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HEL012 – ‘Industry‘ compilation
Compilation of exclusive tracks from the Utah electronic scene.

HEL013 – Mooninite – ‘Soda’
Dreamy, chilled out, soda-inspired electronic tracks from Salt Lake City producer Mooninite.

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Niko Mihaljevic – ‘Erica Preli’s Reggae Weed Party’ CS
“Erica Preli’s Reggae Weed Party” is an audio vérité composition and a compressed document of the eponymous house party held in Arnhem (NL) in late 2012. The event was recorded with a small cassette tape recorder which traveled around the residence in Niko Mihaljevic’s back pocket. The recorded material – including features such as intoxicated kitchen banter, inept group singing and toilet breaks – was used as the basis for a twenty-five minute sound composition, within which linear reality is rearranged. The reproduced reggae classics enriched by accidental interactions and recorded by the method of ‘domestic field recording’, create a distinctive musical vocabulary of the piece in which Luc Ferrari and Bob Marley symbolically meet.

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The Will of Nin Girima – ‘Two Cycles of Incantation’ £4.5
Heavy, minimal industrial drone from Mexico. Six lengthy slabs of beautifully dark and rich drone work from Miguel Perez (La Mancha Del Pecado/Wehrmacht Lombardo/TheSkull Mask) and J.C.Meraz (A Season) featuring special guests Filomena Rubino (Fe<Male Fou) and Luis Rangel (ErosM). This is a love letter to old Italian and Swedish tape industrial gods from the eighties / early nineties. Six Spells to draw power from The Void. Limited to 30 hand dubbed and numbered black C70 cassettes/free digital download.

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WAX WALKER – ‘Finesse’ C30
All new thrasher featuring Mikkel Valentin Dunkerley (aka WAX TOLLER of Denmark) on electronic amphetamine and MOSSY THROATS playing shimmering shit guitar distortion. Fast-paced cut up insanity noise sheets broken into a thousand pieces. No peace on either side! Numbered edition /30.

MOSSY THROATS – ‘Dead Entity’ C40
Mechanical rotation and severe electronics plague each side of “DEAD ENTITY.” Power’s death and power’s ghost provide a decayed corpse landscape that gives way only to a few living dead, whom speak here. Numbered edition /20.

BODY MORPH – ‘Ogre’ C90
BODY MORPH in deadly, horrible void form. Sax pushing from a grave of distortion and rot. A heavy-handed gauntlet, dropping over the city and suppressing all sound. Sax, tapes, electronics 2014. Numbered edition /20.

TSUJIGIRI/JESSIE and the EELS split C40
2 brand new duo units on one sneak attack split tape! TSUJIGIRI = Zach Howard and Dan D on a harsh junk nightmare trip. Sax, guitar, distortion, noise, slashing, and random death. JESSIE AND THE EELS = J.Lo Kendall and DL Hugley star in a senseless acoustic/electronic sitcom based on the x-files called “SLIME LIBRARY.” Beauty meets bananas. edition of 40 copies.

HIREO666 – ‘Collection’ C70
Legendary subterrainian harsh michigan noise! This tape holds material culled from short run cd’s handed out at gigs, generally in editions of about 8-12. Here are 4 of those discs. Unpredictable, unhinged, dark harsh noise. The opposite of militant walls. No set sound, just 20 minutes at a time spent with an insane person. Edition of 40 copies.

BODY MORPH – ‘Pussy for Breakfast b/w Medical Fame’ 2xC30
Brand-new double cassette of slipstream saxophone insanity from BODY MORPH. First legit solo tape in a while. Alternately lush and grating slabs of nebular reed rubbing for sleep and love-making. The sound of space folding and waking up full. Edition of 40. FEW LEFT!

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Julien A.Lacroix – ‘Uruk Romantic Tales #2’ LP 15€
First official release from French artist Julien A. Lacroix, Uruk Romantic Tales #2 is a concept album based in a supposable Mesopotamian landscape, hanging between past and future recalling nor one or the other. Born in 1984, Julien Lacroix works with instrumental recordings since several years ( recent works are distributed as free downloads onjulienadrienlacroix.fr ). He recently improved his composing technic including pseudo-historical paradigms, short fantasies, acoustic & processing experimentations. He picks fragments and ruins scattered on the ground, puts them together, and places them in imaginary scales and narrations lost in living memory. Lacroix’s work is capable of suspending time and it transforms it into a vision, a continuous research which leads to an immersive form of music. In the six passages of this album, he uses different stones and woods as percussion instruments or raw material digitally processed, strings, voices and electronic synthesis in a continuous oscillation between tension and expansion. It reminds the intimate side of Luc Ferrari and Jean-Claude Eloy’s French electroacoustic, sometimes touching the obscure and abstract sonic compositions of Giancinto Scelsi. Produced, played, recorded and mixed by Julien A. Lacroix. Mastered by Greg Davis. Backing vocals on “Elamites March”: Adrien Varcin, Eric Puygrenier, Rèmi Sylvestre. Screen printed at Legno studio, Milan. Limited edition black vinyl, 150 copies plus insert. 100 covers on green paper; 50 covers on yellow paper.

HERBAL RESEARCH – ‘Sound non Sound, tape n°2 (electronic, voice, flute and time treatments )’ C15 5€
Recorded between summer 2012 and spring 2013. Second work of audio composition by Herbal Research, Cristiano Carosi solo project. 15 minutes of assembled sounds split on 2 sides, divided in small distinct chapters where he creates new connections between familiar sounds and noises of the western musical language of our days; audio fragments, re- contextualized and masked in digital editing. Voices, synthesis and percussions filtered and debased during the process of sampling using a delay Digitech PDS 1002 in loop mode, layering several audio fragments and keeping margins of aleatoriality left by the leak of syncronization. Everything is then processed and edited on DAW, recycling sounds and visions to create new abstract audio patterns.

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BLOOD RHYTHMS – ‘Assembly’ LP
And after months of debacle after debacle since April, and 6 years of dilly dallying with other labels, I finally have presentable copies of the Blood Rhythms LP ASSEMBLY. This is co-released with RRRECORDS, who will have copies next week. 100 copies have inimitable hand made/ collaged cover art by Ron Lessard, with material entirely from medical books, and 100+ copies have hand made / collaged / assembled covers from all kinds of hardware store / found detritus of mine. Many copies have been pre ordered since there was such a delay, and the covers were done ahead of time. A couple people framed them as mantle pieces! Ron’s copies are $15 postage paid in USA, and mine are $23 ppd. Outside of USA should probably just contact RRR or refer to my most recent post on the matter of international shipping.

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Mensen Blaffen – ‘Verzameld Werk’ CD
Mensen Blaffen was a six piece band from Aalst in Belgium. They excelled in playing post- modernist funk & weird rock. When asked how they would describe their work the members said “hardcore-chanson, mixed with ugliness, sweetness and dirty worms in a rotten horse together.” The main characteristic of Mensen Blaffen is the fact that their music is hard to describe. They where often compared in music style to A Certain Ratio. After a few years of rehearsing the band participated in 1984 in Belgian’s Rock Rally. They reached the finals and shortly after they released their debut, the mini-lp “Mensen Blaffen”. Their music showed a certain playfulness and naivety, Dutch lyrics full of sound associations and exclamation marks, the cooing and unctuous voice of Sylvie Honnay and the funky sax and percussion, comparable to the style of Defunkt or Lavvi Ebbel. Some tracks were played several times by John Peel in his trendsetting radio show, showing a lot of appreciation for the band. The debut mini-lp was produced by Jo Bogaert (the man behind the international hit “Pump Up The Jam” by Technotronic.) In the same year they did a few supports (Virgin Prunes, Blurt, Anne Clark), changed their record company and went looking for a new producer. Fred A aka Gerry Vergult (of Aroma Di Amore) seemed to be the right man for the job. Early 1986 they released their second mini-lp “D’un Seul Coup”. Eye catchers were the swinging “Hippopotame” and the sultry track “Kleine Vamp”. It was a homogeneous whole in which the surrealistic lyrics in French and Dutch of Sylvie Honnay got enough space.The famous Dutch music magazine OOR gave the release an enthusiastic review. The follow-up was the maxi-single “Krengen” somewhat more rough and more danceable songs, subtle aiming at the charts. A lot of gigs in Belgium and Holland followed. They also played in Germany and France and did a radioshow in Lille (Fréquence Nord). But it was time for a change. After intensive rehearsals they released their full album “Raven” in 1988. A tremendous album full of energizing guitar songs with a dark edge in a production of Theo Van Eenbergen (Nasmak,Henry Rollins Band). Sadly enough their final statement didn’t receive the attention it deserved.  Now after more than 25 years it’s time to get their work out there again on this 80-minute compilation cd. Enjoy!Mensen Blaffen were: Jan Van den Brande (Bass/Guitar), Mario Segers (Bass/Synthe- sizer/Percussion), Sylvie Honnay (Vocals), Pascal Baeyens (Guitar, 1st album), Steven Lorie (Drums), Ludo Vervliet (Bass), Eddy Valk (Saxophone)

Aroma Di Amore – ‘Onverdeeld’ 2CD
Ignored by the masses, loved by the underground, never simple always unique. For many years now they’re considered to be thé cult group of Flanders. In 2009 they made their come-back and did several gigs in Belgium. They released an lp with unreleased and rare tracks (Ongehoord) and a CD with new songs (Samizdat). Both were released by Onderstroom. End 2015 Aroma Di Amore is planning a new release and tour. More info soon on this. Carried by a deep bass, typical cold new wave drums, biting guitar riffs and a shamanic voice they make about the most original music of their generation. Aroma di Amore makes subtle as well as raw songs with the occasional flavor of absolute madness. Through the years, bass-players, a saxophonist and lots of other musicians come and go. The core of the band consists of Fred Angst on guitar, Lo Meulen on bass & Elvis Peeters behind the mic. The double disc set “Onverdeeld” is an anthology of more than a quarter century of musical output. The two discs contain almost all of the tracks that ever appeared on LP, completed by a few live-tracks and 4 unreleased songs. The booklet of 16 pages immerses you in the smell of love. With pictures by Eric Didden, an extensive biography and the extraordinary lyrics by Elvis Peeters.

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Ariel Kalma – ‘An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 – 1979)’ 2LP/2CD
An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings: 1972 – 1979) compiles unreleased recordings from the archives of multiversal artist Ariel Kalma. Kalma’s boundary-blurring electronic music is heard here in radiant detail across a selection of work spanning his early free-jazz and spoken word trips to his infinite modular synthesizer and analogue rhythm machine meditations. Kalma’s story is one of world travel, musical discovery and ego-abandonment – an artist who often discarded public recognition in favor of the ascetic truths in music making. Both standard black vinyl and limited green pastel colored vinyl editions are available to pre-order now at the shop, but the digital album can be downloaded immediately.

Bing & Ruth – ‘Climber (Dreams of Quebec)’
Bing & Ruth share “Climber (Dreams of Quebec)”, their contribution to Stadium & Shrines’ series, Dreams. “Dreams is an exploration of places, or rather, ideas of places from a bygone era, through collaboration.” Inspired by Nathaniel Whitcomb’s handmade collage invoking a Canadian landscape where recreational sledding leads to glacial inevitability, Bing & Ruth’s live recording of “Climber” (an outtake from their recently issued Tomorrow Was The Golden Age) provides a slow dose of courage for serene ascension. Or in these sledders’ case, acceleration. Learn more about “Climber” and the collage at Stadiums & Shrines.

Guiddo w/ Georges Perin – ‘Gin ‘n’ Tears’ 12″
Globetrotting music producer Guiddo debuts on Beats In Space Records with the Gin ‘n’ Tears EP, three tracks of Balearic bliss featuring the soulful of psalm of Greek-French vocalist Georges Perin.

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SORRY (the artists usually known as “William S. Burroughs Hurts”) – ‘Silver Surf Motel Ocean Front Indoor Pool’ C60 5€
After five years of being heavily active under the name “William S. Burroughs Hurts”, touring all over Europe, releasing two full length albums and 2 EPs, and even publishing two books written by singer Janne Ratia and piano man Thomas Antonic, the band decided to take a break and kick off an anarchic side project. As SORRY they released their first album now as C-60 cassette only, with 8 bluesy / folky / experimental songs on the A-side from different recording sessions in Finland and Austria, partly mixed by legendary bassist and producer Kramer at his Noise Miami studio, and one very interesting experimental track on the b-side called “Poems from Whoreship Island”, a 30 minute long tour de force featuring the recitation of Bukowskiesque poetry accompanied by a wonderful undertow, created only by an acoustic guitar and an old pump organ.

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FYR018 ‘Blooming‘ CS $6
Featuring amazing hand drawn art from Valentino Tettamanti, this blue cassette with black ink holds 90+ minutes of fuzz-fucked bliss from 33 different bands. Grunge, shoegaze, post-hardcore, garage rock, and more!

FYR019 ‘Baldy Longhair & Fleeting Youth Records Present: Two Way Tie For Last‘ CS $5
A collabo compilation with Baldy Longhair Records! 38 Bands, 38 New Songs, 101 minutes of punk, garage, and fuzz rock madness.

FYR021 VLMA s/t CS $5
This striking Baltimore Oriole orange cassette with black ink holds VLMA’s first two EPs where early Mudhoney-esque grunge meets charged-up garage punk a la FIDLAR.

FYR022 Le Rug – ‘Swelling (My Own Worst Anime)’ CS $5
This crisp clear cassette with blue ink holds Le Rug’s latest and (supposedly) last intense and debased record full of death, cynicism, and heartbreak.

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