This is a very nice drone tape by one John Bohannon, from the label of Expo 70’s Justin Wright, a fact that seems notable for some reason.
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Travis Bird
Ancient Ocean, “I” tape/CDr
Den, “Bronze Fog” tape
The debut release from the Retrograde label, by trio forming Den, traffics in “interplanetary violence” with “nuclear winter jams,” reaching a tremendous level power at times.
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The Soles, “The Broken Ghost EP”
Self-released by bandleader Din’s Din Arts label, this is the newest EP from Toronto’s the Soles.
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The Magic I.D., “I’m So Awake/Sleepless I Feel”
The Magic I.D., based in Berlin, is interested in combining songs with more experimental forms.
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V/A, “Agdam” CDr
A compilation from Azerbaijan’s mysterious Agdam label—named after a ghost town capital in the western part of that country, and which may or may not actually exist—of material from members of the A Band, the influential British free-improv collective entity.
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Antimatter, “Reset”
San Francisco’s Xopher Davidson has earned a name for himself as a detail man, through his mastering work of many new electronic and Minimalist releases (as Mixture151) and through his music as Antimatter.
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Paintings for Animals, “Kristeater”
Paintings For Animals is the doing of Olympia, WA’s Pearson Wallace-Hoyt, encompassing an array of darker and experimental layers of drone in many solo and collaborative projects.
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These Trails, s/t
The story of These Trails, the album, is of a familiar type, known to many collectors but not to many others.
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Factions, “Cold Light Emissions” tape
The third release from Brooklyn’s Fabrica label (they’re approaching a dozen now) is a nice ambient tape by Factions, the alias of some local the label claims they don’t actually know.
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“Field Recordings From Sichuan and Yunnan, China” CDr
A straightforward and mysterious release, the debut CDr from Nada, a label with no obvious location or proprietor.
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Mark Templeton, “Scotch Heart” tape
The four pieces that make up Scotch Heart do a nice job of combining degraded tape loop samples with distorted guitar and other tools to build to dark, majestic climaxes.
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SSPS, “Highly Sensitive Safeguards Secure” tape
I was thinking about a friend who recently moved from Chicago who once described what she wanted during a recording session as “head shaking, not ass shaking.”
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Datashock, “Para Dieswärts Dull” tape
It’s unfortunate that the word “dull” appears in the title of this tape by trippy German collective Datashock, because that’s mostly how I would describe this one.
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