starcircleanatomy - scared sacred - ace tapes - cass - 4$
scared sacred is kind of an exercise in self-antagonism, an intentional destruction of hours of recordings by way of severe digital and analog transformations as well as layering multiple recordings together. the result is a cracked kaleidoscope techno journey through years of a diverse musical sketchbook.
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luis gutee and his friends + starcircleanatomy - ttmpl - ace tapes - cdr - 4$
this is a cd that got made for the lg & hf/sca west coast tour that just went down a couple of weeks ago but there's a bunch of these floating around. 8 tracks on each "side". luis' has lots of blurry loops that he's drumming over, spooky lowerfi sounds and short tracks. starcircleanatomy's side is a bunch of straight up zoned out computer sound crystals rotating in a windowsill. comes in vinyl slipcase with a color printout of the gnarly collage up there. edition of 100.
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starcircleanatomy - it's fucked up; it's a rainbow - ace tapes - cass - 4$
t's fucked up; it's a rainbow is a tape of some of the songs izaak wrote in 2008. they are kind of about how going away can show you new stuff but won't really fix anything that's wrong or weird and how that all works out. 9 tracks: some sung songs and some weird sounds. about half and half. beautiful covers by actual artist chris hunt; each is different and cool.
editition of 111.
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gkfoes vjgoaf - what is a dream earth bed - ace tapes - cass - 4$
what is a dream earth bed is sean's first recording as gkfoes. he's in this great band called campfire but he does this other music too. these are some far out jammz; some weird sung songs and some really dense loopy space music kind of alternate over the 60 mins. lots of T.V. samples and huge bright textures and fierce guitar strumming, all bases covered, really. solar power music. it's good.
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starcircleanatomy - scared sacred - ace tapes - cass - 4$ sold out
scared sacred is kind of an exercise in self-antagonism, an intentional destruction of hours of recordings by way of severe digital and analog transformations as well as layering multiple recordings together. the result is a cracked kaleidoscope techno journey through years of a diverse musical sketchbook.
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luis gutee and his friends - black magic glitch - ace tapes - cass - 4$ sold out
this is the debut tape from luis and his friends. us here in santa cruz have had the luck to see luis shred some of these songs along with a few different people at shows for a little while now, but he was able to go and get the drums recorded all nice down in long beach and they sound pretty great with his computer sounds. so, okay: luis plays the drums. he's a monster. friends help out on various instruments. the songs sound like fucked backwoods carnival music from the year 4000. there's probably not any other music like this on the planet right now. 15 tracks, edition of 100.
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gkfoes vjgoaf - tiger elephant panda - ace tapes - cass - 4$ sold out
TEP is kind of a different beast from the other tape sean just put out. the first half showcases individual ideas; brief loops, field recordings, sung songs and sound experiments all take stage for a second then quickly make way for the next zone. the second side is comprised of three longer burners in this blurry delerious ambient song style that sean does better than anyone.
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campfire - beach at the top of the mountain - ace tapes - cass - 4$ sold out
campfire is a band from berkeley made up of three boys named mose, sean, and sebastian. it was really exciting when they started playing their weird improvised music together because they seemed to immediately exhibit weird telephathic understanding of each others' noise moves and the ability to really swim around each other in song like the best of the new improvised weirdo music groups out there now. this tape is a collection of states, drones, jammz and zones from the past year or so. they really covered all the bases. no joke, there is everything from super-fucked metal to tribal thunder to harsh noise to perfect bliss music on here. housed in a beautiful paper sleeve.
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