telecult powers “orgone freakout: a happening with the telecult powers” c40 cassette

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deception island press release...

di29: telecult powers "orgone freakout: a happening with the telecult powers" c40. hand-numbered edition of 150. like a forgotten sonic arts union-era session heard from the business end of an opiated rabbithole, "orgone freakout" is an album-length synthesis of all the most fucked transcendent peaks on the releases (e.g. "amazing laws" and "a beginner's guide to hoodotronix") that have formed the apex of the telecult powers catalog to date, boiled down to their strangely arching bones. it's a phenomenal codex of resinous creaks, empty cisterns, reflected moonlight, phantom choirs, and tendril-like percussive afterimages from a duo of cleveland-to-brooklyn transplants that's spent the past three years becoming one of the best and strangest live acts in the world, establishing a well-deserved reputation as a cornerstone of the contemporary new york underground, issuing a viscous drip of bizarre missives through their unerringly curated temple of pei imprint, and cultivating the masterfully honed feedback between their live and studio incarnations that reaches critical velocity with this release. as ever, mister matthews' handcrafted electronics are at the center of the proceedings and measured expansion of a shared timbral vocabulary continues to be a huge part of his and witchbeam's raison d'etre, while the paranoid opacity and sheer idiosyncracy of their improvising grammar hasn't yielded an inch. this productive tension is at once an indicator of the rewards that await the devoted acolyte and the audible stamp of their rust belt origins. writing about telecult powers back in 2008, i said that "witchbeam and mister matthews lock into their particular skewed orbit, which has something of the unhinged forelornness of nik pascal raicevic’s work, only even more fucked and disturbing, because there’s actually two people giggling at each other out on that ledge. ...one could revisit it a thousand times without ever really getting a handle on it or parsing it successfully. in short, it’s necessary, rewarding, and fantastically heavy work." that still pretty much sums it up, i believe, and it's only gotten more true with time. materials: di27-30 were pro-dubbed by nac in st. louis, missouri on the same basf chrome stock used for every deception island release since di15, with tinted shells, imprinted in matching color on both sides. they're packaged in standard lenco polyboxes (except for di27, which comes in a side-by-side double norelco case) with white gloss enamel screenprints on white 110lb j-cards and feature hand-numbered photocopy wraparounds on michigan'z finest 100lb french paper. care has been taken at every stage of the production process to use domestically manufactured materials and ph-neutral, archival-quality papers and adhesives. fair warning: the low-contrast nature of the design and the highly reflective materials used have made it more than usually difficult to photograph these tapes. the insets are intended to give you some sense of what's going on with the imprints, j-cards, etc, but my less-than-stellar photos don't really do them justice.

telecult powers “stars are the eyes of god” c48 cassette

• hecate’s fountain: initiation to the temple of pei
  
  
• inner spaced
  
• no sleep til nibiru

draft press release...

d010 :: telecult powers, stars are the eyes of god :: tape performing with custom-built synthesizers, occult synth duo telecult powers creates abstract electronic music to explore mysteries, mystic states and magickal systems. after forming out of early collaborations between members mister matthews and witchbeam, the duo moved from cleveland to brooklyn where they continued to develop their work over the past few years. currently based in both brooklyn and new orleans , telecult powers remains an active creative force in the underground community. telecult's recorded work can be found on their own label temple of pei, as well as deception island, baked tapes, pizza night, and a few others. telecult powers' newest release, stars are the eyes of god, enlists the help of two prolific collaborators: hecate’s fountain is telecult joined by lala ryan (of excepter) ; inner spaced is telecult and john elliott (of emeralds, outer space, and imaginary softwoods). on side a, hecate's fountain's "initiation to the temple of pei" spins spheres of spacious textures which serve as a bed for lala ryan's tripped-out acid-tinged dadaist vocals. reminiscent of cosmic joker's gilles zeitschiff, the trio concocts the perfect blend of alchemical theatrics and kosmiche music. on side b, inner spaced launches into "no sleep til nibiru," opening with a gushing wall of white noise that shape-shifts into an array of cyclical sounds. the three synth players craft a heavy dark-matter space, with slow, methodical pacing and intention. this tape traverses new landscapes of abstract synth and space music, as wholly engulfing side-length tracks provide an expanded telecult universe. [c48 tape :: pro-dubbed, imprinted, edition of 200]

hex breaker quintet “riders” c20 cassette

• with the sun on my face and truth on my lips what’s behind me doesn’t matter
  
  
• darkess in the land while electrons silently collide creating new worlds

nna tapes press release...

nna036: hex breaker quartet "riders" c20 deeply spaced orchestral arrangements from the hbq riders crew, consisting of grasshopper's jesse derosa and josh millrod, plus telecult powers' mister matthews and witchbeam. the boys travel the lonely road with pastoral, longing brass lines coasting alongside gritty modular synthesizer, creating deep currents of brotherhood electronics.