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Tor Lundvall – ‘DAIS 033 Shirt’ SM-XL $20
We are extremely proud to announce our first shirt!  Designed Exclusively for Dais Records by TOR LUNDVALL, Dais shirts are now available for pre-order. This is a ONE-TIME limited run (we are only printing whatever pre-orders we get, no extras), so reserve yours now. We used worn/soft “burnout” style black crew tees printed with white plasticine.  Sizing is very similar to American Apparel, they are slightly “fitted”. 

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Disappearing People – ‘Dissolve’
First release of 100 cassettes.  Hand made/dubbed.  Mastered by Greg Ashley at Ghost Town. Created by an Oakland duo who fell into their shadows. but the sounds. all the sounds. Email Address for copy.

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various artists – ‘DBA100‘
To celebrate our 10th birthday, Deathbomb Arc has launched a new website and the first installment of a free compilation series that will update throughout 2012. For the first time in many years, the Deathbomb website includes our full discography. With the vital help of Cargo Collective, this discography is fully sortable and searchable.  The anniversary compilation series, DBA100, begins with a collection of new recordings by bands covering their favorite songs released by Deathbomb Arc. Turbine, the first band we ever released, contributes a cover of Foot Village. Yuma Nora (releases on Not Not Fun) and Monster Dudes, two acts vital to the label in the mid 00’s, have formed a supergroup called YumaDudes to cover Gang Wizard. Current Deathbomb acts, I.E. and tik///tik contribute as well. This installment also includes a virtual photo album to walk you down Deathbomb memory lane. Dizzying artwork was made by Isaac Hicks. SAMPLE

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WSR 21 Iibiis Rooge – ‘Life In A Bloodcell’
100 copies. Iibiis Rooge (High Wolf + Astral Social Club) has been on and off for the past two years. A new lp has been recorded last year and will be released soon on Weird Forest. This tape is a good transition between old Iibiis style and the new direction. It’s slowly going from a Iibiis first period jam opening the tape to a brand new what-to-expect-kind- of-in-your-face style closing title. Blame Neil Campbell.

WSR 20 Kunlun – ‘K III’
70 copies.  Kunlun, episode III. Time to go modular. Time to visit multiverse. Time to smoke bosons. Going further in the original idea : soulful techno, dreamlike acid. This one is the best of the series. And more is coming. Kunlun might go vinyl in 2012.

WSR 18 Voodoo Mount Sister – ‘Soul Sista’
50 copies.  Voodoo Mount Sister (VMS) makes it on tape for the first time. Following 2010 debut cdr on Winged Sun and first vinyl appearance on Hands in the dark records “Soul Sista” is VMS weird attempt to bring soul music in noise / drone improvisations. Recorded in one session in July 2011 that went in many different directions, from dark kraut to noisy dub to psych dance.
The girl is on synths and vocals, the guy is on beats & bass.

WSR 19 Annapurna Illusion/Annapurna Hellvision split
70 copies.  A side : Old dusty files from 2009 that sounds like an old babylonian priest conjuring the evil deads…Like if the necronomicon book turned  into a tape…Heavy organ chords, black mess style.  B side : One night in Belgium. The infernal meting of Annapurna Illusion and Helvette (Glen Steenkiste from Sylvester Anfang II), under the full moon, after a few smokes and a couple of drinks. Two exhausted minds improvising minimal dark drones.

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VASSBOTN/TORTURING NURSE split C60 £4
VASSBOTN are a noisy sound-tyrant triple play that count ‘master of static’ Lasse Marhaug among their ranks. Following a magnificent debut on the Obscurex label last year, this cassette is only the second official document of their so far calamitous and precarious tenure on planet earth. One thirty minute battering-ram of a track continually asserts and diminishes, arrives and departs, begins and concludes. A kaleidoscope of rumbling, grumbling and hardcore fumbling awaits beyond the play button… TORTURING NURSE have been beaming transcendental baffle-noise from their Shanghai home for over 7 years and this latest transmission is as off-kilter and as out of whack as ever. 30 minutes of processed field recordings, echoing signal generators and cracked electronics. Cut ‘n’ paste loopery drips and oozes over droning static while contact mics are loved and abused in equal measure. Edition of 50 with clear tapes, colour coordinated j-cards and stickers. Artwork by Lasse Marhaug.

SHIT HANDS – ‘WHAT DID MY TOY BOY REALLY THINK OF ME?’ C30 £3
Beartown debutant SHIT HANDS unleashes a bizarre batch of half-song structures on this wonderfully peculiar plop parcel. Drink-fuelled, kazoo-dominant ramblings of an idiot who’s seemingly unable or unwilling to play a bass guitar properly. “WHAT DID MY TOYBOY REALLY THINK OF ME” sounds like literally dozens of plops of pigeon shit on some sort of amplified metallic shed, whilst someone inside is screaming with a kazoo and playing stupid records at the wrong speed. Edition of 20, comes with limited “Paedo Chris” artwork and a4 pullout Shroppy-rambling sheet.

BLACKK SUUE – ‘TENT CRISIS VOL. 1’ C30 £4
Beartown records is proud to make available a fresh glut of live archive material recorded by Cheshire post-junk-noise bods BLACKK SUUE. Culled from tree-house rehearsal demos stretching back to the stagnant winter of 2009, TENT CRISIS VOL. 1 is a stark recommendation of ruthless self-censorship, and the dignity of non-releasing. A poorly recorded sprangle-artifact that captures both the essence and tenacity of Buglawton’s messy-Merz-boys. Belches and farts of abused, weather-damaged synthesisers, screams and squeals of feedback and the clattering of pre-recorded daft-head muckery loops are all captured live and unadulterated. A hysterical post-noise-meta document if you will… which you won’t. Edition of 20, complete with A4 gunk-collage and “Congers Turning to Out” mini-thesis.

SLUMP – ‘DEAD OR DYING ROSES’ C25 £4
SLUMP stretches its legs and awakes for yet another failing/failed outing on Beartown Records. DEAD OR DYING ROSES is a splice-fest of brittle textures, angry feedback and lurking synthesis. Filing cabinet percussion, breathless vocal improvisations, and spiraling prayer-box mantras are chopped up and scattered onto the sonic canvas like so many coarsely ground post-noise peppercorns. Delicate sinews of AM radio are knitted into a disorientating fabric of backwards blab-chatter, sloppity-boppity stereo slurp madness and ectoplasmic glass-grinding. Not harsh, but horrid. Not furious, but facile. Not essential, but existential. Not here, but there. All you need to while away the spring evenings, rearrange your mental furniture or glimpse cubist heaven in a cassette tape – fractured diads galore! Edition of 35 with pale blue “hazing” artwork, powder blue “trees in the mist” on-tape stickers and baby blue cassettes. Comes with free rose-petal confetti.

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NK30: Talk West – ‘Freights & Fields’ C40 $6(US)/$7(Can)/$8(World)
Tulsa, OK multi-instrumentalist and Scissortail Records guy Dylan Golden Aycock delivers this stunning batch of drone-folk meditations fashioned with a truly refreshing mix of synths, loops, air organ, and expressive pedal steel. These sunken timber hymns harken back to the roots of American experimentalism but stand in their own new space, lonesome bedroom ballads tinged with universal nostalgia. Edition of 70 pro-dubbed/imprinted tapes with letterpressed and risographed artwork.

NK29: Soothsayer – ‘Keynes Utopia’ C40 $6(US)/$7(Can)/$8(World)
Moon Glyph head/designer Steve Rosborough’s Soothsayer project continues to evolve with this new long-player of solid now-age synth minus any overwrought gear-headedness. Subtle, slight ambient pieces that flutter into the air, and abstractly preach utopian economics. Makes your plants grow. Leave it on forever. Edition of 70 pro-dubbed/imprinted tapes with risographed artwork.

NK26: Dusted Lux – ‘Canopy’ C40 $6(US)/$7(Can)/$8(World)
Following a bewitching debut on Kimberly Dawn, this full-length is four soft organic drones caked in rust, waves of field recording hiss, elusive songs hidden in dust clouds. A soulful assemblage of textures and melodies that will reveal itself to those who listen thoughtfully. Edition of 70 pro-dubbed/imprinted tapes with letterpressed and gocco-printed artwork.

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Panabrite – ‘Sub Aquatic Meditation’ LP
Sonic natural wonders created by Norman Chambers. Panabrite is the solo project of Seattle-based Norm Chambers, utilizing analog synthesis, vintage drum machines, various effects and occasional guitar. Inspired by science fiction, new age music, soundtracks and library production music, nature/science documentaries, and vintage electronic sounds… His first lp release Sub Aquatic Meditation is an exciting record replete with underwater tunes. The outer space & the deep blue sea collide into two sides of spellbinding adventures reminiscent to the early work of Oneohtrix Point Never, Jürgen Müller and Dolphins Into The Future. Panabrite works in the hazy, analog-synth-laden zone between kosmische drift and new age waft. He launches beatless symphonies of fibrillating, smeared whorls and drones that make you feel like the star of a weird nature documentary or a sci-fi blockbuster from 1977. Chambers excels at evoking both the intimate and the epic with his scrupulously wrought arpeggios and ostinatos.

Pulse Emitter – ‘Aeons’ LP
Pulse Emitter joins the Aguirre catalogue with a stunning new album full of clear cosmic tones for the new space age. Aeons, as the title suggests, is about different periods in time. Pangaea is ancient earth, Hermits is based on a panel of the Ghent Altarpiece representing Renaissance Europe, Spaceship is the future, and Immortality is an even more distant future where consciousness has been uploaded to computers and people live without bodies. Pulse Emitter (Daryl Groetsch from Portland, Oregon) began working with synthesizers while in music school
in the 90’s and took the Pulse Emitter name in 2003, creating synthesizer pads and patterns which drift through cosmic and nature settings. A veteran of the noise scene of the mid 2000s, the music has returned to something more melodic and layered in recent years. David Keenan has said “No one is making synth music that feels so organic, so rapturous and so ‘in tune’ with the contours of outer and inner space as Groetsch.

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ESPVALL/JAKOBSONS/SZELAG – ‘Improvisations for Strings and Electronics’ CD
Deluxe limited edition. Multi-layered handmade transparent outer-sleeves, lino-block printed envelope. Post-classical/improv. On the aptly titled ‘Improvisations for Strings and Electronics’, Marielle Jakobsons and Agnes Szelag (better known as the experimental duo Myrmyr) team up with cellist Helena Espvall (of acid-folk revivalists Espers) on a series of improvisations for strings and electronics. Recorded in Oakland, CA, Jakobsons (also of Date Palms and Portraits and Darwinsbitch) and Szelag created graphic scores for the occasion. A little while ago Agnes asked me what “bands” I’d compare this album to. I couldn’t think of a single one. Not even the more classically oriented works of someone like Godspeed! You Black Emperor really come close. What did immediately spring to mind were the string quartets of contemporary composers such as Gloria Coates, Morton Feldman, Per Nørgård, and Henryk Górecki. As well, some of the more challenging, discordant and visceral works of Arvo Pärt bear a similarity to the sinuous, winding melodies and stunning tonal landscape created here. Ethereal and rapturous beauty tempered with sinister, creeping danger looming ominously in the shadows.

Babel – ‘Limbus’ CD $9 CAD(World)
Hand-stencilled cloth bags and CD tins, full colour “posterette” insert. Post-classical/noise/post-rock. Inspired by the life cycle of a tree—from seed to discarded newspaper—the Limbus suite sprawls skyward while rooting itself deep in the rocky murk. At times meeting at the crossroads between Labradford, Neubauten, and Philip Glass, harsh bowed electric guitar drives over delicate, leafy arpeggios backed by percussion textures building to a pummeling Taiko-influence cacophony.

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