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Forming – ‘Variations of the One Essence’ C25
Worn habit no. 04. gentle rhythm tape loops for easing your mind.

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Kyle Landstra – ‘New Light’ C40 $7.5
Shaded synth dripping through a solar sieve. Type II 40 minute cassette Space Slave 13. Hand painted, Ed 50.

Courtly Illusion Limited – ‘Untitled’ C20 $7.5
The coyote’s shape shifts as manipulated rhodes and guitar amble in the tall grass. Type II 20 minute cassette. Space Slave 14. Ed 75.

Tuluum Shimmering – ‘Raag Wichikapache/Lake of Mapang’ C45+C15 $14
A weave of watery loops conjured by aerial roots and canopy dwellers. Type II 45 and 15 minute cassette. Space Slave 15. Hand painted, Ed 100.

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MATATUS – ‘Psychedelic Apocalypse’ CDr 6€
After his work in projects such as Eldar or Asbaar, Marc Merinee created Matatus to mix industrial sounds, noise, ritual atmospheres and power electronics. The new album “Psychedelic Apocalypse” is a portrait of different diabolic entities around the world. The personality and attributes of these demons are portrayed through Matatus’ characteristic dark sound: suffocating atmospheres, ominous echoes, repetitive rhythms, eruptions of noise, and low voices denatured with abrasive electronic effects. “Psychedelic Apocalypse” is a gloomy, dense, agonizing, and threatening album. It is presented in professional CDr in a square DVD box, with more than 50 minutes of music, in a limited edition of 50 copies. You can get the album for 6 euros plus postage through the label Truco Espárrago.

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CORPSE CANDLE – ‘Don’t Kill The Messenger’ C48
A painful voyage, lumbering and poisoned. Robert Meldrum delivers with a singularly gruesome and severe approach for this new long play album of eerie drone swamp and mangled horror sound. A set of five brutal navigations through crumbling tunnels of stone and rubble, hurling headlong into the pit of stinking tar. Haunted wailing and undulating sulphur tone morphs into abrasive grinding shrapnel, an ultimately terrifying barrage of distressing apparitions. Real time duplicated translucent Ghoul-Green cassette with black and white labels comes packaged with glossy double sided black and white cardstock J-card in a matching custom-painted green and clear Norelco case. Hand-numbered edition of 50. The howl of triumphant decay.

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Hoor-paar-Kraat – ‘Live at the Brooklyn Fashion League’ 3″CDr $5(US)/$13(World)
Edition of 50. Live document of a rare performance by Hoor-paar-Kraat at the Brooklyn Fashion League on October 20, 2012 at the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by artist Anthony Mangicapra. This live set featured the first collaborative performance under Hoor-paar-Kraat with namesake Anthony Mangicapra and Ryan Martin (DeTrop/YFC /Hanel Koeck). Each edition of 50 comes in handmade envelopes with antique newspaper collage, making each edition completely different. Split release with Mangicapra’s own Goat Eater Arts imprint.

Ryan Martin & Anthony Mangicapra – ‘Golden Hazrat’ 3″CDr $5(US)/$13(World)
Edition of 49. Collaborative effort on behalf of Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint/DeTrop) and Anthony Mangicapra (Hoor-paar-Kraat) which brought the two into a spiritual helix, combining sourced recordings which came to light shortly after their live performance in the Fall of 2012. Each edition hand made, hand painted and stamped with its selective number. Joint release with Mangicapra’s Goat Eat Arts.

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Kostoglotov – ‘Louis Althusser knows why my heart is asunder.’ C20 £4
Kostoglotov is the bedroom recording project of London based Daryl Worthington. He writes and records lo-fi, ambient and drone electronic music using a combination of Dictaphone, 4-track and laptop. His music has been compared to Windy and Carl, Vangelis, Mark Mcguire, and most unexpectedly, the soundtrack to old He-man cartoons. Edition of 35. Artwork by Diu Pii.

UMEZ – ‘Good Bye My Friend’ C20 £4
Umez are a newly formed Japanese band based in London making crazed j-pop with washes of noise, eccentricity and aplomb, coming to a point which has no real comparisons with anything else. Although they mix two negating music genres, their noise sound is pure heavy white noise matching perfectly with their pop sound echoing with sentiment. Edition of 35. Artwork by Diu Pii.

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‘AtlanThis 2‘
[EN] 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. [PT] Segunda compilação de electrónica experimental com temas de artistas de Portugal e da América do Norte sobre o tema da travessia do oceano atlântico. Organizada e co-editada em colaboração com a Thisco Records. Inclui temas de Mantrakid, ocp, Oxford Icebergs, Human Being, Sci Fi Industries, Infetu, ps, Dyman, Com. Gen., shhh…, Waste Disposal Machine, Undara, Mystified e AVOIDANT. Grafismo da capa retirado de uma obra da pintora Ameriacana Ariel Claborn.

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Less Win – “”GREAT””
Less Win re-release their debut album. One of last year’s finest records is now finally being released digitally. Less Win released their debut album “”GREAT”” in 2012. However, the album was only released on vinyl through the band’s own label Sixxxxx. But the vinyl media has its limitations in today’s digital age where bands usually win new fans through digital music sharing. Therefore, the eminent debut is now being reissued digitally by the Copenhagen based label Pad & Pen Records. “”GREAT”” is a record about ambiguity, confusion, powerlessness, vigilante, overheating, S / M, evil, distortion, joy, death, claustrophobia, illusion, doubt, uniformity, restlessness and sometimes nothingness. The group’s guitarist describes the record in the following way: “In my opinion – it is like the image of someone sitting in an hourglass:
In the beginning, the feeling of having all the time in the world, but quickly the sand begins to seep through his fingers; sinking further down against a claustrophobic little hole, while being able to see clearly through the glass – without being able to do anything.” The music was recorded in the band’s rehearsal room and vocals were done in the toilet. “The idea was not to make a pretentious album but, on the basis of individual songs, let the album create its own thread rather than forcing something down on it.” Out of this environment came a record that may sound like a mixture of industrial Manchester sound with the burgeoning post-punk culture right now coming out of a number of Copenhagen bands. LESS WIN manages, to incorporate awesome riffs and 60s catchyness, and “”GREAT”” appears as an estimate of how something vintage can be performed differently.

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BIRDS OF PASSAGE/JE SUIS LE PETIT CHEVALIER/MOTION SICKNESS OF TIME TRAVEL/ALOONALUNA -‘TAXIDERMY OF UNICORNS’ 2xC60
Folk music is expanding into many new forms with experimentalists such as birds of passage, Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier, Motion Sickness of Time Travel and Aloonaluna—all female experimentalists who plant folk notions further into a more hybridized, variegated flora. Whether the terms of music here is ambiguous but personal voice, the electronic as modernist tool for folk-making, or a magic-realist or urban-pastoral perspective—these terms continue to expand in ways that are gaseous; the terrestrial reaching out to more unreachable worlds of dream and space. This is individual and private music speaking to a more collective consciousness. This is Taxidermy of Unicorns—an act of stuffing such a mythical animal, fabricating this beautiful beast as a specimen of all such beasts… Clear chrome plus tapes with black lining. Edition of 200 with accompanying art booklet. Leaves sewn into color insert and wrapped in yarn.

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EXHAUSTION – ‘Future Eaters’ LP
Exhaustion is the brainchild of Duncan Blachford. Following a US tour in 2008 he retreated into an isolated bunker and purged bouts of recurring delirium through free form noise in a variety of musical units on his Endless Melt label. Naturally the impulse to form a new band arose and he recruited Jensen Tjhung (Deaf Wish, Lower Plenty) on bass, himself no stranger to blackouts in a hate prism of his own making. With the recruitment of Swedish rhythm machine Per Bystrom (Ooga Boogas), the psychic sluice valves opened – spontaneous music appeared out of air thick with desperation, paranoia and trudging dread. Gigs began quickly and the album you are now listening to was recorded within months of their first, in order to capture the band in its foetal stages. The music is a primal rhythmic surge, with Duncan’s undisciplined guitar roping long and weird in tandem with his demented baying and crooning. Aarght Records presents the debut EXHAUSTION album ‘Future Eaters’ in a limited edition of 250 copies on 12” LP with download card. The band is launching it at The Tote on Saturday 2 March with Beaches, Buck/Baxter (Tony Buck of The Necks) and Eastlink. The perfect way to ruin what’s left of your life.

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