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MY DEAR KILLER/RELLA THE WOODCUTTER
My Dear Killer has been our first release. After years spent in scientific research in three different countries he’s back working on a bunch of new songs for a new proper album to be released soon. In the meantime he gives us this track, still reminescent of his early tunes, slow, sad and dissonant. Rella introduces himself with a couple of shorts tracks, smelling of sunny backyards, acoustic guitars and various discomforts. The first track opens with a tribal chant deliberately different from what follows, just a small hint of one of the many things that our man likes.

FATHER MURPHY – ‘HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD’
Our heroes Father Murphy just went through the -nth EU tour, this time sharing the stage with Sic Alps at times. Before they left they recorded a personal re-interpretation of VU’s Jesus, a possibly darker and noisier version as they imagined it. What a pleasure to welcome on the flipside another dark-ish trio from Turin, with a great bandname, great musical tastes and huge personality. There you go fellas, surfing through both sides of this perfect headstone to the warm season. This 7 inch is co-released with Aagoo, Avant! Records, Brigadisco, LaDelirante and Madcap Collective.

RELLA THE WOODCUTTER – ‘I KNOW WHEN IT’S TIME TO GET THE FUCK AWAY’
Rella, a new entry in the Boring Machines family, will be protagonist of a series of releases, started with the 7 inch split single with MDK and now continuing with this cdEP made of five songs. An entire new album of songs is set to be released later this year. From the initial sonic assault of Apocryphal, the five tracks guide the listener through shades of early nineties electric blues (think Palace, Songs:Ohia and fellows), sixties psichedelia flavoured from the spirit of Skip Spence. Rella’s singing is rich, intense and perfumed, sometimes plunged into deep trance, like in Are You Expired? or Wrong Affection where instruments and voice rise together in a psichedelic unison building from a country-like opening. Rella demonstrates he can manage nude guitar&voice songs, like in Coward where he accompany himself just with acoustic guitar fingerpicking and also skeletal electric blues like Bodies which transfigurates in a noisy orgy of percussions and violin. Recorded at home, this EP is the prelude of a forthcoming album which is part of the vynil trilogy started with the self released Nihilist Shack.

HEROIN IN TAHITI s/t  LP
This duo from Rome declared to have invented a new genre, with the tipical boast that only romans have. When we actually saw them playing a gig with Stellar OM Source at Codalunga we tought that if it’s not new, it’s surely weird enough to be released on Boring Machines. Heroin in Tahiti welcomes you to death surf, the sound of a possible apocalypse which surrounds two twanging guitars. The album moves slowly through Morriconian tunes and other ‘surfing’amenities, all covered in a hazy numb of loops, effects and drum machines. Think of drinking a frozen Daiquiri in Mururuoa during the atomic test while watching spaghetti western b-movies and you probably get the image.

RELLA THE WOODCUTTER – ‘THE GOLDEN UNDERTOW’  LP
A complete album from the man with a guitar that made us think at the same time to old bluesmen, psychdelic jammers with injections of modern slowcorers. Recorded at home in a week this album sounds as a perfect synthesis of what we like on a songwriter. Good lyrics, great flexibility between styles and a general psychedelic feeling that make us think of a sunny afternoon in the frontporch with lots of beer, cigarettes and nothing to do except watching the horizon. Get yourself a rocking chair and a hat.

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DPRCD06 Mountainhood – ‘America 2 or Nahuel Huapa: A Saga, The Intense Vibes of the Rainbow, A Tale of Transformation Of My Brother’ 2xCD
Edition of 200. New mammoth 2 disc set from Michael Curtis Hilde aka Mountainhood, following on from releases with Important, Reverb Worship and Blackest Rainbow. Michael takes us on a lucid journey of far out lo fi folk over 2 discs and nearly 1 hour 50 minutes! This incredible album was recorded well over a year ago and has been in planning for nearly just as long! Ranging from the beautiful (“Have You Ever Wished”) to the bizarre (“Trees Message (Nahuel In The Woods)”) Michaels music is both emotionally exhausting and totally mind melting. A vast array of instrumentation is used to create a variety of moods and textures, mainly centred around Michael’s unique and enchanting vocals, giving the album a strange sensation of late night camp fire psyche outs recorded onto tape and left for us to find decades later. This album is a wonderful documentation of Michael Curtis Hilde’s Mountainhood project and it’s overall sound and unique artistic vision, which is unlike anything else around at the moment. All artwork by Mountainhood.

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RxRy – ‘Alpha’ LP
If the blogosphere hype machine were represented as a physical city, every overblown diatribe rendered as a gaudy tower scraping at soot-filled skies, then the Alpha EP is the crumbling warehouse on the edge of the grid, it’s dilapidated facade streaked with the arrhythmic patterns of distant and dying neon lights. Windows glowing against a polluted twilight skyline, harboring some secretive and pulsating celebration within. As the architect, the shadowy figure(s) known as RxRy have poured their foundation onto IDM and techno, then raised a framework on ambient and drone. Electric melodies are wired into walls of static and thundering low-end vibrations, billowing sheets of noise and compression decay over a shuddering scaffold of analog warmth. New algorithms are emerging from the digital dust – intelligent dance music for the next generation of sound-seekers. Turn your ears and minds towards the fringes, you’re within earshot. Limited to 400 copies (250 on black vinyl, 150 on clear vinyl).

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VATICAN SHADOW – ‘pakistan military academy’ 2xCS
under a september sky. edition of 125

VATICAN SHADOW – ‘mural of saddam’ CS
it was business as usual yesterday in shops across the city. edition of 125

VATICAN SHADOW – ‘washington buries al qaeda leader at sea – deck 1’ CS
the new york stock exchange traded shares. edition of 125

VATICAN SHADOW – ‘washington buries al qaeda leader at sea – deck 2’ CS
new york’s baseball teams stuck to their schedules. edition of 125

VATICAN SHADOW – ‘washington buries al qaeda leader at sea – deck 3’ CS
the world turned as ever on “as the world turns”. edition of 125

ASH POOL – ‘together they serve to define the process’ CS
third demo, recorded in between the first album and the second 7″

AMES SANGLANTES – ‘silver chamber bars’ CS
dirty electronic industrial noise. edition of 125

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Midday Veil – ‘Subterranean Ritual II’ C48 $7
The latest installment in Midday Veil’s “Subterranean Ritual” series of improvised recordings, SRII consists of two long, slow-building tracks that glisten with dynamic tension and ecstatic restraint.  Atmospheric vocals, stately drums and otherworldly synths provide a slippery, haunting exploration of cosmic coalescence and decay.  Limited to 200 cassettes featuring artwork generated by the band during a residency at the Experimental Television Center. Download card included.

Fungal Abyss – ‘Bardo Abgrund Temple’ C70 $7

Debut full length from Fungal Abyss, the psychedelic improv sister project of Seattle based prog-metal heavyweights Lesbian.  Free-form, entheogen-inspired session builds from spiraling, sonorous drones to shuddering climaxes.  Limited to 250 cassettes featuring artwork by Darwin Rodriguez. Download card included.

STARE CASE – ‘Lose Today‘ LP
Lose Today wields the ethereal meditative power leftover from The Velvet Underground’s Sweet Sister Ray epic bootleg. The result: a melodious somnolent grievance that leaves the listener to feast on a curiously endless and internal banquet. Young snarls and writhes in irritated spiraling pronouncements that trail off in regretful, pained fashion, producing the same eventual something-isn’t-right that The Velvet Underground secured, but set aside to allow the Michigan basement bluesmen to borrow. Also, here is Young’s virgin performance on bass, a venture that proves suiting as his sparse yet stable meanderings are the backbone to a jam lost in the arcane. At times the bass lines seem to be counting off the seconds until an eventual meltdown. Meanwhile, Olson wanders off on woodwinds, seemingly tangled in wavelengths, letting his own sounds guide him through a brassy chilling darkness. He follows scales—Indian scales, blues scales—though the subtlety of Olson’s discipline fosters to an expansive intimacy, a nuance so massive his quips on flute and saxophone are the secret architects of _Lose Today_’s meditation. Olson takes the spiraling mania inspired by the likes of The VU’s Sweet Sister Ray lose-all jam and lets it blossom into a soundtrack for a secret think tank whose sole purpose is to maintain a shadowed fire. TOUR

C S YEH – ‘SONGS 2002‘ CASSETTE
Double A sided cassette reissue of a severely limited one-sided LP, and what might be C Spencer Yeh’s most trying, challenging and rewarding foray into a world previously unknown to him, and us : his world of song. Songs 2002 contain what are perhaps subtle homages to early Eno and primo era Bowie vis a vis the studio treatments of the raw sounds with which we’re more familiar in his previous work. Yeh’s songs work within two generalized veins : ala Eno’s early attempts to communicate liquidly within a ‘rigid’ language and structure as pop / rock, and ala Keiji Haino’s sense of mythos and personal pulse. Recorded over 10 yrs ago, ultimately, these songs can stand aside the most difficult of outsider aesthetics. There is nothing really new here, aside from what is essentially editing and narration. Might just be me, but i think he’s found Love, both in what inspires him, and a new found expression.

THE PARASITES OF THE WESTERN WORLD – ‘Politico B/W Zytol Automation’ 7″
De Stijl’s excavation of The Parasites Of The Western World turns up the lead single for their second album in the form of an exact reissue. Originally released circa 1980-81, ‘Politico’ opened the B-side to Substrata with a rippin’ New Wave roller full of glam stomp, proggy arrangement and punky attitude. The synth-fuelled instrumental B-side was exclusive to the single, and as tradition dictates, far more interesting, featuring Terry Censky and Patrick Burke in an ebullient symphony of synths, drums and guitar.

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Grasshopper – ‘Miles in the Sky‘
This is a reissue of an ultra-limited tour only release. Two steaming creeper jams from one of the most exciting acts out there. Trumpet and electronics meld into a no-jazz drone zone.

Bad Trip – ‘Beat Is Murder’
New duo outing from Pascal Nichols (Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides) and Julien Dupont. Out jazz, drone, free-form clang. Hypnotic, attention-grabbing sounds. Crucial stuff. Art by Faye Coral Johnson.

Mold Omen – ‘Soil’
This Baltimore duo make sounds without category. Power surges, melting audio tape, frayed strings? Uneasy squalls, mad tinkering, tweaking and heavy petting. And that’s just the half of it. Late night sounds for the unhealthy.

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Telecult Powers – ‘Zion Traveler’ LP
For the uninitiated, Telecult Powers is the superforce of Mister Matthews and Witchbeam, two weirdoes of the highest caliber, bred in Cleveland, nurtured in Brooklyn and now protecting a transdimenional wormhole connecting Crown Heights and New Orleans respectively.  They hit Brooklyn by storm, years ahead of the surge of the current synth infatuation, and clearly stood out by way of their sincerity to their art and most importantly, the substance that backed it up. With but a modest arsenal of mystical synth-gun boxes designed and meticulously hand-assembled by Mister Matthews, these two turned every shithole venue and divebar they graced into a hovering spacecraft that for moments took you away from the $7 beers, high rents and endless neon spandex that Brooklyn had become.  This is a definitively fresh perspective to the evolution of synthesized music in the modern era. This is not the rehashing of cliched 70s synth motifs passed off as “original” or “experimental”. This is the cusp. Mister Matthews and Witchbeam will be fondly remembered in the great Tome of 21st century Musicians as journeymen who actively moved electronic music beyond its overly-glorified past into a new age of enlightenment.  After countless tapes and cdrs, it is astounding that no one has given these two the wax they’ve so deserved. I am proud to be a positive force in getting this LP into the world. It’s the least I can do.  Housed in a full color jackets designed by Witchbeam, LP include digital download code as well as exclusive Mothers Third Eye issue cataloging key events of the next millennia, provided by their future selves, not unlike Biff’s Sports Almanac. Use at your own risk. Limited to 200.

Grasshopper – ‘Good Night Sweet Prince’ LP
“Goodnight Sweet Prince” is the culmination of 12 years of banddom for Jesse DeRosa and Josh Millrod. These somber trumpet soliloquies, bubbling electronic quagmires and rolling tides of feedback squelches have their roots deep in the woods of Long Island where the two met under the guise of learning classical trumpet at the same summer camp that launched Mariah Carey to stardom.  Over the years, they’ve toured the world with orchestras, studied classical music at two of the world’s finest conservatories and eventually landed in mangling the sounds of their polished trumpet tones to create throbbing walls of droning jazz noise.  “Goodnight Sweet Prince” is the bands most focused work with three improvisations that move freely between unadorned jazz trumpet tones, dense polytonal orchestration and harsh outbursts of noise all surrounded by a thick cloud of hazy smoke… a seriously hazy cloud that washes over the whole thing giving it a warmth that tempers the harsher moments.  These three improvisations are among the last recorded at The Bakery in Harlem. They were originally recorded for ESP Disk, but then rejected for “sounding too much like Miles Davis”. While there are moments that evoke “Sketches of Spain”, they are quickly engulfed by waves of harshness that would make Miles cringe and go back to smoking a jazz cigarette in hopes that it might make a bit more sense. Goodnight Sweet Prince is dedicated to the loving memory of Martin Dreiwitz, conductor of the Long Island Youth Orchestra and firm believer that Josh Millrod and Jesse DeRosa would never amount to much. Limited to 100. Co-released with Blood Fist Karate School.

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TRDWORD24  CAETHUA – ‘The Summer Is Over Before It’s Begun’ LP $14
Edition of 500.  Caethua is the project of Maine resident Clare Hubbard, now collaborating with Andy Neubauer.  As Caethua walks deeper and deeper into the fogged up landscape, they bring with them a Walter Carlos take on baroque tinged psyche folk, and post industrial tinted lenses for which to look through.   With a handful of releases under her belt on a variety of labels, The Summer Is Over is one of Hubbard’s most realized works. Eight sonically perfect songs filled with heart-melting vocal melodies, and dream provoking lyrics. Tastefully accompanied by her piano, guitar, saxaphone and well placed soundscapes. She is joined on this record by the multi-instrumentalism of Andy Neubauer (Impractical Cockpit, Ancestral Diet, Flak Mask,Village of Spaces) who compliments this masterpiece with bass clarinet and cello. Recorded at The Pool Recording Studio by Alex Yusimov and artfully mastered by Tim Stollenwerk.    This is a split release between Turned Word and the debut release on the new Mississippi Records imprint, Water Wing Records.  Art work by Amy Moon.

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RAGS/The Ether Staircase split C44
Separated at birth, these two projects were bound to meet further down the road and here present an engaging dialogue in sound. On Side A, the inimitable Oakland artist and musician James Seevers under his solo RAGS banner issues a patchwork of melody and noise–clear blasts of interwoven darkness and beauty hold the listener rapt throughout the side-long journey. The Ether Staircase offers a murkier affair on Side B–something is quivering to life beneath the surface of a turbid pond. ((CAVE-04)) C-44 Edition of 20

Traces s/t C30
Little explanation provided, but from the first blasts of feedback it is clear that this tape chronicles bad times, but the initial violence pushes into more introspective moments of tape garble, and found sound. ((CAVE-05)) C-30. Edition of 20

The Lesser Siren – ‘Rowan Ash’ C30
Evoking excursions into California’s North Coast where the summers pass like forgotten promises, cold and hazy. Occasionally, there is light that filters down through the trees, warming the mulch, prompting the seeds of slow time. ((CAVE-06)) C-30 Edition of 20

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