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below is a list of excellent and otherwise hard-to-find items that i feel were unfairly buried in an unruly batch of new arrivals in updates past... please give them another look!

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january 10th, 2004

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 overlooked !!! 
home tapes (usa) #ht 006 lp

shedding “now i’m shedding” long playing record

  • s class baby bird v.2
  • rain drops revisited v.2
  • farm and v.2
  • strain sold v.2
  • konnektapeas v.2
connor’s a good cat. long a denizen of hekla’s sordid online community we met him out there in the ether as a young, hungry fan of sound-at-large, nice to see him graduate from the bedroom ranks into real-world tangibility with such a nice mass-produced object... the first fruits of a new wave of american producer weaned not just on your standard aphecre ocean-crossing electronica but on zany a-musik / köln-lineage damage and the noises that followed it. beautiful, droney, and wise...
home tapes press release...
now i’m shedding" is the product of one evening’s unique continuous performance, split into two tracks for sides a and b of this 12” only release. connor grew up on the louisville sound, finding influence and impetus there when compelled to experiment with electronics. most of his music is sample based, but is later manipulated and transformed using customized doodads. his sound is organic, warm, and generally melodious (read as: not dissonant), but does not always rely on standard beats for rhythmic regularity. his samples gurgle and pop, flowing in and out of a fabricated field of sound, dramatically contrasting electronic music’s traditional sequenced beats. connor's interest in older avant-jazz and modern improvisation led him to his frustrating journey in-progress: finding a balance between the spontaneous and the rehearsed. zoviet france, faust, and nurse with wound inspire collage. cluster and herbie hancock inspire synthesis. morton feldman and terry riley inspire the flow and freedom. the red krayola, sun ra, and modern electronic like sonig and a-musik inspire the playfulness.jay ryan designed the album artwork. ryan and his partners at the bird machine hand-screened an edition of 1000 prints for this release. each record’s cover is a one-of-a-kind 12"x24" print. the combination of artistic efforts on the part of both shedding and jay ryan was an intentional choice; both artists translate their creativity through the language of the machine. they each use technology – tools of mass production – to attain something remarkably human. both the music and the packaging are handmade, the hands just happen to be wielding special tools. now i’m shedding marks a unity between analog and digital, perhaps proving that any contrast between the two concepts is rightfully negated by the necessity and subsequent influence of the human presence.

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june 7th, 2011

first in stock on
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concert-recordings


 overlooked !!! 
no fun productions (usa) #nfp 15 cd

merzbow / carlos giffoni / jim o’rourke “electric dress” compact disc

  • electric dress (52:16)
late april 2007 release; a recording of a concert that took place at tokyo’s uplink factory on september 30th, 2006 featuring the debut trio of masami “merzbow” akita (ems synthi ‘a’, handmade instruments and various effects), carlos giffoni (custom synthss and analog filters), and jim o’rourke (synth and microphone.)

“electric dress” is a single 50+ minute synth-blast that delivers on a bunch of levels; it has a nice, narrative flow; lingering in “space machine” territory for the first half before amping up into full-on annihilation for the second... the recording is actually quite clean; not the “in-the-red” lineage tape-saturated blowout you’d expect, much closer to the sound of the zero gravity records from the mid 90s (incidentally, also mostly recorded @ uplink - i’ve got to check that place out!)
no fun productions press release...

15 merzbow/carlos giffoni/jim o’rourke 'electric dress' cd

electric dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. a total mind melting collaboration recorded live in tokyo using synths and a variety of custom analog equipment, even including merzbow's classic spring/junk metal instrument. warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated.

edited and mastered by jim for maximum sonic annihilation. documents one of nowadays very rare merzbow's all analog live shows, one of jim o'rourke's rare live appearances since his move to japan and the culmination of carlos giffoni's japan synth destruction tour. all this at the same time! 100% essential!

electric dress is recommended for fans of analog period merzbow, early noise and industrial music, academic electronic and analog synth music-and for those adepts of beautiful and invigorating evil music.

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january 9th, 2004

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praemedia (usa) #prae 002 cd

tim perkis “motive” compact disc

  • wrack
  • farb
  • lude
  • prick
  • roil
  • wound
  • zig
  • code
praemedia press release...
tim perkis is one of the pioneers of computer music. a founding member of the first network computer music group, the hub, along with chris brown, john bischoff, scot gresham-lancaster, mark trayle, and phil stone, as well as an accomplished computer improviser. this release finds tim tackling the developements of modern electronic music, including the wide and debated field of idm. originally completed in 1999 and released via mp3 on the artifact records website, we present it to you now in its clearest form.

originally completed in 2000 and released as an exclusive mp3 album in 2002 on artifact recordings, motive by tim perkis comes to cd as the second release for praemedia. a meditation on modern electronica by a veteran computer musician, motive is a pulse-driven array of electronics informed by a long history of improvisation in the electronic music field.

perkis has been working in the medium of live electronic and sound for many years, performing and recording in north america, europe and japan. his sounds have appeared on the labels 482 music, tzadik and artifact in the u.s. as well as sonore and meniscus. perkis’s projects and passions have ranged from creating spatial sonic environments to building electronic instruments based on the behavior of genes in biological systems. his work has been largely concerned with exploring the emergence of life-like properties in complex systems of interactions.

he is also well known for his collaborations with artists such as chris brown, rova, fred frith, kaffe mathews, wadada leo smith, john zorn, john bischoff and is an active member of the san francisco bay area’s new music community.

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