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to celebrate the release of the new failing lights "s/t" disc on intransitive, we are running a "4 for the price of 3" incentive on all in-stock intransitive cd releases !!! simply place an order for any 3 intransitive discs, making sure to mention in the comments field which title you want as your 4th and voila, we'll include it free of charge !!! act fast, as the incentive is limited to the inventory on hand ...

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( ash international )
thomas ankersmit “live in utrecht” compact disc ($14.59)

( blast first (petite) )
panasonic / haino keiji “in the studio” double long playing record set ($30.59)

( blossoming noise )
kapotte muziek “twenty five” decuple cassette boxed set ($84.01)

( bombay connection )
charanjit singh “synthesizing – ten ragas to a disco beat” compact disc ($16.83)

( die schachtel )
pietro grossi “combinatoria” double compact disc set ($23.85)
alvin curran “under the fig tree • the magic carpet” long playing record ($26.66)
angelo petronella “rimandi e scoperte” compact disc ($16.83)
osvaldo collucino “neuma q” compact disc ($16.83)
luigi archetti “null” compact disc ($16.83)

( digitalis )
brother raven “vss-30” long playing record ($15.12)

( esp-disk’ )
eli keszler “oxtirn” long playing record ($20.16)
sun ra “college tour • volume one • the complete nothing is ...” double compact disc set ($17.64)
paul dunmall / chris corsano “identical sunsets” compact disc ($11.76)
joe morris “colorfield” compact disc ($11.76)
sun ra “featuring pharoah sanders & black harold” compact disc ($11.76)
naked furniture “gigantomachia” compact disc ($11.76)
flow trio “rejuvenation” compact disc ($11.76)
don cherry “live at cafe montmartre 1966 • volume three” compact disc ($11.76)
yximalloo “unpop” compact disc ($11.76)
holy modal rounders “live in 1965” compact disc ($11.76)
michael gregory jackson “clarity” compact disc ($13.44)
ronnie boykins “the will come, is now” compact disc ($13.44)
revolutionary ensemble “vietnam” compact disc ($13.44)
charles manson “lie” compact disc ($13.44)
cromagnon “cave rock” long playing record ($20.16)
cromagnon “cave rock” compact disc ($13.44)
mij “yodelling astrologer” compact disc ($13.44)
holy modal rounders “indian war whoop” compact disc ($11.76)
har-you percussion group “sounds of the ghetto youth” compact disc ($11.76)
patty waters “college tour” long playing record ($20.16)
alan sondheim “ritual-all-7-70” compact disc ($11.76)
gunter hampel group “music from europe” compact disc ($11.76)
marion brown “why not?” compact disc ($13.44)
sonny simmons “staying on the watch” compact disc ($13.44)
charles tyler “ensemble” compact disc ($11.76)
timothy leary “turn on, tune in, drop out” compact disc ($13.44)
henry grimes “trio” compact disc ($11.76)
patty waters “patty waters sings” compact disc ($11.76)
milford graves “percussion ensemble” compact disc ($11.76)
lowell davidson “trio” compact disc ($11.76)
giuseppe logan “quartet” compact disc ($11.76)
ornette coleman “town hall” compact disc ($13.44)
albert ayler “spiritual unity” compact disc ($13.44)

( fonal )
kemialliset ystävät “ullakkopalo” long playing record ($16.83)
kemialliset ystävät “ullakkopalo” compact disc ($16.83)

( galerie neu )
hecker “neu” compact disc ($16.83)

( headlights )
marcia bassett / margarida garcia “the well” long playing record ($26.21)

( hiddenbell )
christian wolfarth “acoustic solo percussion • vol. 3” seven inch single record ($7.69)
christian wolfarth “acoustic solo percussion • vol. 2” seven inch single record ($7.69)
christian wolfarth “acoustic solo percussion • vol. 1” seven inch single record ($7.69)

( hot cars warp )
chris corsano band “high and dry” compact disc recordable ($6.72)

( nero’s neptune )
milo fine / paul metzger “concerning the other condition b/w spontaneous composition generator” long playing record ($19.36)
brain sound “an attempt to record coincidence” long playing record ($23.01)

( no fun productions )
ducktails / dracula lewis “split” long playing record ($15.95)
alfredo costa monteiro “cinq bruissements – for solo accordion” long playing record ($15.95)

( no label )
flower-corsano duo “you’ll never work in this town again” compact disc recordable ($6.72)

( semata productions )
work/death “tender comrades” compact disc ($11.76)
cowards “forgotten resonance” compact disc ($11.76)

( sloow tapes )
hiiragi fukuda “my turntable is slow” c44 cassette ($8.41)
sir plastic crime wave “into the depths” c48 cassette ($8.41)
jason leinwand “s/t” book ($8.41)
modulator esp “new horizons” c60 cassette ($8.41)

( sublime frequencies )
group bombino “guitars from agadez • volume 2” compact disc ($15.43)
group inerane “guitars from agadez • volume 1” compact disc ($15.43)

( taiga )
douglas quin “fathom” long playing record ($22.17)

( tasty soil )
chris pottinger “moist membrane” long playing record ($16.81)
cotton museum “pus pustules” long playing record ($15.12)

( trunk )
tristram cary “it’s time for tristram cary • works for film, television, exhibition & sculpture” long playing record ($16.83)
tristram cary “it’s time for tristram cary • works for film, television, exhibition & sculpture” compact disc ($15.43)

( type )
geoff mullen “bongo closet” long playing record ($18.24)
altar eagle “mechanical gardens” long playing record ($18.24)
altar eagle “mechanical gardens” compact disc ($14.59)
thomas köner “nunatak • teimo • permafrost” triple compact disc set ($23.85)
thomas köner “permafrost” long playing record ($18.24)
thomas köner “teimo” long playing record ($18.24)
thomas köner “nunatak” long playing record ($18.24)
the north sea “bloodlines” long playing record ($18.24)
the north sea “bloodlines” compact disc ($14.59)

( wagon )
medicine rocks “s/t” cassette ($8.41)

( young americans )
suum cuique “midden” long playing record ($23.85)
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august 10th, 2010

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intransitive (usa) #int 036 cd

failing lights “s/t” compact disc

  • moon on the first hunt (2:25)
  • revealing scene (6:18)
  • serve in silence (6:37)
  • telling artifacts (4:40)
  • the comfort zone (18:32)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the comfort zone"
august 2010 release ; here’s one i’ve been waiting on for ages (or at least as long as it’s been seen howie told me was doing it) :: the intransitive debut of wolf eyes / hair police member mike connelly’s failing lights project !!!

mike’s issued a steady stream of excellent cassettes (largely via his own gods of tundra label) over the past five years, but it wasn’t until he foisted a few copies of the “a cruel picture” 3-disc box upon us back in 2008 that it really clicked for me :: this wasn’t a set of grimy, sewer-escaping sludge but in fact a rather subtle set of chiming minimalism, forged with the same nuance (albeit rendered in far crispier fidelities) as travellers like yoshi wada & charlemagne palestine ...

lo & behold, this disc continues on where “cruel” left off ; offering an uninterrupted chunk of minimal crackle, hissy vocal filigree, ring-modulated guitar klang, and tape-mangled bells, all ebbing & flowing throughout like characters in an altman movie, culminating in one hell of a rising organ drone ...

i, too (much like steve, dom, and ... henry ... below) hear this as the crown jewel in mike’s extensive discography ... highly recommended !!!

ps. i’ve put up an extra-long sound-sample of the piece/disc’s triumphant final section as it’s a gorgeous slow-burner whose subtleties would be lost on a regular 2-minute job ... enjoy !!!
intransitive press release...

int036 failing lights cd

mike connelly's failing lights cd is a deep trip into darkness, density and dimension. this work is not random noise. connelly is able to bend sound and texture at will, with a great deal of control. he sculpts huge amounts of space and intensity with a great deal of grip. really good!

- henry rollins

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with the first full-length cd of failing lights, mike connelly melds his diverse and obscure personal musical interests into one inspirational album. patience. minimalism. refinement. restraint. filthy dirty home recording, executed with the cutting skill of a sound-art composer and the heart of folk music. an amazing album, by far his best!

- dominick fernow, prurient

...

never before has the solo force of mike connelly been so clearly on display. failing lights is a dark necessity, an important document from one of underground music's most important figures.

- steve lowenthal

...

an evocative work of bleak electronic atmosphere and suffocating dread, failing lights is the intensely personal vision of michigan (via lexington, ky) artist mike connelly. while he has toured the world as 1/3 of legendary industrial/noise units hair police and wolf eyes, connelly spends his days crafting a much different sound on his own. under the failing lights flag, he has selfpublished a nearly uncountable number of cassettes and cdrs of rough drones, detuned improvised grit and unstable acoustics in tiny editions that quickly vanish into collector-land. intransitive is proud to present the defining – and first widely available – failing lights statement, an album of sinewy horror with a fine-tuned beauty within its darkness.

a single piece in five sections, failing lights begins with disquietingly barren negative space. as the album creeps forward, it steadily dispenses sheets of diffuse throat-scratch and skittering strings, culminating in a blast of molten organ. not noise, ambient, improv, black metal, or anything else: this is failing lights .

available august, 2010. edition of 1000, in shrink-wrapped jewel case featuring full color artwork by the artist.

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no label (usa) #ps2 lp

rene hell / pete swanson “waiting for the ladies” long playing record

  • pete swanson - self help (15:10)

  • rene hell - glass & voice, in motion (16:04)

    walking in tune
    bending (voice)
    glass (coke)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "bending (voice)"
august 2010 release ; surprise, out-of-nowhere (well, i did have a couple of days of advance warning) split lp, offering a side-length piece each by yellow swans’ pete swanson and jeff witscher’s rene hell ...

pete storms the beaches first with a clattery, rising wall of rectified pulse-wave fizz & distant banshee vocals, dropping out for several pregnant pauses of almost bbc radiophonic workshop-esque clatter shapes ... the flip offers a trilogy of pieces from jeff ; the first recorded evidence of his recent stint in austria, subtexted “with a glass full of coke and the plastic sniper moon, bend the street taught and walk along in tune” ... each is concerned with a correlated aggregate of chiming, interlocking synth patterns, with a gnarly filtered square-wave “framing” the various arpeggiations into endlessly morphing emotive shapes ...
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rene hell / pete swanson "waiting for the ladies" split lp - no label/self-released

jeff witscher's followup to the acclaimed "porcelain opera" lp on type finds him taking things even further out from the kosmiche tag he's had pushed on him. the rh side is way more cyberpunk meandering no logic digital music.  hi-fi goaning landscapes. the pete swanson side is more synth and tape exploration that's his most clean work to date.  layers of primitive wave forms and gunked processing congeal into some sort of open 60s classical synth and shoegaze influenced song-like form.  less oppression, more confusion.

released for the swanson/hell august 2010 tour.
250 made of this guy.


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pete swanson “where i was” long playing record

  • unlimited options (1)
  • denim life (1)
  • mr. entertainment (1)

  • unlimited options (2)
  • denim life (2)
  • signs of life (1)
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august 2010 release ; sorted collection of yellow swans’ pete swanson’s recent solo activity, largely released in tiny cassette runs with less-than-ideal sound quality ...

... a fact that makes this audiophile-grade lp pressing such a necessity !!! working with a palette of sand-blasted guitar, drum-machine pulse & tape saturation, the music here is neither “doom” nor “shoegaze”, coming in closer to the elegiac, “private” bedroom symphonies of new zealand travelers like roy montgomery than yellow swans’ often teutonic pulse ...

lovely lp pressing with a substantial heft to it ; mms’ copies were drop-shipped straight from the hand of the god ; as such i doubt many others will be packing this gem of a record ... highly recommended !!!
no label press release...

pete swanson - "where i was" lp - no label/self-released

wiw collects edits of swanson's tapes from 2008-2009 ...  tracks featured are from denim life, unlimited options, mr. entertainment and signs of life. everything was edited down to form one dynamic album that is as focused on the most "song" elements from the tracks on the cassettes. generally the music here is woozy smears of fuzz guitar melodicism, alien smear tape collage, harsh failure fidelity and proto-bonehead synth.

ex-yellow swans, ex-musician, etc.
300 copies of this one.


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palilalia (usa) #pal-003 lp

bill orcutt “way down south” one-sided long playing record

  • way down south (1) (3:48)
  • way down south (2) (2:55)
  • way down south (3) (0:50)
  • way down south (4) (3:51)
  • way down south (5) (2:55)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "way down south (2)"
july 2010 release ; crucial one-sided lp, covering guitarist bill orcutt’s performance from may 22nd, 2010 at high street project, christchurch, new zealand ...

by now you’ve all (mostly) bore witness to bill’s formidable prowess on “4 string kay, voice” & his ultra-personalized musical language via the “a new way to pay old debts” lp ; this set is novel not only in that it offers a complete thought-set in the form of a concert (start-to-finish, with only the audience’s mid-set applause edited out) but that the fidelity in question (excellent room recording with much in the way of “ambience” from what sounds like a nice, bright, concrete space) strips away some of the lo-fi mystery layers from the debut, revealing as yet unheard detail ...

bill was nice enough to sort us out with the remaining copies of this “tour-only” lp, for those of you weren’t on the eastern seaboard last month &/or couldn’t get to one of the shows ... this is as essential as “a new way” ; highly recommended !!!
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pal-003 bill orcutt 12” one-sided lp

“way down south”

edition of 300

tour only release

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cylindrical habitat modules (usa) #chm 24th module cs

amazing births “painted glacier” c20 cassette

  • painted glacier (1)

  • painted glacier (2)
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july 2010 release ; blissed-out analogue synth & guitar pieces (2 of them) from emeralds’ mark mcguire & chm’s julian gulyas ...
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amazing births
"painted glacier" c20

new tape from mark mcguire (emeralds) and julian gulyas (synaptic foliage) ... pretty much the exact opposite of our first tape, "painted glacier" is a symmetrically aligned, super warm and very specific zone, stretched out and really taking it's time. synth and guitar standing on top of a mountain and melting down the sides. almost angelic sounding. side b picks up where the first one left off, gets into some "evening star" style loops and blissful, delicate waves of misty electronics. extra proud of this one.

full color covers and labels, edition of 85!


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cylindrical habitat modules (usa) #chm 19th module cd

comet bodies “steamweaver” compact disc recordable

  • steamweaver (1) (15:47)
  • steamweaver (2) (39:28)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "steamweaver (2)"
july 2010 release ; two takes from chm’s julian gulyas & adam miller, working some straight “forbidden planet” modes via their respective analogue setups ... that these two chose 60’s bleep-out over hnw, post-kranky “friendliness” drones, or even guitar center post-radiohead pedalboard moves is something that gives me great hope for the future of the “internet generation” ...
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comet bodies
"steamweaver" cdr

follow-up to april's "close to a world below" cassette, more insane vintage synth moves from the same session as the cassette. these ones are definitely far more sparse and bleak than the tape tracks; an hour of black-hole warp zones and endless arp drip from julian gulyas (synaptic foliage) and adam miller (isle of sodor), mastered and released as a cd-r for optimum audial freshness. truly bizarre and kind of draining. guaranteed to turn any vehicle into an inverting, folding vessel that will probably turn inside out and drive into itself. definitely don't drive with this on. weird.

edition of 100.

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cylindrical habitat modules (usa) #chm 11th module lp

mark mcguire “off in the distance” long playing record

  • off in the distance (1) (20:16)

  • off in the distance (2) (20:45)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "off in the distance (2)"
july 2010 release ; ... i’ve been hearing for a few years now that this early solo set from emeralds’ mark mcguire (originally released in september, 2008 by greh holger via his chondritic sound imprint ... which is to say that very few have actually heard it) was his recorded high-water mark, but i wasn’t prepared for the “awesome vistas” channeled herein, coming across as the flaxen-haired, second-removed cousin of amon düül’s “paradieswärts düül” and tangerine dream’s “risky business” score ...

gone (mostly) are the jammy, dead-like spider-tentrils of climbing note-solos, replaced with a far more textural, growling wall built from layers of s&h filters & octave-displaced whirr ... frankly, i’ve always thought that this area is where mark excels, so i’m psyched to have a full set of more laminar materials to cut the more “guitaristic” sides he’s been dropping as of late ...

if you’re a fan of the earlier emeralds sides (such as the quintana roo & tusco terror splits) & want to hear a guitar-isolated version of that particular drone-plateau ; this is your best bet ... highly recommended !!!
cylindrical habitat modules press release...

mark mcguire
"off in the distance" lp

after multiple unsuccessful attempts to pass on this massive task, i am now sitting down with the challenge of describing one of my all-time favorite albums. one that's left a pretty major mark on me and has many memories attached to it throughout the two or so years that this lp's been in the works. truly the perfect music for any particular mood. personally evoking memories of being carless and aimlessly walking everywhere during a bleak cleveland winter, sitting on an august roof and falling asleep, and more recently, mark and i's amazing swim hangs. music that holds a mirror to the listener and demands the bending of a mind.

endlessly shifting and reflecting, “off in the distance” can truly apply itself musically to any situation. and to me, that's the definition of a great album. this lp sounds amazing and “hits the spot” at any time, under any circumstances. “off in the distance” is a true testament to the brilliance currently seeping out of cleveland's smog-filled pores, and in fact, i'd boldly state that it's mark's best, most emotive material. one of mcguire's earlier releases, originally presented as a cassette on chondritic sound in 2008 and mastered for vinyl by james plotkin to emphasize and bring out every single nuance and stroke this colossal recording holds.

gorgeous sprays of vast, melancholic guitar build in the classic mcguire style. dense, angular drones weave in and out and pull your brain along with them. thunderous electronics crackle and warp over the lush, subtle melodies that are reverberating and bouncing off each other below. and when the clean guitar comes in on side a, nothing else matters. a perfect album. and really, what else could matter?

edition of 500.

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cylindrical habitat modules (usa) #chm 02nd module lp

parlamentarisk sodomi “har du sagt "a" får du si "nal"” long playing record

  • introduksjon (0:22)
  • vakl, folkevalgt (2:26)
  • viktigheten av jens stoltenbergs død (2:08)
  • stilltiendehetens bordell (1:15)
  • ozondød (2:02)
  • digital død (1:48)
  • parlamentarisk sodomi (1:45)

  • bestialsk oligarki (2:47)
  • kinky lobbyvirksomhet (2:11)
  • glattbarbert oppnedkors (1:48)
  • virvelvindsk lidelse og nød (1:41)
  • tverrpolitisk tarmskylling (2:07)
  • regjeringen bør knuses (1:06)
  • overhodet ingen mer statskirke (1:45)
  • ja, dere forpuler og skakkjører dette landet (1:26)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "introduksjon / vakl, folkevalgt"
2007 release ; knowing the contemporary reality of cylindrical habitat modules as the premier tape-label for 60’s -leaning electronic music, it’s hard to assess this set of blast-beats from this “one-man grindcore band from trondheim, norway” ... personally, i think it’s pretty great !!! maybe not as immediately wasted as the finnish or belgian stuff i’ve heard, but certainly not without its merits (but then again my grindcore vocabulary is next to nil) ...
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second module: parlamentarisk sodomi- har du sagt "a" får du si "nal" lp

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expansive (usa) #ee01 cd

pulse emitter “cosmic images” compact disc

  • eagle nebula (11:09)
  • triangulum galaxy (6:53)
  • pleiades cluster (8:34)
  • egg nebula (12:13)
  • jupiter (9:58)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "eagle nebula / triangulum galaxy"
july 2010 release ; excellent set of minimal, flowing electronic compositions from daryl groetsch, recorded using his incredible self-built modular synth ::


... centering in on some actual (quantized) melodies & decidedly “outer space” oriented timbres ... some of the best i’ve heard from daryl ; up there with his recent ultra eczema lp ; highly recommended !!!
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cosmic images; expansive; ee01cd; cd; 2010; recorded 9/2009

cosmic images is pulse emitter's deepest and most personal work to date. combining his growling modular synthesizer patterns with sweeping keyboard motifs, the beauty and vastness of the universe is evoked in five movements, each based on nebulas, galaxies, etc. the sections morph into one another for one epic prog synth journey.

cd in jewel case, mastered by timothy stollenwerk, art by daniel lopatin. the first release on daryl groetsch's private press label, expansive.

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expansive (usa) #ee mm4 cd

pulse emitter “meditative music 4” compact disc recordable

  • meditative music 4 (60:20)
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may 2010 release ; most recent tome in this series of hour-long from daryl “pulse emitter” groetsch, designed as audible sleep aids ... these all work remarkably well in their intended function ; each involving a continous spread of lulling modular synth tones tuned in unison with brain-wave frequencies ...

this one offers an extended piece of lulling & subsiding pulse-wave tones, gently bathed in reverb ; slow, throbbing developments that are guaranteed to all but erase the sound(s) of your upstairs neighbor’s 2am jackboot-clad workout session ...
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meditative music 4; self released; cdr; 2010; recorded 4/2010

descending tones symbolize brain waves slowing down, delays tuned to theta and delta frequencies, designed for sleep but good for any calm time, dark but restful. i sleep with this all the time now, and often barely make it past the 10 minute point before i'm out. a full hour on cdr, months in the making. sleep. recorded with synthesizers and lexicon pcm 80.

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expansive (usa) #ee mm3 cd

pulse emitter “meditative music 3” compact disc recordable

  • meditative music 3 (60:00)
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2009 release ; ... a continuous hour of analogue & digital tones, carefully laid out to maximize relaxation ... this one reminds me a little bit of richard lainhart’s 70s music (“white light”, specifically) ; there’s a similar “automated” feel throughout, with layers of subtly phasing tones filtering in & out of the master grid ...
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meditative music 3; self released; cdr; 2009; recorded 3/2009

placid waves for reflective times. recorded with analog modular and tx81z.

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expansive (usa) #ee mm2 cd

pulse emitter “meditative music 2” compact disc recordable

  • meditative music 2 (60:00)
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2008 release ; ... a gorgeous, hour-long take from daryl groetsch, with dc-offset crackle acting as raindrops & white noise as a passing storm ...
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meditative music 2; self released; cdr; 2008; recorded 1/2008--2/2008

this recording takes you to a peaceful, balanced place, a sound environment befitting sleep, massage, or deep reflective thought. recorded with modular and fm synthesizers for pure waves of simple beauty.

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pulse emitter “meditative music” compact disc recordable

  • meditative music (60:00)
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2007 release ; initial “meditative music” offering from daryl “pulse emitter” groetsch, focused on a nice, chill, opening pulse-wave pattern that gets a&a’ed by some wide-open digital fm lines ...

these things’ll put you out faster than valerian root ; do not use while driving, operating heavy machinery, or giving your s.o. a back-rub ...
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meditative music; self released; cdr; 2007; recorded 7/2007

use this cd for sleep, massage, or any activity where a peaceful and balanced sound environment is desired. recorded with fm and analog modular synthesizers.

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digitalis limited (usa) #ltd#153 cs

dense reduction “fictive agriculture” c42 cassette

  • theoretical township

  • a prelude to shade
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "theoretical township"
july 2010 release ; fairly grisly pause-button tape music & screaming, high-frequency feedback drones from travis bird & evan lindorff-ellery ...
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ltd#153: dense reduction “fictive agriculture” c42

travis bird and evan lindorff-ellery caught my attention straight away on their first trio of releases on the label they run together, notice recordings. “fictive agriculture” finds them spewing new organic sonar trails through hazy concrete forests. this is music that requires repeated listens to fully digest all the layers. things start off minimal and almost-melodic before bursting into a blown-out, churning mess. things go back & forth, covered in tape hiss and full of tonal warmth. it’s like unsuspectingly tuning into lost radio transmissions from the past half-century, sending out maydays from a distant planet.

the flipside opens things up a bit with some harmonic sand castles from the start. eventually the tide rolls in and smashes the whole thing into bits, but the cleansing is all well and good because bleak, dissonant electronic triumph emerges from the ashes. it coalesces into a feedback labyrinth, unsafe for those with delicate ears.

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digitalis limited (usa) #ltd#148 cs

nathan mclaughlin “echolocation #2” c30 cassette

  • 2.01
  • 2.02

  • 2.03
  • 2.04
  • 2.05
  • 2.06
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "2.01"
july 2010 release ; neat tape of pastoral drones & almost “clicks ‘n’ cuts” style crackle-studies from nathan mclaughlin ...
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ltd#148: nathan mclaughlin “echolocation #2 c30

alright friends, this one goes deep. real deep. nathan mclaughlin (half of the excellent loud & sad, who you will hear more about later this year) offers up the second volume of his “echolocation” trilogy (vol. 3 coming on gift tapes this fall while vol. 1 remains up-in-the-air) and we are all the better for it. deftly composed electronics bind together effortlessly with ghost drones of the highest order. this is music that is simultaneously beautiful and disjointed. mclaughlin is an expert at knowing the perfect placement for each movement and each fluid note.

“echolocation” is split into six separate pieces, but they all form together to form a much greater whole. this isn’t a single continuous composition, but the pieces fit together expertly. fuzzy tones generated from decaying radio waves and field recordings sit alongside delicate drones without interfering with each other. at times i’m reminded of some eloy’s “shanti” record or dick raajimakers’ longer tape pieces, but “echolocation” is something that is wholly mclaughlin’s own. exquisite.

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digitalis limited (usa) #ltd#147 cs

william fowler collins “hiding in light” c30 cassette

  • hiding in light

  • lost in fire
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "hiding in light"
july 2010 release ; impressively monolithic, lo-fi industrial grind from william fowler collins ...
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ltd#147: william fowler collins “hiding in light” c30

hell hath no fury like the desert, or at least that seems to be the implication on this latest mini-opus from the inimitable william fowler collins. the sparse landscapes of new mexico (where he plies his trade) are evident all over “hiding in light.” the churning of distant machines fight against the wind and blowing sand. but the darkness overcomes as soon as wfc drops the guitar bomb early on and lets things disintegrate from there. eventually you’re dragging bones toward the river styx looking to fill the blackest hole in your heart.

“lost in fire” echoes how you feel after the fact. once you’ve destroyed everything and secluded yourself in isolation, the numbness takes over. but there’s an unsettling comfort in feeling nothing and wfc etches that out like a true sonic magician. eventually the blackness reaches a distorted feverpitch and falls in on itself until there’s no sound left.

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digitalis limited (usa) #ltd#146 cs

sundrips “through obversion” c23 cassette

  • remind me
  • whirlpool

  • blanking
  • shadow phase
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "remind me"
july 2010 release ; floating, minimal guitar & synth shapes from this canadian duo ...
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ltd#146: sundrips “through obversion” c23

i’ve been to canada many times. hell, half of my family still lives up there and i can tell you one thing it isn’t: tropical. sorry brothers & sisters in the great white north, that’s just not how it flies. well, sundrips would beg to differ it seems. this montreal-based duo craft hypnotic song structures that will heat you up even during the depths of those canadian winters.

armed mainly with a synthesizer and guitar, sundrips are doing a fine job of carving out their own space amongst the cosmos. “through obversion” is filled with four concise rainbow shots toward oblivion. accented with droning vocals and various tape loops, these songs are like statues to the sun gods. dreamlike arpeggios and heavily-delayed guitar notes wind together tightening around your skull. in the end you’re floating somewhere outside the clouds, sucking down as much of the pure, prismatic air as you can.

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digitalis limited (usa) #ltd#143 cs

afterlife “bodies in motion” c42 cassette

  • the lonely path
  • fluorescent depths

  • where the tracks end
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the lonely path"
july 2010 release ; well-done trilogy of dark, pulse-width style synth-meandering from ryan mcgill & franklin teagle, working some “phase iv” / des briscoe / david vorhaus-esque zones ...
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ltd#143: afterlife “bodies in motion” c42

if this is what the afterlife is like maybe i should start believing in that shit. but really the duo of ryan mcgill (cliffsides) and franklin teagle (meditations) stretches their wings and fly even further on their latest declaration finding the visceral symmetry in subtle shifts and simple composition. dual synthscapes that line the sky with their warm, glowing major chord changes and galactic leads. its music that is easy to grasp on the surface, but deeper listening reveals something even more magical.

of course, on the flip they go straight-up mid-80s sci-fi with abandon. this is not fucking kitsch, it’s fucking awesome. minimal beats provide the backbone for rising-and-falling notes and pitchbends. it’s exactly what i think of when i heard the phrase “bodies in motion.” everything devolves in the end, becoming a spastic mass of elegiac tones that get buried underneath washes of square waves and noise. sort of a poetic end if you ask me.

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digitalis limited (usa) #ltd#112 cs

headboggle “banjo signal generator as advertised” c29 cassette

  • synthintro
  • banjo signal
  • product music
  • pianoutro

  • boglen terrier sound effects
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "synthintro / banjo signal"
july 2010 release ; once again, mr. derek gedalecia just slays us with a finely hewn mix of automated synthesizer music - a studio side (featuring some nice, nimble banjo plucking - listen to the sound-sample - as well as some rather solemn piano chordage) then an incredible live electronic blurt ...
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ltd#112: headboggle “banjo signal generator as advertised” c29

the boggling continues fresh out of the bowels of the san francisco space program. “banjo signal generator as advertised” keeps the psychedelic synth scrapes brewing and brewing until everyone is buried underneath his electronic portal clouds. inside this howling vortex of bubbling electronics come unexpected shifts of composed guitar melodies that fade away as quickly as they arrived. in its wake, the synth waves dial it in and intensify until petering out into a sample of your favorite piano spooks of all time.

but as i’ve come to expect, headboggle shows up for a live rendition next making me jones heavy to see this spectacle in person. minimalist electronic sculptures battle it out with the crowd’s voices, the latter adding an unexpected bonus to the proceedings. it’s some haunted spliff. headboggle never sounds like anything but headboggle and ends up stuck in your skull for days on end. you just have to keep going back to it, trying to figure out what the hell happened while you were out.

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digitalis limited (usa) #ltd#078 cs

sam gas can “dog dance” c22 cassette

  • dog dance (1)

  • dog dance (2)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "dog dance (2)"
july 2010 release ; fine tape of garbled zombie-moves & chunky reed-organ pieces (listen to the sound-sample for the latter) from wema’s own sam gaskin ...
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ltd#78: sam gas can “dog dance” c22

sam gas can is one to leave you wondering endlessly and wandering aimlessly. it all starts with a low-key dance party for your favorite haunted asylum. manic voices and near-tribal beats plummet like a meteor through the clouds. you walk into this mental ward with no fucken clue how you got there. luckily there’s clarity on the horizon in the form of uber-melodic synth passages that will guide you like a drunken sailor back to the shore. the morning brings pump organ catharsis that’s bathed in warm white light. hypnotic vocals fill the air while the melodies grind along underneath. it’s blindingly emotive – you can’t help but be drawn in by the familiar comforts of each note that gently takes you home. beautiful stuff from one of the most underappreciated artists in massachussetts.

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holy cheever church (usa) #hcc-050 lp

forced collapse “consider the weather a failure” long playing record

  • consider the weather a failure (1) (12:30)

  • consider the weather a failure (2) (11:50)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "consider the weather a failure (2)"
june 2010 release ; awesome collaborative session shared between liz albee & chris riggs, timbrally just about as far removed from an imagined trumpet / electric guitar session as is conceivable, dwelling instead in the realm(s) of shrieking, hysteresis-laden electronics & breath-resonance ...

ps. i’ve put an extra-long sound-sample up to demonstrate the range on display here ; first, two minutes of creaking guitar-attack & faint-whisper modes, then “fear of god” style crackle & blister ... enjoy !!!
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hcc - 050

forced collapse - consider the weather a failure

liz allbee - trumpet, electronicschristopher riggs - guitar

chris: "i think i should start a label."
ben:  "yeah, you should."

50 releases later cheever is still struggling to carve out it's own path through the new american improvisation highway without aping the fine work at broken research. i couldn't think of a better recording to release on vinyl in celebration of cheever reaching the big five oh.  after spending the last 49 releases attempting to imitate the sounds of trumpets and broken down michigan electronics on my effects-pedal-less guitar while keeping one foot in the high-concept-art-recording-is-performance-and-i-have-good-reasons-for-using-antiquated-media zone, i sit down for one recording session with trumpeter liz allbee and she gets inside my brain to anticipate every move i'm going to make.  so much for re-contextualizing extended trumpet techniques with the sounds of michigan basements when she's already doing it for me.

lp edition of 250

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nihilist (usa) #nihil 71 cs

alex barnett “section 3” c20 cassette

  • try harder
  • tunnels

  • on the ice sheet
  • focus wind
  • night passage
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july 2010 release ; kind of hard to believe this is contemporary music, made in the here & now, as it so perfectly emulates the whole carpenter / argento / fiedel thing that the only explanation that makes any sort of sense involves time-travel ...

third in a series (after tapes for catholic & chronic boom) ...
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alex barnett
section 3
c-20 (2010)

alex presents five tracks of synthesizer compositions fit for some lost giallo or italian post-apocalyptic horror movie from the '70's (or perhaps an alternate soundtrack to the omen ii)

limited to 100 copies with j-card in norelco cases, professionally duplicated chrome cassettes (yellow shells with black print).

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nihilist (usa) #nihil 70 cs

“new directions in experimental music” triple c40 cassette and printed card set

  • mlehst - the glorious truth

  • andy ortmann - metaelectronics i & ii

  • irr. app. (ext.) - tellurium ergot contingency

  • the haters - freezing to a boil

  • runzelstirn & gurgelstøck - h0156435972811101 (s'schlafliedli)

  • mixed band philanthropist - fat family meets the unbreakable smile
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june 2010 release ; incredible set of contemporary electro-acoustic music from an exciting selection of purveyors, including the new blockaders’ richard rupenus (working under his “mixed band philanthropist” guise), g.x. jupitter-larsen, rudolf eb.er, matt waldron, andy ortmann, and all brentnall ...

... some of the best latter-day work i’ve heard from everyone involved (rudolf’s track is especially ace - listen to the sound-sample - recalling his late-80s schimpfluch-label work) ; comes as a trio of pro-duped / imprinted tapes inside a slim-line white plastic folio, along with a series of six 4” x 8” full-color prints (one for each piece herein) ; highly recommended !!!
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new directions in experimental music3 cassette box (2010)

new directions ... offers the listener an unhealthy dose of challenging sounds for the new age. with contributions from some of today's forerunners in the experimental scene, this boxset is sure to garner some new fans as well as satisfy the steadfast aficianados.

each artist is represented with a sidelong track and 4" x 8" full color insert.

contributors include: mlehst, the haters, irr. app. (ext.), andy ortmann, runzelstirn & gurgelstock, and an ultra-rare appearance from mixed band philanthropist!

limited edition of 100 copies in poly-vinyl cases, cassettes recorded on highest quality chrome, with silver print over black shells.

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nihilist (usa) #nihil 54 lp

irr. app. (ext.) / panicsville “split” long playing record

  • irr. app. (ext.) - while unconscious in compost i was temporarily a motile vesicular cluster

  • panicsville - as i awoke my body was melting
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "while unconscious ..."
december 2007 release ; don’t know how we missed this stellar split lp, offering a pristine electro-acoustic construction each from matt “irr. app. (ext.)” waldron (stunning musique concrète based around recording of running water, mysterious clanking room-tone events & sublime organ clustering - listen to the sound-sample) & andy “panicsville” ortmann (ditto fire, clanking metallic automatons, analogue synth, field recordings)... but i’m very glad this hasn’t skipped us all by entirely !!! an excellent record ...
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irr. app. (ext.) / panicsville
split
lp (2008)

over three years in the making! the venerable and exquisite irr. app. (ext.) create some of the most intriguing experimental work being produced these days, not to mention the amazing accompanying visual art of mat waldron which will make this release an instant classic. panicsville delve deeper into a place of uncharted plasma coated dreams, to deliver a surrealistic soundtrack for decaying matter.

this lp is in an edition of 500 copies pressed on 140 gram marbled vinyl, housed in pro-pressed jackets.

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nna tapes (usa) #nna 014 cs

josh burke “sense palace” c30 cassette

  • pool on bend
  • micro-life
  • rush

  • yang surf
  • petals
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "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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