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Terence Hannum – ‘Spectral Life’ LP
Debut LP of one third of avant drone metal outfit Locrian. Contemporary artist / musician Terence Hannum is back this time on wax with two side of meditative and sonic cathartic noise torrents. Following on a dozen of highly regarded solo tapes and cdr, Spectral Life follows the artist through 2 tracks of electronic and acoustic drones blending in the most efficient way all the previous works of the artist. While the A side is made of short different synth-driven pieces blended together in an immense opening track, the B side brings us in an extensive / immersive psychedelic journey. Standing as a deep emotional sonic ceremony, this new record draws Hannum at his best, finding his influences from the avant spectrum of black metal as well as bits of modern composition. Mastered by James Plotkin and pressed by Handle With Care on 180gr black wax. Artcover by the artist.

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A.P. Felix – ‘Electronic Tonalities’ C37 $6
Inspired by electronic components and the early history of electronic music/sound, A.P. Felix constructs Electronic Tonalities. The 37 minute experiment pays tribute to the pioneers of the genre and is programmed on modular synthesizers and other hardware synthesizers. The end result features blips of atmospheric waves and tones that gently dance with layers of synth and beats. Felix masters the modular components and develops a rare style of historical significance. Limited to 60 on super chrome tape.

Boomruin/BMRN – ‘Monochrome’ C41 $6
Originally released in 2012 as a digital download, the moving electronic sounds and heavy beats of Monochrome has been re-conceptualized into a physical format. The album brings forward fresh sounding beats that progress the sounds of visual electronics and psychedelic samples. Boomruin/BMRN is based out of the United Kingdom, he samples some the bizarre and strange and layers a steady beat in a reinterpreted classic style. Movie style moments to comedy and jazzed slang, the album flows in a genuine manner with retro appeal. The monochrome theme represented in the artwork is a common thread that binds the album together and provides a contrast that is appealing and sensational. Limited to 70 black/white cassettes on cobalt tape.

Heart Heart Julia featuring Blood Blood – ‘Lost Moments’ C62 $6
Lost Moments features Justin Bieler and George Dutton teaming up with Blood Blood in an unusual experiment. Bridging spoken word stories about situational memories and drone pieces with fuzzy distortion and broken fragments from archived recordings, Lost Moments represents the torture of being the one left behind. Searching for a way forward when everything appears dead, recognizing that with each break a new birth can be born. The album explores this concept through two short stories and over 60 minutes of archived sounds from a 2009 recording session Justin had with Seamus Williams, and new meanderings of George Dutton and the absorbed synth breaks of Blood Blood. Brief moments we catch a glimpse of O.Wyatt’s honest critique of what music is. Limited to 23 rare turquoise cassettes with yellow reels.

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OXYCODONE – ‘LONESOMENESS WALL’ C30 £3.5
Thirty minutes of absorbing hypnotic slow evolving ambient radio noise wave from Russia. Packaged on a pink cassette in a blue case, wrapped in a lush gatefold four panel double sleeve. Limited to 30 copies.

FÄKALIEN/DEPRIVATION split C30 £3.5
7 tracks of the finest power electronics and harsh noise that Sweden and Italy can offer. Recorded on a high-quality lime green cassette with full colour artwork. Limited to 20 copies.

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Grizzly Imploded – ‘You are the way you face your death’ C30
Trio from Napoli Italy / Electro-Acoustic, Free Improvisation. Ltd. Edition of 70 | Letter Pressed | Hand Numbered.

Nathan McLaughlin – ‘Karen Studies’ C30
Two long banjo meditations for Karen Dalton. Ltd. Edition of 100, Hand Numbered.

Josh Mason – ‘Conduit’ C30
“Within a years time, a mother sleeps and a baby is born”. Ltd. Edition of 50 | Letter Pressed | Block Printed | Hand Numbered.

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Maurizio Bianchi & Ryan Martin – ‘As Strong As Death Is’ 2xC30
Edition of 100. Spanning the course of two years to create, legendary Italian noise composer Maurizio Bianchi & Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint / Detrop) took on the pilgrimage of scoring the abstract marriage of the Song of Solomon. Employing prepared electronics with accompanying strings and tape, this ambient religious collaboration seeks to flesh out the union, to understand the universal desire to be one. Constricted lullabies walk down the aisle to create a consortium of moving, ghost-like consolidation. Mixed and edited by Anthony Mangicapra (Hoor-paar-Kraat) and mastered by Kris Lapke (Alberich). Magnetized onto two cassettes and housed in a vinyl tape album.

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Dead Skeletons – ‘Orð’ 12″
“Orð” is Dead Skeletons follow-up release to “Dead Magick” – an album that sold out in nearly one day. “Dead Magick”’s theme hymn “Dead Mantra” was an art installation soundtrack turned spiritual battle song turned psychedelic underground smash hit phenomenon. The 2008 track was the starting point for a cosmic concept created and immersed by Icelandic artist Jón Sæmundur, as a tool to come to terms with his 20 year struggle with HIV. Further developing the Dead Concept, the 12” EP “Orð” consists of four tracks of reverb-drenched rock n’ roll meditation – reminding the listener to embrace life in death and death in life. The songs “Odauðleg Orð” and “Odauðleg Orð (Museum Version)” were both created as sonic enhancement to yet another one of Sæmundur’s art installations, while the pop quality-ridden “Dead is God” further delves into the band’s “All is One, One is All” philosophy. “Cemalym” is a dark, traditional Turkish folk song (most notably recorded by Erkin Koray), although with lyrics translated into Icelandic. Music for when you meet your maker, as Dead Skeletons puts it. Sound of Cobra’s second pressing of “Orð” comes out on a one-sided white vinyl 12”, in a limited edition of 400 copies, with a silk screened B-side and a paper recycled, tobacco coloured, cardboard sleeve.

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MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE – ‘Far West’ CD/LP
On “Far West,” the Master Musicians of Bukkake mark a turn from their Totem Trilogy. If the Totems were an expression of yang energy, then the “Far West” cycle is the yin that took seed within the trilogy. What happens when you travel so far east looking for enlightenment that you pass your destination and are headed west again? The Master Musicians of Bukkake take an earthly and shamanistic approach to these influences and infuse it with Krautrock pulses interweaved with acoustic guitars, intricately layered rhythms, hazed-out modular analog synths, brassy stabs, and cultish choirs. A true psychedelic, audiophile experience to dissolve your body in.

ALESSANDRO CORTINI – ‘Forse 1’ 2LP
Deluxe double LP pressed in an edition of 500 copies. First 200 copies pressed are on red vinyl and packaged in a deluxe heavy duty gatefold jacket printed on thick board stock with a lush matte laminate. Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails/How To Destroy Angels) composed the Forse series using a Buchla Music Easel. Forse, meaning “maybe” In Italian, is a series of 3 double LP releases Cortini recorded for Important to release in 2013.

GASPAR CLAUS – ‘Jo Ha Kyu’ CD/LP
Jo Ha Kyu is a traditional Japanese concept of modulation applied to a wide variety of the arts in Japan. For three weeks Parisian cellist and composer Gaspar Claus met with traditional and modern Japanese musicians in a Tokyo studio to record Jo Ha Kyu. Performing with Claus on this piece are: Eiko Ishibashi (voice, piano, drums), Keiji Haino (voice), Kakushin Nishihara (voice, satsuma biwa), Ryuichi Sakamoto (piano), Hirochimi Sakamoto (electric cello). Sachiko M (sine wave), Otomo Yoshihide (turntable), Leonard Eto (wadaiko), Kazutoki Umezu (tenor saxophone) and Kazuki Tomokawa (voice, guitar). Mailorder customers will receive color vinyl (please choose color vinyl option) and two large posters of the Japanese cover artwork.

ELSE MARIE PADE & JACOB KIRKEGAARD – ‘SVÆVINGER’ LP
Else Marie Pade (born December 2, 1924 in Aarhus) is a Danish composer. An educated composer, Pade pioneered electronic music and concrete music in Denmark. In 1954 Pade became the first Danish composer of electronic and concrete music. She knew and worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Pade was active in the resistance during the Second World War, and was interned at the Frøslev prison camp from 1944 till the end of the war. An archival collection of Else Marie Pade’s electronic work will be released on Important in 2013.

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CYCLOPS – ‘THE FIRST YEAR’ $6
Recorded at Channel 3, Tampa & Dungeon C, Providence. Cyclops is SHV & Russian Tsarlag, a gruesome twosome of leathery grooves and toilet rock. Guitars mutate around drum machines, Tsarlag waxes depressive over droopy synths, languid anthems repeat endlessly, a monster mash. There’s also some real sex appeal. SHV’s beats hiss like more than club soda, Tsarlag’s guitars curl alluringly, a bleach party for two. Gone are the loner moods, replaced with a mysterious liaison.

VINCENT OVER THE SINK – ‘BIBLE BASHERS’ $6
I reissued this tape because it rules. I keep Bible Bashers between the car seat and the center console, or on top of the tape deck, or in my ass pocket; it’s on constant rotation. Recorded at Wolfgang’s House, Glenbrook Lagoon, Blue Mountains, Australia, 2009. Grim pianos melt over dumb horns, downer chords drowned in dishwater vox. I keep seeing domestic interiors with moving walls, skeletal fingers hitting single keys, a hall of mirrors, goosebumps. Vincent Over The Sink are no longer. They were a magnetic flash of weird in an otherwise predictable succession of DIY styles. Bible Bashers is one of only a few releases documenting their curious flavor. I usually like the transience of home recordings, but some things are worth remembering.

‘MODERN DUETS‘ flexi compilation $8
The next thirty orders include an extra unbound Flexi. Contributions from: Control Unit, Sea Urchin, Half High, Soviet Pop, Primitive Motion.

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Kokori – ‘Make Install’
[EN] Portuguese industrial post-cyberpunk project kokori delivers us here an EP compiling a set of instrumental geek shaman electronic burlesque sounds with some sampling of local political activism. [PT] O projecto Português de música industrial pós-cyberpunk kokori lança aqui um EP compilando um conjunto de temas instrumentais, com uma forte veia geek shamânica e electrónica burlesca com alguma samplagem e influência de activismo político local.

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Mystery Attacks – ‘Two’ C27
The second cassette release by Mystery Attacks is available now. The tape contains four tracks of crude industrial noise recorded early 2013, and mastered this May at Enemata Productions. The new tracks reflect further time served in factories of consumption; the uneasy sounds were assembled with whatever tools were at hand. The tracks concern weakness and breaking points, as well as themes of apprehension, evasion, and ensnarement. The newly-released commodity is a C27 pro-duplicated chrome plus tape, red shell with black imprint, and a basic B/W photocopied cover. Each cassette is wrapped in additional printed matter. This release, catalog # ROUGE002,is available in an edition of fifty-five copies.

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