Left Hand Path

05/10/2023

Left Hand Path is putting out our 10th release - PHREAKERS - TRASH CAN on October 27 - Just in time for Halloween. () and John Barera() are the NYC based duo PHREAKERS(.nyc), who have produced a set of tracks that both have undeniable dance floor heat and are covered in enough slime, grit and chaos to soundtrack the darkest circus of your inner soul.

TRASH CAN will be a digital and limited cassette release packed in with a crazy ass sticker. The cassette will contain a set of exclusive PHREAKERS produced dubs that re-interpret the EP’s tracks through a new lens. Pre-orders go on sale on October 13 - coinciding with a pre-release party PHREAKERS will be playing at Sundown Bar in Queens.

23/07/2021

Just released and shipping this weekend:
Left Hand Path could not be more thrilled to present the debut album from rising Bay Area artist IDHAZ, titled psychic behaviors, the second mixed-media release from us in 2021.

psychic behaviors explores the body and the assignments which are given to it. It explores our undefined nature as creatures of earth, and our desire to be connected without a wall of ammunition between our designated countries. Does one die before their imminent death, and if so, how does one interact with their environment after a mid-life death? The titles of this 10 track album, when read together, are an abstract poem that expands upon these notions of existence. Combining elements such as Gameboy, MPC, SP-555, synth, and original lyrics and vocals, IDHAZ enters into the realms of R&B, house, punk, juke, and noise with his latest release psychic behaviors.

The physical release is housed in a clear vinyl bag and contains a professionally dubbed and printed audio cassette. Also included is a zine featuring photos by Beau Devereaux .devereaux art by filthykeren and poetry by IDHAZ.
Layouts by Jason Polastri
releases July 23, 2021

production, vocals & mixing by IDHAZ
featuring production by Einar Birnir on "if i am afraid"
post production by rose cherami ( )
art by filthykeren (
Layout by Jason Polastri recorded in San Francisco & Oakland

may these frequencies resonate thru kin, to be of, and become, a galactic agent of hunab ku

15/07/2021

Preview for the “if I am afraid” music video directed by Brandon Touszik( ). From IDHAZ’ album “psychic behaviors” released on Left Hand Path on Friday, July 23. Come check out the whole thing live at our in person event on release day! The full video will premier online on FACT magazine on August 13th. And pick up a presale of the album on our Bandcamp page link in bio.

01/07/2021

LHP-009 is IDHAZ - psychic behaviors

Releasing on Friday, July 23 and available immediately for presales

presale link in bio

Left Hand Path could not be more thrilled to present the debut album from rising bay area artist IDHAZ, titled psychic behaviors, the second mixed-media release from us in 2021.
psychic behaviors explores the body and the assignments which are given to it. It explores our undefined nature as creatures of earth, and our desire to be connected without a wall of ammunition between our designated countries. Does one die before their imminent death, and if so, how does one interact with their environment after a mid-life death? The titles of this 10 track album, when read together, are an abstract poem that expands upon these notions of existence. Combining elements such as Gameboy, MPC, SP-555, synth, and original lyrics and vocals, IDHAZ enters into the realms of R&B, house, punk, juke, and noise with his latest release psychic behaviors.

This release is housed in a clear vinyl bag and contains a professionally dubbed and printed audio cassette. Also included is a zine featuring photos attached are by Beau Devereaux, art by filthykeren and poetry by IDHAZ.

Look forward to details on a release party on July 23rd featuring a music video premier and more.

01/07/2021

LHP-009 is IDHAZ - psychic behaviors

Releasing on Friday, July 23 and available immediately for presales

presale link: https://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-behaviors

album preview stream: https://soundcloud.com/lefthandpathwax/idhaz-psychic-behaviors-lhp-009-preview-stream

Left Hand Path could not be more thrilled to present the debut album from rising bay area artist IDHAZ, titled psychic behaviors, the second mixed-media release from us in 2021.

psychic behaviors explores the body and the assignments which are given to it. It explores our undefined nature as creatures of earth, and our desire to be connected without a wall of ammunition between our designated countries. Does one die before their imminent death, and if so, how does one interact with their environment after a mid-life death? The titles of this 10 track album, when read together, are an abstract poem that expands upon these notions of existence. Combining elements such as Gameboy, MPC, SP-555, synth, and original lyrics and vocals, IDHAZ enters into the realms of R&B, house, punk, juke, and noise with his latest release psychic behaviors.

This release is housed in a clear vinyl bag and contains a professionally dubbed and printed audio cassette. Also included is a zine featuring photos by Beau Devereaux, art by filthykeren and poetry by IDHAZ.

Look forward to details on a release party on July 23rd featuring a music video premier and more.

31/01/2021

If you are local to the Bay Area and want to pick up any of our releases including the brand new Auton tape and zine head over to . If you are at all interested in hardware or modular synthesis you must check out this shop.

17/01/2021

Pre-order: https://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/album/without-hindrance

Sound Sample:
https://soundcloud.com/lefthandpathwax/auton-without-hindrance-lhp-008

Pre-orders live for LHP-08 “Auton - Without Hindrance.” Check the link in the bio we are selling fast. Included in every tape order is a gorgeously printed Zine featuring AE and tom nomad’s eloquent analysis.

Full details below:

“Left Hand Path is proud to welcome "Without Hindrance," the latest in a series of mixed-media releases from Auton that explores the nature of insurrectionary rupture and the possibility to challenge the hegemony of power and violence held by the State.

After 2018's "La Lotta Continua" for Jacktone and 2019's "Tute Bianche" EP (and its subsequent reconstructions) via TRAM Planet, "Without Hindrance" exists as a study of the events of the May '68 uprising in France, its capitulation to the spectacle of electoralism, and its decline brought on by the failure to seize upon the moment of ultimate potential.

This release is housed in a clear vinyl bag and contains a professionally printed audio cassette, featuring four original Auton tracks written between 2018 and 2019, as well as four reconstructions of these tracks by Andrew Nolan, Nihar, 51717, and Chaperone.

Also included is a full-color professionally-printed zine written in early 2019 by AE and anarchist tactician Tom Nomad (author of "The Master's Tools" and "Toward An Army Of Ghosts"), which explores the ritualized behaviors of the radical milieu, the nature of the State and its capacity for intelligent evil, and ways forward that draw from the tradition of The Situationists in their articulation of a decentralized and constant insurrection of daily life.

The various elements of the release are drawn together with gorgeous hand-collaged artwork by Ashley Hohman, whose flair for brutal psychedelia compliments the techno-paranoiac sound and elegiac prose. “

29/12/2020

Left Hand Path is proud to welcome "Without Hindrance," the latest in a series of mixed-media releases from Auton that explores the nature of insurrectionary rupture and the possibility to challenge the hegemony of power and violence held by the State.

After 2018's "La Lotta Continua" for Jacktone and 2019's "Tute Bianche" EP (and its subsequent reconstructions) via TRAM Planet, "Without Hindrance" exists as a study of the events of the May '68 uprising in France, its capitulation to the spectacle of electoralism, and its decline brought on by the failure to seize upon the moment of ultimate potential.

This release is housed in a clear vinyl bag and contains a professionally printed audio cassette, featuring four original Auton tracks written between 2018 and 2019, as well as four reconstructions of these tracks by Andrew Nolan, Nihar, 51717, and Chaperone.

Also included is a full-color professionally-printed zine written in early 2019 by AE and anarchist tactician Tom Nomad (author of "The Master's Tools" and "Toward An Army Of Ghosts"), which explores the ritualized behaviors of the radical milieu, the nature of the State and its capacity for intelligent evil, and ways forward that draw from the tradition of The Situationists in their articulation of a decentralized and constant insurrection of daily life.

The various elements of the release are drawn together with gorgeous hand-collaged artwork by Ashley Hohman, whose flair for brutal psychedelia compliments the techno-paranoiac sound and elegiac prose.

Sound samples for all tracks available here: https://soundcloud.com/lefthandpathwax/auton-without-hindrance-lhp-008

8 track album

05/06/2020

Today, we're donating 100% of sales to the Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee Bail Fund. Thank you for your continued support.

Black lives matter.

25/06/2019

E L O N's "Pneumania" is LIVE. "Pneumania" unfolds psychedelic interpretations of beat-centric electronic music, referencing electro, dub techno, and illbient while searching for new ground.

Thanks to all who pre-ordered. Tell your friends to buy a copy.

The vinyl edition is slightly delayed, and in transit to us right now. We'll be shipping late next week. In the meantime, clock the digital edition.

6 track album

19/06/2019

E L O N - My Tertiary Agency from the forthcoming Pmeumania album is featured on this mix by Hiro Kone and Drew McDowall.

Playing Experimental, Art Rock, Musique Concrete. Collaborators Drew McDowall and Hiro Kone come together.

03/06/2019

PREMIERE: Inverted Audio launches a cut from E L O N's PNEUMANIA, releasing on vinyl and digital June 25.

"Reeling out a psychoactive and transmutable collection of rhythmic experiments that veer off further into abstract analogue territories, glassy futurism and verbed-out illbient scopes, Katz ushers his listener into a world of apparent shine but cracked with subtle dystopian wormholes and rogue glitches.

So is the case with our premiere, ‘Inside The Private City‘ – a loopy-structured, hip-hop informed instrumental number floating in limbo between a state of sedated quiet and a spam-busy kind of headspace. Like entering the most intricate of mazes with no compass, ‘Pneumania‘ is a record to lose your sanity to – seeking answers where there is actually nothing but questions. Mind-bending stuff."

If you've heard his debut record on Mind Records, the much unjustly overlooked 'Concupiscence', you'll sure be happy to hear California-based producer

15/05/2019

Russell E. L. Butler//Black Jeans (whose debut album we released last year — get it now if you don't have it already!) guested on NTS Radio in London last week.

They dropped a killer mix loaded with heavy drums and etheric melodies, including two LHP cuts: a new joint from E L O N's "Pneumania" and the slithering acid electro joint "Septic Acid" from Nackt's "Private Property Created Crime."

Keep your eyes peeled for more — they're guesting on Beats In Space next week in NYC.

Playing Techno, Breaks. DJ and illustrator Anu joins us in the studio for an hour of selections from post punk and new wave to left-field house and techno.

14/05/2019

The title track from E L O N's PNEUMANIA is featured in the latest edition of Bandcamp Weekly. We're in good company.

Take a trip to Chicago with guests Jamila Woods, Damon Locks, and Kahil El’Zabar of the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.

09/05/2019

FACT Magazine covering the new E L O N record.

Listen to the frazzled title track now.

08/05/2019

We've been quiet, but we're thrilled to finally share news of our next LP, which lands shortly.

PNEUMANIA is the first full-length album by E L O N, the latest project from California vocalist and electronic musician Elon Katz. Across six tracks, PNEUMANIA unfolds psychedelic interpretations of beat-centric electronic music, referencing electro, dub techno, and illbient while searching for new ground.

Elon Katz has worked in various modalities since 2008, maintaining an active culture of projects including White Car, Streetwalker (in collaboration with Beau Wanzer), and a slew of other aliases, preferring creative flexibility over consistent branding. Pneumania is the follow-up to the 2016 E L O N EP, Concupiscence, on MIND Records, and the 2017 mix of original material for Grey Matter Archives curated by Japanese artist CVN.

Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.
Full color artwork sleeve with spot gloss treatment and color insert by Dan Letson aka DJML.
140gm translucent vinyl edition limited to 250.

Releases late June.

6 track album

18/03/2019

Russell E. L. Butler//Black Jeans's "Cure Water" off their debut album "The Home I'd Build For Myself And All My Friends" appears on this stellar mixtape of contemplative electronics arranged by Coil's Drew McDowall.

Vinyl and digital copies are still available direct from us and at retailers worldwide: https://lefthandpathwax.bandcamp.com/album/the-home-id-build-for-myself-and-all-my-friends

Plus, we'll be announcing details for LHP 007 ("Pneumania" by E L O N) soon. Watch this space.

The modular maestro steps up for an absorbing sonic excursion for the Workin' Nights mix series.

15/11/2018

Russell Butler's 'The Home I'd Build For Myself and All My Friends' is LIVE! You can now listen to and buy it via our Bandcamp (linked below). Thanks to everyone who has preordered the record — orders start shipping tomorrow.

Additionally, in exactly 40 minutes at 11AM San Francisco time / 2PM NYC / Russell will be interviewed on Red Bull Radio's First Floor show. You can listen to that HERE: https://bit.ly/2B2WKO3

Thank you, as always, for the support!