Full album available to download + limited cassettes available here:
https://nehertzberg.bandcamp.com/album/the-faith-that-flattened-the-earth

The second straight-to-tape release for 2016. 

PHILOSOPHY: 
It was only after purchasing a lot of religious propaganda cassette tapes off the internet that the idea for a release became complete and clear... 

Consider this a study in the fleeting things we believe in, and the lasting impact they can have in and on the concrete reality surrounding us. 

In a world where we can elect an internet troll as president... 
the ones you tell your deepest secrets and sins to betray you daily... 
and the planet is literally melting away from beneath of us... 
spare a few minutes here to close your eyes 
and take solace in what you have left of this life- 
knowing that this very noise could be the last you ever have 
ringing in your precious ears. 

PROCESS: 
In July of 2016, NEH took it about himself to experiment with new audio recording software and other compositional tools. In one evening he committed three separate 45-minute sessions of instrument sampling straight to cassette tape. These samples ranged from real guitar and bass to programmed drum loops, arpeggiated synthesizers, electronic hisses, and everything in-between. 

In November of 2016, NEH then took these samples and processed them using a software instrument called Argeiphontes Lyre. This program gives the ability to cut up and process audio samples based upon a seemingly random set of controls and variables. This can result in a "fragmented" type of sound, with modulated phrases popping in and out frequently, perfect for our world's current second-long obsession with anything. 

Five unique cassette tapes in total were recorded, ranging from a C60 to C90 format. Each side contains a completely different, improvised program that was tracked live in real time. As an accompaniment, meditative drumming and ambient binaural soundscape backing beats were acquired from YouTube, all to be somewhat of a constant rhythm amongst the churn of "glitched out" sampled chaos pulsating on top. And not to mention, several cuts come during the program of a speaker from the original tape content, just in time to fall back into a distorted drum excerpt or sweltering synth motif. 

These five tapes are completely unique to themselves and will never be replicated again. The song samples that appear here digitally are also completely improvised and are small testaments of their own. The song titles were even randomly "created" by the Lyre program. Each "song" features a distinct set of the original samples utilized, as well as a unique meditative backing track.

N.E. Hertzberg- And Holy Thy Faults Unto Me Lay

BUY THE TAPE: http://www.wetcassettes.bigcartel.com
DOWNLOAD:  http://www.nehertzberg.bandcamp.com

Looking to further blur the lines between not only genres but artforms, N.E. Hertzberg returns with his latest album, a collection of poems set to sound, "There Are Stories Other Than Yours" on the Wet Cassettes imprint. 

Through a culmination of sound collage and spoken word poetry written about self-deceit (Little Plastic Lives), health issues (Migraine Moments), first-time home ownership (Winding Way), learning to write in/for our modern culture (White Men's Shoes) and more, the author addresses the struggles we deal with in ourselves but attempts to connect them to the greater picture in life. 

Vocals appear here for the first time in years on a solo record, in a direct and distorted manner. The words spill over a bed of static-laden cassette loops, field recordings, and drones and are accompanied by improvised, cut-up guitar dirges and thunderously repetitive, pulsing bass tracks. 

Ultimately, one quote, which can be found on the cassette version's inner J-card design, best sums up the idea behind the album: 

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private." 

-Allen Ginsberg
credits
released September 7, 2018 

Written, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered 
by Nicholas Edward Hertzberg. 

Design by Nicholas Edward Hertzberg. 

Additional guitar riffs provided by J. James & A. Del Rosso

There Are Stories Other Than Yours

Cosmic Irrelevance

a song i wrote and recorded quickly in one afternoon around memorial day 2018, recorded it to a 4 track cassette recorder. 

Never wrote lyrics or really worked on it more, but i found it and now it is here where it will rot.

Trem Arm [Drowse split]

unfinished new song May 2018 [4 track demo]

Croatian Amor "Isa" LP 
Release date
January 25th, 2019
Preorder - www.poshisolation.net 

In 2019 Croatian Amor returns with a new album, 'Isa'.

Copenhagen's Loke Rahbek works in a wide variety of forms. His prolific rate of activity is best viewed through his and Christian Stadgaard's Posh Isolation label. Of Rahbek's many projects, his most eloquent and gentle is Croatian Amor.

2017’s single 'Finding People' bloomed from Croatian Amor's previous album, the widely acclaimed 'Love Means Taking Action'. These melancholic transmissions presented a kind of alien pop. For 'Isa', he has drawn on an impressive list of guests to realise a nauseating narrative of virtual communication and eschatological programming. The album's title invokes a messianic entity, and though it's hard to tell what's imagined or remembered anymore, the play that Croatian Amor is known for feels far more vivid today.

"Enhance photo to reveal a picture of Bird caught mid-flight; enhance again, the bird has a human face screaming."

Never pessimistic, Croatian Amor circles themes of tragedy and comfort to animate a sense of hope. His accomplices pluck details from his graphic scenes like a searchlight drifting over a starlit surface. Alto Aria, Soho Rezanejad, and Jonnine Standish of HTRK, each contribute vocals across the album, cloaked and kerned on Croatian Amor's inimitable stage. Eden 1.1 and its accompaniment Eden 1.2 feature the voices of Frederikke Hoffmeier and Yves Tumor, respectively. These are some of album's most delicate pieces, and where one may find respite from the helix of damaged rhythms that eddy across 'Isa'. Familiar faces from Copenhagen are solicited throughout, and perhaps the album's most endearing quality is the space for volatility that all of the collaboration has invited.

All the signals and timelines lead everywhere and back. Maybe it's only the myths that get us?

The cover of Isa features work by artist Amitai Romm.

"Tracing reflections that float in the pool: the water is lost in all images. Two skies hold glass billboards.”

       Tracklist:

A1 - Towards Isa
A2 - In Alarm Light (ft. Soho Rezanejad)
A3 - Point Reflex Blue
A4 - Eden 1.1
A5 - Siren Blur Accent
B1 - Dark Cut (ft. Jonnine Standish)
B2 - Into Salt (ft. Alto Aria)
B3 - Eden 1.2
B4 - In World Cell

Posh Isolation 220

Croatian Amor - Dark Cut Ft. Jonnine Standish

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PRIMITIVE KNOT: Lust Hammer

2nd track taken from "Tower Of The Moon". Out 12th December.

Written & Recorded by R.T
Mastered by Lewis Glass at Glassworks Studio
Logo by Mark McCoy

gladdenfields.bandcamp.com
gladdenfieldsuk@gmail.com

II Tower Of The Moon

FINE JEWELERS is the duo of Dan Helmer (solo Helmer releases on Valcrond Video and Anomia) and Matt Korvette (vocalist of Pissed Jeans). Working at dangerously high BPMs, FINE JEWELERS create neurotic industrial rave music and inhospitable gabber. This four-track debut is a techno headbanger's paradise, primed for subterranean club performance, dungeon Crossfit and outdoor bonfire parties with kids on dirtbikes. If that doesn't get you fired up, just braindance through the midnight d-beat and try again.

Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann
Published by BANK
Artwork by Matthew Belossi

Fine Jewelers - Heated Display (BNK-018)

be careful what you wish for

Artwork by Stefan Unković (@StevieWhisper).

Free Download/Buy Tape

LI$MIX003 - ANFS

Artist: Mukqs
Album: SD Biomix
Format: Cassette / Digital
Release: May 3, 2019

Music by Max Allison
Visual art by Keith Rankin

Max Allison co-runs the label Hausu Mountain and performs as part of the improvisational Chicago noise group Good Willsmith with Natalie Chami (TALsounds) and Doug Kaplan (MrDougDoug). SD Biomix is his new solo recording under the name Mukqs, and while still rooted in improvisation, it feels increasingly like microscopic moment-to-moment sound collage music, where dedicated listening is rewarded. Some surprising compositions rise out of Max’s process, like the beautiful harmonic opening to “Distributing Mementos” that abruptly cuts into MIDI slap bass, horn, and drum machine, or the intricate mixture of melody and free rhythm on “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”. The seven minute “All Seven Gods of Fortune” contains many of the albums concepts in one piece, starting with rhythmic patterns and chopped MIDI melodies that seem connected but fractured, as if a pop song has been blasted apart and then melded back together with each piece in a random order. I might have a biased view, but the album sits beside the new school of Japanese electronic artists like toiret status, Koeosaeme, DJWWWW, and Foodman (who Max referenced as an influence). They share a joy in discovery and show how this electronic language can achieve depth through playfulness and experimentation.

Mukqs - Distributing Mementos

Created and curated by Nicholas Edward Hertzberg to be a home to his vast array of solo and side projects collaborations. Mostly digital releases, with some tapes/lathes in the mix.

FKA: Deplorable Sounds

Cosmic Irrelevance

N.E. Hertzberg

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