Cassette dada in every sense but sound, Andy Futreal’s ‘Did You Find It?’ is lo-fi guitar exploitation of healthy portion, served over a bed of wildly mixed sounds including postcard carousels and plenty of electronic gadgets. This guitar is engaging yet hardly showy, seeking out sounds and repeating in tasteful quantities until the expression is perfected. The title track which consumes the first side moves comfortably between Steven Smith amp ritual and bowed whale song, with crackles of radio chatter leaking to the surface from a bubbly depth. To answer the question, no, I think he’s just fucking with us. On the reverse, “Dine Qua Non” is a starker sound, reduced to nylon string guitar as a few effects and loops (derived from a buddha machine) loom in the background. Managing to be both more defined and more droning, the rounded edges of the softer guitar sound emit like hazy thought bubbles compared to the jagged exclamations of the previous side; asiatic plucking and divined repetition steps deceptively out, and with a sweeping wash propels the second half of the track with an elegant calligraphy. Thickly-sprayed cassette comes with an over-xeroxed J-card in a labeled case. (Earjerk cassette, $6 HERE)

WHITE CRIME s/t C16 $4(US)/$6(INTL)
"Unintelligible trash-punk anthems by Sam Gas Can and John Guida. The kids are clamoring for more saxophone, right? That's what I thought. Ltd. ed. of 50" HERE

DBA097 BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI - 'gemini' CDr
"not to be confused with BSBcheer, this freakout noiserock duo that is heavy heavy on the noise side of thangs, way bright and neon, way explosive, and one of the most celebratory noise declarations we've ever heard around here." SAMPLE/ORDER

DBA099 LEMON BEAR - 'light-bright' CDr
"although most widely known for his collaboration with inca ore on 5rc, his "solo" work which stems equally from his experience as a trained avant-garde composer and diy noise peers and will make your summer turn a brighter shade of chilled." SAMPLE/ORDER

DBA101 SPIRIT DUPLICATOR - 'Tonight I'll Forget the English Language' CDr
"jake anderson of gang wizard / yuma nora strikes again, now know as spirit duplicator (after years of work under celesteville) small, brittle, passionate, and atonal. perfect lo-fi gems from someone that has been making them since it wasn't cool." SAMPLE/ORDER

Get the batch of all three for a discount price and a secret bonus cassette will be included, just labeled DBA099S. HERE

BH 001 V/A - 'George Ferguson McKeating' 2CDr £8(UK)/£8.5(EU)/$13(USA)
"2 Cdr compilation of exclusive tracks. All proceeds go to Pancreatic Research Fund. Well concealed cash or cheques can be made out to 'Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund' preferred."
1.01 Richard Youngs , Alex Neilson It's All Waves (4:53)
1.02 Astral Social Club Ramoon Redux (5:58)
1.03 Culver Same Time Every Year (7:21)
1.04 Mirag The Barrow (7:04)
1.05 Hapsburg Braganza Alley Collage (4:30)
1.06 Vars Of Litchi Up The Hill - Down The Hill (6:10)
1.07 Hasan Gaylani There's A Feeling I Get When I Look To The West (10:08)
2.01 Jazzfinger Brittle Wood Fallen Stone (15:43)
2.02 Graveyards Tone Clash (6:57)
2.03 Greg Kelley , Alex Neilson March! March! The Morning Sun (4:41)
2.04 Mechanical Children Leaf Clatter (7:36)
2.05 Trauma Calming Effects Of The Ocean - Precursor (6:15)
2.06 Blood Stereo Dirt Hymn (3:02)

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Beat-centered with a restrained aesthetic and diligent use of distortion, the one-man recordings of Realax provide an understated listening experience which multiplies its value with subsequent listens. Past the superfluous, middle-brow-verging-on-nonsense wordplay of the titles, these eight lengthy tracks comprising nearly one hour offer no tedium despite their minimal inclusions. Unlike the pointed, dance-minded approach of beat-makers like Compressor, the songs of ‘Apollo Guise’ offer rhythm as the common reference which is being subverted or, more accurately, underwritten by crunchy drones, oscillations, and the occasional squall of not-quite-abrasive feedback. Like the crushed steel of the cover art, there is a certain sense of not deconstruction but disfiguration, turning tracks like “Engledam Accord” into a thorny cluster while retaining the plainly attractive fruits of melody. Partially recorded in Berlin, there is a palpable dubstep influence on this production by way of nuanced textures and odd signatures, the pattering and commas of tracks like “Tensoanmar” just a little too full to want for lyricism, but certainly not ineligible for such consideration. CDr comes tucked into a cardboard gatefold with paste-on art and ink-jet insert. Limited to 50 copies.

Another beat-y debut from Little Fury Things with the above, and taking a third course from this and Farmacia’s Ariel Pink/electro-punk mash-and-send-up ‘Nosocomio Manicomio’, the duo Universal Studios Florida offers seven tracks in half-an-hour of DNTEL-styled IDM. With a direct-drive rhythmic compulsion, the tracks push along with little interruption, taking on distinct harmonic overlays which like their predecessor do nothing to confirm the titles to which they are assigned – save the carefree connotations of that monolithic moniker, to which these tracks seem ideally suited for. Gentle synthesizer sequencings generate the bulk of the bandwidth, swarmed by little muddy clicks and warm, swirling drones that offer too much form to actually drone. Perhaps too much of a consensus-builder to really suit fans of aggressive sound, the disc offers a subtle dimension which provides an uncanny mimicry in step with its satire (though this was probably not intended). Yet another head-scratching design from the label, the painted disc arrives in a cardboard gate-fold covered with a swatch of old pillow-case with paste-on label and color insert. Limited to 50 copies. (Little Fury Things CDr, $5 HERE)

Bjerga/Iversen — 'Magnetic Colours of the Electric Rainbow' CDr (Stunned no. 37) $7
"Sindre Bjerga & Jan-Morten Iversen give the impression that they could just as easily be suited in some futuristic medical lab as they are in the venues and galleries they’ve ceaselessly toured over the last decade as a duo. We’re on the job here with Norway’s serious nano-sculptors of the aural. These guys open their scalpel sets over tape spools & modular panels and go for the daring micro incisions that make the junior techs gasp. As fans of such heroic sound operation, Stunned is proud to present this official release of Bjerga / Iversen’s epic live 2007 performance at La Generale, captured in pristine fidelity by Radio WNE, Paris. It’s a determined procedure, nearly causing all attendants to faint in the sweaty focus of high register nerve-splicing and infrared plasma spurt. Thank God for the experts." Hand numbered edition of 120 painted cdrs with full color sleeve & insert card in vinyl jacket.

Rambutan — 'Broken Infinity' CDr (Stunned no. 38) $7
"Sometimes an album comes along that just sweeps us right to those endless summer nights where lying back on the still-warm grass, we realize the scope of inverted abyss in the sky above and breathe deep in awe. Rambutan’s ‘Broken Infinity’ is just such a listening experience. Crafted by the hands of the poly-talented Eric Hardiman of the Tape Drift label & Century Plants/Burnt Hills fame, this solo release is filled with aching intention and eye opening wanderlust. Past Rambutan releases tend toward carving out crushing scoops of night-tinged tones with his nimbly-processed six string. That wall-of-guitar power is also found here, but additionally Eric investigates stretches of glassy vibrato downpour & spooked twilight sustain. It’s relieving to find compositions willing to breathe like this, balancing dark & dominant outer forces with the levity of an inner infinite impulse, broken as it may temporarily be." Hand numbered edition of 100 painted cdrs with full color sleeve & insert card in vinyl jacket.

Black Eagle Child — 'Seeds That Sprout In Summer' C50 (Stunned no. 39) $7
"This follow-up full length to editions on such labels as Blackest Rainbow and Housecraft finds Black Eagle Child rowing his boat ashore and sparking the campfire wide and bright. Let’s stretch out our legs, because we have a nearly hour long psychfolk excursion of delight on our hands here. Once BEC’s Michael Jantz starts dronin’ and fingerpicking his acoustic around the flames, things chill way out and the ears get a good cleanse. Just crack a brew and mind you don’t get sick on the s’mores. This release happily marks Black Eagle Child having created a child of his own. Along with Mike & Celeste, we welcome Mary Jantz into the world, the newest and most special sprout of summer." Hand numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted c50 yellow tapes with matching jcard.

ALTAR EAGLE/Pillars of Heaven/Caligine/High Wolf — 'Essential Elements' C35 + C52 (Stunned no. 40) $11
"Four heavy-hitters converge here in totally complimentary energies on Stunned’s 40th release and 1st double cassette edition. TAPE 1: Things start off right with FIRE as can only be thrown by the Digitalis dynasty’s duo of Brad & Eden Rose. ALTAR EAGLE retains the warm tactility of their previous Corsican Paintbrush project while also bumping it into wildly higher dimensional states. Hot waves of alien electronics, guitars, and voice layer like magma into a thick mix, retaining an admirable delicacy to such chemically volatile process. Countering this initial heat-swell, Sal Giorgi’s solo endeavor blows in some seriously fresh AIR on the c35’s flipside. Many are familiar with Sal’s exquisitely curated & designed Peasant Magik label, but fewer seem privy to the mega dreamscape weaving enterprise that his Pillars of Heaven project serves. This piece is for those devoted to pure lateral synth-escape. A heavy pleasant dream we don’t want to wake from ever, and another good reason why they invented rewind. TAPE 2: According to Gabriele of the Rome-based Monstres par Excès label, the pieces that comprise his Caligine projects’ half of this c52 were improvised “with the aid of fingernails, iron strings, tough woods and the eternal flow of Every-Thing above our horizons.” The perfect approach for such visionary skeletal raag which deftly spins in and out of synchromystic EARTH orbit — an unfolk matrix that’s rich as the best soil around. By the final side of this double tape set, we have certainly been primed for High Wolf’s contribution of cultural boundary dissolution. Following up his Not Not Fun debut jammer, the question lingers on the origins of this Amazonian/African/French/?/? electro-maverick. Meanwhile, as we’re scratching our heads, he’s continuing to summon the musical equivalent of Gaia’s clearest WATER & lights of her aurora borealis. Under amorphous forms of guitar, angel choir, and synthesizer emerges the pulse of a hidden heartbeat, the only identity necessary for apprehending High Wolf’s true nature. Many thanks to these four artists of unique distinction who, for the very reason of their differences, united as unlikely 'Essential Elements'." Limited & hand numbered edition of 100 c35 + c52 silver tapes in double-cassette vinyl album with transparent covers and insert.

Vakhchav — 'In Embers' CDr (Stunned no. 41) $7
"Sophomore release by Vakhchav after his’08 debut on Abandoned Ship, and there are no signs of a slump in sight. NY city artist Nickolas Mohanna has been self-releasing his guitar/electronics work in mini-editions since ’05. Now this deliberation in refining an entirely original voice over the years pays off in a big way. ‘In Embers’ is trim and to-the-point, conveying strange symmetrical realms & whole worlds of weird in half the time most musicians might take. This is a journey into the direct center of the strobe, white and black crackles and hums form the absorptive blanket in which to lay out our gray matter and drift headlong into sidereal expanses of sound. The Vakhchav orb is bound to continue cresting our horizon – watch the dark skies." Hand numbered edition of 100 painted cdrs with transparent sleeve & insert card in vinyl jacket.

Silver Bullets — 'Free Radical' C48 (Stunned no. 42) $8
"William Giacchi of Magic Lantern and Super Minerals reports: 'While visiting family in southern Sicily last December, I caught up with an old friend who has shared a very similar trajectory with me in interests of psychedelic music both newer and vintage, local and global. Much to my elated surprise, he has been equally busy producing new sounds of his own, having lately assembled a mysterious psychedelic groove ensemble known as Silver Bullets. I sat in on a recording session and realized I was in the presence of psychic brethren, and that Stunned Records would be the perfect platform to introduce their brand of tonal gyration. Both the Silver Bullets and Phil & Myste were thrilled about the partnership, and thus we present "Free Radical" — two sides, eleven tracks of kraut-funk, coned-out drone rock, and assorted experiments with space and time. Wade through bluesy head-nodders, Italian fuzz contests, interplanetary bleeps and blips, and liberated dance songs for anti-environments. Taking spiritual cues from Don Cherry's Eternal Rhythm, "Free Radical" is a statement of unity through musical expression and an ecstatic celebration of existence. Play this tape at full moon and brace yourself for the unforeseen happenings.'" Limited & hand numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted clear green c48 tapes in oversized single-cassette vinyl album.

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A 2008 release by Maxime Primault as Enfer Boréal, ‘Eldorado’ offers a fantastically idiosyncratic read of the legend, sketched in abstract ambience with heavy doses of soothing drone. Never stirring much of a tension, these evocative tracks create an alien musique concrète, a desert noir landscape of creaks, groans, and barren gusts. So it goes from “Blue Bored Star” through “Lost and Lost and Lost”, an initial 20 minutes of resigned quiet and despair. Interlude “Broken Bones” is all texture, denying the effect of glitch by a total inclusion of glitchy material, augmented by bobbing patter, snarl, and a motoric flutter – a momentary dry scrabble of grotesque activity like an oasis of crude oil. “Emptiness and Smoke” blows as cool and hushed as the second passage, though now with an urgency like a gathering storm conjured by the most artificial yet of the albums sounds, a distinctly youthful human hum and terse little wahs like psychedelic noodling. With little advertisement, we stumble upon the fifth and final track, “Don Lope”, a burst of White Rainbow ecstasy made with rattles, the layered babbling of pads, and a swelling chorus of shimmering bright drones with razor-like vibrations as their silver linings. Washing over the track, the darker hue of rain storms and insect swarms imposes itself with the original drone, weighing it down and out with the end of the track. This is a unique, if ultimately decomposing piece of storytelling. In slim clamshell with color insert, art by Jonas Delaborde (of Nazi Knife). Limited to a mere 40 copies. (Cut Hands CDr, €7(EU)/ €8(World) HERE)

BT.HN. - 'Retrospective' CDr and T-shirt
"Pointless Blank Records is proud to present, after many hiccups BT. HN. Retrospective PRO CDR and shirt. A collection of select earlier works by Sam McKinlay’s (The Rita, Zenta Sustained, etc) side project, including the original BA.KU. material from the Barrier Kult skate video as well as an out take from the same recordings from 1996, Wolf Woman Of Black Lake originally released on Audiobot, andCrypts Of Dark And Obscure Lineage originally released on Iatrogenesis. Limited to 85 copies. Packaged in silkscreened chipboard cases. Also a BT. HN T-Shirt limited to 20 copies. And a Pointless Blank T-Shirt limited to 10 copies, more to come soon. Sizes S to XL." HERE

LW052 HATRED IN EYES - 'Nothing To Condone' 3" CDr 7€
"lim. 200 / special package (mini-Dvd case). This is the third release of HATRED IN EYES a power electronic project from Hong Kong which starts 2006 run by Crow.C. and provides pure hatred sounds, topics all about racial discrimination, alien, things happen in the city .... !"

LW054 ARGENTUM - 'We Are The Fire' CDr 10€
"lim. 200 / special package. This ARGENTUM album is the first exclusive pure power electronics work coming from Argentina. It sound is based in raw and harsh sounds with aggressive revolutionary lyrics. GREY WOLVES, GREEN ARMY FRACTION and SEKTION B are their mainly influences. \"We are the Fire\" will give you 66 minutes to choose your side: \"Wolf or Lamb\", as one of the song titles say. The newest sonic terrorism to awake the consumist global citizens."

LW055 BARRIKAD & GOVERNMENT ALPHA - 'Daydreaming' 3" CDr 7€
"lim. 200 / special package (mini-Dvd case). In a gloomy bar where everyone is bored to death, a drunken woman breaks her glass, then picks up a bottle and smashes it against the wall. Nobody gets excited; the disappointed woman lets herself be thrown out. Yet everyone there could have done exactly the same thing. She alone made the thought concrete, crossing the first radioactive belt of isolation: interior isolation, the introverted separation between self and outside world. Nobody responded to a sign which she thought was explicit. She remained alone like the hooligan who burns down a church or kills a policeman, at one with herself but condemned to exile as long as other people remain exiled from their own existence. 20 minutes of fine harsh noise collaboration of 2 fine projects."

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Documenting Ohio, Teen Action Records has released a small flurry of no-fuss cassettes capturing the sound of this bizarre musical way-station. Of a yet to be fingered artistic disposition, the state has produced a sizeable contingent of today’s hottest acts (Emeralds, Lambsbread, Burning Star Core) and foundational experimentalists (16 Bitch Pile-Up, Mike Shiflet, and on). Less of an attempt to capture “raw energy” or some rare event, these live recordings have a filthy, vérité quality to them which suggests a well-liked dog freely exploring a festival with a Zoom strapped to her back.

With the less-woolly, rainstick-free jam approach of The Punks, Teen Action house-band Seven Lies About Girls drops ‘Post Apocalyptic Panty Pudding’ (subtitle: ‘The out sound from within’), a C60 inundated with free-form mayhem. Initially divided into a series of even segments as if it were some old greatest hits dub, side A is centered around a mid-tempo beat (really the only constantly figurative sound in this extreme lo-fi) played by Nathan Snell, the mass of sound emerges as whirlers, whistles, and whatever, an absurd swarming of carnival noise melted down into a thick blocks of dull color. Voices, applause, and some tape snippets break up this waxy wall and reinforce the liveliness and spirit which underpins the overwhelming mess. Side B, apparently demarcated by the sometimes presence of Aaron Hibbs (Noumena, Sword Heaven) on guitar, is a deeper collection of sounds without division, appearing like the mechanical innards of the other side’s festivities: sparking whips of steel, a scraping, churning murmur from outside, MIDI-afflicted chattering, and a relentless din suffocating the detail of whatever treble appears. This is the arcade of Ohio, inside and out. Cassette comes with Xeroxed J-card, limited to 50 copies.

Curled for a nap, we catch a shared set by Jason Zeh and David Reed: meditative and cold, this collaborative/live side of Reed chafes the evocative imagery of his syntheses as Luasa Raelon and Envenomist, perhaps jeopardized by Zeh’s barrage of tape noise. Filling one half of the C32, this performance from June of 2007 never leaves the room, trapping the sounds and the listeners in a tight yet breathable space of clattering tape emissions - though the clacking of the medium is more demanding than the sounds they contain - and frosty, malicious synth tones. Enthusiastic applause concludes the piece. In a suitably similar vein, the reverse side contribution by Teeth Collection (Matthew Reis) is an equally immediate event, though far more dynamic as it moves leisurely through pockets of harsh noise, textured calm, and tense juxtapositions of high detail and wide berth. Recorded March 2008, this is the certainly the most vivid of the sides, as the clatter of live garbage sounds fill the stage to be swallowed in a cleansing burst of dry hot noise, and into a sequencer symphony of three-dimensional shapes. It perks up the ears and lures us from the room before the set is finished. Cassette comes with Xeroxed J-card, limited to 50 copies. (Teen Action Records cassettes, $8 HERE)

ANONYMEYE – ‘The Disambiguation of Anonymeye’ CD AU$20
“Named in honour of John Fahey, Mariah Carey, Wikipedia or all three, The Disambiguation of Anonymeye is the second full-length album from Brisbane experimental artist Anonymeye (aka Andrew Tuttle), and his first since 2006’s Anonymeye Hotel (Half/theory). Inspired by the cities of Brisbane, Melbourne and Rotterdam, relocations, micronations, airports and new beginnings, The Disambiguation Of Anonymeye sees Tuttle add a variety of vintage synthesisers from the ARP, Putney, Korg and Roland stables to his signature blend of delicately fingerpicked bluegrass via country guitar motifs and alternately minimalist and punishing signal processing and electro-acoustic body of work. Edition of 500.”

HEIL SPIRITS – ‘Tracing New Swords…’ CDr AU$10
“Heil Spirits is an escapee from urban chaos whose coruscating power violence has been creating dense ripples among the noise community for some years now. A three-part soundtrack to the end of days, Tracing New Swords for Chasing Oblivion and Other Collected Sketches is definitely the darkest thing we've ever released, which is maybe why we've balanced it with two gentler titles. Edition of 75.”

PEFKIN – ‘Zugunruhe’ CDr AU$10
“We've been a fan of Pefkin's delicate dreamscapes for a long time, and as such we're immensely proud to be able to present Zugunruhe. With its combination of processed guitar, free-form percussion, haunting vocals and analogue electronics, Zugunruhe is a beautiful collection of tracks that walks that ever-narrowing path between pop songs and pure abstraction. Edition of Edition of 75.”

FELICITY MANGAN – ‘Lumetorm’ 3” CDr AU$8
”Lumetorm is the latest release from globetrotting sound artist Felicity Mangan. The title means 'snow storm' in Estonian, which is a perfectly appropriate term for the crystalline soundscapes on this disc. Recorded variously in Melbourne, Berlin and Estonia, Lumetorm is part travelogue, part imaginary soundtrack, part heartbreaking song-suite. Edition of 75.”

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HR93 Tuluum Shimmering - 'Longhouse Spirits Gather for Fragrant Island River Dreams' C60
"'Transporting' comes to mind but that doesn't seem right... this is more like a living presence. It reminds me a bit of what Siddhartha might have felt sitting on that bank, hearing/seeing an endless, seamless flow of voices/faces in the river. But rather than voices come down cautiously fused reeds, percussive bells/clatter, and rising/falling synth scales which are, at times, reminiscent of Terry Riley's work on 'Shri Camel'. Regardless of how I see it, only metaphors seem right when conveying these four compositions. This project in neck-deep in the ethereal and a must-experience for the immersive listener." Variant covers--painted shells, cases, labels, and inserts. numbered edition of 50.

HR91 Kane Pour - 'Wand in the Beak of the Yellow Bird' C20
"Some impromptu kane-to-tape dirges recorded at the LiteHouse, Gainesville in late March '09. These are the first solo recordings released in almost 20 months (see Pospulenn). Following a steady stream of Tricorn and Queue cassettes, this is falling right in stride, expanding evermore on his signature ultra-saturated poly-rhythmic stream melodics. Warm as wool." Variant covers--painted shells, cases, and inserts. numbered edition of 50.

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CAVE - 'Psychic Psummer' CD $10/LP $14
"Heavy psychic jams utilizing repetition and sublte variations to make maximum minimalism. Essential listening."

CAVE - 'Made In Malaysia' 7" $6
"Bonus Bside track not on the LP. Essential listening."

BARDO POND - 'Gazing At Shila' LP $15

ALASEHIR - 'Torment Of The Metals' LP $15

ALUMBRADOS - 'Monorchord' LP $15

MOON PHANTOMS - 'Moon Phantoms' LP $15
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MERZBOW - '13 Japanese Birds Volume 5: Uzura' CD $10
"If you're a subscriber we're shipping most of the boxes this month along with Vol. 5 inside of it."

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - 'Glorify Astrological Martyrdom' LP $20
"Handmade version. 20 copies available w/ screen printed covers & label coaster included."

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rh004 CORNUCOPIA - 'BALANCE OF POWE' 3"CDr
"Literally after years in the making, BALANCE OF POWER finally comes to life in an edition of 60 copies. This release sees CORNUCOPIA in their deepest, heaviest mood, producing a piece of dark industrial sounds that border on noise. Dense and toxic atmospheric sounds. Each cover was painted individually and is therefore unique. It includes insert and disc sleeve. It's been a long while since the last update!!!! Three new releases at ruidohorrible by some of our favorite bands!" HERE

LOCRIAN - 'Land of Decay' VHS + 3"CD $23(US)/$27(World)
"Two hours of sound and video from this dark duo. Three live sets drifting through footage of the rain swept carcass of the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, IL shot with a hypnotic sense of minimal pace by band member and video-artist T. Hannum. Comes with 3" CD of "Exhuming the Carnival", xerox poster, color photos, and a variety of other inserts. VHS is housed in a white album case. (NTSC)"Contact for availability / PayPal accepted / e-mail to reserve if sending cash, check or MO. HERE

HEAVY WINGED + INCA ORE - 'RING MINING' LP (NNF160)
"a stunning, crazy, radical joining-of-forces between our favorite instrumental psych-light power trio and our favorite west coast private voice dreamer, a full 3 years in the making. one side is a wild live collab from a 2006 brooklyn performance, the other is a 2008 studio creation. the best of both worlds. mastered by james plotkin."

VIBES - 'PSYCHIC' 7" (NNF159)
"LA goof troop drop their first vinyl, a 4-tracked 4-track EP of live burners, recorded at maximum volume. another 7" is already in the can, the soul train keeps haulin' down the line."

MATRIX METALS - 'FLAMINGO BREEZE' CS (NNF163)
"outsider alien lounge ghost rave soundtrack by this local hometaping hero. all over the place and all the better for it."

DREAMCOLOUR - 'SPIRITUAL CELEBRATION' CS (NNF164)
"beatific arkestra action from this excellent coastal collective. multiple saxes, hand drums, intuitive group playing, and steady magic."

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From the prolific Spanish art and experimental sound collective Afeite Al Perro comes the aptly-titled ‘Círculos’ cassette by Atomizador, a murmuring bulk of looping drones stretched taut across one side of a C74. Suggesting a meteorological fetish, deep, bulging frequencies provide broad edges off which thin, high wisps are cast to create a swift and total movement. Not unlike the recent monolith by Monsturo, the brute mass of this recording swallows all emerging tones back into itself to create an overwhelming and inexplicable listen, and disturbing for its inhumanity. Cassette comes sprayed to a thick patina, wedged in a crazy RAKS case with colorful insert. Limited to 58 copies.

In comparison, label-mate Humor Vitreo presents skewed electronics somewhere along the continuum of Throbbing Gristle to Black Dice: deep heartbeats set a jogging pace while sequencers chirp patterns and shopping carts crash, clipped radio voices singing in a manipulated repetition. Mainstream cumbias get cut and doubled in the next instance, a buzzing drone incessantly tying all the fragmented elements into a single motley collage. A tune threatens to emerge in every moment, yet the feisty DJ seems reluctant to let anything rest, and in the end it seems safe to say that the author is never satisfied. Reminiscent of Terry Riley’s earliest tapes and later the work of Big City Orchestra, these are some truly primitive experiments with modern materials, and the effect is as timeless as those initial forays trapped under glass. Another one-sided dub, this tape includes a color insert and two line-drawings on fancy paper. Limited to 50 copies. Both cassettes are presently sold out HERE.

Harps of Fuchsia Kalmia with Delphine Dora - 'Pantomima Terrestre' C24
""Pantomima Terrestre" or "Pantomime of the earth" could not be a more fitting name - this is the earth's musical. - a complete production with characters, story lines and dedications - a perfect collage of traditional folk, field recordings, organic drones and percussion. delphine's airy vocals mingle with the drum beats, space sounds and radio static. birds chirp, dogs bark, cars drive by, and records spin backwards. sluggish dulcimer & guitar plucks crescendo beneath the drone of the harmonium. uniquely improvisational and experimental without loosing its familiarity, there's only one way to discover this world. press play. if your into caethua, vapaa, islaja, wondrous horse, lau nau, nalle, donato epiro and any other trippy explorations of italy, finland and forest spirits everywhere, this tape will not disappoint. current/past releases on Ikuissus, Baskaru, Ruralfaune, Centre of Wood, Fire Museum, Reverb Worship, Riz(h)ome and future releases on Beard of Snails & Porter Records. look out! rad purple tapes in silkscreened fabric & recycled felt (made out of plastic bottles!) cases. comes with 2 inserts - one piece of amazing photo art by Federica R. & other with hand written tape info, etc."

Harps of Fuchsia Kalmia - 'The Angular Acceleration Of Light In The Unsound Mind Of My Uncle Dead In Michigan' CDr
"This cd features ten tracks which are all improvised and recorded totally live at night time from ten different sessions between November 2007 and January 2008. Salvatore Borrelli wanted to create music of a free folk nature with an ancestral and mystic quality. Harps of Fuchsia Kalmia plays a staggering array of instrumentation including acoustic guitar, banjo, ectara, flute, turkish saz, shruti box, cymbals,harmonica, dulcimer, glockenspiel, blalemba, egyptian harp, lap steel guitar, celtic drone harp, organ and field recordings. He is joined on one track by Valerio Cosi. Each track is dedicated to a specific person. The cd comes in a hand numbered limited edition of 75 copies in a black card cover with paste on artwork photographed by Federica R. The cds have sprayed cd labels which are all totally different and unique.There is also a folded A4 sized insert."

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digiv007: metal rouge - 'republican trees' $18(US)/$21(CAN)/$29(INTL)
"The duo of Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott has quietly become a force in the world of darkside improvisation. Over the years, their sound has evolved like amoebas from the ooze, growing and expanding into something otherworldly. Walls of guitar sherds blast through blackened holes in the cosmic continuum searching out another eye to gouge or another heart to pierce. This is metallic bliss pushed to eleven. Where "Republican Trees" hits it stride is when the lines between beautiful and abrasive get smudged. Scott's guitar playing becomes a torrent of aural hell blowing fuses from here to his native Auckland. Fassonaki takes this in stride and the two push each other back and forth finding a natural rhythm that simultaneously enchants and disturbs. By the time Helga starts wailing on the final track of the album you've been rocked from your foundation, left to flounder alone in the muck. You can't really ask for more than that, can you?" TRY

digi009: caboladies - 'atomic weekender' $18(US)/$21(CAN)/$29(INTL)
"It's been a good couple of years for these three burners from Kentucky. After killer releases on the likes of Arbor, Students of Decay, & others they're ready to drop their first pile of wax on an unsuspected public. "Atomic Weekender" is just that - massive, epic, and full of more good times than any one person should have on a two-day bender. But that's alright because these spiralling drones are here to bring you back down from that golden cloud and into a blanket of silvery cotton fields. It starts off well and good, pushing through the stratosphere and on a straight path to the sun. You're not floating, you're fucking flying at mach five. Hypnotic synth blasts propel you and tear you apart. Caboladies rattle your skull and paint your skin blue. By the time you've reached the ground again, you're lost in a neon haze that stretches out for miles. As the metal leaves crunch in time beneath your feet, the music in your head sounds like it's been submerged beneath 20,000 leagues of sea. All the drugs in the world won't make you feel this fucking good. Caboladies. Megatons." TRY

*canadians & international folks - if you want to order both (or multiple copies of one, or whatever!), email me b/c you can save on shipping.

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Cadaver In Drag - 'Abuse/Breathing Sewage' CD
"This release brings together some essential and hard-to-find tracks from the utterly repugnant noise-era of Lexington, Kentucky's Cadaver In Drag. This shadowy period was prior to the band's mutation into a filthy, free-sludge-doom-psychedelic behemoth, as heard on their critically acclaimed album "Raw Child" [2007, Animal Disguise Recordings], an Aquarius Records record of the week and hailed by Julian Cope on his Head Heritage website. The first two tracks on this new disc come from the landmark "Abuse" CD [2005, Husk Records], which completely blew me away when I first heard it, and which to this day remains a key post-Millennial noise recording for me. Only 100 copies of that CD were released upon a mostly unsuspecting public. "Breathing Sewage" [2005, Animal Disguise Recordings] is the A-Side of the ultra-limited-edition tour-only cassette of the same name. A mere 20 copies of that tape were initially produced, although thankfully, ADR made it available again later on. The sinuous and turbid connection between these three affiliated tracks comprises lurking danger, darkness, discomfort, dissonance, deviance, and dread. The fourth and final track is a long-discussed collaboration between Cadaver In Drag and myself [Mark Solotroff of BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day, Anatomy of Habit, ex-Super Eight Loop, ex-Animal Law, ex-Intrinsic Action, etc.] and it functions as a true melding of this earlier C.I.D. noise style with what feels like the most straightforward power-electronics song that I have worked on in several years. In fact, the lyrics that I wrote must include some of the most venomous words that I have spat out in quite some time. Cadaver In Drag created a bass-heavy bedrock foundation, over which I was able to deliver my feedback-laced vocals, and I am extremely pleased to have had the opportunity to work on this track with the band. Professionally duplicated CD, single panel, double-sided insert; color and black and white artwork, including an adaptation of the original "Breathing Sewage" art that was created by Gary Beauvais [Mammal/Animal Disguise Recordings]; in jewel box with shrinkwrap." HERE

Phaserprone no. 14: the latest from LA’s cryptic Monsturo (aka David Rothbaum), ‘POB66’ is a barren void of a release, with two side-long, synthetically-derived tremors of total sound. Deep molten rumblings. Acousmatic, nonsignifying, and enigmatically meaningful. This is the full-on legitimation of the anti-“single”. The unmarked C10 comes in a beautiful letter-pressed J-card with thick sleeve, limited to 100 copies. Sold out from Phaserprone HERE.

In relation, ‘Kiss the Viper’s Fang’ by the duo Telecult Powers appears downright tacky, a saccharine wink to the golden era of synth exploration. The phase-shifting whirrs of “Kissed by a Gygaxian Prism” affects a Saganist cosmic intercourse of circadian vibrations and equally stunning galactic machinery without going as far as the star signs aesthetic of the C30’s J-card. Still, the encounter maintains a level of tongue-in-cheek as the shaggy Starfighter fantasy plays out with intensifying melodrama (and phaser exchange). On the reverse, “Strange News from a Distant Star” chimes an ominous rhythm through the murk of the dusty dub; crackles of static shoot across the face of the sound, and a strange array of humming equipment squats down to the surface. A darker image to be sure, the shrieking noise which consumes the almost tribal beat exterminates the Vaseline gleam of the previous side for the abstraction of Pulse Emitter or Luasa Raelon. In a case with laser printed J-card, limited to 100. $6 from Obsolete Units HERE.

And to add a final comparison, last year’s split 7” picture disc by electronic stalwarts Wrangler (Ben Edwards and Phil Winter) and Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) feels more like the best content of the goodie bag from the synth expo, a portfolio of sorts as the two artists restrict themselves to two vintage systems – the 1968 Moog and 1978 Formant, respectively – not to mention of course the single, boldly colored cardboard sleeve and thick, photogenic vinyl with candid shots of both setups acting as labels. While compositionally a throw-back of even higher fidelity than the tape above, a certain IDM/down-beat aesthetic has infused itself, as has some darkly self-referencing quotation ala Johannsson’s ‘IBM 1401’, specifically murmured speech excepts by Moog himself over his tribute. The subtitle is a commentary itself, stating “Music by Modular Synthesizers” by which the human programmer is rendered a mere accessory. Indeed, the finicky nature of the modular synth does reclaim much of the sovereignty from the artist as such, and the circuitous bleats of the recording do conjure a certain Westworld animation; still, the tracks are highly accessible and maturely rendered, offering a taster for gear-head and novice alike. Limited to 300 copies, and sold out from Static Caravan HERE.

TLMP13 Chuch – ’Facelessness’
"Facelessness" is filled with intriguing sounds, brooding images and an extraordinary sense of originality.”

TLCD06 Vomir/Flesh Coffin – ’Untitled’
”Expect no dynamics, no change, no entertaiment, and no mercy as Flesh Coffin meets the french master of Harsh Noise Walls in this beautifully packaged CD-R disguised as a 7-inch vinyl single.”

TLCD07 Flesh Coffin – ’Curtains’
"Curtains" is the first full length album from Flesh Coffin. Two long séances of harsh noise! The album comes on CD-R with a A4 poster and a button, all limited to 30.”

TLMP14 Boe – ’Low Harbour’
”Low Harbour" is the debut album from Bergen's very own Boe. His main devices are percussion, bass and guitars. Lean back and evoke black and white images of stormy weather, looming shadows and a misty old seaside town.”

TLMP15 Kanin Krusete – ’Like A Thing’
”From the curly mind of Kanin Krusete comes "Like A Thing". On this brand new album, Lowell's enfant credible continues to reject humanity with his weird and wonderful mixture of noise, power-cut-up-electronics, and improvised bursts of doom.”

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Burial Hex - 'Cult Cassettes Volume II' CDr $8
"Continuing on with this series of rare and out-of-print Burial Hex, this volumes collects: "Reaping the Keep" (from field/power comp), "Sede Vacante" (from the split with Oath), "Cunt Oracle" (from Total Gape comp), "Chapter Seven" (from the split with Joshua Norton Cabal), and "Delirium Tremens" (from 404 Fatal Error comp). Nearly an hour of grey ambient, tortured power electronics, organ meditations and astral synthesis."

Burial Hex - 'Cult Cassettes Volume III' CDr $8
"More rare and out-of-print Burial Hex, this volume features : "Thin Hand of Orula" cassette, the split with The Mumber Toes, and the split with Skin Graft.. An hour of black meditations, unsilent inner demons and cosmic revelations."

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TREEHOUSE PEOPLE – ‘Crystal Limbs’ C30 £3.5(UK)/£4(EU)/£4.5(World)
”The second release for this new-age, keyboard driven sci-fi duo, two sides of psychedelic dream excursions, Bladerunner burnouts and synth drenched krautrock rhythms make up one of their most beautiful releases to date.Cooperation of Stefan Kushima & Iko Nori spending some nights with the Casio VL Tone. Feedback loops in minimal construction, a child’s dream in bubblevariations”. limited 25 copies.

TULASI – ‘Huomen Tuone’ C34 £3.5(UK)/£4(EU)/£4.5(World)
”Bumtapes is proud to give you another chance to hear this incredible album, plus another previously unreleased track from the same sessions, and with all new artwork. Originally released on vinyl in an edition of 118 copies by Troglosound in 2008 (now totally sold out) Finland’s Tulasi crafted an album drenched in Eastern drones and Finnish backroad folk meditations, The two musicians who make up the band have also featured in bands such as Vapaa, Keijo & Free Players, Aan, Uton, Kulkija and Kutomo. And have also previously released a cassette on Sloow tapes. To quote the original write up for the LP "One of the most harmonic expressions of spiritual freak-folk coming out from Finland, Tulasi spreads around warm and positive feelings, created through spontaneous junctions of flute, guitar, violin, percussions, tambura and voices. So, the perfect sound to bring our Souls peacefully inside the wintertime is coming directly from the North”. limited 35 copies.

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Biblical Violence – ‘Bib Vio’ C26 (double A-side) $10 (world)
”Bib Vio comprises six short tracks of harsh and blown out punk and electronics. Alternating between two chord trash, suffocating in treble and trashcan reverb, and blackened power electronics, Biblical Violence sounds like the Evolutions and some Broken Flag rejects having a “who’s one louder?” battle in the middle of a deserted industrial zone in Zagreb, with a huge sign outside saying “no trespassing – distortion level=hazardous!” Edition of 99 copies.

Extra Sexes – ‘Gash Bulb’ C30 $10 (world)
”Extra Sexes blend various pirated material with their own beats and synth locomotion into an eclectic collage of sounds ranging from roaring and growling, to mellow and relaxed, often within seconds of the same song. Death Metal, Hip Hop, and other esoteric sounds clash with ES’s own recordings and the whole thing is then manipulated digitally using the mouse (fast forwarding, reversing, looping etc.) while being re-recorded. Rather than confusion, their hyper active Stockhausen playing with an FM-dial f&ck sh% up approach negate all genre boundaries and create a ripple effect, turning Gash Bulb into a singular and awkwardly soothing expression.” Edition of 99 copies.

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