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Holy Deprivation Arbor 09 CD-R £7.99 Great new set of savage guitar blunder from this floating Skaters associate, Andy Brack aka San Diego's Dead White. Primitively executed lead guitar damage that blasts through a mire of tectonic analog judder with a wall of amps style that is somewhere between The Dead C and Fushitsusha if they hadda cut a live to walkman tape for Xpressway back in the day before descending to some medieval dungeon lurk with occasional lone shots of phased electricity, Industrial bulldozing and macabre vocal injections ala Ferraro/Clark. Comes in a six colour fold-out poster sleeve silkscreened by Jelle Crama in an edition of 130 copies. |
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A World Of Dew Arbor 21 Cassette £5.99 "Ah man, you know that feeling when you wake up early in the morning and walk out hazy-eyed into the hazy world to pick up the newspaper? It's a trip. Empty Vessel is Roy Tatum of Quintana Roo, Changeling, Black Monk, etc. Electronics sweating with overdrive. Transcending the aural spectrum with a dew inducing haze of harsh drones. The ebb and flow of a confined stream; tranquility turned up to 11. In an edition of 100 numbered copies." - Arbor. |
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Live/Oakland + Arbor #29 C40 Cassette £6.99 New cassette from this spectral Portland-based duo with some very delicate ribbons of drone and high, still tone breaking to light in abrasive mandalas of slow-rushing Technicolor static. Aspects of eastern drone workings by Ikuro Takahashi, Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi given a little of the airplane hangar tone-scope of Starving Weirdos or Pelt circa Empty Bell. Comes in a numbered edition of 100 copies with individually inked and sprayed tape labels in a silver sprayed case and ink drawn cloudscapes. |
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Built For Nothing Arbor #54 LP £10.99 First full length vinyl outing for this aggressively nuanced free playing power duo featuring Zach Davis of Lambsbread on electric guitar and Ben Hall of Graveyards on drums. The strategies employed here – totally clean electric guitar with the attack amped all the way up and skittering, knitting needle style snare detonation – marks out the turf covered as being somewhere circa the whole Joseph Holbrooke/Ascension school of pummel and play and there’s a ton of brains to the way these guys skirt even the vaguest of lick-potential with silence, wowing harmonics and cracks of vibrating skin. Edition of 300 copies in screened chipboard sleeves, already completely sold out at source. Recommended. |
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Psychedelic Narcosis Arbor 65A CD-R £6.99 “Cleveland noiseniks, Tusco Terror, barrage the earth with their subterranean dirt worship. Having just released a split LP with Emeralds on Ecstatic Peace, this crew is ready to take their Midwestern gear slaughter beyond the realm of the breadbasket. Operating with a loose lineup usually ranging from 3-5 players all jamming in their own private zones, contributing their own part to the psychedelic nonsequitors and cosmic confusions contained within the recording. Pile upon pile of unrecognizable source contort themselves into an unrecognizable yet brutally intriguing end result. Don’t stop digging.” All VT copies come from edition A in a run of 68 numbered copies in silkscreened, watercolored, and sewn sleeves with screened discs. Already sold out at source. |
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split Arbor #62 7" £6.99 Inspired split 7" in an edition of 400 copies with full colour artwork by Maya Miller of Religious Knives. C. Spencer Yeh aka Burning Star Core's side is an excellent slice of heavy metal violin, with improvised roars, clanks and singing strings adding up to a beautifully concise rip through the kinda post-Faust/Tony Conrad/Dream Syndicate moves that illuminate much of his back catalogue. The Sick Llama side compiles a bunch of totally alien sounding cut-up compositions all drawn from impossible-to-place sound sources and rendered with that massively murky Fag Tapes sound that is so fucking addictive. Love it. |
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The Absence Of Essence Arbor #99 2x7” £11.99 “Carlos Giffoni’s heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early industrial music. Completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. These four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful but with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the 7” format does not harm Giffoni’s work which normally exists in extended lengths; instead very succinct and unwavering compositions result: creating four vignettes of grey industrial zones. As the person responsible for No Fun Productions and the No Fun Fest, this Brooklyn transplants presence in the current progression of the genre is undeniable. In an edition of 400 2x7”(one on white vinyl and one on black) sets in gatefold sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives.” – Arbor. |
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Plays Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Arbor #97 one-sided LP £11.99 New edition of 450 copies one-sided LP with a gorgeous full-colour sleeve by John Olson (Wolf Eyes). Here the duo of John and Tovah Olson move deeper into the kind of liminal, broke back electronics zone that defined their great run of collaborations with John Wiese, with creeped-out midnight soundtracks populated by shadowy nocturnal forms, firefly drones and a murky, drug-addled atmosphere. This feels like the beginning of a whole new phase for Dead Machines and it makes for a subtle but powerful trip. |
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Transfigurations On Lap-Steel Guitar Arbor #93 LP £13.99 ”Iowa City’s Evan Miller is never one to stay in the same rut for too long. His earlier releases were composed of Fahey-esque spells, heavily emotional acoustic guitar work emanating tones of nostalgia and simplicity. On Transfigurations a new zone is crafted with lap-steel guitar and tape collage, creating equally nostalgic music from the other end of the spectrum: delicate, minimal drones. Tones interweave and textures evolve: it is Evan’s most personally progressive work, combining past themes and reinterpreting them on another medium: electric lap-steel guitar. Mastered by Pete Swanson. In an edition of 450 full color pro-printed cardboard LP sleeves and printed labels designed by Jeff Witscher (Secret Abuse / Callow God).” – Arbor. |
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Citrac Arbor 106 2xLP £17.99 New edition of 400 double LP from James Ferraro that presents one of his most ambitious Dystopian TV futures by assembling a suite of movie soundtrack themes, electro keyboard rites and surveillance fantasies, complete with artwork that conflates 1980s breakout blockbusters with contemporary military technology and the spectacularisation of war as an arcade game. Citrac bundles a new album of recordings with the previously released Postremo Mundus Techno-Symposium and excerpts and alternative edits from another self-released CD-R, Liquid Metal’s Alternative Soundtrack To Digital Overdrive. The track titles take the whole sick city/dystopian cheeseburger USA vibe to a whole other level – “Computer Chipped Police”, “Surveillance ”, “Public Execution Of A No Mark”, “Gates Surrounding Control Tower” – while the sonics combine bass guitar, thunder cracks, Nazi-fied marching songs, triumphant horns, video game asteroid explosions, tape-warped muscleman grunts and meathead vocal chants. The effect is as horrifying and confusing as the post-microwave culture that James both worships and abhors and this is some of the most startling black nightmare psychedelia of his career. Comes with two full colour inner sleeves with new art by James. Highly recommended. |
