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HYPE WILLIAMS
One Nation
Hippos In Tanks
LP // £14.99 |

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*Upfront Exclusive – Limited to 1000 individually numbered copies for the world, on white vinyl* Pre-eminent H-Pop geniuses, Hype Williams, deliver the crackish satisfaction of ‘One Nation’, their third album proper and first for the hugely exciting Hippos in Tanks label – home to Laurel Halo, Games, SLEEP ∞ OVER, Grimes, D’eon, Autre Ne Veut and others. With the same fugged-up blend of sly insouciance and deceptively naive production that… |
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CYCLO
id
Raster Noton
CD // £11.99 |

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Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai first premiered their collaborative Cyclo project a deacde ago on Raster Noton. Relaunching in 2011 they’re just as intent on creating a synaesthetic visualization of sound that “…seeks to create a new hybrid of visual art and music”. Essentially the sounds on ‘Id’ are inextricable from their visual corollary. They’re the unmastered sonic illustrations of detailed graphical data, and vice versa, developed from a database… |
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GIL SCOTT-HERON & JAMIE XX
I’ll Take Care Of U
XL
12″ // £4.99 |

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Jamie’s Housed-up highlight from the ‘We’re New Here’ LP receives a plush, 12″ pressing housed in die cut sleeve, backed with a special DJ version. The sensitively sparse version of ‘I’ll Take Care Of U’ flips Gil into a cruising House rhythm licked with Balearic guitar from Romy xx, while the ‘Special DJ Version’ sets to work tweaking the drums and shuffling the arrangement for maximum dancefloor impact. Either way,… |
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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER / CABOLADIES
Split
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c30, colour j-card with colour insert** “This split unfolds as a singular and flowing journey. Caboladies reaches out to the solar gods above while Oneohtrix Point Never wanders through the arid deserts of the mind”. On ‘Reweaving The Charity Basket’ Caboladies are the trio of Chris Bush, Eric Langham and Ben Zoeller creating lambent swirls of candy-flossed synthesizer tones and the sound of vintage arcade game machines waking up to… |
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JULIA HOLTER
Live Recordings
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c54, colour j-card with colour insert** “So Cal artist Julia Holter’s latest cassette is a very personal collection of dreamy home-recording style pop ballads. Lush piano and synthesizer instrumentation meld with Holter’s ethereal vocals in cinematic and melancholy arrangements.” One of the most substantial offerings from Burlington, Vermont’s NNA label is also Julia Holter’s most impressive release to date. From what we can glean, she’s released tracks on Monika Enterprise… |
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THREE LEGGED RACE
Raining Order
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c20, colour j-card with colour insert** “Hair Police member Robert Beatty produces two pieces of lush, womb-like synthesizer melded with hypnotic processed female voice. Highly intricate and textured electronics weave in and out of gelatinous loops of speech with expert precision. Artwork by the artist.” Obviously, this is nowhere near as gnarled as Hair Police. In somnambulant mood, Beatty lulls us into a softly glowing, fleshy world of ‘Raining Order’,… |
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DYLAN ETTINGER
Botany Bay
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c24, colour j-card with colour insert** “This tape plays like the soundtrack you might hear at a night out on a Studio 54-themed dance vessel in the far reaches of the galaxy. Eddie Murphy and Alf are there, buying drinks for some three-breasted siamese twins while you slam your sixth canister of toxic nectar. Pass out on the Bay.” Recorded at Gingle HQ in 2010, with ‘Botany Bay’ Dylan seduces… |
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PULSE EMITTER
Longing Thresholds
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c30, colour j-card with colour insert** “The latest work from Portland, OR synthesizer veteran Daryl Groetsch. Layered, melodic analog synth music for astronauts that yearn for the earth below.” Pulse Emitter has released work on Digitalis, Gneiss Things and Root Strata recently, among many, many other labels. ‘Longing Thresholds’ is based on Michael Whean’s cover art for Isaac Asimov’s ‘Second Foundation’ and ‘Foundation’s Edge’ novels, using an oberheim OB-8 synthesizer…. |
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HARMONIZER
Harmonizer
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c30, colour j-card with colour insert** “Harmonizer is the new duo of Burlington, Vermont residents Greg Davis (Kranky, Carpark, Autumn Records) and Toby Aronson (NNA Tapes, RATS COPS). Future world sample-driven electronic synthesis, heavy rhythms, and total harmonizer worship.” Meditative, nu (k)new age wanderings, sparse, fluttery and sublime. |
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WANDA GROUP
Bass Urine
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c20, colour j-card with colour insert** “Wanda and the girls, under the direction of puzzling collagist DEM HUNGER, dive deep into a pool of dirty milk on “Bass Urine.” Hand woven fragments of sound are smudged together and tossed into a dubbed-out ocean of strange electronics and abstract depression.” Sally (horrible bass), Susan (wet drumset), Sarah (mouth) and Wanda (tape edits and cook) suck us into a subterranean wormhole, diffracting… |
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SYNAPTIC FOLIAGE
Holding Hands
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c30, colour j-card with colour insert** “Julian Gulyas (Cylindrical Habitat Modules label boss) delivers a refreshing suite of synth and tape explorations. “Holding Hands” references the early days of electronic music, while still maintaining a forward-thinking and modern abstract underground sound”. This was recorded in october 2010 using Arp, Moog, EML and Yamaha synths, Fender Rhodes, electronics, cassettes and modified tape decks. Experimental, sequestered studio boffin sounds, melody often eschewed… |
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HEAD BOGGLE
Unsounds and Domo Live
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c35, colour j-card with colour insert** “Derek Gedalecia’s latest creation brings us mutated electronic music from the extreme far out. A seemingly endless stream of synthetic gurgles, gulping, and goop in chaotic bursts of unpredictability. Includes a live audience/soundboard recording that delivers in the masterful live HB style.” Lo-fi, acousmatic musique concrète textures and field recordings layered with captivating peculiarity. Ace! |
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HUBBLE
Hubble Linger
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c61, colour j-card with colour insert** “Debut release from Ben Greenberg of NYC no-wave psych clan Zs. “Hubble Linger” lays down a full hour of cyclical and overlapping electric guitar workouts that are almost synth-like, but maintain their thrashiness throughout. The sound of guitar being used as a tool by a professional hypnotist.” Topping the latest batch of cassettes from Burlington, Vermont’s NNA Tapes, an immersive session of mesmeric, dissonant… |
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KEN SEENO
Invisible Surfer On An Invisible Wave
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c31, colour j-card with colour insert** “Baltimore, Maryland’s Ken Seeno displays a majestic array of crystal clear synthesizer arrangements. Soaring melodies float high above the shimmer ofblue-green waters, looking down upon the colourful shore and the oceans beyond. This is Landscape Electronics.” Fragile utopian simulations of a south pacific bliss sound, sweet vignettes somewhere between Oneohtrix Point Never, Dolphins Into The Future and Stellar Om Source. Lush. |
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HOBO CUBES
Blaze Factor
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c30, colour j-card with colour insert** “Montréal, Quebec’s Francesco De Gallo recreates an atmosphere akin to drifting off to sleep at 4am while watching Unsolved Mysteries re-runs. Eerie ‘Hearts of Space’ moments meets deep harmonic clouds rising above an unsettling alien landscape.” Pillow-soft, neon-pastel synth shades and indistinct, fuzzy shapes. Proper floatation tank material. |
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DRIPHOUSE
50/50
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c24, colour j-card with colour insert** “Catacombs of electronic espionage from former Raccoo-oo-oon member Daren Ho. A tape of many chambers, each containing clues to greater unknown.”. Brilliantly suggestive and cinematically potent sounds. Accomplished, Roedelius-like keys mix with deeply layered atmospheric textures. One of the finest releases we’ve heard on this label. |
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LUST FOR YOUTH
Bodies In Barrels
NNA TAPES
Cassette // £5.99 |

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**c23, colour j-card with colour insert** “Swedish duo Lust For Youth produce two sides of barren serenity, settled in a thick, gaseous haze of industrial pollution. Beds of distant synth melodies wander through bleak noise textures and rhythms.” Viscous, de-tuned mentasm-like drones and stabbing flashbacks to comfortingly desolate early hours moments, delightfully disorientating. |
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FELIX KUBIN & ENSEMBLE INTEGRALES
Echohaus
DEKORDER
CD // £12.99 |

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If you’ve heard of Felix Kubin before, you’ll likely think you have some idea of how ‘Echohaus’ is going to sound. Well forget what you know, you’re wrong – Kubin’s well-worn Sci-Fi pop stylings are entirely erased on ‘Echohaus’ as he rebuilds people’s preconceptions from the ground up. He may have just scored a long-deserved Wire cover, but Kubin is not content to simply rest on his laurels, and although… |
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FELIX KUBIN & ENSEMBLE INTEGRALES
Echohaus
DEKORDER
2LP // £18.99 |

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If you’ve heard of Felix Kubin before, you’ll likely think you have some idea of how ‘Echohaus’ is going to sound. Well forget what you know, you’re wrong – Kubin’s well-worn Sci-Fi pop stylings are entirely erased on ‘Echohaus’ as he rebuilds people’s preconceptions from the ground up. He may have just scored a long-deserved Wire cover, but Kubin is not content to simply rest on his laurels, and although… |
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ROEDELIUS
Gift Of The Moment / Geschenk des Augenblicks
Bureau B
LP // £13.99 |

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Reissue of Hans-Joachim’s eleventh – and best selling – solo album, originally released in 1984 by Editions EG. Arriving at the tail end of what many would call his golden period, ‘Gift Of The Moment’ features eleven compositions by former Cluster/Harmonia man, Roedelius accompanied by Dutch classical cellist, Arjen Uittenbogaard, and violinist Tjitse Letterie. It almost completes his transition from electronic music to a purely instrumental, conventionally classical arrangement, or… |
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ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
The Doldrums
Paw Tracks
LP // £14.99 |

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*2011 Vinyl edition, includes download code redeemable directly from the label* |
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ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
House Arrest
Paw Tracks
LP // £14.99 |

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*2011 vinyl edition includes a download code redeemable directly from the label* Classic Ariel Pink LP, finally given a vinyl reissue including a download code redeemable directly from the label. |
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PALE SKETCHER / KING MIDAS SOUND
Seventh Heaven EP
Ghostly International
Mini LP // £13.99 |

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*Super-limited grey vinyl pressing, includes the excellent King Midas Sound remix and 4 other tracks* Pale Sketcher is the result of Jesu and Godflesh’s Justin K Broadrick experimenting with hybrids of shoegaze, swinging hardcore techno and metal dynamics. ‘Seventh Heaven’ fits Submerse-like garage patterns into an epic Jesu framework, whereas ‘The Rainy Season’ hits a melancholy hardcore breakstep vibe akin to his Tech Level 2 productions. The slow pulsing ambient… |
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KREIDLER
Tank
Bureau B
CD // £13.49 |

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Kreidler might be on their umpteenth album now, but by the sounds of ‘Tank’ they have hit upon a creative streak that belies their age. In fact ‘Tank’ is probably their most creatively successful album to date, and it manages this (oddly enough) by looking backwards, rather than forwards. It is telling that album has appeared on Bureau B, who release mostly reissues, and while ‘Tank’ is far from a… |
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KREIDLER
Tank
Bureau B
LP // £11.49 |

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Kreidler might be on their umpteenth album now, but by the sounds of ‘Tank’ they have hit upon a creative streak that belies their age. In fact ‘Tank’ is probably their most creatively successful album to date, and it manages this (oddly enough) by looking backwards, rather than forwards. It is telling that album has appeared on Bureau B, who release mostly reissues, and while ‘Tank’ is far from a… |
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JAMES BLAKE
The Wilhelm Scream
Atlas Recordings
12″ // £4.99 |

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Arriving shortly after his extraordinary, eponymous debut LP, James Blake drops one its many highlights, ‘The Wilhelm Scream’ backed with two new and exclusive songs ‘What Was It You Said About Luck’ and ‘Half Heat Full (Old Circular)’. If anything, the pristine electro-acoustic dynamism of ‘The Wilhelm Scream’ sounds even more dazzling given it’s own side and pressed to 45rpm, his intentions coming through super crisp and clear. His new… |
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THE TIME AND SPACE MACHINE
Turns You On
5D RECORDINGS
CD // £9.99 |

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‘Turns You On’ compiles 15 of the best of The Time & Space Machine’s ultra-limited, previously vinyl-only psychedelic edits. From horizontal washes of oriental psychedelia on ‘Fire & Ice’ to percussive psyche-funk on ‘Lesson One’, axe-wielding rock on ‘Psychedelic Circus’ and the lysergic folk of ‘Time & Space Taxi’ this is more than your recommended daily dose of the psychedelic stuff. |
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BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD
Formed For Fantasy
LOAF
CD // £10.99 |

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Ben Butler and Mousepad turned up in a few notable places during 2010, appearing on a tidy 7″ for Skwee imprint Dødpop and receiving some love from the XXJFG blog who called his music “a research / development program illuminating the forbidden no mans land between opulentprog and squashedfunk virtuosities”. That just about sums up ‘Formed For Fantasy’ in its entirety; 40 minutes of überfunked pop acrobatics, kinda like Hot… |
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