2010-03-10T08:15:30Z Animal Psi Copyright 2010, Animal Psi SPHPBLOG 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100307-122318 2010-03-07T00:00:00Z 2010-03-07T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100306-214007 2010-03-07T00:00:00Z 2010-03-07T00:00:00Z 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)]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100306-195827 2010-03-07T00:00:00Z 2010-03-07T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100305-234249 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100305-141127 2010-03-05T00:00:00Z 2010-03-05T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100305-100740 2010-03-05T00:00:00Z 2010-03-05T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100304-203400 2010-03-05T00:00:00Z 2010-03-05T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100304-163029 2010-03-04T00:00:00Z 2010-03-04T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100304-092252 2010-03-04T00:00:00Z 2010-03-04T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100303-222721 2010-03-04T00:00:00Z 2010-03-04T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100302-204211 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z 2010-03-03T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100301-234314 2010-03-02T00:00:00Z 2010-03-02T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100301-214010 2010-03-02T00:00:00Z 2010-03-02T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100228-180655 2010-02-28T00:00:00Z 2010-02-28T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100228-115040 2010-02-28T00:00:00Z 2010-02-28T00:00:00Z

[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)

WEBSITE ]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100225-231124 2010-02-26T00:00:00Z 2010-02-26T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100225-151446 2010-02-25T00:00:00Z 2010-02-25T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100224-233648 2010-02-25T00:00:00Z 2010-02-25T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100224-213228 2010-02-25T00:00:00Z 2010-02-25T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100224-134704 2010-02-24T00:00:00Z 2010-02-24T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100223-235040 2010-02-24T00:00:00Z 2010-02-24T00:00:00Z 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)]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100223-112719 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z 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."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100222-233020 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100222-211428 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z 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]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100222-195242 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z blue sabbath black Fiji – ‘wankers’ C40 $7(US)/$8(CAN/MEX)/$9(INTL)
”and here the insanity begins. french transplanted duo blue sabbath black fiji have no limits. they don't know when to dial it back, they don't know when to turn it down and because of that, we're all getting fried whether we like it or not. ‘wankers’ has been stewing for a while but finally is getting let out from its cage to wreak havoc on unsuspecting listeners. mindbender baby, let's floor it. squealing feedback with cut-to-bits beats and trashcan percussion go into some futuristic tribal bounce. on the back end you're left wondering how in the fuck did i get here? unexpected guitar hooks skronk into the foreground, jumping the tracks laid down by minimal electronic beats. sometimes this shit even gets pretty, which really throws you for a loop. it's one fucked-up dream sequence that never wants to end. always searching for the loudest path, blue sabbah black fiji are unlike anyone else and thank your lucky stars for that. edition of 80.”

ltd#84: sacred basil - ‘tuvan annex’ C30 $7(US)/$8(CAN/MEX)/$9(INTL)
”i've long been a fan of collaborations, tape trading style or otherwise. sacred basil is the trio of nicholas barker (tempera), matt lajoie (cursillistas) and jordan spencer (gorman) and their collective talents are lighting up the skies. ‘tuvan annex’ starts of shimmering and peaceful but it's a total ruse. guitar lines get washed into an oscillating oblivion and everything gets bathed in a heavy dose of noise swash. it's like being stuck in a tornado, desperately searching for a way out. the shimmer returns but with full-on density and triumph. each shift feels in the zone. blissed guitars and electronics join together, siamese twins moving in perfect harmony. contemplative, sparsely used notes flicker like a lightbulb about to give up hoping to make one final impression before crossing the great divide. there's something almost heartbreaking about it all. but those aren't the only paths being crossed - not at all. rickety, looping acoustic guitars thrum their way forward with barely-audible background beats and electronic backwash. it's like being lost when nobody wants to admit their mistake. it's unsettling but worthwhile as it finally comes together and everything gets sucked to the bottom in a massive, exquisite whirlpool of sound. love those collaborations. edition of 90.”

ltd#122: celer - ‘rags of contentment’ C75 $7(US)/$8(CAN/MEX)/$9(INTL)
”another subtle masterpiece, another broken heart. celer delivers over and over again until you can barely stand it. there's so much happening underneath the surface of those sprawling pieces that it's impossible to take it all in, impossible not to get totally, utterly lost. with each rise and fall, your breathing will slow to a crawl. ‘rags of contement’ will soothe you, almost to the point of losing consciousness. sit back, close yourself and drift as far away as you can. this is stunning, beautifully composed music stretching to infinity. edition of 150.”

ltd#125: ALTAR EAGLE - ‘vintage cats’ C26 $7(US)/$8(CAN/MEX)/$9(INTL)
”chapter two is finally written, leading into the homefront. four new songs, blissed hooks, bigger beats, singing like there's no tomorrow. all the bases covered, there's layers of noise and drone hints as well. with nods to bond and gaga, it's all coming together. time to dance. killer art by phil french. edition of 150 chrome tapes.”

ltd#127: s.r. hess - ‘demise’ C21 $7(US)/$8(CAN/MEX)/$9(INTL)
”steven r. hess has been around for ages, most notably operating as part of the incredible duo, on, with sylvain chauveau (type records) as well as work in haptic, dropp ensemble and others. hess is a chicago mainstay. thick, dusty drones highlight the bulk of ‘demise.’ subtle crackling feels like these are radio transmissions from a distange age. it all breaks down, though, and the almost-pure sine tones echo and weave their way between your muscles, finding a way into the deep tissue. this is a dense, sonic massage. hess is a heavyweight, providing one hell of a soundtrack to your favorite metal ghosts. edition of 85 copies.”

ltd#128: pine smoke lodge - ‘twelve faces of the smoke mask’ C36 $7(US)/$8(CAN/MEX)/$9(INTL)
”the woods up near portland, maine are getting baked in the sun and resulting in piles of reflective, organic sonics. pine smoke lodge have been hitting it hard lately with killers on stunned, blackest rainbow and their own existential cloth label. it's been one hell of a ride. junkyard tribal percussion bombs out the basement so the wailing drones can sleep in comfort. metallic shards ring out while wind instruments scream at the sun. this all leads into emanations as thick as the winter snow pack. this is heavy. really fucking heavy. they turn things back on themselves on the flipside, pitching their voices through reverb-laden caves and drowning everything under the ice. pine smoke lodge are finding their groove right now and the places they're going to take it? who the fuck knows. but latch on for the ride because it's a beautiful place to be. drink it down. edition of 70 copies.”

ltd#129: dylan ettinger - ‘interstellar pleasures’ C27 $7(US)/$8(CAN/MEX)/$9(INTL)
”ettinger's winding things up to start off 2010. first he's dropped some incredible jammers on his on el tule label and then there's this, his ode to klaus schulze and all things kosmische (and these babies will lead directly into his opus, ‘cutters’). but hot damn these puppies ARE interstellar. liquid keyboard excursions borne from sun spots soar and drift through neon-tinged skies. hypnotic anthems bobbing and weaving through static drones. each shift in modus takes ettinger through sunken tunnels and into a boiling aural river. this music flows. it never feels mechanical or totally synthetic. at times it reminds of julian lynch's blissed-out live sets, just free and delightful. if the first two months of 2010 are any indication, dylan ettinger is going to be one of the main players this year. dude is going astral. edition of 85.”

ltd#134: holy family - ‘anoint’ C25 $7(US)/$8(CAN/MEX)/$9(INTL)
”this one is for the gold, all the way and all the time. holy family is the modular synth duo of lawrence english and john chantler (room40 extraordinaires). and you know what's coming. it opens onto a putrid, rotting corpse hanging from the bedchamber. chantler & english aren't fuckign around. their synths sound like they're dying, every note stretched to the point of breaking oscillating into the ground. this is not child's play. before you know it your blood stops flowing, turned into a molasses. faint echoes try to scratch their way to the surface, totally buried alive. every so often you think you hear a melody whirring from behind, but everything gets swallowed back down into this deep, dark pit. intense. incredible. edition of 125.”

whole batch: $45(US)/$54(CANMEX)/$63(INTL)

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100222-145512 2010-02-22T00:00:00Z 2010-02-22T00:00:00Z Autodigest - 'A Compressed History Of Every Bootleg Ever Recorded'
"The 4th installment in the Autodigest series of compressed everything: this time around, we are promised all the bootlegs ever. "Autodigest Volume 4 is an attempt to reveal all limitations of the source tapes – hiss to the fore, baby!" – Autodigest, 17 Nov 2009. 100 copies only, comrades…"

TTW#14 – Leif Elggren - 'All Animals Are Saints'
"Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. "All Animals Are Saints" features two live performances both recorded in London, November 2009. Edition of 250x."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100222-125021 2010-02-22T00:00:00Z 2010-02-22T00:00:00Z The Big Drum in the Sky Religion - 'Sha^ri Va'ri' cassette
"The Big Drum in the Sky Religion has to be commended for their tireless and loyal commitment to ruling the MySpaceverse. Outside of their physical address it seems the only way to contact these guys. Just try and get those guys to email you. I gotta admit, my aversion to all thing MP3 just makes it impossible to get a handle on what anybody's music sounds like in reality. I admit, I kept stumbling across these dudes' music and I think I even checked out their flippin' myspce but the music never sounded anything like the cd-r they sent me. But that's just me and screens. Mighta' been the same music but it didn't sound anything like it did when it peeled out of my stereo speakers on a chill morning after my wake and bacon. It just finally hit me. Like a lightning bolt. So, yeah... New on Earjerk is a cassette version of a cd-r that T.B.D.I.T.S.R. self released. It's titled 'Sha^ri Va'ri' and has been remastered for cassette. Woven together to form this short 69 minute foray into their world, several primal live events are blended seamlessly. Humans scream. Ancestors laugh. And they all dance and sing too the steadily unsteady drum. Infinite and eternal jams pound on through an air thick with sweat and electric hum. A fresh of breath air. To find even more simply fucked cd-rs, (as well as the cd-r version of 'Sha^ri Va'ri' with some extra music) check out their myspce your damn self. If you dare. Expect some exclusive T.B.D.I.T.S.R. tracks on the earjek label soon."

Guzzo Pinc - 'The Sea' cassette
"Another reissue of sorts. I've known Guzzo for a good long while but I have never been able to fully understand this guy. An amazing, humble artists and a magical one as well. The first day I met Guzzo I was at a local coffee shop. We got to talking about music, sound and free-form improvisation. I had just a few days before picked up a very old, strange book called 'Forms of Sound' by John Tyndall. I was quite intrigued with it. In the book which was published in 1896, Tyndall goes about trying to "render the science of acoustics interesting to all intelligent persons" explaining in many phenomena in minute detail, through different experiments. For example he explains that "When a gas flame is placed in a tube, the air in passing over the flame is thrown into vibration, musical sounds being the consequence... How an arc of streaming water sounds when it travels 3 feet as opposed to the sound it makes when traveling 5 feet. Extremely detailed for it's time, with many hand drawn diagrams. Again, this is my first time meeting Guzzo. I had only recently found this book. And at the end of the relatively brief conversation as I was getting ready to leave, Guzzo says, as if automatically, "I have this book I found and something tells me you should have it." To my total astonishment he hands me an almost identical book to the one I had just found. Published a year later. 'Forms of Sound' by the same author, John Tyndall! This one speaks exclusively of water and the many different forms water can take; ripples caused by wind, ripples caused by sound etc.. These are old, rare books. Not just lying around, readily available. Anyway, this same sort of magic permeates this new oddity in the earjerk catalog. I say oddity because it contains... brace yourself... real songs! Yes. These are amazingly catchy and engaging tunes. Tunes that can get caught in my mind but never bother me. I don't know Guzzo's influences but I hear a little Lou Barlow in here and I don't think Guzzo knows who that is. Definitely a place here for the fans of recent neofolkies like Caethua, Uke of Spaces Corners and Woods. (And I can GUARANTEE you that he doesn't know any of those...sorry guys! I still love you!) I also hear shit in here that I just can't place but I feel like I have heard it before. Something very familiar here. Like a lullaby man, like a lullaby. True bedroom pop, intimately recorded in analog warmth and with a sincere delivery. This won't make you cringe! It's that good!"

Second Family Band - 'Get Me By' cassette
"Two more twangers. (that's a hard G in twangers) This short stomp will elasticize yer joints. And do NOT remain seated. You'll need to flip that tape soon. The back porch is still saggin' from it's pounding. Two WTF?, hillbilly, snake handlin, tent revival jams commited to crumbling, recycled cassettes. Comes in an abused case with insert."

Tricorn & Queue - 'Straits of Maize' cassette
"Another 45 copies of this field and stream-of-consciousness wonder. The last one sold out in a flash. Different paper insert this time around and these also come in recycled cases, with hand-etched text.."

Annapurna Illusion - 'Heat of the Fire, Heat of the Sun' cassette
"Cassette reissue of these four stark and lovely mountain treks. Beautiful as ever in analog."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100221-150235 2010-02-21T00:00:00Z 2010-02-21T00:00:00Z SYLVESTER ANFANG II - 'Commune Cassetten' LP £13(UK)/£14(EU)/£16(World)
"A new slab of wax of tranced out psychotic psychedelic-ness from the occult loving Belgium based clan. This new incarnation being SYLVESTER ANFANG II (as opposed to Silvester Anfang) reached a new level of sheer awesomeness last year with the incredible double LP on Aurora Borealis, on Commume Cassetten they continue their bizarre trip into the darker - but somehow super psychedelic - realm of the occult obsessed mind. There's a real fucked up krautrock boogie vibe throughout but retaining some of the doomed funeral folk qualities of the original Anfang guise, as well as some loose as hell, total stoned out ritualistic baked grooves. The LP comes housed in a techni-colour collaged artwork with a black and white image of a lady, which we can presume is a witch, with a dagger and chalice... a sleeve that really sums up the music enclosed. The sleeves are pro-printed and wrap around the deep black wax which has some sweet full colour labels. This is one hell of a 40 minute trip..." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100221-120017 2010-02-21T00:00:00Z 2010-02-21T00:00:00Z Albino Rogue - 'Wraith Of The System' C20
"corroded mind abstraction. disconnected from the streets forever" edition of 30.

Albino Groupie - 'Warped Yin Yang Symbol' C27
"afternoon herbs. nice temperature tones" edition of 30.

La Jolla - 'Neanderthaler' C26
"kick back at the local coffee shop. levitate in zones of zero gravity" edition of 30.

Sivigettoa - 'Ayuxuahila' C28
"fertilizing sounds. unison of thought" edition of 30.

Wax Toller - 'Triple Golem' C22
"prosthetic neck bones. hollow depression trip" edition of 30.

Levial Mana - 'Sublimitless Abyss' C24
"black eye foam washed up on high reef. asymmetrically living relationship" edition of 30.

Special Offer: Buy all 6 tapes for the price of 4 ( = 20 euros). Available for a limited time only.

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100220-235733 2010-02-21T00:00:00Z 2010-02-21T00:00:00Z RR05 – MLU/NEW FLESH SPLIT LP
"A 12'' worth of headbangers for headbangers by headbangers. MLU is Tampa, Florida’s beloved caterwauling prodigal sons, and their contribution slices n dices with the precision of the finest noise-punk scalpel as utilized by the finest punk-noise surgeon. Exceptionally brutish, meticulously coarse. The New Flesh (Baltimore, Maryland) are a little less delicate but no less voluminous (see: blown out and belligerent). Royal cacophony with all the trimmings. A split release with Breathmint, Cephia’s Treat, Human Conduct and Stay Away From Ghosts." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100220-154921 2010-02-20T00:00:00Z 2010-02-20T00:00:00Z Getting Dirty With Chrissy and Julia $5.5
”The tender vibes of Chrissy from Coyote Clean Up teamed up with the warm fuzz of Julia provides the perfect music to get dirty to. Dreamy trip-hop well balanced and flirty. Pink insert and pink cassettes (c30) limited to.”

Tenshun – ‘Recurring Nightmare’ $5.5
”Part One of the Recurring Nightmare finds a freaked out sound bite trapped inside a wall of hard beats and noise driven mayhem. Escape impossible, death within reach - Part Two blasts forward with Tenshun's amazing drumming coupled with Game Boy beats developing a unique blend of chaotic structure. These cassettes are solid blue - beautiful and limited to 50. We have 15 in our hands to sell - comes with free sticker screen-printed by Tenshun himself”

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100220-104300 2010-02-20T00:00:00Z 2010-02-20T00:00:00Z
‘Crows of the World, Vol. 2’ is the long-awaited sequel to LVD’s tribute to the crow taxon. Curated by Chris Moon, the disc features more than a few label faithful, including the caravan dance of eyes like saucers, 16-bit drone by RST, and the outsider revelry of Italian guitarist Renato Rinaldi, who’s recently-reviewed CD manages multiples of these wonderfully eclectic compositions. With many tracks surpassing 10 minutes, this is by no means a sampler, nor is there a sense of hurry or edit. Highlights include the lo-fi headbanger “Skull Death Drive” by Bury My Heart (made out of Clayton Noone (CJA, Futurians) and drummer Lee Noyes, an army of a garage duo) , “The Celestial Earth as Coincidence” – a remarkable blend of noise, spiritual drone, and recitation - by Shelter Death, and the briefest track at just over three minutes, “Kagami Hebi (Mirror Snake)” by Jüppala Kääpiö. Something like the peripheral projects of Charalambides, this last track drips water and plods piano under the haze of humming voices and wind-stroked strings. But like all the above tracks, even this impressionistic moment is dubiously inspired by any bird. Perhaps the only to grasp the assignment, the always studious Valerio Cosi salvages some materials from his Amber Lions session to create the Books-ish collage “Me, a Bearded Crow” using reedy saxophones loops, voice tracks, clean bass thumbing, and a metallic percussion, warmed to a bright graffiti burst. Additional music included from Ashtray Navigations and Bosch’s With You. CD in jewelcase with glossy art. (Last Visible Dog CD, $10 HERE)

From Joe Blanchard’s Blackest Rainbow comes the ‘Menagerie #1’, hopefully the first of many steel-string driven discs from his impressive network of artists. Assembled by brother Jake, this collection represents the more conventional rock and folk-oriented sounds of the label, with the exception of new age-y soundscape “Bongs Dream Pt. 2” by the appropriately monikered Winter Drones, and the blues-pop of “Honeythief” by Beequeen, a curious phenomenon something like a mash-up of White Magic and Stereolab. Cam Deas and Ben Nash lock-down the disc with guitar instrumentals at both ends, while the finely-picked detail of the former’s more traditional solo excursus (“Steel Gave Me Fire”) contrasts nicely to the blurred edges of the latter’s droning raga (“Eyes of the Grousebeater”). Between these posts, the disc ascends at varied rates between classic rocking tracks and psychedelic meditations. Like a Deep Purple tremor, Keith Wood’s Hush Arbors offer a live take of “Gone”, the most swinging rhythm from his recent, very excellent long-player: the setting here offers a new perspective on the big sound of this small outfit, and clarifies virtuosity of his song craft. The center of the disc is dominated by a trilogy of melancholic tracks, from Rivulets’ (Nathan Amundson) sober, man-and-guitar pleas on “Lazarus”, to the soft parade of The Skygreen Leopards and the plucky downer “Jehovah Will Never Come”, and finally a live track from MV & EE With the Golden Road (Matt Valentine and Erika Elder’s revolving project), a live version of “The Burden” blending southern rock chords into a murmured fiddle song, completed with the nice effect of crowd conversation superimposed over top. Additional tracks by Spoono and Jerusalem and the Starbaskets. Beautifully screened CDrs come in a fine paper sleeve. (Blackest Rainbow CDr, £8/£8.5/£9.5 HERE)]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100219-220847 2010-02-20T00:00:00Z 2010-02-20T00:00:00Z

RC10: KANE POUR - 'WASP IN THE SILVER ORBIT STREAM' C18 + V18
"'Wasp in the Silver Orbit Stream,' combo VHS + audio cassette joint release from Rotifer Cassettes and Vanishing Hour Revival presents new music by Kane Pour with video accompaniment. Side A of the cs, the first sequence on the video, was recorded live at Daacha Gallery, winter '09. Side B comes from recent studio sessions at Rotifer HQ. Together, this tape documents Pour's latest compositions of mind bending sonic geometries in warp and flux. The VHS sets found footage collages by Evan Galbicka to the 'orbit stream' soundtrack."

RC12: JIGGING PEW - 'SQUAWROOT BANDICLE' C62
"A very recent affair comprised of Jeffry Astin, Evan Galbicka, & David Toro. Arcane sagas make way for ambrosial luaus. Now is the time to laze. Recorded direct to chrome January '10."

RC13: PINK BUFFALO - 'BELVEDERE' C30
"Balanced elevations, burbling lullabies. Radiant equilibrium attainment through the belvedere."

RC14: REEFER TREE - 'PRIVATE PEOPLE VOL.1' C30
"Thud pulse flutter created by the perilous minds of Royallen & T.S. Rockafellar. Side B taken from a live '10 performance at Daacha Gallery. Reason no longer is necessary. Drop in, tune out."

RC15: PEAT RAAMUR - 'STENTOR CILIA' C21
"Codes of convolution engraved in one timeworn relic. Letting the leveling out."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100219-102123 2010-02-19T00:00:00Z 2010-02-19T00:00:00Z KANE POUR - 'WASP IN THE SILVER ORBIT STREAM' C18 + V18
"'Wasp in the Silver Orbit Stream,' combo VHS + audio cassette joint release from Rotifer Cassettes and Vanishing Hour Revival presents new music by Kane Pour with video accompaniment. Side A of the cs, the first sequence on the video, was recorded live at Daacha Gallery, winter '09. Side B comes from recent studio sessions at Rotifer HQ. Together, this tape documents Pour's latest compositions of mind bending sonic geometries in warp and flux. The VHS sets found footage collages by Evan Galbicka to the 'orbit stream' soundtrack." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100219-092539 2010-02-19T00:00:00Z 2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

DOGBOX C20
"new release from this highly bizzare philly band. absolutely no clue as to what's going on here. disgusting sludge mixed with awkward breaks of silence and unsettling animal(?) sounds. definitely for creeps. 20 copies."

CHEGVARA ISCAND C30
"debut release from jon rickman (ex-social junk). dead drunk and face down in a field at night with distant drums echoing through the hills and valleys. rattling field recordings taken from rural west virginia mixed with acoustic experiments at home in kentucky. static transmissions and creeped out female vocals fade in and out of the mix. really excited about this tape and can't wait to hear what he comes up with next. 50 copies. real time dubbed on type ii tapes."

FORM A LOG - 'CLOCKBRAIN' C30
"a brief snapshot of a chapter in the log culture story thus far. hear the boys step away from their four tracks and pick up guitars and drums and really "tighten it up". with their raw live sound captured here for the first time (and if you've been lucky enough to witness it then you'll really enjoy this one) the log digs deep on cuts such as "nightbat" and "double a", an explosive number they banged out nearly every night on their first tour. insert by alex hampshire. "the drapes are on us" 50 copies. real time dubbed on type ii tapes."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100218-174936 2010-02-18T00:00:00Z 2010-02-18T00:00:00Z WOLF CRYSTAL - 'CRYSTAL MOTHER' 1€
"Cassette de los estadounidenses Wolf Crystal con cuatro temas de pura bizarría sonora, subgraves repiqueantes, voces VALISianas y techno cavernícola. Portadas con trocitos coloreados a mano con lápices de colores, encarte en papel metalizado y el espray de siempre. 24 copias. 1 euro.///Cassette by USA band Wolf Crystal. 4 tracks of pure sound bizarry, kicking lows, VALISian voices and cave dweller techno. Part-hand-colored covers, metalized insert and spray. 24 copies." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100218-090542 2010-02-18T00:00:00Z 2010-02-18T00:00:00Z An underdog among underdogs, this bedroom cassette by Snowstorm (not to be confused with the Philadelphia noise-maker of the same title) is the sort of missing link New Jersey needs to ground the legitimacy of its recent flood of new Rock music (e.g. Titus Andronicus, Suma Bay, Real Estate). With the everyman strain in the voice of a Lou Barlow or Tobin Sprout, Kevin Huelbig leads his band (?) through harmonies, handclaps, and guitars which just won’t resonate sweet enough. More defeatist than anthemic, these lyric-oriented songs fall an uncomfortably short distance backwards retrospectively (not that the others go much further), striking a mix between the adult despondence of the Pernice Brothers and the dreaded “e” word of the fin de siècle Midwest. Rightfully, we find the band sharing a label with Pennsylvania’s Chaucat. With labels carefully pasted-on everywhere. Available from Monotone Tapes for $3 HERE.

A throw-away of the best sort, the latest ‘Rover Encyclopedia’ entry is a siesta’s worth of strumming and sawing by the over-skilled Roll Over Rover crew. Three anonymous tracks captured over two summers. Sounds like the rejoice of Anvil Salute under the influence of all them Jewelled Antler pheromones in the air up there. Steely strings glint spurs as seeds patter on the hardpack, deep billows of bass rhythm, melodies vague and beside the point. The heat rolls off the clay burrow. Stamped CDr comes in a paper sleeve with pasted art [the image at left is from the first volume]. Hand-numbered to 48 copies, and most likely unavailable from the label HERE.]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100216-104400 2010-02-16T00:00:00Z 2010-02-16T00:00:00Z Audial Weavings Vol. 1 C45
"First in a series of several long form / wave / drone studies. No processing, feedback or effects used on this installment. Recorded in real time. Use of headphones and/or increased/decreased volume recommended to aid in various listening possibilities. Each cassette is dubbed in real time, 1 to 1 from the original chrome master cassette. This production technique causes each dub to be slightly different from the rest. No digital equipment used."

Audial Weavings Vol. 2 C45
"Second in a series of several long form / wave / drone studies. Minimal processing was used on this installment. Recorded in real time. Examinations of the correlation of various wave and tonal forms which, when placed side by side, create the illusion of something more intricate and engaging than when left to function on their own. Each cassette is dubbed in real time, 1 to 1 from the original chrome master cassette. This production technique causes each dub to be slightly different from the rest. No digital equipment used."

Land Iguana Sessioneers 2xC32
"Processed guitar sessions recorded live in July of 2009 at The Fertile Yak in Morris, IL."

Suishou No Fune - 'Secret Entrance' C45
"Majestic twin guitar levitations. Slow building echo/reverb laden washes of spectral ambiance flow into a beautifully writhing, tumbling ball of darkness and light. Double-sided laser print covers featuring photography by Suzy Poling. Chrome cassettes with laser print labels."

Sam Gas Can - 'Summer of Sam' C30
"Ex-custodial artist creates an album full of summer. Butterfly ditties and pink lemonade serenades. Really solid/soiled set of varied sound pieces. Ranging from soft acoustic melodies to crusty feedback dirges with some casio pop and drone maneuvers sprinkled throughout. Watercolor cover art by Sir George Double Eww Myers. Also included with each cassette is a b+w xeroxed mini zine featuring Mr. Gas Can's summer themed photography."

Jungle Gym Vaginas - 'Crest of the Doll Hair' C45
"Reissue of two out of print cassettes. Presented now in high bias chrome excellence."

Hypnagogic Pipe Smokers - 'Bus Stop Telepathy' C32
"Pure sound poetry. Pure voice. Pure tape. No grease balls on this one though. Each cassette comes with a signed and numbered piece of typewriter art."

Video Loops Vol. 1 - 'Salad' DVDr
"First in a series of digital video loops. This one clocks in at 1 minute 15 seconds. Great for de-programming. Leave it on all day and night, you'll feel better already. Packaged in clear slim-line cases. Double-sided laser print covers and glossy labels."

Computer - 'What Was Computer?' C20
"Continuation of a theme. Each tape picking up and building upon where the previous installment left off. More space, more time, and more intricacy developing with each new volume. Thorough investigations of hidden and accidental sound structures. The voice of the computer emerges. (v2.0)"

Electromagnetic Inebriation Consulate C32
"Side one is a direct analog recording of several different AM radio static pieces. Side two is a digital recording of analog television feedback. Investigating form, structure and content. Noise is everywhere and it is speaking to you!"

Marble In Heavy Syrup C32
"Recorded using a homemade contact mic fabricated by K.Vonk. Originally crafted for a performance piece entitled "Infallible Metronome". Here the instrument was utilized to create... "A little ball made of a hard substance (as glass) and used in various games" "A thick sticky solution of sugar and water often flavored or medicated" On the flip side is a multi-layered rhythm meditation realized using an early nineties Yamaha keyboard."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100216-061151 2010-02-16T00:00:00Z 2010-02-16T00:00:00Z The most ambitious Mayyrh release yet, the audio-visual two pack ‘Journey Into Amazing Caves!’ comes from revolving cast house-band Zanzibar Snails. Lead by main men Nevada Hill and Michael Chamy on guitar and electronics respectively, guests include additional guitars by Seth Sherman, viola by Josh McWhirter, Mike Forbes on saxophone, and David Lee Prince on a variety of additional sounds. More important however is Prince’s contribution of the visual track, a grotesque collage equivalent in effect to Table of Contents’ recent catalog of wedded sight and sound, though more varied and less married to the mellow constancy of the music, minimizing its psychedelia with ample doses of humor and irreverence. And that sound? Book-ending two briefer tracks, the title track and its reprise (appropriately subtitled “Pepth Derception” for its play with layers and distance in the soundfield) are spacious, pseudo-synthesizer tracks in the style of a Pulse Emitter narrative, lifting off with oscillators and striking a movement with deep reverberation. The tre(m)ble of the guitar emerges elegantly from the wholesale sound object to reconfigure the entire field in song, still sprawling and textured, but now recursive and polyphonic. Guitar is magnified in the second track, an “epilogue” of the first, leaving the jazzy warble of “Gilded Stars & Garters” the only outlier, a sort of vacuum inversion of the disc’s expansive theme: high-pitched frequencies suggest a thin, dry altitude where saxophone pushes through plugged ears and the air crackles with wire-thin static. That the atmosphere of the track is so established is unremarkable given the surrounding tone of the disc; however the smooth sincerity of the saxophone offers a striking layer of human emotion or devotion which the rest of the disc seems to want to erase. Ambitious in form and recording, this disc also establishes a new level of musicianship for the band, and will hopefully lead to some very powerful future statements. 100 copies in a beautiful, twice-screened gatefold digipak sleeves, all in a screened vellum envelope. (Mayyrh CDr & DVDr, $10 HERE) ]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100213-230207 2010-02-14T00:00:00Z 2010-02-14T00:00:00Z Mark Solotroff - 'Archive02' CD
"BloodLust! is pleased to announce the second release in the Mark Solotroff "Archive" series. In the planning stages for over two years, this series of seven CDs will cover all of Solotroff's solo output, released under his own name in 1995 and 1996. All of these recordings were originally released on cassette by a small group of labels, including BloodLust!, G.R.O.S.S. [Japan], Less Than Zero [Italy], Old Europa Cafe [Italy], and Slaughter Productions [Italy]. Each release will include bonus material, consisting of either compilation tracks from the same labels, or newly created remixes. At the time that these recordings were made, Solotroff had switched gears between Intrinsic Action and BLOODYMINDED and he had recently completed the recording of the first 50 analog synthesizer-based Super Eight Loop cassettes. This small body of work gave Solotroff the opportunity to put away the synths and to try something different. In 1995, the idea of using guitar effect pedals as ones primary "instrument" in making heavy noise was still fairly novel, and Solotroff made use of an arsenal of distortion, delay, flanger, phaser, and other pedals, running either radio frequencies [scanner or shortwave] or his voice through the complex chain of FX. The results fit squarely into what was, at the time, being discussed as a new American noise style that was developing away from the power-electronics scene, and which eventually evolved into the harsh noise subgenre of today. For the second entry in the series, a companion piece to "Archive01," the lead track is taken from Side-B of the very first BloodLust release, "Instrumental Demonstration Of Death-Noise" [B!000 - 1995], a cassette that was released in a numbered limited edition of 100 copies. The bonus track is remixed from an edit of that material. The packaging for these releases is based upon the format established with the two Mark Solotroff + Sshe Retina Stimulants CDs that were released by BloodLust! in 2008 [B!101 + B!102], and the entire series will follow this unifying template. These are professionally duplicated CDs, with single panel, double-sided inserts, featuring color artwork; in jewel boxes with shrinkwrap; released in 2010. Distributed by Revolver USA." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100212-080953 2010-02-12T00:00:00Z 2010-02-12T00:00:00Z

fNs010 O. Barras - ‘Cabeza de Turco’ CDr 5€ (EU)/6€ (World)
”O. Bars (Au, INDHECENTER, Plonk Moist ...) gives us in 22 minutes 9 pieces of noise over playful, jumping, punk/hardcore rhythms, based on guitars, noise, samplers, saxophones and repetitive beats. "Cabeza de Turco" is a compilation of recordings ranging from 2004 to 2007, which includes a rare version of "I Am Damo Suzuki" The Fall. A breath of fresh air into the sometimes serious and static world of noise. Limited edition of 30 hand numbered copies, color printing on CDR and on laminated cardboard covers, packaged in and plastic sleeves.”

fNs015 Cousins of Reggae – ‘Disuelvos Ensangrentados, Inhalantes Perdidos’ CDr 5€(EU)/6€(World)
”In their ninth album, Cousins of Reggae (Ontario, Canada), gather 14 tracks, some previously released on LP and CDr along with new tracks. Over 70 minutes of amazingly deranged noise rock, abstrackt muscle-rock, psychedelic trash, no-rock and free-rock Harry Pussy and Trumans Water style, courtesy of Blake Hargraves (guitar, drums, noise and vocals) and Liam Thurston (guitar, drums and noise). Limited edition of 60 hand numbered copies, color printing on the disc and sticker cover on cardboard sleeves, enveloped in plastic sleeves.”

fNs026 Fossils – ‘Global Seance’ CDr 5€(EU)/6€(World)
”Since 2004 the prolific Fossils have created their own universe of sound along more than 100 CDRs, cassettes and vinyls, masterfully mixing noise, "musique concrete" and improvisation. "Global Seance" is less concrete and electronic music than previous recordings. David Payne and Steve Smith (along with Rob Michalchuk in some subjects) dive for 41 minutes in "lower-case" electro-acoustic improvisation, with crunchy guitars and electronics, drowning saxes, all muddy in a not so lo-fi sound as previous recordings but equally warm that allows to listen the fascinating parts of the whole. Limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies, color printing on the CDR and on laminated folded cardboard covers.”

pier – ‘apparently liberatory gestures’ CDr 5€(EU)/6€(World)
”22 minutes of free no-wave improv from Madrid, this is their third CDR for fNs (eighth in their discography). 8 abrasive and schizophrenic short tracks, where guitars, bass and drums succeed without meaning, with unhinged saxs and trumpets unhinged. And that's it. Limited edition of 40 hand-numbered copies, color printing on the CDR and laminated cardboard covers.”

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100211-223331 2010-02-12T00:00:00Z 2010-02-12T00:00:00Z More neo-Morricone guitar-slanging from Italy, Renato Renaldi shares obvious traits with the able cinematics of a Roy Montgomery or Ry Cooder, yet crafts a more traveled and polyphonic space which rarely leaves the guitar solo. Implying a population by the wry title ‘We Shall Overtone’, the second track delves quickly into a small brigade of instruments in jubilee; more than mere effects, these include dulcimer, organ, and harmonium – players of comparable weight in each musical scene, stark yet storied ala the early works of Blackheart Procession. In particular, the bold brass figures supplied by Leo Virgili add ominous undertones by the looping phrases of the third track (each is untitled), while the fifth track becomes a novel blend of broken, Contortions funk and Can’s ‘Ege Bamyasi’ with palm-muted guitar, scat poetry, and trap percussion. The sixth and final track returns firmly to the long-form guitar song, yet again breaks the smooth six-string façade with sharp electronic signals and liquid blurbs like imperfections in the deep reverberation. A fascinating trip held together by skill and vision. CD comes in a jewelcase with a striking, all-over image. Recommended. (Last Visible Dog CD, $10 HERE)]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100211-155111 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z Precious Trombley C45 $5
”Reissue of the first Precious Trombley cassette, stupidly released in a rushed edtion of only 8 originally, in July 2008. These are the first every Precious Trombley recordings, all live during May 2008. The three of us in the group had literally just met that month, and these recordings are exercises in excellend free jazz noise wave chemistry. More pure than all PT releases after, this is the original drums-sax-guitar lineup. Recorded in a high school classroom and two basements. A great document of a weird times. I was 15. double sided color artwork, color labeled tapes.”

GR070: Knox Mitchell – ‘Recalled Muscles’ 2xC68 $8
”Two cassettes and over two hours of brand new electronics/tape/horn manipulaton. Recorded in November 2009. Muscles exploding on the on the pull up bar, blasts and slow waves of broken gear and rotten sax and tape abuse. Packaged in painted audiobook cases, sticker art. Labeled and painted tapes. Deluxe style.”

GR084: Peoples Coke/Knox Mitchell – ‘Rabbits’ split C40 $5
”The second split between Canadian master musician Peoples Coke and Jeddo, Michigan's Knox Mitchell. Peoples Coke brings slow, spaced, textural synthesizer work, and Knox Mitchell throws out pulsating frequencies of broken homemade synths and tapes of kitchen clatter. The Peoples Coke side was culled from the sessions for an aborted double album, titled "Pleasure Injector". Full color mind-blowing artwork by Peoples Coke, double-sided, and colored tape labels.”

GR091: Fossils – ‘Fungus Creeps’ C39 $5
”Fuckin FOSSILS! Have been in contact with this crew for over two years now, glad to finally be part of the operation! This tape consists of two murky live pieces from October 31 and November 13 2009. Side A is more on the minimal side, mainly electronics (though not subdued), while B is a bit louder, with weirdo tape and horns in the mix. I'd expect nothing less from these boys. double sided color art, color tape labels.”

GR093: Knox Mitchell/interstates (etc.) split C47 $4
”New split between relatively new dude Interstates (Etc.) and Knox Mitchell. The Knox side is a burnt out quest through a body in a car fire, organs burned. Electronics in hell. The Interstates side is a bit quiter, clatter and synth mostly. Great new jams and you should check his other tapes out too. Double sided xerox art, xerox/painted tape labels.”

GR094: Child C30 $5
”Child is the newest audio creation by Fred Thomas (City Center, Flashpapr, Chore, Lovesick, etc.). This tape is a very unique addition to Fred's repetoir, reaching strange sonic fields i've not before heard him cover. Mega lo-fi distorted loop style, a lot more of a noise vibe than City Center. Rough ambience. Double sided color art, color tape labels.”

GR095: Basket Case – ‘Sin City Deciples’ C47 $5
”So many good things I want to say about Basket Case. Incredible band with a confusing timeline. From what i've gathered, Basket Case existed from 1999-2000, mainly in Detroit, and consisted of Geoff Walker (Gravitar, Spider Tombs), John Olson (American Tapes, Wolf Eyes, Pink Chunk Jazz, etc.) and Lisa Colwell (Commune Ills, Lake Bottoms). Though they recorded constantly and amassed hours and hours of tape, only 10 or Basket Case releases were made, nearly half of which were released after the fact. All limited and impossible to find now. This tape features all live compsitions, very acoustic, sparse, and organic sounding. Recorded 1999 in Lansing and Detroit (at the Detroit Contemporary). Amazing photograph art by Geoff Walker of DC and surrounding Detroit areas. Hopefully more archival Basket Case to come! Double sided color art, color tape labels.”

GR096: Knox Mitchell – ‘Kirkhof Fountain’ lathe-cut CD $4
”New in a series of mega crude lathe cuts (mainly bootlegs) on the bottom of recycled CD. This one is a short excerpt from a organ recording made back in September. Fully playable. Full color double sided art with painted transparency, labeled discs. Dedicated to all of the change thrown into the Kirkhof Fountain.”

GR098: Daytime Television C30 $4
”The newest recordings of Ypsilanti radman Jono Lockhart (Heavy Hands, Concrete Arteries, TNGC, many more). Short weird trax, vocals, acoustic guitar, pounding, high end distorted ??? GO JONO! GO YPSI! Double sided xerox art (foldout wraparound style), painted tape labels.”

GR099: Bree Party – ‘Don't Jostle Me’ 2xCassette $8
”Minimal tape/electronics band by Knox Mitchell. All live in glorious fucked up stereo. These two cassettes are from a few hours of tape footage, recorded with turntables, radios, broken electronics, and tape. Some spliced, cut, erased, and fucked up. In March 2010 Bree Party will become FIVE FINGER DISCOUNT. Screen printed/painted/ color stickered cardboard cases/tape labels.”

GR102: Precious Trombley – ‘Send Me Back To Earth’ single-sided C60 $4
”Sort of a re-working of older material, re-maxed in clear stereo weirdness. Mostly a tape megamix of all acoustic axtion, with some new horns and electronics spewed in throughout. One of the best PT releases so far. Was going to be a regular C60, but the master of for the second side was mysteriously erased, and i'd rather leave it one sided than try and re-create how great what's left is. Each cover is a different part of a brain x-ray. Printed xerox labels.”

GR103: Tarpit – ‘Apart, Fading’ C20 $4
”More tape mulch from cool dude Sam Hooker, this time a remix of my side of Terror Tapes 47 on Middle James Co. Sounds completely different, true Tarpit tape style, like a microcassette found in the stomach of a dead mud encrusted lion. Double sided xerox covers, xerox/painted tape labels.”

GR106: Holiday In Cambodia – ‘Silver Spray’ C34 $4
”3rd in this series of acoustic records, only using whatever non-electric instruments that can be found. This one is metals and horn. Slo mo style. Painted/color stickered cases, acrylic painted/stickered tapes.”

Batch deal: $55.00 for everything US / $68.00 elsewhere (that's a $10.00 savings)

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100211-142259 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z JAZZFINGER - 'Saltes of the Earth' CDr $8
"Beautiful new disc by Newcastle drone-improv legends Jazzfinger, this is one of their most dilapidated and beguiling sets yet. If ever a band's 'sound' was simultaneously hauntingly pastoral yet at the same time grindingly industrial then it would be Jazzfinger, and here we have them pushing that paradox to the max; This is either a warm hazy bliss-out stained with autumnal colour or a scraping, wheezing, gasping torture-wheel of sound made of bones and muck, depending on which way you look at it. Or both. It's fascinating stuff... music which seems very alive. The artworks bloody brilliant too!" HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100211-111324 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z HEATHER LEIGH - 'JAILHOUSE ROCK' LP (NNF153)
"long delayed vinyl reissue of this classic mid-2000s slab of voice-storm magic by pedal steel songstress Heather Leigh. originally on Fag Tapes. freshly remastered and with all new art by Heath Moerland. edition of 400."

PSYCHIC REALITY/LA VAMPIRES LP (NNF185)
"12 inch team-up between Bay Area all-seeing eye lioness Psychic Reality and Angeleno rhythm methodist LA Vampires. two very different approaches to the voice/beats/soul dimension. literal/symbolic naked cover shot lays out the true human agenda."

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100209-144951 2010-02-09T00:00:00Z 2010-02-09T00:00:00Z Mike Haley of the formidable 905 Tapes muscles up as Wether. Presumably the title follows the welter of a recording session, but the simile of ‘Horses’ is uncanny: crunchy oscillations moving in nauseating circles, stampeding and whistling, shaking the foundations of dense earth. The entire body of sound moves in unison like a sheet metal maelstrom as one would find at the base of a Sickness track. The sound grows abstract and less impressionistic-representational with time, and after the jump of the C20 resuming the piece with serious internal disagreement in the left channel, revealing the convolution of the “instrument”. Sirens bleat by comparison to the aggression of the central noise, and it’s hard to deny this classic approach isn’t now solid state. Plain tape comes in a stickered case with a color insert. 50 copies.

Full in spectrum yet devoid of life, Vales gets lost in the minimal daze of ‘Sun Sick’. Side one is repeating patterns at various depths setting a woozy phase between the two channels as microtonal movement undermines the inner ear. Pitches brush uncomfortably close to the upper border of acceptable register, and resonant vibrations purr to distort the frame. On the reverse, twin tones crackle against one another in some binaural demon resurrected in the early madness of Young and Riley. Perfect for the sociopath who likes their drone with a healthy dose of paranoia. Plain tape comes in a stickered case with a color insert. 50 copies. (2:00AM cassette, $6 HERE) ]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100208-221105 2010-02-09T00:00:00Z 2010-02-09T00:00:00Z Deviation Social - 'From End To Beginning Vol. 1: Compilation Tracks 1982-1984' $17
"Started from the ashes of the post-industrial scene of San Francisco and continuing onwards until his final performance in 1986, Deviation Social became a obscure cult phenomenon to followers of industrial tape culture of the 1980's. Only self releasing his recordings through his Ppresence label, the Deviation Social output was limited to a handful of tapes (some being less than 20 copies) and one sole 7", all of which fetch large sums through collectors markets today. This limited release on Dais collects all of Deviation Social's contributions to experimental/noise/industrial cassette compilations throughout the early 80's on such notable labels as Vita Nova, Aeon, Beyond The Pale, and Another Room. Primitive, raw, and powerful....Deviation Social drew on influences & contemporaries such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Leather Nun but fused a experimental approach of musique concrete and crude experimentation using analog synthesizers, hollowed drum machines and tribal instruments allowing him to sporadically, at will, create some of the most interesting and unabashed industrial recordings the genre has seen. Limited to 500 copies and includes a 8-page LP booklet with original liner notes by Deviation Social and archival zine interviews republished for the first time since their original publication." HERE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100207-224235 2010-02-08T00:00:00Z 2010-02-08T00:00:00Z Alberorovesciato/Donato Epiro split CDr 8€(Europe)/9€(World)
”Primitive percussionism and obsessive sounds will lead you through antique rituals of human sacrifices till the purification, fluttering into a futuristic sabba made of hypnotic drones and spacy flutes. Two long mysterious tracks for a split that smells of stones, blood and bones. Artwork by Marco Lampis. digipack, handmade covers, ltd edition of 100 numbered copies.”

Black Eagle Child – ‘Poland’ CDr 7€(Europe)/8€(World)
”After the warped visions of his collaboration album together Kabizdoh Obtruhamchi, Michael Jantz returns to the subtle atmospheres of his solo music with this second album on sturmundrugs records. Acoustic guitar, with touches of accordion, glockenspiel, manipulated voice, piano flute, and scant field-recordings, for a collection of more intimate pieces written and partly improvised over the course of 2009. Blissful handmade covers, ltd edition of 100 numbered copies.”

Bjerga/Iversen – ‘Return to serpent sky’ 3"CDr 3.5€(Europe)/4.5€(World)
”A 15 minutes piece of quite electronics and psychedelic drones recorded live at Critical Mess Fest @ Tou Scene, Stavanger by the prolific Norwegian experimental duo. Handmade covers, ltd edition of 50 numbered copies.”

WEBSITE]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100207-123359 2010-02-07T00:00:00Z 2010-02-07T00:00:00Z A step further removed from the Naked City act of Au (itself a jazzier derivation of the Aupier dogpile), amplified brass duo Ahno Zwei submit ‘Stakr l’vond’ for Spanish label For Noise’s Sake. Hardly the solo biopsy of Greg Kelley, wherein the instrument is perversely dismantled and cataloged, this doubling of instruments in equally a squaring of the sonic dimensions, which sees these figurative blasts resonate and distort in trails of pollution. In actuality a lesser traveled means to Noise, the reverbed channels and throw-away melodies dialog a nice tension with the hard-wrought screams of feedback. This tension is exaggerated over the six tracks/20 minutes, where increasingly the instruments are separated from their effects through emergent harmonies. The status of the noise elements remain in limbo in the end, as the skronky image and staticky afterimage mostly realign in a wall of violent hyperventilation. Numbered to 40 copies, the labeled disc comes in an unusual, spiral-bound booklet with color insert and tab.

Similar to the recent solo release of Ahno Zwei player Nicolash (released on FNS imprint Fater Disks) for its experiment with sonic field, ‘Earth Headed Heart’ by Cincinnati improv trio Hearts of Palm relishes in the open physicality of their method, as though they foremost play the space as opposed to make a sound. This immediacy translates surprisingly well, as the depth and separation of this high fidelity recording allows an easy placement of the sonic objects which litter the single, 30 minute track. Here joined by local institution C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) carving away on violin, the band play with a number of acoustically-mindful devices – some electronic, but mostly otherwise – to produce a cohesive, coherent, yet totally motley sound which writhes aerobically for the duration. Gongs clatter dutifully, throats drone, and radio reports tweak the air pressure in strands. With no harsh cop-outs and no evident stutters, this is a very impressive effort making the most of the improvisational methodology with a maximum of sonic things to get lost among. Handsomely labeled disc comes in a thick, full-color sleeve (design by Aaron Fry). Hand-numbered to 75 copies. Recommended. (For Noise’s Sake CDr, 5€ HERE) ]]> http://animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry100206-080622 2010-02-06T00:00:00Z 2010-02-06T00:00:00Z