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OXYCODONE – ‘LONESOMENESS WALL’ C30 £3.5
Thirty minutes of absorbing hypnotic slow evolving ambient radio noise wave from Russia. Packaged on a pink cassette in a blue case, wrapped in a lush gatefold four panel double sleeve. Limited to 30 copies.

FÄKALIEN/DEPRIVATION split C30 £3.5
7 tracks of the finest power electronics and harsh noise that Sweden and Italy can offer. Recorded on a high-quality lime green cassette with full colour artwork. Limited to 20 copies.

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Grizzly Imploded – ‘You are the way you face your death’ C30
Trio from Napoli Italy / Electro-Acoustic, Free Improvisation. Ltd. Edition of 70 | Letter Pressed | Hand Numbered.

Nathan McLaughlin – ‘Karen Studies’ C30
Two long banjo meditations for Karen Dalton. Ltd. Edition of 100, Hand Numbered.

Josh Mason – ‘Conduit’ C30
“Within a years time, a mother sleeps and a baby is born”. Ltd. Edition of 50 | Letter Pressed | Block Printed | Hand Numbered.

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Maurizio Bianchi & Ryan Martin – ‘As Strong As Death Is’ 2xC30
Edition of 100. Spanning the course of two years to create, legendary Italian noise composer Maurizio Bianchi & Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint / Detrop) took on the pilgrimage of scoring the abstract marriage of the Song of Solomon. Employing prepared electronics with accompanying strings and tape, this ambient religious collaboration seeks to flesh out the union, to understand the universal desire to be one. Constricted lullabies walk down the aisle to create a consortium of moving, ghost-like consolidation. Mixed and edited by Anthony Mangicapra (Hoor-paar-Kraat) and mastered by Kris Lapke (Alberich). Magnetized onto two cassettes and housed in a vinyl tape album.

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Dead Skeletons – ‘Orð’ 12″
“Orð” is Dead Skeletons follow-up release to “Dead Magick” – an album that sold out in nearly one day. “Dead Magick”’s theme hymn “Dead Mantra” was an art installation soundtrack turned spiritual battle song turned psychedelic underground smash hit phenomenon. The 2008 track was the starting point for a cosmic concept created and immersed by Icelandic artist Jón Sæmundur, as a tool to come to terms with his 20 year struggle with HIV. Further developing the Dead Concept, the 12” EP “Orð” consists of four tracks of reverb-drenched rock n’ roll meditation – reminding the listener to embrace life in death and death in life. The songs “Odauðleg Orð” and “Odauðleg Orð (Museum Version)” were both created as sonic enhancement to yet another one of Sæmundur’s art installations, while the pop quality-ridden “Dead is God” further delves into the band’s “All is One, One is All” philosophy. “Cemalym” is a dark, traditional Turkish folk song (most notably recorded by Erkin Koray), although with lyrics translated into Icelandic. Music for when you meet your maker, as Dead Skeletons puts it. Sound of Cobra’s second pressing of “Orð” comes out on a one-sided white vinyl 12”, in a limited edition of 400 copies, with a silk screened B-side and a paper recycled, tobacco coloured, cardboard sleeve.

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MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE – ‘Far West’ CD/LP
On “Far West,” the Master Musicians of Bukkake mark a turn from their Totem Trilogy. If the Totems were an expression of yang energy, then the “Far West” cycle is the yin that took seed within the trilogy. What happens when you travel so far east looking for enlightenment that you pass your destination and are headed west again? The Master Musicians of Bukkake take an earthly and shamanistic approach to these influences and infuse it with Krautrock pulses interweaved with acoustic guitars, intricately layered rhythms, hazed-out modular analog synths, brassy stabs, and cultish choirs. A true psychedelic, audiophile experience to dissolve your body in.

ALESSANDRO CORTINI – ‘Forse 1’ 2LP
Deluxe double LP pressed in an edition of 500 copies. First 200 copies pressed are on red vinyl and packaged in a deluxe heavy duty gatefold jacket printed on thick board stock with a lush matte laminate. Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails/How To Destroy Angels) composed the Forse series using a Buchla Music Easel. Forse, meaning “maybe” In Italian, is a series of 3 double LP releases Cortini recorded for Important to release in 2013.

GASPAR CLAUS – ‘Jo Ha Kyu’ CD/LP
Jo Ha Kyu is a traditional Japanese concept of modulation applied to a wide variety of the arts in Japan. For three weeks Parisian cellist and composer Gaspar Claus met with traditional and modern Japanese musicians in a Tokyo studio to record Jo Ha Kyu. Performing with Claus on this piece are: Eiko Ishibashi (voice, piano, drums), Keiji Haino (voice), Kakushin Nishihara (voice, satsuma biwa), Ryuichi Sakamoto (piano), Hirochimi Sakamoto (electric cello). Sachiko M (sine wave), Otomo Yoshihide (turntable), Leonard Eto (wadaiko), Kazutoki Umezu (tenor saxophone) and Kazuki Tomokawa (voice, guitar). Mailorder customers will receive color vinyl (please choose color vinyl option) and two large posters of the Japanese cover artwork.

ELSE MARIE PADE & JACOB KIRKEGAARD – ‘SVÆVINGER’ LP
Else Marie Pade (born December 2, 1924 in Aarhus) is a Danish composer. An educated composer, Pade pioneered electronic music and concrete music in Denmark. In 1954 Pade became the first Danish composer of electronic and concrete music. She knew and worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Pade was active in the resistance during the Second World War, and was interned at the Frøslev prison camp from 1944 till the end of the war. An archival collection of Else Marie Pade’s electronic work will be released on Important in 2013.

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CYCLOPS – ‘THE FIRST YEAR’ $6
Recorded at Channel 3, Tampa & Dungeon C, Providence. Cyclops is SHV & Russian Tsarlag, a gruesome twosome of leathery grooves and toilet rock. Guitars mutate around drum machines, Tsarlag waxes depressive over droopy synths, languid anthems repeat endlessly, a monster mash. There’s also some real sex appeal. SHV’s beats hiss like more than club soda, Tsarlag’s guitars curl alluringly, a bleach party for two. Gone are the loner moods, replaced with a mysterious liaison.

VINCENT OVER THE SINK – ‘BIBLE BASHERS’ $6
I reissued this tape because it rules. I keep Bible Bashers between the car seat and the center console, or on top of the tape deck, or in my ass pocket; it’s on constant rotation. Recorded at Wolfgang’s House, Glenbrook Lagoon, Blue Mountains, Australia, 2009. Grim pianos melt over dumb horns, downer chords drowned in dishwater vox. I keep seeing domestic interiors with moving walls, skeletal fingers hitting single keys, a hall of mirrors, goosebumps. Vincent Over The Sink are no longer. They were a magnetic flash of weird in an otherwise predictable succession of DIY styles. Bible Bashers is one of only a few releases documenting their curious flavor. I usually like the transience of home recordings, but some things are worth remembering.

‘MODERN DUETS‘ flexi compilation $8
The next thirty orders include an extra unbound Flexi. Contributions from: Control Unit, Sea Urchin, Half High, Soviet Pop, Primitive Motion.

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Kokori – ‘Make Install’
[EN] Portuguese industrial post-cyberpunk project kokori delivers us here an EP compiling a set of instrumental geek shaman electronic burlesque sounds with some sampling of local political activism. [PT] O projecto Português de música industrial pós-cyberpunk kokori lança aqui um EP compilando um conjunto de temas instrumentais, com uma forte veia geek shamânica e electrónica burlesca com alguma samplagem e influência de activismo político local.

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Mystery Attacks – ‘Two’ C27
The second cassette release by Mystery Attacks is available now. The tape contains four tracks of crude industrial noise recorded early 2013, and mastered this May at Enemata Productions. The new tracks reflect further time served in factories of consumption; the uneasy sounds were assembled with whatever tools were at hand. The tracks concern weakness and breaking points, as well as themes of apprehension, evasion, and ensnarement. The newly-released commodity is a C27 pro-duplicated chrome plus tape, red shell with black imprint, and a basic B/W photocopied cover. Each cassette is wrapped in additional printed matter. This release, catalog # ROUGE002,is available in an edition of fifty-five copies.

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PURR 0032: Sawi Lieu – ‘Pasaraya’
Sawi Lieu is one of a new crop of experimental artists hailing from Jakarta that are beginning to gain notice in international communities. With Pasaraya, Lieu takes listeners on a nostalgic journey through neon arcades and sonic macro malls. Snaking beats and vibrant synths slink through murky alleyways, sounds and smells emanating from behind a concrete curtain that hint at an alternate universe, subsumed within the virtual. Over the course of 68 minutes, Lieu plays many different hands, though. Bright, aqueous techno consumes the folds of “Subjectless World” while the zoned-out electronics of “Familiar Landscape” and “Layar Maya” are an aural opiate, soothing to frayed nerves. Every track offers something new and different. Pasaraya is the memory of growing up in Jakarta’s busy streets, and whatever dissonance that conjures, Lieu’s vision is an astonishingly beautiful place to let yourself go.

PURR 0033: Aloonaluna/Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Lynn Fister has had an incredible 2013 so far and still just seems to be getting started, expanding her unique collaborative vision of sound and visual art. Following a stellar releases on Hooker Vision and Cosmic Winnetou, Fister is pushing herself into new realms on her half of this split with the even more prolific Rachel Evans of Motion Sickness of Time Travel. “Apnea Method” finds heavy, glitched edits pulsing along while her ghostly vocals echo into oblivion, presaging a centrality for her voice that is upheld on centerpiece track, “Stutter-Sleep Dance,” with its unusual rhythm and capable deconstruction of contemporary dance trends. Aloonaluna closes things off with the relic that is “Shifty Eyes,” like a dusty voodoo artifact unearthed in the swamps of Louisiana, before a flip-of-the-tape conjures Evans’ contribution. The three track song sequence that composes her half of the split is more broadly thematic than Fisters, sounding much as Pitchfork described it, like the “trailing echo of a church choir,” or a mid-point in the swell of real and fabricated voices associated with formalworship. Their character of reverance splits the tape along lines of orientation, setting Fister’s apprehended experiments to play against Evans’ earnest engagement with form.

PURR 0034: White Poppy – ‘Drifters Gold’
White Poppy is Crystal Dorval, a multimedia artist based on the west Coast of Canada, where she makes experimental and self-described “therapeutic” pop. Drifter’s Gold was prepared in anticipation of an LP to follow this August on Not Not Fun. Named for Don Blanding’s poems inspired by the beauty of Hawaii, Drifter’s Gold will almost certainly live up to the mantle of “therapy” for anyone kindly drugged by soothing string-playing and hazy vocals into its blissful, precociously decorated ambient swells. Though many of the songs take their inspiration from everyday life and the sadness of inner confusion, all were deliberately crafted to address Dorval’s own fixation with the seasons and their influence on the temper of her recordings. Easily building on the very perceptable influence of Blanding’s Hawaii, Drifter’s Gold may just be the ideal hedge against the summer doldrums during this year’s hotter months.

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Günter Schlienz/Kyle Landstra/N Chambers/Cliffsides – ‘Swim Trunks’ 2xC60
An ode to water. Type II 2×60 minute cassette. Double sided screen print cover with full color booklet. Art by Jonathan Sacha and Carl Koopmans. Space Slave 27. Ed 100.

Attenuated – ‘Deep Opacity’
An immense second processing built for those with clear heads. Or no head. Type II 76 minute cassette Water color & ink block stamped j-cards with hand cut stickers Music by Ian Kennedy
Art by Jonathan Sacha and Carl Koopmans Space Slave 26 Ed 100.

Calypso Borealis – ‘Agaw Shasha’
Warm organic frequencies floating over open water Type II 46 cassette Music by E.B.A. Art by Jonathan Sacha and Carl Koopmans Space Slave 25 Ed 100.

Vermillion Father – ‘Sietch Tabr’
Gonzo chiefs twirling below your feet Type II 44 minute cassette Water color and ink block printed j-cards with hand cut stickers Music by Jonathan Sacha Art by Jonathan Sacha and Carl Koopmans Space Slave 24 Ed 100.

Clime – ‘Two Crest’
Loopy jams for all day adventures Type II 90 minutes cassette Music by Jake Webster and Jimmy Billingham Art by Carl Koopmans Space Slave 23 Ed 100.

Dark Matter Travelers – ‘Lotus Birthing the Cosmos’
Unknown peddle hangers curl under gravitational lensing Type II 42 minute cassette Music by Ian Najdzionek Art by Brok Leshman Space Slave 22 Ed 50.

Cape and Cowl – ‘Revealed In Light’
Pulsing guitar loops and friendly samples take you for a ride through this beautiful neighborhood. Type II 30 minute cassette
Music by Russell Wagner Art by Russell Wagner and Carl Koopmans Space Slave 21 Ed 100.

Mortuus Auris and The Black Hand – ‘Massacre in Catena Valley, 1971’
Scraping drone cries Type II 58 minute cassette Music by Pete Taylor Art by Phil French and Carl Koopmans Space Slave 20 Ed 50.

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