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GNAR137/LPOP065 Love Cop – ‘Pop Magick Is Real’ CS
Last year Gnar Tapes introduced the world to Love Cop; Portland’s best, raddest, darkest, silliest, stoned-est Stoner Goth band in years. Throughout 2013, Love Cop released three (3) cassettes (including one Gnar/Burger Records split), toured the Western US twice (2x), flew to play at the Gnar Tapes SXSW showcase in Austin, TX, and produced five (5) music videos. And with every release, every show, and every video, Love Cop songs and sound seem to get more and more realized. Now with their 1st cassette of 2014 (and 4th cassette for Gnar Tapes, 1st for Lolipop) they prove that sentiment to be truer than ever. Everything you love about Love Cop but presented bigger, brighter, cleaner, and stronger. Love Cop is a duo (Duffy Rongiiland, Phil Salina) who grew up together in Long Island, NY, and while Duffy has been writing and performing music for most of his life, Love Cop is Phil’s first time ever making music in any way. They are both adult men, but play music in an earnest and honest way that only comes with a youthful spirit, and a personal connection that is based on a deep rooted friendship, and an obvious mutual fascination with lo-fi pop music. Bands this prolific and young rarely express their growth and identity as organically and linearly as Love Cop, and “Pop Magick Is Real” is LC’s finest, most focused album yet. Ghosts haunting girls in the shower, sex in the basement, secret messages; Love Cop.

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DBA128 VIPER VENOM – ‘DESTROYAH’ CS
Hailing from Death Valley (seriously!), Viper Venom is horror-core rap shares aesthetic similarities with Three6 Mafia, but extends the lyrical themes to cartoonish extremes. Tracks identifying with Skeletor and vampires embody the same joy of playing the villain as a child with action figures or watching your first horror film even though your parents strictly forbid it. Don’t get us wrong though, this isn’t music for kids. There is some NC-17 content here.

DBA129 Mad Murderz – ‘The Lemon Pledge ep’ CS
Florida’s Mad Murderz is everything young music should be: Passionate, thoughtful, experimental, contradictory, and most of all, completely untainted by the boring world of adults. Originally released digitally, this cassette edition adds a bonus track and a little remastering for BOOM.

DBA130 Signor Benedick The Moor – ‘sbthemoor’ CS
Effortlessly blending sounds from all sorts of genres, simply calling Signor Benedick The Moor a rapper is a bit misleading. His quick and playful rap style brings to mind everything from The Pharcyde to Danny Brown, but virtuoso guitar playing, drumming, and wide assortment of other live instrumentation pushes the work into prog territory. Signor Benedick’s music is the sound of not worrying about categories.

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Amitron_7 – ‘Come Ye Sinners to the Gospel Feast’
Double album of psychedelic electronic ambient by English project Amitron_7. Artwork by Hélder Costa. Two scientists meet up in 1970’s Paris to conduct a series of experiments involving Theta Waves and surgical procedures on the human brain. They make a breakthrough and are able to link their minds and communicate and share their memories via a telepathic link. However their own are not the only voices they hear. Are they talking to the dead, to God or is there something else trying to come through? [PT] Album duplo de electrónica ambiental psicadélica pelas mãos do projecto inglês Amitron_7. Grafismo por Hélder Costa. Dois cientistas encontram-se na década de 1970 em Paris para conduzir uma série de experiências envolvendo ondas Theta e operações no cérebro humano. Eles conseguem um avanço na àrea que lhes permite unir as suas mentes, partilhar memórias e comunicar telepáticamente. No entanto as suas vozes não são as únicas que eles conseguem ouvir, estarão a comunicar com os mortos, com Deus ou haverá algo mais a tentar estabelecer contacto?

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GOD 22 Francisco Lopez – ‘Untitled #295’
Francisco Lopez is not only famous for his profilic sound creations, but also for different aspects of sound manipulations. Since his very beginnings, he explores different fields of sound and almost entire his work belongs to serie “untitled”. untitled#295 is a piece created specially for two sides of vinyl and specially for GODrec. Besides lopez’s famous moving soundscapes, it’s the PULSE what makes this work driving. And not only typical pulse – a regular one with irregular accents. Slowly developing it takes insensibly into void and darkness. Extremely tempting work for claustrophobic experiences.

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Frame – ‘Random Features’ [EN] 10 years after it was originally produced and released by the author as a limited edition cdr. Now remastered and available free for download as digital release. Electronic ambient / chill out album with trance influences by Portuguese project Frame.// [PT] 10 anos após ter sido originalmente produzido e editado em edição de autor de cópias limitadas. Agora remasterizado e disponivel para download gratuito como edição digital. Album de electronica ambiental / chill out com influências de trance do projecto Português Frame.

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GRASSA DATO – ‘Despojo Humano’ CS
After his ambitious work with Incapacitans, the psychedelic noisy forays in Grasstro, or his participation in groups such as Abductores, Gur Bruo or We Are The Hunters, fireproof Grassa Dato returns to its essence: the dirtiest dark path of Spanish harsh noise. “Despojo Humano” is his most primitive work to date. Recorded live with analog tapes, Grassa delivers 8 tracks full of grime and violence: torn apart vocals, brief industrial incursions and rubbish, tons of rotting piles of dirt. The A side of the tape consists of 7 micro-tracks, with a lenght between 30 seconds and 4 minutes. The B side is devoted to a single track, a noisy ambient litany of dismal. “Despojo Humano” comes in a professional cassette with 8 tracks and 24 minutes of noise, in a limited edition of 21 copies.

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LW080 OFFENSIVE X & YOUTH A.D. – ‘Don’t Let Them Get You’ 3”CDr 7€
Nihilistic Croatian/Serbian Power Electronics collaboration inspired by hate, filth, obsession and terror!

LW081 A.Z.A.B. – ‘Toxic Waste Upheaval’ CDr 10€
Maniacal Harsh Noise and Power Electronics from Canada. 6 new tracks ranging from savagely fierce and destructive sonic terrorism towards all opposition to a final twisted hypnotic realm of psychosis!

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Negative Frequencies and Chaise – ‘Hiss Stock’ VHS
This very limited release of 10 purple VHS tapes is a collaboration between Brooklyn artists Angus Tarnawsky (modular synth) and Jason Tschantre (video). The soundtrack is dark and beat driven, with visuals that resemble an occult microbiology experiment.

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Joel Vandroogenbroeck – ‘Biomechanoid’ LP
Biomechanoid is the classic 1980 album by composer and flutist Joel Vandroogenbroeck. It’s 1980, in Munich, Germany, upstart production music label Coloursound Library releases their debut album. Capitalising on the success of Ridley Scott’s Alien film, the label dropped Biomechanoid, featuring cover art commissioned by HR Giger – whose horrific Necronom IV lithograph served as the basis for the design of Alien – and the music of the relatively unknown Joel Vandroogenbroeck. Comprised of bleak, cinematic synth soundscapes and percussion, the album served as an inaugural calling card for what would be a decade of dizzying solo releases by Vandroogenbroeck for Coloursound, running the gamut from Mesopotamian ethno-folk to synth sequencer funk to electro drum breaks to in-utero ambient delights. Though the Belgian-born Vandroogenbroeck, 74, may not be a household name; in an ideal world, he would be. As the founder, flautist, harpist, sitar player and keyboardist of the seminal acid-fried Swiss psych outfit Brainticket, he spearheaded the groups three main (and collectible) releases in the early 70s – Cottonwood Hill, Celestial Ocean and Psychonaut. Combining a love of exotic instruments coupled with mind-bending out-of-body excursions, the ever-changing collective developed something of a cult following throughout Europe and earned a reputation as one of the heavier psych outfits on the circuit – which was something of a double-edged sword. While their experimental sound resonated with hippies everywhere, it didn’t with the authorities, who associated the act with heavy drug consumption and subsequently began a ban of their music, especially the Psychonaut album, if for the title alone. After that bitter brush with censorship, the group quietly disbanded in 1972. After the dissolution of Brainticket, Vandroogenbroeck departed for the island of Bali with the intent of learning to build and play the gamelan – an ensemble of primarily percussion instruments from Indonesia. It would become yet another weapon in his ever growing arsenal of exotic instruments: he was already proficient in the sitar, harp, kalimba, assorted percussion oddities and all woodwinds by this point. Vandroogenbroeck became so enraptured with the frenetic sound of the gamelan that he subsequently left the tropics to start up a joged bumbung (a variation on a gamelan) band back in Switzerland. While playing small festivals and civic events with this group, Joel began to slowly gravitate towards the synth-heavy kraut sounds of artists like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze at the same time. And once he began dabbling with oscillators, he never turned back. After inking a library deal around this time with the nascent Coloursound label, who gave him complete creative control, Vandroogenbroeck began turning out releases at a rapid rate, often three to five a year, and under a variety of aliases like V.D.B. Joel, J.V.D.B, and Eric Vann. Starting with the desolate synth drone of Biomechanoid, he continued to expand his sound palette on while on Coloursound, moving from early arpeggiators on Computer Blossoms to percussive sound collage on Birth Of Earth; and from Oberheim DMX drum breaks on Video Games & Data Movements to Apple II ambient programming on Digital Project. Biomechanoid stands after all these years as an album full of dark, strange, disturbing soundscapes, the obscure side of Brainticket, proving how Joel was still a creative artist. Release Details: * Artwork by HR Giger * Matt finishing * Double-sided insert * 180gr. vinyl * Edition of 500 copies.

Orphan Fairytale – ‘My Favorite Fairytale’ 2LP
Welcome to the wondrous world of Eva Van Deuren’s one-girl project Orphan Fairytale. She creates a fairylike, mystic and hypnotizing sound world using only self-made electronics, toy instruments , cassette loops and small keyboards. The music show a great deal of playfulness. Dreamlike patterns are enriched by carefully placed notes and tones. After almost 10 years of performing and recording, the time has come for a round-up and Aguirre is happy to present a wonderful set of four sidelong pieces. The 2xLP set consists of delicate twinkling tunes recorded during the period of 2008 – 2011 wherein Eva shows an admirable creativity, coalescing minimalism, new age, psychedelic and repetitive sounds. Not always too far away from contemporary fellow artists like Dolphins Into The Future, Innercity and Panabrite with whom she shares a certain ambience. Originating from Antwerp, Belgium Eva Van Deuren grew up in a flourishing Belgian music scene. Releasing cassettes on numerous independent cassette labels Audiobot, Beniffer Editions and Sloow Tapes just to name a few. In the summer of 2007 she was even asked to open for Sonic Youth (!). It was Thurston Moore who was very fond of her music. After that she has released full albums on Ultra Eczema and Blackest Rainbow and now we like to welcome her to Aguirre! Release details: * Artwork by Johan and Hannah * High Gloss finishing * Edition of 500 copies.

Gnod – ‘The Somnambulist’s Tale’ LP
An early and one of the most special Gnod recordings is out now on Aguirre. The Somnambulist’s Tale consists of two sidelong adventurous pieces which are carried by an incredible loop. The haunting ambience in combination with electronics, distant guitar layers, conversations between the band members, a typewriter, and other sounds from found objects makes this quite an atypical Gnod release, but definitely a great one. Influenced by early Krautrock bands like Can, Hawkwind and Ash Ra Temple, Gnod brings us back to those days, add twisted sounds and strange lyrics to the whole and deliver a truly mesmerizing psychedelic drone record. Gnod is a British krautrock band from Salford, England. Formed in 2006, the band is a collective from Manchester with an ever-rotating list of members. They run experimental electronic live nights in Salford called Gesamtkunstwerk (German for “whole arts work”) where they offer “outsider electronics, hardwarped machine rhythms and analogue debauchery all reflecting the postindustrial mill space”. They have a punky belief in the dissolution of the boundary between artist and audience to the extent that it is not unlikely to find gig-goers onstage, adding to the instrumental melee. Release Details: * Artwork by Fliss Horrocks * Matt finishing * Edition of 500 copies.

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905.178: Headboggle/Collin McKelvey split C60
30 minutes each of squishy synth work from Headboggle & Collin McKelvey. Hboggle offers up six monsters, a mixture of live sets, sessions at colleges, and jams with buds. Shannon Kerrigan, John Elliott, and Jeff Hatfield all showing their mugs. McKelvey burns through one half hour of every changing textured layers. Pro dubbed, edition of 100. Comes with download code.

905.179: Andrew Kirschner – ‘Patient’ C31
Ohio dirt devil AK drags electronics through the mud creating crude, blistered soundscapes. Totally clear shells with imprinting on the B side, covered with labels, visiable through the cassette. Pro dubbed, edition of 50. Comes with download code.

905.180: Afterlife/Roped Off split C29
Slowly unwinding, elated-meets-somber vibes from Afterlife. Roped Off goes on a weirdo modular synth/electronics joy ride. Pro dubbed, edition of 100. Comes with download code.

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