Cold Furnace, Bielefeld

"Cold Furnace" was the name of the recording space Stephen Parsick used between January 2010 and June 2013 rather than a label in its own right. Based in the rural surroundings of Bielefeld, Germany, this was the place where Parsick recorded a series of solo albums ("permafrost" and its live performance "music to walk through" inside Oberhausen Gasometer on 18th December 2010) as well as the collaborative album "lament" with Markus Reuter and the ['ramp] albums "steel and steam", return", and "astral disaster". The name of the studio harks back to Einstürzende Neubauten's track "Sabrina" ("the cold furnace in which we stare") and refers to the heaters that didn't work throughout the winter of 2009/10, making this a hideously cold environment to live and work within. "Cold Furnace" replaced the Zwischenraum recording space in Werther in late 2009 and ceased to exist by 30th June 2013.