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.

Imminent Frequencies

We're proud to present this 3way split tape that travels through a variety of moods & styles.First up is lunchforyou, a rhinestones cowboy from the delta, where the Main & the Rhine streaming into one another. Between the banks and the curbstones this guy delivers a highly intimate stream of consciousnesses blues – in fact a blackened & stripped down electrified version of it. Because it's not always sunny around …

Next up is Trupp zur Sonne. This mysterious unit will take you on an adventurous journey through eerie soundscapes, almost concréte collages of voices, strange samples & unidentifiable instrumentation. You'll find yourself looking for the light while stepping deeper into the black realm of unknown regions. There is no light in this Zone but the desire for epiphany.

Jewels closing this tape with a short & pointed riser from the blues bottom line. Smoked out & boozed up – ready to hit repeat.

Sic Sic Tapes

Possibly one of the strangest releases to grace Black Horizons, five bedroom black / noise / doom acts take on Swedish pop group Army Of Lovers, each doing a cover. Opening with the fingernails to the chalkboard that is Deadravenchoir, blackened folk racket, followed by Josh Lay doing a creepy surreal interpretation that is peerless in style, black-noise pop? Ending the first side is Gnaw Their Tongues, whose black metal riffs are so distorted that they are nothing more than background texture to the shrieks and growls. Opening up the second side is Persistence In Mourning, who lay down a thick track of sample-ridden doom, and closing with the always beyond dreary Wolfmangler, appropriately Smolken's final track, "Carry My Urn To Ukraine", for Wolfmangler, and "Crucified" for Deadravenchoir.

Black Horizons

A quick back and forth collaboration from two Black Horizons favorites. Massive, swaying, dark and dank, and over before you know it. 4-panel j-card on metallic lime green cardstock with black and red offset printing. Silver labels and clear hi-bias chrome tapes. Edition of 200 copies.

Black Horizons

After numerous releases on Black Horizons it is due time that a full length LP was birthed from Anakrid. Deep, dark and somber ambient music selected from the artist's catalogue especially with this label in mind. Two side-long tracks, both bookended in percussion giving the work as a whole a highly composed feeling. Many sounds come and go, barely noticeable but highly organic and dynamic, a testament to the artist's skill at his craft. Few can manage to make bleak minimalist music so rich and fulfilling. Vivid full color hallucinatory cover art courtesy of Ryan Whittier Hale, with a hi-gloss finish, internal black flood printing, black inner-sleeve, black vinyl, and full-color labels. Edition of 259.

Black Horizons

Ex-Bonus member Scott Goodwin offers this single piece of suggestive tones. Frequencies at play. Edition of 100 with 1 color screen printed inserts/cases and professional printed chrome cassettes.

Tone Filth Records & Tapes

A study in pressure; the effects, affects, & practice of. Sounds sources both acoustic & electronic. Issued on cassette tape to specifically dull certain frequencies.

Tone Filth Records & Tapes

Gentle and restrained tape movements from the one behind Ides Recordings. I've never been to Chicago, but I'd imagine it would feel a lot like this tape. Minimal lo-fi dirt.

Tone Filth Records & Tapes

A reissue of the two out of print Glass Organ tapes. Building blown out desolate guitar and saturated tape. Co-Released with Twonicorn. Edition of 365 with hand screen white matte covers. New Glass Organ "Our" CD coming soon on Students of Decay.

Tone Filth Records & Tapes

Over the past year, Operative founder Scott Goodwin has unveiled a continuous stream of new projects, including his duo VEPA with Pete Swanson, the polyrhythmic house project Polonaise, and his latest solo outing Lander 5. Epiphyte Hall showcases Goodwin's gift for creating innovative, rhythmic synthesizer music that feels as rooted in classic minimalism as it does house music. Constructed with analog and digital FM synths, digital effects and a sequencer, Epiphyte Hall delivers two analog-heavy cuts that gallop and scramble through an array of pulses and abstract timbres. [20 min / pro-dubbed & imprinted]

Draft Records

Omega is the soundtrack of a journey to the farthest reaches of the universe, circa 1971. Seemingly stationary and forever trapped on this silver needle hurtling towards the edge of time, all we have left is this inner-space in which we wander the halls of our recollections, which are warping and corroding due to constant scrutiny and an increasingly frantic tedium - the madness comes and goes but when leaving, even for a brief respite, a little piece of our defense goes as well, never to return and with no others to take its place...

Field hymns

Like being caught in a shadow world where the lights of the cosmos are the dreams of a former child actor, forever caught in a low blaze of the dappled half-light of disco balls and jellied stage lights of her youth - now moist night club denizen sway in ecstatic unison as if all were caught in light undersea current as it wraps and writhes slowly around their forgotten bodies as the fever dreams reset and play again and again behind upward tilted and milky smiling eyes...

Field hymns

Spawned from a barroom conversation light on recall but heavy on purpose, The Cutting Room is a collection of incidental music from scenes that never made the cut, more specifically, "underscores" – soft, unobtrusive background music that accompanies the action in a performance. This collection of underscores (not all soft) from the mind of Adderall Canyonly and Oxykitten are imagined for a Michael Caine 1971 absurdist sci-fi romance flick that was never made. Or so they tell us.

Field hymns

In 1991 Capcom USA, in a bold move to reclaim market share lost to rival video developers and taking advantage of the new 16 bit processors in the Sega Genesis and its rival, the Super NES, commissioned of Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode to develop a more modern soundtrack for a game in development with a working title "Vital Organs". The project was eventually scrapped, the music forgotten and the world moved on. This is what that music would have sounded like.

Field hymns

Susurrus filters through the cracks of the city buildings and blocks broken only by the sharp, static pangs of decay – chaos begets order which begets chaos again – this is the root of all languages and is audible and accessible to all who have the patience to stop and listen…

Susurrus is a 31 minute piece in two parts, composed of feedback, ground-loops and other various unintended ephemera endemic to electronic instruments and the recording process. Taken singly these defects are purposefully avoided but when joined a remarkable synthesis can sometimes be observed. From an almost imperceptible beginning it rises in complexity until electrical arcs are almost visible…

Field hymns

An astute observer will recognize within the first seconds of the crackling drums that open A Candle in the Crown of the Dawn that this record is supercharged, blown out and stripped down. With the intensity of Black Mountain soaring over a splashing, hypnotic rhythm section, San Francisco's EYES bypass to the center, to a place beyond knowledge, beyond rock, where human batteries are charged by a Dionysus crystal, where the shimmering organs read your mind, and the sun and shadow voices dwell.

Field hymns

Maybe it's a bad idea to start a description of a piece of music by admitting you don't know how to describe it. But we'll be honest with you: this album synthesizes so much of our taste that it's like trying to describe the taste of water to a fish. Part crooning electro-pop, part drone, half found-sound and all unique, Towards Your Own Worlds from this deliciously prolific artist is a remarkable achievement in both the abstract and the tangible.

Field hymns

Long Distance Poison is Nathan Cearley, Erica Bradbury, and Casey Block. All tracks composed by LDP and produced by Nathan Cearley. Recorded in a small room in Greenpoint.

Instruments used : Arp Omni II, Arp Axe, Roland JX-3P with PG-200 controller, DSI Mopho Keyboard, Realistic MG-1, Roland Juno-60.

Andy Plovnick contributed some Octave Cat to both tracks.

VCO Recordings

finally done, this little split guy has been on the books for a while. EAGLE ALTAR offers up a thanksgeever slice of synthed out space. barely methodic, crawling along linear lines we search for hooks in the frozen undergrowth. hypnotic on some level, but always a good time.

bugskull gives us three dishes from the "communication" sessions that had to be cut from the final album to fit it on vinyl. more glowing electronic reverie that fades into the background, turning it into pure, psyched-up magic. good times again.

Digitalis limited

Experiments in minimalism. Recorded in real time using a Nakamichi CR-1 and a Nakamichi LX3 onto Chrome Type II cassette. Edition of 25

rocket machine

Unrelenting and overdriven wall of sound from Mike Haley (905 tapes) and Andrew Kirshner with a little help from a few friends. Recorded in real time using an Akai GXC-730D and a Nakamichi LX3 onto Cobalt Type II cassette. Edition of 50

rocket machine

Ascendent, crystallized tones from High Wolf. Calm, mantric expansions, burning at the center. France's finest in contemporary psych, art by Max.

sun ark

Tangled, pummeled poly-rhythmic blues from AIDS WOLF alumn Alexander Moskos, headstock scratching the floor, feet pounding. Deeply felt and deeply numb at the same time, somehow scorching and freezing. Art by Moskos.

sun ark

Digging the tunnel. Second volume of solo improvisations without overdubs.

sun ark

Pro dubbed tapes, contains minimal piano work-outs with electronic accompaniment, orchestral string pieces & a live set recorded in london.

Salon ltd

Vinyl reissue of the massively limited split LP from Yellow Swans' Pete Swanson and darkened Kosmische operator Rene Hell, who each supply a side of new music.

On Swanson's side, rhythmic electronic signals clear the debris after a few introductory minutes of his signature noise-wash, cycling through nervous patterns of hum before the detritus starts to very incrementally build up again. It's in these more methodical moments that you get to hear a side of the Yellow Swan that's seldom made this explicit. Largely devoid of the fiery plumes of feedback that constitute so much of his discography, for some stretches, 'Self Help' captures Swanson in nurturing mode, coaxing the rhythmic qualities of his music to the forefront, eventually developing a kind of noisy, metronomic snare sound before the whole thing comes crashing down once again, this time under the weight of a flood of scourging drones. Finally, Swanson's fizzy, electric pulse returns to usher out the side-long piece.

On the flipside we find Rene Hell following up on the cosmic analogue excursions of his Porcelain Opera LP with a side full of hardware-driven synthetic vistas. Right up there with contemporaries like Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never, Hell (real name Jeff Witscher) spends his side constructing the kind of intense, pastoral sci-fi sound worlds that could have been plucked from forty years in the past, or for that matter, forty years in the future.

Shelter Press

Lettera 22 is the duo of Matteo Castro and Riccardo Mazza, two men on the forefront of the flourishing Italian noise & experimental scene. "Dieter Tapes" is a sordid collage of desolate audio, repurposed and destroyed in the struggle of man versus machine. Lettera 22 use extreme textures and dynamics to build up high levels of abusive tension, only to send them crashing down in a cacophony of broken beer bottles and urban scrap, leaving behind a skeleton of seething silence and tape hiss. A seedy and voyeuristic recording, akin to witnessing a beating in a dark alley.

NNA Tapes

Afterlife is Ryan McGill (Cliffsides) and Franklin Teagle (Cenote Glow), two Georgia natives currently residing in New York. They've put out some amazing tapes over the years but on this, their debut vinyl, they left no crevice of their past oeuvre unexplored while continuing to press onward and upward. Field recordings and percolating electronics merge into a rich tapestry of crystal clear transcendence, hitting you straight in the third eye. This is a portrait of two artists at the top of their game. While there's certainly no shortage of synth jammers out there, these guys are operating in a world of their own and this album is a stunning testament to that fact.

Hooker Vision

Koi Pond is comprised of 3 friends who get together when the time is right to do what is known to many band participants as "jamming". This term may be a bit harsh on your eyes, but when friends David Aron, Arik Roper and Pete Vogl some together to "jam", its an epic dense solid session of heavy playing. Koi Pond originally released a cassette on Night People entitled Volcano, which I has the pleasure of happening on to. That limited cassette peaked my interest, sounding like a basement tape from Exmagma or some other lost recording from the mid seventies. After contacting the band to find out this is a one-off project between friends, I coerced the trio into reuniting for a recording, which became So Higher, a recording of 2 side dimensions between locked Krautrock groove with washes of synth exploration. Side two is a very different affair, more improvised heavy jamming comprised of solid bass line, dubby drumming and heavy psych guitar workouts. Those same elements from the cassette "jams" are there, but more focused and sonically represented.

Sonic Meditations

"House" is the 2nd official full-length offering by Cleveland, Ohio duo MIST featuring Sam Goldberg (of Radio People) and John Elliott (Emeralds, Outer Space, Imaginary Softwoods etc) after 2009's self-titled debut effort on Amethyst Sunset.
A suite consisting of 7 complex, layered compositions shows new progression in composition and melody from the duo. From the lightning fast, bittersweet crescendo of "Twin Lanes" to the dramatic chord progressions of "I Can Still Hear Your Voice", "House" is a certain expansion in execution and construction. Tracks like "P.M." put a new take on the long-form Mist style with cryptic alien vocoder and humid pad sounds, while "Mist House" and "Dead Occasion" reveal new, complex territories that will most certainly please fans of the previous Mist recordings.

spectrum spools

A game of sorts, the first of many alignments.

housecraft