 best available technology - excavated tapes 1992-1999 vol. 1 (cassette)After appearances on Opal Tapes and Further Records as of late, Portland-based Kevin Palmer has dipped into his archives for third release as Best Available Technology. The vague trip-hop references...
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 hati & z'ev - collusion (cd)Percussion has a potent, almost animalistic quality to it, but that's not always something experimental music brethren recognize and explore. "Collusion" changes that as the Los Angeles-based and...
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 jay-dea lopez - the great silence (cd)When Australia was colonised in 1788 its soundscape was so unfamiliar to the foreign British ear that it was deemed inferior and unworthy. This attitude reflected the alienation and displacement felt...
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 lee noble - darker half (12inch vinyl lp)An album composed of four long ritualistic drone lullabies, "Darker Half" sounds like the music in the mind of a feverish 13 year-old kid who fell asleep with the TV on, transmitting horror movies...
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 long distance poison - gliese translations (12inch vinyl lp + dvd)Following the multimedia release of SIGNALS TO A HABITABLE ZONE, minimalist electronic, MIDI-free star-wranglers Long Distance Poison have packaged a remix collection that enhances and respects their...
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 massprod - aqwa (cassette)Massprod's brethren on Further Records may take weirder angles on electronic music or tease out its styles into more experimental realms, but none are more consistent. On Massprod's "Aqwa" he creates...
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 mathieu ruhlmann - this star teaches bending (cd)"In 2012, my mother at the age of 63 was diagnosed with a rare terminal lung disease. She was given a six-month life expectancy at this time. These recordings were created over the same period of...
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 negative gemini - richmond tape club volume one (cassette)Negative Gemini is the solo project of musician Lindsey French. Using various synths and a vocal loop pedal, she layers new wave-inspired melodies and beats underneath brooding lyrics that at times...
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 piano interrupted - two by four (2x12inch vinyl lp)A reissue conjoined with live tracks is a tricky situations as many avant-leaning acts view records and concerts as different and distinct entities. "Two by Four" by Piano Interrupted falls into this...
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piano interrupted - two by four (cd)A reissue conjoined with live tracks is a tricky situations as many avant-leaning acts view records and concerts as different and distinct entities. "Two by Four" by Piano Interrupted falls into this...
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 plkzfx - plkzistentializm (cassette)I can find zero information on who Plkzfx might be, but I can tell you that his/her new cassette on Further Records is positively a mind bender, with enough movement and schizophrenic energy to...
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 ralph koper - ancient pulsations (cd)"These field recordings made in Varanasi presents authentic and vital life of the Indian people. This is a world where things around us are not infinitely secularized and separated, controlled and...
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 robedoor - primal sphere (12inch vinyl lp)Primal Sphere is huge in a prehistoric sense and it seems to lumber over charred landscapes and unrecognizable ruins like some leviathan from the past. The Los Angeles-based duo assemble likeness to...
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 simon whetham - un ano tranquilo (cd)Throughout 2012 Simon Whetham embarked on a round the world tour, one man travelling across land, sea and air to gain new sensory-filled experiences. Un Año Tranquilo is the result of Simon's...
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 slow news day in the vampire world - richmond tape club volume two (cassette)Slow News Day In The Vampire World is the ambient dub project of recording engineer / producer John Morand and his wife, artist Tara Morand. Mainly utilizing a DJX, drum machine, and turntable, this...
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 standish/carlyon - deleted scenes (12inch vinyl lp)Conrad Standish and Tom Carlyon cut their teeth in Devastations, an Australian-based rock act that that was steeped in the menacing dispositions of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Outwardly they have...
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 terminal sound system - a sun spinning backwards (2x12inch vinyl lp)For a musician who was once backed by Relapse Records, Skye Klein fits a remarkable amount of non-doom material into his Terminal Sound System project – languid string drones, vocoder-drenched...
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terminal sound system - a sun spinning backwards (cd)For a musician who was once backed by Relapse Records, Skye Klein fits a remarkable amount of non-doom material into his Terminal Sound System project – languid string drones, vocoder-drenched...
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 yannick franck & craig hilton - flowers for l.p. (cd)Inspired by French poet Jacques Rigaut, the duo of Yannick Franck and Craig Hilton attempt to translate his dada-leaning written work into a surreal and unsettling audio journey. "Flowers for L.P."...
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 dylan ethier - nightly exchange (cassette + download)The medium of 1/4" tape has been romanticized in recent years as our world tumbles further into a predominately digital interface, but sometimes it is absolutely necessary to capture an idea and...
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 k-salvatore - tsar ova elk (12inch vinyl lp)Jason Meagher( NNCK, Black Dirt Studio) and Pat Murano (NNCK, Decimus) have sporadically been releasing material as K-Salvatore since 1995. The sparse and disturbing electronics captured on this LP,...
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 les conversions - self titled (12inch vinyl lp)Les Conversions are Jason Meagher(NNCK, K-Salvatore), Pat Murano (NNCK, K-Salvatore) & David Shuford (NNCK, Rhyton) Recorded at Black Dirt Studio autumn 2012. Limited to 300 copies. Silk Screened at...
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 my home, sinking - self titled (cd)From Fluid Audio, the UK stalwarts of all things instrumental and somber, comes a trademark release that encapsulates many facets of their distinct style. With his debut as My Home, Sinking, Enrico...
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 the no neck blues band - ytiu (12inch vinyl lp)"No Neck Blues Band are the last of their kind, children of a New York City that no longer exists. They've operated in the shadows of Gotham's music scene for almost 20 years—as likely to perform in...
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 tom carter/pat murano - self titled (12inch vinyl lp)"We could talk about an improviser's ability to listen to the other players around them and how important it is to crossing the line between jamming and spontaneous composition… But instead, we...
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 aerosol constellations - within the beyond (cassette)Psychedelic drones from Vancouver duo consisting of J.V. Dub (Shearing Pinx) and Bill Batt (Stamina Mantis). 2 tracks of proper burner jamz. This is the kind of stuff we live for here at pfHQ. Only...
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 angel 1 - purple haze (cassette)Angel 1 is the new recording project of anonymous producer Boy Snacks, exploring a more mellow range of vapor-wave than is usually conjured by the sample heavy albums released under his earlier name....
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 arthur de eriomém - drowned by voices, somewhat rather slowly (cd)Extended version of Drowned by Voices, recomposed April 15th 2013 with analog delay and fender twin reverb.oices, somewhat rather slowly,
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 ayelet lerman / wade matthews / carmel raz - growing carrots in a concrete floor (cd)Ayelet Lerman: viola | Wade Matthews : digital synthesis & field recordings | Carmel Raz : violin | Recorded by: Lars Sergel, March 2012, "Wire Tapping" at Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem.
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 belbury poly - the belbury tales (12inch vinyl lp)"A quite accomplished concept album from Ghost Box co-founder Jim Jupp's vehicle that works equally well as both homage to British prog rock of years past (think Soft Machine circa '70-73) and as a...
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 blouse (u.s.a.) - tammy's beans (cassette)Seattle musician Blouse (u.s.a.) (Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy, drummer for Lesbian and Fungal Abyss) has a new album, Tammy"s Beans. With help from Nathan Smurthwaite, Ryan Weaver, and Jesse Ray Grover,...
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 co la - moody coup (12inch vinyl lp)Moving his sample-based house music from NNA Tapes and into the bigger studios and larger budgets of Software Recordings, Matt Papich's Co La project gets amplified and appropriately emboldened....
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co la - moody coup (cd)Moving his sample-based house music from NNA Tapes and into the bigger studios and larger budgets of Software Recordings, Matt Papich's Co La project gets amplified and appropriately emboldened....
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 crabskull - jovian black opera (cassette)Another major surprise. Chrys Fournier, Crabskull, Scab Smoker drummer & Dub DJ, caught me at a local record shop in the Summer and told me he had some tapes I might like. We have gave me was two 90...
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 daniel klag - inner earth (cassette)Reality and absorption the self as many season. Illusions of stillness lift expression through sustaining. You cast yourself on your surroundings and here, with each breath and pulse imperceptibly...
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 elg - la chimie (12inch vinyl lp)*Follow up to 2012 ALBUM OF THE YEAR "Mil Pluton". North American Exclusive. Includes download coupon.* After melting minds (my own included) with last year's underrated gem "Mil Pluton," Èlg is back...
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 erdem helvacioglu & bruce tovsky - erlik khan (cd)Erlik Khan is the god of death and underworld in Turkish and Mongolian mythology. This collaboration between Turkish experimental genre-hopper and multi-media artist Erdem Helvacioglu and Brooklyn,...
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 freddy ruppert - hangs a shadow (cassette)A meditation on what appears to be the loss of his mother, "Hangs A Shadow" is a deeply personal affair. Intermittent voice overs lend some clues, but sonically Freddy Ruppert's new cassette on NNA...
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 german army - holland village (cassette)German Army are one of 20JFG"s favourite bands in the world. Their releases describe mutant strains of a virus originally engineered in the laboratories of the COUM conspiracy, and released into the...
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 groupthink - happy gods (cd)A duo comprised of Darren Bergstein (iPhonetronics, devices, random acoustics) & Edward Yuhas (Guitars, looping & processing, iPhonetronics), Groupthink improvise with wild abandon, inaugurating...
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 groupthink - of microcosmic origins (cd)A duo comprised of Darren Bergstein (iPhonetronics, devices, random acoustics) & Edward Yuhas (Guitars, looping & processing, iPhonetronics), Groupthink improvise with wild abandon, inaugurating...
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 harrow - wanderer (cassette)In the spring of 2012, we had the idea to begin documenting the Canadian Black Metal scene West of the Great Lakes. We immediately took to scouring our contacts and the internet looking for folks who...
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 ill professor - wire & air (cassette)Zelienople's Brian Harding, aka Ill Professor, follows up his well-received 2011 release, The Miracle of Luck, with a new collection of organic missives titled Wire & Air, on Constellation Tatsu....
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 jlk/babysitter - self titled (cassette)This cassette brings together Montreal artist Jane Kasowicz (Velvet Chrome) and Victoria's Babysitter. Culled from merely a few days of jamming, the sounds within are at once loose and spellbinding....
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 justin meyers - albuterol auteur (cassette)Head of renowned tape label Tone Filth, Justin Meyers is no stranger to the noise-induced fuzz and lo-fi techniques the format usually indicates. However, on "Albuterol Auteur," he convincingly finds...
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 lee noble - no becoming (12inch vinyl lp)Lee Noble reappears on Bathetic, with two LPs of material prepped for simultaneous release: "Ruiner" and the focus of this review, "No Becoming." The album ends up landing somewhere between a muted...
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 lee noble - ruiner (12inch vinyl lp)The impact of the twin releases "Ruiner" and "No Becoming" is an impressive one and Lee Noble is clearly at the apex of his murky pop powers. More clear-eyed than its counterpart "No Becoming," when...
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 loscil - intervalo (12inch vinyl lp)Scott Morgan has provided drums and rhythmic anchors for indie-rock outfits such as Destroyer, but around these parts he's always been known best as Loscil, a unique electronic artist that's been...
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 phork - entertainment (cassette)Like a twisted version of Powell or the multi-layered platforms of the recent Quicksails LP on Spectrum Spools, Los Angeles-based Neal Reinalda goes for a dance-friendly approach that would certainly...
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 powder blue - dream in black (cassette)Four piece Saskatoon femme psychers Powder Blue aim to provide "the soundtrack to your dreams and nightmares" with their debut "A Dream in Black". These aren't your run of the mill 'giving a speech...
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 rash - the weight of the world (cassette box)*Packaged in a handmade and charred wooden box. Includes a coupon for a free digital download, which includes 2 bonus tracks! Limited to 40 copies.* The Weight of the World is the debut release from...
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 reuben sawyer - constricting realities (cassette)Oh, BABY we're sun and fire or so most of the night remembers. Block the sober thoughts and the places where most have already gone home. A few remain without exception.
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 secret girls - in hiding (cassette)Secret Girls is a drone-centric abstract noise project, operated by Cole Peters (Gomeisa, Museums of Sleep, Prairie Fire Tapes). The project is loosely based on themes of subversive sexual...
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 shearing pinx - storm majorities & magnetic tremors (cassette)Compiled from 7"s, splits and compilations released since the band's inception in 2007, this anthology serves as an introduction to the breadth, depth and sheer velocity of Vancouver's Shearing Pinx....
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 t. fuller - storm majorities & magnetic tremors (cassette)T. Fuller is Terrence Fuller (Repulsive Bile & KkrakK!!). For his third Prairie Fire appearance we asked him to put together some tracks based upon a 2009 dub noise percussive performance. The A-Side...
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 the focus group - elektrik karousel (12inch vinyl lp)*Includes download coupon.* "The Elektrik Karousel" is a pastiche of 1960s styles that never quite existed: paisley jazz and psychedelic sampling, all overturned in favor of a brand of pop song that...
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the focus group - elektrik karousel (cd)"The Elektrik Karousel" is a pastiche of 1960s styles that never quite existed: paisley jazz and psychedelic sampling, all overturned in favor of a brand of pop song that is sourced from library...
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 walden - metchosin (cassette)Walden is the second edition in our ongoing documentation of the Western Canadian BM scene. Like Harrow, Walden revolves around one person (Jacob Moyer) and is also from Vancouver Island. Metchosin...
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