Limited cassette from Lieven aka Dolphins Into The Future with a side each inspired by a classical landscape painter, Jacob Philipp Hackert and Caspar David Friedrich. This tape kinda represents a departure for Lieven in that the pieces feel less ‘ambient’ and more fully inhabited, with the Hackert side possessed of a great early Radiophonic/Joe Meek electro atmosphere that’s so obsessively layered that it feels like picking out the movement of figures in an endless landscape or the play of the light in the distance. The Friedrich side is a bit heavier on the gravitas, with omming pools of drone surrounded by modal keyboards and zoned electro atmospherics that could almost be a fully plugged-in Organic Music Society. Lovingly assembled/screened fold-over card sleeves too. Edition of 150 copies. 

Brand new cassette from one of the greatest bands on the planet, Turner Falls’ Flaming Dragons Of Middle Earth. Led by wheelchair-bound ‘band shaman’ Danny Cruz and consisting of a rotating group of non-musicians, psychedelic drop-outs, teenage metallers, kids with Down Syndrome etc, Flaming Dragons play a form of super crude/sophisticated free rock ala The Godz or even a punk-primitive Arkestra but with Cruz’s stunning, oracular vocals giving them a mainline to the freak flag style of prime Captain Beefheart, Roky Erickson and Wasa Wasa-era Broughton. Cruz’s instant lyric inventions are as mind-boggling as your favourite medium while the group lurch around on staggering brokedown rhythms somewhere between early-Sabbath, Robbie Yeats of The Dead C and The Shaggs. This one features a bunch of amazing material, from stripped-down raps through lumbering psychedelic rock, including their amazing theme song as well as free-form freakouts w/lyrics that obsess over murder, bloodshed, astral creeps and, uh, Joni Mitchell... indeed Cruz makes most ‘sound poets’ sound like children’s entertainers. Packaged in moulded plastic cases with silkscreened sleeves, highly recommended, as is everything by this unique group. Cool back cover snap of Ozzy trying to regain kudos by hanging w/the band. It ain’t working bozo. Edition of 98 copies. 

Edition of 300 copies picture disc with art on the flip presenting one of Jan Anderzen’s most psychedelic and hypnotically rocking sides. This self-titled collection, originally commissioned by the Aanen Lumo Festival for New Sounds, starts off like an early Sonic Boom side with fast tremolo guitar and padding motorik rhythms beneath hysterically modulated and extended vocals eventually locking-down into a fantastic eternal groove. But soon the whole thing devolves into what sounds like a chopped and screwed Arkestra tackling “The Satellites Are Spinning”. Obsessively constructed psychedelic electronica, set to stun. Recommended. 

Fabulous cassette from European artist/sound poet Ludo Mich. The A side pitches him with Japanese improviser Kiyoharu Kuwayama with Mich’s vocals – by turn disturbing and hilarious – given an eerie post-production job by Kuwayama complete with high ghostly reeds and thin veils of electronics. Over on the flip Mich performs “The Fluidium – Superstrings And Strings Travel Together To The Singularity Of The M-Dimension” at Gallery Dagmar De Pooter in Antwerp with his exuberant free vocals and extreme body soundings accompanied by Kris Wanders on sax and Maarten Tibos and W. Ravenveer on synths. One of Mich’s best. Comes in full-colour screened fold-out cigarette-box package. Edition of 100 copies.