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BURIAL GROUND – ‘Pieces’ 8-track $10(US)/$12(Can/Mex)/$15(World)
Pure audio stasis and horror-movie obsessed sonic brutality from none other than Burial Ground. Not for fans of music. An abyss of grinding texture, harrowing bass throb and roaring oblivion. After the last few releases from Anthony Shaw’s minimal and ultra harsh static-noise project, we at Lighten Up finally came to realize that we must to do our small part to help support the work. So it is after great consideration and pains on our part that we proudly present these massive scraping walls of monolithic destruction, subjected to our heavy handed all analog approach, and released in the completely unparalleled 8 track cartridge format. An impossibly warm blanket of nothing, dedicated to the cult classic horror film “Pieces” from 1982. These cartridges have been very carefully selected, painstakingly quality tested, bulk erased, demagnetized and real time duplicated using a high end recorder, resulting in beautiful all-analog contemporary noise artifacts. Absolutely NONE of the typical roller corrosion, or deteriorating foam pads one might find in your average grimy old 8-track tapes, only the highest quality felt pads, and absolute best, cleanest cartridges have been recycled for this project. First copy is Blood Red, the following four cartridges are Midnight Black/ Dark grey, and the remaining edition of 22 cartridges are Virgin White. Each 8-track cartridge is hand numbered, with full color labels and protected in a self sealing plastic sleeve. Extreme distortion and black frequencies for depraved troglodytes. Total pummel.

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Nathan Ventura – ‘Asshole With A Clarinet’ $11
“Asshole With A Clarinet” by Nathan Ventura is the first vinyl release by the new label Anonymous Dog Tapes and Records. It features 15 tracks of outsider folk and jazz-punk composed into a structured madness. Side 1 of this record features eight tracks of clarinet, drums and vocals. The songs range from repetitive driving riffs with harsh lyrics about quitting your job and moving in with your mom to chaotic, melodic insanity, as well as everything in between. Side two features seven tracks of utterly odd folk songs; some with a predominantly metal and industrial air, and others with a desperate element devoid of shame that may very well endear or disgust listeners. This is Nathan’s first official release. He is a studio artist from Boston, Ma, rarely making live appearances. issue of 300 copies.

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[enrcmp18] V/A – ‘100 Years of Noise – Public Domain Celebration Release‘
Compilation celebrating the 100th anniversary of ‘L´Arte dei Rumori’, the first artistic manifesto concerning noise music. It was written by Luigi Russolo, an Italian futurist painter and composer, who was interested in classifying all the new sounds that were coming out from the machines at the time. The tracks on this compilation are not about white noise, they cover all spectrum of experimental sounds: music concréte, electro acoustic, free jazz, circuit bending, field recordings, etc. This compilation was released on January 1st, the Public Domain Day under creative commons public domain license. A more extended release with additional information will be available in the following.

[enrmp318] M-PeX & Makrox – ‘Volutka’
Album by Portuguese project M-PeX in collaboration with DJ Makrox. Mixing Portuguese guitar with electronics, jazz and hiphop elements. World music at it’s best.

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Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier – ‘Dark Morse’ CS €6/£5/$8
Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier’s Dark Morse is an exclusive lost tape inspired by the short story The Angel Esmeralda written by Don Delillo. Following two LPs and bunch of tapes dropped last year, this new output is her most whispering beat orientated material to date. Dark Morse is a tabu hidden at the end of a lost road in the suburbs, a pile of crawling concrete, burried under sub basses, broken rhythms, drunken lullubies for blind dogs. Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier whispers here holy encounters with dark shades moving at dawn, hoarse prayers, slum saints and never growing ghosts children. 6 tracks / 38:00 min / Pro-Dubbed Tape / 2013 / first edition of 200 copies / black cover / art by Félicia Atkinson / White tape with 2 folded inlay.

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Champagne Sequins – ‘Gun Don’t Love’ C18 $6
Gun Don’t Love is four-on-the-noise-floor dance grooves and electronic experimentations from Brooklyn based Champagne Sequins. Recording in bedrooms and basements on a Tascam 4-track over a year and a half, serving Chelsea boys, and wading into a deep fog of mathematics. This is the sound of a junior engineer in a back alley street fight love affair. Cassettes were produced the old fashioned way, without any computers, mixed and mastered on cassette, and all artwork was printed by hand. Limited to 30 black cassettes in 100% recycled cardboard sleeves with newsprint inserts. Mp3 download with purchase.

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dsic – ‘Tiamat/Taniwha’ (ran003) £5/$8 C64
Chrome Cassette Tape; Limited Edition of 25. Third in a series of limited edition cassettes from the experimental micro label Rano, dsic ‘Tiamat/Taniwha’ is a brutal excursion through the gnarled world of extreme noise. The cassettes are stamped in metallic gold ink and wrapped in a full color, heavyweight J-Card. Don’t let the pretty looks deceive you, this tape is hardcore as hell! Its sure to damage eardrums and piss off the neighbors.

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fon37 – ‘Day’s Arc #2: Edward Sol/Husnaan/Tidal/Sparkling Wide Pressure $9.5(World)
The second installment in the label’s “Day’s Arc” series gathers 4 sonic artists from Ukraine, Indonesia, the UK and the USA. These carefully chosen minds provide 15-minute long pieces to accompany different times of day. Edward Sol, Husnaan, Tidaland Sparkling Wide Pressure ensure this cassette makes your day! Edward Sol kick-starts “Morning” with a beautiful composition entitled “Svitanok” (“sunrise” in Ukrainian). This outstanding musician is known far and wide not only for his label Quasi Pop but also for the precise audio collages that balance on the borders of Industrial, Electronica and Field recording. Assembled in a village near Kiev, Ed’s piece evokes the feelings of stillness, purity and solitude. The rich sound palette aspires with sine waves hung still in the air, only to be broken down with bubbly gut punches and eerie whispers of electronic bird-imitations, found sound, field recordings and a sampled traditional song. “Afternoon” is represented by Husnaan, the Bandung-based Indonesian artist Duto Hardono. With the arsenal of a banjo and analog synthesizers Husnaan stresses the hectic aspect of the day time. Busy repetitive patterns slowly swirl around like giant mechanisms, a young man snaking in-between, just merely avoiding being trapped. Entwined with the sense of subtle menace, “The Day Is Getting Shorter” is an fine exercise in futuristic anti-utopian post-industrial Elevator music. “Dimming Sun” is the symbol of the B1 section of the tape, “Evening”. London’s Jimmy Billingham is on the quest of pushing further the soundworlds sculptured by previous generations of New Age musicians. Never humdrum, always on the spot,Tidal is a rare coastal drone supervisor who is able to comfort the audience at once with the sweet melancholia. Lush keys fade out into eternity as the evening darkens, they stand for last rays of perfect days. A memory to keep. The water of the tidal waves of the previous composition flows into “Night”, or actually, underneath the night – as the track title suggests. Frank Baugh’s Sparkling Wide Pressure guise has caught many attentive ears in the past few years with excellent releases on all notable tape labels. Murfreesboro, Tennessee resident seems to produce stormy clouds of messy beauty with such an easy hand, it’s hard to believe every single one is a treasure. “The Water That Flows Underneath the Night” is no exception, it’s a firm burst of Drone, white-light noisy Blues, gallant chanting and endless guitar feedback. A truly dark and mysterious night offering. White cassettes with silver-foiled black J-cards designed by Anya Kuts. Each comes with a download code. Edition of 100.

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Fatal Jamz CS
Fatal Jamz hesher~glam pop band of singer Marion Belle of Bowery Beasts and muli-instrumentalist extraordinaire Dan Horne of Beachwood Sparks & The Lilys. The two longhairs and their cast of Echo Park goons holed up for the first few months of 2012 in Horne’s infamous garage studio known as Lone Palm, where anyone from Matt Fischbeck to Ariel Pink to White Magic might happen to poke a fuzzy head in to observe their strange orchestrations. When not distracted, they worked savagely~hard, meticulously shaping the 14 songs which Marion had envisioned as a “a very personal, paradise-lost, Purple Rain meets Tommy version of the modern L.A. scene.” The debut album, “Vol.1″ was recorded to 2” tape and features the wild stylings of Nick Maybury on lead guitars, Nicholas Allen Johns on keys and guitars and Felipe “Pipe” Ceballos on drums. It was described by famed Redondo Beach blogger Delightful Pete in this way~ “Although I never dreamt it possible, here is a land where the hesher blood-cries of Sebastian Bach blend uncannily with the high-society glam of Roxy Music. This this the world of S.E. Hinton’s Outsiders come to life on some 2012 street, where a voice croons like Holden Caulfield on acid, spinning school boy tales of strange ages, pleasure domes, long haired babes & scorpion chains. WTF!? Songs like Trudy, and She’s Giving Up On Her Love, more than anything else I’ve heard lately, will be the soundtrack to this generations’ Gas Food Lodging, Goonies and Pretty In Pink. This is a weirdly powerful crew, & this is a new POP music that could save you for a while.

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PURR 0020: Looks Realistic – ‘Where Does It Come From?’
Description: Joseph Bastardo and Ryan Mulhall erase the earth from all directions, drawing in a home where mountains grow, rainbows bow, and melodies play throughout the land.

PURR 0021: Fluorescent Heights – ‘Tidal Motions’
Description: A hue technicolor and dominant. The sun is here, but we are not here, permanently folded by the sun’s vacation-pebbles that radiate like floating metal. What do they do?

PURR 0022: GREYGHOST – ‘Memoirs of Dementia’
Description: Controlling your heartbeat, peace pervades your space, bringing with it clarity and new life to the stillness of the indoors. Tones coalesce, lazily see-saw, and gallop away — rumbling out through the walls.

PURR 0023: Hobo Cubes & Jonathan Carr split
Description: Trudging through the choking darkness of an uncertain cavern, Hobo Cubes brings warm lights to forgotten sensations. Then along comes Jonathan James Carr with a continuum of transient beauties in this organically flowing work.

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Cannibal Movie – ‘MONDO MUSIC’ C30
The italian drums+organ psych duo comes back, after their debut LP Avorio, with two new, obnoxious songs. One per side, almost 15min each one. Microphones In The Trees blog says: “Two long underground jams are the best recording of the duo. The first side takes you in a hypnotic journey to the afterlife, I like to think (even if only organ and percussion) in early Amon Düül, the darkest ambient of German Oak and surrounded by accumulated strain that doesn’t end explode, as the great recording of japanese Jacks. The other side begins more meditative and at times ethereal, until the percussion opens the path to a ceremony of a secret brotherhood with dissonant textures and hypnotic pulse”. Comes on pea green cassette with photographic insert and usual esotic artwork by S. Anhayt. A lmtd edition of 100.

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