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DIGITALIS V. THE HEAT
hey everyone,
holy shit it's hot. so fucking hot. it's officially over 100 today and i pretty much just want to go hide in a cave, which is what our apartment has basically become. bunker down. so while we try to beat the heat with copious amounts of AC, we fold and dub for you:
ltd#76: meditations "precipice" c20 $7 US / $9 INTL
with a name like meditations, you'd probably assume something with a spritual bend would be coming up the tubes. but no worries - these sprawlers are looking to take you deep down into the muddy depths. this trio absolutely kills it on "precipice." blown-out, brooding synths pummel your senses left and right while vocals from hell taunt you into taking the fall. this is one dark fucking ride, a cut-up masterful mess. specks of light try to escape in the form of distant, bright melodies but they're quickly destroyed by the impending hellacious mess. awesome. edition of 65, pro-dubbed purple monsters. pics & audio: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/ltd76.html
ltd#82: space dive "twenty-first century sport" c39 $7 US / $9 INTL
once again i struggle to yammer on about my own projects, so i'll keep this short and sweet and let the sound samples speak for themselves. story is, even as the north sea shifted focus, i was still writing songs here & there on the old guitar. but in those manifestations, they weren't doing much for me. what to do? rework the songs for synthesizer, listen to a lot of bauhaus and suicide, and see what happens. so there you go. SPACE DIVE. edition of 100, pro-dubbed high-bias blue moons. pics & audio: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/ltd82.html
ltd#86: young boys/fm.face split c28 $7 US / $9 INTL
oh this little gem of mine, spit & shine spit & shine. young boys and fm.face are two newborn projects hailing from opposite coasts, but when they join forces on this tape it's to melt your face off. young boys kick it on first with thick reverb post-punk spirit and stonewalled vocals belting it out, these five songs are covered in new york slime. these songs are bleak but laced with something sweet that keeps you coming back for more and more.
fm.face is like the rascally younger brother who is out to show how he can really fuck shit up in a royally awesome way. these songs are punked-out wastelands. angular guitar lines repeat to infinity on top of overblown drum machines while fm.face just absolutely fucking belts it out. look out below. edition of 100, half on black, half on white, pro-dubbed pounds. pics & audio: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/ltd86.html
ltd#87: black eagle child & goodwillies "bamboo airships" c40 $7 US / $9 INTL
it's pretty common knowledge that here at digitalis hq we love (FUCKING LOVE) collaborations, postal and otherwise. so when the black eagle child himself approached me with the idea of this release, jaws dropped and praises were sung. once the master showed up, every expectation and preconception was put to pasture and blown to outerspace. what an absolute beast.
black eagle child weaves a devastating web of guitar exploration here, opening the proceedings with simple chord progressions that long for death. tim goodwillie brings it up a notch with equally biting organ drones. the combination is stunning x10. you will ache. and you will love it. and when it folds in on itself and becomes a summer jamboree mixed with keyboard fuzz and hypnobeats, the sweetness reaches new heights. scorched earth guitar workouts find their way into the mix and find themselves engulfed in a psychedelic swash of tribal debris. just fucking wow. incredible art by tim goodwillie. edition of 80, pro-dubbed napalm tapes.pics & audio: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/ltd87.html
ltd#88: pink priest "cat tails // at the mouth of swollen summer" c20 $7 US / $9 INTL
this semi-recent discovery has quickly manifested itself as one of my total faves. pink priest hails from northeast arkansas and is further proof that there's tons of amazing, amazing shit happening in the furthest reaches of the u.s. "cat tails // at the mouth of swollen summer" is the perfect soundtracked for the soul-melting heat that's currently crushing tulsa. pink priest finds simple, exquisite melodies and plucks them out of the air only to drown them under 20,000 leagues of sea water.
keyboards are bent and mangled into unrecognizable swells; tones pitch forward looking like they're ready to take the ultimate swan dive. this music is dense, but more like a wall of helium than a mass of steel. minimal percussive bursts pop up at times adding a mechanical resonance to the proceedings. when pink priest adds in sepulchral vocal incantations it's like aa perfect drug. all the while, though, these synthetic, keyed drones light a new path through the ozark skies. total diamond style. edition of 75, pro-dubbed ivory beasts. pics & audio: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/ltd88.html
ltd#90: charlatan "destinations" c30 $7 US / $9 INTL
the rise (or fall) of charlatan continues on an upward arc of synth excess. tonal bliss, minimal shifts, arpeggios to the sky. oklahoma confined. incredible art by hoy-joy. edition of 70, pro-dubbed aqua dreams. pics & audio: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/ltd90.html
ltd#91: ester poland "hippi, kanuuna ja Kiinan torni" c66 $7 US / $9 INTL
man, finland... it never stops does it? it really never does. just when you think the terrain has been scoured and every last pore drained til the last drop, something new comes along with such star-searching bombast that you get knocked square on your ass all over again. ester poland are the latest in a long line of impeccable sound sculptors out of finland, but this screeching duo are riding their own astral baby well into the new millenium. pics & audio: http://www.foxydigitalis.com/ltd91.html
guitar freakouts worm there way into cavernous squalls, stretching from here to forever. even when they pull things back and break out the acoustic strum, there's so much cacaphony happening under the surface that you'll never escape the chaos. these blasts are psychedelic as fuck and will strip you down to the absolute core. finland wins again. edition of 60, pro-dubbed green-foil foliage. pics & audio: http://www.digitalisindustries.com/ltd91.html
epic styling. package deals available if you want all/most of the new ones, etc... we love to give ya good deals, so EMAIL ME!!!
coming soon will be tapes from the likes of xela, enfer boreal, the as-yet-untitled north sea & sovetskaya gone duo, the shitty listener, more pink priest, etc. vinyl bombs from seht, andrew coltrane/steve kenney, & BUGSKULL. cds from pulse emitter & green blossoms + the dueling albums from each member of barn owl, solo style. SUMMER FTW!
much love,
brad
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