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TR-017: Mubles/Grassa Dato – ‘Oh Pequeño Muble/Los Que Habitan en la Oscuridad’
From Bilbao they proceed Mubles, a band formed in February 2008 by members of bands like Xedh, Kakofunk, Valvula Antirretorno or KRPNTRS, bringing danger back to experimental music. “Oh Pequeño Muble” is an intense, fragile, and unpleasant track, a descent to the sewers of soul, with the special prominent dada verses of Álvaro Matilla.  Grassa Data continues with his prodigious working rhythm. His proposal, based on noise, power electronics and psychedelic electronics, has incorporated new resources and atmospheres. “Los que habitan en la oscuridad” is the most industrial track in the discography of Grassa Data. Its masses of creaky and dense noise are mixed with rhythms and loops, feedback reverbered in hallucinogenic spaces and suffocating atmospheres of dark and violent shades.  “Oh Pequeño Muble / Los que habitan en la oscuridad” is presented in a professional green cassette with two tracks and 42 minutes of music, in an limited edition of 56 copies. You can get the tape for 5 euro plus shipping through Truco Espárrago.

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JAMES BLACKSHAW – ‘LOVE IS THE PLAN, THE PLAN IS DEATH’ CD/LP
Important is proud to welcome back James Blackshaw for his first full length on Important since his breakthrough album O True Believers was released on the label in 2006. James has since forged a remarkable career achieving critical praise for his dexterity, his deep, connected songwriting and his beautiful arrangement. Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death is available on CD & LP. LP pressed in an edition of 1000.  Limited stock of color vinyl for mailorder customers.

DUANE PITRE – ‘FEEL FREE’ CD/LP
Running low but blue vinyl is still available. This one has been getting lots of praise since it was released. Highly recommended. The two major focal points in the creation of composer Duane Pitre’s Feel Free, his new work for a unique sextet combination, were rhythm and melody. An open yet orderly system intended to produce potentially infinite variations of self-generating rhythm and melody was carefully created for this piece, allowing the sextet musicians to approach these factors in a freer manner. This ‘musical system,’ combined with the fixed elements of the composition, in turn, spawned a rich foundation of harmony & rhythm that sounds and feels exotic and new.  

ANOICE – ‘THE BLACK RAIN’ CD
Anoice’s first album for Important had a modest (but critically affectionate) impact upon its release. However, sales of the record have been steady & strong since it originally came out in 2006. Now, six years later we’re pleased to finally offer The Black Rain, Anoice’s reaction to both the darkness & hope that engulfed Japan after the 2011 earthquake, Tsunami & nuclear meltdown. Black Rain was written throughout 2011 and recorded in Tokyo and London. The Black Rain is both a reflection on disaster and a prayer for healing.

CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX – ‘CHORA(S)SAN TIME COURT MIRAGE’ CD
Limited stock. Released in conjunction with the Sonic Acts fesival. Beautiful new drone ensemble formed by CC Hennix, a student of La Monte Young. This disc is the beginning of a series of collaborative work between Hennix, her ensemble and Important Records.  

ELEH – ‘RADIANT INTERVALS’ CD
We recently recalled copies back from a distributor in order to retain stock for mailorder. Please be aware that the copies we have right now are the end of our stock and we don’t currently have plans to re-press it.  CD reissue of the most recent Eleh full length LP.  Remastered for the digital domain. Heavy duty letterpressed gatefold jackets.

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Irureta – ‘100% Pur Sport’
The full-length cassette is considered “regressive rock” by the band, Irureta – we at TBR just think its cool. These sonic jammers from Trith St-Lywood, France are sure to make you groove when listening to this “sports” themed collection. Irureta is a band that started in the early 00’s. They would simply play, record, get high, and drink delicious beer (not necessarily in that order). Then the recordings would be grossly edited in order to keep whatever was of interest to them during that session. Irureta shamelessly loots: indie-rock, synthesizer music, psych/post-rock, math-rock, afrobeat, sound collage, lo-fi music, and certainly more. That said all those years of playing together helped them mix all this music into a coherent ensemble sound producing this album of 100% pure jams. Edition of 25.

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sicsic024 – Wolf Fluorescence – ‘There Is A Mirk Inside Her Which She Must Tint Brighter or Collapse…’
Music haunted with memories of times past. Dark soundscapes to muse on chances missed, roads taken wrong and hopes failed. You’re still young but aged by experience and ever since your surviving in the shadow of your échec. And even having read your Wittgenstein and knowing about that „the world of the happy is quite different from that of the unfortunate“ you still don’t know how to proceed without circling around your memories like a moth around a lightbulb. Well, relaxe – you’re not the only one.!

sicsic025 – Voder Deth Squad – ‘II’
Having left it’s orbit the Voder Deth Squad is still transmitting waves of warm and human sounds while drifting further into dark, cold and void spaces unknown… It’s the duo’s outstanding ability to deliver this feeling of being snugged in an inhospital enviroment, like Ellen Ripley’s cat in „Alien“. Voder Deth Squad make you purr, but be aware of the evil forces lurking!

sicsic026 – Grasshopper – ‘The Day America Forgot’
Improvised trumpet and electronics are Jesse DeRosa’s & Josh Millrod’s weapons of choice to maintain freedom in a world more and more domintated by restricted and ignorant politics of hate. Nightmarish music for bleak prospects. Music for the Youth Of Today. If not for reading the news what are your oversized hipster glasses good for? Listen. Unite. Act. It’s about time.

sicsic027 – Venn Rain – ‘Cymatic Cymbols’
Synth-driven and meditative excursions into a vast landscape and towards a receding horizon. There’s no rainbow to reach anymore – there’s just time going by while travelling endless spaces full of nothing. All you can do is just to move on and enjoy the ride while it lasts!

sicsic028 – Nathan McLaughlin – ‘Echolocation #6’
Being part of a series of so called „Echolocation Recordings“ this five pieces of minimal guitar drones sound as if Phill Niblock’s decided to cut his often hour long pieces short. Beautiful and rich textured ambient miniatures best experienced via headphones. To celebrate the series glorious ending the tape comes in an edition of 65 handcut and special manufactured covers. So, even if the music’s kinda slow you better be quick and grab one!

sicsic029 – Isle of Sodor – ‘Goshen’
Electronic meditations to put your mind at ease. Adam Miller’s music is the perfect sonic aquivalent to a sundrenched afternoon for swimming in an artifical lagoon. An idealised and synthetic, friendly and mild tempered enviroment designed to comfort you. And that’s a good thing, actually.

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Andrew Felix – ‘Intermediate State (Enter)’ C21 $5
Andrew Felix remains one of our favorite producers. A fine tuned illustrator of beats and drone sounds always finds a warm place in our souls. Intermediate State (Enter) is the second half, or continuation of July, 2011’s Intermediate State. Following the conceptual 6 Bardo’s (Enter) mirrors the transcendental feelings of luminosity and rebirth. The ebb and flow of your breath as you fade away into yourself, eyes closed as your worries melt away. Limited to 50 “jelly red” cassettes on chrome tape. Free mp3 download with purchase.

Blvck Ceiling – ‘Shvdow’ C25 $5
Disrupting sounds of evil, and eruption of vile synth mixture of intrusive beats and blasts of thunder under a blackened sky. Shvdow’s acid rain pours out of the blvck ceiling as dead skin drips off bones in the cinematic treat by Blvck Ceiling. Master producers claims his art of sampling to create an atmospheric thriller drenched in synthesized sound collage. Limited to 50 green cassettes on chrome tape. Free mp3 download with purchase.

Big Epoch – ‘Double Reserve’ C56 $5
Big Epoch combines the earthly beats and electronic essence of live performance with the collaborative genius of the Gothic Cholo. Echoing effects and tripping beats with lyrical madness on what is being titled Double Reserve. Masterfully constructing a fusion of visual stimulation and artistic expression. Two long auditorial experiences, “Face It, Nobody Loves You And You’re Going To Die Alone” and “Scheele’s Green” on a light gray c56 chrome cassette. Limited to 30 copies. Free mp3 download with purchase.

Coyote Clean Up – ‘Double Doom’ C32 $5
Coyote Clean Up brings about Double Doom – the latest release of chilled beats and amazing dub bliss.  Take it all in because it won’t be long before these tapes disappear.  Limited to 70 lilac cassettes on ferrous tape.  Mp3 with purchase.

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INDIGENTS – ‘Bottomless Sinking’ C20 5€
INDIGENTS is a french-catalan duo, born in 2007 from a live collaboration between Stephane Kerandel/Terrortank and Héctor O./Mindload. They merged their effort and record jams in Barcelona directly to tape or walkman.  “bottomless sinking” is composed by two tracks of free heavy industrial noise and phantasmagoric impro drone. artwork by truculentboy. limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.

WAND. AND PRINCESS – ‘Locust 9’ CDr 5€
Wand.and Princess were formed in 2006 by Isabelle Spyridonos and George Kanavos from Athens, Hellas. Their audio output could be described as an exercise in between form and abstraction, structure and improvisation. They tend to utilize a large variety of sound sources, instruments, field recordings and noises as well. “Locust 9” is a four pieces of charming minimal noise drone. landscapes of deep melancholy, faint lights and worrying ambient noises. artwork by truculentboy. hand-painted cdr. limited to 50 hand numbered copies.

CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI & LUCA SIGURTA – ‘Sevigny’ C21 5€
Collaboration tape by this great italian musicians: Claudio Rocchetti (3/4HadBeenEliminated, In Zaire, Olyvetty, Vrooom!) and Luca Sigurtà (Harshcore, Luminance Ratio). “Sevigny” is three tracks of trip made of very fine drones, hypnotic awakenings and electroacoustic sound. Pics by Stefano Majno and layout by truculentboy. limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.

DAO DE NOIZE – ‘Ishtar Voice’ CDr 5€
DAO DE NOIZE is Artem Pismenetskii from Ukraine. this project started in january 2011 has many releases out. here are two tracks where he mixes great skill drone, field recordings and noise bursts. artwork by truculentboy. hand-painted cdr. limited to 50 hand-numbered copies.

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GR211: Idle Hour – ‘Full On Idle’ C30 $5
Newest recordings of this bedroom duo. A huge pile a circuit bent keyboard sludge and tape loops was mixed live to stereo, and then further deconstructed for a slow-moving electronic confusion mix on side B. Edition of 20 copies with xerox art.

GR213: Kommissar Hjuler – ‘Separationsaengste’ C30 $5
Solo organic recordings of this German dada/fluxus madman. Extremely personal, minimal, and alarming tracks of someone flattening their frustrations. Sounds like a normal day around the Hjuler household. Edition of 30 copies with xerox art.

GR214: The Brides Wore Blood C90 $5
Four girls, potential brides of a man of evil mystery are lured into a night of terror. Three of them meet violent deaths. And the remaining one is imprisoned in the dark mansion and chosen to be the bride – a fate worse than death. She finally escapes – fated to become the mother of a future vampire. “Sometimes Death Is The Easy Way Out”. Transferred from VHS direct to cassette. Edition of 20 copies with xerox art.

GR215: Lidless Eye – ‘Sand Sickness’ C30 $5
Weird fractured rhythms and slow crawling circuits make up this strange landscape – recorded live to cassette from synths, tapes, and rewired electronics. Sounds like a hallucination from the desert. Check out a live version on the M.U.G. Live CD-R released on Michigan Underground Group. Edition of 20 copies with xerox art.

GR216: Powerless – ‘Crisis Orbit’ C20 $5
Malfunctioning synths and homemade circuit manipulation recorded live to 2 track cassette. Tapes created by damaged electronics to be sent into space. Edition of 20 copies with xerox art.

GR217: Violent Mood Swings zine + CDr $7
Audible mental terror via field recordings heavily bathed in bad days. Sounds created 2006-2011. Comes with an full size 10 page xerox zine of recent visual confusion. Edition of 20 copies.

GR218: 1%er – ‘Tomorrow Will Be Worse’ C32 $5
The first new recordings in nearly a year find this duo in deep synth territory. Minimal thuds and transmissions slowly transform into a dark, murky ground of electronic waste. Recorded live to tape at the Michigan Underground Group. Edition of 20 copies with xerox art.

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Nicholas Desamory – ‘Like You’ CD
“empty your pockets – unzip your soul – move your assets” Nicholas Bussmann has shed his skin once again, now transforming into Nicholas Desamory to release “like you” – a House album of such warmth and rough elegance, it will leave the scene all excited.  House has always been an open genre, allowing to sample, adapt and incorporate other styles. On “like you” however, each of the 7 tracks opens a new window, one leading to Bollywood, another one to Bernhard Herrmann, and the next time it might be Morton Feldmann. It’s the reduced string and vocal arrangements that lead to this album’s specific sound – the warmth – and evoke the great Norman Whitfield. But all of the sudden the sound changes direction again to make us realize: It is 2012! And this is how House music has to be in 2012! In recent years, Nicholas Bussmann has brought manifold works into being. His last release was a cooperational album with Chico Mello: Telebossa – a mélange of Brazilian songwriting, precise electronics and minimal music, receiving rave reviews and gaining nominations for many rankings of the year. In addition, together with drummer Martin Brandlmayer (Radian) Nicholas Bussmann released two complementary electro-acoustic albums: Kapital Band 1 “2 CD” and “Playing by Numbers” and in 2010, he brought to stage a concept for a modernized opera with Barnes Dance.  Hence it is not surprising to find several illustrious guests on his new record: Hanno Leichtmann, Florina Speth and Todosch support as instrumentalists. And alongside Nicholas Desamory, Charles Ndubisi, Yusuf Ergün and notably Lucile Desamory lend their voices to the album.

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