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This split features a track each from two solid projects that fall under the ‘drag’ umbrella, White Ring and oOoOO (pronounced ‘oh’). White Ring's 'Roses' is built around a nauseous, droning synth riff and tight snares and claps. The muffled and indecipherable vocals create an unnerving atmosphere especially during the screamy chorus. A close comparison could be Salem but White Ring definitely have a voice of their own. oOoOO’s ‘Seaww’ is a dark, syrup-paced homage to 80’s electro pop with the vocals pitchshifted down and blurred to a depressive moan. Woozy and disorientating. A great split. Highly recommended.
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136 page zine includes interviews with The Haters, Raionbashi, Dieter Muh, Kazumoto Endo (Killer Bug), Hum Of The Druid, Posh Isolation and more; and over 220 reviews as well as live reports of KK Null, Dave Phillips and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock. Includes a CD with exclusive tracks from The Haters, Raionbashi, Dieter Muh, Kazumoto Endo, Hum Of The Druid, Halthan and Golden Serenades. Limited edition of 500 copies. Recommended.
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"Bigger, better and more colourful! After the huge success of the first edition from 2006, the Acid Archives book has been long out of print. Used copies have sold as high as $200, and there are many inquiries about new runs from around the world. Instead of just a new printing, here is a brand new edition – completely revised, massively expanded, and attractively re-designed. The Acid Archives Second Edition will delight any lover of rare and great underground music from the 1960s-70s. The A-Z section has been expanded with 90 new pages, detailing many hundreds of previously unknown LPs. Just as exciting is a brand new section of Special Features, where leading experts present the best and rarest albums within Exotica, Lounge, ‘70s Funk & Soul, Southern Rock, New Age, Custom Labels and Tax Scam Records. The Acid Archives has also been fully re-designed and is now printed entirely in colour..."
Absolutely essential. Like the first edition these wont be around for long.
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Tour-only advance edition of the upcoming Trilogy Select LP limited to just 125 copies. The album is a selection of tracks from Stellar Om Source’s CDR trilogy released last year (Crusader, Alliance, & Ocean Woman) hence the title Trilogy Select. Recorded between 2006 and 2009 in a variety of locations including The Hague, Lisbon, Paris, and New York. Also features the track "Rites Of Fusion" which is a collaboration with Dan Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never). The material was carefully edited into a cohesive album and then mastered by Carl Saff in Chicago. Recommended. Very limited quantities in stock.
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"Where to start? Upon hearing this new LP from Moon Unit it is immediately apparent that this Glaswegian trio stand apart from a lot of the psyche out new boys on the block. Perhaps because they feature Nackt Insecten himself, Ruaraidh Sanachan, Andreas Jonsson of Lanterns, and Peter Kelly. When I first heard this completed LP after a few different incarnations, I was really blown away... the previous versions that had dropped through my mailbox were really something, but this, the final version is unreal in its sheer goodness. The five jams on this LP make up one of the best psyche out, freak out full lengths I've heard this year. It's an incredible record filled with furiously wild drum explosions, keyboard zone outs, sci-fi guitar shredding, and wailing feedback... Edition of 500 with cover design by Jake Blanchard (the man behind Menagerie). Pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl." - Blackest Rainbow.
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David A Jaycock |
Presets |
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"Debut vinyl LP from Manchester's David A. Jaycock (who is also a member of Big Eye Family Players), David recently had a 7" on the excellent Great Pop Supplement and 'Presets' follows on from that fine release. 'Presets' features 12 tracks of melancholic folk almost entirely performed by David on a variety of instruments, and its a real step forward to darker areas than his previous releases on Great Pop Supplement, Early Winter Recordings and The Red Deer Club... Edition of 250 with pro printed sleeves. Pressed on virgin vinyl." - Blackest Rainbow.
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This 2CD is essentially a retrospective of Eastley’s installation work. As such, it updates and adds many new examples to the 1975 release “New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments”, which was released as a split LP with David Toop on Brian Eno’s Obscure Records.
This is Eastley’s first solo CD. Of the 35 tracks, only the last 2 have any guests or ‘playing’ (the most virtuosic moment being George Lewis playing a grass blade). All the other pieces are either powered by the natural forces of wind and water, or else are motor driven gallery installations...
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V/A: Los Angeles Free Music Society |
I.D. Art #2 |
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"When the Los Angeles Free Music Society 10 CD set came out I eagerly flipped through the contents to see what treasures had finally been made available again. Much to my surprise the early compilation I.D. Art #2 was not included in this otherwise major overview of the LAFMS. I.D. Art #2 was the second LP release on their label, coming after Le Forte Four’s ‘Bikini tennis shoes’ LP, and before the 2LP ‘Live at the Brand’, a split album between Le 44 and The Doo-Dooettes. It dates from 1976. It is also probably the most difficult LP on their catalogue to find. Originally released in an edition of just 200 copies, most of which were given out to the 44 artists and groups who appeared on this extraordinary LP. The deal was that each track was paid for by the contributor at a rate of $8 per minute in exchange for 4 copies of the disc. Consequently very few copies were ever made available via the LAFMS mail order service..."
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"I of IV was made in July 1966 at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio and was first released by CBS alongside works by 2 other young composers - 'Come out' by Steve Reich and 'Night music' by Richard Maxfield. It is really only in recent years (born out of the more radical elements of dance music, electronica and ambient music) that music like this is being rediscovered by a growing number of people interested in all manner of experimental electronics. The 3 pieces on this CD are all live experiments, which at the simplest level use either an array of oscillators or filters, a mixer and one spool of tape feeding a series of (variously set up) stereo tape machines. Long delay lines, pile ups of noise and rich sonorities are the stuff of this music. The third piece also samples a chunk of Pucini's 'Madame Butterfly', which only makes this music seem even more contemporary." - Paradigm Discs.
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Raglani / Outer Space |
Split |
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"An incredible journey into the inner-space of analog synthesis. Soothing, pleasant, hypnotic and manic are thoughts of the day. This cosmic oozing mess of layered sequencers as swirling syrupy frequencies come raining down. Raglani serves up some sickly sweet synthy songs and Outer Space forge a thick gooey side long track of psychedelic electronic mind muck. John is in another band called Emeralds.
Guest appearance by C.Spencer Yeh on Raglani's "Heart Of Glass" adding a slice of nice on the violin. Artwork and layout by Jeremy Kannapell. Edition of 500 copies in pro-press full colour jackets and insert. For fans of early Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk & Nik Pascal." - Nihilist.
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The inaugural release from emerging Brooklyn-based label Tri Angle.
"See Birds is staggering and woozy, with a buzzing bassline riding a sludgy, syrup-guzzling beat that sounds like Massive Attack foreshadowing a Jason Voorhees kill scene. Blaring tones increase and decrease in volume like passing planes between a ominous synth sample that feels like some kind of futuristic warning tone. And above it all, a high-pitched disembodied female vocal forms a spectral melody, calling out to the low-pitched male moan that serves as its shadowy counterpart. It's one of the most promising indications of this new sound's potential: a memento mori in song." – Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork.
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Prick Decay & Violent Onsen Geisha |
Dada junk Spew! |
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"Uhhhh?? Weirdo bootleg re-issue of the old Chocolate Monk cassette. Have no idea about this, box of copies turned up here, no info, no return address etc. Cdr with proper printed sleeve and a xerox of the original sleevenotes by Abdul of In Spite Of Flaming Creatures. Includes the two tracks that appeared on the collab tape AND the collab track 'Silver Afro Funeral March' which appeared on the 'Studies For Postal Orgies' cassette (which came with 50 copies of the first Prick Decay LP). This little bugger is a number edition of 100 apparently." - Dylan Nyoukis.
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"More ill-shapen and deranged brain snuff from Michigans Brothers Grime. You need that black fissure in the back off your head mended, right? Then start plastering." - Chocolate Monk.
"Slither slathers strictly slack layers of hiss and too-trill reeds in single-take lakeside station session. Sick Heath and Cotton Chris trade echoed coin-flips along a horizon whose dark moon refuses to set, in a shitbrick piss-black back alleyway leading everywhere. Morepott loping loops elope with lingering lizard lines - behold, the bundle of baby beats buried beneath BOSS-basted and beaten BASF blur! "An edgy blend of heart-stopping terror, wry humor and surprising humanity" - thar thou thready thor thissssssss??" - C Spencer Yeh.
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"So here is a Chocolate Monk Drahiem experience? As I write this in a dreary Albany Comfort Inn at dusk and hear these horrible sounds = I dont wanna move or open the blinds (mainly cause me & the princess are comatose from parent paid el-massive late lunch at the Cheesecake Factory) cause the soundtrick from this CD makes me think if I open the door to room 216 upper floor we will be launched into a world full of terrible static insects buzzing around scraping wings on salt-dried frozen concrete waiting to lure every ear into a pool of electro-muge... Slam this silver-recorded-silver bottom recordable cd into yr monster truck, roll over to Corner Brewery, Dour and Drahiem will be there sitting in the corner, most likely in silence, but a MASSIVE WEIRDO SOUND ABSTRACTION party awaits, soon." - John Olson.
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"My good friend Ian Murphy once told me that if I wanted to rid myself of the terrible headache brought on by 'Glo-Fi Beach Boy Bellends' I needed to ingest more 'necro-acoustics', and at the time I am ashamed to say I just wrote it off as more wine fueled Guilford jaw grind, but low and behold, after spinning the new Dog Lady smut for two days straight, if I aint cured of them fucking new age blues, yessir!! This disk travels some, his violin playing goes from desolate and unsettling too rabid and vacillating. All beefed out with bouts of grotified tape and electronic wheeze and pulse. All in all Dog Lady conjure up the kind of shit that reminds us our ancestors were just a bunch of hungry, sponge larvae, so swing that from your family tree, headscratcher." - Chocolate Monk.
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One Track from the Kommissar, two track from Mama Baer and three tracks from Blood Stereo, thats six tracks of prime 'whodunnit?'.
"One for audio vérité aficionados. A three-way split that highlights different approaches to marital equilibrium, just ahead of the forthcoming Channel 4 Wife Swap programme. Mama Baer knows what's what - she's got things to do, so she sends the Kommissar down the pub with his mates. The boys get drunk, much laughter, singing and general horseplay, then back to his pal Trev's place to listen to some of his old Anal Probe compilation tapes. Mama hates all that stuff, but uses the time alone in the house to plug in her guitar and holler her own long-ass hymns to hysteria..."
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"John Elliott’s Outer Space project is a laboratory for electronic investigation. Acting as a continuance of the studies of mid 20th century electronic music composers such as Nik Pascal and Laurie Spiegel, Elliott’s music is deeply indebted to the inner workings of the electric signal. Acting almost as a meditation, through the simple gesture of translation Elliott’s process begins to reveal itself as electricity is converted into acoustic pressure and potential; the melody of physics... Composed and recorded over the past three years without the use of digital synthesizers and arpeggiation; a record closely connected to a personal path, attempting to make sense, to understand one’s journey. Limited edition of 650 copies on clear vinyl with full colour gloss covers and heavy stock printed euro-style inner sleeves." - Arbor. Recommended.
***Outer Space / Rodger Stella split 7" coming soon on Second Layer Records.***
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“Great mulched 'new age' synth bliss from a Black Egg goon and one of the gonks from Astronaut. Feel a cloud envelope yr head.” - Dylan Nyoukis.
"Why treat your ears to the merely fried when they could be, shall we say, Wahnfried? Koshmiche-synths duo of Taylor Richardson (undisputed shroom snorkling champ of the North East) & a vibration-channeling dude named Dan Lopatin (Games, Oneohtrix Point Never). A few creeper moments of giallo/porn keys blossom into a full card wrestling match with a 6000-armed guitar-cable sea creature. Verb bubbles will float you. Sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-bass will ensure your car tires vibrate right off the pavement." - Angela Sawyer, Weirdo Redcords.
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"A major oxide wobbble as the Michigan master of magnetic tape hiss finally delivers some dementia for the Monk. All the tangled up tape loop mess you know and love, with plenty of slow-motion sludge, aquatic gurgles and sleep inducing rust to get your mind drenched. Junked sounds of the 8 track come crawling out of the speakers alongside vocal chew. A spirited take on a demented dusk. File under Catatonic Dumpster Music, and keep it beside your private stash." - Chocolate Monk.
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"Alabama no-fi/sci-fi noise from Rodger Stella (Macronympha) and Bryan Martin. Stella with renowned narcotic lurch straight out of Rod Heydrichs' pipe, while Martin trys to keep it together. This is pulp style beserk sounds in homage to A.E.Van Vogt." - Dylan Nyoukis.
"The Storyteller pisses 4-D bolides into central time zone shitskull through cracked brains pickled by the flapping wall which ultimately effects the carbunkle feast."
***Outer Space / Rodger Stella split 7" coming soon on Second Layer Records.***
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"One of Bill Kouligas most shimmering ear jolts... Using just reel-to-reel tape loops and analog synths the little Greek takes a laid back brain soak in an attempt to reveal evolution in colour listening. Like some wacked out new age self help guru this disk exhales confusion bliss and sends the electronic message swimming into view. Would make a nice tripped out sandwich with Wizards and Infinity Window, if that’s the kind of lunch you like packing." - Chocolate Monk.
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Conrad Schnitzler |
Zug |
m=minimal |
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"m=minimal are proud to have Conrad Schnitzler's Zug as our first release. Schnitzler's Zug is one of the most important and first electronic minimalist works published in the 70s. Almost simultaneously with Kraftwerk's groundbreaking Autobahn, Zug appeared on the legendary "the red cassette”. The Wire Magazine wrote about Zug: "three decades on, it still sounds the future". The release is rounded off with a remix of Con-Fan Stefan Betke aka Pole. Pole and Kassian Troyer (Radian) have mastered the record, best quality is guaranteed. Another remix is contributed by Borngräber And Strüver.
Conrad Schnitzler - The original member of Tangerine Dream and a founding member of Kluster is creator of milestones in the history of electronic popular music. His works are released world-wide, published mainly in the U.S., Japan, Britain, France and Italy. As one of the first students of Joseph Beuys, Conrad Schnitzler is also well known in the fine-art world." - m=minimal.
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Excellent mid-90’s live recording featuring Masami Akita (Merzbow) on drums. Limited edition of 486 numbered copies pressed on orange vinyl.
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Super limited 5 LP + one-sided LP box with inserts (photos, recording details, instruments played). Recordings from Iran, India, Philippines, Korea and Japan featuring guest musicians from the respective countries (Toshi Ichiyanagi plays synth on the Japanese LP). All material recorded between November and December 1976. Very limited quantities in stock.
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Flashback Repository |
S/T |
Olde English Spelling Bee |
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Remastered issue of an obscure tape from the mysterious Outer Limits Collective (Wingdings/Explorers/Matrix Metals/Foxy Baby/Yoga/90210/etc). Limited to 425 copies in pro-printed duo-tone sleeves with a 5-page essay booklet.
"The flashback repository is a storehouse of collective waste consciousness from all beings of the universe, i.e. all unfiltered myth & material of the human/alien/animal mind, laying dormant in a hidden dimension resembling a disposal area or transfer station somewhere within our spectral plane. A vast depot for all universal race memory that passes beyond our mortal earthly cognition and subconscious apparatus..."
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Oneohtrix Point Never teams up with long time collaborator Joel Ford with Games for their first release on Hippos In Tanks. Limited edition heavy 7" release, just 500 copies for the UK.
"...After years of focusing on our respective musical projects (Oneohtrix Point Never, Tigercity) we decided it was time to make the magic happen. In February of 2010, we moved to Bushwick and started eating a lot of street meat and growing vegetables in a legit garden... everything had to be slower and creamier. From this profound environ Games was born. The sound is a blend of sampler/synth ecologies from across the globe. When we were hot teens, the synthesizer was our vehicle for blasting through third life during a time when all we had was a Daytona tape deck. Ever since, we've been on the chase." - Joel Ford.
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"Penultimate Press is proud to announce the publication of Dripping Junk- an all new collection of graphic work by Graham Lambkin. The 100 drawings gathered in Dripping Junk were made over a period of five days during a recent trip to Miami FL.
Lambkin's eye and pen guide us through a confusion of local observation... A world where fantasy and reality mix effortlessly and are drank as the cocktail of choice. A world where the skunk ape is king.
Dripping Junk contains 100 black and white drawings printed on high-quality paper and comes as a beautiful limited edition large format hardcover book of 250 numbered copies with CD." - Penultimate Press.
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Oneohtrix Point Never / Antony / Fennesz |
Returnal |
Editions Mego |
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Side A: Voice by Antony; piano by Daniel Lopatin; recorded at Lofish, New York, May 2010. Side B: Remixed by Christian Fennesz, June 2010. Artwork by Stephen O'Malley. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, June 2010.
"Hot on the heels of the acclaimed Oneohtrix Point Never ‘Returnal’ album come these fabulous versions of the title track. Antony swings the mood and strips the track of its delayed harmonised vocals and creates poignant ballad with Dan OPN on piano.
Fennesz on the other hand sprinkles some his world famous majestic stardust over the proceedings. All packaged in dazzling artwork by Stephen O’Malley." – Editions Mego.
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Oneohtrix Point Never |
Returnal |
Editions Mego |
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Vinyl edition in gatefold sleeve. "Returnal is the fourth album from Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never project. It sees Lopatin fine tune his craft for creation of deep atmospheres and texture even further... What's burnt into memory here is Lopatin’s love affair with the long, slow path back home... the cycle... the hypnotic sector... the ghost in the machine... and whether people are making dance music or hip hop or space head music or metal, the ouroboros is present in every sector - as it was in Bach's study, and in the elephant songs of the Ituri forests." - Editions Mego. Highly recommended.
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"It’s been a while since The Lantern shined its High Beams out into the world but life’s a maze of alternate paths and that’s just the way it goes/went. Fortunately for all lovers of heavy male psych brotherhoods the ML gang convened back in 2009 before parting ways temporarily to track their second full-length, Platoon, and here it is. As oughta be expected, it's a monstrous hot-rod cruise into screaming dual wah distortions powered by the poker faced Gavin/Chip rhythm section and splattered with jazzy freak-out organ, trademark drooling white light William Giacchi guitar shred, and the occasional Stallones echo yelp. Featuring most of their live classics from the pre-hiatus era and mixed by Bobb Bruno, this fills the hole in yr heart left by High Beams. Comes in classic National Geographic photo collage jackets designed by Cameron Araw. Mastered by James Plotkin. Edition of 700 copies."- Not Not Fun.
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Brand new deluxe box set from MV & EE featuring 8 shows from their No Floor Tour in USA & Canada in April 2010. The line up for this tour was MV & EE with Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra / Flower-Corsano Duo) and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man). There's also guest appearance from J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Eric Chenaux and Doc Dunn. The 8 shows were from Hadley (MA), Ridgewood (NY), Oberlin (OH), Detroit (MI), Toronto (ON), Montreal (QC), Saratoga Springs (NY), and Boston (MA). Housed in an old style tape pack box (keepin' it in the Road Trips family), pro dubbed tapes with printed shells, full colour cover artwork by Jake Blanchard, and a full colour pro-printed A6 size booklet. Edition of only 150 copies.
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"The second compilation conceived by illustrator Jake Blanchard continues on its strength of eclectic audio vibes paired with visual glory by an array of excellent artists. 8 artists were given a track and their finished artwork is based around their assigned track. Every single copy comes with a super slick pro printed full colour zine of artwork from: Jake Blanchard, Pete Fowler, Will Sweeney, Andrew Rae, Sarah King, Solange Gularte, James Trimmer / Mirt, and Mat Pringle. This time the audio is appearing on vinyl only, with exclusive tracks from: Moon Duo, Natural Snow Buildings, Wand (aka Wooden Wand), The See See, Seadog, Joanne Robertson & Matthew Ashworth, Married In Berdichev, and Akron/Family. The pro-printed sleeve features artwork by Jake Blanchard. Heavyweight vinyl, with full colour labels. Edition of 500 copies." - Blackest Rainbow.
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"Umpio, Muelas, Freak Animal, noise, K2, Knurl, Sickness
Finnish harsh noise at its finest! Umpio has slowly but steadily reached the top level of harsh noise. Scrap metal, self build metal junk instruments, feedback, intense cut-ups. Think of Knurl, Sickness, K2 etc with addtional P.Dassum physical craftmanship and you may get close to Umpio." - Freak Animal.
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"Pekko Käppi is a player of Jouhikko, the ancient Finnish-Karelian bowed lyre, in all-improvised settings and traditional folk songs. Crossing bowed strings with soft locomotive rhythms, grainy drones and circling, buzzing patterns with otherwordly vocals chasing the arc of his bow with beautiful melodies." - Singing Knives.
"Through releases by groups such as Chora and The Hunter Gracchus, Sheffield’s Singing Knives label has become synonymous with a form of electroacoustic improvisation that draws on traditional folk music as much as it does drone, Noise and avant rock. So, it’s little surprise that Finnish musician Pekko Käppi has found a home there for his second release – the follow-up to his 2007 album debut, Jos Ken Pahoin Uneski. Käppi is a noted player of the jouhikko: an ancient lyre from the Karelian region where Finland meets Russia..."
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"...Utilizing his usual toolbag of looped tablas, fuzz guitar leads, chiming white light guitar, synth swells, and cloud-climbing electronics, the album safaris through a host of ecstatic ritual landscapes with more focus and magic than any other High Wolf hunt to date. A beautiful album for dissolving, dreaming, dancing (in a certain way). Been spinning this one weekly, share the flight. Black vinyl LPs mastered by Pete Swanson and housed in jackets with artwork by Maia Serena and layout by Kaugummi Magazine captain Bartolome Sanson. Edition of 400 copies." - Not Not Fun.
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New compilation from Singing Knives, with exclusive tracks from Harappian Night Recordings, Shiggajon, Pekko Kappi, Ross Parfitt, Helhesten, Serfs, The Navigators, Stephanie Hladowski, Plum State, Ben Nash, A Wake, Infinite Light, Dylan Nyoukis, U Boat, BAO, Christine Sehnaoui and Alberorovesciato. Artwork by Dylan Nyoukis.
"17 tracks from the gloriously active Singing Knives label, home of the new Sheffield underground, as explored in The Wire issue 310. There's nothing here from Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, probably the best thing on the Knives roster, but this is still a good haul, and the net is cast wider than you might expect. Pekko Käppi's velvety drones on his Finnish-Karelian bowed lyre are at the pure folky end of the spectrum, while two tracks feature the Beirut Improv crowd..."
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New album from mysterious amazonian French loop enthusiast High Wolf (Not Not Fun, Krayon, Group Tightener), known as the duo team IIbiis Rooge with Astral Social Club. Comes in a beautiful gatefold oversized CD package, limited to 500 copies.
High Wolf makes music like no one else on the planet. He claims to be from the Amazon and all his activities are shrouded in mystery.Sometimes he is just one man, other times High Wolf is a duo. In either case he conjours mystic tropical clouds of repetition and build that, while complex, are never hard to listen to. The music seems to tap in to a primal frequency and demands listeners to dance. A contemporary of James Ferraro (of The Skaters), Oneohtrix Point Never and Ducktails...."
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With so much being made of current practitioners of the Kosmiche/New Age vibe here's your opportunity to hear an original. Original copies hardly ever surface and even the 2007 repress (which sounded quite thin) commands quite a fee on internet auction sites. This straight analog pressing sounds as close to the original master tapes as you can get. Limited edition of 500 copies. Highly recommended.
"If you have been wondering what all the fuss about "private press new age" is, go here to find out. Your mind shall be subtly blown..." – Fader.
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"Nmperign are one of the most celebrated and influential bands in contemporary improvised music. Yet surprisingly, more than a decade after their debut, Greg Kelley (trumpet) and Bhob Rainey (soprano sax) have never recorded a studio album as an unaccompanied duo… The music is spare and peerlessly inventive as always, but the mood remains light and joyful, with a subtle undercurrent of absurd humor. While improvised music can sometimes seem airless and precious, Ommatidia opens the window on a sunny afternoon… the album’s gusts of breath, percussive splatter, and controlled explosions form six succinct pieces that feel alive and vital, while still speaking in Nmperign’s utterly unique sonic language. A perfect way in for newcomers and a revelation for long-time fans, Ommatidia is the essential Nmperign..."
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"Intimate, absurd, feral and aggressive in its homemade weirdness, the music of Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär has been a well-kept secret for too long. Hjuler & Bär have self-published their dada-esque sound poetry experiments on small-edition lathe-cut LPs, tapes, and CDRs for years, usually adorning them with elaborate junk sculptures and profane paintings. Intransitive is proud to collect their best recordings so far onto a single, widely available CD so that anyone can hear the music without making a major financial investment.
The husband and wife duo uses deceptively simple means - typically just their voices, a cassette-tape recorder and a microphone - to create astonishing suburban dramas that are somehow both sweetly charming and staggeringly psychotic, sometimes simultaneously..."
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New No Balls 7", released on the bands own imprint. 4 tracks. No Balls is usually Drajan Bryngelsson and Dan Råberg from Brainbombs. Monotonous protopunk with some No Wave hints. The sound is raw, intense and in your face. Kind of like a mix of Ruins, DNA and Brainbombs. Limited to 306 numbered copies in screen-printed covers.
"Just in case you're not already familiar with Brainbombs, here's a quick overview: Brainbombs are a legendary Swedish noise rock band that’ve been putting out records for over two decades. They essentially drive dumbed-down, Stooges-esque riffs into the ground for 5 minutes, call them songs, and continue that way until the record is over, single or LP... For those of you already familiar with the Brainbombs MO, here's the deal. If you like Brainbombs, but you don’t particularly care for the vocals, then you'll love this."
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No Balls (Brainbombs) |
Come Clean |
Permanent Records |
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"The debut LP by Brainbombs side-project, No Balls, old out immediately upon its first release on the Swedish Release the Bats label. Here's the domestic pressing of 500 copies on Permanent. The only difference is the artwork. Just in case you're not already familiar with Brainbombs, here's a quick overview:
Brainbombs are a legendary Swedish noise rock band that’ve been putting out records for over two decades. They essentially drive dumbed-down, Stooges-esque riffs into the ground for 5 minutes, call them songs, and continue that way until the record is over, single or LP. Over the top, the vocalist delivers misogynist, creepy, and totally fucked up lyrics, all the while sounding like a serial killer writing his memoirs..."
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Outer Limits Recordings |
Foxy Baby |
Not Not Fun |
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"Of all the magical inverse-universe warp-zone pop-whiplash geniuses loosed upon the world by the shortlived Outer Limits Recordings corporation, few of them deserve their pedestal status as righteously as the Foxy Baby LP... The specifics are tricky to pin down, but the songs say it all: tape hiss-soaked glam-damaged new wave dream-rock anthems interspersed with tripped FX interludes of revving cars, astral bubbles, and murky sparkling echoes. A total bizarro masterpiece from one of our favorite masterpiece-makers on the planet. Lipstick-colored vinyl LPs in trashy zebra-print inner sleeves in a jacket with artwork by Mr. Outer Limits himself. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun.
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Dylan Ettinger & The Heat |
Smokin |
Not Not Fun |
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"We had heard a couple cassette outings by this Bloomington young-bloomer over the last 4-6 months and each one hit us better than the last but nothing had prepped us for Ettinger’s most recent evolution into neon skyline chase scene soundtracker and that’s part of what makes it so amazing. For Smokin’ he wrangled together a small posse of close comrades (enter The Heat) and tracked a sick session of smoky synth themes, Corvette noir moods, echo dystopia, faded voices, and sleazy Miami sax... A cool sleaze-psych vision, sickly executed, by a rad fresh energy from the underground. Fingers are crossed there’s more where this came from. Black-vinyl 7 inches, plus a photocopied insert, in full-color sleeves with art by NNF. Edition of 380." - Not Not Fun.
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LA Vampires + Zola Jesus |
Split |
Not Not Fun |
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"Virtual reality trans-time zone collab between So-Cal sample sister LA Vampires and Madison, WI neo-Siouxsie Zola Jesus. Despite the distance the respective vibes vibe beautifully. Cold dub rhythms echo down grimy corridors while heartbroken tag-team femme howls come bleeding out of the horizon drenched in spectral delay. There’s a few bangers (“Bone Is Bloodstone,” “Looking In”), a few ballads (“In The Desert,” “Vous”), and a couple quasi-covers (“Searching,” “No No No”), so every mood is given its due... Additional deep space Moog and production duties were handled by City Terrace studio wizard M. Geddes Gengras. A dark, gleaming gem of a 12”, and cool step sideways for both artists. 45 RPM black vinyl LPs in disco-hole sleeves with artwork and layout by Manda Beth Brown. Edition of 600." - Not Not Fun. Recommended.
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"The first new Gate record in over a decade, A Republic of Sadness is as much a reason for celebration as indoctrination into the creative genius of Michael Morley. Known primarily for his work in The Dead C, Morley simultaneously has been doing Gate since he's started playing. A Republic of Sadness comprises the apex of Morley's various interests in one collection. His guitar and vocal drones permeate through looped beats and sounds, arriving at a sound that is not quite dance, not quite noise, not quite electronica and never, ever ambient." - BaDaBing!
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Richard Youngs / Simon Wickham-Smith |
20 Years |
VHF |
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"20 Years is a celebration of 20 years of music from Richard and Simon, featuring 4 previously unreleased albums. The set includes an all new LP, 20 Years, that is the first new vinyl from R!!! and S!!! in almost 15 years. The other three projects presented here on CD were all completed and intended for release by the duo during their prolific 1990’s, but fell by the wayside for various reasons... The set is packaged in a gatefold jacket with essays by David Keenan, Neil Campbell, Marc Masters, and Jon Dale. The CD’s are housed in a custom-bindered insert in the pocket opposite the LP, with each CD held snug in its own die cut pocket. Audiophile LP cut by John Golden, pressed at RTI. Includes a 16 page booklet with a 3,000+ word interview with Richard and Simon." - VHF.
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"Brand new full length vinyl LP from Natural Snow Buildings' Mehdi Ameziane's solo project. This is the third vinyl release from Twinsistermoon since last summer's The Hollow Mountain LP and Bride of Spirits 7" which were both released on the excellent Dull Knife label. Following on from these two gems, as well as various obscure self released discs and CDs on Digitalis and Students of Decay, Ameziane's sound has grown somewhat darker at times with this brand new LP featuring nearly 50 minutes of new material. The A side features 6 tracks, where as the B side is a huge almost 25 minute track... Heavyweight vinyl housed in deluxe heavy thick card tip on jackets. Edition of 979 copies." - Blackest Rainbow.
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The Hunter Gracchus / Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau |
Split |
Blackest Rainbow |
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"Meeting of melted minds on this split LP featuring Sheffield based long time local buddies Hunter Gracchus and Germany based performance and musicial duo of Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau (aka Mama Baer). The Hunter Gracchus side is an amazing live recording from La Planta, Argentina entitled 'Mujeres De La Boca', and if you've ever been to their Furniture Makers practice space, it sounds like Hunter Gracchus somehow managed to transport its entire contents of obscure musical objects over there with their perculiar brains to record some of the best live shit they've produced so far... For this split LP KHJ & F's 'Zwei Einenperson (Pt. 2)', is a manic 22 minute side of avant garde experi-mentalism, with Kommissar Hjuler shredding electric guitar strings and destroying tapes while Mama Baer's insane vocal fluctuate between the erotic and pure demonic screaming... Edition of 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl with pro printed jackets, and insert." - Blackest Rainbow.
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After an acclaimed EP on Olde English Spelling Bee, Liverpool's Forest Swords returns with a strictly limited debut 7" on No Pain In Pop. Managing to mix Burial's sample strewn claustrophobia with a twisted r'n'b swing and organic swamp grooves, this is two tracks of perfectly executed skeletal pop. Highly recommended.
"Forest Swords‘ submerged dub continually proves Liverpool’s most famous band hasn’t influenced all of its denizens - we’re pretty sure Lennon liked to smoke a J every now and again, but there’s no way he was ever as irie as Forest Swords. Sound-wise, anyway. The “Rattling Cage” apparently refers to the tom-hit every eight bars, a bit of ghost percussion that clamors through a mournful-sounding vocal sample and kinda freaky tubular bells..."
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"Recordings of the first performance of Nitsch's 8th Symphony (for Choir, Orchestra, and Noise Orchestra). Composed by Hermann Nitsch. Performed June 25th 1990 at the MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna by Ensemble 20.Jahrhundert, Hugo Distler Chor, Blasorchester der Wiener E-Werke, Wolfgang Mitterer (Synthesizer).
Professionally recorded, extremely dramatic, dynamic, rich, full-blown orchestral music & noise, heavy drones, and austrian 'Volksmusik'.
Comes in big double-disc jewel case, including 2 posters with credits, photos, a part of the score, and the text 'Die Gigantische Symphonie' by Günter Brus.
The music was previously released by the Cortical Foundation in 2001 as a 2LP-Set limited to a mere 185 copies. Remastered for this CD Edition from the original tapes. The artwork, photos & texts are exclusive to this edition." - Tochnit Aleph.
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Second Layer, Harbinger Sound and No-Fi presents...
