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Andy Jarvis
Aghast/Agape
Beyond Repair Records No Cat
C30 Cassette
£5.99
New solo work from this UK avantist who has worked with Ashtray Navigations, Saboteuse, A Warm Palindrome etc. "A truly dedicated cassette of recordings done in August. Icy synth tone-shards tunneling themselves through immense layers of ice before melting into a beautiful, jaw dropping audiovisual landscape which then again warps itself into guitar chords spreading warm waves of greatness dedicated to his newly born son. Edition of 50. Skull drawing by Jarvis himself." - BRR.
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Melanie Delaney, Bridget Hayden and Phil Todd
Play Freeway Alabama
Smoker's Gifts #4
CD-R
£7.99
Excellent three-way psych/trance and roar-drone oblivion rendered in the usual human/primitive style from a bunch of central UK heads, with Mel Delaney of Ocelocelot, Bridget from Vibracathedral Orchestra and Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations et al. Excellent lo-fi, tactile feel, with dead car-crash tones dive-bombed with lurid shots of electric string and what sounds like the "Fire" section of Brian Wilson's smile extrapolated to almost Xpressway-levels of grit. Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies on Delaney's own label. Long OOP.
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El-G
Six Etudes Sur Des Objets A Priori Morts Mais Sexuellement Aimables
Taped Sounds No Cat
Cassette
£7.99
New cassette from Laurent Gerard aka El-G, with a composition for tape, voice and electronics that has that classic cracked French underground atmosphere that’s flits between apocalyptic torch song and vintage Nurse With Wound.
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Ashtray Navigations
Three Rockets Thicken
Trensmat Records TR-023
7”
£4.99
New three track EP from Ashtray Navigations that crosses his recent experiments in zoned synth/guitar eternities with some destination=oblivion raga and minimal electronics. Comes with a download to an exclusive 20 minute blow-out.
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Moral Holiday
s/t
Memoirs of an Aesthete No Cat
CD-R
£7.99
New release from this solo electronic/threat outfit from Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations on his own label. Aspects of early Whitehouse/Suicide’s minimal/’billy style, even Minimal Man himself, with drum machines ticking out time over hissing electronics and reverb/delay vocals that are straight out of the Total Sex ‘songbook’. Some of the keyboard solos have a great ’72 vintage Sun Ra appeal but this is some of Phil’s darkest/most claustrophobic electro-psych sides. Edition of 100 copies.
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Truant
The Truant Accord
Memoirs of an Aesthete No Cat
CD-R
£7.99
Edition of 100 copies on Phil Todd’s own label for this archival recording, a trio set from 2001 featuring Phil alongside ‘Cloughie’ (of, uh, “prog legends” Rancid Poultry) and Robert Hayler (of the Fencing Flatworm label etc). Some nice drone moves here, all cut up with Phil’s endless acid guitar/raga styles, giving the set a kind of Northern England “Swastika Girls” feel, and that’s a feel I can really ‘feel’, know what I mean?
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Human Combustion Engine
Gods Bells And Goats Bells
Angurosakuson AS-002
C30 Cassette
£6.99
Beautiful new set of slow-phasing psychedelic electronics and empty bell sounds from the UK underground duo of Phil Todd and Mel Delaney (Ashtray Navigations et al): two sides to this set, with the first building delicious tonal ascensions from lapping waves of gentle synth that come over in the classic reverse-working tradition of Coil circa “A White Rainbow” with tonal wormholes and sudden form gobbling blats of fuzz and hysteria. The second side is more ancient sounding, with dark psychedelic ritual soundings that come over like Pauline Oliveros re-floats Atlantis.
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Andy Jarvis
Tectonique Du Corps
Students Of Decay SOD-28
CD-R
£5.99
"More simply stellar solo endeavours from UK underground stalwart Mr. Andy Jarvis - proprietor of the consistently fantastic imprint, member of Sculptress and Phil Todd co-conspirator in Warm Palindrome. Those familiar with Andy's stunningly evocative acoustic works are surely in for a surprise here. "Tectonique du Corps" is a blast of crackling feedback, beautifully wrecked percussion, gorgeous analog dronefests and hypnotic low-end shuffle." - Students Of Decay.
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