Man, Damien Romero has been on fire recently with a run of 100% skull-stormers but this might be his best yet, a fabulously doomy set of intensely focussed and mesmerically manipulated tactile drone that slow-shifts and barely blooms with an uncanny organic logic. Something about this tape reminds me of Charles Curtis's Ultra Violet White Light set, I guess the way it suggests a whole architecture of coiled tones and massively staggered sine waves. Either way it's a beauty. Limited edition of 150 numbered copies.

Beautiful, mind-bogglingly limited hand-cut 7” lathe of intense tonal warp from Romero courtesy of Nate Young of Wolf Eyes' ultra-collectable AA Records. Very limited numbers available. Highly recommended.

Limited edition of 300 copies from the 'bootleg' label run by C. Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core. This one features an excellent archival live show mastered straight from cassette from Damion Romero's legendary noise outfit Speculum Fight recorded live in Tokyo, Japan in 1995, a time/place that was pretty much ground zero for modern noise. Romero claims this show was primarily influenced by Keiji Haino's early Milky Way recording, as well as the ritualistic energy of early CCCC. The sound is extremely primitive and comparatively unsophisticated, with Romero working crude, ululating codes from his electronics on top of tape noise, phantom broadcast frequencies and chunks of monolithic atonal void-gargling that feel more tactile and hands-on than much contemporary digital noise. The set comes with a silkscreened sleeve, a repro of the flier for the show (that also featured Hijokaidan, Merzbow and CCCC!) and an original hand-numbered photograph from the trip by Romero. Recommended.

“Wavering tonal drone & feedback shift slowly through the Los Angeles wasteland. Intense & focused, incorporating the haze & smog of the LA skyline, Damion Romero presents his bleakest recording to date. Active since the early '90s with his influential projects Speculum Fight and Slug, Romero has learned to sculpt minimal bass frequencies to fill rooms, crack walls, and shatter skulls.”

“Astromero is the psychedelic synth / noise project of Japanese pioneer Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro,CCCC), and LA's Damion Romero (Speculum Fight). Side A is a live show in San Francisco, a total scorcher with an immense level of energy where shifting walls of synthetic sound produced by Hasegawa are complemented by the signature rumbling low end frequencies coming from Damion's custom electronics. Side B is a new studio track, full of brain melting tones and showing the more compositional side of this sick ongoing collaboration. Limited to 350.” – NF.