KOMMANDO was conceived by Dan Courtman as the darker, more anxiety-inducing counterpart to his alter ego, THOROFON.
The project’s earliest recordings date back to 1993 and were self-released the following year as two cassette albums: 'electronic fear' and 'funky spasm'. The surviving archival recordings and artefacts from this period have now been compiled into this CD, documenting the formative stages of a sonic identity that would remain distinctive throughout the project’s subsequent releases.
KOMMANDO conjures a post-capitalist dystopia reduced to zero: a society collapsing under the weight of its own hubris and its failure to cultivate humility. in this desolate world, everything crumbles into dust, leaving behind a poisoned atmosphere in which anxiety festers and inner demons take hold.
Death industrial, power electronics, and dark ambient collide in a claustrophobic sonic architecture where desire, fear, and rage are stripped to their most primal forms. relentless, abrasive, and suffocating, KOMMANDO drives these elemental impulses into a state of perpetual tension, pushing consciousness towards disintegration. What emerges is not merely sound, but the spectacle of consciousness turning against itself, trapped in the ruins of its own making.
Released November 2026 on Ant-Zen Records.
TRACKLIST:
01 Spasm 1
02 Spasm 2
03 Mental Funkyard 1
04 Mental Funkyard 2
05 Mental Funkyard 3
06 Mental Funkyard 4
07 Fear 1
08 Fear 2
09 Fear 3
10 Clinical Death 1
11 Clinical Death 2
English