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905.171: DEREK ROGERS – ‘OF WEIGHT, PHANTOM PAIN’ C62
rogers drops a charmer, per usual, with five high spirited intoxications. warm and glowing dreamboats on this guy. imagine drinking whiskey on the sun. don’t imagine it. do it.

905.170: MIKE SHIFLET – ‘NATURE SEEN’ C20
field recordings, analog/digital synths, comps, and guitars all juiced together by mike shiflet, creating some truly beast sound statues. the unprocessed songs of birds (uncredited) overwhelmed by unwonted drone and audio balloon art.

905.169: VALES – ‘PENTRESS’ C49
vales just auctioned off his dog and house to purchase mad modules for his new synth-setup. he’s homeless and man’s-best-friendless but it’s all worth it cause the patches are infinite and the crystals that spill out of the speakers look pretty. craziest vales shit you’re ears will look at all year. the entire tape was inspired by a trip to the old country.

905.168: SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE – ‘PAST MASTER’ C31
frank baugh’s swp project shouldn’t be a stranger to anyone at this point. he’s been releasing guitar/etc bliss piss in sky toilets across the multiiverse for a bit now. pretty much leaving a mark on every cassette label worth mentioning. that may be hyperbole, but what isn’t is that ‘past master’ is matchless in modern unharsh ambient harshness. i think some of this is nine inch nails 45rpms played at 1rpm. probably not, but that would be cool. this is cool.

905.167: WETHER + PARASHI split C57
three wether cuts. a live track recorded at the 2012 voice of the valley noise rally in pentress, wv captured by chris donofrio and two much damper, slow churners by way of home built electronics and synths recorded a few years back. parashi (finally) makes his 905 debut with three of his own. his jams dig deeper and deeper, ping-ponging from sparse bubbles and babbles to thickset rasps. it’s like you’re stuck in a narcotic-head’s hard drive while he is defragging and playing minesweeper. it’s a zone for sure.

905.165: ROMAN WOLFE – ‘YLEM’ C30
mr. donovan fazzino’s 905 follow up to 2010’s ‘yelm’ c62 burner. this is synthesizer music slightly beyond new age. it’s nude age. an age where everyone just wears lasers and good vibes.

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Chris Connelly – ‘Artificial Madness’ LP
BloodLust! is very pleased to announce the release of the vinyl version of Chris Connelly’s outstanding “Artificial Madness” album.  This is the LP version of the CD that Relapse released in late 2011.  “Artificial Madness” represents a momentous step in the progression of this very accomplished Chicago-based, Scottish-born musician, offering a suite of contemporary, heavy, high-energy rock songs that reveal measured lyrics paired with meticulously crafted songs.  While Chris has certainly delivered beautiful records in the past, the maturity of this album may surprise some fans who have followed his prolific, diverse and rather hedonistic career in music. Lyrically, the album offers a set of narratives that seem to accurately define a truly dystopian landscape, setting stories in invented locales, in which the inhabitants lead a dark, dehumanized and anxious existence.  Stylistically, “Artificial Madness” sounds very modern, even as it draws from an arsenal of heavy post-punk music elements that Chris has built upon since the mid- to late-1980s, whether solo, with Ministry or Revolting Cocks, or with current and former members of Killing Joke and Public Image Limited. This album also happens to feature numerous friends of mine.  Perhaps Chris needs no further introduction, but his impact on the world of dark and heavy music, both in Chicago and beyond, should not be underestimated.  And for those who think his “electronic” work is limited to the Wax Trax! style of industrial music – as if such as thing was that easy to classify – let me tell you about a very memorable 1989 show at Dreamerz, when Chris opened up for the still-new My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, shocking (most of) the crowd with a vicious, assertive, straight-up power-electronics set.  On a label-related note, Chris previously sang on the Plague Bringer “Burning Inside” CD single box set (B!155, 2010), an exclusive Record Store Day release that featured a cover version of a well-known song by one of his former bands, Ministry.  And for this album, Chris assembled a veritable who’s who of heavy-hitters from Chicago.  Sanford Parker (keyboards, engineering and production) is known from the bands Buried At Sea, Minsk, Twilight and Nachtmystium, and he previously played alongside Chris in The High Confessions.  Sanford also recorded the forthcoming BLOODYMINDED album, “Within The Walls,” and he recorded and played synth alongside me on the imminent Wrekmeister Harmonies album, “You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me.”  Will Lindsay (bass) is a good friend, who has also sat in on bass with Anatomy of Habit, while I have contributed live synth and vocals to Will’s band, Indian.  Will is also known for his work with bands including Nachtmystium, Wolves in the Throne Room and Middian.  Dallas Thomas (guitar) is known for his band The Swan King and he also happens to be playing with the celebrated group Pelican, these days.  His amazing guitar style and tone is unmistakable on this LP.  Noah Leger (drums) has recently been helping out on drums with Anatomy of Habit and he is known from a number of diverse local groups, including Electric Hawk, Head of Skulls, Tight Phantomz, and Milemarker.  Noah most recently joined the exciting Chicago group Disappears.  Safe to say, I am really excited to be releasing Chris’ record!

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LAZY MAGNET – ‘Acts Without Error’ LP
As an artifact, a piece of archived music, this feels as if it belongs beyond the earth — or perhaps buried deep within it. What started as something of an ill-fated project, a split 12″ with the ethereal forest-dweller Caethua, Acts Without Error took over a year and a half to finish. Spacing out through numerous edits and mixes, the final piece seems squelched straight from the cosmos, balancing itself down onto the earth via energy waves both yellow and neutral, black and beautiful. To say Lazy Magnet created a sonic spectrum of sound and tone is to suggest they did not practice magic. Surely they did, however, and blessed us in our sleep. You hear a synth call and beckon the light to enter the room, but it’s beyond a machine. Many artists push their noggin hard and strain to reach outside the world. They practice the scales and draw lines on paper, and ache for the sonics. Lazy Magnet wrings hands and nods heads – born from the soil is elegant rays, shifting pitch bends that lift your spine out of your body. Did you ever daydream as a child, looking into the clouds for shapes of dinosaurs or pig faced men? Did the clouds ever speak back? Now they do.  Bathetic is more than excited to be involved with Lazy Magnet and the album, Acts Without Error.  For years on end Jeremy Harris has been touring and physically living out the works of-, putting every ounce of soul into-, continuously pushing all genuine ideas throughout- the pure and heartfelt gristle that isLazy Magnet.  Because this album took a long time to complete is no mistake – it will soon be in constant rotation on your decks. Promise – cross our hearts, hope to die.  With the help of Daryl Seaver, Lazy Magnet has produced a monumental album – cohesive in sound, sight, and touch.  Get ready to space-out, dance, drool, and love these Acts Without Error.   Long Live the MAG. Edition of 400. Vinyl comes shrink-wrapped in jacket with printed metallic gold ink.

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PURR 0016: Food Pyramid – ‘Live/Dead’
Live at the Bakken Museum of Electricity, Food Pyramid incants the freedom of Ash Ra Temple from the vertiginous crest of a great wave.  Their complimentary efforts echo and coalesce through the valleys below, waking forest life to a somnambulant rustle.

PURR 0017: Samantha Glass – ‘Rising Movements’
The abandoned lodge emerges from the dark, wet woods. It is warm and light inside – carpeted halls and wood banisters welcome your step, draw you deeper past branching rooms. What mysteries, forgotten treasure, and danger await within these decrepit walls?

PURR 0018: Mitchell Turner – ‘Cascades’
Spyglass renders telescopic visions generously spread – a fire on mountainous lands – a blurred image of star and planet.  Side to side guitar shines on pieces of crystal.

PURR 0019: EN/Jefre Cantu-Ledesma split
In preparation for their Japan tour with Grouper in April 2012, En (Maxwell August Croy & James Devane) defined the genesis for ‘Blood’. Upon returning home, ideas developed from their performances were fleshed out and a new organism birthed. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma was sent parts of the completed En track, which he used to create ‘Blood Variations’.

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Pacific Strings – ‘Woodgate Valley’ CS
CF is very pleased to announce the debut release from Berlin’s Pacific Strings, Woodgate Valley. Daniel John Boyle (UK), Florian Zeisig (GER) and Maggie Buck Armstrong (US) formed the band in early 2012, recording the eight song mini-album in a summer house on the Polish border after only a few months together. The three share vocals and instruments to create a sinuous, multi-layered yet accessible sound, a combination in their own words of ”pop obsession and new world atmospherics”. Woodgate Valley is available in a super limited cassette edition including download of all 8 tracks.  We have a handful left of the wonderful Thread Pulls You Melt Words\ 5/8 Rhythm Here, the Dublin experimentalist’s first new material since 2010’s New ThoughtsLP, available in a super limited edition of only 100 label-less 12″s. All records include two glossy photographs and download codes.

Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light LP
Back in 2007 we released a gem of an album by then Dublin based audio visual artists Nina Canell and Robin Watkins, Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light. The original edition came packaged in a unique embossed sleeve, these are long gone but we have just found a rare batch of long lost “rough diamonds” in plain black discobags which we are selling for a reduced price for a very limited time while stocks last. Integrating elements of traditional song, field recording and backwoods chant (Champagne Diamond, Fly the Radio Sky, Separate Members), alongside found-folk (Scatter & Yearn) and Music Concrete (Rot, Get Soft, Build & Leave) the six songs that constitute CHAMPAGNE DIAMOND can be considered as a self-contained piece, as with the three more expansive and improvisory spoken word/instrumental segments of THE BRILLIANT LIGHT, or taken together with the latter as two halves of one self-reflexive whole. Includes 320 kpbs MP3 download of full album for the first time.

Sea Pinks – ‘Freak Waves’ LP
Two years on from the garage fuzz of debut Youth Is Wasted (Japanese Knotweed), and following on from last year’s jangle pop mini-odyssey Dead Seas (Fountain Tesserae, Peripheral Vision), Freak Waves, the third album from Sea Pinks, is the fullest realisation of their sound so far. From pristine guitar pop (A Pattern Recognition, Shrinking Violet) to full-blooded brooding (False Spring, Subliminal Messaging) to the epic closer of the title track and all points in between, this is the band at their most dynamic. And while the songs seem to dwell on disillusion, broken communication, and ambivalence in general; the bright, buoyant melodies therein perform the perfect counterweight. This is classic sounding, bittersweet pop at it’s effortless best.  Available in a limited edition of 250 12″ LPs, including 320 kbps MP3 download of all ten tracks.

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RC63: RATKILLER – ‘CELLAR DWELLER’ C32
Estonian museum security guard, Mihkel Kleis breaks out of his shell, only to keep us clappin’ and bobbin’ away. Full color plastic inspired j-cards. Professionally home-duplicated on type II chrome cassettes courtesy of ExcelDay.

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Perkin Warbek – ‘l’anathème d’une bicyclette’ C70 $6
Perkin Warbek (aka aaron3000) is known for his sentimental work with mixtape sounds, blending genres and remixing pop and underground artists in his own branded style.  L’anthème d’une bicyclette is a masterpiece.  Originally recorded as a digital release, ihaa archives the physical format of a true mixtape on limited edition cobalt cassettes (50).   “a special mixtape with special vocal appearances of LORI SCACCO ( EASTERN DEVELOPMENTS, SAVATH Y SAVALAS TOUR MEMBER ) composed of: tracks from LE CHAPELIER FOU, PREFUSE 73, EDAN, BOARDS OF CANADA, MIRA CALIX, CLUE TO KALO, THAVIUS BECK….this was done thanks to two turntables. ” Mp3 download with purchase.

Bizzart – ‘Grey Goo’ C34 $6
As the story is told, Bizzart found himself in a room with six other producers and a nice bong… the result was a factory of hidden sounds and dynamic beats and sound frequencies that blend together in bizarre ways.  A room full of producers with such raw talent that the intricacies of the work requires multiple listens to truly appreciate its genius.  Recorded a few years ago in Seattle, WA – we are offering a limited edition to help archive this moment as well as help raise money for Bizzart’s future tours.  Support this album and check out his recent work as Gothic Cholo from the prized Time Lapse label. Featuring: Bizzart, Rallim Nomad, Tarso, Introcut, Suttikeeree, filkoe, and Arthur Russell.  Limited to 30 on black tapes.  Mp3 download included with purchase.

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MAJOR STARS – ‘Decibels Of Gratitude’ CD
What to say about a band who continuously claims Otis Rush and Buddy Guy as it’s primary influences, but usually finds their records filed in the “noise/experimental” bin? Any mention of Major Stars tends to send some scurrying for the most obscure psychedelic references, but one need look no further than the Who or Cream to find the primary ingredients of melodic songwriting combined with an over-the-top instrumental assault.

FOLKE RABE – ‘What??’ CD
What?? is a focused and grounding work produced by Swedish composer Folke Rabe in 1967. From his interest in sound phenomena and harmonics Rabe was able to make one of the most deep, moving pieces of sustained sound generated in this formative era of minimalist electronic composition. Initially reissued on Dexter’s Cigar in 1997 and now available on Important with expanded packaging including archival materials furnished by the composer. Amplified infinity.

MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE – ‘Totem One’ LP
First 200 mailorder copies on purple vinyl. Please be sure to select the purple vinyl option when purchasing.Master Musicians Of Bukkake’s newest record and part of a Northwest trilogy, Totem One marks an evolution from their first record “Visible Sign Of the Invisible order.” MMOB has now solidified into a 7 piece cosmic psyche force.

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Anla Courtis & Richard Francis – ‘Aucklantida’ C40 $8(USA)/$10(World)
Edition of 50.  Since the mid-90′s, Argentinian composer Anla Courtis has found an uncomfortable nest within his strange and abstract music.  Meanwhile on the opposite side of the planet, Richard Francis has been establishing himself within his outpost in New Zealand as a sage of ambient drone waveforms.  When both of these minds melded across the Pacific, the following documentation was born.  Studied and paced drone textured without any caution using cut-ups, modular electronics and bent instrumentation.

Stone Baby – ‘Debris’ C20 $8(USA)/$10(World)
Edition of 50. Distorted ambient death rattles by upstate NY artists Cory E. Card and Jen Marquart wraps up another perfect release in Debris.  Blistering drones that contradict itself, layered shards of voice and tape wrapped up in a tangled fray.  Known to many from their adventures on Carbon, House of Alchemy and Peasant Majik, this newest release portrays the band as more jagged and referential that previously displayed…both sides forming a perfect union of medium and host.

Kösmonaut – ‘Geist’ C46 $8(USA)/$10(World)
Edition of 50. Vintage sequence of celestial proportions in the new cassette by Patrick Park under Kösmonaut.  Drawing influences from the likes of Cluster, Heldon / Pinhas and Ashra Temple, this project delivers electronic krautrock style unmatched in our cosmos, hatching a galactic egg of supersonic progressive energy.

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