USA, Noise, Harsh, Experimental, Power Electronics, Power Violence; (Darker Days Ahead Label) Limited Edition (25 copies) Cassette - New sealed
Here’s a split tape with a side project of Andrew Quitter from Regosphere and Cory Shumacher. Schumacher is up first with heavy noise walls. The distortion is piled on thick as molasses here with a ton of delay in the mix. Not the spastic cut-up style delay but the heavy booming delay which envelopes the whole mix. Fade sticks out a little with some really interesting sound elements like being battered by an electric wind storm. An unrelenting wall of harsh noise spews forth. A swirling miasma of aggressive frequencies, uncontrolled screams, junk noise and plenty of distortion to bring it all to the next level. A heavy slab of uncompromising noise, almost bordering on wall noise yet more detailed and large shifts in sound over time. A very enjoyable split from start to finish with two artists who compliment each other well. They were able to get on the same page for this and the result is quite effective. Recommended dosage of 1 listen every other night for three weeks straight and that whole “being able to hear things” issue will be cleared up for any listener.
USA Experimental, Electronic, Noise, Improv, Musique Concrete; Limited Edition (50 copies) '905 Tapes' Cassette (2010) - New
Here’s a great split with two very well paired artists. Hunted Creatures appears here as a 4 piece and Blown Doors a duo. Both projects play a kind of experimental/musique concrete style of composition that has an improvisational feel to it, but also with elements that are well though-out and expanded on. Blown Doors presents Unseen Glaze a highly layered and detailed track that features a heavy dose of bass, with shuffling textures that converge and elements that sync up rhythmically only to break down again and fall apart. The track makes use of a range of dynamics ranging from sparse and repetitive to bold and noisy but always slowly morphing and keeping a layer of bass – guitar maybe? – at it’s core. Hunted Creatures has a lighter touch here with an untitled track. Being a four piece it is quite varied with acoustic instruments – piano, violin perhaps – being used to create these experimental layers. The track has more common with side A then it contrasts, mainly in regards to structure, accents, and gestures rather than the actual textured sounds. It takes the listener on a similar journey though complimenting Blown Door’s sound well and expanding on the split. Great production, neat design and a well though-out and put together release. 905 Tapes shows consistent quality and is not to be ignored – doing tape releases right. A great split for fans of the more academic style experimental noise and free improv. Great work.
Noise, Harsh, Power Electronics, Experimental, Industrial, Power Violence; Limited Edition Cassette - New Sealed
Rare USA Handmade power electronics/noise cassette release from 2019 on 'Profuse Bleeding' label. Limited to 15 copies.
Masonna, Japanoise, Noise, Vinyl LP + CD + 2xCassettes in Etched wooden box, Limited Edition (Sold Out) 2019Wooden black box comes with LP, CD digipack and two cassettes plus postcard, insert, business card and sheet with notes in Japanese by Tamotsu Mochida, in 199 copies. Controlled Death is a new project by the Japanese noise legend Maso Yamazaki a.k.a. Masonna. In April 2018 he decided to make a shudder debut with 1st album "Symphony For The Black Murder" . In this LP, Maso Yamazaki tried to commit to the dark side of psychedelia deepest in his own projects history and surprised the fans, but as soon as it gets excited, it is the 2nd work the wooden black box "Journey Through A Dead Body" & "Deathwish Tapes 1-3".Cracked minimal electronic sound by Korg MS-20, unclear and disturbing voice, corroded drone effect, with the influence of primitive black metal and dark ritual in "Journey Through A Dead Body" LP which developed a moisturized doom world while wearing a raw material texture. Anxiety, alienation and hypochondria turn into a deep paranoia in pain. Without hesitation, the bodies are emptied, leaving the field to an electronics purulence of rare power disconcerting: a perfect journey through a dead body.And the sound contained in the CD and two cassettes called "Deathwish Tapes 1-3" are direct feeling which developed the idea at the time to making "Journey Through A Dead Body". In order to record it, it is said to be connected to a microphone at the input of the Korg MS - 20 and recorded on a cassette tape with a single recording. It is nothing to call it mindfuck, its freshness is only fear.The activities of Controlled Death are like archaic revival to the music experience before Masonna. We can also find the pathology image of the early industrial period and the shadows of Vienna activism such as Hermann Nitsch. The existence and art that pierces through conspicuous consciousness and dives to areas of unconsciousness due to death and pleasure. While taking death as the strongest drug, the season of second summer of death industrial is coming. About 2 hours and 30 minutes of astonishing storm of echoes that bangs it into your head! The wooden black box comes with LP, CD digipack and two cassettes plus postcard, insert, business card and sheet with notes in Japanese by Tamotsu Mochida
DAN MELCHIOR Black Night/New Morning (tape) & Biro Crimes (Zine); Limited Edition
Experimental/Abstract/Melchior/Garage/New York, Cassette and Zine, New (2015)
2015 Limited Edition, Tape & Zine. The tape comes along with a riso-printed art-book containing some of Mr. Melchior' s fine drawings. limited edition of 80 copies.
COLIN McKELVEY The Golden Ass (USA) 2018; Cassette
Electronic/Experimental/Noise/Musique Concrete
C78 Cassette, Released in an edition of 100 copies: Clear snap case, doubled-sided jcard, white cassette with golden on-body print on both sides.
THE GO-BETWEENS Before Hollywood (Rough Trade) 1983; Cassette
Australian/Indie Rock/Brisbane/80's Cassette, Used
Before Hollywood was the second album by Australian rock band The Go-Betweens, released in May 1983.
ANDREW SHERWELL Approaching (2019) UK; Cassette
Electronic/Dark Ambient/Abstract/Experimental UK, Cassette
Pro-dubbed cassette with a solid white shell and full-colour artwork. Limited to 40 copies. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu.
"I would always wake with the taste of blood in my mouth and a pounding headache. I would be dehydrated and disorientated. Simultaneously elated and deflated. Every time. It would always start the same way too. My vision would judder as the world turned silver and white. Dizzy and staggering, my ears ringing, I felt I was being pulled through a wall. I could hear them calling, terrifying voices urging me on. When I learnt to let go, to accept, it got easier. And then everything would stop. What happened next is confused. It was at the time, even more so now. Trying to explain is like trying to recall a dream, vivid in the instance, but the moment you awake, confused and fleeting. It is difficult to believe it actually happened. But it did. So I will try. Clouds of smoke and incense cloaked them as they circled, swirling in their wake, their forms obscured. The voices were now a whisper, words in no language I recognised. But at the time, I felt their message. One minute urging and insistent, other times mocking and accusatory. Occasionally, they would pay me no attention. I would hear them scream at one another and only rarely glimpse them among the billowing clouds. I would feel alone and lost. The final time was different. I could hear many voices, far more than usual. They appeared to be singing. Slowly the voices rose to a crescendo and then fell away as a single voice took over. Clearer than normal yet still obscure, it filled me with a tranquillity and joy the like of which I had not known and which I still crave now. And then, for the first and final time, the being appeared. And I wept. I was still weeping when I awoke, shaking and bloody-mouthed. Grandfather was sitting in a chair that he had pulled up to the sofa where I was lying under a sweat-soaked blanket. He stared intently then lent back and smiled. “They have gone,” he said. “They won’t be back. Cherish the honour, boy.” He was right. And I do."
Words by Andrew Sherwell
