Trisol mark 35 years of Project Pitchfork debut ‘Dhyani’ with new black 2LP edition
Trisol mark 35 years of Project Pitchfork debut 'Dhyani' with new black 2LP edition
On March 27, 2026, Trisol will issue a new black 2x180g vinyl edition of Project Pitchfork’s debut album “Dhyani,” marking the 35th anniversary of the German electro-industrial group’s first full-length release. Project Pitchfork’s “Dhyani” vinyl reissue arrives as a strictly limited 2LP set of 500 copies, with the black version going into regular distribution while a coloured variant is reserved for Trisol’s own mail-order channels.
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Details of the Project Pitchfork ‘Dhyani’ vinyl reissue
The anniversary edition of “Dhyani” appears as a double 12-inch, cut on 180-gram black vinyl pressed in Germany. The set comes in a sturdy cardboard sleeve and includes printed inner sleeves reproducing the full lyrics. All audio has been newly remastered for vinyl by Robin Schmidt at 24-96 Mastering, a studio known for high-end lacquer cutting and catalogue work for both independent and major artists.
This 2LP configuration presents the complete original album sequence across four sides:
- Side A: “Lost Youth of a Prisoner,” “Fire and Ice,” “Inside”
- Side B: “Doom,” “Box of Steel,” “K.N.K.A.”
- Side C: “Vietnam,” “Message,” “In the Year 2525”
- Side D: “Lie on Grass,” “2nd Step,” “Suicide of the Guardian Angel”
Note that the track “In the Year 2525” is Project Pitchfork’s interpretation of the Zager & Evans song, which has appeared on all core editions of the album since the early 1990s.
The new edition follows Trisol’s ongoing campaign to bring key Project Pitchfork titles back to high-quality physical formats, which has already included multi-disc sets for albums such as “Black,” “Continuum Ride,” and “Akkretion” / “Fragment“, with bonus tracks.
How the original ‘Dhyani’ appeared in 1991
“Dhyani” was first released in May 1991 on the German label Hypnobeat, following the band’s 1990 demo “K.N.K.A.” and early live appearances in Hamburg. The album brought Project Pitchfork’s trademark mix of dark wave, electro-industrial and early EBM, mixed with Peter Spilles’ characteristic vocals.
The original CD issue on Hypnobeat (catalogue CD 21013) already carried the 12-track running order now used for the 35th-anniversary 2LP. However LP editions condensed the material to a 10-track sequence due to side-length limitations, a constraint that the new double-vinyl format removes by distributing all 12 tracks across four sides.
“Dhyani” introduced several songs that would become instant classics, such as “Lost Youth of a Prisoner,” “Fire and Ice” and “K.N.K.A.”, but the biggest hits for sure were “2nd Step” and “Fire and Ice”. The album quickly circulated beyond Germany and laid the foundation for future full-lengths “Lam-‘Bras” and “Entities,” both issued in 1992.
Over the years, “Dhyani” has seen several CD reissues on Hypnobeat and related imprints during the 1990s and early 2000s, keeping the title available even as the band moved on to Off Beat, EastWest and finally Trisol. However, original vinyl copies have remained relatively scarce, which gives this new double-LP pressing particular relevance for collectors who prefer an analogue edition built around a full-album presentation rather than compilation excerpts.
About Project Pitchfork
Project Pitchfork are a dark wave and electro-industrial group from Hamburg, Germany, founded by vocalist and composer Peter Spilles and keyboardist Dirk Scheuber at the end of the 1980s. The pair started collaborating in 1989, chose the band name by picking a random word from a dictionary, and played their first concert in Hamburg in February 1990. That same year they recorded the demo “K.N.K.A.,” which became a blueprint for their early work. In May 1991, Project Pitchfork released their debut album “Dhyani” on Hypnobeat, followed in February 1992 by “Lam-‘Bras,” which also introduced Patricia Nigiani as vocalist, and by “Entities” later the same year.
In the early 1990s, their sound on “Dhyani,” “Lam-‘Bras,” “Entities” and later “IO” was almost entirely electronic, built around sequenced drums, synth basslines, dense pads and samples, with Peter Spilles’ vocals as the main organic element.
By 1994 the group had moved to the Off Beat label for the album “IO,” whose singles “Renascence” and “Carrion” brought them into the German charts and onto larger tours. In 1995 they founded their own imprint, Candyland Entertainment, and issued “Alpha Omega” alongside the EPs “CH’I” and “Corps D’Amour,” while touring with Rammstein as support on selected dates.
The mid- to late 1990s saw the first clear shift in their sound: guest guitar parts appeared on specific tracks (notably around “Souls/Island”), adding grit and emphasis without changing the electronic backbone. With the release of “¡Chakra:Red!” and the concept album “Eon:Eon,” the overall production broadened, heavier guitar elements and live drums surfaced more often, and a dedicated live guitarist became part of the touring line-up. Guitars still did not drive the songs in a traditional rock sense; they mainly doubled synth lines, thickened choruses and provided additional noise layers.
During the 2000s, Project Pitchfork’s studio output included “Daimonion,” the “NUN” trilogy built around the album “Inferno” with the EPs “View From a Throne” and “Trialog,” and later “Kaskade.” From “Daimonion” onward, guitars and live drums became a systematic part of their studio palette. Later albums on Trisol – “Dream, Tiresias!,” “Continuum Ride,” “Quantum Mechanics,” “Black,” “Blood” and “Look Up, I’m Down There” – continued the group’s electronic focus while integrating updated production techniques and using electric and sometimes acoustic guitars as processed textures embedded in the mix.
The band then launched the space-oriented trilogy of “Akkretion,” “Fragment” and “Elysium,” completed in 2024. Across these releases, the fundamental identity remains electronic: sequenced rhythms, synth-driven structures and Spilles’ vocals stay central, with guitars functioning as integrated, often heavily treated layers that reinforce the established sound rather than replace it.
Alongside this studio work, Project Pitchfork have issued several live records and compilations, including “The Early Years (89–93),” the multi-part “Collector” series and the “First Anthology” / “Second Anthology” sets, which assemble material from across their discography and repeatedly return to the starting point of “Dhyani.”
The current live and studio line-up centres on Peter Spilles with long-time keyboardist Jürgen Jansen and drummers Achim Färber and Christian “Leo” Leonhardt. Dirk Scheuber, who co-founded the band and contributed keyboards from 1989 onward, left the group in 2021.
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