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Ghuna X – ‘Ghuna X Plays Philicorda’ C40
Cinta del músico electrónico portugués Ghuna X en Afeite Al Perro. 40 minutos de melodías magnéticas salidas de películas no rodadas de Dario Argento y Ridley Scott tocadas con el olvidado teclado Philicorda. Doble portada a color y en blanco y negro sobre papel rosa metálico y cinta tóxica. 70 copias. 2 euros.// Cassette tape by portuguese electronic musician Ghuna X in Afeite Al Perro. 40 minutes of magnetic melodies played with a Philicorda organ out of non filmed Dario Argento and Ridley Scott movies. Double cover: full color and b/w printed in metallic pink paper. Toxic cassette. 70 copies. 2 euros.

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Two Bit Dezperados/Beat Mark split 7″
300 copies limited. Every summer needs a hit records. This is Summer 2012’s hit record! Italo-Portuguese “Two Bit Dezperados” team up with french “Beat Mark” to deliver the freshest 7″ for this hot summer. Female and male vocals, poppy guitars, groovy rhythm sections creates a mix of tropicalia, indie-pop, garage and shoegaze with a touch of psichedelia. Artwork by french illustrator Vanessa Funuele. Layout by italian illustrator and drummer Matteo Valicelli.

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Alex Durlak – ‘Seconds’ LP
Seconds is the third and final piece in a series of recordings made by Alex Durlak in March 2010. The first was released as Catalyst (2010) on the Rural Routes series and was followed by Lowing (2010) on the Audio Gourmet net label. All three feature Durlak’s guitar playing being processed in realtime using granular synthesis techniques and were recorded in single improvised takes; a minimal approach that makes for a deep and complicated sound with little reference to its origin. Seconds is an ever changing narrative through a dark and open space, perhaps a walking tour through an abandoned factory with it’s machinery left running or the soundtrack to a time lapse video of steel being cut under an electron microscope.

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PASS1 – C.T.A.N – ‘Broken’
Our debut release from a label born to explore electronic music, limited to 100 copies on funky green tapes. Also the first for UK based noise/experimental producer C.T.A.N. Across this cassette, a collection of sorts taking pieces C.T.A.N produced separately from mid-2010 onwards (before Passive Aggressive and its concepts were founded), he takes shades of drone and dark ambient along with social commentary and urban beats with an overall disregard for structure, blending them into a chaotic (at times, perhaps melancholy) final product. These influences vary from tune to tune, with C.T.A.N’s long-time interests in breakbeat and dance music appearing more evident in the beat-driven “Love Constitutes Conformity” and “In Your Head”, their damaged flow saving them from ever being understood on a dancefloor, whilst the darker side of his musical mind takes priority in “Chronic” the most, scarce of much more than screams and contemplative synthesized grunts.

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SWAN-HUNTER – ‘Live Sheffield 3rd July 2012’ £4
Limited edition CDR, the third release on Blackest Bootlegs. 12 minutes of double guitar worship, static doom effects, and insane vocal through two trashed mobile phones. Swan-Hunter is the solo project of Adam Denton, frequent collaborator of Cameron Deas (in Deas & Denton) and one half of Trans Human. Recorded live on July 3rd in Sheffield.

MV & EE – ‘Godchaux Free Brattleboro’ 4xCS boxset £20
Four live excursions from MV & EE, this time keepin’ it strictly local to their dwellings. Four sets spanning 2011 – 2012, three Golden Road sets and a set backed up by The Toasted Clam. These high quality cuts feature the fine musicians Rongoose, Smokehound and Herbcraft.  Continuing on from the previous box set collabs with MV & EE you get the usual white custom made box with a full colour cover, pro-dubbed and printed cassettes with a small 8 page black and white booklet. Over 4 hours of sounds across four cassettes: ‘Jettison Awareness’, ‘Townie Tumbleweeds’, ‘Vegas Booyah’ and ‘Mesos Pot Amia’. All four sets are multitrack recorded/soundboard matrix mixes, so the sound is fantastic! Comes with a download code for the whole set. Edition of only 180.

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FNL CDr $5
New EP featuring FNL’s latest forays into sound design. Four compositions investigate a contemporary approach to the arrangement of sound, with a focus on microsound, rhythm, and the extreme ends of the audible frequency spectrum. Intended to be played on systems with a wide frequency response.

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HIGH AURA’D – ‘Sanguine Futures’ LP
Sanguine Futures opens with a slow craw; the burden of winter crawling across your back, reaching around your throat — grayed hands with frayed nails grip tight and pull you into an isolated realm of blissful purgatory. You’re only two and a half minutes in and creatures are crawling out of the shadows and your breath is hanging heavy. John Kolodij has crafted an auditory trip into territories that feel untouched, unmoved by human hands, packed with ethereal and earthly blackness; a deep and dense wood, a coal-black night, tarry centers where you find the solitude of 100 year old weeping willows. This is not an album crafted to simply listen and reflect, this is heavy slabs of flesh and blood, moaning, bending, warbling to life, groaning out and sucking you in. Shades of Scelsi and Penderecki collage and wind into spacious suites, built atop a foundation of heavy Köner-styled concrete. It’s beautiful, but there’s a lingering fear of the unknown, and you could lose your leg at the next step. It’s breathtaking and beautiful, but you’re always careful not to trip too far into these skeletal treescapes. There’s deep, rusty veins running to the heart of Sanguine Futures, pumping a dark crimson fluid, driving the machine to keep humming. There’s a clicking film projector casting images onto a sheet of ice. We feel it, it’s thrust into the very energy that motivates us; a feeling of love, of life, of solace, of hope and pain and fear and joy and sorrow. This is a span of sounds and tones and textures, weaved together as a lifeforce. An album this isn’t, an entire affair, spanning our first to dying breaths. Heavy, spacious, frightening, and welcoming; all at once. On Sanguine Futures, Kolodij was aided in arranging by Type Records’ John Twells, who also produced and mixed the record at Seventh Door Studios in Massachusetts. Trumpet by the renown Greg Kelley. James Plotkin mastered. Simon Fowler did the beautiful artwork.

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Chris Daily – ‘The Selected Works of Chris Daily Vol. 1: The Complete Works  & Lately, As Always: Wayside Songs’ CD/CS $20/$6
TBR is releasing a TON of MUSIC this July, including a massive data CD (containing 16 1/2 hours of music with 300+ songs) set titled The Selected Works of Chris Daily Vol. 1: The Complete Works and Daily’s new album titled Lately, As Always: Wayside Songs that will be available on cassette and download. The compilation set covers every solo recording one man band Chris Daily has ever multi-tracked and a smattering of group songs either produced by him or recorded w/Daily as a member of such groups as The Daily Brothers and Stylish Headphones, Milady. From D’s earliest 4-track cassette experiments to professional tech Pro Tools savvy audio masterpieces, the 300+ songs rival R. Stevie Moore for quantity and quality (and Daily aint yet 25 years old)!!  Lately, As Always: Wayside Songs is an album six years in the making…The set contains songs either left unfinished or newly minted gems from the years 2006-2012. Highlights include the bass-rocking rocker “Roland Kirk Blues,” the smooth horn section pop of “No More Weather,” and a cover of the Beach Boys-esque soon to be released (September 2012) new Netherverse song “Cigarette Boat.”

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TQA023 – Aidan Baker/Leah Buckareff – ‘Breathing Heavy Breathing’
Berlin-based Canadians Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff, both of doomgaze husband/wife guitar/bass duo NADJA, finally deliver the long-awaited special string-less diptych release. Drones were strictly created from cymbals (Baker) & accordion (Buckareff). Both 20-minute piece on its separate 3″ mini-disc are meant to stand alone and played simultaneously together to create a fuller drone ensemble. A version of that mix is available for download. Mastered by Eric Quach.

TQA024 – Northumbria
Toronto based ambient metal duo Northumbria was formed in 2011 by former Holoscene members Jim Field (guitar) and Dorian Williamson (bass). Using only guitar and bass mega amplified and recorded live, Northumbria create a wall of improvised drones that take the listener on a sonic journey through a dystopian landscape. Recorded live in January and April 2012 at Trinity United Church in Cobourg, Ontario. Mastered by James Plotkin.

TQA025 – Lovesliescrushing – ‘Glinter’
We are very proud to be releasing brand new lovesliescrushing material. Scott Cortez & Melissa Arpin-Duimstra deliver gorgeous washes of textured guitars & angelic ethereal vocals to create perfect dreamy summer drones. Everything was recorded in 2012.

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