DeTrop – Con Rit
C30 Cassette (R&L028)
Edition of 100
Early modular madness culled from their various live rehearsal tapes from the infancy of DeTrop. Strung together in the Spring of 2011 featuring members of York Factory Complaint & Ideal Forms, DeTrop has persistently kept its aesthetics alive while valuing the constant idea of evolution. From these tapes, you can hear the members wistfully piecing together their chops, tweaking their values and solidifying their domain, whether at sea or on land.
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Black Leather Jesus – Even Deeper
C20 Cassette (R&L026)
Edition of 100
Punishment & sex in it’s least refined, the calling card for Black Leather Jesus and the nightmare they’ve left behind over the past 23 years. Formulated by Richard Ramirez (Werewolf Jerusalem), this was one Ramirez’s earliest concepts and foray into the collaborative “band” idea. Ramirez being the sole core member, Black Leather Jesus has had dozen of members phasing in and out of its ranks, always keeping the perverse steady had of autoerotic execution. Steady attacks of harsh noise, charging forward with each member’s contribution being piled on top of the last in a frenzied orgy of bondage electronics. Lesson learned, over and over.
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Rust Worship – Optimistic
C40 Cassette (R&L023)
Edition of 70
Backwards musique mixed up in a noise car crash, cut up strands of sound are the only things Rust Worship can communicate with. Paul Haney’s solo performances resemble something mysterious and powerful, typical involvement gets brushed aside for pure immersion. Previous releases on Haney’s own Obsolete Units label as well as 905 Tapes & Tape Drift resemble Rust Worship as a marksman for sound and energy. This release catalogs 3 unique and diverse live sets by Rust Worship, first being a performance at the infamous Redlight District in far Rockaway, NY. Backend shows two performances in Ridgewood, NY included a special set from the Ende Tymes Festival in Ridgewood, NY.
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These Feathers Have Plumes – Hegira
3” CDr (R&L025)
Edition of 65
Beautiful, haunting drone works by masterful avant-garde composer Andie Brown under her alias These Feathers Have Plumes. Former performer of underground goth-rock outfit Cindytalk, Brown has departed that world to focus on her minimalist compositions, employing numerous ideas and effects to reach her humbled zenith. These Feathers Have Plumes utilizes her standard form of upright bass and tape, but more recently her “glass pieces” have reflected her talent and ear for new forms and meditative techniques. Two reflective ambient works captured for reproduction, replicated for enlightenment.
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York Factory Complaint – Sufferings
3” CDr (R&L022)
Edition of 50
Initially recorded during the sessions with engineer Kris Lapke for their full length debut album on Dais Records, this solo composition was edited for it’s own inclusion then promptly dismissed. Only fitting within itself, Sufferings had no other to join hands. Considered aptly as a full length preview or amputated as a diseased limb, this small offering is one’s own glimpse into what is to come.
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York Factory Complaint – Live Document ’09- ’10
C40 Cassette (R&L021)
Edition of 110
A display of select live performances that document the evolution and destruction which compromises York Factory Complaint. First side is a complete live show featuring the original two piece line up with a guest member appearance by artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on treated violin, flooding the audience with abrasive repetition and apparent desperation. Complimenting this is two additional recordings, first being a early performance in the band’s infancy with guest appearances by Cory Card and Louis Caldarola. Directly afterwards is a more recent recording highlighting the band as they are now know in their current form performing to a confused audience at the seminal New Musuem in New York City during the painful summer of 2010. History should never be repeated.
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Jazkamer – Failed State Of Mind
C30 Cassette (R&L019)
Edition of 100
Over the past decade, Norwegian improvisers Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre has combined their efforts within the mainframe of Jazkamer, each one’s participation equally jarring and affectionate to the designated listener. Stacks of releases have documented this infamous collaboration as it set course through noise, power electronics, improvised acoustics and free form sound, culling their strengths and weakness to make some of the most memorable experimental albums to date. This exclusive tape edit reworks the previous issue of the album Failed State Of Mind, which was released on CD with selective sequence on Marhaug’s own Pica Disk imprint in 2010. Re-sequenced and assembled by Lasse Marhaug into an unique analog interpretation of this modern classic.
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Exhumed Corpse – Mortem Obire
C50 Cassette (R&L018)
Edition of 75
Corrosive lo-fi dark ambient by Michigan noise mainstay Sam Wagner, Exhumed Corpse is a wallowing retreat from his solo works as Dour and Tightrope. Having a wide spread of releases in bands such as Bluebird (alongside Aaron Dilloway), Gridlock’d (with Pleasure Dome’s Thom Elliott), and Black Onyx to name a few, Wagner’s Exhumed Corpse project has been a self-sustaining staple of his own With Intent Records as well as madness released through Hanson Records, Hermitage, Fag Tapes and FM Tapes. Counter-industrial with a primitive sway that always seethes through the ground.
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Pipeline Alpha – Demons And Dances
C60 Cassette (R&L011)
Edition of 100
Reclusive German filmmaker turned tape slicer, Marcel Seeck has stacked his cards in favor of mysterious sound edits over contemporary structure. Using similar styles found amongst the likes of Pierre Schaeffer, Nurse With Wound & Jonty Harrison, Pipeline Alpha gives birth to Jarman-esque, transitional sound sculpture found only the hidden corners of perverse, surreal fantasy. Previous release on his own Amid The Waves label and notable jaunts on free-psych imprint DNT showed an Pipeline Alpha in rapid development, Demons and Dances allows for a fully realized story selflessly contained in his private Pandora’s Box.
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