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NEW DIGITALIS TAPES
hey all you lovers,
it's that time of the month again:
ltd#67: john davis "vines go roaming" c49 $7 US/$9 INTL
this one has been a long-time coming and only i am to blame for the slowness in which it has FINALLY appeared. but patience is a virtue and all that biz, so just be happy its here now because SF-drone king john davis has crafted an absolute doozy.
"vines go roaming" features two immense, side-long pieces. davis takes simple ingredients and puts them through god only knows only to have something beautiful and stunning float out the other side. side a features guitar, field recordings and electronics where side b is simply accordian and electronics. it's stripped bare before he makes it whole again. the subtle shifts in tone radiate through the air expanding toward the heavens on a cloud of molasses. this is epic music. edition of 90, pro-dubbed and houses in hand-stamped 'pillow boxes.'
ltd#72: generals & such "quixote" c73 $7 US/$9 INTL
this is a first for digitalis & friends... this baby is produced from a painted score. yep, painted scores. how fucking cool is that? well, based on the results from this trio of californians: christian kiefer, timothy rowan, & erik werner - it's pretty damn cool. here's a little background... generals & such, this is what they do. they play painted/graphic scores. this one is produced by werner (don't know if they all are) and this one is a 15 ft painting based on the first eight chapters of don quixote. i feel like i don't need to say anything else because that is simply incredible.
but i won't taunt you... what do you get with a 15 ft painted score? scattershot percussion anchoring acoustic & electric guitars making skronks and waves. werner's acoustic playing at times reminds me of akiyama. rowan offsets this frenetic playing with calm and cool reverb-drenched spirals. it's an awesome contrast. the music progresses and unfolds slowly. kiefer's drumming guides the trio through the valleys and deserts, avoiding pitfalls unless necessary. the whole thing just feels monumental. tape is 73 minutes long, but each side is exactly the same. so it's basically a 1-sided c38, but i hate tapes with a blank side. pro-dubbed to boot.
ltd#74: early tunnels "aerial caves" c35 $7 US/$9 INTL
what a swamp this sucker is. throw the body over the side and get the fuck back to shore because there's some serious action about to go down after dusk. early tunnels is the ohio duo of jon lorenz (wasteland jazz unit, etc) and pete fosco (pete fosco, etc) bringing down the blitzkrieg through a mess of electric fences and barbed wire. "aerieal caves" is a gnarly excursion through minefield guitar syndrome, waltzing electronics, and firebrand horns that are guaranteed to peel paint and manufacture all kinds of dissonance with the neighbors. lorenz & fosco don't fuck around. they concoct a steaming cocktail that sounds so foreign you'd swear everything they were playing was from another planet. total kong. edition of 70, pro-dubbed and scrubbed.
ltd#77: dream safari "river submersion" c30 $7 US/$9 INTL
following up his recent burner on excitebike, dream safari is back in the haze clawing his way to the summit. these miniature trips are lost inside a maze of urban caves with nothing but a burned-out lantern. cyclical vocal drones that rise and fall like an ancient sea creature escaping from a blackened abyss. these are the sounds of dying ghosts. drenched in reverb and delay, there's only one way out and that's straight done. dark & hypnotic, you know the rest. editon of 65, pro-dubbed in the light.
ltd#79: cyquoia "age of aquarians" c20 $7 US/$9 INTL
from the washed-out minds of housecraft head honcho jefry astin and his floridian partner-in-crime evan galbicka comes a late farewell to the tropics before treks to the mountainous north. cyquoia have much in common with their housecraft brethren like tricorn & queue and xiphiidae, yet this duo has it's own trail to the flourescent pink sea mapped out in gold.
these blissful drones feel as though they're being drowned in a summer storm. astin & galbicka barely keep their heads above water, but with every breath drawn they churn out an endless flow of synthetic guitar waves. the sound just rolls over you in waves. who needs gold at the end of a rainbow anyway? edition of 80, pro-dubbed on lilac tapes, gold labels.
ltd#80: hanging thief s/t c66 $7 US/$9 INTL
i'm keeping this one simple. it's huge. absolutely fucking huge. thirty minute drones that span the colossal oklahoma skies. hanging thief is barn owl + altar eagle. recorded live in green country when barn owl trekked through on their way back home. two guitars, synthesizer, electronics, & vocals light the night. so many good times were had. edition of 150, pro-dubbed & imprinted on high-bias tapes.
ltd#89: disguises "aeolian hookers" c40 $7 US/$9 INTL
let the insanity begin! these beasts from toronto follow-up their mind-melting LP from last year, "post-mortem depression," with absolute avalanche of hell. jagged guitar swirls get the beat down from a pommel horse of drum bombs. screams escape from the abyss only to be sucked back under by crawling basslines. and then the guitars come at you again and again and again. there's no avoiding this minefield - you're gonna lose a leg.
this is clusterfuck city folks and disguises are your tour guides. these jagged excursions will cut your face open and make you want to apologize for bleeding all over the brand new carpet. edition of 80, pro-dubbed with broken golden fairy art and smeared labels.
check out pics & audio at the site: http://www.digitalisindustries.com/digi_ltd.html
and order 'em there too.
if you want the whole bag it's $44 US / $55 INTL - just EMAIL ME to confirm.
i promised new ARTS & CRAFTS as well, but those are gonna have to wait until monday for proper release. they're ready to go save for the catalog descriptions, so if you want to add either to your order, check this:
ACE018: Social Junk "Born Into It" REGULAR CD EDITION $13 / CD+BONUS TAPE $18
ACE026: Black to Comm "Charlemagne & Pippin" CD $13
you can order by paypalling me at brad@digitalisindustries.com for the total amount - just let me know what you want in the notes out of those and we can ship 'em with any tapes or whatever else you might want to snatch. you can also wait until monday for add to cart buttons if you're so inclined. both CDs are editions of 500 so they should last for a bit.
UP NEXT YOU ASK? the next two CDs come from PULSE EMITTER and THE GREEN BLOSSOMS. they couldn't be more different, but both are incredible. modular synth showers and stripped down japanese pop. yep. next two records will probably be coltrane/kenney and seht (which also includes a 3" CDR w/ additional track).
JUNE TAPE BATCH: space dive, meditations, young boys/fm.face, pink priest, ester poland, & charlatan for sure. black eagle child & goodwillies collab, m. geddes gengras, & enfer boreal are pretty close, but could wait for overripeness in july.
much love as always,
-brad
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