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Simon Magus – ‘I Traded Virginity for Vice’ C32 $5
Newest release from Simon Magus.  Dense waves of distortion drenched feedback, pulsating synths, and chattering buzzing textural electronics fill the tape.  These two recordings were performed live in Lansing, Michigan.  The sounds swirl and buzz in crescendos always on the edge of control with the constant threat of spilling over. OR002 Edition of 12 + download

Poppenheimer – ‘Karmageddon’ C32 $5
Fresh sounds from Poppenheimer.  Improvised, down tempo, solo guitar and analog synth rhythmic explorations that drift between empty minimalism and heavy walls of sound.  The two tracks were improvised live in Lansing, Michigan.  This tape is more tonal than most “noise music”, but still firmly in the world of freely improvised out-there compositions. OR003 Edition of 12 + download.

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[ppt28] Promieniowanie – ‘Luty’
Luty (EN: February) are two twenty-minute improvisation pieces based on modular synthesizer and sounds of guitar, percussion instruments & objects. Bartek Kalinka and Wojciech Kwapisiński offer us music full of subtle detuning and ephemeral auditory events, oscillating slowly between fading away and exertion. Album is available in digital files for free download and in a limited edition of 40 cassettes.

Derek Rogers/Sindre Bjerga split
Derek Rogers and Sindre Bjerga are two of the more ubiquitous and exceptional presences in the realm of modern drone composition, with both forging their own prolifically distinctive identifies among the dignitaries of the experimental underground. This split release finds both musicians operating at their strongest, with each crafting their own long-form statement that aptly provides perhaps a definitive entry-point for those who’ve yet to delve into both Rogers’ and Bjerga’s dense and diverse catalogs. Rogers’ side welds his gorgeous and hypnotic guitar work over a platform of excitingly unwieldy digital glitches, resulting in a distinctly gorgeous composition that recalls Christian Fennesz at his most contemplative. Bjerga’s piece documents a live performance from a few years ago in the Ukraine, with dynamic and pulsating electronic drones working a concurrent mood of serenity while also exploring a more abstract intensity that builds throughout underneath. A crucial testimony from this pair of absorbing performers. Edition of 100.

AG Davis – ‘Audio Works’
AG Davis has been pursuing his own distinctive and powerfully unpredictable patchwork of avant-garde madness throughout the past decade, from the epileptic grind edits of Boy + Girl through the plunderphonic-punk pastiche of Extra Sexes, and perhaps most infamously the vocal-chord exorcisms he unleashed alongside saxophonist Jamison Williams for a pair of singles. Audio Works devotes focus to yet another set of Davis’ impulsive methods, this time compiling two works released in incredibly limited editions via neo-Dada genius Kommissar Hjuler’s Der Schöne-Hjuler-Memorial-Fund imprint. Hjuler and partner Mama Baer provide source material for the first side, with Davis reigning in their ambiguous declarations with rapid edits and a plethora of cryptic sonics. The flip finds Davis continuing this confrontational force of perverse musique concrete, thus aptly book-ending this confident declaration that calls to mind the pioneering abstractions of pioneers like Pierre Henry as much as it does the absurdist nihilism of Schimpfluch-Gruppe. Davis has declared this to be possibly his final recorded work; for sure, it is one of his very best. Edition of 100.

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Bart De Paepe – ‘Rhode’ C40
Big fuzzwah jams by Sylvester Anfang II and Innercity member. Endless guitarsolo’s, primitive drums and space harmonium. Keep on keeping on. Edition of 70 copies.

Piero Heliczer – ‘you coul(d) hear the snow dripping and falling into the deers mouth’ C30
Underground filmmaker, publisher and poet Piero Heliczer (1937-1993) was one of the seminal figures in the New York magical scene of the sixties which also included Angus Maclise, Ira Cohen, Jack Smith, The Velvet Underground etc. His poetry is rich with images of visionary inner landscape journeys with traces of medievalism, surrealism, British 17th century metaphysical poets, the beats etc. Most of his books were self-published on his own the dead language press which he founded in the late fifties. This is the only reading of Piero Heliczer we managed to track down. Edition of 100 copies.

Rambling Boys – ‘True To Blue’ C50
Psychedelic blues jams by Finnish legend Keijo & co. Lost Mississippi vibes from the mysterious Finish woods. Guess there’s still some dwarfs high on reindeer piss hiding somewhere in here. Edition of 80 copies.

Village Of Spaces – ‘Gathering’ C40
From the deep woods of Maine comes this zoned acid folk combo spinning around the core duo of Daniel Beckman and Amy Moon and featuring members of Big Blood, Ancestral Died, Caethua among others. Stoned rural vibes extracted to their essence, es

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PANABRITE – ‘PAVILION’ LP
Panabrite is Seattle musician Norm Chambers. His music evokes the prime work of ambient music’s pioneers, the top tier of kosmische-musik makers, and the more mystical end of the new-age spectrum. He weaves elements from these styles into his own distinctive tapestries, balancing melodic playfulness with compositional rigor. Pavilion is Panabrite’s first album for Immune and was meticulously mastered and cut to vinyl by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx in Berlin for superior fidelity. First 150 copies pressed on clear vinyl, remaining copies on black. Free download card included.

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Waheela – ‘HX Pop’ C60 £5
Waheela’s first cassette release marks a bit of a departure from previous albums in that there are four tracks for a start, rather than just a lengthy one. Still paying homage to their trademark non-denominational riff worship, Side H presents 3 new studio tracks that segue from a full-on psych improv noise rock work out into more contemplative moments before kicking you in with more raging clatter and thrash. Side X is a recording of Waheela’s performance at last year’s Octernal festival and shows that they can whip up a storm live as well as in the studio. An immense prog battle against waves of reverberation, held in a deconsecrated church. Imagine some steroid tyrant striding down a corridor carved out of lapis lazuli or something. Check out the review from Raised By Gypsies zine.  LIMITED TO 50 COPIES.

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Dyman – ‘Curse of Angels’
[EN] New album by Portuguese project Dyman. This time in a more death rock and nu-metal vein. Artwork by Rafaela Silva. [PT] Novo album do projecto Português Dyman, desta vez com um registo mais dark e pesado com influências do death rock e nu-metal. Grafismo de Rafaela Silva.

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