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GNAR137/LPOP065 Love Cop – ‘Pop Magick Is Real’ CS
Last year Gnar Tapes introduced the world to Love Cop; Portland’s best, raddest, darkest, silliest, stoned-est Stoner Goth band in years. Throughout 2013, Love Cop released three (3) cassettes (including one Gnar/Burger Records split), toured the Western US twice (2x), flew to play at the Gnar Tapes SXSW showcase in Austin, TX, and produced five (5) music videos. And with every release, every show, and every video, Love Cop songs and sound seem to get more and more realized. Now with their 1st cassette of 2014 (and 4th cassette for Gnar Tapes, 1st for Lolipop) they prove that sentiment to be truer than ever. Everything you love about Love Cop but presented bigger, brighter, cleaner, and stronger. Love Cop is a duo (Duffy Rongiiland, Phil Salina) who grew up together in Long Island, NY, and while Duffy has been writing and performing music for most of his life, Love Cop is Phil’s first time ever making music in any way. They are both adult men, but play music in an earnest and honest way that only comes with a youthful spirit, and a personal connection that is based on a deep rooted friendship, and an obvious mutual fascination with lo-fi pop music. Bands this prolific and young rarely express their growth and identity as organically and linearly as Love Cop, and “Pop Magick Is Real” is LC’s finest, most focused album yet. Ghosts haunting girls in the shower, sex in the basement, secret messages; Love Cop.

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DBA128 VIPER VENOM – ‘DESTROYAH’ CS
Hailing from Death Valley (seriously!), Viper Venom is horror-core rap shares aesthetic similarities with Three6 Mafia, but extends the lyrical themes to cartoonish extremes. Tracks identifying with Skeletor and vampires embody the same joy of playing the villain as a child with action figures or watching your first horror film even though your parents strictly forbid it. Don’t get us wrong though, this isn’t music for kids. There is some NC-17 content here.

DBA129 Mad Murderz – ‘The Lemon Pledge ep’ CS
Florida’s Mad Murderz is everything young music should be: Passionate, thoughtful, experimental, contradictory, and most of all, completely untainted by the boring world of adults. Originally released digitally, this cassette edition adds a bonus track and a little remastering for BOOM.

DBA130 Signor Benedick The Moor – ‘sbthemoor’ CS
Effortlessly blending sounds from all sorts of genres, simply calling Signor Benedick The Moor a rapper is a bit misleading. His quick and playful rap style brings to mind everything from The Pharcyde to Danny Brown, but virtuoso guitar playing, drumming, and wide assortment of other live instrumentation pushes the work into prog territory. Signor Benedick’s music is the sound of not worrying about categories.

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Amitron_7 – ‘Come Ye Sinners to the Gospel Feast’
Double album of psychedelic electronic ambient by English project Amitron_7. Artwork by Hélder Costa. Two scientists meet up in 1970’s Paris to conduct a series of experiments involving Theta Waves and surgical procedures on the human brain. They make a breakthrough and are able to link their minds and communicate and share their memories via a telepathic link. However their own are not the only voices they hear. Are they talking to the dead, to God or is there something else trying to come through? [PT] Album duplo de electrónica ambiental psicadélica pelas mãos do projecto inglês Amitron_7. Grafismo por Hélder Costa. Dois cientistas encontram-se na década de 1970 em Paris para conduzir uma série de experiências envolvendo ondas Theta e operações no cérebro humano. Eles conseguem um avanço na àrea que lhes permite unir as suas mentes, partilhar memórias e comunicar telepáticamente. No entanto as suas vozes não são as únicas que eles conseguem ouvir, estarão a comunicar com os mortos, com Deus ou haverá algo mais a tentar estabelecer contacto?

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GOD 22 Francisco Lopez – ‘Untitled #295’
Francisco Lopez is not only famous for his profilic sound creations, but also for different aspects of sound manipulations. Since his very beginnings, he explores different fields of sound and almost entire his work belongs to serie “untitled”. untitled#295 is a piece created specially for two sides of vinyl and specially for GODrec. Besides lopez’s famous moving soundscapes, it’s the PULSE what makes this work driving. And not only typical pulse – a regular one with irregular accents. Slowly developing it takes insensibly into void and darkness. Extremely tempting work for claustrophobic experiences.

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Frame – ‘Random Features’ [EN] 10 years after it was originally produced and released by the author as a limited edition cdr. Now remastered and available free for download as digital release. Electronic ambient / chill out album with trance influences by Portuguese project Frame.// [PT] 10 anos após ter sido originalmente produzido e editado em edição de autor de cópias limitadas. Agora remasterizado e disponivel para download gratuito como edição digital. Album de electronica ambiental / chill out com influências de trance do projecto Português Frame.

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GRASSA DATO – ‘Despojo Humano’ CS
After his ambitious work with Incapacitans, the psychedelic noisy forays in Grasstro, or his participation in groups such as Abductores, Gur Bruo or We Are The Hunters, fireproof Grassa Dato returns to its essence: the dirtiest dark path of Spanish harsh noise. “Despojo Humano” is his most primitive work to date. Recorded live with analog tapes, Grassa delivers 8 tracks full of grime and violence: torn apart vocals, brief industrial incursions and rubbish, tons of rotting piles of dirt. The A side of the tape consists of 7 micro-tracks, with a lenght between 30 seconds and 4 minutes. The B side is devoted to a single track, a noisy ambient litany of dismal. “Despojo Humano” comes in a professional cassette with 8 tracks and 24 minutes of noise, in a limited edition of 21 copies.

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LW080 OFFENSIVE X & YOUTH A.D. – ‘Don’t Let Them Get You’ 3”CDr 7€
Nihilistic Croatian/Serbian Power Electronics collaboration inspired by hate, filth, obsession and terror!

LW081 A.Z.A.B. – ‘Toxic Waste Upheaval’ CDr 10€
Maniacal Harsh Noise and Power Electronics from Canada. 6 new tracks ranging from savagely fierce and destructive sonic terrorism towards all opposition to a final twisted hypnotic realm of psychosis!

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Negative Frequencies and Chaise – ‘Hiss Stock’ VHS
This very limited release of 10 purple VHS tapes is a collaboration between Brooklyn artists Angus Tarnawsky (modular synth) and Jason Tschantre (video). The soundtrack is dark and beat driven, with visuals that resemble an occult microbiology experiment.

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