Kwaidan's First Release

Here is a new tape from Accidental Guest Recordings from a group called Kwaidan which rumor has it is made up of members of Locrian, Catherine, and Zelienople

There's something unsettling about this live recording from Chicago trio Kwaidan, that few bands can put to tape. This recording pushes and pulls the listener, builds up tension and breaks it over and over again. The backbone of this work is not consistency of sound, rather, it is the attack of cymbals and drums that explode to the forefront, only to disappear, bringing to mind the beauty that would take place if Loren Connors played in Taj Mahal Travellers. While it's easy for a work like this to leave too much aural space to the listener, Kwaidan breathtakingly uses each second of these 36 minutes to fill every possible gap without overcrowding any sound. Some toil for years to create a work as consistent as this recording, but Kwaidan does it effortlessly. That in itself makes this cassette uncanny, ethereal, and a true experimental rarity.

RIYL: Taj Mahal Travellers, Loren Connors, Celer, Svarte Greiner, Elegi

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The Latest Offerings From Strange Rules

Strange Rules are at it again offering four new tapes for us all to consume.

Kicking the festivities off is the latest from the almighty Cremation Lily (pictured above) entitled Infant. Jump on this quick because Cremation Lily is definitely building a name for itself, and the tapes sell out rather quickly. Infant is limited to 50 copies, but do not let that number fool you.

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RULE-011 Cremation Lily - Infantinfant missing in the crop, during the harvest moon a statue iserected in mourning. power electronics in memory. heavy, layered,pulsating. mastered by Kris Lapke. 50 copies.

Next up is the latest tape from Natural Assembly (who previously released a stunning debut tape on Zeitgeists Publishing), Fusion's Origin. This tape however features the first sounds of Natural Assembly as a duo as the purveyor behind Cremation Lily joins up to add his voice to the proceedings. Limited to 31 copies, order here

RULE-013 Natural Assembly - Fusion's OriginTwo new Natural Assembly recordings, the first release as the duo ofinstigator J. Cannon & new addition Z.Zsigo (of Cremation Lily.)Depressive synthwave and industrial pop music. Tape repeats both sides. 31 copies.

Next up we have a tape from Winter Resistance, Sleep In The White Blanket. Limited to just 35 copies, order here.

RULE-012 Winter Resistance - Sleep In The White Blanketin the grip of the british winter, strange rules administers aresistant dose of industrial electronics. analog synthesizers, drummachines, feedback + vocals distressed against the backdrop of adense, shivering, white sheet. 35 copies. 

And Lastly, Strange Rules brings us the Blooming Carcass tape from False Moniker. Limited to 35 copies, order here.

RULE-014 False Moniker - Blooming Carcassthe anonymous natural order remains unbroken. caustic dronedindustrial noise from this european master of subtle, painstakingdetail. 35 copies.

Don't sleep on these because Strange Rules tapes do not last long.

Two New Titles from Tycho Magnetic Anomalies

Tycho Magnetic Anomalies is excited to finally open pre-orders for TMA 4, 5, and 6 (shipping no later than January 17th, 2012)

First up is Bath House from Wolf Fluorescence.

Bath House from Wolf Fluorescence is tape number three from TMA. We are very excited to open pre-orders of this tape to the masses. Bath House is an ambient dream come to take you to the some of the more pleasant climes that TMA offers noise mongers everywhere.

Limited to just 50 hand numbered copies...

Order by itself here

Hear the tape below:

TMA 5 is the latest from Planning For Burial. Quietly is three new tracks of droning, gloomy, pop bliss set to cassette tape with exquisite artwork courtesy of Niels Geybels (Sequences). Some of the best work from this solo project to date. Don't take our word for it... check it out below.

Limited to just 55 Hand numbered copies.

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TMA 6, is an extremely limited one song 3.5" floppy disc from Planning For Burial (yeah we know... 3.5" floppies are ridiculous and not tapes, but they still are a magnetic medium). This sucker is limited to 12 and we have just 8 copies available to the general public and only through this pre-order package here.

If you miss out on that hyper limited package, but want all the stuff in the package minus the floppy, get that here

Tape Label Spotlight: Worthless Recordings

Having been alerted to the existence of Worthless Recordings by Dead Formats, I checked out their releases and was knocked out by a bunch of their releases, particularly their Burial Ground "Living Dead" series (Burial Ground is doing a series on the George Romero zombie movies). Seeing as how the latest Burial Ground is now available (limited to 30 tapes) and is the last of the Living Dead series, and Worthless also released a tape from Worn Vessel (The Refuse Of Nature limited to 50).

Check out Worthless for yourself here; there are sound samples and ordering information for interested parties.

Check Out Dhusk

I was turned onto this from Demian over at dead formats, and I hope he doesn't mind my lifting some his words for the simple fact that they sold me on checking Dhusk out:

This is what I am always on the lookout for. Dark, bleak and hopeless... It's that sounds that feels like you are trapped in the belly of a hulking freighter as it slowly rumbles towards oblivion and all you can here are the distant sounds of the engine, crew and whatever hellish flotsam is smashing against the thick hull.

Check out the rest of his review here.





Listen below... order the cassette or the cassette +CDr (which contains an unedited version of the second side of the tape) here; but as always, these are limited to 20 copies and there are definitely less than that available at this point.

Flowers Of St. Francis Volume I...

...is now up for order (the subscriptions to the series are all gone, but EL is offering all 5 individually). The brain child of Tim Macuga (Have A Nice Life), Flowers of ST Francis is another animal entirely apart from his other musical force.

Sprawling, claustrophobic, expansive, distorted, mangled, droning, recorded on an 8-track with an analog synth and a creaking old piano, Macuga has managed to craft a series of moving, intimate compositions that seem to crawl from the speakers.

This is music for music's sake - music made for those who truly appreciate and wish to experience music in its pure form. In other words, it ain't party music - it's the closest thing to classical we've ever released, if you can call stream-of-consciousness dronescapes and crackling, echoey organs, choirs, and disembodied fuzz classical. We can, and do. This shit is an experience like no other. I have literally never heard anything like this, and neither have you.

Part of a Super-limited series of 5 E.Ps. Cassette only. Features original artwork from illustrator Caralai Fitzgibbon. Check out more of her work here.

Order the cassette here

Swamp Horse Pre-Orders Are Live

Swamp Horse join the Handmade Birds roster with this cassette as their first release. Winter Ghost is sure to be a further exploration of the harsh noise and experimentation that the these two gentlemen are known for in their circles.

Josh Lay has been a staple in the Kentucky-and-all-noise-blackened for years. Swamp Horse sees him at his most versatile, exploring textures alongside collaborator Morgan Rankin that embody the dichotomy of beauty and that which might truly terrify.

Edition: 100 (20 solid green, 80 smokey clear) with artwork designed by Josh Lay.

Go to Handmade Birds, click on the Cassette Series, and then Swamp Horse to hear some of the sounds that this tape will be cranking out. Order Here

Mamiffer & Demian Johnston Split

Well look out because here is another release from both Demian Johnston and Mamiffer.

Demian Johnston offers two new tracks of metallic guitar noise and vicious sound. Go here to hear more of his work.

Mamiffer drops one new track that was recorded post Mare Descendrii (their recently released LP).

Comes in an oversized box with 13 photo prints and Cyrillic text made / designed by Faith Coloccia.

Get into it (order with the link)... limited to just 110 copies, so do not sleep on it.

Soon, The New True Widow...

...Shall descend upon us, the masses, like a crushing comfort that both lovingly embraces and smothers us with the morphine drip sweetness that only they can conjure with their musical magicks.

In fact, As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth is streaming now at NPR for you to experience eargasm.

Once you experience such ecstasy, you can head over to Kemado and pre-order the new album along with a cassette of the original True Widow demos here.

The 2xLP is limited to 1000 copies, and it is well worth the moolah