BUBONIC BEAR!

The first album from the amazing Bubonic Bear. I am soooo late posting this, but go grab Fleshworld right now on LP or Tape.

Listen below and download the album on a pay what you will basis. Support this awesome duo.

Exister Is Coming...

... Hot Water Music returns with the first album since 2004's The New What Next. Anyway, I really dug the 2 song single the band released a little while back; so, here's to hoping Exciter will be just as good if not better.

Order the crazy package here... it includes all of this:

Exister LP - Silver & Gold Splatter on BLACK (LIMITED TO 400)
Exister Dickies Jacket
Exister Belt Buckle
Compass T-Shirt
Exister T-Shirt
Exister Patch
Exister (El Jefe) Poster (Limited to 1,000)
Exister CD

Order the LP by itself here... Dookie(?) and Electric Blue vinyl (limited to 2200).

There are other packages, but you can look for those if you are so inclined.

Already Gone from En

Brought to you by the fine folks behind Experimedia (whose label I am becoming more and more enamored with lately) and Students Of Decay, En's second album is lush and beautiful.

Already Gone is the second full length album from West Coast dream-drone unit En, the duo of Maxwell August Croy and James Devane, following their well-received debut album The Absent Coast (released in 2010 on Root Strata, which Croy runs alongside Jefre Cantu-Ledesma). For their sophomore release, the pair have opened up their tonal palette considerably. While the comparisons that critics made of their first album to the work of Tim Hecker and Stars of the Lid still hold true, Already Gone finds Croy and Devane mining even richer sonic climes. Here, the duo pull back the curtain on some of their source material, a move that allows the diversity of their instrumentation to resonate. On The Sea Saw Swell, Croy's acoustic koto pings across the stereo spectrum as a looping guitar figure from Devane apparates from the haze of a beautiful, slowly shifting drone. The side-long closer Elysia is likely the duo's defining recording to date, an epic slow-burner that reaches heights both angelic and cacophonous. Ultimately, it is the harmonious marriage of the organic and the obscured that recurs throughout the album that proves its defining trait, and it is precisely what makes En stand out in the ever-growing field of contemporary drone/ambient musics. 

Vinyl edition of 500 copies total (100 clear, 400 black), includes digital download coupons.

Couple of ordering options

The clear LP with the CD... get here

The LP by itself... get here

New Horseback LP...

...Is up for pre-order over at Relapse (yes this has been so for a little bit). You Horseback freaks will be frothing at the mouth to grab Half Blood. Here is your chance. Three colors:

Clear (of 100)- unavailable to the public
Brown (of 500)- get here
Black 180 Gram (of 500)- get here

The Latest From Imminent Frequencies

Two new tapes from Imminent Frequencies.

The first, Soundtracks For Brakhage is from Rick Corrigan.

IF17 - RICK CORRIGAN - "SOUNDTRACKS FOR BRAKHAGE"
c34 Edition of 150

Three electronic soundtracks by Rick Corrigan composed for films by the visionary filmmaker Stan Brakhage. During the mid 1980’s Rick Corrigan was part of the Colorado-based experimental ensemble Architect’s Office when he befriended local film legend Stan Brakhage. In the years that followed they would collaborate on numerous film projects and live performances in and around Boulder, Colorado. The three soundtracks presented here were made between 1990-1992 and were composed on a variety of synthesizers and electronic instruments. Over the course of each piece Corrigan uses various techniques to create a wide range of otherworldly sounds. Layers constantly shift in texture and tone forming an aural mosaic. Never redundant and thoroughly genuine, these are the sounds of an amazing electronic synthesis. Transferred from the original cassette masters and featuring artwork created from Brakhage's original 16mm films.

The second is Dawn Widow from Steve Kenney.

IF16 - STEVE KENNEY - "DAWN WIDOW"
c20 Edition of 100

Late night trance-inducing synthesizer music by Steve Kenney. Kenney a long-running figure within the Michigan noise scene may be best known for his work with the audio / visual unit Demons as well as more recent collaborations with Heath Moerland and Andrew Coltrane. The past several years have found Kenney increasingly going solo both on record and in live form. Fresh off the release of his debut LP, Dawn Widow collects recent sessions recorded in Detroit and Mexico City. Kenney supplies two sides of stark electronics consisting of enigmatic swells that pulsate within an endless series of tunneling synth drones and ever-changing tonalities. Desolate and weak, it’s only a matter of time before you loose your sanity.

Order and listen to samples here

Music Ruins Lives Awakes...

... and offers Morning Star from Book Of Sand. After a long winter's nap, the folks at Music Ruins Lives have finally brought something new to the masses.

The line is made up of an infinite number of points; the plane of an infinite number of lines; the volume of an infinite number of planes; the hypervolume of an infinite number of volumes...

Limited to 100 hand-numbered copies. Screen printed sleeve (silver ink on blue cardstock) + insert.

Order here

Listen below

Year Of No Light and Thisquietarmy...

...collaborate together on this split that is recently available. Year Of No Light had been slowly moving toward and instrumental freak out, culminating in their last album Ausserwelt; and now the troupe is joining creative forces with the virtually ambient act, Thisquietarmy.

This record pushes the idea of sharing a record to the extreme. Both sides start with a new song from each band, long songs (approx 12 min) which let both bands enough time to developp their own ambience full of intensity and melodic loops. These new songs are followed by collaboratives drones which prove that these two bands were made to work together and share a record. The atmosphere is dark but always full of melodies and progressions.

Three color variations of this LP: white, transparent clear (?) and black. No pressing numbers, but pre-order here