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FAB023 ROBERT TURMAN – ‘Macro’ C30
Brand new 30 minutes of music by american ambient/noise/industrial pioneer Robert Turman (NON/Z.O. Voider). Recorded in 2012, these new tracks by Turman deliver heavy pounding tape loops and machine-like rhythms that cycle and flow like clockwork, while the sound of hot steam rises from the factory floor. Industrial music for the post-industrial age done by one of the pioneers. Limited to 100. pro-dubbed copies with full color j-card.

FAB022 A FULL COSMIC SOUND – ‘Chemtrails’ C40
Second official release by this improv. experimental pysch collective from Santiago, Chile on Fabrica. Murky spacey distorted fuzz-drenched jams with a hint of Spacemen 3 and a pinch of Joy Division-ish bass-lines thrown into the mix. Play Loud!

FAB021 AERONAUT – ‘Coronal Mass’ C36
Aeronaut is Steve Fors, a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Brooklyn, NY. Also member of the Chicago-based drone/noise outfit, The Golden Sores, he’s been experimenting with long-form song structures since 1995. In his current work, he is interested in exploring the relationship between sound and time; specifically how sustained fields of sound can alter our temporal perception and physical awareness. He says of his work/process, “It’s that moment–when everything around you ceases to exist, or rather you become everything around you, or rather still the boundaries of skin and self and earth and air are shattered; when you’re acutely conscious but completely powerless and everything turns to white–when that split second turns timeless, there is nothing else but crushing joy.” Two 18 minute side long tracks of ear blazing epic drone contained in a 36 minute pro-dubbed cassette secured in a black wooden box. Each and every box was painted. printed and hand-assembled by the artist himself. Includes digital download.

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TRACEY TRANCE – ‘101’ C32 $6
This hand held saga of life on the road is comprised of multiple treatments of three distinctly different tunes, as well as several vignettes of other song skeletons. Heavily saturated locomotives rip holes through the tape heads and quick cassette deck to cassette deck edits act as the scene changers, as we follow Tracey Trance to the chiller zones of modern society, found under bridges, along the capes, the coasts and the rivers of the West Coast of the US. This cassette marks the transition from Tracey Trance’s mostly instrumental, hypno -circular modal compositions, to a more vocally structured form of songwriting, and these sketchy hog leg laden tunes are none the less infectious than previous riff oriented offerings. For those of you that have been following live and or magnetically captured sounds of Tyler Larson for a while now, think Tyler’s early 2000’s project Quincy Quartz and that’ll get you close to knowing what this may sound like. I might compare the root styling’s of Tyler’s vocal inflection to that of a less blues obsessed Jad Fair. Lo-fi, just as much because of the means at hand, as aesthetic value of the artist. Covers Risograph printed by Caroline Paquita.

Tracey Trance – ‘PYPER KUB’ LP $15
Denny Laine had a somewhat fresh and entergetic take on Buddy Holly’s songwriting, as did Fleetwood Mac on their earlier Lps. But the songcrafting that Tyler Larson of Tracey Trance carves out of a fascination for Holly comes off as a much more authentic yet original take on Rock and Roll’s roots, before they were strangled, and bled dry by modern musceled up parameters. This allows Tracey Trance’s work in particular to feel un-paralleled in the modern world, without ever feeling like some kind of retro throwback. Along with poignant lucidly plucked riffs and melodic hooks, is this totally sincere smoked out-law beachy exotica vibe that Larson has been working on for a long while now…….Whether he’s playing portable keyboards, dragging hammond organs outta the side of a mini bus, jamming flutes, guitars or banjo, Tyler pulls it off in a most chill and hypnotic fashion. Add some beautifully warm sky’s the limit tape saturation and Pyper Kub becomes one of the best experimental pop records to come out in quite some time. Previously self released on cassette.

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JAR MOFF – ‘Commercial Mouth’ (PAN 31) LP
‘Commercial Mouth’ is the debut LP from Jar Moff, an Athens based artist working in collage forms. Following on from his previous remix on the Harald Grosskopf Synthesist / Re-Synthesist LP on RVNG last year, and a digital release for Leaving Records, this is his first full-length LP. Both his visual and aural oeuvre take the form of cut up and reformations in the manner of previous PAN stablemates like Joseph Hammer and Ghedalia Tazartes, remodeling the past in order to create something new out of the modern detritus, and nestles in nicely alongside the recent ‘Diversions 1994-1996’ release from Lee Gamble. The result is a baffling yet functioning head-on collision between early plunderphonics and an abstracted futuristic hip hop aesthetic. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, pressed on 140g vinyl. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened pvc sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas.

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SLUMP – ‘TREMBLE! LEFTWYCH SCALLION SALAD’ C30 £4
Yet another nail in the coffin of free expression as SLUMP continues to be held hostage by history, keyboards, abandoned driving ranges and family cars. Slovenly, aimless and limping down long country lanes. Two dogs fighting in a waterlogged pub car park, a garden centre at midnight with ghosts and the shimmering hologram of a clock – this is what Tremble! sounds like. Kneeless in Tunstall, crying at the foot of some busted civic fountain, collapsing in underground markets, browsing the graphics of a school computer. You are now involved with SLUMP. Limited Edition of 23 tapes in large cases. Rodent birth-artwork, and coloured “spiritualist” on-shell stickers.

EKUNHAASHAASTAACK/REJET split C42 £4
Reining in the spirit of crippled where lock, REJET divided, EKUNHAASHAASTAACK derided. Now based in the rural idyl, but soon to be exhaled to the wooden peaks of southern nation, they create dense, unfettered expressions of detached (only notional), insipid foolheartedliness. Embark with me upon journeys over crumbled electronic sound swamps, visiting voodoo queens and watching spirals unravel in the orange glow… Thunder feet echo in the brittle serenity of the eternal corridor and relinquishment of sanity/measurable income instantly becomes inevitable and infeasible. Sinking? I’d rather! Edition of blerty-blive. Coloured nothing.

DUNCAN HARRISON – ‘OGRE NEON’ CDr £4
I’ve got a bad back typing this one. 2013, 2013, 2013. Where to start? WHERE TO START? Where. Tooth. Start. The new becoming – an, orthodox, post-apocalyptic prison? Move along January, get out of bed. Or at least roll over and let Chepping Wycombe’s finest have a bit of the scroon blanket. Buckinghamshire’s most celebrated marimba pest has given us some stuff to release. We’ve put old pictures of Cheshire (Chester in the 70’s in fact) and some bears on the artwork like we usually do. Nothing new here. It’s like 2012 again isn’t it? An eternally recurring Congleton quagmire. Who cares. OGRE NEON is undoubtedly Duncan Harrison’s greatest work to date, a demanding and omnipotent tribute to the Bear Gods of East Cheshire probably. OGRE NEON contains over 50 minutes of fizzog-burning (imagine that), meditative, multi-faceted mush rattle – a non-assault on noise? The final negation of a pre-determined (un)ending? Pipe down, pseudo-Hegelian, this wasn’t what we were thinking to be honest, like. High Wycombe’s furniture producing legacy totally destroyed – by one CDR. Inappropriate. Absolute truth. Don’t go yet – each CDR comes with an informative, diary-style insert and a rather wonderful poem by a Mr. I. Murphy. Edition of 35.4.

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Kevin Drumm – ‘Tannenbaum’ 2CD $20
Kevin Drumm returns to Hospital with a double album of malign electronic ambient music. Drumm’s subtle work with shifting, roving drones keep the pace and tempos moving with a Hitchcockian tension while details of a story emerge with swells and fades as other sequences are lost in the clatter of long chambers of isolation adorned with the trimming’s of pagan beauties. edition of 500.

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OVERHANG PARTY – ‘Complete Studio Recordings’ 4CD
Overhang Party is criminally overlooked. From the heavily psychedelic noise-rock of their first album to the piano-rock anthems of 4, Overhang Party was somehow impossibly consistent and seamless. This box set flows as an even, open document of this fearless and inventive Japanese rock group. For a quick reference of the sonic distances this group has traveled (and the skills they posses) stream Bass Oscillations from the first record and then skip straight to Kizashi on 4.

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LY012 Colossal Rex – ‘Every Place Is Sacred’
Colossal Rex is everything you want, and more. They bring forth of the best sounding EP’s in quite sometime. Every Place Is Sacred plays like a 90’s styled / Built To Spill-esque record that was just discovered, and you can’t stop listening too.

LY013 Minnow – ‘Minnow’
Minnow have constructed an intricate, well-balance EP, crafting a style in the vein of Piglet laced hooks, The Appleseed Case / Explosions In The Sky atmospherics and brought together with Maps & Atlases style vocal melodies. If that doesn’t sound incredible, then I have no idea what does.

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SM049 EXPO ’70 – ‘Beguiled Entropy’ CS
Released this past Summer by Blackest Rainbow, now sold out. Featured here is that album plus the tracks from “Hovering Resonance”, which was released by Sound of Cobra at the beginning of 2012. Mastered by James Plotkin. Vinyl pressed in an edition of 500 copies, 100 copies pressed on 180 gram blue and orange swirl available only directly from Blackest Rainbow and 400 copies on 180 gram black virgin vinyl. Cassette version limited to 100 with digital download. Available on Bandcamp.

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THE 17 SONS OF ABRAXAS – ‘Smoke Poems’
Heavy drones that are an ode to everything that can be smoked. Maybe less experimental than previous releases with frequencies variations that give a unique melodic feature. As usual everything seems to be extracted from the depths of the human soul.

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