The first single off the Return to Paradise LP by Monster Rally, which dropped on October 29th as a limited edition 12" (plus digital).
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Following his move to Los Angeles from Ohio, Ted Feighan has returned with the next installment in his growing oeuvre as Exotica beatsmith, Monster Rally. Feighan’s third full-length as Monster Rally, Return to Paradise, is decidedly faster paced and more percussion-heavy than last year's Beyond the Sea, producing an aesthetic that closely resembles his live performances. The tracks melt together in a mysterious, blissful, and romantic haze invoking that signature Monster Rally thrill of being in a timeless, hypnagogic limbo. The album is pure pictorial fantasy, translating the images of a half-century of National Geographics into 17 tracks that’ll have both tiki drink connoisseurs and scotch aficionados swaying and bopping to the sweat and crackle of Feighan’s latest beatscapes. As with his past releases, Feighan is eager to have his passport stamped, reluctant to stay in one paradise for too long. His wanderlust samplings travel from Peru to Japan, Detroit to Maui, and Ghana to Barcelona expressing the pageantry and ceremony of destinations only the truly intrepid have tasted before.

The artwork of Return to Paradise is greatly inspired by the LP jackets of classic Exotica albums: Martin Denny's Quiet Village, Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz, and Arthur Lyman's Bwana to name just a few. Over fifty different varietals of flowers and plants from around the world decorate the blossoming arrangement on R2P’s cover. In addition, the packaging features printed sleeves showing a take on traditional Hawaiian patterned prints of native flowers and tropical birds. The inside of the gatefold jacket is a visual imagination of the kind of space Return to Paradise inevitably occupies. 

Return to Paradise

Orchids

Monster Rally - Orchids

The first Guma album was originally recorded to 2” tape in January 2016 at West West Side Music in New Windsor, NY. This 2021 remaster and first-time vinyl and cassette issue were taken from first generation digital mixdowns made to the high fidelity Sony Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format. For the first time since the last roll of the tape up in the Hudson River valley, Guma sounds as vibrant and welcoming as it is.

With this recording in 2016, T.J. Masters kicked off a trilogy of records that now includes a second self-titled LP from 2019 and is completed with 2022’s A List of Sightings. 

The 12" edition is limited to 300 copies on heavyweight black vinyl. Pre-orders are available here:
https://guma.bandcamp.com/album/guma-2016-2021-remaster

Guma (2016) - Remastered

Forever Golden Light

Guma - Forever Golden Light

The first Guma album was originally recorded to 2” tape in January 2016 at West West Side Music in New Windsor, NY. This 2021 remaster and first-time vinyl and cassette issue were taken from first generation digital mixdowns made to the high fidelity Sony Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format. For the first time since the last roll of the tape up in the Hudson River valley, Guma sounds as vibrant and welcoming as it is.

With this recording in 2016, T.J. Masters kicked off a trilogy of records that now includes a second self-titled LP from 2019 and is completed with 2022’s A List of Sightings.

The 12" edition is limited to 300 copies on heavyweight black vinyl. Pre-orders are available here:
guma.bandcamp.com/album/guma-2016-2021-remaster

Great Neck

Guma - Great Neck

Remix of Tom Tom Club's seminal "Genius of Love" by Seamonster.
http://seamonster.bandcamp.com/

Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (Seamonster Remix)

Off the forthcoming split 7" featuring two new songs by both Ladada and Community Witch.  

Pre-order the limited edition vinyl here:
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Sea of Glass

Sea of Trust

Ladada - Sea of Trust

Off the forthcoming split 7" featuring two new songs by both Ladada and Community Witch.

Pre-order the limited edition vinyl here:
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I Won't Wait

Desert

Community Witch - Desert

Off Bamm Bamm's self-titled debut EP, out on June 24 2022!

Bamm Bamm is Josiah Schlater (Guitar/Vocals), Josh McHugh (Drums), and Robert Smith (Bass). They have been friends since the mid 2000s when Josiah and Robert played in a band called Tokyo and Josh was in a band called Fox Trot Rio. These 2 bands played many shows together, touring regionally in college towns across Virginia circa 2004-2008. When the 2 bands eventually dissolved, it was a no brainer for the 3 musicians to be in a new band together. Practicing and playing shows here and there between 2012 and now (and self-releasing a few demos on their Bandcamp page), Bamm Bamm wrote and recorded a new set of songs from 2020-2021. These songs are the 4 that appear on this self-titled debut: Bamm Bamm.

Available now as a limited edition cassette:
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Bamm Bamm

Flavor

Bamm Bamm - Flavor

Source of Pride is the second full-length album by Roman Ruins (Graham Hill). The album continues his exploration into the distinctive yet evolving sound of his solo recording project. The songs on Source of Pride formed as Hill moved his family from Oakland to New Orleans, where he now lives and works as an architect and a father to 2 young children. Hill often worked late at night, which helped define the aural landscape that belies each track. As the songs began to take shape, Hill's wife remarked how "every time I'm pregnant, you're pregnant with an album." The lyrical themes on Source of Pride address the relationships, rituals, and revelations that constitute family.

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Roman Ruins - Loved One (Moss Of Aura Remix)

Ladada is Virginia Beach native Josiah Schlater. After years of recording and touring in other bands (MAE, We Are Trees, Jake Clemons), Schlater has now settled into a lively, sun-drenched sound of his own. Taking inspiraton from early Motown and 60's garage rock, he squeezed a drum kit, a couple guitars, a 4-track, and a netbook into a small storage unit and began recording what became Ladada.

Ladada

Comets

Ladada - Comets

Single from the forthcoming EMPTY / EVERY MT album by OHIOAN.  Pre-order/support here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/empty-every-mt--3#/story

OHIOAN - Pissing at Will


Off of "Bucolic", the debut album by Lazy Knuckles, out on September 11, 2015.

More info here - bit.ly/1Q3W220


Lazy Knuckles - Sudser

Lead single off the forthcoming Hi Five EP, available as a limited edition 12" on transparent coke bottle green. Pre-order now:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/ladada-hi-five

Hi Five

New Psych

Ladada - New Psych

Limited Edition 12" - http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/ohioan-empty-every-mt

Ohioan's new album, EMPTY / EVERY MT, is a record of protest songs but this is nothing like protest music you've heard before. This is a new form of country music. It's Appalachian mountain music mashed-up with African desert music played by a dude raised in the shadow of Appalachia who now lives in the desert. (Read that twice if you need to; it's important to the story.) EMPTY / EVERY MT is an album about the "Appalachian Desert," a concept created by Ohioan band-leader Ryne Warner. He posits that one day mountaintop removal and mining will level the forests of Appalachia, turning once lush land into an arid desert-scape not unlike parts of the American West and North Africa. The music here was made using the sounds associated with those places--banjo, dobro, jaw harp, dulcimer, African scales, the electric guitar, modal tunings. The result is an image of Warner's Appalachian Desert rendered in sound.

EMPTY / EVERY MT

Bad Altitude

OHIOAN - Bad Altitude

Off "Mystery Cove", Monster Rally's new album.  Out on 11/11/16, available as a limited edition 12" here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-mystery-cove-12

When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. Mystery Cove, the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.

Mystery Cove

Pelicans

Monster Rally - Pelicans

Download via XLR8R:
https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2016/10/monster-rally-full-sail/

Off "Mystery Cove", Monster Rally's new album. Out on 11/11/16, available as a limited edition 12" here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-mystery-cove-12

When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. Mystery Cove, the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.

Full Sail

Monster Rally - Full Sail

Off MR&RT, the first collaboration between producers Monster Rally (Los Angeles) and RUMTUM (Denver). Now available on vinyl for the first time.
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MR&RT

Monster Rally & RUMTUM - Forest

Off of "Tuna Hair", the forthcoming new album by Way Yes.

Tuna Hair

Dead Ringer

Way Yes - Dead Ringer

Off Monster Rally's new album, titled "Flowering Jungle", out on 12/15/17. 
Pre-order the vinyl here:
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Flowering Jungle

Sunny Sloth

Monster Rally - Sunny Sloth

Off the Flowering Jungle LP, out on 12/15/17. Order here:
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Toucans

Monster Rally - Toucans

The 2-song Flight to the Jungle single is a prelude to the Flowering Jungle album. Meant to be an intermission between taking off from Mystery Cove and landing in the Flowering Jungle, the collection of tracks scores a hazy trip over various lands. The single consists of tracks from both the Mystery Cove and Flowering Jungle sessions.

https://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/album/flight-to-the-jungle

Flight to the Jungle (Single)

Flight to the Jungle (Take Off)

Monster Rally - Flight To The Jungle (Take Off)

Originally crafted as an anonymous concept project, Shah Marg was later revealed to be the work of Monster Rally (Ted Feighan) who describes the music as "blown out funk", taking inspiration from early 70s rock, psychedelia, and the sounds of India and the Middle East. Originally released in 2012, the original songs and a new digital-only track, have been remastered. The 7" version, featuring the first 4 tracks of the EP, is limited to 300 individually numbered copies and comes in a stamped, die-cut jacket.

Pre-ORDER the 7" (out on May 11, 2018)
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There'll Always Be Stars In The Sky

Shah Marg - There'll Always Be Stars in the Sky

In advance of the follow-up to their 2013 debut Hazel, Young Hunting present a pair of new tracks: "Lawd" channels 60s eccentric soul (think Roy Orbison fronting Roxy Music), while "Blue Dream" is lush psychedelic folk. The new album is due out in late summer 2018.

Lawd / Blue Dream

Lawd

Young Hunting - Lawd

As one of the Bay Area’s prominent rising artists with relentless lyrical style and charisma, Jay Stone is heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s Funk, Soul, and R&B. Sampled live instrumentation and eclectic rhythmic patterns are often the foundation in the production of his music. On the footsteps of two EPs and his collaboration with beatmaker Monster Rally, Calibration Of An Altered is an album filled with the growth and expansion that Jay has experienced over the recent years of his life.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/LvHAb4_7eQY
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Calibration Of An Altered Mind

Flying Monkeys

Jay Stone - Flying Monkeys

As one of the Bay Area’s prominent rising artists with relentless lyrical style and charisma, Jay Stone is heavily influenced by 60’s and 70’s Funk, Soul, and R&B. Sampled live instrumentation and eclectic rhythmic patterns are often the foundation in the production of his music. On the footsteps of two EPs and his collaboration with beatmaker Monster Rally, Calibration Of An Altered is an album filled with the growth and expansion that Jay has experienced over the recent years of his life.

Pre-order the 12":
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/jay-stone-calibration-of-an-altered-mind

Told You

Jay Stone - Told You (feat. Black Spade)

Off the new Starlight EP, which features sounds and beats inspired by the serenity and mystery of the late night. Listen to the full 4-song EP on your favorite streaming platform.

Starlight EP

Cherry Blossom

Monster Rally - Cherry Blossom

Off the forthcoming "Heaven on the Rocks" LP, which will be released on March 22, 2019.

Pre-order the limited edition 12":
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Heaven On The Rocks

The Tao

Ladada - The Tao

Off Monster Rally's forthcoming new album titled "Adventures on the Floating Island", out on 9/20/19.

Order the limited edition 12":
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Monster Rally's new album scores a journey through a lush, exotic, dangerous, and alluring paradise - the Floating Island. The lounge-influenced collection of songs guides the listener through a instrumental narrative inspired by themes of amnesia, discovery, exploration, and mysticism.

Adventures on the Floating Island

Menagerie

Monster Rally - Menagerie

An alternate vocal edit to Monster Rally's "Ginger on the Wind" featuring Mira Cook.  The track appears as a digital b-side to the new "Menagerie" single.

Monster Rally's new album (Adventures on the Floating Island) comes out on 9/20/19.  Pre-order the limited edition vinyl 12" here:
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-adventures-on-the-floating-island-12

Menagerie b/w Ginger on the Wind (feat. Mira Cook)

Ginger on the Wind (feat. Mira Cook)

Monster Rally - Ginger on The Wind (feat. Mira Cook)

Second single from Monster Rally's forthcoming LP titled Adventures on the Floating Island. "Sister Owls" is a top-of-the-canopy jungle tango - smoky piano samples over balmy horns, completed with live percussion.

Order the ltd ed 12":
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Sister Owls b/w Grand Poobah

Sister Owls

Monster Rally - Sister Owls

Third single from Monster Rally's "Adventures on the Floating Island", the new album due out on 9/20/19.  Order the limited edition 12" here:
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Adventure b/w Captain Koyake

Adventure

Monster Rally - Adventure

Title track from the recently re-released and remastered album!

Sincerely, Severely defies definitions. With influences ranging from Curtis Mayfield and Al Green, to the Beatles and the Flaming Lips, to bossa nova and South American folk music, it is a madcap rampage through styles and forms. Morningbell's intent was to make a collection where each song could have come from a different album, but all worked together as a cohesive whole. Called "astonishing" and "impossible to classify or resist" on its release in 2009, the album is presented here in a remixed/remastered 10th anniversary edition, sounding better than ever.

Buy the limited edition (run of 100) 12":
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Sincerely, Severely (Remastered)

Let's Not Lose Our Heads

Morningbell - Let's Not Lose Our Heads

Lead track off the new "Escape to the Cloud Forest" 2-song single, now available digitally via your favorite streaming platform.

Escape to the Cloud Forest

Escape to the Cloud Forest (Along the River)

Monster Rally - Escape to the Cloud Forest (Along the River)

Off the debut LP titled "Hazel", out June 11th 2013 on Gold Robot Records as a limited edition 12" record.  (Pre)Order here - http://tinyurl.com/c96ewyt

Hazel

Maze

Young Hunting - Maze

Young Hunting - Baby's First Steps

Part of Monster Rally's new "Castaways, Vol. 1" - a collection of EPs and bonus tracks that had never appeared on vinyl previously - out on 8/28/20.

http://gold-robot.com/ongoing/grr064-monster-rally---castaways-vol-1/

Castaways Vol. I

Slicer

Monster Rally - Slicer

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