2010-09-02T23:13:11Z Animal Psi Copyright 2010, Animal Psi SPHPBLOG Outer Spacist – 'Tape' C60
"If you love blown out American Rock ‘n’ Roll that pogos between punk rock and psych – you’ll instantly know how excited I am to be able to present the latest sonic emanation from Ohio’s Outer Spacist. Presented as one uninterrupted program, “Tape” slams 10 tracks into nearly 30 unrelenting minutes of outerspace sonic destruction. This release builds on their first 2 7”s on Columbus Discount records from last couple years to show a band growing in skill and mythos. It’s a beautiful trip you won’t want to miss. *** For much of the run the program repeats on the b-side for a continuous trip. On a select number of copies the b-side is blank so you can record your own space voyage – kinda like the Choose Your Own Adventure books I read in the 80s. Ed. of 75. w/ Download code." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100901-195115 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tom Carter – 'Numinous' C40
"When we began planning for future Prairie Fire releases, Tom was at the top of our wish list. Needless to say that we’re pretty excited to be able to release two hot live T.C. Jams to fire off our fall release parade. Recorded in Brooklyn and Montreal, these tracks (Beauty Draws The Seed & Numinous) offer some of the best solo psych guitar I have heard in loooong time. w/download code. Ed. of 100."

Gremlynz/Ajilvsga split C30
"Scratch another (or a couple off the to do list). This one pairs William Cody Watson (Pink Priest) as Gremlynz and Brad Rose (North Sea & Alter Eagle) and Nathan Young (Alms) as Ajilvsga. Thick slabby scabby noise drones make this a winner. This alters brain functions – don’t surprised if you’re suddenly living in abandoned car underneath a bridge after spinning this. Kids using sound files to get high is no myth, here’s PROOF. w/download code. Ed. of 85."

Dim Dusk Moving Gloom – 'Blinded By The Natty White' C40
"I don’t know nothing from nothing anymore. Had I not been killing time on the internets, I would have never ever met up with Justin M. Lloyd. There was some kind of discussion regarding psychedelic noise (if such a sub sub sub genre exists) and this dude says he’s all about that and can prove it. I took the challenge and said – you make something that impresses me and I’ll releases no questions asked. In no time flat tracks are in my mailbox – 2x 20 min tracks recorded by JML as Sensible Nectar. I waited until I was in a sufficiently jaded mood so I could remain unshakably unimpressed. Well, it was maybe 45 seconds in to the first side when I gave up fighting. Beautiful waves of Eno styled ambience flowed from my speakers – made my sink into my couch and nod off for lil’ bit – that was until a full wall of harsh noise slapped me back to reality. Once I recovered, I spun the next track – fab spaced out guitars that easily sets the mood for bong hits, space flight, or astral blowjobs – if you do that kinda stuff. Blinded – exists at the tail end of Sensisble Nectar and where DDMG begins. It’s brilliant. You need this. w/download code. Ed. of 50."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100901-174859 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z BARACLOUGH - 'VULPUS VULPUS' C55
"BARACLOUGH are making noises. Baraclough are jangling cutlery. Baraclough are muttering weird nonsense. Baraclough are meditating. Baraclough are floating above you. Baraclough at flopping at your feet like a newly landed sound-haddock. Baraclough are scuttling through the city streets radiating beautiful music. Baraclough are truly strange and inspiring. Baraclough are Paul de Casparis, Dale Cornish, Eddie Nuttall. A collection of unreleased recordings made during 2009 and 2010, this cassette represents the BARACLOUGH boys at their most beguiling; words spew out of the mouth-hole straight from the twisted brain-mush, and a choir of cassette-tape angels drown beneath the glimmering synthesiser sea. It's a long overdue pleasure to have this band release a tape with Beartown, and well worth the wait! Edition of 50, with blood red cassettes and carniverous artwork."

SLUMP - 'WITHOUT PROMISED FRIDGE' C45
"Soaring out of the industrial rust valley, you ride high on a gentle zephyr. The clink-clank of the blasted landscape beneath softens briefly and, just for a moment, you break through the blanket of grey smog and catch a glimse of a beautiful azure sky. Unfortunately, it seems that a few seconds of happiness is all you're getting this time buddy; your piece of junk, papier-mache flying-machine has let you down once again. Decend back into the sludgey canyon. Folk songs for the 30th century? Side A is all drunken engineers in reverse, hammers on engines, tapes loops, reverb, and the sound of slow-motion dental surgery. Side B is an endless wander through the dunes, your footsteps are the tempo, your loneliness the rhythmn and your sunburn is the melody. Edition of 25, clear cassettes with "so-banal it's upsetting" artwork."]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100901-121618 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black Eagle Child – ‘Born Underwater b/w The Arquebus’ CS $5
”Duration: 30 minutes. From the artist: "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." First edition of 100 professionally-duplicated & imprinted cassettes, packaged with 100lb monochrome cardstock 4-panel j-cards.”

Knit Prism - 'Growing' CS $5
"Duration: 25 minutesMichael 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. First edition of 100 professionally-duplicated & imprinted cassettes, packaged with 100lb monochrome cardstock 4-panel j-cards."

A. Pushkin - 'The Figure' CS $5
"Duration: 61 minutes. 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. First edition of 100 professionally-duplicated & imprinted cassettes, packaged with 100lb monochrome cardstock 4-panel j-cards."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100831-232205 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z DEAD BODY COLLECTION/VOMIR split CDr 6€(Spain)/7€(EU)/8€(World)
"Sober, Unchanging, Relentless, Violent, Unfeeling... that's it, Harsh Noise Wall, monotonous and monolithic driving senses into dullness. Dead Body Collection is a relatively new HNW project from Serbia (started summer 2009) which has been releasing stuff in several labels such as Toxic Industries, Hoarse Records, Monolithische Aktion, Coffin Crawl Records, Satans Din, Turgid Animal, Vomit Bucket... producing walls in a bright and focused way offers here a killer intense and extense 40 min piece deleting all hope from sight. Vomir, what left to say about this project that hasn't been sayed before... "...unvarying roaring monolithic noise" (Ed Pinsent), "...fierce, impenetrable & thick slice of HNW making from the French master of the genre Vomir" (Roger Batty), "...couple of insanely heavy releases on Glasgow’s At War With False Noise the most visible proponent of this form so far is France’s Vomir" (Scott McKeating), "...total depressive nihilistic purity" (At War With False Noise)... Vomir's track is way more claustrophobic, crustier and colder than what lovers of the genre might be used to. Packaged in dvd slim case and limited to 67 copies. 2 tracks / 80 minutes Length."

KREUZER - 'L'Armée Secrète' CDr 6€(Spain)/7€(EU)/8€(World)
"... Excellence is served in this Mini Album through the form of 5 well-executed tracks which fusion and combine elements of Martial Industrial, Power Electronics, Dark Ambient quite in the way of the old European school. Rhythmic militant percussion, processed voice samples, powerful synth lines. The concept of the album is the French Resistance during the WWII and with track titles such as "Appel Au Peuple", "Les Combatants De La Nuit", "La Libération" Kreuzer draws an apocalyptic atmosphere full of tension. Includes Charles De Gaulle's speeches. 5 tracks / 20 minutes length."

RELEASE HELEN RYTKA/TRANSDUCTOR - 'Stranglehold/E.L.F.N.' cassette 6€(Spain)/7€(EU)/8€(World)
"Harh Noise Wall by RELEASE HELEN RYTKA (US) and Static Noise hnw influenced by TRANSDUCTOR (Spain). Pro duplicated cassette. 23 minutes per side. Limited edition of 100 copies."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100831-223909 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z Grasshopper - 'Wretched Blood Wraith' C24 $5
"SECOND EDITION: LIMITED TO 25. The NY brass/electronics duo Grasshopper has been confounding the NY populace with an aggressive sprawl of electric burble and fuzz-damaged horns, but man, I didn't see this one coming. On this cassette, their sound hits a peak of totally controlled, sharp mayhem, one that's almost PE in nature save for the commanding brass that blasts in where vocal chords usually shred. Interestingly, Wretched... was birthed, then aborted, and reborn as a more concise pair of compositions filling out an ominous sub-drone sprawl. Here, a very imposing, very unique identity sees creation, falling between harsh noise, early electronics, and free jazz. One of their first releases outside of member Jesse DeRosa's fantastic Baked Tapes imprint."

Telecult Powers - 'Kiss The Viper's Fang' C30 $5
"SECOND EDITION: LIMITED TO 25. The occult-drenched fog of this transcendental duo hangs high on Fang. In the midst of generating a lauded trajectory of constant performance and resoundingly impenetrable mythology, the homemade boilings of analog-generated dread forage forward in the midst of perplexing discomfort and lo-fi tape ambiance. Some of the richest minimal synth work you're likely to hear; a must for Cluster and Demons fanatics. Bleak, bizarre, and entrancing."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100831-202224 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z CLUSTER & FARNBAUER - 'LIVE IN VIENNA' 2CD $12
"Double CD. Live in Vienna is the eighth full-length album by German electronic music outfit Cluster and their first and only album with Joshi Farnbauer. It is the first of three live albums recorded by Cluster. Until now Cluster & Farnbauer had never been reissued on compact disc."

HOTOTOGISU - 'Floating Japanese Oof! Gardens Of The 21st Century' 2CD $12
"Double CD. Floating Japanese Oof! Gardens Of The 21st Century was originally released on the DeStijl label in 2005 spread out over 3 LPs in hand glued packaging featuring colorful prints of Matthew Bower's compelling artwork. To date this remains a singular & mysterious release in the Hototogisu discography."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100826-165151 2010-08-26T00:00:00Z 2010-08-26T00:00:00Z deep magic/water lily jaguar - 'shimmering landscape plane/forwards' C60
"deep tapes no. 6. 30 minute, blissful voyages from both deep magic & water lily jaguar (formerly dream safari). deep magic’s side is a warm, drifting journey through a cleansing & relaxing vision forest; entering this vision in a sweaty, rhythmic zone, going deeper and deeper until emptying out into repetitious, contemplative textures. water lily jaguar guides us through a sea of changing, chiming tones; undulating & breathing along with your body, vibrating & moving until the very end. limited to 25 copies w/ full color, double sided j-cards designed by alex."

derek rogers - 'absolute immersion' C30
"deep tapes no. 7. derek rogers creates heavy (& heady), body arresting, mind wandering sounds & has released music for a number of amazing labels (scotch tapes, existential cloth, pizza night, stunned, kimberly dawn, tape drift, to name a few). ‘absolute immersion’ is one of derek’s most blissful & hypnotic releases yet, showcasing a beautiful combination of subtle noise textures with repetitive, chiming organ minimalism, that lends itself to infinite repeat on those cleansing, relaxing nights. limited to 25 copies w/ full color, double sided j-cards designed by alex & deep blue tapes with custom labels."

gkfoes vjgoaf - 'field mantras' C21
"deep tapes no. 8. gkfoes vjgoaf is sean conrad (of campfires). ‘field mantras’ is one of the most beautiful pieces of music i’ve ever heard. gorgeous, wordless, layered vocals, gliding & levitating above organic field recordings of walking through a beautiful forest. great for inducing those soothing, nature infused visions. limited to 25 copies w/ full color, double sided j-cards designed by alex. yellow spraypainted tapes with custom labels."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100824-115737 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

RC28: COVENTRY MUSIC - 'Vapor Canaries' C18
"Lucid discoveries turn short trips into an incessant quest. Just can't get enough of these guys.. edition of 44."

RC29: CHRISTOPHER RIGGS - '5:00, 3:00' C30
"Part of a series of eight c30s where each fifteen minute side is evenly divided in a different way. Side A contains 3 five minute pieces while side B contains 5 three minute pieces. A single tape limits every piece to the same set of 3-4 sounds. 8 tapes = 8 sets of sounds. Piping creaks sway back and forth, tearing through distinct conversation. Other parts out now on Midori and Rigg's label, Holy Cheever Church. edition of 52."

RC30: TULUUM SHIMMERING - 'flowers are offered' C94
"Long awaited release originally intended for Vanishing Hour Revival. Of the last token to be had from this righteous triumph. Instant glaze emanation. Absolute, open form. Cover artwork by Evan Galbicka. edition of 98."

RC31: GITCHE-ANAHMI-BEZHEU - 'bamboo cruise under liquid shade' C60
"Lounge & drift delight. A familiar relaxation with presented strings. edition of 52."

RC32: EXPLODED STAR SAD SERVANT/MISNER SPACE C50
"side A: A pure, concentrated 25 minute high channeled directly from Artem Bezukladnkov (Heart Museum, Kema). side B: Heavy second winds pick up, soaring vocals ingrained in deep currents. Individually collaged covers on confetti cardstock. Polka dot stickers on black type II tapes. edition of 48."

RC33: KANE POUR - 'wasp in the silver orbitstream' C18
"Slightly slimmer audio tape only reissue of the vhs + cs joint release with Vanishing Hour Revival. Side A was recorded live at Daacha Gallery, winter '09. Side B comes from a studio session at the old Rotifer locale. All recorded straight to tape on a Marantz field unit. Mesmerizing jams, of Kane's most celestial approach. edition of 52."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100822-221205 2010-08-23T00:00:00Z 2010-08-23T00:00:00Z Elevator Boy s/t C62 $4
"Looping guitar ambience - a chilling display of distance and space. A weightless album performed by Elevator Boy. Dreamlike tones and subtle guitar picking along with hum and crackling sounds and hushed tender tones brings the self-titled release out from its slumber to dazzle the soft ear drums. Play this album as you feel the cool breeze of the air conditioner upon your glistening body after taking a cool shower on a beautiful summers day. Allow the sounds to bring you back to last night when you finally kissed that girl and drank too many tequila sunrises." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100822-194814 2010-08-22T00:00:00Z 2010-08-22T00:00:00Z Broken Water - 'Normal Never Happened' 7"
"Coming out on the tail of a self-released 7" ("Boyfriend Hole/Mother"), cassette (Night People) and early 2010 highlight WHET LP (Night People/Radio is Down), Broken Water's FDR debut 7" finds the band further refining their distinctive northwestern squall. A-side "Normal Never Happened" kicks off with a throbbing riff, before morphing into a hazy, spacey dream-pop zone topped with layered vocals. The B side, "Faux King Vogue" continues their exploration of the dark, noisy guitar work that's been a hallmark of Pacific NW bands since the days of Unwound, Lync, and Kicking Giant. Covers are letterpressed with unique paint splatters." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100821-083126 2010-08-21T00:00:00Z 2010-08-21T00:00:00Z Enjoyable Saxophone Music By... Jon Lorenz and Body Morph tape
"Side-to-side wild reed styles from Body Morph and Jon Lorenz (tenor mango from bell abuse kings, Wasteland Jazz Unit). My jazz history teacher would have certainly not been into this, the look on his face of deep despair and emptiness, no hope... all is lost. C30 in an edition of 50."

Body Morph - 'Muted Me' tape
"Muted saxophone... to some it is just the horrid sound of dampened, choking, tuneless attempts at what seems like reed music. I dunno, what do you think? C20 in an edition of 40."

Weird Stuff vol. 3 tape
"Another C90 packed with weird stuff from the studio. A lot of confusing noise. Not exactly clear on what all of this really is, however it includes; Black Leather, Leeches, Pure Skull, Body Morph, and White Boss. C90 in an edition of 40."

Starfox tape
"Hyper-driven, raw, jet-engine blasts from the duo del cerebro known as the Starfox. Burke and myself at the controls of a white-hot splash of howling electronics, shattered space, and abrasive tangles of wire and sax. C30; edition of 40. note: this is the same material that was originally sold on tour as a deluxe double cassette."

Criminals - 'Wistful Chubby Genius' tape
"Andy and Leslie's fragile, jittering array of unnamable source. A forest of buzzing machines, dead electronic signal, and maybe some kinda real instrument played at some point? A colorful and confusing dip into the criminals' mind. C30 in an edition of 50."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100820-232903 2010-08-21T00:00:00Z 2010-08-21T00:00:00Z BT01: You are not all Boring - 'Pixelated Getaway' C39 $7
"A new mini-LP by You are not all Boring containing nine instrumental synthpop/chillwave styled songs. Musical influences include New Order, Human League, Washed Out, Section 25, Erasure, The Orb and the like. Washes of reverb, FM synths and chiptune bleeps collide amidst thudding drum machines and dubby basslines. Limited to 25 copies!" HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100820-212403 2010-08-21T00:00:00Z 2010-08-21T00:00:00Z Gown/Robrobrob – ‘12’ cassette $6CAD(world)
“40 mins. Limited edition of 50 w/ cloth bag and fold-out. Side 1: GOWN - Jake’s Strut (Live in Sackville, 2009 w/Omon Ra) (20 mins) “MacGregor’s (also of the Bark Haze/Bastard Wing) voice floats through the murky composition like a lost firefly, giving off light every so often in hopes that he’ll be found again. A foggy oasis steeped in washed out guitar effects, psychedelic clouds of harmonies that float by like the first black clouds before a beautiful thunderstorm. Side 2: RobRobRob – Water / Garden at Night / Pocket Thesaurus / Untitled / Sun on curtains (20 mins) Hailing from Scotland via The Netherlands, guitarist Robert Gray’s style floats between harsh beauty and gentle noise. Free-form improvisations that are neither acid-folk nor shoegaze and somehow both. Something new called Folkgaze? Maybe.” HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100820-212203 2010-08-21T00:00:00Z 2010-08-21T00:00:00Z BONG - 'Samhain Festival' C34 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
"[Limited edition 20 Silver on Silver | 80 Silver on Smoke] Bong are a psychedelic trance metal outfit from Newcastle, England; and they are made up of the finest in the area's delinquent underground music scene (including members of Obey, Lobster Priest, Trollmann av Ildtoppberg, Basillica, Master Slave and many more). Aside from a magnificent full length LP, most of Bong's output has been generated by bootleg recordings of their rare live shows. Nonetheless, Bong always provide enough pulsating atmosphere and crushing doom to make every recording worthwhile. For those who know the music of Bong, there is absolutely no need for any further explanation. I'd just wait for the smoke to clear just enough that I can see the red of your eyes, then cheerfully say: "Hey dudes, New BONG tape!" Enough said. However, for the uninitiated: let's pretend for a minute that Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Angus MacLise decided to join forces and create Pärson Sound instead of the Velvet Underground. We are talking real drugs here. Real problems. Though the OM comparisons are becoming tiresome, they can also be a good starting point for the imagination. Go ahead and keep in mind OM's minimalist and extended renderings of the modern blues/doom formula, the brain-numbing ride cymbal pulse, the gigantic drum sound, the chakra-shaking blues bass, but add to it some transcendent lyrical phrasings of an amplified sitar, the astral buzz and clatter of the royal shahi baaja, nihilistic waves of hypnotic guitar ooze, and the mournful hymns and mantras of a genuine monster sea troll sadhu of Albion. Now imagine this demented sonic recipe pounding live and loud in a roomful of creeps, trancing out to two side-long ragas, in Glasgow, on Halloween night, 2009. Anyone got a light?"

CQBL007 Lens - 'Techtron Dawn/Chimera Game II' $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
"[Limited edition 20 Grey on Orange| 80 Black on Clear] Lens is the newest project by Woodman, an elder godfather within the Second Family Band and Davenport Family circles. For those of us lucky enough to get some of his rare self-released tapes, he also gotten us grooving by the name Mighty Diamond and also simply as Woodman. Woodman may be even more well known for his band Drunjus, a long-running, progressive and oblique drone-based duo with Endless. This latest moniker seems to be an extension of that devotional drone sound that he has been crafting with Drunjus. Though, where Drunjus can occasionally become towering, twisted and even atonal, Lens seems to be sitting completely still and focused in a disciplined meditation. Evocative waves of organ tone and simple analog synthesis come and go, pensive melodies gently interrupt the flow only to suggest themselves and disappear just as quickly. There is an organic regiment to the electronic motions of the first side, creating sequencer-like sensations that guide our drifting attention, perhaps bringing to mind Terry Riley and early Klaus Schulze. Over two side-long compositions, a balanced harmony gracefully haunts the tape, and while the first side indicates a developed and steady progression with organ and cosmic electronics, the second side takes things down even more to silent place where Lens can illuminate the room by sounding the ritual song of a single bell within a deepening chasm of a vacuous spacial drift."

CQBL006 MV&EE - 'Muskie & Manitou' C65 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
"[Limited edition 20 Violet on Sky | 80 Violet on White] Matt Valentine and Erika Elder should need no introduction. Starting off in the influential and unparalleled folk rock unit, The Tower Recordings, an odd-fellows network of musical mavericks from New York City who fearlessly dissected the lollipops and land mines of psychedelic revolutions past, Matt Valentine has been releasing monumental slabs of specialty medicine since the early 90s. Over the years MV & EE have taken the experiments of The Tower Recordings well beyond our referential imaginations and into the realm of very personal colors, away from the hip urban scene and towards an intimate campfire circle that only the locals would know about. Moving out to the countryside of Vermont has clearly had an effect on this pair, and their subsequent bands (such as The Bummer Road and the Golden Road) took fundamentals of the Delta Blues, Appalachian folk, Neil Young, Indian classical, and West Coast psychedelic sounds through their own special homespun haze of farm electricity and mountain air. The results were an elastic, deep-breathing yoga of musicianship, communing together and singing out into the night. Their music became influenced by the humors and seasons, sometimes the same song would manifest as a blaze and then sometimes only a flicker. As the pairs' craft and language deepened, there was always a distinctly pastoral and star-gazing Soul to every recording. Every so often the homesteading duo will pack up their instruments and their loyal canine friend Zuma, and hit the road as a rambling family medicine show . However, even in this small incarnation the music is as big and the vibes are as strong as ever, and after witnessing the MV&EE live duet now four times, it never ceases to amaze just what an eclectic and wild energy these two humans can raise in one evening, all by themselves. This tape presents the MV&EE tour of Summer 2009, fresh from the sweetest spot in the taper's pit. As last Summer was coming to a cool simmer, MV&EE strolled into the collegiate utopia of Madison, Wisconsin; to perform at a tiny art gallery for their faithful Midwestern brethren. The room was packed with flannel-clad friendlies and the atmosphere was thick and balmy, as Matt mumbled his way to the opening heatstroke of "Summer Magic", the micro-brewed smiles crept across all our faces, and we were all real gone for a change. This tape effortlessly captures the magic of that evening and and opens the portal, gazing back into the hypnotic waves of Matt and Erika's secret mountain bonfire."

CQBL005 The Mumber Toes - 'Always Already' C60 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(WORLD)
"[Limited edition 20 White on Purple | 80 White on Purple Tint] "(...) the generativity of something uttered always already seems to deny fixed fleshhas always already been exploited [...]" - Brian O'Blivion This is the latest living artifact, directly given from the line of King David, and ushered in by his/her wholly unholy manifestation as thee The Mumber Toes, also called Karen Eliot, and seen to his subjects as the Wing'd Master ov Thee UnEnding Beginning and TheE Timeless End Times. You will probably recognize this audio happening as another recording of senseless modern racket, or perhaps the latest in a long line of superior Alien Power Electronics. The reality is, it is impossible for any of us to truly know what in the Hell this really is. Clearly there is something being communicated to us through the constructs of garbage synthesis and failing echoes. The sound is sub-human and nauseating, leaving long lines of quivering oscillations to perpetual births and deaths within the coursing scores of grey vomit. Winding like a catheter up your spinal column, this is an ancient electronic language capable of properly calling the incantations necessary for conjuring the fires of a uniquely Qliphothic Kundalini. The newly crowned serpent phoenix, arisen through this astral union, is born a power complete, unleashed and free to conquer. The bull is slain and the rabble is scattered. The broken ego, now a sperm, now a spell, now a sigil, now left here as an offering for lesser spirits to suck. All eyes are closed, blessed to know there'll be nothing left to see."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100819-133748 2010-08-19T00:00:00Z 2010-08-19T00:00:00Z

Lunar Miasma – 'Levitation' C30 €6
"First release on Munitions Family of Greek master of amplified keyboard instruments Panos Alexiadis aka Lunar Miasma. 3 tracks of super layered synth composition – this is NOT a one-take space droner! Pro duped tapes as always. Check the samples…"

Toymonger – ‘Animal Kingdom’ C30 €6
"Noise/free electronics duo made up of United Bible Studies / Deserted Village main man, Gavin Prior and Boys of Summer member Andrew Fogarty. Sound has been stripped back their previously dense dark droning, to a more clean and controlled, organic style of noise music. Pro duped tapes as always. Check the samples…"

Reptile Brain – ‘Dinosaur’ C30 €6
"Debut solo synth release from Boys of Summer and Toymonger member, Andrew Fogarty. On this limited cassette release, Reptile Brain summons the darker atmosphere of his Toymonger work through the warm vintage synths of the Boys of Summer space sound. Pro duped tapes as always. Check the samples…"

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100818-171206 2010-08-18T00:00:00Z 2010-08-18T00:00:00Z ash pool - 'for which he plies the lash' LP
"Now on wax. 8 songs of big bang black metal. First 100 copies on " Saturn " yellow vinyl available only in the hospital retail store." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100818-140641 2010-08-18T00:00:00Z 2010-08-18T00:00:00Z Luke Perry - 'Brainwave's Rerun Crunch' $7(US)/$9(World)
"New full length tape from New York's Luke "Axl" Perry. Retro TV commercial psychedelic synth pop styled after 90s teen dramas. Listening to this tape feels like watching reruns of "Saved By the Bell" and "90210" early on a saturday morning while your brain starts shorting out from eating too much sugar with your breakfast cereal. Tapes packaged in teen idol trapper-keeper design with hot pink shells sporting Krusty the Clown and Luke Perry himself as Sideshow Bob." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100818-082020 2010-08-18T00:00:00Z 2010-08-18T00:00:00Z fire island, AK – ‘Horns for Maldoror’ 3"CDr + poster $8
”An indictment against youth + beauty; an apocalypse eternity in horns, vox, feedback, busted electronics. 3" CDr, shrouded by one of fourteen b/w posters (≈ 2'x4') with selected text from Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont. Comes in manila envelope with attached photograph, hand-numbered edition of 82.”

fire island, AK – ‘Where is This + fire island, AK’ C40 $5
”Power electronics, harsh noise, drone ... collaboration between Where is This (Ireland) and fire island, AK (America). c40 in norelco case with double-sided insert, hand numbered edition of 50.”

fire island, AK – ‘fire island, AK / Richard Ramirez’ C43 $5
”c43 split between fire island, AK and Richard Ramirez. Double sided-insert, c43 in norelco case, hand numbered edition of 30.”

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100816-152501 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Cruise Family - 'Forever' C30 6€
"Free Download for a short time period. Your entire body is light. Light fills every particle of your blood, every cell, every membrane and organ. During recent years, many have been undergoing various forms of rearrangements. Typically, after the integration of the second cycle the embodiment is completed. The world of self-evolution is on the verge of an information explosion: cheap energy, free energy-everything will be given to you. All of this is related to the evolving light-encoded filaments. Our planet is nearing the completion of an evolutionary cycle that began long, long ago. During this final phase of the cycle, our human consciousness is awakening and expanding into cosmic consciousness, as we gradually remember WHO WE ARE, and the PURPOSE we came here to fulfill. All your energy belongs to you! You hold the history of the universe within your physical body. What is occurring upon the planet now is the literal mutation of your physical body, for you are allowing it to be evolved to a point where it will be a computer that can house this information. The friction you feel with others is that you are on this path of evolution and bursting forth. You will realise the contact and the energy that is continuously around. Use "FOREVER" from Cruise Family as always in limited physical form for 6 Euros included shipping on the entire planet ore as FREE download for a short time period! Order NOW!" HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100816-135417 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Richard Ramirez - 'Your Persuasion My Perversion' C20
"Out now on WATERPOWER- the perfect set for converting from boy to man . Packaged in an oversized vinyl box comes a clear C20 filled with queer harsh noise accompanied by an authored 3" DVDr containing 10 minutes of manipulated and distorted cuts from Jean-Étienne Siry's POING DE FORCE. Limited to 36 copies." SAMPLE/WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100816-094311 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Regicide Bureau – ‘Toadflax’ C62 $7(US)/$10(World)
”This one is for the underground home-taping heads. Hailing from St. Louis, Thomas Sutter’s Regicide Bureau project has been running strong since the mid-80s. His prolific output of heavily electroacoustic sonic alchemy has been documented on cassette by such labels as Sound of Pig, Deaf Eye, Ecto Tapes, HalTapes, and Harsh Reality Music, while releasing more than 300 recordings on his own hypermedia imprint. After delving into only a small portion of the catalogue, it’s easy to see that the Regicide Bureau oeuvre fits nicely alongside such home-taping legends as If, Bwana, Hal Mcgee and Minóy. Noise heads: don’t sleep on this one! Toadflax, an unreleased noisescape from 2009, is all at once raw, refined, abrasive, and elegant. Tom’s approach to sound is a painterly one—sonic chiaroscuro. One moment there is a jarring rift of noise, and the next a haunting melody fights through controlled feedback. Along the way signals abruptly cut out, as if exhausted, only to reappear after shape-shifting in silence. Documented on this tape, true to ritualistic form, is a glimpse into the Regicide Bureau microcosm of chaos and contemplation. The atmosphere here is a disorienting one, like being in a deep fever dream wandering lost through an endless field of purple toadflax. Duplicated at Close/Far headquarters: Type I to Type I. Black and white j-cards with color labels on white shells. Edition of 100.” HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100815-234441 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z OUTER SPACE LP $16(USA)/$19.5(CANADA)/$26.5(WORLD)
"John Elliott’s Outer Space project is a laboratory for electronic investigation. Acting as a continuance of the studies of mid 20th century electronic music composers such as Nik Pascal and Laurie Spiegel, Elliott’s music is deeply indebted to the inner workings of the electric signal. Acting almost as a meditation, through the simple gesture of translation Elliott’s process begins to reveal itself as electricity is converted into acoustic pressure and potential; the melody of physics. The six recordings on the album are each a microcosmic view into Elliott’s practice; a keystone, illuminating his solo practice as well as his work as a member of Emeralds. Composed and recorded over the past three years without the use of digital synthesizers and arpeggiation; a record closely connected to a personal path, attempting to make sense, to understand one’s journey. Mastered by Keith Fullerton Whitman; pressed in an edition of 650 copies on clear vinyl with full color gloss covers and heavy stock printed euro-style inner sleeves." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100815-213653 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z SWANOX - 'DAWNRUNNER' CS
"NNF199. awesome electric ritual full-length by this longtime left coast lurker. several years in the making, several steps above & beyond his usual
terrain."

DUCKTAILS LP
"NNF152. reissue of this summer 09 classic gets another pass around the gameboard. just in time for his lengthy Euro tour with Belgian porpoise-whisperer Dolphins Into The Future!"

SUN ARAW - 'HEAVY DEEDS' LP
"NNF169. another 09 slab comes back for seconds. same zany jungle funk, same headscratching liner notes, now a dollar cheaper!"

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100815-105515 2010-08-15T00:00:00Z 2010-08-15T00:00:00Z Je Suis le Petit Chevalier/David Payne - 'folkwaste library' split cassette $7(N. America)/$9(World)
"Limited edition of 18, hand numbered, eyeball tapes, collaged wooden popsicle stick covers. Each one beautifully unique. washed upon desertshores, abstractions of once familiar moments, impressions of naked bodies, tragic heroes in the seaweed, electronic impulses or psychic miscommunications? The distances are too great. Too many days on the road. I need to clear my head. My blurred consciousness awakens, staring past the burning sun and into a stranger's eyes. Did I say that out loud? Did we actually have this conversation or did I just dream it? David Payne: Fossils crushed into dust, distilled into it's purest form, no overdubs, no effects, no residue. Are these severe abstractions or disorientation by rare clarity? Basements dug into a bone filled ground. A lonely metal machine grinds out music, scraping it's way past the ghostly clouds of Steeltown's dark legacy. Confusing times indeed." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100814-100248 2010-08-14T00:00:00Z 2010-08-14T00:00:00Z clh19 – water lily jaguar/past utopia split C40 $7(US)/$8(Canada/Mexico)/$9(World)
”water lily jaguar generates a whirlpool of shimmering aquatic beauty. Past utopia submits dazed and whirring transmissions. edition of 25.”

clh20 – basked unit – ‘ward peak’ C40 $7(US)/$8(Canada/Mexico)/$9(World)
”stumbling textures diffuse into one another; equal parts glimmering and hissing. edition of 25.”

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100813-230451 2010-08-14T00:00:00Z 2010-08-14T00:00:00Z Knox Mitchell and Flame Throne – ‘Mayday’ C45 $5
”Weird early collab recording from 2008 – recorded live in the living room of an empty house. Weird bongos and vocals, circuit bent gear, harsh electronics. Weird times….spent the night with a girl for the first time later that evening. YOUTH. Color covers/tape labels, edition of 25.”

GR060: Knox Mitchell/Planet of ID – ‘Pre-Paid Grave’ C45 $5
”Live split tape from 2008 – recorded at (drunken) AJ Glaub fest in October 2008. The KM side is a rare document of a faux-synth pop drum machine mangled tape phase. The POID side is another rare document, the only recording ever made of Derek’s INSANE INTENSE spoken word set. Grip this tape and re-live the gig you weren’t at. Color covers/tape labels, edition of 25.”

GR087: Jon Browning – ‘Industrial Park’ C30 $5
”Non-boring HARSH noise from Jon Browning aka Honeymuzzle. Recorded in 2005 and not released until NOW. Blankets of broken circuits, tape speak, and ever-changing electronic scree. Very focused. Color covers/tape labels, edition of 20.”

GR097: Spider Tombs – ‘Shadrach’ C30 $5
”New recordings from Geoff Walker &I’mLooLoo aka Spider Tombs. Two extended organic, dark stereo drone pieces. Member of Gravitar, BSBC, Basket Case, and Enemy Brains. Color covers/tape labels, edition of 30.”

GR109: Knox Mitchell – ‘Attempts’ C120 $4
”Stereo, non stereo, non existant recordings from February-now. Traditional music, wrecked vinyl, tapes, soon to be dead electronics. I don’t really really making most of this, but it’s surprising how varied it is. Weeks of experiments,str8 to yrtapedeck. 2 hours of sound!! Color covers.”

GR117: Team Telepathy – ‘Easter with Goro’ C45 $4
”Feedback clash between AJ Glaub/Knox Mitchell recorded on Easter 2009 in Okemos, MI after a killer double gig – first at Olson’s Aries Assault party, then the Dead Machines/Aids Wolf gig at Mac’s Bar. We left Mac’s, headed back to AJ’s mom’s huge empty house, and jammed til the early morning hours. Mixed to weird stereo back in February. 2 FUN!! Dueling screeching jams – some unexplainable synth/drums /vocals in the mix too? I don’t remember but they sound good. Long color foldout covers, painted tapes, edition of 20.”

GR118: Repulsion – ‘For The Elements’ C30 $4
”It comes from outside, not from the outside. I wanna be right from the inside out. I want you to see. I want them to see. I want to be right for everyone to see. I wanna be right. For me, for you, for them, for the elements.For space, for time. Electronics filled with mud. Murk for stereo tape. Xerox covers, Xerox tape labels, edition of 25.”

GR122: Live Michigan Two – ‘City Center’ C30 $5
”Second volume in the Live Michigan series – this one being a recording of City Center in Grand Rapids this past Easter Sunday. Incredible songs with such amazing energy, recorded to tape. Features some pretty interesting audience participation. Contains some songs from the Cops Don’t Care 7” and the Spring Street 12”. GREAT GREATGREAT. Uniform LIVE MICHIGAN covers/tape labels, edition of 40 copies.”

GR124: Thom Elliott – ‘Temptation To Exist’ C45 $5
”Brand new recordings from Pleasuredome dweller/curator Thom Elliott (Textgate, Deathwish, Gridlock’d, Black Onyx, Vacationers, etc.) whose releases on Bare Wire Technologies, With Intent, his own Pleasuredome label, and most recently, Hermitage Tapes sit with some of the best jams to call Michigan their home. Unsettling and plain scary sounds made from mystery electronics. Resist the temptation, cease to exist. Xerox covers/tape labels, edition of 30.”

GR129: Varnum – ‘High School Hospital’ C10 $4
”An empty high school. An empty hospital. Nausea-inducing stereo waves, new from Anthony Viviano (of Precious Trombley). Recorded in Grand Rapids, MI and processed in Jeddo, MI. Xerox covers/tape labels. Edition of 20.”

GR136: V/A ‘Lake Michigan Vol. 1’ C95 $5
”THE MYSTERY OF LAKE MICHIGAN. Exciting new live mystery tape series curated by Andrew Coltrane. 95 minutes of live recordings made by AC, but in his classic ???style, no dates, artists, anything. He asked me if I wanted to release the three volumes – OF COURSE I DO! Mainly Michigan acts I’m guessing. Can’t say for sure who’s on this, but it’d be a safe bet that you might hear hear Dan Dlugosielski, Mike Connelly, KhrisReinshagen, Paul Gunsberg, Jon Lockhart, GrehHolger, John Olson, Sam Dour, some combination of any of these, or maybe NONE of the above! No one knows for sure, but I know that these recordings are 100% puzzling. See if you can decipher, take a chance. Xerox covers/tape labels, edition of 30.”

GR137: Alena Wright – ‘Playings of Tanned Glass’ C45 $4
”Not the recordings I wanted to release, but when you confuse masters, dub the tapes, and then can’t find the right one…why not just go with it? I’ve got way too many tapes and no organization… Xerox covers, painted tapes. Edition of 11.”

GR138: Knox Mitchell – ‘Midnight Handlings’ C3 $2
”Two 1.5 minute chewed tape loop collages pieces. Stationary. Xerox covers, slightly labeled tapes. Edition of 9.”

EMAIL]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100813-130155 2010-08-13T00:00:00Z 2010-08-13T00:00:00Z Skin Graft/Dim Dusk Moving Gloom split C32
"You know what to expect from the murky depths of Wyatt Howland from Cleveland, Ohio... A new composition of grit, dirt, scum, darkness and gloom. Speaking of gloom, Baltimore's Dim Dusk Moving Gloom has you gnashing your teeth on an atmospheric yet harsh and chaotic electronic opus of cuts, bruises and dissonant beauty. Blue or red, hand-stamped, foil tapes. Full color j-cards. Limited to 50 (25 of each foil color)." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100812-235840 2010-08-13T00:00:00Z 2010-08-13T00:00:00Z NEON SEA - 'Fading Light' C32 $7(US)/$9(World)
"Swimming through the miasma. "Fading Light" offers a bleak soundtrack to these steadily darkening skies. Mutilated accordion drones, buzzing tape manipulations and crashing electronics rumble over industrial tape-hiss, ambient gamma-ray throb and dark electro-growl. Simultaneously soothes and seethes. Brings to mind a brisk jaunt through the barren tundra. Electric-pink and white screen-printed labels on opaque sky-blue shell comes packaged in a full color glossy dust sleeve w/ matching fold out J-card in a clear Norelco case. Edition of 50."

(D)(B)(H) - 'Bleach is the color of my true love's hair.' C40 $7(US)/$9(World)
"Limping down the road less traveled. Profound Garbage-Jazz/Free-Junk improvisations to further the picture puzzle. Minimal rustling and scraping slowly builds to fever pitch room-tone crescendos. (D)(B)(H) utilizes an array of household objects along with strings, horns, percussion and electronics to create this offering of seething spontaneous compositions. Suitable soundtracks to your seasonal "shut-in" sessions. Black shell w/ wood grain labels comes packaged in a glossy "Fab-Four" wood grain dust sleeve. Inner sleeve printed on recycled brown stock. Includes an eight page booklet with info, band photo and poem by Donald Barthelme. Edition of 50."

JUSTIN RHODY and MATTHEW HIMES - 'Romantic Love' C24 $7(US)/$9(World)
"Of the darkest depths of Mid-coast winter. Minimal, tortured soundscapes sans macho posturing. These frightening duo improvisations are culled from the same sessions as the nauseating cassingle released by the "Green Tape"label earlier this year. The boys manipulate throbbing feedback, violin, voice, electronics, tapes, microphones and strings to create these hypnotizing electro-acoustic compositions. This is ugly stuff. Black shell w/ black labels comes packaged with a full color fold out J-card. in a black Norelco case. Edition of 100."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100812-204332 2010-08-13T00:00:00Z 2010-08-13T00:00:00Z MOON UNIT - 'Hell Horse and Heady Stratus' LP £15(UK)/£16(EU)/£19(World)
"Where to start? Upon hearing this new LP from Moon Unit it is immediately apparent that this Glaswegian trio stand apart from a lot of the psyche out new boys on the block. Perhaps because they feature Nackt Insecten himself, Ruaraidh Sanachan, Andreas Jonsson of Lanterns, and Peter Kelly. When I first heard this completed LP after a few different incarnations, I was really blown away, the previous versions that had dropped through my mailbox were really something, but this, the final version is unreal in its sheer goodness. The five jams on this LP make up one of the best psyche out, freak out full lengths I've heard this year. It's an incredible record filled with furiously wild drum explosions, keyboard zone outs, sci-fi guitar shredding, and wailing feedback. It really seems to perfect blend some of the best sounds that have occurred in the UK over the last few years, cannot recommend highly enough. Play as loud as you can! If you were into Nacket Insecten's Quantum Odyssey LP on Blackest Rainbow last year, you will love this for sure, and if you're just into wild free music such as Vibracathedral Orchestra, grab a copy of this beast! Edition of 500, with cover design by Jake Blanchard (the man behind Menagerie). Pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl."

DAVID A. JAYCOCK - 'Presets' LP £13.5(UK)/£14.5(EU)/£17.5(World)
"Debut vinyl LP from Manchester's David A. Jaycock (who is also a member of Big Eyes Family Players), David recently had a 7" on the excellent Great Pop Supplement and 'Presets' follows on from that fine release. 'Presets' features 12 tracks of melancholic folk almost entirely performed by David on a variety of instruments, and its a real step forward to darker areas than his previous releases on Great Pop Supplement, Early Winter Recordings and The Red Deer Club. The record retains some of the more haunting vocal and guitar moments from afformentioned excursions, and at times is comparable to Ben Chasny's Six Organs of Admittance, but it has a much stranger and hard to place approach and sound, with some fantastic dark creepy tracks, blurring creaking, clunking objects with something that sounds like guitar, transformed into something far more sinister... but somehow at the same time retains a feeling that everything isn't quite as bleak as it seems. Edition of 250 with pro printed sleeves. Pressed on virgin vinyl."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100812-113949 2010-08-12T00:00:00Z 2010-08-12T00:00:00Z NTR011 Yellow Crystal Star – ‘Pathway To Celestial Towers’ C30 $6(No. America)/$9(World)
"The old wisdom is still here ; music is a bridge to timeless realities. This cassette was conceived not as the music of Yellow Crystal Star, but as a manifestation to point the way while being in transition. It is not intended to be a personal or emotional expression." Recorded while in Thailand. Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery, photograph by Mark Billings. 2-colour letterpress printed on heavy stock. An edition of 45. Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes.”

NTR012 Red Electric Rainbow – ‘Sky Underneath’ C40 $6(No. America)/$9(World)
”Full omnipresent aerial convergence throughout and within the skies below and above, from Dan Smith's prolific Red Electric Rainbow project. Although Dan is currently immersed in planning Chicago's Neon Marshmallow fest, he is still able to kick out the lengthy synth pieces that are his trademark — sparkling, simultaneously dense and airy, familiar and mysterious. Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery. Letterpress printed on heavy stock. An edition of 45. Pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes.”

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100810-233653 2010-08-11T00:00:00Z 2010-08-11T00:00:00Z T. Hannum - 'Summoning' 3"CDr + zine $10(US)/$15(world)
"For those in this congregation interested in printed matter, and this time some audio material, Locrian's Terence Hannum has issued his eigth zine in his monthly series for 2010, Summoning, for the month of August. If you've been keeping score with the past seven; Call & Response (w/ Scott Treleaven), False Bloods, Temple of the Immortals, Cataract of Fire and Blood (w/ Elijah Burgher), Profaned Missive (for Fan Death), Black Arts and our own New Rites (LOD 007) - again you will not be dissapointed. A continuation of Locrian member Terence Hannum's monthly series of publications for 2010, "Summoning" combines drawings of candelabras, bonfires and stage lights copied on black paper with textural studies of analog tape, surrounding a core of pages documenting an analog tape sculpture installed at Peregrine Program in July 2010. This monthly project sees each zine change in format, here "Summoning" introduces a deluxe package of a jewelry box adorned with drawings and sealed by a black obi band to house both the zine AND the addition of a 3" audio CD. The CD contains a the tape loop from the original installation with its brief vocal composition looping for over 20 minutes in a single track also titled "Summoning". Part document and part art object "Summoning" attempts a meditative position while examining the role of the rite and music. Edition of 45. 3" CDR (22min. piece). 3.5" × 4.5" zine / Black & Black / Black & Gray / Black & White xeroxes | 24 pages. In White Jewelry Box, sealed with a black printed obi band." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100809-181830 2010-08-09T00:00:00Z 2010-08-09T00:00:00Z PUMICE s/t 10" €13(France)/€14.5(EU)/€15.5(World)
"Some time ago, I got a message from Stefan Neville about this record : "I been workin on some recording for you. some dumb punk slop and some tape loop soup and a pretty love song." I couldn't describe the record better. It's maybe the end of an era for Pumice with his 8 track pushed to its maximum limits and dying soon after these recordings were finished. So the result is maybe one of the noisier Pumice records to date... with a pretty love song. Recorded in june 2009 in Sandringham, Auckland, NZ. And mixed in january 2010 at Mainz. Black vinyl packed in black paper silkscreened by Cotoreick, with 2 postcards. Artwork by Stefan Neville. Mastering by Aigle noir. Limited to 500 copies."

Bunyi-bunyi sangsi dari kl oleh tms - 'sebuah teksi yang sesat di dalam trafik yang mendadak/keretapi pantast ke lapangan terbang' lathe 7" €8
"Doubtful sounds from KL (Malaysia) by tms (Thierry Monnier). Cassette manipulations of possible field recordings. Transparent 7'' cut on polycarbonate plastic by Peter King. Limited to 30 copies."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100809-105604 2010-08-09T00:00:00Z 2010-08-09T00:00:00Z Spiracle - 'Evestrum' 7"
"Spiracle" has flown to the stratosphere in "Ananta" and has swallowed the milky way in "Lumen". Now it opens the gate to the parallel worlds through the astral body. Side A: Evestrum is formed by membranous layers of drones, which slowly shift by the interference between glass harps and moderate electronic sounds. It is a sonographical report of the process: a subtle spiritual existence merges into a physical body and becomes tangible through the senses. Side B: Exusiai is formed by the resonance of trumpets and metal sheets that were recorded in a dark vast basement. It is a collected mass of sonic phenomena: a warm invisible energy like sunlight timelessly infiltrates into infinite darkness like ripples. The original materials of "Evestrum" were recorded by a 4-track cassette recorder in Kagoshima in Japan in the late 90's. Other recordings in the same period were used in "Flood", which was included in "Sympathetic Field" released in 2002. The original materials of "Exusiai" were recorded in 2004 in Switzerland. Some other recordings in the same day were used in "The Epidemic Symphony No.9" released in 2006. However the compositions are rather close to "Lumen" released in 2007, in the meaning that one material is treated as a core of the structure, and focused on the physicality and the osmosis of the sound. The cover art is paradoxically representing invisible world - an object which is filled with invisible matters. This title is the last release of Hitoshi Kojo as Spiracle." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100808-235004 2010-08-09T00:00:00Z 2010-08-09T00:00:00Z

MI64- Christopher Riggs - '1:15, 0:20' C30 $7(N. America)/$9(World)
"This new c30 series by Chris Riggs is very mathematical in its approach: each 15 minute is divided into a discrete number of pieces, determined by the time-division. On this volume, side A is divided into 12 pieces, each of them 75 seconds in length. Side B is divided 45 pieces, each of them 20s in length. The sound palette is limited to 3-4 sounds, and each piece can only use each sound once. The sounds themselves are subtle, and seep into your consciousness while listening. I'm not sure if "whine and scrape" is an actual term yet, but it certainly applies to Rigg's sound. Needless to say, Riggs does not lack originality in his somewhat complex compositional approach. The whole experience is a bit of a mind fuck. Comes with deluxe wrap around tape insert: a colour print of an oil painting/collage inspired by the music."

MI65- Growing Rot - 'Culled Vision' C20 $7(N. America)/$9(World)
"Growing Rot=from Denmark comes this new gnarly solo noise project. Tape loops hypnotize into a grim trance as blackened textures envelop the disgusting sound. Fans of Dilloway will love this. I sure do. Upcoming release on American tapes. Complete with ultra grim artwork, an oil painting inspired by the music."

MI66- Fletcher Pratt - 'Spiral Stare' free download
"Spacey, psychedelic tracks, featuring modular synthesizer, sitar, guitar and tapes. This is the first net release on Midori. Enjoy!" HERE

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100808-210344 2010-08-09T00:00:00Z 2010-08-09T00:00:00Z Tidal - 'Fractal Empire' C64 SP-09
"This tape likens a frenetic labyrinth, twisting and turning amongst this seemingly chaotic, yet highly-architected, intricate maze. These riotous synths, surprisingly, put the listeners at ease, guiding them through these seemingly unsystematic turns."

Mohave Triangles - 'Vision Quest' C48 SP-08
"An electric esprit de corps with its progressive synths recall native rituals and retro tones, while layers of fading neon crescendo."

Archers by the Sea/Dry Valleys Split C64 SP-07
"Saturated sounds, dense and dampened as if underground. A meandering hum amidst primordial rhythms carry the listener through shifting resonance and changing pace. cardstock j-card, labeled cassettes. art by adam. edition of 50."

the seven vowels of nature - 'vol. i and e' C20 SP-06
"The whole—greater than the sum of the parts. Rooted from buried Earth. Clairvoyance and Clairaudience: these tracks, progressive in their slow pace, elucidate the hums of the past and future. cardstock j-card, labeled cassettes. art by adam. edition of 48."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100807-091634 2010-08-07T00:00:00Z 2010-08-07T00:00:00Z NK01: Sparkling Wide Pressure - ‘Some Triggers’ C45 $7(N. America)/$8(world)
”[reissue]. Frank Baugh's formative debut album from '07 is a delicate and beautiful net of textures and moments to sink into, a quilt of meandering melodies, loops and quiet songs buried down in the grass. It's is an important beginning to SWP's amazingly prolific discography (22 releases on all your favorite labels, including his own Kimberly Dawn) and it shows him already tapping into that bottomless well of sound and color. 50 pro-dubbed / imprinted clear tapes with hand brayered / gocco screenprinted (or variant crayon scribbling) artwork based on a drawing by Frank, with a booklet. Some copies come with special edition No Kings gold seal!”

NK02: Horsehair Everywhere - ‘Vol. I’ C68 $7(N. America)/$8(world)
”[reissue] This improvised 68-minute debut album from Murfreesboro-based society of midnight noise-partiers, Horsehair Everywhere, was released in 2007 in small CDr edition. 11 young artists got together on 3 occasions in the darkness, stacked junk equipment all around tiny Tennessee apartments and spewed deep folk jazz for hours on end. Violin bows destroyed, beer supply exhausted. Prepare for Horsehair's third full-length album, on vinyl from La Station Radar, out in September. 50 pro-dubbed/imprinted black tapes with color printed 80s-style-cassette artwork.”

NK03: K-LUB - ‘Way Down Low Down’ C20 $7(N. America)/$8(world)
”Inhumanly frenetic, brimming with psychotic vigor, this burst of sonic art and debut solo release from drummer savant and country song writer Caleb Steelman (Looks like a Snake!, Poet Named Revolver, Horsehair Everywhere) scrapes the dirt off the basement floor, goes from Chrome garage freak outs to Miles Davis tribal jazz invocations, and squeezes every drop of use out of it's 20 minute run time with 1000 different unpredictable sounds that hang together perfectly. Satisfying outsider punk. 50 pro-dubbed/imprinted red tapes with letterpressed and photocopied artwork based on a painting by Caleb.”

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100806-192724 2010-08-06T00:00:00Z 2010-08-06T00:00:00Z

Banned Books – ‘Man Maker’ CD $3
”Us Banned Books fanatics have been waiting for a full year for a follow-up to their debut LP 'Mission Creep'. Counting "XXXmas" from the Holiday 4-Way 7", BB have given us 9 brilliant, never-gets-old gems; with 'Man Maker', they've given unto us 5 more. BB fans, this is your day. The new tracks on this CD are just like way too good. The BB boys balance raucous, balls-out rock (see: 'Meat That Eats', 'Intergalactic Singalong') with mellow but high-tension crooning (title track, 'Your Dress') and a little extra weirdness/experimentation ('Human Head'). The sequencing, playing, recording, and packaging is all tops on this one. A full album is in the works - but this masterpiece is more than a hold over. The 'Man Maker' CDep is actually a real, professionally manufactured CD (not a cdr) and comes in an ecowallet case. 1000 copies made.”

Brick Mower – ‘Floors’ C28 $2.5
”Brick Mower hails from Keansburg, NJ. They are a trio and they play some seriously satisfying early-90s-esque indie college rock-type music. Their music contains elements from all of the great bands of that era - Pavement, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Sebadoh, Dino Jr, etc. MMR has praised them in print already, because they're so awesome. Really solid, unpretentious music that simply is EXCELLENT. The ep has been dubbed on both sides of the cassette for minimal rewinding. C28 cassette dubbed in real-time in a numbered edition of 50. Each j-card is unique, having been colored or stickered or color-stickered.”

Reveille – ‘Time and Death’ C38 $2.5
”Have you heard of François Virot? I hope you have. François is a brilliant songwriter from Lyon, France. He is excellent on his own, but his new Reveille project in which he is joined by drummer and singer Lisa Duroux, is somehow even better. The songs are uplifting, but are tinged with a hint of forlorn sadness of the kind that is so unheard of in American pop music. The musicianship is tremendous, especially Lisa's hypnotic, precise drumming. Such an outstanding album, made even more tremendous by the fact that it's a debut album. C38 cassette dubbed in real-time in a numbered edition of 50 with full-color j-cards. LP version coming soon on Clapping Music (France).”

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100806-120910 2010-08-06T00:00:00Z 2010-08-06T00:00:00Z FOLKTALE RECORDS SAMPLER' CDr
"We have made the first official Folktale Records sampler. They are pro-made CD-R's that contain 21 songs by different artists from various releases we've done, spanning from 2004 through 2010. Some of the songs on it are from releases now out of print and some are from upcoming releases, but all in all it's a really nice compilation. CD comes in a black paper sleeve with insert and catalog of available Folktale titles. There were only 100 of these made, and that being said, here is how to get one: #1 - YOU CAN PURCHASE THE COMPILATION BY ITSELF FOR $6; #2 - YOU CAN PURCHASE THE COMPILATION FOR $2 WITH ANY ORDER; #3 - THE COMPILATION WILL AUTOMATICALLY COME FREE WITH ANY ORDER OF $25 OR MORE." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100805-084136 2010-08-05T00:00:00Z 2010-08-05T00:00:00Z Velvet Davenport – ‘White Blue’ C15 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$9(World)
”Velvet Davenport returns with White Blue, their first release following a collaboration with Ariel Pink and Gary War that led to a well-praised 7” in addition to a tune featured on Moon Glyph’s very own Regolith Vol. 1. Starker in production than its predecessors, White Blue calls attention to the group’s contemplative side - evident in the wistful tracks “Never Ending Days Beginning” and “White Blue.” While the lyrical content on Velvet Davenport’s previous MG release, Lemon Drop Square Box, concerned itself with the mythical, this release captures fragments of the Human Relationship, processing the timeless songwriter trope through a haze that is more crystalline than it is vaporous. Ever the craftsmen, Parker Sprout continues to refine his palate of vivid pop wonder. Ed. of 200. Art by Parker Sprout.” HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100804-180907 2010-08-04T00:00:00Z 2010-08-04T00:00:00Z Earn - 'Lacewing' C12 $7(US)/$8(Mexico+Canada)/$10(World)
"Two very simple and minimal mandolin-based ambient pieces recorded to 4-track one summers day in Los Angeles. Songs for the passing of a day and where the time goes..." EMAIL]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100804-155214 2010-08-04T00:00:00Z 2010-08-04T00:00:00Z DW026 ADAM BUGAJ – ‘Telegraphed’ CD $10
“’Telegraphed is the long-awaited follow-up to Adam Bugaj’s debut album from 2006 which, just as expected, has been destined to a life in obscurity. It was a disc overflowed by chopped underwater ceremonies and melodic fragments that were placed against a tapestry of tape-hiss and polyrhythmic psychedelia. Imagine a rousing but still downcast sound carousel reminiscent of Wilson/Parks as much as Dreamies and you’re in the right sketchy ballpark. This new disc treads over equally fragmentized terrain but at the same time it means a step sideward from the unconventional pop formula of the predecessor to something slightly more introvert. What we get is fragile song fragments interspersed with shimmering waves of warm electronic landscapes and bedroom experimentation. It all sounds like some nearly lost memory, or like being trapped inside a dream that’s all about subtle and beautiful disorientation. Simple melodies are embellished with a suggestive kind of brilliance and a great sense of melancholia, which seems to be grounded in the ordinary world, yet the sounds are otherworldly to say the least. Imagine watching home movies from another world and you’re getting close to what this one is all about.’ – Mats Gustafsson. 16 tracks, 33 minutes.”

DW027 ENUMCLAW – ‘Painted Valley of the Mineral Monks’ CD $10
“We’re pleased to help bring into existence the second full-length release by Philadelphia’s Enumclaw (in our world known as Norm Fetter; mainstay of space-rock champs Niagara Falls, he’s also been spotted playing with Golden Ball, Espers, and other Brotherly Love notables), following up last year’s lovely Opening of the Dawn on Honeymoon records. Compared with that LP, which received deserved praise for its vintage-style spiritual cosmic psychedelia, this new disc dials in the focus to a more tightly refined palette of gently buzzing, asynchronously looping, edgily insinuating patterns of synthesized tone generation. And while it’s easy to imagine this having great appeal for fans of the best current electro-drone artists (Oneohtrix Point Never, Emeralds, etc.), Painted Valley of the Mineral Monks also has an extension chord/psychic umbilicus plugged directly into the prime circuits of late-70s synthesizer pulsations, sounding not unlike the soundtrack to some lost educational film about ancient astronauts, astral projection and LSD as composed by Eno, Moebius and Roedelius. Five tracks, 32 minutes.”

DW028 EVENING FIRES – ‘Medicine Man’ CD $10
“A friend recently described Evening Fires' music as sounding as though Krautrock came from the Appalachians; to be honest, we weren't really sure what he meant at first, since it's hard to pinpoint any obvious influences. There are definitely some shared creative techniques though - hypnotic repetition, free improvisation, communal folk trance, devotional electronics, periodic noise overload, psychedelic production flourishes - and in EF's case it's all processed via a group mind rooted deep in the eastern hardwood forest, so I guess he was probably onto something after all. The eighth Evening Fires release, Medicine Man was brewed up in the midst of troubled times (personal and worldly) in the first part of 2010, from elements created over the preceding several years, with the larger goal of what my alchemist buddies used to call "compounding the elixir" - transcendence via distillation, y'know. As such, it features an expanded roster (eleven contributors from various phases of the group's existence) and a more elaborate exploration of the studio as instrument, with dense and trippy arrangements creating a surreal sonic landscape in multilevel motion, resulting (paradoxically) in both their most experimental and most accessible release yet. Seven tracks, 57 minutes.”
]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100802-220638 2010-08-03T00:00:00Z 2010-08-03T00:00:00Z (TD34) Inhibitionists - 'Lithium Salt Mines' CDr $6
"Solo project from Christian Kann, from Copenhagen, and brains behind the amazing Beard of Snails record label. Ostensibly a "noise" record, this is so much more. It's simply a phenomenal collection of tracks that cohere and make aural sense in a way that most music never will. Every sound is perfectly placed, the timing is impeccable, and the music consistently inspires. Somehow Christian has managed to create a set of mysterious sounds that balance multiple worlds and serve as a lightning rod to the cosmos. Easily one of the best and most welcoming noise records we've heard, but it sacrifices absolutely nothing for its accessibility. Next level indeed."

(TD35) Millions - 'Goldmouth' C30 $6
"Dave Suss, from NYC, delivers the goods on this tape, using minimalist means to construct two towering sides of stunningly heavy drone. Majestic and beautiful in scope, these are reminiscent of the best of Campbell Kneale's BCM work, and astound with their multiple layers and levels of nuance. Suss is a master of his trade, and time suspends itself over and over again while his tapes are in the deck. Blurry and noisy soundscapes that traffic in razor sharp detail. This is his best yet, and it's a massive winner."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100802-205325 2010-08-03T00:00:00Z 2010-08-03T00:00:00Z

Rambutan — 'Dream of a Future Desert' C60 $7
"It’s no accident that this is Rambutan’s third entry in Stunned’s catalog, and hopefully it won’t be his last. Appearing to have slowed the prolific pace of his 2009 solo offerings, we were starting to wonder what’s been brewing in Eric Hardiman’s cauldron for 2010. Then this luminous hour was slipped our way, and we instantly realized what the wait was about. ‘Dream of a Future Desert’ is Rambutan’s personal zeitgeist of ethereal texture-craft and his definitive statement of the year. With an evolved ear for deep sonorous spaces, Hardiman maneuvers his glistening guitar & honeydripping synth lines into an overall manifestation of desert mirage and articulation of oasis air. Epic in scope and mesmerizing in its holographic nature, ‘Dream of a Future Desert’ presents itself as an absolutely essential chapter in Rambutan’s inimitable discography. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c60 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

Donato Epiro — 'Supercontinent' C30 $7
"‘Supercontinent’ is Donato Epiro’s freshest hypnotic adventure, and a glimpse into some future tropical world where lysergic acid rain waters the neon foliage. Animatronic apes and mechanical birds flock around Donato as he expertly fashions his sonic hieroglyphs, while sibilant rhythms and humid chants pour freely into the deviant ceremony from all sides. Join the intoxicating celebration, and play this tape whenever you need a little break from the continent you’re currently standing upon." Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

Armali Lari — 'Ma tu la pasta la vò?' C40 $7
"Sicilian duo Armali Lari first introduced their sound to Stunned as “camera music for informal people,” a distinction we found quite the understatement upon actually hearing the stuff. More accurately, this “camera” is a dizzying kaleidoscope that never halts its colored tumble, and we hope the “informal people” mentioned have a penchant for the insane. From moment one, we were proudly counted among the target audience Armali Lari suggests, because a work like ‘Ma tu la pasta la vò?’ is an unhinged paradox worth picking apart over and over again. A fascinating embroidery is woven from the simple array of largely acoustic instruments employed by Armali Lari’s Francisco Calandrino & Nicola Giunta. Their all-inclusive angle results in our whole sensorium being whisked to an environment wildly infused with humor, abandon, and mischief — a place we don’t want to scoot from anytime soon." Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

Dire Wolves — 'Jams and the Giant Peace' C36 $7
"Now here is the summer album we’ve been absolutely craving. ‘Jams and the Giant Peace’ is the kind of psychedelic monster that immediately transports us back to being seventeen again, cruising around town invincible and high while blowing the car’s factory-installed speakers to shreds. When the shop owners and neighbors demand to know who’s responsible for all the sudden ruckus, tell them Pittsburgh-based trio Dire Wolves just got to the party. And they aren’t leaving until every cymbal crash & scorching chord has been loosed. Along the way curveballs are thrown of classic Kraut/Japanese psych, liberated studio deck manipulation, and free-sound meltdown. This is simply par for these dude’s course. Twist one up and take that top off, summer’s best jams are just beginning to drop." Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c36 tapes with double-sided color jcard.

Warm Climate — 'Camouflage On the River Wretched' C36 $7
"Even those familiar with Warm Climate’s last decade of underground madness will find ‘Camouflage on the River Wretched’ a most combustible cocktail. Shaken, stirred, or molotov – any preference? No matter, it’s all going to be pleasantly poured down the hatch when Warm Climate’s iconoclastic bandleader Seth Kasselman grips microphone and guitar. Moving along from 2009’s pop dementia sleeper-hit ‘Edible Homes’, now Warm Climate explores dark urban noir, graffiti-speckled rock n’ roll, and mysterious cinematic narrative. Sounds about right for a group who was publicly declared “Best Band in L.A.” to the hearty agreement of the audience at this year’s Bottled Smoke Festival. Hell, Warm Climate IS Los Angeles, or at least one especially crucial aspect of its tremendous Voice. In all its befuddling and inscrutable glory, the city itself seeks purest expression through the genius minds who roam its Escher-like sprawl. Warm Climate has deftly responded to the schizoid urges of L.A. in good measure: with an incredible music that will be remembered long after the cars, buildings, and sea of people." Special edition of 222 pro-dubbed & imprinted c36 tapes w/double-sided jcard and insert.

save and buy all 5 for $30; purchase includes complimentary Stunned bonus #10 cassette

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100802-184529 2010-08-02T00:00:00Z 2010-08-02T00:00:00Z Culturcide - 'Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-revolutionary America' 2.5€
"Home-taping is killing the record industry...so keep doing it. Let this record be the master for your cassette edition." ¡Y eso es justo lo que Afeite Al Perro acaba de hacer! Culturcide, uno de los grupos de punk más originales y dementes de los ochenta. No sé qué hostias tendrá Texas pero de ahí salieron los grupos punks más iconoclastas: Dicks, Butthole Surfers, Stains, Big Boys, DRI... No contentos con romper dogmas y reglas absurdas del hardcore made in u$a con "Consider museums as concentration camps" (1980) y el buenísimo lp "Year One" (1982), en 1986 llegaron donde ningún grupo lo había hecho antes. "Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America" es el ataque más salvaje a la industria de la música jamás grabado. 14 hits de radiofórmula convertidos en el disco punk definitivo. Bruce Springteen ("you can't be a boss without a bureaucracy), la falsísima y explotadora solidaridad de We are the world ("they're just bosses, and bureaucrats and rock and roll has-beens"), Macca y Stevie ("side by side in their greed, stars in the media conspiracy"), la rígida y clónica escena punk ("California Punks"), la brutalidad policial ("Houston Lawman"), el rock ("the heart of rock and roll is the profit!")...las referencias musicales han quedado un poco desfasadas ya que han pasado 24 años desde su edición (alguien se acuerda de Pat Benatar?), pero sigue siendo un disco que marcó un punto y aparte y dice verdades grandes como catedrales. Un disco FUNDAMENTAL, todo un honor y orgullo sacar una edición en cassette en Afeite Al Perro! Portada y contraportada originales a todo color, encarte con todas las letras y nueva portada interior hecha para la ocasión. Cassette negro con pegatina escrita a mano. 100 copias.////And that's just what Afeite Al Perro has done! Culturcide, one of the most original and demented punk bands of the 80s. I don't know what the hell is in Texas to give the most iconoclast punk groups: Dicks, Butthole Surfers, Stains, Big Boys, DRI... With the amazing "Consider museums as concentration camps" single and "Year One" lp they broke hardcore punk dogmatic rules, but in 1986 they went to where noone had done before. "Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-revolutionary America" is the wildest attack to the music industry ever recorded. 14 radioformula hits turned on the definitive punk record. A FUNDAMENTAL record, a real pride and honor to release this cassette edition in Afeite Al Perro! Original full color cover, lyrics insert and a new cover for the tape. Black cassette with hand_written sticker. 100 copies." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100802-155803 2010-08-02T00:00:00Z 2010-08-02T00:00:00Z Celer - 'Engaged Touches'
"Engaged Touches is another beautiful addition to the body of work by Celer. The music of Will Thomas Long’s and Danielle Baquet-Long’s Celer is an absorbing combination of classic ambient, minimalism, and – perhaps as the most distinct characteristic – overwhelming romanticism. Longing, melancholy, nostalgia, and the like seem to be recurring themes in Will and Dani’s works."

Elian - 'Whispers, The Silence'
"The album is about as broad a record as we’ve released and about as ambitious a work that I have ever heard. From the opening vibraphone of its title track, through the interspersed white noise static and disturbing light dark-dark-light melodies sourced from various instruments, you are left with the feeling of absolute and complete imagination."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100801-162952 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z Part Wild Horse's Mane On Both Sides with CKDH/Fria Konstellationen - 'Spurious Animal/Dieu Trompeur' split
"PWHMOBS team up with CKDH (hockeyfrilla, smegma, wheel of eyes), in a sloth zone of heavy tones snowballing into fierce ritual drum thunder. Malmo monks Fria Konstellationen lay down an interstellar chorus, cruising through Fripp-vibed passages. edition of 50, order quick!"

Simon Rose & Pascal Nichols - 'Ball Tole' CDr
"Drums and saxophones; mood-heavy fierce massage and deep muscle relaxation. first 30 mailorder copies red cd and A3 poster packaging."

Pascal Nichols - 'Empty Bell Tower' CDr
"Stripped down drumkit and objects compositions and explorations. Raw and untreated. first 30 mailorder copies marble cd and a3 poster packaging."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100731-150740 2010-07-31T00:00:00Z 2010-07-31T00:00:00Z TWINSISTERMOON - 'Then Fell The Ashes...' LP £15(UK)/£16(EU)/£19(World)
"Brand new full length vinyl LP from Natural Snow Buildings' Mehdi Ameziane's solo project. This is the third vinyl release from Twinsistermoon since last summer's The Hollow Mountain LP and Bride of Spirits 7" which were both released on the excellent Dull Knife label. Following on from these two gems, as well as various obscure self released discs and CDs on Digitalis and Students of Decay, Ameziane's sound has grown somewhat darker at times with this brand new LP featuring nearly 50 minutes of new material. The A side features 6 tracks, where as the B side is a huge almost 25 minute track. The opening track 'Black Nebulae' is a gorgeously textured psychedelic drone based piece, followed by a short, quieter, guitar plucked piece with vocals, but no words entitled '1976'. 'Ghost That Was Your Life' is a stunning beautiful layered guitar piece with Ameziane's astounding beautiful vocals shining through. 'Big Sand' opens as one of the darker pieces, with an occult feeling to its sound, swirling vocal drones, almost like a choir at times, and in come those stunning warm and distinctive gutar sounds with layered ghostly sound scapes, that haunt much of Ameziane's solo and NSB recordings. Half way through this track it fades into layered field recordings, drones, and distant chimes, the sound of this track at this point just has a real melancholy vintage sound, the last two minutes are again a change of sound with a slow plucking of guitar strings. 'Desert Prophecy' returns of the sound of just Ameziane and his guitar, with some lo-fi electric riffing distrotion in the background. Its pretty incredible to hear this and think that its from 2010, and not from the 60s or 70s. The sixth and final track on the first side is 'Trailer', another beautiful somewhat lighter folk sound, which is interesting considering the following is the albums title track 'Then The Ashes Fell', a side long track which is a considerably darker and heavier than much of the rest of the LP, but it weaves in some beautiful lighter more reflective moments. Heavyweight vinyl housed in deluxe heavy thick card tip on jackets. Edition of 1000. PLEASE NOTE THESE LPS WILL BE SHRINK WRAPPED." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100731-000931 2010-07-31T00:00:00Z 2010-07-31T00:00:00Z

[2AM31] Pink Desert - 'Unsteady' C23 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Brian Steinman conjures faded memories of the good old days. Gentle, longing vocals reminisce in an ethereal cloud. Remember when you were a kid? Limited to 45 copies. Chrome tapes."

[2AM30] Billiam Wutler Yea - 'Damian the Corpse' C42 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Incredible, bizarre sounds from Moscow. In Billiams words: “Finno-Ugric supersonic syzygy from scopes of a virgin taiga. Density and rarefaction absorbs in a boggy turbulence and annuls any equilibrium. Trustworthy cadence same as safety belt in hotbed of an asteroid belt.” This dude has the special sauce. For real. Limited to 45 copies. Chrome tapes."

[2AM29] Nodolby C26 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Nodolby’s darkest, heaviest work yet. Sonic magma oozes through the speakers and hardens on your floor. Frantic disorienting rhythms churn under hard water blasts. Midnight martian landscapes swallow you whole. What the fuck just made that gurgling sound?? Limited to 45 copies. Chrome tapes."

[2AM28] The Zero Map + Joe Breitenbach split C46 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"UK duo The Zero Map deliver a side-long cavern campfire song. Amidst the smoke and dirt, chimes ward off the evil ghosts and high oscillating feedback chants call them back. Delaware’s Joe Breitenbach sets up camp on the B side with Aqua, Crimson, and Emerald, a titillating three piece color scheme fit to vibrate your earballs. Limited to 45 copies. Chrome tapes."

[2AM27] Dry Valleys - 'Illuminating Gaze' C48 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$8(WORLD)
"Dry Valleys is a somewhat new name but from the handful of releases so far, is proving a force to be reckoned with. On Illuminating Gaze, vast drone atmospherics glisten and shine on infinite planes of haunting beauty, nostalgically summoning faded, half forgotten dreamworlds. Highly focused material that reveals more vivid detail with each pass. Limited to 45 copies. Chrome tapes."

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WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100730-141305 2010-07-30T00:00:00Z 2010-07-30T00:00:00Z Billiam Wutler Yea - 'Y Eso Que Muerte' CD/MP3 $8
"Emerging out of Moscow comes Billiam Wutler Yea with this disc of seriously damaged and beautiful sampledelica. Like High Wolf being mixed by Mathew Bower “Y Eso Que Muerte” is a dense album of blown out micro-loops and spiraling vortexes of reverb. Themes come in and out of focus. The highs pierce and screech and the fuzzy middle flows constantly, never sitting still. There is a definite focus on enthographic samples here but chillwave this is not. This is true psych-noise at its best and most powerful." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100730-090910 2010-07-30T00:00:00Z 2010-07-30T00:00:00Z