Cassette release from ENxPL ( @enmossed Enmossed and @psychicliberation Psychic Liberation ) available now for wholesale via Fantastique B2B. Copper foil print on recycled paper j-card. Recycled cassette shells and cases. 3/29/22 street date.
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🎵Obliterating Dawn
👤Bad LSD Trips
💿Bad LSD Trips
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Playing music at the ocean, an infinite mirror curls upward towards you. Picturesque and perverse, cracked enamel castings sit in lazy but unsettled sands. Something is just right, having once stirred beneath the surface it now hovers misting at eye level. You can put your hand through it; pushing humidity around like a furry catkins flake in a tepid wind.
𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝐿𝑆𝐷 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑠 is a collaboration between artists Domingo Castillo and doris dana. Working through the process of developing sounds during the pandemic, the duo amassed large swaths of recordings on a weekly basis from 2020 and 2021 in Miami, Florida. The debut recording of 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝐿𝑆𝐷 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑠 for the ENXPL series is documentation of improvising and honing a sonic vocabulary that is rooted in the tradition of early industrial, dark ambient and tape music. The backdrop of the recorded effort is a geographical conundrum of a city worn threadbare by candied advertising, tourism, and aesthetics. 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝐿𝑆𝐷 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑠 inverts the spectacle of their locale with psychedelic meditations searching for, and occasionally digging inside of, a place of ease.
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#industrial #powerelectronics #moderncomposition #musiqueconcrete #electronicmusic #techno #housemusic
🎵Marker 6
💿Marker
👤Nick Keeling & Kaily Moon Schenker
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Cassette repress from Torn Light Records now available. Pro-dubbed reissue, limited to 100 copies.
Digital copies also available via Torn Light Records' Bandcamp.
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‘There are many things that go unsaid of true artistry. The building of a craft for the sake of self-betterment, and to more deeply explore that which makes us who we are, and perhaps even better defines the things we feel we need to say or have left unspoken. One cannot think of a better example of true artistry than the works of Kaily Moon Schenker & Nick Keeling. Two artists that continually strive for the most sincere, deepest explorations of sound and human expression. Marker brings together these two wonderfully talented artists via a collaboration of Kaily Moon Schenker’s deeply moving cello works (See Schenker’s most recent Solar Hex album for the epitome of her solo voice in the medium) and Nick Keeling’s now iconic tape loop delays and degradations that have been unleashed upon near countless experiments, here mixed with Rhodes Mark 1 and Organ. What comes of the meeting is an emotionally moving work of cascading loops and frayed textures. Aching cello, and fragile melodic content captured in tonal, grainy tape loops provide us with a tapestry both feeling older and familiar, but very much so present and leave us wondering what’s to come. Only trusting in those who strive for this level of artistry and who push to further the explorations of self expression will be able to show us the way.’ – Brandon Hill
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#musiqueconcrete #moderncomposition #electronicmusic #cassette #indiemusic #cincinnati #blacksburg
"Tired Eyes" by Solar Hex, the latest project from cellist Kaily Schenker, is out tomorrow. This is a decidedly haunting entry to the Arkeen catalogue.
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Currently available for pre-order and wholesale. Professionally duplicated CDr. Edition of 100 copies.
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The contrast of light and dark, fire and ash, on the cover of Solar Hex’s Tired Eyes gives a glimpse into the contrasts within, hinting at the transformation of one cello into a series of varied voices. Solar Hex is the project of Virginia-based cellist Kaily M. Schenker, whose output stretches the acoustic properties of the cello to its limits and beyond. This can be heard on last year’s release, Cut Across the Crop Circles, a dive into the haunting, chameleon abilities of the cello. Schenker also worked with Nick Keeling (Torn Light Records) to release their collaborative cassette, Marker (2018), combining Schenker’s cello with Keeling’s atmospheric Rhodes Mark 1 and organ. Each of these works carry us to Solar Hex’s Tired Eyes, now out on ARKEEN.
Tired Eyes centers on a single drone pitch throughout four tracks, with layers of melodies circling around it. The push and pull of dissonance and eventual unison with that drone creates a driving force through each moment. Moving through melodies with aching slides and varying tone colors, Schenker draws out multiple voices from the instrument. “Electrical Storm” explores the cello’s harmonics, the melody extending into the atmosphere’s overtone series and adding an ethereal dimension to the existing voices on Tired Eyes. The final track, “The Red Cello,” collaborates with Apaixonar (No Rent Records, Prime Ruin, Hologram, Alien Passengers), propelling the album to a dense climax. The lowest and highest ranges of the cello seem to blend into one, the texture gradually thickening but also becoming more distant, creating the sensation of being pulled underwater. Tired Eyes’ journey is the transformation of the album’s sparse beginning to its
The long-awaited, faithful reissue of "8000/Prelude to Pallo," the 1985 split tape from HIJOKAIDAN and INCAPACITANTS, is now available for pre-order.
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Give us a call to secure copies of this historic noise music artifact
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"What can possibly be said about these two legendary groups that hasn’t been said already? Ironically, when this split cassette tape was originally released in 1985 on Alchemy Records, both Hijokaidan and Incapacitants were just starting to share their own voices with the unassuming outside world, crystallizing a sound that displayed an immense power, but would also continue to morph throughout the years up to the present time. True to the never-ending story of the king of noise, the lineup of Hijokaidan saw many changes since its beginning, but here we find the stripped-down duo of Jojo Hiroshige and Toshiji Mikawa combining forces, and on the B-side is the first incarnation of Incapacitants featuring Mikawa performing solo, his trusted partner Fumio Kosakai not yet a member of what is known now as the classic lineup of the group.
It’s hard for me to put in words the sounds recorded on this tape, because as I mentioned previously, much has already been discussed about these two pioneers of noise, both orally and written, as well as considering the stifling limitations of language that truly can’t capture the sounds, time, and place working together that make up this ancient noise totem. Perhaps that is the best way of looking at it; a relic from the past – something from the very beginnings of what we all take for granted as contemporary noise, finally unearthed years later for the current generation to discover, attempt to understand, and ultimately enjoy in the context of the present. And like all timeless art from bygone civilizations, the sounds on this cassette are eons ahead of their time, an uninfluenced and solitary statement of raw energy that has left a shock-wave still resonating throughout the universe. So, all that’s left
Just finished dubbing. Out in two days. Available now for pre-order. The chaotic new release from Cincinnati-based experimental group @fruitnlooops Fruit LoOops on @tornlight Torn Light Records.
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"“Do you wanna hear it? Do you want to hear me screeeaaaaammmm!?”
Fruit LoOops vocalist Jackie Switzer opened their 2020 LP, Orangina, with these words. You didn't even have that much of a choice. A mere .001 second later, you were compelled by the sheer bedlam that would follow those words: A full drum kit falling down the stairs, the throaty skronk of a saxophone, and discordant blasts of sample-heavy synths pushed all the way into the red. Two years later, the Cincinnati-based, Noise-Addled Art Punks are back with a proper full-length release that stretches the manic energy of those first 5 seconds across 11 tracks of carefully deconstructed Post-Punk. Imagine DEVO / Macula Dog absurdism channeled through the menacing noise and danceable beats of the roster of Skingraft / Load Records.
Throughout Last Chance at the Pharmacy, the quintet succeeds in bringing everything that's constantly ping-ponging in Switzer’s and performer Sam Jayne’s heads into a cohesive and admirably executed album – one that knows when to throttle back… and when to pour gasoline into a poorly-ventilated practice space and light a match.
Moments of pure, transcendent chaos are plentiful, in which Patrick Apfelbeck’s percussion, Kevin Hall’s synths, Eric Dietrich’s aerophone / saxophone, and Switzer’s vocals are locked in with the increasing speed and preciseness of a radar tracking missile. On tracks like “Pharmacy,” slabs of noise hit dead-on with every consonant of Switzer’s ferocious vocals, while the appropriately titled “Tanker” features supertanker-sized holes between notes, filled in with squealing guitars, saxophone, and Switzer’s affected drawl.
Fruit LoOops achieves perfectly measured sonic decimation throughout the entire runtime of Last Chance at t
Physical copies of @tunerplease Joyul's hit LP "EARWITNESS" from @psychicliberation Psychic Liberation are in stock at Fantastique HQ. 🌳🌱🍃🐸💦
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Contact your local record store and tell them to call us.
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"If music is indeed a world of its own, how do we imagine its weather, temperature, scale and, soil? How do we imagine the ecosystem of its inhabitants and the way that language and order intersect within it? When an incident is obscure to us, can we learn more about it by searching for clues in every corner of its background and the world surrounding it?
In an aging space covered in dust, shards of glass lay scattered throughout. Pearly dust sat on dimly lit, sparse furniture, suggesting the place was left uninhabited for a long while. Occasional gusts of wind could be heard, but no outside drafts reach the skin. You could hear a swarming, growling sound as you stood in it. The surrounding nature was indistinct. Whether it was a place with lots of water flowing nearby, or a place where trees sway in the wind, or a place where the ruins of buildings lay abandoned was unknown. Though unsure whether it is day or night, not knowing if it is a room or a garage, a time-lapse shows us that its purpose and environment have changed significantly along with the passage of time.
As we face all kinds of weather, time filled with both dirty and fine matter flows elongated. It seems like there was a thundering noise at some point, but the sound itself wasn’t present. Like a scream contained in a speech bubble, the drone sound sank into the background, only evidencing the disappeared noise. Any kind of story or narrative for a sound is already obsolete when only traces of the rhythm loosely linger. Every kind of voice and living sound become inaudible, as everything melds into a single scenery. Once there was a song, but now it’s long gone—as though the glistening sounds allude to the time when this story takes place."
by Yeasul Shin from 〈short memos l
Many copies of @joecolleysound Joe Colley's LP "Deformation of Tone," released by @total_black Total Black, have arrived at Fantastique HQ today. Please order promptly to secure your copies.
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"Joe Colley’s skeleton key is an intra-dimensional sense of humor. It exists in a place between and beyond dry, deadpan, and defeatist, and is not actually funny. He has a knack for unlocking the essence of the absurdly uncomplicated, elevating it to a place of near-iconic significance and leaving it there. Hovering in a void. Or mashed in the jowl of an insect getting doused with regurgitated chyme and rumen bacteria. Consistent with his past efforts, Deformation Of Tone contains no sturm und drang or exhausting drama. This spectacle-free album delivers abrasive-adjacent electronic judders cloaked in a feeling of intimacy distilled from primordial ooze. Opening voices dissolve into Lucierian mosaic yammer, and plummet into a negative space populated by an unadorned clicking, that most elemental physical manifestation of audio phenomena, the antithesis of awareness and enlightenment and transcendence. Of sentience, even. A quintessential example of his streamlined, efficient hilarity. The episodes continue without pause, as if one is moving through an exhibition. Compared to Colley’s work, which he once described as “little noises arranged on a piece of plastic,” a lot of other noise seems hell-bent on shameless over-compensation. Embarrassingly so. His material has always been low-key, and Deformation Of Tone finds him shuffling in a colder, harsher, more desolate direction. The single-malt rasp of an unnamed conspiracy theorist / motivational speaker, present more for his intonation than anything else, punctuates this rather sculptural 33 minutes of machines whirring, devices beeping, blank-face rotary drones swelling and merging with unnaturally regimented hive rustlings and perfectly unpleasant high-gain squelch — all constructed with a master’s timing and sens
Fantastique HQ has copies of the forward-thinking Detroit electro LP "Here & Now" by KEMETRIX available for wholesale purchase.
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"A UNIQUE FORM OF DETROIT TECHNO AND INNERCITY SOUL MUSIC" from Detroit label @100limousines 100 Limousines.
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"Fried in the red Detroit electronics: KEMETRIX – Here & Now LP is in the shop. A blend of industrial techno, acid bangers, jilted deep house & fourth world experiments. The range is wide and what you should expect from 100 Limousines. Underground midwest american heat. No coast needed." - Alex
We are proud to announce that "Tired Eyes," the soul-stirring masterpiece from Virginia-based cellist Kaily Schenker's solo project, Solar Hex, is now available for pre-order on @tornlight Torn Light Records' website.
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It is a professionally duplicated CDr. Edition of 100 copies.
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"The contrast of light and dark, fire and ash, on the cover of Solar Hex’s Tired Eyes gives a glimpse into the contrasts within, hinting at the transformation of one cello into a series of varied voices. Solar Hex is the project of Virginia-based cellist Kaily M. Schenker, whose output stretches the acoustic properties of the cello to its limits and beyond. This can be heard on last year’s release, Cut Across the Crop Circles, a dive into the haunting, chameleon abilities of the cello. Schenker also worked with Nick Keeling (Torn Light Records) to release their collaborative cassette, Marker (2018), combining Schenker’s cello with Keeling’s atmospheric Rhodes Mark 1 and organ. Each of these works carry us to Solar Hex’s Tired Eyes, now out on ARKEEN.
Tired Eyes centers on a single drone pitch throughout four tracks, with layers of melodies circling around it. The push and pull of dissonance and eventual unison with that drone creates a driving force through each moment. Moving through melodies with aching slides and varying tone colors, Schenker draws out multiple voices from the instrument. “Electrical Storm” explores the cello’s harmonics, the melody extending into the atmosphere’s overtone series and adding an ethereal dimension to the existing voices on Tired Eyes. The final track, “The Red Cello,” collaborates with Apaixonar (No Rent Records, Prime Ruin, Hologram, Alien Passengers), propelling the album to a dense climax. The lowest and highest ranges of the cello seem to blend into one, the texture gradually thickening but also becoming more distant, creating the sensation of being pulled underwater. Tired Eyes’ journey is the transformation of the album’
We are happy to announce that @tmzzzzzzzzzzz Florian T M Zeisig's "Slow Bench," the upcoming 7" from @enmossed Enmossed, is now available for retail pre-order via @tornlight Torn Light Records.
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As with all Enmossed releases, this 7" flexi disc is produced with a discerning eye and aesthetic synchronicity, making the entire listening experience thematically comprehensive, from the physical medium to the music itself.
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"Languid washes of warming tones punctuated by untreated piano, glittering glissandos, and delicate droplets welcome us into Florian T M Zeisig’s 𝑆𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ. Like icicles drifting downstream during snowmelt, a deep sense of unthawing pervades its 5½ minutes. New age and environmental music tropes are carefully corralled into a long-form cyclical compositional framework, inviting repeated listens. As with Zeisig’s previous enmossed release (𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑖𝑥), the sound is supplemented by a rapturously dream-like piece of flash fiction by Rob Goyanes. Flitting between chronologies, Goyanes’ 𝑊𝐻𝐸𝑅𝐸 𝐽𝑈𝑅𝐼𝑆𝐷𝐼𝐶𝑇𝐼𝑂𝑁 𝐶𝐻𝐴𝑁𝐺𝐸𝑆 provides a meditation upon a peculiar instance of undoing masculinity. Sumptuously presented with transparent and silver materials, the physical object of 𝑆𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ is highly recommended over its digital representation."
🚨 The Serfs @theserfs have their album "Primal Matter" coming out on February 25th thru DREAM @dreamrecordings , but it's available NOW for wholesale ... courtesy of Fantastique HQ.
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Tell your local record store to stock this sucker (nicely 😇)
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"Emerging like a missile from some surreptitious silo in southwestern Ohio, The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners-- perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be a causal manifestation of their immediate environments--hard-wired and hypnotic synthesized melodies propel alongside churning and scraping percussion of every metallic tonality--with temperamental and eremitic words and voices dictating the forlorn venture. Like their Ohio predecessors, The Serfs seem askew from the art that surrounds them, and proud of it."
We are proud to announce the reissue of Hijokaidan & Incapacitants' 1985 split cassette, "8000 / Prelude to Pallo," available March 18th worldwide.
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This faithful cassette reproduction was made with great meticulousness, so we hope you will enjoy this seminal piece of Japanese noise history nearly just as how it was originally enjoyed over 35 years ago.
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