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various artists – ‘Loose Meat Sandwich #1‘
Teflon Beast is debuting a print zine+digital EP series with a 7-track compilation featuring: Arklight, Mold Omen, Geoff, and more. The comp. is part of a new quarterly zine project, also titled Loose Meat Sandwich, that combines music with short-form, experimental & absurdist writing, and colorful art. Musically one will hear noise, lo-fi rock, homemade pop, and spoken-word.

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MOSAIC OF TEETH – ‘PHIAL OF VOLCANIC ASH’
Mosaic of Teeth is a collaborative project involving Justin Wiggan (Roadside Picnic), Nicholas Bullen (Napalm Death), ILIOS (Mohammad/PAN), Anthony Donovan (Murmurists), Keith Moliné (Two Pale Boys / Pere Ubu) and Antonio de Braga. Whilst stranded in Norway in 2010 following the eruption of Eyjafjallajökul and its subsequent volcanic ash activity, Wiggan scoured flea markets for cassettes and amassed the source material for this project. The cassettes were passed to Nicholas Bullen, who morphed them into the foundations of the material. Bullen’s structural edits were further translated by Wiggan, Donovan, De Braga, Moliné and Greek noise artist ILIOS. The result is a mutable, mobile soundscape of found sonic artifacts which sways violently between the intricate, the disturbing and the sublime.

FUSEEDITIONS004 – ‘PETRELS’
The fourth live recording to emerge from Bradford’s freshest avant garde multimedia venue Fuse Art Space comes from Oliver Barrett, aka Petrels. Londonbased composer Barrett has been turning out epic opuses for a few years, most recently on the Denovali imprint, blending noise, field recordings and monolithic harmonic constructions to terrifying effect. This live set from 2014 is a great example of his immersive sound, patient development of complex textures and sense of musical drama.

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ZONE DÉMERSALE – ‘Figura’ C60
Zone Démersale is a techno/ambient duo formed by producer Michele Ferretti (Nubilum) and sound artist Pietro Riparbelli (Touch, Important, 20 Bucks Spin). The project starts from a conceptual and aesthetic reflection (both members have philosophical education) to move into minimalism, transcendental spiritualism, cosmic music and sonic spatiality through a constant compositional research. Their tracks are produced using various vintage hardware, from the Italian Jen synth to the Echoplex looper, shortwave radio receivers and numerous samples recorded by the duo. After a first EP on Aconito and a second one out right now on Boring Machines, their 7-track full-length album Figura will be out on Yerevan Tapes on April 28. Limited edition of 100 on white tape cassette.

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Marie Davidson – ‘Un Autre Voyage’ LP/CS
From the prolific cultural epicenter of Montréal, Marie Davidson has emerged as one of the foremost electronic artists in contemporary underground pop today. As a long-time member of Les Momies de Palerme, Hotel Monochrome, DKMD, and Essaie Pas, Marie has continued to hone her many talents in Montréal’s fervent experimental communities for much of her adult life. In 2012 Marie began to unveil compositions under her own name, revealing a solo artist who possessed the confident vulnerability required to write, produce, and perform unaccompanied. Davidson’s intimate solo work is embodied through a host of synthesizers and drum machines that coalesce in synchronized harmony, punctuated by Marie’s hypnotic vocal delivery, sung and spoken in both French and English. Davidson’s third album Un Autre Voyage demonstrates her heightened compositional skill behind a sequencer as well as her singular ability to anesthetize the senses through the documentation of her own serial pattern of experiential growth. Un Autre Voyage (translated as “Another Journey”) is a collection of songs based solely on true events, providing the listener with an unfiltered primary account of Marie’s intrapersonal experiences. This act of self-journalism serves as a psychological cleansing that evokes an authentic sense of warmth and empathy, rendering Un Autre Voyage as Davidson’s most transparently honest artistic document yet. Through this concerted disclosure, Marie’s unique practice of surreal atmospheric composition now shows irrepressible traces of exuberance, displaying a fresh luminosity in her emotive palette. This stands in stark contrast to Davidson’s self-titled debut EP (HOLODECK, 2013), which depicts a disoriented mind struggling for stability throughout a period of depression in her musical and personal life. In 2014’s Perte d’Identité (Weyrd Son) Davidson narrates her search for self through the course of trial and conquest, establishing her distinct method of song writing that is as compelling as it is existential. However, 2015’s Un Autre Voyage bares the immense weight of Davidson’s psyche by turning direct experience into song, utilizing her candid self-examination to convey a new found serenity that playfully underlines her otherwise brooding and pensive soundscapes. Marie embraces slower experimental composition on pieces like Kidnap You in the Desert, Insomnie, and Perséphone, while songs like Excès de Vitesse and Balade aux USA are decidedly upbeat and indicate a broadening complexity in Marie’s aesthetic domain. Vocal, guitar, and production contributions from husband and Essaie Pas bandmate Pierre Guerineau establish a communicative interface that allows for the full articulation and realization of Davidson’s inner-dialogues. As her exposure steadily increases, Marie continues to advance her musical skill in the studio as well as on stage, taking her captivating live show on several extensive international tours as copies of her records and tapes quickly disappear. Un Autre Voyage is undoubtedly a snap shot of Davidson’s current state of expansion but marks an intensified effort to progressively unfold a more complete and absolute manifest of herself. Davidson has constructed an intransigently potent assembly of real life expositions that are coarse and organic, yet undeniably nuanced and refined.

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FAINT GLOW/SOMNAPHON – ‘ABSOLUTE (0) EMBRACE’ C30 $5
Cassette, limited to 30 copies. Black ambient + crackle-scapes.

WORLD OF WHITE ICE/NIPPLE STOOLS – ‘WIMP ABILITIES SLUICE’ C30 $5
Limited to 30 copies. Smart synthesis & sexy electronics for modern adults.

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CN041: Yokonono – ‘The Atrocity Tapes EP’
One for the acid-heads. As psychedelic as it looks, this wouldn’t go out of place on the soundtrack to Chris Morris’ ‘Blue Jam’ or accompanying a trip-out sequence in one of Roger Corman’s late 60s movies. Four weird woozy disorientating lo-fi abstract ambient pieces that have you wondering “just what the heck is that sound?”, as deranged EVP voices mix with the sound of a battered guitar (and other objects) emanating from a distant room. Tune in, turn on, drop out. Man. Limited to 25 copies world-wide. Published on high-quality C25 cassettes with blue / yellow shells, accompanied by mind-blowing hand-drawn artwork from Epileptic Media.

CN040: Lost Harbours – ‘In The Direction Of The Sun’ C40
Inspired by the Neolithic landscape of the Orkney Islands, this is a stunning album of 6 hauntingly beautiful new tracks, that through careful crafting of processed field recordings, psychedelic ambient drones and neo-folk leanings transport you through a whirl of 18th century folklore and pagan ritual. Limited to 50 copies world-wide, on gun grey and pale blue cassettes.

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Leftover Noise/Nachtmusik – ‘Poppy Nogood’
Leftover Noise/Nachtmusik weaves together field recordings, droning violins and distant guitars into a unique strain of lo-fi bedroom pop. Leftover Noise toys with traditional song structures, but abstracts and abuses them into a dark and brooding affair. Nachtmusik, on the other hand, is a strange yet beautiful 16 minute mix of ambient field recordings and traditional instruments that coalesce and rub against one another. Leftover Noise/Nachtmusik is the inaugural release for Nisei Tapes. Initial run of 25.

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Callado – ‘Light Out’ EP
The third release from low punk artists Callado on Sweet Sounds Records (SSR003). Released on a limited edition cassette (run of 100), the EP comes with a download code, full color artwork on a 3 panel j-card and costs $5. This EP finds the band exploring dynamics and arrangements while honing their sound and songwriting chops. The B-side of the tape also provides listeners with some excellent psychedelic goodies.

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ICR09: Roadside Picnic – ‘Watership Drowned’
Roadside Picnic aka sound artist Justin Wiggan presents us with Watership Drowned, a two sided recording compromising of piercing noise, mellow drones and electonic manipulation. The recording revolves around the process of extracting the nostalgic response and influence from the film Watership Down and how the essence of the ideas contained within have an effect on people. It is concerned with the exploration of the mystery of death and the death of nature within the film and it’s world. “childhood phonological fear triggers revisited.” Justin Wiggan is based in the UK. His work has been performed and exhibited internationally and incorporates sonics, text, film, object-changing and drawing to create interface solutions to site / circumstance specific problems. A Jerwood drawing prize finalist, Justin was the first Participant to submit a sound drawing. He has released on a number of labels, including Jehu and Chinaman, VCO Records, LA COHU, Los Discos Enfantasmes, A Giant Fern, Illuminated Paths, Autistic Campaign and Seagrave. Hand dubbed C90 cassette. Black and white doubled sided artwork. Limited to 24 copies.

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LW082 PRISONERO 13 – ‘Patriota Supremo’
CD lim. 100 / DVD slimcase packaging. P13 is a Mexican project bound to the topics of political violence and its nature… against the corruption of the military elite & it´s conduct codes. \”Patriota Supremo\” disputes & places in doubt the role of the army in the infamous and failed war on drugs. 8 tracks full of hate and a nice mixture between power electronics, ritual-ambient hymns and walls of noise.

LW087 HALALNIHIL – ‘Mysogynyandry’ CD
CD lim. 100 / DVD slimcase packaging. Here a new album from HALALNIHIL. Finest harsh noise, power electronics with typical extreme spoken words in lovely Hungarian language.

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