DISTRO

A range of distributed titles from some great international noise labels. Everything is in very limited quantities, if something you want has sold out, get in touch as restocks on a few of these titles may be possible. Slightly higher prices on some of these reflect the import costs.

Wash Your Brains - 1977 - 1987 CD (Cipher Productions)
Wash Your Brains' ‘1977 – 1987’ is a collection of Rudolf Eb.er project’s earliest 2 or 4 track cassette recordings made with membranes removed from public telephones, cheapest lo-fi pickups mounted on window glass, elementary school flutes, rental violins, old office chairs, mechanically manipulated speakers, broken turntables and cassette recorders or simple tone oscillators. De-/composed through rudimentary cut-up techniques and with an archaic but exploratory sense of new music, this bruit-collection documents Rudolf Eb.er’s early and unique approach to sound art. Pre-Schimpfluch cassette recordings found in the long lost Swiss archives. Collected, selected and compiled by Rudolf Eb.er at Om Kult Osaka, Japan, 2022.

Fleshcarver - Devourer Of The Negative Ecastasy CS (Cipher Productions)
If you’re not listening to Fleshcarver, then you’re not listening to the nastiest and most savage project of Chester Masangya: the force behind White Widow, Fossa Magna, Jaw Surgery and more. Fleshcarver masticates sinews of raw black metal and formative power electronics, spitting out a blood-soaked genre saturation topped with ghastly vocals

Dead Boomers - Aspen Liberals CD (Cipher Productions)
The Dead Boomers team of Leith Thomas and Mark Groves (Index Clean, Red Wine And Sugar) spent much of the early '10s honing their incisive power electronics live set, while recording a series of penetrating and perceptive releases for a number of Australian labels and some further ashore. 'Aspen Liberals' is an April 2020 radio broadcast piece of cruel noise, found sound memories, petri dish electronics creations and narrowed vocal delivery which places Dead Boomers' long-targeted upper class elite at the centre of the pandemic's spread. This CD adds a number of tracks written and recorded between 2015 and 2020, some previously released in now lost editions, and others breaking to the surface for first time.

Bryan Schuessler - Context Shift CS (Buried In Slag And Debris)
A series of manipulated field recordings from unknown locations which are examined, compared and further reworked, pushing these phantom signals into reimagined audio environments … a “Context Shift” as Bryan Schuessler’s title suggests.

NBDY / Talk=Trouble - Picea Pungens CS (Buried In Slag And Debris)
Czech Republic’s NBDY and Talk+Trouble amalgamate to release “Picea Pungens.” A blend of heavy electronics, integrated ambient rumbles, and cut-up techniques for the love of forests and friendship.

Hattifnattar - Big Dipper CS (Buried In Slag And Debris)
“Big Dipper” carries the listener through desolate electronics, cumulative magnetic static, and high pitched turmoil simmering through two slow-paced compositions. It is the latest release by Hattifnattar (Rémi / Violent Shogun, Bordeaux, France).

Brandon Auger - aux slander CS (Buried In Slag And Debris)
“aux slander” is the first iteration of assembled Radio Tower works by Nova Scotia-based sound artist Brandon Auger aka, pnl(a). It subsists of two coarse compositions from remote radio tower tapping - exploring cluttered, unstable, and erratic transmissions.

Untitled Zine - Issue 7
Featuring: Taylor Geddes, Izumi Kawasaki, NBDY, Lucas Abela, Þórir Georg, Form Hunter, PURGIST, Soddy, Andrea Borghi, Tara Connelly, Griefer and more.

Untitled Zine - Issue 6
Featuring: Gladys Nobriga, Barrett E. Lediard, Dressing, Anja Bajuk, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Ilkka Vekka, Scarlet Diva, Government Alpha, Mattias Gustafsson, Howard Stelzer, Urall and more.

Moth Drakula - Suicide Watch at the Convent CS (Joy De Vivre)
The latest tape from the recently reunited noise duo. The classic 2000s project has been on a roll since their return, with excellent releases on Misanthropic Agenda as well as their own Swampland Press label. This latest tape proves that they are just as vital as ever.

Henry Birdsey/Zach Rowden CS (Joy De Vivre)
You may be familiar with Henry Birdsey and Zach Rowden as the members of Tongue Depressor, who recently toured Europe, leaving everyone who saw them play absolutely stunned. This tape showcases them both in solo mode, with a side each exploring their sound individual.

(SPN) - Segni Particolari Nessuno CS (Joy De Vivre)
Debut tape from this new Italian project, featuring Stefano Murgia of the Discount Label.

Cost – Circular Cages Of Graded Tin And Rusted Wind CS (Joy De Vivre)
The final release from the much loved and respected Cost project. RIP Danny Costa.

Freddy Ruppert/Ex-Jesus - Split CS (Joy De Vivre)
Following last year’s “the Inner Room” Freddy Ruppert continues to explore false cinematic world building within these five tracks that are exclusive to this split cassette. Focusing on heavily manipulated samples, this time he brings textures to the forefront, in a blend of creeping ambient noir, synthetic realms, and hazy atmosphere.
Although very often simply filled with the most basic vocabulary of the harsh noise canon, the releases - sometimes criminally obscure and limited - of Josh Stewart aka Ex-Jesus are always something that sounds in a damn unique way (and those who have listened to them know well what I mean). Slashes and razors here encounter something significantly new: melodic glimmers, digital shatters, gurgles of actionism from a messed up futuristic bedroom. Freddy and Josh have been making music together since they were teenagers. This tape recrosses, after a few decades, their long paths, which from their native California led them far away in the world.

Kleistwahr - Where the Word is Never CD (Fourth Dimension Records)
Kleistwahr is distinguishable for it’s always moving forward and developing ideas only hinted at on the preceding album.
'Where the Word is Never' is no exception. The six cuts see less of the organ and more in the way of simplistic rhythm pulses, Gary’s vocals and even, on a couple of cuts at least, something that might be considered akin to a song structure if one greets The Dead C more or less the same way and has had enough decent wine. Like recent albums, however, 'Where the Word is Never' mostly delivers like it has been created through a rich blend of torment, lament and general despair before it frantically reaches for that small and beautiful white dot in the distance where all such thoughts can be cast asunder.

Kleistwahr - Common Values CD (Fourth Dimension Records)
Common Values is the seventh album for Fourth Dimension and gathers another six mighty cuts that on one hand continue his penchant for exploring more serrated sonic landscapes and, on the other, keep those in check with a tempered approach to atmospherics that this time round is widened further by almost kosmische-like curdled organ playing,, electronic swirl, psychedelic guitar mainlined from one of Saturn’s outer rings, and occasional haunting yet despairing vocals that are more pronounced than ever before. Common Values is a title itself that simultaneously commands empathy as well as a wry nod towards the irony at work. If anything serves as a common thread in all of Gary’s work then it’s not only in his love of stratospheric sounds, but also this deep sense of anguish due to hoping things will improve whilst knowing that humanity is it’s own worst enemy.

V/A - An Oblique Reference to Zeros 2CD (Fourth Dimension Records)
Compilation of artists associated with and admired by Fourth Dimension. Almost all of the tracks here are previously unreleased, remixes or recorded exclusively for this compilation, too. Packaged in a 6-panel digipak including stunning artwork by Puppy38 and a booklet with text.
Artists include: Kleistwahr, Helm, JFK + Klaska, Sudden Infant, Hand & Leg, Mad Masks, MAP 71, Alternative TV, Splintered, Hiroshimabend, Tabata Mitsuru, Richard Youngs, Philippe Petit, Schrottersburg, White Pee, EXTNDDNTWRK, Zsolt Sores, Theme, Band Of Pain, Contrastate, Mahler Haze, Sion Orgon and Gad Whip.

JFK - Avalanche Zone CD (Fourth Dimension Records)
Originally released in spring 2021 by US label L.I.E.S. on vinyl, Anthony Di Franco of Ramleh returns to Fourth Dimension Records with a timely and well-deserved reissue. Featuring three additional tracks to the original six, 'Avalanche Zone' is a weighty and abrasive follow-up to 2018's 'Weapon Design' that's propelled by cranium-crunching bass, icy and portentous textures, battlefield rhythms and just the faintest nod to Anthony's love of both old school noise and more contemporary electronic music which refuses to compromise.

Gary Mundy & Eraldo Bernocchi - Broken Masses CD (Fourth Dimension Records)
Five collaborative pieces between Gary Mundy of Ramleh/Kleistwahr/Broken Flag and Eraldo Bernocchi of Sigillum S. Combining two guitars, subtle electronics and what sounds like a voice from another dimension, rhythmic loops or serene pools of liquid sound are generated that add up to an album of immense beauty and scope. Sometimes more intense and at others almost elegiac, this work is in keeping with Gary's more recent solo work yet benefits also from Bernocchi's own clear signature stamped throughout.

Richard Youngs - New Emptiness CD (Fourth Dimension Records)
Similar to 2021's 'Iker' album, this CD album idea sprang into life following our hearing some of Richard‘s experiments with loops and tones and, subsequently, a few discussions about such music, it’s shortcomings, it’s appeal and, indeed, how it can be pushed into new spaces. Which is exactly what the pieces on 'New Emptiness' do. Each one of the five compositions here may use tones or oscillating loops as something of a starting point, but true to form Richard Youngs teases each one into new shapes where different shading applies as well as an unexpected rhythm or, on final cut 'Annulus II', his manipulated voice enter the fray.

Uoerhe - Four Tapestries CS (Self Released)
Cassette from Prague based experimental project Uoerhe, who you maybe familiar with as half of Meilt, his collaborative project with Dublin's Dressing. Recorded to 4-track in the summer of 2024 and made up of tape processed field and domestic recordings, dictaphones, walkmans, tapedecks, reel-to reel recorders, tape splicing, pedal-chain feedback and voice. Pisello green pro-dubbed tapes limited to number of 50, J-card on transparent paper and mastered by Grant Richardson. "Nothing in the everyday dies because everything is dead already: the repetitive buried under its own repetition, hidden beneath the surface. Is carrying chaos within oneself sufficient to give birth to a star?"

Hand & Knee/Mallard Theory - Basic Instincts CD (Tribe Tapes)
Cybernetic quack and the damage done. The creative directors of Detachment Programs bring us 4 solo tracks each, plus a collaboarative track to open the record.

Awenydd - Calas CS (Purveyors)
Grim industrial textures from this new, but increasingly prolific, Netherlands based project. Churning synths and an ice cold atmosphere.

Max Julian Eastman - American Wonder (47th President / 15 Sandels) CS (Purveyors)
New single sided c90 from the Tribe Tapes/Purveyors label head.

Various Artists - State Of The Union CD (Tribe Tapes)
Professionally-manufactured CD in jewel case packaging. All tracks previously unreleased from projects currently active in the United States. Featuring Pain Appendix, Dead Door Unit, Confounder, Ineffable Slime, Gates Of Janus, Max Julian Eastman, Lidless Eye, Infibulation, Mallard Theory, Hand & Knee, Spykes, and Cost. Mastered by Grant Richardson at Hex Audio Labs.

Various Artists - Reaching In The Lion's Jaw CS (Purveyors)
Complition featuring: K.O.P., Dead Door Unit, Ken Clinger & Mike Tetrault, Woods Mattress, The Flayed Choirmaster, Duplication Breedings, Mechanic Demonic Azrael Hologram ,Industrial Park, Ken Clinger & Belinda Subraman and Awenydd.

Death Kneel - Demystifier CS (Life Of Sensation)
The latest tape from Toronto’s Death Kneel, the fifth release on their own Life Of Sensation label. Two new tracks of manipulated samples, cut up clatter and feedback screech that continue down the path set out on the other recent self-released tapes.

Various Artists - Live '21-'23 CS (Hot Releases)
Live compilation featuring amongst others, Apologist, Fossilized Wilderness, Neuter, Patrick Gallagher and more. "This is a collection of some of my favorite recordings from 2021-2023, many of which were recorded in the classic Chapel Hill venue Nightlight (now closed for the time being due to some senseless landlord issues) and my home Cathedral ii. The artists featured are the types to share bills, possessing a certain 'experimental' pedigree, though with a variety of palettes and techniques - of a piece with what I've been drawn to releasing in the past: raw ambient, industrial, outsider techno, odd pop, noise, etc. Ten out of the 15 artists featured are or were based in NC. I think in addition to its value as an underground document, it's also a fantastic listen for restless dreamers and sensitive malcontents." -RAM

Valise - On Wire CS (Hot Releases)
Longform minimal electronic noise offering from Maralie Armstrong-Rial's Valise project, utilizing the same setup as her/their standout set at the 2023 Summer Scum festival. "The sounds herein were produced by durational touch.
ATTINY pins soldered to wire & tied with steel thread & laid across a conductive tabletop. The thread was gently blown before being repeatedly cut with scissors. Additional sounds recorded trackside at 2023 INDY 500". The cassette release includes a piece of wire used for the recording on a numbered card.

John O'Neill - To The Wind I Am Also A Tree CS (Hot Releases)
The follow-up to his Hot Releases debut "Cine/Hollywood Tow" finds John O'Neill following the thread of environmental ambient first laid on that masterpiece A-side to Twentynine Palms, where he duets with desert wind colliding into shrubs, trees, structures, himself. Two long, patiently-developing meditative pieces are buffered by a shorter track wherein the wind takes the mic for a noise solo. The first piece gradually eases tuning forks into a sound that evokes the alien electronics of the beginning of Nuno Canavarro's Plux Quba; the conclusion of the B-side finds the human element organizing itself into an organic, inwardly burrowing drone.

Some Pepper - Don't Let Go CS (Hot Releases)
Some Pepper is the rhythmic noise project of Daby Byrne, a multi-talented nomad who also concentrates on songwriting and performance as Charmaine's Names. "Don't Let Go" might be the finest SP yet, featuring 8 slammers that showcase Daby's expertise with no-input systems. Avian/insectoid chirps and electronic squelches paired with the thud of the Slicer bring to mind classic aughts noiserock maximum volume / minimal palette overload gliding into furthest leftfield techno bounce and stutter.

Jim Capps / Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III - Split CS (Hot Releases)
Two distinct experimental artists based in Greenville. NC, frequently sharing bills on countless Hot Releases-related shows over the years. Jim Capps has operated in several discrete modes since the mid-00s, from harsh bacchanal bareskin noise to more sober, bloody-knuckled acoustic percussion improvisation to oft-rhythmic noise. His portion of this split captures the sound of recent live sets - distorted acid industrial improv that's glancingly evocative of Schmerzlabor and the Dutch kick of Bunker, in synthesis with a history in harsh noise. Capp's entire creative output is linked by inspired, non-careerist rawness that exists truly in the moment. Cornelius F Van Stafrin III's performances are genuinely esoteric and entrancing sight-specific rituals usually involving reel-to-reels, harmonium, record player, noise-boxes with built in speakers, contact mic'd surfaces, a Russolo instrument on occasion, projections, flame and elemental objects: bones, plants, stones, etc. His portion of the split is a pleasurable tangent, eschewing the acoustic elements of his work and instead using electronics to create deep, meditative soundworks.

Moth Drakula - More Than Your Opinion CS (Swampland Press)

Moth Drakula delivers four new distorted clatter and din tracks of crust influenced noisecore. Inspired by and dedicated to the unrelenting and vehement female vocalists of classic doom laden metallic punk.

Ex Jesus - No Title CS (Swampland Press)

Ex Jesus is pure noise, completely free of any outside contamination or influence while applying absolute precision to nontraditional forms of sound. An expert in both relentless orchestration of abrasive racket or unnerving dissonance. No Title is three stellar examples of why this project has been a true underground favorite for over two decades.

Grey Velvet - If You Today, Just Wait For Eternity CS (Swampland Press)

For fans of uncompromising hardcore, Grey Velvet churns out scathing, damaged examples of the fractured genre. 8 tracks of feral, dizzying, disintegrating trash and thrash punk.

Ex Jesus/Grey Velvet - In Name Only CS (Swampland Press)

Ex Jesus offers a brutal aural attack in the classic tradition that this project helped define. As subtle as a brick to the face. Grey Velvet vomit out two more crude tracks of malfunctioning noise infused thrashcore.

Merzbow/John Wiese – EKA Varna CD (Helicopter/Troniks)
Nearly 20 years after the release of their landmark collaboration Multiplication, and nearly 25 years since their first live partnership, Merzbow and John Wiese reunite for a deep immersion into chaotic, raging electronics. Recorded on stage at Koiwa Bush Bash, Tokyo, Japan, December 2023.

K2/John Wiese – Multiple Density CD (Helicopter/Troniks)
Kimihide Kusafuka and John Wiese capitalize on their common language of concrète cut-up sounds for their first ever duo album, following many collaborations with Sissy Spacek. In a roaring daytime session, the pair performed two sets, approximately 20 minutes each, of finely detailed fast paced electronics. Recorded November 2023 at Technology Hour Extra Volume 3 at Freaky Show, Shizuoka, Japan.

T. Mikawa/John Wiese – Live At 落合 Soup CD (Helicopter/Troniks)
In a follow-up to their duo debut, 2016’s Oblique No Strategy, T. Mikawa (Incapacitants, Hijokaidan) and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) document a blazing live performance and rehearsal at the legendary Ochiai Soup, presenting an energetic explosion of free form electronics. Recorded at Ochiai Soup, Tokyo, Japan, December 2023.

Sissy Spacek – Reslayer CD (Helicopter)
Trio line up of Charlie Mumma/Jay Randall/John Wiese. Recorded 2022.

Sissy Spacek – Electric Field In Parallel CD (Helicopter)
Trio line up of Charlie Mumma/Jay Randall/John Wiese. Recorded 2022.

Ghost Dance - The Future Holds Nothing Else But Confrontation CS (Oxen)
Debut release from Western Michigan based Travis William's Ghost Dance. Harsh Noise testimonial to Public Enemy. Mangled layers, cracking, stabbing analogue growling, a total sonic bludgeoning. Subordinate terror kicking off an era. GRHN.

Parasite Nurse - Life Is Beautiful CD (Oxen)
Restock after the last copies flew. Harsh Noise Cut-up artist Parasite Nurse tears ceaselessly into sonic landscapes, creating fleeting portals of pavement saw tonalities and blinding blasts expertly delivered.

Incapaciants - Oxen Man's Uneasiness CD (Oxen)
Following 2020’s "Onomatopée Suicida" on Total Black, T. Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai lead off the wild odyssey of “Oxen Man's Uneasiness” with a track peeling off panning swells, blasting particles into sprawling towers of free form dissonance with an oceanic force. Tracks two and three expand upon the duo’s free form challenge to frequency range and giving space to density, effectively pushing the boundaries of their enduring style. The last track is final, crashing shore-break of static energy, a re-entry of total trademark cacophony.

Dressing - From the Body to the Door CD (Oxen)
Dressing is the experimental noise project of Dublin based artist Kevin Kirwan. Always enagaging, broken sounding noise, Dressing is one of the most exciting noise projects to have emerged in recent years.

NBDY - Woods & Wires CD (Oxen)
Czech Republic based artist NBDY utilities precise measures in his approach to cut-up noise. Tearing into passages with unhinged immediacy which at points abruptly hyperextends into crisp, bracing passages of pure stillness.

Sissy Spacek - Confuse 7″ (Oxen)
Strength in tightly concentrated havoc, an action massacre of charred mutilation across two sides of a must own 7″ defining the kinetics of destruction. Essential Spacek from 2016.

Sewer Election & Incipientium - Sorceress CD (Throne Heap)
Sorceress is the first collaboration between Swedish outsider experimentalists Sewer Election and Incipientium. Dan Johansson, a veteran of the Gothenburg underground, and relative newcomer Gustav Danielsbacka have meticulously woven a strange tapestry of unnerving sound. Using tape decks, broken records, reel-to-reel loops, electronic elements, metals, and ambient field recordings, they evoke everything from the sparse and fleeting to the more abrasive and heavy. Recorded in the autumn of 2021, mixed by Johansson and Danielsbacka, and mastered by Grant Richardson, Sorceress is 42 minutes of pure avant-garde electronics.

Mot - Remains CS (Throne Heap)
Recorded during the Autumn of 2023 amidst fluctuating extreme states of tension and tranquility, Canadian artist Paul van Trigt delivers 30 minutes of thoughtfully spliced cassette and reel loops, amplified objects, homemade oscillators, and lute. By using both sounds collected from a place that was once home but is no longer, as well as sounds from a place that is new and foreign, Remains is a work which deftly balances moments of shrieking anxiety and exhausted frustration with calmer, more contemplative passages.

Max Julian Eastman- The Glamorous Life CS (Throne Heap)
A perverse appropriation of idealized histories and events. A miasmic attempt at self-assurance. Max Julian Eastman (Tribe Tapes / Tantric Death) presents The Glamorous Life, a diverse collection of left field heavy weirdness, from in-your-face junk noise assaults to ethereal lite FM vapor loops. “An Event In 4.75 Time” was recorded live in the Garden State, originally broadcast on WFMU. All other tracks are from undesignated points of origin. “The irrepressible web of truth unfurls itself to the emotional tourist — “love is heaven-sent.” Play LOUD.

Sissy Spacek - Antitheater CD (Cipher Productions)
Sissy Spacek expands its Antipodean discography with ‘Antitheater’, recorded over two weeks in December 2021 and then put under the Wiese microscope and scalpel in 2023. Blown-out grindcore and frayed improvisations are crisped with distortion until their original forms distend and melt, chunks of noise-soaked saturations then cut into a series of short-form grotesqueries – each allocated its own CD track. Play it in sequence, or play it on random for a new listening experience each play.

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela - Squirrels On Fire CS (Cipher Productions)
"When our outdoor table broke last year and shattered glass everywhere, I thought of Lucas Abela: the flagbearer of Australia’s noise community, and properly recognised through this world and others for his work in playing and breaking glass while abusing its sonic capabilities through a variety of processes over his decades’ 12” + CD of sound exploration.
‘Squirrels On Fire’ is glass allowed to stress, moan and creak as Lucas’ modular synth setup takes its whimpers and amplifies them into exaggerated electronics gestures. The tape was intended to inject some funds into Lucas’ 2023 USA tour which unfortunately was cancelled/downsized. Nonetheless these tapes exist in an edition of 50 copies with two different cover prints. Mastered by Grant Richardson, packaged in drawstring bags with artwork from Lucas’ son and shards of the glass table which instigated this release to begin with." - Cipher Productions

Sleeping with the Earth - Now, Tomorrow, The Last CD (Chondritic Sound/Troniks)
The first full-length CD from Sleeping with the Earth in his 25+ year history, "Now, Tomorrow, the Last" pushes a unique vision of death industrial through crude, broken and modified equipment. The pieces here are not routine or easily-repeatable, instead salvaged from the electricity and bottled to tape. Machined rhythms hammer away while the circuits overload and a displaced fragment of humanity howls against the pandemonium. Edition of 300 in handsome silver & black digipak.

Hasufel - Keys to the Kingdom CD (Chondritic Sound)
Hasufel's distinct amalgam of ritual ambient, martial industrial and dungeon synth influences are on exhibition with this assemblage of pieces; two cassettes issued by El Tule, a compilation track for DKA and two unreleased songs. Edition of 200 in digipak.

Mindscrubber - Automated Broadcasting Devices CD (Chondritic Sound)
Mindscrubber is Jeff Herriott and S. Craig Zahler. Their debut release Automated Broadcasting Devices is an obscured narrative of noise and old technology created using field recordings, analog synthesizers, contact microphones, and voices. Herriott and Zahler have worked together in the metal band Realmbuilder and composed the soundtracks for Zahler's movies Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete. This aptitude with the cinematic enables the duo to evoke the desolation of analog decay through a barren, charred landscape. The worn-out equipment and forgotten mechanisms that once fueled industry are resurrected in a haze of programmed communications, dissonant frequencies, and turbulent malfunctions. Editon of 300 in reverse-board digipak with art by Paul van Trigt.

Liebestod - The Long Con 3" CD-R (Chondritic Sound)
Liebestod (Jesse Sanes, Hoax, Kommand) is back with "The Long Con," another EP of dread-inducing power electronic malaise. Walking through the arena of perpetual night, a makeshift blade clenched in your hand. As you start to plan your path forward, it's too late. You realize you're encircled. Refuge is just out of reach.

Flysch - Teeth Like Chrome Skulls 3" CD-R (Chondritic Sound)
Teeth like chrome skulls. Crude, rough-and-tumble noise from Flysch, searing tones shove past overloaded distortion, while faint memories are choked out of existence. The teeth keep gnashing, the knife keeps twisting. Feasting on epiphany, crawling out of the haze, searching for any semblance of familiarity after waking in fright. The push and pull of nothing.

JT Whitfield - Acceptance 3" CD-R (Chondritic Sound)
On Acceptance, JT Whitfield finds himself trapped in a hell of his own making. Shards of glass, twisted hunks of metal, a hundred frustrating false starts before everything reverts back to the way it was. Electronics sizzle and falter as they consume themselves. Sisyphean industrial techno from a most adept practitioner.

Liebestod – Beta Male 12" (Chondritic Sound)
Liebestod is Los Angeles-based artist Jesse Sanes (Hoax, Kommand). After a stunning S/T debut CS, his anticipated follow up release, the Beta Male 12”, exhumes a corroded alloy of industrial rhythms, grotesque field recordings and paranoid electronics to detail the conflicting sympathy and revulsion evoked by the grief-stricken lone gunman, the pitiful, terrifying lots suffered by lesser men.

Believer/Law - Matters of Life and Death 12" (Chondritic Sound)
Believer/Law are an aggressive, rhythmic electro-industrial outfit based in New York City. While their traditions clearly stem from DIY punk, the band’s harsh, driving dance sensibilities strike reminiscent of the likes of early Skinny Puppy or Front 242. Known for their high energy, cathartic performances and strict use of live instrumentation, Believer/Law convey a truly powerful sensation that is both pitch black and uplifting at the same time. Features members of Uniform, Cult Of Youth, Drunkdriver, and Missing Foundation.

Pedestrian Deposit - Austere CD (Monorail Trespassing)
Five years in the making, and the first duo recordings - a very, very calculated and controlled effort. Moving past the harsh noise cutups but not eschewing them entirely; rather, moving forward to areas of sound collage, music-concrete, field recording and electroacoustic. To be heard as one long piece. The progression continues.

Pedestrian Deposit - East Fork / North Fork CD (Monorail Trespassing)
Deluxe instant reissue of the much-too-limited edition Housecraft tape, including two new and previously unreleased tracks; 32 minutes of new music. Reflective of our live sets of the proceeding year and a half. Residing in the netherworld between various genres, as usual.

Pedestrian Deposit - Kithless LP (Arbor)
The pieces on Kithless are documents of the Pedestrian Deposit practice; Drift Gently Down the Frigid Tides of Sleep was recorded live at 'Activating the Medium XIII:ICE' in San Francisco on April 17, 2010. The performance extends the use of hybrid and musique concrete forms by engaging with the physical limits of the body through voluntary hypothermia, transforming the performers state and relationship to compositional tools. Under a Veil of Living Light, a staple from the 2009 East Coast tour, is a drifting of the hybrid forms expressed above, weaving in and out of each other; traces of texture, combined and re-combined.  

Vasculae - Cultural Primitivism CD (Monorail Trespassing)
Vasculae’s debut. After several years of operating in more subtle areas of experimental music, Vasculae was a return to form; sharp noise composition with emphasis on layering, texture, purity, and 'natural dynamics,' as opposed to the rapid-fire cut-ups of the past. Elements of wall noise, crackle, and 90's style raw blast are fused in these three tracks pulled from two years of intermittent 5-7 hour recording sessions. No melodic ambient interludes, no tape loops, no instruments -- only the sources of pure noise textures.

Scant - Estrangement CS (Monorail Trespassing)
Originally released Sep 2019. "Second tape for East Coast linchpin M. Boettke after 2015's 'Wake of Dissolution.' Two untitled tracks of smoldering and combustible iron roar; the A-side being an impeccable decoding of the center of an incinerator rising to full steam, while Side B proceeds into the crackling of heat embers burning out, eventually giving way to an undercurrent pulse of sub bass oscillation."

History Of Leather - Courte Oreilles to 33rd CS (Monorail Trespassing)
Brute rust belt concréte compositions of full spectrum, delicate yet hard-edged crumbling narratives from Chicago's south side.

A Fail Association - This Will Hurt You More Than It Will Hurt Me CS (Monorail Trespassing)
Round two for the Sheriff of Dada Drumming and mayor of Funkytown, TX, with two brickwall tracks recorded in 2018. The second AFA release for MT coming 16 years after the first. A solid hour of choice damnation, unrelenting.

Joseph Hammer/Joe Potts/John Wiese - The Elusive Flexure 2xCD (Helicopter)
Helicopter is proud to present the first trio album of Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye, Dinosaurs With Horns, LAFMS), Joe Potts (Airway, Extended Organ, LAFMS), and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Strain of Laws). “Listening to this album, I feel that I am having multiple dreams at once. The dreams are fragmented and mixed, flowing through time. Dreams are recalled after we wake up, and we are not exactly aware of them while we sleep. However, when listening to music in this album, it is strange to think that the dreams we are having are like this in fact. This may be music that shows us the other side of consciousness.” (Excerpt from the liner notes by Takuya Sakaguchi)

Kjostad - Warlord CS (New Forces)
Cassette edition of the 2021 Kjostad full-length "Warlord." This is the evolution of Kjostad's approach in every aspect, an attempt to distill 7 years of development into the project's finest work yet. The place-based field recordings are more intimate. The environmental explorations are more harrowing. Hissing tape loops collide with pulsing electronics. The noise clatters, clangs, and grinds across six tracks that investigate a violent past while anticipating an even darker future. Warlord is a soundtrack to world's end, and to world's beginning.

Shanked - Melee CD (New Forces)
Shanked is Wyatt Howland (Skin Graft) and Roman Levya (Plague Mother, Slit Throats). "Melee" is an unrelenting outburst of Midwest harsh noise, the distillation of the frustrations, ugliness, and anger forged in the post-industrial wreckage of Cleveland, Ohio. Six tracks of nonstop high-energy combustion. Monolithic heaviness abounds, but "Melee" has plenty of dynamism to keep the energy rush in a constant state of escalation. The union of two heavyweights of contemporary harsh noise. Mastered by Grant Richardson.

Vice Wears Black Hose - How To Shave Your Legs With A Straight Razor - For Women CD (Foul Prey)
Straddling an obsession with Italian Giallo cinema and the fetishistic allure of lessons in shaving, Richard Ramirez and Sam McKinlay’s latest despatch as Vice Wears Black Hose is a spluttering, asphyxiated affair that seems to be squeezing itself through remnants of frayed cabling. A split-stereo mix crushes the noise into the corners, with both participants harnessing a thick low-end that congeals inside the ear canals

Industrial Hazard - Harsh Lashings CD (Foul Prey)
Industrial Hazard is the project of Spencer Hazard (Full Of Hell). Powered by a homemade instrument setup, fed through an array of pedal FX, Harsh Lashings is a delay-fractured spew of squeals, pulses and churning recurrences. This release showcases both the versatility of Hazard’s devices and his proclivity toward a spasmodic, ferally agitated mode of movement. References to the 80s/90s Japanese scene abound, although the custom equipment at the root of Industrial Hazard cuts each piece with a particularly jagged outline.

Sean Addicott - Tapesleep CS or CD (Self Released)
"‘Tapesleep’ is a sound collage formed of acoustic instruments and ambient background sound, recorded to tape cassettes, which have been toxified with deodorant, smoke, and another inhalants. It would have been too easy to take the results of this process and create an inharmonic noise composition. Much more interesting, challenging and inspiring was it to create a harmonic meditation on that which I struggle most with; sleep."

Natural Pleasures - I Know What's Real CDr (KSX Solutions)
New project from Carrie Ford (Beautywork, 500 Club). 4 songs of minimal piano and vocals, slowly pieced together over the past few years.

Sore Dream - Phosphorescence CS (Damien Records)
Experimental noise duo of Dylan Walker and Spencer Hazard of Full Of Hell.

Anthony Amelang - Nocturne CD (Damien Records)

Thundering - Breathe Heavy CS (Tribe Tapes)
FFO: Hands To, The Rita. The debut tape from the US-based Breathe Heavy project collages found sound and claustrophobic noise for an experience both suffocating and electrifying.

Tantric Death - The Skin Factory CS (Serrated Tapes)
Tapes, junk, synth, e-violin and vocals from one of the strongest new projects. An edition of fifty hand-inked clear C20 cassettes packaged in 7" style resealable bags with professionally printed fold over inserts

Harry Huntington - A Mass Of Light zine (Self Published)
“A Mass of Light” is the second instalment from Harry Huntington. This is a continuation of previous work where Harry expresses thought & feeling throughout the last 18 months. Whether it be a poem about the pandemic & the every day anxieties, a horrible tooth extraction, or the reflections of life so far, there is a theme of searching throughout every poem, providing us with comfort that we should always ask the question why it makes us feel the way we do in these moments.

Convulsive Action - Pulverising Image CS (Strange Rules)
Debut solo tape from Jack Kennedy of Soft Issues and Natural Causes.

Ciro Vitiello - Alexa Stay With Me CS (Strange Rules)
Swirling melodic electronic voices. Trance-induced minimal motifs that have been elevated to the point of near-bliss.

Kagami Smile - And Backwards CS (Strange Rules)
Ultra-textural ambient ascension, truly experiential & all-encompassing. Mastered beautifully by Stephen Bishop & dubbed loud for pure saturated ecstasy.

Masoller - Lesion Quarry CS (Strange Rules)
Dark industrial gloom & pulsing powerful ambience. A Strange Rules debut as strong as we’ve ever heard.

Skjálfti - XIII CS (Óreiða)
Skjálfti continues its exploration of the everyday and mundane. Instead of the junk metal and harsh industrial sounds you are more likely to find in noise these are the sounds of everyday boredom. This is a reflection of how even the most mind numbing boring moments of our day can be filled with anxiety and existential dread.

Eymd - No Reason CS (Óreiða)
Eymd express their nihilism and exasperation with humanity through a dense wall of harsh industrial noise. The sounds of synthesizers tweaked and mangled until they reach critical mass of blown out noise just the way we like it. Like standing on the edge of the void trying to decide if you should jump in or not.

FXUNX - Regnskógarnir brenna 3" CD-R (Óreiða)
FXUNX (Fauna) bring you, on their first release, new-age music for the new age. This is the sound of the real rainforests. Of fire and carnage. Hear the rainforests burn, smell the smoke. This is the new age. Nothing goes uneaten by the leeches of capitalism.

Ploughshare/Velvet Curtain - Split CS (No Coast No Hope)
A split of upcoming stalwarts of midwest noise. The A side features an impressive track from Chicago/Minneapolis artist VELVET CURTAIN. Ever changing and enveloping harsh noise textures barrage the listener like a bad dream manipulated from afar. The B side features delicate and disgusting murky junk noise from Cincinnati artist PLOUGHSHARE.

Wet Mirror - Wet Mirror CD (Self-Released)
Collaborative effort from Blackcloudsummoner and Territorial Gobbing. Five tracks of water sounds, manipulated field recordings and various instruments combined into a “dour, dark atmospheric thing”.

KPG & Lance Cashman - Yes Death Is Afraid Of Us Split CS (Music Ends Here)
An All-Jersey slugfest of a split, featuring KPG & Lance Cashman. Eerie creaks, synthesized wails, grinding metal, and haunting field recordings.

SBTDOH - "Incongruity: Realm Of Danger" CS (Cruel Symphonies) Pummeling nonstop grinding bass heavy dirge from SBTOH, inspired heavily by the horror brought forth by the lack of justice in the world today and the continued fight for civil rights.

A Fail Association - East V. CS (Absurd Exposition)
Engines sputter and spit, hot electric wires are dragged across oil-soaked asphalt, the five-band radio emits blistering pulses of static and the road home is the same as it's always been. Unsolicited photos unlock clandestine meetings in the dark hours - one more notch in the belt of the day to day. "East V." is a C10 of pure American cut-up harsh noise from the mind behind the formidable Dada Drumming label imprint.