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]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Halt]]> The long-awaited follow up, eight years in the making, this epic album marks the final chapter in the Foetus saga. HALT features eleven new compositions by JG Thirlwell. Available for pre-order November 14, 2025.

CD features a six panel digi-pack with 24 page booklet.
CD ships with free 3" x 3" Foetus sticker.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Halt]]> The long-awaited follow up, eight years in the making, this epic album marks the final chapter in the Foetus saga. HALT features eleven new compositions by JG Thirlwell.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros. Vol. 3]]> Thirlwell’s unique and influential score for The Venture Bros. drawn from seasons 1-7. The CD contains detailed sleeve notes by Thirlwell. Thirlwell was nominated for an Annie Award (the highest honor in the field of animation) for his “outstanding achievement in music” on The Venture Bros in 2016. He created the musical score for the show since its debut in 2003 until it finished its run with Season 7 in 2019. The CD version contains 34 tracks.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros. Vol. 3]]> Thirlwell’s unique and influential score for The Venture Bros. drawn from seasons 1-7. Thirlwell was nominated for an Annie Award (the highest honor in the field of animation) for his “outstanding achievement in music” on The Venture Bros in 2016. He created the musical score for the show since its debut in 2003 until it finished its run with Season 7 in 2019. This zip contains all 34 tracks.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Halt – Vinyl]]> The long-awaited follow up, eight years in the making, this epic album marks the final chapter in the Foetus saga. HALT features eleven new compositions by JG Thirlwell. Available for pre-order November 14, 2025.

Double album on black/red and gray/white colored vinyl. Artwork printed on inner sleeves and 12” x 24” poster insert included with frame-able artwork on one side and lyrics on the other. Includes download card for digital files. Album is shipped with free 3″ x 3″ Foetus sticker.

Note: You must also add the special vinyl invoice to your cart (above) if you are purchasing this record. Please only add one invoice per cart total (regardless of the quantity of records ordered).

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros. Vol. 2]]> The long-awaited follow up to the highly popular score from the hit Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, composed and performed by JG Thirlwell. Please respect the wishes of this artist by not uploading material to blogs, torrents, P2P services and social sharing sites.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros. Vol. 2]]> The long-awaited follow up to the highly popular score from the hit Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, composed and performed by JG Thirlwell. Please respect the wishes of this artist by not uploading material to blogs, torrents, P2P services and social sharing sites.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros. Vol. 3 – Vinyl]]> Thirlwell’s unique and influential score for The Venture Bros. drawn from seasons 1-7. Thirlwell was nominated for an Annie Award (the highest honor in the field of animation) for his “outstanding achievement in music” on The Venture Bros in 2016. He created the musical score for the show since its debut in 2003 until it finished its run with Season 7 in 2019.

There are 21 tracks on the vinyl LP version. The album is pressed on “Canyon Effect“ colored vinyl and comes with a download code so the buyer may obtain the full album digitally. Album is shipped with free 3" x 3" 'Music Of The Venture Bros' sticker. Note: You must add the special vinyl invoice to your cart (above) if you are purchasing at least one vinyl record. Only one invoice per cart quantity is required (regardless of how many records ordered).

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros. Vol. 1]]> The original score from the hit Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, composed and performed by JG Thirlwell.

"JG Thirlwell''s brilliant music for The Venture Brothers injects new energy to the world of cartoon soundtracks.  An extension of his work with Steroid Maximus, the music is filled with honesty, imagination and excitement.  Like all great soundtrack composers, JGT is a compendium of music history and he jumps easily from one genre to another with flamboyant style - mambo, drum ''n'' bass, electronica, 20th century classical, lounge, calliope carousel, big band jazz - nothing seems to escape his unerring ear, but no matter where he goes, he always remains uniquely himself.  ...This is great music." John Zorn, NYC 2008 (from the sleeve notes)

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros. Vol. 2 – Vinyl]]> The long-awaited follow up to the highly popular score from the hit Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, composed and performed by JG Thirlwell. Please respect the wishes of this artist by not uploading material to blogs, torrents, P2P services and social sharing sites. The vinyl also comes with a download code so the buyer may obtain the full album digitally. Note: You must also add the special vinyl invoice to your cart (above) if you are purchasing at least one vinyl record. Only one invoice per cart quantity is required (regardless of how many records ordered).

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Venture Bros. Vol. 1]]> The long-awaited score from the hit Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, composed and performed by JG Thirlwell.

"JG Thirlwell's brilliant music for The Venture Brothers injects new energy to the world of cartoon soundtracks.  An extension of his work with Steroid Maximus, the music is filled with honesty, imagination and excitement.  Like all great soundtrack composers, JGT is a compendium of music history and he jumps easily from one genre to another with flamboyant style - mambo, drum 'n' bass, electronica, 20th century classical, lounge, calliope carousel, big band jazz - nothing seems to escape his unerring ear, but no matter where he goes, he always remains uniquely himself.  ...This is great music." John Zorn, NYC 2008 (from the sleeve notes)

Also available on vinyl here

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: Archer Volume 1 OST]]> Archer Volume 1 is the long-awaited soundtrack album of JG Thirlwell‘s scores for the animated FX series Archer. Thirlwell created the musical score for season 7-14 of the series, from 2015-2023. The album comprises 27 tracks and is drawn from seasons 7-9 of the show. The digital version of the album comprises 30 tracks.Thirlwell joined the show on season 7 and was able to expand and build on the Archer universe with his musical stylings. The show won an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Animated Program for season 7.

]]> <![CDATA[Xordox: Terraform – Vinyl]]> Limited edition vinyl pressed on stunning black and white splatter vinyl. Download card included.‘Terraform’, is the third release from JG Thirlwell's synthesizer-based project Xordox, and the first to be released on Ectopic Ents. ‘Terraform’ merges science fiction, crime noir and epic film score elements in a highly evocative and gripping manner. In this chapter of the Xordox saga, the intensity increases, as the driving compositions soar, tumble and occasionally explode.

Note: The track ’Neural Network’ is edited for length on the vinyl. The full version is on the download.

Note: You must add the special vinyl invoice to your cart (above) if you are purchasing this record. Please only add one invoice per cart total (regardless of the quantity of records ordered).

]]> <![CDATA[Xordox: Terraform]]> Limited edition six panel digipack designed by JG Thirlwell.‘Terraform’, is the third release from JG Thirlwell's synthesizer-based project Xordox, and the first to be released on Ectopic Ents. ‘Terraform’ merges science fiction, crime noir and epic film score elements in a highly evocative and gripping manner. In this chapter of the Xordox saga, the intensity increases, as the driving compositions soar, tumble and occasionally explode.

]]> <![CDATA[Xordox: Omniverse – Vinyl]]> ‘Omniverse’, is the second release from JG Thirlwell's synthesizer-based project Xordox. Omniverse merges science fiction, crime noir and epic film score elements in a highly evocative and audacious style. Layers of tense sequencing and noir tinged keyboard lines invoke powerful images of films and memory, screens and speakers, sound and space, all entering the cosmos and the subsequent galactic race. Like all of Thirlwell’s output, it is simply one hell of an enjoyable journey to take.

 

Please note, the vinyl contains a shorter version of the track 'Oil Slick', due to the medium's time constraints. The track is in its full 13 minute glory on the MP3 of the album, which is included via a digital download card.

 

Note: You must add the special vinyl invoice to your cart (above) if you are purchasing this record. Please only add one invoice per cart total (regardless of the quantity of records ordered).

]]> <![CDATA[Xordox: Terraform]]> ‘Terraform’, is the third release from JG Thirlwell's synthesizer-based project Xordox, and the first to be released on Ectopic Ents. ‘Terraform’ merges science fiction, crime noir and epic film score elements in a highly evocative and gripping manner. In this chapter of the Xordox saga, the intensity increases, as the driving compositions soar, tumble and occasionally explode.

]]> <![CDATA[Xordox: Omniverse]]> ‘Omniverse’, is the second release from JG Thirlwell's synthesizer-based project Xordox. Omniverse merges science fiction, crime noir and epic film score elements in a highly evocative and audacious style. Layers of tense sequencing and noir tinged keyboard lines invoke powerful images of films and memory, screens and speakers, sound and space, all entering the cosmos and the subsequent galactic race. Like all of Thirlwell’s output, it is simply one hell of an enjoyable journey to take.

]]> <![CDATA[Xordox: Neospection]]> JG Thirlwell‘s new musical project is Xordox. This is the first album entitled Neospection, released on the highly respected and influential Editions Mego label. Neospection is predominantly a synthesizer record, recorded at Self Immolation studios in Brooklyn, although it also includes overdubs of Buchla and Serge synthesizer created during Thirlwell’s residency at the legendary EMS Studio in Stockholm. The album features Noveller’s Sarah Lipstate on guitar on three of the eight tracks.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: Archer Volume 1 OST – Vinyl]]> Archer Volume 1 is the long-awaited soundtrack album of JG Thirlwell‘s scores for the animated FX series Archer. Thirlwell created the musical score for season 7-14 of the series, from 2015-2023.

The album comprises 27 tracks and is drawn from seasons 7-9 of the show. It is released on maraschino red vinyl.

Thirlwell joined the show on season 7 and was able to expand and build on the Archer universe with his musical stylings. The show won an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Animated Program for season 7.

Note: This product has sold out on this site, but the MP3 version of the album is still available.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Ache – Vinyl Remaster]]> Long-awaited vinyl reissue of the second Foetus album, ACHE, to coincide with it’s 40th anniversary. Meticulously remastered by Josh Bonati in 2022 and pressed on white vinyl in a limited run of 1000. The album includes a reproduction of the original promo poster from the album, a download code of the tracks (either high quality 320kbps mp3 or .wav files) and a 5" x 5" sticker of the album cover art signed by JG Thirlwell.

On its release it was acclaimed by the music press, John Peel and even cited by Leonard Cohen on more than one occasion. Over the years the album has become a highly sought-after collectors item.

Note: You must add the special vinyl invoice to your cart (above) if you are purchasing this record. Please only add one invoice per cart total (regardless of the quantity of records ordered).

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell & Mivos Quartet: Dystonia]]> ‘Dystonia’ is an album of JG Thirlwell’s string quartet compositions performed by Mivos Quartet. Recording took place at Shiny Things Studio in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn with Mike Tierney recording and engineering.The sleeve notes were written by composer Michael Gordon.Released and distributed through Cantaloupe Music.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell & Mivos Quartet: Dystonia]]> ‘Dystonia’ is an album of JG Thirlwell’s string quartet compositions performed by Mivos Quartet. Recording took place at Shiny Things Studio in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn with Mike Tierney recording and engineering.The sleeve notes were written by composer Michael Gordon.Released and distributed through Cantaloupe Music.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: Imponderable – Original Soundtrack]]> Original musical score for Tony Oursler’s feature-length film/installation Imponderable.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Deaf – Vinyl Remaster]]> Exclusive red vinyl limited edition reissue of the very first Foetus album released in 1981. A wild eccentric collision of ideas and mania from music concrete, funk, no wave to noise.Released under the moniker "You've Got Foetus On Your Breath", the DEAF album was originally released on JG Thirlwell’s Self Immolation label (while a resident of London). Over the years the album has become a highly sought-after collectors item. The 2019 reissue was remastered by Josh Bonati. The album is packaged with a reproduction of the original promo poster from the album and a digital download card.

Note: You must also add the special vinyl invoice to your cart (above) if you are purchasing this record. Please only add one invoice per cart total (regardless of the quantity of records ordered).

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell and Simon Steensland: Oscillospira]]> JG Thirlwell and Swedish multi-instrumentalist and theatre music composer Simon Steensland, collaborate on a new album entitled "Oscillospira". Different yet complementary, both creators make idiosyncratic music that can be characterized by dramatic intensity, shadowy suspense, darkness and light, sometimes breathtaking and always evocative cinematics. Oscillospira is an odyssey of dark chamber prog with a cinematic bent. The extraordinary drummer Morgan Ågren (Mats/Morgan band, Zappa, Devin Townsend etc) plays on all the tracks, bringing them to life in an explosive manner. The record also includes contributions from a variety of guest musicians playing oboe, bass clarinet, violin, voice and further sonic embellishments to enrich the album. This eight track album is released on Mike Patton’s label Ipecac Recordings.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: Imponderable – Original Soundtrack]]> JG Thirlwell has created the original musical score for Tony Oursler’s feature-length film/installation Imponderable. The CD is packaged in deluxe digipack with silver foil lettering with a 48 page color booklet containing stills from the film and images from Oursler’s archive of supernatural and occult phenomena.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell and Simon Steensland: Oscillospira]]> JG Thirlwell and Swedish multi-instrumentalist and theatre music composer Simon Steensland, collaborate on a new album entitled "Oscillospira". Different yet complementary, both creators make idiosyncratic music that can be characterized by dramatic intensity, shadowy suspense, darkness and light, sometimes breathtaking and always evocative cinematics. Oscillospira is an odyssey of dark chamber prog with a cinematic bent. The extraordinary drummer Morgan Ågren (Mats/Morgan band, Zappa, Devin Townsend etc) plays on all the tracks, bringing them to life in an explosive manner. The record also includes contributions from a variety of guest musicians playing oboe, bass clarinet, violin, voice and further sonic embellishments to enrich the album. This eight track album is released on Mike Patton’s label Ipecac Recordings.

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Blue Eyes – Original Soundtrack]]> JG Thirlwell's original score for the motion picture "The Blue Eyes". The film was written, directed and produced by Eva Aridjis. Score composed, produced, recorded and performed by JG Thirlwell, with Karen Waltuch on violin and viola, Isabel Castevi on cello, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, Nathan Koci on french horn and Marcus Rojas on tuba and bass trombone.
File size: 96.6mb

]]> <![CDATA[JG Thirlwell: The Blue Eyes – Original Soundtrack]]> JG Thirlwell's original score for the motion picture "The Blue Eyes". The film was written, directed and produced by Eva Aridjis.Score composed, produced, recorded and performed by JG Thirlwell, with Karen Waltuch on violin and viola, Isabel Castevi on cello, James Ilgenfritz on contrabass, Nathan Koci on french horn and Marcus Rojas on tuba and bass trombone.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Soak]]> SOAK is a companion/satellite album to the previous Foetus release HIDE. Some of the tracks on SOAK were begun at the same time as the HIDE sessions or recorded since, but provide a conceptual progression and/or expansion on some of the themes and ideas of HIDE. For legal reasons, the track “Danger Global Warming: JG Thirlwell remix” is only available on CD and not on the digital version of the album.

File size:111.4mb

 

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: Dinoflagellate Blooms]]> Stereo CD and 5.1 DVD. Dinoflagellate Blooms features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell. The package includes a CD of the album in stereo, and a DVD with the album in glorious, immersive 5.1 surround sound.The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities.Initial quantities come with a free 4x5 Manorexia by JG Thirlwell.

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters]]> The new album from Manorexia. The album is 50 minutes long and contains eight tracks, radically rearranged from the first two Manorexia albums and performed by the chamber ensemble version of Manorexia in the arrangements that JG has been performing and perfecting over the last couple of years. From the sleevenotes:

"Manorexia was conceived in the year 2000. I began working on the first album on Thanksgiving morning and released it in 2001. It was started as an electronic and sample based project where I wanted to explore a spatial quality not existent in my other work. I released two albums as Manorexia, "Volvox Turbo" and "The Radiolarian Ooze", both on my label Ectopic Ents and exclusively thru my website foetus.org.

I had wanted to rearrange some Manorexia compositions for string quartet with percussion for some time, and proposed this to David Sefton at UCLA back in 2002, but in course of those discussions we switched to my Steroid Maximus big band.

Eventually I made the first live performance as Manorexia in Russia in 2006. Kenny Savelson at Bang On A Can proposed my going there for a performance at the same time as the Real Quiet trio of David Cossin, Felix Fan and Andy Russo. Real Quiet agreed to be the core of Manorexia for the Russian dates and we augmented the lineup with two violinists and a violist in Moscow. I rearranged some of the Manorexia material to be played by string quartet, piano, percussion and laptop with Ted Hearne.

I have since formed separate Manorexia ensembles in NYC and London. Manorexia has played at All Tomorrow's Parties, The Whitney Museum, Bang On A Can marathon, Brainwaves Festival and several times at The Stone NYC. This album is the product of the first wave of chamber arrangements of Manorexia material."

-JG Thirlwell

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Hide]]> HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a "neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear". Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell's twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.

File Size:106.7 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: The Radiolarian Ooze]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

Sometimes darkly disorienting, sometimes rhythmic and occasionally almost treading on Steroid Maximus territory, the first thirty-five minutes (eight pieces), gradually build to a frenzy, through soundscapes, alien ethnicities, passing the eavesdropped sounds of sinister goings-on, on into haunting lullabies culminating in a epic eleven-minute-plus chase-opera.The second part of the album, the final four pieces, are beautiful and twisted and enveloping, sometimes best listened to in a semi-somnambulistic state; by the end, the listener may find themselves in paroxysms of ecstasy at the beauty and sadness and strangeness and other-wordly quality of this cycle.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Vein]]> To regard VEIN as purely a remix album is to underestimate its intentions and ambitions. VEIN has material from 2005's LOVE fractured and re-imagined by some of today's most notable artists. It is an immersive, powerful and sometimes harrowing cinematic journey through sound and emotion. Includes contributions by Fennesz, Mike Patton, Jay Wasco, TujikoNuriko, Jason Forrest, TRZTN (of Services), Tweaker, Matmos, TomRecchion and J.G.  Thirlwell.

File Size: 106.1 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: Volvox Turbo]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

Tapping into his instincts, Thirlwell completed the instrumental Volvox Turbo, album within six weeks (a record time for him) and released this exclusively through the online shop. An intensely psychological symphony, the album orbits several multiethnic soundscapes - from Moroccan to Martian - and manipulates those studio mistakes others try to avoid into 14 strangely compelling merging movements. It's been called "a noir narrative filled with anticipation, foreboding and icy climaxes." It resonates more with deep listening. It's a killer acid trip without the LSD.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Love]]> LOVE is a sweeping dramatic epic drenched in harpsichord and orchestras with jarring left turns, bombast and seduction. It features duet with Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields and an appearance by the amazing Pamelia Kurstin, the world's foremost thereminist!

File Size:128.5mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Soak]]> SOAK is a companion/satellite album to the previous Foetus release HIDE. Some of the tracks on SOAK were begun at the same time as the HIDE sessions or recorded since, but provide a conceptual progression and/or expansion on some of the themes and ideas of HIDE. For legal reasons, the track “Danger Global Warming: JG Thirlwell remix” is only available on CD and not on the digital version of the album.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Limb]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

LIMB is an archival release of experimental and minimalist compositions recorded from 1980-1983, from the early days of Foetus and pre-Foetus. Though the material is largely unreleased, some of the pieces have been previously released on the compilation albums by Coil and United Dairies. Some were excavated and some of it was reconstructed or re-edited from compositions on cassette. One piece is constructed from an organ part written in 1982, which JG took the liberty of finishing in 2008. These pieces were made before the introduction of MIDI and sampling technology. It shows the lineage and genesis of some of the methods that JG is working in today.

File Size:165mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Damp]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

Ectopic Ents has released DAMP, a new Foetus album which is a "satellite appendix" album, exclusively thru the Shop page on this website. The music consists mainly of unreleased material as well as some rare material.

File Size: 165.6 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: LIMB CD + DVD + 48-page Book]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

LIMB is an archival release of experimental and minimalist compositions recorded from 1980-1983, from the early days of Foetus and pre-Foetus. 

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Blow]]> The album which remixes FLOW, featuring monster mixes by Amon Tobin, Kid 606, Pan Sonic, DJ Food, Franz Treichler (Young Gods), Phylr, JG Thirlwell, Ursula 1000, Charlie Clouser, Kidney Thieves with Sean Beavan, Panacea and Jay Wasco.

File Size: 144.4 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Flow]]> The mighty millenial debut features eleven fresh monsterpieces from the driving hits "Need Machine" and "Quick Fix" to the dramatic churning epics "Mandelay" and "Kreibabe" to the cinematic bombast of "Suspect:" and breakneck bigband of "Heuldoch" this is an exhausting,exhaustive roller coaster thru the fevered imagination of JG Thirlwell.

"Equal doses of rock thunder and jazzy sleaze, spiked with orchestral grandeur and vocal dynamite set the stage for 1000 petty crimes, prostitution, gambling, divorce, dipsomania, assaults, bribery, craven depravity, driving while putting on your makeup and talking on the cell phone, mayhem and murder......Flow is more than an album - it's an extravaganza! " - Legends magazine

File Size: 145.8 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Null/Void]]> Null and Void were conceived as companion EPs that were released at the same time as GASH. They were later combined into this album. It features many tracks unavailable on other releases plus several remixes of the "hit" "Verklemmt". It also features "See Dick Run" from the Spooky songs For Kids EP and "Incesticide", previously a Reflex magazine flexidisc . Running time is 64:51

File Size: 137.3 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Steroid Maximus: Ectopia]]> Steroid Maximus is the instrumental guise of the inscrutable J.G.Thirlwell (aka FOETUS). This highly acclaimed long awaited album contains the cinematic stylings of JGT encompassing twisted neo-blaxploitation, spy/crime noir-intrigue, haunting soundscapes, sinuous carnal funk, exotic soundtracks of the unimagined and ethnic music from civilisations yet to be invented!

File Size: 123.8 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Gash]]> The classic bone quaking, pulverizing release. The only Foetus album on Sony. Orchestras, horns, guitars and noise collide and erupt in this sick symphony.

"Finally swept into major-label clutches in '95, Foetus spewed up Gash, a magnificent chopper of industrial gruesomeness, vintage horn jazz (check the eleven-minute extravaganza "Slung" for snappy music your grandparents would not condone), sly samples and what can only be described as the string-laden lullaby of hell. Presumably working with the first big studio budget of his career, Foetus gets it all in the grooves, lashing together an eclectic collection as advanced and ambitious as anything he's done." -Trouser Press

File Size: 134.1 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: The Radiolarian Ooze]]> Sometimes darkly disorienting, sometimes rhythmic and occasionally almost treading on Steroid Maximus territory, the first thirty-five minutes (eight pieces), gradually build to a frenzy, through soundscapes, alien ethnicities, passing the eavesdropped sounds of sinister goings-on, on into haunting lullabies culminating in a epic eleven-minute-plus chase-opera...

The second part of the album, the final four pieces, are beautiful and twisted and enveloping, sometimes best listened to in a semi-somnambulistic state; by the end, the listener may find themselves in paroxysms of ecstasy at the beauty and sadness and strangeness and other-wordly quality of this cycle.

File Size: 144.9 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Male]]> A huge live album originally released as a double CD and live DVD, recorded at CBGB. You get the entire whopping 100 minute + double album for the price of a single album. The lineup on this album is JG Thirlwell - vocals; Algis Kizys - bass (Swans); Norman Westberg - guitar (Swans); David Ouimet - keys/trombone (Cop Shoot Cop/Motherhead Bug ; Hahn Rowe - violin (Hugo Largo/Liminal); Vinnie Signorelli - drums (Unsane/Swans)

File Size: 237mb

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: Volvox Turbo]]> Tapping into his instincts, Thirlwell completed the instrumental Volvox Turbo, album within six weeks (a record time for him) and released this exclusively through the online shop. An intensely psychological symphony, the album orbits several multiethnic soundscapes - from Moroccan to Martian - and manipulates those studio mistakes others try to avoid into 14 strangely compelling merging movements. It's been called "a noir narrative filled with anticipation, foreboding and icy climaxes." It resonates more with deep listening. It's a killer acid trip
without the LSD.

File Size: 146.4 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Rife]]> RIFE is an official raw live album recorded in Europe, 1988. The lineup is: J.G. Thirlwell/Vocals, Algis Kizys/Bass (Swans), Ted Parsons/Drums (Prong), Norman Westberg/Guitar (Swans) and Raymond Watts/Keys and Guitar (Pig/KMFDM).
File Size: 189.2 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Vein]]> To regard VEIN as purely a remix album is to underestimate its intentions and ambitions. VEIN has material from 2005's LOVE fractured and re-imagined by some of today's most notable artists. It is an immersive, powerful and sometimes harrowing cinematic journey through sound and emotion. Includes contributions by Fennesz, Mike Patton, Jay Wasco, TujikoNuriko, Jason Forrest, TRZTN (of Services), Tweaker, Matmos, TomRecchion and J.G.  Thirlwell.

File Size: 106.1 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Rife]]> RIFE is an official raw live album recorded in Europe, 1988. The lineup is:

J.G. Thirlwell/Vocals
Algis Kizys/Bass (Swans)
Ted Parsons/Drums (Prong)
Norman Westberg/Guitar (Swans)
Raymond Watts/Keys and Guitar (Pig)

File Size: 189.2 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Null/Void]]> Null and Void were conceived as companion EPs that were released at the same time as GASH. They were later combined into this album. It features many tracks unavailable on other releases plus several remixes of the "hit" "Verklemmt". It also features "See Dick Run" from the Spooky songs For Kids EP and "Incesticide", previously a Reflex magazine flexidisc . Running time is 64:51

File Size: 137.3 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Male]]> A huge live album originally released as a double CD and live DVD, recorded at CBGB. You get the entire whopping 100 minute + double album for the price of a single album.

The lineup on this album is JG Thirlwell - vocals; Algis Kizys - bass (Swans); Norman Westberg - guitar (Swans); David Ouimet - keys/trombone (Cop Shoot Cop/Motherhead Bug ; Hahn Rowe - violin (Hugo Largo/Liminal); Vinnie Signorelli - drums (Unsane/Swans)

File Size: 237mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Ache]]> The second album from Foetus released in 1982. Intense songs that explore cyclical systems like building vocal and piano layers with clattering percussion, tape loops and various paranoid manias.

File Size:96.6mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Gash]]> The classic bone quaking, pulverizing release. The only Foetus album on Sony. Orchestras, horns, guitars and noise collide and erupt in this sick symphony.

"Finally swept into major-label clutches in '95, Foetus spewed up Gash, a magnificent chopper of industrial gruesomeness, vintage horn jazz (check the eleven-minute extravaganza "Slung" for snappy music your grandparents would not condone), sly samples and what can only be described as the string-laden lullaby of hell. Presumably working with the first big studio budget of his career, Foetus gets it all in the grooves, lashing together an eclectic collection as advanced and ambitious as anything he's done." -Trouser Press

File Size: 134.1 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Deaf]]> The first Foetus album, released in 1981 is a wild eccentric collision of ideas and mania from music concrete, funk, no wave to noise.

File Size:134mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Flow]]> The mighty millenial debut features eleven fresh monsterpieces from the driving hits "Need Machine" and "Quick Fix" to the dramatic churning epics "Mandelay" and "Kreibabe" to the cinematic bombast of "Suspect:" and breakneck bigband of "Heuldoch" this is an exhausting,exhaustive roller coaster thru the fevered imagination of JG Thirlwell.

"Equal doses of rock thunder and jazzy sleaze, spiked with orchestral grandeur and vocal dynamite set the stage for 1000 petty crimes, prostitution, gambling, divorce, dipsomania, assaults, bribery, craven depravity, driving while putting on your makeup and talking on the cell phone, mayhem and murder......Flow is more than an album - it's an extravaganza! " - Legends magazine

File Size: 145.8 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Steroid Maximus: Ectopia]]> Steroid Maximus is the instrumental guise of the inscrutable J.G.Thirlwell (aka FOETUS). This highly acclaimed long awaited album contains the cinematic stylings of JGT encompassing twisted neo-blaxploitation, spy/crime noir-intrigue, haunting soundscapes, sinuous carnal funk, exotic soundtracks of the unimagined and ethnic music from civilisations yet to be invented!

File Size: 123.8 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Steroid Maximus: Gondwanaland]]> The groundbreaking instrumental epic of "soundtracks for imaginary films and ethnic music for civilsations yet to be invented". A classic. Featuring contributions from Away, Mark Cunningham, Don Fleming, Lucy Hamilton, Hahn Rowe and Raymond Watts.

File Size: 126.1mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Blow]]> The album which remixes FLOW, featuring monster mixes by Amon Tobin, Kid 606, Pan Sonic, DJ Food, Franz Treichler (Young Gods), Phylr, JG Thirlwell, Ursula 1000, Charlie Clouser, Kidney Thieves with Sean Beavan, Panacea and Jay Wasco.

File Size: 144.4 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Steroid Maximus: Quilombo]]> Originally conceived as two EPs (hence the inclusion of Quilombo and Life in the Greehouse Effect, which also appear in slightly different versions on Gondwanaland). This cinematic album creeps into the recesses of your brain in a rapturous, ravenous seduction.

File Size: 98.9mb

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: Dinoflagellate Blooms]]> Dinoflagellate Blooms features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell.The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities.

File size: 135mb

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters]]> The new album from Manorexia. The album is 50 minutes long and contains eight tracks, radically rearranged from the first two Manorexia albums and performed by the chamber ensemble version of Manorexia in the arrangements that JG has been performing and perfecting over the last couple of years. 

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: The Radiolarian Ooze]]> Sometimes darkly disorienting, sometimes rhythmic and occasionally almost treading on Steroid Maximus territory, the first thirty-five minutes (eight pieces), gradually build to a frenzy, through soundscapes, alien ethnicities, passing the eavesdropped sounds of sinister goings-on, on into haunting lullabies culminating in a epic eleven-minute-plus chase-opera.The second part of the album, the final four pieces, are beautiful and twisted and enveloping, sometimes best listened to in a semi-somnambulistic state; by the end, the listener may find themselves in paroxysms of ecstasy at the beauty and sadness and strangeness and other-wordly quality of this cycle.
File Size: 144.9 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: Volvox Turbo]]> Tapping into his instincts, Thirlwell completed the instrumental Volvox Turbo, album within six weeks (a record time for him) and released this exclusively through the online shop. An intensely psychological symphony, the album orbits several multiethnic soundscapes - from Moroccan to Martian - and manipulates those studio mistakes others try to avoid into 14 strangely compelling merging movements. It's been called "a noir narrative filled with anticipation, foreboding and icy climaxes." It resonates more with deep listening.
File Size: 146.4 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Hydroze Plus]]> Hydroze Plus is Fred Bigot: instruments/music & JG Thirlwell: vocals/lyrics. Composed by Fred Bigot (GEMA) and JG Thirlwell (Ectopic Music).Recorded at Nolite Studio, Berlin, 2005-2009 with additional recording at Self Immolation Studios, Brooklyn.
File Size: 43.3 mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Ache]]> The second album from Foetus released in 1982. Intense songs that explore cyclical systems like building vocal and piano layers with clattering percussion, tape loops and various paranoid manias.

File Size:96.6mb

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: Volvox Turbo]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

Tapping into his instincts, Thirlwell completed the instrumental Volvox Turbo, album within six weeks (a record time for him) and released this exclusively through the online shop. An intensely psychological symphony, the album orbits several multiethnic soundscapes - from Moroccan to Martian - and manipulates those studio mistakes others try to avoid into 14 strangely compelling merging movements. It's been called "a noir narrative filled with anticipation, foreboding and icy climaxes." It resonates more with deep listening. It's a killer acid trip without the LSD.

]]> <![CDATA[Manorexia: The Radiolarian Ooze]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

Sometimes darkly disorienting, sometimes rhythmic and occasionally almost treading on Steroid Maximus territory, the first thirty-five minutes (eight pieces), gradually build to a frenzy, through soundscapes, alien ethnicities, passing the eavesdropped sounds of sinister goings-on, on into haunting lullabies culminating in a epic eleven-minute-plus chase-opera...

The second part of the album, the final four pieces, are beautiful and twisted and enveloping, sometimes best listened to in a semi-somnambulistic state; by the end, the listener may find themselves in paroxysms of ecstasy at the beauty and sadness and strangeness and other-wordly quality of this cycle.

]]> <![CDATA[Steroid Maximus: Ectopia]]> Steroid Maximus is the instrumental guise of the inscrutable J.G.Thirlwell (aka FOETUS).
This highly acclaimed long awaited album contains the cinematic stylings of JGT encompassing twisted neo-blaxploitation, spy/crime noir-intrigue, haunting soundscapes, sinuous carnal funk, exotic soundtracks of the unimagined and ethnic music from civilisations yet to be invented!

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]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Love]]> LOVE is a sweeping dramatic epic drenched in harpsichord and orchestras withjarring left turns, bombast and seduction. It features duet with Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields and an appearance by the amazing Pamelia Kurstin, the world's foremost thereminist!

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Damp]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

Ectopic Ents has released DAMP, a  Foetus  "satellite appendix" album, exclusively thru the Shop on this website. The music consists mainly of unreleased material as well as some rare material. The DAMP cover is a ten panel foldout with lyrics, featuring photos and design by JG Thirlwell.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Vein]]> To regard VEIN as purely a remix album is to underestimate its intentions and ambitions. VEIN has material from 2005's LOVE fractured and re-imagined by some of today's most notable artists. It is an immersive, powerful and sometimes harrowing cinematic journey through sound and emotion. Includes contributions by Fennesz, Mike Patton, Jay Wasco, TujikoNuriko, Jason Forrest, TRZTN (of Services), Tweaker, Matmos, TomRecchion and J.G.  Thirlwell.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: Love]]> LOVE is a sweeping dramatic epic drenched in harpsichord and orchestras with jarring left turns, bombast and seduction. It features duet with Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields and an appearance by the amazing Pamelia Kurstin, the world's foremost thereminist!

File Size:128.5mb

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus: LIMB CD + DVD + 48-page Book]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

LIMB is an archival release of experimental and minimalist compositions recorded from 1980-1983, from the early days of Foetus and pre-Foetus. Though the material is largely unreleased, some of the pieces have been previously released on the compilation albums by Coil and United Dairies. Some were excavated and some of it was reconstructed or re-edited from compositions on cassette. One piece is constructed from an organ part written in 1982, which JG took the liberty of finishing in 2008. These pieces were made before the introduction of MIDI and sampling technology. It shows the lineage and genesis of some of the methods that JG is working in today.

]]> <![CDATA[Foetus of Excellence: T-Shirt (Limited Edition)]]> ECT TS 004

]]> <![CDATA[Domoscape #1]]>
  • Four-color screen print in Thirlwell’s signature palette of black, red, white and gray.
  • Signed and numbered edition of 150, only 40 copies available in the Foetus Shoppe.
  • Printed on French 100lb cover paper, 24″ x 18.” Fits in standard sized frame.

    • Sold Out.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Fomoscape #2]]>
  • Four-color screen print in Thirlwell’s signature palette of black, red, white and gray.
  • Signed and numbered edition of 65, only 55 copies available in the Foetus Shoppe.
  • Printed on French 100lb cover paper, 24″ x 18.” Fits in standard sized frame.
  • $75.00 plus flat postage and packaging fee. Print ships in a tube by itself.
    • ]]>         <![CDATA[Foetus: Damp]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

    Ectopic Ents has released DAMP, a new Foetus album which is a "satellite appendix" album, exclusively thru the Shop page on this website. The music consists mainly of unreleased material as well as some rare material.

    File Size: 165.6 mb

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Foetus Arrow T-Shirt]]> Click on Thumbnail for Larger View

    Sold Out/Not Currently Available.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Nomoscape #3]]>
  • Four-color screen print in Thirlwell’s signature palette of black, red, white and gray.
  • Signed and numbered edition of 75, only 60 copies available in the Foetus Shoppe.
  • Printed on French 100lb cover paper, 24″ x 18.” Fits in standard sized frame.
  • $75.00 plus flat postage and packaging fee. Print ships in a tube by itself.

    • When buying prints you can NOT mix with other product types in the same shipment.

    Please order CDs, T-shirts, vinyl, tote bags, or mp3s as a separate order.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Foetus: Limb]]> Exclusive website-only limited release. Unavailable elsewhere!

    LIMB is an archival release of experimental and minimalist compositions recorded from 1980-1983, from the early days of Foetus and pre-Foetus. Though the material is largely unreleased, some of the pieces have been previously released on the compilation albums by Coil and United Dairies. Some were excavated and some of it was reconstructed or re-edited from compositions on cassette. One piece is constructed from an organ part written in 1982, which JG took the liberty of finishing in 2008. These pieces were made before the introduction of MIDI and sampling technology. It shows the lineage and genesis of some of the methods that JG is working in today.

    File Size:165mb

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Foetus Arabic T-Shirt (Limited Edition)]]> Click on Thumbnail for Larger View

    Sold Out/No Longer Available.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Pomoscape #4]]>
  • Four-color screen print in Thirlwell’s signature palette of black, red, white and gray.
  • Signed and numbered edition of 75, only 60 copies available in the Foetus Shoppe.
  • Printed on French 100lb cover paper, 24″ x 18.” Fits in standard sized frame.
  • $75.00 plus flat postage and packaging fee. Print ships in a tube by itself.

    • When buying prints you can NOT mix with other product types in the same shipment.

    Please order CDs, T-shirts, vinyl, tote bags, or mp3s as a separate order.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Hydroze Plus]]> Hydroze Plus is Fred Bigot: instruments/music & JG Thirlwell: vocals/lyrics
    Composed by Fred Bigot (GEMA) and JG Thirlwell (Ectopic Music)
    Recorded at Nolite Studio, Berlin, 2005-2009 with additional recording at Self Immolation Studios, Brooklyn.

    1. Overcoat (4′45)
    2. Belladonna (4′18)
    (CalmCalm remix by Fred Bigot)

    3. Epi-Dose (4′18)
    (Overcoat remix by JG Thirlwell)
    4. CalmCalm (5′36)

    File Size: 43.3 mb

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Foetus: Hide]]> HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a
    "neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear". Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell's twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.

    Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music. Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell's Manorexia ensemble on violin. In addition
    Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).

    Initial quantities of HIDE will come with a free 5" x 5" sticker of the front cover signed by JG Thirlwell .

    'Hide' unquestionably marks yet another fantastic addition to the already astounding Foetus catalogue, and is one of those albums that demands repeat listening, and lots of it

    Christopher Nosnibor -whisperinandhollerin.com

    Ambitious, overwhelming, rough, rugged.... saddle up for a blaze into a flawed but ambitious psychedelic opera.

    -sputnikmusic.com

    Over the course of his career, Jim Thirlwell has hugely expanded his repertoire with his Manorexia and Steroid Maximus projects as well as soundtrack work......

    ...However, no matter what sideline work he does, when he comes back to Foetus it is a guarantee that the music will be brilliant. His role as a composer has fed progressively more into Foetus (fitting considering the seeds of Manorexia were sown and germinated in earlier Foetus albums) and Hide has a much wider scope than previously encountered.

    John Kealy -Brainwashed.com

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Foetus Japanese T-Shirt (Limited Edition)]]> Sold Out/No Longer Available.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Vomoscape #5]]>
  • Four-color screen print in Thirlwell’s signature palette of black, red, white and gray.
  • Signed and numbered edition of 75, only 60 copies available in the Foetus Shoppe.
  • Printed on French 100lb cover paper, 24″ x 18.” Fits in standard sized frame.
  • $75.00 plus flat postage and packaging fee. Print ships in a tube by itself.

    • When buying prints you can NOT mix with other product types in the same shipment.

    Please order CDs, T-shirts, vinyl, tote bags, or mp3s as a separate order.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Manorexia: Dinoflagellate Blooms]]> Stereo CD and 5.1 DVD

    Dinoflagellate Blooms features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell. The package includes a CD of the album in stereo, and a DVD with the album in glorious, immersive 5.1 surround sound.

    The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities.

    Initial quantities come with a free 4x5 Manorexia by JG Thirlwell.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Foetus: Hide]]> HIDE features ten new compositions by JG Thirlwell, who describes it as a
    "neo-symphonic avant-psychedelic concept album informed by the culture of fear". Kicking off with a nine minute operatic opus featuring the guest vocal talents of opera singer Abby Fischer, HIDE is an immersive album infused with strands of progressive and contemporary classical, as well as Thirlwell's twisting cinematic journeys, bombast and sombre interludes.

    Thirlwell produced the album and performs most of the music. Also guesting on the album are long time collaborator Steven Bernstein on trumpet and Leyna Marika Papach from Thirlwell's Manorexia ensemble on violin. In additionElliot Hoffman of Carbomb plays drums on a track, and there are appearances from Ed Pastorini, Jeff Davidson and Christian Gibbs (Lucinda Blackbear).

    File Size:106.7 mb
    (We recommend not opening another browser window/tab or navigating away from the page while download is in progress.)

    Please respect the wishes of the artist by not uploading this album to blogs, torrents or other P2P services.

    'Hide' unquestionably marks yet another fantastic addition to the already astounding Foetus catalogue, and is one of those albums that demands repeat listening, and lots of it

    Christopher Nosnibor -whisperinandhollerin.com

    Ambitious, overwhelming, rough, rugged.... saddle up for a blaze into a flawed but ambitious psychedelic opera.

    -sputnikmusic.com

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Foetus Russian T-Shirt (Limited Edition)]]> Sold Out / No Longer Available.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Zomoscape #6]]>
  • Four-color screen print in Thirlwell’s signature palette of black, red, white and gray.
  • Signed and numbered edition of 75, only 60 copies available in the Foetus Shoppe.
  • Printed on French 100lb cover paper, 24″ x 18.” Fits in standard sized frame.
  • $75.00 plus flat postage and packaging fee. Print ships in a tube by itself.

    • When buying prints you can NOT mix with other product types in the same shipment.

    Please order CDs, T-shirts, vinyl, tote bags, or mp3s as a separate order.

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Nomoscape #3]]> Signed and numbered edition . 4 color screenprint on French 100lb cover, 24x18

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Manorexia: Dinoflagellate Blooms]]> Dinoflagellate Blooms features eleven compositions composed, produced and performed by JG Thirlwell.

    The album careens between soft plucked interludes to full blown symphonic frenzy, from musiq concrete nightmares to cinematic mindfields, with a meticulous marriage of samples and live instruments, distressed sounds and mysterious unknown quantities.

    File size: 135mb

    ]]>         <![CDATA[Domoscape #1]]> Signed and numbered edition. 4 color screenprint on French 100lb cover, 24x18. Sold Out. Purchase from Kayrock.

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