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Dyskinesia – ‘Dalla Nascita’ C50 £5
First released as a digital download in 2011, this immense Italian doom post-metal work is now available as an ultra-limited edition tape. Captivating, hypnotic and atmospheric, every track sounds huge; ambient and experimental in parts but also unleashing crushing stoner doom grooves. Essential listening for fans of Sunn 0))), Neurosis and Isis. Recorded on a high quality black cassette with pro-printed gatefold inner sleeve. Limited to only 25 copies. 

Summer Night Air – ‘4’ C45 £5
Ambient duo, Summer Night Air, conjure the kind of balmy evenings in August that make you feel like you wish life would stop at that very moment so you could go living in it forever. This album (containing, hey, five tracks and not four as the title might indicate) feature ever so subtle washes of electronica lapping at your soul and gossamer light drones unfurling with the grace of barely moving clouds. Never has chill-out had such warmth. (The Crack magazine). Recorded on high quality blue cassette with pro-printed full colour gatefold inner sleeve. Limited to only 30 copies.

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DK044 Humans Fuck Off – ‘Untitled’ C30
Second installement for “no-power guitar duo” by Asley Facchin and Mic/nodolby Scariot. The experimented formula remains the same: torrential guitars noise and demolished distortions.

DK045 RxFxSx – ‘Live at Club Le Larraskito’ C30
rXfXsX from Spain play circuit bent electronics and tape loops , his liveset recorded at Club Le Larraskito in Bilbao shifts from brutal explosions to buzzing interruptions, his work explores the instability and the decay of unprocessed sound sources, there are no tricks who hide the Truth of working with that kind of electronics, where every moment can be good for a failure.

DK046 Corpse Candle – ‘The Head and its Content’ C30
Corpse Candle provides a two 15-minute drone pieces of ferocious feedbacks, savage synth pulsing and caterwauling tapes. What initially seems a static monolith of abstract noise hides an ever-expanding sonic palette of abrasive textures who creates a continous collapsing.

DK047 Yes!Regret – ‘Y!R’ C30
Yes!Regret combine shoegaze guitar with blasting electronics and pulsing rhythms. Elements of improvisational psychedelic stockpile layer upon layer through an hypnotic repetition. Recorded live in with no overdub!

DK048 Hering Und Seine Sieben Sachen – ‘Mangelerscheinungen’ C30
“Mangelerscheinungen” is the new effort of Hering Und Seine Sieben Sachen aka Daniel Voigt from Germany, his musique concrète made with magnetic tape, locked groove and delay fx abuse is constantly on the verge of collapsing (or exploding?). Deformed loops in perfect balance between drones and lopsided orchestral reiterations glide slowly like a thick fluid that overwhelms and encompasses the listener in a dreamlike atmosphere suspended between consciousness and unconsciousness.

DK049 Takahiro Mukai – ‘In Tantum Sonus’ C30
“In tantum Sonus” is the new cassette of Takahiro Mukai from Japan, he provides six tracks of obsessive and minimal rhythms corroded by waves of acid synths and wonky grooves that oscillate constantly between hypnotic induction and anxiety-tension. Flows of sonic mutability are hidden beneath an apparent stillness.

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DANIEL SPICER & JEFFREY HAYDEN SHURDUT £4
DANIEL SPICER is Freelance Jazz Baron. JEFFREY HAYDEN SHURDUT is a Free Jazz Lance Baron. WINDOW, CAN, STRING & SEA is a collaboration over 40 minutes and 6000 miles. Each side finds Daniel calmly torturing zither-esques, bamboo saxophone, violin and kalimba while Jeffrey explores the unexplorable with 6 strings, a pickup and a head full of memory foam (not the pillows). Angular and challenging / encouraging and disparaging, this is a tape for anyone interested in radiator maintenance in Warwick / aural and mental expansion for the cost of a medium latte. Have lungs, will travel – can happen. Edition of 50 tapes, “effigy” artwork and “effigy” on-tape stickers. “Effigy”.

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[CFE #40] Before Returning C30
The ritual of the every day routine. A sister tape to If Only They. Similar to the older Sootskin Pearls tapes. Cut-ups, tape movements, boredom and forgotten moments. Edition of 33 in chipboard boxes with pasted on art. Various inserts (one painted/handwritten, one an excerpt from a D.A. Levy poem) and a small pinecone.

[CFE #47] Dylan Golden Aycock – ‘Guitar Meanderings I’ C15
Brief moments of beauty from Dylan Golden Aycock (aka Talk West, head of Scissor Tail Editions) pulled from various guitars. At times spacious, loose and bluesy, at others tight and hypnotic. The clean and the dirty, the full and the fragile. A testament to the possibilities of the instrument. Edition of 50 in chipboard boxes with pasted on art. Various inserts (one stained/handwritten) and a piece of fabric.

[CFE#48] If Only They C30
A sister tape to Before Returning. Tape collage, monotonous wobble and scratch. Hallucinatory movements. Older recordings, heavier sounds. More static, less space. Edition of 33 in chipboard boxes with pasted on art. Various inserts (one painted/handwritten, one a poem by Max Finstein) and a piece of Ohio shale.

[CFE#49] Nagual & Carl Mitchell – ‘Improvisations I & II’ C40
Nagual is the duo of David Shapiro & Ian McColm, here joined by Oberlin saxophonist Carl Mitchell. Over these two side-long improvisations the trio move throughout ghostly moments of tension and ascension. At times recalling the Cherry/Riley radio session. Confident, pulsing meditations with never a misstep. A work of incredible power. Edition of 50 in chipboard boxes with pasted on art. Various inserts (one painted/handwritten, one a photograph by Kaitlyn Phillips) and a dried wildflower.

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Ala Vjiior – ‘Detours & Details’
driving through the fractured echoes of 2am soundtracks … dim lights piercing the night, reflected in the rearview … an afterglow left behind in the slow hours of morning…

Charles Barabé – ‘Adieu Fantôme’
defiled symphonies of plundered sound and electronics… tracks of unmoored melody andacousmatic delirium… 

Brian Beaudry & Gianluca Favaron
Brian Beaudry (vehscle) and Gianluca Favaron (ab’she, zbeen, under the snow) exchange field recordings and electronics to create a dialogue of texture and sonority, incident and improvisation.

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Walt Thisney – ‘Mpire of Desire’
4 track EP of electronic sounds by Walt Thisney. An unknown author living somewhere in Lisbon, mastering the art of media and pop culture subversion in the twenty first century. Here with a concept album released under our Anonymous Archives sublabel, probably hinting at the social issues behind the financial empire and the state of mass consumption. Who knows really? It all sounds a little funky! [PT] EP de 4 temas de electrónica do projecto. Walt Thisney, um autor desconhecido, provavelmente habitando em Lisboa, que anda por ai a treinar a arte de subversão da cultura pop para gerar critica social. Esta pertence à nossa sub-label Anonymous Archives, e provavelmente é uma reflexão existencial sobre os problemas inerentes ao capitalismo exacerbado, estado de consumo e império financeiro que governam a sociedade social. Ou algo nessas linhas.

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Milwaukee’s Experimental Milwaukee’s experimental Peter J. Woods has made a president’s address (or at least part of one). The three song ‘Impure Gold pt. I’ shares a Harsher-Noise-label-head’s reasoned, well-paced authorship with Pita, Bob Bellerue and Ricardo Donoso. I’d characterize it as “wry,” which is like wrinkly (e.g., tobacco leaf) and temperamental (like a boss), but mostly quiet and easy to be around. “Empty Vessels” begins with a dicta-vlob of dehumanized monologue. The blabber is ripped at the bias by chains of tonal shriek, a raising cry that starts a plateau, and furnace blasts of rolling fury. The track truly succeeds for its precision applications of volume, but also the knowing when not to. Though not to say he can’t. The title track puts up where the other was shut up, screaming trading punches for a pummeling, dissected severely by bright white bands of silence. At last, “Notes from within the Epicenter” consumes the back half with a 9/11 Memorial of a Mistake of burning hubris, the tone so sharp it casts deep echoes in the room. Additional beams enter, some high some low, imprisoning an effected and uncomfortably close narrator casting Power Violence aspersions directly in our ear. Beams glimmer, then the noise breaches in steady bursts – less like god and more like a drum-roll’s applause for this Wagnerian opera. Recommended.

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$15
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Pattern B – ‘Spring Glory EP’ CS $4
Tinnitus Records is proud to present the first release from Ukranian post-rock group Pattern B (featuring the artist responsible for ambient/noise project Dao De Noize). This three track EP runs approximately 15 minutes in length and features three radically distinct interpretations of their mesmerizing song “Spring Glory.” The group’s first song, “Cycle,” is available to stream on our Soundcloud page.

/dev/random – ‘LP3’ CS $5
The third full-length album from electronic/ambient/drone artist /dev/random shows the artist moving away from his original vaporwave/plunderphonic inspirations to focus more on composed soundscapes. The artist told us that his goal was to create a record that “sounds like a VCR and a Roland Juno-60 had a child who was an acid addict,” and we think he succeeded admirably. A 30 minute preview mix by the artist is available to stream on our Soundcloudo page.

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NNA070: PHORK – ‘High End’ LP
“High End” is the latest musical installment from the People’s Higher Order of Royal Kinship, as facilitated by Los Angeles producer Neal Reinalda. With recent releases on Opal Tapes and Orange Milk, as well as two previous NNA full-length cassettes under his belt, we are pleased to offer PHORK’s debut vinyl record to the masses. On “High End”, Reinalda digs deeper still into the established PHORK sound world, procuring a modern conceptual take on the idea of “ambient music” as constructed with pieces of the dance music and musique concrete sonic palettes. The process unfolds in an almost visual manner where short blocks of sound are sculpted into assorted shapes and sizes, then stacked and arranged meticulously to create a skyline of rigid musical architecture. Whether they are electronically generated or captured in the field, the sounds are given the same treatment of deconstruction and reassembly to create new lenses of context. Scenic and situational field recordings are used to explicitly depict the world of the modern human, tapping into the nostalgic and almost mundane facets of daily life, extracting them from their associations, and allowing the listener find new meaning by examining them in a musical setting. Dripping water, a Fourth of July fireworks celebration, the motherly sound of a female voice, the shrill buzz of modern machinery… although these sounds are firmly grounded and not at all otherworldly, they are often coupled and blended in a subversive manner. In the stylistic tradition of the People’s Higher Order, these organic sounds are interlaced with a latticework of dry electronica, using traditional techno materials to establish a rhythmic and melodic foundation with an emphasis on inhuman flatness and non-dynamics. Layers are built up and repeated, interacting with other layers as the resulting compounds are patiently added and subtracted, driving onward in a perpetual cycle of blooming and wilting. The resulting creation of a surreal narrative is something rare and unique in such a functional genre as dance music. Always the trickster, PHORK has tendency to embrace juxtaposition and luxuriate in the discomfort of hearing sounds play themselves out. “High End” succeeds in utilizing music to take on an anthropological voice, meditating on the routine and mediocrity of modern American society in an age of nihilism and discontent. The Royal Kinship often prides itself on generating more questions than answers. “You are high-end. The most expensive of all products.” –N.R. Mastered and cut by Lupo at Calyx Mastering in Berlin, Germany. Limited edition pressing of 350 copies. Comes with free MP3 download coupon.

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