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Ashtray Navigations
Some Cat Lost In His Own Picture
Memoirs of an Aesthete Kitty#009
7"
£7.99
Re-stock of this limited 7": hypnotic, repetitious free blues blare from this one man underground. Numbered edition of only 170 copies.
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Andy Jarvis
Aghast/Agape
Beyond Repair Records No Cat
C30 Cassette
£5.99
New solo work from this UK avantist who has worked with Ashtray Navigations, Saboteuse, A Warm Palindrome etc. "A truly dedicated cassette of recordings done in August. Icy synth tone-shards tunneling themselves through immense layers of ice before melting into a beautiful, jaw dropping audiovisual landscape which then again warps itself into guitar chords spreading warm waves of greatness dedicated to his newly born son. Edition of 50. Skull drawing by Jarvis himself." - BRR.
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El-G & Duncan
s/t
Rural Faune No Cat
CD-R
£7.99
Edition of 64 copies. New work from these excellent European baroque/psych surrealists with guest appearances from Duncan Pinhas, Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations and Steve Warwick of Birds Of Delay.
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Zen Nuns
s/t
Memoirs of an Aesthete #36
CD-R
£7.99
Ultra-violent harsh noise summit from the dream-team hook-up of Lasse Marhaug and Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations et al). Pulsing tone-pugilism overwhelmed by blankets of wild steel jabber. Good to know that Phil is still capable of delivering the heart-punch when some metal dude has got him backed into a corner. Totally exhilarating. Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies.
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Ocelocelot
The Future Is Clockwork
Smoker's Gifts #8
Cassette
£8.99
New, extremely damaged-sounding black noise threat from the apocalyptic nome-de-doof of Miss Mel "Crowley' Delaney of Ashtray Navigations et al. Comes in a large paper bag with stick-on art, inner sleeve collage and music recorded onto found tapes that sound as if they're bleeding worms and threats all the way through the fuzz. An excellent package in an edition of only 50 copies.
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Melanie Delaney, Bridget Hayden and Phil Todd
Play Freeway Alabama
Smoker's Gifts #4
CD-R
£7.99
Excellent three-way psych/trance and roar-drone oblivion rendered in the usual human/primitive style from a bunch of central UK heads, with Mel Delaney of Ocelocelot, Bridget from Vibracathedral Orchestra and Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations et al. Excellent lo-fi, tactile feel, with dead car-crash tones dive-bombed with lurid shots of electric string and what sounds like the "Fire" section of Brian Wilson's smile extrapolated to almost Xpressway-levels of grit. Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies on Delaney's own label. Long OOP.
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El-G
Six Etudes Sur Des Objets A Priori Morts Mais Sexuellement Aimables
Taped Sounds No Cat
Cassette
£7.99
New cassette from Laurent Gerard aka El-G, with a composition for tape, voice and electronics that has that classic cracked French underground atmosphere that’s flits between apocalyptic torch song and vintage Nurse With Wound.
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Ashtray Navigations
Three Rockets Thicken
Trensmat Records TR-023
7”
£4.99
New three track EP from Ashtray Navigations that crosses his recent experiments in zoned synth/guitar eternities with some destination=oblivion raga and minimal electronics. Comes with a download to an exclusive 20 minute blow-out.
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Moral Holiday
s/t
Memoirs of an Aesthete No Cat
CD-R
£7.99
New release from this solo electronic/threat outfit from Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations on his own label. Aspects of early Whitehouse/Suicide’s minimal/’billy style, even Minimal Man himself, with drum machines ticking out time over hissing electronics and reverb/delay vocals that are straight out of the Total Sex ‘songbook’. Some of the keyboard solos have a great ’72 vintage Sun Ra appeal but this is some of Phil’s darkest/most claustrophobic electro-psych sides. Edition of 100 copies.
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Truant
The Truant Accord
Memoirs of an Aesthete No Cat
CD-R
£7.99
Edition of 100 copies on Phil Todd’s own label for this archival recording, a trio set from 2001 featuring Phil alongside ‘Cloughie’ (of, uh, “prog legends” Rancid Poultry) and Robert Hayler (of the Fencing Flatworm label etc). Some nice drone moves here, all cut up with Phil’s endless acid guitar/raga styles, giving the set a kind of Northern England “Swastika Girls” feel, and that’s a feel I can really ‘feel’, know what I mean?
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Ashtray Navigations
Human Wrecktronics
Medusa #102
Cassette
£7.99
A “heavy session players” release from Phil Todd’s Ashtray Navigations, with the A side featuring the duo line-up of Todd and Neil Campbell (Astral Social Club/Vibracathedral Orchestra) and the flip a trio jam with Mel Delaney and Phil Legard (Xenis Emputae Travelling Band). A side has a great Velvets play two-chord infinities feel while all sorts of astral fireworks explode just beyond the horizon. Very beautiful and with a slow-motion euphoric appeal that is highly addictive. The trio side hews closer to Faust’s “Krautrock” but with a semi-erased/subliminal edge. Packaged in the usual classy Medusa style with a two-colour silkscreen fold-out cigarette box style sleeve.
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