Russian Tsarlag and Secret Boyfriend are two of the most distinctly inimitable makers in the canon of the contemporary American “DIY” underground. In 2013, the two artists released an untitled split 12” on Ryan Martin’s (Secret Boyfriend) prolific “Hot Releases” label. As two of the foremost archetypal figures of their collected contexts, it’s a pleasure to host the pairing as a part of the ENXPL series again sharing new work.

Russian Tsarlag’s side A is gorgeously trudging and despondent; these syrup drenched ballads and collages sit amongst some of his finest work, (see his most recent self released work through his Wasp Video Roadhouse imprint). Side B is the domain of Secret Boyfriend. The effort hosts an eclectic batch of dense and emotive ambient passages, live recording, and bedroom shoe-gaze. Martin’s Secret Boyfriend project allows for a fluidity in form and content, mastering longing through a myriad of languages.
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releases September 15, 2021

"Live at Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown MA 10 02 19" recorded by Sam Hodge
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
artwork by Carlos Gonzales and Ryan Martin
design by RJM Vanderheyden

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Russian Tsarlag/Secret Boyfriend

RUSSIAN TSARLAG/SECRET BOYFRIEND

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ENXPL08 - B6. RUSSIAN TSARLAG - "ZOMBIE CITY"

𝘓𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳é𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘭'𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵
-> Mix de Makinist (@user-153161389)
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Tracklist :

Oval – Polygon Medpack 2.0
13 & god – Soft Atlas
Clark – Slow Spines
Access to Arasaka – Nypox
X Makeena – Marche mouteuse
Bracken – We cut the tapes and scatter
Phonem – War by other means
Klaus Kinski – Junior
Defrag – Stop Crashing
Oyarss – Malduguns
Qebrus – Vlcnmtr
Tapage & Ophidian – Troubles Assets
Vaetxh – Mass
Björk – Sacrifice
Venetian Snares – Plungin Hornets
Rhinolophe – Là où commence le permafrost
Eau turquoise - Untitled
Aesop Rock – Take me to the basement 
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Image de T. Strochnis (@t-eaux)

Imagelist :

- Screenshot from Dictionnaire des dictionnaires, Vol. 2, 1839
- Warka mask, marble sculpture, 3200–3000 BC, sumerian period, National Museum of Irak, Baghdad
- Illustration d'un bleuet, extrait de La botanique de J.J. Rousseau, illustré par  P.J. Redouté, 1805
- Portrait du fayoum, encaustique sur bois, 34.6 x 11.5 cm IIe siècle, Egypte antique, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- Monica Vitti, dans "Le désert rouge", Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964

Makinist  - 𝘓𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳é𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘭'𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 .(?).

Composing, recording : presidiomodelo 
Recorded live in 2019 in Novosibirsk State Regional Scientific Library 
Mastering : @pashabip
Cover art : presidiomodelo

Massive thanks to Artyom Timofeev [@kartaskvazhin] for tape release
Tapes here [karsk_17] : kartaskvazhin.bandcamp.com/album/19-19

presidiomodelo - 20190405

At the crossroads of ritual, industrial and electronic musics, there is a niche where many experimenters are clearing the edges of genres. The three members of Nze Nze (UVB76 and Sacred Lodge) are among these: summoning sequenced machines, digital samplers and multi-effects. They’re making the instrumentals telescope guttural vocals, war stories from Fang mythologies (vernacular language of Central Africa) and arrange everything to create hybrid, unclassifiable and disconcerting pieces.
The fundamentals of radical electronic musics are there, but the production, close to the great free-jazz records, lets claim a heritage far from obvious current proposals.

Adzi Akal

Nze Nze - 07 - Yemedzine

Taken from the album 'Water Temple' out 25/11/2022.

Order here: https://property-de.bandcamp.com/album/water-temple

'Water Temple' is the debut album of the Berlin-based group Property. Comprised of Marijn Degenaar (NL) and Vivant de Non (AUS), the group use the theme of hydromancy to straddle the poetics of reverb from a post-punk perspective. The album wanders through dense end-of-world sensations without keeping away from piercing melodic instrumentation. As hazy as 'Water Temple' can get, Property just as easily trade the murky side of their post-punk sound for analogue synthesisers that feel almost celestial. Used to striking effect on 'Water Temple', the chorus-heavy bassline is interwoven with a strident melody that punctures the rhythm and accents the Neue Deutsche Welle energy that the pair play on at certain moments. Similarly, the vocals on 'Water Tempel' flirt with our cracked times from another angle, rendering a remarkable first transmission from this new duo. Foggy synthesisers fill the cavities of every track, though the driving leads ensure the ambience never overtakes the song-structures across the album. This tendency is best captured on the downer-anthem Blood Cube with its sharp drum machine rhythm, just as Clear Boys reprises this rowdy pop edge for a forceful album closer. The burning melancholy of 'Water Temple' is as shadowy as it is enlivening.

Property - Sea Wall (ALT69)

Hugh Davies: amplified invented instruments
David Toop: acoustic invented instruments, aerophones, chordophones.
Extracts from a live performance at Riverside Studios, London, on 15 July 1978.
The performance was originally released in 1980 on Audio Arts cassette, vol. 4, no. 2:
Improvised Music & Sound Works, alongside pieces by Antonio Russolo and Ian Breakwell with Ian McQueen. This digitized edit was transferred from the cassette rather than a master so distortion and loss of fidelity is inevitable.

Riverside (edit)

Taken from the compilation ALERT! out 19/04/2019.

Order here: alter.bandcamp.com/album/alert

Anna Peaker - Helicidae (ALT50)

excerpt from Frnk Hurrican's Pymp World LP

Frank Hurricane excerpt

New track out on @12th-isle 's V.A comp 'Inkosi' alongside Nikolaienko, Cru Servers, Robert Bergman and Luar Domatrix.

https://soundcloud.com/12th-isle/va-inkosi-isle0075

In shops worldwide in early October, limited to 300 copies.
Distribution by Rubadub
Artwork by Al White

The Man Is Out

Full album available at ERR-REC:

https://err-rec.bandcamp.com/album/duingebied

Recorded with the JVC KB-700, Novation Summit and KORG MS10, 2019.

Riverside (edit)

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