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Titmachine –  ‘Life In Schaarbeek’
Four girls, No nonsense, no wave recorded live at Café The Student, Scharbeek, Brussels, Saturday May 5, 2007 by Quietino Von Quiet Stars. Free net release on Ghosts of… : Diskono.

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Sci Fi Industries – ‘Blame the Lord’
[EN] Electronica album by Portuguese project Sci Fi Industries. Originally released as a limited edition under Thisco in 2008 now available free for download at Enough Records! Artwork by André Coelho.  [PT] Album de electronica pelas mãos do projecto Português Sci Fi Industries. Originalmente lançado como edição limitada pela Thisco em 2008, agora disponivel para download gratuito através da Enough Records! Grafismo por André Coelho.

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Expo ’70/Ancient Ocean split LP
After the onesided released some months ago the Missouri based multi-instrumentalist Justin Wright releases for Sound of Cobra a split lp with the new yorker avant rock guitarist Ancient Ocean.  Justin Wright / Expo 70 for this 12″ keeps his psych drone space attitude mixed with kraut influences. Hanging the guitar at the wall in a corner, he recorded a great moog impro (using OPUS 3 and Realistic): a tranquil ambient soundtrack, dreamy as tangerine dream can be, perfect for a space journey, somewhere else near the stars, far far away from this earth we live on; a warm texture keeps us in vacuum place and no rythms come to bring us back to the reality. Listening to it, we thought there´s a magic place somewhere and we wanna find it and go there: but now, we just enjoy this 20mins Justin made for us. The other side is for the brooklyn based musician John Bohannon aka ANCIENT OCEAN: hailing from the American South, he has howned a unique style of blissed-out amibent/drone meets americana-rooted psychedelia. The spaceship we were on slowly turns into a submarine and from the outer space we quicly dive into a deep ocean made of guitar loops and samples, listening to it we feel lost in a mix of cold and warm currents and dark shadows swim all around. Nice to be here!  The split comes out in 500 copies and it’s in collaboration with our friends of NO=FI Recordings and it’s released in occasion of their first european tour.

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RICHARD YOUNGS – ‘Rurtain’ LP £9.99
At this point in time Richard Youngs should need no introduction. Through his vast discog-raphy (spanning over twenty years), he has created a fascinating body of work which has found a home on labels such as Forced Exposure, VHF, Jagjaguar and his own No Fans imprint. Like all great artists, Richard’s work is hard to pin down and continues to evolve, mutate, and blossom into new forms, whilst at the same time bearing a unique characteristic that lets you know it could be by no-one else. Split into two parts, “Rurtain” is a new elec-tronic piece which picks up from where the “Core To The Brave” LP on Root Strata left off, but taking a more abstract road into something more skeletal and strange. In the first part, broken beats cluster around minimal hits of percussion and wordless vocals that sound like they’re trapped in a vacuum, evoking a slightly unsettling atmosphere. Things become a little more celebratory in the second part with the addition of some very erratic organ playing, giving an ecstatic and almost ‘free-jazz’ feel to the piece. The b-side features three very different interpretations of Richard’s originals by Neil Campbell (Astral Social Club), John Clyde -Evans and Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never). Neil’s version expands the organ of the second piece into a huge kaleidoscopic drone, whilst John hones in on the woodblock and percussion to make something more metallic and abrupt. Finally Daniel Lopatin closes the LP grandly by adding violent stabs of digital synth and mel-ancholic guitar playing to Richard’s voice, almost creating a kind of futuristic ballad. Five tracks of unclassifiable electronics, limited to 300 copies. Recorded by Richard Youngs, Neil Campbell, John Clyde-Evans and Daniel Lopatin in Glasgow, Yorkshire and New York, 2011 – 2012. Mastered by John Hannon at No Recording Studio and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.

EL-G – ‘Mil Pluton’ LP £9.99
Élg is Laurent Gerard. Since 2000 Élg has made a name for himself in the experi-mental underground performing solo in venues across Europe and the USA and also in the trio Reines D’Angleterre with Jo Tanz and Ghedalia Tazartes. Over the years he has built a complex body of work which has been spread amongst reputa-ble labels such as Kraak, SS, Lal Lal Lal, Taped Sounds and Nashazphone. Now, four years since his debut ‘Tout Ploie’, Alter and Hundebiss present ‘Mil Pluton’, the second Élg album on vinyl. In that time Gerard has knuckled down with a bunch of new gear and built a fresh sound which is difficult to categorize but still carries many of the characteristics of his previous work. One can hear EBM-esque rhythms, scalpel-sharp Musique Concréte style editing, dense layers of swampy electronics which open up the same hypnotic spirals that the Élg of old did, but it’s Laurent’s unique approach to songwriting and composition Vocally, Élg has evolved beyond conventional language and now works with an Es-peranto-like form of alien linguistics to front the sonic mass. If your musical interests sit within the realm of outer limits electronics and have been drawn towards the work of Throbbing Gristle, Bernard Szajner, Coil and Tazartes then look no further. ‘Mil Pluton’ also features musical contributions from Jo Tanz, Jean-Philippe Gross, Bill Kouligas (PAN), TG Gondard and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu / Kemialliset Ystavat). All tracks were composed, record and mixed by Élg in Brussels in 2011, then mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin in December of that same year, and pressed lovingly onto 150g vinyl by Alter and Hundebiss in September 2012. Edition of 300 copies.

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GOD 09 Boris Hegenbart and 19 Artists – ‘Instrumentarium’ 2xLP
featuring: Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Art Bears, Skeleton Crew, Naked City, Material, Massacre), Oren Ambarchi (Burial Chamber Trio, Sunn O)))), David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol, Codeine), Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Polwechsel), Felix Kubin, Ulrich Krieger (Metal Machine Trio), Martin Siewert, Boris Hauf, Marc Wieser, etc…

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Silent Land Time Machine – ‘I am no longer alone with myself and can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude’ EP
Silent Land Time Machine’s latest work I am no longer alone with myself and can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude speaks in an oneiric and numinous tongue but is replete with durability and coherence – a rare and intriguing mixture. There exist only subtle threads of aesthetic continuity from the artist’s debut &hope still (TIME-LAG Records), where guitar dominates in the main, with the music shifting its emphasis toward micro electronic assemblages – at times damaged, turbulent, and percussive, at others lulling, plaintive, and melodic – with naïve, organic, and lucidly processed string arrangements woven throughout. All this aesthetic revision is accomplished while increasing the breadth, accessibility, and emotional resonance of his sonic palette. The texture of SLTM’s EP is gentle-haze meets mechanical-grit, with lustrous swells, rapturous glitches, and clear but effaced tones guiding the listener through its ambitious harmonic and narrative arcs. The album’s emotive thrust, as its Brobdingnagian title suggests, is a palpable sense of longing. This music cuts to the heart of the tension between the vast, chaotic, terrifying, and fragmentary terrain of the spirit that subsumes the artist-at-work and the striving of the individual to reconcile his identity with the memory of a unitary and authentic peace. All of this and more pours out of this music, which, time and again, constructs scaffolding from sped-up and slowed-down self-generated samples and colorful acoustic tones. There is a depth of narrative arrangement and keen sense of how sonic elements relate to one another here that opens up pathways of communication, dimensions of integration to and from the listener, and confirms this album’s successes at translating the nuanced fluidity of dreams and hidden desires of the unconscious into potent orchestral miniatures. This collection of “songs” is not without a childish playfulness, Scandinavian darkness, and a tact and groove that is as uplifting and memorable as it is heart-rending, bewildering, and esoteric. Bedtime listening, yes, but more than that, tunes to frolic to and yearn with through the dream that is waking life.  180g Clear Vinyl / Edition of 500. Full color offset reverse-matte LP jackets – full-bleed B&W printed dust sleeves, full color LP stickers.

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PABLO CANALÍS – ‘Folclores Imaginarios’ 15€
Spanish bassist and precusionist Pablo Canalís presents his first solo album entitled “Folclores imaginarios” (Imaginary folklores). The CD includes 20 new tracks, over 60 minutes of music played with more than 50 instruments from the 5 continents. You may listen to very peculiar instrumentation such as a Japanese taishokoto, an Indian sitar, an udu from the Igbo ethnic group, angklungs from Java, an African kalimba or a Bolivian charango. This CD comes together with a 56 pages hardcover book (16×24 cm). It starts with a section that includes comments from the author to each CD track and an itemized list of the instrumentation used in each musical piece. A glossary of over 30 pages provides an explanation to several of those instruments: history, origin and organologic classification. The book includes colour pictures of instruments, collaborators and the author himself. Collaborators: Eduardo G. Salueña, Pedro A. Menchaca and Israel Sánchez (keyboard and guitar players in Senogul); Fran Molinero and Carlos Cantarero (guitar and keyboard players of Killing Zoe);  Ekaitz Imanol de Luis and Gustavo A. Rico (guitar/bagpipe player and singer of Soulworm respectively); José Luis Feijoo (charango and quenas in Kuntur Huasi); Guzmán Argüello (plays saxophone and flutes in different projects). John Falcone (bassoon and contrabassoon in the OSPA). Rocío Fernández (voice and accordion in Darbukka).
 
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Mike Bruno + the Black Magic Family Band – ‘Willing of the Wisps’ C39
Limited to 50 copies // yellow cassette shells with black imprinted ink // full colour J-cards // high-bias bin loop mastered tapes // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // runtime [0:38:56]

BATHAUS – ‘ARCANE|||CUT’ C40
Limited to 50 copies // 25 translucent green & 25 translucent blue cassette shells with white imprinted ink // full colour J-cards // high-bias bin loop mastered tapes // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // runtime [0:49:17]

Michum self-titled C48
Limited 50 copies // translucent cassette shells with white imprinted ink // black & white J-cards // high-bias bin loop mastered tapes // plastic norelco cases with shrinkwrapping // runtime [0:46:28]

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Nomen Novum – ‘If You Look For It, It’s There’ C46 $7
Atlanta’s Nomen Novum is one David Norbery.  Over the course of two albums and several singles and EPs, Norbery has drastically perverted, refined, and then upturned his methods for creating songs, so much so that we never knew if his next release would at all resemble the previous one.  But it is now obvious he would always have arrived at this point.  What began only a couple years ago as a fun rock n roll project with friends gradually morphed into a gleeful pop deconstruction, using samples as fluently as it did layers of guitars, its lyrics as process-driven and cut-up as its instrumentals.  We wondered if Norbery could top himself after his second album, Paradises, and the Go Primal EP, both released in 2009—they were too good! After this latest album, however, never again will we assume Nomen Novum, as a single entity, will ever rest on its laurels.  If You Look For It, It’s There is, quite simply, an experimental pop masterpiece, and one of the most beautiful, unpretentious, effortless-sounding records we’ve ever heard.  Norbery’s naive/wise lyrics and harmonies, interweaving guitar spindles, and classic pop hooks lie comfortably across a weave of intuitive beats (inspired by the likes of late 90s Warp Records, Krautrock, and current top 40 radio) and anonymous samples that may as well have been taped directly out of some parallel collective subconscious.   Tying it all together is a comforting sense of both heart and heartbreak, a pop record for our times.  We couldn’t be more excited to have this as our first release!  Gold foil pro-dubbed cassettes with handmade knitted sleeves.  edition of 100.

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