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 best of 2011 !!! 
nna tapes (usa) #nna 039 lp

nate young “stay asleep • regression vol. 2” long playing record

  • comes unbidden
  • dress a chair
  • cast a circle

  • stygian faces
  • collapse
november 2011 release ; ... totally incredible set of subterranean electronic anti-gloss from wolf eyes / demons’ nate young, perfectly inhabiting that exact alien landscape pictured on so many nik raicevic album covers while simultaneously keeping a foot in 80’s horror film sound-design (the first track alone ; the little scratchy noises the graemlins in phantasm make, the woozy synth squee from so many charles / richard band flicks, and of course the pitched-noise terminator wooble) ; all while not specifically referencing anything other than his own twisted vision ...

... one of my favorites of the year, this literally has something for everyone ... highly recommended !!!
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nna039: nate young "stay asleep: regression vol. 2" lp

it's an honor for us to present the latest solo recording from nate young, founding member of michigan noise legends wolf eyes. this record represents a new direction for young, as he deviates from trademark aggressive murk-and-misery sounds of his previous works, and instead opts for a queasy, subdued zombie lullaby consisting of bizarre rhythms, synthetic melodies, and almost gamelan-sounding ritual sleepwalking. featuring an epic closer with contributions from past & present wolf eyes members aaron dilloway and john olson. this is a record to sit and get absorbed in, a non-linear travel through a different place altogether.

mastered by lupo at dubplates & mastering in berlin.

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“diamond catalog 'magnified palette' remixes” c95 cassette

  • opium & cherry cola (6:34)
  • unknown bum (10:55)
  • dariius (5:35)
  • fecalove (2:15)
  • jacket juice (7:34)
  • my whole hand was wet (1:35)
  • unknown bum (5:16)
  • 1nt20 (7:20)
  • diamond bitch (0:53)

  • canner mefe (4:19)
  • glom (4:45)
  • driphouse (3:59)
  • liz harris (2:47)
  • future blondes (4:20)
  • my whole hand was wet (1:30)
  • unknown bum (6:45)
  • toning (3:41)
  • glom (4:34)
  • 1nt20 (3:21)
  • unknown bum (7:42)
january 2012 release ; ... 95 minutes of assorted remixes of diamond catalogue (i.e. pat “dj yo-yo dieting” maher, aka indignant senility, & his life-partner lala conchita) ’s “magnified palette” lp by assorted friends & colleagues, the credited & mask-wearing alike ...
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nna037: various artists "diamond catalog 'magnified palette' remixes" c95

birthed out of the dna of diamond catalog's "magnified palette" lp (nna032) comes 95 minutes of truly disturbed dance music, remixed by an eclectic gang of underground electronic musicians hand-selected by pat and lala. dirty trance, harsh noise breakbeats, minimal house moods, and overall imaginative techno from the likes of liz harris (grouper), driphouse, future blondes, fecalove, and sweaty handful of mystery characters.

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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
january 2012 release ; ... blissed-out drone-improv from both halves of grasshoper & telecult powers, channeling some rather lovely, almost vangelis-esque night-time city sky-lines via brass & modular synthesizer ...
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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.

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nna tapes (usa) #nna 035 cs

quicksails “a fantasy in seasons” c30 cassette

  • up to the binges
  • saigon motors
  • retreats in ware
  • walking through the rain

  • two crowded
  • speed of the tartan
  • cold in california
  • blooming channels
january 2012 release ; ... sorted set of murky electronic miniatures (with sporadic, live-played percussion) from b 3’s quicksails project, working an octagon of dank, moody nugs focusing the alpha of his laser-vision on the 80’s “library” spec (in several places i’m reminded of david vorhaus’ “phase iv” score) , the beta on some as-yet-un-invented “future jazz” ponzi scheme ...
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nna035: quicksails "a fantasy in seasons" c30

ben billington's solo works as quicksails put him in a place uncharted by many other contemporary acts, combining a wide assortment of live percussion and synthesized electronics. following up recent cassettes on digitalis and deception island, "a fantasy in seasons" recalls moments of kosmische synth, free jazz, world music, and a vast collection of eclectic sounds from this world and elsewhere.

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coppertone “kill and release” seven inch single record

  • tyranness (2:41)
  • clandestiny (2:59)

  • vows (2:13)
  • rott (2:46)
  • all is one (1:08)
september 2011 release ; ... debut vinyl outing from long-time providence resdient sasha wiseman, with only a prior night people tape under her belt ...

... largely “bumpin’” micro-korg club tunes, the sort which normally make we want to eat a gun, even if there’s a sort of post-suicide angst-y nihilistic splendor to the whole thing (listen to the sound-sample for a taste) ...
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nna034: coppertone "kill and release" 7" ep

coppertone is los angeles' sasha wiseman, a one-woman pop damager specializing in cold, beat-driven anthems swathed in quietly intimidating atmospherics. "kill and release" offers bodily transport into a world that's as surreal and synthetic as it is strangely familiar – something like the dream sequence of a horror film. a woman armed with a net, a knife, keyboards, and lust.

limited edition pressing of 300 copies.

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 best of 2011 !!! 
nna tapes (usa) #nna 032 lp

diamond catalog “magnified palette” long playing record

  • slith’d on
  • valveneration

  • ancestral comprehensions & acrid predictions
  • aries vieweight
may 2011 release ; ... long-awaited debut wax (after a single, self-issued tape via pat’s cherried-out merch) from pat “dj yo-yo dieting” maher & life-partner lala conchita’s diamond catalogue ...

recorded at home in hubbard, or & in a hollywood studio, the four cuts on “magnified palette” deviate from the purely four/floor thump-outs of “we are 138bpm”, preferring a more variegated take on contemporary berlin’s many electronic music flavors (elements echo the hardwax-universe greatly, down to the grungey dub & lo-fi haze) while still nestling it’s aesthetic core in the whole “slowed & throwed” pantheon of temporal transfiguration that anchors all of pat’s work under his myriad aliases ...

that this is the first vinyl release on the until-now tape-only nna is telling (this really does make more sense as a spin-able “club” artifact ; at least moreso than anything else the label has done thusfar) ; toby & matt have done a bang-up preserving their whole look / feel onto the new format (full color printed inners ; fancy !!!) ... highly recommended !!!
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nna032: diamond catalog "magnified palette" lp

nna is proud to present the debut lp by diamond catalog, the new duo of lala conchita and "glamorous" pat maherr (indignant senility, expressway yo-yo dieting, and so on). this full-length is the definitive statement of diamond catalog's concoction of cross-bred dance music and mutated, swirling noise bricolage.

"magnified palette" seems to exist in five dimensions of sound, with factory-booming beats creating a mechanical-yet-organic framework for devious sonic chatter to wind its way through. imagine the sound of a distant rave in the midst of a disorienting drug spell, wading your way through the infinity of your mind's own dark matter.

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laurel halo “antenna” c30 cassette

  • impulse
  • dia sapiens
  • zoo hypothesis
  • heuristic gag factor

  • strength in free space
  • factory reset
  • head
may 2011 release ; ... was completely caught off-guard by this set of largely gaseous / amorphous drone -music from laurel halo, whose often techno-aligned stylings seem waylaid here in favor of a more open-ended approach to production that favors texture over rhythm ...

only the closing “head” & the a-side closer (whose rink-a-tink metalloid chatter ... & in fact the entire spectrum, remind me heavily of “pure / impure” -era seefeel, which can never be a bad thing) gets into any kind of pulse / thump ...
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nna031: laurel halo "antenna" c30

an impressive display of expansive ambient techno-tinged digital music from brooklyn, ny electronic producer laurel halo. the destinations on "antenna" range from dystopian synth storms to airy, gaseous rays of light, finally culminating in deep, beat-driven abstractions. laurel demonstrates a strong ear for composition and a passion for vivid sound.

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drainolith “where are ye col. leslie groves?” c20 cassette

  • where are ye col. leslie groves? (1)

  • where are ye col. leslie groves? (2)
may 2011 release ; ... ultra-zonked set of pieces (on one he’s doing his best robert ashley “private parts” bit ; elsewhere it’s all hotel lobby “happy hour” desperation, and elsewhere still it’s all minimal, sunken casionics - listen to the sound-sample for that) from medicine rocks’ / alterity problem’s alex moskos ...
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nna030: drainolith "where are ye col. leslie groves?" c20

montrιal lurker and aids wolf guitarist alexander moskos has bestowed us with one of our most baffling cassettes yet. not unlike parlor music being played by an insane asylum patient, moskos rips intangible, monk-esque midi piano hallucinations over sporadic drum pad wailing and other miscellaneous electronic mishaps.

fake jazz or real truth?

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golden retriever “emergent layer” c36 cassette

  • tumuli
  • subsidence

  • apsis
  • emergent layer
may 2011 release ; ... really, i could just live inside this music, its endlessly rich layer(ing)s of modular synthesizer & harmonized bass clarinet have, after a handful of amazingly high-quality releases over the past year (or so ; for root strata, gift tapes, agents of chaos, and their own bucket factory), proved, without a doubt, that these two guys are making some of the most rewarding real-time electronic music out there ...
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nna029: golden retriever "emergent layer" c36

on "emergent layer," jonathan sielaff's melodic processed bass clarinet lines flow over matt carlson's complex, swirling modular synth beds. the stereo field is used to it's full capability, placing the listener in a physical torrent of electronic sound. highly actualized and carefully placed music from this portland, or duo.

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nna tapes (usa) #nna 028 cs

mike shiflet “honeyed crest” c22 cassette

  • honeyed crest

  • poisoned root
march 2011 release ; mike’s been on a real hot streak recently (his “llanos” disc was one of many folks’ favorites of 2010 & its subsequent critical laudings led directly to a forthcoming type album) ...

here, he successfully bridges the textural crackle of 90’s “home listening” with an ecclesiastic guitar-noise wallop that transcends genre-boundaries like “noise”, “improv”, “drone”, and the like ...
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nna028: mike shiflet "honeyed crest" c22

mike shiflet conjures a harrowing atmosphere of dark, melodic storm clouds on "honeyed crest". a dense fog of organic buzz permeates through both sides of the tape, only to be pierced by a siren's choir of shimmering, jagged guitar fuzz. as always, shiflet expertly holds a microscope to texture and detail, creating a massive entity of cascading melody and contemplative sound.

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nna tapes (usa) #nna 027 cs

dog lady “the garden of agony” c17 cassette

  • the god of jagged gold
  • elephant falls

  • your arms are psychedelic echoes
  • the dogs' haggard mouths digging again in the garden of our agony at midnight guided by the drone of our predictions
march 2011 release ; .. damn, this guy is good !!! sorted tape of live violin plonk, assorted open-circuit chirrup & tape-loop excess from mike collino, coming in as the third-world / enslaved love-child of “the sinking of the titanic” & voice crack’s “earflash” ...
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nna027: dog lady "the garden of agony" c17

dog lady's mike collino has made a name for himself in the world of noise in the last few years, with highest quality releases on labels such as rrr, fag tapes, and chocolate monk. "the garden of agony" continues this standard with collino's unique recipe of violin and tape manipulation. drugged-out bowing and awkward plucks drag across rusted strings while drifting through antique melodies, seasick tape loops, and caustic cracked electronics.

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aguirre “new sects” c54 cassette

  • the sheep
  • der armstab
  • lonely mask
  • scene sister
  • overseed
  • mark d

  • march of the horse god
  • new sects
  • bit guilt
  • the clean clock
  • rams end
  • layphi
march 2011 release ; ... and here we skip forward in the scheme of things (prior i’d had us at about 1986 ; digital fm timbres being all the rage) a decade ahead to 1996, where plaid & autechre’s various mid-decade transgressions influenced a whole generation of erstwhile bedroom producers to purchase external cd-burners & start filling up po boxes worldwide with hastily scribbled-on discs of their productions (with titles like “e4rt” & “third qraz-combine” etc) ...

anyways, nice stuff from elon “white car” katz & gryphon myers ; not all of it is as “intelligent” as the bit in the sound-sample there (to your left) ; much reminds of katz’ “pylori program” set of fiedel-baiting for catholic last year with perhaps a little more depth & rhythm ...
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nna026: aguirre "new sects" c54

aguirre is the duo of elon katz and gryphon myers creating extra-terrestrial club music by combining frenetic mutant electronics with shape-shifting beat avalanches. "new sects" is equal parts swirling and chaotic synth debris, 90's style idm throwback, and hard-hitting electro pulse dance action.

twelve tracks of varying styles, tempos, and moods sprawl across this full-length cassette.

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ken seeno “invisible surfer on an invisible wave” c31 cassette

  • a breezy memory
  • driving into light / blustery day
  • playing gold in the woods / saying goodbye
  • nothing here

  • the ocean after a storm
  • screens
  • ricochet
  • stained glass window
  • sunset at truck patch
february 2011 release ; ... ken’s is a new name to me, having played in the band ponytail for the last few years ; this collection of inspired instrumental miniatures could very well be his solo debut, which is surprising given how well-polished & thought-out these light, “spring-garden” themed pieces tend to be ...
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nna025: ken seeno "invisible surfer on an invisible wave" c31

baltimore, maryland's ken seeno displays a majestic array of crystal clear synthesizer arrangements. soaring melodies float high above the shimmer of the blue-green waters, looking down upon the colorful shore and the oceans beyond.

this is landscape electronics.

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nna tapes (usa) #nna 024 cs

hubble “hubble linger” c61 cassette

  • hubble linger (1) (30:00)

  • hubble linger (2) (30:00)
february 2011 release ; ... needless to say i’m fairly floored by this extended solo-trance-out from zs guitarist ben greenberg, who seems to have invented a device that halts time (musical, actual, and meta-physical) ; its use is put to great effect across this 60-minute blast of cyling “stereo” chord progressions and assorted haze(s) that approaches the fervour of mbv / belong’s filtered-out high-gain wash while retaining the minimalist patina of charlemagne palestine piece ... awesome.
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nna024: hubble "hubble linger" c61

debut release from ben greenberg of nyc no-wave psych clan zs. "hubble linger" lays down a full hour of cyclical and overlapping electric guitar workouts that are almost synth-like, but maintain their thrashiness throughout.

the sound of guitar being used as a tool by a professional hypnotist.

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wanda group “bass urine” c20 cassette

  • wetsuit women

  • yellow gang
february 2011 release ; neat set of aleatoric-feeling “ambient dub” improvisations (laced with tape-garbled sound-poetry & some nice, floating minimal electronics - listen to the sound-sample) from this mysterious collective (i.e. “sally”, “susan”, “sarah”, and “wanda”) ...

halfway (well, a quarter-way each) between taj mahal travelers, knud viktor’s “ambiances”, berlin “dub” techno like pole, and “the scientist rids the world of the evil curse of the vampires” ...
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nna023: wanda group "bass urine" c20

wanda and the girls, under the direction of puzzling collagist dem hunger, dive deep into a pool of dirty milk on "bass urine."

hand-woven fragments of sound are smudged together and tossed into a dubbed-out ocean of strange electronics and abstract depression.

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three legged race “raining order” c20 cassette

  • raining order

  • raining whisper
january 2011 release ; ... after robert’s solo “comeback” side (on that lovely split with jeff “rene hell” witscher on arbor) here he breaks form with not a pair of cracked-electronic flare-outs, but in fact a pair of heart-wrenchingly gorgeous “ambient” pieces, full of slightly woozy, yet tonal chord-forms and ghostly / “spectrally” processed voices that rates as one of his finest moments ...
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nna022: three legged race "raining order" c20

hair police member robert beatty produces two pieces of lush, womb-like synthesizer melded with hypnotic processed female voice. highly intricate and textured electronics weave in and out of gelatinous loops of speech with expert precision.

artwork by the artist.

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dylan ettinger “botany bay” c24 cassette

  • genesis
  • endeavor

  • ceti alpha v
  • eugenics
january 2011 release ; ... aside from the fact that titling a track “eugenics” is akin to calling one “hitler”, this is a fine set of cheeky electronic pop music from dylan ettinger, easily relatable to the early-mid-80’s continuum of “private synth” records (robert bearns & ron dexter anyone ?) ...
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nna021: dylan ettinger "botany bay" c24

this tape plays like the soundtrack you might hear at a night out on a studio 54-themed dance vessel in the far reaches of the galaxy. eddie murphy and alf are there, buying drinks for some three-breasted siamese twins while you slam your sixth canister of toxic nectar.

pass out on the bay.

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head boggle “unsounds and domo live” c35 cassette

  • pink lloyd
  • crunch saddle mxi
  • dode pansere
  • pontone
  • one rockers

  • head boggle domo live
january 2011 release ; expert-level live-electronic grappling from the inestimable derek gedalecia ...

i’m glad labels (well ; boutique, european vinyl labels would be ideal, but nna here’s not a bad choice when it comes to tape-imprints) are finally picking up on derek’s transmissions ; the well seems far from dry & in fact, the last few things have gotten better & better ... case in point is this set, compiling some very edit-heavy micro-assembled miniatures (a-side ; listen to the sound-sample for his almost brian ruryk-ian approach) alongside an extended live-take (fully blown tape composition with real-time synth accompaniment) that shows the boggle “live experience” is just as enthralling as his through-composed work ...
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nna020: head boggle "unsounds and domo live" c35

derek gedalecia's latest creation brings us mutated electronic music from the extreme far out. a seemingly endless stream of synthetic gurgles, gulping, and goop in chaotic bursts of unpredictability

includes a live audience / soundboard recording that delivers in the masterful live hb style.

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synaptic foliage “holding hands” c40 cassette

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november 2010 release ; ah, good to see julian popping up outside of the cleveland axis (i.e. his own cylindrical habitat modules label) ... here he drops a 10-track gem of short vignettes, all nestled somewhere between the polar extremes of “early electronic” leaning sound-research (listen to the first half of the sound-sample) and the fizzing, upper-atmospheric float of his sixth-city brethren ...
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nna019: synaptic foliage "holding hands" c40

julian gulyas (cylindrical habitat modules label boss) delivers a refreshing suite of synth and tape explorations. "holding hands" references the early days of electronic music, while still maintaining a forward-thinking and modern abstract underground sound.

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hobo cubes “blaze factor” c30 cassette

  • centerfold creatures

  • shining from beyond
november 2010 release ; first thing we’ve managed to stock by francesco de gallo, a young quιbιcois fellow who, about a year back, started the hobo cult label & has thusfar issued close to 50 titles by himself & other aligned astral drone travellers working in lo-fi, gauzy halos of compressed synthesizer float ...

this one contains two of said ; friendly tones for fans of the whole (dreamtime) taped sounds “thing” ...
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nna018: hobo cubes "blaze factor" c30

montrιal, quebec's francesco de gallo recreates an atmosphere akin to drifting off to sleep at 4am while watching unsolved mysteries re-runs. eerie 'hearts of space' moments meet deep harmonic clouds rising above an unsettling alien landscape.

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lust for youth “bodies in barrels” c23 cassette

  • untitled (1)

  • untitled (2)
november 2010 release ; pretty killer set of cold scandinavian electronics from amanda eriksson & hannes norrvide ... a successful mix of grinding industrial jabber, huge pulse-width drones & even a little bit of the ‘ol contempo auto-arpeggiated goodness (listen to the sound-sample for the first 2) ...
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nna017: lust for youth "bodies in barrels" c23

swedish duo lust for youth produce two sides of barren serenity, settled in a thick, gaseous haze of industrial pollution. beds of distant synth melodies wander through bleak noise textures and rhythms.

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ryan garbes “s/t” c20 cassette

  • carved in luxury

  • curved in air
november 2010 release ; extremely terry riley-centric (who can blame him !!! terry shreds !!!) tape from wet hair member ryan garbes, working a floating organ-loop patch o’er the a-side, then some more open-ended vocal & farfisa ragas on the second ...

loved the recent arbor single, this continues the trajectory in fashion ...
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nna016: ryan garbes s/t c20

iowa city resident and wet hair member ryan garbes conducts a twenty-minute psychedelic one-man-band workout. a grand fusion of intense farfisa shred, out-jazz, acid rock, surf mentality and hazed-out croon mantras.

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julia holter “live recording” c54 cassette

  • beast wildest
  • je vivroie liement
  • me are more than i need
  • hello, stranger
  • did you attend?
  • days of you

  • betsy on the roof
  • so lillies
  • with loue to toune
  • pushkin, inconsolate
  • sea called me home
  • phaedra runs to russia
november 2010 release ; odd-duck tape (at least in the nna catalogue) of lo-fi orchestral pop songs (albeit in a general-midi setting ; i’m reminded a little bit of marianne nowottny) from julia holter ...
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nna015: julia holter "live recordings" c54

so cal artist julia holter's latest cassette is a very personal collection of dreamy home-recording style pop ballads. lush piano and synthesizer instrumentation meld with holter's ethereal vocals in cinematic and melancholy arrangements.

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josh burke “sense palace” c30 cassette

  • pool on bend
  • micro-life
  • rush

  • yang surf
  • petals
july 2010 release ; fluterry, lo-fi synth sparkle from josh burke, getting into some rather nice, alpha-wave style brain-reduction zones ...
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nna014: josh burke "sense palace" c30

new works from chicago, il bliss mogul josh burke. reminiscent of his previous moniker sky limousine, burke creates a tapestry of relaxation utilizing guitar and various electronics to bathe the listener in a familiar haze of peaceful and pensive sound.

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pulse emitter “longing thresholds” c30 cassette

  • longing thresholds (1)
  • longing thresholds (2)

  • longing thresholds (3)
april 2010 release ; great tape from daryl groetsch, here getting into some nice, almost boards-of-canadian zones, recalling the “meditative music” series he’s in the midst of, albeit with a bit more in the way of automated gating & filter wobble ...
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nna012: pulse emitter "longing thresholds" c30

the latest work from portland, or synthesizer veteran daryl groetsch. layered, melodic analog synth music for astronauts that yearn for the earth below..

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driphouse “50/50” c24 cassette

  • intro
  • heavy white
  • gunmetal

  • deep underneath
  • garden
  • into black mouth
  • squigs
april 2010 release ; really quite nice tape of floating electronics from darren ho (the first in what will hopefully be a long, winding stream of said over the next few years - i hear he’s got one in the works for agents of chaos) ... has a lovely, hand-played feel throughout, rifling in & out of a buncha different avenues, rife with pregnant pauses & stray bits of harpsichord & acoustic piano ; like a non-sequenced variant on the berlin school axis, far from “flowing” ...
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nna011: driphouse "50/50" c24

catacombs of electronic espionage from former raccoo-oo-oon member darren ho. a tape of many chambers, each containing clues to a greater unknown.

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nautilus “blaster vision” c30 cassette

  • tatiana

  • blasters
march 2010 release ; after a solo tape for night people around this time last year, wooden wand & the vanishing voice & time life’s heidi “nautilus” diehl steps out again with a new set of blissed-in chimers, applying the “holier” elements of the early/mid-80s new age spec to a good 30 minutes of morphing drones & pulsing pads ...
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nna009 nautilus "blaster vision" c30

nautilus is the solo voyage of brooklyn resident heidi diehl (time-life, vanishing voice). "blaster vision" breaches sub-oceanic zones with a nebulous blend of icy synth swirls and glacial atmospheres.

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beat-research

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harmonizer “s/t” c30 cassette

  • permanent culture

  • 5th world
march 2010 release ; debut release from the duo of nna’s toby aronson & greg davis, riding high on a wave of “fifth world” influences taking in jon hassell (natch), “my life in the bush of ghosts,” and even (dareisay) bill laswell’s subsequent post-herbie plunderphonic projects ...
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nna007 harmonizer s/t c30

harmonizer is the new duo of burlington, vermont residents greg davis (kranky, carpark, autumn records) and toby aronson (nna tapes, rats cops). future world sample-driven electronic synthesis, heavy rhythms, and total harmonizer worship.

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nna tapes (usa) #nna 006 cs

caboladies / oneohtrix point never “split” c30 cassette

  • caboladies - reweaving the charity basket

  • oneohtrix point never - memory vague

    samovars in tula
    identity
    memory vague
    sand partina
    identity (reprise)
june 2009 release ; split release from the synth trio caboladies & dan “oneohtrix point never” lopatin ...

caboladies’ transformation from zenith-aspiring droners to ... nuno canvarro acolytes has certainly won them a place close to my heart ; their side here intermingles some rather lovely auto-filter stratagem (listen to the sound-sample) with some post-skaters metallo-flanger moves that are just right ...

n the flip, dan lopatin delivers the goods right off the bat with some sparkling poly-arpeggiator business that segues into a kind of blobby radiophonic workshopburner into a blistering sawtooth phase study, some floating drone-shapes, then the return of the son of the blob ...
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nna006: caboladies / oneohtrix point never split c30

this tape is a side to side flowing journey.  caboladies prays to the sun gods while oneohtrix point never wanders through arid deserts of the mind. 

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