Animal Psi

Fear Konstruktor – ‘Nonexistence’ 7″ 6£
Limited to 300 copies on black 7” vinyl with insert. Released by Peripheral Records. Fear Konstruktor is Nikita Evsuk, a Moscovite and this is his first vinyl release. Two tracks of disturbingly dark droning ambience and industrial clatterings, that stay the right side of noisy!

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Son of A Bricklayer – ‘Moose Without Antlers’ C28 $5
Son of A Bricklayer has produced some heavy beats and killer soundscapes – Moose Without Antlers is another chapter in an already legendary catalog. Brain numbing beats that dance off your skull and a fresh sound so relieving – some of the best sounds we’ve heard in awhile. Denmark’s own making a harding hitting beat tape sure to enjoy. Limited to 60 chrome tapes with either Yellow or Orange shells.

Mantichora – ‘The Humidity of Blood’ C20 $10
Mantichora represents the interesting sounds and visions of the desolate. Isolated inside the Humidity of Blood – visual sensations and representations of late night swimming – lights breaking through the crest of the water and slowly spreads throughout the lake – there is no silence. Limited to 20 rhodamine tapes. Mp3 download with purchase.

Julia LaDense and Mountainhead – ‘5voices’ C78 $5
Ki Choquette (Mountainhead) and Julia LaDense reinterpret Carlo Gesualdo’s complete sacred music for five voices. Beautiful and spiritual vocal offerings that bring tears to the eyes. Mountainhead and Julia LaDense reprocess these voices – they change the way they sound – they make it even more spiritual and modern. Imagine yourself receiving the spirit of the Lord on Sunday in your local Church filled with white noise and corroded sounds. Breaking down the entire meaning behind the voices and recreating it into an angel fallen and broken. 5voices (Intervention) is a powerful movement filled with moments of breathtaking ambience and sequences of everlasting drones at one moment and harsh torn apart sounds at another. This is one of the greatest pieces of music. Limited to 30 chrome tapes. Mp3 download with purchase.

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Agnes – ‘Night City’ cassette $7(US)/$8(World)
Recorded live the night of 10/ 31/10.

Window In Window – ‘Julia Rothblatt’ $7(US)/$8(World)
5 burnt, wax + glue coated, stitched, mesh, fabric assemblages, re framed through the processes of xerox printing + scanning, and binding.

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WYLD WYZRDZ – ‘From a Stone’ C42
Songs for the softer side of the human animal.

Stag Hare – ‘Sandpaintings’ C30
Sunset trance alien spirit magic.

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Simon Vinkenoog – ‘Kunst Is De Liefde In Elke Daad’ C60
Official reissue of a cassette recorded in Antwerp and originally released by De Goddaert in 1984. Simon Vinkenoog (1929-2009) was a Dutch poet, social critic and literary innovator, a key figure in the international poetry underground of the 1950s and onwards. He participated in the legendary International Poetry Reading at the Royal Albert Hall in London, One World Poetry (Amsterdam), Poetry International (Rotterdam) and dozens of others literary showcases. With Jules Deelder & Johnny Van Doorn he introduced poetry as high performance to the Lowlands. Influenced by the Beats, psychedelic experiences (he took part in LSD experiments in the late fifties/early sixties), the philosophy of non-violence and the mystic tradition, he was involved with hundreds of titles and translated works by Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Carlos Castaneda, Antonin Artaud et al into Dutch. On this cassette, Vinkenoog’s readings (in Dutch) are accompanied by Louise Landes Levi, a founding member of The Floating Lotus Magic Company, the first fusion orchestra in the USA. She went on to study Indian music, was part of the Dreamweapon diaspora and worked with both Angus MacLise and Ira Cohen, its major proponents. Front cover by Eddie Woods. Edition of 100 copies.

Ralph White – ‘The Hanged Man’ C40
Ralph White’s home-made Americana internalizes old folk, proto-blues and country music into meditative, psychedelic textures transcended by a high-lonesome drawl. Drone-like banjo, reminiscent of Dock Bogg’s, fiddle, button accordion and African kalimba. Edition of 100 copies.

April In The Orange – ‘When a River Meets The Sea’ C40
This is pure psychfolk nectar reflecting its alchemical light on sunbeams floating home! April In The Orange drift in and out hypnotic meditative passages of dreamtime magic, ageless folksongs with soft male/female vocals and drugged drones reverberating in diamond inner circles. Edition of 100 copies.

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BRONZE FLOAT – ‘Meridian’
Meridian Street bisects David Brant’s hometown of Indianapolis, cutting the city in half and representing visually the region’s complex split personality: part cornfield monotony, race cars and Mellencamp; part Vonnegut, Dillinger, and the Zero Boys. When you are young, a street that splits your city directly in half is useful for direction home when you have wandered too far.  Recently relocated to Philadelphia, Bronze Float presents Meridian, an extended meditation on childhood memories: loving where you are from but knowing you must leave. The album owes its analog warmth and beautiful sense of order to Justin Vollmar, who produced and, along with brother Nathan on drums, served as Bronze Float’s nimble rhythm section. Since 2007, Bronze Float has shared bills with Kurt Vile, Deer Tick, Mt. Eerie, Dark Dark Dark, and Adrian Orange, among many others. Bronze Float will be supporting Meridian with live dates in the Midwest and East Coast this fall.

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Yule Bringer – ‘Sledding In The Cosmic Neighbourhood’ CDr £8(UK)/£9(EU)/£10(World)
6 Track CDr accompanied by a set of 6 lino prints, each by a different artist and based on a track from the album.  Prints by Sophie Kern, Adam Higton, Jake Blanchard, Simon Peplow, Eleni Kalorkoti & Marcus Oakley.  Edition of 100 copies.

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(SLG044/G5TAPE001) Nocow – ‘Ruins Tape’ C48
Dampness and darkness yield fertile soil, bulbs sprout from beds of decay and unfurl their luminescent caps. Moonlight reveals what the midday shadows had hidden from sight: textures and rhythms meant only for those who stayed awake to hear it, dragging their eyelids upward across bleary eyes until deltawave phantasms manifest into waking life. Co-Presented with our friends at G5 Music. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes.

(SLG043) Range Rover – ‘All Is Bliss’ C34
A requiem for the abandoned dance-floor. Slow pulsations for weary minds and focused movement. Cast your vapid glances at the cloudy skies of a new dawn for electronic sound. All is bliss. Limited to 100 pro-dubbed cassettes.

(SLG042) Moon Tides – ‘As Loud As The Sun’ C26
Moon Tides’ debut has been rising on the horizon all season long, painting the waves with golden colors and the impossible promise of an endless summer. Sink your toes a little deeper into the sand, watch the last waves crest as the driftwood bonfire at your back burns down to its dieing embers. Premier analog offering limited to 120 pro-dubbed cassettes.

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mist 1 – clear heads – ‘heads ’77’ 2xC30

mist 2 – vanilla host – ‘glass-skinned lord’ C47

mist 3 – sparkling wide pressure – ‘welcome heart of a mystery’ C60

mist 4 – shades – ‘blue beach ep’ C20

mist 5 – leeches -‘ voice and vision come no more’ C60

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Secret Colors – ‘Confusion Control’ $8
After a string of releases and reissues on such labels as Digitalis, Aguirre, and Group Tightener, Matt Lawson brings us his brand new full length.  Confusion Control is full of surprises and small additions to the Secret Color sound.  More casio and piano than ever before.  Haunting 80s post punk melodies bumping up against his beach haze guitar.  Lime Green brings us his catchiest melody yet, while the closer Time Lapse Garden is a meditative lullaby. A beautiful and mature work from one of Seattles rising forces.

Brain Fruit – ‘1.1’ $8
Brain Fruit is electronic duo Christopher Owen Davis and Jonathan James Carr hijacking the human transport and driving it into sustained temporal anomaly. A motorik synthesizer drum palette that smoothes your body into the choral liquid peripheral. Album comes in a six panel wallet with insert.  The first edition also contains a Brain Fruit sticker.

SORRY – ‘But How?’ $8
SORRY is one David Bourgin.  SORRY is an attempt to create something that is unconsciously self-conscious, playfully serious, and unrepentantly apologetic; a celebration and resolution of false conflict.  SORRY creates something organic out of inorganic elements (alchemy) in the hopes of, during some fleeting moment (the decisive moment), capturing something that is greater than the sum of its parts. This is a burbling, buzzing, blissed (and blessed) out transcendental pop record in the same vein as work by pioneers EMERALDS, FORMA, KWJAZ, and LUCKY DRAGONS.

Megabats – ‘Solaria’ $8
The third major Megabats release in as many years, Solaria finds our heroes mixing the heads down droney blissbeat of the previous release with some new tricks.  Solar Eulogy and Enchantment zone out into oblivion, driving forward, looking skyward.  Virtual Reality Enthusiasts mixes micro-loops with reverb to create something akin to a brain-dead/chiptune Steve Reich.  While Bog Surfin rides a wave of filth through Technicolor dub.    Solaria is a sun prayer from under the shade of an ice cream truck.  Sticky hands on Gameboys.   Deal with it.

Mind Alien $8
Super tube wormholes through the fabric of face-time.  M theory is Mind Alien Theory.  Encino Flute shredders.  Power to the greys, for they are suave fuckers.  Members of Chrome Wings and The Dead White.

HIVE – ‘HIVE’ $8
Debut release from this new duo of Jeremy Long (Tecumseh, Brown) and Chris Philips (Squim), as one would expect from a meeting of these two minds, Hive trade in deep detailed drones and crisp textures. HIVE bring a new approach to a well worn genre, taking full advantage of each others strengths to become something more than the sum of their parts.  For Fans of KTL, Concern, A Story of Rats

Thunder Grey Pilgrim $8
is a 45 minute single track opus culminating two years of work by Mitchell Bell.  Starting with layered vocal drones, moving through ghostly guitar work and full-on one man black metal, finally culminating in an acoustic group chant to the gods and a crescendo of crushing fuzz; this is album is the heart and soul of a modern druid being poured out in front of you.  Take heed.

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer & The Rita – ‘Drowning Witches’ $8
Colossal teaming of these titans of bleak noise! Drowning Witches is a follow up to their previous collaboration on Hipster Death. In an interesting twist, the sounds within arent exactly what you would expect. A very restrained and long piece, Drowning Witches fittingly sounds like lying down in shallow mud puddles while brief pockets of rain and hail form and dissipate over you. A must have for fans of either of these masters.

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