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100 Years of Noise – ‘Final Release’
This Final release of our ode to ‘L´Arte dei Rumori’ includes 11 new tracks that were not released in the Public Domain Celebration Release on 1st January. Additionally we remodelled the minisite to include a few interviews with the artists and complementary material to the tracks (image, text or video). The entire tracklist is available free for download and online stream. Expect experimental sounds in a wide range of styles and genres, including musique concréte, field recordings, free jazz, DIY electronics and noise.

‘AtlanThis 2‘
Follow up compilation of experimental electronic tracks from artists out of Portugal and the North America. The theme of the compilation is crossing the Atlantic ocean. Organized and co-released by Thisco Records. Features tracks by Mantrakid, ocp, Oxford Icebergs, Human Being, Sci Fi Industries, Infetu, ps, Dyman, Com. Gen., shhh…, Waste Disposal Machine, Undara, Mystified and AVOIDANT. Artwork by American painter Ariel Claborn. Expect electronic sounds ranging from drone and ambient to idm and industrial.

The Easton Ellises – ‘Dance It, Dance All Jamendo #1’
Our Canadian electro rock artists The Easton Ellises managed to break Jamendo charts all the way to number one with their track “Dance It, Dance All”. It’s part of their crowdfunded vinyl release, which is also available free for download at Enough Records.

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fon40 – Gnod/Bear Bones – ‘Lay Low’ split C45 $9.5
English psych-heads Gnod meet the Venezuelan stoner Bear Bones, Lay Low to produce a split tape of gorgeous neo-kraut trails and class freakdom. Gnod have been on fire lately with such vital works as the $&$ split and “Dwellings & Druss” which put them even further away from the pointless tags one might attempt to apply to their sound and vision. Guess you just gotta believe the folks when they say “psych tech” now! But just before that the devotees of the Manchester collective had been devouring heavy industrial rock riffage with choking vocals and some strange form of kraut-rock. With a constantly rotating line-up Gnod have always been a wicked live band who can shake stages all over Europe. Let’s look at what we have here: Gnod team have blessed Full of Nothing with a 21-minute instrumental slow-burner in the essential kraut fashion. Recorded & mixed at their spiritual home, Islington Mill, “The Choice of a Nubian Generation” features upbeat spiritual organs snaking in starry-eyed electronics and guitar dubs, while a motorik drum beat is pounding its way to heaven. Gnod from Gnod, light from light. Bear Bones, Lay Low is the solo guise of Ernesto González, who is no stranger to collective freakout being a key member of the seminal Sylvester Anfang II. The Venezuelan musician currently residing in Belgium knows his riffs alright but those who didn’t sleep on his supreme records on KRAAK, Sloow Tapes etc. are aware of the fact that the gentleman does his synth homework as well. While various Bear Bones, Lay Low material may sound like bold mystical sonic statements there is always a tad of goofy playfulness complimenting the vibe. Recorded onto a cassette 4-track in Venezuela and Spain the B side of this split is heavy on analog synth blobs, found sound and comes highly entertaining. But hey, throw in some jolly piano minimalism, lo-fi wash of spirited South American drones and distorted guitar workouts! While pushing himself aside from the awesome singsong witch dance moments of “El Telonero” LP, Bear Bones, Lay Low maintains his sonic persona and masterfully executes his side. Black tapes with thick ivory J-cards designed by Anya Kuts. Each is numbered and comes with a download code. Edition of 100.

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gut nose – ‘eaT biskiT’ CS $8
1st ever release from New York native and electronic groove composer gut nose. Simply described, the eaT biskiT EP is a dystopian sci-fi beat collage tape. Double A side, high-bias translucent red cassette tape. Artwork colored & hand stamped on recycled cardboard sleeves with love by gut nose. Bonus stickers. Limited to 50 copies.

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UMBERTO – ‘CONFRONTATIONS’ CD/LP
Kansas City’s Goblin king of neo-Giallo brood-blooded dark fantasy soundtracking returns with his fourth official full-length, two years after the badass psychodrama of Prophecy Of The Black Widow. The time betwixt was well spent, on tours (Europe twice, including the Mogwai-curated ATP fest), one-off tapes and 12 inches (Welcome To The Chill Zone, Final Exit, etc), and tweaking the mixes and minutia of the seven undead invasion omens comprising Confrontations. What instantly distinguishes the new album from the previous few is its ominous slow-burn compositional model: each track builds its evil temple brick by brick, basking in the tension of each new chiming Carpenter synth line or monkish doom Om for multiple measures before stirring the next substance into the cauldron. This elegant sense of patience gives the songs a more oozing, operatic aura; these confrontations aren’t hostile showdowns in the woods but the creeping dread of alien-nation body snatchers infiltrating the populace. Death comes slipping. Another crucial keystone in the occult arc de triomphe of Umberto’s deepening discography. Can someone hire this genius to score the They Live remake already? Black vinyl LPs in X-filed highway cover artwork designed by Dionysian KC visualist Tim Goodwillie. Edition of 750.

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Lethal Bronze – ‘Secant Territories’
Atmospheric textures created by a specific use of reverberation units and echo chambers. Fields of percussions playing hypnotic and meditative patterns. Lethal Bronze leads you to a transcendent mysterious zone.

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Forming – ‘Variations of the One Essence’ C25
Worn habit no. 04. gentle rhythm tape loops for easing your mind.

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Kyle Landstra – ‘New Light’ C40 $7.5
Shaded synth dripping through a solar sieve. Type II 40 minute cassette Space Slave 13. Hand painted, Ed 50.

Courtly Illusion Limited – ‘Untitled’ C20 $7.5
The coyote’s shape shifts as manipulated rhodes and guitar amble in the tall grass. Type II 20 minute cassette. Space Slave 14. Ed 75.

Tuluum Shimmering – ‘Raag Wichikapache/Lake of Mapang’ C45+C15 $14
A weave of watery loops conjured by aerial roots and canopy dwellers. Type II 45 and 15 minute cassette. Space Slave 15. Hand painted, Ed 100.

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MATATUS – ‘Psychedelic Apocalypse’ CDr 6€
After his work in projects such as Eldar or Asbaar, Marc Merinee created Matatus to mix industrial sounds, noise, ritual atmospheres and power electronics. The new album “Psychedelic Apocalypse” is a portrait of different diabolic entities around the world. The personality and attributes of these demons are portrayed through Matatus’ characteristic dark sound: suffocating atmospheres, ominous echoes, repetitive rhythms, eruptions of noise, and low voices denatured with abrasive electronic effects. “Psychedelic Apocalypse” is a gloomy, dense, agonizing, and threatening album. It is presented in professional CDr in a square DVD box, with more than 50 minutes of music, in a limited edition of 50 copies. You can get the album for 6 euros plus postage through the label Truco Espárrago.

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CORPSE CANDLE – ‘Don’t Kill The Messenger’ C48
A painful voyage, lumbering and poisoned. Robert Meldrum delivers with a singularly gruesome and severe approach for this new long play album of eerie drone swamp and mangled horror sound. A set of five brutal navigations through crumbling tunnels of stone and rubble, hurling headlong into the pit of stinking tar. Haunted wailing and undulating sulphur tone morphs into abrasive grinding shrapnel, an ultimately terrifying barrage of distressing apparitions. Real time duplicated translucent Ghoul-Green cassette with black and white labels comes packaged with glossy double sided black and white cardstock J-card in a matching custom-painted green and clear Norelco case. Hand-numbered edition of 50. The howl of triumphant decay.

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Hoor-paar-Kraat – ‘Live at the Brooklyn Fashion League’ 3″CDr $5(US)/$13(World)
Edition of 50. Live document of a rare performance by Hoor-paar-Kraat at the Brooklyn Fashion League on October 20, 2012 at the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by artist Anthony Mangicapra. This live set featured the first collaborative performance under Hoor-paar-Kraat with namesake Anthony Mangicapra and Ryan Martin (DeTrop/YFC /Hanel Koeck). Each edition of 50 comes in handmade envelopes with antique newspaper collage, making each edition completely different. Split release with Mangicapra’s own Goat Eater Arts imprint.

Ryan Martin & Anthony Mangicapra – ‘Golden Hazrat’ 3″CDr $5(US)/$13(World)
Edition of 49. Collaborative effort on behalf of Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint/DeTrop) and Anthony Mangicapra (Hoor-paar-Kraat) which brought the two into a spiritual helix, combining sourced recordings which came to light shortly after their live performance in the Fall of 2012. Each edition hand made, hand painted and stamped with its selective number. Joint release with Mangicapra’s Goat Eat Arts.

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