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H Y S T E R T A P E S:
DESTROY ALL TIE FIGHTERS: C60 tape
(HYSTER01, 2001)
*aprox. 10 copies, all gone
DIETER MUH: doin? it dresden style
(HYSTER02, 2003)
*50 copies, all gone
XXIII: live at la-bas (HYSTER03,
2007)
*50 copies, all gone
YOUR OWN SHADOW BLOCKS THE LIGHT compilation tape
(HYSTER04, 2007)
*100 copies, all gone
GREY PARK: 2 x live at koko theatre (HYSTER05,
2007)
*two gigs played & recorded at koko theatre, helsinki. first one is from
year 2004 and the second almost precisely two years after that.
eerie and oddly cultivated droning lo-fi ambient noise made with
effect boxes, couple of radios, tapes, one
laptop, one vintage synth and
three assholes.
dubbed on whatever. edition of three million copies.
3e + postages
PLEASURES AND DAYS: live (HYSTER06,
2008)
*32 copies, all gone
CULVER: they killed suzie carter (HYSTER07,
2008)
*50 copies, all gone
RE-CLIP: notes (HYSTER08, 2009)
*50 copies, all gone
SECOND ONE compilation tape (HYSTER09,
2010)
*59 copies, all gone.
HISS NAUSEA / NOLLS split (HYSTER10, 2011)
*32 copies, all gone
MELOPHOBIA / NOLLS: split (HYSTER11,
2011)
*32, all gone
COURTIS & MACHINEFABRIEK / NOLLS: split (HYSTER12,
2011)
*35 copies, all gone
DEAR BELOVED HENRY / ALBERT MATERIA: split
(HYSTER13,
2011)
*50 copies, all gone
THIRD NUMBER compilation tape (HYSTER14,
2012)
*50 copies, all gone
UTON / GREY PARK: split (HYSTER15, 2012)
*50 copies, all gone
VARROPAS: untitled LP (HYSTER16 / IKU-039, 2013)
*12", 33rpm released in collaboration with Ikuisuus label from tampere.
two long tracks of excelent, staticish, crackling n hissing lo-fi
ambient made with electric guitar, effects and synths that fit on a vinyl
like a glove.
10e + postages
FOUR LETTER WORLD COMPILATION (HYSTER17,
2013)
*was 50 copies, all gone
MUSTAT KALSARIT: 7" EP (HYSTER18 / JUMATSUGA / ROCK N ROLL
BULLSHIT
RECORSD / TNT TAPES & RECORDS SERVICES, 2014)
*all gone from here
KEIJO: koti kaukainen LP (HYSTER19 / IKU-041 / TNT-33,
2014)
*all gone from here.. http://jukkanousiainen.net/kauppa/ might still have
copies
TIETOKONEDUOJ&J / LOST SNIVEL: split
(HYSTER20,
2015)
*was 50 copies, all gone
L´INCORONAZIONE (HYSTER21, 2015)
was 51 copies, all gone
GRYKE PYJE: fragments of high sensitivity (HYSTER22 /
IKU-043, 2016)
*12" 33rpm full of wonderful, bright, colorful, dense dream logic and
coincidentally intimidating psychedelic electronics, objects and sounds
in a
mindboggling covers that will most likely render all your other new age LPs
obsolete but you will feel pretty allright with that in the end.
12e + postages
ZOE POLANSKI: inertia - music from the motion picture
(HYSTER23,
2017)
was 30 copies, all gone
ILIA BELORUKOV / JELENA GLAZOVA: split (HYSTER24,
2018)
was 32 copies, all gone
LEITMOTIV LIMBO / RNPno.2: split (HYSTER25,
2018)
was 50 copies, all gone
GREY PARK: olic banquet (HYSTER26, 2018)
*13 tracks on 1 sided tape in 42 minutes equals 56 copies on recycled
tapes.
neat & comprehensible
3e + postages
A HANDFUL OF DUST: the eightness of Adam Qadmon (HYSTER27 /
IKU56, 2019)
*vinyl LP reissue of cassette originally released in 1994 by Corpus
Hermeticum.
15e + postages
RE-CLIP: noon (HYSTER28, 2019)
was 50 copies, all gone
YOL/LLOYD/POSSET / RNPno.2 split (HYSTER29,2019)
*A side: dictaphones, small metals, lurid stuttering, heavy
breathing and shouted matter. B side: static panned,
an feeling and a short fieldrec of mild confusion.
50 copies, recycled tapes
laughter, forgiveness, commitment, tradition and fear.
3e + postages
D.D. DOBSON: ritual bath (HYSTER30,
2020)
was 53 copies, all gone
SICK DAYS (HYSTER31, 2021)
*two tracks, one 30min static of cold drones and lo-fi hiss, another 13
min of layered and loud field recordings gathered
at Point Abino, Crystal Beach,
Ontario, Canada. same material on both sides of tape.
https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/DFHD/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=1849
recycled tapes, 38 copies.
3e + postages
LOST SNIVEL: further down the spora (HYSTER32,
2021)
was 58 copies, all gone
MODELBAU: thermolite (HYSTER33,
2022)
was 44 copies, all gone
JAZZHAND: muuttomatkalainen (HYSTER34,
2022)
was 50 copies, all gone
DULL BOYS: dull boys (KING TAPES / TOTES FORMAT /
HYSTER35,
2022)
all gone from here. https://totes-format.weebly.com/ might still have
copies
DEL STEPHEN: listener (HYSTER36, 2022)
*hidden faraway island dream stasis, walkman fieldrec cassette magie
from streets of Vancouver and a rooftop in Toronto,
your surroundings, minimal underwater Tetris jazz, tiny starlit celestial
night and morning in the park.
yet of course you as a listener will hear something else. involving
listen
in multiple ways.
50 copies on recycled tapes, bandcamp dl code slip for digi included
4e + postages
file under: reality new age
HUMAN ADULT BAND: 3.12.22 - 7.12.22 (HYSTER37, 2023)
*there is automatic writing and then there is automatic rock. this is the
latter with healthy doses of free noise, slow doom dirge
jams, strange snippets of scuzz and a degenerating 5 sec tape loop to end
it all. a glorious, 120% analogue, over the top lo-fi
production.
32 copies on recycled cassettes
4e + postages
more than meets the eye
ARCHIVES ASSISTANT: television road (HYSTER38,
2024)
*60+ min. six tracks of wonderful left-field experimental /
ambient electronics and field-recordings. weird, obscured, calm
disjointed, lively, bass-heavy and occasionally raw & minimal dubby
atmospherics.
while it manages to wander and cover a
lot of ground it never feels discordant yet thought out and planned,
working within multifaceted odd inner logic of its own. in
other words: timeless, vast and green.
CD in a full color digipack
10e + postages
fresh for future
ZHERBIN / JUNTA : split (HYSTER39, 2024)
*glorious ripping myriad of harsh electronics, metal junk, pieces, hiss
gadgets and
crude tape loops that start and stop and start and
stop and then eventually taper away. slowly building tinkling and
crackling massive onwards moving chaotic harsh noise slab
ending up crude yet comfortable
overwhelming crunch, buzz and wail. abt 15 minutes of opposites of same
coin - an exact amount of
massive fun.
for alternate mix, push the loudness button on your amplifier - thank you.
50 copies, recycled tapes (cut to length when possible)
4 + postages
if it sounds broken dont fix it
KLUIK: sankutu (HYSTER40, 2024)
*wonderful 38 minute crudely recorded free improvisation of microphone
feedback, tape echo, guitar, piano and primitive percussion.
at times it sounds like Ry Cooder having a real bad day. homeburned
CD-R in a plastic sleeve, photocopied covers.
edition of 50 copies.
4e + postages
put the rain on tin, once
SARA MILAZZO / BARRETT E. LEDIARD: split (HYSTER41,
2025)
*lo-fi electronic gadgets, crude circuits, tape hiss, primitive synths and
wonderful samples all issued with neat hands-on stereo approach
that sounds old yet not dated.
group of strings clouded in smoke amidst looped and and honed electronic
wind, all trembling mirage-like. play loud and disappear. mono.
edition of 50 copies on recycled tapes (cut to length when
possible)
4e + postages
travel to so to speak
BUFFALOMCKEE + D.D. DOBSON: The Charity school movement CD-R
(HYSTER42, 2025)
*distant factory humm, wonky audiobook theatrics and whole life spent in
cut-up circus. wandering thru mystery park. celestial sizzle. experimental
electronics.
homeburned CD-R in a plastic sleeve, photocopied covers.
edition of 50 copies.
4e + postages
Aaron in space alley
O T H E R T A P E
S:
ANGEL SIMITCHIEV & LINUS SCHRAB: airborne (AMEK051)
*if youre going to get just one Amek collective release this year it
should be this collaboration tape.
might be the pinnacle of the label so far..
6e + postages
ANTONY MILTON: off-white (AKTICAS-7)
*sad and sincere sounding, slow, dreamy and meandering emotional
experimental glitchy psych leftfield lo-fi pop
with occasional cool and fried and almost collapsing noodling electric
guitar
solos. this was a lathe cut LP in 2017.
now in 2023 its a C-cassette. wondering if there will be an
neural-audio-hologram (NAH) version out in 2046?
8e + postages
ATTACK THE ENEMY: mässäker (RUPU030)
*A side sizzling, noisy D-beat punk. best track name "glam rock incel",
best track "future". B side static rumbling and
distantly wheezing gloomy grey industrial noise, industrial in the
factory sense, not the genre. crude and lo-fi.
5e + postages
AUTHARKTOS: carpetscapes (TCD1432017)
*basically a nice experimental tape of droning sine waves and/or
keyboards, tiny sounds, garbled tape whine,
confused atmospheres, the usual fare. all good & fine. yet what makes
this tape stand out a bit is its way odd
production values and choices - there is really weird digital crap glitch
on top of everything through the whole tape,
sometimes it fits almost magically and sometimes its really fucking
annoying. its close to a sound you might get when
recording something really loud with cheap earbuds. this tape is edition of 18 copies.. which is probably just fine
since
it is clearly not for everyone. file under: annoying, limited,
baltic & brilliant.
ps. somehow this tape also reminds me at times of Crochet from UK..
i have no idea why.
4e + postages
BARDO TODOL / DEVID CIAMPALINI: el origen del pensamiento magico
(IKASUS-063)
*pretty inspired collaboration between two italians and one argentine.
new ageish / ambient, experimental synth /
electronics with odd snippets
of field recordings, effected monologues, shallow & tiny drumming, bells,
toys and
such, all assembled into an weird, flowing collage. really
diverse & really good!
6e + postages
BLACK HOLE SYNDROME: studio futu (NO LABEL)
*main ingredients: a very distant slow groovy rudimentary drum beat and a
thoughtful meandering bass, coated
with saxophone of various ways and muffled, partly inaudible sung / spoke
stream of consciousness vocals.
add 16 tons of atmosphere and inspiration and two slices of somethings
sounding harmonium and worlds smallest
bagpipe and you have this tape. it
sounds like jazz but oddly at the same time it clearly somehow is not
jazz?
well whatever it is, its also probably the bravest and most beat cassette
of year 2024! full recommendations.
6e + postages
BILLA ENSEMBLE: live at billa 2 (NO LABEL)
*a chance meeting of quartet of Michiu, Marie Vermont, Tumeric Acid and
the concept horse that results in a
one sided recycled C90 cassette with about 32 minutes of sparse
improvised experimental electronix.
there is a note on
the web that suggest this was played and recorded in a supermarket. i dont
think that it is
true but i will believe it anyway. yellow, violet(ish) and green covers
available.
7e + postages
COSMIC HOMEOSTASIS (VAC-069)
*side a, collaborative meandering cosmic experimental ambient piece
called broken telephone from 2020,
made online during early
lock-down by 16 musicians. an calm, mysterious and bit oppressive affair,
perhaps
a bit like early Tangerine Dream at points? side b a track called
Christies transmission which is compiled from two
live performaces
recorded at a park in 2021 by almost the same 16 people who are involved
in broken
telephone.
its gentle, thoughtful yet bit sombre ambience. flutes,
bells, electronics and Maple Leafs baseball game. real nice tape!
7e + postages
CRUCIAL GENESIS OUTFITS (DCR-011 / VAC-037)
*on the tape cover it also states: "NO WORDS FOR THESE KIND OF BIRDS".
this is a split tape between Fire moss
and Think of a name, both (maybe) from Canada. side F.M has a four fine
minimal pieces made with (mostly scraped
and delayed) violin, bass, keyboards,synth and piano. all is real airy and
totally wonderful.
on side T.O.A.N there is a great live recording from year 2018 made in
Welland. hard to describe slowly morphing,
meandering, experimental, psychedelic and improvised maze of samples,
guitar, bass, loops and such. real good!
7e + postages
D.D. DOBSON: generic girls (DX1002)
*trading low metals with holy ghosts, fast messages, an sight, attempt of
arson, the game, gods slain & blended into the glass,
having the metal bucket & then melting the mr. & ms. america. thats the
story, now you can have the soundtrack too.
recorded in USA 1982 (mono).
8e + postages
D.D. DOBSON: the classic of purity (DX1005)
*excelent, weird muddled abstract soundscapes, mangled field recordings
(maybe), messy electronic drones, unplaceable sounds,
odd, creeping atmospheres etc etc from USA 85.
8e + postages
D. D. DOBSON: the buried life (DX1007)
*seven tracks made with electric and acoustic guitar both with six
low E strings and three microphones. wailing,
crumbling & lively feedback. recorded in 1985, mono.
8e + postages
D.D. DOBSON: uncreated past (DX1013)
*material from year 1998, tape released 2015. many tiny, very murky
blurred electronic and acoustic experimental
pieces and some hard to explain snippets of totally rotten dialogue.
mysteries of history revealed? never!
very much recommended.
8e + postages
DEBT OF NATURE: san salvador day (DX1009)
*Recorded 2014, beautiful and almost sacred.
8e + postages
DEL STEPHEN: (split) (VAC-068)
*A side excellent, yet very crude, live recording from september 29 2022
at Hotel Wolfe Island. set starts with 5 brief
poems with backing
soundtracks that go from tropical moods cassette hiss to weird,
atmospheric and tiny trip hop and
onto even a bit intimidating, minimal
and very lo-fi light industrial noise. the latter might sound like
that due the
wonderful lo-fi quality of the recording. the 2 songs that
end the set are long, freeform versions of songs called "heart loft"
and
"translation emotion express". its a fantastic document of inspiring and
real special live event!
side B is titled
"imagine that the sea is on the other side" and
consists of 3 tracks of airy, thoughtful, soothing, mysterious and sublime
synth music pieces and one lovely hissing and distant
field-recording / audio collage.
with the tape comes a lengthy two page A4
where the events around, in and
outside the Hotel Wolfe Island concert get described by Del. in the text a
term a performer of
secret music gets introduced and it fits here
100%. very much recommended!!
7e + postages
DUBBLING CRACK MONSTER: radio inside (IN.005)
*the label has a real good description of this, so here it is:
Capture radio waves with an antenna, through a cable, through
the drum
machine, synthesized by circuits. ... The devices influence and trigger
each other.
Radio signals are chopped and channeled through the circuits. Bass
fields resound in noise, radio shreds floating in the drones.
its a fantastic cassette!
6e + postages
FRISSON MMXX (amex003)
*compilation of live recordings. tracks from Late, Evitceles, Cyberian
1.0, Kr.ll.r, Mytrip, OOHS! and Amek Drone Ensemble.
all recorded during FRISSON FESTIVAL, Studio EW, Sofia on October 8-11, 2020
6e + postages
GREY PARK: palm of Saddam (NO LABEL, 2020)
*two longer tracks and one shorter on recycled tape. c. 26 minutes.
includes bandcamp download code.
4e + postages
GREY PARK: what transparency clouds (NO LABEL, 2022)
*4 tracks on a recycled cassette, c. 20 minutes. thanks: Neil Young,
Kaaos.
4e + postages
GREY PARK: meatlies of pisnack (NO LABEL, 2022)
*old and new - tracks from year 1994, 2021 and 2022. c. 40 minutes.
recycled cassette.
4e + postages
GREY PARK: think space, act local (volume one) (HAEM 005)
*compilation of tracks recorded / released between 1999-2004. compiled by
Steve Cammack. all material comes from cassettes tape#3,
All the time in the word, gp/clay figure split and Halogen ball comp CD-R
and Words are
little creatured that work for the black sun 3" CD-R.
7e + postages
GREY PARK + SICK DAYS: work gothic (VAC-070)
*collaboration cassette between grey park & sick days. all material
recorded in 2023. nearly 80 minutes.
recycled tapes, edition of 40 copies.
5.50e + postages
HEART STRUCTURE QUARTET: soul horses (VAC-048)
*quartet improvisations with clarinet, effects, voice, percussion, guitar,
keys, synth, pedals, samples,
tapes, contact mics. just really beautiful and solid tape.
its bit hard to describe so go there and listen
https://vacancyniagara.bandcamp.com/album/soul-horses-vac-048
7e + postages
HUMAN ADULT BAND: T. Penn collections (SAGA HOUSE 3)
*this collection includes: one great droning 17 min neck of a bass vs. amp
haze, scuzzy & messy lo-fi recordings of
songs in minimal band setups, some bass / guitar duo situations. lots of
noisy improlike, free psych
noodling. one T.Rex cover.
i guess these are mostly recorded in live
situations at shady houses and basements in new jersey. you can almost
hear the mold.
A side is B side played backwards.. dont really know whats
the idea behind that but it sure is annoying!
5e+ postages
HUNTON QUINTET: kuutelus (IKASUS-03)
*Concrete and Stepanoff with guitars, percussions,
synths/laptop, vocals and piano in Porvoo AD 2005.
athmospheric, creepy, devastating and totally disorienting experience. i
think they
recorded some things under
the name ANTI/UTON many, many years ago..
4 euro + postages
IESKADULLA: raajakipu (SATATUHATTA-90)
*almost lookalike re-issue of the self-released tape. the paper is the
same, sound is the same, cover pictures are the same, font is the
same, though
text on the spine is located more to the left, not middle as before. what
is missing is the round sticker on the cassette stating "Take
it easy"
in finnish and saturated picture of Antti Rinne on a small paper
slip inside the covers. new addition is the vaguely Gira / Albini
styled cortisone-themed
text inside the covers. of course, these are minor
disruptions in the whole and do not diminish the fact that this is still a
fantastic harsh noise debut!
chrome tape.
9e + postages
INFINITE INTERIOR (eë editions 06)
*second compilation from eë editions. as wonderful as the previous
(Other Slightly) but this time everything seems to be bit more
crude and
lovely lo-fi.. and a bit more coherent as a whole, the tracks go real
well together.
Tin Tin Patrone slow pace collage of very
odd and deep sounds and atmospheres, there might be a trombone here or
maybe its cello?
Marie Vermont an seemingly improvised,
real inspired and pretty nasty
synth and feedback excercise.
The Concept Horse a mangled recording
of a stringed instrument scrape,
a cheap keyboard and a tingle with a
healthy dose of tape hiss.
Magnetic Coroner mushy,
loopy, circling sample-based oddly stale/moldy
collage. En Creux a lo-fi excercise of tinnitus whine and amplifier
buzz n
hiss which ends up as a noisy crunch. Emacs a distant melancholy humm
amidst corrupted radio signal and a slice of mangled tape work.
Excelent release!
7e + postages
JACKIE O MOTHERFUCKER: channel zero (AKTICAS-6)
*live recording from Italy 2006, it starts with a heartbeat and then inept
fluting, humming and wailing, echoed bells, percs, mumbled
statements, slow chance punting, rattle, screech all get involved and
then it somehow ends finally in a incomprehensible sing a song
action. its a ritualistic mess, yes.
8e + postages
JORGE VICARIO: broken music (JZK030)
*C40 tape that sounds at times like a skipping cd-player with a bit of
soul. could be filed under minimal easy-listening
glitch, maybe? dont know if on purpose or not but anyway well fitting for
this release, the liner notes are also written
in very broken english. nice listen.
4+postages
JUNTA: canny alley (RUPU032)
*midpaced, crumbling, crunchy, wailing and diverse harsh noise - chaos as
a structure, collapse as a direction. while side A is real fine,
side B is just plain stellar - a wonderful, surprising primitive ride!
special offer: buy this before 5.4.2025 and you will most
likely receive
the tape during reality where Junta still exists.
5e + postages
KRVUSPÁRA: yarn (hirvirantatapes026 / movement-03)
*chaotic, experimental and pretty dirty lo-fi mystery black metal with
some slow- burning atmospheric parts and nice, short experimental
touches
- tape crunch / warble, electronic buzz / wail, field-recorded birds,
meandering organ / synth etc etc - within and between the tracks.
maybe the slower parts are black metal too? i dont speak black metal so i
am not sure..
overall feel of this tape comes across more as a messed
up organic
whirlwind of deeply
haunted rural metal-punk than some cold black cosmic religion-themed
horror heavy-metal.
included a small insert of a poetic travelogue of sorts
written in finnish. coherent and well-thought-out whole.. and even quite
catchy
at points! recommended.
8e + postages
LEITMOTIV LIMBO: limbo / wind swept (SM01)
*stark, minimal,lo-fi, very strange and often just downright
creepy soundscapes/songs made mainly with saxophone (or some
suchlike wind instrument[s]), crude electronics, occasional
beaten metal junk and blurred vocals. covers look like theyve
been somehow programmed with VCR on a piece of tapestry and the
tapes been spraypainted with.. something.
7e + postages
LEITMOTIV LIMBO: minimal sphere (SM04)
*analogue diy synths, vague alien logic, disjointed pulses and sub-level
swooshes - all skewed into a dry, shining, creepy,
confusing, slow,distant bleep and howl. lo-fi hiss of fever melt mess /
ping / stasis. ifyou plan to go stalking E.T., here is
a potent soundtrack. covers: cryptic fonts on thick gold cardboard,
recycled, shotgun spraypainted tapes.
7e + postages
LEITMOTIV LIMBO: spiritual disturbance (NO LABEL..?)
*C60 of self-built wood & iron spring percussion-like instruments recorded
in 2020 with two room microphones onto
4-track at a church hall in adelaide, australia. occasionally rhythmic,
cavernous, crackling, hissing,
and quite bleak yet
lucid outsider vision. released in 2022, recycled, spraypainted tapes.
7e + postages
MARC BENNER + SICK DAYS: waste of time, waste of money / submit
split (VAC-055)
*Benner: real tasty 10 minute of mushy fieldrec, tapehiss and maybe, just
maybe, some minimal synth work. excellent and confusing listen!
Sick days: close recording of wind, water or fire and a soothing,
meandering plink plonk of a music box / xylophone / electric toy piano or
such + radio / contact mic scrape & hiss.
all in all - a tape of mighty bliss for days on end! very recommended.
6e + postages
MAGNETIC LAKE: s/t (CAT-001)
*weird hypnag. pop, songs from Odessa, UKR. at times sounds really oddly
much like early lydia lunch.
5e + postages
MÉNARD / GARCIA: split (VAC-059)
*on recycled C60. Julius Menard side: two tracks of beautiful, quite
static and shimmering cosmic ambient.
Miguel A. Garcia side: slightly
manipulated minimal electronic buzz, massive digital glitch symphony and
bottled, ghostly voices.
7e + postages
MULO MUTO / SOMA: scorched dreams in stranded worlds (RUPU26)
*MM side an excellent, meandering and noisy oscillation heavy hiss n
screech n crumble, at times its like a real slow ambulance ride.. which
suddenly turns very sinister and galactic. S side a slow, crumbling yet
not that crunchy, chaotic noise with odd surprise vocals.
a fine, solid split from universe! long tracks!
5e + postages
OPIRG Creative Music: OCM 2011-13 (VAC-060)
*A side dreamy, adventurous, leisurely meandering synth and effect
escapades, mutant techno excursions and other quite
mellow group improvisations. side B is more free-form and out there
freakout type of group effort, method here seems to be:
whatever it is, everything, all at once. its a glorious mess which ends
up in hollow hills and from there onto space thru starlit
sky, naturally. also included in the package: a
lengthy written description of how these things unfolded by Del Stephen.
7e + postages
OTHER SLIGHTLY (eë editions 02)
*excelent and diverse compilation w/ Daphne X, Ted Byrnes, David
Grubbs, Morgan Evans-Weiler, Apaixonar and Madison Greenstone.
sounds incl. atleast: atmospheric, spooky and weird experimental ambience
made with piano, samples, spoken word, field recs, minimal
scratch and rustle, free drum solo, thoughtful impro electric guitar
noodlings, meandering slow burn ambient noise sizzle with domestic sounds
and piano ponderings, evolving and shimmering digital new agey crystal
droppings, silent hummings with field recs of distant
bells and distant people. tape comes in a stamped & recycled cardboard
box, insert on a nice paper. very, very good tape!
7e + postages
PHANTOM GLADE (BB023)
*weird compilation of electronic/synth onetakes (this prob means
improvised?) recorded in Vienna during 2021-2022. its a varied affair of
eerie,
oddly darkish and somehow even bit sickly atmospheres. unifying
factor between all tracks seems to be that there is a person called Marie
Vermont
involved. no idea what it means. interesting comp!
6e + postages
RNPno.2: it's time we talk about alleviation - again
(KRINGLOOP KASSETTES 4)
*87 minutes. recycled tapes.
5e + postages
ROMANCE / MARK TROTTER: under a magic spell (MH127)
*hissing harsh noise collaboration. two tracks - part one abt 10 minutes
and part two abt 7 minutes. great and quite static pieces with really
long fade
outs and no edits or overdubs. on a one-sided C90.
6e + postages
ROVOX 625: rovox bunny (MH253)
*droning noisy malfucntion whine, tape detritus, epic noise crunch,
meandering gloomy cave organ hiss, threatening shuffle and else -
all
presented in a really wonderful and bit stale analogue quality. real &
good!
6e + postages
SANDLADAN: alppikatu (B-KOMISSIO)
*great, mellow, crisp, heroic, spaceish, concrety, krauty synthmaze music
from helsinki. sounds somehow oddly retro & futuristic
at the same time, maybe an google fueled AI that has been tricked into
thinking its living in the 60s might come up with similar
end product?
strongest track is sidelong "Brahenkentt which sounds bit like soothing
new-age music for robots. weakest "Alppikatu", which is luckily
also the shortest one on the tape. so more is more and less is less in
robot sphere. 40min, three track tape. middle A in their name should have
an tiny circle above it.
5e + postages
SATAN THE JESUS INFEKT'D NEEDLES AND BLOOD: the holy elbib
(MH246)
*recordings from year 1989 by Ceramic Hobs split-off act, fronted by
Simon Morris. extremely chaotic, crude and frequently collapsing messy
live recordings
mixed with bit more coherent yet still similarly
odd and loose studio recordings. Matching Head reissue of Betley welcomes
careful drivers tape from 1996.
6e + postages
SICK DAYS: the calm before (VAC-057)
*2022. two 45 minute pieces of slow-burn field recs. experiments + live
installation. it starts with a static tunnel hiss and echoed cave
droppings, echoed birds, echoed animals and to be
continued..
7e + postages
SICK DAYS: other duties as assigned (VAC-063)
*2023. two side long (long!) tracks of assorted and manipulated
field-recordings, shifting of objects and electricity. its a wonderful
lengthy affair
of muffled hiss and rumbling experimentalism amidst occasional bird and
rain. at times it gets real dense and pleasantly static noisy so i
guess you can call this a noise tape if you really want to? there seems to
be a quite a lot of rain on tin.
clever ready-made covers which dont seem to make any sense with A) the
title and B) the track names. Right!
7e + postages
THE STARLIGHT ELECTRIC: the starlight electric (THR-018)
*stellar quartet improvisations with piano, synth, guitar, percussion,
& vocals from Canada. performed with such level of concentration
that
you
can almost hear the listening. real wonderful, soothing, brave,
diverse and inspired, fragile yet enduring tape.
8e + postages
STUART CHALMERS: the heart of nature (IKASUS-105)
*from intense, nature themed drones to swarmandal plucking to murky
fieldrecs.
6e + postages
THEO ANGELL / GOODWILLIES: split (IKASUS-11)
*C-90 of sounds from america circa 1997-2005 A.D. lots fine!
5e + postages.
THE TONIKS: after work (BEMBÖLE CASSETTES)
*skaterock, runaways, skeletons and piccolos. if you dont appreciate this
then youre living all wrong & your children will be next.
4e + postages
TOTSTELLEN: tunnel bruecke live @ Wendel/ Berlin 2006 (TOTFORM12)
*C22 released in 2013 of: "An archive live-recording from 2006,
based on the material from the tunnel bruecke audio/video-instalation
accompanied
with a selfbuild string instrument, played with a handdrill. The
instrument has been build from found material of the same location as
the sound sources:
the insides of a motorwaybridge crossing river
elbe"
4e + postages
TRACKING (SM002)
*neat little three act comp of sorts from year 2015 with: kristian m
roberts, grey park, leitmotiv limbo. some tracks recorded live, other not.
7e + postages
UNIJOKI: blue cargo (NO LABEL)
*collection of dreamy and primitive folk-, jazz-, and occasionally even
kraut-like slightly experimental short songs with instrumentation of:
guitars, bass, little electronics, piano,
violin and smooth, bit
melancholy, harmonius vocals. atmospheric, peaceful yet somehow bit
intimidating tape.
6e + postages
VALANCE DRAKES: an angel in alliance with falsehood (AMEK038)
*digitally lo-fied, easy-listening glitch beats & lush slightly noisy
ambient scapes. at times it borders on sound you could, almost, sell a car
to.
6e + postages
VALENTIEN VUKSIC: electromagnetics (IN010)
*minimal glitch. side A is somehow made with one to five laptops while
tracing the electromagnetic fields from the inner electronics: memory,
processor and the data cables in between. whatever it is, it sounds
wonderful!
side B consists of solely one idling nokia 8110 smartphone which is
closely recorded by two electromagnetic pick-ups. its a monotonic tick
tick tick tick - a heartbeat of a sleeping phone.
8e + postages
VANISHING STANDARDS (AMEK039)
*C86 comp tape of dark experimental techno, decaying ambient, glitch, mild
industrial and harsh & not so harsh drones.
some of it really astonishing, some quite mediocre. i guess most of this
is from bulgaria? as a whole this tape makes
pretty coherent & very enjoyable listen.
including:
randomorb, ate, nocktern, zhe pechorin, phlp., maxim anokhin, ivan shopov,
valance drakes, mytrip,
environments, NIANDRAZ, vague voices, crosspolar,
late, yuzu,
v-st, nicola serra and krl.
6e + postages
VANISHING STANDARDS II (AMEK061)
*as above, second instalment. again, haunting dark techno,
ambient,
experimental, drone, slow decaying club music. huge sounds and echoes.
diverse and really good. incl: musical statues, petrov/borzeszkowski,
NIANDRAZ/ivan shopov, trohi, valance drakes, bodgan simeonov,
vanity productions/rangelova, ivan shentov/angel simitchiev/martin
lukanov, kanz, haraqia, evitceles, enternched/krällär, zhe pechorin,
XI-N and leaver. whoa.
6e + postages
VANISHING STANDARDS III (AMEK070)
*now its 2024 and this is the third instalment of the bi-annual comp from
AMEK collective. dramatic and melancholy super wide synths,
dark
experimental drones, floating debris, hiss, rain, decaying club techno and
all sorts of grainy ambient with a occasional slight hint of
goth
industrial light for a good measure, all from Bulgaria - mostly. this is
maybe little bit more on the ambient side than the previous two?
Deffektegg, Sonic Ghaut, Cyberian, krāllār vs a thousand goodbyes(?),
Blessed By Saturn, New Church, Vestimir Markov, Musical Statues,
not exactly fridges, Rozi Mákó & Palmovka, o u t e r r a, savmart & OOHS!
pretty atmospheric 66 minutes. standing out: o u t e r r a and Musical
Statues.
6e + postages
VIITAKOSKI: yellow freqs (AKTICAS-10)
*sombre and thoughtful, beautiful sparse piano-based experimental fantasy
ambient. simple yet really rewarding and involving listen. recommended. beats
reality.
8e + postages
WOLF FLUORESCENCE: unwavering, achronymous (JZK021)
*what a total name. if i understood the booklet correctly, parts of this
was recorded underneath some bridge in USA? or was it while
riding a bus to somewhere? it was in USA im sure.. oddly growing this
tape, monotone drone sort of thing that gets better and better
when repeated.
4e + postages
S O M E V I N Y L S:
AMPH: control LP (mitteilung 38II)
*whine, screech, some slowed down muffled talk & leisurely hitting of
metal and a rhythm of an empty LP groove stuck. distant & meandering,
glowing
humm and rattle. side B sounds like a extended boat w/ crackle, hiss and
blown humming w/ birds. all is calm. on the cover there is a picture of a
burning
match & the spot where the flame is has actually been burned a
bit for real so its not maybe appropriate to call this mint.
20e + postages
ATOM MOUTH GIMLIES: Music on quills LP
*short songs of very messy and hectic punk rock, really good!
12e + postages
CYBERIAN: dark orphism (AMEK050)
*LP of dark, meandering experimental / glitch / drone / dark ambient /
noise / slight industrial with few surprise twists
from Bulgaria 2021. lots going on..
15e + postages
DAO DE NOIZE: blood of the tribe (book23)
*invisible polycarbonate lathe 7" from russia. do you see currents? 20
copies.
8e + postages
GREY PARK: heliosis / severe heliosis 7" (planned confusion 01)
*33 rpm from year 2006, recorded couple years before that. drone or noise
or
ambient.
side B is side A mistakenly digitalized terribly wrong.
5e + postages
GRMMSK: one world - nowhere to hide 12" (SPB12026)
*3 older & 4 newer GRMMSK tracks of weird, ambientish, dubbish, electronic
things with seriously alienated, disoriented,
paranoid & trapped/tripped feel. cant really think anything that sounds
even remotely like this.
14e + postages
HEART STRUCTURE QUARTET: soul horses 10" lathe (VACANCY RECS. 050)
*a companion for the cassette of same name, i guess? a significantly
shorter version with one 5 minute song that is not on the cassette.
wonderful.
23e + postages
KALLE HERMANNI AUTIO: kootut teokset sooloviululle 7"
(KARIVERYTIRED-1 "schweigen" [maybe..?])
*one-sided 45rpm 7" titled "collected solo violin works".. which is of
course quite funny but i believe it is also the truth? three pieces - two
short,
one long. quite hectic yet not annoyingly fast. noisy, messy, sharp,
screechy and tight with a plenty of surprises.
comes with a booklet of notes and performance instructions that look more
like dense circuit board schematics than sheet music ..though have to
admit
i have very limited experience of either so maybe this is how these
things always look? to piece Maximum Yeah Yeah the booklet
offers these simple instructions:
"Inhale at the beginning, exhale at the end, and bite your teeth
together in between." ...which can also maybe work as a fine
description of ones span of a lifetime?
also in the booklet / music sheet are pictures of cooking, fishing, table
tennis, violins, dentistry, kayak paddling, french horn and maybe a tuba.
its a wonderful,
wild & weird little disc! violin played by Orest Smovzh.
available in finnish or swedish - let me know which language you prefer
when
ordering.
10e + postages
HUMAN ADULT BAND: sonic enlightenment LP (ENO 081)
*A: side long odd, scuzzy, dragging, psychedelic doom garage
piece. neon on shirt, leg broken, sitting in a public
laundromat. its
ghastly, weird and disjointed yet somehow it feels all right &
appropriate.
B: some odd snippets, including atleast: loop of swamp-life, noisy impro
free rock, mystic speedy jam, weird almost
collapsing metal, wide & messy guitar duo soloing.
14e + postages
JUHO TOIVONEN: kasveille ja eläimille
(ULTRA-044)
*before this LP there was Suurpää cassette - lively, breathing,
minimalist & wandering yet calm electric guitar & synth-driven ambient.
after this LP came
Sisarusten toistuva uni LP with wider (yet
still quite calm) sound / style palette: guitar, synth, piano, muffled
vocals + more defined and braver tape hissings.
somewhere between those two lies Kasveille ja eläimille -
straightforward, concentrated and soothing, relaxed, hissing ambient LP.
pearly drops of piano,
minimal static synth drones, hum, waves, slight fog of tape and fields
recorded.
2nd pressing.
23e + postages
MYTRIP: keeper (AMEK044)
*excelent, slightly noisy and glitchy experimental ambient drone LP
from Bulgaria 2020. good!
15e + postages
NESA & THE NESTIKLES / KANTTORIPOIKA / ILTASYNTSA: 3-way split 7"
(DEAL-002)
*33rpm from year 2012. on side A two sogs, one odd, dark, lo-fi
dubsteppish chiptuneism and other
weird jolly caribean self-improvement electro. on B side one improvised
rhythmic electronic music piece.
5e + postages
NOLLS: losing game / here before 7" (LOT002)
*45rpm from year 2014. two quite buzzing/noisy pop-oriented punk/rock
songs made with quitar
and drums and decorated with seemingly random noise scuzz and
fieldrecordings from abroad.
5e + postages
NOLLS: strange attitude (LOT-003)
*LP from year 2016
10e + postages
PIECE WAR: Apathy (SOA-001)
*excelent, emotional, raw, messy, and fuzzed out lo-fi LP from this NZ
guitar, vocals and drums duo.
this is US vinyl reissue of 10" flexi that
came out year 2014. just a really good record. for instant proof:
piecewar.bandcamp.com
13e + postages
POST-MATERIALISTS: moist rita & glyptique 7"
(PMM101)
*one sided, 33rpm single from russia 2012. two tracks on side A, "moist
rita"
excelent, quite Residentsesque,
airy and pretty minimal weirdly smoky
little affair of a song with very muffled vocals in what i suppose is
russia.
"glyptique" shorter instrumental piece with a nice saxophone motif
with confused tiny guitar(?) noise. on side B
artwork and letters on red. silk screened covers, 8 page booklet
informing you whats what + yellow voyerism
themed postcard of sorts. solid.
6e + postages
RE-CLIP: untitled 7" (re-clip 002)
*one-sided 7"from year 2021, two tracks.
6e + postages
RENEGADE SCANNERS: hands on future (LAL-31)
*great, lovely lo-fi 4-track space rock LP from sweden. at times it
come across as a sort of Chrome-lite minus vocals. nothin wrong with tah,
ofcourse. a really nice listen!
10e + postages
SHRINE & MYTRIP: descent 7" (AMEK060 / CRVS022V))
*2022 collab between two bulgarian drone / ambient projects. two tracks
of messy, cavernous high octane dark ambient with
slight, weird, almost power electronics undercurrents. it doesnt move at
all, just hovers there.
8e + postages
SONORITES DE LA VIE DE BOHEME (EMR-COMP-7" #1)
*odd experimental 7" compilation of four quite abstract & somewhat muddy
pieces. from norway 2001 - byart, taming power,
obscure tapestries and empy-ass noise. deep bass, typewriter, clanged
stringed instruments, synth, field recs etc
taming power cover version.
6e + postages
TAMING POWER: meditations for radio 10" (EMR-012)
*main instrument here is presumably radio but there is also a segments of
synth work and some effects. its a real weird and wonderful
affair, its a
sort of wonder how everything works just perfect. it seems like the radio
is actually played ..somehow. A side is little bit
more calm
while B side is somewhat more all over the place yet still calm enough
that the title of the records fits 100 percent.
10e + postages
TAMING POWER: fragments of the theory of general reality 7"
(EMR-019)
*A1 cassette recorders in the red and something else -
spacious analogue experimental bleeps, screech and minor crunch
thats
real hard to specify. at times it sounds like whales singing. its a
wonderous thing. B1 is a field-recording, maybe from
africa? B2 continues where first track left,
developing into a noisy finale. title of the record is fitting.
*6e + postages
VALANCE DRAKES & IVAN SHOPOV: unearthing buried chapters (AMEK024)
*real nice beat-oriented, calm LP of ambient and bit glitchy digital
sounds from bulgaria. digital tapestry that you could almost
gaze onto forever. its not at all complex or harsh, the sound
is rather
poppy and minimal at times. disjointed beats, clicks, pleasant
ambient sections and mildly skewed atmospheresadd up to a whole that make
very enjoyable and durable listening experience.
13e + postages
WHATEVER BRAINS: Whatever brains (SSR-77)
*fourth album from year 2015. the one with ascii PUNK cover.
13e + postages
C O U P L E Z I N E S:
AKTI ZINE vol. 2
*Interviews: Roy Montgomery, Bill Orcutt, Kuupuu, Joachim Nordwall,
Aprapat, Arv & Miljö, Arttu Partinen, Sunhiilow,
P.Wits, Rasmus Östling, Tomutonttu, Brenna Murphy. Lots of reviews too!
9e + postages
COMFORT CLUB #5
*zine by AMEK collective from bulgaria. interviews with Aidan Baker, Alex
Zhang Hungtai, Passepartout Duo, Sara Persico,
Stéphane Clor, Uochi Toki.
essays by Boyan Manchev, Ivan Zoloto, Stanimir Panayotov. Photos by Maxim
Mokdad.
Pro-printed, black and white A5 zine, 90 pages.
6e + postages
EDISTYKSEN VOIMA #5
*sis. mm. Tiina Tiikeri, Kissa, Ester Nuori Leppä, Nolls, Antero Raimo &
Ovet, Selda, Tim Maia.
60 sivua / mustavalkoinen a5
5e + postit
KETKUTA JA JYRÄÄ #1
*sarjakuvaa aiheena rnr & punk
3e + postages
LED-KAKKU #2
*toinen numero! tilanteet muuttuvat!
5e + postit
TEKKEN #1
*sis. mm. juttuja sarjiksista, Nikola Teslasta, Bobb Trimblestä,
Monksista sekä Liimanarina-, Back lizard- sekä
Video-haastattelut. ja muuta!
2e + postit
TEKKEN #3
*sis. raportit mm. yhdellä jalalla seisomisen SM ennätyksen
lyömisyrityksestä, Räjäyttäjien soittoreissusta ruotsiin
sekä artikkelit vesivessoista, snickers-patukoista sekä Spacemen 3:stä..
jne? jne!
2e + postit
C O M P A C T D I S C S & C D R S:
BLACK BEVY: 8,300 miles (ARPH-0007)
*hard to pin down and surprisingly diverse, quite ambient record made by a
duo. there are wide guitars, synths, drones, howl,
distant clicks, tiny rhythms, silent field-recordings, humm, samples,
ghostly vocals, long pitched vocals, etc. etc. all
cloaked
mysteriously into a nice & odd feel of pop, a very left-field and
experimental pop sure but a pop nonetheless! the song The
wind has
gather up the vapour will most likely be a huge retro banger hit at
the post-apocalypse discos of 2098.
maybe a very stripped down FSA record "Mirror" can be seen somewhere in
the distance, far, far away? I am not sure, but
atleast one thing is clear: buy less - listen more.
12e + postages
GREY PARK: untitled (PLANNED CONFUSION 10)
*live trio vintage synth improvisations from 2008 on factory pressed CD-R.
hit and miss.. and miss.
5e + postages
GREY PARK: tiny ships on asphalt (NO LABEL)
*c. 30min 4 track CD-R from 2024. crude almost PE, mixer overriden tape
loops, harsh drone and synth ambient with no synths.
in a plastic sleeve with b/w covers.
4.50e + postages
HOWLIN MAGIC: the dreaming (LAL-38)
*instrumental, lo-fi, psychedelic rockin´ freak-out blues and more hard
to
describe fuzzy and soulful avant racket from 2007.
its probably a solo effort so it has a nice one-sided, linear dimension
on it. raw, inspired and much better than you think!
10e + postages
JON COLLIN / NICLAS ANDERSTEDT LINDGREN: dark country (ARPH0008)
*fine, shining balloon shaped and electronically altered guitar scrapings,
noodlings and pluckings. overall the whole disc is a
meandering affair of airy atmospherics and thoughtful staring at the
window on the wall. at
points could also fit as music for ghosts.
12e + postages
KOBEUK: blue blue archipelago (NO LABEL)
*a strong contender for the modern harsh noise classic trophy!
atleast in this corner of internet.. harsh, varied, wild and all over the
place
yet somehow ending up as a nice, exceptionally well concentrated
whole. hectic but not annoyingly fast. really, super good.
//// might be a factory pressed CDR instead of CD so proceed with
utmost caution ////
8e + postages
MANIACS DREAM: turku hold em (LAL-37)
*two long pieces of very free, abstract and crude 100% in the red noise
chaos. there is bass, guitar and drums but most of the time it doesnt
matter.
real dense & excellent! from year 2007.
10e + postages
MIRO-BENJAMIN LINDSTRÖM: unessakaan ei voi välttyä ratkaisun
etsimiseltä (ARPH-009)
*minimal droning ambient, organ, synths, cello and field recordings.
10e + postages
PYMATHON: entangled stench (ARPH-0004)
*brutal, raw, free death thrash?
10e + postages
RNPno.2: you scream: something! (NO LABEL)
*20+ minute CDR-R from year 2023 of mostly noise or noisy ambient drone.
4e + postages
TETUZI AKIYAMA & TOM GREENWOOD: stoned runes (ARPH-0002)
*originally released by U-Sound Archive as a CD-r in 2008, recorded live
at Ringoya Tokyo, Japan - June 2008. now also as CD by AKTI in year 2021.
guitar / impro which starts as somewhat structured affair and then just
melts away
10e + postages
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