Category Archives: UPDATE

RC76: SEZIKI TETRASHEAF – ‘SIROCCO’S END’ C36
Puzzling enchantments, lifted ceremonies, lasting shed beliefs. Spray painted shells, inserts with full track listing. Pro-home dubbed on type II chrome cassettes at Rotifer facilities. edition of 50.

RC77: RATKILLER – ‘PANTOMIME OF LIBERTINES’ C34
Gleamy connections, lightened byways. Ratkiller’s third first rate encountering on Rotifer. Pro-home dubbed on type II chrome cassettes at Rotifer facilities. edition of 50.

RC78: NAG DOLLY – ‘COTE OF TOTES’ C35
Heady proffering from the Nag itself. A limited issuing, comes with inserts. Pro-home dubbed on type II chrome cassettes at Rotifer facilities. edition of 50.

RC79: SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE – ‘TOUCH THE GROUND TO BEAR WITNESS’ C36
Mesmeric districts, uprooted tidings. The latest from Frank Baugh. Spray painted shells, inserts. Pro-home dubbed on type II chrome cassettes at Rotifer facilities. edition of 50.

RC80: PAUL HARES – ‘SHADES’ C40
Following ‘Blurred’ only 10 Rotifer’s ago, ‘Shade’s’ is an aerial mind mapping ejected precisely from Hare’s brain. An inmost inquest. Professionally duplicated on type II chrome cassettes. edition of 100.

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Edwar Ka-spel – ‘This Saturated Land’ CS
a water-logged voyage floating across the psychedelic wilderness. the land is almost a bog now, filled to the gills from the ever present rain. animals seek higher ground as the tide comes in and in and over, blurring the line between sea and land. you can hear the boat creek as the soggy wood warps. wheezing organs, cold and eerie soundscapes, a chorus of gurgling and shimmering synths. hand-numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed green shell tapes with water color labels, color water collage covers, digital download. (first 50 tapes include a bonus water color sludge painted cover.)

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THIRD I + RAVEN – ‘Industrial Syndrone’ C20 £3
An immense collaboration of epic wide-angled industrial noise-drone from two of Serbia’s long acclaimed and prolific noise artists. Limited to 30 copies.

JOSEPH CURWEN – ‘From Beyond’ C60 £4
5 tracks of bass-heavy low-end sinister HP Lovecraft inspired dark evil drones from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Based on that eerie bit between life and death, the day after a big party. Post-rave come-down as done by Hammer Horror. Limited to 30 copies.

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SP#024 Félicia Atkinson – ‘With Her Own Hands’ €20/£26/$17
« Let’s say it’s a narrative drift, the last whisper of an Ophelia lost in the shore, some sounds escaping from a broken window, a « vague a l’ame » caught in the syphon, some breads unknotted by mistake. You know, a one side vinyl is a kind of second- handed moon, shining in the dust of thrift store, belonging to a suburban galaxy: you might need to hitch hike and lose you left shoe to travel in time. 18 mn or so, it’s a walk from home until the bridge, 9 subways stations, 25 kisses, an apple crumble baking in the oven, a summer nap, 3 extra minutes before being tired of waiting. It’s a gem, a glass eye, a melting ice cube, a lost tooth, a traveling secret, a kind of chanting ring. » Félicia Atkinson, september 2013. With Her Own Hands is a limited edition vinyl published for the exhibition L’attraction Minérale, Toulouse, may 2013. Edition of 100 copies. 1 tracks / 18:00 min / One side 12′ LP / 33 rpm / 2013 / first edition of 100 copies / color cover printed on plastic sheet / Artwork by the artist. 50 copies on dark clear blue with a hint of gold. 50 copies on gold with a hint of black. Mastered by Brian Pyle / Co-release with Lieu-Commun art center.

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rolemusic – ‘The Pirate And The Dancer’
[EN] Centuries ago a pirate ship sank in the Pacific Ocean. Three days after the shipwreck the only confirmed survivor was found recently married to a local dancer in the Caribbean Islands. Composed by rolemusic using LSDJ and rendered in bgb emulator. Artwork by Love Through Cannibalism. [PT] Séculos atrás, um navio pirata afundou-se no oceano pacifico. Três dias depois do ocorrido o único sobrevivente confirmado foi encontrado nas Caraibas recentemente casado com uma bailarina local. Música composta por rolemusic utilizando LSDJ and capturada no emulador bgb. Grafismo por Love Through Cannibalism.

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MARGINAL CONSORT – ‘INSTAL. Glasgow 2008’ 4LP
Marginal Consort is a Japanese avant-garde improvisational collective made of sound and visual artists, who were all students of Takehisa Kosugi at the radical Bigaku school of aesthetics in Tokyo in the 70’s. The group is a reformation of the East Bionic Symphonia, who released an incredible long-form drone record in the early 80’s, a large improvisation ensemble in the spirit of his Kosugi’s Group Ongaku and Taj Mahal Travellers projects. Marginal Consort is formed around musicians, Kazuo Imai, (a student of Japanese Free Jazz linchpin Masayuki Takayanagi and also member of both Taj Mahal Travellers and Takayanagi’s New Direction Unit), Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii, and sound-artist Masami Tada (also in group GAP). Their extended set explores forms of sound and ways of playing that never coalesce into music, but create a group dynamic of ebb and flow, of exploration and fluidity. Marginal Consort also featured previously artists Yasushi Ozawa, bassist in Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha, and Chie Mukai, from dreamy psychedelic group Che-Shizu. With this cast on board, they took their free improvisation to the streets to create drones and percussive interplay in urban communal harmony. “A form of sound that does not turn into music and a group that does not produce harmony; individual concepts and group fluidity; individuals who are at once independent entities and components of the whole; coexisting time frames and intersecting rhythms – these are among the images of group improvisation that have occupied my mind since the ’70s. These images neither presuppose specific elements nor regulate the entire process. There always remain, however, the fundamental premises that sounds are separately produced phenomena and that their accumulation forms the whole”. – Kazuo Imai The boxset is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M. It is pressed on 4x 140g vinyls which themselves are housed in a silk screened pvc sleeve. It features liner notes by Barry Esson, extended photo documentation by Bryony McIntyre and artwork by Bill Kouligas.

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Feffe – ‘Uendelig Kos’ LP 15€
12″ vinyl lp matt sleeves – limited edition of 250 copies. Feffe is a norwegian musician, producent and bedroom visionary with a background in the deep forests of Vestfold and the majestic fjords of Sunnmøre. Feffe has been active in the norwegian music underground since the mid nineties, in many different constellations and musical genres, from black metal to free improvisation and beyond. These days Feffe is the bassguitarist with psychedelic rock trio WIND and avant-metalists Tremoro Tarantura. As long as Feffe can remember he has been improvising and composing music, and for the last couple of years it has begun to crystallize into something definite and personal. Feffe´s music is now ready for you to discover .

Etheric Fountain Channel – ‘Lifeanatomical Atmosphereinstruments’ C60 8€
C60 tape, limited edition of 50 copies. Finally – a new album from Norway´s Etheric Fountain Channel. 60 minutes of new age black metal rudolf steiner hymns to nature and the universe.

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WHITE POPPY s/t LP
Vancouver’s patron saint of introspective freefall shoegaze unveils
her debut full-length after years of pursuing a patchwork of projects,
both sonic and otherwise. rich and rewarding. direct mail-order copies
come with a limited photocopied zine of raw snapshots documenting the tangled-cord truth behind the album’s genesis.

UMBERTO – ‘PROPHECY OF THE BLACK WIDOW’ LP
After 16 months on the OOP list umberto’s sophomore long-player
rematerializes for a final repress of 250 copies. also, heads up for
locals: Oct 22nd he’s opening for Goblin at LA’s famed Egyptian
Theater! a nite not to miss.

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MAD/MOD – ‘Neurinomes’ CDr $10
Pro-duped thermal -printed CD-R. Hand assembled cardboard folders. Numbered edition (second limited run of 25). 79 mins. $10. Shimmering drones and angular melody lines dance and collapse against hazy ambiance and fractured glass surfaces; ecstatic meditations give way to deep noir melancholy and fiery avant expressionism. Neurinomes (a type of nerve tumor that can affect the inner ear) is the haunting debut by the duo of Montreal-based reed player Marc-Antoine Dagenais (Mad) and guitarist Dominic Marion (Mod). The album revolves around improvisation, rewriting of improvised sounds, resonant mappings, organic acousmatic, combination tones; a process one may call recomposition, using recordings of spontaneous interactions as draft mapping, free to be reinvestigated and refined. All timbers were produced solely by miking acoustic sources. With the exception of a wine glass slowed down to a low drone, these soundscapes remain faithful to original acoustic production. The duo has developed their own vocabulary through research of improvised music based on harmonic specters, thoroughly experimenting in the fields of peculiar textures and frictions that their instruments can provide. Marion often, but not always, treats his guitar signal through a certain range of effects, working a specter of textures, going from delicate jazzy chords to screaming organ like sounds. Blending with those amplified sounds, Dagenais uses different extended techniques (trumpet sounds, multiphonics, screams, circular breathing and others) on the saxophone and flutes as well as different parts of the instruments to produce unusual soundscapes.

SEMEN PRIEST C40 $6.66
Pro-duped, edition of 30. Electro-funk, post-punk dystopian dub nightmares. Chilled psychedelic pop daydreams. Futuristic streams of anime unconsciousness. Gothic bubblegum doom fantasies. Romance. Violence. Action. Wealth. Decay. Mystery band SEMEN PRIEST came to Arachnidiscs’s attention with a demo package, mailed anonymously from somewhere in Canada, containing a blood-filled condom and a vaguely threatening letter (“You should do our tape. xoxo Semen Priest. PS- We know where you live.”). Easily the most unusual demo-package the label had ever received the CD-R of SEMEN PRIEST’s album that accompanied it prompted Arachnidiscs to release their tape instead of notifying the RCMP

A SACRED CLOUD – ‘Ensoleillé, 1972’ C40 $6
Ecstatically bleak retro-futurist android sheep daydream of Vangelis-in-hell on a cloud that’s only silver linings. A Sacred Cloud is the Montreal based experimental electronic/guitar/drone/ambient/noise duo of Maggie Cho and Johnathan Woo. The album was mastered by Sandro Perri. Vinyl LP edition will be released by Jeunesse Cosmique in November, 2013.

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Murder Cult – ‘The Bridge’ C20 £4
2 sides of deep ritual gamelan recorded in live sessions, London 2013. Very rugged recording. Red Labels on Black tape. White quality card sleeve.

Adam Denton and Ian Watson – ‘Latencies I to IV’ CDr £6
4 improvised electronic compositions. First 4 parts in an ongoing experiment recorded remotely and concurrently across the breadth of the UK. Black CDR with white label. Quality card sleeve print.

SCKE// – ‘Bell of Sails/Grain 2.4’ 10”
2 sides of meditation loops and gritty primitive noise plate.

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