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Imagine a mid-70s Halloween party on the filming location of John Carpenter’s The Thing with a three-piece krautrock obsessed electronic rock combo creating long plodding yeti funk and haywire electro soundscapes via suitcase-synths and mutant mouth organs!  The cryogenically frozen music on this limited cassette is based on a true story.

Operating as true “outsiders” of electronic American music both artistically and geographically, this interchangeable Alaskan collective headed by electronic harmonica player Gary Sloan would inadvertently prognosticate electro and techno while attempting to reinvigorate the self-contained Anchorage blues rock scene via an addiction to state of the art synthesisers and custom contraptions. Recorded four years before their untravelled milestone LP Harmonitalk, the Hallowe’en sessions are taken from a bottomless archive of direct-to-cassette recorded jam sessions, experiments and custom-built radio themes either entirely unheard or singularly distributed exclusively via the airwaves on Sloan’s very own Import Hour show for Anchorage radio station KGOT.  Taken from a cassette marked Hallowe’en Music recorded on October 31st 1976 and previously unheard outside the confides of the trio’s own rehearsal room, this session provides a further glimpse into a wider dossier of future Cache Cache Clone releases and acts as a perfect companion piece to the equally underexposed Octabred LP (backed with unreleased Suzanne Ciani music) now available via our Disposable Music library subscription series.

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Clone - Hallowe'en 1976 (Excerpt)

Los Angeles techno veteran Silent Servant crafted a grim edit of "Tell Me", transforming the original song's synth-heavy bliss into a steely acid workout and hollowing out Hall's vocals until they hang like ambient gauze.

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Soft Metals - Lenses Remixes LP

- Deluxe white and black splatter vinyl.
- Limited to 450 copies worldwide.
- Remixes of Silent Servant, Bryan Zentz, Jesse Ruins, Bestial Mouths, Tying Tiffany, L-Sedition, Marbeya Sound and Sumergido.
- Download code

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After two successful albums and one EP on Captured Tracks and touring extensively the US and Canada, Soft Metals is starting 2014 with this remix album from tracks from their last album "Lenses".

Soft Metals - Tell Me (Silent Servant Edit)

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Suzanne Ciani - Liberator

Disappear here. An agonist opioid improvisation for synthesizers and ancient drum machine that builds Blade Runner towers before collapsing into ceiling-staring nausea.

Cassette available from Masters Chemical Society
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Timm Mason - Time Release [preview]

Myth Sound Trailer

A track from the upcoming BLACK BRASS album. Available on cassette/digital right now, on Masters Chemical Society.
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Warhorn (from "Black Brass" - out now)

Also internationally known as the man behind the ADDAC Systems brand of modular synthesizers and several devices for electronic music, Portuguese sound and intermedia artist André Gonçalves is back with a new solo album, just one year after the release of “Musica Eterna – Pocket Music for the Space-Time Traveller”.
Fortunately so, because he was absent from the recording world for too long (10 years!), and because “Currents & Riptides” is an absolute marvel, establishing his music as one of the most intriguing in the experimental scene. Every kind of situation you can imagine is covered here, not to show off what he can do, but emerging naturally in the flux of events: combinations of analogic and digital sounds and tools, processing of field recordings and ready-made materials (the mutant electric guitar you can recognize because he wants you to), explorations of provoked or casual accidents, ambient soundscapes, noise, textures in constant change, immersive and insistent drones, you name it. When Gonçalves arrives to something beautiful and pleasing, he can’t resist to act against it with a rough contrast, like an ugly feedback or a cable violently taken out.
André Gonçalves may not appear much, even in concert, but when he does, in Portugal or somewhere else, is for maximum effect. This is one of those occasions. Behind him he has a long background, alone or with other people, playing under designations like OK Suitcase, Last Time This Happened We Had a Street Party, Stapletape, Gigantiq, Feltro and more. He likes to do laboratorial work, shaping structures, but also to improvise, and he did it Achim Wollscheid, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Casper Klausen, David Maranha, Eric La Casa, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Kenneth Kirschner, Manuel Mota, Michel J. Schumacher, Ernesto Rodrigues, Richard Garet, Phill Niblock, Sei Miguel and Tim Hecker between many others. It’s impossible to say if this music was produced in studio or freely improvised: sometimes it seems something meticulously composed, and other times it comes like the crude result of spontaneity. That doubt is what seduces us, knowing that the reverse is also highly probable. With him, we never know.

ANDRÉ GONÇALVES // Currents & Riptides

Soft Metals // Hourglass

Our solucyon ys cause of our coagulacyon; For the dissolucyon on the one syde corporall causyth congelacyon on the other syde spyrytuall.

Timm Mason - Time Release [preview]

Masters Chemical Society

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