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CN048: HOW I QUIT CRACK – ‘Eugenicide’ CS £5
All new recordings seamlessly melded into two extended mixes from the Texas duo. HIQC occupy that dream-like woozy bliss that comes just before waking. It’s spaced-age lounge horror film music. Amazing, frightening, chilling and beautiful all at the same time, with Tina”s eerie haunting vocal running throughout. Think Julee Cruise providing the soundtrack for a special episode of Twin Peaks that’s been commissioned by Hammer Horror. Limited to 50 copies world-wide.

CN047: ST JAMES INFIRMARY – ‘An Antic Pause’ CS £5
St. James Infirmary, of Ashington, Northumberland (UK), was formed in 1985 as the vehicle for singer, songwriter and multi- instrumentalist G.W.Lang and has been continuously active ever since. G.W.L. is assisted in producing his prolific output by an evolving and rotating cast of bandmates and (at last count), SJI has boasted in the region of 40 members. This release is a solo work of two massive monolithic synth-driven drones. Clocking in at almost 30 minutes each, they evolve through blissful ambient landscapes to bass-shuddering experimental noise. Limited to 30 copies world-wide.

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Buriers – ‘We Are Small’ C10 $6
Buriers is a UK based anti-rap alternative folk band lead by singer and poet James P Honey. We Are Small is a brief look into the bands talents and sounds, featuring two tracks reaching not quite 10 minutes total. The songs are stripped down, soft, introspective, and observing. Honey’s poetic vocals are transcendental. The progression of vocals and instrumentation represent all the great elements of this band. Each purchase comes with a free tote bag or t-shirt. Limited to 100 cassettes.

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Royce H. – ‘Graphic Tea/Group Tease’ C45 $6
Debut tape from Royce H., ambient noise artist and head of Nisei Tapes. Traverses the worlds of ambience, noise & distortion, prodding at concepts of self, memory, place & appropriation. Composed from a patchwork of tape loops, guitar and field recordings and inspired by the likes of Tim Hecker, The Caretaker and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.

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Mankid – ‘Mankid 1’ CS
Debut Cassette ‘Mankid 1’. Recorded live throughout the winter of 2014/2015. An imminent doom pervades throughout and intertwines with blast beats and harmonious feedback as I try to figure out how to get out of bed every morning. I am the Mankid.

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CORSET s/t $6
Violent urban rhythms from the last gutters of Brooklyn. Members of NYC’s Gowanus Mutant Commandos, the most fabulous punk band in America. American Noise has always been a bit more loose than its European equivalent. There’s been slightly more room for humor and a certain unhinged wildness in the states: we have no real high-culture past, and until the early 2000’s there wasn’t much hope for anyone outside of the scene to give a shit about what terrible new object you can run through a distortion pedal. We’re much more beer than coke, more hot than cool, more Dionysus than Apollo. CORSET falls into this drunken continuum of fucked up American music. This is music to nod your head to, to chant and cheer and celebrate the fact that your life is nothing but a decadent excess of nature. 100 Copies.

VOSE 106 – ‘Can’t Find Me’ CS $6
VOSE 106 is a tentative first step into life after the singularity. Our inadequate bodies will be left behind along with the cultural ephemera of classical capitalism. Handbag house left untouched in the closet. B-sides and sketches of Youtube adds for start-ups that never were. Grooveboxes and Zunes will sit untouched next to scratched and broken freeware CD’s. VOSE 106 does not speak for these future artifacts, but acts as a conduit for their limited voices to be heard. 75 Copies.

Jjakub – ‘Still Standing’ CS $6
Jjakub makes sketchy RnB for a world with no rules. 25 Copies.

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‘PSST! Wanna Buy A Record?‘ LP $15
Private press 300 copy vinyl redux of 1986 UK DIY experimental cassette compilation from post-Homosexuals / Murphy Federation / It’s War Boys crew. Originally released as an annexe to underground comic El Frenzy, edited by crown prince of avant-pop Bing Selfish, the LP contains brittle sounds honed in the housing co-ops, squats and 8-track dens of radical London. El Frenzy editor Bing Selfish compiled PSST, playing on most of the tracks, the rest of the cast include Amos (aka L.Voag / Xentos of The Homosexuals / Amos & Sara / Die Trip Computer Die), Robert Storey (dark heart of The Murphy Federation since 1980), Lepke B. (Milk From Cheltenham / Die Trip Computer Die), Chris Gray (The Homosexuals producer / Amos & Sara / Just Measurers), Mick Hobbs (The Work, Family Fodder). What does it sound like? Delia Derbyshire’s hunkered down in a Stockwell basement, the floor’s strewn with beat up latino, jazz and funk LPs from Oxfam round the corner … her TASCAM’s missing two slider buttons, but she’s got a steady supply of gin. Suddenly a bunch of South London miscreants stumble in, claiming to be “musos” … Delia takes another hit from the bottle and presses record. The next day she wakes up with a banging hangover and rewinds the tape. She jots in her notebook: ‘We’re Only In It For The Money’ kerb crawling ‘Soft Machine Volume Two’ with Coxsone lighting up a spliff in the doorway … strictly no commercial potential. Contains 16 page A4 risograph booklet with Bing Selfish & Knutsford Hanoi interview + A3 insert with fellow squatland traveler Richard Dudanski (PiL / 101ers) interviewed.

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ATOP – ‘777’
C45 type II chrome cassettes. Duplicated in 1x time from Maxell type II master tape, with fold-out cardstock j-card. Hand-dubbed and packaged. Hand numbered dition of 50. Cosmic synth drone and ambient from Dallas musician ATOP (M.C. McPhail).

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Sindre Bjerga – ‘Fugue States’ CS £4.5
Two sides of live action from the hardest working man in the experimental underground, Sindre Bjerga. “Cassette player drones and kitchen sink psychedelia” Tensions and oddities created through audio collaging with minimal means. Hand dubbed black C40 cassette. Limited to 50 copies.

Grant Evans – ‘Silent Refusal’ CS £4.5
New work from Hooker Vision / VAALD label boss Grant Evans.Subdued strings and long, calming drones for a zoned out headspace. Hand dubbed C50 cassette. Limited to 50 copies.

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DBA123 Daveed Diggs – ‘Small Things To A Giant’ CS
Just before clipping. broke through with their mixtape ‘midcity’ and years before ‘Hamilton’ went to Broadway, Daveed Diggs released his own solo full length called ‘Small Things To a Giant’. This proud dedication to his identity as a person born and raised in the Bay is filled with upbeat tracks, exciting production, and the incredible sort of bars only Daveed Diggs can deliver. We are very proud to finally bring this release to the physical realm with it’s first ever cassette version.

DBA139 BLKHRTS – ‘Dead Drops vol 1’ heart-shaped LP
“BLKHRTS describe themselves as M.O.P.-meets-Morrissey. Somehow, this is largely accurate.” – Pitchfork [Our favorite underrated rap releases of the year] After slews of videos and mixtapes, guest production & remixes for HEEMS and clipping., BLKHRTS present their first vinyl release: ‘Dead Drops vol.1’. Crafted completely by the group’s own hand, Deathbomb Arc is honored to provide exclusive distribution for this historic offering. Deluxe packages are also available directly from BLKHRTS.

DBA142 GRYPT – ‘Tonight You Die’ video game & soundtrack
TONIGHT YOU DIE is an audio-rich 1st person horror experience for Windows and OSX created by Jack Squires of Duende Games in collaboration with sound designers / interactive storytellers GRYPT. The game abandons players in a desolate brutalist cityscape with only a menacing note as a clue: TONIGHT YOU DIE. A paranoid fantasy existing in the space between a music single and a jam game, TONIGHT YOU DIE culminates with the player’s inevitable demise and GRYPT’s eponymous song. In “TONIGHT YOU DIE,” GRYPT’s ominous sound is paired with the furious drumming of Brian “Charlemagne Lazarus” Kinsman (True Neutral Crew, ex-Foot Village). The single also includes a remix by GRYPT of label-mate clipping.’s track “Body & Blood” from their Sub-Pop debut, and 3 eclectic remixes of “TONIGHT YOU DIE.” Bass music producer DMNSLYR (STYLSS), cello songstress UNWOMAN, and True Neutral Crew member Signor Benedick the Moor (Deathbomb Arc) each provide a unique variation on GRYPT’s horrific theme. Also included is GRYPT’s authorized remix of clipping. (Sub Pop). The album and game are available together as a free-or-donate download.

DBA144 They Hate Change – ‘Cycles’ CS
With laid back vocal styles similar to The Pharcyde and especially Masta Ace Incorporated this Florida based duo is approaching hiphop composition in an exciting manner unlike any act we’ve worked with. A bedroom collage sensibility one used to find with a lot of early 90s indierock acts (Beck, Sebadoh, tons of K Records releases) is infused throughout They Hate Change’s work as both producers and rappers. This is the sort shit that knows both it’s past and future and isn’t afraid of either…. and yet, as bold as it is, still is perfect for chilling on a summer day.

DBA145 True Neutral & Signor Benedick The Moor – ‘When The Song Is Done’
The day before Signor Benedick The Moor & True Neutral’s big US tour, a once in a lifetime artistic opportunity came up that just could not be passed on, even though it meant canceled the trip months in the making. The fans were still on SB and TN’s minds though and this special free song was made just for them.

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Alizter James – ‘Alizter II’
Electronic beatsmith/composer Alizter James is back with a new set of tunes. The album Alizter II is James’ follow-up to the Mixcloud only release, “Schizotronicelectrofever.” The music is synth heavy and mind meltingly fun. AJ tells us he found inspiration & additional sounds from: Chris Daily, Animaniacs, J Dilla, Daft Punk, Crispin Glover on David Letterman, Batman, trashy dance synths, EDM culture, Phil Lesh, and many more…Download is PAY WHAT YE WANT!

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