Thomas Ekelund's old musical alter-ego Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words was laid to rest back in 2011, but he recently exhumed 16 extra leftover copies of the bonus 7" that came with his final release "Lost in reflection" which contained his final two songs recorded under said alias and has created new sleeves for them and will be offering them for sale starting Monday. Full details here.
Thomas Ekelund of Trepaneringsritualen/Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words/ created a mix for the website Secret Thirteen featuring a bunch of stuff from his own label and back-catalog as well as a nice selection of quality industrial/darkwave/postpunk: http://secretthirteen.org/secret-thirteen-mix-023-dead-letters-spell-out-dead-words/
Visual stimulation from Trepaneringsritualen, one of many aliases of Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Soma Sema). The new 10" "Deathward, to the womb" will be released soon via .
The human voice, rendered as a long, dark drone via Thomas Martin Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Soma Sema).
Thomas Ekelund of Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words/Soma Sema/etc. has put together a mix of classic Swedish postpunk/new-wave for listening via Mixcloud: http://i.mixcloud.com/CuXi1
Check out a great coldwave/synthpop mix compiled by Thomas Ekelund of Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words/Soma Sema/Trepaneringsritualen: http://www.mixcloud.com/DreadWords/malignant-tumor-of-the-heart/
It's not all Scandinavian, but don't let that stop you from checking it out.
Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) lists his current musical playlist picks for Hammer Smashed Sound: http://www.hammersmashedsound.com/2011/08/playlist-thomas-ekelund.html
INRI, the industrial noise duo of Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and Joachim Nordwall (The Skull Defekts, ), will be making their live debut at this year's Norberg Festival: http://www.norbergfestival.com/2011/artists/irni-thomas-ekelund-and-joachim-nordwall.html
Not that it can compete with actually being there, but here's live footage from this weekend's iDEAL Fest featuring the last-ever performance by Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words. Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VsBb_DD2KU
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words has unveiled his final two tracks which will be included on a bonus 7" that comes with the upcoming "Dreadcade" LP collection. I preordered mine, did you?
Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and American artist Terence Hannum (Locrian) have collaborated on a new zine/CDr as the 12th penultimate edition in Hannum's year-long zine series "Heresies". The music is a massive 34-minute drone piece which can be sampled here, but it's also worth checking out the physical object because it comes in a very cool letterpressed package -- head to Thomas' site for a preview: http://www.whenskiesaregrey.se/
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words will be saying farewell with "Dreadcade", a final release/epitaph capturing nine limited/hard-to-find/unreleased tracks from the past 10 years in a single LP collection to be released via /. No official release date beyond "early 2011", but you can preorder now to secure a copy which will come with a bonus 7" of the very last Dead Letters recordings: http://dreadcade.com/
