Anticipate combines elements of electro-acoustics, ambient, slow motion techno and found house with traces of filtered influences ranging from jazz, post rock, classical, dub, musique concrete and minimalism. The emphasis is on using electronics to rework, reassemble and redevelop sound — whether it be instrumental or otherwise — from outside the computer, with the hope of finding the best balance of two worlds — creating something that has roots in our physical realm, but is abstracted in the digital one.
Klimek — Dedications Klimek — Dedications (Part 2) EP Klimek — Movies is Magic M. Templeton & aA Munson — Acre Loss Ezekiel Honig — An Antique of Paper & Distance
Microcosm produces variations on the theme of minimal techno. The aim is to find new ways of working within the constraints of that definition, and focusing on the form of the music as much as the function of the genre. Dance music that is not too concerned with being dance music.
Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard — Early Morning Migration (cd) Ezekiel Honig — Scattered Practices (cd)
Lukas Kannemann (kskefk) through minimalistic, multifaceted sonic explorations. His installative works and performances revolve around themes such as (non)spaces, (material) cycles, time(lessness), boredom, error, persistence, acceptance, interaction, and repetition. These elements become tools in his search for an intrinsic, trance-like state that carries both himself and the listener into a shared moment of sonic bliss.
sound explorations from the attempt to connect the insides of an abandoned japanese temple to the vast space there is through repetitive movements of a connector/medium in spirit. “der stein bleibt hier nicht liegen” was a first try of Lukas Kannemann expressing his thoughts in something soundless, and then adressing this soundless space with music. “hati-hati anjing” carries some parts of these rhythm rituals.
We’re delighted we had the chance to stock six beautifully crafted releases of Hibernian Leather from Wicklow/Ireland:
Feral Torch — Fertile Deep Wolf Bedsores / Pink Thistle — Split Bleeding Olm / Luxury Mollusc — Split Mistletoe — The Blinding Sun Willie Stewart — Kittiwake Night Life Fleshlicker — Hair Play
We’re glad we had the chance to stock five beautiful publishings of Graphical Recordings from Edmonton/Canada:
Rev. LV — A Guide To Inner Light Mark Templeton — Distorted Tourist (flexi disc records) Michael Snow and Various Artists — Variations (dvd) Mark Templeton — Ocean Front Property (photobook/cd bundle) Graphical: Live Document 01 — Daniel Majer — Live at send + receive
We’re delighted to release the new album “Moontear Silver” by our friend Rhizome Weaver on cassette. Rhizome Weaver is the harsh noise and visual artist Lukas Gehrmann, also part of the Essen (GER) based label Silken Heart, the INDUSTRIALNRW collective, сумна, Kontergan and more.
“Moontear Silver is a construct of correlations between attention and ambience. An assemblage of snapshots, paces and field recordings meant to quantify a single persons gloom into musical momentum. Its layers meet by chance, add up and dissolve in segments of cut up harsh noise, brooding ambient and sound collages. Opposed to earlier outputs this is a series of non-representation, leaning rather to absolute music and train-of-thought improvisation than actual intent or structure. Full of overdubs by necessity. Heavily post-produced by choice. Recorded with both analogue and digital setups.” —Rhizome Weaver
As if through an opening into the inner self, leading deeper into those layers that are rarely reached in everyday life. Where thoughts slow down and emotions grow more intense. Where melancholy is no longer a distraction, but a language. The tools for this descent tear open fissures in the surface of consciousness. Frequencies rumble like distant tectonic shifts; drones draw long, dark lines through the space; noise gnaws its way through the familiar until something raw becomes visible beneath. You don’t just hear—you begin to vibrate, becoming part of an inner geology of memories, fears, and longings. With every passing minute, it feels as though we are descending a layer deeper. Past the smooth facades of everyday life, toward the rougher sediments of feeling. There, where beauty is not clear and bright, but fragile, shimmering, and heavy. In this vibrant underworld, we ourselves emerge like forces from deeper layers. Each performance feels like a new vein laid bare in the dark rock of the night—sometimes fragile and tentative, sometimes explosive and raw. Sounds slowly push their way to the surface, thicken, burst forth, and then disintegrate again. Between these outbursts, moments of fragile tension arise—brief breaths in the very depths—before the sound works its way through the earth of silence once more. A descent into the dark, the turbulent, the unspoken—where, under pressure, friction, and heat, something delicate takes shape.
We stocked two Eggy Tapes releases: A split of the two UK heavyweights Fleshlicker and Insatiable Wound, and a bootleg of the last release of Insect Warfare “Noise Grind Power Death”.
We stocked the great Akti Zine Vol. 2 including interviews of Roy Montgomery, Bill Orcutt, Kuupuu, Joachim Nordwall, Aprapat, Arv & Miljö, Arttu Partinen, Sunhiilow, P. Wits, Rasmus Östling, Tomutonttu and Brenna Murphy.
