Patrick Higgins || STEREO 2xC48
A1 STEREO
A2 Pointillist
A3 Estancia
STEREO is a three-part composition
written and recorded by in quadraphonic stereo by downtown composer/guitarist Patrick Higgins, formerly of Animal and currently of ZS. Making use of
extended techniques, time-shift and phase manipulations, as well as a custom-designed
digital delay interface, Higgins’ STEREO is
a work that both celebrates and disfigures the tradition of solo guitar
performance. Clocking in at 48 minutes, STEREO is
a must for fans of drone, post-minimalism, avant-garde, and uncompromising instrumental
works.
STEREO will be released on two
stereophonic cassettes designed to be played simultaneously on two independent
stereo systems or through a single quadraphonic receiver connected to two tape
decks. In the tradition of four channel stereo gear of the 70s (hyped in marketing
materials as the next logical step after stereo dominated mono) and presaging
the later dominance of home theaters and multi-channel setups, quadraphony —
the forefather of surround sound — is lovingly resurrected for this ambitious
and unusual release.
In addition to the double-cassette, each edition includes a multi-format digital download code that gives you access to both a standard stereo mp3 downmix of the composition for every-day use, plus a multi-channel FLAC for playback on your home theater, DTS-compliant system, car stereo, etc.
125 crimson tapes with white imprint || Unique gull-wing double-tape case
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Various Artists || YouAreHere: The Maze Mixtape C92
A1 Jantar - Holes for Eyes *
A2 Hieroglyph Thesaurus - Lights Camera Action
A3 C. Spencer Yeh - Solo Violin 6-12-11 *
A4 Fuckton - Fucking Around (Live at Shea Stadium) *
A5 Rainstick - Nite Train (Slang Edit) *
A6 NYMPH - Bird Song *
A7 Psychic Reality - Yr Light *
A8 Larkin Grimm - Liquid Gold *
A9 Manorexia - Vika ^
A10 Phonetag - Cue (Yellow Magic Orchestra Cover) *
A11 Marty McSorley - The Beat Is Mine (edit) *
B1 VAZ - Mistake Lake
B2 dubknowdub - Assholes and Oxtails *
B3 Hubble - Hubble Potatoes *
B4 Patrick Higgins - Bouree, Lute Suite No.1 BWV 996
B5 Black Jeans - Mini Maxwell (edit) *
B6 MV Carbon - MAZEPIEC *
B7 Lucky Dragons - Between Attention and Attention *
B8 GDFX - Mackswell #4 *
B9 Wish - Redemption *
B10 Kel Valhaal - Vitriol *
B11 Dustin Wong - Water on Face *
A2 Hieroglyph Thesaurus - Lights Camera Action
A3 C. Spencer Yeh - Solo Violin 6-12-11 *
A4 Fuckton - Fucking Around (Live at Shea Stadium) *
A5 Rainstick - Nite Train (Slang Edit) *
A6 NYMPH - Bird Song *
A7 Psychic Reality - Yr Light *
A8 Larkin Grimm - Liquid Gold *
A9 Manorexia - Vika ^
A10 Phonetag - Cue (Yellow Magic Orchestra Cover) *
A11 Marty McSorley - The Beat Is Mine (edit) *
B1 VAZ - Mistake Lake
B2 dubknowdub - Assholes and Oxtails *
B3 Hubble - Hubble Potatoes *
B4 Patrick Higgins - Bouree, Lute Suite No.1 BWV 996
B5 Black Jeans - Mini Maxwell (edit) *
B6 MV Carbon - MAZEPIEC *
B7 Lucky Dragons - Between Attention and Attention *
B8 GDFX - Mackswell #4 *
B9 Wish - Redemption *
B10 Kel Valhaal - Vitriol *
B11 Dustin Wong - Water on Face *
* Maze Mixtape Exclusive
This sprawling compilation, W+D's first, is an aural and aesthetic extension of The You Are Here Festival, an enormous indoor Maze installation and conceptual music festival organized this past summer at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn and then again in early fall at Westgermany in Berlin. Featuring contributions from 22 artists who performed in the Brooklyn Maze, this massively ambitious 92-minute tape skitters relentlessly among a wide range of styles and genres, from local underground hip-hop to noise-dub, balls out rock 'n' roll to to genre unnamable.
Going beyond simply featuring artists who played in the Maze, the tape also evokes the visual experience of being inside of the Maze installation with its multiple overlapping layers of simple line art creating a depth-perception-confounding, three-dimensional web. Packed with exclusive tracks, 19 in total, this unique release is a must-have for fans of the compellingly weird and unexpectedly accessible.
As all of the tape media is transparent, each tape is supplemented with a Digital Download Postcard containing the tracklisting, release notes, and download code. Please view the options below when making your selection:
Preview any track on the tape on Bandcamp:
Guilty Ghosts || Veils C60 Deluxe Bundle
A1 The End of Akira
A2 Everlasting Evening (feat. Sea Oleena)
A3 Late Night Voyages
A4 The People You Love
A5 In Our Book
A6 Tinted Windows (feat. Guerre)
B1 Begotten
B2 Lowe
B3 Great Malevolent Withholder
B4 Top Prize Fighter
B5 Stampede (Tape-only bonus track)
A2 Everlasting Evening (feat. Sea Oleena)
A3 Late Night Voyages
A4 The People You Love
A5 In Our Book
A6 Tinted Windows (feat. Guerre)
B1 Begotten
B2 Lowe
B3 Great Malevolent Withholder
B4 Top Prize Fighter
B5 Stampede (Tape-only bonus track)
Listening to Veils is like dropping the needle of the groove of your favorite record, only to find that the songs you knew have been replaced, but strangely, it feels just as much like home. Says Guilty Ghosts' Tristan O'Donnell, "a veil in most religions signifies a commitment to, and a representation of, a belief or an ideal. It is used to protect what is sacred, and symbolize personal devotion — a shield, and a badge. These songs are an expression of that tension." From the aptly-named "Late Night Voyages," perfect for a night drive through urban canyons and dead-dark rural backroads, to the distorted slow-build of "Great Malevolent Withholder," Veils' beautiful songcraft lodges itself in your psyche, ready to emerge as the sun recedes and the gloaming creeps.
100 pro-dubbed tapes || Bonus mix CD & hand-screened cotton bag
Red foil inset shells with white imprint || Includes high-quality digital download
Sold out!
Limited copies still available from Guilty Ghosts' merch page
Limited copies also available from Aquarius Records in SF
Slow Magic || ▲ C28
A1 Corvette Cassette
A2 Toddler Tiger
A3 Sorry Safari
A4 Feel Flows
B1 ☾
B2 Ο
B3 Youths
B4 Music
Straight out of the ether comes Slow Magic debut physical release, ▲. Containing 28 minutes of blissed-out synthpop interwoven with infectious beats, found sound, and a post-____wave/____-fi sensibility that makes you question what you thought you knew about microgenres, hype cycles, and the self-consuming music blogosphere, ▲ is the perfect salve for your nervous psyche in the unseasonably warm winter of 2012.
In addition to re-masters of the four A-side tracks also available on Slow Magic's Soundcloud, you'll find four tracks on side B that are physical-release exclusives. This tour cassette will primarily be available from Slow Magic himself on his 31-night trek across Europe, but Slow Magic fans in the the rest of the world would be advised to pick up one of the limited copies here...they're gonna be sold out by the time he's back!
Stream one of the exclusives, "Music," at Vice's Noisey!
Limited edition, hand-numbered smokey tapes with gold foil labels
A2 Toddler Tiger
A3 Sorry Safari
A4 Feel Flows
B1 ☾
B2 Ο
B3 Youths
B4 Music
Straight out of the ether comes Slow Magic debut physical release, ▲. Containing 28 minutes of blissed-out synthpop interwoven with infectious beats, found sound, and a post-____wave/____-fi sensibility that makes you question what you thought you knew about microgenres, hype cycles, and the self-consuming music blogosphere, ▲ is the perfect salve for your nervous psyche in the unseasonably warm winter of 2012.
In addition to re-masters of the four A-side tracks also available on Slow Magic's Soundcloud, you'll find four tracks on side B that are physical-release exclusives. This tour cassette will primarily be available from Slow Magic himself on his 31-night trek across Europe, but Slow Magic fans in the the rest of the world would be advised to pick up one of the limited copies here...they're gonna be sold out by the time he's back!
Stream one of the exclusives, "Music," at Vice's Noisey!
Limited edition, hand-numbered smokey tapes with gold foil labels
Each tape includes a high-quality digital download code
Sold out!
Sold out!
A1 Shrine Flu
B1 Chicken Shaman
B2 Porcupine Quills
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Flu Riddin (UUMANS Remix)
[Digital Download bonus track]
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Flu Riddin (UUMANS Remix)
[Digital Download bonus track]
The latest from Brooklyn's prolific-to-the-point-of-madness Sam Hillmer, SHRINE FLU spreads slabs of droning, meditative, pitch-shifted sax thickly over other-worldly-reverb'd scrapes, echoes, and sighs. Picking up where DT debut Himalayan Appalachia left off, SHRINE FLU concentrates its tiptoeing dystopian atmospherics into half the time with twice the punch. Described by Hillmer as "the part of the Venn diagram representing our collective psyche where spiritual paranoia & materialism overlap with political and economic paranoia & materialism," SHRINE FLU is the perfect complement to a 21st century drowning in post-post-modern concepts of self, cultural memes that provide a conceptual framework for endless war, and a historically unprecedented sociopolitical death drive. The next time you flip on CNBC and hear some talking head pontificating about an economy predicated on "creative destruction," take it as another sign of the SHRINE FLU pandemic!
Make sure to redeem the digital download code included with your tape — in addition to high-quality mp3s of Shrine Flu, it includes a mindbending space-dub remix of the title track by UUMANS (Matt Mehlan of Skeleton$).
Make sure to redeem the digital download code included with your tape — in addition to high-quality mp3s of Shrine Flu, it includes a mindbending space-dub remix of the title track by UUMANS (Matt Mehlan of Skeleton$).
Stream the title track below:
250 pro-dubbed, hand-numbered tapes || Emerald shells with silver metallic imprint
Tracklist is too long to post here...32 tracks split evenly across each side!
"Same Same but Different," the familiar phrase heard throughout south east Asia, a perfect description to characterize Onra’s latest project, a follow up to his 2007 LP - Chinoiseries. So almost five years later, here we go back on the trail of another Asian beat journey with 32 Hip-Hop instrumentals inspired by Chinese and Vietnamese music. A lot has happened in between: The Big Payback with Byron the Aquarius, a beats LP 1.0.8 plus 2010’s acclaimed boogie tinged hip hop LP Long Distance, while along the way he’s revisited South East Asia on a few occasions adding to his Asian record stack on each occasion. The exotic, mysterious pop and folk Chinese records of the 60s and 70s, with their epic operatic and orchestral feel, and sealed from the Western counter culture rumblings of the time, not to mention alive with vintage vinyl hiss and crackle, may not seem the easiest source material to work with — but after hermetically sealing himself in his Parisian beat cave, Onra has come with a more than worthy return for all the time and money spent in the vinyl basements and backrooms of the Far East. There's ample variation but a coherent whole, from the more electronic feel of "A New Dynasty" and "All Night," to the soundtrack vibe of "Mai's Theme" and "Fight Or Die," and the straight beat sound of "No Matter What" and "Remember The Name" and he's even found some breaks! Inspired by the idea of the LP as a sequence of film scenes, this intense burst of beats and distinct vibes form an accomplished rounded full length.
250 pro-dubbed, hand-numbered tapes || Ruby red shells with gold ink imprint
ZS || SKY BURIAL C18
A1 Sky Burial pt I
B1 Sky Burial pt II
18 minutes of noise collage built from selections of live recordings of encore sets on Brooklyn avant-rock maestros ZS' recent European tour. At moments acerbic and ominous, each full side-length piece captures the birth of a tiny universe — chaos and discord channeled into hypnotic, engulfing harmony — that blinks back out of existence before you have time to fully appreciate its majesty.
200 hand-numbered tapes
50 super-limited mirror finish Gold-on-Gold || 150 White-on-White
Gold tapes sold out!
Gold tapes sold out!
TRMRS || Surf Titties C34
A1 The World
A2 Shorter Days
A3 All I Ever Need
A4 Leech Nights
A5 Hello Self
B1 One Foot
B2 Old Paladino
B3 Homesick
B4 Cosimigos
Nine blistering cuts of surf-filtered garage punk from Costa Mesa rockers TRMRS! Swaggering basslines and healthy doses psychedelic guitar scuzz fill out chugging, chaotic slabs of pop that have earned TRMRS deserved comparisons to the likes of Ty Segall, Night Beats, Audacity, Sic Alps, and Bass Drum of Death. Dead Beat Records sez "Kinda like Rocket From The Tombs covering the Sonics with Dick Dale shreddin' some wacked out, feel good surfy jams at an all night rager on the beach." Blazing!
200 hand-numbered tapes
60 Limited Edition Screaming Pink Sold out! || 140 Electric Green
These tapes are hand-painted and one-of-a-kind, so get 'em before they're gone!
Youthbitch || No Coast C30
A1 Straight to Hell
A2 Heart Attack
A3 Nuclear War
A4 Why Doncha Come Back Home
A5 I'm Comin' Fer You
B1 Annabelle
B2 I Will Forget Your Name
B3 3 to the Head
B4 It's Happenin'
B5 I Got a Gun
B6 Junker Melody
11 pop punk cuts straight outta Portland! Here's what Robert Smith (no, not that one) has to say: I saw them all the time for a couple of weeks, it was the damndest thing. Eating a humble hangover omelette at 3 PM, I'd look out of the cafe window, or down the block as I retied my shoe, and I'd see these two miscreants sauntering by all a-deck in polka dots and pointy shoes with looks of Baltic Lostness on their faces, among all the besweatervested, bearded, bicycling arrogant semi-youths of Hawthorne Blvd. Then I saw them, Stevie and Nico, at an art gallery show where a chubby naked guy with a rabbit mask and a Flying V was having his way with us. I was there with my roommate, and we asked them if they wanted to play at this show we were having at the uh Dead End House (aptly named, RIP). We figured there were probably and band. They were, and they did. It was great. "GREAT SCOTT! PEOPLE PLAY THIS STUFF?" Then they left the country for a while, came back, and I joined the band on lead guitar, along with Patrick Mackenzie on drums. It's been about two months. The recordings herein were made before that, in their motherland, the great Midwest, the bulk of them coming from an album recorded in 3 days on Dexedrine in a Saint Louis bar.
Youthbitch! The world needs you like a fish needs a bicycle: desperately, or it will never evolve.
Sonic Red cassettes in a hand-numbered edition of 100.
75 available here - act fast!
Youthbitch! The world needs you like a fish needs a bicycle: desperately, or it will never evolve.
Sonic Red cassettes in a hand-numbered edition of 100.
75 available here - act fast!
Glitter Bones || Amulet Calls C21
A1 Brown Lord Riley
A2 Worship Walls
A3 Ceremonial Secrets
B1 Kissing the Witch
B2 10:07/Amulet Calls
Five late-night dark disco jams from Chicago's Glitter Bones. A soothing little 21-minute hunk of post-chillwave bliss.
Silver foil inset cassettes in a hand-numbered edition of 100.
Guilty Ghosts || Enigma Variations C20
A1 Mists&Tides
A1 Mists&Tides
A2 Renée
A3 Kodachrome (demo)
B1 The Canal
B2 Top Prize Fighter
Beautiful looped guitar riffs and chilled out beats that resonate off the inner walls of your psyche like calming sonic waves breaking on the extra-dimensional space beach in Jodie Foster's mind in Contact.
Hand-numbered edition of 50.
$5
Sold out.
Beautiful looped guitar riffs and chilled out beats that resonate off the inner walls of your psyche like calming sonic waves breaking on the extra-dimensional space beach in Jodie Foster's mind in Contact.
Hand-numbered edition of 50.
$5
Sold out.
