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Cloak And Dagger

Severed Heads are one of the longest standing bands to have emerged from the Australian post-punk and experimental scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, and were an early outfit to incorporate elements of 'industrial' noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed, song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. After many line-up changes featuring Gary Bradbury and psychedelic guitarist Simon Knuckey, Severed Heads became the solo vehicle for composer Tom Ellard. 
In 1983 they released a C-60 cassette called “Since The Accident” that grabbed the attention of Ink Records, a subsidiary of Virgin in the UK.  Ellard added a throwaway track at the last minute to fill out the cassette, not wanting to leave an unseemly gap on a C60 tape. This track, “Dead Eyes Opened” was catchy enough to get a lot of airplay on the main non-commercial radio station in Sydney. The band was asked to make this song into a 12” single. For this extended version, Tom Ellard and producer Patrick Gibson went to M Squared studio and passed the multitracked recordings through various EQ's and delays. “Dead Eyes Opened” features samples from a radio program narrated by Edgar Lustgarten, a crime journalist from England, referencing a double murder case that occurred in 1924. The rhythms are made by a TR-808 drum machine and an SH-1 synthesizer. A KORG PolySix was used for strings and additional atmospheric elements. The lead solo was a Casiotone run through an Octaver foot pedal. On the B-side are two solo compositions “Bullet” and “Mount” that Ellard recorded at Terse Tapes in 1982. 

All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in the original jacket featuring the iconic photograph of a girl with a painted face wrapped in some cloth by Juilee Pryor. Each copy includes a fold-out newsprint poster with a large photo of the band wearing Art Unit skull shirts on one side and liner notes and press clippings on the other. 30 years later Severed Heads are still paving the way for powerful, imaginative, and challenging music.

Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened extended 12" mix

10kyrs

HTRK – Body Lotion

Body Lotion is a collaboration between Belgium's Sleeperhold Publications, Australian duo HTRK and London-based artist David Ferrando Giraut. The three tracks on the record—"Sugar," "Punch" and the title track, "Body Lotion"—date back to the sessions that led to the band's 2011 album, Work (Work Work). For any HTRK fan, the opportunity to hear three unheard Work (Work Work)-era tracks is reason for both celebration and reflection. Two of the songs feature the unmistakable basslines of Sean Stewart, who died in 2010, before Work (Work Work) was released. 

Both "Sugar" and "Punch" were recorded live in HTRK's London rehearsal room, the then trio of Jonnine Standish, Nigel Lee-Yang and Sean Stewart. On "Sugar," Jonnine's voice smolders through smeared drums and Sean's bassline. "Punch" is spare and confessionary; "Body Lotion" is suggestive, winking and bruised, a trademark HTRK hook submerged beneath the murk. All three tracks mutated from the recording sessions that ultimately led to Work (Work Work) track "Slo Glo." While they all stand as striking individual songs, they share subtle elements in common—a lyrical idea here, some guitar parts there. 

David Ferrando Giraut's distinctive artwork adorns Body Lotion's sleeve and one side of the wax. (All three tracks feature on the record's A-side.) The Spanish artist has a deep and intimate connection to HTRK—he was living with Nigel in London at a time when Sean would visit to sketch out songs in Nigel's tiny room. They've collaborated before, too: Jonnine has narrated and appeared in some of his films, while Nigel has provided the music. Giraut's previous installations have often carried a musical lean—he's used LP covers and turntables in the past—and he's found a rich stream of creative inspiration in music's ability to create meaning and change in memory and behaviour.

This year has seen HTRK return with Psychic 9-5 Club, a bold and triumphant album, one that marked the beginning of a new era for Nigel and Jonnine. Body Lotion presents a beautiful, bittersweet glimpse into the recent past. 

About Sleeperhold Publications:

Sleeperhold is a Belgian-based publication platform. It's aim: to produce ten outputs, spanning different realms of the arts, and then cease to exist. Its current project is a run of ten vinyl records—HTRK's 12-inch follow previous efforts from Tropic Of Cancer, Moon Duo and Disappears. Before the vinyl series, Sleeperhold put out a photobook, a poster set, a deck of cards and short stories. They say: "There is no recurring theme, there is no recurring format, there is no recurring audience."

SHP #5.4: HTRK - Body Lotion

Mariah - 心臓の扉 (Shinzo No Tobira)

"Closet Astrologer" from The Ruby Suns' record, Fight Softly (released on Sub Pop Records March 2nd, 2010).

Learn more about The Ruby Suns:
subpop.com/artists/the_ruby_suns

Buy Fight Softly here:
subpop.com/releases/the_ruby_suns/full_lengths/fight_softly

Fight Softly

Closet Astrologer

Ruby Suns - Closet Astrologer

And Each a Stinger

New rework by @dreamkoala
Buy on iTunes smarturl.it/unliverework-DK 
Stream  smarturl.it/unliverework-stream

Original "Unlive" on debut album "Opening" smarturl.it/OpeningiTunes

«We recorded this rework at night in Superpoze’s studio which is in a hidden cave under Paris streets. We played synth, drums, guitar, I wanted it to sound like a band covering the original version, because his work makes me feel like I’m listening to an Earth or a Mogwai record, it is atmospheric and meditative but powerful. His work is so honest that it is like listening to a part of his soul. If you watch the crowd at his show, you can see in their eyes that they’re all deeply moved, the music just take them somewhere else. I’m glad to have such a talented friend!» - Dream Koala



Opening

Unlive (Dream Koala Rework)

track from the album CUMMI FLU / Z . ( ALBUM LABEL / MORR )

CUMMI FLU / Z.

@samoyed revives hibernating label Flask for the release of forthcoming album, 'Saturday'.

Pre-order digi above and vinyl via Redeye - http://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/69310-

Read more on Dummy: http://www.dummymag.com/features/premiere-samoyed-angel-st-nunez

Premiere: Samoyed - Angel St. Nunez

DL/Vinyl: heidimortenson.bandcamp.com/album/tid

Video: https://youtu.be/SmkYjdgLIkk

Written, Produced, Mixed by Heidi Mortenson

https://linktr.ee/nosnetrom

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Sult

Anchors

Once Bitten

Escaped Trees - The Pine  \  Witch-house\ Techno\ Escaped Trees - The Pine

Escaped Trees - The Pine

Soundway's at it again! This time with a brand new album from South London's Huw Bennet under his newly established Susso alias. The New Keira LP features music which is inspired by (and directly samples) the magnificent sounds of the Mandinka people, which he recorded during a recent trip to Gambia.

The tracks are composed entirely from original source material, field recordings and Huw’s talents as a multi-instrumentalist; performing tuned percussion from the region including the Mandinka Balafon, Kutiringding drum, as well as drawing on his skill as a professional upright / electric bassist. One of the tracks which best exemplifies his contemporary electronic sound, whilst still paying homage to a traditional Gambian aesthetic has to be Ansumana. It's definitely been a shop favourite ever since the good guys at Soundway sent it over and we can't wait to get our hands on this beautiful release when it arrives next month. Reserve your copy now ahead of the official release next month: j.mp/KeiraLP

Keira

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Phonica Premieres: Susso - Ansumana [SOUNDWAY]

PREMIERE > inverted-audio.com/premiere-bary-center-let-you-in

Bary Center's 'Let You In' delves deep in off-centered cold wave tropes and heavy-battered broken beat, as a murky yet transcendental scent wafts across the grooves nicely. Like the electronic alter ego of Dead Skeletons' hallucinogenic anthem 'Dead Mantra', this one will engulf your mind in a thick haze of strange reminiscences and faltering flashbacks. Time to get high.

Bary Center - Let You In [New Body Tapes]

Taken from 'KWIATY' LP by Jacaszek, out March 17, 2017.

Order Links:
The Ghostly Store: https://goo.gl/N4isrC
The Ghostly Store (UK/EU): https://goo.gl/uP9SAv
Retailer of your choice: https://Ghostly.lnk.to/jacaszek

KWIATY

Jacaszek - Daffodils

Polaar

Maud Geffray - Polaar

More Info: www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/04/strea…new-album-in-full/

@samuel-rohrer-noreia

Range of Regularity

Premiere: Samuel Rohrer - Microcosmoism

Reims producer Slowglide’s first release, mini-album Reigi, is a seven tracks idealized portrait of Japan as mused by the artist in which numerous influences, such as Susumu Yokota, first compilations by Warp Records or even techno music from Detroit, meet and interact. At the crossroads between these different times and spaces, Slowglide develops a type of techno music both syncopated and textured, which blends together ambient music as well as traditional Japanese music; as a result, the sonorities are at the same time frenetic (‘Haipa’, ‘Reigi’, ‘Ikebana’) and contemplative (‘Midori’, ‘Otsuya’, ‘Hanami’), melodic, organic and technologic.

Digital and tape available on Bandcamp : http://bit.ly/ReigiBC

Written, Produced by Slowglide.
Mixed, Mastered by Slowglide & Another Pixel.
Artwork by Alchimie Studio.

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Jessy McMillan