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Arthur Dent & Deeper Than Space – ‘Drift.’ CS $12
Bonding Tapes has teamed up with Silent Records on the Re-Issue of the ambient classic Drift. by Arthur Dent and Deeper Than Space. Originally released on CD in 1995, Drift. is a collection of rumbling processed droning electronics and slow moving dronescapes which can implicitly be connected to concepts developed by the Deleuzian’s philosophical perspectivism. Drift. is now available for the first time on limited edition cassette.

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Arvo Zylo – ‘333’ DVD
Arvo Zylo’s acclaimed “333” release re-envisioned, re-constructed, re-animated, and so forth. 33 artists, including Dave Phillips, Sudden Infant, Hans Grusel, Bran (…) Pos, Vertonen, Bull of Heaven, Bruce Lamont, Bride, Skulsyr (TOMB, Dreadlords), Protman, Insect Deli, and more. Features cover art* by Yasutoshi Yoshida (Government Alpha) *inverted with permission. DVD comes in a jewel case with professional full color art by Yasutoshi Yoshida. Menu design by Jason Ogawa and Arvo Zylo, featuring reworkings by 33 artists, as well as the original “333” album by Arvo Zylo. Contributions include videos and a surround sound piece. *At this time, it looks like there will be a version with less than 33 artists and a proper DVD menu, as well as an edition with all of the material that is a data DVD, due to an oversight in terms of how DVD menu design works.

Blood Rhtyhms – ‘Cutting Teeth’
A collection of live recordings initially intended as a bonus for a special edition version of Blood Rhythms’ 2015 LP “Assembly” that never happened, these are reissued recordings from a scarce tape in 2009, remastered by Zach Adams. Live group performances around this time featured Daniel Burke (Illusion of Safety), Michael Krause (Death Factory), Michael Kendrick (Rope), Travis (ONO), and several other appearances from friends and respected stalwarts. There is a gradual evolution evident here, where the first show (April Fool’s Day, 2007) started with as many blaring horns as could be mustered, and from there, group outings gradually morphed into a sort of krautrock / industrial / scrap metal / synth damage ensemble. All recordings here were captured direct from the soundboard (before post production/meddling), except for Ronny’s, and Elastic Arts, which was mixed down from a room recording and a direct soundboard recording.

Architeuthis Dux – ‘Submergence’
Architeuthis Dux is a noise unit from Austin, TX, perhaps best known for their heavily engaging, blistering harsh noise performances. Active since 2012, the duo of Kenny Brieger and Tony Duran have created an impressive oeuvre of mostly limited CDR editions, some in quantities as low as 15 copies. Through over a dozen releases, there have, on many occasions, been moments of what one can only call “blissed out abrasions”; Traversing territory that comes off with an almost kraut-rock oriented synth meltdown glaze, topped off with lo-fi metallic clang, shrieking industrial grit, and just generally bleak and tortured, surgical steel atmospheres. NO PART OF IT proposed to hone in on these reflective moments, and compiled a morass of penetrating, expertly organized cacophony that serves to stand apart, or give way to, the rest of Architeuthis Dux’s more aggressive power electronics and heavy electronic work. The result is just under an hour of crisp sampling, damaged percussion, and simultaneously subdued, yet clearly pissed off pedal action that could stand up to SPK’s early live sets, or Nurse With Wound’s darkest moments.

Machine Listener – ‘Sentient System’
Machine Listener began with such a name due to a project that is based on exploring and exploiting inherent characteristics from machines, and making compositions from them. In the beginning, it seems that everything from home printers to huge factory generators were used as sources. Their electromagnetic signals or the frequencies they emitted, or simply the noises they make, were the basis of compositions by sound artist Matthew Gallagher. Eventually, of course, Gallagher moved into sourcing the potential of synthesizers, both as machines and as instruments. It can be assumed that Machine Listener’s pure synth LP (“Endless Coil”), now out on Tusco Embassy (where we can guess that machines were used for their proper intention) came after “Sentient System”, released in extremely limited quantities by noise-filth veteran Wyatt Howland (Skin Graft) on his own SK SK label in 2014. It is not up to us to say how “Sentient System” was created, but it is safe to assume that a little of both of these approaches were traversed, and as a result, “Sentient System” could be considered the apex of Machine Listener’s adventures with mechanical, aleatoric components of industry. Whatever the case may be, “Sentient System” is unlike any other recording you’ll ever hear. It is both excellent in terms of composition and also permeated with a conceptually sound “hands off” approach, with caterwauling animal behavior, screeching panic signals and pervasive cicada hum. Some segments of these soundscapes could fit perfectly as cerebral, revelatory moments in a particularly head-fucked horror film, hewn with a certain feeling for a desolate science fiction future, or simply in mindscapes where pure noise is the end and the means. The release stands on its own, and apart from the rest, but at the same time is extremely important in adding to the legacy of industrial noise. Originally limited to a criminally low quantity of copies, we here at NO PART OF IT are extremely excited to bring this release to a wider audience.

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The Brown Christmas – ‘Where the Moon Don’t Shine’ CS $5
The Brown Christmas is an experimental/ improvised electronics/ noise group from New Jersey. This most recent release, ‘Where the Moon Don’t Shine’, is the sixth in a series of monthly releases. It is a dynamic collection of controlled chaos, running the gamut between minimal ambiences to lush walls of sound. Sometimes playful other times abrasive; ‘Where the Moon Don’t Shine’ marks a seismic shift in the maturation of The Brown Christmas.

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Hanging Tree Algorithm – ‘Lunar’ CS
Ohio beatmaker Hanging Tree Algorithm’s sci-fi instrumental hip hop odyssey from earlier this year is now available on cassette. Limited to 25 blue/black swirled cassettes.

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SM067 3 MOONS – ‘3wordsword’ CS
3 Moons was Founded in 2010 by Jefferson Zurna, who performed and published tapes as a solo artist while living in Kansas City, Minneapolis, and Portland, OR. In 2012, Dena Goldsmith-Stanley joined 3 Moons, and the duo have toured extensively, while living in a small mobile home. The Duo routinely collaborates with fellow artists and musicians and currently resides in Oakland, CA. “3wordSword” is another take on the phrase “meditate and destroy” with the emphasis on Meditate. Rumbling sheets of feedback, guitar figures, hypnotic reeds, and cryptic electric piano add up to a strange kind of distorted peace. These improvised visions can also, at times, walk you through ancient labyrinths, take you on board a telepathic submarine with Sun Ra deep off the coast of Egypt, and seat you at the banquet table for a slapstick buzzard carrion feast. These tracks were recorded live as they were improvised in Minneapolis, MN Oakland, CA and Hayfork, CA in 2014 and 2015. 8-track album, limited to 80 cassettes with downloads.

SM068 DARSOMBRA – ‘Ployvision’ CS
“From Insects… to Aliens (The Worms Turn)” finds itself building layers of proggy guitar, more active, more intense, with washes of cymbal added for effect in the first couple minutes. A swirling solo takes hold and winds its way into another seemingly simplistic progression around eight minutes in, but it gives way to lower rumbling undertones, if only momentarily before the guitar surges forward again. Though only part of Darsombra‘s broad approach, Daniloski‘s lead work isn’t to be undervalued. Aside from being technically proficient, it brings a rare spontaneity to what might commonly be thought of as a drone or noise record, neither of which is a style known for working off the cuff, adding to the atmosphere of positivity and basking in the spirit of an apparently ceaseless creative drive. Just past 15 minutes, Everton begins a vocal loop that is ultimately the introduction to the final movement of “From Insects… to Aliens (The Worms Turn)” and after a final crash of guitar, she’s backed by noise that indeed sounds like and may or may not be bugs, like crickets at night something from the forest. – THE OBELISK .NET 2-track album, EDITION OF 200 with downloads.

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OTA002 – bagatela – ‘américa’ C12
A triptych in miniature. For example: bering – arrival of the first men and playmobil figures to america; maranhão – one caravela crosses the atlantic with a scissors-grinder on the rudder; dez – one morning, somewhere in the new world.

OTA003 – heroin holiday – ‘near places’ C64
You went to the restaurant for the romantic bore but the violin player was replaced by two guys wearing jukebox suits, playing a rhapsody of all the tunes that never got any coin, just with pure frequencies and bare hands.

OTA004 – joe & man – ‘ó tia, dá bolinho?’ C36
Choo-choo tries to arrive somewhere on time but everyone wants to go elsewhere. Back home, is there a velvet blanket waiting for you if it’s cold? And if not, will the chest of drawers do the summer prank and spread cat fur and dust mite all over innocence? There is care in caring, but is there some left in love still?

OTA005 – tape000 – ‘dream’ C24
There are rites that do not harm liberty – she said. They have no power or measure. This carob tree, can you smell it?

OTA006 – pal+ – ‘pictorial’ C38
The attendant came out for a cigarette.and looks around. The rust draws a stock market crash graph in the roof of the old luxury car, the garbage dumpster is disgorging drawings from the small kindergarten.

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Kösmonaut – ‘Cobra Force’ C40
Carpenter-worship, could-be video-game-score synth ballads. Pure, unadulterated 1980s informed by a modern age. Released in ultra limited edition of 18 copies. C40

Naturalismo – ‘Fede’ CDr 5€
20 copies, slim transparent poly-box, pearl cdr. A wintry meditation on faith. Redemptive LFOs and cross-modulated orthodoxies, bass theologies for ambient consumption. Minimal variations on the core tenets of belief systems. The boredom of the Absolute, played with sustain and portamento.

Gelba/Caligine split C60 5€
20 copies, soft poly-box, C60. A second coming for the eternal splitting between earth and air, soil and mist, dirt and haze. Italian psych-folk and rural noise at its best: putrid guitars, timeless echoes, garbled tape reverbs, looping interferences, textured harmonies. A soaring cartography of peripheral musicking.

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GOD38 JUUN & Michael Wegerer – ‘Piano Sublimation’ LP + book
is a collaboration between the Austrian composer and musician JUUN
and the visual artist Michael Wegerer. Piano Sublimation combines sound, graphics, video and sculpture in multidisciplinary installations. A grand piano by Ehrbar built around 1860, functions as the common starting object, which was then cut into 5 pieces. The piano represents the initial point of departure for a constructive exchange of progressive translations in contemporary graphics, objects and sound.

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SIN034 – BRUITAL ORGASME – ‘Méthodologie contextuelle’ C30
After a previous tape on in 2012, Bruital Orgasme returns on Sincope with Méthodologie Contextuelle. Two long tracks where they express their personal and fascinating vision of sound. A creative mix of drone, electroacustic fragments, landscape sound, noise with their dinstinctive approach. A touch that characterizes them. artwork by truculentboy, pro dubbed tape, full printed artwork, download code included, limited to 70 hand-numbered copies

SIN035 – OTTAVEN – ‘Sequenze per raffigurazioni mentali’ C36
Giovanni Donadini solo project, active since 2003, former member of With Love, Lago Morto, Nastro Mortal and currently active in bands like Primorje and Arbre du Ténéré. Minimal sounds, poor electronics, spurious rhythms, fragrant loops, field recordings, voices and objects. sounds that go drifting up to get stuck in the interludes of their exhaustion in new landscapes and changes in perspective. artwork by truculentboy, pro dubbed tape, full printed artwork, download code included, limited to 70 hand-numbered copies

SIN036 – ALGA KOMBU – ‘In fin dei corpi’ CDr + zine
An Italian transfeminist band borned in 2013 in Bologna, with the urgency to assert their own point of view about what they live. Music like the territory of collective empowerment. post core, that combines wave, post punk, hardcore, garage and noise rock. Including a mini zine with lyrics, arts, flyer…
artwork bu padiy, silkscreened heavy cardboard cover, high quality pressed zine, limited to 90 hand-numbered copies

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