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gross bite - yod - deep tapes - cass - 6$

deep tapes is proud to present a duo release from two amazing sound artists, on separate sides of the globe; coming together to create a minimal, cave-dwelling, percussive masterpiece. varying from swarms of metallic sheets of noise to airy, processed percussion workouts, these two craft a spacious album that conjures portraits of cyber-shamans and digital landscapes.
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heat wave - dejected soul - heat rave - cass - 6$

OH WHAT A DEJECTED SOUL I HAVE BEEN ……….. . . .. .. … . “I love hearing pitch-shifted vocals. Get the voice low or high enough and unique inflections are leveled — identity becomes ambiguous, accents become relatively indiscernible — and everyone kinda starts sounding the same. While it’s a way of deterritorializing and distancing, it also provides aesthetic continuity: listening to the very beginning of Heat Wave’s Dejected...







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idaho joe windslow - smoke your fear - psychic sound recordings - lp - 15$

True hardcore outsider music!

Described as "Indian Suicide," Idaho Joe Windslow bows his homemade "Gongtar" over the intricate workings of analog tabla and lehera machine beats and drones while singing haunting mantras of O.B.E.s (out of body experiences) and witnessing his life as a ghost.

-Limited Press of 113 copies
-Beautiful screen printed cover
-Includes lyric sheet
-Running Time: 34 min.







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cult music of ajitz - psychic sound recordings - lp - 15sold out

music by million brazilians

The controversial Guatemalan folk lore figure Ajitz is a shaman (healer) to some and red brujo (witch) of ill deeds to others. Some say that when holy men were being murdered in the name of Christianity during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala, the Ajitz disappeared into the jungle for preservation carrying a lantern, axe and doll in his own image and reemerged years later evoking to banish evil spirits, providing devotees with spiritual protection and cursing those that dare threaten the lives of his people.

Million Brazilians share with you an all acoustic interpretation of the AJITZ tale consisting of stewed trance of hand drums, horns, unique percussion, shakers, machetes and a few surprises!

-Limited Press of 123 copies
-Beautiful screen printed cover
-Includes 8 pg research booklet on history of "The Ajitz"
-Running Time: 55 min.
-Lock groove on Side B







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corum - never use the same door twice - psychic sound recordings - cass - 6$

Books-on-tape cut up psychedelic wanderings travel story narrated by Corum with "Never Use the Same Door Twice" soundtrack behind the reading.

-94min cassette
-Packaged in a books-on-tape cassette case







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rangers - pan am stories - nnf - 2xlp - 21$

Tape-warped phantom band Rangers finally unleashes the grainy, soaring, expansive prog-pop opus we always knew was floating inside the fretboard (and imagination) of multi-instrumentalist mystery maestro Joe Knight. The north Dallas-raised, San Fran-residing head Ranger grew up taking classical guitar lessons from a dude who claimed to have ‘toured with the Dead,’ and some of that brain-wonked jam agenda obviously seeped into the young Knight, who began recording his own loose, lo-fi jangle sprawls in 2005. But whereas last year’s critically lauded Suburban Tours LP found him condensing his cassette-crushed alien pop into 3 minute radio nuggets, Pan Am Stories uses the reverse strategy, letting each blurry strum pattern coast away and ride the breeze a bit before steering it into a fresh counter-melody or flanged-out guitar comedown. The extra breath and space gives the 13 songs a real sense of freedom and lightness and flight, layered in gentle blankets of fuzz, silky reverb, and audio collage riddles. A total saga, and a summit achievement of next-level invention for Knight as a musician (it’s insane he played/recorded every instrument on this thing!) and artist. Have been soaking in these tracks non-stop since we first heard ‘em this summer and are thrilled to get to share Stories with the world. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Carl Saff, who worked on Suburban Tours too) in gatefold jackets with micro-detailed collage art by Mr. Rangers himself; interior artwork by Knight and Anthony Yuen. Edition of 850.







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sapphire slows - true breath - nnf - 12" - 12$

A fresh voice is hard to find – especially in these days of such dense digital air (‘in the Shadow of the Power of Babble’ internet philosophers say). So it was with nuanced joy that we found ourselves spellbound and seduced by this young Tokyo gem-gleaner’s neon gallery of dynamic Casio nightlife masks, each of which is impeccably crafted and swathed in a fog basket of her effortlessly haunting Cocteau Twins-y shadow vox. There’s a wonderfully hushed vibe to Sapphire Slows’ most translucent tracks, beats materializing out of stray radio waves and metropolis static, electric piano memories washing away into the silent skyline of skyscrapers, synths congealing like synthetic whispers. The perfect soundtrack to urban insomniac wandering and wondering and lingering too long; almost like a Toyko take on Night Bus. True Breath is her stateside debut EP after one previous 7 inch on Big Love, and 2012 should see a full-length plus some global gigging so soak in her subtle night moves now while the breath is still warm. Black vinyl 12 inches in bilingual new wave patterned shadow portrait jackets designed by A & B Brown. Edition of 500.







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the babies - cry along with the babies - new images - lp - 14$







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never use the same door twice - psychic sound recordings - lp - 20sold out

Recordings and Drawings by Corum

Limited Edition of 150
Includes a 2’ X 3’ black and white double sided screen printed storyboard poster
-Packaging in heavy duty handmade Folkways style leather-like sleeve/ Screen printed cover
-Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering (Mississippi Records/ Sublime Frequencies)

“A creepy, daring and resplendent work constructs a mind-melting psychopharmacological vision wherein rhythms and melodies ooze into and out of focus. And when those signposts disappear, a gentle drone or spacey bit of heavily processed trumpet slides right in to take their place.
There are movements to it that could be boiled down to individual tracks, but, like a good LSD trip, you are much better off not trying to force any strictures upon Never Use. You’re far better off letting the music unfold on its own terms. Actuel Records-catalog-as-remixed-by-Coil simmer.”
-Robert Ham, WW

“Occult magick, sequential art, books on tape, and cut-up literature—Fake Hospital Information Office and Group Operators, the mixed-media experiment of Million Brazilian’s Grant Corum, is at the intersection of all these and more. Evoking images of ancient ceremony, spectral phenomena, and early dungeon-crawling RPGs, Fake Hospital Book I was designed as a “reality hacking” operation in which Corum attempts “to forge spirits within experimental arts and performance.” Essentially a story told through music, projection, and narrated dream states, Corum bewitches the senses and guides the listener through an adventure unlike any other.”
-chriscantino, The Mercury

“A middle-eastern trance panic pandemonium; clarinet, bamboo flutes, delay pedals and pulsating loops woven masterfully and magickally to coalesce in an event horizon of moment, slo-motion movement, reality running backwards, like flickering celluloid, stained technicolor with a psychedelic light show. Brian Jones would have been utterly stoked, as these two fine fellows brought a hint of vines and the rustle of bird-calls to the damp chilly evening. I could practically feel the Jaguar's breath, on the back of my neck.”
- live account by http://jsheaven

“Look at track density. Modified accordion or hurdy-gurdy. Light tablas on rhythm. Tuned bronze bowls. Large consonant unison structures, heavy washes of elemental and essential harmonizing layering behind melodic focal note forms. Bird, rattlers, flute or clarinet. As good as the rather good Philip Glass. Where???s the utopic philosophy of harmonics? This stuff is good! Eric Dolphy through Pharaoh Sanders through Philip Glass. It is too easy to say simply Muslimgauze.”
-Grizzly Adam, KFJC 89.7 FM







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10:10 opening the digital door - psychic sound recordings / sonic meditations - lp - 14$

music by bill doob
Inspired School of Astral Music

-Masted by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic
-Limited Edition of 147
-Screen printed covers on heavy cardstock.
-Includes essay on the Cybergenetic Fugue State and the meaning of 10:10.

Co-released by Sonic Meditations and Psychic Sounds, this record is a meditation on Internet Consciousness, the Cybergenetic Fugue State (CFS) and Numerical Synchronicity as memory recovery in the digital age. Musically, it has been compared to Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh. I don't disagree yet I think it exists in its own musical realm. The four compositions are brooding dreams of memory and nostalgia.







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dinner music - electric hokum - bathetic records - cass - 5$

Rick Weaver, of Human Conduct and New Flesh fame, is hitting the boundaries of musical excellence with his new solo work. Welcome to the off-the-wall insanity project entitled Dinner Music.

Truly, this is a tough cookie to define on a website, Maniacal oddity combined with pure brilliance, this stuff is floating in it's own realm. Characterized by it's freak moments, it has a Zappa-styled diversity to it - There's synth mayhem, cinematic flair, noir-ish soundscapes, beautiful sunken melodies, perhaps even nods to…Suicide?

This is one for the history books, dudes and dudettes. Just reach in, grab hold, and never let go.







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zac nelson - sound a sleep sound - bathetic records - lp - 14$

How do you describe magical, ethereal creatures that slide out of night skies and into your bedroom, offering a welcoming hand extended to invite you on a journey and a warm embrace after they've put you back to bed? Almost indentical is describing the odd wonder of Sound A Sleep Sound, a dynamic album that rockets out of the niches built by genre standards like ambient or drone. No, this is cosmic soul-searching, boiled down into 40 minutes of nebulous-pink, gooey extraterrestrial love.

On this wax saucer, Zac Nelson, of CHLL PLL and Hex Love fame, throws down two side-long floaters bent solely on mental coaxing into another zone. Patient, yet involved tones slip and shimmer into and out of perspective. The sounds liquify and coat your entire persona.

Sit a spell in a dim room with the lovely drifters encased in wax. You will find yourself waking into a new reality. Your head might feel swimmy and your heart a little heavier.

That means you're newly alive.






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mohave triangles - eternal light of the desert plateaus - hooker vision - cass - 7$

Embracing the next cycle, the cycle of the human being, Mohave Triangles soars with the knowledge of the elders. Pure white light reveals itself amidst the swirling chaos of a shaman’s brew of lush, meditative drones and hypnotic guitar patterns. “They say this is the hardest time to live but it’s also the greatest honor to be alive, to live and see this...32 min clear with gold liner, pro-dubbed cassette with black imprint. Full color art by Grant. Edition of 100.







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rambutan - partial wires - hooker vision - cass - 7$

Rambutan, always eager to challenge the very idea of Rambutan, takes a slight sidestep from his usual modus operandi and offers a fresh new batch of digitized miniatures. These shorter pieces employ a playful sense of rhythm as ricocheting modular tones bubble and percolate like some lost and found library music gem. 30 min clear with royal blue liner, pro-dubbed cassette with white imprint. Full color art by Grant. Edition of 100.







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geoffrey sexton - night city undertow - hooker vision - cass - 7$

As a filmmaker and member of Tennessee weirdo collective, Horsehair Everywhere, Geoffrey Sexton has honed his ability to craft stirring environments, often unsettling in their dissonance yet warm and welcoming as they slowly reveal themselves to you. As a solo artist, Sexton makes splendid use of the treated guitar, hammering and bowing it in a quasi-religious frenzy.
37 min solid black, pro-dubbed cassette with gold imprint. Full color art by Grant. Edition of 100.







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henry dawson - we have layers of skin - hobo cult - cass - 7$

HENRY DAWSON (formerly known as QUILT) brings to us a very unique take on electronics... Heavy noise glitches mix with gentle layers of drone, using melodies that require an attentive ear. Total gripper for mental meltdown!

Originally released as a CD by Orange Milk Records
Reissued on tape by Hobo Cult Records
Home Dubbed / 50 copies







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celestino - protector's tea - love all day - lp - 21$

-An archival LP package featuring old style tip-on jacket and insert
-Also available in a hand made CD package, featuring a mounted color photo print and insert

Celestino: Protector's Tea by LOVE ALL DAY







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dolphins into the future - ke ala ke kua - moamoo - cass - 8$

limited Japanese cassette reissue of the long sold out Kraak lp.







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concrete shiva - slip from the transparent beam - cavelife - cass - 7$

Two long form pieces for mandolin, voice and electronics from Los Angeles' Maria Garcia, showing her constantly evolving approach to crafting sound. Her work touches on a variety of different modes; fragments of layered field recordings, unholy minimalism and dream pop are glimpsed momentarily but Garcia is clearly tilling her own soil. Reference points get devoured and dissolve into the wider picture of what's being shown and explored. Piercing high tones and controlled feedback stir and burn up melodic framework; a set of goals completely on it’s own wavelength rings out. Powerful and majestic music. Special coffee-dyed cardstock covers for this one.







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banal beauty - sandmutopia - cavelife - cass - 7$

Andrew P. Storrs (Rum Raisin, Pagan Time Travel Home Video) looses a far out score for a 1970s PBS documentary on Midatlantic ravens in the 17th century. Envisioning reenactment footage of the 1669 Baltimore Renn-Faire, his fingers dancing across the keys of the Teisco S-100P synthesizer, an anomaly is birthed in Storrs’ musical trajectory. One that represents the best qualities of its elusive creator. Modern antique synthesizer composition for fans of Creel Pone, subterranean reality television and classical music.







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lolly gesserit - time to bare time - crushed velvet rope ladder records - cass - 7$







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pete swanson - feelings in america - self released - cass - 7$

Cassette reissue of the Root Strata LP, which has been out of print after it sold-out shortly following it's release in 2010.  I'm particularly happy with this recording and have decided to keep it in print on cassette.  The reviews of the album frequently noted the emotional weight and intensity of the music and I get where they're coming from.







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vepa - self released - cass - 7$

VEPA is a new collaboration between myself (playing tape) and Scott Goodwin (playing synthesizer).  Scott and I have been good friends for years and I've been a fan and supporter of his work since I first heard Bonus in 2004 and he's currently doing some of the best music of his career in Operative, Polonaise and under his own name.  We recorded over several sessions spring 2011 in anticipation of my move to NYC.  The resulting 34-minute album is packed with Scott's signature minimalist moves with an impeccable attention to detail, and my own fixation on maximalism and error.  The VEPA tracks bear a vacant-factory, post-apocalyptic take on ultra abstracted fragments of industrial music and alien radio transmissions.  Heavy ambiance and night driving. 






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by the sea - waltz away - the great pop supplement - 7" - 7$

next 45 up on the great pop supplement features the debut proper from wirral based by the sea, following the rapid fire selling out of their split 7 with london's the see see this summer.

both sides here 'waltz away' and 'stay where the sun is' point at a mighty songwriting pedigree, belying fully the bands' age and relative 'newcomer' status. put simply, this is classic pop. the a side to these ears owes as much to the west coast pop art experimental band as it does geographical counterparts the pale fountains or the stone roses. as the first chorus hits on 'waltz away', you almost hear the sun burst through the clouds bathing all in it's pristine glow- just a perfect pop moment.

produced by ex-coral guitarist bill ryder-jones and released in a numbered vinyl only edition of 300 in hammer press sleeves with an expected rapid fire sellout. the band are currently recording their debut lp amidst packed out, acclaimed live shows. get on it!







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phos hilaron - break in the sun till the sun breaks down- sunshine ltd - cass - 7$

2 long form burners for guitars, synth, voice and computers. Recorded live inside a church by two brothers who haven’t seen each other in quite some time. Includes download code for a reworked track by the duo of an outtake from the session. All hail gladdening light!







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josh mason - temple bell- sunshine ltd - cass - 7$

‘Temple Bell’ examines fragmented memory recall during meditation. Using a combination of electronics and acoustic instruments, Mason sweeps up all the bits and shards of discarded thought and weaves them back together.







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polypus acephalous - the outcast tribes - full of nothing - cass - 6$

I've no words to describe what a twisted mind could create this beast and let it out into the world. Get ready for some freakish gamelan, then Inuit disco musik - later radio hum will wash over them messy folk tunes. Trolls run around with bonfires setting fire to structures. Plants scare birds. You say hi to a tree and notice mushrooms staring at you. Good heavens, what's happening up there in Southern Russia? Don't ever let your children alone in the woods. Clay monster burns his face, the party goes on. Black tapes with full-colour J-cards and stickers. Edition of 100







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prayer / nathan mclaughlin - dawn chorus - full of nothing - cass - 6$

"There is a natural progression to things, an organic or unforced way for an organism to grow, and it is in this natural way we find ourselves riding. After years of playing and recording together as Loud & Sad, we now have a great geographic distance between us that makes this process impossible on any sort of regular schedule. While there is still much to share from those years and the years ahead, the dawn chorus tape you hold here is the first new organism to grow out of this whale fall... the slow change in Loud & Sad that signaled the start of new lives. An almost collaboration on a shared concept... a sharing of life together despite distance... a continued exploration of music done together and apart... a realization of the connections people have and should not sever... an effort at being transparent in concept and true in spirit.

Immediately after this split was brought to life it became apparent early on that our past failures to bring a well devised concept into the physical realm could come back to us again. Instrument restrictions, graphic scores,stylization... we scurried back to our dark corners. Stress and mania and alcohol, locked doors, a yearning for the tape deck upstairs. Tape going bad and breaking, saturday clarity, hero worship. Synthesis exhaustion, cynical music critiques, restraining the self importance. Transparent presentation... here lies dawn chorus." Black tapes, see-through J-cards, hand-numbered. Edition of 100.







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surburban howl - lady hate - full of nothing - cass - 6$

Cellos made out of goat skulls await for the right hour to come while a devilish Amazon gives orders to her slaves. A crowd of gnomes commit mass suicide. Freak mutants make attemps to play funeral folk but their ugly paws barely hit the right chords. Yet there's some hidden order in all this chaos. The listener will find the Italian collective in an unusual shape. Somehow, the industrial noise walls have disapperead; there are more acoustic instruments. Crooked improv. Thick, raw and damaged free folk. Out for blood. Cassettes with full-colour J-cards and stickers. Edition of 69.







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bebe fang - is night people – cass - 7$

Dutch duo Bebe Fang shares members with Eklin who released a cassette recently on Night-People as well. Bebe Fang although stripped down in comparison to Eklin in number of members has many similar aesthetic and sonic tendencies. They present the same kind of foreboding but elegant glacial ambiance but with a different sense of minimalism and soulfulness. The mood is always in a state of flux with Bebe Fang never quite settling always subtly evolving depending on the listeners thought or vision moment to moment. At times unsettling in tune with vintage horror soundtrack vibes and at others hypnotic and almost heavenly the greatness lies in the subtle details of Bebe Fang's music.







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golden hours - floating weeds - is night people – cass - 7$

Golden Hours is long running Portland based flower pop guitar band with ties to Eggy Records, The Polyps, The Woolen Men etc. who predate much of the recent resurgence of this sound. Distinct pop and twee flavors of sound ride around on the upbeat waves of guitar, keys, and distortion. A rock solid effort with no overt posturing to retro tendencies, just honest well made creatively written catchy indie pop, that rides a little bit like other excellent contemporary lady fronted post punk/twee/ etc groups like Grass Widow etc. A really killer follow up to the excellent "Spooky" cassette that came out on Eggy awhile back. If you missed that def. check this one out.







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sore eros - sickies volume one - is night people – cass - 7$

Very siked to get a chance to release something by our western Mass. friends Sore Eros, a great live band thats even better on record and always pushing the limits of their sound and song writing. A band truly doing their own thing in a time of much retro posturing. The articulation of their sound and approach is always interesting because it embodies so many sources of potential influence and sound language. At times folky, sometimes rocking, always seeping with dreamy atmosphere and warm psychedelic melody their representation of pop music radiates, resonates, and sparkles like big sun on syrupy water. This cassette is very well recorded and even professionally mastered. One of the finest NP releases thus far.







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hot & cold - conclusion introduction - is night people – cass - 7$

Hot & Cold are two brothers Simon and Joshua Frank who divide up time in Beijing and NYC/Toronto respectively. This tape had its origins on the very stellar Rose Mansion Analog label out of Beijing and we felt it fitting to re-release it state side to try and increase its profile as this is an excellent collection of tracks for this young duo. Some cool Martin Rev. fuzz tones shake over propulsive post punk bass and drum machine pop to create some weird cross section of south east Asian style psychedelic garage groove and loner darkness ala 39 Clocks and the like. Killer.







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the pink noise - is night people – cass - 7$

With previous vinyl releases on prolific contemporary indie labels like Sacred Bones, Kill Shaman etc. Montreal's Pink Noise are not an unknown presence in underground music circles. This new cassette plays out similar to a 7inch in duration but packs a solid punch of glittery psychedelic synth punk and raucous post punk nihilism. Coming off even a bit more odd then previous releases this current material has a cold annihilated feel similar to early Chrome. Visions of late night drugged out concrete jungle lurking come to mind.







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bomber jackets - larching - is night people – cass - 7$

Bomber Jackets made their release debut recently on a split 7" with the Rebel that is out on Savory Days and Kill Shaman and this tape gets deeper into the odd world they create. Consisting of members from the excellent UK group the Pheromoans and with ties to other recent NP release Charcoal Owls this cassette offers further necessary obstruction of contemporary art punk and synth aesthetics. Crisp odd synth pop tones collide against the distinct vocal style represented on many of these fellows other outputs. Overtly a hard to pin down affair as would be expected but with of course no disappointments.







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alps - golden - is night people – cass - 7$

Newcastle NSW AU main man Chris Hearn, long time solo ripper and old school vegan punk with a deep record collection who hits US tours traveling by Greyhound. Like the wild mind behind them his recordings tread all territory from ambient synth to fuzzed out garage punk steps out with his first release on Night-People, but sitting solid in a discography that is as deep as it is diverse. Chris released a killer solo LP last year himself under the Past Futures label that is as good as anything we heard from down under last year which is a high mark for how much great music is being made in Australia these days. This tape sits like a nice extra chapter to that LP and retains Alps diverse approach.







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german army - papua mass - is night people – cass - 7$

Germany Army comes from mystery periphery LA zones, transmissions from submarine or some Hollywood studio closet, who knows. The Kill Shaman axis might have some hidden knowledge on the subject of said origins but we can't figure it out. Regardless this cassette gets deep into a mutant lab rat labyrinth of synth tones, concussion drum machine hiss, and warped spoken vocals. Post punk poetics ranting in some forgotten dream hole speaking to the speakers up close and personal.







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matt carlson - particle language - draft - lp - 15$

DRAFT is pleased to announce the release of Matt Carlson’s solo debut LP release, Particle Language. Following up his stellar solo works for Gift Tapes, including Stereo Face and Gecko Dream Levels, Carlson advances his signature electronic compositions, venturing into weirder, tweaked realms of morphing synthesis and bent perception. Particle Language guides the listener through an effervescent cauldron of unstable energies and molten, robotic detritus into a shifting stereoized vacuum-space. Sounds effortlessly arch and skim this reflective pathway, propelling us into the depths of our unconscious minds. Embedded with outsider music reference points and metaphysical undercurrents, Carlson’s modular synthesizer mastery and ingenious use of tape and vocoder has unearthed grey-void atmospheres overflowing with otherworldly aural apocrypha—a uniquely warped vision.
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk.
40 min / DMM Pressing / Full Color Jacket & Labels with Insert







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hive mind - elemental disgrace - spectrum spools - lp - 17$

black vinyl

Elemental Disgrace is an album that needs to happen now. Finally, the next phase has arrived -- a stunning double side-long record of some of the U.S.' best underground synthesizer music. Whatever rise to the synthesizer came later on in the '00s is hardly of any concern to Greh Holger and his Hive Mind project. Having released private press cassettes of solo synth works as far back as 2002, Hive Mind exists as enigmatic in the world of new-jack synth-heads and the tidal wave of "neo kosmische" flying far under the radar. The silence is now broken and here we are treated to some of the most unique sounds Spectrum Spools has yet presented. No blisscapes to be found here. No soaring latched arpeggios, no cosmic vistas. Not a single melody. This is two sides of ancestral ruin in its clearest and most focused presentation. The brutality of the Earth and the harsh reality of all that it holds. Unknowable sounds -- that of the dawn of the Earth, or perhaps the sound of its demise. A toxic swamp of chemicals and mutated creatures left behind long after man has wiped himself away for good. Field recordings from the end of the world. While others are racing for the stars, Hive Mind's tectonic plate-shifting and brutal rumble will give you a brand new way to look at modern synthesizer composition. With a focus on textural sounds and shifting frequency registers, this album gives the listener a full range of listening possibilities with infinite replay value. It's worth noting that Spectrum Spools as a label would not exist without Hive Mind. An inspiration and a pioneer in the U.S. synthesizer circuit, it's with pleasure and honor that they release Elemental Disgrace into the world. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin August 2011.








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no ufo's - mind controls the flood ep - public information - 12" - 16$

Vancouver’s Konrad Jandav’s, purveyor of Kosmische Trash, of noxious electronics, of deep and frazzled future-scapes… he is No UFO’s, from Canada with Love.

After landing the much coveted (XXJFG top release of 2010), Soft Coast EP on handsome C30 cassette, No UFO’s soon beamed onto Dub Ditch Picnic for another exercise in spangled concrete-collage and dreamy drone-fuzz, late 2010. Mind Controls The Flood is the first waxwork from Jandav’s…Public Information are very pleased to have him join our institution.

Seven compositions deep… a bleeding barrage of noise, melodics and colour… We sail from the opening bars… headlong into a hypnotic melting pot of tangled arps, vocal tracks bouncing perpetually off each other, shredding six-strings doing their feedback thing- a hazy, Motorik dream burnt by the 21C cross-Atlantic psych fever. Elsewhere, brand NEU! visions in propulsive guitar music’s, elegant Lynchian drifts through pastoral wastelands, freezing No-Wave cocktails mixed with hot MPC drum hits, suffocated dance groove-vignettes in awe to the far off Motor City. More…

A fractured masterwork …travelling to us, serpent-like under the oceanic tundra, Terminal City to Blighty and Beyond….


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