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Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind (Crucial Blast)


Label info: "The new full length from the legendary UK free/drone/psych outfit Skullflower, featuring some of the most searing, synapse scorching droneworks that Matthew Bower (the man behind Skullflower, as well as Sunroof!, Total, and The Hototogisu) has unleashed to date, in our humble opinion. Orange Canyon Mind is the follow up to 2002's awesome Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tumult Records), and continues that albums utter mutation of stoned out riffs pulled taffy-like into eternity/oblivion and star-rupturing blasts of sonic white light. Over the 8 tracks/60 minute running time, Bower and cohorts build massive horizontal drones and melodic supernovas. Superb, beautiful, brain melting stuff."

(CD, clear jewel case, $12.00, last copy)

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Sleep Research Facility - Nostromo (Cold Spring)


An audio exploration of the Nostromo, the imposing spaceship of Ridley Scott's "Alien". Minimal black ambient with technological overtones. This re-release has the original four tracks along with with a new piece named after the Narcissus, the escape shuttle in which the finale takes place.

(CD, clear jewel case, $16.00, last copy)

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Solomon Schwartz - Et Son Orchestra (Solnze Records)


Traditional Jewish folk songs performed as twist tunes, supposedly by the enigmatic Solomon Schwartz back in 1963. If this is indeed the real background story or a cleverly concealed side-project involving Solnze staff we'll never know, but this album is a gem of positively euphoric, joyous and catchy music. Mazel Tov!

(CD, cardboard sleeve, $18.50)

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[ klezmer ] [ surf ]

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Somniorum - Anabiosis (Chimaera / Fight Muzik)


One last copy found in our stock. Guitar drone project based in St. Petersburg. Slow-paced and gentle harmonic material that will appeal to those into Aidan Baker, Maeror Tri, Troum and related artists.

(CD, paper sleeve, $16.00, last copy)

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[ guitar drones ]

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Somnivore - Clergy Of Oneiros (Anima Arctica)


After coming across his collaboration CD-R with Kivelä, the search was on for more material from this new project from Finland. Clergy of Oneiros is the debut CD from Somnivore and has the same ethereal yet richly detailed sound as the above mentioned CD-R, with its meditative drones, ghostly vocals and slightly noisier percussive loops co-existing in a dim and distant state.

(CD, jewel case, $15.00)

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[ dark ambient ] [ ritual ]

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Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water (Crucial Blast)


Label info: "Lush, shimmering guitar ambience and hypnotic, propulsive instrumental heaviness wind through the dusty highways and burnt twilight skies of "An Ocean Without Water," the sophomore album from Richmond's Souvenir's Young America. Divided into six flowing movements, "An Ocean Without Water" is filled with intensely beautiful melodies that drift on lonesome harmonica strains and sparkling, celestial electronics, shot through with mystic, western slide guitar, passages of crushing angular riffage, rolling tribal drumming, and transcendent blues. Through their intricate song arrangements and moody textures, Souvenir's Young America has created an epic, emotional narrative. The sound draws from the collected DNA of forebears like Popul Vuh, Earth, Labradford, and Neurosis, yet they form a powerfully evocative instrumental language all of their own. [...]"

(CD, multi-paneled digipak, $12.00)

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Spark - The Robotic Girl Next Door (n5md)


Cute little release with crisp 8-bit melodies and bit-quantized drum patterns. Arguably not the most original recipe out there, but nicely done with enough hooks to keep you tuned in.

(CD, digipak, $12.00, last copy)

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[ 8-bit ] [ electro ]

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SRMeixner - The Dictatorship of The Viewer (Fin de Siècle Media)


SRMeixner is the new self-named solo project of Stephen Meixner, half of the now defunct Contrastate. This second full-length release under this name could be succinctly described as thoughtfully composed experimental music and the logical continuation from where Contrastate left off.
Written for the 2003 Venice Biennale, the 18 sub-sections presented here form one flowing piece which was initially composed and structured as a live performance. That, however, shouldn't stop you from imposing your own permutation on the tracklist as the title suggests, creating a new configuration that toys with the relationship between the way information is ordered and its resulting perception.

(CD, digipak, $18.50)

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Sshe Retina Stimulants - Ketsueki No Eiga (Self Abuse)


Brain-frying frequencies manipulated with savage precision by Paolo Bandera, also known for his works as Sigillum S. Where others merely content themselves with always-in-the-red walls of noise, Sshe Retina Stimulants have mastered the capacity of building tension and delivering the way it matters.

(CD, jewel case, out of stock)

[ experimental ] [ harsh noise ]

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Stalnoy Pakt - Russia's Awakening (ALF Produkt)


First full-length CD from Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's other main project. While Linija Mass takes its aesthetic inspirations from Futurism and Soviet socialist realism, here the focus is shifted to militarism and nationalism, possibly in a manner related to the kind that is re-surfacing in Russia these days.
The sound is closer to ambient / martial industrial, but whereas most Western European projects in this field aim to infuse themselves with a sense of often overblown heroic bombast, Stalnoy Pakt's take on the genre turns marches into dehumanized machine-like processions and hymns into oppressive drones. Utterly bleak and captivating.

(CD, oversized sleeve with silver-inked artwork, $18.50)

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[ futurism ] [ martial industrial ] [ old-school industrial ]

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