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Available Now For Pre-Order:John Cage / Aaron Dilloway – Rozart Mix LPHanson Records   LP w. 12 page full color booklet....
05/30/2024

Available Now For Pre-Order:

John Cage / Aaron Dilloway – Rozart Mix LP
Hanson Records



LP w. 12 page full color booklet.
So excited and honored to finally release the vinyl document of my realization of JOHN CAGE’s ROZART MIX. Back in the extremely strange year of 2020, I was approached by Wave Farm and John Cage Trust to stage a performance of this seldomly performed piece that Cage wrote for Alvin Lucier. The piece is comprised of 88 tape loops (one for each key of a piano), spliced together with multiple non-musical sounds played back on 12 reel to reel machines.
In January of 2021 I spent a wonderful and intense week researching ROZART MIX at John Cage Trust at Bard College. It was the first place I had visited during the pandemic. On October 23, 2021, with the assistance of Rose Actor-Engel, Twig Harper, C. Lavender, Quintron, Robert Turman, and John Wiese, I presented a 6 hour performance of ROZART MIX at the John Cage Trust. Six hours of 12 individually amplified reel to reel tape machines, placed around multiple floors of a house, playing 88 tape loops spliced together by 5 to 175 splices, created an overwhelming and joyous environment of cacophonous sound. The performance culminated with John Wiese touching a frog for the first time as the final sound croaked through the speakers. The frog contact was just one of many magical moments that occurred during the preparation and presentation of the piece. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed performing it. Special thanks to Galen Joseph-Hunter of Wave Farm and Laura Kuhn & Emy Martin of John Cage Trust for trusting me with this material.
-Aaron Dilloway, May 2024

JOHN CAGE / AARON DILLOWAY
ROZART MIX
Side A: ROZART MIX (live performance 2021)
Side B: VARIATIONS OF A SINGLE ROZART TAPE
Realized by Aaron Dilloway with Rose Actor-Engel, Twig Harper, C. Lavender, Quintron, Robert Turman, and John Wiese.
Live audio system engineer and recording by Kyle Keays Hagerman.
Mastered by Jack Callahan

In Stock:David James Drume - S/T EP We are proud to present this 5 track debut EP from artist David James Drume. Hailing...
05/20/2024

In Stock:

David James Drume - S/T EP


We are proud to present this 5 track debut EP from artist David James Drume. Hailing from Chicago this young musician has expertly tailored a sound of techno that is unmatched by most. TIP!!!
Words from the producer: “When I set out to write these five tracks, I was intent on working within a style of Techno music that had reached its apex during the early years of the new millennium. The progenitors of this style made extensive use of samples and prerecorded drum loops, and did so to an almost unprecedented degree. Their novel production techniques, in part made possible by the advent of the DAW, yielded a fascinating result – sonic maximalism that hitherto could only be produced by recording a large ensemble of musicians performing together. Now, dozens of such recordings could be digitally composited together, resulting in dense walls of diverse timbres. I have for a long time been captivated by this sound, and at their core, these five tracks are an earnest expression of my passion for this sonic aesthetic.”
-D.J. Drume

Now Available For Pre-Order:Indigo Ranch – Hard Gloss LPHappy Families   Recorded by the band in their studio in 2022, I...
05/10/2024

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Indigo Ranch – Hard Gloss LP
Happy Families


Recorded by the band in their studio in 2022, Indigo Ranch’s Hard Gloss scratches an itch for DIY sound & aesthetics. Mixed with Jeff Zeigler and mastered by Mikey Young, the album was kept under scrutiny to not leave the path of its analog creation.
Emily Eichelberger’s voice is buried in tape hiss and echo, reaching through to drag you track by track into the rain. The band’s bassist & half dutied programmer, John Pyle, lent himself as engineer. The recording is plush on noise and tape saturation, staying fervently true to their sound from their self released tape “Love Or Perish” Thudding high gain rhythm machines, crackling guitars and looping hypnotic bass lines around it all. Blending mid tempo industrial post-punk and dream pop, Hard Gloss doesn’t leave behind the 80s influences for Emily’s new visions. The album is bookended & intermitted by industrial synth-scapes driving home the band’s disposition. The songwriting can be sat alongside post-punk and dream pop greats Coldreams, Cocteau Twins, Jesus & Mary Chain, and Black Tambourine. Comfortingly dreary vocals and lyrics fix you to the band’s demure gaze. It’s a perfect rainy day glum album.

Releases June 7, 2024.

🎶 Moorish Rose from the bands debut cassette

In Stock:Decoder – Ghanaprajna 2×12” Fixed Rhythms is proud to release a masterpiece double LP by Texas techno young sta...
04/26/2024

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Decoder – Ghanaprajna 2×12”


Fixed Rhythms is proud to release a masterpiece double LP by Texas techno young star, Decoder aka Gautham Garg (as seen on Axis Records, Float Records, Amotik, Molecular, Science Cult, Subsist and more). He also runs the fabulous new imprint Toca alongside Jay York. Fixed Rhythms released a 12” EP entitled “Boulder” under his Cratan alias in 2021, and copies zipped on out the door. Not expecting this to be any different.
This is 8 tracks of hypnotic, bendy techno (with a C1 electro switch-up). You’re instantly transported to the depths of the cosmos within your mind on the first needle drop. User beware, this will hypnotize the dance floor. A track for all moments of the deep dance, with a D2 that ends the double LP with a powerfully optimistic sonic statement.
EARLY DJ SUPPORT:
Classy! – Bruce
love Decoder – Lychee
Decoder always delivering 🙂 A1/C2 are the ones for me to play, but really nice EP all round! – Amotik
I absolutely love these. Great work from Gautham as always. – dotdat
I love Decoder!!! – Ron Like Hell
Exciting one !! – Miley Serious
this ROCKS – 2Lanes
Limited edition of 300 copies on black vinyl. Don’t sleep!
released March 14, 2024

Back In Stock:Nuovo Testamento – New Earth (Sky Blue / Transparent Violet 3rd Pressing)Avant! Records  band Nuovo Testam...
04/16/2024

Back In Stock:

Nuovo Testamento – New Earth
(Sky Blue / Transparent Violet 3rd Pressing)
Avant! Records
band

Nuovo Testamento is the Los Angeles & Bologna-based trio featuring members of Horror Vacui, Sheer Mag, Tørsö, Terremoto and Crimson Scarlet.
With the addition of Chelsey Crowley on vocals, synthesists Andrea Mantione & Giacomo Zatti found that their initial coldwave tracks, originally written for the male voice, took on an undeniable synthpop feel. While still recording these songs for the debut Exposure EP in 2019, the band leaned into this evolution and their shared love of Italo disco, beginning to write what would become the New Earth LP.

Recorded in isolation during a global pandemic, New Earth is a dark Italo record dappled with light. For eight new tracks, dancing synths perfectly balance the rich dream of a charmed life with melancholy. Guitars have taken a step back, allowing disco beats to flood the floor and joyful fun to prevail. The record anticipates a return to dance spaces, imagines shared experiences and celebrates personal power.
Produced by sound engineer Maurizio Baggio, with vocal recording by Riki and featuring guest vocals from B. Sven Gustavson (Spectres, Nouveaux), New Earth reflects international influences from the goth club scene to Hi-Nrg classics, reminiscent of Italian Baby Records, Mute Records and the spaces in between.

Third edition of 500 on Sky Blue and 500 on transparent Violet.
Comes in an ultra glossy jacket and printed inner sleeve with lyrics.

In Stock:Tongue Depressor + Austin Larkin – S/T LP  Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry...
04/12/2024

In Stock:

Tongue Depressor + Austin Larkin – S/T LP


Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and bells, usually involving micro-tonal tunings and re-arranged/re-tuned fragments of American church music.

Austin Larkin (New Haven, CT) uses elements of tone, interstices of fields, asymmetries, and patterns. Performance and practice informed by re-search into dimensions of vibrating bodies.
On this recording Tongue Depressor and Austin Larkin have combined to record what they had been practicing on the road live across the US together. Henry Birdsey (TD) plays bagpipes and lap steel. Zach Rowden (TD) plays violin and tapes. Austin Larkin plays viola and sirens (which he himself constructed and are a story unto themselves). Soothing sounds give way to unsettling / unnerving feelings when the sirens find their way through meditative loops.

Tongue Depressor have just come off a successful European tour with plans to return this coming Fall.
Mastering and lacquers for this recording have beenprovided by Rashad Becker.

New Pre-Order Now Available:Lord Spikeheart – The Adept LPHaekalu Records Notice: This is a Pre-Order and will ship befo...
03/26/2024

New Pre-Order Now Available:

Lord Spikeheart – The Adept LP
Haekalu Records

Notice: This is a Pre-Order and will ship before it’s release date of April 19, 2024.

The Adept is Lord Spikeheart’s first full-length album. A ferocious debut that ups the intensity and physicality of his previous releases and promises to bring a telluric big bang in sonic extreme experimentation. For this new joint Lord Spikeheart hooked up with various producers and artists from the bass n’ shred universe, among others: Brodinski, Backxwash, Fatboi Sharif, Safety Trance, Rully Shabara (Senyawa), Saionji BBBBBBB and the young Italian producer Talpah. Also featured are Vulture Thrust from the iconic death metal band from Botswana Overthurst, and old-time collaborators Dj Die soon and Dj Scotch Rolex aka (Dj Scotch Egg).
Expect a hallucinatory exploration of metal, aggressive beats, hard trance, crashing techno and abrasive rapping fronting terrifying abysmal screams, incanting chants and hellish growls in the native tongues Kikuyu, Kiswahili, and English. All majestically mixed and mastered by James Ginzburg (Emptyset), who also lends his signature sound design to the track REM Fodder feat. Koenraad Ecker.
The Adept is the first release on Lord Spikeheart’s brand new label HAEKALU RECORDS, an African label dedicated to the darkest, heaviest music from the Continent.
The record is a tribute to the daily fight against oppression in all its forms and comes with a special dedication to Lord Spikeheart’s great grandmother Field Marshal Muthoni wa Kirima who was
the only woman to earn the rank during the Mau Mau uprising against the British colonialists in Kenya.
The lyrics come in a dedicated leaflet with English translation.
If you are fan of: Duma, Backxwash, Godflesh, Denzel Curry, Blackhaine, JPEG Mafia, Rage Against The Machine, Su***de Silence. .

Now Avaulable For Pre-Order:The Wraith – Ghost March LPLA Dark RecordsNote: This is a Pre-Order and will ship before it’...
03/25/2024

Now Avaulable For Pre-Order:

The Wraith – Ghost March LP
LA Dark Records

Note: This is a Pre-Order and will ship before it’s release date of April 19, 2024

Ghost March is ten tracks of pulsing, darkly ornate deathrock sweating and shuddering through a fury of barbed hooks, cinematic fever-dream visions, and evocative ‘80s auras. The album was engineered by Armand John Anthony and produced by The Wraith. It was mixed by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost) and Tim Boland (Ozzy Osbourne), with artwork by Kaz Alvis. For fans of Phantasmagoria-era Damned, Fields of the Nephilim, Peter Murphy, and AFI.

Available To Order:Max Nordile – Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement LP Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is the music of li...
03/25/2024

Available To Order:

Max Nordile – Hanging By A Fan Over Wet Cement LP



Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is the music of listening after listening, when water runs relative to the sound of your own footsteps, and you lean over the resonating chamber of a trashcan like it’s a campfire, then fill it with wheezy laughter. Only, the steel mesh of Hair Clinic/Max Nordile’s field microphone is all mangled and bludgeoned, and the field extends into his home garage. The same contact-foraging quality of attention goes into the beginner’s brain improvisations, whether on saxophone or skipping stones. And the mixing and editing is in large part a visual process, with Nordile monitoring slips of time and intention for the contours of song. It’s a prickly and startling listen, influenced by sound art, alive with noise. Nordile, a member of Debt Rag and Shelter Music, among other groups in Olympia, WA, traces the album’s inspiration back to the duet of birdsong and idling garbage truck, and named it for the language artifact of a dream. The cover shows degraded spiral forms in Scottish petroglyphs. Hanging by a Fan Over Wet Cement is creative, personal music to mirror the distorted balance of consensus reality.
-Sam Lefebvre

Shipping Next Week:Cartoon – Nyuck Nyuck Boing! LPHuman Headstone Presents…“Nyuck Nyuck Boing!”, the debut full-length f...
03/22/2024

Shipping Next Week:

Cartoon – Nyuck Nyuck Boing! LP

Human Headstone Presents…
“Nyuck Nyuck Boing!”, the debut full-length from Philadelphia’s CARTOON.
Listener discretion advised : Weight-defying escapades, technicolor transmutations, a swirling sonic energy able to render calamity.
Over seven compositions, CARTOON hone in on a trademark juxtaposition of propulsive rhythm, molten wax-laden guitar, strange keys and haunted bellows. Brace your inevitable fall with aptly titled hits such as “Steam Room”, “Die Bonknacht” & “Pants On Fire”.

New Pre-Order Available:Joy Guidry – Amen LP / CD  releases May 10, 2024AMEN is the 3rd release by bassoonist / composer...
03/14/2024

New Pre-Order Available:

Joy Guidry – Amen LP / CD



releases May 10, 2024
AMEN is the 3rd release by bassoonist / composer / producer Joy Guidry. Representing a major step up in her ability to fully realize and embody a sound and concept, AMEN moves from rousing, rafter-splitting spiritual jazz and gospel compositions to ambient compositions that create a powerful statement of communal healing and peace. The album features contributions by Niecy Blues, Kalia Vandever, Tyrone Allen and Jessie Cox.
Love is a verb. It is an action taken, one that must be renewed within the self. It is a process of learning, evolution, and the very nature of what it means to nurture ourselves and others. And few artists know this as intimately as Joy Guidry, the Texas-bred, California-based bassoonist. The fruits of her efforts can be heard through Guidry’s latest album, Amen.
“I hear other artists say, ‘I put my life and soul into this.’ And I could never relate because I have never been in an emotional place where I can just let go and not be afraid of vulnerability,” says Guidry. “But now, I’ve finally made a project that resonates with me so deeply from beginning to end. I’m so happy where I am in life, and “Amen” truly represents that there was no bu****it as I went into this.”

Now Available For Pre-Order:Sequences – Água Viva CDElevator Bath   Release date of March 15, 2024.“You don’t understan...
03/01/2024

Now Available For Pre-Order:

Sequences – Água Viva CD
Elevator Bath

Release date of March 15, 2024.

“You don’t understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”
— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

Sequences, the long-running project of Antwerp’s Niels Geybels, has graced Elevator Bath with his most substantial release since his masterful 2020 LP, “Woven Empty” (and following his excellent “The Seismograph” disc from last year).

Borrowing the title and inspiration from the Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector’s experimental novel from 1973, Geybels’ “Água Viva” is as idiosyncratic and poetic as its namesake. The album’s eight chapters (each a highly evocative short story unto itself) were titled after text found in Lispector’s book, and each exists as an impression of the ideas found within said text.

The basis for “Água Viva” was a 20-minute field recording captured by Geybels during his extensive travels. The album’s first four pieces all feature this initial work in varying degrees of prominence. The second half of the album meanwhile deconstructs the atmospheres of the first half, using the essence of these pieces as the point of departure for four new studies in mysterious ambiance.
Grounded by the field recordings at the album’s core, yet dreamlike and exploratory in nature, as evidenced by the other audio components (magnetophone, zither, modular synthesizer, and guitar), this is an album of interpretations and ruminations; a potent reminder of the power of living water.

Niels Geybels has released several albums under the Sequences name and several more as False Moniker. He runs the very fine Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. label from his home in Belgium.

“An excellent record!”
— Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

Now Distributing:  Now Available for Pre-OrderVarious Artists – INTRAVIS CD Ships in 1-2 weeks A compilation featuring N...
03/01/2024

Now Distributing:

Now Available for Pre-Order
Various Artists – INTRAVIS CD

Ships in 1-2 weeks

A compilation featuring Nota Grave, Vampiros Kosmos, Universal Cell Unlock, Zach Rowden, Energy Gradient, Tval, Shredded Nerve, Mortido, Prosperity, and Cienfuegos. The inaugural release from New York-based label Vial.
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Mastered by STR Mastering
Artwork by WR & NT
Pressed CDs, edition of 150.

Now Available For Pre-OrderAnalytica – Strategy of Tension LPIce Machine, Suction Records   Shipping out on or around Ma...
03/01/2024

Now Available For Pre-Order

Analytica – Strategy of Tension LP
Ice Machine, Suction Records


Shipping out on or around March 22, 2024

After making waves with their 2020 self-titled debut LP (championed by the late, great DJ and synth/wave connoisseur Silent Servant), Toronto’s Analytica return to Suction Records’ minimal synth sub-label Ice Machine, for the second full-length LP, “Strategy Of Tension”. Analytica is a synth-pop duo who confront the race-to-the-bottom ethos of our time, but utilizing sounds and tools from the early ‘80s synth-DIY era, including holy grail analog synths like the ARP Quadra and Roland System 100.

RIYL: early Depeche Mode, Factory Records, Minimal Wave label reissues.

Now Available For Pre-Order:Container – Yacker LP (Neon Green Vinyl) Release date of May 4, 2024.Ren Schofield’s long ru...
02/26/2024

Now Available For Pre-Order:

Container – Yacker LP (Neon Green Vinyl)


Release date of May 4, 2024.
Ren Schofield’s long running electronic project Container returns with his first release since the Creamer EP in 2021. Rolling straight out of the pandemic Schofield has since played a large number of live shows all over the planet, rilling up audiences with a heady mix of method and mania. Now is the time to unleash a new studio offering.

Yacker presents what is undoubtedly an electronic record but one imbued with a spirit more aligned with rock music. Always hijacking the electronic music scene for his own unique and twisted path here we see a further extrapolation on his original blueprint for DIY noise techno adding a more physical and muscular edge to the standard hysterical proceedings. The drums retain an almost human, somewhat muscular feel with a sweaty and suggestive ‘real drums’ feeling.

Schofield cites inspiration on Yacker as the Nirvana song ‘Oh, The Guilt’, the Mindflayer album ‘It’s Always 1999’, and the Rah Bras song ‘Sooop Toe Pump Girls’. Container has always danced the absurd space between serious and stupid, with Yacker all elements are turned up to eleven as he delivers a pristine field guide to furious frenzied fun.
Yacker strikes an even balance between heavy, relentless, joyful, silly, and sloppy. Think Lollapalooza 1996 held at Berghain 2006 and you are somewhere on the way to formulating this fresh new insanity from one of the contemporary electronic music scene’s more playful pioneers.

New Pre-Order Now Available:Dancing Plague – Elogium LP / CD Release date: March 22nd, 2024Portland based act Dancing Pl...
01/12/2024

New Pre-Order Now Available:

Dancing Plague – Elogium LP / CD


Release date: March 22nd, 2024

Portland based act Dancing Plague has been a steady presence in the dark/cold electronic music scene for quite a few years now. Since 2016 Conor Knowles’ solo project has been putting out one constant flow of independent releases on multiple formats such as vinyl LPs, EPs, tapes and CDs, creating one sonic palette rich with Ebm, goth, industrial and synth influences.
On their 5th studio album, Dancing Plague continues to flesh out and perfect their unique brand of crushing darkwave. Elogium explores themes of loss, regret, rebirth and growth coupled with throbbing basslines, rave synths, and pounding drums. Knowles balances aggressive waves of electronics with enough pop sensibilities and catchy hooks to be inviting to those new to the genre.
His skills can be clearly appreciated on tracks like the first single Fading Forms which explores the somber feeling of the years passing you by. Knowles’ emotive baritone crooning paints a melancholic picture of the slow fading of time as you feel like you’re fading with it. The words fall like snow onto cold fields of pulsing 80s synths and pounding drum machine rhythms that bring forth nostalgic familiarity but feel fresh at the same
time.

Fans of classic icons such as Depeche Mode, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails as well as contemporary torchbearers Cold Cave and Kontravoid do not sleep on this. Plenty of disturbing beauty to be found in the depths of the underground.

New Pre-Order Now Available:Concepcion Huerta – The Earth Has Memory LP (Black and Clear Vinyl Variants Available) Eleva...
01/05/2024

New Pre-Order Now Available:

Concepcion Huerta – The Earth Has Memory LP (Black and Clear Vinyl Variants Available)


Elevator Bath is thrilled to present the first solo vinyl LP from Concepción Huerta, highly accomplished multidisciplinary artist from Mexico who employs tapes to manipulate recordings of everyday objects and electronic instruments. The fruit of these experimental methods is an intense, heavy take on dark ambient and noise music: a densely atmospheric exploration of sound driven by narrative, more akin to storytelling than songwriting.

“The Earth Has Memory” was recorded while in residence at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm and then partially fine tuned at a seminar at UNAM with Olivia Block (Block is credited with co-production on two of the album’s pieces). Instruments used were primarily the Buchla and the Nord, which were then processed via magnetic tape, lending a tactile, organic quality to the work — appropriate as “The Earth Has Memory” tells of a descent to the center of the earth. Purely abstract resonances dominate this chronicle, reflecting the mystery of what lies beneath the surface. High-pitched tones occasionally appear, like glimpses of light showing through the cracks while looking up from within the earth. Low frequencies indicate the pressure at the core, while lurching drones replicate geological movements larger than humanity.

The album’s cover art consists of exquisite color photography by Magaly Ugarte, taken while on a visit with Huerta to an obsidian mine in Hidalgo. This trip was full of discovery for the two women, forming a bond between the artists and a connection with the minerals they found. This literal excursion served as a perfect counterpoint to the figurative explorations through which the album was created.

Thanks to all the indie stores and supporters of our in house and distributed labels and artists for a great 2023! Here’...
01/03/2024

Thanks to all the indie stores and supporters of our in house and distributed labels and artists for a great 2023! Here’s just a few of what we were honored to have a hand in with releasing this year and are excited for more to come! Back open and now shipping ! 📬









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