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.

The Cherry Point - Live Hell 2 CD (Helicopter/Troniks)
A scorching blast of blistering overload and scathing hell compiling seven complete live concert performances unearthed from The Cherry Point vault, including ear-splitting collaborations with Andorkappen, NVH, Blud Thirst, and John Wiese. Mastered for maximum impact and packaged in a limited edition six panel digipak.

Lefthandeddecision - 1997–2002 2xCD (Helicopter/Troniks)
Before The Cherry Point. Before Troniks. There was Lefthandeddecision. For his first foray into primitive audio experiments, a teenage Phil Blankenship channeled youthful angst through broken & borrowed gear to craft an explosion of rugged underground audio. Now, for the first time ever, over two hours from across the project’s half-decade span is available to experience again, pulling corroded sound from the early self-released cassettes, material culled from rare international releases, live performances, and beyond.

Sissy Spacek with Vortex Campaign - The Man and The Old Sea CD (Helicopter/Troniks)
The mysterious Belgian cult act known for work with Coil and The New Blockaders in the 1980s, as well as an appearance on the legendary Broken Flag cassette compilation Le Couperet, returns for a new international sound art collaboration with Sissy Spacek.

AMK with Sissy Spacek - Repeater CD (Helicopter)

Fumio Kosakai - Earth Calling CD (Helicopter)
First CD edition of Fumio Kosakai's (Incapacitants, C.C.C.C., Hijokaidan) cosmic debut solo cassette from 1987 on his Anciant Records imprint. Faithful art reproduction using white on black paper risograph.

Farrah Faucet - Grief Bubbles And Other Adhesive Residues CD (Handmade Birds)
On "Grief bubbles and other adhesive residues", every nuance, every pop, every hiss, is penetrating the space to leave its sonic canvas rife with scars, and the listener making a decision of whether to delve further in or eject. The embodiment of true catharsis, "Grief bubbles..." is equal parts an aural exorcism and exercise in spiritual elation. An examination of the push and pull of temptation, the consequences of carnal submission, the remnants of guilt, and the refreshment of baptism as we fall, push through, resurface, and fall again. And with every turn of the knob, farrah faucet keeps us edging: one deeply conflicted inner monologue awakens another which scaffolds to build the album's ferocity, and just when release is in sight, pulls back to set up the next catharsis.

Distraxi – Sporus CS (Eggy Tapes)
Much like Distraxi’s 2021 EP “Castration Fantasy”, “Sporus” draws from the myths and facts surrounding a historical eunuch: this time the story of a slave boy, Sporus, who was married off as Roman Emperor Nero’s wife. “Sporus” uses this story as a vehicle to express inner pain and resentment. These f.ive tracks are sometimes explosive like a gushing wound, sometimes giddy and suppressed like a thick headache, with screams pressed into the feedback and static.

Distraxi – Everest Elysium CS (Eggy Tapes)
The queen of pain electronics returns with a new 4 track EP. Twenty minutes of brutal, uncompromising harsh noise to help you severe all mental ties to this world. Physical only release, no streaming for this one.

Spiteful Womb - Interior Castle 12" (Cipher Productions)
The debut LP of Nora Zimmerman's project Spiteful Womb. "Interior Castle" coalesces many of the elements which have coursed through her cassette and CDR releases over the last decade, combining sombre dark ambient, fetid power electronics, captured sound elements and hints of melodic dissatisfaction into a architected sequence of carefully layered and viscerally powerful compositions. "Interior Castle" finds common (burial) ground across the range of post-industrial recesses in which Spiteful Womb has dwelled, constructing a sinister sequence of mansion rooms which expose an array of embedded horrors.

Sissy Spacek - Cosm CD (Helicopter)
A new Sissy Spacek album in the realm of free-improv, but a great expansion of the perimeter. This power trio features Charlie Mumma on drums, Masahiko Ohno (Solmania) on guitar, and John Wiese on organ. Unlike anything that's come before.

Sissy Spacek - Bolero Shield 2xCD (Handmade Birds)
There is an art to reinvention, to which Sissy Spacek is adept. The project is a perpetual shape-shifter, steadily navigating the dichotomous line between bliss and blistering. X-Factor, Total Mystery, always excellent. And then, a view even further from left field, there is Bolero Shield. A masterwork spanning two discs that finds balance in its acumen, teetering between amorphis-non-genre and sheer inferno. Appearances by Phil Blankenship (The Cherry Point), Bill Nace, Drew Daniel, and M.C. Schmidt (Matmos). Essential listening with a full color 28-page booklet.

Straight Panic - Siege Murmuration CS (Handmade Birds)
A requiem to the end of a broken world. Featured collaborators include DSMIII, and Joshua Plague (Behead The Prophet NLSL). Straight Panic continues batting one thousand, after a storied history that includes releases on Fusty, Phage Tapes, No Rent, Breathing Problem Prod, Damien, Deathbed, Ominous, and many more, yet continues to push an unapologetic exploration of ideology and imagery, matched with the coupling of noise and nuance. Fucking fierce.

Iugula Thor - Corcoran CS (Handmade Birds)
Iconic and influential, Iugula Thor presents a flawless work that recalls the mastery of previous landmarks (i.e. "Opera") yet leans into new territory, a sonic palette that is sure to resonate with both noise and industrial enthusiasts alike. How fitting, then, that the “Corcoran” moniker bears the dichotomous weight of being both a Prison, and an International Luxury Real Estate broker. This is a master who understands how to command the tightrope of duality with both the ears and the mind; this is a master at work.

Nudeconsumer - We Can See Merely What Comes Before It's Windows CS (Handmade Birds)
Staying true to the series focus of Black Alchemy, Nudeconsumer has crafted a deeply intentional harsh noise work that plays out as much like a narrative as it does a bombastic wall. Laced with samples and thoughtful detail, NC demonstrates that their level of artistry matches the relentless work ethic and rigorous tour schedule that has positioned the project as one of the most exciting voices in noise.

The Rita - The Rack Extended Version CS (Handmade Birds)

Mater Suspiria Vision - Crack Witch 3 CS (Handmade Birds)

Witches of Malibu - Marching into 1982 CS (Handmade Birds)

Reona + T. Mikawa - Live at Bar Isshee CD (Oxen)
A live documentation of a collaboration between T. Mikawa: Electronics and Reona: Tap Dance, Metal sheets, Chains, Loud speaker. Disarming, complex tension creeping through a labyrinth of junk metal fracturing with razor sharp noise stabbings; the sonic sum of a malfunctioning single jet engine spraying shrapnel into your entire body. Original cover artwork by Reona.

Rosaline Sørine - The Seed From Which I Grow CD-R (Swampland Press)
Rosaline Sørine is the solo moniker of Evan Pacewicz (Moth Drakula/Roman Torment). Heavy compositions of industrial waste from the outskirts of Los Angeles. FFO abrasive melodies and dissonant arrangements. Limited CD-R, 6 tracks, 24 minutes

Blood Thirst - Masks Of The Dead CD-R (Swampland Press)
First new solo work by Blood Thirst since the Jealous and Bleak tapes from 2005. Abrasive, crude, and raw like road rash harsh noise for non-purists and the midnight movie set. According to the Special Interests noise board, "forgettable and uninteresting pedal noise. Nothing special." It is what it is. Nothing more. Nothing less. One half of Moth Drakula/Roman Torment.

Sore Dream - Never For You CS (Damien Records)
The lastest release from noise duo Sore Dream, made up of Dylan Walker and Spencer Hazard of Full Of Hell. 3 new tracks of fried electronics, distorted rhythm, scathing vocals and noise.

Ethan McCarthy - Beauty In All Things (Part 1 & 2) CS (Damien Records)
Repress of the 2022 full length from Ethan McCarthy, also known for his work with sludge band Primitive Man.

Many Blessings - True Love CS (Damien Records)
Repress of the 2023 release from Many Blessings, the noise/drone alter ego of Ethan McCarthy.

Iggor Cavalera - Aural Manifestations CS (Damien Records)
Primarily known as a metal drummer, the past few years have seen Iggor become more and more invested and engaged in the world of noise and experimental, and this release sees him to continue his explorations of sound. Aural Manifestations originally self-released by Iggor for a live performance at Cafe OTO with Raven Chacon. This edition from Damien Records is presented as a pro-dubbed tape in an oversized case.

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.

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.

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.

Wasauksing Sniper - Hundred Days Offensive CS (Buried In Slag And Debris)
“Hundred Days Offensive” is the latest release from Bret Parenteau’s (Winnipeg, MB) Wasauksing Sniper, a homage project to Francis Pegahmagabow, the most highly decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian military history. Blanketed harsh snips with hails of roaring static and hiss grip and pull you into No Man’s Land.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Meatpacker - The Possessed CS (Total Black)
A cold and terrifying look at American institutions and negative stigma presented across 10 tracks of industrial and ritual ambient. "The Possessed" is a new full-length C30 from Meatpacker, following releases on Packing Plant, Finders, and Endangered Species. Real time dubbed on Chrome cassettes with riso printed aqua J-cards on 270 gsm black cardstock, housed in smoke hazed cases.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 - 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.

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."

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)

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

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.

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.