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Kostoglotov – ‘Louis Althusser knows why my heart is asunder.’ C20 £4
Kostoglotov is the bedroom recording project of London based Daryl Worthington. He writes and records lo-fi, ambient and drone electronic music using a combination of Dictaphone, 4-track and laptop. His music has been compared to Windy and Carl, Vangelis, Mark Mcguire, and most unexpectedly, the soundtrack to old He-man cartoons. Edition of 35. Artwork by Diu Pii.

UMEZ – ‘Good Bye My Friend’ C20 £4
Umez are a newly formed Japanese band based in London making crazed j-pop with washes of noise, eccentricity and aplomb, coming to a point which has no real comparisons with anything else. Although they mix two negating music genres, their noise sound is pure heavy white noise matching perfectly with their pop sound echoing with sentiment. Edition of 35. Artwork by Diu Pii.

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‘AtlanThis 2‘
[EN] 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. [PT] Segunda compilação de electrónica experimental com temas de artistas de Portugal e da América do Norte sobre o tema da travessia do oceano atlântico. Organizada e co-editada em colaboração com a Thisco Records. Inclui temas de Mantrakid, ocp, Oxford Icebergs, Human Being, Sci Fi Industries, Infetu, ps, Dyman, Com. Gen., shhh…, Waste Disposal Machine, Undara, Mystified e AVOIDANT. Grafismo da capa retirado de uma obra da pintora Ameriacana Ariel Claborn.

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Less Win – “”GREAT””
Less Win re-release their debut album. One of last year’s finest records is now finally being released digitally. Less Win released their debut album “”GREAT”” in 2012. However, the album was only released on vinyl through the band’s own label Sixxxxx. But the vinyl media has its limitations in today’s digital age where bands usually win new fans through digital music sharing. Therefore, the eminent debut is now being reissued digitally by the Copenhagen based label Pad & Pen Records. “”GREAT”” is a record about ambiguity, confusion, powerlessness, vigilante, overheating, S / M, evil, distortion, joy, death, claustrophobia, illusion, doubt, uniformity, restlessness and sometimes nothingness. The group’s guitarist describes the record in the following way: “In my opinion – it is like the image of someone sitting in an hourglass:
In the beginning, the feeling of having all the time in the world, but quickly the sand begins to seep through his fingers; sinking further down against a claustrophobic little hole, while being able to see clearly through the glass – without being able to do anything.” The music was recorded in the band’s rehearsal room and vocals were done in the toilet. “The idea was not to make a pretentious album but, on the basis of individual songs, let the album create its own thread rather than forcing something down on it.” Out of this environment came a record that may sound like a mixture of industrial Manchester sound with the burgeoning post-punk culture right now coming out of a number of Copenhagen bands. LESS WIN manages, to incorporate awesome riffs and 60s catchyness, and “”GREAT”” appears as an estimate of how something vintage can be performed differently.

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BIRDS OF PASSAGE/JE SUIS LE PETIT CHEVALIER/MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL/ALOONALUNA -‘TAXIDERMY OF UNICORNS’ 2xC60
Folk music is expanding into many new forms with experimentalists such as birds of passage, Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier, Motion Sickness of Time Travel and Aloonaluna—all female experimentalists who plant folk notions further into a more hybridized, variegated flora. Whether the terms of music here is ambiguous but personal voice, the electronic as modernist tool for folk-making, or a magic-realist or urban-pastoral perspective—these terms continue to expand in ways that are gaseous; the terrestrial reaching out to more unreachable worlds of dream and space. This is individual and private music speaking to a more collective consciousness. This is Taxidermy of Unicorns—an act of stuffing such a mythical animal, fabricating this beautiful beast as a specimen of all such beasts… Clear chrome plus tapes with black lining. Edition of 200 with accompanying art booklet. Leaves sewn into color insert and wrapped in yarn.

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EXHAUSTION – ‘Future Eaters’ LP
Exhaustion is the brainchild of Duncan Blachford. Following a US tour in 2008 he retreated into an isolated bunker and purged bouts of recurring delirium through free form noise in a variety of musical units on his Endless Melt label. Naturally the impulse to form a new band arose and he recruited Jensen Tjhung (Deaf Wish, Lower Plenty) on bass, himself no stranger to blackouts in a hate prism of his own making. With the recruitment of Swedish rhythm machine Per Bystrom (Ooga Boogas), the psychic sluice valves opened – spontaneous music appeared out of air thick with desperation, paranoia and trudging dread. Gigs began quickly and the album you are now listening to was recorded within months of their first, in order to capture the band in its foetal stages. The music is a primal rhythmic surge, with Duncan’s undisciplined guitar roping long and weird in tandem with his demented baying and crooning. Aarght Records presents the debut EXHAUSTION album ‘Future Eaters’ in a limited edition of 250 copies on 12” LP with download card. The band is launching it at The Tote on Saturday 2 March with Beaches, Buck/Baxter (Tony Buck of The Necks) and Eastlink. The perfect way to ruin what’s left of your life.

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[FS10] Agnes – ‘untitled’ 3”CDr
Ascetic, isochronic techno /? airless sound sculpture. Neural entrainment through primitive pulse manipulation. Flatlining within a pure waveform construct } Edition of 70.

[FS11] Daniel Wyche – ‘A Judicious Observation of That Dreadful Portent’ C20
A nameless solid of infinite mass. A living construct of exquisite artifice, ceaselessly, invisibly reordering its inner structure without sign or command. An array of tone generators and voltage-controlled signal processors at his disposal, Daniel Wyche endeavors to break through its featureless exterior at substantial volume. Pro-dubbed on chrome, edition of 100.

[FS12] Alan Gesso – ‘Obliscence’ C39
Step through into Alan’s world. Enrobed in his holographic panoply he slides through his garden as if digital liquid. Unperturbed he shears through the variable living surface of A/D converters that constitute his visible realm into pure ROM space. Hands on the keyboard, he turns to smile, and you disappear. Pro-dubbed on chrome, edition of 100.

[FS 13] Zerfallt – ‘Ritual Systems’ C27
Fetid ouija electronics via L?V?L Tindall (Astronaut, GRYD, Belarisk). Seated at the left hand of the blind Ydl the exalted Zonemaster prepares the final admixture. Wracked with fever, sonic apparitions hovering at the doors of perception, the Sign impressed on both palms, the congregant awakes in the dark dimension. Location unknown. Pro-dubbed on chrome, edition of 100.

[VOICE II] ‘Voice of the Garden II: Music of the Young Earth‘ CDr
A slowly evolving frequency bath tuned to the natural tonic of emerging wakefulness. Edition of 24.

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Keep Sheila On Acid – ‘Erotic Theology’ C34 $10
Chrome Cassette Tape; Limited Edition (50). In this, the second Keep Sheila On Acid offering, the project carves it’s smokey vision returning to abandon all reason and illuminate the delicate undertones of a hidden aural frenzy. The collection of nine tracks embody an obscure devoid doctrine that explores the subconscious and leaves the listener lost in a harmonious auditory hallucination.

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Extinción De Los Insectos one-sided 12″ 8€
Puedes pre-pedir el disco de Extinción De Los Insectos por 12 euros (correo certificado nacional incluido) o 8 euros sin correo. 10 temas en vinilo de 140 gramos con la portada de la imagen. El disco estará disponible en marzo, todos los pre-orders van con dibujo bicolor de regalo a cargo de HAZ. // You can pre-order Extinción De Los Insectos one-sided 12″. 8 euros (shipping not included). 10 tracks in 140 grams vinyl. The record will be available in march, all pre-orders with HAZ two-colored drawing as a gift.

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(kimdawn053) Abyssal Farmers – ‘Find a Name to Call Me’ 3″CDr
Tapping into the divine magma that flows through the guts of all things.The duo of Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Frank Baugh (Sparkling Wide Pressure) return with the followup to their debut tape released by Avant Archive last year. Layout and design by Blake Barton. Presented in a numbered edition of 50 hand stamped 3″ cdrs.

(kimdawn056) Dream Worlds – ‘Cold Black Ragas for Love of All Forms’ 3″CDr
Dylan Simon returns to Kimberly Dawn in his most stripped down and focused form yet. Dream Worlds focuses on the voice of two distinctly different instruments with this EP- the EML 101 synth and the hurdy gurdy. Both instruments are connected with a meditative core and their voices united in common vision. Original Photographs by Dylan Simon. Presented in a numbered edition of 50 hand stamped 3″ cdrs.

(kimdawn057) Coyote Image Medicinals 3″CDr
Completely marbled and warbled tape mangling majesty from one of my favorite couples (queen and king of new weird abstract bliss noise america). This incarnation is new territory for these two. It’s some of my favorite stuff I’ve heard from them – organic guitar and bass workouts recorded on strands of hair and buried for a couple years. It’s got that magic touch that makes the compost heap come alive and the stars seem closer than they are. Presented in a numbered edition of 50 hand stamped 3″ cdrs.

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EDWARD SOL – ‘PUNCTUATION PURITY’ C32
Edward Sol began making sounds as a young man in the Ukraine. Having studied moving images in Kiev, he began to compose soundtracks for experimental films. Punctuation Purity is a rolling, tumbling journey through the dark water rapids of rusted mind-fields, billowing plumes of evapourated puddle-juice and stutter-strewn stained glass meadows. This release is 32 minutes long, contains tape loops, cassette recordings, effects for sound and computer. Edition of 35 tapes in custard yellow cases. This cassette comes with colourful artwork and ‘Happy Happy Linda’ on-shell stickers.

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