Old Europa Cafe is an Italian

Italy

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 independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 and mail order service specializing in ambient music

Ambient music

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, noise music

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

, electronic music

Electronic music

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, and industrial music

Industrial music

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. It is based in Pordenone

Pordenone

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. Originating in the early 1980s Old Europa Cafe began as a small cassette label. Some of the original Old Europa Cafe artists included De Fabriek, Mauro Teho Teardo, and Brume. According to founder Rodolfo Protti, Old Europa Cafe has two guidelines for musick it releases - Uncompromising industrial sounds and exoteric dark ambient styles.

Artists

• A Challenge of Honour
  A Challenge of Honour
  A Challenge of Honour are a Dutch music project. They create music in the genres of Modern Classical, Industrial, Experimental, Neofolk.-History:...
  
  
• Aesthetic Meat Front
• Ah-Cama Sotz
• Ain Soph
• Alessandro Pacciani
• Alk0
• Andrew King
• Anima Mundi
• Atrax Morgue
  Atrax Morgue
  Atrax Morgue was the nom de plume of Italian noise musician Marco Corbelli. Many of Atrax Morgue's early material was released on cassette, as part of the industrial/noise 'cassette underground' of the early 1990s. Often these cassettes were released on Corbelli's own Slaughter Productions label,...
  
  
• Aube
• Autopsia
  Autopsia
  Autopsia is an art project dealing with music and visual production. Autopsia gathers authors of different professions in realization of multimedia projects. Its art practice began in London in the late 1970s, continued during the 80s in the art centers of former Yugoslavia. Since 1990, Autopsia...
  
  
• Black Sun Productions
  Black Sun Productions
  Black Sun Productions is the project of sound, visual and performance artists & activists Massimo & Pierce.-Biography:Black Sun Productions is the project of sound, visual and performance "artivists" Massimo & Pierce, also known as the Anarcocks....
  
  
• Bad Sector
  Bad Sector
  Bad Sector is an ambient/noise project formed in 1992 in Tuscany, Italy by Massimo Magrini. While working at the Computer Art Lab of ISTI in Pisa , he developed original gesture interfaces that he uses in live performances: 'Aerial Painting Hand' , 'UV-Stick' Bad Sector is an ambient/noise...
  
  
• Beyond Sensory Experience
• Bleiburg
• Brume
• Calle della Morte
• Circus Joy
• Claustrum
• Con-Dom
• Contagious Orgasm
• David E. Williams
• De Fabriek
• Dead Man's Hill
  Dead man's hill
  Dead Man's Hill is an electronic, death industrial, martial, neo-classical and post-industrial band founded in 1998 by Bart Piette, originally with the name "The Klinik And The Mortuary"...
  
  
• Deathpile
• Deca
• Deutsch Nepal
  Deutsch Nepal
  Deutsch Nepal is the solo industrial/dark ambient project of Swede Lina Der Baby Doll General .- Works :Under the name Deutsch Nepal, Lina has issued eight studio albums and a 7" as well as contributing to various compilations including a split CD with In Slaughter Nativesand another with The Moon...
  
  
• Discordance
• Dissonant Elephant
• Divinus Ball & Runa
• Division S
• Djinn
• Econocon
• ENDVRA
• Exotoendo
• Folkstorm
• Gnomonclast
• HH9
• Hybrids
• I Burn
• Illusion of Safety
• Inanna
• Incinerator International
• Intrinsic Action
• Iugula-Thor
• John Zewizz
  John Zewizz
  John Zewizz is an American industrial music performer. Since the late 1970s Zewizz has recorded hundreds of cassettes, LPs, vinyl, and CD releases. He has also worked as a video director, magazine publisher, and record label owner .- Early life :John McSweeney was born in Essex, England on...
  
  
• K.D.N.R.
• K2
• Kallabris
• Kenji Siratori
• Lonsay Maikov
• Lt. Caramel
• Lucisferrato
• Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte
• Maeror Tri
  Maeror Tri
  Maeror Tri was an ambient noise and drone music band from Germany founded in the 1980s which consisted of Stefan "Baraka H" Knappe, Martin "GLIT[s]CH" Git and Helge Siehl....
  
  
• Merzbow
  Merzbow
  is the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...
  
  
• Militia (band)
• Morpheus
• Myiase
• Na-Dha
• Naevus
  Naevus (band)
  Naevus is a British experimental rock group. Formed in London in 1998 by Lloyd James and Joanne Owen , Naevus were often categorised as part of the ‘neo-folk’ genre...
  
  
• Nazi UFO Commander
• Negru Pulse
• Negru Voda
• Nocturne
  Nocturne
  A nocturne is usually a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night...
  
  
• Nordvargr
  Nordvargr
  Nordvargr is the most commonly used name for Swedish musician Henrik Nordvargr Björkk.-Early Influence:In the late seventies Björkk became aware of music recorded by bands such as Kiss. After this he began buying music on a regular basis, staying true to the metal scene throughout his early teens...
  
  
• Novy Svet
  Novy Svet
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• O Paradis
• Organisation Toth
• Pacific 231
• Panzar
• Post Contemporary Corporation
• Psychonaut 75
• Randy Greif
• Rapoon
  Rapoon
  Rapoon is a musical project of Robin Storey, a former member of Zoviet France, who has released material on notable independent labels such as Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Manifold, Beta-Lactam Ring, and Lens Records.- Selected discography :...
  
  
• Satanismo Calibro 9
• S.Q.E.
• Sigillum S
• Simulacrum
• Sleeping Pictures
• Space Alliance
• Spiritual Front
  Spiritual Front
  Spiritual Front is a five-part neofolk act from Rome. Its members describe their music as "nihilist suicide pop", although elements of neoclassical and rock music, melancholic folk, as well as tango are prevalent, along with a recurring experimental feel...
  
  
• Sshe Retina Stimulants
• Stratvm Terror
• TAC
• Tam Quam Tabula Rasa
• teatro Satanico
• Telepherique
• The Haters
  The Haters
  The Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest and best-known acts in the modern noise scene...
  
  
• The Soil Bleeds Black
  The Soil Bleeds Black
  The Soil Bleeds Black is a pagan Neo-Medieval band from Ashburn, Virginia.-History:The Soil Bleeds Black was conceived in the year 1992 as a project that focused on the experimental visions of twin brothers, Mark and Michael Riddick...
  
  
• This Morn Omina
• This Window
  This Window
  This Window was formed by Peter Bright around 1985; earlier tape experiments exist from 1979 to 1984. These tape experiments formed the basic philosophy of This Window. The analogue tape machine became the main instrument used to create ‘songs’...
  
  
• Toby Dammit
  Toby Dammit
  Toby Dammit , is an American musician, percussionist and composer. He has often been credited as Larry Mullins, his adopted name...
  
  
• Totenlieder
• Troum
  Troum
  Troum is a German project of drone music, ambient music, noise music, and experimental music. It was founded in the late 1990s by Stefan Knappe and Martin Gitschel . It is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Maeror Tri...
  
  
• Voice of Eye
  Voice of eye
  Voice of Eye is a Taos, New Mexico based experimental ambient music duo whose members are Bonnie McNaim and Jim Wilson. Formed in 1991 in Houston, Texas, their sound is one that blends electronic soundscapes, drones, and world music, particularly with Middle Eastern overtones, and tends to evoke an...
  
  
• Vrishika
• Weihan
• Wermut
• Wertham

See also

• List of record labels
• List of electronic music record labels
• Old europa cafe discography
  Old europa cafe discography
  This is a discography for Old Europa Cafe records.* Il Sogno Mediterraneo Di -De Fabriek OECD 001 * Manifesto Industriale Italiano -Various Artist 4XCassette OEC 100* Aurora -Ain Soph CD OECD 053 & OECD 053-X...