Compliments to the estranged luminescence of their traveling companion ‘The Gooh’ by Super Minerals, these twin fantasies issued by the Housecraft boutique nest generously within each other. As if an exploded detail of the below release, the impressionist poetry of ‘Longhouse Spirits Gather For Fragrant Island River Dreams’ by Tuluum Shimmering stirs a pot of bright, lilting tones into a droning whirl, tossing in clattering guitar notes dethorned by reverb. As if by way of introduction, the bottom suddenly drops with the volume, leaving only the erasure of nasally noodling and a pattered hand-percussion over which a hammered rhythm and plucked melody appears nearly as faint – though the volume appears to gain - something like Anvil Salute as heard from just over some horizon. Following the flip, a second submerged symphony begins with flute where the percussion stood, wheezing a jittery rhythm between layers of crystal-rim murmur like refracting light, and then suppressed down to single hum to repeat the cycle.

With the flicker of a Cocteau camera eye, the C20 ‘Wand In The Beak Of The Yellow Bird’ by Kane Pour (one-half of Tricorn And Queue) floats gracefully through six untitled moments of minimal electric colors. Like the sapphire beneath the veil of white spray on the first side, the melodic figures emerge from after the resonance, reminiscent of Grouper’s gazey, gauzy dreampop - minus the pop. Capped by a swaying guitar riff, the first side features a ten minute swirl of stratified tones punctuated by the regular spontaneous burst like a wish granted. Guitar continues the reverse side with a spacious tempo, turning out two rounds which collide on the beat, mild spasms of mechanistic sputter, and glossy vapors of tones which rattle of the tumult. Not to be separated, both cassettes come with smart color J-cards and a fancy insert, both come hand-numbered to 50 copies. (Housecraft cassette, $6 HERE)

Blues Control - 'Local Flavor' CD/LP $15
"A few years back, former Quiet Sun / Roxy Music / 801 behind-thescenes mastermind Gill Manzanera—no relation to guitarist Phil Manzanera (whose real name is Philip Targett-Adams)—offered up a beguiling reminiscence of those heady days to the Swiss fanzine Sombre Reptiles: “What we were trying to do, you see, was harness the future into the present. However, we were severely at odds with technology, a ring modulator on a Fender Rhodes and a bit of funny business through an analog synth being about as far as one could go then. The work with Quiet Sun was the foundation, then later Phil and Eno built upon that within Roxy and if only Ferry had acquiesced to Brian having a go at ‘Bogus Man,’ I think the results would have been stunning (as well as longer-lasting). But alas, so then for 801, the decision was to incorporate the progressive and avant garde through a chamber of fusion (so to speak), the results of which are undeniable. Mind you, this was all during the burgeoning punk era, so it took a bit of time for some to settle in with what was happening. But isn’t that the future, really; someone has to be the first out the door to know if the rest of us will need a jumper or not. It was all quite brilliant in that way, absolutely so, I should think.” Hmm, well, that all sounds… quite English. Oddly enough, that sliver of quinine-sotted nostalgia could be used as a swab of historical DNA pap to describe the fantastic newest shimmer from Blues Control. While past releases have been beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic code of psychedelia and billowing fog of ambient space, Local Flavor is the one where all the chickens have come home to roost. The opening track “Good Morning” is practically a sideways step into boogie rock (horn accompaniment provided by none other than Jesse Trbovich and Kurt Vile); with the proper seismic shift, it could almost be heard as an alternate reality take on “Re-make/Re-model.” It’s easily the band’s longest stomp in the forest of rock since their debut cassette, and, man, them boots leave a bruise! The remaining three tracks morph and ebb harmoniously—in true Blues Control fashion—the timbre occasionally elegiac, yet more often riffing on a plane that has yet to be transcribed. Local Flavor is 801 plus an extra one (8101, if you will), providing an unimaginable future that will take your breath away. So make sure you’ve paid your oxygen bill, because there are no free rides in the 82nd Century." HERE

Bark Haze – ‘Wild & Free’ CDr $7(USA/Canada)/$9(world)
”The duo of Thurston Moore and Gown caught in action during two extended sessions at the Folk & Cinema Basement studio in 2008. This CDR finds the duo searching out new directions with 5 tracks of murky wail and attack. Each cover is individually painted by Gown. Limited to 50 for sale.”

Gown – ‘You Travel’ CDr $7(USA/Canada)/$9(world)
”New Gown recordings from the winter of 2009. This document was released for a pair of festival shows in the Halifax and Moncton in an edition of 30, only a few remain. Hand done artwork by Gown.”

”I also have some of the Bark Haze split 7” for sale as well as the new Gown LP “The Old Line” - EMAIL for more information

Weird Stuff vol. 1 tape $6
”Second edition of the first installment of the ongoing compilation series. A collection of the strangest jams from the following; Uneven Universe, Polish Hex, Vortex Trio, Mossy Throats, Maurice, Body Morph, Pure Skull, Birmingham Drains, Blank Aura, and SCDC. C92, second edition of 40. Full-color double sided fold-out art. EXBX-081”

Weird Stuff vol. 2 tape $6
”Brand new installment in the boombox melting Weird Stuff series. Features: Blank Aura, Blank Body Morph, Villa Valley, Conch Electronics, Spectrum Walls, Facial Spore, Mossy Throats, and Halcyon Utopia. C92, edition of 40. Full-color double sided fold-out art. EXBX-094”

Sparkling Wide Pressure – ‘Insider Gazing’ tape $6
”Transcendent bedroom new age sounds. ‘Insider Gazing’ swells with soft electronic pulse and wash, sometimes setting the stage for a song, other times hanging in the air. Beautifully spaced out / blissed out home-made jamsabout backwards masking and dream symbolism. C30, edition of 70. Full-color double sided art in oversized cases, plus Xeroxed art by SWP. EXBX-075”

Drenches – ‘Spiritual Taint’ double tape $8
”Very strange harsh noise static, dense electronics hailstorm with psychedelic sensibilities. Easy to get lost and tangled in the electric vines and layers of crumbling sediment. Clay sound waves melt and pile up. Double C10, edition of 50. Fold-over full-color double sided art. EXBX-025 “

Andrew Coltrane – ‘Systems and their Self-Organization’ tape $6
”Walls of electronic sound and tape loops forever moving forward into sonic infinity. ‘Systems and their Self-Organization’ drips with rhythmic electronic pulse and heavy tone-work that feel cerebral. Constant systems of synapse firing creating a complex body of sound. Another mind-bender from AC. C40, edition of 70. Full-color fold-out art. EXBX-096 “

Yukoxchino – ‘White Magick for Blackk People’ tape $6
”Heavily distorted guitar noise bliss by Danny, known for his work in the band Sasqrotch. Dense walls of psychedelic distortion pushed deep into the red. A home-made blizzard of static. Completely righteous. C43, edition of 70. Full-color fold-out art. EXBX-101”

Uneven Universe – ‘Live at Cosmic Beach’ tape $6
”Heavy sets from the tour with Sam Goldberg. Reed, tape, and electronics all cloud up, heat up and melt into a slurry of amorphous sound, in front of a live audience. C30, edition of 50. Full-color fold-out art. EXBX-087”

God Willing – ‘Lebanese Vacation’ tape $6
”Take a trip to Lebanon through wild tape manipulation and heavy oscillating electronics. Strange constantly moving and evolving soundworlds collide, destroy each other and swell back up again. C30, edition of 70. Full-color fold-out art. EXBX-089”

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Worth a mention for the endeavor alone, the massive stone ‘n’ drone set ‘Fear The Hex’ by Austin, TX’s Korperschwache takes the long-distance medal for longue durée metal, burning through a terse history of “hard rock” in subtle combinations of guitar and percussion by the pairing of RKF and his assistant Doktor Omega. Though the 21 verbose titles imply great articulation, the reality is a big blur of minimalist amp-flattery, with no details but an arrhythmic evolution through Hawkwind, Kyuss, Sleep, SUNN O))), and bolstered by hordes of black metal diversions. Three hours of big muff jet-stream on three cassettes fit into a single dense clamshell, the lesson seems to be: less is more - though more of less is even more. Given the schizophrenic (for the genre, anyway) scope of the album and precise scope of the label, for all intents and purposes you’re getting a Peasant Magik sampler HERE for just $10.

Outweighing the Korperschwache box by the narrow margin of another tape (for a total of four cassettes), the ghoulish 8-way split ‘Bright And Dark Light’ is more like a fractured compilation or four impacted months of a tape club subscription, as each like-minded artist provides one track per side with little emphasis on the pairings. No strangers to long-form, the contributors do come evenly matched sonically, as the bleary oscillations by Sorc’henn spin off their hilts into the torn-metal loops emanating from the booming workshop of Teeth Collection, the evaporating Hive Mind drawl of Drunjus makes a minimal compliment to the purring phaser-play of Crystal Dragon, the dragging slabs of Burial Hex’s graveyard concrète reverberating into the hallowed breeze conjured by Black Sparrow, and the eerie cut-ups of Taikuri Tali blend with the buzzing ghost-detector-in-the-red captured by Pan To Scratch. As with the above, the collection exposits the specialties of the label, crudely put: harsh, drone, (dark) ambient and collage. All four Xerox-labeled cassettes come nestled in a hefty clamshell with rough insert art. Recently sold out from the humble Earjerk HERE.

Balaclavas – ‘E.P.’ one-sided C35 $11(World)
“This five-tracker is a re-mix and re-release of the Houston trio’s debut from 2007, which was released on the Compound imprint in like 30 copies, or something. Balaclavas steer their blend of obscure dub, no wave jazz and spacious experimental punk into a dark and menacing direction, while maintaining a raw, but melodic, and almost gothic approach, highlighted by guitarist –and singer Morris’ authoritative voice”. Edition of 100 copies.

SFHHH S/T one-sided C20 $16(World)
“Neither the band’s name, nor the cover artwork is much of a signifier, when it comes to hinting at the intense and catchy sounds this Roma EST trio excel in. We could point you in a Lamps meet Wolf Eyes direction – but - do you even care whether it’s harsh noise or power electronics, or coke, speed or skull music, when we tell you that the release includes a hand screened poster (18” x 26”) featuring a busty 1970s looking starlet, who’s face looks like it’s turning into sand? In case you do care - we have three words for you: FALSE NOISE RULES!”

THETLVMTH – ‘Nöel’ C30 $11(World)
“Like their Italian predecessors, Mauricio Bianchi and Mauthausen Orchestra, Rome’s THETLVMTH create creepy and menacing, hallucinatory electronic noise. Besides the clanking mechanical rhythms and harsh industrial murk, they have the skill for making it sound like they gave some actual thought as to what goes where in common, too. THETLVMTH compositions are not quite as dry as their peers’, though. Where the former aimed for cold and clinical, THETLVMTH travel through a warm and vibrant score, lit up by rays of bright yellow distortion, and circuit boards soaked in battery acid. Fans of abstract noisy psychedelic heaviness along the lines of Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and Hair Police should definitely check this gorked Italian kvlt out”.

Gape Attack! S/T C25 $16(World)
“Using only keyboards, drum machine and bass, it’s not unlikely that the Seattle trio’s debut could be mistaken for some long lost, rough and rugged cold wave gem. The kind Anna Logue, or Enfant Terrible would promptly reissue, had they found the tape in a box somewhere. But, like their seductive Cold Cave and melancholic Blank Dogs electro pop contemporaries, Gape Attack! elude the retro ward, adding their own jittery and personal weirdo wave perspective to the layers of icy keyboards and pulsating Yamaha beats. The release includes a hand screened poster (18” x 26”).”

The Jayne Mansfield Death Cars – ‘Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board’ C25 $16(World)
“Has the term “occult free punk” entered the music genre vocabulary yet? In case it has, the Jayne Mansfield Death Cars are the bastard sons of the grandfathers of occult free punk (whoever that is) and they wear their OFP letters with poise. In case occult free punk is not yet an official label, imagine what a Gnostic gospel band, performing in a dark alley behind the Fillmore in the 1870s, would sound like if they’d been brought up on the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Residents and the Circle Jerks. Team building seminars are available upon request. The release includes a hand screened poster (18” x 26”)”.

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After Death Records is a new label representing Denton, Texas and the larger TX scene. Following their first release - an excruciatingly ugly C40 by Goat - ‘The Reincarnation of Isabel’ by Werewolf Jerusalem (veteran Richard Ramirez) arrives a C20 vignette of comparably loathsome noise, unwavering and unbroken. The two sides “She Was Buried Alive” and “Rita Calderoni” form something of a discordant theme, perhaps a reference meant for only the most dedicated fans of trash cinema: the mudfalls of the first track pile on slowly yet steadily, accumulating in densely-packed layers of crackling static with round, bulbous peaks; the reverse, a looping motor over-warmed on grinding sand and booming shrieks of heavy movement. As both sides are cut without intro or exit, whatever narrative is attempted in the titles is further obscured by the overwhelming and emotionless sound of these suffocating sides, the only gasp is the tail of the tape.

Shoulders to these legendary labelmates, Ashes (Ryan Talley) presents ADR’s third cassette titled ‘Dissolve’. The first of two untitled sides, a noble, motoric purr turns quickly to a blistered burst of maximal distortion – compulsive yet dull-edged like its predecessors - churning, stuttering, and repeatedly jerking downward by the heft and depth of the deeper hues. The blast furnace opens for some garbled screams to emerge, abruptly interrupted by the coming crash of the end of the tape. The reverse begins as a simple melody plays behind a similar distorted screen: black in pathos and boldness, the repeating tune is chewed and pocked by feedback at open gait, like a synthetic Disintegration Loop which exemplifies the tape’s epigram “you reduce me to nothing”. The remainder of the side appears as if a live recording, capturing family’s din of voices in a cluttered room, that aforementioned oscillation made meaner by thin recording and a booming, three-chord doom riff which recurs above like gathering clouds, yet which seems impossibly far from the space below. Though an unusual collection of recordings, the basic sound materials are rich and well-conceived, and the diversity of arrangements makes for a swift and compelling listen. The C20 comes labeled with inkjet J-card and hand-numbered to 100. (After Death Records cassette, $7 HERE)

Locrian - 'Drenched Lands' LP + 3" CD $20
"BloodLust! is extremely pleased to release the deluxe vinyl edition of “Drenched Lands,” the new Locrian album, which is the band’s first studio-recorded full-length. “Drenched Lands” finds Locrian effortlessly synthesizing music styles, all the while shrugging off easy genre descriptions, as they create an album that combines drone, black metal, and noise elements to portray qualities of beauty, sadness, radiance, and horror. Following the already acclaimed compact disc version that was recently co-released by At War With False Noise (Scotland) and Small Doses (USA), BloodLust! and Locrian worked closely together to conceive this handsome new record. Pressed in an edition of only 200 copies in clear vinyl, this record is housed in a handsome letter-pressed two-fold sleeve, printed at Chicago’s Dexterity Press. The inner flap of the sleeve holds a bonus 3-inch compact disc that contains music that will remain exclusive to this edition. LP recording and mixing were completed by Steve Beyerink at Phantom Manor, Chicago, while mastering and cutting duties were executed by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service. The 3-inch CD was recorded by Philip von Zweck in January 2009, at WLUW 88.7 FM, on the Something Else broadcast, and it was mastered by Jason Soliday at Enemy, Chicago. For this live radio session, Locrian were joined by Andrew Sherer (Velnias) and Mark Solotroff (BLOODYMINDED, Anatomy of Habit)." LP (clear vinyl) + 3-inch CD in letter-pressed sleeve. 200 Copies. HERE

RISIL - 'Non Meters Volume One' CD $11/2xLP $20
"First 200 mailorder customers will get clear vinyl. Double LP. Features members of Prefuse 73, Savath & Savallas, Tortoise, Battles, Hella, School Of Seven Bells & more. Much more blissed out than you might expect. Recommended in the highest (as are all Important titles, of course.)"

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - 'Dark Side Of The Black Moon' CD $10/2xLP $20
"First 200 mailorder customers get color vinyl. Blue and clear. LP version has bonus D side."

TONGUES OF MOUNT MERU - 'The Ocean Of Milk' LP $15
"Long form bliss from Jazzkammer's Lasse Marhaug and Thorn's Jon Wesseltoft."

MERZBOW - 'Bird Series Vol $6' CD $11
"Sixth in the series."

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The self-titled disc by The Bureau of Nonstandards is a thorough, verging-on-bulky collection of experiments by the Pittsburgh, PA duo of Kevin C. Smith and Maurice Rickard. As a recording, the extended showcase obscures the two-step process behind the music, wherein Smith - I think “tinkers” is the best word – with a selection of bent-circuit consumer electronics, from basic keyboards to kid’s games (including a Furby), the sound then processed via laptop by Rickard. Having made the modifications himself, Smith is able to produce an overwhelming array of sounds to spite the improvisation of this live capture. Ticking, fluttering, croaking in high-speed – the compositions re-accentuate glitch by mediating it in this collection of batter(i)ed characters. Revealing their deep compatibility, Rickard’s rhythmic shoe-horning produces a gapless sound akin to the single-headed harmony of Tim Hecker or, more accurately, Machinefabriek. Any novelty arising from the source of the sounds is minimized as these idiosyncratic boards produce a granular spectrum of noise pixels for rich assemblage; only the occasional dead-machined yelp emerges to remind the listener of the grotesque maltreatment taking place, as in the Speak & Spell stereotypy which announces the title in “Island” - with liquid shocks and chirping currents swarming as a threat to the captive toy - or the psychobabble of a lobotomized Mall Madness intercom on “Attention All Shoppers”. Though there is hardly a dull moment among the almost 50 minutes of music, standouts include entries ballasted by piano which survives more or less in tact, plodding-out gentle melodies as diminutive as their status as “instruments”, and which exaggerate the humanity amongst all this junkyard pathos. Printer-labeled CDr comes in a jewelcase with an insert printed so black it’s velvet. (OneZero CDr, $8 HERE)

905.79: JAMES FELLA - 'FLOOR SOUNDS FOR NO ONE' C20 $6(US)/$7(Canada)/$9(World)
"it's my opinion that james fella should be a household name. this guy, who also runs gilgongo records out of arizona, works with minimal, yet bastardize, static stains on floor sounds for no one. three tracks that seesaw high and low noise squawks. no form. no sugar coating. just sounds from inside the belly on a sick day from school. (edition of 40)"

905.78: PILLARS OF HEAVEN + JOE BREITENBACH SPLIT C20 $6(US)/$7(Canada)/$9(World)
"the gleam duo unites in individual form for a 20 minute space jam, sans michael jordan. joe b brings the soft-to-the-touch keyboard/synth nod off into dreamland while sal pops the sci-fi guitar bubbles, mixing potions and all that shit. it's all pins and needles, and sound that becomes color. (edition of 50)"

905.77: MOSSY THROATS + WETHER - 'LIVING' SPLIT C23 $6(US)/$7(Canada)/$9(World)
"living is a documentation of live performances by mossy throats and wether. dan d (m.t.) presents some panicked pepsi jazz recorded in 2008 at the bertochi brothers' place. no-fi electronicsax for the mole people. mike h (w.) lays out the sounds from a secret lansing back alley gig, also from 08. a heavy and cluttered collapser with brad raub of pink desert helping out on the drum kit. feel the slow. (edition of 50)"

905.76: WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT - 'DRAINED VAULT' C30 $6(US)/$7(Canada)/$9(World)
"cincinnati's wju treat amplified reeds the way zed and his crew treated sweetchuck in the original police academy movie. it's just a brutal, fucked up mashing of sound as lorenz and rich coat every speck in beastly distortion. the duo is an early contributor to the 905 family, going all the way back to their split with torturing nurse (905.09), and drained vault is their mighty return to the fold. (edition of 40)"

905.75: CENTURY PLANTS - 'FROZEN GENERATION' C32 $6(US)/$7(Canada)/$9(World)
"eric hardiman (rambutan) and ray hare make up the experimental-psychadelic unit of new york's century plants. these dudes squeeze a mixture of 70's slow motion riffs and irrational distortion out of their guitars like narcotics coated pop rocks. wheezy and ugly, breezy and celestial. two tracks here; a remix of their track frozen generation from their inversions cdr and a stone cold cruiser called ice land. (edition of 40)"

905.74: SOCIAL JUNK - 'EIGHT YEARS AGO' C20 $6(US)/$7(Canada)/$9(World)
"freshly minted philadelphians slip a fluid drip of opiate flavored psychout drone into your bloodstream. social junk have a funny way of numbing the room with their oddly exotic mixture of 2200ad meets 1100bc glitchers, and on eight years ago the duo maintains that romance. two tracks with drones set to stun, vocals in the shadows, and drum circles leaving petuly on the sticks. solid junk in the trunk, 2009 style. (edition of 50)"

905.73: FORBES GRAHAM - 'BRAVE GRAVE #1: TRUMPET' C92 $6(US)/$7(Canada)/$9(World)
"brave grave is going to be an ongoing cassette experiment where artist choose a single instrument and proceed to shred, wail, or do whatever category of thrashing they so desire on that instrument for as long as they possibly can. little to no effects will be used, and there will be no editing at all after the session has run it's course. a raw exercise in endurance, tolerance, and curiosity. i'm beyond stoked to have forbes graham starts things off here, as we go way back, and i've always admired him as an artist. graham's weapon of choice for brave grave #1 is the trumpet, an instrument he has provided on recordings to dozens and dozens of artists all over the musical spectrum (the flying lutenbachers, erase errata, daughters, infidel?/castro!, raqib hassan to name a few) as well as his former group kayo dot. forbes hammers through two 45 minute sessions, blaring out free jazz, fierce noise, and what sounds like he is hitting a bong. holy shit. (edition of 40)"

905.72: ENDLESS TIME - 'REMOVAL' C30 $6(US)/$7(Canada)/$9(World)
"kevin mceleney of droughter's alter ego endless time fuses curiously bewitching, minimal drone with fluttering euphoria to arrange two avant grippers on removal. moderate metal chiming and whistles play with monotone choirs of tone that tuck you into dirt for an uneasy nap time. this is like the mr.hyde to kevin's heavy psych dr. jeckel personality. a flip of a foreign coin. (edition of 40)"

any five releases for $25/any ten releases for $40

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HR96 Xiphiidae/Pan To Scratch split LP
"Co-release with Earjerk---this is Housecraft's first wax! Moth-eaten fidelities, from both sides of the soil: xiphiidae's 'Web of Light' is like a mycelial network, a conscious grid through which all elements interact and mutually evolve. Pan's 'Sourcerer' cackles mysteriously and pensive under an old tree, straight off a wax cylinder... recorded in 1502. Double-sided variant silk-screened recycled jackets by Iam Lee." numbered edition of 100. HERE

ltd#76: meditations – ‘precipice’ C20 $7(US)/$9(INTL)
”with a name like meditations, you'd probably assume something with a spritual bend would be coming up the tubes. but no worries - these sprawlers are looking to take you deep down into the muddy depths. this trio absolutely kills it on "precipice." blown-out, brooding synths pummel your senses left and right while vocals from hell taunt you into taking the fall. this is one dark fucking ride, a cut-up masterful mess. specks of light try to escape in the form of distant, bright melodies but they're quickly destroyed by the impending hellacious mess. awesome. edition of 65, pro-dubbed purple monsters.” HERE

ltd#82: space dive – ‘twenty-first century sport’ C39 $7(US)/$9(INTL)
”once again i struggle to yammer on about my own projects, so i'll keep this short and sweet and let the sound samples speak for themselves. story is, even as the north sea shifted focus, i was still writing songs here & there on the old guitar. but in those manifestations, they weren't doing much for me. what to do? rework the songs for synthesizer, listen to a lot of bauhaus and suicide, and see what happens. so there you go. SPACE DIVE. edition of 100, pro-dubbed high-bias blue moons.” HERE

ltd#86: young boys/fm.face split C28 $7(US)/$9(INTL)
”oh this little gem of mine, spit & shine spit & shine. young boys and fm.face are two newborn projects hailing from opposite coasts, but when they join forces on this tape it's to melt your face off. young boys kick it on first with thick reverb post-punk spirit and stonewalled vocals belting it out, these five songs are covered in new york slime. these songs are bleak but laced with something sweet that keeps you coming back for more and more. fm.face is like the rascally younger brother who is out to show how he can really fuck shit up in a royally awesome way. these songs are punked-out wastelands. angular guitar lines repeat to infinity on top of overblown drum machines while fm.face just absolutely fucking belts it out. look out below. edition of 100, half on black, half on white, pro-dubbed pounds.” HERE

ltd#87: black eagle child & goodwillies – ‘bamboo airships’ C40 $7(US)/$9(INTL)
”it's pretty common knowledge that here at digitalis hq we love (FUCKING LOVE) collaborations, postal and otherwise. so when the black eagle child himself approached me with the idea of this release, jaws dropped and praises were sung. once the master showed up, every expectation and preconception was put to pasture and blown to outerspace. what an absolute beast. black eagle child weaves a devastating web of guitar exploration here, opening the proceedings with simple chord progressions that long for death. tim goodwillie brings it up a notch with equally biting organ drones. the combination is stunning x10. you will ache. and you will love it. and when it folds in on itself and becomes a summer jamboree mixed with keyboard fuzz and hypnobeats, the sweetness reaches new heights. scorched earth guitar workouts find their way into the mix and find themselves engulfed in a psychedelic swash of tribal debris. just fucking wow. incredible art by tim goodwillie. edition of 80, pro-dubbed napalm tapes.” HERE

ltd#88: pink priest – ‘cat tails/at the mouth of swollen summer’ C20 $7(US)/$9(INTL)
”this semi-recent discovery has quickly manifested itself as one of my total faves. pink priest hails from northeast arkansas and is further proof that there's tons of amazing, amazing shit happening in the furthest reaches of the u.s. "cat tails // at the mouth of swollen summer" is the perfect soundtracked for the soul-melting heat that's currently crushing tulsa. pink priest finds simple, exquisite melodies and plucks them out of the air only to drown them under 20,000 leagues of sea water. keyboards are bent and mangled into unrecognizable swells; tones pitch forward looking like they're ready to take the ultimate swan dive. this music is dense, but more like a wall of helium than a mass of steel. minimal percussive bursts pop up at times adding a mechanical resonance to the proceedings. when pink priest adds in sepulchral vocal incantations it's like aa perfect drug. all the while, though, these synthetic, keyed drones light a new path through the ozark skies. total diamond style. edition of 75, pro-dubbed ivory beasts.” HERE

ltd#90: charlatan – ‘destinations’ C30 $7(US)/$9(INTL)
”the rise (or fall) of charlatan continues on an upward arc of synth excess. tonal bliss, minimal shifts, arpeggios to the sky. oklahoma confined. incredible art by hoy-joy. edition of 70, pro-dubbed aqua dreams.” HERE

ltd#91: ester Poland – ‘hippi, kanuuna ja Kiinan torni’ C66 $7(US)/$9(INTL)
”man, finland... it never stops does it? it really never does. just when you think the terrain has been scoured and every last pore drained til the last drop, something new comes along with such star-searching bombast that you get knocked square on your ass all over again. ester poland are the latest in a long line of impeccable sound sculptors out of finland, but this screeching duo are riding their own astral baby well into the new millenium. guitar freakouts worm there way into cavernous squalls, stretching from here to forever. even when they pull things back and break out the acoustic strum, there's so much cacaphony happening under the surface that you'll never escape the chaos. these blasts are psychedelic as fuck and will strip you down to the absolute core. finland wins again. edition of 60, pro-dubbed green-foil foliage.” HERE

The Pistil Cosmos - 'The Mystical Wall Of Lost Minds' CDr
"Available now in a limited handmade edition of 40 numbered copies. The Pistil Cosmos is Vincent Caylet who comes from Margerid, France. This cd contains five tracks of dreamlike space hymnals that float on levels of decay and cosmic reverb. Previous releases on the Great Pop Supplement, Peasant Magik, Cloud Valley and Dead Pilot among others. The cd covers are all different and have been aerosol stencil sprayed in various colours on white card."

The Hare And The Moon CDr
"The Hare And The Moon are an Anglo-Scots pairing, taking traditional ballads of murder, revenge, madness and the occasional talking raven and accompany these with a darkly psychedelic folk music. Mandolins meet pounding drums and distorted guitars alongside a classic English folk vocal.This is a superb debut selection of fourteen songs. It completes the third and final part of my recent psychedelic folk trilogy. The cd comes in an edition of 51 hand numbered copies."

Light Of Shipwreck - 'When I Hold The Ashes' CDr
"After quite some considerable time im very pleased to be able to announce the latest cd by Light Of Shipwreck called "When I Hold The Ashes".Light Of Shipwreck is the one man ambient drone project of USA based musician Ben Fleury-Steiner.This cd has been delayed for a while but im more than happy with the finished cd itself.The music on this cd features deep dense drone sounds and shifting swirling melodies.At times pinned down with programmed percussive rhytmns.Ben has had previous releases on Peasant Magik, Crucial Blast/Crucial Bliss and Gears Of Sand among others.The cover and inserts are made from thick tracing paper which has a marbled effect running throughout giving a semi transluscent quality. The cd comes in an edition of 70 copies."

Sproatly Smith - 'The Yew And The Hare' CDr
"A while back when announcing the release of the Wyrdstone "Cuffern" cd, I mentioned that it was the first in a trio of superbly wondeful debut releases of a psychedelic folk nature.All three of these get my highest possible recommendation.Well, here is the second of the trio.This time we have "The Yew And The Hare" by Sproatly Smith.Again, this album has been recorded especially for me over a number of months.I must admit that I have been smitten by the music on this cd.We have twelve tracks which takes a pastoral folk feel and twists it with a psychedelic edge adding voices,samples and field recordings to the mix.The cd features twelve tracks including a lovely version of "Gently Johnny" which was originally featured on the soundtrack to the original "Wickerman" film. The cd is available now and comes in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies.The cover is made from paper which as been mottle sprayed in grey and overprinted with a 17th century woodcut design."

Wyrdstone - 'Cuffern' CDr
"This is "Cuffern" by Wyrdstone.Released on Reverb Worship as RW 075. Wyrdstone is the psychedelic folk project of guitarist Clive Murrell.I first came across Clive's music late last year.To coin a phrase Clive's music can be discribed as "perfect pastoral psych-folk with hints of Camberwick Green". After a few discussions it was agreed that we would do this release. Clive went away after telling me that he was doing some recording over the christmas period and the new year.The cd contains ten delightful tracks comprising arrangements of traditional folk songs and new material.Clive seemlessly merges styles showing wonderful musicianship using acoustic and electric guitar, effects, percussion, recorder, field recordings and the odd voice or two. The cd comes in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies in white card sleeves with paste on artwork with a "Wickerman" theme."

Annapurna Illusion - 'Matins Of The Twelve Passion' CDr
"Im really delighted to tell you that the Annapurna Illusion "Matins Of The Twelve Passion" cd is now finally available.This cd features just two long tracks, "Cannnibal Girls Mantra (Parts I-III) and "You Never See The Sun In Your Dreams (Parts I & II).The front cover features a skeleton of a snake.The reverse is a menacing human skeleton with mandala patterned eye sockets.The analogue psychedelics of the music on this cd reminds me of early Tangerine Dream with pulsing rhythms, buzzing and humming electronics and voices.This cd is available now in an edition of 50 copies in a resealable plastic packet."

Michael Vallera - 'Shallow Water Blackout' CDr
"This is "Shallow Water Blackout" by Michael Vallera.Sometime ago I was contacted by Michael who is a Chicago, Illinois based experimental noise musician.After listening to his work which I liked very much we agreed to do a release together.The cd features four excellent tracks recorded at the Art Institute Of Chicago, Joyride Studio in Chicago, Workbook Studios in Columbus ,Ohio and at home.The music has been carefully built from analog synthesizer patches and modulated guitar, relying heavily on a E-mu modular systems synthesizer.Recording individual layers as been varied using everything from a broken four track cassette to hi-fi 2 inch reel to reel recorders. The cd comes in a hand screen printed white card digipack style cover (printed by Michael himself) in a hand numbered edition of 50 copies.The edition is split between Michael and myself .I only have 25 copies for sale of this cd."

Alan Scheurman - 'Old Patterns' CDr
"This is Alan Scheurman's "Old Patterns"cd.This album was originally available as a download only.Alan Scheurman comes from Detroit,Michigan and is in my opinion a very talented singer-songwriter indeed.Late in 2008 Al and myself discussed releasing this album as a limited edition cd after the album gained some really cool reviews (see below). Al took on the job of producing the covers which are screen printed in graduating shades of red and blue.The covers are made from brown card which have been sourced from material made from recycled plastic bottles.The cd contains ten superb tracks and has a slightly different track listing for Reverb Worship version in the UK to the previously available.I will only have 41 copies of this cd available for sale. Quite simply this is a lovely limited edition album.Available now in a limited edition of only 41 copies."

My3yeah 3" CDr
"This is the My3yeah 3" cdr EP.My3yeah are a duo from Patadronia,Argentina.The band comprises Tomas Muller on electric guitar and GMC on drums.These guys play synth heavy and slow moving space improv prog jazz.My3yeah have had previous debut release on Ikuisuus.The cd contains two tracks and around 20 minutes of music.The covers are all individually handmade and decorated with a colourful hand rollered design in a resealable plastic packet with insert.The cd is available now in an edition of 40 hand numbered copies."

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NNA004: Jefre Sei Getsu Ledesma – ‘Namu Kie Butsu’ C30 $7(US)/$9(World)
”Jefre Sei Getsu Ledesma (formerly Jefre Cantu Ledesma) offers a peaceful and somber recording of motorized electric guitar work.” dubbed onto hi-bias cassettes with color inserts and hand-painted/stamped labels, in a limited edition of 100 copies.

NNA005: Toby Aronson – ‘Tonal Music’ C26 $7(US)/$9(World)
”Toby Aronson brings forth a cosmic exploration of two acoustic instruments: the Pipe Organ and Gong. Toby lives in Burlington, VT.” dubbed onto hi-bias cassettes with color inserts and hand-painted/stamped labels, in a limited edition of 100 copies.

NNA006: Caboladies/Oneohtrix Point Never split C30 $7(US)/$9(World)
”This split unfolds as a singular and flowing journey. Caboladies reaches out to solar gods above while OPN wanders through the arid deserts of the mind and heart.” dubbed onto hi-bias cassettes with color inserts and hand-painted/stamped labels, in a limited edition of 100 copies.

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Through a staggering collection of tracks, the self-titled vinyl debut of Embarker (Michael Roy Barker) creates ten unique identities of immense texture and dynamics, mastered to a bright, brushed-chrome grain. Made with crashing, bent-circuit electronics and electrified homemade instruments wrangled by laptop, each high-intensity piece bursts with an internal propulsion which arrests the listener and insists total attention. In something like a cycle, wall noise moves into vocal-centered entries and then to more sample-based space, as the opening three pieces (and in a slightly altered order on the reverse) unfurl through the monochrome alliteration “Fake Forrest/Former Friends”, to the brief, pulsating outbursts layered into “Fuck Jesse Power”, and then on to the disc’s longest track “Ars Nova Sweatshop”, a crafty, prickly, symphonic jab at intellectualism made of cacophonous drum machines thinly-veiled in distortion and contorted into a procession of bursts and bleary freezes. Seemingly informed by harsh noise (particularly the L.A. sound) and power electronics (particularly Sickness), this middle-range noise borrows liberally from the academic tradition as well, which while offering the most thorough inquisition of sound, risks coming off as a sampler or hasty assembly without flow. Perhaps best illustrated by the reflective monologue of “Resident Beardo”, which appears like a thought-bubble amidst the low static of street noise (“I didn’t ask anybody for any assistance. Most of the things, my parents paid for. And that’s okay, because I didn’t ask to be born”), and which devolves into a hyper-active chop of sharp feedback, metallic springs, and ungrounded channels. Taken against the more abstract tracks of ample worth but uncertain inclusion - less-personable tracks which don’t reflect Barker’s wry stage-presence and the implicit humor which permeates his live performance - the album appears a bit schizophrenic. Perhaps more accurately, this is a document of an artist emerging with a wealth of ideas and skill, yet an artist who needs to commit to the long-player tradition or else completely explode the medium into shards. It seems he’s not far from either end, and given the intuition all over this record, the result should be massive. On black vinyl with heavy, screened cardstock sleeves. Numbered to 300 copies. (Malleable LP, $10 HERE)

ELEPHANT MICAH - 'EXILED MAGICIANS' CD $10 (ENO010)
"Exiled Magicians departs from the stark guitar/voice/tape hiss arrangements of 2007's Hindu Windmills (Time-Lag) for a more polished, cohesive, warmly-produced full band sound. The musical ground this album covers might border that of freak-folk or other media-heralded roots revivals, but Elephant Micah once again ends up in a "country" all its own (mountain fiddle, shaken amplifiers). CDs are packaged in a gatefold digipack with mini-lyric booklet. Ace analog production courtesy of fellow Indiana songsmith Justin Vollmar."

VOLLMAR - 'Compilation' LP $14 (ENO006)
"And speaking of Vollmar, this is a handy anthology of three long-gone EP releases, orginally distributed as hand-packaged 3" CDRs. As a collection, the range of beautifully delicate songs ("Sampsons," "When Love Love Love") and total noise fits together to form a surprisingly cohesive, diverse single-LP unit. Limited to 300 copies housed in screenprinted chipboard sleeves."

HUMAN ADULT BAND/JAD FAIR - "Samantha" b/w "Samantha" (Song Poem) 7" $5 (ENO011)
"One of our all-time favorites, Human Adult Band serves up a sludgy mess of rock on the A-side, “Samantha,” and by the HAB’s request, Mr. Jad Fair responds on the flip-side with a song-poem rendition of the same. While Human Adult Band’s original conjures the vibe of some criminally unsung No Wave act performing live in a bat-filled cave, Fair deadpans the same lyric over one of his trademark bloopy music beds. Limited to 500 copies in screenprinted covers."

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The Fortieth Day - 'Syria: 638 AD (The Complete Recordings)' CD $14(USA)/$16(Canada+Mexico)/$18(World)
"The Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key players in the power-electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a unit known for its confrontational live shows. The two also record primitive minimal-synth music, exclusively for Wierd Records [NYC], as A Vague Disquiet. In The Fortieth Day, Reyes and Solotroff utilize guitar, bass, and synth to improvise "sustained, withering blasts of high-pitched noise that are as distinct from one another as spotlights sweeping across the night sky; jackhammer clatter, jet-engine whines, and forlorn keyboard melodies dart in and out of those huge sounds with the grace and impunity of plovers picking a crocodile's teeth" [Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader]. This CD contains the remastered, 61-minute-long version of the complete recordings from the "Syria: 638 AD" sessions. Diophantine Discs previously released an abridged version of these recordings [approximately 36-minutes in length] as a deluxe, white vinyl LP, housed in a black and silver, screen-printed, die-cut sleeve, limited to 300 copies. For "Syria: 638 AD," the duo took a different approach than on their previous releases, channeling their shifting and disorienting psychedelic and blackened noise into sustained walls of bass-heavy sound, knowing that the material would be pressed into deep vinyl grooves. Not unlike Solotroff's six-hour-long 1996 collaboration with Sshe Retina Stimulants, "Excellent Manipulation of Distorted Tape Death" [re-visited on two related BloodLust! CDs in 2008], which has been re-evaluated by some noise fans as a direct precursor to the militantly static harsh noise walls [HNW] subgenre, the "Syria: 638 AD" sessions saw the duo take full advantage of available bass frequencies, creating monumentally glacial sweeps of low end, highlighted by analog synth sequences and distorted guitar washes that slowly surface in the mix. Re-mastered by Salvatore Dellaria for the digital platform; professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; black and white artwork; in jewel box with shrinkwrap; released in 2009."

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PHR-63 / KATCHMARE - 'Daath' C60 5€
"Maniac expression of the phobia through harsh minimalism. Thick insistence of a lonely man's mind in an altered state. Where the end is just the end." Color print + spraypainted cases/tapes. Limited edition of 30.

PHR-64 / TOWERING HEROIC DUDES - 'Oceans' CDr 5€
"An awesome set recorded at Death By Audio, Brooklyn from the THD trio earlier this year. Post apocalyptic loops + chants gaining up the experience of the delayed trashland nirvana. Hardly needs your imagination, music speaks for itself." Handmade cardboards and spraypainted discs. Edition of 60.

PHR-65 / SHEIK ANORAK - 'Week EP' C15 5€
One man dynamite band from France unleashing the power of the sound of now. 4 songs to make your week less weaker. For fans of Lamps and A H Kraken. Also, check out the neat collab w/ Weasel Walter out on S.A.'s own imprint, Gaffer Records." Recycled paper + labeled white tapes. Limited edition of 50.

PHR-66 / PINK BUFFALO - 'The Transparent Column' C42 5€
"Underwater drone w/ keys which actually sound like liquid chains. The beauty itself. Feels like eternal drowning in the pink depths." Laser print on textured metallic paper, pink tapes housed in green jewel cases + insert. Limited to 50.

PHR-67 / PANAGIOTIS SPOULOS - 'Body Pose' C20 5€
"Two side-long tracks, "Body Candle" + "Parker Pose". First one is a garbage kraut popium w/ reverb guitar + analog rhythm box. Side B floats in the sewer of lo-fi electronic crushed abstraction. Body posing for medical help." Handmade j-cards, white tapes. Limited to 25 copies.

PHR-68 / REVERSE MOUTH - 'Counting Broken Pieces of Glass' 3"CDr 5€
"Ultra clear wasteland worship jam clocking at 16 minutes. Bangs + strums accompanied w/ faulty clock loops and bluesy touch. No hurry, no tomorrow. Nostalgia of the emptiness." Packaged in DVD style mini cases. Limited to 50.

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ABOS2-004 The Strange Girls - 'The Strange Girls' CDr 7.5€(world)
"Hazy sadcore porch-fi shimmer engulfs these lovely, bare bones acoustic dirges from CJA and Smokehouse. One can imagine this being what Alan Lomax would've heard before falling asleep under the Dunedin sun... nursing a peyote hangover... in 2009."

ABOS2-005 Arklight - 'Yo Quiero Sangre' CDr 7.5€(world)
"New York state four-piece Arklight turn in nine heavy cavestompers, bouncing off rigid garage walls, rockin' like El Chupacabra. Sixty-four frantic minutes of bloodlust, progressing from loud epic jamz (as kids these days say) onto desolation, collapse, and un-disco. Housed in oversized handmade cardstock sleeves."

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ROSS PARFITT - 'SWELL TO GREAT' C45 4(UK)/5(EU)/6(World)
"Ross Parfitt is a Sheffield based musician, sometime Hunter Gracchus and Tirath Singh-Nirmala collaborator, and dedicated to exploring minimal compositional devices to reach maximal conclusions. Swell To Great documents two densly woven electronic compositions: Side A is the more pastoral of the two, opening with a slowly enveloping gong before stuttering wav files of abstracted source material interject, thick & low contiuous tones pull you through as higher frequency sound shimmers in and out of the stereofield. Side B is a wall of dense chord organ drones, overlaping and interleving in tense, unsettling, aharmonic, combination; ghostly chimes drift in and out of focus, whilst sound files shift in constant flux. Limited to 60 boxed & sprayed red tapes w/ a sleeve art by Golden Lab Illustrator Fliss Horrocks." HERE

sutra s/t CDr
"i'm thrilled to be working with ilkka vekka (haare) again. this time he's back with a new project. you can certainly hear the haare, but the sutra is less harsh perhaps, leaning heavier on the psycheledics. two tracks clicking in at around 46 minutes. the first is an acousticimprov built on a metallic drone. the second basically flips the premise of the first on its head, focusing on the drone, taking on a harsher edge with the more acoustic side floating underneath. edition of 52 copies with covers printed on two-tone, day glow paper."

crow feathers - 'temple lions, pale interiors' CDr
"you never quite know what to expect from crow feathers. brandon miller seems to take a very organic approach to the music he makes as evidenced here. temple lions consists of processed field recordings that take on a pulsating rhythm of sorts. that leads into pale interiors, one of the most beautiful drones i have ever heard. this is a pretty tough release to describe, so i highly recommend the samples. edition of 71 copies"

aleph naught - 'the dreams in the witch-house' 3"CDr
"aleph naught creates some of the best dark ambient work around these days, and he's at his best here. five tracks of synth-laden drone. edition of 66 copies featuring artwork by anthony mangicapra (hoor-paar-kraat)."

expo 70 - 'ostara' 3"CDr
"justin wright (with matt hill on bass) is back at small doses, this time on his own with a nearly 22 minute track of his trademark, psychedelic guitar drones. incredible work. edition of 102 copies packaged with a hand screened, triangular, fold-out cover with a tiny insert."

in negatives - 'climates' CDr
"alex pearson (d/a a/d, snapped in half tapes) takes a different approach with this project. using nothing more than magnetic tapes, he creates incredible, dark rumbling drones that sound fitting for being lost and alone somwhere in space. he also provided the image on the cover. edition of 62 copies."

sparkling wide pressure/rambutan - 'abandoned space' CDr
"both artists on this release took their inspiration from photographs of deserted, discarded, and decrepit buildings. sparkling wide pressure's (frank baugh)track seems to evoke the ghosts that still inhabit these forgotten places with ethereal loops, samples and drones. rambutan (eric hardiman of century plants) follows with an epic, drone track that takes on the emptiness seen in the images. Edition of 77 copies packaged in an 8-page, pro-printed booklet that shows some of the images."

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John Maus - 'Love is Real' C46
"Description: You look up into the sky and see the universe rip apart. Stars fly every which way and suddenly you are basked in a beautiful and serene pink light. You can faintly hear organs playing. They’re a million miles away. Now you’re floating in the middle of the ocean at night. As you gaze into the full moon you know that things will never be the same again. Weep for the world and all of it’s people." Edition: 100.

Megazord - 'Back 2 Life/Back 2 Reality' CDr
"Description: Lulled to sleep in a quiet ocean of white noise. Back and forth forever as there seems to be no direction. Maps cannot help you when you are in space. The light is refracted through the water into countless rainbows that reach to the far ends to time and space. Deep sub-bass vibrations shake the walls of reality and make them crumble. Soul rhythms and vocal loops reach the heights of infinity." Edition: 15.

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AMI030 THEO ANGELL - 'Tenebrae' CD $15
"Tenebrae includes sounds one might hear on a cylinder recording discovered in a closed-up Victorian home tucked far off the road in the mountains somewhere. It could be Portland, Oregon, or Portland, Maine, or the deep recesses of Western Canada. The songs are, at times, mysterious and otherworldly, though Theo Angell's voice retains an earthy beauty that grounds so much of his songwriting on his previous long-players: Dearly Beloved (AMI-025) and Auraplinth (Digitalis 050). The tunes included here are almost minimal in terms of instrumentation, though the Tabernacle Hillside Singers include some of the most important players in the contemporary Psych-Folk scene. Along with labelmate P.G. Six, Tenebrae includes Samara Lubelski, Tom Greenwood, and Matt Valentine, who help infuse Theo's songs with British Folk, Acid Psych, and Minimalist flourishes, as heard on "Like a Wind," "The Shadow Ring," and "Wakeling." "Tenebrae" and "Higher Something" are both Grade A Angell, investigating his lifelong interest in the sacred and profane. Imagine if all those road movies from the 1960s delivered something more akin to Flannery O'Connor than Steppenwolf and one begins to understand the outsider Folk sounds Theo provides here. Theo cites Alan Lomax's ethnomusical recordings from the Italian mountains and countryside in the years following the Second World War as a primary influence on his current approach to music. To that end, the complex vocal interplay on Tenebrae references a Renaissance-vibe embedded in the rural countryside." Mini-LP style gatefold w/ 8-panel lyric sheet. Pressing quantity: 1000. HERE

With a fixed angle, the dark scenarios of ‘Foiled Again’ reveal the vibrant malaise of Thomas Park in his thread-bare sacrificial cloak as Mystified. Each track rends a minimal theme with ambient acculturation, smartly divided into nine segments for maximal scope. At an almost uniform five minutes each, Park’s alphanumeric occultism clashes with the evocative concrete of his sounds – churning black waves, sand-inflicted oscillations, plenty of liquid - fitted with equally evocative titles - “Pulsegrain”, “Warped Reaches”, as well as two distracting references to surfing, “Static Surfer” and “Artificial Surf”. Patched together, there is no narrative to tie these moments together, especially when the intense club beat of "Foiled" swells into track six like stumbling upon an abandoned Audi. However, with the pneumatic steam-engine rhythm of the following piece, the vacancy of all the tracks resonates anew, capped by the driest bellow of "Sessile". Picture labeled CDr comes with glossy inserts in a jewelcase. Limited to 100 copies from Autumn Abattoir, $6 HERE.

The second run of the ‘Groom Lake’ CDr by Katchmare (Nick Hoffman) offers a sparser, seemingly more contemplative sound than past releases, miniature sketches like the quasi-architectural ones which cover the release. That’s not to say that these are somehow schematic or even structural pieces; rather, these are series of references which juxtapose two or three sounds – sustained shrieks, gilded drones, deep pulses (almost entirely, discretely sourced from guitar) - with similarly vivid titles - “Witches Sabbath”, “Obsidian Ball”, “Heavenly Blue” – though ultimately scattered in theme, foreclosing any chance of coherence. In this sense and in sound more indebted to the academic experimental tradition, these tracks whistle, crackle, and groan to be listened to, as opposed to read, freeing the listener to walk the dimensions of these sounds free of attachments. CDr sits in a pouch attached to a plain-paper booklet, with several pages of line-drawings by Hoffman. Available from Scissor Death HERE.