Animal Psi

Amalgamated – ‘SPARK I’ 3″CDr
The first official release by this heretofore invisible long-standing collaborative group is the first of a 2 x 3″ cd set of pieces recorded before a live audience at short-lived La Salle, Illinois music venue The Spark in November, 2007. Amalgamated includes members of Rebekah’s Tape, Homogenized Terrestrials, Headless Ballerinas Underwater, Gushing Cloud, and Dog Hallucination. The selections utilized for the two Spark 3″ cds are pulled from more than two hours of improvised material, and finessed into detailed, lush, and strange electronic / industrial / noise / ambient constructions by Amalgamated producers D. Petri and Gus Kumo. 3″ cd in vinyl sleeve with disc and insert, black vinyl decal applied to outer front, limited to 50 copies.

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Mystery Attacks – “One” C26 $6(US)/$7.5(Can)/$9(World)
The first release by Mystery Attacks is now available on cassette. The tape contains two tracks of crude, minimalist and repetitive industrial noise recorded May 2012. The two 12+ minute tracks suggest poisonous environments, everyday cruelty, and incremental progress towards catastrophe all now packaged as a pretentious product for your cultural consumption, see fetishistic description below. The physical release is a C26 pro-duplicated chrome tape, red shell with black imprint, and a basic B/W photocopied cover. Each cassette is wrapped in additional printed matter. This release, catalog # ROUGE001, is available in an edition of fifty copies.

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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE – ‘SON OF A BITCHES BREW’ CD/2LP
Son Of A Bitches Brew is a true electric jazz record from the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO. Rooted in the sound of Miles Davis’ electric era this record melds jazz, funk and psych with AMT’s synth swoops, space whispers and cosmic acid vibe.  

KAWABATA MAKOTO & a qui avec Gabriel – ‘Golden Tree’ CD
Duo collaboration between the Japanese female accordionist à qui avec Gabriel, who previously released a solo album on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, and Acid Mothers Temple guitarist and guitar-drone soundscape artist Kawabata Makoto.

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DenMother– ‘Insides Out’ C31 $7
Dark anthems of tortured beats drenched in loneliness and lost within the rhythm of cascading vocals. Insides Out has a languid movement of heaviness and disdain. DenMother creates darkness with chanting vocals echoing deep within the soul, wet and heavy. Limited to 16 on flo orange tint cassettes and chrome tape.

Julia LaDense – ‘Destinations’ C44 $5
Julia LaDense presents Destinations… a series of soundscapes that bridge pure beauty with blissful experimentation. A rare stretch from the more harsh side of this soccer mom – Destinations is relaxing and at times breathtaking. Originally released on Revolving Door Records as a free digital release, the tape version features an alternate track listing and beautiful artwork. Limited to 18 on clear/black liner cassettes and chrome tape.

Sam Hatzaras (Ectoplasm) – ‘2007 – 2012’ C32 $5
Sam Hatzaras is a creator. His latest release spotlights a solid career of the last five years. His best material that spans across different musical projects and experimental collaborations. A noteworthy remixer and a unique sound creator. Hatzaras isolates the sentiment of each track and pulls on the delicate strings that hold together soothing tones and blended beats. A mixologist that creates from the heart. Limited to 30 on yellow cassettes and chrome tape.

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TAR033 – Pod Blotz – ‘White…Black…Spectrum Infinity’ C30
limited to 100 copies.  WHITE…BLACK…SPECTRUM INFINITY, is collection of careful synth work, swelling organ, pulsating rhythms, transfixing tones and ethereal vocals. This work describes a journey, an electrical lava bath, a desolate room slowly lifting into another realm and a sonic battle in space. This is electronic drone music with melodic structuring, in depth tape manipulation and experiments. These songs, arrangements and compositions were made between 2010 and 2012.

TAR035 – Rxccxxns/Seven Lies About Girls split C80
limited to 30 copies. Rxccxxns side features five tracks of melodic synth warble, cosmic clockwork loopage, and shimmering seas of synthetic star gunk. Seven Lies About Girls give us two extended improvisations full of lurching dread, spaced out splatter, and throbbing chaos.

TAR036 – Al Qaeda – ‘Invite Us Back Some Time’ C10
limited to 100 copies. Al Qaeda is back with two side long tracks of churning ambience. On the A side lurching loops and distant voices coalesce into a cinematic soundscape of shimmering blackness The B side sees off kilter keyboards struggling against angry power tools before getting swallowed alive by creeping evil from the abyss of modernity.

TAR037 – va – ‘Battery Davis‘ C62
limited to 100 copies. Seven tracks of otherworldly electronics spanning the Bay Area gutters to the outer galaxies from COPY LAKE, SEVEN LIES ABOUT GIRLS, WEIRD HABIT (ex 16BPU), COAGULATOR (member of TUSCO TERROR), ABYSS OF FATHOMLESS LIGHT, STYROFOAM SANCHEZ. Featuring handmade packaging by BERT BERGEN.

TAR038 – KING FUTURE CAVE WOLF – ‘LIVE AT HOTEL JAMBOX’ C20
Limited to 30 copies. This trio of organ warping narco nomads provide a set of lovely, live bliss-drift in the heart of toxitown. Waves of minimalist farfisa and wheezing air organ lapping gently against a beach of crystaline keys and pebbles of found percussion.

TAR039 – PHILLIP K. GLASS DICK – ‘LIVE AT HOTEL JAMBOX’ C20
Limited to 30 copies. This solo synth excursion from a member of RACCXXNS & CLIP’D BEAKS projects sublime scenes of psychic schizophrenics whistling tunes and hiding in dunes by the sea side. Glowing kosmiche (head) games without frontiers.

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Mugg – ‘Glass Child, Sink, Floor, Frosen Rose’ C20 $8
Teeth run accross microphone head. A male coughing, heavy breathing, licking of lips, liquids in mouth. Two voices are intertwining through elements of distortion, lead interference & temporary loss of signal. Lemmings, they are drinking and being merry. The sound of a basketball bouncing, a distant brook bubbling. Minimal loops & free vocalisation from a usually heavily loop laden project. Featuring members of Castle Mice, VDO, Gugg, Porpoise Torture, Slave, Moffarfarrah, Tweety, Always, Paeces, Krystoffkrvstoffiston, Gauntlet, Saint John’s Ambience, Bohemian Knights, etc. etc. etc. Name changes, comes back, changes again etc. ltd.20 copies, w/ orange cardboard covers, & white tapes stickered, in baby blue cases.
 
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SAMARA LUBELSKI – ‘Wavelength’ CD/LP/MP3
First Lady of Winds and Stars Samara Lubelski returns to her once and future label home for her sixth album, Wavelength, and the spheres harmonize at the news. Wavelength comprises a dozen new arrowed whispers, Samara’s feathery touch on guitar and microphone now so at balance with the elements that the whole, her music and the air it enters, become inseparable. Don’t be fooled by the persistent “psych-folk” labels she gets — oh, they may be accurate as far as modern usage goes, and that scene is now as it was then, but Wavelength is an electric record through and through: Everything comes to life in light, the guitar speaking in radiant strums and felt-tip leads, her violin calling up everything that glows and grows in the dark. Funny how Nature always seemed to work everything out fine on Her own before we showed up, huh? Wavelength features the playing of a number of Samaras fellow travelers, from NYC to Degenfeld, Germany: Metal Mountains bandmates PG Six on guitars and Helen Rush on Casio; Steve Shelley on drums; Moritz Finkbeiner on keyboards; Thilo Kuhn on Mellotron and vibraphone; Werner Notzel on organ guitar; and Willie Lane and Brian Sullivan contributed guitar parts as well. Wavelength was engineered and recorded by Samara herself at Sumsilobatem in Germany, aside from the drums being set down by Aaron Mullan at Echo Canyon; Nicolas Vernhes mixed at Rare Book Room. While Wavelength arrives three years after her previous studio LP, Future Slip (Ecstatic Peace), trust that Samara’s kept busy in the since, playing violin all over the map (and a fair ways off it) with Thurston Moore’s band; sharing stages and an album, Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon (on Graham Lambkin’s Kye label), with Marcia Bassett; being one third of Metal Mountains; adding to Unrock’s series of live CD-R’s in 2010; and having hand and wand in countless engineering projects. Samara has been a quietly reliable presence in New York’s underground realm for a good many years; if you’re in music in NYC and haven’t crossed paths with her, we think you might be doing it wrong. But a Wavelength is always there for you, all you need do is get on it.

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Belzebu Katmandu – “Ѫΰϯᶓԃ Ʀѧϊᵰѣѻὦ” C60 5€
Soft polybox, transparent/black C60 with color artwork, 20 copies. about: A mirroring tape, the alpha and the omega of freak psychedelia on two sides of the same wavy pond: an Italian noisy free-voodoo-jazz duo pursuing smoked exotica and stoned droning, and a China-based dreamy freak-folk collective relocating improvisation to a whole new level of hazy tonality. Contents: murky dissonances, fuzzy saturation, New Weird Orientalism, underwater spirituality.

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PAULINE OLIVEROS – ‘Tape-A-Thon’ print
Reproduction of the original poster for Pauline’s July 22, 1967 Tape-A-Thon, a 12 hour event during which she presented most of her electronic compositions before moving from San Francisco to San Diego.  #’d edition of 107 signed by Pauline Oliveros.

ELEH/DUANE PITRE split LP
500 #’d copies. Second edition with covers printed on white board stock. We have only a small handfull of these on hand for mailorder customers. The majority of copies were shipped to distributors so it should be easy to find this elsewhere.

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