Animal Psi

JOCELYN ROBERT – ‘The Maze’ CD
The Maze is a map of different territories I covered in my recent travels. But the mapped territories are not contiguous: I am the tunnel that links these places and times, I am the border that keeps them together. Now, a geographer who makes a map doesn’t make a survey: these are two different things. The survey – the gathering – comes first, but the mapping process includes several subsequent steps: scaling, removing, enhancing, and adding. Scale allows to grasp a large territory at a glance. The degree of scaling will make some aspects of the territory emerge and other disappear. The second step is the removal. A geographer who draws a map removes a lot of elements in order for others to appear. Then, some elements will be enhanced: on a tourist map, significant buildings will be bigger than scale and coloured, on a navigation map algae in waterways will be larger than life… Finally, things will be added: words, signs, numbers… Data from the surveys is never enough. Words and numbers are never seen in the fields, but they are on maps and play a very important role. They are ideas about the territories, references, links to culture. A map is a story, and the geographer is a storyteller.

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Gaffe of a Lifetime – ‘My Fellow Americans’ CS
Mistranslations, intended disruption, and visual collapse are a vital part of Alex Petion aka Gaffe of a Lifetime’s presence. On his first ep this manifested as the sounds of a dead city; frozen in the past. With his latest, ‘My Fellow Americans’, the ice breaks and there is a new found love of movement. Still holding up a distorted mirror to reveal dirty truths hidden from direct reflection, what Petion finds is an embrace of speed ~ an embrace that Gaffe of a Lifetime calls distinct Americanism. An American speed that Petion is sometimes moving with and at others letting pass by, but always commenting on with his own deathly and narcoleptic stare.

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GBS Music – ‘2014 Lite: Wars’ C35 £4
“The selected songs here are within and around and upon my narration of the number 2014 as I have come to mostly experience 2014. The selected songs have their origin in long ago being told I’m a romantic, a singer-songwriter, a something-something with this and that, they have their origin in a misunderstanding between me and me and you and maybe you again. I’m not saying none of these things aren’t, I, GBS Music, I’m just becoming something that feels a little more ____, you know? Something that feels a little more full stop”

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human heads – ‘triggers’
the psykick dancehall crew is here for you. suburb trains field recordings, static beats, failed synthesizers and elocution dedicated to robert ashley. intimist, anti-demonstrative, obsessive.

akke phallus duo – ‘an insatiable demand for tea (devastation wreaked by)’
electronics, vocals, guitars, tapes, stuff. freak noise locked in a wet basement – bad contacts distortions vs second-hand keyboards. between sacrificial shamanism and dead hippies.

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B.F.E 31 BRONZE – ‘In Stone’ LP
The third album by San francisco psychedelic synth wave trio BRONZE “Bronze is Brian D. Hock, Rob Spector and Miles Friction. This trio coalesced in 2006 when Hock returned to San Francisco from Berlin after splitting with his former band The Vanishing and moved into a warehouse with Spector, who was a long time collaborator in the S.F. musik scene. Friction was enlisted shortly thereafter and the three began experimenting with synthesizers, samplers, vocals and heavy repetitive rhythm via live drums. After a european tour opening for Erase Errata and grip of singles they recorded their first album “Copper” released on New York’s “RVNG Intl” in 2011. Numerous U.S. and European tours followed and in 2014 they released their 2nd full length “World Arena” on Los Angeles label “Not Not Fun” The sound of “Bronze” is influenced by psychedelic synth musik, punk, wave, industrial and jazz, blended into a heavy cocktail of sonic witchery. 2015 will see also the release of a live album on John Dwyer’s (Thee Oh Sees) Castleface Records.

B.F.E 30 COÀGUL – ‘La Forja Centrípeta’ LP
“La Forja Centrípeta” is a sonic support by which the listener can “forge” his or her spirit, going from the outside into the inside. It consists of five sonic spells, conceived and composed by Marc O’Callaghan in Easter 2014 between Barcelona and Picanya. The first four ones, which are contained in the fisrt side of the record, equeal to the four ages of mankind. But more than four ages in the historical sense of the development of human kind, in this case they are concieved more like four different states of being. Four possible stadiums in which the listener can enter by meditating on each spell. It begins with the most materialistic age, the iron age (which is the age in which we live today at this moment of history, aswell as the default state of being in which a common human lives these days); and ends ate the very core with the most spiritual age, the golden age. The length of each spell is in proportion with the mathemathics of the traditional division from the Vedic doctrine of the four yugas. The last spell, which occupies the whole second side of the record, is an incarnation of the new city, which is another name for the heavenly city of the New Jerusalem that shall descend unto earth at the end of the Apocalypse. Thus when the four ages are finally consumated, we are ready to enter the holy city, where all things are each one in its very right place and distributed in absolute cosmic harmony. The twelve stanzas of this long spell equal to all that is twelve: the zodiac, the precious stones, the fruits of the tree of life, the angelic typologies, the months of a year, the prophets, et cetera. The first side of this vinyl symbollically equals to the circular shape, and the second one equals to the square shape. So all in all, “La Forja Centrípeta” is a big sonic tool that can be magickally used to achieve what the hermetists rightly called “the squaring of the circle”. The whole five songs were performed by Marc O’Callaghan and recorded and mastered by Daniel Muerte during May 2014 at La Cova de la Bèstia, Barcelona. All artwork conceived and drawn by Marc O’Callaghan during January 2015. The inlay photo was taken by Adriana Petit in February 2015 at the Bronze Bureau, Barcelona.

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FH057 Andreas Brandal – ‘MURMURS AND ECHOES’ $6
RIYL: late-era Talk Talk jamming with Calexico, the unfulfilled life that flickers on the eyelids at night. Weary, cold, and alone but not dead, we soldier on under the half-light to some place on the horizon, anyplace really, as the sky and ground remain unbroken, seemingly forever. It has been a real pleasure watching Andreas Brandal evolve from his early roots in experimental noise & drone to this current incarnation as a post-indie/post-rock chamber orchestra Hemingway: “Murmurs and Echoes” sounds like a Western set on an ice field at the nadir of winter.

FH058 Three Fourths Tigers – ‘INDOOR VOICE’ $6
RIYL: the cross-talk of the cerebral cortex whilst dreaming of childhood and just a little bit high. We are passing into dayglo psychedelic arcades and crystal spheres in the forest, though chrome silly string melting from the trees all over our forearms and faces as we ghost through a mist the vaguely the flavor of raspberry carbonated soda. Three Fourths Tigers is emotional synth and Indoor Voice only adds to the growing body of influential work by Ryan Mulhall, a founding member of that genre.

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LW088 ZHELEZNYY – ‘Terrorism America’ CD 10€
Lim. 100 / DVD slimcase packaging. Hailing from the deserts of Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. comes Zheleznyy with their album “Terrorism America.” Filled with extreme songs revolving around The U.S.A. and its terroristic actions, Zheleznyy creates sonic songs not for the faint of heart. Influenced by bands such as The Vomit Arsonist, RU-486, Bereft, Organized Resistance and heavily influenced by Sektion B and the most well known and revered acts of the genre Zheleznyy shouts through audible extremities like the title track which gives praise to American terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph for what they have done while also giving a call to those in sleep to wake up and take back the government through violent terroistic actions. The American government is one of the worst terror groups in the world and Zheleznyy fights violently to prove it. Terrorism America, we must stand proudly!

LW090 VILGOC – ‘Eliminate The Target’ CD 10€
lim. 100 / DVD slimcase packaging. HNW from Poland. Implosion against the modern world.

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Troniq – ‘When You Realize What’s The Real Paradise’ CS $7
Inspired by the summer sunsets and long evenings spent wandering the Czech Republic countryside, Troniq produces a distinct form of dancefloor ambient that could only come from the genuine heart of Europe. When You Realize What’s The Real Paradise, Martin Kuska’s latest offering under the Troniq namesake, finds the producer mining the same rhythmic meditations as like-minded techno abstractors Blondes or Walls and sifting out gem after gem of deeply personal dance music. Imbued with a certain analog warmth and rife with glorious idiosyncrasies, Kuska jumps from immersive ambiance (“Road Under Pylons,” “Good Times Until the End”) to Opal Tapes-inspired electro (“Glamour Curves Photoshoot,” “Reflections of Steel Peripheral”), leaving plenty of room for oddly curved corridors. “Lets Do Something Else” throbs with the Madchester’s candidness processes through an industrial filter while “Across the Hillside” drifts through a series of ethereal pulses and subterranean low ends. This is real paradise. Includes download code. Limited edition, 100 cassettes.

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‘MAGNETIC DETRITUS‘ 2xCS
Edition of 100. Magnetic Detritus presents the work of eight artists exploring various approaches to contemporary tape-based music.  Through the interplay of collage, electronics and tape manipulation, this set provides a brief glimpse into a vast and evolving form. Packaged in a reel to reel box with paste-on artwork. Featuring: Darksmith, Lea Bertucci, Dog Lady Island, Matt Krefting, Sterile Garden, Aaron Dilloway, Evenings, Gordon Ashworth.

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Opaline – ‘Open Source’ CS
Hunter Peter Thompson AKA Opaline has been a workhorse in the synth/ambient community since his beginnings; self releasing his first few tapes in 2012. Consistently releasing one great release after another Opaline has an astonishing track record; working with esteemed tape labels like Phinery, Constellation Tatsu, and most recently Psychic Troubles. His new release “Open Source” is more akin to the early 2015 release “Memory Drain”, starting out with an audacious synth jam then eventually enveloping into warm synthesized ambience as the tape winds down. Hunter explores the most plentiful virtual real estate that surrounds us daily; “Open Source” revels in chilling dreaminess that can only stem from the cold world of data farms and cyberlinks. The perfect soundtrack to the tired eyes of 4AM after a long day of security breaching global networks while running your online warehouse. Take a virtual vacation with this binary bliss!

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