Digital Download and Limited Edition Cassette available here: https://tinyurl.com/3tfr72pf

"I do, and I don’t. Every body of water has a low smoke, not evaporated moisture from the meniscus we see at this distance, but a blue smoke that caught the surface and held still. A guitar strum sound slows from a one note samba and decides to become the back of a room. It will, and it won’t. What was intentionally hidden in the first volume of Dubbed To Brasil shines like dust moved out of place. A second interpretation of Brazilian and west coast cool jazz, samba, and adult easy listening not cleverly folded into a lounge of glass clatter and tobacco smell. Instead, an open landscape. An epilogue to warmth, a prelude to huddling and falling away from the bridges we pass or walk beneath." - Chaperone

[UDG 0.54] "Dubbed To Brasil (Volume II)"

[UDG 0​.​54] "Side A" - Dubbed To Brasil (Volume II) - Chaperone

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Painted Rock", official label debut of L.A. underground stalwart Skjell (Stephen Lee Clark). In the dense mountain wind spirits swirl through canyon walls, high above the whitewater percussives that tumble below... with the passing of time, all things man-made must return to the earth, each cycle repeated until indistinguishable from the last. "Painted Rock" lies here, between echos... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@user-24286248

[JGT67] "Entrainment Run" - Painted Rock - Skjell

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Falling, I Thought I Caught A Glimpse Of Paradise", a brand new full-length cassette from longtime JG mainstay Precipitation. Nine stills from suspended reality, we see both beauty and heartache, a search for inner peace, a story of ends with no beginnings. With this definitive offering, JGT71 finds Precipitation at their most confident... and most vulnerable... an existential drift through time, into the unknown... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@precipitation

[JGT71] "Falling, I Thought I Caught A Glimpse Of Paradise"

[JGT71] "I" - Falling, I Thought I Caught A Glimpse Of Paradise - Precipitation

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Depth Lurker", official debut of the mysterious Santa Monica Dub Association (Caleb Dravier and Jason Tibi). From an undisclosed location on the California coast, S.M.D.A. emerge from the depths to cruise the shallows, four thermohaline circulations for free-dive stimulation... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

[JGT81] "Depth Lurker"

[JGT81] "Santa Monica Dub Association" - Depth Lurker - S.M.D.A.

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents the official (self-titled) full-length debut of Jungle Gym legends Lac Seul! Largely quiet following 2017's "Kenora" cassette (JGT12) and 2016's "Districts" 12" (JG02), the mysterious duo reemerge from the shallows with their strongest offering to date, an instantly iconic collection of atmospheric swamp-dub and transcendental moss-covered-river-rock techno. Up Pacific coast tributaries and over secluded waterfalls, Lac Seul traverse temperate ambient rainforest, a timeless voyage via limited edition cassette... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@lac-seul-district

[JGT84] "Lac Seul" (s/t)

"Solitude in the Celestial Gateway" - Lac Seul

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Tunnel Vision", official debut of L.A.'s Las Cuevas! Reverb-soaked psychedelic surf jams drift from distant mountain caves and out to sea, a shroomed up dub odyssey twisting like curls of smoke through space time and dissipating into the stars... peak Cali vibes, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM!


𝓛𝓐𝓢 𝓒𝓤𝓔𝓥𝓐𝓢 is...

🔮 Caleb Dravier (bass, design)
🏄 Jared Carrigan (guitar, mastering)

[JGT85] "Tunnel Vision" - Las Cuevas (Previews)

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Ende", official label debut of Valencia's Julio Tornero. Following dozens of solo and collaborative releases across all manner of underground outlets, Tornero surfaces here with a brand new collection of aqueous electro and deep-space synthetics... ghost riding through quantum wormhole, "Ende" spins out... this time, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

[JGT86] "Ende"

"Tercer Sol" - Julio Tornero

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Słońca Brak", official label debut of Warsaw's Verlake. Following a string of high quality offerings for various boutique micro-labels (including their own "Laral Tapes"), Verlake surfaces on JG with their most polished and comprehensive album to date, a smoked out collection of lunar-tidal dub, interplanetary-electro and cosmic ambient-techno, surfing the void like a comet through the night sky... this time, exclusively for JUNGLE GYM.

@verlake

[JGT95] "Słońca Brak"

"Sad Story" - Verlake

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Artica", official sophomore offering from Geneva's own Eyyes. Following their legendary 2021 debut "Villa Omma" [JGT68], Eyyes return to the JG Universe with a brand new collection of expansive glacial synthesisms and intuitive micro-tonal investigations, frostbitten minimalism of the most exciting (and explorative) form, logbook entries from a mental journey to the last great uncharted territory on Earth... ARTICA.

@eyyes

[JGT99] "Artica"

"Icicle" - Eyyes

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Spirals", another essential offering from L.A. vibe connoisseur V. Kristoff. Headfirst into artificial aquatic abyss, "Spirals" swirl through underwater current, past bamboo thickets and out to sea, a digital diver lost in the drift... exclusively via JUNGLE GYM.

🌀🌀🌀


@v-kristoff

[UDG 0.84] "Spirals"

"Spirals" - V. Kristoff (Full Album)

“UNIVERSOS OSCILANTES” ... an experimental tribute to Aimé Painé.

Too much to say. We could elaborate on themes like colonization, identity and culture; on territorial and political vindication, sung as a form of insurrection in the younger generations of the Mapuche people. On the “Sons of Lautaro” who migrated to the city, working in construction sites and as servants of the white people. But, not being myself part of the Mapuche culture, I would only be able to talk almost exclusively from the outside, from a “half race”, that uncomfortable position in the middle, undefined, where many of us mestizos are found; that, nevertheless, was noticeable enough so that they asked us about it; profound enough to fell a cold shriek in our own flesh.

That is why I would not want this tribute to be merely aesthetic, a soft and nice gesture for an obliging audience. It is a spiritual homage, but not tepid. It is experimental, yes, due to the passage of that sacred song through the body, but it is not an intellectual one, and in no way one made by a scholar. It is a sonic re-reading of Aimé Painé: an orphan who was raised by winkas; a teenager raised in Catholicism, who had her first experiences as a singer in the liturgical chorus of her school; a young woman who, in search of her identity, returns to the indigenous community, where she stays and becomes part of the Mapuche culture: she learns the Taiel from the voice of the grandmothers, and sings it; a woman who, after taking those songs to several stages, accompanied only by her kultrun, dies young, without having ever recorded an album. A woman whose voice survived only in the home-made recordings made by those who were closest to her, who stored them carefully, only to have, years later, apocryphal audios going around in the Internet, falsely attributed to her.

And this is a re-reading, as well, made from my own culture: the culture “in the middle”, that unconformable, undefined place that, nevertheless, when traversed, evokes –with the strength of the Taiel– a song of rebellion and pride, where we can also hear the ashes of this dying regime. “Universos Oscilantes” is an experimental homage to Aimé Painé (1943-1987), a Mapuche singer whose interpretations, the Taiel –sacred songs– were compiled in the album “De lo profundo de la madre Tierra” (From the depths of Mother Earth) by Don Juan Namuncurá.

To create this record I conducted an investigation that took me far from the movies that have portrayed Aimé’s life, and into the importance of her singing and the profound meaning that the sound has for the Mapuche people; from the communities in the mountains to the “colonies”, the settlements in the Patagonia closest to the ocean, where the prejudice against the indigenous people is present to this day.

I found the history of the rivers, the trees, the animals and the mountains, that precede human language. In the Taiel, the sacred song, you can sing like the Luan – the dear–, the Huala –the duck– or maybe the Ngürü –the fox–, and every song has in it a bit of the spirit of each animal, and some of what the people want to remember and honor. In the Taiel there are rumours of life and an inner song that is one of a free man. Because the Mapuche believe that the life of each person is a path to find your own Taiel. That is how I learned the one singing it in a circle is not the best singer, but he who has the appropriate spirit to make the soul of the whole community go forward.

In this album is found the result of this search. Together with female artists who I invited to be part of these reinterpretations, we went in a journey back and forth from our culture to the sonic heritage of a brave people, with the conviction that there, in the culture of sound, dwell as well the imagination, the strength, and the dignity to not be defeated."

- Paula Zustovich (Minicomponente) 

@minicomponente

[JGT107] “Universos Oscilantes”

"Luan Taiel II (ft. Juli Papi)" - Minicomponente

[JGT108] "Live At BushBash II" - Precipitation

PRECIPITATION Live in Tokyo at 小岩BushBash on March 4th, 2023.
Sounds / Recording / Performance by Zefan Sramek (Precipitation).
Mastered by Jared Carrigan.
Design by Caleb Dravier.

@precipitation

[JGT108] "Live At BushBash II"

"VIII" - Precipitation

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Divine Alterations", official debut of EXIT STRATEGY. Four corridors from the house of stairs, Exit Strategy wander from detached IDM to Escher-esque electro... divine alterations, exclusively via JUNGLE GYM.

[JGT109] "Divine Alterations"

"Untitled" - Exit Strategy

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Bar & Grill", official label debut of longtime JG associate Cafe Lounge! On this their most realized offering to date, Cafe Lounge perfects the vibe, serving only the best velvet-curtain house and cigarette-smoke electro, blue collar bangers dressed up for a night on the town... exclusively via JUNGLE GYM.

[JGT111] "Bar & Grill"

"Death 2 Smoochy" - Cafe Lounge

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Let Your Fire Touch Me", official label debut of Eeba Ooba. Timeless beat-tape musings from one of the best in the game, Eeba Ooba takes it slow, cruising past daydreams and heartbreak on another sunset drive... sometimes you gotta get burned to feel anything at all. Exclusively via JUNGLE GYM.

[JGT112] "Let Your Fire Touch Me"

"OVERTIME" - Eeba Ooba

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "3", official label debut of Devon, UK's mysterious biospirals! A distinctly modern take on transcendental tape music, biospirals traverses the space between, floating through mist towards the heavens as body, mind and spirit unite... an instant classic, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

[JGT114] "3"

"3-03" - biospirals

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Depth Finder", a brand new cassette from the legendary Lac Seul! Ten ocean topographies forever caught in the drift, Lac Seul ride underwater currents through dark peaks and mysterious valleys, surfacing for air but always returning to the depths... another fish in the sea, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@lacseul

[JGT115] "Depth Finder"

"Motion Detector" - Lac Seul

Phenomenal live performance from inner-circle JG affiliate "CD Player" (Jason Tibi), presented here for the first time via limited edition CDr... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@jasontibi

[UDG 0.90] "LIVE AT OUTLAW"

CD-R

[UDG 0​.​90] "LIVE AT OUTLAW" - CD Player

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "TR-707 At 160bpm And Other Occurrences", a brand new full-length cassette from the legendary QNDFK! With his disparate yet wholly cohesive blend of outsider electro, sun-warped ambient, rudimentary drum programming and thrift shop proto-funk (all recorded HOT to tape), QNDFK continues to prove himself one of the most interesting and talented beatsmiths in the American underground... this time, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@qndfkmusic

[JGT117] "TR-707 At 160bpm And Other Occurrences"

"Doors Are Closing (Blue)" - QNDFK

Digital Download and Limited Edition Cassettes available here: bit.ly/1k6OWQe

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents “Directions,” a full length cassette tape from René Najera. Exploring themes of long-distance travel, momentum and youthful wonder, Najera’s debut is decidedly coastal. Like the migration of sea birds or the movements of a busy port, this collection of 5 new works soundtrack the grandiose of the everyday. With a select few pieces of hardware, Najera sculpts a deep house landscape all his own, where bass-lines peak and high hats fall in and out of time, stumbling, but always moving forward. From the early evening cocktail to the early morning sunrise, “Directions” is along for the ride, and is exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@rene-najera

B2. Vacation  //  René Najera

Digital Download and Limited Edition Cassette Package available here: http://bit.ly/1N9vYVR

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Willrijk," the second installment of our UNDERGROWTH tape series. Transforming the streets of Saint Petersburg into teetering dance music, newcomer Willrijk captures the spirit of the club, filtered through the early morning around us as we make our way home. Delicate, refined and accessibly intimate, "Willrijk" whispers where others shout, and is exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

A3. Untitled // Willrijk

A2. Always Coming Back // Willrijk

A1. Merci, Agathe // Willrijk

Digital Download available here: http://bit.ly/1RbyJpq

JUNGLE GYM Records presents "Willrijk Remixed," a collection of works inspired by Willrijk's self-titled debut. Available on vinyl CD-R as part of the Willrijk cassette package, "Willrijk Remixed" features tracks from @d-tiffany, @bessiekat, @tlimshug, @lac-seul-district and @trp111, and is exclusively from JUNGLE GYM. 

@will_rijk

5. Untitled // Willrijk (TRP Remix)

3.  Merci, Agathe // Willrijk (TLIM SHUG Remix)

Digital Download and Limited Edition Cassette available here: http://bit.ly/1JKWBtu

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Expansion EP," the official debut of newcomer Peonies. Here, 5 highly involved loop-based productions meet squeaky clean bass-lines in a knob tweaker's paradise, with intricate vocal exercises along for the ride. Approaching each wave from the inside out, "Expansion EP" is as claustrophobic as it is far-reaching, gathering momentum as the sun begins to dip behind the horizon. Like every grand romantic gesture, it's the not knowing that hurts most, and it's exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@peoniesvibes

A1. Summer Night // Peonies

Digital Download and Limited Edition Cassette available here: http://bit.ly/1Vx5sJF

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "MV x ML," a split release from Vancouver's Minimal Violence and Moscow's Marco Lazovic. With the depth and intricacy of classic cinema, feathery Juno leads and pounding tom workouts push each other forward, on a mission from urban center to deepest wilderness and back again... it's a dramatic affair, and it's exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@minimalviolence
@marco_lazovic

A2. Tom Track // Minimal Violence

Digital Download and Limited Edition CDr available here: https://tinyurl.com/yalpnrpd

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Isolation Loops", official debut of Kiev's ϙue. 12 sonic microcosms birthed in seclusion, UDG 0.46 moves softly, like water through a small creek or long grass in an evening breeze. To what do we turn when completely alone? "Isolation Loops" finds beauty in the question, a willingness to adapt and to overcome by turning inward. Through quiet strength we grow... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@optovolokonniy

[UDG 0.46] "Isolation Loops" - ϙue (Previews)

Digital Download and Limited Edition Cassette available here: https://tinyurl.com/yxp4vd6p

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Looking Backward", a brand new offering from Barcelona-based visionary Mateis e. aqir. Fresh off a string of impressive artifacts from the likes of 100% Silk, Yield and All My Thoughts, Mateis returns to JUNGLE GYM to follow up debut vinyl excursion "Geography of Nowhere" (2018). Here again are the iconic island-percussion rituals, wobbly synth flourishes, skittering drum machines and equatorial bass-lines... this time from the comfort of a home meditation room. Incense fills the air and fish glide through aquarium wall seas as the mind begins to wander... an evening dream of mysterious tropical scene. The sound of imaginations run wild, "Looking Backward" may yet be the best way to move ahead... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@mateis-e-aqir

[JGT54] "Looking Backward" - Mateis e. aqir (Previews)

Digital Download, Limited Edition Cassette and CDr available here: https://tinyurl.com/y5ju8h8d

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Unit", a brand new offering from Berlin's Florian Kupfer. Sinking deeper than ever before, "Unit" is Kupfer on the brink, an existential psychosis of memory structures and mental decay. Like water-flow down towering industrial frameworks, brain channels erode, a neuro-static mist of confusion and degradation, a void of both body and soul. With labotomatic precision Kupfer dissects and perfects the innermost workings of his distinctive sound... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@kupfer

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