"One sided, bootleg-style twelve inch that may very well be Brookylns own WOODS, caught live in Europe. No listed record label, no B-side, no repress. Weve seen these for sale at Woods shows so they may be legit, although the world is ripe with mystery. Very limited."
anika - a:05-07 - self released - lp - 14$
ANIKA is the solo project of Greek artist A.G. Drawing influences from the likes of Chrome, Neu, Suicide and Brian Eno, ANIKA creates an amalgam of analogue and digital synthesis, fusing the experimental/avant garde of the late 20th century with cyberpunk and contemporary electronics. A:05-07, featuring 16 maniacally cut-up, brooding soundscapes, is ANIKA's first full-length, self-released as a vinyl Lp limited to 300 copies in the last days of 2008. It is preceded by A:03-04, a 12" vinyl Ep, released in 2005.
-anika
area c - sea of rains - handmd - 9$
in April of 2008, AREA C was commissioned by the NASA RI Space Grant Consortium and the Museum of Natural History in Providence, RI to compose an original score for their "Mission Moon: past, present, future" exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. SEA of RAINS is the resulting 55-minute soundscape, inspired by the names, colors, history and otherworldliness of this still-strange fixture in our sky
astral social club - #14 - self released - cdr - 9$
recorded live in paris and london, may 2007
astral social club - #15 - self released - cdr - 9$
11 tracks, 45 minutes, 11/07
astral social club - #17 - self released - cdr - 9$
Taking time out from the works-in-progress schtick, this collection centres around most of an unreleased LP from 2006 (left in limbo due to label never quite getting off the ground) that makes formative excursions into the more phased looping beat aspects of the ASC that have come very much to the forefront in the intervening time. Three of the four more recent tracks that fill this one out take a different tack, and upturn the applecart with beatless overload, bells, multi-speed concussion and the like. The closing track is all handclaps and technoid blats, but reconfigured through a miasma of tone skroink and delay so you'd be hard pressed to get your freak on in any civilised way.
being & body collector - guile in white heat -skeleton dust – cd – 6$
Gripped this one in a trade with Being at the 517 noisfest 4, the day it was released.
I find myself wondering sometimes if I enjoy harsh noise or not. Alot of times it chan just depend onf how it is presented. Well, this is some really harsh stuff, and I love it.
First of all, the concept to this one is simple, yet awesome. Each artist has a solo track. The artists remix the other artist's track. Then they collaborate on one track at the end. This makes for some great pieces.The packing is simple and straight to the point. Recording info, track names, you know, the essentials. Also has one of those pure black back cases, I rarely see those anymore. The disc is really cool, it is red, and has a very nice texture to it, I wonder what type of paints were used. I really dig the front cover. The only problem I have with the artwork is that it might be TOO minimal. The inside of the cover is totally blank, I think that space could've been utilized to include some more graphics similar to the front cover graphics and really bring the art alive. But other than that, I really enjoy the way this is presented, and the red theme is really cool.
Before hearing this album, i'd never heard or even heard of either artist, so I had no clue what to expect. I like that when listening to an album, no prior knowledge to base an opinion off of, just what I feel when listening. When I put it in, I was genuinly interested in the textures and sounds I was hearing. The original tracks were great, Being's had some of the best work on the album, and Body Collector's included some very great scremaing (hard to identify, but it does sound ike it) and high pitched noises that really lent themselves to the track. I didn't enjoy the remixes as much. Being's remix of Body Collector's "Rotting & Unkept" was alright, but Body Collector's remix of Being "Cold Hands Gripping" seemed to tone down the great song. The collaboration track is a great one, some really great frequencies and textures throughout.
Overall, I really enjoyed this one, I look forward to hearing more from both artists.
- Green
ben bennet/alban bailly * mike khoury/ryan jewell - split -milmin punts – cdr – 6$
Bennet and Bailley (percussion and guitar) tear it up on one track.
Khoury (violin) and Jewell (percussion) tear it up on three more.
Studio recordings coupled with an outdoor renegade performance make
for some obtuse improvised sounds. Hand painted covers.
black eagle child - two days - self released - cass - 7$
I had just purchased a new pickup for my acoustic guitar and had played through several enjoyable sessions in which some music was recorded, and some was lost. The playing of these songs helped to dial down the eustress levels in our apartment a bit, since our daughter Mary had just been born a few rapid days earlier. Two songs were salvaged for this cassette, each recorded on a different day. The tracks are single take—acoustic guitar plugged into digital delay and amplified with a solid-state Kenwood amplifier.
Produbbed, red shells with deep blue imprint. Limited to 100 standard copies, 5 art copies.
-bec
chora - goat lines- self released - cdr - 7$
Four tracks recorded April 08 on tour in Europe with our friends Helhesten & The Hunter Gracchus. 3 tracks recorded in collaboration with Pascal Nichols (Stuckometer, Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, Neon Temple…) & 1 duo jam of mainstays Rob Lye and Ben Morris. Instrumentation including: violin/ Shaahi Baaja/drums/percussion/vocals/sax:::::::
‘Follow the rise and fall of their kaleidoscopic drone mantras that move through skeletal extended percussive techniques, wormhole found-sound manipulation, kitchen sink gamelan, and elephantine vocal swoops’.
-chora
crudedeuces - s/t - twin beds - cdr - 7$
" hangin' with the snake charmer to hook a
hot rod cruz- only to find out the final destination is a dilapidated dope ghost run- hazy highway lights a-go-go- solo nathaniel brennan--ed. 33"
- BT of TB
esp kinetic - fleck-nor - self released - cdr - 7$
ESP Kinetic existed from 1982-1986, in alternating states of heavy obscurity and mild infamy in their native Northamptonshire. The core of the band was Neil Campbell and Andrew Watson, with the multi-talented MS Turner giving them some extra musical and conceptual backbone for their final year or so. Other local freaks, transvestites and exhibitionists came and went, most notably the giant David Bowie impersonator Dougie Smyth, who lent the whole thing a certain debauched glamour. Our influences were probably glaringly obvious - PiL, The Fall, Virgin Prunes, TG, the Velvets etc - but always tempered by remedial musical ability and general smalltown weirdness. Tapes were recorded, bemused local audiences periodically baited, and the group tapped into the worldwide mail network that sufficed to link like-minded souls in the days before email.
In 1985, some of the tapes somehow found their way to a Finnish tape label we had never heard of, and have never heard from since. They asked for a tape to release, so we cut them a wildly divergent mix from our archive and some fresh works in progress, sent it off complete with artwork and the whole thing seemed to disappear into space. Did it ever get any circulation in the frozen north? Did it get lost in the post? Nobody knows. Luckily we made a handful of copies before sending the master off, so now, 23 years later, we can finally give this some kind of proper release.
The 13 tracks spread over 57 minutes holler loud and clear through multiple forms of lo-fidelity, covering a stylistic range of approaches that was meat and potatoes then, but seems pretty invigorating and fresh in this millenium of ever-narrowing generic restriction. Teenage trauma shriek, rhythmic pound, tape and electronics experiments, percussive burnout, unintelligible performance poetry, broken electro-pop and all manner of obscurist tactics permeate this collection, uninhibited by any notions of good taste or any fear of ridiculousness. For better or worse, this is the sound of growing up weird in a small town in the Midlands in Thatcherite Britain.
-an
eternal tapestry - altar of grass - solar commune – cdr - 8$
(etre) - i don't take my head to see higher becouse the sky is landing over my neck –self released – 7$
"I don't take my head to see HIGHER becouse the sky is landing over my neck" is the third and last cd of the "Trilogy of the voice" started with "Post-Fordist parade in the strike of events (Baskaru, 2006) and continued with the second "Voices stomp flames for requiem times" (Ruralfaune, 2007). This will be the last electro-acoustic & patchwork cd of the prodution of ( e t r e ); that it is the project of the italian Salvatore Borrelli...As all previous work on ( e t r e ), the reasons behind his music, turns this time in a more strong way: total discontinuity of sonorus levels, complete abolition of the forms and the same research of the uneasiness and abstration. The continuity with analog & digital working is based on the use of some instruments: Kalimba, Zither, Shruti box, Esraj , Lap steel & Electric guitars and a massive use of field recordings (slaughterhouse, mountains, thermal baths, marchs of the Palio in Siena). This work, respect of all previous works, is inspired at classic minimalism and at the early use of electronics and every audio event is cutted by the use of voices and strange interruptions. This work is been pressed in 200 copies on the new (etre)'s label: Riz(h)ome Records and it has 7 different covers and 3 types of different paper inside.
five elements music - kapotte muziek - moving furniture records – cdr - 7$
The Dutch duo of Frans de Waard and Roel Meelkop traveled all the way
to St. Petersburg, Russia in May 2008, where they did some live
performances as Kapotte Muziek. From these performances one has been
reworked by the Russian sound/drone artist [ S ] who also works under
the name Five Elements Music. The result is an amazing piece combining
field recordings with metal scrapping and oozing drones.
-moving furniture
flower corsano duo - the chocolate cities - self released - cdr - 8$
Michael Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunburned Hand of the Man): Japan banjo
Chris Corsano (Paul Flaherty, Jandek, Thurston Moore, Vampire Belt, Evan Parker): drums, melodica
5 live cuts from 2009 recorded in Cambridge, UK & Geneva, Switzerland. Originally available on the Flower-Corsano U.S. Fall tour. Cover done in loving tribute to The Co-op's (UK grocery store) chocolate bar packaging
-cc
fribola - potlatch - strangelight – cass – 3$
fursaxa - mycorrhizae realm - atp recordings - lp - 17$
Fursaxa is Tara Burke. Formerly a member of the Silbreeze band UN, Tara started her Fursaxa project in 1999 after UN disbanded. Since then Fursaxa has released six full length albums on the Acid Mothers Temple label, Ecstatic Peace, Time Lag, Eclipse, Last Visible Dog, and ATP. In addition there have been 3 self released CD-Rs and a CD on the her own Sylph recordings. In the summer of 2008 Fursaxa started recording her seventh full length record "Mycorrhizae Realm" at Hexham Head studio in Philadelphia. This studio recording is a first, as all of the previous releases have been recorded at home on a four track.
friday group - crystal eunuch reversal - twilight flight sound – cdr - 5$
Culled from live performances on the West Coast in 2005, this disc is a bit of departure from the more serene self-titled debut and Wet Fur cdr. In fact, it's quite rambunctious at times! Blissed out guitars being punctured by vocal whoops and groans, while slithering percussion seeps through the cracks. Over the course of 3 tracks , the core line-up of Tom Carter, Matt Martinez, Shawn McMillen, and Brian C. Smith howl at the skies. Absolute head music, filled with summer sun and smoke. Edition of 150 copies, each with a uniquely colored cover.
-twilight flight sound
god willing - emotion discrimination - vile bile - cass - 6$
Phased out bass frequencies piled on thick. Another fine example of the consistently high quality releases coming from this empty-zoner. Beer soaked sludge, mixed with pizza. 4 color silk screened inserts, stamped shells, type 2 high bias cassettes. Edition of 76.
the golden hours - the mystery and her crew - self released – cdr - 6$
Portland's The Golden Hours are something tiny, gorgeous, and haunting and with The Mystery & Her Crew they've created a miniscule masterpiece. The band is three: Eliza Sohn, Brian Yoder, and Raf Spielman. This six song mini-album is a re-recording of the tape of the same name that quickly sold out on Not Not Fun last year. According to the band, the NNF tape was "an experiment at making something that was sparse and clean" while this CDR is "smeary and a little bit weird" but it still sounds gloriously crystalline to me. . . . With great screen-printed covers and hand-drawn Sharpie decorations on the discs, this is a wonderfully personal album and it just might be one of my favorites of the year.
-fakejazz
anthony guerra & mark sadgrove - iron sand - black petal - cd - 9$
debut duo release by anthony guerra and mark sadgrove. split release with a binary datum.
a guitar duo of a guerra and mark sadgrove (aka mhfs, who has appeared on labels including Pseudoarcana, Celebrate Psi Phenomenom, etc)
along the lines of the Paper Wings cd, but mellower and more melodic.. packaging handmade with lovely japanese paper..
-bp
hammer of hathor - shimmering on a dim tide records - cass - 6$
So this tape came about after my friend Pat saw us play a house show with electric guitar and drums. We only started this configuration because Heather's pregnant belly was getting too big for her to handle a sax. Thus begins a whole new chapter in the Hammer of Hathor sound. We haven't gone back to jazz, although once you "find" jazz it never leaves you! We recorded this straight to a Tascam mastering cassette deck, not a 4 track. Two mics in, the RCA BK5 over the drums and a Shure dynamic in the grill of our tube amp. This was released on Portland Bad Date Line tapes. These tracks are super lofi and awesome sounding.
-shimmeringonadimtide
i/d - midnight.hot - flux us - cd - 8$
I \ D is a Singapore-based improvising noise rock collective in existence since 2005. Members profess a shared love for 70s progressive rock and jazz fusion, psychedelic rock, harsh noise, experimental electronics, postpunk and disco. They don’t give a damn about what is or isn’t ‘tasteful’, it just needs to rock n’ disco you hard……
Midnight Hot is a trip deep into the hard of darkness - or is that the dark of hardness - subliminally invoking the spirits of Krautrock greats like Can, Neu!, Cosmic Jokers, postpunk geniuses Public Image Limited and electric Miles Davis. The music on this vinyl-length 32min album is 100% improvised and given the Teo Macero-Lee Perry sonic treatment.
-flux us
i/d - elite. kVlt. irrevocably tr00. - flux us - cd - 8$
Elite…… is I\D’s debut album. It is broken into 3 ‘suites’, each representing a different combination of players going about their insane drug-addled noise-making. Inspired by the bloody-mindedness of misanthropic black metal, this album is a raw noisy affair that brings to mind Hijokaidan dueling with Skullflower whilst chilling to jazz rock legend Terje Rypdal.
-flux us
inca ore and grouper - split - self released - lp - 20$
Split record between Oakland's Inca Ore (Eva Saelens of Alarmist, Jackie-O Motherfucker) and Portland's Grouper (Liz Harris of Grouper, Krueger, Badgerlore). This split was a collaboration put together during the late winter of 2007 while both were living in Portland. Eva's material was made in Morelia, Mexico during and inspired by a journey through that part of the world earlier that same winter. Her side is a return to Eva performing solo, lonely and haunting. The sounds of feeling tried, and of exploring some dark realm of the spirit are apparent, and quite beautiful to listen to. A chorus of distorted cave-bound vocals, melodies that soar upwards and float back down into horror film loops. Grouper's side finds a return to the Wurlitzer keyboard, fragmented and layered. Songs separate and return to meet in uprooted refrains, at once disarming and soothing. Similar sense of some grey kind of journey rooted in both physical and ethereal worlds. Self-released by Eva and Liz.
inseminoid - a mask for jennifer -at war with false noise – cdr – 5$
First (I think?!) record from this horrible meeting of the two unstable minds of Lee Stokoe (Culver) and George Proctor (Mutant Ape). This comes across very much as a great sum of parts from this pair: vaccuous tunnels of stasis and repetitive crumbling walls of horrific noise assault. It all sounds a bit like the beginning of Terminator II, y'know, when the big tank things are crushing the MOUNTAINS OF SKULLS. To quote Donald Tardy of Obituary: heavier than a bag of donkey's balls.
Completely at odds with the holocaustal music contained within, this is packaged in sickeningly garish covers drawn by Tisbor in my kitchen as the cabinet collapsed on top of me. Bright yellow vellum backs and full colour Girls Aloud tribute CDrs! 100 copies.
-awwfn
michael thomas jackson - red tape - heat retention - cassette - $5
frank janiurek -electric sex goddess -self released – cd – 7$
new limited release from one half of the red kites
solo guitar & feedback
rodger stella remixes leslie keffer - self released - dbl cdr - 9$
disc one --the "brine" remixes"
disc two--the "devastates" remixes
over 2 hrs of music
leslie keffer - self released - cass - 6$
compilation tape of out of print tapes,cdrs, and record tracks on one tape dating 2003-2008.
90 minutes
-lk
andrew coltrane and mike khoury - 1000 basements -detroit improvisation – cdr – 5$
cut up tape work and violin
mike khoury and will soderberg - volume drei -tiger asylum – cdr – 5$
violin and electronics
la vampires - cassingle - no label - cass -6$
Eagle Rock beat recluse LA Vampires chops/screws another grip of old soul loops into tape hiss hallucinations and alternate universe love jams. 3 songs total, on a C10. With hand-colored/decorated covers.
lazy magnet - 2nd box set (04-09) - self released - 3xcdr set - 30$
hand bound, 3 cdr set
reviews:
"this box set is well worth the financial sacrifice to any previous lazy magnet patrons. Three discs, get lost in a maize with no dead ends. This proves it possible to feel surprised by the fact that you're still surprised. If you're mind was bent by the Corleone LP, prepare for the eighth face of the hypercube. This set smashes previous releases and investigates each shard as its own form, refracting light in new directions. At times, it rides like a Demented DJ mixtape messterpiece, at times an anthology, and at other times... a saga.
Austere and minimal book-like binding houses a 28-page (no joke) booklet of stream of consciousness rants detailing the last 4 years of frantic antics, unknown pleasure principles, mind-crushing failures, and revolving door lineup changes. Written in some weird brain language, worth keeping by the toilet for entertaining reading, constipation breaking humor, and/or emergency wiping. Read up, steal his ideas... he's in France now anyway. "
adam morosky
"lazy magnet box set 2 is EPIC. should be cast in actual gold and shot into space, also buried at intervals around the earth."
jake barendes
"LAZY MAGNET, aka Jeremy Harris, American born in Sèvres same (!!!), is a veritable musical chameleon eating. Nobody can predict what will come out in record or play in concert: the noise of the dance, folk, pop, music room, the hard core, drone, the cold wave of doom , the electro-acoustic, metal, punk, the trash, etc.. In his first real album "He Sought For That Magic By Which All The Glory And Mystic Chivalry Were Made To Shine - or - Is Music Even Good?" he mixes all those genres even. LAZY MAGNET deserves that invented a genre name, like SGF (without fixed type) ... In a world more just and perfect LAZY MAGNET and his comrades as unsung Providence Work / Death, Noise Nomads or Geoff Mullen, play alongside their fellow Lightning Bolt in parks for outdoor concerts free to an audience of excited fans who know by heart their work."
brian baxter
limited to 100 copies
leafes - in the mountains belly- self released - cdr - 6$
maths balance volumess - black husk/circle path - self released - 6$
mark mcguire - vdsq solo acoustic vol. 2 - vin du select qualitite - lp - 18$
Melodic ballads and new pieces from Emeralds guitaristspark new inovations and memories thought to be lost.
-vdsq
moon pie - ep cdr - self released - cdr - 8$
Featuring Michael Knight and Alison Stout of Death Chants, D.C. based Moon Pie creates a fabulously eclectic musical sound, in which can be found not only aspects of the psychedelic shoegaze-folk of their former band but also the rattle and clang of industrial, the textural buzz 'n' hum of drone, the creepy otherworldliness of carnival music, the mournful strains of Albanian urban lyric song, the whimsical yet ominous pastiche of Tropicalia and last but certainly not least the surreal kitsch of early 20th century Vaudeville.
Every copy features an entirely unique collage-decorated, handmade cloth cover painstakingly created by the band members; no two are alike. Limited edition of 100.
-moonpie
muffin - grapes - multiness records - cd - 14$
other releases on sloow tapes and reverb worship
http://www.myspace.com/muffinjp
non horse - mandible front -self released – cdr –7$
limited releases of live recordings from nyc
poldr - dsm iv geometry - razzle dazzle - cass - 6$
"Slow motions, petrified loops, mirrors constructions, chess obsession and spatial blues. New tape from Benjamin Aman (half of french/american Berlin based duo Crystal Plumage), artwork might talk by itself. Limited to 100 copies."
-rd
red needled sea / dead wood - split - dirty demos - cdr - 5$
robedoor- closer to the cliff - interregnum records – cd – 17$
sans serif - tones for lamonte - hypnos secret sounds - cdr - 7$
2008. Sans Serif is an alter ego of Forrest Fang, the talented multi-instrumentalist and composer whose most recent solo album Gongland was released on Projekt in 2000. He has also collaborated with Carl Weingarten on the album Invisibility released on The Foundry, as well as contributing instrumentally to the works of other artists such as Robert Rich.
Unlike the more traditionally structured and "musical" work Fang releases under his own name, the Sans Serif project is focused on minimalism. This project in particular is a tribute to the influential minimalist composer LaMonte Young, whose work was known for the use of long, sustained tones and alternate tunings.
Tones for LaMonte bridges the two, related worlds of avant-garde classical influence, and modern ambient drone
-hss
scab train - hang II - cdr - twin beds - 5$
solo project of nathaniel brennan of twin beds in an edition of 50 copies
secret colors - infinite wandering - self released - cdr - 6$
cdr version of cassette on bum tapes
serfs - at victoria baths - total vermin - cdr - 5$
dr. quinn medicine woman/skin graft + temple fugate - split - arable - 6$
jacob smigel - new mexico - self released – cd - 7$
"New Mexico combines song writing, field recordings, spoken word, and personal research to celebrate (and tell the story of) the Smigel family's mountain retreat: a run-down adobe cabin. The result is a personal and powerful trip through the montage memories of childhood ending in the hard truths of adulthood. The result is a unique experience that hits harder than anything Smigel has put together before"
jacob smigel - eavesdrop: a wealth of found sound – self released - cd – 7$
40 Tracks (~80 minutes) of found sound culled from tapes collected from thrift stores, yard sales, and trash bins over the past four years. The CD comes in a 6-panel full-color digi-pack stuffed with found bits and a 28 page booklet of detailed track notes.
stag hare - black medicine music - self released - cd - 8$
robert stillman - master box - archaic future recordings - cd - 9$
CD, in hand-made jacket constructed of player-piano rolls, printed by the Lampyridae Press with typewritten essay, ‘The Mystery and Player Pianos.’
Master Box EP is the latest installment of archeo-futuristic music and sound from Robert Stillman. Like past work by the composer/multi-instrumentalist, Master Box combines pre-jazz American folk-form, surreal sound-collage, and evocative, unfolding melodies.
Recorded during a one-year stint as an apprentice in a player-piano workshop, Master Box is about the Piano as Contraption- it portrays the instrument, traditionally (classically) associated with the ‘Sublime,’ as the sum of all those wood and metal parts Stillman saw lying around the workshop floor (the ‘Collages’ on Master Box are sonic studies of these piano innards). The EP is not only a salute to the ‘physical’ attributes of piano, but to the maverick musical styles that exploited them (ragtime, boogie, etc.).
-afr
sundrips / hollow man - self released - cass - 6$
sum of the seventh sister -farben raum - heard worse – cd –7$
Following on from their 2007 New Zealand tour triple lathe cut LP, and 6 cassette boxset on Breakdance The Dawn, comes Farben Raum, the debut CD by Sun of the Seventh Sister. This floating line-up, mushroom fuelled free-psych woolly mammoth often consists of a phalanx of between 10 and 25 players: multiple drummers, multiple electrified chordophones, horns, vocals, oscillators etc. Imagine half a dozen freak-folk ensembles congealing into a psychedelic din of Borbetomag-ian proportions. On this occasion SSS comprised members of xNoBBQx, UnAustralians, Arse Lunch, Cock Up Shitting Whore, Rats With Wings, Stasis Duo and others. The CD consists of 3 immense tracks, taken from a 3 hour straight session, lovingly recorded by the Pulled Out mobile unit.
pete swanson - denim life - self released - cass - 8$
tam - the vampires - givinitrecords - cdr - 8$
tam isabel pardo is somewhat of a veteran of the montreal music scene and definitely an undervalued talent. she has been part of numerous music projects, ranging from django reinhardt swing music to bluegrass carter family cover bands. it is however tam's own music which is worth mentioning here, her own song writing and musical approach, which has crystalized over the many years in reaching a style which can essentially be expressed as raw and direct in its sincerity. in 2005 tam released her first official album for thurston moore's ecstatic peace. tam's first release for our label called "the vampires", mostly old recordings taken from her "vampires" years, a band she shared with andy "flesh" nesvadba, is definitely a intriguing document into tam's vast vault of song writing.
-givinit
thursday club - another cdr - self released - cdr - 6$
tirath singh nirmala - growing into the wind -rhizome – cdr – 10$
ltd. to 100 copiesFrom elevated drones to gut-spit vocal edits, blown woodwinds and heavy
electronics, this is one of the finest summations of music made in ‘the Tirath
era’ - English artist John Clyde-Evans has retired his Tirath Singh Nirmala
name and now flies under the JCE banner. Tirath/John has also recently worked
with Neil Campbell in Astral Social Club, released a collaborative LP with
Richard Youngs, and was previously a member of the Hood crew.
-rhizome
tonstartshitband - maihama - dœs are- 6$
"Here's some new boy ecstacy pop. Taking a break from old hat, Tonstartssbandht pass the time with some pop loop experiments. This tape's about freeing dæmons, connecting with everything, bumping the ganz toll, doubling your self and predicting the weather. The Colors represent the sweet spot, and you know you can make it happen so that's pride!"
-Dœs Are
transcendent device- the hoplessness of logic- no visible scars - cass - 6$
Transcendent Device(Micheal Todd) origins lie within his first project, the martial industrial Propaganda Machine(1994-1996). Although never releasing a proper full length, Propaganda Machines following stemmed from material released on such compilation tapes as Under The Ravens Banner and In De Ban Tiwar. It was also around this same period Micheal worked with Jonathan Canaday on what would be the early Deathpile releases(Agonize Humilliate Destroy and the Gasbutcher cassettes) as well as performing live with Deathpile. Amongst the few shows played was opening for Atrax Morgue and Intrinsic Action at the Pyramid Club In New York City in 1997. M.Todds neofolk/ambient project Black Raven followed suite in 1997. Black Ravens debute release was issued by the Swiss label Allegoria that same year and quickly sold out of the initial first pressing. Not until 2004 did Micheal make a return to creating music with his Marspitar and Transcendent Device projects. Marspitar released 5 albums in it's 2 year existence on labels such as Forshadow Productions and Somnambulant Corpse. Marspiters sound can be described as a nostalgic blend of neoclassical, martial and dark ambient ala The Protagonist, In Slaughter Natives, Der Blutharsch and Lustmord. Transcendent Device has produced 6 releases on such labels as Foreshadow Productions and Bone Structure as well as fully downloadable full lenght albums on Entity Benekkea Mahorka
Transcendent Devices sound is subdued subliminal melodic drone accented with darkened ambiance. Think early 90's Die Sonne Satans, Ain Soph and Atom Infant Incubator.
-nvs
twin beds - the airplane shine sh*t head - twin beds - cdr - 6$
"a dose of blindfolded cross legged hobbling through watermelon mushroom soaked streams comes this way wicked three live tracks from far west MA. Hand numbered in an edition of 50"
-flippedout
twin beds -brand-name lingerie - twin beds - cass - 5$
twin beds - transcontinental swallows - twin beds- cdr - 5$
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(vxpxc) - xbxfxf - self released - cdr - 7$
fifty minutes of long form jams, live performances, and closed sets with some of our favorite people
friends like
Theo Angell (Hall of Fame)
Marty Bilben (Marty's Sexual Organs)
Jon Isaacs (Lateral Hyethography)
Ged Gengras (Antique Brothers, Thousands, Fantastic Ego)
Cy Gengras (Antique Brothers, Sleepy Demons, Night Goat Records)
Rafi Bookstaber (Aswara, Death Chants)
Caitlin C Mitchell (Thousands)
and possibly more in the creeps and cracks of the tape
-vxpxc
weyes bluhd - strange chalices of seeing - self released - cdr - 7$
weyes bluhd - evacuating zombie milk - self released - cdr - 7$
weyes blood - liquor castle / shattered mirror - mbv - cass - 6$
originally made for tour. soon to be a 7"? Bucks County, Pennsylvania's dank songstress has played in axolotl & jackie-o motherfucker.
wether - uncertain ritual - crucial blast - cdr - 6$
Wether is the blackened noise project from Mike Haley, the beardo that runs the classy Electric Human Project label and who is also half of Big China & Little Trouble...this entity has released an assload of cassettes and splits and even a wee bot if vinyl over the past couple of years, and all of it which I've heard has been excellent, a kind of formless, ganrled industrial blackness, usually very dirgey and crushing, possessed by the occasional blast of snarling black metal screams buried in distortion and awesomely malevolent synthesizer drones that, when they really get going, sound like the tarblack afterbirth of Wolf Eyes jamming on cues from John Carpenter's The Fog OST from '94. We finally hooked up with Mike to bring you this new full length of infernal hypnosis Uncertain Ritual, a collection of hellish mechanical atmospheres, meditative trance-loops constructed from machine clatter and blocks of white noise, torrents of bellowing distortion goo and black ambience that's creepy as fuck. This is super-high quality fx pedal/circuit-bent generated deathscape action, brutally heavy in spots with massive creeping industrial rhythms and whirlpools of ultra-distorted metal-like crunch, and tranquil and beautiful in others when Wether moves into placid drones and subdued underground vibrations. This is terminally evil shit though, and it falls somewhere in between the black ambient/industrial chaos of artists like Nordvargr and Abruptum, and the grinding electronic skum of Wolf Eyes and Anenzephalia.
Uncertain Ritual is packaged in the signature Bliss sleeve with full color artwork from Crucial Blast, and the disc is attached to the interior of the sleeve on a plastic hub. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies.
wolf tracks - dart and a drum kit- undereducated records – cdr – 7$
wovoka - pasite de -self released – cdr – 7$
his is the absolute pinnacle of the wovoka
family jams with spaced chanted voice, melted
down mountains of rippling and snarling electric
guitars, waves of sweet strummed acoustic guitars
and galloping hand percussion torching us all to
join them in their journey to the outer limits of
time and space, there are massive heavy vibes on
this one, supreme paste on packaging with "vinyl"
cdrs in a numbered edition of 199 copies
-wovoka
xela - in bocca al lupo
- type records - 2xlp - 20$
In 2006 Xela (aka Type Records main man John Twells) released the horror-flecked epic ‘The Dead Sea’. Taking influence from the movies of Dario Argento and Umberto Lenzi and fusing them with a Lovecraftian concept he created the perfect tribute to his obsession. Every good horror movie has a sequel, and for this full-length follow up John has used the dark corners of the Christian religion as his guide.
Composed initially for a fear-themed Chicago art installation, the sixty-minute piece gradually took shape as a celebration of desolate cellars and distant church bells, the things that truly scare him. Researching further took him to Spain and Italy as he explored Basilicas, Cathedrals and crumbling churches in search of inspiration. Ancient stories, whispered histories and sounds drifting through generations became the basis of the recording, which is split into four distinct parts.
Beginning with metallic scrapes and haunting industrial soundscapes we drift among fluidly dense drones, electrical hums and crumbling noise. Like a doom-laden take on the crunching assault of Hair Police or a noisy version of David Lynch’s Eraserhead soundtrack, the music is stripped down to the bare bones of what is necessary. Before long we hit the record’s central piece, ‘In Deo Salutari Meo’ which takes an almost funereal tone, using religious bells as the primary sound source. Eventually the album climaxes on the longest piece, ‘Beatae Immortalitatis’, which features Heavy Winged’s Jed Bindeman on drums. Bindeman was last seen lending his percussive skills to ‘Calling For Vanished Faces’ which appeared on the Xela/MGR split earlier this year, and here his pummelling beats accompany John’s icy oscillator tones. Like a free-form Pan Sonic this takes heavy electronic music into a frightening new place ending in a thick cloud of screams and crackle. One might even call it a religious experience.
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zanzibar snails - brown dwarf -mayyrh – cdr – 5$
A power drone odyssey featuring the strings of Josh McWhirter gone Conrad, wrapped around staticky innerspace implosions, ebbs & flows of decay and release, meditative balms and disorienting headfuck. Peppered with disembodied voices, haywire electronics, and introspective cadences. Five tracks, 35 minutes.
-mayyrh
zonderland - oidipus: motherfucker - self released – cdr – 6$
A new band, but with one person who we met before: Orphax' own Sietse is part of Zonderland, together with one Bart and Michel. There are no credits towards the instruments, but we hear drums, guitars and electronics (Orphax is known to play laptop, but who knows what else he has mastered?), but perhaps it's all pre-programmed on laptops? Who can tell in the digital age? A two hour session was recorded in a studio in Utrecht which was edited down to this one hour release in three lengthy pieces of music. There is an element of improvisation to be detected in this music - obviously, I should add - which could have perhaps needed a bit further trimming, but I must say hats off for this. Post rock may be well over its height but that should not stop people from creating music like that. Themselves give references to Godspeed, Subarachnoid Space, Tarentel and Arvo Part - who am I to add more names to that list. They took their references very well and play music that is very much alike that. Pieces are built up slowly and over the course of many minutes it grows and grows, like a cascading wave (the Godspeed approach I would call this), but then it breaks down as such as things started only to built new theme upon new theme. Head space music, post space rock, gravel noise or such things like. Dark, of course, but taken with all the right substances (more smoke than alcohol) you could easily be lost in this trip. I think Zonderland holds many promises and are perhaps unprecedented in The Netherlands. They should shop around for a real CD release and start touring: they can be big. (FdW)
various - reading sounds- luovaja – cd – 7$
A compilation of sound inspired by classic literature. The artists are responsible of defining "sound" and "classic".
Musically compilation lies everywhere between minimalism, ambient, free folk and prog electronica.
tracks by
Alligator Crystal Moth
Brent Mini & Eric Lampton
Haute Cuisine
Santtu Hirvikorpi
Robert Horton
Marko Marin
& more
various - volume one- sirpaleena – cdr - 5$
finnish comp featuring members of ressu, keijo & free players, boris morgan and vapaa
various - volume four - compilation n umero ii - sirpaleena – cdr - 5$
I Sami-liina & Marjatta Multiband: Sun käsivarsilles
II Raamatulliset Miehet: Katsotaan telkkarii ja nussitaan
III The Multivibrators: Gen**al electronics
IV Vaarne: Korkean rakennuksen katolla
V Äänivirta: Uni
VI Nega: 'Untitled'
VII Ceniq: Blamstrain tape process batman
VIII Kanttoripoika: Minä ja kanttoripoika
IX Marjatta & Kaijatron: Space is my
X Mandelum: Kurbitsaano
XI Rotatone: Veranda
XII Yhdistyneet Paperitehtaat: Päästötodistus
XIII Dinosauruxia: So happy
XIV Kitisen Saharan: Joulukuu
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