Monthly Archives: January 2024

Bahia Mansa – patagonia (ep) [Self-Released]

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Bahía Mansa embarks on a new sonic odyssey, where digital textures entwine in a mesmerizing dialogue with intricately processed acoustic sounds. Forged through uninhibited, free-form sessions, the album unveils lush soundscapes adorned with spontaneous melodic nuances and cascading waves of bitcrushed brilliance, crafted through the integration of salvaged field recordings interlaced with on-site explorations, thus, offering a uniquely organic and immersive auditory experience.

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released December 16, 2023

field recordings by ivan aguayo.
all sound design by ivan aguayo.

The Jesus Fish Experience – Cosmic Predation (Argali Records Netlabel)

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Pursuing a dark, singular music vision, “Cosmic Predation” fuses haunting e-bow melodies with industrial dirges, dark ambient pulsations, and harrowing post-rock constructions to form a “blackened neo-shoegaze” experience of harrowing intensity. Oppressive and moody, the sounds on this album grips at the earth while illuminating the void.

Originally released back in 2011 on the Argali Records Netlabel site on Archive.org, this re-release features high-definition audio (the original being an mp3-only release) in addition to a new graphic design by John Lithium. Also, the complete album download also includes the original album graphics as well.

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released June 30, 2014

Bass, guitar, drum programming, vocals/lyrics, arrangements, synths/textures, and samples are by Reon Moebius.

“Movement Of Celestial Bodies” features a sample of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” (episode 13). Special thanks to the “Infamous Billy Eubank” of “Premo Vs The World” for assistance and mixing on tracks 5 and 7.

The original release can be downloaded here: archive.org/details/ARGREC17

Scanner – Alchemeia (Alltagsmusik)

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Just received this in the mail today, also came with several label stickers which is always fun.

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This album was written as a tribute to the early 1960s library music culture, applying crude techniques of electronic composition, using a mix of hardware and software. It explores a kind of musique concrète, electroacoustic character, in an otherworldly cinematic fashion.

It is the debut release on Alltagsmusik, a new label to release Scanner albums.

Available as limited digipak CD and digital

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released January 19, 2024

Written, performed and produced by Robin Rimbaud
Recorded at The Factory 2023

Dylan Houser – Druid (Self-Released)

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Description: Originally recorded and released in early 2021, as part of a monthly mail exchange group. The CD was limited to around a dozen or so copies.

“The incredibly prolific Dylan Houser delivers another dose of incredible music, this time a series of guitar explorations that take the instrument to places that are near and dear to Dylan’s heart, while offering some compelling drive and excellent textures to give this disc excellent sound with repeated listenings(sic). I recommend playing this one loud, to soak in the dynamic range.”

-Austin Rich (Mid-Valley Mutations)

Music For The Rest Of Us

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This is the future home of “Music For The Rest Of Us”, the promotional arm of Argali Records Netlabel. Here, we will promote the work of our compilations, along with the occasional third-party release etc. We also will be promoting other/related bands and musicians. Note that there will be no set schedule for posts and we do no accept promo requests. More info soon.