i couldn't be happier about mind over mirrors return to digitalis with this brief glimpse of what is coming next. "small portion" picks up where "the voice rolling" left off, but finds jaime fennelly harvesting new ground with new ideas. "barely spun (again)" is the perfect segue into this step forward into the bluest of skies. using positive pipe organ, electronics, and tape to weave each...

the air is thick with singing birds. first installment. the beginning of the story. c32 (75 copies)

beautiful, ominous grit from members of NNCK, flower orgy, etc. c44 (75 copies)

russian excursions mixing field recordings and orchestral reverie. c34 (75 copies)

tonal fluid dynamics sequenced into soaring prismatic heights. c26 (75 copies)

Aria Statica is corroded channels, dull firefly blankets of energy, the birthing of subterranean mountains…this is the beat and pulse of the guts of the earth. Through the din of a thousand different machinations we hear brief snatches of calm as the pins align and then slide slowly back, drifting into cacophony. We walk through the swarm, the ebb and flow makes the shape of our bodies as we...

The Machine is ragged and greasy as it plunges through a hellish night thick with angst and sin. The Cadillac roars towards the dawn, gritty and loose, pushing the moist, dense air aside like a dirty curtain yet the sun never rises and we keep circling, circling, somewhere, in wide long ellipses through the night - the speakers shudder as the bass throbs and oily synths stab and all we can hear...

New 100 minute tape by fugly superspeed mutilated tekno collective UNTRANCE - "Deleted Seniors". Unintelligent Dance Music by Pat (Yo-Yo Dieting, Indignant Senility).

Biographical clues to old Germany. Four Compostions void of contemporary audio programming software, built around a complex self-written digital synthesis language, layered with outboard effects and hints of spoken word. Psychological Surrealism, recalling the more esoteric industrial of the past. Marking what could possibly be the most evasive release in the dystopian inspired HSDOM catalog....

joe bastardo returns with bastian void's sophomore missive thrown into the swirling abyss. mirrored shards reach out and pluck chord changes from a diamond's eye. these electric daydreams move along on muted rhythms. soak it all in as you take a journey into the unsettling sonic environments of melting landscapes. this is as much in the sky as it is buried underground. a festive spectrum. edition...

surprise surprise... montreal wins again. i don't know what the fuck is cooking up there but i am becoming a full-on glutton. the cryptic e.s./i.s. is the trio of jean-sebastien truchy, riccardo lucchesi, & john chang (familiar to all who frequent the excellent los discos enfantasmes label). "i see you sister...." ticks all the boxes. it is the sound of being trapped in a cybernetic torture...

josephine was originally called party of doom. maybe that's not supposed to be out there, but there it is. jefre cantu-ledesma & milton cross join forces and dial things up to cathartic. "you are perfect today" is as warm as warm can be without edging into hot. droning harmonium and guitar scrawl melt into the smoothest silk. this is sunkissed music, ecstatic as it echoes into the morning. within...

ben baker billington has been having an excellent run this year with his solo wares as quicksails. with releases on stalwarts like deception island, NNA, 905, etc, there's no room for error. where a lot of people are happy to let their synthesizers do the talking, billington muffles their voices and increases the impact with layers of chaotic percussion. the combination gets us wondering which...

born in the bright lights and smog of los angeles, tiger stripe is the work of ashish sharma. "imaginary number" offers up an entire night that stretches into the far reaches of the morning. club shocks hit first with purposeful movement and downplayed charm. sharma stretches his voice into killer hooks and blasts synth swells over slow, pounding beats. on the backside comes the come down. syrupy...

On this cassette are two days of ambient sound recordings, each originally about twenty-four hours long and sped up to play back at about 128 times the original speed. The recordings were made in my studio, which is located in West Baltimore City. I was interested in hearing what was too low and slow for me to normally hear, or to imagine how I would hear things if I were an insect. Since sound...

Following the recent release on Aguirre Records, "Illusion Circles", comes "Infinite Mind". This new release from U.K. based musician and visual artist James R. Moore, features two long-form tracks of blissed out driving new age excursions fueled by synthesizers. More focused meditative and mind relaxation tones sure to open those realms infinitely inside your mind. Moore is also behind Black...

“2 spacious and spacey side-long pieces composed on the rare arp 2500 synthesizer at the university of virginia - charlottesville”

"untitled, (magnetisms)" is the first collaborative project between Pierre Gerard (Belgium) and Andy Graydon (Germany/USA). Invited by winds measure to produce a work for cassette tape, the two artists focused on the the particular materiality of this sound technology, once so common and now so rare. Tape's manipulation of a magnetic field evoked other sorts of sensitive magnetic systems, from...

second in a series of compilations for winds measure. these collections focus on the work of past, present, and future collaborators with the label working specifically with short durations. jason kahn, civyiu kkliu, richard garet, scott smallwood, alfredo costa monteiro, daniel blinkhorn, stefan thut, ben owen, toy.bizarre, gen ken montgomery, robert curgenven, manfred werder / incidental music,...

Quilt’s side is a delicate combination of guitar, sounds layered with subtle harmonies congealing into small pockets of bliss and glitch. Developer’s side is common to Matt’s style (Foot Binder, Yes Collapse, Teeth Collection, etc.) — sounds of unknown origin put into a controlled context, dynamic sounds and noise, never a dull moment.

The dream logic Berber Ox weaves throughout ‘The Great Parenthesis’ presents an immersive environment with no orientation to time. It bends linear constructs with duality-erasing fields of lifelike detail and backward flowing sound motions. A beautiful specimen unlike many registered in the books, its astral quality simply eludes classification. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted...

Flotel takes us on a beautiful droned electronic journey entitled Valence

Parashi returns with his signature branded on forty fresh minutes of amplified turbulence and gnarled electronics. While his “Troika” (Stunned no. 115) ushered in longform pieces of crackling scuzz, the opening side of this split with Granitkorridor reveals Parashi isn’t treading the same ground for long. Listeners behold six distinct scenes that evoke images of malevolent applications of...

Sitting down with a Queen Victoria album proves to be a profound time spent by the stereo, as those who tuned into last year’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” tape can testify. QV’s enigmatic lyricism, graceful guitar composition, and wizened vocals sure can sneak up and take hold of those happily entranced by bandleader Nick Malkin’s mellow delivery. Ageless ways of rock, blues, and folk...

Here are 4 shows from our January 2011 tour. We tried to play the same show each night, and we failed in some wonderful ways. As such, a collection of these shows, even more than any of them on their own, seemed like a better listening experience. We have selected the 4 best shows from that 2 weeks.