methadrone - final skull - 905 tapes - 2xcass - 7$
methadrone was an early moniker of joe brietenbach, who now grows organic drones under the name of gallows. before he unplugged the laptop, a small amount of output made it's way into the public realm in the form a few splits (w/ yes collapse, dance wounds, and wether) a c20 ("the sun cocaine" on lovers tapes) and a collab 12" w/ wether (forthcoming in snakefork/blue sky writing). these are the remaining tracks that have been collecting virtual dust in some moldy folder. four sides, five shots. oscillating, slightly processed, chloroformed doses that blend mechanical rhythms and natural elements with each other. packaged in clamshell cases.-905
endless time - force - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
one hour of low-tide breakers straight out of a mid-winter, beach front slumber party. synth/guitar(?)/lush creep alongs from heavy psych out major kevin mc. this is kev's second endless time outing on 905 and it's a total grayscale, low-fi mind sweep. uplifting in a totally bizarre way.
blown doors / hunted creatures - split - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
pittsburgh's hunted creatures appear here as a four member unit, dangling luminous strands of acoustic/electronic stunners from the clouds. confused cosmic vapors, tip toe violin fragments, and haunted percussion rhythms cruise the endless slip and slide. the blown doors duo of haley & connolly got together for some home made chili and planetary vibes one evening, and this is the result. it was the first bd session in a bit and felt pretty good. subtle and gnarly simultaneously through tampered vocals and heavy, stretched out bass throbs.
staplerfahrer - spring fever - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
uber-rich vibes from staplerfahrer, the solo project of steffan de turck (a vibrant struggle), made for his upcoming winter rendezvous through the states. side a boasts three numbers. dustup brawls through the am dial and frostbitten pulverizers is the general theme, with a far more slime-slug crawl on the flip.
ben billington -brave grave #3: drums - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
another endurance run in the brave grave series. ben billington (tiger hatchery/quicksails/et al) hits the ground running behind the drum kit with this 92 minute, no-effects/no-nap time/no prisoners percussion suicide trip. described by billington as "sorta masturbatory", which is probably the best way to put it. falls somewhere between buddy rich and animal with a plush room-echo chill to it. i get tired just listening to it, so i have no clue how this dude actually accomplished the jam. kudos.
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battleship - neon ranch - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
chicago duo battleship harness smooth satellite signals here on "neon ranch". layers of mist-like drone and scattered buzz shots go back and forth on the neon side. ranch, though pretty much a continuation of the jam, gets a bit more flustered as the steady winds turn into typhoons.
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vales + minutiae - split - 905 tapes - cass -4$
vales has a gig picking up people who poop themselves from seedy motels and driving them around. makes for good stories in the middle of the day, but he tends to fry up my text usage and send my bill overboard. one time he got in touch with a story about a lady who's kid (or maybe grandkid, or maybe both??) suffered from a condition she called "the rammies". it was a good story, and he named the track on this split after it. solid choice. total ether-fragment vibes going down here. tones that s-board on the rings of saturn. minutiae is a superstar three-piece, kind of like that cartoon called pro-stars where michael jordan, wayne gretzky, and bo jackson fought crime. jeff astin (xiphiidae/housecraft) dunks it from the foul line, william giacchi (magic lantern/super minerals) boosts the stanley cup over his head, and phil french(super minerals/stunned records) knows best. bed time stories on cough syrup.
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roped off + picasso trigger split - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
a paralyzing cosmos ride from opposite coasters roped off and picasso trigger. roped off is the duo of mike haley (wether) and dave doyen (vales), delaware natives that, when added up, make the average height of two normal humans. picasso trigger is the latest from california's kevin mceleney, no stranger to the 905 roster (droughter, endless time, bruant des marais). both drip the icebox synth/electronic ooze, slowest motion style.
wretched worst - the deadness - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
live material from kentucky's scummiest troupe (and that is saying a lot) wretched worst. doom and gloom sludge, labored noisepunknoise racket that will bash your brain/skull to bits. heavy, distorted, fucked up, messed up. ugly groans and shitty pounded drum oblivion beauty! the first thing i heard from this group was a cassette on husk and it delivered the goods in a heavy way. so excited to lay this one out.
fried and singed electronics from the coldest of the cold turkey's, andrew coltrane. the blend of hieroglyphic scribble and sax wrangling is brought over the course of two cassettes. just over an hours worth of material recorded on a self-tweaked tape deck, and to make matters even better, the master for one of the tapes snapped like a wishbone and had to be re-assembled at 905 hq. blaze the flight of the blind and see if you can guess which one! fun for the whole family! first non-norelco release in the catalog.
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circuit wound & wether - split - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
pretty much the second after i heard the master for circuit wound's "constellations" cassette (905.29) i asked jay howard to do a split with me. the dude came through beyond hopes again with an unwieldy knock out that goes from crushing to coma in a ten minute window. the wether track starts off weird, then goes big, then falls asleep. artwork by 'keavy psych' mceleney.
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crystal plumage - swift wrist / broken hacksaw - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
sprawling eurodrone from the crystal p. duo of benjamin laurent aman and sean fergus barrett. dudes lay down some nightmare thick leeches over the body and party like its 1799, getting all the witchcraft out of ya and sending it into the night. a weird mixture of bliss, misery, and satin oscillation from the sub-sub-basement.
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arabian blade - II - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
more beyond low-end bone crunchers from conneticut chem brothers christopher donofrio and donovan fazzino. these dude's put in the overtime to keep the out-of-body experiences in the news and the sports bloopers in the vhs. (edition of 38)
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frozen body . - dried up / blown away - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
portland mucas maker frozen body forks over two more infected bone breakers. crackling electronics holding back the crushing rush of industrial zone roars. zero days without an injury. (edition of 40)
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to-night golden curls - fat hot 3 - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
four tracks, totally void of form. an ocean of nebulous electronics and vocal manipulations floating into each other. halfway buildups beneath partial fall outs, all carrying static algae residue on their backs. ohio sea sickness. (edition of 40)
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this is the cassette version of aughra's new full length that was released on lp and cd by magic bullet. aughra is the instrumental solo effort of brent eyestone, who makes up half (the chinese half) of big china & little trouble. "proof of dark matter | light the lights" is equal parts of both eerie, creeping horror-movie-inspired isolationist chillers and soaring, feel-good, dynamic melody. the end result is an engrossing foray into a world of instant nostalgia, hautning instrospection, and intangible inspiration from shadowy sources.
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mildew - s/t - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
ten minute oil barrels of banshee thumps on infinite repeat, two brothers reformatting brain cells and pony tails with each crudded lump. mildew falls into the submerged basement zones with minimal, corrugated cardboard sound sheets that ooze booze.
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the second meeting of clerics, but only the first time i actually was aware we were even playing. let's go ahead and consider this the first meeting of clerics, which is the duo of sal giorgi (the vellum kid. peasant magik records, pillars of heaven) and mike haley (905 head honcho, local wether man). got together on a weekend at my place, possibly to settle that star wars argument we had earlier in the week. had a nice lunch then broke out the ultra heavy delay. we took some pictures in the tunnel under my house afterwards, but they didn't come out.
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relentless corpse - is fucked- 905 tapes - cass - 4$
more thick shards of stone and metal f/x labored and layered by the ohio dirt crew relentless corpse. a putrid mixture of narcotic blasts and cold vocals blended in a scumy fucking way. skunk jams, as if goldblum came back for the fly 2.
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neckhold - blackbile - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
these two aussies played an all day i.n.c. gig a few months back in philly and thrashed the room with some sickly ultra-violent feedback. i think the setup only consisted of a few pedals and contact mics, some of which were hooked up to a skateboard that was repeatedly bashed, and the results were thick and mangled. their ear bleeding harsh noise translate perfect onto tape. best well kept secret out there.
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is - rogue wave - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
illinoizer brian tholl continues his pain-focussed dirt works on rogue wave, a stark c40 with greyscale electronics and massive skull staplers. his sounds through is are like towers that are built up and sent crumbling to the ground, ending with rats scattering through the ruins. utterly bitter.
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parasite drone done lights-out style in a fume tunnel. no ventilation, total mind's eye light show dragging corpses through through the mud. reviver brings the collapse like nobody knows, solid ct solo style.
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blown doors - drug punishment- 905 tapes - cass - 4$
sean and i lived together for a year, and within that time we recorded exactly zero seconds of blown doors material. maybe it was the cramped, suburban townhousery that kept the jams contained, that I don't know. either way, now that we are separated by a few miles the tones are blooming. the latest is this barn burner, a 92 minute cassette loaded from start to finish with heaps of static infused scorchers. recorded direct to tape in two back to back sessions. punishment. mics, electronics, and cell phones.
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circuit wound - constellations - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
i asked jay if he wanted to release a tape on 905 and he said he had a concept piece called constellations that I could check out. he said it was inspired by observing the lights of los angeles at night from the surrounding mountains. i've only been to la a couple of times, and not for a few years now, but I really need to head back west and get the hell up in those midnight mountains. the two ten minute circtuit wound tracks here play to oposite ends of the noise spectrum, but both consistently portray harsh poignancy throughout. lurking withing the light (side a) births a vivid image of scaling said mountains, dirt underneed fingernails. metalic-like feedback that, after 8 minutes, finally gives way to nebula inspired flickers. finally reaching the peak, a beautiful distant flickering tainted by corrosion (side b), is where the light takes over with throbbing gashes that walk the line between ambient and hoarse. so menacing it's like the lights are watching back.
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mutant ape is the mask worn by uk heavy head george proctor, who runs the turgid animal label. proctor has been utterly relentless throughout his time, dishing out punishing lessons of grim and severe noise. the attacks hold nothing back here with three solo lurkers and one collaboration with dean glaister (romance). when i started 905 george was one of the first people I asked to be involved. finally, prinsesen is dropping, with hopefully more in the near future!
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every once in a while things come together in a sort of serendipitous way. take this 3-way for example. i had thirty minutes of heat conference blissfulness that needed a good home, and then out of the blue, ctephin and avs fly in like doves from the dark (with the same amount of material) looking for shelter. just like that all of the pieces fit perfectly. makes you feel good about the universe. everyone involved commits two tracks, one per side, that have some sick druid-like undertones. some sort of ancient, mythical mist trapped in a kaleidoscope bomb shelter.
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josh lay - all of my dreams are dead - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
this is a second edition of a josh lay cassette i released in 2006 on the now defunct no horse shit imprint. only 29 copies were made the first time around, all which disappeared in a flash, so it seemed appropriate to breath new life into this beast. choleric filth from cadaver in drag member josh lay. side a of starts off with some minacious moans accompanied by the sound of rats crawling over single-stringed guitars and gnawing at instrument cables. this is soon done away with by a blowout of obese feedback and contorted shouts. the b side is no less distraught, as josh unlearns everything he doesn't know about music in the most grim of fashions. a tedious build up of clicks and pops covered in pus.
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mike shiflet - opening act - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
two more doses of shiflet drone, blazing here in the live variety, recorded earlier this year in st louis and cleveland. for those not in attendance, you can acquire mike's sleeperhold synth styleings here and get a second chance to wipe your brain off of your shoulders.
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sanguine piss - no horse shit - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
saw these dudes for the first time as a cohesive unit at a recent wiese / wether gig in philadelphia. i've been seeing mat perform as newton for a minute, and known jared for what seems like a decade. in recent years i've been floored by some one-off collabs he has done with matt franco and skeleton warrior, so i was way interested in finding out what those two dudes plus cohort marc zajack (deep fried tapes) had in store. their setup was fairly minimum... some mixers, pedals, and a couple of guitars tuned to untuned. from second one though the most enormous sounds ruptured through the room. i mean, shit was gigantic. every once in a blue moon you could think to yourself "oh, i think that sound is coming from that", but usually it was just a vulgar mess. asked to do a tape while smoking weed out of an apple in the back of the store, even though i remember there being a pipe earlier. i guess that just fit.
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droughter / gnarly sheen - split - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
two heads of the same beast, breathing fire and shitting smoke. droughter devours minds with a vocal shredding, feedback fucked wall of power that is hope enveloping and overloaded with eruptive hysteria. gnarly sheen changes things up with a dilated dronescape utilizing layers of lethargic currents. two reasons to put the entire ward on suicide watch.
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leavenworth - retention, reunion - 905 tapes - cass - 4$
leavenworth, one of the most under-worshiped noize headz around, has been laying tracks of poison for a couple of years now in virtual secret. hailing from fly over country usa, this dude hovers blankets of paint stripping, bong ripping clamor on top of you until a rush of warmth and awkwardness flows through your veins. utilizing a blend of mixer feedback, pedal tickling, and radio transmissions, leavenworth blazes the room thoroughly.
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various - deaf in the valley - 905 tapes - 2xcass & art zine box set - 9$
deaf in the valley is an assemblage of killer sight and sounds from fifteen amazing artists who dabble in both crafts. the release consists of two pro-dubbed 30 minute cassettes and a full-color offset printed zine, all packaged in a brown kraft box with clear plastic lid, limited to 200 numbered copies. each artists involved contributed one page of artwork and one track from either a solo project or a group they are in. those included are
thurston moore
john olson / lost anchors
joe denardo / growing
chris pottinger / cotton museum
christopher forgues / kites
witchbeam / telecult powers
heath moerland / sick llama
dennis tyfus / vom grill
brent eyestone / aughra
dan dlugosielski / mossy throats
britt brown / acid wash
daniel la porte / earth crown
joe breitenbach
jeremy bradley earl / the creeps
kevin mceleney / droughter