H004 MUDBOY - 'Impossible Duets' LP
"33 RPM Ltd. edition of 500. No repress. Artwork: Hand cut and folded recycled paper. Last temptation by Raphael Lyon's Mudboy, after dozen recordings as the seminal This is Folk Music (Last Visible Dog) and exciting Hungry Ghost (Not Not Fun) the doctor of experimental organomics explores new approaches to his personal hallucinations. The works on this album are only the hapless product of stumbling fingers, hammered out by so many orangutans fighting over garbage. In these four small handholding adventures, Mudboy takes no more than he can give. If he had the opportunity to sit down with Brian Eno or Philip K Dick and talked through their collaboration, he would have said: "You have done your half, please allow me to do mine”."

H005 FRANCESCO CAVALIERE - 'Neverending Somersault' C37
"Ltd. edition of 50. Pro-dubbed tapes with white silckscreen on the body. Artwork: two different hand-cut and xeroxed paper plus black cardboard. Young italo-berlinese wizard, Francesco gave us this twelve baroque sound frames. Member of Alberorovesciato, Rayo and Doro Bengala, Cavaliere's works is everytime obsessed by frenetics and automatic movements. Protean sounds as an imaginific manufacts from Maya population from the future. "Neverending Somersault" is games, counting, ferrets, trail of moving leaves and magical powders. Every track is the sign left from the retrieval of musical instruments, parts of audio archives and field actions. Recorded during 2008 and 2009, mainly on the Mediterranean coast of Italy and north-east of Germany". Francesco Cavaliere, 2009."

H006 AARON DILLOWAY - 'Lip Syncing To Verme' C55
"Ltd. edition of 50. Pro-dubbed tapes with white silckscreen on the body. Artwork: two different hand-cut and xeroxed paper plus black cardboard. As a slow motion Stan Brakhage on K, this last recordings from Aaron Dilloway is fluid and cinematic. Like a deep navigation in a buzzy ocean of dirty water loops you'll be in a creepy joureny to the centre of the earth, and you can just crawl like a worm."

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ttc 021 Stone Baby - 'Leap into the Void and Drift' C28 $6.5
"stone baby's tribute to modernism. if you had to choose a cloud to drift on, this would be the one to deliver all your hopes & dreams on when the time came. tea, cakes & total abandonment. see title. full color art & recycled felt cases. edition of 38."

ttc 022 Sunken Landscapes - 'Transparent Sea' C60 $6.5
"sci-fi sounds to set your skin a blaze. like getting lost in an underwater space station full of alien ghosts & broken robotic voices. or getting tossed around between stars and fishes then thrown into the belly of the whale by moonlight. like being shot with synth bullets that skip across your brain then turn to stardust. all super trippy & twilight zone like & all around radical. full color art & recycled felt cases. edition of 38."

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Receiving a noble release on the three-year anniversary of its recording, ‘Pockets of Wheat’ represents the diminishing return of now decommissioned drone duo Celer. Living not on borrowed time but in a lag of post-production and release calendars, the Celer project has been put to rest as Will Long mourns the loss of his wife and musical partner Danielle Baquet-Long. The sources for this single track of methodically-smeared tones were captured in just a few days on a trip across the USA. Perhaps it was the mythic median of Texas which made apparent the need to gather these tectonic sounds, though not entirely unrelated, I imagine a more reflective affinity with the native sounds of Stars of the Lid emerging with the futility felt as trying to pass through such country. Purported to represent seven movements, the hour-long track offers little in the way of signposts for change. Like the shifting fields of wheat which forms its theme, these carefully-groomed tones absorb everything into their calm yet measured sway. The instruments number cello, violin, piano, tambourine and voice, used over top of the field recordings gathered, though really any alchemy or otherwise additional effort is lost in the mass or processing which comprising the true instrument at work. Broadband tones light fine sound dust to a cream static in the background while all the while a wind-beaten microphone murmurs at the edges of the channel. Again, like a forest crop these tones multiply, sharpen, and accelerate in frequency - yet appear a profound Om which refuses impressionistic purchase for any ear. Pro-press CD comes tabbed in a glossy greeting-card gatefold. (Soundscaping CD, $18 HERE)

Julia LaDense – ‘I Will Be Happy’ CDr $4 or free download
”Tape noise, hiss, loops, found sounds, everything that you have grown to love about Julia LaDense comes out in I Will Be Happy - a memoir of sound - a political agenda - a mantra to live by - I Will Be Happy focuses on the state in its most ideal form countered with the state as we know it today. In a well-run city everyone rushes to assemblies; yet as soon as someone says “what do i care?” about the affairs of the state, the state should be considered lost. I Will Be Happy focuses on the mental anguish of a lost state and how today’s America the individual’s focus remains “I Will Be Happy” yet we fall short all too often. Is the future with Jesus or Nixon?” HERE

DYLAN ETTINGER - 'NEW AGE OUTLAWS' CS (NNF192)
"Latest and potentially final dystopian sleaze soundtrack from this great Bloomington lone wolf. Easily his deepest and most patient basement synth opus."

POCAHAUNTED - 'MAKE IT REAL' LP (NNF188)
"LA case-crackers return to the recorded realm for the first time since 08. new styles, new hopes, new dreams. Raw-rhythmed body music for solar sound systems. Wild warped LA utopia art by champ colorist Spencer Longo."

EDIBLES - 'SUPER SPACE/MIND PEACE' CS (NNF186)
"Shag shredder Dewey Mahood (Eternal Tapestry, etc) drops the rock and drifts into good time reggae atmospheres on his debut release under his new Edibles moniker. Seven smooth tunes for enjoying with the windows down."

GNOD - 'SCIENCE & INDUSTRY' CS (NNF184)
"This mancunian wrecking crew’s most recent crush-classic gets a second pressing of another 100 copies. Same art, same possessed astral sludge. Grab it now if ya missed it the first time round."

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HR107 Samsara Vista - 'Miner in a Pit of Fire' C42
"Evan has been a creative member of Housecraft for years but with his contributions focusing mainly on the visual side of things, rarely do we hear from him. This journey sets sail down a corridor lined with archaic tape loops, subtle creaks and texture, brief guitar meanderings, ambiguous acoustic swells, and a few spontaneous moments with Kane; fused with a gulp of electric ooze that brings the listener into an inviting underworld cluttered with dust and stacks of gently eroded books, fabrics, negatives, and running film projectors. These dense, incensed surroundings reflect a spirit of playful exploration and uncertainty as each overturned artifact glimmers briefly and then vanishes. edition of 64." HERE

URNA - 'VII' CDr $8
"URNA is Italian post-apocalyptic composer Gianluca Martucci. Using a wide variety of folk instruments, atmospheric recording environments and electronic manipulations, GM has truly stretched the microverse of URNA to reflect the vacuous psychedelia of an ancient mind casting spells in a modern world. ' "VII" is inspired by the "seven towers of the devil", or the seven centers of anti-initiation scattered on a vast zone that goes from Siberia to the Sudan. These seven centers spread the most negative energies to the rest of the world. The seven poles have an ancient origin and they propagate their energies through the activity of devotees to dark cults involved in the adoration of the God Set or the God Moloch. In this work, URNA explores these damned territories among tenebrous, misty and dilated sounds, primordial dances and mystical songs." HERE

Radiant Husk - 'Points and Lines' C30 $5
"The first half of the tape is a live recording of a show (courtesy of semi-frequent documentarian Sean McCann) from way back in September, when the Ducktails/R.Husk California Tour Train rolled into the Rover House in Santa Cruz, CA. A rather dense and vertical set of saxophone, effects, loops, tapes, wave machine. Maximalism for minimalists? Static for serialists? The second half is a series of recent "studio" fragments: reeds, recorders, fx, tape experiments, restless drones, non-linear edits, half-attempts at actualizing Raymond Roussel's descriptions of pre-surrealist instrumentation in "Impressions of Africa"...Color printed cardstock j-cards."

Sogol - 'Miniature Orbits' C30 $5
"The initial release from this SF-based kosmische-keys project. Using keyboards, delay, loops and reel-to-reel, Sogol conjures up the map of a map and the mirror reflecting itself with this series of pieces that range from thirty-seconds to two-minutes and cover a wider range. Fragmented yet fully-developed, these are the contours of potential long-form works in seed form. Fog tropes and heat prisms. Color printed cardstock w/ a silkscreened reverse-side."

Ars Magna - 'Vol. 3 No. 7' CS
"The most recent of this ongoing anthology series. Past editions have featured a variety of reconstructed musical and non-musical forms from various luminaries (mems of Son of Earth, Ducktails, Cave of Time, Radiant Husk, Teskooanoo, etc). This edition consists entirely of field recordings from Viet Nam and Cambodia. As with past ones this ain't for sale, but can be tossed into an order or gotten in person somewhere/somehow/sometime. Just let me know and you'll get one."

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Talvihorros – 'Let Us Be Thankful We Have Commerce' £4
"A brief summary: MDTS is pleased to present its step into the music world with the strictly limited cassette-only release of 'Let Us Be Thankful We Have Commerce' by electro-acoustic musician Talvihorros.We're talking quite cinematic soundscapes packed with tension and beauty in equal measures. Talvihorros does venture a bit into post-rock turf (sometimes sounding like the most serene moments from Godspeed You Black Emperor or Rock Action-era Mogwai crossed with the soundtrack of a Takeshi Kitano movie), but seems to be more drawn to creating a suspended, unreal mood than reaching peaks of ear-splitting volume, something that makes him more akin to ambient musicians than space-rockers." MDTS01 20 minute, double sided cassette. LISTEN/BUY

Mister Fuckhead - '333' cassette $9(US)/$12(World)
"I wrote the first beginning from this album in 2003, while I was living in a 2nd floor closet, squatting in a rat-infested house that only had power in one outlet, all the way in the flooded basement. This was for my first performance at a public venue. I have reworked these tracks over and over again, spending 15-25 hours at a time drinking fake absinthe doused with wormwood oil and plugging away, to make individual pieces for each performance up until 2007. It took me some time to be completely happy with the whole album as a cohesive, organic entity that takes on a life of its own, and with the incredible patience and ceaseless resources of Clayton Counts, we mastered it in a stretch of about 5 8 hour long days, while we meticulously went over every detail. The 60 minutes of material culminates a series of compositions I made specifically for live performance, then spent a lot of time fine tuning or expanding afterwards. It is composed entirely with a Yamaha RM1x sequencer, incorporating various carefully crafted haywire anamolies that were featured in Dead Tech/Circuit Bending type of art gallery events, and much experience from performing with live bands or working with various drug addled beat industrial/hip hop artists, among other things. The cassette is limited to an edition of 99, across 3 different color cassettes (solid orange, solid purple, black), with 3 different label designs, a 3 panel, two sided, full color insert, and a color transparency. The release date is 03/30/2010, and will ship within 3 days of that date. You can send paypal to misterfvckhead@yahoo.com . If you would like my mailing address just let me know. If anybody who does reviews for publications or blogs would like to give a thorough review based on the content, I will refund their money after purchase. Wholesale rates are available, distros are welcome and encouraged to get in touch. The cassettes are duplicated and the printing is almost ready to be done." HERE

Nonhorse - 'Noxon' C94 $6
"G. Lucas Crane (Vanishing Voice, Time Life, Woods) has utilized his Nonhorse project in crafting a new language for tape music and drone over the past many years, melding the two varied approaches with an accomplished zeal that has yet to fall into mannerisms of complacency. The cross-faded epics of found sounds and other unidentified musical paraphernalia acts as the fluid pulpit for Crane's ambiguous vocal tricks and electronic management. Noxon is an unending hour-and-a-half plus expression of Crane's particular mastery of his art, a sonic canvas of half-remembered daydreams, ambiguous episodes of astral projection, and floating remnants of lost AM radio transmissions. A future classic of fever-dreamed ambiance. Edition of 60. In Stock."

OPPONENTS - 'I Swarm With A Thousand Bees' CDr $6
"As mysterious an entity as one can hope to find in the churning waters of Brooklyn's avant underground, this duo seeks to confound with admirable fury and consistence. In the line of their live shows, which seem to jump stylistic archetypes at jarring intervals and further dissect such tropes into something uniquely commanding, I Swarm... reigns in this modus operandi into six distinct executions of frenzied mystification. The sounds never seek to settle into air-tight distinctions, but spirited abrasive industrial clatters, squalling synth eruptions, and id-driven profundity collide with the vigor of excited particles. Tumultuous tones arranged with distinctive exactness. Edition of 60. In Stock."

Rust Worship - 'Informalities' C40 $6
"Having cut his teeth for a good couple years in Towering Heroic Dudes and furthering expanding his solo chops in various live settings, Paul Haney returns with his second Rust Worship cassette, this one consisting of three live recordings from last year in various locales around the New York area. An improvised concoction of droning atonalities, the performances ebb and flow between something like blown-out sound art, crackling harsh noise, and ominous psychedelia. Arrives at the peaks of heavily dense manipulation of tapes, turntables, electronics, and other forgotten miscellany. An apt representation of Rust Worship's current state-of-affairs. Edition of 60. In Stock."

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CV-101 Josh St. Denis - 'Real Axe' C30 $6(Can)/$7(US)/$8(World)
"from icy cold sweater weather ambience to cozy warm peace blankets of folk induced acoustica rainbow laced with some lush verb. this is a re-issue of an edition of 6 that josh handed out at a show we played together 2 years ago. my absolute favourite workings of his, an absolute honour here to give it a second life. 40 copies"

CV-102 Knit Prism - 'White Hour Drift' C30 $6(Can)/$7(US)/$8(World)
"here in the great white-the humble spirit of the fall lavishes our land and tickles us with red brown orange collauge leading us gently to a white fate, and in the hours of the calm drift, quiet winds settle and paint smooth textures in the snow for the eye's joyous response. we toss our wood in the fire and get a little closer every year and learn how to live a little more in this time of stasis. winter fresh minimalist magnesium, we sustain a constant breath of relief and drift along to our brother pouwwow. 40 copies, deluxe tranparent overlay on colour art."

CV-103 Keister Sutherland C46 $3
"live ruckous ala Josh St. Denis on re-enhanced snare manifestation cauldron springthing + cybol via proccessing/and/acoustic vs. S Johnson on guitar via processing stink. live performance at the assembly back in january.
ass packaging. with any CV or distributed item order. 19 copies."

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KID WIZARD - 'ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER' C30 $5(US)/$7(World)
"Half an hour of 20JFG and Cassette Gods-approved lofi sci-fi music. Includes mystic journeys, broken melodies, weird drums, robot disco and floating castles in the sky."

EAGLE CHALICE - 'UNDERWATER PANTHER PARTY' C20 $4(US)/$6(World)
"Magnetic, slow-motion trance music from a glue-age spirit warrior. Plasticized drones and narcoleptic beats, sort of droney and sort of shoegazey but more beautiful and minimal than either of those words make it sound."

CHROME VAMPIRE - 'RAD ATTITUDE' C10 $2(US)/$4(World)
"Pixie-stick digipunk with beautiful noise and no attention span."

HIGH SOCIETY - 'I FED THE DOG' C10 $2(US)/$4(World)
"Two dudes and some drugs making wicked out-there vocal drone music. Economy of means leads to maximal effect."

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ARBOR 085 JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA - 'BLOODSTREAM SERMON' C40 $6.5(USA)/$7(CANADA)/$10(WORLD)
"On Bloodstream Sermon, San Francisco’s Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (of Tarentel and the Root Strata label) presents a deep, drifting pair of extended drone works. With a precise sense of focus for agreeing tonal arrangement, JCL’s compositions for Roland Juno 60, pure wave oscillator, and electronics recall the shifting exactness of La Monte Young’s geometric based frequency pairings. Bloodstream Sermon’s meditative tracks create a breathing space within their own existence, a break from temporal consciousness. Imbued with a rich sense of beauty and calming potential; a subtle care. Learning to accept; letting go, becoming oneself. In an edition of 150 copies with full color cardstock covers and labeled tapes."

ARBOR 128 BRETT NAUCKE - 'SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA' C30 $6.5(USA)/$7(CANADA)/$10(WORLD)
"The debut release under his own name, Brett Naucke’s Southern California is an aptly titled seven track suite. In the nature of his other projects, Face Worker and Exercise, Naucke continues his exploration of upward advancement through a contemporary approach to ambient, classically new age music; here he wholly embraces discrete structures allowing the tracks to carry a natural progression, transparently simple though deeply considered. Recalling the work of early 80’s West Coast composers such as Ray Lynch, Naucke’s command of smooth synthesis is both meditative and active; drifting washes of light, organized tones. Translucent, linear growth; following the clouds across the sky. In an edition of 125 copies with full color cardstock covers and labeled tapes."

ARBOR 130 COPPER GLOVE - 'SURVIVING THE GARDEN OF HATE' 7” $7(USA)/$7.5(CANADA)/$10(WORLD)
"Copper Glove, the new project from Baltimore’s Door (formerly Earth Crown; who shared splits with Secret Abuse and Kites on past Arbor releases), shows a further progression of his one man industrial-noise synth unit. In opposition to his former work, Copper Glove is more mindful of composition; utilizing tone generators and processed synthesis and vocals to present a dense cut up analog form of industrial concréte. Door’s nihilistic optimism carries itself with a sense of effortlessness; ideological aggression, a pure translation. With focused energy, the noise of the machine continues as man controls it. The city is destroyed but we can still live here, forever. In an edition of 300 7”s with silkscreened covers with white ink on metallic black paper and printed labels by Door."

ARBOR 137 PALE BLUE SKY - 'SHADES OF GREY' 12"EP $12(USA)/$15.5(CANADA)/$22(WORLD)
"Pale Blue Sky is the new project from Mike Pollard (formerly Treetops). Shades Of Grey is the project’s genesis; a long considered transition uniting the organic drone-work of the former project with compositional structures. The recordings embody a delicate sense of distance; staring out at the moving landscape obscured by the mediation of the window. Through blurred fidelity the origin of melody is placed under microscopic inquiry; an exploration into the moment of tonal interaction. Pale Blue Sky utilizes repetition and non-linear movements, attempting to reconcile simplicity, form, and sentiment through modes of difference. Placing focus on spatial concerns, as well as emotive potential, the five songs contained within are each different embodiments of the possibility of the transformative decay of remembrance. An ephemeral glimpse; the moment has already passed. For quiet, distanced listening. In an edition of 400 copies with full color glossy jackets, printed inner sleeves, and printed labels."

ARBOR 140 RYAN GARBES - 'REAL SUGAR B/W THE LIGHTS' 7"EP $7(USA)/$7.5(CANADA)/$10(WORLD)
"Ryan Garbes is the drummer of Iowa City bands such as Wet Hair, Dunebuggy, Trash Dog, and formerly Raccoo-oo-oon. His recordings under his own name represent a unique brand of solo multi-track recording with a seamless integrity; through a skillful use of instrumentation and recording technique, Garbes eschews notions of low fidelity for songs reminiscent of traditional American garage rock produced in the haze of an early 90’s UK aesthetic. Genuine pop songs, cloaked in a comforting wash of reverb, as if Lou Reed had done a record for Creation; more ecstatic than obstructed Garbes’ voice is a refreshing one outside the continuum of the contemporary four-track bedroom pop. In an edition of 300 copies with full color sleeve and printed labels by Ryan."

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Felicia Atkinson - 'Monotone' CDr 5€
"22.08 mn of monotonous and psychadelic electric guitar, rough as a desert walk. hand made cd-r. 1 track of 22 mn. very limited copies. self released. felicia atkinson is a french and has released music on kaugummi, spekk and o'rosa. she recorded recently with paul labrecque and will tour alone next spring and summer in the united states." HERE

[2AM14] A Vibrant Struggle - 'Soft Illusions' C24 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Norwegians Sindre Bjerga and Jan M. Iversen (aka Bjerga/Iversen) and Dutchman Steffan de Turck (aka staplerfahrer) shape a real bleakscape on this c24. Cold basement amplifier buzz drones and loops mix with corroded drum machine dirges and aleatoric casio ghosts. Limited to 40 copies."

[2AM13] Ophibre - 'Untitled Drones for Iron Oxide' C30 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Benjamin Rossignol lays down another winner with two frosty wall to wall drones on this stunning c30. Glacial forms drift and slowly melt as rainbows chase each others tails below the gleaming ice. Highly focused, mesmerizing stuff. Limited to 55 copies."

[2AM12] CDRX + Taklamakan - 'Sulphuric Lake/Ispod Zemljine Kore' split C60 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Switzerland’s Cedric Baldacchino (CDRX) and Croatia’s Harold Gojani (Taklamakan) team up for this long playing split c60. The CDRX side, Sulphuric Lake is a two part trek through foggy, organic dronescapes. Taklamakan’s side, Ispod Zemljine Kore, which is Croatian for “Beneath the Earth’s Crust” couldn’t be a more accurate description of the sounds contained here. If I were told it was all captured by sticking a microphone ten miles underground, I’d have no problem believing it. Limited to 45 copies."

[2AM11] Abortion Focus Group - 'MW' C26 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Gabriel Piller, man behind Knife In The Toaster. lays down two super minimal, super focused drones here via a set up just as minimal: one pedal. What pedal? Who knows. I’d like to think it was something found amidst the rubble in some post-apocalyptic dream. Limited to 35 copies."

[2AM10] Flesh Coffin - 'In the Woods' C30 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Norwegian noise veteran Andreas Brandal has been putting shit out since the early 90’s. Which means he’s been doing this shit since I was in second grade. On this c30, he goes under the guise of Flesh Coffin and lays down two hefty side-longers. Side 1 is a torrential down-pouring of metal studs, pipes, and various other dangerous shit you wouldn’t want to be caught standing under without an umbrella. And by umbrella, I mean concrete bunker. Side 2 is machines dying in a pool of tree sap. Limited to 35 copies."

All FIVE for $25(US)/$27(CAN)/$30(WORLD)

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905.103: ANDREW COLTRANE + WETHER SPLIT C20 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$9(WORLD)
"two cold train crunchers recorded onto an analog tape deck that i can almost guarantee busted back in the mid-80's and is missing the pause button. well, not missing, but i bet it broke off and fell inside the deck causing a rattle ever time you give it a good shake. anyway, the ac racket is turned up to 13 with these two basement brawlers. dude sounds pissed. the wether one was laid to tape while testing the limits of the pain killers i got for a broken hand. the limit was met by the way, and i don't remember recording any of this. sounds pretty damn good though. some screeching electronics and numbing pulses from something or other."

905.102: 2673 - 'WHEN THE SINEW IS CUT, THE LIMBS SOON RELAX' C30 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$9(WORLD)
"i asked kevin to do a tape, at the time on no horse shit, after playing a show with him in new jersey in february of 2007. well, three years later (almost to the fucking day!), the dude comes through with three solid tracks for a 905'r. better late than never, right? the a side features two slow-moving, porcelain drone scapes. synth work that is cold and eerie, using stretched out tones to forge superstitious vibes. side b focuses more on static charged walls of drenched electronics and bitter feedback. so worth the wait! 905 + 2673 = yes!"

905.101: TEETH COLLECTION - '905.101' C62 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$9(WORLD)
"i crashed at matt reis' place this past october. it was one of those warehouses with ceilings so high the building practically begs for you to jam in it. "please play inside me! my natural reverb will make your heart feel like jello!" which is what we did, and you know what, that talking building was fucking right, man. matt knows the deal, and shows it on these five tracks. honing in on mainly acoustic elements like bells, metal on metal clatter, creepazoid scratching, and the like resulting in some next level teeth collection spookings. fun fact: teeth collection has appeared on three 905 tapes, but this is his solo debut. took long enough."

905.99: STEVE KENNEY - 'OUTSIDE THE CIRCLES OF TIME' C20 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$9(WORLD)
"steve kenney, who some may know from the insane visual/audio unit demons, goes solo on "outside the circles of time" delivering two synth sleep-away sessions. both side-long tracks trickle penetrating patterns that plume and swoon like a soundtrack to outer space. this shit is like yoga for the mind. mind yoga 2020."

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Vertonen - 'Cresting' C40
"Blake Edwards, AKA Vertonen, is a noise/experimental music maker who I first saw perform in the odd setting of an outdoor festival at the University of Chicago, in the spring of 2001. I was immediately struck by his idiosyncratic style of metal-on-metal scrape and bash. Ten years later, and after BLOODYMINDED [and myself, solo, etc.] has played numerous shows on the same bill as Vertonen, Edwards is now my band mate in Anatomy of Habit [we were also previously in Animal Law together], and in AoH he is charged with even more ferocious and often more beautiful metal-on-metal scrape and bash. When he is not wielding rusty bits of amplified scrap metal, Edwards may sometimes be found behind the controls of a hulking Russian Polivoks analog synthesizer. Over the years, his infrequent synth-based performances have become a favorite of mine in Chicago, and when I began thinking about a Vertonen release on BloodLust!, I knew that it had to focus on that beast of a synth. "Cresting" is comprised of five medium-length compositions that run across 40-minutes of chrome tape, ranging from the more exploratory to the more abrasive; Housed in clear “Norelco” style cases with folded black and white photocopied j-cards. Limited to 100 numbered copies; Released in 2010." HERE

Street Drinkers - 'Circles' $6
"Super grimy subterranean industrial zones from Sweden’s bleakest. Definitely his most structured material to date—emotive/monotonous baritone vox smeared across heavy pre-fab drum machines and minimal synth twinkle. The whole thing is caked in the crustiest atmospherics that side of the Skaw. Edition of 100."

El Jesus De Magico - 'Ragtime Hors' $7
"EJDM finds that grey area where basement naiveté bumps up against wizened biker nonchalance. He’s still has a little angst and adolescent echo, but there’s definitely a hypnotic motorpipe repose/indifference going on—lots of propeller smoke and the blistering hogs-up-the-coast easy rider dust. Each version in an edition of 100."

La Danse Du Sperme $6
"Trio of Hellvete, Edgar Wappenhalter, and Bart Sloow (Sloow Tapes) noodling acoustic-status across seven tracks of guitar warble/strum, which keeps pretty constant while muffled vocals, electric guitar, keyboard and drum fluctuate. Late-night incantations like we’ve come to expect, but the occult/paranormal energy of their other collaborations is replaced with more youthful romance and sexual charm/tease. Edition of 100."

Russian Tsarlag - 'Unleash the Chain' $7
"Unleash the Chain showcases Tsarlag at his chillest, slowing down the haunted garage till it oozes and elegizes. While he loses some of the staccato, the songs’ structure still thrusts forward with key melodic passages and doubled male/female vocal stylings. Still perverse but without the starch undies neurosis of earlier work. Letterpress insert. Edition of 100."

Goaty Tapes Book #1 - 'Banana Head Diary: B.J. Vacuum Wax' $4
"Industrial products, printed receipts and tags, things he found at Fedex/Kinko’s."

Uke of Spaces Corners - 'Albumen/Ovum' cassette $5
"Never did know how the Uke of Spaces Corners wove them mounds of spook through such innocent jam dillies. I reckon it is what must be the outlandish croon, or perchance that lonely electric guitar. Ever it functions, sure leaves a rippling, swelling watermark of the solitary songmanship. Jangling in mulchy fullness, but reflecting a singular dream, apparition.Edition of 100."

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Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides - 'All Cows Are Sacred'
"We've been getting lots of emails from people hotly anticipating this release. And rightly so! It fucking slow burns. Sonic dreams, flute and drum snowblind dynamo. Must-have. Cover art by the band plastered to 6x6 hunks of various woods. Felt pockets too! Grand pakcaging for GRAND music. 123 copies."

Wasteland Jazz Unit - 'Shivering Reflections'
"Mind-fry right from the get-go. Saxophone and clarinet so blasted and slathered you'll likely need a HAZMAT suit just to handle the disc. Subtle like a piano on yr chest. These are NOW sounds. RIGHT NOW. 100 copies."

Nick Hoffman - 'Silent Island'
"Loner electronic compositions. Heavy and claustrophobic. Is/was Katchmare. Here we cut down to the surface. A modern voice in composing, bare and challenging. Get engulfed. 60 copies."

A Vibrant Struggle - 'Black Hole Meditations'
"Deep, dark, distant drones. Music communicated via rocket-ship from just left of nowhere. Staplefaher, Bjerga and Iverson cook up some wicked potion here. No antidote in sight! 60 copies."

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DE-001 Eleven Pond – 'Bas Relief' LP
"Dark Entries Records is proud to announce the reissue of the debut album by Eleven Pond. Long sought after by collectors, the Rochester, NY band only released a single LP in their time together before dissolving into obscurity. Their sound–a merging of post punk’s dark dance and synthpop’s melodic arrangements–reflected the originality of gifted songwriters who met in art school with a shared interest in 4AD and Factory Records. In cooperation with the band members, the entire album has been remastered from the original 2-track analogue masters by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The recordings on this release comprise the band’s entire recorded output and the LP includes a 2009 redesign by Jeff Gallea of Eleven Pond: 11×11 cardstock lyrics/artwork sheet, 2 Eleven Pond postcards and 1 Dark Entries Sticker. Eleven Pond officially parted ways in 1987 but nearly a quarter-century later these recordings prove how vital they remain. Limited to 500 silk screened, hand numbered copies. Sound samples HERE."

DE-002 Death Domain - 'Ethidium Bromide' 7"
"Death Domain aka Adam Stroupe is a science nerd from Baltimore and, like me, wears it as a badge of honor. His sound is undoubtedly one of the most bewildering, disorienting yet magnetic and infectious slices of downright bleak takes on synth-based dance music. A one man all-live-analogue electronic ice machine (who is also behind the likes of 'SIDS' - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). His sound is as cryptically raw as it gets - summoning the seminal Industrial/EBM sounds of the likes of early Cabaret Voltaire, Skinny Puppy, and The Normal. Limited to 400 silk screened, hand numbered copies with 4 different covers that feature a different glow-in-the-dark letter of each base pair of DNA: A,C,T,or G. Sound samples HERE."

DE-003 Second Decay - 'Le Décadence Électronique' LP
"Dark Entries presents, for the first time ever on vinyl, the debut full length album by German electronic darkwave pioneers, Second Decay. Formed by Christian Purwien and Andreas Sippel in 1987, Second Decay hit the underground dark dance scene with their 12" Killing Desire and then worked on their debut album from 1988 to 1992. La Décadence Électronique is an album full of addictive analogue electronics that combine synthetic sounds and constant rhythms with memorable vocals. Each song has been carefully remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. Sound samples HERE."

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Traveling the Montana to New York corridor Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (Jasmine Dreame Wagner) imports the altitudes and attitudes of the lesser-domestic west with her ‘Searchlight Needles’. Composing songs mainly of acoustic guitar and voice, her recordings benefit from subtle melodic supports (xylophone, flute, some keyboards) and an agreement between word and tone. Though her lyricism is often de rigueur for the genre, her voice offers a valuable flexibility which does not claim a dominant position, but conforms to the aesthetic modulations which she crafts over these ten tracks. If only for the duration effects which Wagner uses to emulate space and trouble the vacuum of poetry would this strike the objective archivist as something resolutely new and novel. Rather I would suggest this rehearses, returns more the earlier folk-rock revival as found in the Southern distribution bins – Tara Jean O’Neil, Samara Lubelski, and David Grubbs, on into the evolution with groups like Slint and Blackheart Procession (most notably on the disc's 11-minute apex, “Glass”). Various guests lend their services throughout, and at a premium as Wagner seems otherwise at a loss. Like the variations of electronics which scratch the backdrops of these elsewhere pristine sets, high-tension percussion breaks the air of “Black Water”, as does the male accompanist on final track “Owllullaby” suitably open the disc to an ending by offering the lone singer a notion of outside. Pro cut CD comes in an oversized, stamped envelope with fancy inserts. (For Arbors /For Satellites CD HERE)

Jeanne Vomit-Terror/Ed Sunspot - 'Resonant Hole Single Series, Volume One'
"Jeanne presents one side of dark, absurdist femme electro-pop for dancefloors inside of walls. Ed presents one side of lush, layered melodicism for cruising polluted city horizons just at dusk. Limited to 50 copies."

Collection of the Late Howell Bend - 'Dead and You Invited Inside'
"A macabre, hallucinatory song-cycle from Irene Moon and Ryan Martin. A lurid Coffin Joe imagining of hell with dismal baroque piano, queasy electronics, and half-heard incantations. Limited to 50 copies."

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'Harsh Noise For Your Wall (pun intended)' $20(US)
"Danny Milanese has returned with a new series of paintings motivated by Harsh Noise Wall cassettes. These pieces are selective, there is no room for growth, and they are reasonably priced despite their very limited quantity. Shipped without frame." EMAIL/WEBSITE

CIRCLE X s/t 12” 12€
"Formed 1978 in New York, Circle X was born out of the ashes of No Fun and the I-Holes as Louisville’s first punk rock band. Once the lineup of Circle X solidified, the formerly-punk band lunged headfirst into weirder, artier territory. Whether the big city’s burgeoning No Wave scene influenced Circle X or they influenced the scene is unclear; what is clear, though, is that Circle X was the most unique, most mysterious, and most un-heralded band hailing from that place and time. In France for nine months with new manager Bernard Zekri, Circle X toured from their base in Dijon, garnering strong press and stronger public reaction while writing new material as they went. An untitled four-song EP saw the light of day in 1979. That untitled 12-inch debut was practically without antecedent. It’s a lurching, squalling monster. Identified only by a symbol on the cover (a spray-painted circle with an "X" through it; the spelled-out name first appeared in '83), it pits Pinotti's screeched vocals against Witsiepe and the Letendres' bass-less, barely contained distorto-blare. The hatred and rage on this thing is palpable and when it coalesces perfectly with the music, as it does on the lead track, Tender, it’s pretty damn effective. Nothing sounded like this in 1979. They arrived in New York at the tail end of No Wave, at the same time that equally ornery bands like Swans and Sonic Youth were getting revved up. Circle X are every bit as distinctive and attitudinal as Throbbing Gristle, PiL, Theoretical Girls, DNA, or Mars, yet they don't much sound like any of them. We proudly represent this masterpiece after thirty years again for the public. It has lost none of its intensity and rage. Limited to 500 copies, it’s on 180 gram vinyl in tip-on jackets that bear the original artwork and poly lined black inner sleeve plus liner notes." EMAIL