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.

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released April 5, 2024

Mastered by Alex Stilts at Orbit Room Audio

Illustration by Marc Brinkerink

Design by Mike Slansky

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Civerous – Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin)

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Upon hearing ‘Decrepit Flesh Relic’, the first album from Civerous, one was left with a feeling of intense suffocating weight and agonal(sic) prostration in the service of bone-breaking death hymns. With the towering new album, ‘Maze Envy’, LA’s most creatively destructive Death / Doom ensemble let loose a freshly evolved but no less brutal conflagration of immersive horror and morbid lamentation.

Where Death / Doom may often stay in safe and unadventerous realms of narrow focus, Maze Envy’ presents a more far-reaching breadth of ambition, where unusual technicality, progressive atmospheres, string flourishes and chaotic mysticism radiate a purple light of the soul’s ascension from the black oceans of dread Civerous inhabit. Chain-dragging dirge, blackened blasting, and the savage ferocity of Lord Foul’s hellish vocal exorcisms exalt ‘Mazy Envy’ with a hellish grandeur within its myriad paths to oblivion.

With a massively crushing sound, ‘Maze Envy’ is end times music for an age in which that reckoning feels unfathomably close. Civerous batter the senses into a state of labyrinthian turmoil from which emergence is ever more implausible.

Editor’s Note: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Filmy Ghost & The Implicit Order – Horrorlands (Self-Released)

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In 2022 Sábila Orbe AKA Filmy Ghost cut-up and rearranged I/O’s entire discography in a wonderful and creepy out of this world way. Filmy Ghost does The Implicit Order better than The Implicit Order on this album.
Original source material by The Implicit Order.
Cut-up, disarranged and reassembled in the digital domain by Filmy Ghost.

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released February 27, 2024

Filmy Ghost is an experimental, ghostly music project from Rancagua, Chile, created by Sábila Orbe. LINKS:
hearthis.at/filmy-ghost/
archive.org/details/fav-sabila_orbe02
open.spotify.com/artist/0POUvA4r7hzETPMnrn59My
hearthis.at/filmy-ghost/:
A quick Google search will tell you everything you need to know about Sabila Orbe and Filmy Ghost and the other work of this talented Chilean artist. Please support them in their work.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – of the Last Human Being (Avant Night)

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After thirteen years of hibernation, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, the most gloriously uncategorizable American band in existence, has emerged from stasis to proudly announce the imminent release of their fourth studio album, of the Last Human Being. The album marks the first release of AVANT NIGHT – a new imprint headed by Nick Ohler and facilitated by Joyful Noise Recordings.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, comprised of multi-instrumentalists and rotating vocalists Nils Frykdahl, Carla Kihlstedt, Michael “Iago” Mellender, Matthias Bossi, and Dan Rathbun, plays an arsenal of instruments ranging from the somewhat standard (drums, electric guitars, bass, electric violin) to the rare (bass harmonica, nyckelharpa, marxophone) to the homemade (Slide-Piano Log, Electric Pancreas, Pedal-Action Wiggler). The group has consistently evaded easy categorization, garnering accolades from across the aisles of contemporary classical music, prog rock, industrial music, metal, avant-garde improv, and more. Their music, inturns bashing and bucolic, enveloping and unsettling, tends towards long-form epics interspersed with mysterious field recordings.

“As this slow-rolling planetwide Anthropocene Extinction event deepens, Sleepy- time’s work has only grown more…  more

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released February 23, 2024

Most of these recordings were started at Polymorph in Oakland, CA in 2010-11. Additional overdubs in the intervening years were done at Polymorph and in home studios across the land. S.P.Q.R. was entirely recorded and mixed at Polymorph in 2004 and previously released as a 7” on Dephine Knormal Musik. (Hi, Moe!) “Hush, Hush” and “El Evil” were recorded at Polymorph and home studios in 2023.

All songs: Sleepy Time Gorilla Press Music, BMI, except Hush, Hush and Silverfish (Broca’s Fold, ASCAP) and S.P.Q.R. (Rough Trade Music)

Mixed by Dan 2023 ~ Produced by SGM ~ Mastered by Todd Rittmann

Art by Per “Ward C. Picnic” Frykdahl
Design by Jenya Chernoff and Nils
Logos and lettering by Nils
Photos and film stills from the film “The Last Human Being: A Critical Assessment,” directed by Max Baloian, featuring Shinichi Iova Koga

~ Ministry of Revivification ~

Meredith Yayanos – Special Ambassador, Ordained Symposiarch Of The John Kane Society
Mallory McAvoy – Diplomatic Liaison, Bailiff Of The Guild Of Bards
Erik Carter (an uncle) – Futurist Coordinator
John Karr – Audial Conveyist And Evidence Hoarder
Scott Crowley – Moving Picture Husbandry and Conservation
Jenya Chernoff – Head Of Propaganda and Graphic Design
Gregory Scharpen – Imagist, Disinformationist
Nicholas Ohler – Patron Saint of Fucked-Up Music
Karl Hofstetter – Locked Groove Stasis Enabler
Robert S. Meitus – Disentanglementalist

Boundless gratitude to our families, our friends, and our vast community of independent artists, musicians, and makers of all sorts. Thank you to Penelope Allman, Max Baloian, the Bossihlstedts, Steven Clark, Merlin Coleman, Sean Crawford, Dawn & the Faunettes, Thor Harris, Gooby Herms, the Kihlbossis, Shinichi Iova Koga & inkBoat, Claire Mack, Michael McCamish, Simon Miller, Lara Miranda, Dominique Persi, Nieves Rathbun & Jasper, Greg Scharpen, Janice & Gordie Shaw, Free Salamander Exhibit, Kitka, Rabbit Rabbit Radio, and Dr. Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators. Nick & Anya from AVANT NIGHT would like to thank the Joyful Noise Recordings team and Kramer & Valerie from Shimmy-Disc for their friendship, mentorship, and assistance with making this album a reality.

Endless props to the one-thousand-one-hundred-and-twenty-two generous people who helped us “SAVE THE LAST HUMAN BEING!” on Kickstarter. Boundless gratitude to all who volunteered time and energy to those buck-wild LHB film shoots oh so many years ago. Bottomless cheer to each and every member of the John Kane Society whether living, dead, or liminal.

Truly, it is all of you who have made this complex revivification possible. Rock against rock, and rejoice!

Christian Fiesel – Analogy (Self Released)

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From the archives Part 2

Originally release on Studio4632 Candy Lozier 17th January 2018
What a great time this was being support by the ever helpful Candy. Some of my best albums face the ears of the world over there.

This a different type, even more sinister, somber and dark as my current works with a complete instrumental set-up (to be honest, most of the used synth I don’t even remember anymore).

It was dark, it was ambient and it was experiemental.

Feel free to serve yourself as long as free downloads are available.

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released February 27, 2024

(P)+(C) 2018/2024 Christian Fiesel