"Following acclaimed releases on Anathema Sound, Reverb Worship, and their own Softland City imprint, Blood on Tape return here with a work of slow-burning beauty and subtle menace. Side A begins with delicate tones of acoustic guitar, harmonium, voice, and percussion traveling an unhurried journey of celebration toward a bit more electric B-Side. Using Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings as a conceptual launch-point, this tape’s back half is an improvisational surge of six-string quake & purifying feedback. Embodying a briefly-burning comet, ‘The Terror of Solitudes’ concludes without a speck of dust or debris; just the lingering pure energy of a duo in dynamic communion."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-A Bao A Qu

Side B:
-Mantichoras

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c34 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

"Jeremy Kelly’s previous albums on Digitalis and Tape Drift contain gutsy undercurrents & explosive centers that hold our attention like nothing else out there. Stunned is glad to announce that ‘It Sounds Different In the Dark’ is a similar drop through the blissfully unknown with our trusted guide JK. It doesn’t take long before we realize that sense of direction & determinacy are exchanged for sheer disorientation in Jeremy’s world. Exhilaratingly torn between poles of all possible guitar forms, it matters little what is up, down, straight or crooked within the first few minutes. After all, this is in the Dark — an excursion for the daring listener who desires something quite different in their audio diet."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Untitled

Side B:
-Untitled

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c31 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

"Crown, Mineral & Sacred Well: alchemical antidotes to planetary toxicity. Our heroes Alberorovesciato combine these ancient elements in a half-hour ritual of percussive glossolalia, summoning assistance from outer realms. Now Skorpio is back, and he’s way pissed about this oily fuckin mess everywhere. Seriously, humans. If you can’t plug your holes, stop drilling them. Skorpio knows. He stopped needing oil a few millennium ago. Now he survives purely on the ecstatic anti-rhythms of freedom that Francesco Cavaliere & Marco Lampis have been celebrating with Alberorovesciato since Stunned no. 21. Thanks for making the call guys, and welcome home Skorpio. Do whatever it takes to make yourself clean & comfortable here. "

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Untitled

Side B:
-Untitled

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

"Forces to be reckoned with in their own right as farmers of prime Delaware sound crop, Mike Haley (Wether, 905 Tapes) and Dave Doyen (2:00AM Tapes, Vales) tag team a set of bent synthesizers on this c40, bringing their new duo Roped Off into snarling maturity. We presume that blowing glass in space leads one to smoke something especially dank out of that glass in space. Let’s further assume that the discovery of a new angle was not only novel, but an inevitable consequence of these actions. No matter how it’s sliced, or slices through the listener, it’s an entirely unpredictable ride in the opposite direction of a safe synth reality. These boyz mean biz. "

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Discovers A New Angle

Side B:
-Blows Glass In Space

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

"Deep zones of bowed-bass infinitude assist our anti-kinetic midnight vigils with Granitkorridor’s 2nd release on Stunned and 5th overall chapter in his ongoing saga. Elevation into “V” discovers its maker hovering with tremendous patience like a god of thunder, expanding his sonic domain to an ocean’s breadth. Seducing us through chambers of refreshingly minimal décor, Granitkorridor draws every unnecessary particle away from the space, leaving little behind but the unmistakable afterglow of a drone master."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Untitled

Side B:
-Untitled

-Limited edition 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c58 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

"With eyes dilated as wide as the bandwidth’s spectrum, A.M. uses his Radio to wrest open abandoned frequencies on the dial. Bidding brain & body adieu, Shiner slips inside to play, joining metallic ghost voices as they surf through a strangely erotic vacuum. Weird new Canadian crew Musculus similarly reaps the generative union between flesh & electromagnetic possibility on this split’s flip. Their microfiche machines hum like monks on night watch, murky mantras preceded by 4th-dimensional feminine counterparts who emerge from a motorized surround."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A: A.M. Shiner
-A.M. Radio

Side B: Musculus
-Microfiche

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c68 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

"Nothing is exempt from evolution, and Portland’s Chrome Wings are a prime example of that principle when they take simple amoeboid sounds and swiftly sculpt them into electric body parts & sets of hi-fi feathers for the dance floor. With the magic and levity of storm clouds parting way to a rainbow or a kiss from a lover, ‘Time Patterns’ approaches unassumingly, yet leaves the listener breathless and wanting more a half-hour later. It’s a sound that’s taken Chrome Wings personal time & dedicated evolution to arrive at, obvious to all who’ve caught their recent live performances. Rhythms this juicy and soundforms this hypnotic in arrangement offer proof that we higher-primates can ascend toward the very stuff of dreams — in the club, at home, in the car, all of the above. "

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Double Fantasy
-Wave Life
-Tumbles
-Gateways

Side B:
-Color Worlds
-Dream Club
-Pills Drop

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.

"Nick Malkin of Queen Victoria shares: "Ambling along the line where song meets drone, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a delicate union of human noise, field recording and vague narrative. Six pieces of desert folk recorded with guitar, percussion, violin, keys and voice in a room colored with the distinct presence of something natural and unknowable, there and unthere. It is one ethereal document of an autumn in Los Angeles that leads Queen Victoria through examination and expression both within the frame of structure and without."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Seance
-When You Return
-Monolith

Side B:
-Wing
-Those Times
-The Prisoner's Song

- Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c28 tapes with insert and double-sided jcard, cover photo by the band.

"The last time we heard from Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand, the London cipher-weaver spun a most quixotic tapestry alluding to a nearby Other (Stunned no. 46). This next chapter raises the tension ever higher, thoroughly exploring ancillary avenues of nocturnal field recording & alien found sound. ‘Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden’ is an amalgamation of organic and inorganic energies fused into a beautiful, breathing contradiction. Special recording & editing techniques employed over its hour align the sacred geometries uncovered in spider webs, fishing nets, and tantric sex positions. The luminous sub-dimension revealed by such transgressive use of tech might take some getting used to; its’ presence suggestive of a Contact experience right under our own skins. "

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Untitled

Side B:
-Untitled

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c60 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.

"Frank Baugh of Sparkling Wide Pressure reports: “This is music which reflects the inner urge, the secret fear, and the courage to look directly. Guided by moods into the true reflection of an empty world that is open. Open world. Sitting still and being one with movement. Seeing the truth reflected in hollowness. It is like saying prayers in a nothing world. Pointless and poignant.” Exacting sentiments as we see this – Stunned’s final CDr edition – out into the world & into your own intimate listening experiences."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Mood (Guided) (9:56)
-Inside The World (12:41)
-Hearts (8:00)
-Facing The Nothing World/Looking For True Face (9:31)

-Limited edition of 111 stamped cdrs with double-sided color cover in vinyl jacket.

"After Torture Corpse debuted the gritty ‘Particular Sufferings’ on Stunned last year, we followed closely as his statement of devastation continued unfolding with an excellent EP on Italy’s Radical Matters. Now with a renewed ferocity and focus, this Act II casts an unflinching gaze at the brutal state of the world through Netherlands-zen/apocalyptic-Buddhist lenses. With the schemes of the globes’ shadow elite being exposed daily and the emperors of the world appearing quite unclothed to all who care to notice, Torture Corpse urges on toward the next necessary stage: ‘Stop the Mind’. Bracketed between black noise apparitions are vast stretches of radioactive chant and meditation bowl strikes, cerebral activity cooling to zilch. Circuits open and fully offline, there comes a bracing visit from none other than Manjushri — inevitability we can believe in."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Stop The Mind

Side B:
-Rock 'N' Rally
-Full Responsibility
-Manjushri

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.

"Ever since watching them torch down LA’s Echo Curio in 2008, John Ward & Matt Erickson of Sudden Oak have been our favorite Frisco free-sound bruisers. This cassette might come as a surprise turn even for those privy to the duo’s own Bezoar Formations imprint and its periodic outflow of Sudden Oak tapes and discs. A further refining of their road-toughened scuzz, ‘Banquet Years’ turns in a document of whiskey-soaked saxophone lurch and boogie guitar slime-motions. These two ataxic modalities are without individual agenda, fusing into a singular badass voice which is equally comfortable commanding a bulb-glaring bunker as it is crashing the narcotic pool party nextdoor. Bounce back & burn it proud."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Tilt

Side B:
-Slope

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.

"A lone voice etches straight to dictaphone the vibrations which have been petrified far too long in mere stone & silicone. Identity awoken in a night of raw fidelity, this oracle’s expression inhabits trance tones and punk-chant poesis. Gouge out your eye and trade it in for better ears, because Helga Fassonaki’s solo project Yek Koo is back after a nearly two-year hiatus. Quite a spirited fever has accumulated since this half of LA’s Metal Rouge performed her ‘Psychic Atonement for Land Deaths’ on Digitalis. ‘I Saw Myself’ shatters any restricting Mirror of our species with Yek Koo’s dynamically expanded vocal range and we are left freed, finding peace among the shards and surrender in the pieces."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Ring of Bone
-Yellow Fever Dance

Side B:
-Last Lust Lost

-Special hand numbered edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c27 tapes with double-sided die cut color jcard and insert.

"In our pursuit for the most flipped out noise on the globe, we’re always brought back to the area code of 905 Tapes’ Mike Haley and his long-running project of pleasure and pain Wether. ‘Here’s the Bet’ is a mean half hour of Haley’s hot circuit purgation where sweat stings the eyes and nausea synchs in time to icicle-sharp oscillations. The uncompromisingly clinical meat locker mechanics on display here might be a punch in the gut for those uninitiated with modern devices of sonic weaponry and crowd control. But once the gauntlet of tinnitus dipped 666-pitch has been weathered on the first pass, ‘Here’s the Bet’ becomes an experience likely to be often repeated — it’s venom doesn’t seem to kill us, but only serves to make us stronger."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Untitled

Side B:
-Untitled

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c32 tapes with double-sided color jcard.

"Alexey Pushkin of Analog Concept made his inaugural visit to America last summer with audio recorder in tow, capturing as many natural city sounds in NYC as possible before returning home to Russia to edit these source tapes. What resulted from this intricate documentation is ‘Impressions’ — an album quite unlike anything we’ve heard in recent memory. As Analog Concept navigates lonely subway tunnels, bustling city parks, and ominously desolate corridors, his layered travelogue yields to borderline-subliminal synth accentuations. Never entirely unaffected field recording, never entirely a formal synthesizer composition, this one sits on our shelf marked ‘unclassifiable’, and we’re delighted to offer it here for your own unique collection. "

-Stunned

Tracks:

-Impressions (48:40)

-Special edition of 111 cdrs with double sided color sandwich-covers in vinyl jacket.

"Carnal energy meets primal masculinity meets 360 tons of public-art-installation STEEL. Entering the belly of this beast for two separate midnight sessions, Bryce Loy (Abaddon Records) and Peter Lamons scratch and beat the RUST nearly clean off their instrument of creation/object of destruction. This is Connector — both the name of the experimental percussion project of Bryce & Peter’s, debuting on this cassette, as well as the name of a Richard Serra mega-sculpture erected last year in the belly of yet another beast: Orange County, California. The Connector duo’s pacing and control is tremendous within Serra’s massive acoustical space over both their 25-minute sides. The intimate sounds of crickets, heaving breath, and torqued steel moans are given just as much footing as vocal eruptions & volcanic percussions upon the 66-foot-tall sculpture sides. No electricity. No effects. Just the quickening of sweat, absorption of metallic shock, and shedding of blood in a thrilling attempt to locate one of the deepest ancestral rites — discovery though smashing shit up."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-STEEL

Side B:
-RUST

-Special edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c50 tapes with double-sided jcard and foldout color insert.

"Mark E. Kaylor & Heather Vergotis are active members of the burgeoning Portland free music community, having busted their chops around town for years prior to forming the multi-instrumental beast Hammer of Hathor. Some duos in PDX can pull off jazz or punk, and some can pull off scuzz or folk, but HOH venture to ask “why not take it all on?” Their ‘False Teef’ begins at any number of disparate points to launch into super inspired jam mode, as we can testify after 40 such minutes of feedback meditation, string twang trance, surging tape loop, smoked out riffs, and a pair of rattling false teeth perched upon the amplifier. It’s also immediately apparent these partners are synched for optimal 4D pattern-weaving and burnt basement reach-out to the tangential points between the weird and weirder energies. Breathe in a whole new scenery, take on a whole new time — a soundtrack is here to assist the switch."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Yucka Drucka

Side B:
-Bee, Left Foot Right Foot

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.

"Jeff Astin. Kane Pour. Tricorn and Queue. Dawn of time. An eye, singular and illuminated from without. A twitch, a blink. Two eyes appear. Gaze frozen open, beholding. End of time. ‘Ashes Wander’"

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Untitled (7:15)
-Untitled (1:43)
-Untitled (3:20)
-Untitled (6:42)

Side B:
-Untitled (2:08)
-Untitled (5:09)
-Untitled (9:17)
-Untitled (3:17)

-Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c40 tapes with double-sided color jcard.

"Sindre Bjerga and Nils Rostad hunt down roomfuls of skittish warbles & waves over 3 separate live performances collected here for their sophomore offering ‘Midnight Safari Blues.’ Having debuted together as a duo earlier this year on Tape Drift with the excellent ‘Static Fields Forever’, the two indicated a shift in Norway’s free-noise priorities. This is resonance that wants to be held and sculpted like soft clay. One might suggest Bjerga’s minimalist electronic peppering and Rostad’s dream-drunk guitar act like handfuls of yeast thrown into the otherwise limp loaf of roomtone that’s encountered by every performer upon first stepping into their show space. Every contrasting string pluck and layered sinusoid create a little air pocket allowing the listener to breathe moment-to-moment, unsure of when the next alignment will arrive. This welcomes in an ever-evolving interplay of active & passive improv structures, and a reflection of an audile world which folds organically into night’s magnetic center. "

-Stunned

Tracks:

-Winter's Golden Fog (11:22)
-Midnight Safari Blues (18:17)
-Blood From The Moon (9:53)

-Hand numbered edition of 100 stamped cdrs with full color sleeve & double sided insert card in vinyl jacket.

"SIDE A: The come-up. A flick too many of the bic lighter perhaps, and then it’s a red-eyed night prowling the east side of town in pursuit of a burrito and more ganja. Or maybe a ganja-burrito? Someone should invent that so we could eat it. Rounding the corner now and –oh crap– it’s the cops. Sirens, dogs barking, the choppers start following, dropped the burrito back there somewhere (yet to score any ganj…). And suddenly a snap-to after 22 minutes of this modular synth-sourced hallucination, and the realization that we’ve been listening to ‘Smoke Blower’ by M. Geddes Gengras. Yes, L.A.’s own Renaissance Man: part Antique Brothers guitar wiz, part Green Machines uberstudio founder, part drummer for the mighty Robedoor, etc. Ged’s rap sheet goes on and on. It’s starting to make sense now. Or is it?
SIDE B: re-ignite. You thought shit was crazy back there? Goodness gracious, son. Until we’ve actually stood under a dozen hydrogen blimps erupting in unified concert, this is the closest document on our hands approaching such levels of up-your-guts bass frequency experience. Fried, fried, fried. A psychic plunge upward, only to watch as a scythe the size of Florida rakes down the redwood forests. Tree trunks and rattlesnake ribcages all eventually clipped and neatly bundled with patch cord, piled miles upon miles high... 'ew' & 'whew'."

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
-Smoke Blower (21:54)

Side B:
-Tree Trimmer (21:43)

-Hand numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted c44 tapes in clear shells with green foil liner w/ double-sided color jcard.

"Nodolby is one of the few acts of recent times that can still give us a remarkable thrill, harkening back to days earlier in this decade when ‘noise’ meant the gloves coming off and all you could do was brace yourself for the impending shockwaves. Dokuro Records boss Mic Scariot has been refining his Nodolby circuits to the side of his long-running group Ent, and lately this solo show seems to be surging ahead with an unexpected bumper harvest of psychoactive sizzlers. The untitled c32 proudly presented here has been marinated in acid rain and tastes nasty when it wants to be. But at moments it pauses its wild sensory-max'd climbing entirely to siphon streams of irradiated drone glory into our midst. Of all Nodolby’s output we’ve heard, this cassette shows a particular devotion to the neon awe that accompanies a mind existing fully outside of time, surging where it wills at the speed of sound. A thrill indeed. "

-Stunned

Tracks:

Side A:
- 'Voice Over The Zone, When Light Devouring Me'
-'Response: Superfeedback Convoy'

Side B:
-'Automatic Mydriasis. Dream Weapon's Pivotal Guidance'
-'Summer Stasis Bucolic Transient Onomatopoeia'

-Hand numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted c32 tapes in light blue shells w/ double-sided color jcard.