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BLOOD STEREO – ‘The Eight Thumbed Hand Serenades’ CS
Underground’s finest couple formed by Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance are here to delight us with a massive mind-hammering tape, originally out in a uber-limited 4xCS boxset on their own Chocolate Monk label. A fair where Muezzin Nyoukis will twist & pull your brains, a choir of voices praying, gargling & ooing, discomfort and unclear clatter all over. At some point you will find yourself in a damp swamp, two sticky beings calling each other (the mutant cricket here is Karen), a little slice of private green goo. Ringy drones so soft you can lie on, crunchy fingers, broken connections, magnetic liquid, confused contacts, tractors and concrete mixers 10 miles away, softly screeching… it’s all here, every dye and every spice, what more can you ask?! Pro-dubbed & imprinted PINK tapes with 3-panel double printed full color Jcards, artwork by Karen Constance. Edition of 100.

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Resistencia Chaco – ‘una puerta roja en algún lugar de républica checa’
resistencia chaco is a project led by the argentine drummer augusto urbini. part free jazz, part metal, part prog – the group started as a quartet in 2009 with urbini, pablo puntoriero, ada rave and franco fontanarrosa. in 2010 mu sánchez joined the group on guitar. the group was born out of the necessity to resist everyday reality, existential pressures and oppressors. their inspiration comes from experimental metal, noise, fernando pessoa, and disturbance theory.  on their debut album heavy prog riffs break down into freely improvised explorations, sax skronk noodles, extended guitar techniques, rising into ecstatic energy music blasts before returning to the tech prog composition action. this progaliciousness lies somewhere in the cheer-accident, luttenbachers, zorn continuum.

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SS043 SEWER ELECTION & FREDERIKKE HOFFMEIER – ‘den blege grå tone’ LP 14€
There are collaborations that go far beyond the sum of the individual parts involved. Partnership expand the corners of the musician involved and transforms the sound. That’s the case of the collaboration between Sewer Election and Frederikke Hoffmeier, if Dan Johansonn has clearly demonstrated in his recent work as Sewer Election his passion and skills for tapes and field recordings manipulations, Frederikke as Puce Mary has instead created a perfect blend of voice, sung and recorded, and minimal electronic. This collaboration, only the first of a series, has as its backbone a short poem written by Frederikke herself “den blege grå tone” which, recited, from time to time is manipulated and transformed through different tape recorders and reel to reel, all enriched by inserts of concrete music, minimal synth touches and dirty field recordings. A disc which has its feet firmly planted in the north european contemporay experimental scene, but has at the same time a wide-ranging breath, diving and touching perfectly what was the avanguard from mid-century and the early reel to reel/voice experiments. Edition of 200.

SS044 RUMINATION – ‘weight’ 7″+C30 12€
Nolan Throop is well known for his solo project Kakerlak and several brilliant collaborations. Parallel to this has always cultivated a passion for industrial and the more obscure noise, in constant progression through its project vergraben before and rumination now. Short tracks, monotonous and percussive, sounding like a degraded version of the SPK. Old drum machines, junk metal loops and radio voices that create industrial marches covered with a thick dose of negativity. Edition of 100.

SS045 LETTERA 22 – ‘native waters’ 7″+C30 12€
Native Waters is the result of three full days of recording that the Italian duo made ??in February 2012. The result is ideally placed halfway between the structured harsh noise of records like True Form and Lack Of Attention and the most quiet compositions of field recordings on the Dieter Tapes cassette. The tape loops, although still present, this time leaving more space for a degraded electronic, drowned in a sea of amplified electricity, tape hiss and distant feedback drones. Edition of 100.

SS046 ARV & MILJö – ‘ungdomsband’ C30 5€
Matthias Andersson was able to create, release after release a very personal sound. Raw and primitive lo fi electronic presented in short tracks where, under a constant wall of low frequencies make their way disfigured field recordings, slow feedback movements and a claustrophobic hiss in the quiet parts which makes the texture deep and complex. Edition of 80.

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MARIA MINERVA – ‘WILL HAPPINESS FIND ME?’ CD/LP
avant estonian debutante Ms Maria Minerva ushers in a fantastical new
collection of neo-euro melted-pop weirdnesses for her 2nd official
full-length. perplexing and restless and inventive, again and again.
also: ON TOUR ALL OVER THE US thru the months of SEPT and OCT — check the NNF site for dates/cities!!

SAMANTHA GLASS – ‘MYSTERIES FROM THE PALOMINO SKYLINER’ LP
radical Madisonian delivers his crypto-narco opus after a string of
increasingly potent cassette EPs. bleached sleepwalker slipstreams
about escaping the planet. in stunning silkscreened sleeves courtesy
of tokyo dream pusher Ryo Kuramoto. limited to 440.

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(kimdawn054) Sparkling Wide Pressure – ‘Summer Headphone Ritual Volume 1’ CDr $6
Time sensitive material that needed to see the light before the upcoming equinox. These are worked over palimpsests of power and wandering. Dive in and swim around – ever watchful for sudden visitors. Presented in a numbered edition of 45 hand stamped 5″ cdrs (red is the color of summer – the sun is coming).

(kimdawn055) Grant Evans – ‘Lines That Unfold’ 3″CDr $4
A brilliantly deep and sensitive voyage from one half of the Hooker Vision/Quiet Evenings team. You can expect scrambled and soothing messages from between worlds – half washed away murmurings lifting up towards the silky fog of dawn. Presented in a numbered edition of 50 hand stamped 3″ cdrs.

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Robert Ridley-Shackleton/Kapali Carsi – ‘Wet Dipole’ split C40 £5
Kapali Carsi is a true underdog in Avant-garde music. His sounds are very minimal and austere. However what make KC so fresh is that his simple sounds can have serious tension and although sometimes deadly serious can seem very free almost like serious ‘art-brut’.  This split cassette is almost entirely focussed on microphones which nearly dominates all of Kapali Carsi’s work and has also been a key concept through Robert’s work lately. Robert’s side of the tape is less tense and more crude and diseased.  This cassette is perfect for all your scrapping, bangs and breathing needs. Limited to 35 copies.

Robert Ridley-Shackleton/Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau – ‘Big Sass’ split C58 £5
The dream team known as the Hjuler’s present what sounds like a ritual, a sacrifice or a warning to aliens that life on earth is not good. Mama Baer at times sounds like she becomes possessed by the messages she is spewing out, all accompanied by Kommissar’s primitive guitar playing. It could have been recorded in the stone age, but we will never know. Robert’s side of the split uncovers worlds of hisses and spits of frequencies from the unknown that melt into minimal pop goo made with vocal loops and reversed charity shop tapes. Limited to 50 copies.

David K Frampton/Robert Ridley-Shackleton – ‘Upside Down Cathedral’ split CDr £2
Frampton is what only can be described as the Christ child of all things ROCK. His style of rock however is extremely on its own in a world of guitar based music. His beats often are more dance/electronic. His guitars are noisy and ‘no wave’ in its abstract qualities. Inspired by classic rock and Grunge Frampton mutates his love for music into a weird nasty bastard. Roberts tracks from the split are also based on Rock but they steer more a grindcore style. However these sound nothing like grindcore or any rock, they are just inspired by. Instead the track mostly comprised of vocal loops that try to imitate guitars and instead sound like growls, accompanied by even more growls. Limited to 25 copies.  All ship from the UK
 
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ARCHAIA LP 16€
Papaaver Records is proud to present the first vinyl reissue of this privately pressed hard to find sinister zeuhl masterpiece that ended up on the Nurse With Wound list. Michel Munier and Pierrick Le Bras formed Archaïa in 1976 and recorded this album – their sole effort – one year later. Although influenced by bands like Heldon, Archanoid and of course Magma, their music is unique and not easy to categorise. A dark and brooding mixture of eerie synth and bass rhythms, occult lyrics, percussion, phased fuzz guitar, serene – almost medieval – chanting and a bunch of effects. Everything is here, from free-form drones and weird freak-outs to epic and cosmic songs. Completely remastered from the original tapes by the band themselves, this reissue reproduces the sound of the original vinyl, unlike the cd reissue that was released in the mid nineties which added different mixes. Limited to 500 copies on 180gr vinyl, includes insert with French liner notes.

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Sea Pinks – ‘Freak Waves’ LP
CF is very pleased to announce the release of the third Sea Pinks album, Freak Waves. At ten tracks in just under half an hour the album ricochets from breezy pop to brooding rock to the epic closer of the title track without a dull a moment to spare. And for the first time a full drum kit, bass and lead guitar help to flesh out the songs as never before.  This is Sea Pinks at their most dynamic, and easily their best yet. Available in a limited edition of 250 12″ LPs (including MP3 download of all ten tracks, only available via CF), buy it here!

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PL1: Seziki Tetrasheaf – ‘visiter’ C35
type II, edition of 33.

PL2: Digital Natives – ‘whats doing there’ C50
type II, edition of 33.

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EMOT – ‘Trees & Claws’ CS
Emot’s “Trees & Claws” EP is the first release from start up Minneapolis label Run Ruby Red Records.  The band is comprised of Dan Choma (drums/sampling), Justin Hartke (bass/vocals), Matt Leavitt (vocals/guitar/keyboards) & Robert Mulrennan (guitar/sampling).  Emot has shared the stage with great Twin Cities bands such as Haley Bonar, Halloween Alaska, No Bird Sing, We Are the Willows, & Adam Svec.  Their slow-burn spacious style is reminiscent of Minnesota’s own Low mixed with early Sigur Rós. “Trees & Claws” is a patiently crafted EP full of quiet yet memorable melodies and layers of intoxicating loops.  The cassette opens with a short sensuous Prelude, breaking into the frisky “Lifting Off.”  “Ancients,” a clear stand out track, builds from a slow drum and guitar drone into a defiantly realized bridge reminiscent of King Crimson.  This is a cassette for hearing on headphones, a soundtrack for peaceful solitude.  Pro-dubbed edition of 100.

Daniel Choma – ‘Sad Songs About Girls’ CS
This spring, Run Ruby Red Records released it’s second cassette, “Sad Songs About Girls” by Daniel Choma.  Daniel took some time away from his other projects in Minneapolis to put together this intimate country record in the small confines of his studio apartment.  Influenced equally by classic songwriting and the DIY ethic, “Sad Songs About Girls” was recorded with one condenser microphone over the course of several months.  The opener “Standing by You Staring at the Ocean,”  is an infectious percussion driven lovelorn romp which culminates with a Gregg Allman slide solo.  From there, the cassette drops into the harmonica-driven Byrds style “Jaime.”  Other highlights include the Jerry Jeff Walker styled country narrative “Everything to Me” and the lo-fi soul closer “East Side to Liberty City.” “Sad Songs about Girls” is sincere foray into classic Americana: the work of a gifted young songwriting just beginning to share his craft.  Pro-dubbed edition of 100.

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