Bronnt Industries Kapital is a musical project from
Bristol
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, England based around producer and multi-instrumentalist Guy Bartell. It has released six studio albums, ''Virtute et Industria'', ''Häxan'', ''Hard for Justice'', ''Turksib'', ''Arsenal'' and ''Force The Line''.
Bronnt Industries Kapital's first releases were limited edition CDs and vinyl on Bristol labels
Silent Age, Clean Cut and Float records. The first album was 2005's ''Virtute et Industria'', released on UK independent label
Static Caravan Recordings
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. This was followed in 2007 by an original soundtrack commissioned for the DVD release of the cult Swedish silent film ''Häxan'' by Tartan Films, which was collected on a stand-alone soundtrack album released by Static Caravan the following year. In 2009 Bronnt Industries Kapital released its third album ''Hard for Justice'' on
Berlin, Germany
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label
Get Physical Music
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. In 2015, Bronnt Industries Kapital released its fourth album ''Turksib'' on I Own You Records, an album taken from Bartell's soundtrack to the 1929 Soviet documentary film
of the same name by Viktor Turin, which was commissioned by the
British Film Institute
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for their DVD/Blu-ray release ''The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail''. In 2018 Bronnt Industries Kapital released its fifth album ''Arsenal'' on I Own You Records, an album taken from Bartell's soundtrack to the 1929 Soviet war film
of the same name by Ukrainian director
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko or Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko ( uk, Олександр Петрович Довженко, ''Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko''; russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Довже́нко, ''Aleksandr Petro ...
, which was commissioned by
Dovzhenko Centre (the state film archive of Ukraine) and the
British Council
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. In 2019 Bronnt Industries Kapital released its sixth album ''Force The Line'' on Giallo Disco.
The first Bronnt Industries Kapital album was described as ''gaslight horrortonica'', and featured references to
H. P. Lovecraft and the use of automated Victorian instruments such as Lepping's Patented Lapwing Harmonium and the Bronson Quartet. ''Hard for Justice'' found Bronnt expanding its sound palette, with the use of live instrumentation and elements of
Kosmische musik
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,
Italo disco
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,
post-punk
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and
shoegazing
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. Bartell has often cited his love of film as influencing the Bronnt sound, including
psychotronic exploitation,
Italo-crime and no-budget action thrillers as well as
library music
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’s Nick Talbot on tracks on the first and third Bronnt Industries Kapital albums (they also set up
in 2000). He has been joined in the live group by various members over Bronnt’s history including Nick Talbot, Tom Bugs, Max Milton, François Marry, Antoni Maiovvi and Duncan Fleming. As of 2009 Bartell has been performing Bronnt shows solo.
Bartell has also been involved in the group War Against Sleep for many years, playing instruments in the live band and on recordings.
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* 2011: ''Turksib'' Soundtrack on ''The Soviet Influence: From Turksib to Night Mail'' DVD/Blu-ray (