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CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI – ‘The Fall Of Chrome’ book + CS 14€
Edition of 300. After many years experimenting with tapes — alone or in collaborations with others — I started to feel lost; like I had exhausted the subject and all ideas. Perhaps I was too influenced by the new wave of cassette culture. Pretentious thoughts started coming to mind. Without any new ideas on the matter, I took a break. I stopped using tapes during live shows as well as during recordings. Why not break new ground? Following months of emptiness and dead end streets, I asked myself; does it really matter why we use certain tools? Is it worthwhile to question myself and waste time on such things? Those new questions seemed too important and too broad — perhaps too naive — to answer by myself. So I turned to those musicians who had used tapes in all possible ways, some before me, some in collaboration with me and, some even after me. Almost all of them replied; some pretended they didn’t understand the question, whilst others gave me very precise answers. Others still, raised new questions. In the meantime, I collected a large quantity of tapes, found on the street – in all sorts of unimaginable places – and started working with them. This process resulted in a 3-hour long composition that I later recorded back onto the original tapes; 300 casettes in total, each with different portions of the composition interacting with the source material. Artists involved: Kam Hassah, Brendan Murray, Ralf Wehowsky, Guillaume Siffert, Riccardo Benassi, Howard Stelzer, Daniela Cascella, Mattin & Ray Brassier, Marcel Turkowsky, Yan Jun, Jérôme Noetinger, Joseph Hammer, Lionel Marchetti, John Olson, Massimiliano Bomba, Harold Schellinx, Rinus Van Aleebeck, Maurizio Bianchi, Francesco Cavaliere.

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M. Sage – ‘The Receivers Peaking’ CS $5
Depicted here is the raised hand of an obscured preacher, hovering above rows of urban housing. A striking concept that runs deep into the fervor and punk ethos that M. Sage has been cultivating via ambient and sound collage for years. For the uninitiated, M. Sage is a man out of Fort Collins who crafts grand, aural impressions while simultaneously running his exceptional imprint Patient Sounds. His most recent work and Moon Glyph debut is “The Receivers Peaking”, a conceptual and auditory abstraction of AM radio clips, looped field recordings, processed guitar and serene, pensive composition. As a progressive and prolific worker, M. Sage deconstructs our surroundings and shows us his shimmering utopia that could have been. Ed. of 150.

Brute Heart – ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ CS $5
Ninety-two years after its initial release, Minneapolis trio Brute Heart were commissioned by the Walker Art Center to construct a soundtrack for the German Expressionist film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. Deftly evoking its subject matter, the score transitions from moment to movement; gorgeous, elegant viola & cello swell to tense alien landscapes to mystic passages of looping melody. It’s a style uniquely their own, one in which Brute Heart have been mining via bass, drums, viola, keyboard & their collective voices for two prior full-lengths (Brass Beads & Lonely Hunter, the latter on Soft Abuse). Few have the compositional prowess of these three & Moon Glyph is grateful to release in its entirety, their formally recorded score to this silent noir masterpiece.  Ed. of 150.

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Rejections – ‘The Vertical City EP’
Rejections is Michael Hann from Teesside, UK. His new tape is loosely based on the ideas expressed in J.G. Ballard’s novel ‘High Rise’ and each song on the EP takes it’s title from chapters in the book. The result is a darkly propulsive journey through a grim dystopia and will appeal to fans of Raime, Andy Stott and Blackest Ever Black.

Invisible Path – ‘Dreams Woven Within the Tapestry’
Invisible Path is Michael Bailey, formerly of Barn Owl. His solo sound retains that group’s enormous drone majesty but looks to the sparkling heavens that rotate above Barn Owl’s arid landscapes. If Barn Owl are desert dwellers then Bailey is a stargazer. This is one for lovers of Thomas Koner, Derek Rogers, Kyle Bobby Dunn and, of course, Barn Owl.

Lutto Lento – ‘Partition’
Lutto Lento is Sangoplasmo Records’ Lubomir Grzelak. His work as Lutto Lento combines field recordings with twisted electronics and ‘Partition’ – inspired by the events of the late 18th Century that saw Poland torn apart – is by far the darkest tape we have released so far. Fans of Ensemble Economique, Indignant Senility and Burial Hex should lap this one up.

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100 Years of Noise – ‘Final Release’
This Final release of our ode to ‘L´Arte dei Rumori’ includes 11 new tracks that were not released in the Public Domain Celebration Release on 1st January. Additionally we remodelled the minisite to include a few interviews with the artists and complementary material to the tracks (image, text or video). The entire tracklist is available free for download and online stream. Expect experimental sounds in a wide range of styles and genres, including musique concréte, field recordings, free jazz, DIY electronics and noise.

‘AtlanThis 2‘
Follow up compilation of experimental electronic tracks from artists out of Portugal and the North America. The theme of the compilation is crossing the Atlantic ocean. Organized and co-released by Thisco Records. Features tracks by Mantrakid, ocp, Oxford Icebergs, Human Being, Sci Fi Industries, Infetu, ps, Dyman, Com. Gen., shhh…, Waste Disposal Machine, Undara, Mystified and AVOIDANT. Artwork by American painter Ariel Claborn. Expect electronic sounds ranging from drone and ambient to idm and industrial.

The Easton Ellises – ‘Dance It, Dance All Jamendo #1’
Our Canadian electro rock artists The Easton Ellises managed to break Jamendo charts all the way to number one with their track “Dance It, Dance All”. It’s part of their crowdfunded vinyl release, which is also available free for download at Enough Records.

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fon40 – Gnod/Bear Bones – ‘Lay Low’ split C45 $9.5
English psych-heads Gnod meet the Venezuelan stoner Bear Bones, Lay Low to produce a split tape of gorgeous neo-kraut trails and class freakdom. Gnod have been on fire lately with such vital works as the $&$ split and “Dwellings & Druss” which put them even further away from the pointless tags one might attempt to apply to their sound and vision. Guess you just gotta believe the folks when they say “psych tech” now! But just before that the devotees of the Manchester collective had been devouring heavy industrial rock riffage with choking vocals and some strange form of kraut-rock. With a constantly rotating line-up Gnod have always been a wicked live band who can shake stages all over Europe. Let’s look at what we have here: Gnod team have blessed Full of Nothing with a 21-minute instrumental slow-burner in the essential kraut fashion. Recorded & mixed at their spiritual home, Islington Mill, “The Choice of a Nubian Generation” features upbeat spiritual organs snaking in starry-eyed electronics and guitar dubs, while a motorik drum beat is pounding its way to heaven. Gnod from Gnod, light from light. Bear Bones, Lay Low is the solo guise of Ernesto González, who is no stranger to collective freakout being a key member of the seminal Sylvester Anfang II. The Venezuelan musician currently residing in Belgium knows his riffs alright but those who didn’t sleep on his supreme records on KRAAK, Sloow Tapes etc. are aware of the fact that the gentleman does his synth homework as well. While various Bear Bones, Lay Low material may sound like bold mystical sonic statements there is always a tad of goofy playfulness complimenting the vibe. Recorded onto a cassette 4-track in Venezuela and Spain the B side of this split is heavy on analog synth blobs, found sound and comes highly entertaining. But hey, throw in some jolly piano minimalism, lo-fi wash of spirited South American drones and distorted guitar workouts! While pushing himself aside from the awesome singsong witch dance moments of “El Telonero” LP, Bear Bones, Lay Low maintains his sonic persona and masterfully executes his side. Black tapes with thick ivory J-cards designed by Anya Kuts. Each is numbered and comes with a download code. Edition of 100.

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gut nose – ‘eaT biskiT’ CS $8
1st ever release from New York native and electronic groove composer gut nose. Simply described, the eaT biskiT EP is a dystopian sci-fi beat collage tape. Double A side, high-bias translucent red cassette tape. Artwork colored & hand stamped on recycled cardboard sleeves with love by gut nose. Bonus stickers. Limited to 50 copies.

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UMBERTO – ‘CONFRONTATIONS’ CD/LP
Kansas City’s Goblin king of neo-Giallo brood-blooded dark fantasy soundtracking returns with his fourth official full-length, two years after the badass psychodrama of Prophecy Of The Black Widow. The time betwixt was well spent, on tours (Europe twice, including the Mogwai-curated ATP fest), one-off tapes and 12 inches (Welcome To The Chill Zone, Final Exit, etc), and tweaking the mixes and minutia of the seven undead invasion omens comprising Confrontations. What instantly distinguishes the new album from the previous few is its ominous slow-burn compositional model: each track builds its evil temple brick by brick, basking in the tension of each new chiming Carpenter synth line or monkish doom Om for multiple measures before stirring the next substance into the cauldron. This elegant sense of patience gives the songs a more oozing, operatic aura; these confrontations aren’t hostile showdowns in the woods but the creeping dread of alien-nation body snatchers infiltrating the populace. Death comes slipping. Another crucial keystone in the occult arc de triomphe of Umberto’s deepening discography. Can someone hire this genius to score the They Live remake already? Black vinyl LPs in X-filed highway cover artwork designed by Dionysian KC visualist Tim Goodwillie. Edition of 750.

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Lethal Bronze – ‘Secant Territories’
Atmospheric textures created by a specific use of reverberation units and echo chambers. Fields of percussions playing hypnotic and meditative patterns. Lethal Bronze leads you to a transcendent mysterious zone.

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