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july 19th, 2011

threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
live-electronic
beat-research
electro-acoustic-composition

tipped bowler tapes (usa) #tbt 012 lp

astral social club / tomutonttu “wet wheel/hot wheel b/w syvät svyät” long playing record

  • astral social club - wet wheel / hot wheel

  • tomutonttu - syvät / säyvt
july 2011 release ; ... neil’s side is all gassed-out metallic s&h’eld gnarl coalescing into an ecstatic club-thump ; boy-du-jour jan anderzen’s side spills more juice in the first 4 minutes than most quadruple c-120 boxes do over their entire wingspan ...

... which is to say that this is one of the better split-sides (sides split !!! hahaha !!!) we’ve gotten recently ; jan continues his dominance of non-dance-oriented rhythmic electronic flubbery & asc hasn’t ever sounded this good on record (ever) ... highly recommended !!!
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tbt012 astral social club / tomutonttu – “wet wheel/hot wheel” b/w “syvät svyät”

two of europe’s finest collide on a 12” 45 rpm platter loosely inspired by the club single. on “wet wheel / hot wheel,” neil campbell of astral social club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. on cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-god body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that the flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages.

on the reverse, jan anderzén of tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genre’s neon shimmer and linear logic. “syvät svyät” overflows with cuckoo loops that briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. one must focus to follow the train of musical thought, but anderzén’s humor and intuition reward the effort.

issued in an edition of 300 hand-stamped, 150-gram lavender lps in matte sleeves screened with consummate skills.

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modern-psych
live-electronic
concert-recordings
electro-acoustic-improvisation
minimalism-drones
lo-fi

tipped bowler tapes (usa) #tbt 011 lp

nova scotia / eye “a million corpses of dead bees b/w high road” long playing record

  • nova scotia - a million corpses of dead bees

  • eye - high road
july 2011 release ; killer split-lp offering a side each by these two obscure contemporary new zealand aggregates ...

nova scotia does wonderful things from within the “free rock” spectrum, providing 18 minutes of car-crash drums, broken-reed clarinet, and errant electronics that are as beguiling as the best handful of dust side(s) ... eye seems to thrive in a similarly pungent basement-pit (fidelity-wise ; this is all recorded in-situ, in real-time, mic’s up in the rafters) albeit with more of a sense of micro-tonal dread dotting the land-scrap ...

killer split ; haven’t heard anything this grotesque from over yonder down under way in quite some time ... harkens back to the gnarlier end of kiwi-splosion of the early noughties ...
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tbt011 – nova scotia /  eye – “a million corpses of dead bees” b/w “high road”

tipped bowler returns to the fertile soil of new zealand to cull two choice improvisations. on the a-side, wellington’s nova scotia delivers “a million corpses of dead bees,” an eighteen minute free-rock burner. growing from violin sine-squeak and distant shortwave, the piece gains momentum with its patient drumming and resolves into a saxophone swarm shot through with synthetic scrabble.

on the reverse, dunedin’s eye comes off colder and more aggressive. “high road” throttles the listener with schnitzler-ian electronics, militant percussion, and guitar strangulation before collapsing into coda of cymbal taps and glassy string-work.

rigorous yet unbound, these pieces shine a light on a musical community few of us can witness firsthand. issued in an edition of 250 150-gram black lps in elegant black-and-white matte sleeves screened with consummate skill.

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threads:
doom
guitar-themed
lo-fi
modern-psych
black-metal
new-zealand

tipped bowler tapes (usa) #tbt 010 lp
faunasabbatha (france) #sab 006 lp

mrtyu “ornate shroud” long playing record

  • the night
  • bloody birth
  • breathes dust of the night

  • sacrament of blood distilled
  • the deeps
  • burning clear
  • dead guru sings
june 2009 release ; antony milton’s deconstructed gypsy / black / doom / bedroom-metal project mrtyu returns with this fine missive of scratchy, lo-fi guitar buzz, violin scrape, occasional drum-machine, and barely determinable vocals (at least that’s what i think that is - listen to the sound-sample) ...

leagues beyond the recent 20 buck spin “blood tantra” set in terms of its detachment from any / all contemporary modes ; highly recommended !!!
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mrtyu / ornate shroud / tbt010 and sab006

hopefully mrtyu requires little introduction, because the project evades easy description. an odd compound of vedic imagery, metal misanthropy, and violin agony, this music moves away from any particular fan base in pursuit of its distant, darkened idols.  ornate shroud is mrtyu’s most potent spawn to date. hewing closer to song form than previous releases, the album conceals antony milton’s violent guitar and violin work behind mrtyu’s characteristic murk. its pieces transition from jagged riffs to eerie ambient scrapes through wooly feedback, approaching the uncanny.  although the year is yet young, 2009 will likely not produce a bleaker aggraga record.  

edition of 350 180 gm. lps in heavy-stock linen-paper sleeves hand-screened, -cut, and –glued by reuben little of 43rd parallel press.

available from tipped bowler in the us and faunasabbatha in france. 

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threads:
guitar-themed
modern-psych
free-improvisation
bedroom

 best of 2009 !!! 
tipped bowler tapes (usa) #tbt 009 lp

li jianhong “lovers with cloisonné bracelet” long playing record

  • lovers in misery (17:38)

  • time in the mirror (17:47)
june 2009 release ; lp-only release from this chinese solo psychedelic guitar traveler, after an excellent archive-label disc from a few years back, & subsequent outings for psf & his own 2pi imprint ...

jianhong’s playing has all of the catharsis of haino’s, but there’s a righteous, almost cosmic manner to it that belies a certain hendrix influence ... one of the better “bedroom” guitar blowouts of recent times ...
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li jianhong / lovers with cloisonné bracelet / tbt009

hangzhou’s li jianhong has been performing alone and in the duo d!o!d!o!d! for several years, but he only caught western ears last year with the monumental san sheng shi, released by philadelphia’s archive cd. oceanic and desolate, lovers with cloisonné bracelet cements li as a distinctive voice in modern noise. the two halves of this record are an ideal introduction to li’s music: “lovers in misery” offers a restrained, electric swell; “time in the mirror” wallows in hototogisu-an guitar hell.  without sacrificing pacing for density, li has crafted an album that decimates the retrograde psychedelic guitar landscape and trivializes the petty violence of much harsh noise.   

edition of 350 180 gm. lps in heavy-stock linen-paper sleeves hand-screened, -cut, and –glued by reuben little of 43rd parallel press.

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threads:
modern-psych
minimalism-drones
lo-fi
free-improvisation
new-zealand

 best of 2008 !!! 
tipped bowler tapes (usa) #tbt 005 lp

glory fckn sun “spectra” long playing record

  • spectra
  • like true wings to icarus

  • specificity through absence
  • colour of the night
  • glare
july 2008 release ; gorgeous, muted improv-psych extrapolations, jointly knit by antony “nether dawn” milton, ben spiers, and simon o’rorke into a batch of tight guitar / violin / percussion burners ...

takes vacillate between static “wall of sound” blur & almost amm-esque pointillist jabs. really, really nice stuff ; the first i’ve heard from this promising new nz aggregate.

colored-vinyl pressing in a 2-color vg kids sleeve. highly recommended !!!
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tbt 005
glory fckn sun
spectra

the sky done clouded over after glory fckn sun's debut album, yielding this brooding and corrosive follow-up. the new zealand sorta-super group of antony milton, ben spiers, and simon o'rorke concoct a slow-burning behemoth of metallic shivers and distortion churn, dark enough to invoke the dread name haino.

spectra is an unsettling mind-meld: spiers desolate soundscapes bleed into milton's heavy drones, which are complemented perfectly by o'rorke's restless percussion. group improvisation is the natural language of these three; even listing their solo and collaborative albums over the past decade would take way more effort than i can muster. suffice to say this is a stellar and unique record to add to their massive discographies.

in an edition of 300 red 160 gm. vinyl records, housed in silk-screened, heavy-gauge recycled stock jackets.

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