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So check this out: the distro keeps growing and GROWING. so I mean, lots of stuff is added constantly, almost daily. (newest newest stuff always at the top, and it goes down from there). But think about it, if you only look at the first dozen or so releases, you're really only looking at what I've added in the past week or two. You could be really missing out on ancient records from like, SEPTEMBER or earlier. So please, help yourself help yourself, and scroll baby, scroll!


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DJ DJ TANNER "SIREN" cassette $6
"Part 5: But you do have to go to work today and of course it’s chaotic on this particular day. Those bass beats boom out like a hammer, and the copy machine sounds like a synthesizer. But then you get off work, and it feels great because you are off work, like better than it would had you suddenly realized you had the whole day off while sitting on your couch. You listen to music really loud and drive home like it’s summer, but the sun sets quickly and it’s night before you even realize it. " - warm gospel

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Lockbox "Passion Beam" cassette $6
"…like smoking a hash oil pen in a parking lot on your break, things REALLY don’t change that quickly or vastly. But I’ve come to expect that as a music listener. I want more, and I want it fresh. So, what I’m trying to describe here is the difference between creative input and critical critique. As well, the only internet “sensation” is, like, Mark ZuckerBANG or, like, the person/people who invented it. When I see someone’s tweet or Facebook status online, I care as much as I scroll over it. Just like this post here, potentially. I have no doubt most people will scroll over this here writing so they can scope new music. Word. Word. In the end, does ambition trump talent?" -C Monster, Tiny Mix Tapes " - warm gospel

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KM/MC/TR/RC/BBJr // Juxwl Split cassette $6
"Label collaboration split with Personal Archives. Recorded live at Zeitgeiest 2012, a noise festival in Boone, IA, this split contains the entire Juxwl set plus 5-way noise jam session wherein aspects of 4 different local noise and drone bands were combined to achieve something larger than the sum of its parts, which included synthesizers, drums, a saxophone, and various electronics. Recording by Matt Dake. " - warm gospel

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Skyscraper // DJ DJ TANNER "Halloween" Split cassette $6
"For whatever reason, Halloween and Christmas are the only 2 holidays fully represented by the kind of garbage vinyl one finds littered all over the dusty shelves of thrift stores. To us, it’s gold. Repurposing the cheesy sounds of our parent’s childhoods, through mountains of effect pedals and tape hiss, we manage to turn the silver age of baby boomers into the second round of the dark ages. " - warm gospel

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DJ DJ TANNER "CONSUMER" cassette $6
"Part 4: Your phone wakes you up as that really relaxing guitar alarm pierces through your shell of sleep and fades slowly into your eardrums. And you get up, realizing you don’t have anything to eat in the house, so you throw on a long jacket and drive through the residential streets to grocery store. Everyone seems so awake. Why do you seem so asleep? " - warm gospel

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Skyscraper "Worn Gospel" cassette $6
"I started Warm Gospel with the idea of recreating the oldest trends in hymnals and gospel music using current techniques in noise, drone, and electronic music. This Skyscraper release is the closest I’ve come to pinpointing that exact vision. Chapel ceilings crumble as the choir sends the vibrations from harmonies upwards into the ceiling beams. And after the entire church has fallen into rubble, a warm light seems to reflect off the once hallowed stone and woodwork. " - warm gospel

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DJ DJ Tanner "IDOL" cassette $6
"“Here we go loop-de-loop!” Part 3 in the series feels familiar; like déjà vu, but not in a comfortable way. After the reel is just another reel. What are you so worried about? Have another drink, the night is far from over, although I know you were thinking about going home anyway. But the music starts to slow down. Not in tempo, but like its stretching, sagging downward, and you hear voices right next to you. " - warm gospel

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Alan Gesso "Obliscence" cassette $6
"Step through into Alan's world. Enrobed in his holographic panoply he glides through his garden as if digital liquid. Unperturbed he shears through the variable living surface of A/D converters that constitutes his visible realm into pure ROM space. Hands on the keyboard, he turns to smile, and you disappear. " - field studies

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ZERFALLT "Ritual Systems" cassette $6
"Fetid ouija electronics via L?V?L Tindall (Astronaut, GRYD, Belarisk). Seated at the left hand of the blind Ydl the exalted Zonemaster prepares the final admixture. Wracked with fever, sonic apparitions hovering at the doors of perception, the Sign impressed on both palms, the congregant awakes in the dark dimension. Location unknown " - field studies

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Daniel Wyche "A Judicious Observation..." cassette $6
"A nameless solid of infinite mass. A living construct of exquisite artifice, ceaselessly, invisibly reordering its inner structure without sign or command. An array of tone generators and voltage-controlled signal processors at his disposal, Daniel Wyche endeavors to break through its featureless exterior at substantial volume. " - field studies

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Brett Naucke "Home By Now" cassette $6
"In an instant Presence wells around you. Naucke (Face Worker, Catholic Tapes) moves deftly through this suite of ambient works, filling the stereo field with dense timbral structures, transcending placid drift through a series of oblique compositional transforms. Resounding polyphony gathers and crests, interrupted by radiophonic counterpoint, reforming, and finally resolving into an alive, dynamic stillness. " - field studies

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YEK KOO "Love Song for the Dead C" LP $12
"Released to coincide with her installation at Human Resources Gallery in Los Angeles as the first part of her musical hagiographies series (more info on that project here) 'Love Song For The Dead C' is a procession of drunkenly stumbling conceptual experiments. Between its humble paste-on sleeves swarms a double LPs worth of ideas crammed into a single LP, tumbling over each other in strange shapes. Bookended by two renditions of a Persian love song (one sung in Farsi, one in English) that trade in the same echoing confusion as her recent Alone Together 7", 'Love Song For The Dead C' belongs to the tradition of the great outsider sides of the early 90's (Twin Infinitives, Market Square, Harsh 70's Reality) more than it does to anything of this desperately conformist epoch. Like those records it has a purity of form resulting from an individual working to tie the knots of the past into the shape of a personal present, outside of scene or market concerns. In 'Bye Bye Blackbird' dissonant chiming slowly unfurls into a vast chasm of sound over a mesmeric nine minutes. A disorienting or disoriented guitar wafts through a wah-ed swirl of delay and distant Dead C samples in 'Rose The Provider'. 'The Top Is The Bottom' is a harrowing slow-motion crawl through alleys and sewers of room tone as captured by the tunnel-vision fidelity of the trademark Yek Koo dictaphone. This is living, breathing, human music – no ringtones, no product placement – just heart, tears and breath, easy and free. Edition of 288, with handmade bootleg style paste-on covers. Mastered by Sean McCann. " - emerald cocoon

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma "Faceless Kiss / Blut Mond" 7" $5
"Jefre's guitar beams directly down from Souvlaki Space Station and arrives gorgeously mangled via modular synthesizer. Romantically haloed chorus guitar floats widescreen across relentless static drum machines until the sky splits open in the final movement, spilling burning guitar fragments over everything. This same pink-out bliss was explored on his 'Love Is A Stream' LP on Type Records, only here it's simultaneously more unapologetically pop and more aggressive. The B-side, 'Blut Mond' is a bass-heavy covert floater – night sky music. Fittingly enough the closing statement of the first round of our Alone Together series is the one that wants to draw you close and to fall gently asleep with you. Sound is bliss. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is of course a member of Tarental and The Alps, a regular collaborator with experimental film maker Paul Clipson and founder of the esteemed Root Strata label. Edition of 300, mastered by Pete Swanson. " - emerald cocoon

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Pete Swanson "High Time / Trees" 7" $5
"Pete Swanson's love for the New Zealand underground is no secret (rumour has it that he engineered the entire Yellow Swans New Zealand tour of 2005 just so he could procure a copy of The Pin Group 'Goes To Town' 12"), so we were pleasantly unsurprised when Pete turned in two re-imaginings of classic NZ underground tracks as his contribution to the Alone Together series. What surprised us greatly though was the form that they took: sparkling acoustic guitar, audible vocals, audible room tone – this was a Pete Swanson we'd never heard before. Although his signature degradation systems are still in place (both sides end with a blown-out acoustic guitar emulating dirty-needled distortion), acoustic strings, four walls and a voice dominate, dislocated just enough to give you the sense that the world ends at your bedroom walls. This is a sound that shouldn't be unfamiliar to anyone previously baptised by 4-track channelled lathe transmissions from the bottom of the world. The dusty gems re-interpreted here are 'High Time' by seminal Christchurch kvltists Dadamah (originally released as a 7" on the genius Majora label circa '91) and 'Trees' from Gate's recent downer-techno masterpiece 'A Republic Of Sadness', both are redolent of the darkest, coldest Dunedin winter as imagined from half a world away. Edition of 300. " - emerald cocoon

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MHFS "The Grey Lynn Homeless Set" 7" $5
"New Zealand-born Tokyo-based physicist Mark Sadgrove aka MHFS aka Hometown Feilding has been quietly upsetting petty notions like 'music' since 2004 when his 'West Auckland Driving Songs' CDR barely drifted onto the scene via Campbell Kneale's Celebrate Psi Phenomena label. From the start all the hallmarks were in place: site specific recordings, lyrical domesticity, systematically illogical recording choices, an acoustic guitar strung only with low Es (his favorite string - who wouldn't want more of a good thing?), invented instruments, real-time linux csound programming, obsessively repeated lyrical fragments, an almost Buddhist sense of 'sound as object', songs buried so quietly under so much hiss that even the most jaded 'difficult music' fans double checked their players to make sure something wasn't broken. In 2006 Metal Rouge played their first ever show (at the Wine Cellar in Auckland, New Zealand) which also doubled as Helga's farewell party for her imminent departure back home to the US. MHFS was asked to play, but busy at work on his PhD thesis ('Resonant Quantum Transport for Kick Atoms') was unable to make it and handed us 'The Grey Lynn Homeless Set' to be played over the PA in lieu of an in-person performance. Billed as a 'special non-appearance by MHFS', Saturday night bar patrons were subjected to completely brutalized fragments of bone-dry pointillist guitar, seemingly random electronic beats jumping across the stereo spectrum and two sub sub sub low fidelity acoustic 'folk' songs buried under masses of hiss and digital haze – the only audible lyrics something about being 'fucking angry'. I wish I could say the bar regulars stopped in their tracks, stunned by the sheer alien illogic of the misshapen audio tumbling from the bar PA, but alas… Most punters just assumed the PA was on the fritz and went back to their drinks – those sounds couldn't possibly be intentional, right? Emerald Cocoon is now proud to present 'The Grey Lynn Homeless Set' in it's short and confusing entirety. Check your cables, check your speakers – beauty has never sounded so broken. Part 4 of the 'Alone Together' series. Mastered by Pete Swanson. Edition of 300. " - emerald cocoon

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Looks Realistic "Where Does It Come From?" cassette $6
"Joseph Bastardo and Ryan Mulhall erase the earth from all directions, drawing in a home where mountains grow, rainbows bow, and melodies play throughout the land." -constellation tatsu

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Fluorescent Heights "Tidal Motions" cassette $6
"A hue technicolor and dominant. The sun is here, but we are not here, permanently folded by the sun’s vacation-pebbles that radiate like floating metal. What do they do?." -constellation tatsu

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GREYGHOST "Memoirs of Dementia" cassette $6
"Controlling your heartbeat, peace pervades your space, bringing with it clarity and new life to the stillness of the indoors. Tones coalesce, lazily see-saw, and gallop away — rumbling out through the walls.." -constellation tatsu

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Hobo Cubes & Jonathan Carr split cassette $6
"Trudging through the choking darkness of an uncertain cavern, Hobo Cubes brings warm lights to forgotten sensations. Then along comes Jonathan James Carr with a continuum of transient beauties in this organically flowing work.." -constellation tatsu

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Samantha Glass "Rising Movements" cassette $6
"The abandoned lodge emerges from the dark, wet woods. It is warm and light inside – carpeted halls and wood banisters welcome your step, draw you deeper past branching rooms. What mysteries, forgotten treasure, and danger await within these decrepit walls?" -constellation tatsu

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Perspectives/Josh Mason split cassette $6
"After excavating concurrent sonic paths for the past decade, ancient friends Josh Mason, Josh Tippery and Kyle Conklin have finally come together on this tape; almost like they planned it this way all along… Perspectives present a slightly more developed sound than we are accustomed, while Josh Mason continues to fiddle with space-time, vibrating us into the next plane.
reversible inserts & label art by Josh Mason. mastering & dubs by permanent nostalgia HQ. Edition of 48" - permanent nostalgia

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ROYALLEN/LLANTEN split cassette $6
"Blessed recoveries from the minister himself. This track may or may not count as a cultural anthropology credit. Deep tribal lucidities with an impenetrable flow. Premier release from Llanten (a.k.a. Fill Spectrum)" - rotifer

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Stephen Molyneux "The Stars Are the Light Show" cassette $6
"Stephen Molyneux offers us here thirteen capriciously lovely and haunting songs. Distinct with a southern bewitching charm, a buried estate home transforms to a field expedition to distant lands. These ancestral memories point to a hybrid history. They seduce with a facade of whimsy, but they will leave an indelible mark. Tape art by Lynn Fister. Watercolor printed on j-card with unique collage work on each. Pro-dubbed chrome tape with kelly green shell. Limited to 75." - watery starve

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Aloonaluna "Mythologies" cassette $6
"Disguised in a moody dark drone and often taking cover in smoggy soundscapes, Aloonaluna’s Mythologies exists on colorful terms. Lynn Fister treats her compositions as if they were living organisms, not letting them stick on a soft melodic surface but putting them together in a pitching pattern. Embracing ambient beauty with her harmonic vocals, Mythologies’ side A provides for a gentle felicity, resulting in the outstanding “Equatorial Glacier”. After that, “Bus Train Rebus” beautifully opens for Side B, offering a dreamy touch of personal perception. Peaceful bass lines start to come in for the first time on “Pitter Patter Flutter” along with a rather unexpected delicate addition of a beat layer up until the point when “Kaleidoscopes” highlights. It almost feels like all pieces have been put together to make for an exceptional sonic outlook that continues to becalm on “Pelican Cannot Frog”. Marking an outro of what preceded, “How To Arrange A Bouquet” lastly comes off as a serene sequence of notes over a dainty loop. Filling each tape’s color art with unique collage work, Mythologies is now released by Watery Starve Press in an edition of 75." -foxy digitalis review watery starve

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Ryan Jewell "Infinite Light" cassette $6
"Ryan Jewell's astral audition of Furniture Music and study in clairaudience develops through the serene modulations of its reflective, percussive bowing. Part I is an ember of yogic minimalism and cantabile, Part II is the slight return" - dungeon taxis

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Pak "Cast Shadow" cassette $6
"Artifact miniatures of choral filament and cardiac thump dunked in impish mains buzz and cyclic nice gunk. Lauren Pakradooni's palimpsest of crawly melody is kindled in fungal medley, lattice of ooze. Entropy in the mouth of the earworm." - dungeon taxis

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Legendary Hearts "Music from the Elevator" cassette $6
"Andrew 'Angel Eyes' Cowie and Kieran 'Superstar' Hegarty's debut as Legendary Hearts bends Fourth World drum programs through a heavenly screen of Romance keyboard moire and subaltern electro ostinato, elegantly ghosted by chimed Dream & Desire guitar counterpoint. Six glassed arenas of upstairs tuneage and vanishing point melancholy in BM/EZ ascension." - dungeon taxis

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TLAOTLON "Teeth Alphabets" cassette $6
"Jeremy Coubrough's byzantine stepper of tuned detonations, radiant circuitry and molecular percolation rocks in hyperbolic space - an Aqua Worm Hole of talking-drum boink, atomized bounce and damaged Schaffel, filtered as Ewe music through the dizzy mixed meter and ecstatic syncopation of Footwork. " - dungeon taxis

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Witchuals cassette $6
. "Chrome hymn zone of nonstop doo-wop detourn by celestial grouches, LA Lakers and I.R.D. Laryngeal juice, fake rataplan, and Kyrie gunk in praise of The Honeycombs, Chordettes and Sharades." - dungeon taxis

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Permanent Bedhead "Devolution Walkabout" cassette $6
"After sides on Sacred Phrases and Hobo Cult, Permanent Bedhead returns with a full length tape of deep mind music. Scott Johnson intuits his machines, producing immersive environments, abstract, yet terrestrial soundscapes that stretch off into a distance." - cave recordings

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Calypso Borealis "ikot akpa ntim" cassette $6
"After amazing releases on labels such as Housecraft, Existential Cloth, and Hooker Vision, Calypso Borealis returns with these sublime explorations of pure sound and emotion. There is a wide range of instrumentation on display here, yet each piece coheres into the lyrical drift unique to this project. Specters of melody loom on the periphery, yet are very much present, evoked at times by peals of feedback, while at others by gentle collisions of meandering tones." - cave recordings

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Mole Hole "Yurt Transmission" cassette $6
"Grainy document of a live solo performance, developed as part of an art installation at The Soap Factory Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. “Yurt Transmission” captures nearly a full hour of slow electronic drift and low-fi isolationism. Local artists Jess Hirsch and Beth Chekola joined forces to produce an indoor climate as part of the Northern Spark Arts festival. Jess filled the space with a set of stunning laser-cut “labyrinth” area carpets, and Beth cobbled together a beautiful open air shelter, or “yurt” built from recycled and abandoned home furniture. Select local sound artists were asked to perform inside the developed space for the event, providing obscure sonic tapestries to accompany the remarkable visual aspects of the space. Matthew Himes played an extremely minimal solo set comprised of waveform signal generator, magnetic tape manipulation, gong & bell percussion, and analog ribbon synth. Fully melted waves of transcendent murk meditation. Very pure sound. Originally released in a tiny private edition, this work has been given a new breath of life with this graciously public printing. Real time duplicated white shell cassette comes packaged with striking double sided yellow and black "Labyrinth" art paper J-card w/ matching yellow and black labels and printed white vellum insert in a clear Norelco case. Room sound soliloquy, tape warmth and profound warble tone for supremely heavy lids." - lighten up sounds

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Sagas "Sojourner's Lament" cassette $6
"Wailing feedback morphs into delicate fingerpicking and sweeping tides of lap-steel shimmer. Sagas is the solo project of Matt McDowell (of Dire Wolves, Waterfinder). Lovely and real,"Sojourner's Lament", presents three focused improvisations for lap steel, guitar and electronics, each with its own respective sense of deep spacial awareness and an uneasy sense of doom hovering just beneath the surface. Lighten Up is proud to offer up these new sessions for your personal deep listening and metaphysical mind travel. Clear shell cassette comes packaged with full color double sided J-card featuring original collage artwork by M.H. with matching full color labels in a clear Norelco case. Aqua-lung beauty for barren cornfields." - lighten up sounds

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Sindre Bjerga "Radiant Flux" cassette $6
"Majestic balance burns through damaged synapse. Entrancing electro-acoustic scratch, long form isolationism and cavernous tape-drone meditation from Sindre Bjerga, who should need no introduction after his prolific string of releases on various labels across the underground spectrum. With "Radiant Flux", Bjerga provides a well matched pair of profound live documents from his recent live actions in Norway. Broken tone acrobatics and crinkled tape stew, garble and wallow in the hopeless gurgle ditch. Side A was recorded live in Public Library! Each side features the same gear setup and deliberate sonic approach, yielding two obviously related but distinctly separate audio tapestries. An impulsive trance nod off, slashed silk. Pure room-sound environments! Real time duplicated bright yellow opaque shell cassette with printed bright yellow labels comes beautifully packaged inside custom fabricated machine-sewn plastic envelopes, featuring original full color/translucent collage art by M.H. with a hand-numbered printed vellum insert. Frozen fire shines brightly, an everlasting shard of light." - lighten up sounds

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Saviour Self/Grab Ass Cowboys split cassette $6
"This split tape features two of the Albany/Hudson area's most vital noise crews. Saviour Self is a duo from Hudson NY that works with mixers and pedals and various sound sources; the resulting sound is a distinct amalgam of patient dynamics and harsh textures. Albany's Grab Ass Cowboys use tape recorders, home-rigged microphones, percussive devices, and an array of pedals to create their sounds. This live piece from May 2012 is a killer example of their style, explosive and cacophonous in some parts and restrained and almost pretty in other parts. Each side smokes, can't wait to see where both these crews are headed next..... Edition of 50" - skell

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Skullorian Sound Sculptures cassette $6
"Thomas Gerendas has been a busy man this year. While handling the artwork for Ghetto Naturalist Series (the outstanding label that he runs with Cruudeuces' Nathaniel Brennan), he's also managed to drop a solid collab tape with Sicsic Tapes headman Daniel Voigt. Here Gerendas returns under his more familiar alias of Skullorian, bringing forth 60 minutes of his trademark murky, scuzzy noise trickery. Sounds appear and disappear, they float and stumble together, and it all flows like liquid concrete. Before long, the tape is finished, and all that's left are the questions.... Edition of 50, pro-dubbed." - skell

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Kraken Mare "Iapetus Ocean" cassette $6
"Adam Harris is the man behind Kraken Mare--he also plays in Den and runs the excellent Retrograde Tapes label out of Chicago. Last year's self-titled gem on Retrograde was fashioned from huge, dark, and abyssal synthesizer tones. "Iapetus Ocean" offers up a bleak and stark collection of noises, patiently sculpted into massive structures, equal parts material and space. The waves of the ancient oceans are heavy with dread and the bloody memories of prehistory. Edition of 50, pro-dubbed " - skell

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Mortuus Auris and the Black Hand "The Transit of Venus" cassette $6
"Peter Taylor's Mortuus Auris and the Black Hand project has been responsible for an intricate and unique body of work over the last few years. Outstanding releases on fine labels like Stunned and Reverb Worship have shown Taylor to be a clever and thoughtful manipulator of sound. On "the Transit of Venus" MABH creates an extended sonic ritual for the planet Venus that blends elements both old and new, giving the listener a deep look into a challenging, blissful, and well-ordered musical system. Accordion and warped vinyl and pitch-shifted tapes and electric organ all combine in forms that confound all expectations and yield a deeply meditative listening experience. Edition of 50, pro-dubbed " - skell

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Urkas "Desert Shapes" cassette $6
"This is Urkas' third release, and on it the duo of Russ Alderson (Xanthocephalus) and Mike Griffin (Parashi, Burnt Hills) continue to improvise dense, abstract soundscapes generated from bass, a variety of junk percussion, and modular synth. Within these pieces desolate areas expand and open up endlessly, only to suddenly contract and reveal themselves as labyrinths of mysterious design. Edition of 50, pro-dubbed " - skell

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Fossils from the Sun vs. Parashi/Xanthocephalus split cassette $6
"As a member of Burnt Hills and Century Plants Ray Hare's journeys into the deepest realms of guitar and vocal-based noise psych have inspired and impressed; while his long-running solo project FfrtheSun has released material on labels like Reverb Worship, Digitalis, and Peasant Magik. Parashi's Mike Griffin unleashed a slew of material in 2011, on labels such as Stunned, Tape Drift, and Ghetto Naturalist Series before joining Burnt Hills midway through the year. Their soundclash uses guitar, synth, and voice to brew an amalgam that drones, scrapes, and creeps its way through a side-long 17-minute ride.
Xanthocephalus is helmed by Brooklyn's Russ Aldertone, who released outstanding material on Kendra Steiner Editions and Ghetto Naturalist Series in 2011. He combines elements of harsh noise, field recordings, and occasionally furious bass playing, mixed together with a healthy sense of restraint amidst the chaos. COYE is a molten slagheap of sonics, powerful, menacing, and unique. Pro-dubbed, color covers, lurking in the unseen matter of the universe. Art manipulation by Julie Watts. Edition of 50." - skell

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Cruudeuces "Various Skin Figurines" cassette $6
"Cruudeuces' Nathaniel Brennan is a conjurer; utilizing tapes, percussion, clarinet, and various bits of electromagnetic interference, he creates cleverly detailed and utterly bleak zones of sound. After a slew of releases on labels like Kimberly Dawn, Tape Drift, his own Ghetto Naturalist Series imprint, and Existential Cloth, Brennan has a large and impressive body of work. On Various Skin Figurines, he uses a subtle palette, with thick and crunchy low-end tones balanced by swirling clouds of tape noise and darkness--the results are astounding. So happy to put this one out! Pro-dubbed, color covers, ready to disturb sleep cycles and create vague feelings of dread. Art manipulation by Julie Watts, edition of 50 " - skell

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Rambutan + Parashi "Lesser Halogens" cassette $8 (germany)
"Eric Hardiman (Rambutan) and Mike Griffin (Parashi) teaming up as a duo for the first time to perform some kind of synth-noir-music for the digital age: Dark, drifting and appealing. Music to sit alienated in front of your flatscreen dating a chat-room-femme-fatale. But she’s not in the mood and your without sleep for days, so you both have a smoke without smelling each other. Good clean fun, right? " - sicsic tapes

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PARASHI/CRUUDEUCES split cassette $6
"Tons of GREAT recent output from Mike Griffin- all around busy busy - textured to the max on these 2 trks - prepare to get swallowed, every time. PARASHI offers up the balanced spectrum here- KILLER! CRUU side is "outdoor activities 6" --field source material and reeds- settle in, zone out, dial in, drop out" - ghetto naturalist series

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seziki-tetrasheaf/quiet evenings split LP $12
rotifer
review and clips here: http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-quiet-evenings-seziki-tetrasheaf-split-lp

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digital natives / seziki tetrasheaf split 2xcs $12
"The palmetto boys broke the heat and have landed on the west coast. To inaugurate these festivities, we present Plaid Lake’s finest to date, with 85 suasive minutes featuring such jams as ‘Mouther of the Incas’ and ‘Clops’ (see below). This marks the start of a new era. Full color covers & numbered inserts with accommodating track titles. Professionally duplicated on type II, chrome cassettes. Imprinting artwork by Juli Toro" -rotifer

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ratkiller "cellar-dweller" cassette $6
"Estonian museum security guard, Mihkel Kleis breaks out of his shell, only to keep us clappin' and bobbin' away. Full color plastic inspired j-cards. Professionally home-duplicated on type II chrome cassettes courtesy of ExcelDay. " -rotifer

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Innercity "Another Hard New Age" cassette $6
"And as it is, right there in front of here, trickles of “Distant Absence” flutter only senses. Nothing that surreal, or nothing. Just, in a waved motion. Something across — thick, but pure. Not in a gesture, pumping vigorously, light arises, peaking in through “OH!” those fucking cracks, creaking. Wish there was something more clean to “Life Live.” Seeing it right there, like a dream, and you’re not the one whispering because your mouth is clenched. White light tearing through now. Now and right there; here. Half-full, yet flooded already, and most of the time it’s just “Another Hard New Age.” Yet every age, no? How about the rocks and sticks and shit? Their age and grass and air, seeds, water. Prior music and natural sounds. Habitat on habitat, blending and fucking fast for fuss. Fuss and mystery. Mystery for source of light. Ra! Into the future. Again, roughly always and forward. Touch the cleanse. Feel it inside of your inside. Tubular. Everything comes rushing out in colors and streams, nothing solid or concrete, just all evacuation. Retreat//shine\become. Absorb Another Hard New Age. " -rotifer (tiny mix tapes review)

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Tidal "Echo Dawn" cassette $6
"In the world of endless, immersive and wide-eyed synth drone, Tidal, UK’s Jimmy Billingham, runs with the best of ‘em. His releases have always been on the sunnier side of things – setting him apart from some of his sinister, darker minded peers – but on Echo Dawn, Billingham has created a true summer vacation of a tape. Pop this one in the deck and be swept away to a tropical island, all lapping shores and cooing seagulls with a smiling sun leaving its orange glow on everything. An absolute treat – just relax and let it wash over you." -rotifer (review from here)"

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V/A "INSCRIPTIONS VOL. 2" 2x 70 Minute Cassette $12
"Sacred Phrases has compiled an apogee of contributing artists' work… again. Inscriptions Volume 2 is a compilation that emphasizes the communal nature of music. Each track, heard individually, stands alone. When played as a compilation each track is brand new and together lead the listener on a journey like none before. This distinct aesthetic, which focuses on each track and the end effect produces a candid listening experience that takes the listener beyond the physical universe. Limited edition of 150.

Tracklist:
Tape 1
Quiet Evenings - Heights (8:38) Buchikamashi - Mujo (Transience) (6:54) Code: Suite 104 - Traps (2:47) Enumclaw - Kuxan Suum (8:31) M. Geddes Gengras - Untitled (3:40) Pierrot Lunaire - Grinning Mirror (4:20) Nite Lite - Accipiter (6:20) Fallen Axe - Endangered Love (2:57) Hakobune - Sazanami (5:38) Dr. Sean Gadoury - Siamese Alarm Cat (7:36) Gimu - Light Pillars (6:44) Sky Thing - Burried in the Attic (5:46)

Tape 2
Kyle Landstra - Headgrove (7:00) Dry Valleys - Natural Philosophers (5:30) Middle Kingdom - Fires in the Sky (6:50) Mohave Triangles - Star Gazer (5:01) Peyote Cristal - Underwater Mantra (5:07) Ophibre - Lactobacillus (5:14) Aerial Jungle - Table of Geodes (3:10) Venn Rain - Carried on the Wind (7:29) Black Velvet Stereo - Bad Noise 19 (5:24) Reedbeds - Motion Across (6:05) Sound Out Light - A Small Hole in the Sky (5:14) DJ Ecto Cooler - School's Out, Maggots (7:20) " -sacred phases

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Euglossine "Floridian Abstract" cassette $6
"Tristan Whitehill represents/maintains a unique facet of Gainesville, FL sound. Following up his debut solo release on Rotifer, 'Floridian Abstract' digs deep into new fidelities. Complexities never outweigh aesthetic charm and restraint but the abstract and articulate muscles flex hard. Much heart, much sweat. Warm and welcoming vignettes all around." -housecraft

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Peyote Cristal "Foreign Tongues" cassette $6
"Long-awaited collaboration between Adam of Sacred Phrases/Dry Valleys and Grant Evans (Quiet Evenings, Nova Scotian Arms, Crippling). Twisted channels straight to/from subconscious networks employing a myriad of mysterious and organic elements conjure a streaming dark/vivid/nostalgic and, of course, psychedelic state of mind." -housecraft

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Bre’r "OLSB Music No. 1" cassette $6
"A chance meeting with D.A. Fisher on the streets of Oakland, California led to an exchange of tapes and our first exposure to the brilliance of his Bre’r project. The tape was the sprawling masterpiece, “Dhome Herder” (Baro Records), which immediately prompted discussions about the possibility of a future ((Cave)) release. Needless to say when we received this tape we were beyond excited. OLSB Music #1 represents a refinement of the Bre’r vision. While a bit more concise, these tracks still take their time, slowly enveloping a wealth of sonic activity just beneath the surface, evoking a solitary walker of urban streets, out of step with the surrounding pace on the concrete, yet abiding with it, witnessing the frenetic activity in soft focus." -cave recordings

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Evan Lindorff-Ellery/Chapels split cassette $6
"Evan Lindorff-Ellery (Dense Reduction, Notice Recordings) and Adam Richards (Chapels, House of Alchemy) are two major figures in experimental music. Their eclectic, yet impeccable labels display their open ears and subtle understanding of sound. Likewise, their respective music projects have incredible depth and range. Evan’s piece, while a departure from the field recordings presented on past recordings, is no less intriguing as it takes on the domestic landscape of an apartment and the activity within. Evan is a master at collecting and assembling novel textures and timbres: objects can be heard quivering to life as a hive of activity builds and thickens to an almost overwhelming climax. Chapel's side blends together home and live recordings into a dark, reverberating collage. Wolves howl as mysterious movements echo in a space that is at once a forest teeming with nocturnal rustling, and an abandoned building occupied by participants of some strange rite.." -cave recordings

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The Ether Staircase "III" cassette $6
"The saga continues on our third full-length tape which pulls together recordings made last winter and presents some odd gems. Side A is a dust devil, swirling together thrift store tapes while several keyboards of unknown origin struggle to navigate the murk. Side B is a slow burning epic that Ben thinks sounds like a primeval forest, while I would put the whole thing at the bottom of the ocean.." -cave recordings

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Peaking Lights "Lucifer" LP $15
"It is a true pleasure to announce the Third full length release from West Coast dub heads Peaking Lights: Lucifer. With it, the golden duo of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis continue to crystallize their mesmerizing sound and find new dimensions within. Lucifer also comes at a time of great transition for this married couple and it reflects the possibilities that they have found during this new life era, especially with the birth of their son, Mikko- a guiding light muse for the album. Recorded in Brooklyn at Gary’s Electric studio over the course of a month, Peaking Lights consider Lucifer a nocturnal version of their sound. It’s slinkier and full of grooves. “To us this record is about play and playfulness, unconditional love, rhythms and pulses, creation and vibration,” says Coyes. Lucifer is also Peaking Lights’ most ambitious release to date in terms of its approach and scope. Through their studio experiments, the duo has managed to link their musical loves—dub, krautrock, analog electronic dance music, sound collages, pop music—all while maintaining cohesive songs. Lucifer was self-produced and engineered by Al Carlson (Yeasayer, Ford & Lopatin, 0PN). Though the name Lucifer may carry sinister connotations to some, to Peaking Lights it represents the start of something new. “All of our record titles have come to us in dreams, daydreams and epiphanies.” says Coyes. “Lucifer sat so strong with us. It means ‘Venus, bearer of light’ and is the first sign of the sunrise. There are some major astrological and astronomical events involving Venus in this year of 2012.” The songs on Lucifer, by most people that have heard them, so far conjour a night time version of previous works, music to soundtrack the moonrise to the sunrise. To Indra and I, though there are similarities to earlier recordings, this stands on its own its changed us, or maybe we were already changed when we wrote it and it is that cathartic release. There was a new approach to recording our rhythms and we were able to see thru many more influences. To us this record is about play and playfulness, unconditional love, rhythms and pulses, creation and vibration we are really happy to share these recordings!" -mexican summer

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ÉLÉMENT KUUDA "POLARGRAPH" cassette $6
"A dusty electronic journey in two parts. Wobbly sounds and electronic raconteurism. limited edition of 100" -sacred phases

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BLACK VELVET STEREO "METAL RAIN MACHINE" cassette $6
"Focused compositions that help guide the listener to realization. Bone-chilling at times, but warm enough to melt the sun. Clicks, buzzes, and mic sounds find their way in and out of this trip. limited edition of 100." -sacred phases

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SPIRIT CATEPETL "LAI KHUR" cassette $6
"These tracks take the listeners on a post-ritual journey in the form of astral story telling. The listener is inserted into raw and mesmerizing, but obscured, strings accentuated by grainy electronics, which transport them on this late-night odyssey. limited edition of 100, art by adam." -sacred phases

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Cursillistas "Observe Ember Weeks" LP $13
"Observe Ember Weeks is the final Cursillistas "studio" album, momentarily lost to time as Herbcraft took flight, now seeing a brief light-of-day. Written, recorded, and mixed concurrently with Wasp Stings (Digitalis), Joint Chiefs (Digitalis), and several small-run/tour-only releases between 2007-2009, O.E.W. touches on elements and styles of all these while also marking a return to a more song-based rural folk psychedelia. Nylon-string minor-key folk-pop commingles with naive noise experiments, breathless first-take improvisation, multi-tracked "full band" jams, wah'ed fuzz guitar abandon, electric slide glide, heavy tom-thumps & tambourine shakes, all presented with Cursillistas' trademark rich reverb treatment and multi-layered vocals. This is perhaps the peak Cursillistas experience in all its bedroom glory, the fitting final chapter to a project that never stayed still for too long, and the definitive collection of the tunes that made up much of Cursillistas' live set from 2007-2009. Deluxe 150-gram virgin black vinyl held in a 4-color, 5-layer silkscreened art paper jacket, with two-sided full-color pro-printed glossy heavy stock insert, hand-numbered to 225." -l'animaux tryst recordings

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Branches “Ninguém É Como Tu” cassette $6
"Brand New Cassette by Portugal’s Pedro Rios aka Branches. Pro-Dubbed + Pro-Imprinted | Full Color art by Ricardo Martins | Edition of 150 " -solid melts

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INSECT FACTORY "Melodies From A Dead Radio" LP $13
"Debut full length LP by the Silver Spring, MD-based solo-guitar drone/ambient project of Jeff Barsky. Haunting and hypnotic treated-guitar generated sounds.Edition of 300 on 140 gram black vinyl. This is a split release with Insect Fields. " -fabrica

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LUCIERNAGA “s/t” cassette $6
"Second release by one-man guitar noise/drone project. 40+ minutes of improvised guitar music/sounds. Edition of 30 on 47 min. home-dubbed audio cassette. Packaged in lino-cut printed and hand stamped 18pt. brown 100% PCW recycled chipboard brad pack. " -fabrica

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COVERED IN DIAMONDS AND JEWELS cassette $6
"CIDJ is one of the many aliases of Adrian Varallyay, an experimental musician who resides in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. He has also performed as Stymphalian Birds, Silver Serpents and with the DC/VA post-rock trio Brontosaurus. Although his main instrument of choice is the Bass Guitar, Adrian owns and uses one of the largest collections of analog effect pedals and stomp-boxes known to mankind. This is his debut for Fabrica Records, and we’re honored to unleash this tape onto the world… 47 minutes of murky ambient music that may remind many of early Pink Floyd played backwards. " -fabrica

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Cuticle "Mother Rhythm Earth Memory" LP $13
"When Cuticle CEO Brendan O’Keefe said he wanted his most recent 12 inch to be titled in honor of other 4-word acronym-ready masterpieces (like RHCP’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik, what’s her name’s Love Angel Music Baby, etc) we were obviously on board. So now we can add Mother Rhythm Earth Memory to this illustrious list, and it’s a suitably lofty robo rubik’s cube of electric glide, daft crunk, and digital riddling. Right from the start it’s clear this is a new Cuticle creature – gone is the compressed, post-noise overdrive production of last year’s Confectioner’s Beats EP, replaced by a gleaming, fiber optic resonance. “Liquid Crystal Drink (Pour My Dream)” sets the mood: a synthetic funk shuffle decorated with echo keys and computer-smeared vocoder vox that slowly submerges into a gurgling pool of malfunctioning circuits before resurrecting like a Herbie Hancock jam teleported into the Tron mainframe. That’s not the only strangeway stacked in this deck; there’s also cyber-jungle dub excursions (“Document Leak”), waterfall temple healing music (“Trickle”), and even a fucking Baronic Wall cover (“Night Of Romance”). A mesmerizing window into everyday sonic life on one of the weirder colonies in the hidden confederation of alien electronics. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with hypercolor emulsion artwork by Andreas Ervik, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500. "-not not fun

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FORT ROMEAU “KINGDOMS” 12" $12
“Jack this groove,” a deep voice persists in “Jack Rollin’,” the tour-de-four-on-the-floor force set opener of Kingdoms. Seedy deeds are done during Fort Romeau’s late-night lush, a frolic down London foggy fascination streets. Vinyl crackle on the hush-hush, Fort Romeau plays bass face-time and clap attacks through shadow jackin’ steam, muted mambas, and the sultry spiral of total texture. A feminine touch, soothing and somnolent, with a man’s musk, pounding, pursuing. Makes you teary, tearing down Romeau’s Row, as syncopated swishes, like woodwind winter winds, suck, sigh, and blow. It’s a sauna sound: hot gusts, warmer water jets, sensual shuffles, breathy and beautiful. “I need you,” a yearning voice persists as the album closes, that covetous caress you’ve got your heart set on, that Fort Romeau languishing lull you set your heartbeat by. "-100% silk

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POLONAISE “TROCADERO” 12" $12
"Scott Goodwin has elevated electronics through deliberate drone as Bonus and maximized minimal techno as Operative but with Avalon Kalin, the fine finder of Finesse, and tasty treater of Glass Candy, they’ve found a key-board to Portland paradise with Polonaise. The twosome remind that romance is alive and lively on “Trocadero,” a vibrant valentine to primitive piano-plush early house. As the San Francisco danger-disco-drug-dance destination Trocadero Club sucked you into its sparkle spectacle so, too, does this EP: down the K-for-Kraftwerk Hole into those chase-bassy Black and White balls, all trance tuxedos and superfluid Steinways. Polonaise patience keeps you measured and mindful, freely feeling a designed dance; the blueprint for boogie. Bot-bops and Polonaise sauce, eat it up."-100% silk

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Bobby Browser "Just Browsing" 12" $12
"Bay Area bruiser ANDRE FERREIRA aka BOBBY BROWSER makes PeopleMover music: taking his sweet time to glide. Side A Bass-ic backdrops are ever-changing: wade through winds on the night yacht, dewy fields for the drumline, front row Fashion Week, whirl-a-girl-globe-twirl. Side B Glist-opher Guest vocals by MARA BARRENBAUM give the EP that art-echo-deco, opulent opera, Blessed House happy-hedonist feel. Rollin’ Roland silly strings play cucumber-cool Q and A with bubbly-bath acid stabs. It’s sunny techno, rat-a-tat trance, Tom Bomb Club Dub, woodwind hopscotch, Rob Rouser five-star quality. For your Uplift Mo’ Blow Party Plan. Just Browsing? Just Buying. "-100% silk

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EXPO '70 "Awakening" " LP $13
"Long out-of-print cassette originally released on Sloow Tapes (Belgium). Recorded after Expo '70 played France in 2008, just a week after the IAO festival where the label owner and musician met. Upon returning to the states, the experience spawned the 2 day recording session materializing these 2 improvised tracks.
"Awakening, features some super stripped down drumming (or drum machine, hard to tell), locked into an endless groove, pulsing over a swirling spacescape of smeared riffs and fragmented melodies, it sounds a bit like Goblin, very soundtracky and otherworldly, space-y and mysterious, and not at all cheesy, more sort of classic new age / krautrock, think Klaus Schultze, scoring some super abstract French sci-fi flick from the sixties, and you'll sort of get the vibe." - Aquarius Records "-sonic meditations

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SOUNDING THE DEEP "Anthems of Light" cassette $6
"Sounding the Deep have been very prolithic and ever-changing. The Kansas City based group has released three full-length albums. “Anthems of Light” collects outtakes from “A Union According to Energy” and unreleased material recorded prior to “Glacier” fills this album well, drifting tones and melodies the way Sounding the Deep does best. All material is solo performances by David Williams. "-sonic meditations

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FJORDS "April Fjords" cassette $6
"Fjords are a new guitar and keyboard duo from Boston, MA. Their debut reelease is comprised of improvised recordings that fuse melodic guitar with moody synthesized passages, creating a lush lanscape that flows gently while building sonically. A bit like Troum jamming with Barn Owl in a forest cave watching the sunset. Much patience was excercised in the music and it really shows. "-sonic meditations

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Abusive Consumer "Crumbling Portals" cassette $6
"J Morales’s latest exploration of aural space brings a thirty-minute trip of evolving musique concrète vignettes & sound art sourced from a multitude of origins including prepared guitar, synth, field recordings, generated sounds, and various what-have-you seamlessly woven together to create an all-encompassing state of frigid sonic decay. By combining the influence of mid-20th century sound adventurers with modern compositional methods, Crumbling Portals creates an immersive experience in spatial & textural listening, not unlike wandering through miles of underground caves.High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided J-cards. Limited to 50." -retrograde tapes

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Parashi "Silenus" cassette $6
"At my first listen of Mike Griffin’s work I sat perplexed, really scratching my head over what I had just heard, wondering what the hell I’d just experienced. Even after countless listens later, more often than not I still don’t have much more than the slightest clue yet the mystery just makes the listening experience better. On Silenus, Parashi maintains that captivating mystery by employing the services of a beat merchant hell-bent on summoning some sort of lurching beast, then sits on the altar paranoid & afraid to leave the comfort of its confines after it materializes. A truly discomforting pair of recordings, even for those already familiar with his ominous & often hostile sound world. High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided J-cards. Limited to 50." -retrograde tapes

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Nodolby "Untitled" cassette $6
"Italian sound-shredder Nodolby contributes 40 minutes of frantic circuit bent cut-edits & gurgling synth jitter. Never still and never settled, the A side rewards the close listener with ever-changing texture sheets draped over cold drones that gnaw through frontal lobes like an injection of synthetic termites hungry for your cortex. The B side breathes considerably heavier after their feast, a dimming, emotionally somber piece that continually sinks deeper into a bleak, dark world until the light has fully faded. High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided J-cards. Limited to 50." -retrograde tapes

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Vermillion Father "Go-Kart Kamp" cassette $6
"In time it makes you feel good when you feel down. When the king wanders for answers he only finds his crown. Although the pain is never-ending the suffering will eventually drown. Hand duplicated on Sony TC-WE475 on high bias chrome cassettes, hand-printed/stamped stickers, hand-numbered, ed. of 50" -space slave editions

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Sleep Fern / The Ether Staircase split cassette $6
"Never mind leaky microwaves and humming power lines, Sleep Fern gathers the waves and radiation of the everyday and blurs it all into agitated, yet beautiful, clouds of voices and static. The flip presents an unhinged summer with The Ether Staircase, collaged fidelities of glass shards and magnetic tape." -cave recordings

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RAGS "s/t" cassette $6
"RAGS continues to ride the line between structured songwriting and sonic exploration on this second release. These pieces travel through a wide range of moods and modes, utilizing complex layering of playback, guitar and keyboards, recorded with no overdubs. The result is infectious." -cave recordings

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SUNKEN "New Zealand Eels" LP $13
"Sunken's previous two albums on Pseudo Arcana were long form chord-organ driven flights into the heart of the ecstatic blaring sun. Despite Antony Milton (The Nether Dawn, Glory Fckn Sun etc.) and Stefan Neville's (Pumice) lovecraftian attempts to posit Sunken as sea-shanties sung by sailors lost to Cthulhu at the bottom of the deepest darkest ocean, somehow their surging reed driven organs and vocal streams broadcast via cracked electronics seemed to suggest sailors breaking free of the weeds and swimming towards the light, and even, occasionally, breaking the surface. Their first vinyl release New Zealand Eels however, is a tentacle shot from the abyss to drag the sailors back down into the service of the lurker in the deep. Bleak, black and completely drowned, New Zealand Eels beams five submarine tracks from the lost to the lost through the milky darkness. With the vocal melodies pushed to the foreground and the instrumental origins of the music obscured as never before by damaged baby monitors, power starved dictaphones, tape saturation and spring reverb, Sunken are now finally, truly lost to the abyss. Two drowned sailors invite you to breathe in the water, forget about life on the surface and lay down with the kraken amidst the curling weeds. "What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men." – H P Lovecraft. Edition of 300 with free digital download. Thick reverseboard sleeves with art by Stefan Neville." -emerald cocoon

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CAETHUA / SHEP and ME split LP $13
"Originally released on cassette in 2008, these fantastic recordings finally get the deluxe vinyl treatment they deserve. These newly remastered tracks reveal a remarkable subtlety, having been previously obscured by poor dubbing techniques and the inherent limitations of the cassette format. All has been clarified. Clare Hubbard stays busy with her musical projects Ancestral Diet and Sports, but she might be best known for her folk-based work as Caethua. Her side is entitled "Wrecks and Rescues", and is an epic and dusty side-long track of beautiful creaking folk-craft. In the winter of 2008, Clare recorded herself at home in Bloomington, IN. She delicately layers synth, strings, horns, electronics, percussion and vocals, along with 5 years worth of field recordings taken from the St. Lawrence River and her wanderings through swamps, fields and forests. Soft tones and organic rustlings blend beautifully with melancholy string plunk and blown-out electro growl to create a brilliantly shimmering psychedelic-folk masterpiece. Shep and Me's side entitled "Tube Mind" is more firmly rooted in traditional Americana folk and blues music, yet still manages to keep itself wedged into a pretty strange corner. All five tracks feature Matthew Himes collaborating with H. Caleb Gamble. Both sing and play nylon and steel stringed guitars in addition to using tape loops, french horn, lap steel, live percussion, drum machines, electronics and waveform oscillators to present a uniquely twisted vision of contemporary folk music. Masterfully recorded to 1/2" 8 track tape by Ryan Fontaine in Minneapolis MN, May of 2008. Plaintive and stark gutter-country songs about seasonal shifts and the horrors of these modern times." -lighten up sounds

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Astral Social Club / Tomutonttu "Wet Wheel/ Hot Wheel" b/w "Syvät Svyät" split 12" $13
"Two of Europe’s finest collide on a 12” 45 RPM platter loosely inspired by the club single. On “Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel,” Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house, but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. On cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-goodness body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that the flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages. On the reverse, Jan Anderzén of Tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genre’s neon shimmer and linear logic. “Syvät Svyät” overflows with cuckoo loops that briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. One must focus to follow the train of musical thought, but Anderzén’s humor and intuition reward the effort." -tipped bowler

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Bitchin' Bajas/ Faceplant split 12" $12
"The Bitchin Bajas & Faceplant projects really need no introduction. Bitchin Bajas is the solo synthscapes of one Cooper Crain, maybe better known as a member of modern krautrock masters CAVE. With Bitchin Bajas, Crain creates worlds of sound, crafted from analog synthesizer and organ tones, not entirely too far removed from certain elements of Harmonia, Edgar Froese, or Cluster. Crain is definitely bringing a vintage sound to the table here. Clean, distinct arppegiated tones floating and bouncing, drifting and forming zones of their own. This is real deal psychadelia at its finest.Faceplant is the solo work of one Aaron Coyes, of Peaking Lights and Rahdunes fame. Peaking Lights have made a sturdy name for themselves playing homemade synth-driven psychedelic, dub-infused drone-pop. With Faceplant -- described as Coyes' ''solo modular hessian noise trance project,'' he is mining a somewhat similar terrain. Driving percussive beats are slathered in dubby echo, while sweet synthesizers hover and chime; it's definitely a groovy affair. You can't listen to this and not shake your ass, just a little bit." -bathetic

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DAIN DALLER "The Tirehouse Tapes Vol. 1" cassette $6
"Dain Daller was part of the Chicago based electro-acoustic group Tiny Music, who have released a few great cassettes of epic machine music on Notice Recordings and Nihilist Records, as well as a few self released full length smokers. These days Dain has been keeping himself busy out in the desert of rural New Mexico, building a house out of recycled automobile tires. He is hunched over in full-on solo mode here, playing remarkable non-music seemingly without any instruments at all. Snippets of crackling vinyl and magnetic tape, bits of radio static, air compressors or whatever else got dragged in from the tool shed. Occasionally rhythmic, but proudly abrasive and atonal, perhaps a hint of garden hose or running motors? Seven sprawling serenades span these sides yielding a skewed sense of plunder-phonic/concrete structures carefully piled and stacked, resulting in a remarkably engaging narrative of squealing shortwave and relentlessly skipping 78’s. Desert dweller creak-howls, from a whisper to a roar. Dank opaque olive-green shell cassette comes beautifully packaged with full color labels and matching double sided full color wrap around U-card featuring photography of the actual Tirehouse shot by D.D. himself, and a stamped b/w photo insert printed on recycled sand colored art paper. Dry heat." -lighten up sounds

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RAW THUG – “Sugar Pills” cassette $6
"Bold as it might seem, we feel that it’s safe to proclaim Alan aka Raw Thug (aka Arsenio Zignoto aka Arthur Kalow aka The Brothers San Angeliquez aka…) to be Louisville, Kentucky’s very own Magical Power Mako (from the earlier end of that spectrum, of course). Yes, we all know that in this post-Pessoa musical landscape the usage of shifting pseudonyms and heteronyms are quite the fashion. Who doesn't like sporting a new mask every once in a while, right? Raw Thug, however, is just one of many distinct and self-contained musical cosmologies blooming from this good gentleman’s noggin. Having done time in many of Louisville’s finer subterranean outfits, most notably as a mainstay in Sapat (whose “Mortise and Tenon” LP on Siltbreeze from a while back was a real gem of head-spinning, free-spirit group-think), it’s safe to say that Alan is fully comfortable occupying his own musical territory. We initially met Alan on his first-ever visit to San Francisco, through a mutual friend’s whole-hearted recommendation. Before we knew it, he was sitting on our floor playing computer music that he had made during his multi-day train ride out west that sounded a lot like Conlon Nancarrow’s player piano inside of a deserted Bell Labs basement. After that, we knew it was all sunshine. Eventually, Alan started to send us regular cd-r packages, each being a new window into his creative universe. It didn’t take long before we insisted on dispersing something into the world for a wider discerning audience. “Sugar Pills” indeed has that Mako blueprint of morphing genres within the arc of a song or two (pieces of outer-realm reed playing, laid-back porch-sitter psych, electro-acoustic composition, some near-Parliament funk-modes, etc.), trailing bursts of inspiration and genius modes of keen imitation, though now transported from Shibuya to Butchertown. Though we’ve spent only a couple of days in Louisville in our time, “Sugar Pills” seems to sound the way the town felt to us as outsiders: relaxed and leisurely, distinctive and idiosyncratic, and inexplicably strange in all the very best ways." -bezoar formations

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BYSSUS – “Hunting the Bitter Rose” cassette $6
"During a long fallow period following the release of her self-titled debut on Apostasy Recordings back in 2005, as The Opera Glove Sinks in the Sea, Gwyneth Merner started suffering from abrupt hearing loss ¬– tinnitus and crackling in her ears. Though she eventually recovered most of her full range of hearing, this lengthy period of muffled sound greatly altered her approach to making sound. Where her earlier recordings were more reliant on field recordings alongside traces of violin-tinged theremin playing, Merner’s new work under the Byssus moniker explores more seriously the deep basins of her semi-restored hearing threshold. On “Hunting the Bitter Rose,” the theremin is now brought fully to the forefront as a monophonic tone generator, a key holding many potential corridors. The current model, however, is less Clara Rockmore and more “Zeit”-era Tangerine Dream, with a sidelong glance towards Eliane Radigue. This new output could be viewed as an exploration of her instrument’s many permutations of sonic mimicry: elements of scuzzed-out pipe organ, drastically elongated psych-guitar shredding, the long-form meditations of “No Pussyfooting”. Partly a journal of heated melancholy and partly a self-examination of one woman’s inner ear canal, “Hunting the Bitter Rose” is a work that unfurls gradually, revealing a sound puzzle that contains echoes of familiar emotions yet lacks any single defined framework. " -bezoar formations

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ANEMONE LODGE – “II” cassette $6
"Having lost a member since the initial Anemone Lodge sessions of 2006, the now-trio’d version of Chris Miller (Golden Sores, Number None), Gwyneth Merner (Byssus) and Matt Erickson (Radiant Husk, Sudden Oak) decided to bunker down in Chicago once again, this time in the sweltering July heat of 2009. Using myriad instruments to minimal affect, the trio attempted to navigate the continuum between magnifying slight gestures and constraining more expansive swaths of clatter. Would it be agreeable to claim their intentions to be akin to those of the East Bionic Symphonia, though with only a third of the members and with much of the rough-hewn edges snipped away, only to be gathered and polished into mirror form? Perhaps. Or could one state that what was once a three-hour session of assembly-defined, free-sound troubleshooting has now been condensed, groomed and catalogued into a set of auditory star charts? Indeed. Or could it be that the borders between spontaneous composition, elastic cosmos-echo and the fluid passage of long-tone regeneration were blurred, if only for a temporary moment in a cool basement on one muggy Illinois night?" -bezoar formations

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Radiant Husk "Optics" cassette $6
"Where the previous Radiant Husk output has taken the form of loose diagrams, sketches and notebooks, Matt Erickson's (Sudden Oak, Bezoar Formations label) 'Optics' finds the project moving into a somewhat different territory. If pencil-on-paper was an earlier metaphor, light-through-lens is the prime motivator for these new recordings. Fragments are still the mode of choice, but they are now double-exposed, painted over, cross-faded with flashes of shadow and reeling forward in gradual movement. Saxophone, tapes, fx, keyboards, wave machine. Recorded fall/winter 2010 in San Francisco. " -brunch groupe

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Bret Schneider "Model of a Garden Scene With Watering Can" cassette $6
"Bret Schneider has created a world of chaos from the helm of his digital workstation. Model of a Garden Scene With Watering Can is on the surface a simple exploration into abstract sound by way of (and perhaps limited by) his digital means, though Schneider brings into this sound collage many sources of sound. The root of this dense structure is still quite simple: play. About his creative process, Schneider says, "I tried to make a situation where the music is like the inverse space of the known world. . .in a sense it is me making all the wrong decisions, going against my intuition, being the negative space of intuition." If you're not interested in process or philosophy, perhaps you'll at least be turned on by the ear-tickling sonic concoction that is the manifestation of Schneider's approach to creative sound. If there is anything left of your brain by the time you're through listening, you'll certainly receive a gracious 'thank you' from your ears. " -avant archive

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HMS "Cascades" cassette $6
"Live improvisation can be gruesome or gorgeous. At the soul of any such performance are those concepts of play and chaos, two things that (let's be honest) tend to appeal to most listeners much more as mere concepts, and much less in the midst of actual realization. HMS defies this expectation within seconds of the beginning of Cascades' beginning. The trio—Joe Houpert, Nathan McLaughlin, and Erich Steiger—bring to this hour-long set a host of ambitious creative personalities that one could easily visualize as individual bodies of sound. To make things even easier, simply take a look at each performer's individual catalog of works. When the three combine, there happens to be something very special that is born. HMS is the combination of three soloists bent toward experimentation, and what they've recorded for Cascades is a surprising exhibition of harmony and unification inside a realm that is by nature chaotic. These pieces are moody, eerie, and most importantly, engrossing." -avant archive

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Rogue Cop "Act of Violence" cassette $6
"Drew Dahle, meet Electric Guitar. Electric Guitar, meet your abuser. Mr. Dahle, aka Rogue Cop, is badder than any wing-nut in a trench coat and fedora you've ever encountered. The brazenness with which Dahle handles his axe is insisted upon with every second of Act of Violence. This album is vindication for both the hard-headed purists and the die-hard experimentalists. No frills required, no rule book exists. Act of Violence is difficult to discuss simply because it has very few points of reference. It is simply the sound of a guitar being mangled. Though if you listen closely and perhaps long enough, you can certainly begin to create your own frame of reference. Rogue Cop has his own way of doing things, and if you give him a chance, you'll start to come around to the idea that his way could be your way too. " -avant archive

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Horse Marriage "Pee-Chee" / "I Need to Tell You..." b/w "Lay Your Hands on Me" 7" $6
"After their beautifully subdued and dusty Mr. Tower's Dead Trophy (2010), the San Francisco band Horse Marriage returned this year with Eisenhower Interstate, an altogether different iteration of Stewart Adams' grainy and distorted pop visions. Avant Archive is pleased to present the first 'single' from Eisenhower Interstate, "Pee-Chee", alongside two additional and exclusive tracks. Horse Marriage has almost entirely shed their calm western reveries, laying aside the acoustic guitars in favor of deep distortion, detuned strings, and a whole new kind of energy. Adams' delay-touched vocals perfectly float above the band's fuzzed-out guitars and simple, yet unforgettable compositions sounding simultaneously obscured and unmistakable. Rock and roll is back, and don't come expecting gimmicks—you'll find no 'lo-fi' or 'x-wave' here. This is old-fashioned rock and roll the way you might remember it. Remember it again!" -avant archive

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Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry "Marker/Magnet" double cassette $10
"Originally released individually via Germany's Gruenrekorder, Bible & Henry's Marker and Magnet are two complimentary volumes in a set that covers quite a bit of ground, and covers it quite masterfully. The duo's work here is mostly in the area of electroacoustic improvisation and musique concrète. Jeremy and Jason manage to utilize the tiny musical space they've alotted themselves and stretch it out to a length of over two hours. Typically I'd say this is an accident waiting to happen, but these fellows have pulled it off with class to spare. Never does anything sound recycled or looped, never is there a moment where the music returns to a point. It is always winnowing, sifting, threshing through waves of electronic abstractions and obscured acousmatic sounds. The result is a confounding experience in which I find myself searching for some familiarity and finding little. There are moments of potential clarity, but those are seldom and surprising when they arrive. The rest of these compositions are steeped in mystery and endless engagement. This is not background music; please listen with care." -avant archive

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Mini Prophets "Sirens, Loops and Whistles" cassette $6
"Sophmore release from this wonked out Floridian experimental/jazz/rock sextet. Weird time signatures, dual drummers, jangly guitars, saxophones…need we really say more? How about a digital download included with the tape? Alrighty! " - sunshine ltd

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White Fir "Lake Seeds Volume 2" cassette $6
"Outback tape loops and found sound arrangements by R Franklin, dragging the mic through the dried leaves and warping am radio waves. A continuation of the Lake Seeds series of lo-fi tape assembly cut-ups." - house of sun

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Pink Desert "Daytime Series" cassette $6
"Glistening shimmer from one the the finest; B Douglas (Different Lands label) delivers another thoughtful moment from his carefully released Pink Desert project. Circular soothing passages that recall past experiences. Meditation through synthesis." - house of sun

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DEVELOPER cassette $6
"Harsh music concrete and tape assemblage from Matthew Reis. A prominent member of Ohio's experimental music scene, Reis (Teeth Collection, Factotum Tapes) has become synonymous for his explorations of electro-acoustic music. First with his Teeth Collection project and now under the guise of Developer, Reis has moved into exploring the areas of tape-based harsh noise and music concrete. Reis's style of improv tape music takes cues from Burrough's cut-ups while forging a new kind of (harsh) experimentation." - imminent frequencies

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COLLAPSED ARC "IN CURSIVE" cassette $6
"Kinetic blown out sound loops by Cleveland, Ohio sound and visual artist David Russell. Collapsed Arc finds Russell's (Jerk, The David Russell Snake, Relentless Corpse) latest project immersed in an amalgamation of field recordings, contact mic experiments and appropriated vocal banter- masterfully melded together into loops of auditory chaos. Despite the non-musical nature of many of these sounds like any good pop song they lure you in. Disjointed sound sculpture for the musical masses." - imminent frequencies

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Buffalo Moon "Selva Surreal" LP $12
"In 2010, Buffalo Moon brought you “Wetsuit,” their debut release that made everybody want to go to the beach and get drunk and fall in love. More than a year later — after a stop at the gorgeous melodic shores of the “Black Magic/Low Tide Moon,” 7" — the Buffalo are leading you away from the coastline, waving a pennant that reads Bienvenido a la Selva. If “Wetsuit” was playing love games in the sand, “Selva Surreal” (Surreal Jungle)— the new LP we are proud to release on Moon Glyph— is five young pranksters splashing euphonious paint in the Rainforest, trading in their cool blues for deep velvet and crimson. Fires are blazing. Cannons are blasting. Machine guns are pounding. And that’s just in the first single, “Chica de Luna". “Salt in my Mouth” and “Amores Perros,” take you back to those sandy beaches but with tighter craftsmanship and more sophisticated swagger. “Raspberry Sorbet” and “Moses Baby” consult sexophone aficionado Michael Lewis to accomplish their schmoozy bedroom peccadillos. Indeed, in these hallucinatory wetlands, genre shifts hit you like catapulted coconuts, but if you can duck all the madness and sonic booby traps, you find the album for what it is: a feral portrait of a Blakean Innocence expiring before our ears. The Kids of Irony are alright, America, they’re just entering the Jungles of Experience. And it’s wild out there. " - moon glyph

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Steve Hauschildt "Tragedy & Geometry" 2XLP $18
"Perhaps the least prolific and quietest of the three members of Cleveland trio EMERALDS, STEVE HAUSCHILDT is usually found at their live performances playing the serious scientist as foil to the other two members more animated stage presence. As a teen, Steve bypassed the typical young music fan obsessions over punk and hardcore musics, drawn instead towards mid-late ‘90s techno/electro-revivalism and finding himself alone in an electronic universe of his own choosing. Steve has always considered himself more of an artist than a musician, and sees his work both in group and solo settings as much a visual experience as it is an aural one. The title Tragedy & Geometry is an ambiguous but subtle reference to Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy) and Polyhymnia (Muse of Geometry), or more specifically the collision/overlap of what they invoke. The opening track is also a direct reference to “Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence”, the painting by the French artist Charles Meynier on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The album is a treatise on the idea that technology is becoming more disposable as it's becoming more accessible, and how this circumstance has a more evident/direct effect on the interpersonal, i.e. relations, with others in the so-called 'Age of Information.' What results is a gorgeous, flowing, floating world of post-kosmische musik, Steve Hauschildt’s first widely available release, and his first major statement as a solo artist. " -kranky

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Mark Mcguire "Get Lost" LP $18 (import)
"And yet another killer album from the ever-productive MARK MCGUIRE (EMERALDS). It just keeps getting better, as he delivers another fine set of tunes in his perfected style. A few more electronic elements than usual and even some voices, but still the unique blend of feel-good riffs, electric and acoustic loops and melodies that just stick in the head. This album is chockablock with short hits and one long jam of blissed-out McGuire ambience. Awesome. Electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, and guitar-synthesizer recorded digitally between June 2010 and July 2011 in Westlake, Ohio and Portland, Oregon. Mixed at Hardbodies, July 2011 by Mark McGuire. Mastered and cut by HELMUT ERLER at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Photography and art by Mark McGuire, 2011." " -editions mego

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Mark Mcguire "Solo Acoustic Vol. 2" LP $16BACK IN STOCK!
"The second installment in VDSQ’s (Vin Du Select Qualitite) Solo Acoustic guitar series curated by STEVE LOWENTHAL of Swingset Magazine. Solo Acoustic Vol. 2 features melodic ballads and new songs from EMERALDS guitarist MARK MCGUIRE that spark new innovations and memories thought to be lost. Packaged in letterpress sleeves with a picture of the guitar used on the recording." -vdsq

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Outer Space "s/t" LP $15
"John Elliott’s Outer Space project is a laboratory for electronic investigation. Acting as a continuance of the studies of mid 20th century electronic music composers such as Nik Pascal and Laurie Spiegel, Elliott’s music is deeply indebted to the inner workings of the electric signal. Acting almost as a meditation, through the simple gesture of translation Elliott’s process begins to reveal itself as electricity is converted into acoustic pressure and potential; the melody of physics. The six recordings on the album are each a microcosmic view into Elliott’s practice; a keystone, illuminating his solo practice as well as his work as a member of Emeralds. Composed and recorded over the past three years without the use of digital synthesizers and arpeggiation; a record closely connected to a personal path, attempting to make sense, to understand one’s journey. Mastered by Keith Fullerton Whitman; pressed in a second edition of 350 copies on black vinyl with full color gloss covers and black and white printed inner sleeves." -arbor

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Rangers "Pan Am Stories" 2XLP $23
"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." - not not fun

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KWJAZ s/t LP $13
"San Franciscan Peter Berend’s mystery mixtape unit, KWJAZ, flashed forth this debut self-titled slab of “post-plastic sublime decomposed luxury grooves” on cassette via his own rarified Brunch Groupe imprint early in 2011 and the 120 listeners lucky enough to grip a copy know who they are. It only took half a listen before we green-lit this tape-degraded gem for vinyl treatment and we are dee-lighted to present it thusly. Comprised of two side-long suites, “Once In Babylon” and the oddly monikered “Frighteous Wane,” KWJAZ nimbly ebbs and flows the proceedings through airy cloud-jazz passages (complete with smoky crystal vibes keys and narcotic hiss-hazed horn sections), bouncy weirdo dub-funk vignettes, stretched-out syrupy synth stews, and smooth faux-Steely D soft-rock abstractions, all without ever sounding schizo or style-hoppy. A major feat, and a real riddle of an LP that deepens and ripens with each spin. Hopefully you were savvy enough to catch him on his recent coast-to-coast summer tour with Swanox and Sudden Oak; if not, tune in to this. Black vinyl LPs (mastered at Dubplates in Berlin) in jackets with cosmic floral artwork by Austin Cho/Casey Grr. Edition of 700." - not not fun

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Robedoor "Raiders" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!
"Following their 2008 East Coast tour with Woods and Pocahaunted the Robedoor agenda has mainly been: hibernating in the City Terrace zone above east LA, adding a drummer/modular synth dealer, and letting the smoke rise. Raiders is the first RBDR LP since 2008’s Endlessly Blazing and is the result of almost six months of slow-burn transformative tape machine meditation helmed by Mr. Ged Gengras. Bummed guitars, loner drone tones, low caverns of reverbed drums and rumble, echo dislocation, and dead voices cascade down into the isolated highways. Song modes are carved out and then left to rot. Features early trio live set staples like “Indo Shadow” and “The Downcast Eye.” You can’t stick your hand in the same black river twice. Change or be changed. LPs in jackets with cover photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 500 (250 on marbled grey, 250 on black)." - not not fun

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Heavy Winged + Inca Ore "Ring Mining" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
"Been waiting multiple years for this mind-melting meeting-of-minds to finally manifest itself in physical form, and there’s actually a story behind it. Rewind to 2006: Heavy Winged is an active, Brooklyn-based psych-rock band who’ve yet to dissolve into the bi-coastal logistical tangle they are now; meanwhile, Eva/Inca Ore is on tour (for The Birds And The Bees maybe); meanwhile, Nick Bindeman happens to also be in NY hanging out. Since all are friends or friends-of-friends, Heavy Winged ask Nick and Eva to come jam with them at a show at Northsix for the heck of it. They do. The set is a charged, psychotropic cyclone of ragged electric weight and possessed pixie shriek, stomping up and down over several damaged mountains of riff-wreckage. Miraculously, someone thinks to record the performance. Jed Bindeman sends us a copy. Our speakers implode, we high five. Fast forward to Fall 2008: Heavy Winged record a new 20-minute epic (“Into The Fog”), send it to Eva, and she records her own hypno-bliss keyboard mirage over the top. Eureka. So goes the nearly three-year history of Ring Mining, a slow-burn triumph of long-distance collaborative patience and alchemy between two of our favorite creative institutions. Mine on, you crazy diamonds. Black vinyl LPs mastered by James Plotkin and housed in jackets with mountain-collage artwork by Eva Saelens, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500. " - not not fun

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Heather Leigh "Jailhouse Rock" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
"It’s been a while since Scorces sorceress, Jandek collaborator, and Volcanic Tongue branch manager Heather Leigh has ventured out on vinyl under her own name. And it may be a while longer, as Jailhouse Rock is in fact a wax reissue of a long OOP 2006 cassette classic on Michigan crud factory Fag Tapes. It was a fave of ours that year (and every year), so it feels extra celebratory to be able to offer up a freshly remastered (by Pete Swanson) LP edition of the album for global re-appreciation. Sprawling, long-form descents/ascents into mythic electric disorientation, powered by her trademark recipe of FX-soaked pedal steel and voice. Jailhouse feels loosely more aligned with a mid-aughts drone/noise aesthetic than the outsider dirt road Americana of her Devil If You Can Hear Me LP (also on NNF), but the distinction is a slight one. Side A swims in swooping sheets of vox and tempestuous wind tunnel dynamics before slowly dying away to wheezing disembodied harmonica. The B piece begins in a more overtly beautiful mode, a trinity of crystalline notes picked and stretched until they’re transformed into a rapturous sky of textural distortion. Sensual and vertigo-inducing in equal measure. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with brand new paint/collage artwork by Heath Moerland (of Sick Llama, Slither, Odd Clouds, etc). Edition of 400. " - not not fun

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Blues Control "Puff" LP $13ABSOLUTE CLASSIC! TOP 10 LPS OF PAST DECADE
"RE-PRESSED!!! Blues Control is Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse, a piano, guitar, and tapes duo from New York. Puff is their first full-length record, after two cassette-only releases. "Puff is the work of two modern gris gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and doper's remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far."—James Jackson Toth" -Woodsist

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gärden sound "black summit" LP $13
"When it comes to blown-out psychedelia, the first current band I want to hear is Eternal Tapestry. When it comes to desolate desert blues, that band is Barn Owl. Those are two pretty potent names in the world of experimental music right now so when 4/5 of them join up for some Portland sessions, that's good news for us all. Gärden Sound is the quartet of Dewey Mahood and Jed Bindeman of Eternal Tapestry (as well as Plankton Wat & Heavy Winged, respectively) and Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti of Barn Owl. "Black Summit" is their first charcoal-lined foray into the deep and if you can't get lost in this haze, there's not much hope. Immediately evident is the incredible restraint shown by all four players. They're not being timid or trying to feel each other out, but there's an obvious level of comfort and understanding between each. With three guitars and Bindeman's trademark drumming, it would be easy to drown everything in full-on sludge but Gärden Sound are too damn good to play that game. Opener, "Forbidden Paradise," sets the scene. Methodical guitar works lull the listener into a solemn state of comfort while Bindeman adds to the hypnosis with tribal-infused narcotic rhythms. The build-up is slow but gets you ready for the knock-down blasts of "Beast of Burden." Heavy stomp and zoned-out, smoked-out guitar riffs that blow the roof to oblivion. This is music that needs to be played as loud as you can stand it. "Hidden Origin" calms things back down, contemplating the next move while finding its way through the blackened labryinth concocted by Porras, Caminiti and Mahood. Each guitarist finds his own path as they lead each other to the prize. The 14-minute closer, "Obsidian Sky," brings everything home. Sprawling riffage like a dense forest of apocalyptic crumble. Desolation takes hold as the molasses drones take shape and form themselves into an unpassable mountain of debris. It's mind-bending and cathartic; a sonic temple crushed to ash so it can rise again. Gärden Sound prove worthy opponents, ably standing on their own and stomping out their own trail toward the stars." - digitalis

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Duppy Gun Productions "Multiply/Earth" 12" $13
"The first in a series of new outer orbit dancehall 12-inches recorded in Los Angeles and Portmore, Jamaica by DUPPY GUN PRODUCTIONS (aka CAMERON STALLONES of SUN ARAW and M.G. GENGRAS). Features DAYONE’s cut “Multiply” backed with EARLY ONE’s “Earth.” Includes vocal and instrumental versions of each. Mastered, cut and pressed on 45 rpm vinyl at Capsule Labs, LA. Packaged with a silkscreened poster insert. Another bullet from the Duppy Gun." - duppy gun

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James Ferraro "Far Side Virtual" LP $17 (expensive wholesale)
"JAMES FERRARO paints a 21st century still life on his debut album for Hippos In Tanks. The record is called Far Side Virtual. Each song, a melodious reflection of the moment NOW, comes shrink-wrapped in HD fidelity as glossy as a 2012 Toyota Prius. Ferraro’s muse is some enigmatic modern metropolis, where the streets are as slick as iPads, and where the symphonies ring with Macbook message alerts. Through the steam rising from our latte mocha chinos, he invites us to gaze out at the dreamy disorientation of our digital lives. Imagine a Darius Milhuad-guided tour of 5th Avenue. Imagine a Whole Foods bakery that sells only cakes emblazoned with frosting replicas of Camille Pissarro's “Haying at Eragny.” These are the surreal utopias Ferraro brings to life with sixteen swirly-pop concoctions sure to sell out at the candy stores. So slip in your ear buds, and welcome to Far Side Virtual." - hippos in tanks

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James Ferraro "On Air" 2xlp $24
"Electrocuted Moon Hair, Cone Headed Space Punks in Fast Forward Neo Tokyo's Virtual Flat Screen Pop Stars, Jetset Tabloids Zebra Print Moon Boats Splattering Ketchup Packets are just some of the themes that pour out of the Musical Imaginarium of JAMES FERRARO’s highly anticipated Fully Restored and Remastered Version of the 2009 Limited Edition CDR Classic On Air, featuring the online hit singles “Cinderella,” “On Air,” “Flashy Kamikaze” and more. Take a electric bite out of the Space Age Glam Sound of Metal Spaz Punks combing their 30 ft Tall Green Mohawks under Saturn's Post-American Desert Skies and find out what happened after MTV laser-ed their logo into the moon. Made available by Underwater Peoples Records, two LPs fully loaded with Pop Art Mania guaranteed to give all the 21st Century Digital Children a fresh breath of Glam Rock Magic! Twenty-five tracks." - underwater peoples

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Tomutonttu s/t LP $20 (expensive wholesale)
"Kemialliset Ystävät member Tomutonttu (Jan Anderzén) goes it alone on this intriguing release. The Ystävät-ness is there, but stripped down to the frame with a minimal synth breeze blowing through it. Beautifully lyrical and layered abstractions combined with a finely hewn composite of experimental dada electronics (ala early Die Todliche Doris or P16.D4). A few little Kraut-isms top off the tonic at no extra charge. “This is the music that the mothership had in the tape deck just before dropping Kemialliset Ystävät off in the 12th century.” Limited to 300 copies on 220 gram vinyl." - beta-lactum ring

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Tomutonttu "Elavana Planeetalla" LP $16 (expensive wholesale)
"The second release on MATT MONDANILE’s (REAL ESTATE, DUCKTAILS) just-launched New Images imprint. “JAN ANDERZEN is a Tampere based artist who rearranges images and sounds and makes the music of TOMUTONTTU audible. Read streams, mutilated voices, groovy animal noises and records other people have made are some of the ingredients Anderzen uses to mold his ecstatic music. Someone described it like this: a confusing close-up of music, a microcosmos of strange sound events and dirt flying around in stereo space, interacting with a logic all of their own. Elavana Planeetall is his newest work and his most accessible to date."—New Images. Plays at 45rpm." - new images

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MAGIC TOUCH "I CAN FEEL THE HEAT" 12" $11
"Groove into Magic Touch’s pleasure factory, a floor-to-ceiling inventory of disco-covalence, guitar gush rush, even-better-than-the-real-thing sample soaring, and jumpin’ jackin’ flash. The A side has you feeling the burn after a serious night of get-down. Or tasting the burn after a serious night of get-up. Flip to the B side when you’re looking for love in all the ripe places. A vice is nice, but pills will never thrill you like the sensation of Magic Touch, that feverish fantasia of sweet heat. Let his fingers do the work, let the magic take you away, and please pump up these jams. If only to stop the longing…“I Can Feel The Heat” features bonus shredding by So-Cal amigo Josh Anzano and “Clubhouse” stars additional instrumentation by Miracle Clubber Honey Owens." -100% Silk

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TRAILBLAZER "S/T" cassette $6
"Following the Lexington, Kentucky thread from the sludgy krautrock of Jovontaes to the effortless pop of Street Gnar led ultimately to the blasted Americana of Trailblazer (Night-People), making a trilogy of work based around the beloved Void Skateshop. Trailblazer belongs to a group of artists like Wet Hair and Dirty Beaches who have turned to the classic records of Suicide as the starting point of their explorations. These musicians place a great deal of emphasis on rhythm, finding beats that cruise into infinity, and use their voices as a foil -- brief words that quickly fade into the distance. American Motorik. Art by Adam Zeek" -eggy

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POST-MATERIALISTS "LOVE" cassette $6
"The world is a big place and Russia is long way away. Post-Materialists hail from Moscow and their style of fringe music is as far removed from what I'm used to as their location is removed from me geographically. I dig how "classically weird" they sound -- no reverb, very little delay, relatively clean recordings, lots of backwards sounds and an emphasis on odd textures, plain and simple. So if you're concerned about whether the music you listen to sounds "cool" or not, you can skip this one. For real. But if you're ok with things being playful and a little odd, you will get some enjoyment out of this tape. It's definitely out of the ordinary. The singing is in Russian! Art by Sam Gaskin" -eggy

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SKY THING "COOLER HEADS PREVAIL" cassette $6
"In a lot of ways, Cooler Heads Prevail is exactly the kind of tape I like to release on Eggy. Sky Thing's work defies easy categorization and is certainly operating outside the realm of trends. After hearing their tape on Friends and Relatives, I was intrigued by the unique focus on rhythm in their particular style of "drone" music and was happy to have Eggy as a means of furthering the development of their sound. John would send over drafts of the material they where working on and I would email back my thoughts until we arrived at the tape I'm very happy to be releasing now. Cooler Heads Prevail is a thought-provoking document -- the patter of drums becomes texture and overlapping rhythms drift in and out of focus, the recordings are clean and considered, short bursts of sound share space with extended meditations. I am trying to grasp at an easy reference point but am coming up empty handed -- and I am very glad to have it that way. Art by Josh Kermiet" -eggy

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PLANETS AROUND THE SUN "WE O WE" cassette $6
"Ditching the domestic life for a stint of wild-abandon nomad drift, Planets Around the Sun departed from Maine in July to unplug and roll on down the line… WE O WE is their parting gift to the musical community that launched them into new orbits. Drawing from every era of the band’s career and pointing forward to new phases, it is a carefully crafted full-length mixtape of past trysts and future haunts. From the opening acousto-electro instrumental shimmer we move to a stretched-out heavy drone-folk version of the classic White Light side “Saraswati”, here completely re-figured with the addition of guest baritone guitar and cello from local duo South China. The Ian Paige solo excursion “Agnes” follows, with drones and steel strings lulling raga moves into your atmosphere; once the tablas and electric guitar hits, you’re halfway between Demolition Derby and Country Stash, truly a vapor to be savored and returned to often. The B-side hits with “We Owe”, a possession-ceremony standard with netherworld vocal chants circling around watery bass wobbles and wah’ed synth stabs. This flows into “May Day” and its extended doom-dub treatment “Version”, moving from Velvety melodic guitar-scorched psych to a half-tempo high-stepping astral-funk groove. But enough about the past. Planets point to their present/future with the closing track, a cracked lo-fi country-folk tune that serves as their on-the-road calling card. Sure to be a counterculture hit in 22nd-Century America. Hand-written (in white paint) cassettes held in a case with full-color pro-printed art, featuring a reproduction of a totally psychedelic needlepoint by Paige’s grandmother. Limited to 75." -l'animaux tryst field recordings

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RAGS/The Ether Staircase split cassette $6
"Separated at birth, these two projects were bound to meet further down the road and here present an engaging dialogue in sound. On Side A, the inimitable Oakland artist and musician James Seevers under his solo RAGS banner issues a patchwork of melody and noise--clear blasts of interwoven darkness and beauty hold the listener rapt throughout the side-long journey. The Ether Staircase offers a murkier affair on Side B--something is quivering to life beneath the surface of a turbid pond. Edition of 20" -cave recordings

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The Lesser Siren "Rowan Ash" cassette $6
"Evoking excursions into California’s North Coast where the summers pass like forgotten promises, cold and hazy. Occasionally, there is light that filters down through the trees, warming the mulch, prompting the seeds of slow time. Edition of 20" -cave recordings

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Street Gnar "Street Gnar" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!
"Totally breezy, effortless pop. You just slip into it like talking to an old friend. This is the latest missive from the Void Skateshop crew who are ripping it up in Kentucky, totally on a roll right now. Check out the Jovontaes tape if you haven't yet. Silk screened covers, pro-dubbed tapes." -eggy

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Wet Hair "Radiant Lines" 7" + art book $15
"Wet Hair heads Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes have been jamming sideways strains of long-lensed electricity music for years now, but their trajectories as visual artists arc back even farther. So after a small infinity of J-cards and zines and LP sleeves designs, it’s a real pleasure to finally be able to present a preferential suite of some of their finest (and, till now, unseen) compositions in a glossy, full-color, pro-printed 22-panel art volume, bookended by a brand new black vinyl 33 RPM single of joyously multi-hued keys/drums merry-go-rounding. “Radiant Lines,” a longtime live favorite. spirals a fuzzy circus organ riff around a splashy-crashy kit pummeling till it dissolves into burbling kaleidoscopic come-down bliss. The B, “Decay,” is more like their songs from the Naked On The Vague split 12”, a slow-motion Suicide-style sweetheart blues trance, buried vocals crooning in a gentle sea of woozy keyboard grooves. A nice warm-up for their upcoming De Stijl full-length and U.S. summer tour with Rene Hell. One-time pressing/printing of 500 copies." -not not fun

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MEANING "THE BEGINNING IS THE END OF THE BEGINNING OF THE END" cassette $6
"the dayton trio of matt ries (teeth collection), josh fink (plamsmic formations), and eli caudill (original tongue) strut out the bat shit free-imrpov sessions. imagine your upstairs neighbors are pumping a pink floyd vhs bootleg while your downstairs neighbors (who, for whatever reason, are crazy-nervous about earth quakes) are doing another one of their mid-night drills. and while the weirdo dad in 2f is throwing pots and pans at his kids, and sage keeps telling trey to "whoa! whoa! rewind that part one more time!" up in 4f, you're eating cold pizza and smoking resin off of a clothes hanger in 3f. what's it all f'n mean? f'n meaning. (edition of 50))." -905

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DIRTY HOLE "FUDGE BOX" cassette $6
"newish delaware unit dispensing gnarled electronics, flat tire beats, and lo-fi guitar chomps. total technicians of mixing off the wall bonkerness with on the spot, structured brainstorms. it's like living on sesame street, in more ways than one. (edition of 40))." -905

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WINTER RITUAL "BETWEEN LIGHT" cassette $6
"four pulsing, warped cuts from max gambill. dude dropped a 25 minute jammer last year on 905 under the name cave. he has since ditched that handle has been recording obtuse brain dwellers as winter ritual, bellowing that bleak muddiness by way of guitar and synth. (edition of 40))." -905

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CHAPELS "CALL IT KILLING YOU OFF" cassette $6
"If you have ever wondered what it would sound like to sneak into an abandoned Victorian mansion during a blizzard this is it. Translucent voices, bits of metal debris, found sounds and what sounds like some percussion all meld into a collage of frigid archaic beauty. When not running his House of Alchemy label Adam Richards has stayed rather busy the last couple of years maintaining a strong body of work with his Chapels project, creating hauntingly striking sound compositions. Like many Chapels releases the sounds within are opaque and eerie often hard to decipher but I think I like it better that way. " -imminent frequencies

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Aleph Naught "La Conjuration Sacree" cassette $6
"A beautiful line of distant, sorrowful piano ushers you into a frigid landscape of haunting feedback, somber, reflective drone and electronic tension on "Let the Corpse of Mind Lie Unburied at the Edge of The Great Sea", which manages to pull off a tone of ritualism while still using some abrupt, concrete arrangements. "L'acephale" brings more dark and ancient ambiance that would suit well as a backdrop to sacrifice, the nod to Bataille becoming all the more relevant. Subtle, intellectual, yet intensely dark sounds here. Hailing from the unexpected location of Honduras, and having worked with a solid roster of labels thus far, Aleph Naught finds a welcome home in the Black Horizons Catalogue. Edition of 84 copies, on hi-bias white tapes donated by Mr. Bickel. Full-color 3-panel J-card on metallic vellum. Full cover art here. " -black horizons

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Six Heads "The Popeye Scat" cassette $6
"This cassette moves with surprising fragility and restraint for a six member experimental project, the sound infected with a surrealist vibe, not too dissimilar to the audio equivalent of a Tanguy painting, or maybe Mlehst on quaaludes. Floating through blue green vapors, only occasionally does concrete reality come to the forefront. Two sidelong tracks filled with alien instrumentation, and title appropriate tape collage. Few releases and some high profile collaborating make this a release to investigate further. Color digital printed three panel transparent j-card, and a one panel unique art for each copy, floating orchids over rainbow blood on gray cardstock. Silver labels, black hi-bias chrome tapes. Edition of 100. " -black horizons

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Tecumseh "Sea(s)" 12" EP $10
"Tecumseh presents here their second vinyl release for Black Horizons, two concise and highly listenable tracks clocking in at 11:00 and 10:00 minutes for the A and B sides, respectively. The first track starts with singular sub bass, plodding forward in the trademark meditative manner the band has gained a reputation for, fading into the dual guitar attack with a riff that sounds locked into place like a freight train and electronics that are as always subtle and tasteful. On the other side the band moves into some weirder territory, with faint mumbled, almost mechanical and somehow processed vocals, this time giving way to pure minimal drone, accentuated by more window shaking low end. Then suddenly, the riff kicks in, and it is possibly the thickest, most expansive example they have put forth yet, drowning out any sound within it's vicinity, a black hole for anything positive. The rift fades out, and we are left with acid rain electronics, making muddy the charred Earth that remains. Limited to 333 copies in 3-color screen printed sleeves courtesy of Seizure Palace. " -black horizons

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Godseye "No More Cake Here" cassette $6
"Godseye (Eden Hemming Rose, Brad Rose, and Nathan Young) continues its work with lush, dark synth textures focused around spoken-word readings. Texts from Natalie Diaz, Edward Kuznetsov, Emma Goldman, and Seth Abramson are read in these four tracks. From the opening words, the intensity present in the slow, even readings and barely concealed chaos is unmistakable. Beneath wells of feedback and roiling synths, occasional bursts of light emerge to complement the distinctive readings. This tape mines beauty in the darkness lurking in all corners. -Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery, foil stamped on heavy card stock. -Edition of 100 -Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes with classic Notice attire." -notice recordings

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J. HANSON "NEW RUINED MAPS" cassette $6
"Over the past few years, Portland resident Josh Hanson has developed his own completely unique voice, crafting beautiful music with a Blacet modular synthesizer and tape loops. Josh Hanson follows up last year’s Gift Tapes release with his latest album, New Ruined Maps (Collected 2009-2010), is a collection of compositional ideas wound together to form unfamiliar terrestrial landscapes that feel as futuristic as they do ancient. Taking inspiration from '70s synth music and ethnic musics, New Ruined Maps travels through melodic passages, soft timbres and moments of complex rhythmic patterns like a lucid dream. Captured in pristine fidelity and professionally mastered to tape by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Sound." -draft

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JOEL BRINDEFALK "A ROUGH PATCH" cassette $6
"Swedish composer Joel Brindefalk has been working in the realm of electronic music since the early 90’s, creating techno, sound art and electroacoustic music. Among the many aliases he has operated under over the years, his early techno project Ü and more recent cutup noise collage works as C.P.U. (Contemporary Punk Unit) are often cited as some of his best work, released on labels such as Börft and Ideal Recordings. He is currently focused on creating computer music, sound art and installation while pursing an MFA at the Gothenburg University. Brindefalk’s recent explorations in the areas of generative music have yielded his beautiful new work, A Rough Patch. Created with an extensive MAX/MSP patch while under the influence of painkillers (prescribed for back pain), Brindefalk has woven gestural fields of electricity into a rich sonic environment. Heavy arcs of gray matter resonance cut through the icy freeze-frame reverberations of an abandoned warehouse. This is music for collapsing concrete structures, a wholly original vision and fresh approach to computer music.." -draft

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A. DILLER "STILL LIFE" cassette $6
"Still Life is an outsider's sampling of half forgotten urban environments, cracked electronic soundscapes that form abandoned cities replete with radioactive fallout. Brooklyn-based Adam Diller leans toward his more experimental side, creating his first cassette release from a variety of sound sources: field recordings, synth, electric piano & sampling keyboards. Layered synth passages, textures, and melodies seamlessly mix, often making it difficult to distinguish the source. The result is a truly innovative soundscape work. Diller's diverse background consists of free improvised music (BNSF on Locust), ultra minimal acoustic improv (Doublends Vert on Line/12K), deformed free jazz/hip hop fusion ($.99 Dreams, self-released CDs & LPs), and audio production.." -draft

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sir isaf gul s/t cassette $6
"Deranged free improvisations for homemade 4 stringed guitar and voice. B.B. (of Styrofoam Duck, Free Boys) plugged in, hit record and went totally ape-shit bonkers. Circular uber skronk anti-riffs and garbled stream of consciousness shrieking. Dark catharsis for isolation tanks. Black out the windows baby, I think I'm gonna puke. These bizarre solo recordings were originally self-released as a ridiculously limited cassette (...like 10 copies?) and absolutely deserve to be bounced off a few more foreheads. Deeply strange freak-fest, indeed. Bizarre falsetto screeching and tourette's syndrome growls over de-tuned string torture and distinct non-structures. Sounds for the nuclear age, and strictly off the cuff. New artwork this time around with all tracks freshly mixed and mastered for the ultimate Isaf-fidelity. Made newly available in time for the greatly anticipated "Free Boys" appearance at the upcoming "Heavy Focus" festival in Minneapolis, MN. Real time duplicated black shell cassette with bright ocean blue labels comes packaged with fold out double sided cardstock J-card. Artwork features an evocative full color photograph by Paul Borman portraying the good Sir himself crawling on the floor wearing his Janet Reno outfit and digging through a half empty refrigerator. Classic. After a recent solo performance in NC, a random gentleman from the audience commented, "What you just did, what I just saw, was quite possibly the worst thing that I have seen in my entire life". He must be doing something right. Don't sleep on this one. “-lighten up sounds

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john zuma st. pelvyn "Ampex, Stolaroff, Dogwood, Rain" cassette $6
"Third eye guitar/theremin/feedback transcendentalism. A delicate balance of lovely and bizarre finger-picking mixed with theremin whine, whammy bar wobble, dense swirling feedback drones and belching electronics. Three amazing tracks of solo bliss sessions for six string and electronics. Visionary and truly beautiful work from this awesome contemporary player. Stunningly emotional and visceral playing that evokes serene pastural landscapes as filtered through lens-flares and blinding white light. Masterfully recorded in Oakland, CA 2010-2011 by friend and collaborator Peter Conheim (of Negativland and Neung Phak). Real time duplicated clear shell cassette with printed and stenciled labels comes beautifully packaged in a deluxe oversized clear vinyl album with double sided full color artwork, and a 4"x 6"sealed plastic bag containing a small handful of wood shavings and a hand numbered vellum insert. This is essential listening for the upcoming seasonal emergence from our bleak winter hibernation chambers. Highest possible recommendation!“-lighten up sounds

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The Alters "Blue Hole"cassette $6
"Cosmonaut snake charmer reed/synth/electronics freak-ness from KC. Not entirely unlike MRP on PCP w/ a zurna firmly clenched in jaws. Strangeness projects into the stratosphere, and everyone dreams about their teeth falling out. On their previous cassette "Apples of Gold", The Alters brought to mind a massively psychedelic early organic Residents vibe, reciting disturbing excerpts of Grimm's Fairy Tales as interpreted by damaged space cadets. Helmets intact, on these jams they strap in and strip down to the essential duo form and deliver aquatic wake-and-bake groovers. Clarinet / synth workouts for underwater hibernation rituals. Real time duplicated clear cassette with full color lacquer sealed labels comes packaged with matching full color double sided fold out cardstock J-card in a clear Norelco case. The porthole is fogging up kiddies, and the sonar is on the fritz. “-lighten up sounds

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GAY BEAST "To Smithereens" LP $10
Gay Beast formed mid-2005 during a fit of anxiety towards Midwestern passive aggression and as an attempt to make music that was queer in composition and aesthetic. Wielding a battery of drums, scraped and hammered guitars, chanted vocals, retro-future synths, saxophone, and other electronics, the trio (Angela Gerend, Daniel Luedtke, Isaac Rotto) build songs on grounds that adjoin complexity and catchiness, a space where both abrasion and tunefulness inhabit. With releases on DNT, Gilgongo, and Skin Graft, Gay Beast have garnered a reputation for uniqueness on the rock fringe, their sound being both too weird for the stereotype of a “gay band” and “too gay” for the noise-rock set. Upon examination of the influence blender, one finds remnants of Devo, Captain Beefheart, equatorial pop-rock from the 60s and 70s, no wave, and feminist theory. This concoction, delivered via Gay Beast’s unique political approach to composition, is explored heavily on their third album “To Smithereens”, appearing on Skin Graft Records. “-skingraft

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MADE IN MEXICO "Guerillaton" diecut gatefold LP $10
Short description: Providence-based No Wave influenced punk, combined with Reggaeton sounds.... Like Teenage Jesus and the Jerks mixed with Calle 13, or Daddy Yankee. Post-Punk with a Dem Bow beat, and a revolutionary flavor… the soundtrack to Simon Bolivar’s march through The Americas. includes former members of La Machine, and Arab On Radar. Guerillaton is the highly anticipated follow up to MADE IN MEXICO's debut LP "Zodiac Zoo". Available on compact disc and as a limited edition Diecut Gatefold Vinyl LP. “-skingraft

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AIDS WOLF "Dustin' Off The Sphynx" 7" $5
"At the farthest reaches of modernity, we still somehow pine for an aesthetic that borders on sociopathy. The badass has long brought this aesthetic principle forward, but barely manages to deliver it to us here in the 21st century. The badass, though common in the vernacular, hyperbolically applied wherever, has sadly gone the way of the fucking chucking spear. Clearly a distinction is necessary to distinguish real badassery from its overuse in language today if there is any hope of salvaging this treasured relic of our cultural past. Badassery cannot be separated from its roots in death, the overriding theme (aesthetically and politically) of the 20th century. Badass simply cannot describe goofball sneakers, a kid in a Michael Jackson video, or scroungy hobo jammers living in an abandoned water tank. Because badassery, like Annie Oakley's nightly routine, requires a delicate precision - predicated on getting the danger on “-skingraft

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The Ether Staircase "Medicnoid" cassette $6
"Late night swatches of guitar and keys stitched together in dream logic" -cave recordings

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The Lesser Siren "Clouds in Static Pools" cassette $6
"Guitar and tapes dredge up a child's sense of the sublime: The vast echoes of a museum. Trails forever forking in dirt lots. Vast storms in mud puddles" -cave recordings

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Hoefizer & Quilt split cassette $6
"Our first release is Hoefizer (David Mitchell) from Montreal. 3 tracks of bass loops and drone. Quilt is Seth Graham from Brooklyn. 4 Tracks of relentless oscillation, filters, sounds, random notes and over all feeling of schizophrenia. This split plays like a full record when listened to all the way through." -orange milk

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Andrew Coltrane "Persuasion" cassette $6
"Andrew Coltrane is at it yet again. This is probably his millionth tape release, but it is the first one on Rainbow Bridge. Junk noise, synth disgust and programmed "drums," all completely saturated, concluded with a surprise sound clip at the end. This tape drones but it's never uninteresting and is always unrelentingly harsh. Bright yellow tapes with pink, hand-painted labels and full-color inserts. Limited to 41." -rainbow bridge

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Sadistic Candle cassette $8 (high wholesale cost)
SADISTIC CANDLE is straight from the heart of a man, broadcast from an expanse of quilted bedroom somewhere deep in Los Angeles, fueled with the dust hanging motionless in window-light over a stack of Hawkwind LPs, made crooked by the pure-hearted trickster, sighing with troubadour spirit, revealed with a 4-track. A statement of purpose.*member of sun araw/magic lantern* " -sun ark editions

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Red Electric Rainbow / Reptile Brain split cassette $7 (irish import)
"Nearly 30 minutes of that fingersmith action! Chicago's 21st century facemelter Neon Blossom main 'the man', Dan Smith, meets Dublins 18th century fancy boy Dandrew Dogarty. Produped, c30s" -munitions family

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Paul Vogel "Godwit Songs" cassette $7 (irish import)
"You may know him from euroboys, Chipshopmusic or 2009's Phil Durrant, Lee Patterson, Paul Vogel - Buoy but if you don't, let me introduce Dublin's monster of microsound, the lord of lowercase, PAUL VOGEL! (crowd goes wild) Making his munfam debut with some Messaienic songs about the GODWIT! Poo-tee-weet? Poo-tee-weet? Paul Vogel is an improviser based in Ireland. His original instruments were piano and clarinet, but in recent years, he has incorporated electronics into his set up. He was a member of the Bristol Musicians Co-op in the late seventies and is currently co-curator (with David Lacey) of i-and-e, an organisation which promotes improvised and contemporary music in Dublin. He has composed music for radio and contemporary dance groups and has worked with Phil Durrant, Angharad Davies, Lee Patterson, Keith Rowe, David Lacey, Toshi Nakamura and Mark Wastell, amongst others. He has released recordings on Cathnor, Confront and Homefront." -munitions family

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JON SCOTT DENNIS/FIBROUS BLONDE "MEDICINE MEN" split cassette $6
"The newest addition to the Early Morning archives has emerged. Over forty minutes of introspection and expansion captured on cassette tape. The first side is from EM newcomer Jon Scott Dennis, when i first heard these tracks i was utterly blown away by the sparse and compelling sounds coming from this guy. These tracks play like a bleak landscape from an old western film, terrestrial sounds and textures invoking the loneliness and subtle hallucinations of a peyote healer wandering the desert. Fibrous Blonde is the reincarnation of the fading project Guyute, and the sidelong track presented here is a transition from a visceral world of humoral imbalances to cerebral atmospherics washed in hermetic imagery. Oversized J-cards and full color inserts featuring artwork by Fibrous Blonde, on clear c44's." -early mourning recordings

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Guyute/Terrortank - "Severed Sons" split cassette $6
"Odd sounds for your future from early mourning. Edition of 40 clear black tapes, double-sided card stock inserts, and hand stamped labels." -early mourning recordings

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Netherfriends "Alap" cassette $6
"Chicago's Shawn Rosenblatts Netherfriends project has been touring this great country of ours almost non-stop for as long as I have know him. Stopping back in Chicago only briefly, he managed to take a break from his 50 Songs in States concept to make an album of heavy drones and sonic architecture. Recorded in seven days, these seven tracks are filled with polyphonic keys, shimmering guitars, piano trills, and quiet chirps to make for a relaxing listen. This is a huge departure from most Netherfriends albums, leaving the pop at Pitchfork Fest and coming out for an new-age bullshit night at your local DIY loft space. Limited to 75 copies on clear cassettes with a smoke shell insert and full color J-Card. Also, comes with an additional insert with art by the artist." -hyperdelic

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L.R. Padgett "Embossed Earth" cassette $6
"The sound of prepared tapes dissolving into thick textural drones. Recorded & compiled by Loyd Padgett (Defenestrated Records) summer 2010. Screened Art. Edition of 50." -throne heap

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Endless Time "Escape" cassette $6
"Intense TERROR drones and galloping oscillators overtake you in the venomous forest. Hope for ESCAPE, but prepare to SURRENDER! Screened Art. Edition of 50. " -throne heap

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Color Zoning "A Series of Seriously Flawed Landscapes” cassette $6
"New Delaware synth/bass duo of Andy Lees and Mike Haley (Wether) craft an immersing debut cassette. Phased spaces and chattering rhythms grounded by rumbling bass swells and drones. Deep oceanic explorations on distant planets. Pro dubbed chrome tapes. Limited to 50 copies." -2:00AM tapes

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Death In Death Valley "Fossil” cassette $6
"Olivier Dumont and Nicolas Thirion craft a meticulously focused tour de force on Fossil. Hailing from France, this duo achieves masterful results through the use of unnamed objects and live data processing. Textures abound in a tangible framework, painting vivid abstract pictures of mechanical collapse. Stunning. Pro dubbed chrome tapes. Limited to 50 copies." -2:00AM tapes

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Chefkirk + Staplerfahrer "Crystal Memory Shreds” cassette $6
"Live collaboration between Roger H. Smith (Chefkirk) and Steffan de Turck (Staplerfahrer) recorded in Tilburg in March of 2010. Hypnotic murmuring rhythms, caustic metallic blasts , and wavering drones all meld together beautifully in a raw room mic’d audio document. Pro dubbed chrome tapes. Limited to 50 copies." -2:00AM tapes

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Winter Ritual + Vales split cassette $6
"Delawarean Max Gambill, formerly known as “Cave” tries on his new moniker “Winter Ritual” with this debut track of bottom end scuzz warble. The tape sounds like its going to vibrate off of the spool, but I’m pretty sure it won’t. (No refunds if it does). Vales tries some blustery cold modular synth caroling on the B side. Melodic drone ghosts haunting the neighborhood. Pro dubbed chrome tapes. Limited to 50 copies." -2:00AM tapes

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Joe Breitenbach "Outlander” cassette $6
"Those who aren’t familiar with Joe Breitenbach’s work really should be. No matter what name he’s releasing under (Methadrone, Gallows, and my sources tell me he’s got another few hidden up his sleeve) his releases are consistantly great; this tape being no exception. Side A is a gorgeous white powdery textured drifter decorated with christmas light synth patterns. Side B is wet black muck washed down with a bubbly orange soda. Limited to 50 copies." -2:00AM tapes

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Roped Off "Blows Glass In Space/Discovers A New Angle" cassette $6
"Forces to be reckoned with in their own right as farmers of prime Delaware sound crop, Mike Haley (Wether, 905 Tapes) and Dave Doyen (2:00AM Tapes, Vales) tag team a set of bent synthesizers on this c40, bringing their new duo Roped Off into snarling maturity. We presume that blowing glass in space leads one to smoke something especially dank out of that glass in space. Let’s further assume that the discovery of a new angle was not only novel, but an inevitable consequence of these actions. No matter how it’s sliced, or slices through the listener, it’s an entirely unpredictable ride in the opposite direction of a safe synth reality. These boyz mean biz. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert." -stunned

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Sound Out Light "Ornamental Skies" cassette $6
"Transmissions from distant planes pulse, transferring energy, propagating their call, inviting all who hear to join on their total journey into other realms. ltd. 100" -sacred phases

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Parashi "Troika" cassette $7
"Using guitar, synthesizers, metal objects, pieces of wood, kalimba and contact mics, Parashi summons eerie shadows and drops anchor in the underworld. Here, crumbling circuitry hums alongside lone wolf cries and whispers from subterranean ruins. With masterful focus and deliberation, ‘Troika’ finds New York’s Parashi in top form after an impressive three album run-up on his home label Skell LLC. Few are willing to align their ship straight into the gritty unknown, but Parashi does just that with an array of entropic frequencies as his travel companions. When the hammer comes down during Side B’s 18-minute long apex, watch for the white-hot sparks emitting from your electronics. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c54 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert." -stunned

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Garrincha & The Stolen Elk "We Were Wyoming" cassette $7
"Following up their recent 905 Tapes burner, Garrincha & The Stolen Elk’s members Davy Bui (Weird Forest Records) and Matt Kretzmann uncork a bottle of straight up rock & roll. It’s pretty damn refreshing having a band like this around, ready to rip through four tremendous songs in twenty minutes and still managing to cover all the right bases along the way. G+SE’s chops are unarguably tight and not a second is wasted as fun house blurt and a wicked sax (!!) spice up the group’s own totally original brand of rock madness. It’ll be hard putting the cork back on this one for a long, long while. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c20 tapes w/ double-sided color jcard." -stunned

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Air Sign "Our Galactic Covered Wagons to the Stars" cassette $7
"When reminiscing on the unsung champions of Los Angeles’ underground arts community (and trust us – there are many), one of the figures that most consistently springs to our mind is Justin McInteer. Founder of the seminal Echo Curio performance space, accomplished visual artist & gallery installation wiz, urban gardening expert, and heart-wrenching bard of the harmonium: this is a mere sample of the many roles the guy slips into with equal ease. His debut here under the Air Sign name is a relatively new endeavor in McInteer’s extensive home recording lineage, as he turns to multiple keyboards, drum machines, and samples of nature and pop music ephemera. A thing of complexity springs forth as Air Sign’s altered instrumentation helps him braid nostalgia, catharsis, and celebration into a single alluring strand. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c38 tapes w/ double sided jcard and insert." -stunned

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Toning "Pitch the Drone" cassette $7
"Cody Brant is a man of many talents, known best for his involvement with renowned Portland groups Flaspar and Smegma as well as helming the Meandering Recordings label. Most recently, he’s honed his solo game and has apparently pitched the drone in favor of sounds with a decidedly strange bounce. Cody resumes the unpredictable Toning program here on the heels of his Eggy Records debut. With the help of a handful of buds along the way, nine numbers are stacked end-to-end which forms a chain of wheezing analog electronics and disembodied chant. Acetate patterns are diced and dried in the sun, then spliced and reconstituted from their dehydrated state back into gelatinous electro-tribal tape goo. Sound weird? It is. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c31 tapes w/ double sided jcard and insert." -stunned

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Steel Dangerous s/t cassette $6
"Spoken word about my favorite powedered drinks, the wnba, and tim mcgraw shows at blossom sold out" -fairchild tapes

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Isle of Sodor "Still Point" cassette $6
"Super Focused laser beam from Adam Miller d.d.s one of ohio's current champions. Kid is beasting it these days check it out." -fairchild tapes

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Daughters Of The Sun "Ghost With Chains" LP $14
"Long-running Twin Cities horsepower trio Daughters Of The Sun have been subtly chugging out their faded-tattoo spirit-in-the-sky psych exhaust for at least half a decade now but we didn’t catch the drift till March ’09, when we got to witness a packed post-midnight smoke-soaked Minneapolis loft set and waved our lighter with the masses. Ghost With Chains is their third official full-length (not including some EPs and a killer split) and it’s as beautifully moon-burnt and highway-swept as anything they’ve done. Recorded in August of ’09 at Nicollet Park, the LP’s seven songs swerve from spectral Sturgis road-burners (“Hexagram,” “Bell Of The Barrier”) to lower-keyed percussion meditationals (“Busted Realm,” “Ghost With Chains”), spiced with the occasional earth-toned ghost drone piece or floating flower acoustic mantra-ballad. The magic is, it all works. The D.O.T.S. gang co-run a tape label, Never Ender, and each helm their own exile-consciousness solo project (Camden, Elven Thief, Wavepool), so roots run deep. Unbreak the Chains and scope ‘em on tour next time they pass through yr local badlands. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Oakley Tapioca, plus a full-color pro-printed insert. Edition of 490." -nnf

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Daughters of the Sun "Visions of the Ocean Head" LP $13
Visions of the Ocean Head was originally self-released in 2007 as a limited screen printed CD. The lineup consisted of Bennett, Nick and Ryan. Chris Rose (Vampire Hands) was in a early incarnation of the band and helped write some of the material. Several of the songs are fan favorites that are still included in the band s live set today. The record was recorded at Old Blackberry Way with Neil Weir and was mastered at Magneto by Brooce Templeton. Now this classic debut full length is finally available on vinyl in a limited pressing of 300. Jacket artwork was painted and designed by Lisa Luck. Daughters of the Sun have rapidly become one of the best psych-rock bands in the Midwest which eventually caught the attention of Los Angeles label Not Not Fun who will release the band s new LP Ghost with Chains . DotS have been road warriors the last 4 years touring the entire country several times over. They have been featured in the Black Angels curated Austin Psych Fest for the last two years and will be headed down to Austin in the Spring of 2011 to play a number of shows as part of SXSW." -modern radio

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Vampire Hands / Daughters of the Sun "Skull Judge" split 12" $13
"When Colin Johnson left local psychedelic powerhouse Vampire Hands last year many people wrote off the band as finished. The now three-piece however, continued to play on – lacking the frenzied energy of their dual percussion sets perhaps, but still drawing crowds. Now the group has released their first EP as a new entity, Skull Judge, and having listened to it, I am happy to report that Vampire Hands is anything but finished. Where the band’s signature sound no longer has Colin’s eerie high pitched vocals, bassist Chris Bierden is more than able to fill in with a howl of his own. Guitarist Chris Rose’s singing struggles a bit under the added weight, but his vocals too give the songs a rough hewn quality that is listenable in its own right. Skull Judge is actually a split EP with the B-Side taken up by one epic seventeen minute track of distortion-fest from Daughters of the Sun. “Dry Ice” takes a little while to get its legs, starting with about six minutes of distortion and minimal guitar before the drum and maraca rhythm kicks in and the thing begins to take off. Add in some more drums eventually, as well as discernible guitar licks, and reverb-laden vocals, and at around the nine minute mark the tune has built into an epic piece of slightly tribal sounding psychedelia. It’s a rewarding, if bizarre, listen if you have the patience for its length. DOS’s live shows have started to turn them into a must-see local band lately, so I am happy to see that their massive sound translates well to magnetic tape. Hopefully this single will lead to lengthier studio releases in the future. — Jon Behm " -modern radio

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CORNUCOPIA "QUASAR" cassette $6
"plush drone rides from jorge castro and claudio chea. the duo keep the tones crunchy and on a oscillating bender, delivering lacquered tremors with sonic saturation. the kind of contributions you tune in on and just let time pass." -905 tapes

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V/A "BRAINS ON BACKWASH III: BACKWASH TO THE FUTURE!" C100 cassette $7
"backwash to the future! the third in the ongoing series of burners is here, this time pro dubbed on chrome tapes. 100 minutes of audio from opponents, circuit wound, 2673, isa christ, deep magic, gx jupitter-larson, dead pilots, quicksails, c.lavender, vestigial limb, derek rogers, thom elliot, plasmic formations, m.geddes gengras, roped off, cornucopia, mccord, jon lorenz, ophibre, dry valleys, skin graft, dads against vietnam, al qaeda, malibu wands, colorguard, red electric rainbow, and cruudeuces." -905 tapes

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BATTLESHIP "NEON RANCH" cassette $6
"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." -905 tapes

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Steve Baczkowski "Tone Arm" cassette $6
"Known primarily for his work on baritone sax in a variety of duo and trio formats with the likes of Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Ravi Padmanabha and most recently Bill Nace, Steve Baczkowski unleashes his first recorded solo outing—pushing his improv techniques and sonic palette to a whole new level on Tone Arm. This piece was created and maintained through tone arm manipulation and loops of home modified vinyl records over which Baczkowski introduces melodies, whistles, scratches, squeaks, squawks and bellows implementing bird whistles, baritone sax, flutes, and bells. Recorded live Sugar City, Buffalo New York, May 30th 2010. Hand numbered Edition of 100." -cae-sur-a

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Hering und seine sieben Sachen "Nautical Twilight" cassette $6
"Hering und seine sieben Sachen is the kosmisch solo vehicle of one Daniel Voigt (Autistic Argonauts, Pawned Pajamas, Horzes, Phantom Limbo). Nautical Twilight is five compositions submerged under a deep gauzy surface of rippling bass frequencies and shimmering pulses that float their way to the ear as if transmitted from the dark recesses of the ocean thousands of miles away. Recorded in July 2010. Hand numbered edition of 100." -cae-sur-a

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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN & BJERGA/IVERSEN: s/t - LP $15
"2 psyched-out sides from the collaboration between mighty Aliens and Norways own answer to Hall & Oates - Bjerga/Iversen. These sides are boiled down from about 2+ hours worth of material recorded last summer in the stunning alpine village of Luserna San Giovanni, just outside of Torino, Italy. Space electronics, weightless freestyle strings, buzzing voices from the outer heliospheres and garbled and warped messages from the great beyond handed down on recycled trashcan tapes.... celestial harmonies from a neon universe... There was a double-exposed rainbow over the foot of the Western Alps this evening in late June, and you can hear the colors seeping through the cracks... Both My Cat Is An Alien and Bjerga/Iversen have extensive discographies and both units have collaborated a lot with others, as this is an important part of our musical universes. So we were all happy to work on these recordings together in a full-blown extensive and focused session.... The recordings are edited by MCIAA. Edition of 268 copies in ultra-cool neon-colored silkscreened jackets, 5 different varieties.". -Ikuisuus

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MONKS OF MALASPINA: Volume One - LP $15
"The MONKS OF MALASPINA debut release is a phantastical psychedelic mystery musical filled with dark woods wonder and honey comb clouds over sparkling fjords from deep within the mountains of Canada's British Columbia. Highway 101 ends here, or like this new record, begins. Members of the band call up roots from First Nation relations with Jesuit missionaries co-mingled with a diverse offspring from a free love commune started in the 1970's. Most of the music on this record is gloriously strange with a capella outbursts both finely tuned and guttural. Decomposing abstract rock anthems stretch out alongside primitive beat-boxing. There are more familiar sounding songs as well giving the whole album an aura of storytelling magic, like it is all based on some fabulous old book. M.O.M. was produced and arranged by Theo Angell who lead the group into some pretty tripped out improvisations. Quotes Theo: "The film, I mean the album, is like an abstract musical of sorts. There are some lyric-less 'soungs' where Raven meets Hanuman for instance and they tangle in an epic battle in the sky. Or the one where they try to conjure up the feeling of a month of rain in their mind. The world of the Monks is populated by a drinking man-beast who is missing a foot and a bear who ravishes the garden and fruit trees of the Cryptic Master and the Kinetic Gardener of Ronanda. Some of the songs address particular members of the band, "Forthwith Lorraine" for instance. "Taking Off Your Feet" is a re-occuring theme, by which they mean trippin' the way out or getting seriously unsettled. They've really come up with their own syntax and insider myths where even the humor is mystical in nature. They're an odd group of C.O.P. s (children of hippies) with very little outside references. I played this for someone and they said it reminded them of the Holy Modal Rounder's 'Moray Eel' album. Besides using their voices they also play the autoharp and guitars, as well as "the staff". I tried to get them to play a live show but they insist on recording the sequel first. We'll see. I told them they were Fjord Folk." The Monks of Malaspina are Sofar Lorraine, Pournt Falster, Freel Bequelle, Frist Clupps and Thlowlth Fissure. The album was engineered by Dreetmont Accel with mastering by Josh Stevenson. ." -Ikuisuus

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MAGNETIC NORTH DUO / GREY PARK: split cassette $8 (finnish import)
"Magnetic North Duo:Sindre Bjerga & Nils Rostad from Norway are the Magnetic North Duo. Constructing layers of improvised guitar strumming and warbling drone reverberation, textured density and distorted hazy sonics... These recordings, from April and June 2010 are more sparse, but more intense... guitar shivering and contact-miked uneasiness.... Magnetic North Duo has previously released discs on Stunned Records and Tape Drift, so make sure to hunt down these as well." -Ikuisuus

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Toning "Drained Brains" cassette $6
"First solo tape from Cody Brandt -- Meandering Tapes main-man, current Smegma member, sometime Kommisar Hjular collaborator and formerly of Flaspar. Culled from literately hours of home recordings made over the last couple years, Drained Brains is the work of a restless experimenter working in a more classic 'experimental' music idiom, utilizing tape-speed manipulation and the juxtaposition of textures. Really proud to be issuing the debut missive. Pro-dubbed tapes, hand-colored sleeves." -eggy

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Ghost To Falco "Two EPs" cassette $6
"Two very limited edition CDR EPs collected and reissued. Late-night folk -- stark and strange. These songs were written as they were being recorded and posses a weird, immediate energy, unadorned by reverb or delay. Strong, weird songs. Pro-dubbed tapes, off-set lithograph covers printed by Container Corps" -eggy

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REMNANTS - "DECAYED TONES" cassette $6
"Second release by this Brooklyn based project. Blown-out synth and tape manipulations evolve at a glacial pace, often transitioning from excessive low-end to sweeping high-end before fading off. " - imminent frequencies

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JAMES FERRARO CITRAC 2XLP $22
"The CITRAC collection presents one of James Ferraro’s most cinematic visions; showing his recent mode of soundworld creation in top form. By shying away from pure musical creation and opting towards the organic birth of sonic universes James finds a new way to tell a story. Evoking vastly imaginative imagery, this 80+ minute suite spanning two LPs, contains the previously released “Postremo Techno Mundus Symposium”, excerpts and alternative edits from Liquid Metal’s Alternative Soundtrack to “Digital Overdrive”, and the all new “Digital Tribe”. Presenting deep-nightmarish atmospheres of surveillance and captivity on through the rush of the open road; the hypnotic, lo-fi result is one that could only come from Ferraro’s alien mind, eternally stuck in a 1980s vision of an impossibly archaic future. In an edition of 400 double LPs with full color printed inner-sleeves in pro-printed black and white cardboard sleeves and printed labels by James." -arbor infinity

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WATERSIDE GALA "ON THE VERANDA" cassette $8 (uk import)
"WG consists of Kellen Shipley on keyboard and trumpet, and Sean McCann on alto sax, viola and keyboards. This is a worthy addition to SM’s outstanding discography to date; perfect autumnal timbres emerge from the interaction between two similarly-minded and in-tune musicians at their peak. 75 copies; pro-dubbed white cassettes; printed labels; pro-printed j-cards.." -colour ride

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The N.E.C. / Jovontaes -Split 10" $10
"Layers of rich, sonic depth crowd the simple songwriting at the center of the N.E.C.'s side of this split 10-inch EP. A spiral of guitars, hiss and reverb melt into a thick shag carpet of sound with "Old Medicine." "Aria Girl" drags out a haunting and hypnotic rock mantra that mutates into a morphine tribal haze. On the flip side, Jovontaes' "Paradise City" holds a formless, experimental quality as it lumbers like a freight train, focusing on a single, plodding pace where all of the action happens in the periphery. Each side counters the other with a slur of damaged, psychedelic dirge. The N.E.C. side stretches out into the ether, while Jovontaes guides its song on an intensely inward journey." -creative loafing review. released on double phantom records

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Psychic Reality/Sex Worker split 7" $6
"Farmer’s market zen learner Leyna Noel channels the swaggering lust of Jimi’s finest hour via stumbling drum machines and amplifier howls while her beau Sex Worker mines Debbie Harry’s telephonic anxieties for deeper fears, darker secrets: “I can’t control myself.” Sleeve art by Julien Langendorff. " -not not fun

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Gnod/Robedoor split 7" $6
"Manchester’s choicest chain gang lumber through the mildewed concrete of some abandoned-bomb-shelter-turned-hippie-commune, spewing molten wah and echo-vocal polemics. Turn off, dig in. The B sees LA drone thugs Robedoor pitching Molotov cocktails of pure wraith blood through stained glass windows. Sleeve art by Zully Adler. " -not not fun

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Infinite Body/No Age split 7" $6
"West coast light-breather Infinite Body emits a dense harmonic sound cloud that condenses in yr ear before evaporating into the ether. California DIY heroes No Age get minimal on the instrumental “Wintry KK,” burrowing into tom-rolls and the poetry of distortion pedals. Sleeve art by Cody De Franco. " -not not fun

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Mark McGuire "Living With Yourself" LP $19 (german import)
"Mark McGuire operates chiefly as guitarist in the legendary Emeralds., however he also has racked up an impressive set of solo releases over the last few years (albeit mainly in small to micro print runs). Living With Yourself is his new album and we at Editions Mego hope to meet any demand which may arise from this fine selection of modern crafted guitar tunes. Focusing on his family, early friendships and the problems that inevitably develop through years of knowing someone, it takes McGuires sound even further out, and contains some his most accomplished songs to date. The opening track is fine example of McGuires magic technique of taking a lone acoustic guitar then transforming the track into bliss-out electro wash looping off into the distance. And tracks like ‘Clouds Rolling In’ and ‘Brain Storm’ take off where such McGuire classics as ‘The Marfa Lights’ (which incidentally is planned for a future reissue) left off. While connoisseurs of his sound will find all they desire in here, many superb surprises await around every corner. These are songs that cruise, bubble and rise to the top." emego

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