Monthly Archives: April 2024

Yellow Swans – Left Behind (Yellow Swans Archive)

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Label Description: Welp, this isn’t NEW new, but it’s NEW to you. We had a few things set aside for a few things after we broke up in 2008.. there was maybe a one sided LP that we did some versions of, and there were two “benefit” things we had cobbled together for a few buddies around that time. If I remember correctly Nick demolished his knee skating and didn’t have insurance.. and Joe got all of his sick gear stolen out of his car while he was on tour. NOT COOL. but those problems got solved a few different ways so the comps never had to come out, and the files got lost in the sauce of each of our own manifestation of post-YS chaos. We forgot they existed. So we started digging in to things while we were working on our archival project in 2019-2020, and these files, along with a few others, were dug up and we were faced with a bit of a conundrum… the idea to release these tracks got a few wrenches tossed in since we didn’t catch for a few months that one of the tracks was basically a third version of a track from Being There and Going Places. That version’s not on here.

So yeah, we’ve been batting around ideas for this stuff for a bit, tossed around some edits.. MULLED a whole lot.. and here we go. a nice little c30 recorded in our practice space in the basement of Rotture in 2007-8. There’s a whole lot of huff and puff going on here that didn’t really fit into Drowner or those other guys we recorded around the same time. Vibe is heavy, at times almost metal or completely garbagey anemic beats. IDK. Some good stuff in here. So, not NEW new, but hopefully some NEW NEW tapes soon…

Hey UK/EU fans, you can pick this thing up via Boomkat either now or very, very soon.

Maeror Tri – Ambient Dreams (Zoharum)

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Label Description: Reissue of material originally released on cassette in 1990, then reissued in 2007 on Beta Lactam.
One of the most interesting cassettes in the discography of the German trio. It has been unavailable for regular sale for years.
Today, it has been reissued by Zoharum in a refreshed version, with new graphics.
‘All sound you hear on this CD originated from natural ambient sources. No electronic sound-sources were used. Ambient recordings made between August of 1989 and June of 1990 in West Germany. Produced by Maëror Tri from August-October 1990.

Dylan Houser – There Is A Light That Always Goes Out (Self-Released)

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There are demons of unknown origins idling away on unlit suburban street corners at night.

Instruments used: electric guitar, acoustic guitar in standard tuning, ostrich guitar, keyboard, synthesizer apps, shortwave radio, voice, kalimba, pedals, some sort of percussion, microcassette recorder

Special thanks to Dr. Jaggers and all of the generous customers who tip their delivery drivers well and giving me the opportunity to visit destinations hitherto unknown to me in the dead of night.

Is this phase one of your personal swarm?

JG Thirlwell – Archer Original Soundtrack Volume 1 (Iam8bit)

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Archer Volume 1 is the long-awaited soundtrack album of JG Thirlwell‘s scores for the animated FX series Archer . Thirlwell created the musical score for season 7-14 of the series , from 2015-2023.

The album comprises 27 tracks and is drawn from seasons 7-9 of the show. It is released on maraschino red vinyl. The digital version of the album comprises 30 tracks.

Thirlwell joined the show in 2015 and was able to expand and build on the Archer universe with his musical stylings. The show won an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Animated Program for season 7.

Off and Gone – Dali’s Pillow Geiger’s Toilet (Map Music)

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Recently rescued from the dusty vault of DATs, this is the follow-up album to Off and Gone’s debut “Everest”, released on Harthouse worldwide in 1996.

Released now, in 2019, dedicated to Phil Western (RIP), who would be thrilled to see this collection unleashed into the world.

“This album and the yet unreleased Floatpoint material were written in parallel and constitute the last body of work Phil and I did together. After that our lives took different turns and we were each concerned with producing and releasing solo works. While we have always valued the tracks written in that period [spring and fall of ’96] once a few years passed they faded from memory and quietly waited on DAT tapes for the day of playback.
With the untimely passing of PW came the desire to expose the music we made back then, a concrete testimony of our joy of working together.”
Dan Handrabur, Bucharest 2019

Phil Western – The Escapist (Map Music)

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“The Escapist” was Map’s fourth CD release, Phil Western’s solo debut, and a genre-busting mind-bender designed to satisfy people whose musical tastes don’t fit in boxes.

Originally released on Map on CD in April 1998, and available on Phil’s Bandcamp page, we are honoured to have this album back home in the Map catalog, 26 years to the day after its first release. And also kinda cool is the fact that Phil was 26 when he wrote and produced this music.

To thank all of you who already have this in your collection, and to entice those of you wanting to possess it newly, we’ve added two very special bonus tracks that will be gifts for album buyers. From the upcoming special Phil Western tribute compilation I’m including my remix of the Melodium track “California”, the “Pastoral Psychedelicism Remix” (previously unreleased), and Phil’s remix of Cooldown’s “Absolute”, from their Map Music album “Ether”, released in 1999, and lovingly remastered by Martin “7D6” Granger.

The majority of the proceeds go to the fund for Phil’s daughter, Mora Western.

Various Artists: Genome 4 (Point Source Electronic Arts)

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Electronic musicians create with many tools, and one of the most versatile among them is sampling. Like spliced genes in a laboratory, sampled sounds can be rearranged and mutated, giving rise to entirely novel and unexpected compositions.

Every year, we invite our friends in the community to join us in our ongoing musical experiment, Genome. The songs heard here are all derived from a provided set of samples, sharing a common sonic lineage but each emerging as something new and unique.

With purchase and download of this album, receive access to a bonus sample kit of over 1,100 drums, synths, loops and all sorts of other sounds. Use them to create a track for next year’s edition. These sounds are provided royalty-free, so you can also use them in your own work. See the attached pdf booklet for more information.

credits

released April 5, 2024

Mastered by Alex Stilts at Orbit Room Audio

Illustration by Marc Brinkerink

Design by Mike Slansky

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