Animal Psi

HP59: CIRCUIT WOUND – ‘Selective Misanthropy’ C42
Edition of 50. New document by Jay Howard (Bacteria Cult). 90’s laced harsh noise. Side B featuring a live recording from most recent Los Angeles performance. for nature and the reclusive.Â

HP58: TANNER GARZA – ‘Regret’ C42
Edition of 50. Carefully crafted cassette loops both uplifting & melancholic. Ambient tape drone for longing & reflection.

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RAVEN – ‘Metamorphosis’ 2xC15 £5
30 minutes of the full-on harsh noise from the most prolific and well-respected leader of the Serbian noise scene. 4 tracks recorded across 2 x C15, delivered in a double-cassette box set with multi-panel gatefold sleeves, enveloped in a wrap-around sleeve. Limited to 25 copies.

MENTHE DE MENTHE – ‘Crisi D’Identità’ £4.5
5 minimalist dirty analogue industrial tracks, produced using hand-made oscillators and an old Soviet RITM drum-machine, all squeezed onto a pink C30 with matching gatefold sleeve. Limited to 25 copies.

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Sci Fi Industries – ‘Cone, Drum and Barricade’
[EN] Album of analogue electronic music by Portuguese project Sci Fi Industries. Originally recorded in 2012. A co-release with Thisco Records. [PT] Album de electrónica analógica pelas mãos do projecto Português Sci Fi Industries. Originally recorded in 2012. A co-release with Thisco Records.

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Lionel O – ‘Mama Said Knock Me Out’
Mama Said Knock Me Out is the fifth release by Chicago artist Lionel O, nèe Matt Orenstein. Originally intended to be his mother’s day gift to his mom to help her combat insomnia, Mama is a half-whispered hallelujah chorus of tapes and synthesizers that brims and pulses with light. Having spent five years studying in Oberlin, OH, before relocating to Chicago in 2011, Mama bears signs of both Oberlin’s madcap experimentalism and Chicago’s effortless cool. Respiratory and beautifully restrained, Mama unfurls over four tracks with a mesmeric glow. Limited cassette run of 100, comes with a download.

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The Cosmic Dead – ‘EasterFaust’ LP
Since 2010, The Cosmic Dead have been exploring the outer reaches of kraut rock, doom and psychedelia, tasting the extremes of sound and fusing them into a single, all-enveloping web of stratospheric riffing, otherworldly ambience and kosmic textures that has spread itself across countless shows throughout all Europe. Remember that satanic drug thing you didn’t understand? Forget about it! Here comes the new breed and it’s a fierce and fiery force! A creeping barrage of sound that embodies the spirit of heavy psychedelic freak-outs from the Godz and Hawkind to early Monster Magnet („25… Tab“-era) and Acid Mother’s Temple to set you afire. Want some? Tune in, turn on, get burned! “For anyone who hasn’t yet stood before the Dead and their live homage to the cosmos, expect religious devotion to synthesised dreamworlds, subsonic grooves, guitaristic splendour and the vast, hypnotic sounds of Hawkwind and Popol Vuh eternally jamming in the Möbius strip of time and space” The album is EASTERFAUST and it comes out in a limited edition of 400 copies on a 180 gr. marble coloured vinyl.

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.mf – ‘Cardboard City’ C30
Special collaboration between Nada and Ripples Recordings. Presenting new computer based compositions from .mf. Limited edition cassette features 2 additional tracks not found on digital version. Artwork by Ennio Mazzon.

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1971.046 Kindest Cuts s/t C20/CDr
Kindest Cuts is Patrick Short. He’s been doing various thing with Under Pressure, This Hisses, and Electric Candles – but Kindest Cuts is what he was born to do. From the John Carpenteresque opening to the dark synth pop residing underneath, every second of this ep is solid gold. RIYL – DM. Ed. of 100 cassettes w DL. CDR version – 50 copies – 35 went out promo to radio.

1971.045 Highway X – ‘See Thru Into’ C30
Victoria’s Babysitter have a good relationship with us DDP folk… we’re even releasing their stuff before we know we are releasing their stuff (long story) – this is BB member Andy Vanier’s solo project. After a self released first tape.. we got to kick this one around. A bit noisy, loopy, and tropical, S.T.I. is a great ‘otherside’ of this r ‘n’r wildman. Ed. of 40 w DL.

1971.044 JLK Babysitter – ‘Live Montreal SS’ C80
Last year we did a tape of JLK and Babysitter it was super cool. Then the crew hooked up with Jane in Montreal and did a bonkers set with Frank Hobo Cubes/Cult on Sax. I was on it and released the entire set as a dbl A side 80 min tape. Lose your mind in the bong haze burn yr face on the death rays. Ed. of 40 w/ DL.

1971.035 Krautheim II – ‘Die Tauschende Optik’ C50
This one was a looooooooong time in the making. We did the original Krautheim in our first year – we loved them and they loved us so when they came with new tracks HOW COULD WE SAY NO?? Super krautrock from the Fatherland so it slays more than anything else in the world. We’ll keep this on in print for a while… it’s so fucking good. Ed. of 40 w/ DL.

PF057 Kvik – ‘Hiss Pulses & Grit’ C30
For the last of the Prairie Fire run we asked Winnipeg’s newest harsh noisician to do what he does best. Kvik is Montreal transplant Simon Thibaudeau- who will prob be running back to Quebec after this horrible winter… Pretty straight forward here – minimalism meeks harsh noise – asses are kicked, ears are exploited, futures are ruined. All in a days work in Winnipeg Noise. Ed. of 40 w/ DL

PF058 Greenhouse – ‘Cold Wires’ C60
Our fourth Greenhouse tape in four years. Great drones from Winnipeger Curran Faris. Curran’s been having a great year – playing not only the Send and Receive Festival but also the WSO’s New Music festival along side Glenn Branca. Exciting. Ed. of 40 w/ DL

PF059 Solar Coffin – ‘Cold Furnace’ C60
Of the 100+ tapes I have released, this is one I am most excited about. Super synth builders Fletcher Pratt and Erik Larsen have been combining their love of early industrialism, kosmiche, noise, and modular synth into one of the most dynamic and exciting duos to emerge since Chico and the Man. Two earlier tapes on Midori records have been more noise/experimental focused.. for Cold Furnace I asked the boys to tape into their inner Cyborg and Kraut it up a bit. They delivered heavilyc Ed. of 40 w/ DL.

PF060 Marcus Rubio (Rooms) c30
I had all but washed my hands of Prairie Fire when this came my way. After hearing what Marcus had put together with noise abstractions and pop music I had to make an exception and make this the final PF release. Check it out.. no hyperbole to say this is the best way to go out. Ed. of 40 w/ DL.

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HELM – ‘The Hollow Organ’ LP
‘The Hollow Organ’ toes a deliberate line in the mud between his previous transgressions and a chokingly dank realisation of his most untoward, paralytic sound. Poised as a dark interpreter between the grotesque and the transcendent, he activates research gleaned from his petrifying live performances coupled with an increasingly squalid and visceral palette of anguished machine voices, sub-zero drones and bone-scraped rhythmic noise to divine unearthly space somewhere between semi-legal horror soundtrack and hyperstitious surreality. Its opening gambit, ‘Carrier’ is the most succinct and uncannily ambiguous; perilously close to Gas-like ambient pop but rescued from serenity by manic tape spool and excoriating, demonic vocal. The vortex of ‘Analogues’ proceeds, ploughed by stereo-twinned engines of churning tape loops to a pitch black, eschatalogical climax, and ‘Spiteful Jester’ feels like the unshakable onset of a panic attack, ratcheting the intensity with blank-eyed, stoic method. For ten minutes ‘The Hollow Organ’ drains last with an unnerving, quiet blood-letting of carmine iron drones evaporating ferric overtones whilst percussions clank in your blind spot behind the screen. The 12″ is mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy. It is pressed on 140g white vinyl which itself is housed in a silk screened pvc sleeve with artwork by Bill Kouligas.

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Hemelbestormer/Vanessa Van Basten split
As part of the Consouling Sounds collaboration EP series, we were thrilled Vanessa van Basten and Hemelbestormer accepted our invitation to team up. Vanessa van Basten surely’s no stranger to the fan of post metal and post rock, having released a few exceptional albums – like the 2008 Psygnosis EP album. The latter band is a new project that formed out of the ashes of Gorath – one of the most unique black metal bands that was active on Belgian soil. Hemelbestormer can’t shake that “black metal feel”, but most definitely isn’t to be pigeonholed in one genre. Their very idiosyncratic take on ambient, doom, drone, and post metal with a black metal tang matches beautifully with Vanessa van Basten’s masterful approach to post metal and post rock. A truly unique collaborative effort that reaffirms Vanessa van Basten’s musical prowess and that preludes a promising future for Hemelbestormer! For fans of: Year of no Light, Pelican, Isis, Mogwai, Neurosis, Locrian, Horseback, Agalloch, …

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GIANNI GIUBLENA ROSACROCE/MARIA VIOLENZA split LP
Gianni Giublena Rosacroce keeps on sending us “sound postcards” from his travels through deserts and colorful oasis. After the last tape released, “La Mia Africa”, GGR comes back with new tales of far unexplored territories: ipnotic percussions, dreamy horns, powerful imaginative sounds wich leads our mind back to a 70s’ Mondo Movies’ soundtrack shooted somewhere in the north of Africa. In this new travel GGR is not alone anymore, the bewitching Maria Violenzagoes along with him. Born and grew up in Sicily, she let spread out all the influences of the different cultures that her island has seen living (and struggling) side by side for centuries. What we find here are arabian rythms, sonorities wich recall spanish and morocco’sensations wich collide with a forceful synth wave evil touch, a cold blow! This split is a travel in oniric territories with two sage guides beside. Just play it and lay yourself in their hands … to somewhere else…

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