19 Nov 08
- Cassette, CDr
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - 'A PACT BETWEEN STRANGERS' CDr (Gneiss Things) $9(US)/$11(Worldwide)"Newest release from OPN aka Daniel Lopatin, certified 'King of the Arpeggiator.' Sounds like it could have been recorded ankle in a puddle deep in Amplified Galapagos. Though Dan has already carved out his own sound-niche I must again stress that this is one of his finest, most focused works to date. First track 'The pretender' has a kind of Anthony Phillips circa '87 vibe, ie. frito layers of sawtooth dentistry while the second track recalls mid/late-period Eno along the lines of 'Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest.' Since I as of yet have not mused to the public on the ridiculous, current proscription of the term 'new age' I am forced to explore new ways of expression. There is an incorrect stigma attached to the term at present because in 2008 people still associate it with the survivors of the downfall, propagators of cheesy presets and Yanni qualities INSTEAD of actual COOL shit that Sounds Good. Basically, listen to a Suzanne Doucet tape on Isis from '84 which sounds good and like this CD and not regurgitative Windham Hill releases and media perception of the term. But I digress..John says Dan has a knack for snax, starburry chola yummys. Last track is totally Prisms-era Michael Garrison possibly in the style of Jarre, finger calisthenics. Handpainted CDRs with this strange interference paint which actually allows you to see into other dimensions when you look at it. Every CD has a unique design unto itself. Interference paint is a polymer emulsion (paint) containing titanium-coated mica flakes. Painted over a dark color you see the labeled interference color. Painted over a light color you see the complimentary color. The color changes depending upon the angle you're viewing the paint at. It's impossible to represent the effect in a picture as it is a phenomenon which exists through motion, movement.. I find the tracks on this release are successful in that they too operate on a similar level. Have you ever read Binkley's 'Piece: Contra Aesthetics?' Now that our nation can collectively take a deep breath for the next four years, it is time to straight chill and listen to the music at hand!! -Steve Hauschildt, Gneiss Things"
BEE MASK/ASTRONAUT SPLIT C30 (Deception Island) $7(US)/$9(Worldwide)
"The World is Transformed and all the Heavens Sing for Joy!/Will they Remember F-Zero?" A fat streak of grease on the wall while the room turns itself inside out. Post-kundalini awakening pissing words in the proverbial horse ear. Fucked Lee Perry-style deep tape scum/shimmer-oriented reworking of live sessions from WCSB. On the reverse, the late Massachusetts synth trio Astronaut, featuring Daniel "Oneohtrix Point Never" Lopatin, reach dizzying extremes of paranoia and lfo-heavy entheogenic ritual dread/churn in shadowy "final" sessions, coming on in a more blown out and breathless fashion than on any side to date. Full black light trails/campfire mode, complete with appropriately face-melting peaks. All BASF chrome tapes in polyboxes, featuring cardstock inserts and full-color labels. Every tape in these editions is a first-generation dub. No high-speed duplication, no spray paint.
-Bee Mask"
WEBSITE Titles can be ordered directly through Point Never via Paypal. ALL ORDERS Please include 2 dollars for shipping. Email pointnever@gmail.com with any order inquiries. Being that Point Never is a cybernetic cottage industry, please expect your item to be shipped roughly within 7-14 days of placing your order.
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19 Nov 08
- CD, Print
Astral Social Club - 'Sieben Stax' CD
"Welcome to Astral Social Club: your MC is British avant-garde guru Neil Campbell. Put on your dancing shoes, because this is hallucinating, intergalactic trance music of the highest order and it¹s about to take off. The up-beat, cosmic vibes of Campbell¹s first terrestrial voyages aboard the drone/krautrock ship were already very impressive, but with Astral Social Club he sets sail for the stars. Campbell manages to create something entirely unprecedented on this album: trance music as played in the clubs at the other side of the solar system. Or perhaps we¹re listening to the intoxicating smoke signals from extra-terrestrial pirate stations? While listeners may recognise the earthy kraut rock rhythms, the compelling, minimalist drones and a few catchy pop melodies, Astral Social Music is entirely of itself. The moment at which you¹ve become completely immersed in a hypnotic groove is the moment the Club decides to let loose one of the awkward beats or melodies it has in its arsenal. This soundtrack for the ultimate trip surges, pounds, vibrates, swings, pulsates and sucks on your subconscious; its organic music breathes in and out like a shrinking and expanding universe. Leave all nocturnal troubles of the moonlit world behind you and turn your gaze to the sunrays emanating from the Astral Social Club. Reverberating voices and melodies from outer space and rhythmic pulsar fly past at rapid speed only to be swallowed up in a black hole on their way to another dimension. You Einsteins and Hawkings of this world, hold on to one another for the Big Bang Dance festival of your dreams." HERE18 Nov 08
- Vinyl, CD
RACCOO-OO-OON (RTB#43)"Everything's coming to a end with the swansong from Iowa City's Raccoo-oo-oon. Following up last years critically acclaimed Behold Secret Kingdom (RTB/Not Not Fun), the final album takes everything up a notch and shows a band taking their last breath and laying down the last bricks in their fairly short history. The album blends together all different parts of Raccoo-oo-oons discography, taking cues from the utter freeform punk madness of The Cave Of Spirits Forever (Time Lag), building something completely new of the era that was Behold Secret Kingdom and yet delivering echoes of the eclectic Mythos Folkways recordings. The album reeks of desperation and a feeling of going down with nothing to loose at all. A fucked up future-prog mayhem that is all over the place and at no known place at all at the same time. Genuinely uncomfortable, desperate and just beautiful, this album will surely be remembered as the most important recording that Racco-oo-oon ever put to tape. Minds are melting, new grounds are covered and things will never be the same. A playtime of close to 75 minutes over 7 tracks. Mastered by Pete Swanson."
Mini gatefoldsleeve with black felt. 2xLP version on Not Not Fun. The band members are now playing in acts such as Wet Hair, Trash Dog and Pukers. 1000 copies made.
DEAD LETTERS SPELL OUT DEAD WORDS - 'LOST IN REFLECTIONS' LP + 7" (RTB#42)
"As Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Gothenburg based composer and sound artist Thomas Ekelund has delved into a time-consuming investigation of the complex, multi-faceted world of solitude and introspective darkness. His pallet is strictly greyscale, but the tones he uses are deeper, more honest and more heartfelt than anything else out there. »Lost in Reflections« is Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words’ fourth main album and his definite masterpiece so far. Here, hurt is transformed into absolute beauty. And here, dampened drones make pop art. This, in the words of Thomas Ekelund himself, is how the album came about: "Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, a both vile and many-faced disease that inevitably drapes every aspect of life in shadows that range from shades of grey to coal black. It causes a polarity of mind, everything is either or, never in between. It makes you feel isolated and alone even in the most crowded rooms. Slowly this imagined isolation becomes a real isolation. You do not allow anyone inside the carefully constructed walls, built stone by stone by a mind so completely preoccupied with guilt and shame that you in fact become unhuman (sic). An empty shell containing oozing, black bile and nothing else. You become the disease. I never look into mirrors unless it's absolutely necessary. Because I don't see the reflection of man, I see a specter, a phantasm, a distorted human-like figure to which I can't relate. I never look into the eyes of anyone I talk to because I am terrified that they will see the same apparition. I try to achieve invisibility, but in lack of that I hide my true appearance behind meticulously molded masks. Eighteen months ago, »Lost in Reflections« was already half a year old. Still it deals with the above mentioned disease and some of the aspects of it. Its strange how the mind can be so aware and unaware at the same time. Now it's two years later. And though I in some ways have a better grasp of my ailment I am nowhere near being rid of it. Most of the time I feel suspended, as if I was waiting for some great revelation of thruth, a stroke of magic that will transform me into someone like you. The person you see in the mirror. A human. It has taken me two years to come to terms with this album. It's in many ways my most accessible work to date, but in other ways my most difficult and demanding. I can't listen to it objectively. In fact I have a hard time listening to it at all." Split release with iDEAL, When Skies Are Grey and Fang Bomb. 500 copies made.
WEBSITE
17 Nov 08
- Vinyl, Cassette
YOUNG # TEN: NONHORSE - 'SLOW CHILD' 7" $6"A CONFIRMED TAPE BLISS; ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS ON THE MOON. -G. LUCAS CRANE-"
YOUNG # ELEVEN: BRETT FAVRE - 'THE UNDERLYING FOCUS UPON SINGLE NEGATIVE ENTITIES IN LIFE IS TESTAMENT TO THE POSITIVITY OF LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS' C20 +12p MAGAZINE $10
"THE FINAL EXPLORATION; ZERO POINTS. -PETER FRIEL-"
YOUNG # TWELVE: MOSSY THROATS - 'LEAVES OF THE MIND' C41 $6
"INTANGIBLE GROWTH, RELAX WEIRD; NEW YOUNG ZONES FLOW IN WITH TOTAL FLUIDITY. -DAN DLUGOSIELSKI-"
YOUNG # THIRTEEN: ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - 'RUINED LIVES' C20 $6
"SYNTHESIZED BEAUTY IN ITS ENTIRETY, INSPECTION OF THE GALAXIES WITHIN US ALL. -DANIEL LOPATIN-"
WEBSITE
17 Nov 08
- CD
Diaphragm - 'Sublimation' CD $10(US)/$15(WORLD)
"The debut CD from Diaphragm is an amalgamation of dark droning machinery, choppy shuddering, and static-laden buzz and whir augmented by a rusted mountain of ancient oscillators. These are exacting compositions inspired by the greyed-out hulks of broken concrete and broken razorwire that litter the landscape of the artist's surroundings. The sounds on Sublimation may appeal to listeners of Speculum Fight, Iovae, Tom Grimley... Diaphragm is the project of New York native Nicholas Pace. He is part of a core group of diverse young artists that include Halflings, Cathode Terror Secretion, Ahlzagailzehguh, Pharmakon, and others, that are providing for some serious and difficult listening in early 21st century NYC." HERE15 Nov 08
- Cassette
905.28: EXERCISE S/T C30 $6"this tape is an oh so killer follow up to exercise's catholic tape jam, which was given to me this summer in a field in west virginia. i got home, listened to it. listened to it again. and again. never looked back. exercise is slow burning, silicone drones hashed out by the duo of mike pollard (arbor records, treetops) and brett naucke (catholic tapes, druids of huge). keyboards and electronics producing the sounds of eating the wrong fruit off of the right tree, purple worm and all. an out-of-body, phantasmagoric, acid trip flashback through sonic space. patterns shift and blend with pure hypnotic logic." HERE
14 Nov 08
- Cassette, CDr
HR50 Greening Wave 4CS+CDr $23/$25/$31
"A milestone for Gainesville-based Housecrafters. Included are four split c20 cassettes bearing medicinal fruits from Xiphiidae, Arbol Transmissions, Hairmaiden of the Totem Robe, Royallen, Do Tell, Tricorn & Queue, 1994, and Hundreds. As a bonus is the "Public Settings" CD-r, with live sets or excerpts from Royallen, Hundreds, Xiphiidae, Cyquoia, and Hairmaiden of the Totem Robe." edition of 50.
HR63 Herons - 'Walk Upright' C40 $5/$6/$7
"Atonal drifts converge like opaque clouds, cracked with piercing light. Warm strings both meanderingly plucked and stroked, distant organ, tapes, effects, feedback, and high ceilings comprise/compromise a subtle, but not bashful, transporting, slow moving passage over frozen terrain." edition of 52.
HR64 Wavering - 'Soaking Systems Vol. 2' 2xC20 $8/$9/$10
"Long at work mail collaboration between Blake Westerby and Jeffry Astin. It's a Soaking Systems so the tapes can be played together, but in this case it's just as effective played one side at a time. Slow-swirling sandwiched field recordings, crackling mantras, distant vocal nebulas, and fleeting icy drones fill every corner of an other-worldy stereo spectrum. Get lost in whatever quadraphonic combination you please." edition of 75.
HR65 Corsican Paintbrush - 'Fascinators' C38 $5/$6/$7
"Eva and Brad Rose here working synth, voice, and various unknown acoustic sources into a throbbing, sliding mesh. Three tracks covering something like a perilous desert exodus to crystal cave sleep and eventually into a self-dissolving ecstatic encounter with Other where delayed bowed strings merge with concentric chants." edition of 72.
HR66 Pan To Scratch - 'What is Kept and What is Thrown Away' C32 $5/$6/$7
"This just plopped in my mailbox one day--mysterious, addictive tape from Tony/Endless of Drunjus quilting endlessly taped found sound and vacant drones. LP due out soon on Earjerk." edition of 48.
HR53 "V" - 'We Are Crossing Fences Through Rocky Fields' CDr $6/$7/$8
"Formerly released as a c47. High altitude glass ceiling echoes over low canopy woodland daze via wind, string, and buried vox. Perfect for misty morning tent warp and disappearing acts. And there's a bonus track this time around." reissued edition of 30.
All six for $48/$56/$64
WEBSITE
14 Nov 08
- Cassette, CDr
ORR-015 Stone Baby - 'die Eule' 3"CDr $6(US)/$9(World)
"Stone Baby is an incredibly accurate name. Cory Card and his rotating cast of who-know's-who creep out dark but gentle drones. Newborn chunks of marble rolling down mountains of prison garden gravel. Air full of unsettled dust and droning tones." Ghost whispers in ink smeared sewn brown paper sleeves with an insert. Edition of 50.
ORR-018 Gorman/Martini Dreamer split C10 $6(US)/$9(World)
"A prequel to the long in the works Gorman/Vesuvan split c40 on Slime City, Gorman bursts short blasts of rough sound in the shortest and loudest peice from the project. J. Burke takes a short drug fueled romp through dark woods at night. Bad trip." Eerie vibes in blood-red painted cardstock sleeves and blood-red painted labels. Edition of 25.
ORR-019 Ben Nash - 'Minions by Foot' 3"CDr $6(US)/$9(World)
"Over the past few years Ben Nash has had a steady flow of beautiful droning folky psychedelia rolling out on labels like Blackest Rainbow and his own Recollections of Knulp. Here it captures a brief 3 piece movement of percussion, and vocals, guitars and bells. Intertwining and twisting into a foggy yet sparse web of sounds. End of autumn sounds in wallpaper pockets with an insert." Edition of 50.
WEBSITE
11 Nov 08
- Vinyl, Cassette
digiv001: the north sea - 'crusades' LP $15/$18/$26"digitalis goes hollywood with our first (of many) endeavor into the dark side. this lp is a straight-up (sort of) reissue of ltd#12, which sold-out in about a day. both tracks have been completely remastered and overhauled and sound about a million times better than before. that being the said, the original write-up still makes sense: the north sea is well into phase two as of spring autumn 2008, and "crusades" is an attempt to spread the word at the end of butcher knife. religious iconography aside, these two decaying piles of analog wretch are the product of midnight feasts and early morning witchhunts. black as the days of summer are long, these two tracks battle the subconscious melodies that constantly try and creep their way up through the river of burning molasses. "crusades" is another step forward. it's another entry that sets the past aflame, looking forward to the day that everything we've built comes crumbling down to a mountain of dust. strictly limited to 100 copies. fold-out, silkscreened poster-style covers that will make you love jesus, oh my." LOOK
ltd#25: andrew coltrane - 'synth tapes vol. 5' C60 $7(US)/$9(world)
"i wish i could remember the first stack of bones from michigan superscuz andrew coltrane, but in the past year or so i've been buried under such an epic pile of a.c. fuzz that it'd be near-impossible to figure out where it all began. point is, he is a machine who never sleeps, never eats, i dunno... he just keeps going like his life depends on it. from junkyard electronics to heaps of rotten metal and there and back again, coltrane's always got new tricks up his sleeve. "synth tapes vol. 5" is exactly what it says it is - the fifth volume in an ongoing exploration of analog sound constructed with only, you guessed it: synths and tapes. the sounds on here are looped and stretched and dragged into pits of black mud. underneath the drowning, though, lives the vaguest and most unexpected hints of melodies and hooks, just enough to fool you and suck you in. next thing you know, you're tarred and feathered and dreaming of your next root canal. fucken genius." limited to 91 copies, cassette inspired art by stone baby's cory card. HERE
ltd#45: soundpressings s/t C40 $7(US)/$9(world)
"oklahoma turned out to be crimson red this year, but for those of us living here, we know that this place is a fucking hole of an enigma. case-in-point: soundpressings. this newly unearthed oklahoman gem came out of nowhere to blow our brains into piles of swiss cheese. the inimitable danny mitchell comes to us from out west in norman (via nathan young's stomping grounds in tahlequah). soundpressings, though, is all over the map. hearing soundpressings is like wandering into a mountain of lost & found tapes from a million different sources, all playing at once. mitchell crafts these collages together in an original and addictive way, finding sweet, ghosted-out drones in the midst of a sheet of noise or a plodding, electronic rhythm. once you enter his domain, you never know where exactly you'll end up. oklahoma's not dead yet." limited to 80 copies. HERE
WEBSITE
11 Nov 08
- CD
BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT - 'The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb' $12"James Blackshaw and Jozef Van Wissem created a powerful duo. Two of the most unique instrumentalists operating today combine their sounds to become one."
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO UFO - 'Glorify Astrological Martyrdom' CD $12
"Not vinyl planned yet for this stunningly record riff fest. Check out the 2nd MP3 to hear AMT like never before. Riff-o-rama. A new Seldon Hunt designed tee shirt is availble for this release."
WEBSITE
11 Nov 08
- Cassette
ATOMIZADOR - 'CÍRCULOS' 1€"Cuatro temas (media hora larga) construidos exclusivamente con loop-cassettes preparados y pasados por la caja de pandora. Noise vidrioso alucinado, hiperdelia y frecuencias ululantes para la cinta más extrasensorial de todo el catálogo de afeite al perro." Portada a color en cartulina, insert en papel marfil albaricoque y cassette tóxico. 58 copias.///"Four tracks (more than half an hour) made exclusively with prepared loop-cassettes through pandora's box. Hallucinated glassy noise, hyperdelia and ululating frequencies for the most extrasensorial tape of all afeite al perro's catalog." Full color cardboard cover, ivory apricot paper insert and toxic cassette. 58 copies. HERE
8 Nov 08
- Cassette
GARETH HARDWICK/EYEBALLS cassette £5"Gareth Hardwick's steady stream of quality releases is gathering to be one of the UK's best current minimal drone catalogues around... here he gives us a 3 part trip of pure slow motions... Flip the tape and you have Richard Dawson's Eyeballs project, whose debut on Blackest Rainbow caused a stir with the few people who managed to lay their hands on it. Here Dawson's side is bleaker and darker than expected, gives me the full on feel of the Twin Peaks woods... feels like the vast emptiness of that claustrophobic wooded area. Low and lulling." Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 150 copies.
THE NORTH SEA - 'Almost Perfect Illusion' cassette £5
"Brad Rose of Digitalis has been busting the North Sea jams for quite sometime, and in the last year or so its developed from being a luscious garden, to a complete metallic desert of industrial waste land, Christian Bale and his co-stars would probably feel at home with this being the soundtrack to the next Terminator flick, and who knows, maybe it will be? The A side, Cyclones, is a pure doom soaked 11 minute beast. Side B's Milk Money is a fuzz layered nightmare of scolding blowtorches burning at your face and mind... Intense and bleak. Bleak forestry cover art." pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 100 copies.
COLOR DREAM - 'Skywalker' cassette £5
"New project from Arbor ruler (aka Treetops) Mike Pollard with former JK Taper, now Mr Young Tapes, Peter Friel... four space related close encounters of the drone kind... sweet and simple, guaranteed to leave you floating somewhere totally cosmic in the outer reaches of mind and space!!! Black and white sleeve and insert designed by the Color Dream boys." Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 100 copies.
WEBSITE
6 Nov 08
- Cassette
FLORIS VANHOOF - 'de onzichtbare hand van voltage control' C20"abstract synthesizer works from this Professor In Usable Knowledge and full-time McD's clientele, Floris Vanhoof. while being a core member of R.O.T. and an independent movie maker, recently he started to consentrate more on his love for technique and synthesizers. this album is a repress of his first self-released tape, released a while ago, but only gotten into the hands of museum programmers and synth music foru nutters. strange, abstract and minimal sounds, codes and unusuables, made with the ems vcs3 synth. a deep view behind the arches... vanhoofke recently released a cassette album on breaking world recs, and is working at a vinyl record for ultra eczema."
W RAVENVEER - 'ogenloos' one-sided C50
"coded person W.V. is a respected member of the Antwerp core of autodidact musicians. while others of that core try to get into the circle of wrong, W.V. keeps focussing on his own brains and hands. not interested in getting to play at local art exhibitions or braindead gatherings, W.V. gives room for his own moments of contemplating braindeadism. his main translation is the synthesizer. on this album, we are given a carefull peak in one of the two professions of W.V. profession one is spaced out code patterns wich we will look into soon on a joing venture release with our pals at Breaking World Records. profession two is the progressive synth emotional pondering in the old school style. this is defenitly not just an exact reproduction of the past sound, but an updated recreation of the historical insight. this cassette is the deep blues of folks like ADELBERT VON DEYEN in the mix of a lonely soul and a misunderstood heart. intensely fantastic with a touch of pure. this is melancholic, deep down under communications in the esoteric energy structure."
PINK BUFFALO - 'viscid veils' C40
"Eric Fry delivers a novel of warm loops, draft experiments and strange sound collages. this album has a genuine 80's, early 90's hometapers feel. the feeling of a minautaur soundsculpture in the mix of a bowl of baby woodrose, interfered by the touch of insight similar to the classic Super Nintendo gameportal. this is pretty grown up visions about Honey I Shrunk The Kids. it is an explainable "unexplainable". inflatable knowledge from a world that was presumed far beyond our 3-D structure. a page of mystery...."
TREETOPS - 'deep purple infinity' C30
"the 80's healing scene has found ressurection in the body of ARBOR head MIKE POLLARD aka TREETOPS. soothing tunes for a new step into the self. i don't know if anyone remembers AEOLIAH, but this album made me think about his psychological new age meditation pieces a lot. this IASOS affilate made music for a healthy living (tm). TREETOPS steps on this path as well, but travels more out there, more vague. synthesized sounds of a new beginning surrounded by the crunch of the media. deep inside this tape, the message of healing is encoded. if psychotronics is a new genre of music, this guy is one of the portholes to the genre's heart."
JAMES FERRARO - 'last american hero/adrenaline's end' C60
"amnesia smoke out & prototype James Ferraro makes his big goodbye america statement. side a is an "in memoriam" for the last american hero. a lost full moon features on the rise and decay of a man of honor and honesty. "twisted" ecstacy for the double thinkers out there. mic fleetwoods mindframe after the decay and abandonment of the survivors of the coked out mac. side b is the sound of clear, of adrenaline's end. a tackle for all your engrams. a broad view on how it feels to be uplifted into infinity. uplifted into a vast clear sky of self fullfillment and a deep metaprogrammed brain activity radius."
DUNCAN CAMERON s/t C20
"dolphins into the future side-project. duncan cameron was involved in the Montauk project. he was the medium they used to transmit the brain frequencies. but more important, duncan cameron lived on different timetracks. more than dolphins into the future, this tape focusses on pure / clear synthesizer music and ambient sci fi spheres. but on side b, the timetracks are switched, and one suddenly hears a collage of taped percussion sounds. it's maybe a sort of organum pondering on persona isolation. only in this case, defenitly not the kind of self-implemented isolation to reach for better knowledge of oneself / the mind / mind programs / the others / chrestos / life...."
WEBSITE
5 Nov 08
- Cassette
BT007 - Nonhorse - 'Pink Light' C60"Ultra-paranoid concept tape focused around universal consciousness, alien abductions and traumatic encounters with 'beams of pink light,' such as that which led Philip K. Dick to write 'Exegesis' and his self-examination trilogy in the early 80's. Fucking grimey and eerie as all hell. Analogous to extrasensory restraints rendering you incapacitated though fully cognizant while deep probing tape manipulations loom above." Pink spray-painted pink tapes housed in pink art, total saturation. Limited to 99.
BT009 - Grasshopper - 'Dads Against Vietnam' C50
"D.A.V. documents the next steps for electro-trumpet outfit Grasshopper following their move to NYC and short hiatus in early 2008. Dads weaves dissonant textures of garbled brass, jagged rumblings and TTS-inducing shrieks into hazed out drone poems. Two 25 minute long explorations that range sonically from air raid attacks and oncoming trains to being buried alive while too drugged to move. Total brass duo creepy crawlies in fully decked out 'bob marley bootleg' color art." Limited to 45.
BT008 / DARE017- Last Level - 'Cast Away Your Swords' C20
"The shape of scum to come - trumpet/sax/electronics crude freespaz grind.
ornette acetates cut to sheet metal w/ rusty fishhooks. limited to 15. Free Jazz Peace Hardcore, all songs about nonviolent resistance, and disarmament, all songs super short, each song has to have screamed vocals and some sort of accomplished jazz solo, no song longer than 30 seconds. Cassette must come with xeroxed art in a normal plastic cassette shell, and must include complete lyrics. If you can make patches out of cut up blue jeans with an intense logo drawn on, even better."
all three for $14
BT011 - FGM + VW - 'dumbledore of doo doo pt. 1' C7
"Halloween show collab cassingle. Spazedelic reinterpretations of stoner favs by j. hendrix & jefferson airplane Think a less dated, organic Residents." HERE
BT010 - Grasshopper - 'If You Want The Million Dollars, You Have To Sleep In a Haunted House' C27
"On this one, the NYC trumpet duo take it down to brass tacks with two new spooked out jass/drone numbers. The score to a blazed out overnight shift at HQ, when the power goes out and accidentally releases all the ghosts from the ecto-containment unit. Side B rounds out with 'Bustin' Makes Me Feel Good,' as Winston Zeddemore pied pipers all the ghosts back into captivity by laying down a sweet electric bass solo." HERE
The halloween pair for $7
WEBSITE
5 Nov 08
- Cassette, CDr
FAX 018 Sam Gas Can - 'presents DJ Selector Faux-Pas' cassingle $4"Electronic remix project featuring "Holden, 1995" b/w "Choking on Splinters (the whistle song)". Spraypainted tapes in 2-color silkscreen sleeves with photocopy insert, edition of 36, half on orange paper, half on pink."
FAX 019 Arnau Sala - 'PER SEMPRE' 3"CDr $5
"A nice little nugget of chug from OZONOKIDS proprietor Arnau Sala, Spanish noise heartthrob. Seriously,
listen to it, and you're bound to experience some kind of palpitations. Comes with B&W tri-fold insert featuring incredible drawings by the man himself."WEBSITE
4 Nov 08
- Vinyl, Cassette
ARBOR81 BEE MASK - 'HOW SOFTLY SINGS THE KETTLE, HOW SWEETLY CHIMES THE CLOCK' C20 $6"Recent East Coast transplant, Chris Madak has been ripping the air with his Bee Mask drones for some time. Here he juxtaposes Harsh, heavy tendencies with intricate synth work, creating dynamic pieces operating on multiple levels with a deep sense of high, mid, and low ranges. Interspersed throughout with effected field recordings to create an impossible zone existing somewhere between the synthetic and the natural." In an edition of 100 tapes with full color art and labels.
ARBOR99 CARLOS GIFFONI - 'THE ABSENCE OF ESSENCE"' 2x7" $11
"Carlos Giffoni's heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early industrial music. Completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. These four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful but with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the 7" format does not harm Giffoni's work which normally exists in extended lengths; instead very succinct and unwavering compositions result: creating four vignettes of grey industrial zones. As the person responsible for No Fun Productions and the No Fun Fest, this Brooklyn transplants presence in the current progression of the genre is undeniable." In an edition of 400 2x7"(one on white vinyl and one on black) sets in gatefold sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives.
ARBOR105 PREHISTORIC BLACKOUT - 'WAKE UP DEAD' C20 $6
"Taylor Richardson conjures deep stoned synth vibes in the duo Infinity Window and has spread his psych seed across the country with his time in Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Prehistoric Blackout is his solo project where he takes 18+ years of guitar playing and redefines the instrument; creating impossible sounds and ghost rhythms in heavily psychedelic zones. A beautiful statement of opposing levels of clarity: a tribute to recreational drugs." In an editions of 100 tapes with full color art by Taylor and tape labels.
ARBOR112 TREETOPS/WALTER CARSON SPLIT C20 $6
"Recent Treetops zones since relocation to NY have seen deeper focus into keyboard exploration. Presenting here two heavy, focused slabs separated by a brief meditation. Always in a process of self contemplative progress: the product of living ten stores above the never quiet street. Darryl Cook's Walter Carson project has been spot on for years., creating a confusing haze of synthesized ambience and heavy acoustic clatter through bows and junk abuse; slowly melting into blessed,zoned deep repetition." In an edition of 100 tapes with full color art and tape labels.
ARBOR114 P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. - 'NARC GRIND/I CAME HERE TO DIE' CASSINGLE $4
"Recently formed LA skate punk crew, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. consisting of Britt from Robedoor/Not Not Fun and 2/3rd's of Black Black bring two quick tracks utilizing SoCal sunshine vibes, skateboards, and a "fuck authority" attitude. Dr. Pepper and scab fueled thrash: grind the pigs; skate or die. Jam this tape on repeat at yr favorite skate spot; positive negativity." In an edition of 75 tapes in cassingle style O card sleeves with black and white art/tape labels by the band.
ARBOR120 MARK MCGUIRE - 'THE GARDEN OF ETERNAL LIFE' C30 $6
"Cleveland guitar zoner and Emeralds member Mark McGuire crafts his most beautiful work yet. Delicate strumming to infinity floats in the clouds; acting in an almost medicinal way to provoke good vibes. Dreamy, light elation and nostalgia make each listen feel highly personal. Deep focus wraps you in the warmth of your own memories: subtle and powerful, spiritual and healing. Free your mind from it's own constraints." In an edition of 150 tapes with full color art and labels.
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4 Nov 08
- CDr, Video
fracture dosethirtynine DVDr"the first video release on small doses. fracture is a 55 minute film made by kyle willey and scored by robe. it's an abstract atmospheric horror film of the highest order. you can see influences from merhige's begotten and hints from the likes of nosferatu and der golem. the twisted plot follows a man's battle against himself with everything at stake. the music adds a whole other level to the mood. if you've heard robe. before, imagine the imagery that the music evokes - there is fracture." dvdr with a laser etched face packaged in a heavy black folder with an insert and obi. edition of 109 copies. SAMPLE
pvmntsw - 'förintelsen' dosethirtyseven 3"CDr
"this has been in the works for quite a while, and it came together better than i ever expected. sweden's pvmntsw (read pavementsaw) gives two tracks of incredible synth (and some guitar) work. it plays like a lost lament from a john carpenter film that never got made." packaged in a folded vellum cover with two-sided insert. edition of 96 copies. SAMPLEbones of seabirds - 'subterranean lightsource' dosethirtyfour CDr
"it seems that ryan mcgill is complete unable to cover the same ground twice. this is the fourth (i believe) bones seabirds release, and it sounds nothing like any of the others. this one foregoes the guitars (for the most part) and relies on ryan's handmade voice of saturn synth.the first nearly 35 minute track is intense and brutal - like being strapped into some sort of machine that's boring deeper and deeper into the earth only to slowly burn you alive. the second gives a bit of respite, but leaves you lost in a dark cave drone. it's not to be missed." packaged in a folded artwork by matt yacoub, with an obi and an insert. edition of 129 copies. SAMPLE
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3 Nov 08
- Cassette
ltd#36: la otracina - 'gardens of blackness' C23 $7(domestic)/$9(world)"pretty stoked to finally be dropping a bomb from la otracina, one of my absolute faves from the past few years. these brooklynites know how to bring in it in all forms from all directions. "gardens of blackness" is everything you'd hope it was: heady dark drones that flirt with the world of metal more than ever. drummer/vocalist adam kriney let's go on the a-side, hollering and wailing like tomorrow's nothing but a distant dream. other times you end up dredging up some serious murk from the bottom of the pool. hints of tape collage come out of nowhere and eventually it mellows out for a pretty even high. it's cohesive and all over the map all at the same time, definitely showcasing their new direction since their last record on holy mountain. here's kriney's breakdown of the tracks: The Land Above The Sky (Beyond The Dusty Hills Pt 2.) Began as an improvisational group jam recorded this past summer when we recorded all of our current live material to end up on albums early next year. This one ended up becoming a massive sound collage piece based on smaller thematic ideas all segued together for full psychedelic effect, mostly recorded live in the studio over several weeks of mixing/editing. One of the most interesting pieces we've ever created in the studio, we are absolutely thrilled with it! Emerald Energy - An improvsational meditation on a section of music that also appears on the song "White Energy" which will appear on the next Galactic Zoo Dossier Magazine CD compilation. Features a rare line-up of Adam on keys, Evan on wurlitzer, and Phil on acoustic guitar, final mix was slightly treated for maximum ambient implosion, a subtle and sparse piece! Mass Monolithic Mind -Yet again we enter a land of minimal stuffs, this piece is more improvisational meditations on yet another song "Mass Meteroic Mind", which had been a staple of our live show during most of 08 and will apear on our record of new/now-ish music sometime next year. At the tail end of the piece you can hear a slight excerpt from the actual song that this meditation was based upon, to give a lil' taste of things to cum. there ya go, what else do you need? limited to 55 blackest black copies."
ltd#37: gryn brvs/siblings of plasma split C48 $7(domestic)/$9(world)
"this one comes from the UK with all sorts of dangling gold and buckets of skronk. fresh off their chocolate monk CDR, gryn brvs continue to be at odds with themselves, creating a cacaphonous sprawl that totally works, even though it seems like it shouldn't. harshly picked acoustic guitars rattle on above waves of ramshackle, junkyard percussion. it's like the percussion is trying to destroy the melody laid down by the guitars. it's fucken great. this sidelong meltdown squirms along for days, lulling you into a state of total abandon. siblings of plasma share members and membranes with gryn brvs, but their modus is down a different rabbit hole. walls of cello squalor mourning the end of days, wailing like the death knell of god only knows. these tracks are bathed in organic, hypnotic ruin. once s.o.p. gets their claws in, you are done." 75 copies w/ spraypainted wrap around sleeves.
ltd#38: evan miller - 'three improvisations' C20 $7(domestic)/$9(world)
"evan miller has been a staple around digitalis hq for the past few years since he busted onto the scene via too many killer night people tapes. over the course of many, many releases, miller has traversed all manner of different landscapes. perhaps he's best known for his post-takoma acoustic jaunts, but there's always been elements and vague hints of drones that circle underneath his picking like tonal sharks, looking for any sort of bait to jump out at. well, "three improvisations" puts it all together one in fine package. side a features two short songs for six-string guitar. to the point, they pull in melodies and keep them caged up until the exact, perfect moment when they are set free. it's deceptive in its simplicity. side b adds electric elements (c/o phil ochs) and field recordings to jumble millers various sides into a cohesive whole." 95 copies with coffee-dyed tape labels.
ltd#43: color dream - 'cloud factory' 2xC10 $11(domestic)/$13(world)
"this double meditative burst from these teen captains of industry, mike pollard (treetops and arbor records) and peter friel (jk/young tapes and steve young, et al) delivers short and sweet bursts of hypnotic dronedreams straight to your cerebrum. it's minimal and to the point, soothing like an opiate for the masses. "cloud factory" is soft around the edges and flows like a sweet earcandy stream, drowning you in the carefully crafted folds that wither under intense heat. friel & pollard are soaring, clearly dreaming of life in the sky. grab it." 50 copies.
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3 Nov 08
- Vinyl, Cassette
Bromp Treb - 'Twins' 7" $5co released w/ Apostasy and Yeay! "it's a great slab of wax, all drum source material played on an open face reel to reel. Absolutely loose and free percussion rainstorm that remains structured and composed enough to slap you silly, kind of drunken style!" full color cover by george w. myers, printed in an edition of 300.
Ducktails 7" $5
"Beautiful self described 'tropical' jams/gems, clean circular guitar over fuzzy, hazy drum loops and percussion coconuts washing ashore. Influences from all over the 'world' without surrendering to mimcry, lots of suggestive bits but still a unique piece of pie, let your hair down type of party music." full color cover by george w. myers, printed in an edition of 300
Floris Vanhoof - 'A fudge too much' C42 $6
"Sounding like a lung full of slugs, one dude from Brussels delivers up two sides of homemade/modified synths, tape delays, phasers and oscillators. Mostly chunky-like and decayed there are still upbeat beat moments and a sense of purpose. The whole tape is wrapped in analog warmth and perfect lemon freshness." full color artwork by george w. myers, edition of 100.
Blueshift - 'Ghost Singers 3' C25 $6
"If you haven't heard any blueshift releases yet, hurry up and pick up the russian tsarlag/ Blueshift split LP! This tape continues her treks into abandoned buildings, opening the suitcases of dust, must and rust, air whipping through violin strings, the sounds of breathing; a real treat." full color art by george w. myers printed in an edition of 100.
Mudboy - 'Mudbeats #3 (metal usa)' C40 $6
"Same as above, this is the third volume of mudboy's beat tapes, get the others if you don't have them! straight heavy modified organ beats accompanied by minimal melody from the synth/organs, serious music, for dark late night walks, chase scenes, and serious head bobbing." silk screen covers by Raphael Lyon printed in an edition of 100.
Snack Attack - 'Slowed Heat' volume one and two $6
"two separate releases, Dj tapes of super slowed down dancehall beats, minimal dub tracks, primarily digital productions that make yr bone marrow rattle and your teeth shake. volume 1 is 30 minutes, volume 2 is 35." full color art work for v.1, b/w artwork for v.2 both by george w. myers in an edition of 100.
God Willing - 'On Dishless Days' $6
"Two absolutely stunning sides by Ren (formerly of dynasty and gang wizard.) Guitar and Tone generator rumbling in and out of dischord, maximum tension and presence in a simple drone. Rarely do i think of something as a dissonant drone AND beautiful but he nails it here." b/w artwork by lauren pakradooni printed in an edition of 100.
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2 Nov 08
- Cassette
MJC238 THE MOSSY THROATS - 'lost in space' 2xC60 $11(north america)/$14(world)"The Mossy Throats is Daniel Dlugosielski, dude behind killer EXBX label and player in Uneven Universe and formerly Haunted Castle. Dan draws some fantastic shapes in the mold of Michigan throbs crumbling crust as your drift out into the atmosphere. spend two hours bouncing off the space debris
retardo electronics and voice manipulation wrapped wounded transmissions." limited to 16 tapes come in a hand-decorated box with poster.
MJC241 SHORTY 9: TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. C20 $7(north america)/$10(world)
"recorded live to tape September 3, 2006 at the Underground in Hamilton, Ontario. featuring the line-up of Andrew W.K., Graham Moore, Chris Grier, Rat Bastard, Ben Wolcott, and Tom Smith. closet cleaning leads to the re-discovery of this live hammer gem ... no matter ~ for the material is timeless, ranging from droning static sawing to dramatic noisy rock opera rhythms all peppered and purpled with stunning vocalization by the Energy of Tom Smith. get inside and get authorized with this ultra lo-fi sneak peak at the past and future
as the warbling tape runs out before the band does but lives long enough to expose the intense expression that is To Live And Shave In L.A.." limited to 50.
MJC244 WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT - 'Ordained Solace' C30 $7(north america)/$10(world)
"Wasteland Jazz Unit are John Rich and Jon Lorenz from Ohio on clarinets and saxophones respectively. if you ain't familiar with their recent assault on labels like American Tapes, Deep Fried Tapes, ExBx etc. etc. this horn duo sounds like their name suggests - WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT - but doesn't some anything like a horn duo at all... "Ordained Solace" is a total holocaust absolute Hell feedback frier~ just burn!" limited to 50.
MJC242 TERROR TAPES 41: TUSCO TERROR/DRUIDS OF HUGE C30 $7(north america)/$10(world)
"two live performances from two hot midwest maniac machines. side a= TUSCO TERROR. recorded July 6, 2008 at the tusco hq aka the Embassy in Cleveland, Ohio performing here five-men deep zoning out and orbiting each other creating a psychotic chaotic freedom fried. sibe b= DRUIDS OF HUGE. recorded July 5, 2008 in a dark basement in Chicago, Illinois. three-piece making rapid war/peace on drums, electronics and guitar. creeps black in feedback howl,s axe grinding dirge dirt riffs while the drums build the back to a quick cymbal symbol smash-out take down. totally huge!" limited to 33.
MJC243 TERROR TAPES 42: PRECIOUS TROMBLEY/JOSH MCABEE C60 $7(north america)/$10(world)
"two big bangers hitting outta Michigan one in the free jazz vein and one total tape terrorizm side a= PRECIOUS TROMBLEY "Like Peaches Trombley?" with just a few ultra-limited releases out on one of the member's own label - Green Records and Tapes -mjc is proud to offer some fresh smoke. Precious Trombley, bitch, is a self-described free jazz noise trio of K.R. Mitchell (drums), Rick Clip (sax) and Anthony Viviano (guitar). "Like Peaches Trombley?" was recorded in July 2008 the opener, "Our Only Song," is a rock stomper with occassional freak side-trips before back at the stomp highway~ 2nd piece is an improv jam that drags before blasting sweet sax sex thru tumbling drums and a guitar on fire... side b= JOSH McABEE solo tape fuckery, crash and clattering havoc in every direction. McAbee has been lettin his craft leak out in the underground scene for a few years, with a small batch of releases on various labels (scumbag relations, midori, grimeology, etc.) mjc is proud to present a piece by McAbee no less challenging, confusion than any other... lots of high-speed fastforward rips, weird vocal loops, samples and general tapedeck deconstruction." limited to 27.
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2 Nov 08
- CDr
UN010 MUSCLETUSK - 'Live at The Captain’s Rest' CDr £4"a very tasty sonic gulp, recorded in Glasgow 2007. Persistent meditative trance wail and clunk punctured by gassy moan and tumbling clatter. Idiot headed upturned jazz skronk played on strings, drums, car parts and failing electrical detritus."
UN011 The Speech Organs CDr £4
"various artists sound poetry/vocal blurt comp. This one is all about dribbling chins and mangled throat…The Wire says “As sound generators go, they don’t come much more versatile than the human voice…claustrophobic huffing…unnerving chants emanating from dark shadows, rising into unhinged glossolalia and cresting in a threatening purr…” Featuring: Phil Minton, Dylan Nyoukis, Id M Theft Able, Hereharehere, Fordell Research Unit, Towering Breaker, CKDH, Usurper and more…ugh… Check full review here."
UN012 Oddities of the Lothians C30 £3
"a mysterious half hour of granny chatter, church bells, grainy dog noise, the general feel of society...Field recordings from around the Lothians twisted into odd new balls. Recorded in the street, on disused land, and in various local establishments. Bizarre and affecting. A one off - once these 30 copies are gone THAT'S IT!"
UN013 Hunton Quintet - 'Bert’s Parts' CDr £4
"Finnish psych from Anti and Uton. Spewed straight from their mushed brains onto tape in the dark woods. This lament takes them to strung out new depths of guitar thumping, drum scraping haziness. Features plenty of zoned twang, “normal/un-normal effects” and the feel of a big lunch."
UN014 UFO Antler Band CDr £4
"from one of the creeped out brains wot brought you Gas Shepherds, plus one, this is a solid lump of druid fuzz. Two long cut n paste tracks that flit between freaky tape voices, far out bedroom clang, bubbling noises and total weirdness! Utter 70s vibe!"
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2 Nov 08
- Vinyl, CD
ZAK RILES - 'self titled' CD $12"Zak Riles is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the Important band Grails. His creative contributions to the group are immeasurable and can be heard clearly on this self titled debut solo outing. In fact some of the pieces on this solo record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites."
TECUMSEH - 'Avalanche & Inundation' CD $10/LP $12
"Heavy drone/heavy meditation. Be inside the sounds. Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss."
SLOMO - 'The Bog' CD $12
"Holy McGrail: Moog Taurus II, Sunn Mustang, Clatter. Howard Marsden: Korg MS10 & Korg MS20, Hiss. Julian Cope: Poem. The Bog is the 2nd full-length release from Slomo, honing down the ritual clatter of their first album, The Creep (2005), into a more cumbersome and laden affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung."
AIDAN BAKER - 'I Too Wish To Be Absorbed' 2CD $12
"Aidan Baker's I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed is a 2 disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker's output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured on the soundtrack to a book of his poetry."
AIDAN BAKER/LEAH BUCKAREFF/NADJA - 'Trinitarian' LP $14
"100 white/100 blue. One per customer.Trinitarian represents an attempt to break down the essence of Nadja by offering a solo track from each of its two members plus one Nadja composition; two stripped down ambient pieces featuring single instruments (guitar and bass, respectively) to a full Nadja composition."
SKULL DEFEKTS - 'Waving' 7" $10
"Last copies of this extremely limited edition of 300 tour 7" available only at shows and direct from Important."
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2 Nov 08
- CDr
Andrew Paine - 'Weekend World' (BH002) CDr £5"Seven track CD-R from half of Ilk, Sonic Oyster Records founder and frequent Richard Youngs collaborator, Andrew Paine has blessed Bells Hill with a collection unlike anything he's done before. Inspired by an old notebook and unrealised ideas, moving between abstract and melody, Paine has produced an album that changes direction between the unconnected swirl of cold inspiration and the melodymemory of his surehearted playing." Electric Guitar, Vocals, Ring Modulator, Singing Bowls. Glasgow: Summer 2008. Edition of 50 HERE
1 Nov 08
- Cassette
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Ajilvsga – 'Buffalo Altar' C27 $6(USA)/$7(Canada)/$8(World) "By now, underground lurkers and cassette junkies should be well familiar with the dark path Oklahoma's Ajilvsga has trod throughout the past year. On Buffalo Altar, Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis, etc.) and Nathan Young show no sign of letting up as they unleash two intense barrages of overdriven analog synth. Resting comfortably in the red, this is an unsentimental expression of the natural world in all of its primitive, ravaging glory." Full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 75.
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Wereju – 'The Light of Life Undone' C63 $7(USA)/$8(Canada)/$9(World)"Ireland’s Cathal Rodgers takes a plunge into the murky pool of life/death and emerges with an epic work of mysterious beauty. Several shades darker than recent Wereju offerings, The Light of Life Undone mixes droning, low-end frequencies with fragile, heartbreaking melodies to conjure a thick fog of melancholy (with a fleeting glimmer of hope)." Full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 75.
Husere Grav – 'All of Them Witches' C28 $6(USA)/$7(Canada)/$8(World)
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"After a split cassette with Robedoor on Not Not Fun and several self-released CDRs, the elusive Husere Grav emerges once again from the southwestern shadows. All of Them Witches is an uneasy stroll through the cemetery with M.B. and Count Grishnakh—shifting from gloomy industrial soundscapes to lugubrious black metal and revealing that the two aesthetics blend together better than you’d ever imagined. For dark nights in solitude." Full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub. Edition of 50.Special Rate: Purchase all three new cassettes for $16(USA)/$17(Canada)/$21(World)
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31 Oct 08
- CD
Sleep Museum - 'Home' CD $10(USA)/$12(Canada+Mexico)/$14(World)""Home" is the fourth and final disc in a short series of Sleep Museum EPs on BloodLust!; Easily, one of my favorite artists of the last couple of years; The first four tracks - totaling over 23 minutes - feature rhythmic, darkly melodic synth- and drum machine-driven TRUE MINIMAL SYNTH music, with unrepentantly eccentric vocals, and dour lyrics; Utterly contemporary, yet also reminiscent of certain late-1970s and early-1980s "cold" music - a hint of Joy Division mood and a dose of electronic-era Death in June; The fifth track is a nearly 36-minute long experimental analog synth piece, far closer to the M.B. and Lustmord-styles of dark electronics; We are calling this an EP, even though it clocks in at nearly 60-minutes." Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; color artwork; in jewel box with shrinkwrap; Released in 2008.
Locrian - 'Rhetoric of Surfaces' CD $14(USA)/$16(Canada+Mexico)/$18(World)
"As a follow up to the "Plague Journal" 7-inch [B!089] released earlier this year, which showcased the group's distinctive style of deconstructed metal trance music, I am pleased to announce this new Locrian release, which deftly unites a grouping of out-of-print and previously unreleased material from the duo, charting live and studio work that pre-dates their recent shift into more black metal-influenced territory; Rich, heavy, guitar/keyboard/voice-based drone for those who usually find such music to be too gentle or uneventful; This sequence of songs was mastered for this release by Jason Soliday, creating a cohesive collection that functions as a true album, not like a cumulation of odds and end." Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; color and black and white artwork that includes an appropriately "Ummagumma" and "Kollaps"-influenced photograph by Kelly Rix, shot at the long-abandoned Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois; in jewel box with shrinkwrap; Released in 2008.
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