from "Fear of Family" cassette 
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/fear-of-family

Secret Boyfriend - Hallow's Trip

ITWAN is Erik Brown (Scald Hymn) and Jacob Winans

from the "Unwritten" cs
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/unwritten

Unwritten

I Think We're Alone Now - Unwritten excerpt

From the Horsebladder/Farewell My Concubine split lp

http://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/after-you-american-telepathic-scumbag-split-lp

Horsebladder - After Your Dead

from the "What Remains" cassette on Hot Releases

https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/what-remains

Laura Muñoz's Chucha project has been responsible for a healthy chunk of the freshest, most mind-bending live sets I've seen since she began playing live in 2016; each performance discretely satisfying but also an opportunity to see the unfolding development of a deep, askew. and singular vision that is as inviting as it is strange. Her first full-length release "What Remains" finds her operating in a more stripped-down fashion, with six concise tracks of buoyant, entrancing electronic music that combine academic sound with propulsive electropop, mutant murmurings and synthetic lingerings. The 505 drum machine is a new addition to the palette, temporally tethering the tracks with a reconfigured sound of the past, the effect is like viewing the point where the sky meets the street. Long live Chucha
credits
released January 11, 2022

recorded in Pasadena, CA 2021

mastered by Glyn Maier

painting by Mark He

Chucha - Twisted Sense

from the "Refresh" cd : https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/refresh

Faster Detail is the solo project of sound disciple and master Alex Chesney, who over the years has explored terrain in classic hardware acid (see his excellent 2014 "Chance Cube" 12" on HR), noise, dream pop (Ashrae Fax, Gam Spun), and mapped his own territory with a hermetic, cybernetic sound design-heavy dubstep-influenced leftfield club music. This album is the apotheosis of the latter endeavor, a disorienting psychedelic collage of avant-EDM futuresound featuring some of the heaviest metallic synth sounds on record, expressive electronic vocalizations, and heavily manipulated found sound with a feverish quality suited to a humid summer day, mastered for maximum loudness, falling somewhere between a gritty deconstruction of contemporary mainstream club music and it's natural furthest-flung conclusion.

Refresh

Faster Detail - Apc Function

From "Glissements" available April 2022

a document of a season of transition, attempting some new approaches (including recording with a computer). reflective, long-form mostly live pieces. Let it flood

recorded November 2019-April 2020 at Cathedral ii, Cedar Village NC
Final mixes early 2022.
Mastered by Glyn Maier

Glissements master v2

Secret Boyfriend - Anulka

tape loop + casio 

From "Stud Control" https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/stud-control

a collection of tape loop and ambient recordings from summer 2021. Mostly recorded live to computer or tape at Cathedral ii, Cedar Village NC. Mastered by Glyn Maier

Secret Boyfriend - Nightshade

from "Songs in the Key of Wilt" 12" : 
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/songs-in-the-key-of-wilt

Originally released digitally by the artist at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, "Songs in the Key of Wilt" is a succinct and satisfying offering from Berlin's Wilted Woman. Two sharp examples of her askew electronic instrumental style - the castlequest soundtrack of "Snoopy Wisdom", the simultaneously anxious and dexterous techno funk of "Correction" - are paired with tracks featuring rare vocal performances - the icy synth pop future classic "Where's My Generator" and the breezy live cover of Laid Back's "Bakerman". In my opinion it's a highlight in the expansive Wilted Woman catalog and well worth materializing on this well-pressed, beautiful sounding vinyl record.

Songs in the Key of Wilt

Wilted Woman - Where's My Generator (Long Nightmare Version)

from SHV's "We Belong Dead" lp :
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/we-belong-dead

"We Belong Dead" is a gritty piece of late '00s cassette culture and underground ingenuity from Alley Dennig's SHV project, with a hard-to-classify sound somewhere between lo-fi punk, thriftstore industrial, "Half Machine Lip Moves" era Chrome, detuned rock n roll, electronic materializations and haunted Providence warehouse reverberations with an 'everyday is Halloween' ethos. I first heard it back in 2009 during my first ever solo tour and was immediately taken. Along with the work of E.N., it was one of the tapes I heard during that trip that opened up another realm of contemporary underground music beyond harsh noise, and a foretelling of the explosion of solo artists to come. Originally released via her label Hexagon Tapes in 2009, it's now been lovingly restored, sounding better than ever and made available for the first time ever on vinyl & digital, arriving in 2022 as a breath of fresh, haunted air. The punk reissue of the year. "May the circle remain unbroken"

SHV - Variety of Imperfection

from the forthcoming cassette "Toward Zero Death" by Karl Raymar

A sentient chill passes through and awakens a resting body in the cathedral. Faintly heard in its wake are repurposed tape-looped fragments of commercial Halloween kitsch that excavate earliest memories of the season. The sound is eventually lent an atemporal quality by an overlaying of chorused strings, occasional voice, chilly electronic tones, possible magnetic tape EVP. Karl Raymar brings you this personal soundtrack of the season where, as years pass, we more deeply contemplate and celebrate the shift of natural cycles, acknowledge that Death is inevitable but also part of the process in which new things grow; where, with joyful and serious intent, we pay tribute to those we were fortunate to know in the brief window of our lives, an understanding of impermanence to deepen our appreciation of the present moment. Time collapses in the glow of static, leaves redden and decay, souls march through the woods, we light a candle and ring a bell.

Karl Raymar - First Day of Fall

debut release of candlelit, diaphanous disco by Philadelphia-based multimedia artist Chrissy Jones (1-800 HOT DUCK). Lyrics & melodies from a series of lucid dreams.

available on cassette / digital 10/28/22  : https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/stroke-of-midnight

STROKE OF MIDNIGHT - The Bride

from "Live in the Land of the Dead" 
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-the-land-of-the-dead

"Another sui-generis telegram from Ryan Martin's haunted shack, sounding like it's being slipped to its recipient in a scuffed velvet envelope. A ham radio broadcast searching through a forest of bare trees and into the starry skies, hunting for someone else out there to confirm this overwhelming feeling. Secret Boyfriend's has long been the loneliest corpus in contemporary music, and the most embracing: a paean to the eternal—the undead—dreams of youth that linger like a squishy tumor (possibly benign) long after the body itself has begun its inevitable disintegration, growing older and withering around a tender blue flame. On side A, shivery, whispery new-wave folk songs lure you close for warmth—power-pop hooks cast in shades of open-hearted embarrassment and humility—only for side B to excavate the oozing dripscapes, dusty torture chambers, rusted shards of noise, and spectral remnants of past dramas that all lurk deeper inside the house, locating and exorcising the aggression within the melancholy. At every stage, there are melodies and rhythms that threaten never to resolve, minimalist chord changes and looping, crumbling thuds that push you forward toward the emotional infinite. Maybe you'll find someone to sway alongside you as you head for that cosmic light in the distance. But “there’s no abyss, you’re thinking of it wrong”: acceptance that the end is also always a possibility, and that dreams always exist. This tape might emanate from the land of the dead, but it's evidence that it's still possible to be alive within that world." - Jonathan Woollen


"Live in the Land of the Dead" is a collection of innerworld psychotopographical pieces originally formulated in the rockbottom / positively transformational year 2019, evenly split between guitar (oh no) -centric songwriting in a raw, underground 'indie' vein and various 'instrumentals' of warped tape loop ambient ("ODE2"). no-input rhythmic destruction ("95S2", "Jungle Tape"), and imaginary soundtracks ("Reaper's Kiss", "You've Always Known"). This unusually limited (for me anyway) timeframe of writing and recording lends a more cohesive quality in terms of lyrics, concerns of which are: surviving hurricanes and general self-preservation, acceptance of the ephemeral physical, alternately erotic and threatening dreams, self-fulfilling prophecy, reframing the void, renewal. Trying to find the feeling again, moving against the wind past the sadness and hate in the midst of cosmic die-offs and transition.

recorded 2019 at Cathedral ii falling down and crawling up by RM on cassette 8-track except 2, 3, 11, 15, 17 = computer, & 19 by Victoria Shen with a phone in Boston. Originally released in sketchier form as a tour tape for a September 2019 east coast / midwest "Together Alone" tour with Housefire. Revised / remixed 2022. Mastered by Glyn Maier.

Secret Boyfriend - Reaper's Kiss

original mix will be on the "Detainee" 12" out July 2014

VVAQRT - Purge (Karl Raymar Edit)

From the "Detainee" lp, available here: http://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/detainee


VVAQRT - Open Paean

"Off-White Colosseum is as sharp and jagged as the saw whose rhythmic thrumming serves as a familiar guidepost through the seven track album. With great acumen, Sunk Heaven crafts an inimitable kind of wilderness: one full of mirrors, where it is always night. Through dense and dreamlike woods we are chased, the distant echo of footfalls quickening and the silver beam of a single searchlight trailing behind. For a moment, the lilting of warbling synths offers refuge, a soft place to hide from the harsh, unblinking gaze of a part of ourselves yearning to be revealed. But hopes of safety are dashed when a voice rings out like a shattering pane of glass, and the hunt continues.

Caught at the edge of the forest and guided into the heart of a machine so broken that it never stops running. The rhythmic pace speeds and slows, but the incessant drumbeat reminds us: parts of us which have been spurned always catch up to us without ever having to pick up their pace. We are thrown into battle with a memory and forced to embrace it tightly, or else be smothered. When we emerge from the ring victorious, we find that the wilderness has burned.

Every bit as vulnerable and visceral as Sunk Heaven’s live performances, Off-White Colosseum lingers as vividly in the mind as a dream in which a deeply shrouded truth is laid bare. "

- Seven Phillips

Off-White Colosseum was recorded during Sunk Heaven's artist residency at Pioneer Works at the beginning of 2021, engineered and produced by Brooklyn-based Mark Bennette. The album features a hand built drum set composed of contact mic'd pieces of scrap metal from Red Hook's surrounding industrial landscape (performed by Sunk Heaven) and collaborations from Leila Bordreuil, Jackson-Pratt, and Jenna Rose of Anatomy.

Mastered by Glyn Maier 

Cassette edition available via Industrial Coast

Rotomirror

From "Don't Let Go" cassette/digital https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/dont-let-go

Some Pepper - Less Won

from "On Wire" cassette/digital: https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/on-wire

Longform minimal electronic noise offering from Maralie Armstrong-Rial's Valise project, utilizing the same setup as her/their standout set at the 2023 Summer Scum festival ~

"The sounds herein were produced by durational touch.
ATTINY pins soldered to wire & tied with steel thread & laid across a conductive tabletop. The thread was gently blown before being repeatedly cut with scissors. Additional sounds recorded trackside at 2023 INDY 500."

Valise -On Wire Turn 4 (excerpt)

from Various Artists - "LIVE '21-23" cassette/digital :
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/live-21-23

Adaa -untitled (8.17.23)

from Various Artists "LIVE '21-23" cassette/digital:
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/live-21-23

Wetness - I Love You More (10.31.23)

Marv - Easy Listening (10 - 9-21)

from the "Participation" 12", available April 2015.
To purchase: https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/participation

Miguel Alvariño - Cess

purchase / stream in full : https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/meen

The feedback techniques of Neuter are further refined and incorporated into abrasive and grittily beautiful aquatic constructions - disquieting interference, intercepted paranoid disembodied voices, granularized /dubbed by concrete - claustrophobia transmutes into the warmth of a warren, beautiful tones resonating within a rusted shaft pelted by hard debris

built in 2024
mastered by Glyn Maier
cover by Emil Bognar-Nasdor

Neuter - MEEN Side A

from "Age End", cassette / digital : https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/age-end

BA - prepared guitar

'shuddering strings, bridge belltones, jack hum, machine / flesh feedback, deft control of atonal chaotic elements with informed consideration of acoustic space for maximum effect, with undergirding repetitive elements / dissonant loops / motifs somehow lending a sort of churning "catchiness" in places, thoughtful and severely meditative, a refuge of waning light + warmth in the mysterious abyss.'

Recorded by BA
Mixed by Mo Miller
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Special thanks to Ryan Martin and Sarah Viviana Valdez

Bentley Anderson - No Way Out

from the Chanelle Allesandre / Jean-Michel Kampara "Maritime skin, meren elävä nahka" split : https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/maritime-skin-meren-el-v-nahka

Maritime skin, meren elävä nahka is a split album by two artists brought together by the Baltic sea. Both sides deftly elaborate on field recordings taken underwater with the same hydrophone in Ruissalo, Finland. From the same body of water and the same tool, two different experimental interpretations bifurcate, and a conversation develops. A fluid exchange reverberates not only between the two sides, but also within the tracks and their multifarious layers: the last sounds of a harp that Allesandre built in situ at Lump gallery—recorded moments before its disassembly, Kampara’s 12-string guitar, Allesandre’s grandmother’s harmonium, poems read aloud, the deliverance of a divinatory message, steps, legs, keyboards, fingers. What may be a distant storm could also be a face momentarily disfigured by the wind. In Maritime skin, meren elävä nahka, the past permeates the present as a soaked garment dries under the sun. Sound behaves like liquid memory, while listening and remembering meet in the act of floating. Our bodies and senses are half-submerged, pulled back and forth between water and air. Each track offers a new way to be received by water. Underneath all these permutations, the latent impulse is to let go and drift, to make space for the hidden sounds to come out and find us.

-Marta Núñez Pouzols

mastered by Glyn Maier 

Message in a Bottle feat. Secret Boyfriend

from the "burnthemasters" 12", available 11/23/15
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/burnthemasters

Housefire - 4thwayschooldanceoftheneophyte

from the "Perhorresces" lp, available 11/23/15
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/perhorresces

Lack - Perhorresce - Esclulent

from the "Vanishing Light" lp by C. Lavender. 

Pre-order here: https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/vanishing-light

Record releases July 25th 2017

C. Lavender - Self - Imposed Quarantine

from the s/t Discalce 12".

Euphoric club, ambient washes + subterranean dub by Philip Maier (Lack, Enmossed, Grovl Tapes). Recorded at Cathedral II with modular synthesizer and drum machine. Mastered by Alex Nagle. Play loud.

order here: https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/discalce

Discalce - Tourjours Dub (Bass Mix)

from the "AF Hyperlink" lp

https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/af-hyperlink

Alex Chesney (Ashrae Fax, Faster Detail) revives his early 00s alias for ten new instrumentals of chorused-out guitar, muscular drum machine, and dreamy synths.

releases 10.27.17

AF Hyperlink (mastered)

Gam Spun - AF Hyperlink 7

from "Where All Sides Collapes", lp available June 2018
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/where-all-sides-collapse

Sunk Heaven - Mirrored Confines

from "Klee Doll", c-67 available 7/1/2018

https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/klee-doll

Evicshen - Klee Doll side B excerpt

from the "Hole In My Head" cassette, available mid-August 2018: https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/hole-in-my-head

Kyle Flanagan - Hole In My Head Side A excerpt

from "The Universal Veil" cassette, available late August 2018

The Universal Veil 

Aether Jag - Under The Chain

from the "Alone In The Dark" compilation 
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/alone-in-the-dark

Glochids - Rust Pipe

from the Binky s/t cassette: 

Speaker-wrecking hardcore acid-squelched techno & textured noise collaboration between Alene Marie of Liquid Asset & Tom Bennett of Tinnitustimulus, both world-class in the fields of euphoric hardware techno and harsh noise, respectively. Tripped-out pummeling perfect for a summer's day. 

Mastered by Rat Bastard
Art by Luciann Waldrup 

purchase here: https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/binky

rat master

Binky - Liquid Mirror

Hot Releases is a record label. To stream / purchase entire available releases visit http://hotreleases.bandcamp.com

Hot Releases

Popular tracks