CHRISTIAN COSMOS – ‘enthronement by god as the first-born of the dead’ LP
among the trinity of electronic projects of dominick fernow’s studies in anxiety and fear from the mythic natures of rainforest spiritual enslavement, the info wars of vatican shadow and the creator’s observation of christian cosmos. released first as a limited 4 x cassette box set now condemned to vinyl. lightning drums pound the rhythms for lost souls as the fall from paradise abounds and the trumpets of the heavens command the threshold. imagine a voiceless dead can dance sent through a black hole hence the ancient notes and structures are scrambled and returned with information loss while the cathedral floor is flushed with his sacraments. but there is a beauty in submission to belief. some have said the book is not about self improvement but faith. soundtrack for judgement of souls. first 100 copies come on ‘body and blood’ vinyl. edition of 500.
HELM – ‘geneva cave’ C30
we are proud to offer this release that shows the rawer most industrial side of helm, the new project form luke younger (birds of delay) from the uk. luke has been been making a unique blend of sounds that have reference to industrial culture, electronic noise, drone, and acoustic music and puts it together in a way that shows the listener new textures that are greater than the sum of their parts. pulled from live recordings and presented here on a tape that harnesses the true early industrial feeling that helm contains. hand painted and numbered oversize package. edition of 22. digital version coming soon.
CYCLONE SS – ‘awakening the zyklon titan’ 3xCS
this item is exclusively distributed on behalf of yoke of christ. this is the first release in ages from the label home to roman cross and astral command. recorded several years ago and now finally available in its completed form over the course of multiple sessions. absolutely raw black metal chaos. necro mythos violence. titan black metal. unlistenable. nearly and hour and a half in duration. edition of 54.
Throughout his work with duos Sundrips, Dozens, and Aphid Palisades, Montreal’s Ryan Connolly has proven himself to be a mighty collaborator. Recording on his own as Trailing, Connolly’s solo work is no less powerful. ‘Asymmetries’ finds him reveling in the stillness of sound. Clean guitar loops are set forth eloquently, layered carefully, and left to dissipate into a beautiful mist. Remarkably calm and relaxing, it’s hard to think of a release in our catalog that embodies the label name more than this one. Let the sounds wash over you repeatedly and you might even believe they have the power to heal. Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring designs by Caroline Teagle. Edition of 100.
Over the past few years, Denmark’s Mikkel Dunkerley has built a fascinating, singular world of sound with his label D’Artagnan and projects such as Pummeler, Grass Traffic, and Wax Toller. Albino Groupie is perhaps the gentlest of the bunch, combining soothing drones with Dunkerley’s signature murk. ‘Shadow Bong Synth’ finds the project lost in a narcotic haze. Low end, pulsing waves writhe slowly and ultimately give way to subtle and evocative melodies. There’s pleasantry to be found deep in the shadows, but the shadows themselves make the whole affair all the more intriguing. Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring designs by Caroline Teagle. Edition of 100.
Grecian synth lord Panos Alexiadis has been releasing music steadily as Lunar Miasma over the past three years, ratcheting up the intensity significantly with each new missive. ‘Managing the Dream’ is certainly no exception in that regard, diving deep into a world of lucid dreams and nighttime hallucinations. There’s a real narrative feel to the release, consisting of two dense, long-form pieces in the middle and two short but sweet pieces at each end. Showcasing his impressive abilities as a player, Alexiadis unleashes rapid-fire keyboard solos that dance atop gorgeous melodic loops which sound as though they were imported from another realm. The dream is under your control and the possibilities are endless…what will you do next? Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring designs by Caroline Teagle. Edition of 100.
One half of Montreal’s Sundrips, Nick Maturo unleashed his solo guise Event Cloak last year with a stellar debut on Fadeaway Tapes, and it instantly became one of the most promising new synth projects around. ‘Reprogramming’ delivers on that promise and then some with a release of epic proportions that showcases Maturo’s undeniable talent and versatility as an electronic musician. As if scanning the dial on an outer space radio, Maturo weaves effortlessly between bouncing arpeggios, ethereal pads, FM synthesis, and samples sliced and diced to the point of glorious madness. It’s staggeringly beautiful at times, extremely strange at others, and always entirely satisfying. Turn it up loud and synchronize your mind with the machines. Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring designs by Caroline Teagle. Edition of 100.
We’re ecstatic to present the first-ever compilation on Tranquility Tapes. Clocking in at 100 minutes, this collection shines a light on some of our favorite recording duos currently operating within the broad spectrum of underground music. A tribute to collaboration and camaraderie through sound, each duet brings something entirely different to the table, yet the collection as a whole flows together better than we could have ever imagined. Features new and unreleased tracks by Quiet Evenings, Super Minerals, Velvet Chrome, Brother Raven, Seziki Tetrasheaf, Century Plants, Big Sky, Afterlife, Imperial Topaz, Telecult Powers, Concessionaires, Blood on Tape, Sundrips, Grasshopper, The Circle and the Point, and Coventry Music. Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring designs by Caroline Teagle. Edition of 200.
Like a capsule from a very recent era, the collection ‘Iridial’ captures so much symbolic of the CDr boom circa 2007– and ironically from a project that’s never before appeared on CDr. That is, Vales, the youthful project of 2AM Tapes proprietor Dave Doyen, is here not archived but (self-) monumentalized with a four-disc collection of drones, hand-painted discs in an over-sized clamshell. Pegged directly to the analog synthesizer manufactured by Casper Electronics, each disc-long track exploits the inner space of the bedroom composer and the organic induction/deduction dialectic of the analog consumer format. To put the sound in quick relief, these are standard drones (that is not to say substandard, or redundant – which would take a whole treatise on “drone” as a form) which err to the bright, granular, wall-to-wall, and melodramatic practitioners from Emaciator, Taiga Remains, Daniel Menche, and the like. Each disc contains a number of significant transitions, making each a listening experience more engaged than not – more to the front of the mind’s ear than the back, so to speak – and without being reduced to a demo collection for the Drone Lab technology, exhibit their own identities as discs: yes, there are the gaps and peaks to disc two’s noise which distinguishes it from the throbbing abandon-ship of disc three – more like a Pulse Emitter adventure than the abstracts of disc one’s wall sound – and still then unique from the tenacious aggregate drone of four, which recalls the monoliths found lurking around Basses Frequencies.
