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synth019   CANKUN – ‘Miami Vice’ CDr
edition of 84 – exclusive french tour cdr. After his first release on the mighty Not Not Fun label, here’s the new offering of  the french electronic wizard Vincent Caylet (“V”, The Pistil Cosmos, Archers by the Sea…). Deep organic vibes based on Miami Vice episodes. Colorful neons, bright city lights and vivid tropical rhythms for underwater grooves. The French Florida Touch

synth021   UBUNANNA – ‘Arabian Holography’ CDr
edition of 70.  Fragmented melodies, spacesynth soundscapes created in a warbled minimalism. Abstract electronic. Music by Ichihana Takahashi from Tokyo, Japan.

synth022   ZONOTOPE™ – ‘Human Unity’ CDr
edition of 70. Recycled ’80s computer musical animations to serve as the data structure for kaleidoscopic pop soundtracks. Imagine your past. “Certain sounds manage to make reality seem as if viewed through sleepy-goggles” Altered Zones. Previous releases on Hobo Cult, Maba Tapes…

synth023   STEFAN BLOMEIER – ‘The Danish Straits’ CDr
edition of 70 – Artwork by FANTASTIC LANDS. Vintage kraut synthesizers, admirable minimal waves for an obsessive venture in a reflected world. Legosynth music. “There is little know about the artistic persona of Stefan Blomeier. His recent music release Popular Electronics II / Radio Astronomy Research Laboratory Of Electronic Progress has given his persona somewhat of a minor cult status and only increased the flow of rumours around the artist behind it.” netaudiolondon.

synth024   NEW FUTURE WANDERER – ‘Teal View’ CDr
edition of 70 – Artwork by FANTASTIC LANDS. After the Plaza for Media Conference 92, NFW  hacks up fragments of his blue-green synthetic world.

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sab021 THE DAY OF THE ANTLER – ‘A Call to Greatness’ CDr /3″CDr
edition of 50. Experimental and traditional neo folk versions of stunning heavy metal anthems (Manowar, Maiden…) Thundering interpretation of an epic march into the forests of Finland.

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OKF 001 Kenneth Higney – ‘Attic Demonstration’ LP
edition of 500 copies.  Often considered the Holy Grail of “real people” records, Kenneth Higney’s “Attic Demonstration” was never actually intended to be an official release. It was recorded in New York City by Higney and his accompanist Gordon Gaines (R.I.P.) as a vehicle with which to sell Higney’s songs to other artists and was only pressed to vinyl in 1976 when he grew tired of duplicating cassette tapes. Apparently the Jandekian dissonance of the “A. Demo.” sound was an unintended by-product of the one take demo sessions. Be that as it may, “Attic Demonstration” is a strange sonic world all of it’s own. It is neither too weird to be unappealing to “regular” music listeners nor is it one of those “discoveries” that leaves you wondering what all the hype was about. Acoustic guitar ballads of nearly atonal desolation mix readily with rock ‘n’ roll numbers featuring hiccuping drums and alien sounding electric guitar. Hingey’s vocals are by turns sneering and mournful as he sings about lost love and the desire for fame all filtered through his uniquely bent worldview. Although a few ads were placed for the record in The Village Voice and The Aquarian, the fame that Higney sought illuded him (a semi-positive review in Trouser Pressnotwithstanding). That is, until the album was discovered and distributed by record dealer Paul Major. “Attic Demonstration” has been featured in the Acid Archives and copies of the original LP have soared in price over the years, but you no longer have to pay $100, $200 or even $300 to obtain a copy of this monumental album on vinyl. One Kind Favor and Kenneth Higney have teamed up to bring you an official reissue of “Attic Demonstration” remastered and with all the original artwork.

OKF 002 Sound Ceremony LP
edition of 500 copies. Canadian born guitarist and songwriter Ron Warren Ganderton self-released three LPs with his group Sound Ceremony while living in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and 80s. First came “Guitar Star” (1973), then “Sound Ceremony” (1979) and finally “Precious As England” (1981). Despite some modest distribution and frequent gigs, the band never seemed to really take off and Ganderton eventually returned to his native Vancouver (where he still resides), leaving hundreds of unsold records in the attic of his house. While these copies seem to have been lost to the ravages of time, the second Sound Ceremony LP will now be reissued by One Kind Favor. While all of the group’s efforts are undeniably unique, “Sound Ceremony” (1979) is the true brain-damaged winner of the bunch. The record surely fits somewhere into the UK punk explosion of the day, but it’s also looks back to the mid-sixties rock that Ron cut his teeth on and ahead to some sort of maniac future form of entertainment that perhaps has not been invented yet. Ganderton’s truly “out of it” stream of consciousness lyrics show a clear lack of self-censorship and that’s really one of the albums strongest assets. He has created this character of himself as a huge rock star and a sex symbol, and who are we to deny his claims? This stuff is eerily convincing. Like Lou Reed, the man’s ideas can’t be contained by something so limiting as the bar line. The band chugs amiably along as Ganderton’s vocals wander all over the place. If you’ve never heard a singer do a count-off all the way up to seven, then now is your big chance! Features what is perhaps the greatest anti-cigarette song of all time.

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PAR001: Sparkling Wide Pressure/No Mind Meditation C30 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(INTL)
A split by two experimental mindwarpers. Sparkling Wide Pressure breathes life into a mass of warbling, twisting sound, gathering darkness and then chasing it away again. No Mind Meditation melt a curling stormcloud of militaristic noise into a soothing bath of hypnotic cuts and samples.  Professionally duplicated and imprinted high-bias chrome cassettes. Professionally printed, full-color, hand-scored artwork and cutouts by Joe Baldwin. Limited edition of 100. SAMPLE

PAR002: Soundings/Shapers/Verma C60 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(INTL)
Three Chicago-based psychedelic rockers share this split. Verma brings heavy, riff-driven, testosterone-laden krautrock glory. Shapers create twitchy, throbbing, edgy compositions. Soundings use interlocking, mathy grunge to explore dark landscapes. Professionally duplicated and imprinted high-bias chrome cassettes. Professionally printed, full-color, hand-scored artwork and cutouts by Joe Baldwin. Limited edition of 100. SAMPLE

PAR003: Black Eagle Child/Excavacations C40 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(INTL)
Black Eagle Child and Excavacations both stand out for the pristine clarity of their carefully sculpted, immaculately mixed music. Black Eagle Child crafts sweet, pastoral dreams, the kind of ambient that can function well as background music while rewarding a more careful listen. Excavacations designs a sidelong journey, full of digressions but always moving in one direction, with a soaring payoff at the end. Professionally duplicated and imprinted high-bias chrome cassettes. Professionally printed, full-color, hand-scored artwork, cutouts and insert by Joe Baldwin. Limited edition of 100. SAMPLE

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various – ‘White Eye of Winter Watching‘ 2xCS    $25    
Hospital productions was offcially founded on october 31st, 1997 in madison, wisconsin. this was also the date of the first prurient live performance. some 14 years later we celebrate its 300th release with “white eye of winter watching.” This idea was birthed during the fall-out blizzards of 2010, while relentless storms shut down air traffic and I was stranded in the bunker sick in bed with the flu. During this time I re-discovered many of my favorite old cassette compilations from the 90’s that brought many disparate groups together under one banner. ‘original soundtrack’, released on italy’s less than zero, was of particular interest, with its sonically and geographically diverse lineup. also at this time a friend had given me a book on 20th Century Russian history, emphasizing strife in Russia and the overwhelming destructive forces of nature and man’s place within it. not only were troops engaged in the largest man-made conflict in history, but were, at the same, battling nature. without coats, winter ended soldiers lives before bullets could find them. It was then that I decided to combine the themes of the book with the idea of a dynamic compilation that brought together many of the genres that the label has explored.

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ft013 Belarisk C35 $8(Can)/$9(US)/$11(World)
Focused electronic compositions from Lee Tindall (Zerfallt, 1/2 of Mutation in the Gryd). A document which surveys the desolate terrain and engages its space in an almost alarmingly steady and clear manner. (edition of 100; pro-dubbed, pro-printed)

ft014 Pierrot Lunaire – ‘lantern floating vessel’ c28 $8(Can)/$9(US)/$11(World)
These diverse and discrete pieces of free saxophone shapes, soft tones, disembodied voices and amplified atmospherics suggest an alluring unifying logic. And what is sought with this logic is a sort of ascent. (edition of 100; pro-dubbed, pro-printed)

ft015 Sundrips – ‘phased out’ C32 $8(Can)/$9(US)/$11(World)
Synth and guitar swirls set adrift amidst reflective surfaces. Two side-long improvisations and one short “bonus” track. The first sundrips session from 2011 to be released. (edition of 100; pro-dubbed, pro-printed)

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DAIN DALLER – ‘Tirehouse Tapes Vol.1’ C48 $6(US)/$7(Can/Mex)/$9(World)
Dain Daller was part of the Chicago based electro-acoustic group Tiny Music, who have released a few great cassettes of epic machine music on Notice Recordings and Nihilist Records, as well as a few self released full length smokers. These days Dain has been keeping himself busy out in the desert of rural New Mexico, building a house out of recycled automobile tires. He is hunched over in full-on solo mode here, playing remarkable non-music seemingly without any instruments at all. Snippets of crackling vinyl and magnetic tape, bits of radio static, air compressors or whatever else got dragged in from the tool shed. Occasionally rhythmic, but proudly abrasive and atonal, perhaps a hint of garden hose or running motors? Seven sprawling serenades span these sides yielding a skewed sense of plunder-phonic/concrete structures carefully piled and stacked, resulting in a remarkably engaging narrative of squealing shortwave and relentlessly skipping 78’s. Desert dweller creak-howls, from a whisper to a roar. Dank opaque olive-green shell cassette comes beautifully packaged with full color labels and matching double sided full color wrap around U-card featuring photography of the actual Tirehouse shot by D.D. himself, and a stamped b/w photo insert printed on recycled sand colored art paper. Dry heat.  Edition of 50 cassettes

DAVID CINTRON – ‘No On’ CDr $8(US)/$10(Can/Mex)/$12(World)
After being plagued by a series of unfortunate production errors, we are proud as punch to finally make these inspired sessions available to the people. Cracked crystal gazing and ritual smoke meditations for fried synapses. Cleveland based artist/ musician David Cintron has been steadily delivering solid chunks of skewed sonics for many years, most recently as a member of avant-rock units Terminal Lovers and Scarcity of Tanks. Here Cintron slowly stretches out and delivers two massive tracks of solo drift. These graceful recordings build wave upon wave of ethereal synth wash and grand sweeping drones with clanking metal, spidery guitar tones and heavenly rotations of light, eventually swelling in slow motion to fill the enormous vacuum of outer orbit. 41 minutes of bright and pristine air-filled sound. Professionally duplicated full color compact disc comes beautifully packaged in a full color printed UV gloss finish digi-pack with all artwork and layout by David himself. Patiently shifting compositions of raw ambient shimmer.   Edition of 100 discs.

FLESH COFFIN – ‘The Beast Won’t Go To Sleep’ C30 $6(US)/$7(Can/Mex)/$9(World)
Another deeply distressing session of abrasive scrape and rumble from Andreas Brandal of Bergen, Norway. What he presents here as “The Beast…” is a powerful addition to an already impressive canon. Boku bad dream vibes. Four tracks of harsh and destroyed sound that keep both feet planted firmly on the extreme side of the line. Obviously a document of deep catharsis, but through pain comes clarity.  These recordings catch Flesh Coffin wallowing in a razor sharp sea of blown out junk and gigantic static assaults accompanied by strange creaking friction and strangled synth swan songs. Demon bells and blood gongs warped and bent. Grinding cut-ups flash quickly in front of your eyes as the walls crumble around you and the curtains catch fire.  Fleeting mellow tones appear to briefly calm the beast, but the hate inevitably returns, spewing putrid air that will scorch your esophagus. Machete is dragged ferociously, shooting sparks and slicing walls. Real time duplicated orange shell cassette comes with lacquer-sealed black and white labels and packaged with matching double sided foldout cardstock J-card in a clear Norelco case. Like a trash compactor.  Edition of 33 cassettes.

THE HERMETIC TRIO s/t C24 $6(US)/$7(Can/Mex)/$9(World)
Massive steel vessels reverberate and rumble as splintered reeds puncture ear drums. The Hermetic Trio consists of Bill Doob (of Karamazov Tapes, Weird Mix), Jefferson Zurna (The Alters, 3 Moons), and a mysterious third member known only as “Adam”. Crude and inspired improvisations recorded in an underground cavern, deep beneath Providence, Rhode Island. Huge and abrasive weeping tones ooze out of the dueling reeds in a fierce open ended battle of zurna vs. clarinet, while rhythmic room tone pounding and stomping hammers it all home. Obtuse, and all the better for it. Both of these two side long tracks are equal parts field recording and sporadic composition. Real time duplicated clear shell cassette with black lacquer-sealed labels comes packaged with a full color double sided fold out cardstock J-card featuring a shadowy original photograph by Jefferson himself, shot in the deep subterranean location. Jingling, bleeding freaks and non-jazz freedom for the socially retarded.  Edition of 50 cassettes.

KIMMIE DIX & THE DOOMIES s/t C30 $6(US)/$7(Can/Mex)/$9(World)
Really raw and twisted basement lounge vibe on this puppy. Kenneth Gerard Painter Jr. is one third of Lord Bird Golden Cobra, notorius yinzer no-good-nicks and purveyours of high volume sonic cream corn. Here Kenneth shares a singularly skewed vision with his carefully chosen tribe of friends and family. This is like vomiting paint. Anti-everything / anti-nothing. Deeply strange collection of low-fi daddy/daughter noise, live action feedback squalls, pow-wow drum scuzz sessions, unintelligible child-speak jumbled jibberish and breathy air organ huff and puff skuffers. Presented exactly as requested by the artist. Real time duplicated black shell cassette in a clear Norelco case comes with bright green printed labels and insert. Packaged with hand-numbered purple art paper J-card featuring a really weird photo of a microscopic baby seahorse provided by Kenneth himself. 95% guaranteed to induce bewilderment and confusion in all unsuspecting squares. Edition of 33 cassettes.

MOLE HOLE – ‘Wedge’ VHS $10(US)/$11(Can/Mex)/$15(World)
Spleen ruptures slowly. Another all analog audio/visual document of a casual balls-deep spelunk into the semi-stinky cavern of the not quite tangible Mr. Mole Hole. 17 minimal minutes of electro-acoustic noise blather and flicker-fade flashes of pointless light movement. Avoid eye contact at all costs. Three blurry layers of 8mm and 16mm look-sees slowly soaking into themselves. Audio was recorded by John Marks (of Art of This, Lighted) live in a sparsely attended and dimly lit basement gig in Iowa City on August 11th 2011. Audio set up: WAVETEK waveform signal generator, two P3 P5012 Extended Play Telephone Recorders, prepared magnetic tape loops, one contact peizo-transducer microphone, Zildgan Custom ride cymbal, dark blue speckled enamel-ware plate, EHX HolyStain, RV3 Digital Delay, Big Muff, Mackie mixer, Peavey amp, Realistic stereo reverb unit, Silvertone practice amp and Warfendale 12” PA speakers. Visuals recorded live directly to tape via VHS camcorder at Sounds HQ in Lake City, MN on October 6th 2011. Visual set up: Singer Instaload 16, Anscovision Memory Master 2, and MontgomeryWard 807 duo, each projecting its own respective layer of full color looped goop to soak your cerebellum in. True to form. Deeply murky, endlessly repeating and purely circular. Real-time duplicated green shell VHS tape with black and white spine and face labels comes packaged in a clear plastic snap case with stamped and hand numbered green art-paper sleeve and info inside. Welcome to Mud town. Edition of 50 videos.

SAM GAS CAN & The Charter Communications Defamation League – ‘Life on Earth is Pure and Golden, Life on Earth is Hell on Earth’ C24  $6(US)/$7.5(Can/Mex)/$9(World)
If you are afraid of sounds that sound like sounds, please go home. Packing a respectable ten songs into 24 minutes, Mass-hole underground beatnik Sam Gas Can returns with a series of blown sessions ranging broadly from pseudo-techno bedroom lounge vibes to lonely and depressive acoustic murder ballads. Essential groove organ cookers via vintage keyboard tones sauced with a subdued but consistent sense of bummer lyricism and steadily skewed vox delivery. Hollering against howling winds, calling out into the future of the outsider-pop wasteland.  Features several undeniable instant classics. Schmaltzy sleeper groove ballad drooler “Night Moves” will soften the hardest of hearts and the completely over the top “No One To Watch Over Me” hits a homer as a Vegas nightclub closer including a full on dubbed up orchestra climax. Dang. Pipe dream radio. Real time duplicated clear shell cassette with bright yellow printed labels comes packaged with a double-sided full color card stock J-card featuring an evocative back-of-the-head self-portrait photo shot by Sam himself and a Horoscope xerox insert. Sleep if you will, suckers. Edition of 50 cassettes.

THREE WALLS –  ‘Radio One b/w Radio Two’  C60  $6(US)/$8(Can/Mex)/$9(World)
Doozie pair of sessions here. Three Walls is a collaborative duo project between Jefferson Zurna (3 Moons, Hermetic Trio, The Alters) and Graham Baldwin (Bloodwall, Visitor, Theives) laying down pulsing static and noxious fumes. Released collaboratively with 2208 tapes, these slabs of long form abstract improv are like a heavily medicated walkie-talkie party packed into a small dark closet. Wave after wave of reeking weatherband gurgle and the soft luminescence of liquid slowly evaporating into invisible vapor. Real time duplicated cassette made available in two versions, both packaged with a double sided hand numbered card stock J-card featuring the iconic Three Walls parallelogram logo on a stark bright white field. 20 copies available as opaque white shell C62 cassettes, 20 copies available as translucent red shell C60 cassettes. Both editions come with matching black and white labels in a clear Norelco case. Ideal accompaniment for attempted loss of consciousness or a nonchalant trudge through knee deep molasses. Edition of 40 cassettes.

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White Fir – ‘Lake Seeds Volume 2’ C30
Outback tape loops and found sound arrangements by R Franklin, dragging the mic through the dried leaves and warping am radio waves. A continuation of the Lake Seeds series of lo-fi tape assembly cut-ups.

Pink Desert – ‘Daytime Series’ C25
Glistening shimmer from one the the finest; B Douglas (Different Lands label) delivers another thoughtful moment from his carefully released Pink Desert project. Circular soothing passages that recall past experiences. Meditation through synthesis.

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Coyote Clean Up/DenMother – ‘#blast’ C14  $6
The cool chills of Coyote Clean Up and the cerebral tenderness of DenMother presents #blast. A cassette single that introduces Sab’s latest incarnation “DenMother” and revitalizes Chrissy’s Coyote Clean Up as both prepare a long play for ihaa. Take a peak at what is ahead and check out some of the freshest sounds to date. Limited to 100 on bright green chrome tapes. Mp3 download with purchase.

Big Epoch & Julia LaDense/Bizzart – ‘Realife’ C11 $5
Big Epoch and Julia LaDense combine a weird blend of experimental sounds with hip hop influences and sexy vocals in Desert Holes – a one off track by this unlikely duo. The two are currently working on a follow up long play for ihaa – consider this a little taste. Bizzart brings forth a mashed remix of some legendary Wu Tang in Damage. Bizzart produces some strange sounds here that are typical of this LA native. Limited to 40 on blue chrome tapes.

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Buffalo Moon – ‘Selva Surreal’ LP/CD $12
In 2010, Buffalo Moon brought you “Wetsuit,” their debut release that made everybody want to go to the beach and get drunk and fall in love. More than a year later — after a stop at the gorgeous melodic shores of the “Black Magic/Low Tide Moon,” 7″ — the Buffalo are leading you away from the coastline, waving a pennant that reads Bienvenido a la Selva. If “Wetsuit” was playing love games in the sand, “Selva Surreal” (Surreal Jungle)— the new LP we are proud to release on Moon Glyph— is five young pranksters splashing euphonious paint in the Rainforest, trading in their cool blues for deep velvet and crimson. Fires are blazing. Cannons are blasting. Machine guns are pounding. And that’s just in the first single, “Chica de Luna”. “Salt in my Mouth” and “Amores Perros,” take you back to those sandy beaches but with tighter craftsmanship and more sophisticated swagger. “Raspberry Sorbet” and “Moses Baby” consult sexophone aficionado Michael Lewis to accomplish their schmoozy bedroom peccadillos. Indeed, in these hallucinatory wetlands, genre shifts hit you like catapulted coconuts, but if you can duck all the madness and sonic booby traps, you find the album for what it is: a feral portrait of a Blakean Innocence expiring before our ears. The Kids of Irony are alright, America, they’re just entering the Jungles of Experience. And it’s wild out there. Ed. of 500.

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