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amethyst sunset is extremely proud to present the final document produced by 1958-2009. matthew sullivan (earn / ekhein) and alex twomey (mirror to mirror / jugular forest) provide
us with the most beautiful guitar / synth ballads recorded on the one year anniversary of the death of the king of pop. all brand new material and not released on any of the previously released cassettes.
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imaginary softwoods - "the path of spectrolite" lp (amethyst sunset) $13.00
The Path of Spectrolite is the latest full length recording from Imaginary Softwoods. Early comments have praised this album and state
that while this recording retains some if the icy drone sound from some previous Softwoods release, this is a great progression and a
bit more active. An extremely beautiful album entirely of sounds created by synthesizer and voice, this is an essential piece of the
Imaginary Softwoods discography that you are sure to love. Pressed in an edition of 535. 150 on a clear / white mix and the remaining
385 on clear . "the path of spectrolite" has been repressed. an additional 200 on clear and 100 clear / white mix copies.
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providien - "followed by a wraith" lp (amethyst sunset) $13.00
“the midwest is a real shangri-la for bohemia basement bleakness so it’s not real surprising that loner tape grime duo providien hail from the snow-blasted state of ohio, and have a grim grassroots aura that just feels right. led by sword heaven electrician mark van fleet and partner-in-crime/childhood friend nathan reynolds (also of weirdo goths american jobs), providien’s debut, “followed by a wraith”, sprawls from disembodied horror atmospherics to no-fi sludge death marches to pure weirdo home-taper acoustic guitar meltdowns, each new zone more unsettling and brainwashed than the last. has elements of mammal (especially the recent drone-suicide ballads), the shadow ring (just replace all the british stuff with raw american sloth), and various other esoteric cassette miserablists, but that’s just a roundabout way of saying this shit rules.”
- britt brown
the lp is limited to 200 copies on black vinyl with a paste on artwork.
all copies come with an insert included with album info and tracklist printed on cardstock or transparency.
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keith fullerton whitman / mike shiflet - "070325 b/w 080409" lp (amethyst sunset) $13.00
one live track a piece from keith and mike.
keith presents a noisy modular synth recording from the spring of 2007.
mike's side is an excellent guitar/drone piece recorded during the summer heat of 2009.
pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
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HNY - "Here You Can Touch the Sky" lp (amethyst sunset) $13.00
Very excited to be able to present the vinyl issue of HNY's "Here You Can Touch The Sky". Over the past few years, HNY has
released some stellar cassettes through Ranky Tanky, Not Not Fun, and Goaty Tapes when finding some free time from shredding
with Social Junk. Here You Can Touch The Sky is a half hour full of haunting guitar + vocal work that was released in 2008 through
Ranky Tanky and is now ready to shine on vinyl. This record collects all the songs from the original cassette release and includes one
previously released instrumental.
Limited to 500 copies (167 clear with orange splatter. 333 translucent orange) with a printed 11x11 insert with lyrics.
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erik enocksson - apan lp (release the bats) $16.00
fourth album from stockholm-based composer erik enocksson, following up with its dark tail curled ’round the garage and the soundtracks to farväl falkenberg and man tänker sitt (all released on kning disk). eerie and desolate music inspired by "the ape" by jesper ganslandt. written and recorded fall 2008 through spring 2010.
comes packaged in a 350gsm full color cover jacket with a black inside, lp on clear vinyl housed in a printed innersleeve. mastered by viktor ottosson. 275 copies.
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dust - "ballet" cs (phaserprone) $7.00
hushed moments of lyrical voice, with fractured synthesizer. hidden exploration's of unfolding autonomous nuance. first and possibly the last dust release, new identity as five mask. formerly earth crown, formerly copper glove. letterpressed j-card and pro duplicated tape.
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roe enney - "damnatio memoriae" cs (phaserprone) $7.00
loner voyeuristic psychedelicia, with a tendency toward the neurotic or the surreal, lamented with voice and occasional spoken word. a peculiar nod to the new romantics. letterpressed j-card, and pro duplicated tape.
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mark lord - "
tachyon firing squad" cs (phaserprone) $7.00
infected mutant-punk and marauding rhythmic investigations, usurped by telegraphical radio transmissions. a strangely induced feeling of pervasive developmental disorder. with exception to the discontinue stardust album; this is perhaps, the most song oriented release in the mark lord catalog. letterpressed j-card, and pro duplicated tape.
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HSDOM - "untitled" cs (phaserprone) $7.00
biographical clues to old germany. moments of loneliness. psychological surrealism, garnished with outboard effects and hints of spoken word. raw code synthesis, void of contemporary audio programming software. recalling the more esoteric industrial of the past. letterpressed j-card, and pro duplicated tape.
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sean mccann - "mammoth mountain" 2xcs (avant archive) $10.00
sean mccann literally needs no introduction. if you're reading this promotional paragraph, you already know who sean is and there is a good chance you're already convinced of his musical capacity. sean's specialty seems to be this airy and sweet 'atmosphere', something that sounds simultaneously like a slow-motion stringed dirge and an accompaniment to your morning's reflection over a pot of steaming coffee. with mammoth mountain, sean is in a unique form. these songs are short and rambling, and they present mccann in a kind of sparse orchestration. there is very little 'constant' drone that frequently appears on his records. mammoth mountain is space-specific, recorded during a series of family outings over two years, and the compositions on these two volumes are apropos of the space. the sparseness with which the songs are written and played (or improvised) allows the mountain air to permeate the tape. the overall effect is just what one might expect from sean mccann: a tender set that almost insists on the transportation to or envisioning of mammoth mountain and its surrounding beauties. this album is sometimes fun, sometimes discordant, and sometimes entirely disarming, much like the wild spaces from whence it was derived. sip a cool stream and join sean for a stringed jaunt up the mountain.
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emuul - "waiting for winter" cs (avaint archive) $5.00 emuul's kyle iman is a quiet champion of quietness. his works to date have exhibited this kind of subtle presence wherein time slows down a little and reference points are not easily set. often working with synthesizers, some of emuul's most effective pieces have been those in which the least movement occurs. on waiting for winter, iman eschews his synthesizers in favor of the electric guitar and some variation on his synthetic stasis. this album's side-long introduction, "blurring the nights" is a terrifically dynamic piece that stretches from the quiet guitar hum you might recognize into a frantic sonic mantra, culminating in the integration of some expert guest drumming. on the b-side kyle airs it out a bit with four short pieces that set more somber moods. naturally driven guitars are dipped in equal parts delay and reverb. with these airs, emuul returns to the kind of stasis that you might have recognized from his past excursions, but perhaps these are his most successful pieces yet. not only do they captivate and affect the slowing of time, they're also incredibly sweet and natural sounding, fully identifiable and earnest. here is simply a man playing guitar simply, with no shroud of mystery or murk. waiting for winter is a guitar album and it demonstrates that the success of this musician comes from him, not his tools.
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radio people - "avalon" cs (centre) $6.00
a somewhat claustrophobic radio people release, still a steady elegant roedelius vibe that can put the listener at ease.
edition of 150
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nature camp - "sinth" cs (centre) $6.00
a new duo out of cleveland, side a is a guitar heavy kraut romp with steady percussion and side b is a classic weirdo newcomer freak out ala early early spooky tan dream. edition of 100
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comet bodies - "human vapors" cs (centre) $6.00
julian of cylindrical habitat and buddy adam miller who does isle of sodor cook up some darrrrk zones, somewhat of an industrial release from these two , while most kids there age are chugging beer thru a funnelor forming a neon crystal feather boa drocal band or a combo of both , these kids are harvesting raw sounds with all the right intentions, true stuff. edition of 100
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ajilvsga - "massacre canyon" double cs (avant archive) $10.00
if you've been hanging around the tiny experimental voids that have been surfacing in north america over the past five-or-so years, there is some chance that you've brushed up against the rolling thunderhead called ajilvsga. the duo's body of work is massive, and so even though it's only a glimpse, massacre canyon is nonetheless a necessary document in the evolution of this musical icon. this soaring double-cassette collects tracks from ajilvsga's past—some pieces more ephemeral than others, but everything worthy of a second (or tenth) glance. what these selections have in common is only a certain ability to succinctly (as much as one can, given the nature of the music, both in density and in length) define this oklahoman tag-team's oeuvre: an animal darkness, tainted with imagery both accusatory and mournful. through their own multitude of sonic approaches, may you find ajilvsga's essence living in the spaces of massacre canyon. alas, it's not the end: side d contains 40 minutes of new music. onward!
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excavacations - "afternoon future" cs (avant archive) $6.00
pop music isn't what it used to be. excavacations know this as well as anyone, and you'll know it too when you find yourself tapping your foot suddenly after emerging from a murky fog of sustained guitars and synthesizers. chad parsons & nicholas longworth's increasingly signature stamp onto the musical underground is unmistakably playful, but don't miss the signposts pointing back in time, and (it hardly bears mentioning) don't miss the caverns of solemnity from which their lighter sensibilities emerge. these two musicians have been feeding on the morsels that popular rock & roll has left behind, and washing it down with a swig of experimental electronics and a gulp of musique concrete. their knowledge shows through when suddenly we find ourselves at that point where we want to hit rewind and hear that unforseen verse repeated yet again. when you find yourself frustrated that the last verse was indeed the last verse, take some consolation and rest in the longer stretches of abstraction, and keep in mind that excavacations just might come back with another verse or two. how soon? keep listening.
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max eisenberg - "dog synth" lp (tusco embassy) $13.00
baltimore superior street decay! analog patching greatness! warm cracky glips popping out of slime. waves of ectoplasm uphill, falling into bottomless mind chasms. wide spectrum dynamic of post industrial sounds fantastically disorientating anti-melodies of high pitched minors and sharps turns into disgruntled organist. end result: interspace time travel.
hand screen printed edition of 260
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leslie keffer / outmode - "split" lp (tusco embassy) $13.00
leslie's post-techno slow sparse slosh beat blended siren drone retake of 2010 inc set. smooth mental transfers of white static energy melted with phases of reality. outmode side is a triage of ideas seamlessly merged. phantom underlay of doom beats evolve into throwback late 70's cold wave. underground party realm finds dark bowie vox in a geode of vibrations.
hand screen printed edition of 260
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fire death - "fire death" lp (tusco embassy) $13.00
heavy rock formation re-location station, encompassing geographic volcanic jazz fire blasts. stretched rubber band tape loops collide against a superposition stratified manmade stone dam. fractured crust giving way to ash and molten metal. charred remains of soundscape glowing from slow burning embers till it extinguishes into a calcified cool down. j guy laughlin on skins and benjamin osborne on tape loops and clarinet. mastered and recorded by justin coulter.
hand screen printed edition of 260
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various artists - "papier & plastik" 2xcd (incubator) $25.00 ****
"ghetto edition," 37 copies in an 11 inch square printed hard plastic trapezoid cover with overprinted cigarette cartons / bubble wrap texture art & plastic montage. original hand made 2" flip booklet by odijk. with image transparency, customized individual cd covers, specially mounted ruler and standard booklet. paper & plastic is a two disc audio project that began in 1991 featuring rare and unreleased material by some of the most prolific and innovative sound/visual artists from the international experimental tape culture era of the eighties and nineties.
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soft option killing - "soft option killing" cs (hospital productions) $8.00
soft option killing from the uk has operated under the radar with deadly force. fiery textures engulf a rocky bed of coal while heavy carts carry away the remains on a iron track into dark tunnels. gas mask noise.
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ames sanglantes - "the sum of your disarray" cs (hospital productions) $8.00
power hungry loops eat their way through the foundation where screams of despair can be heard falling through the rickety scaffolding as fire hoses blast out the remaining loose screws and clean the oil from the aluminum pipes.
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prurient and nico vascellari - "jesus" 2xcs (hospital productions) $20.00
this set documents two collaborative performances from nico vascellari and prurient conducted in san francisco, usa and kiev, ukraine surrounding the confrontative icons of gg allin and klaus kinski. each cassette includes the full live recordings of the two performances as well as collaborative collage work using materials from live footage of gg and kinksi assembled into an world of tension and misunderstanding. packaged in vinyl box.
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failing lights - "hunting ethic" one sided lp (gods of tundra) $15.00
hymns to distance and obscurity. winter hibernation approaches...time to prepare. edition of 100
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virgin spring - "excelsior" - one sided lp (gods of tundra) $15.00
debut vinyl. wander in the wetlands and get lost. lines tangle and tighten and then disintegrate. the next step is never certain. breath in this unclear atmosphere. ever upward. edition of 100.
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viking jews / smycken - "split" lp (release the bats) $21.00
hailing from gothenburg, viking jews is the brainchild of hannes norrvide (also a member of bleak rascal duo lust for youth), which after a few selfreleased cassettes here offers up 20 shimmering minutes for his vinyl debut. melancholic and rhythmic stuff melted through cheap keyboards, distinguished vocals and some serious cassette-flippin', somewhat covered under layers of dust, delay and piles of trashed skateboard decks. twisted west coast ambience and scandinavian heat all over. think of monopoly child star searchers, early dolphins into the future and innercity and maybe you are halfways. all new material, except the inclusion of the beautiful ambient-closer from the boneless cassette which we just couldn't resist to put on vinyl.
smycken resides in gothenburg/malmö/copenhagen and consists of rasmus svensson and hanna nilsson. just as with viking jews, this is the first vinyl-apperance from smycken after most notably a cassette on night people and a cd-r on psychic malmö (both released in 2009). 4 tracks of hazy and dreamy music, pushing forward everything towards a more refined pop-sound but without loosing it's initial fonal-esque psychedelic blurs and almost folky undertones. current popular culture is being demolished and embraced at the same time. tracks like marble slabz will have you, with a big smile, asking yourself what the fuck just happened and the closer mysterious moonlight is the closest thing we have come to a ballad in the rtb discography since... well, ever.
mastered by viktor ottosson. 275 copies. blue vinyl.
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mike shiflet - "llanos" cd (no label) $9.00
llanos is an album not only about late summer evenings spent in tall grass, but also the collision of worlds and tangled webs of memories. noise, drones and musical elements combine in a futile effort to recreate a perfect moment in a perfect world that could not have possibly existed. the real and the imagined have blurred. the noise and the music have made peace.
*definitely one of my favorite discs i've heard all year. its a must hear*
kevin greenspon - "common objects" lp (family time records) $10.00
drone meets pop, kevin is genre defying embarking on some new ground where drone doesn’t have to stretch out for days and pop songs don’t have to have choruses. each lp comes with a code to download the audio in mp3
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skin graft - "cancerous" 2xcdr (pizza night) $10.00
a double cdr version of the 4 c60 box set that sold out instantly. contains two years worth of recording churning harsh noise mud and hatred black coal forced into dark diamonds of audio... color covers housed in thick dvd style cases. limited strictly to 100
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alex barnett - "section: 4" cs (pizza night) $7.00
insanely killer terminator meets escape from ny synthesizer.... truly carpenter'esque but still very brooding and wandering like good tangerine dream, pro dubbed with art designed by alex himself
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tiger hatchery - "s/t" one-sided lp (pizza night) $14.00
the first pizza night vinyl, amazing hi-fi live session recorded with a mobile studio in my own living room this past winter, a beautifully derranged free jazz jam in which time means nothing, rhythmically challenging tonal barrage
heavy screen printed sleeves and carefully screen printed side of the record, limited to 150 - ultra rare
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time crypt - "cruel science" cs (hospital productions) $8.00
universal death metal in the vein of early hellhammer and celtic frost. but sci-fi.
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curved blade - "be like death"
cs (hospital productions) $8.00
dismal, morbid, primitive death worship. raw black metal with keyboards.
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work/death - "to the hills of altadena" cs (jugular forest) $7.00
dense layers of conflicting harsh and ambience from scott reber (three songs of lenin).
bells and piano discovering a serene setting while harsh textures remind the temporary
nature of that very moment. the end of the rainbow, still downhill.
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mirror to mirror - "the door with a lock" cs (jugular forest) $7.00
hazy synth recordings from alex twomey.
washed out upbeat melodies and slow chosen loops.
accepting what to let in/out of your life and moving on.
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harpoon pole vault - "outside this area" cs (jugular forest) $7.00
solo project from jason e. anderson (gift tapes; half of brother raven).
spacey and melodic synth pieces. floating with nausea.
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red electric rainbow - "ascending the divine" cs (jugular forest) $7.00
digital synth from daniel smith (neon blossom cassettes).
slow tones escalated by arpeggios increasing in tempo.
contrasting sides of playful energy against steady pacing.
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tombs of the blind dead -
"untitled" cs (cylindrical habitat modules) $8.00
one-time tape/field recordings/etc.. project inspired by and primarily sourcing the spanish horror film of the same name. cold and weird looping lock-ins, scraping and slowly approaching. music for la noche del terror ciego. edition of 65.
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chemtrails & steel dangerous -
"galvanized dextrose" cs (cylindrical habitat modules) $8.00
unearthed collaboration of jeff host and doug gent (moth cock) jamming university synths, long before they were chemtrails or steel dangerous. absurd, flowing synthesis with a defined morton subotnick-style nonesuch vibe. around every corner there's a bizarre surprise. i've tried falling asleep with this on but it just doesn't happen, at least once a minute i'd open my eyes in confusion just to make sure the sounds weren't coming from that bizarre purgatory between consciousness and sleep. this recording leaps around and covers more ground in 46 minutes than i could in weeks. one of the weirdest modules yet. essential! edition of 70 with big color covers and sprayed, "dying printer"-style labels.
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quicksails -
"madison lakes" cs (cylindrical habitat modules) $8.00
the new project everyone should be most excited about. ben billington (tiger hatchery, druids of huge etc.) goes solo and lays down the most unique yet logical scattering of sounds i've heard in a while. analog synth, percussion, synth that sounds like percussion, percussion that sounds like synth (??????), blended into a fine powder and sprinkled onto an endless plain of 90's capri sun-style mercury slime. the whole recording is sprinkled with tiny pinpricks and nuances of the aforementioned synth/percussion/??????? that craft a completely fresh, insanely addictive sound-zone that sounds like every raindrop in the sky solidifying and turning into solid gold. the whole tape culminates with (easily) jam of the year, "realization", full of warm, "insightful" sounding synths and perfectly placed popol vuh-style cymbal crashes. i can't help but feel like this is the music for now, it just feels right. somebody needs to do an lp for this guy asap. weird full-color covers and painted labels in a "get the word out" edition of 100!
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sean mccann -
"fable shop" cdr (cylindrical habitat modules) $9.00
remastered, expanded version of the ninth module, sean mccann's "fable shop". released as a cdr with brand new artwork and an additional guitar-based track. edition of 100.
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headboggle - "ciat demo as rhapsodized" cs (cylindrical habitat modules) $8.00
not to play favorites, but this has to be the heaviest hitter from this here batch. after two back-to-back head boggle gigs this summer, i am saying with confidence that mr. gedalecia is by far the most underrated jammer in the game. he's been beeping and screeching lightyears above the ozone layer for long enough that it's not even going over everybody's head anymore, it's just bouncing around in the outer limits waiting for some extraterrestrials to grip it and eat, sleep and pray to it. a perfect set of tones that sounds like five thousand phantom patches tumbling down the stairs with unheard-of and amazing "haunted ballroom" style free piano, all of it crashing gloriously at the bottom, into your brain. trademark headboggle synth-squeaks and whistles drill their way through cascading "black tie affair" piano shred and unexpectedly beautiful mandolin plucking. sounds like sitting in the present trying to tune into radio 1000 years from now and realizing that it sounds better in between stations. after the endless circuitry-scrape of the first side, side b holds a recent live set with a similar vibe. minimal crowd chatter sounds completely in-place and purposeful, as if it were actually part of the jam. like always with headboggle, you have no idea what's going on, but the confusion is what keeps you coming back. absolutely arresting and mind-warping music. the best of the best!!!! edition of 100 with extra confusing art, trans blue tapes with full-color labels.
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earn - "lacewing" cs (ekhein) $7.00
two very simple and minimal mandolin-based ambient pieces recorded to 4-track one summer day in los angeles. songs for the passing of a day and where the time goes...
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pedestrian deposit - "east fork / north fork" cd (monorail trespassing) $11.00
cd reissue of the instantly sold out cassette released by housecraft earlier this year. this cd reissue also contains two previously unreleased tracks recording during the first half of 2010.
mike shiflet - "gutter divas" cs (dokuro) $6.00
dokuro is very glad to host another pearl from ohio electronic magister mike shiflet.
gutter divas is a clattery tide of sonic detritus and rotating waves in escalation, a formidable example of sound that become a tactile experience.
b side "they don't have the heart to tell you" is a contemplative piece of extended tones, once again comes out all the ability in frequencies surgery of mr shiflet
ltd editon of 70 pro dub cassette.
glamorous artwork by merlo.
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mike shiflet - "ichinomiya 5.3.6" cd (troniks) $7.00
with simultaneous beauty and isolation, this album isn't a dedication to the my home in rural japan but rather an attempt to replicate the mindset the village inspires and put the listener in the same headspace. please listen to the disc in its entirety. turn everything else off and play loud. - mike shiflet
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mike shiflet and brendan murray - "sentimental gentlemen" cdr (sentient recognition archive) $8.00
originally released in a handmade quantity of 50 on cdr during murray & mike’s tour late last year, this has now gotten a proper reissue of 150 copies. two lengthy tracks with murray and shiftlet merging sounds to create something wholly unique. it’s also great to see some sense of humor in the drone field.
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mike shiflet and ryan jewell - "hysteresis"
cdr (carbon records) $8.00
this is the fifth release in the carbon 15yr.series. 35+ minutes of controlled feedback, drone, silence, static, samples and acoustic/live improv. [packaged with silk-screened logo over a unique "sampled" page in a heavy duty vinyl sleeve]
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vales and minutiae - "split" cs (905 tapes) $6.00
vales has a gig picking up people who poop themselves from seedy motels and driving them around. makes for good stories in the middle of the day, but he tends to fry up my text usage and send my bill overboard. one time he got in touch with a story about a lady who's kid (or maybe grandkid, or maybe both??) suffered from a condition she called "the rammies". it was a good story, and he named the track on this split after it. solid choice. total ether-fragment vibes going down here. tones that s-board on the rings of saturn. minutiae is a superstar three-piece, kind of like that cartoon called pro-stars where michael jordan, wayne gretzky, and bo jackson fought crime. jeff astin (xiphiidae/housecraft) dunks it from the foul line, william giacchi (magic lantern/super minerals) boosts the stanley cup over his head, and phil french(super minerals/stunned records) knows best. bed time stories on cough syrup. (edition of 50)
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black eagle child -
"born underwater" b/w "the arquebus" cs (avant archive) $6.00
composition has always been a difficult process. when i decided to stick close to my comfort zone and start building music from foundations of guitar, writing music became a little easier. before black eagle child reached this point, my composition process did not exist. mostly the result was failure, but from this lack of discipline also came a couple pieces i really felt proud of. here they are finally in an official production.
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knit prism - "growing" cs (avant archive) $6.00
michael pouw's efforts as knit prism have already transported us to many lands—some familiar and others less so. here guitar chords issue forth on tape, floating lightly in the air, but also with enough heaviness to refract the light passing through. there is a certain haze about growing. mimicing the moods and incidences in our daily lives, pouw travels from one moment to the next, often with little transition in between. not wanting to be incongruently clear about this, all we can say is that the sounds on this recording are attributed to places of mystery and a certain 'other world' that so often exists in the realm of comedic drama. this is realism and comedy together. walk through the barrier of fog and step into a world in which the rules are unknown.
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a. pushkin - "the figure" cs (avant archive) $6.00
has electronic music reached its pinnacle? the mainstream transition from analog to digital in the 1990s caused a shortage of analog equipment, but now analog is in a renaissance. the early part of the 2000s saw a race toward higher bpm and hyper-mutilated amen breaks, but all the while there have been analog warriors existing in the underground. alexey pushkin is an advocate for analog, and instead of making dubstep records or the fastest jungle 12" ever, he is creating worlds into which his listeners can retreat. as analog concept, alexey has given us a broad range of experiences—from walls of ambient sound to collections of vintage-inspired numbers to a trip through a real-life cityscape. the figure presents a. pushkin, and it is a portfolio of sorts. we get rich ambience, wild synthesizer manipulation, crisp field recordings, and now even infectious minimal house outings. electronic music exists simultaneously in the future and the past.
pigeons - "pigeons" cs (the curatorial club) $7.00
on the trail of their lunettes 7-inch on soft abuse and barely preceeding the release of si faustine on oesb, this collection of songs finds pigeons exploring their inner realm. originally intended to be a live release, tcc006 grew to include new songs (the intoxicating allure of "en rêve" and the luminous "masks"), as well as homages to some of their favorite songs (mark bolan's "life's a gas", dwight twilley's "looking for the magic" and jimmy page and del shannon's "in my time of sorrow.") the b-side is filled with a live set recorded in the dead of winter on the lower east side and showcases songs from the forthcoming si faustine.
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future shuttle - "west and green" cs (the curatorial club) $7.00
recorded on a sunny evening on greenpoint's river edge, this live improvisational set from future shuttle finds the synth duo exploring temporal atmosphere while submerged in an infinite sea of newly born stars. recorded live on a sony handheld tape recorder during a future shuttle live installation at the opening of the art unit at west & green on april 13th 2010. the recording featurs camilla padget-coles and jessa farkas on synthesizers and lizzie harper on flute.
flower-corsano duo - "you'll never work in this town again" cdr (hot cars warp records) $7.00
material from the october 2009 tour done with the flower-corsano mobile multi-track recording unit. two tracks (17 & 7 minutes long) from wood st. gallery in pittsburgh, pa and one 19-minute track from issue project room in brooklyn, ny. 43 minutes total.
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the geese - "u.s. passport virgin islands" cs (roll over rover) $6.00
new project from josiah wolfson and sean mccann. recorded in josiah's livingroom upon sean's debut arrival to new york last spring. the strangest rover release so far. two old friends laying eggs together. limited to 100 copies, color covers with inserts and audio download link.
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joseph mcnulty - "trail running" cs (roll over rover) $6.00
we are honored to welcome a new dog to the family, young gun joseph mcnulty. his third ambient release, following the overlooked "the earth, in veins" (one of the best cassettes ever) and his one on cabin floor - features playful fourtrack recordings of guitar and keyboards. innocent and enchanting. features sean mccann on a track or two. color covers, with insert. limited to 100 copies, with insert and audio download link.
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kellen shipley - "fell from the sky" cs (roll over rover) $6.00
kel's newest ambient recordings from spring and summer of 2010. the instruments are carefully placed at an equal distance, panned to perfection. combining lo-fi and hi-fi elements, this tape is perfect for the outdoors. fold-out cover. limited to 100 copies, with insert and audio download link.
field of hats - "live recordings vol.1" cs (arable tapes) $6.00 description soon...
vile bodies - "demo tape" cs (razors and medicine) $6.00
first release from this boston hard core project. the new project from conversions members featuring the core instrumental lineup but male vocals instead of female. expertly composed and precise with great guitar and bass riffs, angry vocals, and machine gun drumming. high quality recording and musicianship but without the sacrifice of heart. guitar riffs reminiscent of ginn but minus the noodling. transitions that make sense and flow. incorporating the best elements of the old without being caught in the past.
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ricardo donoso - "linear transformation matrices" cs (razors and medicine) $6.00
the most definitive solo statement from this perispirit and ehnahre member. dirty oscillator destruction and blown out synth edited in that meticulous perispirit style. a recording of contrast. heavy use of dynamics. the loud and the soft. the pretty and the ugly. noise and tonality. these tracks take you different places. not a recording where you jump ahead a minute and the track sounds exactly the same as it did before. sometimes you’re allowed to relax but only briefly. it’s a busy world. no time for burnouts. view your reality through the eyes of mr. brazil.
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howard stelzer - "apricot war buffer zone" cs (razors and medicine) $6.00
new tape composition from the man, the myth, and the legend. he lives inside the static. listen carefully and you’ll always discover it all anew or lay back and get showered in this hiss. a nice companion to “go on,” and “bond inlets.” the fans know what they’re in for.
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eagle’s breast - "assault and flattery" cs (razors and medicine) $6.00
kfw description:
impressively lengthy, patience-trying set of prepared guitar extrapolations from luther “luke” moldof - an attempted “earth history” recorded “live” to tape in seemingly single-take style, expanding on themes laid out by descartes, yet rooted in a kind of ecclesiastic rug-burn that’s all luke ...
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exploring jezebel - "penis torture chamber" 8xcs (hospital productions) $71.00 eight c90's for the man begging to cum. exploring jezebel performs curious electrions for the trans industrial assembly.
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ättestupa - "begraven mot norr" lp (release the bats) $21.00
north of the church, only the worst of mankind was buried. under the dark soil you could find people who had ended their own lives. murderers. thieves. here in the shadow, the poor souls were gathered for their last rest. begraven mot norr, the second album from ättestupa, is themed around funeral customs and death processions in the past centuries of rural sweden.
the first lp was described as a mix of folk tones, 70's german prog, noise and black metal, and via the att korsa den flod som kommer dränka oss alla tape (abisko) and 1867 12" (dnt), that mixture was refined. with begraven mot norr, ättestupa returns with their most accomplished and complex recording so far, a natural progression from änglamakerskan (their praised contribution to the utmarken compilation 10"). opening with an eerie violin over a rushing river, the bleak tone is immediately set. set to a backbone of monotonous drumming, guitars and organs take the freezing lead in the sinister arrangements. abrasive electronics intersects with field recordings and a sparse and elegant use of acoustic instruments. the chant-like vocals lure somewhere in the background, working as an instrument on it's own. often based on scrap metal junk abuse and tape loops, the droning interludes from their recent live sets are incorporated. the overall atmosphere is more melancholic, paving itself through different shades of grey with a calmer and more distinct sound than before.
recorded between summer 2009 and spring 2010. 2 tracks, 35 minutes. mastered by viktor ottosson. comes with a a1 poster.
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yeast culture with achim wollscheid and all fours - "red light remixes" cs (incubator) $7.00
there was a performance by all fours (eric blevins with mark
schomburg), and another by achim wollscheid, and wollscheid's
computer clapper system was installed onto some of the cafe's
chairs, which were hung from the ceiling. the cafe's piano was
played anonymously from time to time. mark schomburg
recorded percussion, voice and field tapes around the cafe and
in atlanta to use in the live performance. the improvisational
playing of a door by achim wollscheid was conducted
separately. this tape mixes both live and field recordings with
additional sound sources. although five track titles are listed
below, this is one long work of audio production. many of the
sounds here were not heard at the performance, but were simply
preserved on tape. it was part of the show's concept that a
crossover existed between different performers and their
sounds. wollscheid's performance included immediate sound
samples of the other artists both live and from prior field
recordings, creating a generalized time frame. yeast culture
has included all total materials from these performances into a
remix with additional source tapes by all fours and allen
russell. both sides of this tape are the same.
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pete swanson - "ghost o clock" cs (no label) $7.00
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pete swanson - "signs of life" cs (no label) $7.00
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pete swanson - "challenger" cs (no label) $7.00 8F
cowards - "forgotten resonence" cd (semata productions) $10.00 new york city's cowards , made up of jesse allen (the cathode terror secretion, migrations in rust) and nick pace (diaphragm) are part of the red light district collective, in which a handful of ambitious musicians explore a wide swath of what is known as modern noise; groups such as yellow tears, halflings, the cathode terror secretion, among others.
with their debut 'forgotten resonance' cowards have stepped up the game in contemporary industrial/noise music. equally informed by harsh noise, industrial, musique concrete, black/death metal, world/ethnic, ambient and classical music 'forgotten resonance' is an album that is both physically and emotionally engaging the whole way through. the compositions are are extremely sectional and linear, they rely heavily on tension and release. heavy use of dynamics, thick clouds of natural and electronic sound, and dense tonal harmonic beds help to expose these emotions. a man looks at himself and he can see the apathy in his own life and his apathy towards the end times. this is music for the end times.
edition of 300: pro replicated compact discs housed in a deluxe full color digipak, shrink-wrapped.
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work/death - "tender comrades" cd (semata productions) $10.00 providence, rhode island based work/death, operated by scott reber, is an intersection of musique concrete, electro-acoustic improv and composition, field recording, drone, harsh noise, physical performance, and the pop song. as the name suggests it is a labor of determination, focus, and quality accumulating over a lifetime. for the past 10 years he has synthesized sounds of the 20th century. his multimodal composition process navigates effortlessly between the intellectualist avant garde and the noise underground with its violent removal of musical structures. paraphrasing reber himself, "david tudor or alvin lucier as prototype wall noise via early mapping of crunch, crumble, cracks, crackle, ruptures, space, and moving air that would later be central to the rita, macronympha."
each work/death release, previously on labels such as hospital, monorail trespassing, ekhein, ect. gives the listener an entry point to his exploration of a time, location, frequency or state of anxiety. 'tender comrades' his first official full length is his strongest statement yet. unapologetic harmonic/melodic moves surfacing through and being submerged by waves of white noise. 'tender comrades' is drenched in sweat, performed with piano, upright bass, guitar, machine, midi programming, cassette manipulation, synthesizer, his body, hiss, crackle, melody, hope and possibility. this is harsh noise composition, conceptual high volume, the aurality of negative space, the physicality of sound - filling rooms, bodies. work/death exemplifies the subtlety of pain and the intensity of tenderness. garbage in. garbage out.
edition of 500: pro replicated compact discs housed in a deluxe full color digipak, shrink-wrapped.
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owl head, wooden man/night music - "liftedness i" cs (cabin floor esoterica) $7.50
creaking basement prayers from a few sides of the dust era. owlhead, wooden man, otherwise known as shon mahoney (s. br. oak, soft peace, etc.) slips right into a long buzzing drone piece, full of half-heard layers and imagined howls, the subtle melody of a horn on the radio. a dream in dust, for sure. then he let's it ride a little easier on a simply folky song blown out and roaring in the most gentle way possible, building into a strange loop of misheard melody. the flip side sees a series of shorter cut works from night music's christopher kline (wooden veil, soft peace, etc.) tossing banjos, guitars, jaw harp, old electronics and whatever else he can find into an old trunk, shaking it up, and dumping it out. sounding like a television made of stones on the fritz during a storm, chopping up flooded gray static and deep woods fortune teller stories. in an edition of 50 painted-label tapes tied with thread to a seed packet designed by the artists and filled with cosmos flower seeds.
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big blood - "night terrors on the isle of louis hardin" cs (cabin floor esoterica) $7.50
caleb mulkerin & colleen kinsella (cerberus shoal, fire on fire) have slowly been filling the big blood book for a while now and this is definitely the year to kick it off big. this tape finds them in a different space than most of their previous releases, going toward strange short form clattering instrumental pieces and increasingly off-kilter acoustic grooves. the string bass chugs through while the train whistle melodies photograph the whole scene just to pump it back out of the scratchy guitar. don't you fret though, the beautiful big blood vocal harmonies are all still there underneath the dust and as strong as ever. wood block boogies in tribute to the viking of sixth ave: moondog. in an edition of 75 in twine tied wrap around artwork with two inserts by the artists.ys someone coming to a conclusion on this release. there is always a lesson to be learned. first solo works in quite some time.
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everyday loneliness - "an error in judgement" cs (ekhein) $7.50
a collection of grieving cycles from jon borges (pedestrian deposit, emaciator, monorial trespassing label). through use of very simple and to-the-point cassette loops, borges conveys someone coming to a conclusion on this release. there is always a lesson to be learned. first solo works in quite some time.
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earn - "center self" cs (ekhein) $7.50
recorded in los angeles while living in a tent with a broken body and mind. these recordings illustrate the paranoia, desperation and eventual acceptance i experienced at the end of this winter. in a way, the soundtrack to being locked inside myself and finding a way out before it was too late. shifting between some of the darkest and brightest. there really are endless possibilities waiting to find you at every moment. upcoming releases on arbor, monorail, and root strata.
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evan miller - "spool/thread" cs (ekhein) $7.50
two ambient miniatures from former iowa city/current portland, oregon resident evan miller. never one to be pigeonholed, millers displays his talent for bright, romantic guitar and organ work on this release while maintaining that same personality that comes through on all of his work over the years. a shot of color.
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antiquity - "s/t" cs (ekhein) $7.50 new york's jonas asher (grasslung/phaserprone label) going into warmer territory on his debut cassette under the moniker of antiquity. a very vivid picture painted throughout this suite of desolate melodies. with use of synthesizer, field recordings, organ, and electronics asher has managed to create a recording that truly holds some unspoken weight behind it and hopefully, a glimpse at whats to come from a true perfectionist.
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chris corsano band - "high and dry" cdr (hot cars warp records) $7.00 first recordings by the chris corsano band. 28 minutes of guitar-bass-drum trio music.
noveller - "wolf" 7" (ftam) $7.00 sarah lipstate (also of parts and labor and one umbrella) of brooklyn, ny has been creating incredibly beautiful works of solo guitar drone for years now under the moniker noveller, although it seems like people have just started to pay attention (which is a crying shame). on her very first 7" record, she pulls unreleased material both old an new. the a-side represents an earlier sound, extremely textural and completely unrestrained, shimmering the entire way through with the smallest hint of darkness seeping beneath. the b-side is brand new, showcasing the more subtle turn her work has taken as of late, working heavily with a building sense of cohesion and melody throughout the track.
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noveller - "desert fires" cd (saffron recordings) $12.00 desert fires’ is noveller’s full-length follow-up to last year’s no fun debut ‘red rainbows’. the sounds on ‘desert fires’ express a compositional evolution from layered loop-based drone work to more expansive formal arrangements of swells, throbs, tones and shimmer. where ‘red rainbows’ presented an anthology of studies in technique—from early bedroom recordings to noveller’s first exploits in the studio—‘desert fires’ illustrates a refined, deliberate meditation on the physical relationship between lipstate and her electric guitar. handling the instrument as her muse, lipstate summons a sonic palette so rich as to challenge the listener to conceive of how it’s housed in a single instrument manipulated by a solitary performer.
opening track, “almost alright,” stakes claim to ground in territory charted by fripp & eno or synth-heavy contemporaries emeralds, and leads the listener into the spacious, sprawling landscape of ‘desert fires’. “kites calm desert fires” is a sandstorm of rich, percussive guitar, warm humming bass and swirling rhapsodic chimes. “toothnest (for chris habib)” arrives at an idyllic sonic plateau of windswept fuzz and tremolo, then charges blindly with a soaring guitar solo evocative of bagpipes triumphantly marking a return from battle. closing track “fades” is the precipitate of a fragile complexity of deeply sensual sonic reactions—physically pairing texture, air and chance with the strings of lipstate’s guitar—it exposes the emulsion of one’s ears to the light of noveller’s sounds.
having recently translated the studio recordings of ‘desert fires’ into live arrangements, lipstate has patiently nurtured the common pulse of musician and instrument into a seamless, organic enterprise fit for consumption from the stage. noveller tours the us and europe thru the summer and fall of 2010 in support of the saffron recordings release, ‘desert fires’.
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media dreams - "untitled" cs (arbitrary signs) $7.00
new full length tape from the deep zone trio of samara lubelski, pete nolan, and brian sullivan.. this band exists for the sole purpose of penetrating the vast unknown and their using the most up to date fire power. jammage of the highest order.. recorded live at the legendary tarpit.
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spectre folk - "in the sparkin' age of the great white horse" cs (arbitrary signs) $7.00
"in the sparkin' age of the great white horse" is the new cassette
from spectre folk, nearly 50 minutes of psych-ish folk-leaning rock
fog that is destined to melt into your dashboard this summer.
the tracks are culled and clipped from the sessions that produced
spectre folk’s most recent lp, compass, blanket, lantern, mojo. here
in the sparking age, pete nolan’s mood seems, lighter and brighter –
there’s less mystic nursery hush and a much more saturated stain of
the pink-orange ice cream colors of a pacific sunset.
true to form, there are forlorn fingerpickers and some quiet, noisy
stretches that feel like a walk alone in the woods at night, but the
tape also finds nolan making organic noises with his noisemaking
machinery: a tube amp makes thundercloud sounds on a track that’s got
the hazy warmth of a summer day begging for a rainshower; synths
burble, ominously at first, then dissolve into the a sound like
passing cars on the highway, before a couple guitars, intertwined,
come in at a glacial gallop marching the tape along.
and the albums rockers show nolan’s increasing comfort with extended
form guitar solos that saunter into and out of wild crescendos and
murky valleys like it’s the easiest, most natural thing in the world
for the music to do.
tracks:
a
1. the follow trees
2. we're here forever
3. storm clouds in my fender
4. i dropped a line
5. suitcase
6. last days of the binson
7. cash machine
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1. 8 foot wings (now 6 feet longer!)
2. trailers
clams - "marino's dream" cdr (high spirits) $9.00
reissue of the live collaboration of lambsread/james ferraro/c spencer yeh. previously released on maim and disfigure.
pocahaunted - "make it real" cd (notnotfun) $9.00 after a six-month hiatus, a complete line-up overhaul, a trip to sxsw, a uk/euro tour, and a full year-plus of only playing shows and writing songs and amassing totemic objects, finally pocahaunted return to the recorded realm with their first album since 2008. time flies when yr having not not fun and all that. make it real collects seven of the band’s 2009 live staples for a 40-minute-ish collage of basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment. recorded barefoot and shirtless and direct to tape at green machine studio in summer ’09 by m. geddes gengras and featuring guest bamboo sax by jazzmaster alex gray (of dreamcolour/deep magic) and mastered by james plotkin. matte cd digipaks with warped la post-parliament utopia artwork by vision wizard spencer longo. edition of 500.
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alex bleeker - " getting by b/w these days and never going back" 7" (group tightener) $8.00
"we’re extremely happy to announce the release of our third 7-inch with alex bleeker, who you may also know from real estate and alex bleeker and the freaks. you may also know him as an awesome dude. whatever the case, this record is perfect to jam out in the early days of summer (or any other season you might feel like putting it on). download the a-side, “getting by” over at chocolate bobka, and purchase the record (shipping included in the prices below) to hear “these days” and “never going back.”"
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husere grav - "husere grav" (stunned) $7.00
"following up recent stunning releases on anathema sound and a killer split tape with robedoor, texas black metal/drone lord husere grav now burns another 37 minutes on his electrified altar and the thick, humid vapor releases ancient memories of equinox rituals. entreaties are made into nine realms of the unknown, each a masterfully shaped atmosphere pregnant with expectation; none dare breathe in a place so still. austere tectonic frequencies permeate like dense clouds of incense until all fades in ash-raining guitar haze, and catharsis reigns. limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c37 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert."
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mortuus auris & the black hand - "freiheit ist immer freiheit der andersdenkenden" (stunned) $7.00
"the last time we heard from mortuus auris & the black hand, the london cipher-weaver spun a most quixotic tapestry alluding to a nearby other (stunned no. 46). this next chapter raises the tension ever higher, thoroughly exploring ancillary avenues of nocturnal field recording & alien found sound. ‘freiheit ist immer freiheit der andersdenkenden’ is an amalgamation of organic and inorganic energies fused into a beautiful, breathing contradiction. special recording & editing techniques employed over its hour align the sacred geometries uncovered in spider webs, fishing nets, and tantric sex positions. the luminous sub-dimension revealed by such transgressive use of tech might take some getting used to; its’ presence suggestive of a contact experience right under our own skins. hand-numbered edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c60 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert."
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lunar miasma - "three legged elephant" cs (stunned) $7.00
"near the center of athens, greece’s recent swell of experimental sound activity is panos alexiadis, insult recordings operator and former red needled sea jammer. turning a page along with his city’s recent scene, panos is now busy at work with his analog synthesizers, prompting a name change last year to lunar miasma and a handful of amazing releases already on labels like small doses, ruralfaune, and basses frequences. ‘three legged elephant’ continues the wild ride with two varied sides of phase pattern play and bold synth lines signaling like lighthouse beacons from the moon. stereo-swept arpeggios gurgle brightly underneath expertly laid fields of sine antigravity, lifting the whole affair into genuine komische ecstasy. limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c45 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert."
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sparkling wide pressure - "facing the nothing world" cdr (stunned) $7.00
"frank baugh of sparkling wide pressure reports: “this is music which reflects the inner urge, the secret fear, and the courage to look directly. guided by moods into the true reflection of an empty world that is open. open world. sitting still and being one with movement. seeing the truth reflected in hollowness. it is like saying prayers in a nothing world. pointless and poignant.” exacting sentiments as we see this – stunned’s final cdr edition – out into the world & into your own intimate listening experiences. limited edition of 111 stamped cdrs with double-sided color cover in vinyl jacket."
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talisman - "initiate into the mysteries" cs (stunned) $7.00
"early in 2007, mark ledoux and m. geddes gengras stepped into a philadelphia recording space for a week and simply tore it up together, performing a multi-instrumental alchemy with guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, glockenspiel, dulcimer, bells and drums. the result of this dive into free-shredding folk and alternate-scale acoustics was ‘initiate into the mysteries’ — the talisman duo’s one & only album first issued as a highly limited cdr on night goat records. stunned was fortunate to score one of these rare early editions, and ever since it has been a favorite jam no matter what time of day or what mood we’re in. now on its third birthday, this tragically-overlooked masterwork has been dusted off, re-edited, and re-mastered with care by the band. we’ve additionally transferred it to high bias chrome tape along with all new art design. let’s just say it’s about time. talisman’s skill in fusing cloaked twilight dirge with sun-blinded modal reverie is totally compelling, and displays some of the more technically-accomplished passages heard from either members’ inimitable output. let the mysteries resonate strong as ever with our renewed attention and this special second issuing. limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c43 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert."
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torture corpse - "stop the mind" (stunned) $7.00
"after torture corpse debuted the gritty ‘particular sufferings’ on stunned last year, we followed closely as his statement of devastation continued unfolding with an excellent ep on italy’s radical matters. now with a renewed ferocity and focus, this act ii casts an unflinching gaze at the brutal state of the world through netherlands-zen/apocalyptic-buddhist lenses. with the schemes of the globes’ shadow elite being exposed daily and the emperors of the world appearing quite unclothed to all who care to notice, torture corpse urges on toward the next necessary stage: ‘stop the mind’. bracketed between black noise apparitions are vast stretches of radioactive chant and meditation bowl strikes, cerebral activity cooling to zilch. circuits open and fully offline, there comes a bracing visit from none other than manjushri — inevitability we can believe in. limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert."
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whorebutcher - "libertine" cs (hospital productions) $8.00
"underground classic. reissue from the original cdr. extreme frequency power electronics dedicated to peter sutcliffe. original art."
explosive improvised device - "machete and fire" cs (hospital productions) $8.00
"fast paced harsh noise violence meets ominous drone fields that can only be crossed by way of machete and fire."
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emil beaulieau - "born in the usa" cs (hospital productions) $8.00
"reissue from the classic with original art. originally on abnormal tapes. the first time i saw ron lessard perform was at man ray in boston playing with skin crime, einleitungszeit and schloss tegal. ron handed me his new tape and everyone had a chuckle that the man was still releasing cassettes after nearly 20 years. he went on to perform one of the greatest noise sets i have witnessed to do this day with total passion and conviction. dancing from his table to the crowd and back while the rapture of all possible frequencies decimated the air with pure noise. this is the raw crude versions of the moonlight in vermont material and stands as one of his most pure documents and one of my personal favorite tapes..noise!"
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sharpwaist - “trailers flooded in the wake of a hurricane” cs (razors and medicine) $6.00
"reissue of the second tape from the sharpwaist double surveillance state tour cassette released previously on razors and medicine. this tape features new artwork that works as a companion to the “poison harbor” reissue. sharpwaist’s masterwork thus far."
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bowed metal music - "untitled" cs (semata productions) $6.00
"peter warren and matt samolis have been working with their modified 'steel cellos' since 1997. bowed metal is the name of their duo work dedicated to the study and performance of acoustic drone music created by bowing cymbals and tuned steel rods.
the steel cello is a remarkably resonant and sympathetic assemblage of cymbals and tuned steel rods that, once set into vibration, produces a huge variety of subtly shifting timbres and harmonic intervals. rich in enharmonic overtones, the evocative music occasionally sounds like it has been electronically modified. first release in over a decade, we are extremely proud to have these guys on the roster. for fans of organum and robert rutman.
original recordings made in 1997-1998 recorded direct to stereo dat with xy configured mics.
edition of 125: pro-dubbed on black type ii high bias cassettes with 2-panel jcard, silkscreened shells & shrink-wrapping. "
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asher - "interference" cs (semata productions) $6.00
"asher thal-nir has been releasing his own blend of minimal drone music for about 5 years on labels such as conv, leerraum [ ], mystery sea, and/oar and his own promising sourdine imprint - his recent collaborative work with jason kahn, which received critical acclaim, exposes asher's strengths as a collaborator and improviser, it's under the guise of 'composer' however where we see asher's true light shine through.
in a time of one chord organ drones, and feel good ambient music, what asher brings to the plate is most refreshing to say the least. these are not mediative drones, on the contrary - these two side long interpolations are rather uncomfortable; there is a definite claustrophobic feeling to the music, brought in part by the controlled usage of airplane engine hum, feedback and clever use of field recordings. tension seeps in and out at just the right times, the saturated tape hiss is constant, on what feels like the soundtrack to your miserable daily nine to five. on the surface static and constant, upon closer inspection one can see the mood shifts and dynamics for what they really are - a horrifying window into the end.
edition of 100: pro-dubbed on green type ii high bias cassettes with 2-panel jcard, silkscreened shells & shrink-wrapping."
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vic rawlings / liz tonne - "truck krone" cs (semata productions) $6.00
"vic rawlings and liz tonne have been working together for the better part of 2 decades, spanning various genres of music(s) including indie/art rock, country, and that nebulous nexus: "experimental". they continue to work together in the electroacoustic-improvisation octet the bsc and the undr quartet, both of which have been pushing the limits of extended technique and aesthetics for over a decade. one thing that both vic and liz have always brought to the table is an interest in experience and a lack of fear in the face of potentially uncomfortable or unsettling aesthetic territories. their distaste for comfort zones, "coolness", flash and the familiar have led some to refer to their work as alternately "frustrating," "harrowing," and/or "exhilarating." which adjective you choose depends on how far out on the plank you're willing to walk with them. but if you go the whole distance you realize the plank doesn't lead to shark-filled waters or a horrible void, but to a naked, (nearly hyper-)aware present.
vic's piece, "the middle of three days," occupies "classic vic territory": an unhurried pace which blurs the lines between intentional and arbitrary, "cracked" electronics, beautifully tarnished bowed tones, beautifully stretched out memory man sonorities and plenty of what-the-fuck elements (coughing, "five-oh," wind machine??). it ends as suddenly as it arrives following the classic show biz dictum, "leaves you wanting more."
liz's "b" is a tonal/character study of the title letter (in flattened form), showcasing liz' unique sense of song craft (or anti-song craft if you prefer). using timbral variations (mostly slight), flutters, and modulations, liz presents a shadowy, skewed version of standard song form where a very stripped down content is presented in nearly traditional repetitions. in a parallel world, someone is singing a standard with too much melisma. with "arsonist," this process is further distorted and fragmented towards abstraction, functioning almost as an extended coda or question mark.
vic and liz have appeared on numerous recordings for various ensembles and have collaborated with a who's who curriculum of improv heavy weights; surprisingly, this is the first solo release for both artists and it's a privilege to have it as part of our catalog.
edition of 100: pro-dubbed on red type ii high bias cassettes with 2-panel jcard, silkscreened shells & shrink-wrapping."
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human hands - "palus nectaris" cs (jugular forest) $7.00
"sci-fi synth/keyboard from cole miller (real life predator label). a mellow introduction descends into dark, rhythmic melodies further creeped out by obscure, delayed vocals. sustained keys juxtaposed against unsettling collages. edition of 75 cassettes."
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yellow crystal star - "rainbow bridge to dream mirror orb" (jugular forest) $7.00
"unrestrained walls of guitar from mark billings. field recordings and guitar with more collage and straight *douche* than his previous tape on jugular forest. hidden mardi-gras energy. this is a different version of mark's upcoming LP on oms-b. edition of 75 cassettes."
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pale blue sky - "souvenir" cs (jugular forest) $7.00
"pristine ambient synthesizer from mike pollard (arbor label). slow, beautiful tones contained in a quiet space while layers subtly form underneath. relationships between frequencies and cyclic repetition. far away music for memories. edition of 75 cassettes."
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caged soprano - "the newspaper" cs (jugular forest) $7.00
"digital synthesis in a failed opera. fluorescent spotlight on an empty stage. coming of age musical lust. edition of 25 cassettes."
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mike shiflet - "omnivores" lp (lost treasures of the underworld) $12.00
"debut solo lp by shiflet . although,this guy has laid down more tracks than union pacific in the last 10+ years. known here by the locals as the gift that keeps on giving. and he brings it home extra hot with this earth-rattler . omnivores will take root to your record player once it has been played. edition of 300 copies w/ pro-printed covers."
