spring weather here is fucking ruling... been trying to stay on top of emails and stuff while sitting on the porch. love you, wifi connection. anyway, a quick hit mini-batch to start things off right - there's a bigger batch of tapes coming in the next month-ish, but these three beauties are ready to go now:
ltd#132: jouurney "dancers in the time-flux" c24 $7 US / $8 CAN/MEX / $9 INTL
synthetic dreams blossom underneath perfect french skies, offering arpeggiated gifts to a sun god that never even existed in the first place. each step is liquid and melodic to a degree, looking for another avenue to paint in electric blue. on this debut our french explorer wants to cruise the high seas on a blast of square waves.
this time-flux is a warm place to be. jouurney's quixotic sounds have you floating in and out of consciousness, submerged beneath nobody drones and pink sunsets. of course, everything gets thrown out of whack for the last two minutes and the blitzed out beats and cacaphonic synth mayhem that ensues. it's an exclamation point for sure. edition of 72, pro-dubbed & imprinted.
ltd#136: sorc'henn "shadow is ov silver, phantom is ov gold" c56 $7 US / $8 CAN/MEX / $9 INTL
sorc'henn is the twisted brainchild of laurent boulouard and on "shadow is ov silver, phantom is ov gold" he's determined to invade your dreams and paint them all black. sickly organ drones proliferate every corner in this darkened soundworld. sometimes they're stretched and overrun by diamond-cut guitar riffage other times they're turned into the soundtrack to the worst funhouse imaginable.
there are few artists around who can turn their music into something so completely haunted like boulouard. he takes it to a different place. it's the most sinister church music imaginable. dampened chimes over ghostly voices creep into your psyche until you'd rather be dead than posessed. it's so fucking eerie it gets buried uner your skin. but in the end, "shadow/phantom" reminds me why i love sorc'henn so much: he takes you places you'd never go on your own and in that sense it's almost divine. almost. edition of 72, pro-dubbed & imprinted.
ltd#138: indian weapons "parousia" c30 $7 US / $8 CAN/MEX / $9 INTL
the salutations are over and everyone is wide awake. indian weapons is the new duo of yours truly and nathan young. of course there are similarities to ajilvsga, but this is something different, something new. organics are in fully supply. acoustic instrumentation is melded with oscillators and filters and processed into a delicious abyss. it's an attempt to meld the mangled into something less deconstructive and more composed. there's still a lot of crunch, but with melodicas singing and violins floundering on a bed of synthesized chaos, it finds its way behind the mask. and then somehow it became about derrida. edition of 80, pro-dubbed & imprinted.
get all three for $20 US/$22 CANMEX/$25 INTL. paypal to brad@digitalisindustries.com. shoot me an email w/ any questions.
ALSO! in moving some boxes over the weekend, i unearthed 4 copies of the imaginary softwoods 2LP that were reserved and never paid for. so if you missed out on the original pressing and want to grab one, email me. they're $25 US/$29 CANMEX/$37 INTL. they're available on a first come, first serve basis - so get in touch!
next up will be heather woods broderick's "from the ground," originally issued on CD on preservation - now on vinyl via digitalis (w/ an extra track). the ossining LP should be ready soon as well. the next tape batch includes the likes of red electric rainbow, michael james tapscott (of odawas),white leopards, mohave triangles and more.
much love,
brad
at 21 April, 2010 02:35,
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