Sunday, June 14, 2015

rgt #18: Amalgamated - Bulbing, Cricket, Splash C40

True to their name, Amalgamated’s “Bulbing, Cricket, Splash” fuses free-improv electronics, rhythm-bolstered drones, field recordings, & heaps of who knows what else into three flowing tracks of air & movement.  Great stuff for come-ups, come-downs & all-arounds.

Type II, high bias chrome tapes.  Edition of 50.

 


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rgt #15: Kraken Mare - Outer Resonance C19

Two side-long missives here, the first a traveling concrète exploration of uninhabited zones & outlying places.  The second employs intersecting melodies as a monument to distant objects & ocurrances from now to the early times.


Type II, high bias chrome plus tapes.  Edition of 50.

 



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rgt #14: Buried In The Basement - Lye Over Truth

rgt #14: Buried In The Basement - Lie Over Truth C36

Nate Buker offers up a wealth of scorched-circuit writhe & cold-void misanthropy, cracked fried & multiplied.  Clanging, chattering, subterranean sounds hemorrhage from this grizzled DIY-maker's buzzing lair onto tape.

Type II, high bias cobalt tapes.  Edition of 50. 

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Sunday, November 23, 2014

11.23.14 Update

Now available:






· M. Akers - Deleted Scenes c50 repress
· Den - Exhausted LP (BLVD Records)
· M. Akers - Bayern c34 (Musica Originale)

· Parashi LP orders shipping.
· Next tape batch out soon.

Friday, October 31, 2014

rgt #17: Parashi - Pilot's Salt LP

rgt #17: Parashi - Pilot's Salt LP

    Since 2009 Mike Griffin has been exploring sound by steadily releasing Parashi missives on a slew of tape labels including Tape Drift, GNS, Stunned, and his own Skell Records as well as playing in Burnt Hills, Urkas, and Mensheviks.  Busy guy, for sure.  Though prolific his mounting body of work continues to evolve & expand in new ways with each release, broadening the bleak & often ominous abyssal planes he’s become known for.  Still, a distinct signature naturally permeates into his sound: every dark corner & shrill tone is uniquely & unmistakably Parashi and Pilot’s Salt is no exception.
 
    Pilot’s Salt finds Parashi utilizing modular synths, tape, metal objects, & noise generators to further his technique of improvised sound as defined by the interactions of the sonic elements within.  Perhaps more than ever a sense of abstract narrative & development emerges from each patiently evolving track as Parashi freely explores the limits of his rigs.  As Griffin himself states, “the goal is to create something with as little conscious method of control or composition as possible, to rely upon the unconscious mind to drift through the setup and produce something before it's all over.”  Restrained or intense, ominous or outright hostile, the raw gristle of Pilot’s Salt transports the listener to the dark recesses of improv noise & leaves it up to them to find their own way back.

    Pilot’s Salt is limited to 300 copies with original art by Jacob Van Loon, the first 100 of which come on white & black marble-mixed vinyl.




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Review:
· Brainwashed
· OMG Vinyl
· Secret Decoder

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

New to distro: Akers's "La Puntura Velenosa Della Notte" 7"


Copies of Akers's new banger from Death Wish Zine are available in the distro.
 
"Little is known about this film, aside from the fact is began production and quickly fell apart. Aside from a few press sheets and a partial script, much of the film has been speculated on and forgotten to history. Taken from a press sheet found in a warehouse in Rome, the tale unfolds as this:

"ROME, A CITY OF OVER TWO MILLION PEOPLE. WHAT SECRETS DOES THE CITY HIDE, IN ITS ALLEYWAYS, DISCOTHEQUES AND BEDROOMS? SECRETS, ARE BEST KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY...AND LEFT TO THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT!

NOT ALL SECRETS CAN BE KEPT FOREVER: A DEAD SUPER MODEL, A SALESGIRL AND A PHOTOGRAPHER, WILL SOON BE TRAPPED, CUNNINGLY ENSNARED IN A WEB OF MURDER, SADISM AND LUST. THIS TALE WILL SHOCK YOU TO YOUR LIMITS! DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES. OR YOU TOO, WILL FEEL . . .
“THE VENEMOUS STING OF THE NIGHT!”

Found in the same warehouse were pieces of a score for the aforementioned film. Available to listeners for the first time and brilliantly composed in a bone chilling re-imagining of cinema's greatest mystery...
-----" -DWZ