bermuda Drain, in 2011. Sounding like Giorgio Moroder getting fucked in the ass by a black metal singer on the set of Blade Runner expanded Prurient's exploration into electronic music and away from harsh noise. His more recent project, Vatican Shadow, which debuted in 2010, previewed this direction using repetitive moody beats to evoke the unrest and dark themes typical of his musical canon.

After a move to Los Angeles, Dominick started a new imprint through Boomkat to release these new rhythms. Called Bed Of Nails, the new label released their first album, a 12” by Vatican Shadow titled September Cell, at the beginning of June. The second nail, slated for an August release, is by Bronze Age's Antiquated Futurism and will further establish the label's sound. Its release marks the debut of a new project of sound engineer/musician Kris Lapke, best known for his work as Alberich. Bed Of Nails was created specifically to explore techno, electronic, and ambient sounds. This exclusive preview track, "Coupling Symbols," from Lapke's debut uniquely blends signature electronic beats, not unlike something you'd find on Morr Music but with a darker, more primitive bite soon to be given a terrible genre name by a brand-conscious journalist. Darkno starts now.

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