Rarity: Brand new solo radiation from Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes, Hair Police et al on Mike Bernstein of Double Leopards' imprint. Looped conveyor belts of tiny metal tracks are punctured by rattlesnake tones and steel blades of stumpy Morse code while fleets of black, tattooed helicopters come to a sticky halt in clouds of thick, flashing boo. Comes with a great full-colour printed cover by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and bonus sticker. Edition circa 200.

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.

New wretchedly destroyed primitive rock ascension from Robert Beatty of Hair Police/Eyes And Arms Of Smoke and collaborator Walter Carson. One of the most repeat-killing Heavy Tapes blats to date, with full colour artwork by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and the usual classy HT production job.

7” vinyl from Mike Bernstein and Maya Miller of Double Leopards’ Heavy Tapes imprint bundles two ecstatic DIY drone shots from Religious Knives beamed straight from a windowless bunker. This whole current European/devotional/cult synth edge that the duo have developed is beautifully electric and extremely personal and these two tracks – chronologically their first experiments in this style - make for some of their best reconciliations with song form to date. Mike and Maya play bells, guitar, percussion, synth, and vocals. Limited edition, comes in screened hard card fold-around sleeves. Highly recommended.

Latest instalment from Heath Moreland of the Fag Tapes empire’s gloopy cough-syrup-inspired noise crud series, with huge spoons of woozy electronic decay gobbled up in warps of distortion, delay and wonked tapes. Beautiufl full-colour art by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and the usual suave Heavy Tapes presentation.

A series of bewitching automatic electronic settings scored for a self-built ensemble of circuitry that spontaneously generates bullfrog croaks, modulated percussive twizz and slow tunnels of clatter that manages to sound both non-contemporary and a perfectly concise summation of various 20th century avant garde modes, from the self-regulating Fluxus orchestras through the kind of splat-punk basement moves of Nautical Almanac et al. Side A features both studies for the title track as well as the fully-realised version, while the B side features "Studies For A New Trio". Comes in the gorgeous new Heavy Tapes (run by Mike and Maya of Double Leopards, Religious Knives et al) packaging with letterpressed custom fabricated cardstock tape covers which wrap around and tuck into themselves and black ink on white cardstock artwork by Maya. Just about the most beautiful run of tapes you're ever likely to fondle.

Two grimy, fog-bound, supremely heavy live sets from this solo project of NY-based Drew Demeter, who also runs the great Since 1972 label. The sound of metal bent like plastic, hailstones on broken bones and huge waves of rage that swell into the most precarious liquid noise constructs before exploding into silence. Great crowd noise punctuation too. Comes in the gorgeous new Heavy Tapes (run by Mike and Maya of Double Leopards, Religious Knives et al) packaging with letterpressed custom fabricated cardstock tape covers which wrap around and tuck into themselves and black ink on white cardstock artwork by Maya. Just about the most beautiful run of tapes you're ever likely to fondle.

Mike and Maya Bernstein (Double Leopards/Religious Knives et al) live at the San Juan noise fest, with a wash of sandpaper-toned judder giving way to what almost sounds like one of John Fahey's concrete ragas for locomotive, helicopters, angel vox and eerie wide-open space. B-side features a set from renowned Puerto Rican noise outfit Cornucopia. Comes in the gorgeous new Heavy Tapes (run by Mike and Maya of Double Leopards, Religious Knives et al) packaging with letterpressed custom fabricated cardstock tape covers which wrap around and tuck into themselves and black ink on white cardstock artwork by Maya. Just about the most beautiful run of tapes you're ever likely to fondle.

Limited edition of 150 copies, the first instalment in a series of releases documenting off-the-map live actions from Religious Knives. This one compiles action from four shows across 2008, with jams taken from WHOM, Hemlock, Death By Audio and Wierd. Anyone left unfazed with the production and pop stylings of the group’s Ecstatic Peace releases oughta find solace here, with some great lo-fi garage downs usurped by primitive delay and drugged keyboards. The Death By Audio set features a guest appearance from Pete Nolan of Magik Markers et al while the Wierd material matches that imprints ethos with some ginchy minimal synth/new wave settings of classic RK material including a take on “Basement Watch” that could almost be a reformed 1980s post-apocalyptic Music Machine. Or would that make em SPK? Either way, this is great.

Limited edition of 150 copies, the second instalment in a series of releases documenting off-the-map live actions from Religious Knives. This one compiles action from two shows across 2008, with a killer full band set live from 66 Hope and a weird RK2 style duo performance recorded at Big Jar Books in Philadelphia. Recommended.

First action from Mike and Maya Bernstein’s (aka Religious Knives) own Heavy Tapes imprint in a while, presenting the debut album from this new NY outfit that features Calder and Caitlin of Excepter/Vizusa alongside the rhythm section from Sightings. They have the same muscular No Wave attack of Sightings, with a percussive bottom end that is as trance-inducing as contemporary Whitehouse, while factoring in the kind of hysterical free rock extrapolated from mis-readings of Harry Pussy/Beefheart/Royal Trux et al and turning up the dub-inflected violence of Damo-era Can. Both band’s histories are pretty apparent in the overall arc of the sonics but I like this a deal better than either. Edition of 500 copies, pro-printed sleeves.