Decaycast Webzine + Netlabel

12/01/2024

from the ashes an still kicking is Decaycast Webzine + Netlabel with a feature interview and premiere ww/ Yama Uba ahead of their new album "Silhouettes" on Ratskin Records / Psychic Eye Records coming out at the end of the month. It would mean alot if you went and read the interview and listened to the new single "Facade" which is out today!

03/10/2022

We're back with a new review! We reviewed the new Maya Songbird album "Cats From Venus" which is out on Psychic Eye Records!

Read it here:

Newest full length offering from Bay Area stalwart and all around magical musical hybrid presence MAYA SONGBIRD, who between runnings her own label, Wired Weird Entertainment, The Magic Shop & #8211…

03/10/2022

we are looking for volunteer writers to write about your favorite experimental art, music, film, food, or?

Please get in touch!

[email protected]

12/02/2022

https://decaycast.wordpress.com/2021/12/28/decaycast-essential-listening-dan-kletter-shares-favorite-new-releases-0f-2021/

Dan Kletter's END OF YEAR 2021 best of list For Decaycast featuring the work
Darc Rama
RK Faulhaber
Headboggle
Spiritual Exit
MERV
Shanna Sordahl
Ashley Bellouin & Ben Bracken
Yasmin Williams
Raub Roy (Horaflora)
Reverend Marco D'Andrea
John Wiese
Walt McClements
and many more!

Every year athletes Decaycast we like to invite some guest contributors to contribute end of the year, thoughts, threats etc, titled “Essential ListEning”. Excited to share the first of…

12/02/2022

new review up of the new EP from GRST

https://decaycast.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/decaycast-reviews-grst-containerobject-ep-2021/

thanks to Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully for the penning...

DECAYCAST Reviews : GRST “Container​+​=​object EP” (2021) GRST ‘container​+​=​object EP’’s pleasingly adjunct description states only that it relies upon  ‘a variety of electr…

12/11/2021

We're shaking our cobwebs off for the rest of 2021 with some exciting news, and the first bit of that news is that we have a video premiere and interview with Oakland Post Punk/House/New Wave duo Gorgeous Dyke$ Band about their new video promoting their album "Swords Reversed" due out in Feb 2022 on Psychic Eye

https://decaycast.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/decaycast-premieres-gorgeous-dykes-dazzle-in-swords-reversed/

Gorgeous D***s is a dynamic duo from Oakland, CA. Their sound is comprised of new wave, house, post-punk, funk, and synth pop that keeps the dance party going all night and until the sun comes up

05/06/2021

PLEASE READ THIS. A Statement on India's Ongoing COVID-19 Crisis from Ratskin Records

12/05/2021

hey we have been doing music reviews for almost 10 years can you believe it. on again and off again but now again and we started a bandcamp to help sustain the fanzine side of things? hope you will consider picking something up?

decaycastoakland.bandcamp.com

06/05/2021

TWO NEW RELEASES OUT TOMORROW ON DECAYCAST MAGAZINE!

Thanks all for following Decaycast! DECAYCAST is a sub label of Ratskin Records and specializes in small edition handmade cassettes, CDr’s, digital releases and small edition art objects as well as a Online Fanzine (decaycast.wordpress.com)

we’re really excited to present two new albums for release tomorrow both on limited edition CDR with handmade card stock slipcases.

Thank you so much to everyone that preordered! All pre orders have been shipped and any orders placed for Bandcamp Friday or over the weekend will ship out this coming Monday!

HAURAS “Chant For A broken Chalice” CDR/DL

decaycastoakland.bandcamp.com/album/chant-for-a-broken-chalice

AURAS has crafted a lush and foreboding sonic landscape with “Chant For A Broken Chalice”, their first release for Oakland based imprint DECAYCAST. On “Chant For A Broken Chalice” intentional and otherworldly sounds envelop into a whirlwind of a slow churning concoction of beauty and anxiety. Dense choral envocations pulse over a sea of strings, keys, percussion and voice. HAURAS crafts tense and delicate music concerned with the rapid decline of empathy as intensified through the violent throes of capitalism. Both meditative and a warning, like a distant pulse of a lighthouse gently peaking over the fog as a distant warning of impending doom and collapse, scary and at this point completely unavoidable, but wow the beauty and elegance of the message is not something to soon be forgotten.

“My work is concerned with the psychology of society at the end of Civilization.” – HAURAS

The first single “Hold My Hand” takes a psychedelic dubbed out industrial approach to transport the mood and psyche of the listener to a blissful yet slightly unnerving underworld. The vocals glide through the mix like a robotic worm infecting an unknown host. Like most of Hauras’s work; “Chant For A Broken Chalice” holds the listener in an hourglass where time is rapidly and chaotically slipping away. Intentional, heartfelt, and intense.

“You’ve heard of the Music of Tomorrow? This is the Music of the Day After
Tomorrow.” – Chris Ryan (Composer, Cerddorion Ensemble,, Tzadik)

“The sonic equivalent of expired film in my Holga.” – Richard Youngs

BONUS BEAST “Live at Lewcid Joosebox” CDR/DL

decaycastoakland.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-lewcid-joosebox

BONUS BEAST (Ratskin Records, Coral Remains, Ryan King, et al) always brings a new and modified sonic whirlwind to the table and this recently unearthed board recording of live from Lewcid Joosebox is no different. A complex and psychedelic spattering of amalgamated synths, blasting and curdling mangled beats, with the occasional and sporadic transmission twisted warped vocals patterings peak out ever so slightly from the sampler, but this is no dance party, this is blasted out sonic destruction, controlled chaos, collapsing towers, the rhythms of the machines of the city clang and hammer against each other like a seizing engine about to blow. their first release for Oakland based imprint DECAYCAST and ir is not to be missed. One of the masters in the game. Very very limited

Nearly twenty minutes of blown out acid noise, crunched beats, signwave radio interference, mental decayed sprayed on the walls of the box as BOBUS BEAST blasts forth a sonic mayhem like no other. In the realm of early Robert Turman, MB, Esplendor Gemoetrico, etc

Please consider picking something up as it helps us sustain the project (both the imprint and fanzine) side of things.

Thank you so much for your support.

09/04/2021

DECAYCAST Announces Preorder For BONUS BEAST “Lewcid Joosebox Live” 4/9/21 Album” OUT 5/7/21

BONUS BEAST (Ratskin Records, Coral Remains, Ryan King, et al) always brings a new and modified sonic whirlwind to the table and this recently unearthed board recording of live from Lewcid Joosebox is no different. A complex and psychedelic spattering of amalgamated synths, blasting and curdling mangled beats, with the occasional and sporadic transmission twisted warped vocals patterings peak out ever so slightly from the sampler, but this is no dance party, this is blasted out sonic destruction, controlled chaos, collapsing towers, the rhythms of the machines of the city clang and hammer against each other like a seizing engine about to blow. their first release for Oakland based imprint DECAYCAST and ir is not to be missed. One of the masters in the game. Very very limited

Nearly twenty minutes of blown out acid noise, crunched beats, signwave radio interference, mental decayed sprayed on the walls of the box as BOBUS BEAST blasts forth a sonic mayhem like no other. In the realm of early Robert Turman, MB, Esplendor Gemoetrico, etc

Recorded by Ryan King.
Live At Lewcid Joosebox, Oakland, CA
Mastered by; Michael Daddona

https://decaycastoakland.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-lewcid-joosebox

1 track album

09/04/2021

SUPER EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THE FIRST OF TWO PREORDER RELEASES TODAY!

HAURAS has crafted a lush and foreboding sonic landscape with “Chant For A Broken Chalice”, their first release for Oakland based imprint DECAYCAST. On “Chant For A Broken Chalice” intentional and otherworldly sounds envelop into a whirlwind of a slow churning concoction of beauty and anxiety. Dense choral envocations pulse over a sea of strings, keys, percussion and voice. HAURAS crafts tense and delicate music concerned with the rapid decline of empathy as intensified through the violent throes of capitalism. Both meditative and a warning, like a distant pulse of a lighthouse gently peaking over the fog as a distant warning of impending doom and collapse, scary and at this point completely unavoidable, but wow the beauty and elegance of the message is not something to soon be forgotten.

"My work is concerned with the psychology of society at the end of Civilization." - HAURAS

The first single “Hold My Hand” takes a psychedelic dubbed out industrial approach to transport the mood and psyche of the listener to a blissful yet slightly unnerving underworld. The vocals glide through the mix like a robotic worm infecting an unknown host. Like most of Hauras’s work; “Chant For A Broken Chalice” holds the listener in an hourglass where time is rapidly and chaotically slipping away. Intentional, heartfelt, and intense.

“You’ve heard of the Music of Tomorrow? This is the Music of the Day After
Tomorrow.” - Chris Ryan (Composer, Cerddorion Ensemble,, Tzadik)

“The sonic equivalent of expired film in my Holga.” - Richard Youngs

SUPER LIMITED DIGITAL/ CDR edition

preorder link:
https://decaycastoakland.bandcamp.com/album/chant-for-a-broken-chalice