tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73599169326285899532024-03-12T18:14:39.992-07:00Retrograde TapesRetrograde TapesRetrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-61504698242564448912015-06-14T16:34:00.000-07:002015-06-14T16:34:01.062-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>rgt #18: <b>Amalgamated - Bulbing, Cricket, Splash</b> C40</i><br />
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<i>rgt #15: <b>Kraken Mare - Outer Resonance</b> C19</i><br />
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<i>rgt #14: <b>Buried In The Basement - Lie Over Truth</b> C36</i><br />
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· M. Akers - Deleted Scenes c50 repress <br />
· Den - Exhausted LP (BLVD Records)<br />
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· Next tape batch out soon.Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-37704472600645277372014-10-31T13:28:00.000-07:002015-01-16T09:29:25.859-08:00rgt #17: Parashi - Pilot's Salt LP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>rgt #17: <b>Parashi - Pilot's Salt </b></i><i>LP</i><b> </b><i><br /></i><br />
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.<br />
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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.<br />
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<a href="http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10274:parashi-qpilots-saltq-qtovarichq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=133" target="_blank">· Brainwashed</a><br />
<a href="http://www.omgvinyl.com/parashi-pilots-salt-lp/" target="_blank">· OMG Vinyl</a><br />
<a href="http://www.secretdecoder.net/blog/2015/01/07/parashi-pilots-salt/" target="_blank">· Secret Decoder</a> Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-16572079424343288872014-02-08T13:32:00.001-08:002014-02-08T13:32:15.141-08:00BandcampOlder releases available for stream/download on Bandcamp. More soon:<br />
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<br />Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-27495144938174769152013-10-23T09:24:00.000-07:002013-10-23T09:24:31.530-07:00New to distro: Akers's "La Puntura Velenosa Della Notte" 7"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"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:</span></i><br />
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</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"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!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">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!</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES. OR YOU TOO, WILL FEEL . . .</span></i><br />
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</span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">“THE VENEMOUS STING OF THE NIGHT!”</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">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...
<br />-----" -DWZ</span></i><br />
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Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-17686283660121103992013-09-10T18:32:00.001-07:002013-09-10T18:36:41.580-07:00September 2013 update (new tapes, Elders repress, Beta Decay)Three new (long overdue) tapes are available now along with Aker's <i>Elders</i> repress, as well as copies of Andrew Jackson King's always excellent strange fiction <a href="http://betadecayhouse.wordpress.com/about-2/" target="_blank">Beta Decay</a> zines are <a href="http://retrogradetapes.blogspot.com/p/storedistro.html" target="_blank">now available in the store</a>.<br />
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<i>rgt #11: <b>Kevolych - Abstract Frame</b> C26</i><br />
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<i>rgt #10: <b>Zonal Taste Wand/ZX-9 - Negative Space/Partition Function Part 2</b> C47</i><br />
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<i>Review:</i><br />
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A new (and hopefully easier) ordering format is implemented in <a href="http://retrogradetapes.blogspot.com/p/storedistro.html" target="_blank">the store.</a> Prices in the paypal buttons have been adjusted to reflect the new rates, many apologies to the number of overseas weirdos that support Retrograde. I'm looking for a better, smoother, and cheaper solution but until I find one I'm at the mercy of USPS & the lobbyists who shout the loudest. As always, feel free to hit me up if you're looking to order in volume, have questions, or just want to bitch about how goddamn retarded this is.<br />
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For 2013, the next batch of tapes is just about done, an Elders repress will likely surface with it, and some interesting new distro items will be showing up in the shop before the spring.<br />
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A bit slow on the draw with this one, but the entirety of Den's <i>Electric Eyes</i> 7" can be streamed in <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/den-hardcore-noise-electric-eyes-piirtola-keenan-harris/Content?oid=8042538" target="_blank">this article.</a> Akers also has <i>Tough To Kill</i> & some of his previous releases available on his <a href="http://matthewakers.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> for your wanton ears.<br />
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30 minutes of new Kraken Mare material will birth via Luke Morris's excellent <a href="http://rocketmachinetapes.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rocket Machine</a> imprint sometime in the near-to-distant future.<br />
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<i>rgt #<span style="font-family: Arial;">12</span>: <b>Den - Electric Eyes</b> 7"</i><br />
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a continuing expansion starting with an abduction prayer, followed by a
ride on a stream of Kraut photons & finally ending in an Antarctic
sludge ritual, all woven together with enough dark matter to fuel your
FTL travels well beyond the solar system & out into the distant
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<i><i>Review:</i> </i><br />
<i><a href="http://www.bostonhassle.com/2013/10/13/den-electric-eyes-7/" target="_blank"><i>· Boston Hassle</i></a> </i><br />
<a href="http://still-single.tumblr.com/post/60241714313/den-electric-eyes-7-ep-retrograde-tapes" target="_blank"><i>· Still Single</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.tinymixtapes.com/cerberus/den-electric-eyes" target="_blank"><i>· Tiny Mix Tapes</i></a><br />
<i><a href="http://www.yellowgreenred.com/?p=6482" target="_blank"><i>· Yellow Green Red</i></a> </i>Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-21921218413846800742012-11-12T13:13:00.002-08:002012-11-12T13:13:35.939-08:00November 30th 2012: Electric Eyes 7" Release Show<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Part of the latest (and best-looking to date) <a href="http://skellrecords.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Skell</a> batch, I've got a handful of these c30s available in the <a href="http://retrogradetapes.blogspot.com/p/storedistro.html" target="_blank">distro</a>. Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-51638126716756335592012-09-30T15:59:00.000-07:002013-01-15T10:36:08.631-08:00rgt# 09: M. Akers - Tough To Kill LP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i> rgt #09: <b>M. Akers - Tough To Kill</b> LP</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.31514248687118296" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span id="internal-source-marker_0.303823648665149" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Born
and raised in the shadow of Detroit, Akers is a native of urban decay
and withering cityscapes, political corruption and crime beyond the
scope of “normal,” and the general unsettling vibe in the air that
somewhere, not far away, some ugly shit is going down. Around 2009, he
picked up a synth & drum machine & taught himself how to channel
the settling dust of a crumbling city into the sound of gritty
electronic soundtrack scores, influenced by old gods of the genre such
as Froese, Carpenter, and Frizzi. 2010 was the year of his first recording, the
self-released, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Future Barbarians</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, followed by </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Elders Of New Detroit</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
on Retrograde in 2011. A handful of releases and a year or so later,
Akers has transformed himself from bedroom electronic composer to
full-on cinematic-sound mercenary, armed to the teeth with analog gear
and the collective years of ingesting OSTs & the work of pioneering
electronic musicians. Culminating into </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tough To Kill, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this
evolution serves as a milestone in the timeline of Akers’s rapidly
growing body of work and a benchmark for the burgeoning retro-soundtrack
scene. From dark, brooding ambient to the throb of dance-floor-ready
Italo disco, the ominous air and driving rhythms of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TTK </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">are
presented in classic Carpenter-esque ultra-polish, MIDI-free,
sample-free, and on virgin vinyl for maximum clarity. Retrograde is
proud to offer Akers’s latest & greatest for those familiar with his
work as well as a shining introduction for listeners hearing the new
sounds of past soundtracks for the first time.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From the man himself: </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“For
fans of 80's film scores, krautrock, early techno, italo disco,
war-torn jungles, futuristic dystopias, cynical mercenaries, and cops
who smoke too much. If you ever find yourself laying low in a motel in
some shithole town with only a bottle of whiskey and a loaded .45, light
up your last cigarette and turn on your ipod. This is for you.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tough To Kill</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
comes housed in a handsome 4 color, split-fountain style screen-printed
jacket, each one done painstakingly by hand with an edge-worn look - no
two copies are exactly the same. Also included is a 12x11
poster/insert with liner notes. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Additionally, the first 50 orders include a bonus c50, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Deleted Scenes</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, culled from material created during the writing of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tough To Kill</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> that serves as a more nebulous companion to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TTK</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> for early bird orders. </span></span></span><br />
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<i><a href="http://weedtemple.tumblr.com/post/40538177251/review-matthew-akers-tough-to-kill" target="_blank">· Weed Temple</a> </i>Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-48030490886843193252012-09-23T11:18:00.001-07:002012-09-23T11:18:10.969-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few copies of Akers's excellent <i>Mythical Abyss</i> added to the <a href="http://retrogradetapes.blogspot.com/p/storedistro.html" target="_blank">distro</a>.Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-67127305440234564092012-08-10T09:26:00.001-07:002012-08-10T09:26:27.717-07:00Vinyl ventures coming soon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tests of "Tough To Kill" LP from Akers & a 7" from Den. Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-77028306246805915292012-08-06T09:13:00.000-07:002012-08-06T09:13:08.556-07:00Congrats NASA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Curiosity touches down on Mars. <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html">More.</a>Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-80185960837171338402012-02-06T11:04:00.011-08:002012-07-10T10:12:39.877-07:00rgt #08: Nodolby - Untitled<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>rgt #08: <b>Nodolby - Untitled</b> C40</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.31514248687118296" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7355811951259065" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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.</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided J-cards. Limited to 50.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F34966564"></param>
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<i>Review:</i><i> </i><br />
<i>· </i><a href="http://www.tinymixtapes.com/cerberus/nodolby-untitled">Tiny Mix Tapes</a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<i>· </i><a href="http://dumpsterdivingblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/nodolby-untitled-cassette-retrograde.html">DDb</a><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<i>rgt #07: <b>Parashi - Silenus</b> C27</i><br />
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<i>rgt #06: <b>Abusive Consumer - Crumbling Portals</b> C28</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.31514248687118296" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7355811951259065" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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.</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided J-cards. Limited to 50.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F34966375"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F34966375" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <a href="http://soundcloud.com/retrogradetapes/abusive-consumer-crumbling">Abusive Consumer - Crumbling Portals preview</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/retrogradetapes">Retrograde Tapes</a> </span><br />
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<i>rgt #05: <b>Giant Claw - Mortal Earth/Morbid Earth</b> C27</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.31514248687118296" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Giant Claw is admittedly a hard sound to define. Incredibly atmospheric, yet too involved to simply label as ambient or mere synth jams. Prog elements weave in & out of synth vectors & arpeggiation, but with a light-heartedness devoid of over-showmanship or tacky kitsch. Bright, often dramatic, and always lush, each side finds Giant Claw’s captivating world unfold in almost orchestral arrangements uncaring of where they’re headed while defying any sort of neat categorization like a shimmering sound vessel shot off as a treat for anyone lucky enough to find it.</span> </span><br />
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<i>Review:</i><br />
<i>· <a href="http://dumpsterdivingblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/giant-claw-mortal-earthmorbid-earth.html">Dumpster Diving blog</a></i><br />
<a href="http://weedtemple.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-giant-claw-mortal-earthmorbid.html"><i>· </i></a><i><a href="http://weedtemple.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-giant-claw-mortal-earthmorbid.html">Weed Temple</a> </i><i> </i>Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7359916932628589953.post-10640227725234568712011-06-29T19:10:00.001-07:002013-09-10T19:03:43.974-07:00rgt #04: Kraken Mare - Kraken Mare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>rgt #04: <b>Kraken Mare - Kraken Mare</b> C18</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.31514248687118296" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “Kraken Mare is an appropriate descriptor for this music -- it evokes a vague, almost gothic darkness, something stirring beneath the surface, perpetually brooding. There is something rustic and worn about these feedback and synth drones, where electronic screeches stand in for wailing choirs and violent pedal outbursts replace a forgotten string section. It's as if the instrumentation that could have populated these tracks caked with rust over time, leaving only a bleak, abandoned metallic landscape for our listening pleasure." - Keith Rankin of Giant Claw</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> High bias type II chrome tapes with full-color, double-sided folding J-cards. Limited to 50.</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.31514248687118296" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<i><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F18112938"></param>
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<i>Review: </i><br />
<i>· <a href="http://dumpsterdivingblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/kraken-mare-m-akers-retrogate-tapes.html">Dumpster Diving blog</a></i><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%C2%B7%20http://weedtemple.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-kraken-mare-kraken-mare.html%20">· Weed Temple</a><br />
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<i>rgt #03: <b>M. Akers - The Elders Of New Detroit</b> C20</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.31514248687118296" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Black limousines silently roll into view as dope-slinging shit bags congregate at the docks, poised to pull off the biggest scag deal in Detroit. Everything is going as planned until the shipment barge from Windsor is suspiciously late and the inside guy at the police station is not responding. Gunshots break out from all directions as the Detroit 5-0 suddenly storm onto the scene. Que Matt Akers’s synth grooves to bust in on top of the hailing bullets & gratuitous explosions as we root for a scrappy detective who manages to lay waste to every crooked fucker there & clean up the Motor City, once and for all. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F17473342"></param>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Review:</i></span><i> </i><br />
<i><a href="http://www.tinymixtapes.com/column/tmt-cerberus-26%20">· TMT Cerberus</a></i><i> </i><br />
<i><a href="http://dumpsterdivingblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/kraken-mare-m-akers-retrogate-tapes.html">·Dumpster Diving blog</a></i><i> </i><br />
<a href="http://weedtemple.blogspot.com/2011/07/review-matthew-akers-elders-of-new.html"><i>·</i>Weed Temple</a>Retrogradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06332478238183941663noreply@blogger.com0