Animal Psi

RC50/HIV100: SEZIKI TETRASHEAF/QUIET EVENINGS split LP
In celebration of Rotifer’s 50th and Hooker Vision’s 100th releases, the two labels have teamed up to offer a commemorative split LP between the labels’ flagship bands, Seziki Tetrasheaf and Quiet Evenings. The A side begins with Seziki’s lost and found shuffle of mildewed grooves. Hazy recollections. Deep humidity. On the flip, QE cool things down a bit with a bubbling hymn to the ocean and her mysteries. Lost in waves. Floating. Mastered by Keith Fullerton Whitman. Black vinyl with metallic silver and black label. Full color, shrink-wrapped jackets. Art by Jeffry Astin, David Toro, and Grant and Rachel Evans.

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DOG HALLUCINATION – ‘Bob Hallucination’ 3″CDr
A collaboration between Dog Hallucination and Headless Ballerinas Underwater‘s Bob. Experimentation with guitar textures, electronic rhythms, field recordings. The fruit of numerous recording sessions some time in 2007 and plenty of editing hours, August – September 2011. About 2/3 of the total recorded material was utilized to produce this product (there is some raw material remaining, which may be shaped into another 3″). The intention was mostly for Bob to pulverize Dog Hallucination’s guitar sounds further by taking the output from their guitar effect chain and running it into Bob’s electronics. The imagined final product was to be a full length album worth of shifting, blended patchworks of tonal and sometimes non-tonal textures. For the field recording acquisitions, a few occasions were spent at the local nature scene, Starved Rock State Park – Illinois, recording sounds of the forest. A few other occasions were spent recording sounds in Bob’s neighborhood, and the nail factory workplace D. Petri shared with Bob at the time. Over the course of a few months the recording sessions graduated to creation of rhythms and employment of percussion instruments. After these recordings sat magnetizing dust for a few years, finally thing fell into line where D. Petri could sculpt something from the mass into a completed product. Bob Hallucination is a sort of psychedelic, textural guitar mood-tarp, upon which is sitting a colorful (mostly earthtones with bursts of light blues and greens) electronic manipulatory glitch rhythm-tent, and inside this tent is Bob, Doggy P. Lips, and a duffle bag full of animal bones.23 minutes and 10 seconds on a 3 inch cdr. Ultra high quality printed disc and artwork by D. Petri. Limited to 50 copies.

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SS036 JUSTIN MEYERS – ‘Resonating upon harmonic ground’ 1-sided LP 10€
Justin Meyers from Minneapolis offer a beautiful track of musique concrete and analog synth. Exploring the interaction between field recordings and simple sine waves, the result is a perfectly balanced suite, where the single elements lose their origins in favour of composition. Edition of 150.

SS038 KRISTIAN OLSSON – ‘Såg vid såg jag såg’ C46 5€
After the terrific Att Vara Där Jag Var Innan Jag Var Jag Lp of the previous year Kristian Olsson (Alfarmania, Styggelse) return with a new solo album. “It is a release with conceptual focus on the early stage of wood industry in northern sweden with sawmills of sundsvall and also tribute to the evil vibes that rests in our soil” kh. Edition of 100.

SS039 VIRILE GAMES – ‘New Legion’ C21+C30 8€
Previously know as virgin spring this “new” project works with a claustrophobic mix of basement concretism, field recording and dense electronic. Edition of 80.

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Ga’an – ‘Black Equus’ LP
The black horse symbolized famine in the Book of Revelations. In the end-of-times scenario depicted there, luxuries continued to pour on to the rich while common people struggled to eat and stay alive. Apocalyptic metaphors seem more timely than ever these days, when the disenfranchised are occupying Wall Street and protesting unjust financial regimes worldwide – even as the distinction between presidential debates and reality TV grows ever more difficult to discern.  That sense of urgency and hunger is audible on every track of GAANs new studio album Black Equus. This masterpiece summons the four horsemen of the Apocalypse from the dark side as harbingers of righteous Judgement. Seth Shers violent attack on the drum kit makes it sound like the earth is fixing to split apart, while Lindsay Powells angelic voice, floating above these dark and roiling grooves (provided by Tyson Torstensen), shines a transcendent beacon over the heaving aural mire. Chicagos GA’AN and Captcha Records present Black Equus, a fitting soundtrack for these dark days, pressed in a limited edition of 666.

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Mark Bradley – ‘Blind Faith’ $4
This is the second release on U.S.A. label Temple Music. This time its a release by Mark Bradley on a three inch disc. Swirling clouds of distant sounds merging with rhythmic propulsions emanate from within. Hypnotic narcotic music for distant dreams. Very limited release of 50 copies.

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RzDz # 18 – MICHAEL BARTHEL – ‘Noch mehr höhlen’ C20 5€/$8
Leipzig based artist Michael Barthel has made himself a name since mid 90′ in releasing his own music on Recordings for the Summer, mostly tape collages of found materials and static radio sound works. With sound poetry and conceptual art influences, Michael Barthel creates a prolific uncluterred and rough sound diary transmitting a strong feeling of inner space and time streching. Behind hiss and hum, Barthel deconstructs his voice and lifetime with a deliberatly poor range of gears and effects, using transparency almost as an ethic and aesthetic position. Most of his works are sold out or published in very limited editions, mostly on tapes, on his own Recordings For the Summer, but also on renowned labels such as Tochnit Aleph. Noch Mehr Höhlen is edited on tapes in a limited run of 40 copies. Layout by Benjamin L. Aman with words by Michael Barthel. “wie ein klumpen der um ein etwas herumgeformt ist. oder so: ein klumpen aus lauten der eine bedeutung sein soll. sprache ist kein heim, sondern eine weitere höhle aus der es hinausschallt. genauso wie was hineingerufen ist; ahnung, einbildung, vorgeschobene übereinkunft. ein klumpen. collage.” Michaël Barthel

RzDz # 17 – RUBÉN PATIÑO – ‘Eleven Stereo Movements’ C60 5€/$8
Rubén Patiño also known as Pato is a spanish laptop performer active since mid 2000. Pato’s sound has been described as hyper energetic  algorithmic composition giving him a solid reputation for sound excess and confrontational live shows. Eleven Stereo Movements is a quite singular work in Patino’s recent releases. It was originally a conceptual proposal for a concert without performer, played only one time in 2010 at Ausland in Berlin. Recalling early electronics BBC pionneers as well as nervous digital patterns, these eleven stereo movements oddly succeeds in reaching the highest tension without any sorts of hurry or volume assault. Patiño is currently living in Rotterdam where he’s completing a master in sonology. Numerous live shows and releases to his credits on labels such as Mattin’s free Softwares Series, Le Petit Mignon or Audition Records. Eleven Stereo Movement is edited on cassette in a limited run of 40 copies. Layout and artwork by Benjamin L. Aman.

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DAIS 026 : King Dude – ‘Love’ LP $17
The long awaited proper full length album by Seattle’s King Dude is up now for preorder. Dark pagan-fueled folk wrapped tight with outsider Americana, steeped in themes of love, death and redemption.  King Dude was initially projected forth using his Actual Pain vehicle for his metaphysical leaning and occultist tendencies.  Reverent as it is prophetic and stark, King Dude has previously swooned audiences with releases on Avant!, Bathetic and Clan Destine, now his masterpiece album on Dais pulls together the biblical sound and isolation of the northwest.  Stepping forward alone, King Dude has now toured across America, as well as a highly successful European tour this year…an atmosphere filled with hope and salvation, drawing sound influence akin to Death In June & Sol Invictus but sewing together a hybrid of true folk tradition alongside Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash.  Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.  Records come in thick die-cut cardstock sleeves revealing beautiful inner sleeve printed artwork beneath.  Designed by T.J. Cowgill.

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TRAVEL EXPOP SERIES – ‘Volume 1: FRANCE’ LP
Cankun, Holy Strays, Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier, Voodoo Mount Sister. HITD 007 – Co-release with Ruralfaune – LP 12″ – 300 copies on white vinyl.  Our next release will mark the launch of the first volume in a series of splits, which answers to the beguiling name of Travel Expop Series. The idea behind this series is simple: With each new edition we will bring a handful of experimental pop artists together with a label that we admire of the same nationality, on a single vinyl.  So we begin with France, in co-production with the label Ruralfaune. This first volume-collage will, to our delight, draw together Cankun’s groovy funk-pop, the hallucinatory drone merry-go-round music of Holy Strays, the luminous, poetic dabblings of Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier and the cosmic equatorial hypnosis sounds of Voodoo Mount Sister. As for the artwork, Michael Sallit will mark his name on the list of collaborators. For this grand occasion, we are organising a launch party for Saturday 26th November at Espace B (in Paris’s 19th district). Click here for more info. Put it in your diaries!

COUGH COOL/JOHNNY HAWAII split tape
HITD 008 – Split Tape –  Before the year comes to close, Cough Cool’s lo-fi shoegaze (Philadelphia, USA) will collide with the psychedelic surf sounds of Johnny Hawaii (Marseille, FR) on a very special packaging cassette. First co-release with our friends at Atelier Ciseaux & La Station Radar. Gosh almighty! 100 copies.

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ANOK29 Andrew Coltrane/Bob Bellerue – ‘A Confederassy of Burnt Bridges’ split 12″
two firestorms, two sides. AxCx brings two tracks in a long delirious slow burning assault, with virgin sacrifices in a sonic sacrifice. pure sensual carnage. BxBx sketches and slashes out a busted landscape, with FM radio battles and assault horns to salve the suburban frontier with fire and metal rain. color covers, xerox insert. limited edition of 125 copies.

ANOK36 GX Jupitter-Larsen with Cheapmachines 7″ $8
a blustering clusterfuck by these two masters of audiophile murk. 2 sides that churn with wild abandon through the reproductive systems of cement truck whales, orgone subways, and curdled rivers of molten latex. limited edition of 100 copies on yellow vinyl with color foldover covers.

ANOK38 Postcommodity – ‘Your New Age Dream Contains More Blood Than You Imagine’ LP
two long sides in this session of hunting songs by Postcommodity, the Southwest avant-garde true-native ensemble of Raven Chacon (KILT/Death Convention Singers), Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist, and Nathan Young (Ajilvsga / Alms). using hand-made instruments made of bone and skin, junk metal, voice, and choice electronics in spare amount, “Your New Age Dream Contains More Blood Than You Imagine” traces a sonic arc through the chase of animals, and the movement of blood and spirit in the midst of industrial and cultural collapse. it is a stark and spirited statement of remaining free within growing technological fetishism, intellectual slavery, and the continuing curse of colonialism in America and greater capitalist culture. screen-printed fold-over covers, printed labels. limited edition of 200 copies.

ANOK39 Gen Ken Montgomery – ‘1/f noise’ one-sided LP
“1/f Noise” began as an immersive listening performance where people were led one by one, blindfolded, down eight flights of stairs, through corridors, in and out of rooms with firing kilns, clay mixers, buffering machines and ventilation ducts. This performance, plus the sounds of ceramic production–recorded at the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning in Cincinnati, Ohio–were then combined with an 8-channel concert recording from Art Damage Lodge to create the composition on this record. Regular and artist editions available: Regular edition: limited to175 copies with insert in letter-pressed cover by Future Retrieval, with pro-printed inserts, printed label on the A side, and ink printing on the blank B-side. An artist edition: limited to 20 copies packaged in a handmade box with 2 ceramic sculptures cast from a mold made from Gen Ken’s inner ear by the avant-garde ceramic artist team of Katie Parker & Guy Michael Davis (Future Retrieval).

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