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Andreas Brandal – ‘Staying Is Nowhere’ C48 $6
RIYL: synth transmissions, interstitial metabolism, the exquisite poetry of the cosmos.  A beautiful, zoned out narrative from Andreas Brandal – the most apt way we can think to introduce Staying Is Nowhere is to imagine David Attenborough producing a film about the mathematical makeup of the universe.  Although this nails the feel, it is not quite descriptive enough. Suffice to say we fell in love with it from the moment we heard it and can’t quite get enough of it. Limited edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted cassettes w/ download card.

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[tzpCS24] Lazy Magnet – ‘Careless In Heat Vol.1’ 10E 2xCS
Double tape collection by lazy magnet. beat or not. melodies or not. noise or not. psychedelic or not. ax(e) cuts. because lazy magnet will do anything when he wants to, two tapes is a good start.

[tzpLIVE09] Ero Babaa – ‘Live Series Vol.9’ 5E CS
9th volume of the live series. sax pedals guitar mayhem. this is the live they destroyed the recorder. this is freedom. this is free noise. handmade sewing machine artwork.

[tzpLP06] Headwar – ‘Touche Pas L’Enfant’ 7E LP
headwar are playing dead rock. headwar are still alive. headwar are drums guitars locked grooves screams obsessive riffs. headwar are from this part of France which was the future.

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777-020 Kommissar Hjuler – ‘Konkrete Poesie’ C46 Y1,200(WORLD)
Limted to 30 copies.

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Leif Elggren – ‘Sleepwalking’ C30  $8(US)/$10(World)
Edition of 100.  Swedish artist Leif Elggren has a monumental list of creative accomplishments in both the visual art world as well as a recording artist.  His first recorded piece, Cu, from 1982 firmly established Elggren as a archivist of his own work using recorded source material and field recording techniques.  For his newest cassette lucidly entitledSleepwalking, Elggren taped notation of his recent performance which was debuted at the Sleep Disorders exhibition in NYC during the Summer of 2012. Listen in to full report of what happened after the artist’s eyelids have closed and the parallel universe unfolded.

Death Houses – ‘…All But The Crimson Light Remained’ C10  $8(US)/$10(World)
Edition of 25.  Painful, seducing feedback noise culled from Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint / DeTrop/ Hanel Koeck).  Lashing electronics, blarring distortion that muddy down into a looping industrial death trap. Short and to the point, no need for excuses.

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dUAS sEMIcOLCHEIAS iNVERTIDAS – ‘4’
4 is the 4th album from the Portuguese psychedelic jazz rock noise project dUAS sEMIcOLCHEIAS iNVERTIDAS (dSCi). Titled after the self-titled 4th albums of other notorious bands, this album is now made available free for download to celebrating the end of their kebab tour 2012 while the band is still making their way back to Portugal crossing through Spain, France and Italy. // 4 é o quarto album do projecto Português de jazz psicadélico rock noise dUAS sEMIcOLCHEIAS iNVERTIDAS (dSCi). Titulado segundo outros quartos albums de bandas notórias, este album encontra-se agora disponivel para download gratuito celebrando o final da kebab tour 2012 enquanto a banda retorna a Portugal, ainda com concertos marcados Espanha, França e Itália.

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Bent Knee CD $10
This self-titled album by Bent Knee is one with a shifting and highly effected rock and electronically inspired sound scape. The bass and drums become a flash of noise during “urban circus” and the soaring violin and vocals morph into muffled and screeching sirens throughout this album. The packaging is made by hand with various stamps, thin lyric sheets, a wax seal, the cd, and yarn. This indie band hand-folds, stamps, and assembles each album for a more intimate experience with the music.

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Ali Helnwein – Strange Creations
Spring Break Tapes has teamed up with Ali to release Strange Creations on limited edition cassette. Each cassette includes an mp3 digital download and features cover art by Mercedes Helnwein. Limited to 100 cassettes.

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NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS – ‘NIGHT COERCION INTO THE COMPANY OF WITCHES’ 4LP boxset/3CD $40/$7
Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches is the first domestic release by France’s mythic Natural Snow Buildings, a band revered in experimental music circles despite self-releasing most of their albums in ridiculously limited runs. The original Night Coercion… CD from 2008 was an edition of only 22 copies, so finally, the intense music that Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte create on these tracks can be widely heard and appreciated. Fans of Popol Vuh raga drones, Flying Saucer Attack distorted bliss, The Dead C’s intuitive chaos, and Islaja’s oblique folk, take note. Natural Snow Buildings make melodic, orchestrated, droning compositions with layers of guitars, chants, woodwinds, percussive bells, distortion and delay. On Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches, they push to extremes, producing layers of stereophonic sound both nuanced and grandiose. This record is the ideal introduction to the band’s sound, building harmonies upon noise upon harmonies, and providing a clear explanation as to why their albums (even the ones that aren’t so limited) sell out so immediately upon release. For the Ba Da Bing release of Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches, there are two physical formats. Like the original version, the album is available as a three-CD set, this time at the low price of a single CD release. Additionally, the limited four-LP box set has a new mixing job, done by the band to fit the record’s new vinyldom. Digital download with vinyl purchase.

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Charlatan Meets the North Sea C36 $6
Edition of 100. RIYL: Jurgen Muller, Ursula Bogner, weather beaten analog skies. Impromptu post-speakeasy jam session, recorded at the witching hour by two of the the scene’s most reclusive noise cats around. They got down and burned all the heat out of the studio with some serious synthesizer blowouts, each getting in their own licks. Charlatan’s mellow moods converge with the harsh wailing of the North Sea, faithfully laid to tape (in the midst’s of tension) by Green Country’s chief engineer Brad Rose. These cats might not break it down ever again, but for one magical night it got crazy.

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FATHER FINGER s/t CS $5
Providence, Rad Islander Kylie Lance aka Father Finger synthesizes solo synth-voice-sequencer-drum-machinery into unexpectedly twisted yet elegant curvatures of glassy, avant digital-mystic post-pop, of which the four frameworks found on her self-titled debut cassette stand as some of her most gleaming achievements to date. “Temper” and “Separation Anxiety” pulse, prowl, and groove under a glowing ozone of evocative vocals (ranging in mood from minimal wave to fever dream), washed out waterfalls of wind instrument keys, cryptic samples, and backwards echo FX; fractured lyrics about “the hottest heat ever” and “cardboard boxes” and “man’s frustration” conjure an inner world of scorched cities and drugged desires. The B side flowers a more baroque synthesizer terrarium: “Fauna” and “Italy” bubble, scrape, and slide through 96 tiers of graceful, liquid arpeggiations, new neu wave hypno-melody, and ebbing, colorful arcs of psychic voice. A stunning set of songs by one of our favorite new solo heroines. Currently on tour coast-to-coast with Maria Minerva. Pro-dubbed grey tapes in full-color double-sided J-cards with sex-shop Dollywood cover illustration by ideal visualist Christine Jones. Edition of 125.

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