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Cyclobe (1999-present) are a music duo based in London, formed by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown. They make hallucinatory electronic soundscapes by mixing sampled and heavily synthesized sounds with acoustic arrangements for strings and woodwind. Their approach draws upon diverse forms, including acousmatic, drone music, dark ambient, noise and sound collage. Thrower is also a film journalist and author of Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci. Ossian Brown worked with Coil from 1999 until the band’s cessation on the death of John Balance in 2004.

Thrower and Brown met in the early 1990s through their mutual association with Coil. Thrower left Coil in 1993 (having worked on the albums Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Love’s Secret Domain) and went on to form the experimental trio Identical, with Gavin Mitchell and Orlando. All three members of Identical now work as The Amal Gamal Ensemble, alongside other musicians including David Knight and Karl Blake of The Shock Headed Peters.
The first Cyclobe album, Luminous Darkness (1999), veered between hard-edged electronic music, Musique concrète, Industrial, and acoustic interludes for piano, strings and woodwind. They were joined on several tracks by Calina De La Mare (violin) and Niall Webb (bass clarinet). Next came The Visitors (2001), again featuring De La Mare (violin), alongside Sarah Willson (cello) and Coil’s Thighpaulsandra (production). Although still assaultive at times, The Visitors developed a warmer, expansive sound, with lush atmospherics and harmonic complexity. A third album followed in the form of a collaboration with Nurse With Wound, called Paraparaparallelogrammatica (2004).

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nabraxas wrote:
Saturday morning

they're just being inquisitive; probing and unassuming (L to R)

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Smirnon wrote:
October 2011

the main picture makes me lafffff. posing with your hand under your chin like that is trademark suave gayness and the bald hooligan in his knitted granny sweater is a nice addition

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GregReason wrote:
October 2011

Stunning music, both subtle and sublime

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black_antlers wrote:
September 2011

definitely one of the greatest groups working today, they really deserve more attention

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TripleSol wrote:
August 2011

The sound of dissolving air.

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cerczar wrote:
June 2011

NEED MOAR NEW MATERIAL NOW AND A CD EDITION OF WOUNDED GALAXIES NOW. EVERYONE GO BUY WOUNDED GALAXIES.

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Umbersun93 wrote:
January 2011

Great new album!!!!

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Staticon wrote:
January 2011

wounded galaxies... one step forward for modern music! Thanks guys!

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lemonitas67 wrote:
January 2011

ive got Wounded Galaxies comin on vinyl... get jealous!

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burialchamber wrote:
December 2010

Me too.

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JohnLithium wrote:
December 2010

I'm in agreement with that assertion. :D

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gkmy wrote:
December 2010

Wounded Galaxies... one of the best of 2010!

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naunyyn wrote:
December 2010

I agree with Smirnon. A Cyclobe beanie would be the best. Or even better. A Cyclobe moped!

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Smirnon wrote:
December 2010

oh yeah, a Cyclobe beanie, that's all i ever wished for!

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naunyyn wrote:
November 2010

Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window is a fantastic album!

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phx93 wrote:
November 2010

Might I just say, that Wounded Galaxies brought back my belief in music.. Absolutely brilliant.

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black_antlers wrote:
October 2010

http://www.cyclobe.com/shop-wounded-galaxies.php new album being released, brilliant from what I've listened to so far

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XXITheWorld wrote:
January 2010

They did the soundtrack for DeathBed: The Bed that Eats

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Smirnon wrote:
December 2009

peculiar one

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Saalbruch wrote:
October 2009

I suppose the song is "Remember, Archangels Protect Us": http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/gg70.php?site=cyclobe08 But I have never listened to the recorded version of it. I have no possibility to play vinlys at my 12,4 square meters flat in Cologne. Still, the show in Krems has been breathtaking! I didn't know Cyclobe by that time and was blown away by their soul opening. Right now I'm transcribing an interview with these two loveley guys into German. It's going to be published soon. I love them so much! More than I love cats! :)

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