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RITES WILD – ‘WAYS OF BEING’ LP
adelaide, australia’s stacey wilson has been constructing shadowy echoplexxed swoon songs for a few years now and ever since we heard her self-released tape EPs she’s been a household favorite. /WOB /collects the choices gems from these OOP vaults, plus a couple unreleased cuts, for the perfect introduction to her enveloping soundworld.

PROFLIGATE – ‘VIDEOTAPE’ 12″
noah anthony’s latest burned mind industrial overload alias is also far and away his best. /Videotape/ captures 2 eerie, sprawling, horizon-jamming drum machine/synth epics, the perfect follow up to last month’s /Come Follow Me/ LP. direct orderers get a home-dubbed tape of Profligate remixes.

ROCHE – ‘A NIGHT AT THE HAÇ’ 12″
san fran old-schooler unspools longform zombie brainwash acid with all analog gear. deep house infinities.

EZLV – ‘SELFISH BEAT’ 12″
french-canadian duo splits the diff between malvoeaux and sound stream strategies: pumping twisted disco edits, half glitter domed, half end-of-the-night melancholy.

MAGIC TOUCH + SAPPHIRE SLOWS – ‘JUST WANNA FEEL’ 12″
excellent style-marriage between magic t’s unifying house anthems and casio chanteuse sapphire slows’ faded metropolis vocal hooks. plus a dark atmospheric I:Cube remix, and a magic touch dub. one of the silkiest SILKs to date, no doubt.

VERTICAL67 – ‘SOULMATES’ CS
awesome collection of woozy, memory-haunted electronics by this versatile berlin producer. shades of acid sparkle, nostalgia ambience, and rubbery robot dancefloor magic.

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Leisure Birds – ‘Globe Master’ LP+7” $12
From a heavenly body appears “Globe Master”, the second full-length from Minneapolis sci-fi garage quartet Leisure Birds. Executed as a concept record “Globe Master” follows the journey of an unknown entity from the outermost dimensions of the galaxy to its eventual fall & transcendence to Earth. Enter the “Silver Runner”, the namesake of the entity’s mode of transport, which begins the pilgrimage with a propulsion of synthetic loops, skyward keys & slinking bass lines. Expansive in scope, we encounter the deep-distant desert jam of “Egyptian Ring”, the sublime, harkening call of “Osiris” & the powerfully cosmic, heady whirl of the finale, “Globe Master”. “Sonvs Universvm”, the 7″ epilogue, presents an array of planetary tones in remembrance of our being’s journey. On our 45th release Moon Glyph is ecstatic to unveil Leisure Bird’s grand evolution. “Ceres Fall. Saturn Shatter. Fall To Earth. Rise Globe Master.” Ed. of 500.

Halasan Bazar – ‘How To Be Ever Happy’ CS $5
Surfacing from Copenhagen comes the baroque psychedelia of Halasan Bazar. Fronted by the wistful crooning & natural songwriting of Fredrik Rollum Eckhoff, the group builds dreamy, pastoral tunes sonically fitted between ’60s folk, AM pop & heaven-gazing psych. Armed with an abundance of instruments & sonics, the complex soundscapes of “How To Be Ever Happy” explore themes of alienation, love & the inner-battle. The slow, strumming genesis of “Figure It Out” matures into a blossoming of circular guitars & deep-seated hooks. On an album of ne’er-ending gems, “Mountaintops” stands out with its lush arrangements, sun-kissed guitars & infectious, buoyant harmonies. A brilliant new voice is here in Halasan Bazar & “How To Be Ever Happy” marks their great metamorphosis. Ed. of 150.

Dead Luke – ‘God Takes LSD’ CS $5
Following last years “Meanwhile… In The Midwest” LP, Dead Luke returns with his newest creation of blazed visions, murky blues riffs & deep fuzz with a cassette christened “God Takes LSD”. After the tab hits your tongue, the hues of opener “Oh My Lord Can’t Help” bloom with a rich psychedelic tapestry. Humbly beginning with a slow bass groove to ultimately peak as vocals loop and the guitars are set ablaze. Complementary to this is “I Loved”, a sunny pop tune with double-backed vocals & a jangled garage force. Eclectic by nature, “God Takes LSD” pulls out the stops with a ferocious live jaunt, trippy synth fields, atheist jams & barn-burning renditions of future-classics. Under the star-spangled midnight sky, Dead Luke salutes you. Ed. of 150.

Treasure Hunt – ‘Toys Unatic’ CS $5
Treasure Hunt is the moniker of Myles Byrne-Dunhill, a psychedelic collagist residing in Dallas, Texas. His newest release & debut for Moon Glyph, “Toys Unatic” is an eclectic expanse of kaleidoscopic brushstrokes, emanating the warmth of morning’s first light. The opener “One Fungi” contains loosely sewn elements that cascade into an aqueous, disorienting composition. This album fleshes out his personal sonic palette of organic sampling, plucked strings, earthy reverberations and transportive jazz. The result is a most joyous sound. Let Treasure Hunt’s vibrant odyssey affect your judgment and mold your psyche. Ed. of 150.

Tara King th. – ‘Uncolored Past (Part I & II)’ CS $5
With a swirling baroque fervor, Tara King th. reveal “Uncolored Past (Part I & II)”. Released in conjunction as two companion EPs, “Uncolored Past” crafts a wide swath of Parisian psychedelic pop held together by Beatrice’s spell-inducing vocals. It combines a Super 8 style of glowing warmth, a spaghetti-western drive & nuanced, succulent instrumentation – ranging from Farfisa organs, flutes, harpsichords, soft strings, vibes & a bevy of synthesized keys. On “Long Time No See” the group harnesses their penchant for contemplative songwriting & their truly blissful melodic scope. With great adoration, Moon Glyph is pleased to release Tara King th’s newest pop incantation. Ed. of 150.

various – ‘Opal Vol.I & II’ DL
A free, digital compilation of Moon Glyph artists circa 2012. All fresh, exclusive tunes for this collection. Comprised of 2 halves, 26 tracks & over 2 hours of music, “Opal Vol.I & II” spans the diverse psychedelic gamut we’ve been fostering since inception.

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Plankton Wat – ‘Mirror Lake’ LP
Plankton Wat is the solo musical project of Dewey Mahood, also known as the guitar player of the amazing ETERNAL TAPESTRY. After several records on interesting labels as Stunned, Digitalis and Thrill Jockey PlanktonWat present with this 12″ onesided 5 songs of rare beauty. The coordinates of his sound are kosmische drones, spiritual improvisation, burnt out psych, and sun baked folk. Mahood plays different instruments and drives the listeners in a psychedelic thoughtful travel with his warm harmonies and the relaxing deep style of his guitar. The sound reflects the inspiration of artists like Jack Rose, John Fahey, Agitation Free, Sandy Bull and Brian Eno just to quote some of them. Mirror Lake comes out as a limited edition of 300 copies 12″ onesided pressed on 180 gr.

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SIN018 – JUSTIN MARC LLOYD – ‘funeral’ 3″CDr 5€
JUSTIN MARC LLOYD is a noise exerimental musician from Baltimora. For several years pursuing solo projects and many collaborations (Pregnant Spore, Ghost Volcano, Dementia and Hope Trails, Ok Putrid… ecc) Funeral is composed by 4 track of synth disturbing, odd drones, tape manipulation and broken noises. great dynamics and intelligent composition. Artwork by truculentboy. hand-painted cdr. Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.

SIN019 – BRUITAL ORGASME C30  5€
Bruital Orgasme is a belgian noise experimental duo. With a very personal approach they mix harsh, ambient, drone, electronics, being able to create a very special sound. A very nice sound, unexpected and conceptually granitic, ready to hit the listener in every step. The side A is composed by height micro compositions that enhance their experimental side while the B side is a one long track. Pictures by Philippe Cavaliere, layouot by truculentboy. Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.

SIN020 – COMPOUNDEAD – ‘cutting your certainty’ CDr 5€
Compoundead is a noise drone experimental duo from Italy.  “Cuttin Your Certainty” is a 3 tracks cdr of drone, ambient, cold minimalist approach, bare electronics and few industrial noise assaults. Artwork by truculentboy. silkscreened cdr.  Limited to 66 hand-numbered copies.

SIN021 – CRYSTAL PLUMAGE – ‘night conference’ C30 5€
Crystal Plumage is a collaboration duo of Benjamin L. Aman (guitars and electronics) and Sean F. Barrett (electronics & synth).  “Night Conference” encloses a hollow and nocturnal sound. Minimalist guitars, slow pulse, object and leaden drones. Great minimalist composition very evocative and suggestive. Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.

SIN022 – NODOLBY  – ‘Deranged/unlaced’ C23  5€
Nodolby is Michele Scariot from Italy, Dokuro Records boss.  “Deranged” on side A is composed with tapes and delays, very intensive dynamics and and great noises frequencies. “Unlaced” on the side B is an charming and engaging acoustic composition. Drawing by Valerio Beltrame,  layout by truculentboy. Limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.

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PHR-96 NEDERLAGET – ‘To Feil Er Bedre Enn En Rett’ C20
New superstar death-duo by the northern sound assassins Sindre Bjerga & Lasse Marhaug. Their first proper release (so proper that has been “recorded at the best studio in Oslo”, as stated in the release credits) contains 20 minutes of freezing cold electronic (non) music, which hardly restrains from exploding in your face in the most brutal way you could imagine. It is, indeed, a fine balancing act of accurate controlled power cut-ups from hands who don’t need to prove anything or, at the very most, raise the middle finger. Bravely. Edition of 100 tapes w/ on-body printing housed in vividly printed photo j-card.

PHR-95 PHIL MINTON & DYLAN NYOUKIS – ‘Live in Athens’ 1-sided LP
“it was in dhalgren that i had read about a father getting fired, and who trying not to depress his family about it, wakes up every day, shaves, dresses himself up, has breakfast and leaves for his “work”. where does his spent his almost 8 to 10 hours? a mystery. perhaps crying on a park’s bench or drinking or whatever. however, there are times when reality creates even more dystopian images than those in sam delaney’s aforementioned opus… it was through such events that our interest in the human voice was brought again forward, and it was upon a discussion on the instruments that we might fancy to hear after the quake of our mechanized world, that we decided on the human voice. it was something that evolved naturally, as since the depression’s outbreak, little by little we’ve started digging recordings of the human voice (voice as the original instrument to quote joan la barbara’s classic recording). so when the idea of setting up a live set focused only on the human voice came up, the names of phil minton and dylan nyoukis were thrown on the table immediately and without hesitation we invited them for what turned out to be one the most physical and vital live sets we had set up for a looong time. a set of vocal pirouettes and juxtapositions between dylan and phil which send us flying for almost half an hour that night at the basement of knot gallery and once again fueled our enthusiasm for adventure and quest. besides this, it turned into a great opportunity for 3 fellow conceptualists (ourselves) to collaborate on something they fancied and out of their enthusiasm this document is being released.” Nicolas Malevitsis, October 2012. Numbered edition of 300, w/ screenprinted covers designed and printed by MPA Designs.  Co-released w/ Πτώματα κάτω απ’ το Κρεβάτι & Mafia.

PHR-94 FLESH CANDY – ‘Neither So Big, Nor So Lovely’ C40
Flesh Candy (a.k.a. Aris Stathis) breaks Phase!’s cherry on almost digestive, almost noise-free, pop music w/ his Dutch immigrant cut-up electronica blues. And it is a hard fist up in the air (and in the behind) ’cause i can’t really recall the time i’ve enjoyed that much of a ‘straight’ record. Dance yourself off to the daft-punked leftism, take a breath w/ the haiku jingles and let the bloodshed roll on the underground dancefloor as this debut full-length from a long time –even before its beginning– Phase! associate and blood brother urges you to. Edition of 50 copies on vintage looking cassettes w/ full-color double-sided folded A4 artwork.

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Juppala Kaapio – ‘Rewound Groves’ CD
Fake fur, card stock, hand printed silkscreen, offset.  Limited to 123 copies (numbered).

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MARSH CAVERN – ‘2’ CS 5€
This is the second Marsh Cavern physical release. “2″ presents 6 tracks from two different recording sessions at Studio Chaudelande. Marsh Cavern is only a guitar, a heavy guitar with unexpected structures. Of course it takes its source where heavy sounds are used, but no really “rock” layout here. Marsh Cavern sounds more like an exploration into a cold landscape or like a strange telling.  A story with its own image and sentence. “2″ is a good example that minimalism can bring intensity and range. This is a pro dubbed tape with printed slipcase, CS 70 program repeated on both sides. Sleeve illustrated by Félicia Atkinson.

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905.171: DEREK ROGERS – ‘OF WEIGHT, PHANTOM PAIN’ C62
rogers drops a charmer, per usual, with five high spirited intoxications. warm and glowing dreamboats on this guy. imagine drinking whiskey on the sun. don’t imagine it. do it.

905.170: MIKE SHIFLET – ‘NATURE SEEN’ C20
field recordings, analog/digital synths, comps, and guitars all juiced together by mike shiflet, creating some truly beast sound statues. the unprocessed songs of birds (uncredited) overwhelmed by unwonted drone and audio balloon art.

905.169: VALES – ‘PENTRESS’ C49
vales just auctioned off his dog and house to purchase mad modules for his new synth-setup. he’s homeless and man’s-best-friendless but it’s all worth it cause the patches are infinite and the crystals that spill out of the speakers look pretty. craziest vales shit you’re ears will look at all year. the entire tape was inspired by a trip to the old country.

905.168: SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE – ‘PAST MASTER’ C31
frank baugh’s swp project shouldn’t be a stranger to anyone at this point. he’s been releasing guitar/etc bliss piss in sky toilets across the multiiverse for a bit now. pretty much leaving a mark on every cassette label worth mentioning. that may be hyperbole, but what isn’t is that ‘past master’ is matchless in modern unharsh ambient harshness. i think some of this is nine inch nails 45rpms played at 1rpm. probably not, but that would be cool. this is cool.

905.167: WETHER + PARASHI split C57
three wether cuts. a live track recorded at the 2012 voice of the valley noise rally in pentress, wv captured by chris donofrio and two much damper, slow churners by way of home built electronics and synths recorded a few years back. parashi (finally) makes his 905 debut with three of his own. his jams dig deeper and deeper, ping-ponging from sparse bubbles and babbles to thickset rasps. it’s like you’re stuck in a narcotic-head’s hard drive while he is defragging and playing minesweeper. it’s a zone for sure.

905.165: ROMAN WOLFE – ‘YLEM’ C30
mr. donovan fazzino’s 905 follow up to 2010’s ‘yelm’ c62 burner. this is synthesizer music slightly beyond new age. it’s nude age. an age where everyone just wears lasers and good vibes.

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Chris Connelly – ‘Artificial Madness’ LP
BloodLust! is very pleased to announce the release of the vinyl version of Chris Connelly’s outstanding “Artificial Madness” album.  This is the LP version of the CD that Relapse released in late 2011.  “Artificial Madness” represents a momentous step in the progression of this very accomplished Chicago-based, Scottish-born musician, offering a suite of contemporary, heavy, high-energy rock songs that reveal measured lyrics paired with meticulously crafted songs.  While Chris has certainly delivered beautiful records in the past, the maturity of this album may surprise some fans who have followed his prolific, diverse and rather hedonistic career in music. Lyrically, the album offers a set of narratives that seem to accurately define a truly dystopian landscape, setting stories in invented locales, in which the inhabitants lead a dark, dehumanized and anxious existence.  Stylistically, “Artificial Madness” sounds very modern, even as it draws from an arsenal of heavy post-punk music elements that Chris has built upon since the mid- to late-1980s, whether solo, with Ministry or Revolting Cocks, or with current and former members of Killing Joke and Public Image Limited. This album also happens to feature numerous friends of mine.  Perhaps Chris needs no further introduction, but his impact on the world of dark and heavy music, both in Chicago and beyond, should not be underestimated.  And for those who think his “electronic” work is limited to the Wax Trax! style of industrial music – as if such as thing was that easy to classify – let me tell you about a very memorable 1989 show at Dreamerz, when Chris opened up for the still-new My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, shocking (most of) the crowd with a vicious, assertive, straight-up power-electronics set.  On a label-related note, Chris previously sang on the Plague Bringer “Burning Inside” CD single box set (B!155, 2010), an exclusive Record Store Day release that featured a cover version of a well-known song by one of his former bands, Ministry.  And for this album, Chris assembled a veritable who’s who of heavy-hitters from Chicago.  Sanford Parker (keyboards, engineering and production) is known from the bands Buried At Sea, Minsk, Twilight and Nachtmystium, and he previously played alongside Chris in The High Confessions.  Sanford also recorded the forthcoming BLOODYMINDED album, “Within The Walls,” and he recorded and played synth alongside me on the imminent Wrekmeister Harmonies album, “You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me.”  Will Lindsay (bass) is a good friend, who has also sat in on bass with Anatomy of Habit, while I have contributed live synth and vocals to Will’s band, Indian.  Will is also known for his work with bands including Nachtmystium, Wolves in the Throne Room and Middian.  Dallas Thomas (guitar) is known for his band The Swan King and he also happens to be playing with the celebrated group Pelican, these days.  His amazing guitar style and tone is unmistakable on this LP.  Noah Leger (drums) has recently been helping out on drums with Anatomy of Habit and he is known from a number of diverse local groups, including Electric Hawk, Head of Skulls, Tight Phantomz, and Milemarker.  Noah most recently joined the exciting Chicago group Disappears.  Safe to say, I am really excited to be releasing Chris’ record!

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LAZY MAGNET – ‘Acts Without Error’ LP
As an artifact, a piece of archived music, this feels as if it belongs beyond the earth — or perhaps buried deep within it. What started as something of an ill-fated project, a split 12″ with the ethereal forest-dweller Caethua, Acts Without Error took over a year and a half to finish. Spacing out through numerous edits and mixes, the final piece seems squelched straight from the cosmos, balancing itself down onto the earth via energy waves both yellow and neutral, black and beautiful. To say Lazy Magnet created a sonic spectrum of sound and tone is to suggest they did not practice magic. Surely they did, however, and blessed us in our sleep. You hear a synth call and beckon the light to enter the room, but it’s beyond a machine. Many artists push their noggin hard and strain to reach outside the world. They practice the scales and draw lines on paper, and ache for the sonics. Lazy Magnet wrings hands and nods heads – born from the soil is elegant rays, shifting pitch bends that lift your spine out of your body. Did you ever daydream as a child, looking into the clouds for shapes of dinosaurs or pig faced men? Did the clouds ever speak back? Now they do.  Bathetic is more than excited to be involved with Lazy Magnet and the album, Acts Without Error.  For years on end Jeremy Harris has been touring and physically living out the works of-, putting every ounce of soul into-, continuously pushing all genuine ideas throughout- the pure and heartfelt gristle that isLazy Magnet.  Because this album took a long time to complete is no mistake – it will soon be in constant rotation on your decks. Promise – cross our hearts, hope to die.  With the help of Daryl Seaver, Lazy Magnet has produced a monumental album – cohesive in sound, sight, and touch.  Get ready to space-out, dance, drool, and love these Acts Without Error.   Long Live the MAG. Edition of 400. Vinyl comes shrink-wrapped in jacket with printed metallic gold ink.

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