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Plastic Uno (band) – ‘Orgy of Sweetness: Unology’
Who is the Plastic Uno (band)? You are NOT the Uno (band). In short, PU(b) is a conglomerate of eccentric home-tapers from Texas. A duo mainly, but open to all noisemakers here and there, they go by many names, Ted & Charlie…Professor Platypus & Blas Famous…etc., etc. Orgy of Sweetness: Unology represents a handful of amusing tracks recorded by PU(b) from their beginnings in 2004 (“Bring Back Billy Yule” and “I Have Huge Glasses”) to their tentative reformation in 2013 (“Meat Lake Saga” and “Octopus Wrangler”). Stylistically the group adhere to traits reminiscent of many home-fi weirdos from R. Stevie Moore, Half Japanese, The Residents…you get the picture…So giddy-up now and sample the compilation of an outsider rock enthusiasts dreams (or is that nightmares?)

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Ѫΰϯᶓԃ Ʀѧϊᵰѣѻὦ – ‘Intuitions’ CDr $10
Pro-duped CD-R, thermal print, hand-assembled, sticker-sealed, folder with window. Stamped, numbered edition of 50. // Michelle Proksell (aka Muted Rainbow) resides in Beijing and loves/lives China as a dreammachine of animated .gif images, weird montages and awesome t-shirts. She also makes music through an open site of collaborative gradient exchange called Ѫΰϯᶓԃ Ʀѧϊᵰѣѻὦ: deaf improvisation based on colors and hues, blue(s) gospels in unknown languages, seas of shimmering drones, electro-acoustic processing and outdated acid folk. Classical without class, psychedelic without psyche, songwriting without writing. Intuitions is the result of sparse improvisational sessions conjured in Shanghai bedrooms and living rooms during 2012. Hours worth of recordings were trimmed, mixed and mastered with poetic freedom at Zulmà t studio in Rome, Italy. For this incarnation, Ѫΰϯᶓԃ Ʀѧϊᵰѣѻὦ involved Michelle Proksell, Gabriele de Seta, Gregorio Samsaro and Pupa Tang, some strings and a wide array of electronics.

BABEL – ‘STURM und DRANG’ CDr
Pro CD-R, thermal print, spray painted white digipak, numbered edition of 25 // STURM und DRANG is part 2 in BABEL’s trilogy of improvised, extended technique pieces for prepared electric guitars. As with HEURTER (part 1), guitar and bass are primarily treated as percussion instruments. These pieces also feature delay loops, junk percussion, wind instruments and electronically manipulated vocal performances. Metallic, post-modern textures and washes of glittering tones staring at the sea, listening to a steel mill in the distance.

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[INV002] M. SAVANT STIFLESON – ‘Ga Garden’ 3″ CDr 4€
Since more than 20 years, Californian cyberdelic artist Jme Gugginø has been involved into numerous musical projects, ranging from rock (Dreadnot, Zide) to industrial/noise music (QUUQ, Xyphosenphia), but his current endeavour as M. Savant Stifleson is definitely his most surprising one. He has indeed managed to summon into a medley of exquisite miniatures the quintessence of his musical wanderings, without it looking like a shambles or a clumsy juxtaposition of over-experimental tunes. Instead, in Ga Garden, M. Savant Stifleson delivers a journey through truly new musical microcosms, a lush cascade of micro-cyberpop gems and fragmented glitch-funk pieces where Dada-meets-Joyce musical structures and post-language poetry are flowing intertwined.

[INV001] ICHTYOR TIDES – ‘Mortisle Elytrion’ CDr 5€
On Mortisle Elytrion, their first LP to date, Ichtyor Tides refines their sound into explorations of the mighty structures of glitches, forged in acidified lakes of drones. This time, sharpen in the core of this barbed stream, an insidious spoken word poetry sometimes emerges. With its beats, its clicks, its glitches and its noises as such lethal metronomes of our daily routine, Mortisle Elytrion draws the shape of the industrial version of the Isle of the Dead (as a modern day Arnold Böcklin would picture it), that lies behind every factory, every office building, every urban structure that sucks you from your self-conscious being and draws you into a mechanical hell of boredom, despair and resignation. Exclusive cover art from visual artist g.cl4renko.

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Misled Navigator – ‘Sense, Déjà Vu’ C33 $5
Sense, Déjà Vu is the latest release from Misled Navigator. It also marks the first physical release for Outward Records. Home duplicated, edition of 25. 6 copies will include a handwritten memory unique to that copy. ‘Sense, Déjà Vu’ aim to rest comfortably between calm, spatial pieces and driving psych sketches.

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HEL008 – Ben Best & Karl Jørgensen – ‘Ben Best & Karl Jørgensen 2’ C60
Wandering synthesis and percussive cosmic music.

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DNT067 – Digital Natives – ‘Long Homesweetened Entry’ CS $6(US)/$16(World)
If you’re unfamiliar with the brolific catalogue of Jeff Astin’s Digital Natives, then oh do you have some catching up to do! Take the warped Americana journey through a thrifted sound collage that sounds like it was sourced from a salvaged tape deck found in the desert. Professionally duplicated yellow cassettes with hand-glued labels and a double-sided text collage from vintage sources individually hand-colored with a unique DNT spraybottle-watercolor concoction.

DNT068 – DJ DJ Tanner – ‘Home Entertainment’ CS $6(US)/$16(World)
I first heard DJ DJ Tanner a few years back when I received a mysterious package from the label Warm Gospel, which included two DJ DJ Tanner tapes. I was immediately hooked by his use of mesmerizing found sound samples and loops. On this tape you get twenty songs that seem to emerge fully developed, then fading just as quickly..like a less avant-garde and slightly more expansive version of the Residents’ “Commercial Album.” This tape was recorded in March of 2013 and edited at Manifest Station. All sounds on this tape originated from vinyl. Professionally duplicated red cassettes with hand-glued labels and impressive home-entertainment-system-artwork, individually hand-colored with a unique DNT spraybottle-watercolor concoction. Comes with a 16-panel folded mini-poster/zine, also handcolored. Limited to 100.

DNT066 – Uton – ‘Kun Korallit Puhuvat Pilville’ CS $6(US)/$16(World)
DNT is proud to announce this new cassette by Finnish ayahuasca-droner Uton. Jani Hirvonen instructs the listener to use stereo headphones. For a stronger effect, listen near midnight in a dark room (or with minimal light). Do not let anything else disturb you. Recorded in Rennes, France to four-track July-August 2010. Originally slated for release as a bonus cassette with “Echoes in the Wonderland” LP (DNT058), it now sees the light of day. Full color deep-sea two-panel artwork on pro-dubbed purple cassettes with brain coral imprinting. Hand numbered out of 100.

DNT064 – Bobb Bruno – ‘Black Gel’ CS $6(US)/$16(World)
A warm welcome back to the tuff bunny, Bobb Bruno. “Black Gel” started as a synth improv on Korg Delta, Nord Wave, Casiotone MT400V and DSI Tetra in his bedroom, later properly recorded in same bedroom. Best listened to with the lights off. For “Years” Bobb was fortunate enough to get Sheridan Riley (drums, Avi Buffalo) and Cameron Stallones (guitars, Sun Araw, Magic Lantern) to play on the track. lectronics/psych head nodder. An edition of 100 hand numbered pro-dubbed and imprinted tapes with a scary mutated-bunny-swan design.

DNT033 – Bobb Bruno – ‘Clown’s Castle’ CS $6(US)/$16(World)
We have now reissued “Clown’s Castle” after being out of print less than 48 hours since it’s 2008 release. Same music, same artwork, in an edition of 100. Here’s what we said the first time around: “I first saw Bobb Bruno about two years ago at The Smell in downtown LA. I had heard of him prior to the show (he also plays in Goliath Bird Eater and Knit Witch, among others) but didn’t really know what to expect from him by himself, and live. He came out wearing a full bunny costume, head and all and sat down playing the coolest electronic drum pad I’ve ever seen. Some of his past releases have been dreamy pop, others have been heavy as nails. This tape falls somewhere in between. One minute there’s beautiful synthscapes and the next it’s heavy bass and pounding drums. Hand-numbered edition of 79 on purple cassettes with full-color piggie artwork by Bobb Bruno.”

DNT041 – Mudboy/Ducktails – ‘Summer of Saucers’ split CS $6(US)/$16(World)
The Summer of Saucers is here again! Relive the glory daze of a summery psychosis. Same creeped out G.W. Myers artwork, but this time we used a green shell instead of blue, in an edition of 100. Here’s what we said the first time around:Well the summer is coming to an end now and I can’t think of a better way to end it than with this tape, “Summer of Saucers”. The A-Side is Providence’s Raphael Lyon, better known as Mudboy. The side starts off by the lakeside, and you can hear frogs and geese nearby. It slowly builds up with keyboards coming into the picture before fading back to where it started. Lazy day at the river. It is also part one of his “Impossible Duets” series of songs. The flipside is New Jersey’s Matt Mondanile aka Ducktails. Ducktails has been described by someone as “ectoplasmic and cartoonishly cosmic bliss” and with song titles such as “Chill Jam” and “Sun Out My Window” you’ll be apt to agree. Colourful conehead artwork by George W. Myers of Grey Skull/Breaking World Records. In an edition of 100 pro-dubbed blue tapes.

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Stag Hare – ‘Angel Tech’ C46 $8
Soothing kaleidoscope rhythms glistening in a moonlit temple. Type II 46 minute cassette. Music by Garrick Biggs. Art by Phil French. Space Slave 30. Ed 100.

Righteous Acid – ‘Righteous Acid’ C32 $8
Funky guitar waves bobbing on psychedelic nimbus’. Type II 32 minute cassette. Music by Alex Sarad. Art by Phil French. Space Slave 29. Ed 100.

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THE WORLD WITHOUT PARKING LOTS – ‘FIVE SONGS ABOUT POWER LINES’ CD $8
Deep and warm music from Ethan T. Parcell (Boston drummer for Cowboy Band, Tsons of Tsunami, Tredici Bacci), special layered keyboards and apartment items, dense memory related music with electricity and radio, totally enveloping and highly personal. CDs with 3 transparent covers, $8. Edition of 30.

ABSOLUTE PARADISE – ‘ABSOLUTE PARADISE’ CD $8
A truly intriguing and inviting first release by Alec Watson alone. A small and meaningful batch of songs with warmly grand and devotional ideas presented as a highly personal document. A private concert of beautiful guitar and voice in a stairwell for you. CDs with hand constructed tile mosaics, $8.

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MOLOCH – ‘Einsamer Platz Zu Sterben’ C35 £4.5
5 tracks of haunting gothic drones from the Ukrainain dark ambient Behemoth, that are as bleak as the cold Carpahia woods they were recorded in. Recorded on a high quality blood-red cassette and wrapped in a gatefold cover. Featuring additional tracks that did not make the 7″ release. Limited to 30 copies.

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Ignatz/Sophie Cooper £5
Ignatz is the moniker of Belgiums Bram Devens, an occasional member of Sylvester Anfang II. Here we have 5 new tracks, unusually 3 of them are entirely instrumental but none the less still retain the unmistakable lo-fi blues sound of Brams music. There’s a primitism to Brams guitar playing, at times indelicate but still beautiful and always beguiling. Sophie Cooper is a singer songwriter from Stoke-On-Trent, here she presents six deeply personal songs. Her music always reflects her life and more often than not is inspired by the people around her. These songs have a dreamlike quality, with found sounds and vocals drifting in and out of clarity. This is emotive often heart-rending music. Limited to only 75 copies with artwork by Jake Blanchard on pro-dubbed cassettes.

Hellvete/Jake Blanchard £5
Hellvete is Glen Steenkiste (Gonzalez & Steenkiste, Sylvester Anfang), here we have 3 distinctly different tracks, ranging from delicate percussion, zoned out drones and banjo plucking. It’s impossible not to get lost in this music, long tracks of sustained drones with subtle textures and layers building and fading. This is the second release from Jake after his debut on Feathered Coyote. Often using hand made instruments Jake weaves blissful drones with primitve rhythm and melody at times harmonious and euphoric giving way to distorted and dissonant. Limited to only 75 copies with artwork by Jake Blanchard on pro-dubbed cassettes.

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