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Ghostband – ‘Time Giver’ $5
8 new synth and drum machine workouts from Ghostband available in 100 limited edition, hand-assembled olive green cassettes in soft poly boxes or in your preferred digital format. Cassettes will be available for order from Moon Glyph distro next week!

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Agitated Radio Pilot – ‘Lights Beneath the Lake / Nothing Is Truly Lost‘ CDr
It is a double album by Agitated Radio Pilot, the project of David Colohan. It combines the EP Lights Beneath the Lake on 3″ CD-R with the compilation Nothing Is Truly Lost on 5″ CD-R. The first album is a new recording focusing on an experimental mixture of folk and ambient, featuring Richard Moult, Gavin Prior, and Brian Conniffe as guest musicians. The second album collects twelve tracks that are previously unreleased or were released in the past on rare compilations. Here too, David combines beautiful songs on acoustic guitar and piano with ambient and noisy instrumental compositions. It features a wide range of guest artists, including John Cavanagh, Aaron Coyne, Shane Cullinane, Annemarie Deacy, Jani Hellén, Aaron Hurley, Vicky Langan, Scott McLaughlin, Gavin Prior, Enda Trautt, and Keith Wallace.

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V/A ‘The Noise From Ridgewood: A Benefit Compilation For The Silent Barn‘
The Silent Barn was a D.I.Y. venue that acted as an invaluable resource for New York City’s underground music and arts communities. Since its inception in the mid-2000′s, it developed into a beloved institution in the city, acting as an extremely inviting and supportive space for musical acts of numerous stripes and genres, whether local, national, and international. In addition, the space also acted as an outlet to many local artists in the visual/performance fields, among them the independent video game collective Babycastles. In July of this year, their space, which resided in the Ridgewood neighborhood, was robbed and vandalized days after being subsequently shut down by the authorities. As the Barn was also the place of residence for the folks who helped operate it, these setbacks were especially distressing. This huge blow to the arts community in New York couldn’t come during a more bleak period for artists operating outside of the suffocating spectre of mainstream/corporate outlets, with most other underground venues in the city being shut down in recent years. Though most other D.I.Y. spaces in the area had brief lifespans, the Barn was one of the longest-running, which can no doubt be attributed to their welcoming demeanor and undying passion and motivation for the music and art they helped provide an outlet for. Current plans for the Silent Barn include procurring a permanent space in the region and continuing on with the diligence and enthusiasm that they’re known for. Obsolete Units presents this compilation to help them rebuild and start anew. All proceeds made from the sale of this album will go directly to The Silent Barn. Featuring new and exclusive tracks from Aaron Dilloway, Telecult Powers, Andy Ortmann (Panicsville), Ben Miller, Phil Julian (cheapmachines), Millions, MV Carbon, Tom Smith (To Live And Shave In L.A.), Bunnybrains, C. Spencer Yeh, Excepter, The Tenses (members of Smegma), Pregnant Spore, Chapels, Cellular Chaos, Mike Shiflet, Derek Rogers, Long Distance Poison, Id M Theft Able, WZT Hearts, Fossils, and many more.

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Smyth – ‘Senescence’ C73 $7
Smyth became interested in Senescence (biological aging of plants and organisms) directly after his daughter Harper’s birth in 2009. It was a natural musical thought process and with this record he was simply more focused on every sound having an easily heard life cycle, while the constant use of field recordings as the canvas serves the purpose of symbolizing the whole of the biological process continuing on without regard to anything else coming of age, or passing from existence as a life form back into dirt. The beginning of something, a sound, a note, a swell of rhodes piano, is almost imperceptible… slowly fading in like a seed pushing through dirt. Once actualized at it’s peak, that sound is noticed by the listener, and often quickly faded back out into the mix, like a plant reaching maturity and then dying shortly thereafter…

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LTFR 028: PETE FOSCO – ‘VACATIONLANDED’ C43 $5
While electric guitar mangler / vibe-generator Pete Fosco may call Kentucky home, he is nonetheless a man smitten with Maine. After a trip up the coast to Acadia and Belfast last summer (which included a show with MV & EE and Herbcraft at the now-sadly-defunt Roots &Tendrils), Fosco was so inspired that when he returned home he sat down in front of some warm tubes, strapp’d on a six-string, and let rip on some true Vacationland meditations. What we’ve got here are four extended improvisations/compositions for solo electric guitar, with Fosco bending, growling, coaxing, and summoning tones with fingers, slides, and other mystery implements. The sounds evoke dusty winds streaking across the Desert of Maine, Northern Lights shimmering from atop Cadillac Mountain, and vertiginous views from Pemetic. Sometimes sparse (Fosco is a master at the pregnant pause), sometimes as swirling and dense as a January blizzard, the soundtrack Fosco creates is a heavy homage to the dark mystery and latent wonder of exploration in the Maine wilds. Black shell cassettes with hand-painted and typed labels, held in polybox with full-color, pro-printed insert on vellum, enclosed in a piece of a vintage map of Maine. Limited to 75.

LTFR 031: PLANETS AROUND THE SUN – ‘WE O WE’ C43 $5
Ditching the domestic life for a stint of wild-abandon nomad drift, Planets Around the Sun departed from Maine in July to unplug and roll on down the line… WE O WE is their parting gift to the musical community that launched them into new orbits. Drawing from every era of the band’s career and pointing forward to new phases, it is a carefully crafted full-length mixtape of past trysts and future haunts. From the opening acousto-electro instrumental shimmer we move to a stretched-out heavy drone-folk version of the classic White Light side “Saraswati”, here completely re-figured with the addition of guest baritone guitar and cello from local duo South China. The Ian Paige solo excursion “Agnes” follows, with drones and steel strings lulling raga moves into your atmosphere; once the tablas and electric guitar hits, you’re halfway between Demolition Derby and Country Stash, truly a vapor to be savored and returned to often. The B-side hits with “We Owe”, a possession-ceremony standard with netherworld vocal chants circling around watery bass wobbles and wah’ed synth stabs. This flows into “May Day” and its extended doom-dub treatment “Version”, moving from Velvety melodic guitar-scorched psych to a half-tempo high-stepping astral-funk groove. But enough about the past. Planets point to their present/future with the closing track, a cracked lo-fi country-folk tune that serves as their on-the-road calling card. Sure to be a counterculture hit in 22nd-Century America. Hand-written (in white paint) cassettes held in a case with full-color pro-printed art, featuring a reproduction of a totally psychedelic needlepoint by Paige’s grandmother. Limited to 75.

LTFR 032: ALTERED GEE – ‘EUROPEAN GEES’ C69 $5
It may be counter-intuitive to think of “G-funk instrumentals” as a possible product of an icy and blizzed-out Maine winter, but holed up at the House of Hits (aka Hit Factory) in Winter 2011 with an array of analog synths (SEIL OR 400 for the highs, Moog Taurus II for the lows) and hip-hop golden-age drum machines (E-mu SP-1200, Drumulator, and Korg DDD-1), Key Jr. Dee Jay and Slouch formed Altered Gee amid a thick cloud of purple smoke and didn’t stop making hits til the tape ran out. Recorded entirely on 8-track cassette(!), the deep-grooved trunk-rattlers on European Gees ride that line between suave Euro electro-futurism and dank, dirty, post-Zapp R&B boogie and G-funk, all stretched out, heavy-lidded and dazed. Weightless, pitch-shifting, portamentoed synth lines arc over and around each other, anchored by heavy-bounce syrupy-thick bass and Slouch’s ace reverbed-out kick’n’clap beats. This is dance music with runtimes long enough (in the case of “Magnum Opus”, 15+minutes of synth-funk ecstasy) to get lost in the transcendence of the groove. The song titles say it all: “Dowsed”, “Funky Airs”, “I Wanna Lay You Down And Feel You Up”… this is some sexy, fonky shit, ideal for sittin low in your Coupe de Ville and gettin scandalous in some sweaty bedsheets. 69-minute white cassettes with individually-chrome-painted and typewriter-engraved labels, held in a case with full-color pro-printed j-card designed by the band. Limited to 75.

LTFR 033: LIGHTNING STRIKE LIGHTNING – ‘CREEPY POWER’ C40 $7
Way back in 2008, The Wire magazine named Lightning strike Lightning’s “The Moon” 7” single as one of the top 10 of the year, while Foxy Digitalis’ Brad Rose remarked that they were “quickly becoming one of my favorite bands” while naming it the Best 7” of the Year. So what’s been going on since then? Public silence; private Creepy Power. After four long years of hermetic writing, recording, re-recording, editing, mixing, re-mixing, and so on, LsL finally emerges once again with their second full-length, the follow up to their 2007 disc Turn Myself Into The Ocean. Many of the original ingredients remain (worldless female haunt-vox, busted mini-amp guitar growls, tom-violating rhythm tracks, banjo ruffs) but are in service to arrangements that are both tighter and more expansive. Moments of breathless spectral visitation bloom alongside forest-folk recitations, bell loops drawn out to time-bending drone, heavy dirge remembrance, and general free-form folkery. While the murk of of the previous recordings has been dialed back a bit on Creepy Power, the gossamer echo chamber that remains—combined with the slightly-higher-fidelity—makes for a smoother ride and headier drift; this is one to get lost in.
SPECIAL ONE-TIME-ONLY ART EDITION: Clear cassettes with in-house screen-printed labels, held in a case with double-sided reversible pro-printed j-card, each with a one-of-a-kind Land camera photograph taken by band member S.Turley with tracklisting handwritten on back, held in a sewn fabric sleeve. Limited to 33.

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Innercity – ‘Terrestreality’ LP
Terrestreality is second vinyl offering on Aguirre.. Following up  7″ on NNA tapes and BACKWORLD LP, co-released from Release The Bats and Ikuisuus earlier this year. Loads of damaged and otherworldy synth bubblles sweat over 12 tracks recorded April-June 2011. Vocals on “Opiate vague” by Bram Devens (Ignatz). Mastered by Fear Falls Burning. Edition of 300 copies. The first 50 orders on aguirre’s website get a free bonus tape which is the gatekeepers of ecstacy album by the monikers of bottoms of black lakes which was originally released in an edition of 30 copies on the why so serious?. LISTEN

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Wether – ‘Dismissal’ CS
Heat Wavepleased to present. head honcho of the ever-creative gutter label 905 tapes, mike haley, throws down a heavy zoned out slab of gutteral synth fuckery for HEADS… .. .. dont stare into the sun too long. limited edition, full color j-cards by alex.

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m. geddes gengras – ‘tetragrammaton’
Intense emotions, vibrant colors, and candid sounds flood the listeners senses. This tape cosmically guides it’s listeners through it’s superabundance of sensory feedback, bringing on a sense of weightlessness. limited edition of 100, art by adam.

hobo cubes – ‘pearl mirage’
Foisted into an idyllic underworld, where fanciful dreamlike realities rule and banal existences fall by the wayside, electronic tones and keys reflect neon lights, which illuminate and lead the listener through this unearthly realm. limited edition of 100, art by adam.

spirit catepetl – ‘lai khur’
These tracks take the listeners on a post-ritual journey in the form of astral story telling. The listener is inserted into raw and mesmerizing, but obscured, strings accentuated by grainy electronics, which transport them on this late-night odyssey. limited edition of 100, art by adam.

gimu – ‘a season in your soul’
Orchestral and nostalgic, these tracks, in their composite simplicity, bring on the sense of a life once lived in grandeur. Obscured and muffled, the drones have a markedly ancient tone about them that alludes to the multi-layered, yet monochromatic, nature of the piece. limited edition of 100, art by adam.

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905.157: OPPONENTS – ‘SCOPES SARCOPHAGUS’ C44 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$9(World)
opponents have this way of blending paralyzing trance nuggets with jagged crunchers that just send you into a total state of confusion. it’s insane. top it all off with alien answering machines messages and scopes sarcophagus is ready to blast you off to never never never never land.

905.156: GRASSHOPPER – ‘CLASSICAL MUSIC’ C20 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$9(World)
hot on the heals of their full length baker goodnight sweet prince, classical music is a two track, 20 minute journey into deep delphi zones from next level experimental wizards grasshopper. between inventing new coke and rolling super tight pinners, derosa and millrod manage to be the most consistent dudes in the game. instant hits from the bong.

905.155: MOTEM GOLD TROWTH – ‘SPLUR INTERRUPTER’ C35 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$9(World)
totem mold from an alternative universe / time line / time zone / line zone. scuzzy bloopers and sticky-icky creepy crawlers. total weirdo stuff.

905.154: RUST WORSHIP + DANIEL J. MOORE SPLIT C44 $6(US)/$7(CAN)/$9(World)
a gentleman’s melee between obsolete units’ front office man paul haney’s rust worship endeavor and daniel j. moore, who is no stranger to the 905 game (family treasures, heaven people). both dudes clang out in, steel cage style, creating strident soundscapes while figuring out how to keep the vibes hypnotic.

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