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ALEXANDRA SPENCE & MP HOPKINS – ‘The Divine For Me Is Whatever Is Real’ CS
Alexandra Spence and MP Hopkins are sound makers living and working on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. Using foil, flutes, tuning forks, tones, tapes, tiny bananas, stones, mouths + more, their work explores the spatial and sculptural elements of a practice in experimental sound. The result is a document that moves through states of amorphous sonic density, rattle and clunk, magnetic drift, and instrumental sounds both trill and tentative. The album’s title is borrowed from Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H.

T.D. – ‘Standing Water’ CS
T.D. is the personal sound project of Thomas DeAngelo, based in Philadelphia, USA. For his music compositions he uses cassette recordings as the main source of sound. His approach is non academic, creating rough collages with distorted field recordings, various improvisations with founded objects and ready-made sounds. “Standing Water” is including two long compositions, with recordings from 2016-2019. B-side feat Allen Mozek, Jim Strong, Stewart Skinner.

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FUSILLER – ‘HOLOGRAPHIES’ 5€
cascading synthesizers for virtual getaways. emotional overlays & accidental shoegaze. or how to spice up your vacation departures.

LES CONFERENCES BUNKER – ‘MASAMUNE’ 5€
rhythmic rituals & aborted starts. face to face sillicium drums. special guest mc nunu for a ragga-dancefloor shot.

BRYAN DAY & SEYMOUR GLASS – ‘CROOKED DOPPLER’ 5€
figurative abstraction & sonic surgery. found worlds vs forced structures. speculative drifts on magnetic tape.

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THE SELVA + MACHINEFABRIEK – ‘Barbatrama’
The post-production electronic processings of Machinefabriek enabled the musicians to go to unpredictable consequences: a puzzling sort of cybernetic tribal music, primeval dance rhythms associated with the space imaginaries introduced by Sun Ra but also Tangerine Dream.

OKER – ‘Susurrus’
There are inspirations here from folk, minimal composed music, improvised music and maybe even post rock, all formed in a way that sounds like nothing but Oker. “Sussurus” gives us a kind of concrète, acousmatic music where tapes or electronic devices are replaced by acoustic instruments. And it sounds beautifully.

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STRATA25 – Rhucle – ‘Simple Air’
An album that lives and breathes in a way that doesn’t so much as mimic nature as join along with it in playing its song. Edition of 75 on cassette with slipcase a full-color art.

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VHS¥DEATH – ‘La Llorona (Love & All The Hate) – expanded edition’
VHS¥DEATH is the solo project of Natalie Wardle (also of industrial/art-punk band Returning Videotapes) ‘La Llorona (Love & All The Hate)’ is her acclaimed debut album, released on cassette and CD by Industrial Coast and Cacophonous Revival in 2019-2020. This expanded edition couples the debut album with the original Returning Videotapes demos, live tracks and other rarities. Bringing them together for the first time as a 16-track double album, on a double-cassette with new and original artwork by James Watts. Dark, eerie, haunting industrial sounds provide the canvas for Natalie’s open and at times brutally honest lyrics; passionate and devotional. FFO Psychic TV, Cold Cave, Drab Majesty, early 80s synth-stark post-punk.

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Meadow Argus – ‘Meadow Argus II’
After a five year absence, Ohio-based Meadow Argus returns with “Meadow Argus II”. Warm and woozy sounds unspool across a half hour of experimental musique concrete. Heavy on muddy tape loops that slowly shift as odd sounds flutter in and out. Slow, warm tones and rich textures from a dying polyphonic air/reed organ and other alien unexplainable sounds floating around from field recordings, keyboards, a coconut thumb piano, and other weird things. Best listened to with headphones on and eyes closed to fully zone out and float away. Recorded Nov 2020 – Jan 2021 at Lilleypad Studios in Columbus, Ohio. Pro-dubbed cassette tape on clear shells with imprinting, with double-sided full color artwork by Pearl Morgan. Edition of 100. Meadow Argus is the solo project of Tynan Krakoff (Columbus, OH). His debut tape was released on DNT Records (2015) and is out of print.

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Patrick R. Pärk/Polypores split CS
Split tape featuring an hour of electronic New Age bliss-outs from Patrick R. Pärk (Fort Collins, CO, USA) and Polypores (Preston, UK). Digital album includes a bonus track and video. Album released May 7, 2021. Limited edition of 50 clear cassettes with goldsheet released by Ethereal Mother Tapes. Sold out.

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David Colohan – ‘Darlington Point’
In the early 2000s, David Colohan was living in a tent on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, Australia, working on farms. Inspired, this release sees the United Bible Studies band member, reflect on that time through a series of beautiful, pastoral pieces that’ll transport you to a simple life in a distant land, filled with nature and wonder.

Iker Ormazabal Martinez – ‘The Oscillation parts III & IV’
This is the continuation to The Oscillation (parts I & II), published last December, also via Cruel Nature Records. This solo work is heavily inspired by acousmatic composers, and acousmatic listening, the music and writings of Pierre Schaeffer, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Francisco Lopez, taking inspiration from what is known as ‘deep listening’, listening with intent or acousmatic listening.

Stella Research Committee – ‘A Proposed Method For Sanding Fitness’
Fostered in Cincinnati’s feral noise scene, Stella Research Committee – along with bands like Hissing Tiles, Fruit LoOops and Daumier – have internalized the excesses of noise-rock and no-wave forefathers and have given birth to a sound that is universal in its barely contained primal yelp, but somehow quintessentially Midwestern in its austerity and directness.

Saturnin Sektor – ‘Night Encounters’
Hailing from Genova, Italy, taking itsinspiration from 70s / 80s movie soundtracks, ‘Night Encounters’ is a synth-heavy imaginary soundtrack for an imaginary film. FFO Late night TV shows, VHS, B-Movies, cheap F/X, 80s teenage dreams, John Carpenter.

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Chris Donaldson/ Matthew Polzin – ‘RRA- Volume 1’ C30
RRA is a limited series cassette tape which pairs writers with sound artists. Volume 1 features a reading by Matthew Polzin and sound from Chris Donaldson. Edition of 50.

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SHH063CD | SHH063LP Oker – ‘Susurrus’
There are inspirations here from folk, minimal composed music, improvised music and maybe even post rock, all formed in a way that sounds like nothing but Oker. “Sussurus” gives us a kind of concrète, acousmatic music where tapes or electronic devices are replaced by acoustic instruments. And it sounds beautiful. LISTEN

SHH064CD THE SELVA + Machinefabriek – ‘Barbatrama’
The Selva is a solid band that has created their own original sound. In “Barbatrama”, the band extends their approach to experimental electroacoustics. The post-production electronic processings of Machinefabriek enabled the musicians to go to unpredictable consequences: a puzzling sort of cybernetic tribal music, primeval dance rhythms associated with the space imaginaries introduced by Sun Ra but also Tangerine Dream. LISTEN