[2012] Aaron Dilloway & Jason Lescalleet - Grapes and Snakes

Grapes and Snakes' is the first collaborative work of two of the most respected American underground experimental/noise artists: Aaron Dilloway and Jason Lescalleet. Using purely analog synths and tape manipulation, they build a foggy psychoacoustic mass that lies somewhere between dynamic yet patiently treated tape-music and industrial howl. Dilloway has been releasing and recording music since the age of 16 and is a former guitarist and tape manipulator for the experimental band Wolf Eyes and also runs the noise record label, record store and mailorder Hanson Records. Jason Lescalleet's soundworld, meanwhile, occupies a space between noise, contemporary composition, and minimal electronics.

Tracklist:
A Shattered Capsules 19:47
B Burning Nest 19:35


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[2012] Clark - Fantasm Planes [EP]

Electronic producer Chris Clark already released an LP this year, Iradelphic, and on September 4 (a day before in the UK), he'll put out a companion EP, Fantasm Planes, via Warp.

Tracklist:
01 Fantasm Planes
02 Henderson Swooping
03 Com Re-Touch/Pocket For Jack
04 Brigitte
05 Secret Slow Show
06 Dove In Flames


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[2012] Maria Minerva - Will Happiness Find Me

Hypnagogic abstractionist Maria Minerva will release a new full-length, Will Happiness Find Me, on September 4 via Not Not Fun.

Tracklist:
01 The Sound 3:53
02 Heart Like A Microphone 3:50
03 I Don't Wanna Be Discovered (Will Happiness Find Me?) 3:48
04 Alone In Amsterdam 3:36
05 Sweet Synergy 3:40
06 Fire (feat. Chase Royal) 3:01
07 Coming Of Age 4:42
08 Perpetual Motion Machine 3:37
09 Never Give Up 6:49
10 Mad Girl's Love Song 4:50
11 The Star 2:38


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[2012] Holy Other - Held

On August 28, Manchester-based producer Holy Other will follow last year's debut EP, With U, with his full-length debut, Held, via Tri Angle.

Tracklist:
01 (W)here
02 Tense Past
03 Inpouring
04 Love Some1
05 U Now
06 In Difference
07 Past Tension
08 Held
09 Nothing Here


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[2012] Four Tet - Pink

The follow-up to 2010's There Is Love In You is called Pink, and the eight-track album will be released digitally via Hebden's Text label on August 20. Pink collects a number of the vinyl-only singles that Hebden has been releasing over the last year, the majority of which are over eight minutes long apiece.

Tracklist:
01 Locked
02 Lion
03 Jupiters
04 Ocoras
05 128 Harps
06 Pyramid
07 Peace for Earth
08 Pinnacles


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[2012] Blanck Mass - White Math / Polymorph [12'']

Last year, Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power released a glistening slab of nature-flecked drone in the form of the debut LP from his Blanck Mass project. On August 21, Blanck Mass returns with a new 12", White Math / Polymorph, via Mexican Summer and Software.

Tracklist:
01. White Math
02. Polymorph


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[2012] Moon Pool & Dead Band - Human Fly [12'']

Detroit deviants Moonpool & Dead Band hardwire their gutter disco waveforms with all the slime lab atmospherics and sci-fi circuitry scuzz that you might expect (and hope for) from a duo comprised of veteran garage-punk drummer Dave Shettler and Wolf Eye noise lifer Nate Young. Utilizing a swap meet’s worth of crusty synths, sequencers, drum machines, and outmoded FX units, and adhering to a purist’s regimen of “all live + improvised, no overdubs,” MP & DB’s rogue wizard approach to basement beat music has birthed some refreshingly unclassifiable tunnel-rat techno (see their self-titled 12” on Agitated for proof), but Human Fly feels like their unambiguous highlight to date.

Tracklist:
01. Human Fly
02. Jagged Orbit
03. Cyber Rebels


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[2012] Afterhours - Sleepwalker [12'']

If NYC is the city that never sleeps, then LA’s the one that never wakes. Deep dawn drives through Los Angeles’ fringier fiber optic thoroughfares reveal a nocturnal wonderland of ghosts, bums, lurkers, vampires, and thugs – every stripe of sleepwalker. Which is an all too apt title for Afterhours’ vinyl debut, after a calendar year of altered state incubation via their live weekly radio transmission, “Field Recordings Of The Afterhours,” broadcast from KCHUNG’s Chinatown basement headquarters. Inspired equally by Mo’ Wax obscurities, sound poetry, “Moments In Love,” anime depictions of neo-futurist Tokyo, and Endtroducing, the EP’s four instrumentals slow-zoom like a surveillance camera through shimmering tunnels, glowing skylines, and empty streets, rich with headphone harmonics and the grey romance of isolation.

Tracklist:
01. Sleepwalker
02. 4AM on the Local 83
03. Salt on the Wound
04. That Dream About 97


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[2012] Holy Balm - It's You

Last year’s LA Vampires club-cruise across Australia unearthed a multitude of uplifting experiences (Cairns hippie aerialists, Newcastle hardcore, Melbourne acid sangria, etc), but chief among them was the live actualization of Sydney post-power trio Holy Balm, who slyly gene-splice strands of mutant new wave, freeform house, digital trashcan tribalism, and minimalist pop into something playful, primitive, and splatterpaint-party perfect. After a few micro-limited split tapes and a single 7”, the band finally enlisted the help of Jon Hunter at Magnetic Recording Council Studios to record and mix their debut full-length, resulting in the whacked-out hypercolor majesty of It’s You.

Tracklist:
01 Favourite Sweater [Written-By – Y Pants]
02 Holy Balm Theme
03 Losing Control
04 Phone Song
05 Take It
06 Town Called Hope
07 One And Only


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[2012] Meadowlands - Cross-sectional Studies

To say he starts gathering pace would probably be an overstatement, but compared to the sheer ambient delight of his previous stuff, what our man McGregor aka Meadowlands does here on his very excellent new Cross-sectional Studies tape might be considered a slightly new direction, an exploration into sonic territory that is still very much about texture and intricate soundscaping for the sake of pure experimentation, yet that for the first time, as far as I’m informed, also features something I’m inclined to call, until further notice, an actual rhythm section.

The Cross-sectional Studies C-30 is out 14 May 2012 on Portugal’s Exo Tapes. Edition of 20. This edition is currently sold out!

Tracklist:
01. Bamboo Hearts
02. Sonafin
03. Shongum
04. Pumpernickles
05. Nueve Diez
06. Zeuce
07. Heaven


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[2012] Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Traces

Here it is, the first edition from A Guide To Saints, a double sided journey through the swirling synth waves and vocal incantations of Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - and the first in our series of ‘Cassette Diaries’.

Tracklist:
01. Colour Changing Eyes
02. Traces


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[2012] Luke Abbott - Modern Driveway

Nearly two years ago, Norfolk, England's blurry techno auteur Luke Abbott released an excellent LP on James Holden's Border Community label, Holkham Drones. On June 25, Abbott returns with a new EP, Modern Driveway; the EP will see release on kindred spirit and fellow UK producer Gold Panda's Notown label.

Tracklist:
01. Modern Driveway 5:33
02. Hand Drawn Maps 3:15
03. Ovals 3:03
04. Carrage 4:11
05. Meeting Hill 7:08


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[2012] The Haxan Cloak - The Men Parted The Sea To Devour The Water

Following his critically acclaimed debut album on Aurora Borealis, the new Tri-Angle signee, The Haxan Cloak (AKA Bobby Krlic), has quite gracefully buried himself deep into the networks of unsettling electronic music. This Latitudes release is, in essence, Bobby live, but think of it as 'The Haxan Cloak 2.0'.

Tracklist:
01. The Men Parted The Sea To Devour The Water
Total Running Time: 32:17


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[2012] Bronze Age - Antiquated Futurism [12'']

Dominik Fernow's Bed Of Nails venture welcomes his longtime co-conspirator Kris Lapke with three tracks of haunting Gothic Techno produced as Bronze Age. Kris used to run the Hospital Productions studio when it was operating in Manhattan. It was there that he galvanized seminal records including Kevin Drumm's 'Imperial Distortion' and Prurient's 'Arrowhead' with his signature post-production and recording techniques, beside corrosive solo work as Alberich and as part of guitar/noise duo Northern Cross with Geoff Mullen.

Tracklist:
01. Surviving Cultural Impedance 5:31
02. Coupling Symbols 5:06
03. Modal Ingenuity 7:26

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[2012] Matthew Dear - Beams

Early on in Matthew Dear's Beams— the New York-based artist's fourth full-length, his first since 2010’s shadowy masterpiece Black City— something strange happens. A thick-fingered electric bass gallops in atop a driving backbeat as Dear sneers, "It’s alright to be someone else sometimes." It may be odd to hear former techno-wunderkind Matthew Dear playing rock music, but the manic punk pulse of "Earthforms" is just one facet of Beams’ kaleidoscopic journey. Shot through with equal parts optimism and uneasiness, Beams is the latest transmission from one of pop music's most fascinating creative minds.

Tracklist:
01 Her Fantasy
02 Earthforms
03 Headcage
04 Fighting Is Futile
05 Up & Out
06 Overtime
07 Get The Rhyme Right
08 Ahead Of Myself
09 Do The Right Thing
10 Shake Me
11 Temptation

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[2012] Percussions - Bird Songs / Rabbit Songs [12'']

The mysterious Percussions deliver the latest limited instalment from Kieran Hebden's increasingly active Text imprint.

Tracklist:
01. Bird Songs
02. Rabbit Songs


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