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GANG NAILS – ‘Self Titled’ C26 $5
Two piece punk rock surf metal from Los Angeles, CA. Three intense original tracks plus a cover of Suicide’s “Ghost Rider” make up this debut release. Limited to 50 hand stamped yellow tapes.

The Holy Ralai Lama – ‘Self Titled’ C30 $5
Solo release from Fresno songwriter Raleigh Drennon (Tyrannosaurus Zebra, Ghost Meat, Sleeve). Six songs filled with amazing lyrics and catchy melodies guaranteed to stick in your head. Limited to 50 hand stamped purple tapes

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Babelfishh – ‘Writhe In The Ailments’ C20 $7
Writhe In the Ailments, a true rager and the latest album by Babelfishh. The type of music to give one a panic attack right from the very beginning, Babelfishh’s off-beat holler and slam sound sees a very harsh reality. As hip hop goes, the trueness to the genre, Babelfishh is furtherest from the center. The album is split in two sides, that harsh booming side filled with Babelfishh’s scream rap style. Side 2 takes on a similar approach yet calms down as much as Babelfishh can in a more introspective look at life. The album is beautiful in its chaos and ripe for any Babelfishh fan. Limited to 100 blue cassettes.

Pastense – ‘Paper Seatbelts’ C64 $7
Long time collaborators Willie Green (Producer – Brooklyn, NY) and Pastense (emcee – Boston, MA) have released Willie Green Presents: Pastense – Paper Seatbelts via Backwoodz Studioz. “This album is definitely a labor of love. It’s taken 5 years, 4 studios and countless revisions, but I’m excited to finally have it out. Production-wise it’s pretty different from most of what you’ve heard from me, and Past has the illest visuals in his lyrics; there’s a lot to dig into here.” -Willie Green. With all production duties handled by Green and features including Super Chron Flight Brothers, The Foundation Movement, Warren Britt, JTronius and more, Pastense has crafted a 14-track view into the darker recesses of his mind. Limited to 105 gray cassettes.

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Gaffe of a Lifetime – ‘The Errors: A Kingdom of Loss’
Alex Petion has spent a decade of his youth inhabiting the relic town of Waterbury, CT. Known as Brass City, its heyday ended alongside WWII. Haunting this long dead town, Petion is a living ghost. His spirited wail and rattling chains manifest as the music of Gaffe of a Lifetime. Sounds not designed to resurrect the long dead, but rather to be a small light searching through a wide expanse of loss. His melodies carry a hope for finding the positive; a hope for finding escape from his world of relics, all while floating in sombre atmospheres and a spacious calm. These are not the sounds of Brass City, 70 years since their last proud boom. This is the sound of a single ghost explorer, reverberating off of factory ruins.

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Swahili – ‘AMOVREVX’ LP $15
70s funk, post-punk, dub reggae and cosmic disco are influences on this slick, experimental pop record from essential Portland, OR quintet. Mastered by Jason Ward. 500 LPs with download card plus two band-designed tarot cards.

Contact Cult – ‘Hylozoist’ C33 $7
Hypnotic textures and mantra-like rhythms stream earthward from a utopian dimension on the debut release from the solo electronic project of Swahili’s Troy Micheau. Edition of 100 cassettes with download card.

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Yahowa – ‘Forest Moon’ CS
One of the most recent bands to hit the US out of Copenhagen, Yahowa brings all of the intensity of Iceage with an dash of synth pop dysphoria. The transition from a 2-piece to a monstrous 6 piece band has resulted in Yahowa’s fullest, most adventurous sounding release to date. Limited to 50 copies on translucent green cassettes in the US and Denmark. Comes with free digital download.

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TSR 001 – Tuluum Shimmering – ‘In The Grove The Moon Is Drowned With Stars’ CDr

TSR 002 – Tuluum Shimmering – ‘Bundle of Flames’ CDr

TSR 003 – Tuluum Shimmering – ‘The Edge of the Sky on Either Side’ CDr

TSR 004 – Tuluum Shimmering – ‘Over Seven Mountains, Over Seven Plains’ CDr

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The Fatal Englishman – ‘Ravenglass’
One of the more obscure and mysterious releases in the Bandcamp cannon is the debut LP of solo recording project The Fatal Englishman. Somewhat lo-fi in sound – perhaps purposely rough – and relying mainly on disintegrating guitars and ambient-driven menace, ‘Ravenglass’ is a concentrated leftfield examination of the shady, lost, brief paths trodden by the ghosts of men. What emerges between layers of strange rhythms and found sounds is a Space Age carnivale, a grave comedy debased by alien graces, an out-there melange of worn-out dirges and the groaning ruckus of minimalist dazed incantations for lost voices. The whole thing is quite fog-eyed and bizarre, and at a running time of thirty minutes the man behind the moniker knows when to call it quits. Biographically, there is next to nothing about him online. The tendency to elaborate obsessively on simple forms and in often chaotic ways is a characteristic of much outsider art. As Deborah Solomon has written about the artist Joseph Cornell: “The objects inside his boxes were not just random assortments of material but souvenirs of a quest, a chronicle of infatuations whose meaning was as complicatedly inward as a private journal.” In his unsettling collection ‘Ravenglass’, The Fatal Englishman shares his eroded but ineluctable music. The result is a surreal sense of being let in on an unhinged rock ‘n’ roll pagan ceremony.

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BOND003: Mothership Collective – ‘All Nigga Radio’ C58 $6.06
This tape takes the listener on a Funky Voyage with a late night radio broadcast twist. Includes various forms of music like Hip Hop, Funk, Reggae, and also includes commercials, interview snippets and disc jockey ramblings. All Nigga Radio is dedicated to satire and sarcasm and invites the listener to feel the vibes of the music and to view the artwork not for it’s original intent, but for how the context is presented. Taking the power away from the original propaganda and incorporating it into our every day lives.

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SQUADRA OMEGA – ‘Altri Occhi Ci Guardano’ 2LP
Other eyes look at us – the literal translation of „Altri Occhi Ci Guardano“, the new record by Squadra Omega – applies in many ways to its sound and aesthetic. The Italian collective takes on the form of a three-piece for the time being, resulting in a double album paving the road from inspiration to innovation.
Embarking on the trip that is this record means to enter a white room whose walls have a distinct grounding that evokes the ghosts of like-minded sonic adventurers. You can feel the influence of library music just as well as there are subtle nods to the greats of Italian film music – Morricone, Frizzi and so on. Nevertheless, the fresh white that rests on top of said grounding shines brighter – Squadra Omega prove yet again to have the lucky hand and right mindset to not let the music become a mere regurgitating of influences. The songs has the free spirit that needs to be deeply felt in order to move the listener, especially in these times where music is infinitely accessible. The trio defies any strict categorization by constantly shaking up their sound with a plethora of instruments and rhythms – nothing is purely tribute, everything is a necessity. „Altri Occhi Ci Guardano“ is an exercise in shifting perspective. Motifs steadily blend in with close relatives, expanding the scope of the music to a sphere that is tangible for everyone open to genuine musical exploration in what you could call the afterglow of rock and roll. Squadra Omega make a bold statement on what free thinking at the crossroads of rock’n’roll, jazz and psychedelia can sound and should feel like. Make sure to let the eyes take a look on you. Squadra Omega’s sonic rocket goes off to discover all worlds known and unknown! They kick out the jams like some early Sun City Girls playing a wild mix of ECM- style fusion jazz crossed with dusty Steppenwolf biker-rock or the bluesy psychedelic trips of Cream. And the magic carpet ride continues with some motorik beats a la Neu! and repetetive elements reminiscent of french progressive electronic pioneers like Pole. The „Historia De La Musica Rock“ is present, but the sounds go far beyond nostalgia. This is perfect to get stoned right now. FORMAT: 12” DOUBLE LP – 600 copies
 in co-production with Macina Dischi.

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Luciernaga – ‘Tile II’ C30 
“Tile II” is the second Luciernaga collection of home-recorded meditative drone/ambient pieces. Following in the footsteps of the now out of print “Tile” cassette, this second outing includes 4 new pieces (or extracts of longer pieces) created with voice, guitar, and tibetan singing bowl on Side A and a 15 min long piece based on a single loop on Side B. Like its predecessor, these home-dubbed cassettes come packaged in a hand-numbered printed brad-pack including a small insert with song titles and credits. The cassette edition is limited to 20 copies that retail for $3 ppd in the US but the music can be downloaded on a “name your price” basis starting at $0.00. Luciernaga is the solo recording project of Joao M. Da Silva, who also runs Fabrica Records. Joao, born in Uppsala, Sweden and raised in Santiago, Chile/ Waimea, HI has been involved with underground music and culture since age 15. He was a part of Santiago, Chile’s then relatively new hardcore punk scene through participation in bands, zines, and as a part of the anarchopunk record label and collective Masapunk. In 2004 he moved back to the U.S. where he was a part of DC hardcore band Birds & Wires and the Amor y Lucha record label. He began making solo treated guitar recordings in 2007. Luciernaga began in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY and in close proximity to the (now a Superfund site) Gowanus Canal. Instruments/equipment used include: voice; electric and acoustic guitar; Buddha machine 1,2,and 3; micromoog; korg R3, shruti box; tibetan singing bowl; kalimba; tibetan bells; cassettes; and more. Idle Chatter is a new partner label of Fabrica Records dedicated to releasing limited edition cassettes.

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