Animal Psi

fNs025 O. Barras/dohince split CDr
37 minutes of dirty noise beats and techno. O. Barra tracks more hardcore oriented, dohince ones more techno oriented. Mud dance. Limited edition of 20 hand numbered copies. It comes in cardboard sleeves with paste-on colored covers, print on disc, housed in plastic sleeve.

fNs029 Cruudeuces – ‘Dead Hand’ CDr
I like to think of drone music as an ocean, you can relax staring at it and after a while get bored, or you can dive into it and find a whole new world where get lost. Cruudeuces has been putting out amazing drone/noise sounds for quite a while, through some of his now defunct labels or self editing, and recently through his awesome Ghetto Naturalist Series label. In response to my request, the 36 min. long “Dead Hand” is less quiet and more noise oriented than other of his previous releases, with subaquatic basses, plenty saturation, crunchy electronics, wind squeals, slowed down voices, all of which takes you to a fascinating new world. Play it loud and dive in. Limited edition of 30 hand numbered copies. Laminated colored covers, with a colored collage insert and color print on disc.

fNs065 Botox Vox – ‘Rough Voz’ C30
New project of only voice and effects, weird and insane sounds. Limited edition of 20 hand numbered copies. Xeroxed artwork on colored paper, black cassettes and cases.

fNs067 Placenta Popeye/pier split C40
Side A: Placenta Popeye is a french duo of guitar & bass dark free noise rock with a bunch of impressive releases in labels around the world. This side contains a lofi repetitious riffs, pissed swarming guitars, muddy basses, nice disturbed voices and screams. A very addictive jam. Side B: pier offers six short tracks of no-wave/free noise rock improvs, that sound as if DNA raped Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band under a rain of debris.

fNs070 Ülpeskriva – ‘I’ CDr
New unit of drums-sax-trumpet free noise blast by O. Barras (Au, Plonk Moist, ahno drei…) and RN Juristo (shalocins, pier, Plonk Moist…). 33 minutes of free chaos. Limited edition of 30 hand numbered copies. It comes in cardboard sleeves with paste-on covers and insert, print on disc, housed in plastic sleeve.

fNs071 Sagrados Corazones – ‘Sagrados Corazones’ CDr
A one-off band formed by members of chien! and Au. 34 minutes of brutal frantic noise rock/no wave. Unmissable. Limited edition of 50 hand numbered copies, color printing on covers and b/w on disc, housed in plastic sleeves, packed in sealed plastic bags.

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Stoned Boys – ‘Burning Cities Forever’ $6
They are an amazing experimental electronic band from Russia. This release explores a lot of different electronic genres of varying from Noise to Rave and all the history between. It is very much in line with a lot of the new chaotic/psychedelic electronic sound happening in the U.S, but delves further to create a sound all their own. It is a limited edition of 50.

Jedediah Logsdon – ‘(The) Ancillary (E.P)’ $6
from Chicago. We featured some of his work on a split with Candescent in 2010. His latest release is presented in three segments that deal with sound manipulation and emotion. His process features use of field recordings, modular synth, and granular processing to create a moody atmosphere that very much represents his creative mind. The new E.P comes out on November 7th in a limited cassette format of 30.

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rur105   TRAVEL EXPOP ‘SERIES #1 : France’ LP
edition of 300 on white vinyl  –  Co-released with Hands in the Dark label. First volume in a series of split dedicated to the Future of Pop Music. Featuring the best of the french underground pop artists : Holy Strays (Not Not Fun), Cankun (Not Not Fun, Synth series), Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier (Stunned, Aguirre) and the joint effort between stellar psych droner High Wolf (Not Not Fun) and the psych-diva Chicaloyoh in Voodoo Mount Sister.

rur104   BROKEN MASK – ‘There is another mind in the green’ CDr
edition of 60. Broken Mask is the duo of Robert Horton and Michael Shannon, from the Bay Area. This compilation of archival recordings from 1982 to 2009, follows the legendary archives series released few years back on Digitalis, Sloow Tapes, 23Productions and Jyrk. Using a wide variety of homemade instruments, the disc covers a lot of territory for a vast result.

rur103   INEZ LIGHTFOOT – ‘Gatherer’ CDr
edition of 70. Inez Lightfoot is homemade music from the mountaintop barrows and the deciduous forests and many spaces in-between. She uses nature-derived inspiration to conjure analog soundscapes ranging from fierce and uncanny to gentle and ritual. Previous release on Stunned records. Paintings by Brian Lucas.

rur101   PLESMAH – ‘Animal Factory Blizzard 2 and 4’ CDr
edition of 60. “Post-urban krautrock from Germany. Cosmic music exploring light and darkness, space and time.
Enter the new Tempel…”

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synth019   CANKUN – ‘Miami Vice’ CDr
edition of 84 – exclusive french tour cdr. After his first release on the mighty Not Not Fun label, here’s the new offering of  the french electronic wizard Vincent Caylet (“V”, The Pistil Cosmos, Archers by the Sea…). Deep organic vibes based on Miami Vice episodes. Colorful neons, bright city lights and vivid tropical rhythms for underwater grooves. The French Florida Touch

synth021   UBUNANNA – ‘Arabian Holography’ CDr
edition of 70.  Fragmented melodies, spacesynth soundscapes created in a warbled minimalism. Abstract electronic. Music by Ichihana Takahashi from Tokyo, Japan.

synth022   ZONOTOPE™ – ‘Human Unity’ CDr
edition of 70. Recycled ’80s computer musical animations to serve as the data structure for kaleidoscopic pop soundtracks. Imagine your past. “Certain sounds manage to make reality seem as if viewed through sleepy-goggles” Altered Zones. Previous releases on Hobo Cult, Maba Tapes…

synth023   STEFAN BLOMEIER – ‘The Danish Straits’ CDr
edition of 70 – Artwork by FANTASTIC LANDS. Vintage kraut synthesizers, admirable minimal waves for an obsessive venture in a reflected world. Legosynth music. “There is little know about the artistic persona of Stefan Blomeier. His recent music release Popular Electronics II / Radio Astronomy Research Laboratory Of Electronic Progress has given his persona somewhat of a minor cult status and only increased the flow of rumours around the artist behind it.” netaudiolondon.

synth024   NEW FUTURE WANDERER – ‘Teal View’ CDr
edition of 70 – Artwork by FANTASTIC LANDS. After the Plaza for Media Conference 92, NFW  hacks up fragments of his blue-green synthetic world.

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sab021 THE DAY OF THE ANTLER – ‘A Call to Greatness’ CDr /3″CDr
edition of 50. Experimental and traditional neo folk versions of stunning heavy metal anthems (Manowar, Maiden…) Thundering interpretation of an epic march into the forests of Finland.

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OKF 001 Kenneth Higney – ‘Attic Demonstration’ LP
edition of 500 copies.  Often considered the Holy Grail of “real people” records, Kenneth Higney’s “Attic Demonstration” was never actually intended to be an official release. It was recorded in New York City by Higney and his accompanist Gordon Gaines (R.I.P.) as a vehicle with which to sell Higney’s songs to other artists and was only pressed to vinyl in 1976 when he grew tired of duplicating cassette tapes. Apparently the Jandekian dissonance of the “A. Demo.” sound was an unintended by-product of the one take demo sessions. Be that as it may, “Attic Demonstration” is a strange sonic world all of it’s own. It is neither too weird to be unappealing to “regular” music listeners nor is it one of those “discoveries” that leaves you wondering what all the hype was about. Acoustic guitar ballads of nearly atonal desolation mix readily with rock ‘n’ roll numbers featuring hiccuping drums and alien sounding electric guitar. Hingey’s vocals are by turns sneering and mournful as he sings about lost love and the desire for fame all filtered through his uniquely bent worldview. Although a few ads were placed for the record in The Village Voice and The Aquarian, the fame that Higney sought illuded him (a semi-positive review in Trouser Pressnotwithstanding). That is, until the album was discovered and distributed by record dealer Paul Major. “Attic Demonstration” has been featured in the Acid Archives and copies of the original LP have soared in price over the years, but you no longer have to pay $100, $200 or even $300 to obtain a copy of this monumental album on vinyl. One Kind Favor and Kenneth Higney have teamed up to bring you an official reissue of “Attic Demonstration” remastered and with all the original artwork.

OKF 002 Sound Ceremony LP
edition of 500 copies. Canadian born guitarist and songwriter Ron Warren Ganderton self-released three LPs with his group Sound Ceremony while living in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and 80s. First came “Guitar Star” (1973), then “Sound Ceremony” (1979) and finally “Precious As England” (1981). Despite some modest distribution and frequent gigs, the band never seemed to really take off and Ganderton eventually returned to his native Vancouver (where he still resides), leaving hundreds of unsold records in the attic of his house. While these copies seem to have been lost to the ravages of time, the second Sound Ceremony LP will now be reissued by One Kind Favor. While all of the group’s efforts are undeniably unique, “Sound Ceremony” (1979) is the true brain-damaged winner of the bunch. The record surely fits somewhere into the UK punk explosion of the day, but it’s also looks back to the mid-sixties rock that Ron cut his teeth on and ahead to some sort of maniac future form of entertainment that perhaps has not been invented yet. Ganderton’s truly “out of it” stream of consciousness lyrics show a clear lack of self-censorship and that’s really one of the albums strongest assets. He has created this character of himself as a huge rock star and a sex symbol, and who are we to deny his claims? This stuff is eerily convincing. Like Lou Reed, the man’s ideas can’t be contained by something so limiting as the bar line. The band chugs amiably along as Ganderton’s vocals wander all over the place. If you’ve never heard a singer do a count-off all the way up to seven, then now is your big chance! Features what is perhaps the greatest anti-cigarette song of all time.

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PAR001: Sparkling Wide Pressure/No Mind Meditation C30 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(INTL)
A split by two experimental mindwarpers. Sparkling Wide Pressure breathes life into a mass of warbling, twisting sound, gathering darkness and then chasing it away again. No Mind Meditation melt a curling stormcloud of militaristic noise into a soothing bath of hypnotic cuts and samples.  Professionally duplicated and imprinted high-bias chrome cassettes. Professionally printed, full-color, hand-scored artwork and cutouts by Joe Baldwin. Limited edition of 100. SAMPLE

PAR002: Soundings/Shapers/Verma C60 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(INTL)
Three Chicago-based psychedelic rockers share this split. Verma brings heavy, riff-driven, testosterone-laden krautrock glory. Shapers create twitchy, throbbing, edgy compositions. Soundings use interlocking, mathy grunge to explore dark landscapes. Professionally duplicated and imprinted high-bias chrome cassettes. Professionally printed, full-color, hand-scored artwork and cutouts by Joe Baldwin. Limited edition of 100. SAMPLE

PAR003: Black Eagle Child/Excavacations C40 $7(US)/$8(CAN)/$10(INTL)
Black Eagle Child and Excavacations both stand out for the pristine clarity of their carefully sculpted, immaculately mixed music. Black Eagle Child crafts sweet, pastoral dreams, the kind of ambient that can function well as background music while rewarding a more careful listen. Excavacations designs a sidelong journey, full of digressions but always moving in one direction, with a soaring payoff at the end. Professionally duplicated and imprinted high-bias chrome cassettes. Professionally printed, full-color, hand-scored artwork, cutouts and insert by Joe Baldwin. Limited edition of 100. SAMPLE

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various – ‘White Eye of Winter Watching‘ 2xCS    $25    
Hospital productions was offcially founded on october 31st, 1997 in madison, wisconsin. this was also the date of the first prurient live performance. some 14 years later we celebrate its 300th release with “white eye of winter watching.” This idea was birthed during the fall-out blizzards of 2010, while relentless storms shut down air traffic and I was stranded in the bunker sick in bed with the flu. During this time I re-discovered many of my favorite old cassette compilations from the 90’s that brought many disparate groups together under one banner. ‘original soundtrack’, released on italy’s less than zero, was of particular interest, with its sonically and geographically diverse lineup. also at this time a friend had given me a book on 20th Century Russian history, emphasizing strife in Russia and the overwhelming destructive forces of nature and man’s place within it. not only were troops engaged in the largest man-made conflict in history, but were, at the same, battling nature. without coats, winter ended soldiers lives before bullets could find them. It was then that I decided to combine the themes of the book with the idea of a dynamic compilation that brought together many of the genres that the label has explored.

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ft013 Belarisk C35 $8(Can)/$9(US)/$11(World)
Focused electronic compositions from Lee Tindall (Zerfallt, 1/2 of Mutation in the Gryd). A document which surveys the desolate terrain and engages its space in an almost alarmingly steady and clear manner. (edition of 100; pro-dubbed, pro-printed)

ft014 Pierrot Lunaire – ‘lantern floating vessel’ c28 $8(Can)/$9(US)/$11(World)
These diverse and discrete pieces of free saxophone shapes, soft tones, disembodied voices and amplified atmospherics suggest an alluring unifying logic. And what is sought with this logic is a sort of ascent. (edition of 100; pro-dubbed, pro-printed)

ft015 Sundrips – ‘phased out’ C32 $8(Can)/$9(US)/$11(World)
Synth and guitar swirls set adrift amidst reflective surfaces. Two side-long improvisations and one short “bonus” track. The first sundrips session from 2011 to be released. (edition of 100; pro-dubbed, pro-printed)

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