OUR FIRST T-SHIRT EVER. S-M-L-XL-XXL. IN STOCK ON AUG 21ST.
DIVINE SHELL/FALSE FLAG split C32
TWO SIDES OF POUNDING, EMOTIVE, INDUSTRIAL NOISE AND POWER ELECTRONICS. DIVINE SHELL BRINGS A NICE ATRAX MORGUE STYLE. COLD AND DARK. BROODING, AND WITH MUCH INTENTION. FALSE FLAG USES ETHEREAL SYNTH PADS, HORRIFYING SCREAMS, AND THE CRUMBLE AND CRACKLE OF OVERDRIVEN SIGNALS. FUCK THE GLOBAL ELITE. HAND-STAMPED WHITE CDRS IN HAND-PAINTED, HAND-STAMPED PAPER/PLASTIC SLEEVES WITH XEROXED ARTWORK ON LIME GREEN CARD STOCK. ARTWORK BY JUSTIN MARC LLOYD. LIMITED TO 19.
PALATIAL – ‘INGEBORG’ CDr
DREARY DRONES, COLD ACOUSTICS, ELECTRONIC MANIPULATIONS…BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION IN A CERTAIN LOW FIDELITY THAT INTENSIFIES A SOFT, BLEAK VISUAL OF DECAYING BERLIN, GERMANY. TWO SUBDUED INDIVIDUALS SURROUNDED WITH AN ARRAY OF WAYS TO FIND A ZONE AND DISAPPEAR INTO IT. CHIMING, CLANGING, DISSONANCE, COLLISIONS, THICK WASHES AND SMALL ROOM ATMOSPHERE. TWO ABSTRACT, FREE AND FLAWLESSLY FLOWING MOVEMENTS. FORGET TIME, FORGET COLOR, GRAB A BLANKET, SLEEP ON A DIRTY SIDEWALK, WAKE UP AND STARE AT THE SKY. HAND-STAMPED WHITE CDRS IN HAND-PAINTED, HAND-STAMPED PAPER/PLASTIC SLEEVES WITH XEROXED ARTWORK ON LIME GREEN CARD STOCK. ARTWORK BY JUSTIN MARC LLOYD. LIMITED TO 19.
DISCRETION – ‘MAKING CONTACT’ C44
PUSTIN PUSDRAINER PRESENTED RAINBOW BRIDGE THE MOST HORRIFYING DISCRETION SESSION CAUGHT ON TAPE. THE CLICHE TERMS “BLEAK” AND “DARK” NOW HAVE NEW MEANING. THE MASTER TAPE SHOWED UP WITH COLLAGE ARTWORK MADE BY HAND, RIDDLED WITH DROPLETS FROM THE NOSEBLEED GENERATED DURING THIS RECORDING. NO SAMPLES, NO LOOPS, NO SELF EXPRESSION. JUST ENERGY, A TV, SOME PROCESSING, AND WHATEVER THE FUCK ELSE SHOWED UP WAS NOT CHILLIN IN THE PHYSICAL REALM. DEEP HNW. DEEP WITHIN OR DEEP IN ANOTHER DIMENSION?SOLID BLUE, HAND-STAMPED CHROME TAPES. HAND-NUMBERED XEROX ARTWORK ON RED CARD STOCK J-CARDS. ARTWORK BY DEREK SETZER, EDITED BY JUSTIN MARC LLOYD. LIMITED TO 35.
JUSTIN MARC LLOYD – ‘ABSTRACT YOGA’ CDr
BENDING, STRETCHING, MEDITATING, REBUILDING A DELIGHTFULLY BUSTED REALITY. 3 PEDALS IN ONE MIXER CHANNEL FOR THE ENTIRE PIECE. AS DEMENTED AS THE MEANS ALLOWED. AS CATHARTIC AS ONE WHO IS STILL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HIM/HERSELF COULD BE. INTERMITTENT ELECTRONICS, UTILIZING SPACE. YOU COULD LOSE YOURSELF. THE STAIRWAY FLASHES AND MORPHS BEFORE YOU. EACH CDR COMES WITH A BURNT/MELTED/BUBBLED IMAGE OF A LIKENESS OF AN ALPHABET CHARACTER FOUND IN NATURE OR ARCHITECTURE. IN SUCCESSION, THESE LETTERS SPELL OUT A LIE. A CRAFTED BOX WITH THESE PHOTOS ON A STRING IS HOW SHE SAID “YES.” PURGING IS NECESSARY. I AM BREATHING THIS ENERGY INTO YOU. COMPLETE WITH BUTTERFLIES, AND A CANCELLATION DATE TO SEAL THE DEAL. LIMITED TO 14.
SLEEP OF AGES/PREGNANT SPORE – ‘RAINBOW OF AGES’ split C40
40 MINUTES OF FOCUS, GRAINY DISTORTION AND MEDICALLY ILL DRONES. INTENTION, COMPOSITION, BROKEN AND BLURRED. SLEEP OF AGES IS A PROJECT FROM BRAZIL FILLING YOUR EARS WITH METALLIC CLANGING, OVERDRIVEN BASS, HEAVY SYNTH PADS AND TASTEFUL TRANSITIONS. ABSTRACT, MECHANICAL. COLD, DARK INDUSTRIAL HARSH NOISE. PREGNANT SPORE STARTS OFF SIDE B NOT MUCH DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT ISN’T LONG BEFORE THE INTERMITTENT AUDIO SIGNALS AND CONFUSING DRONES MELT YOUR EYES START THEIR WAY INTO YOUR NASAL PASSAGES, THEN DOWN YOUR FACE IN DATA-BENT SPLOTCHES OF TWITCHING, PIXELATED COLOR. YOU’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO WASH IT OFF. HAND-PAINTED, HAND-STAMPED CLEAR PURPLE TAPES. XEROXED ARTWORK ON NEON PINK CARD STOCK J-CARDS. ARTWORK BY JUSTIN MARC LLOYD. LIMITED TO 35.
ORANGE SHIT BALL/PREGNANT SPORE/1+1=A WINDOW split C62
ORANGE SHIT BALL IS UNREAL. AND I AM NOT SURE IN HOW MANY WAYS. A PRACTICAL JOKE ON PLAYED ON MYSELF, PERHAPS? CREPT-AROUND SYNTH SQUEAKS AND STREAKS WITH DEMENTED AND COLLAGED RECORDINGS/SAMPLES/LOOPS/WHO KNOWS. SEARCH THE INTERWEBS FOR ANSWERS. FIND NOTHING BUT YOU AND GENITALS IN YOUR HAND. PREGNANT SPORE HURLS GHOSTS. FREE KEYBOARDS, BOXES OF SYNTH, FEEDBACK, AND A LARYNX SHEDDING AND SHREDDING ITSELF THROUGH DAMAGED/DAMAGING CIRCUITS. LATER, I WAS HUNG UP ON BY SPIRITS. I’M STILL RETRACING MY STEPS. 1+1=A WINDOW IS A PHRASE I’VE NEVER HEARD, BUT UPON MASTER-MINDED RESEARCH, I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT IT IS SOMETHING A LOT OF PEOPLE AGREE ON. BENJAMIN DAVIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN LAPTOP’D KOREAN NEWSPAPERS READ BY A JAPANESE GIRL NAMED TOMOKO AND HIS FIANCE, YU KOYNG. CHOPPED & SCREWED, PROBABLY. REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE AND CONSTANT, LIKE A WAITING ROOM. HAND-PAINTED, HAND-STAMPED SOLID WHITE TAPES. XEROXED ARTWORK ON YELLOW CARD STOCK J-CARDS. ARTWORK BY JUSTIN MARC LLOYD. LIMITED TO 31.
JUSTIN MARC LLOYD – ‘YEAR OF THE WATER DRAGON VOL. 1’ C62
NATURAL PATTERNS LEFT ME REACHING FOR SOMETHING BRIGHT. A DAWN? A NEW BEGINNING? ILLUMINATED FINGERSTIPS, MAZES OF BRAINS… AND FINALLY, MY CENTER IS CLEARED. TEXTURES IN SEAMLESS LOOPS AND WAVERING DRONES, BROKEN BEATS AND TONE THROBS, EVERYTHING INCLUDING THE KITCHEN SINK, AND MY OWN STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS. AMPLIFIED. LO-FI GARBLE AND TWITCHING CIRCUITS, DAMAGED TAPE, AND GRAND MELODY SNEAKING IN AND OUT. MY DEEPEST CREVICES ARE SMOLDERING, AS A MIRROR SHOULD, NAILED TO A BURNING TREE… SHATTERED BEFORE IT EVER SERVED IT’S TRUE PURPOSE. REAL-TIME COMPOSITION AND RECORDING, BORN BEFORE I WAS. SPACIAL AND ALIENATING. I’VE TREATED IT AS SUCH. THERE IS A CHILD INSIDE OF ME, A PORTRAYAL OF ALL THAT IS EXPERIENCED AND LEARNED, IN 4 ASPECTS: PERCEPTION (A – YOUR EYES>FILTER>IMAGE), SENSIBILITY (B – MEDIUM GROUNDS FOR SENSES), AND COMING LATER: TIME AND EXISTENCE (C – YEAR OF THE WATER DRAGON), NEW BEGINNINGS (D – DAWN OF THE COMING VISION). IF IT CAN BE TRUSTED THAT THIS IS GLOWING INTROSPECTIVE, HUMAN MEASUREMENTS OF TIME (62 MINUTES TO BE EXACT) DISSIPATE INTO COSMIC DUST. SOLID RED CHROME TAPES WITH HAND-PAINTED, HAND-STAMPED LABELS. HAND-NUMBERED, XEROXED, PURPLE CARD-STOCK J-CARDS. ARTWORK BY ALYSSA HERLOCHER. LIMITED TO 50.
OK PUTRID – ‘SATURN FLOATS’ recycled C60
HAZY, HEAVY, STONED OUT AND PSYCHEDELIC, HARSHY, HEALTHY BUT NOT HEFTY. ONE TAKE SHIT, NO OVER-DUBS. JUST STARTS AND STOPS WHEN IT FEELS RIGHT. COMPLETE WITH SMALL DOSES OF MELODY AND CLUB BEATS GONE CIRCUIT-BENT INDUSTRIAL FUCKED GUNK. OBSESSED WITH CHILDISH SARCASM AND THE WONDROUS WORLD OF INTERNETS BY PRESSING PLAY AND ZONING IN. BELLS AND WHISTLES, SYNTH AND THEREMIN TORTURE, FIELD RECORDINGS GATHERED AT WORK, FORKS MANIPULATING RUBBER BANDS MANIPULATING SPRINGS ALONGSIDE THRIFTED KEYBOARDS AND THEIR UNCLE SYNTH BOXES. THIS HOUR ON TAPE IS BUSTED AND FILLED WITH BLURRY MEMORIES. OK PUTRID IS EASILY DISTRACTED. OK PUTRID IS YOURSELF+EVERYONE-LOATHING, WARPED AND WEIRD WITH PORNHUB STREAMING VIDEOS AND BUBBLES IN OUR PEDALS, IPHONE GAMES AND HEROIN, MIKE HUBLEY AND REPETITION BECAUSE WE FORGOT WE WERE RECORDING? HAND-PAINTED TAPES, HAND-STAMPED IN MULTIPLE COLORS, WRAPPED IN METALLIC PAPER. INCLUDES A UNIQUE FOUND STUDY CARD WITH A UNIQUE GRAPHIC ON EACH COVER. LIMITED TO 27.
CINCINNATUS C – ‘SELF-TITLED’ CDr
ONE OF THE BEST STRANGE-HARSH-NOISE ACTS IN EXISTENCE. I’VE KNOWN CRAIG HODGKINS A WHILE. I WATCHED HIM MOVE FROM PITTSBURGH TO PHILLY TO DC TO PITTSBURGH. OVER THIS TIME, HE HAS BECOME ONE OF MY FAVORITE SINGER/NOISE-WRITERS OF ALL TIME. CREATIVE AND DESERVING OF A THOUSAND TIMES MORE RECOGNITION AND PRAISE. THESE PIECES NEED YOUR FULL ATTENTION TO EXPERIENCE HOW THEY MOVE. SOUND CLIPS DO NO JUSTICE. THERE IS UNDENIABLE GROWTH IN CRAIG’S GLITCHY SQUEALS, AND THIN, SPUTTERING, SPARKLING WALLS. MOVIE CLIPS, ENTRANCING LOOPS, CHEWY FEEDBACK MANIPULATION, EMERGING AND FALLING MELODIC ATMOSPHERES, FREE SPEECH. CAREFUL CONCENTRATION MEETS HEAVY ANXIETY. SOME CRAZY COMBINATION OF THE STYLES OF CHEFKIRK, BUDWEISER SPRITE/GLOM, NKONDI, COLLAPSED ARC/DAVID RUSSELL AND PRURIENT. PROFESSIONALLY PRINTED, HAND-NUMBERED ARTWORK ON CARD-STOCK IN CLEAR PLASTIC SLEEVES WITH HAND-STAMPED CDRS. ART BY CRAIG HODGKINS. LIMITED TO 50.
PHONED NIL TRIO – ‘AR B OK ALOU’ 7″ + C26 + CD
AFTER A HANDFUL OF CASSETTES, CDRS, ONLINE ALBUMS AND A WEEK LONG TOUR THROUGH THE MIDWEST AND EAST COAST, PHONED NIL TRIO AND A HOST OF LABELS ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THE FIRST MAJOR RELEASE FROM THE GROUP: “AR B OK ALOU,” A BOX SET CONSISTING OF A PRO-PRESSED CD, A PRO-DUPLICATED 26 MINUTE CASSETTE AND A 7” VINYL RECORD. ON THIS RELEASE, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER CONSISTING OF PETER J WOODS (INDUSTRIAL PERCUSSION, VOCALS AND PEDALS), NEIL GRAVANDER (OF LUCKY BONE, TAPES, VOCALS AND TURNTABLES) AND DAN SCHIERL (OF DAN OF EARTH, MODULAR SYNTH) SPUTTER AND STAMMER AHEAD IN A WAY THAT ONLY PNT CAN MUSTER. HARSH STATIC BLASTS, PILES OF TAPE HISS, EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS AND A HOST OF OTHER UNWORLDLY SOUNDS AWKWARDLY COLLIDE AND JUST AS AWKWARDLY BOLT FOR THE EXIT. SPORADICALLY, THE GROUP FINALLY MESHES, BUILDING TOWARDS COLLAGED WALLS OF AUDITORY WEIRDNESS, ONLY TO HAVE THE RUG TORN FROM UNDER THEIR FEET. WHILE “AR B OK ALOU” DOES WORK TOGETHER AS ONE WHOLE PIECE, EACH INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT HIGHLIGHTS A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE GROUP’S SOUND. THE CD FOCUSES ON THE SPARSE, MINIMAL SIDE OF PNT’S REPERTOIRE, FILLED WITH LONG STRETCHES OF SILENCE FOLLOWED BY MINIMAL CRACKLES AND QUIET SCRAP METAL ABUSE. THE CASSETTE FEATURES A LO-FI APPROACH, FILLING THE CASSETTE WITH LAYERS OF TAPE HISS AND BIZARRE SAMPLES. FINALLY, THE 7” HITS WITH BLUNT AND HEAVY FORCE, FINDING THE GROUP AT THEIR CUT UP, HARSH AND SYNTHY BEST. ALL OF THESE PARTS ARE HOUSED INSIDE OF A BARF-INDUCING COLLAGE OF RETRO COLORS, AWFUL FONTS AND TRULY ABSURD IMAGES. ENJOY! -PETER J WOODS. CO-RELEASED WITH BLACKHOUSE, COLBECK LABS, FTAM, MAXCORP INDUSTRIES AND URSA MAJOR.