Grenoble’s finest collage-punk coughs up the first Plaque in a few cycles. Owner of one of the strongest, most consistent and realest DIY cassette labels this millennia (in our humble opinion), HLM38’s long-awaited debut full length staggers through 12 smouldering, noirish cuts.

Cut-ups natter, beat-up radios dial into distant dialogues and glimpse maniac-chatter, dub-wise meat wagons and greasers howling… Russian thistle rolls past... All this situationist-bliss beamed through a monochrome filter into your blessed ears.

Bask in the smog...


HLM38/ Notte Brigante:
nottebrigante.bandcamp.com
credits
releases September 16, 2024

All tracks written and produced by Julien Viallet (HLM38)
Saxophone on “Negligence Affective” and “Sombriété Heureuse” by Alexandre Chaigniau.
Vocals on “Grey Fedora” and “Sunflower Sutra” by Anna Renault.
Vocals and guitar on “South of No North” by Laurent Fege.
Mastered by Austin Shepherd
Artwork by Hamish Trevis (Kin40k)

HLM38

HLM38 – SUNFLOWER SUTRA (PLQ08)

The illusive EMPLOYEE serves up the fire offal for the first of our series, inviting you to enter the ‘Temple Of Glendor’. Plaque01 follows our unnamed protagonist through a series of twisted stairwells, fly dungeons and mossy, dimly lit passages. 

Help our hero navigate into the lower echelons of Glendor’s claggy labyrinth and unlock the real secret behind it’s master’s evil ways. Potions can revive dead party members, consulting occult spaeman can unlock bonus levels. Destroy all the master’s treasure chests and collect the keys to emancipate his disfigured servants from their opiated haze and assist with the struggle deeper into shadowy purple chambers. 

For this journey expect fragmented visuals with ever-tessellating rib vaults, turnt-up combat mechanics with challenging boss battles for a
cerebral quest seeped in dread and unease. 

Available on digital or as a limited edition of 100 Cassette. Plus watch out for the upcoming expansion disc with added content and bonus battle weapons. 

Out May 17th.

https://plaquebristol.bandcamp.com/

EMPLOYEE - Benz

EMPLOYEE - Boss Battle 3

The illusive EMPLOYEE serves up the fire offal for the first of our series, inviting you to enter the ‘Temple Of Glendor’. Plaque01 follows our unnamed protagonist through a series of twisted stairwells, fly dungeons and mossy, dimly lit passages. 

Help our hero navigate into the lower echelons of Glendor’s claggy labyrinth and unlock the real secret behind it’s master’s evil ways. Potions can revive dead party members, consulting occult spaeman can unlock bonus levels. Destroy all the master’s treasure chests and collect the keys to emancipate his disfigured servants from their opiated haze and assist with the struggle deeper into shadowy purple chambers. 

For this journey expect fragmented visuals with ever-tessellating rib vaults, turnt-up combat mechanics with challenging boss battles for a
cerebral quest seeped in dread and unease. 

Available on digital or as a limited edition of 100 Cassette. Plus watch out for the upcoming expansion disc with added content and bonus battle weapons. 

Out May 17th.


https://plaquebristol.bandcamp.com/

EMPLOYEE - Escape + Bonus

The illusive EMPLOYEE serves up the fire offal for the first of our series, inviting you to enter the ‘Temple Of Glendor’. Plaque01 follows our unnamed protagonist through a series of twisted stairwells, fly dungeons and mossy, dimly lit passages.

Help our hero navigate into the lower echelons of Glendor’s claggy labyrinth and unlock the real secret behind it’s master’s evil ways. Potions can revive dead party members, consulting occult spaeman can unlock bonus levels. Destroy all the master’s treasure chests and collect the keys to emancipate his disfigured servants from their opiated haze and assist with the struggle deeper into shadowy purple chambers.

For this journey expect fragmented visuals with ever-tessellating rib vaults, turnt-up combat mechanics with challenging boss battles for a
cerebral quest seeped in dread and unease. 

Available on digital or as a limited edition of 100 Cassette. Plus watch out for the upcoming expansion disc with added content and bonus battle weapons. 

Out May 17th.


https://plaquebristol.bandcamp.com/

EMPLOYEE - Menace

The illusive EMPLOYEE serves up the fire offal for the first of our series, inviting you to enter the ‘Temple Of Glendor’. Plaque01 follows our unnamed protagonist through a series of twisted stairwells, fly dungeons and mossy, dimly lit passages.

Help our hero navigate into the lower echelons of Glendor’s claggy labyrinth and unlock the real secret behind it’s master’s evil ways. Potions can revive dead party members, consulting occult spaeman can unlock bonus levels. Destroy all the master’s treasure chests and collect the keys to emancipate his disfigured servants from their opiated haze and assist with the struggle deeper into shadowy purple chambers.

For this journey expect fragmented visuals with ever-tessellating rib vaults, turnt-up combat mechanics with challenging boss battles for a
cerebral quest seeped in dread and unease. 

Available on digital or as a limited edition of 100 Cassette. Plus watch out for the upcoming expansion disc with added content and bonus battle weapons. 

Out May 17th.

EMPLOYEE - Escape (Reprise)

The illusive EMPLOYEE serves up the fire offal for the first of our series, inviting you to enter the ‘Temple Of Glendor’. Plaque01 follows our unnamed protagonist through a series of twisted stairwells, fly dungeons and mossy, dimly lit passages. 

Help our hero navigate into the lower echelons of Glendor’s claggy labyrinth and unlock the real secret behind it’s master’s evil ways. Potions can revive dead party members, consulting occult spaeman can unlock bonus levels. Destroy all the master’s treasure chests and collect the keys to emancipate his disfigured servants from their opiated haze and assist with the struggle deeper into shadowy purple chambers. 

For this journey expect fragmented visuals with ever-tessellating rib vaults, turnt-up combat mechanics with challenging boss battles for a
cerebral quest seeped in dread and unease. 

Available on digital or as a limited edition of 100 Cassette. Plus watch out for the upcoming expansion disc with added content and bonus battle weapons.

EMPLOYEE - Egyptian Miners

EMPLOYEE - Temple Funk

For its second instalment, Plaque presents a two-part offering from Portland’s Best Available Technology. ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ is a 14 track digital album diving headfirst into the archives of some of the producer’s steady craftsmanship over the last decade.

Once submerged skeletal hands tug at faded granular beats, throwing up densely clouded-sonics from which beneath famished forms awaken from long silted tombs. Glimpses of these sonic phantoms and smouldering red-eyed dutchman often materialise before tracks again shift focus and press onwards with the uncertain path ahead. Sloping further into ever inebriating fog, it’s a gradual descent which continues to churn up the fossilised remains of old beat tapes and evoke many other nostalgic ghosts along the way. 

Its companion piece 'Old Haunts’, a 40 minute cassette-artefact, is the craftsman’s own personal guide through the same realm (although perhaps more a guided meditation or healing tape of sorts). His experience treads lightly the same path and holds up a torch to expose the intoxicated delirium of its counterpart. This illuminating tool is best utilised before embarking on any such quest, at the onset of the gloaming or against the eventide of some lifted journey to this in-between realm. 

Excavate and uncover your own relics as you will...

‘Old Haunts’ cassette limited to 100 copies, each copy comes with a full digital download of ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ album.

Out 28th October.

plaquebristol.bandcamp.com

Best Available Technology - Bone 2 Brick

Best Available Technology - Zen Resonator

For its second instalment, Plaque presents a two-part offering from Portland’s Best Available Technology. ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ is a 14 track digital album diving headfirst into the archives of some of the producer’s steady craftsmanship over the last decade.

Once submerged skeletal hands tug at faded granular beats, throwing up densely clouded-sonics from which beneath famished forms awaken from long silted tombs. Glimpses of these sonic phantoms and smouldering red-eyed dutchman often materialise before tracks again shift focus and press onwards with the uncertain path ahead. Sloping further into ever inebriating fog, it’s a gradual descent which continues to churn up the fossilised remains of old beat tapes and evoke many other nostalgic ghosts along the way. 

Its companion piece 'Old Haunts’, a 40 minute cassette-artefact, is the craftsman’s own personal guide through the same realm (although perhaps more a guided meditation or healing tape of sorts). His experience treads lightly the same path and holds up a torch to expose the intoxicated delirium of its counterpart. This illuminating tool is best utilised before embarking on any such quest, at the onset of the gloaming or against the eventide of some lifted journey to this in-between realm. 

Excavate and uncover your own relics as you will...

‘Old Haunts’ cassette limited to 100 copies, each copy comes with a full digital download of ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ album.

Out 28th October.


plaquebristol.bandcamp.com

Best Available Technology - Pstimulation

For its second instalment, Plaque presents a two-part offering from Portland’s Best Available Technology. ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ is a 14 track digital album diving headfirst into the archives of some of the producer’s steady craftsmanship over the last decade.

Once submerged skeletal hands tug at faded granular beats, throwing up densely clouded-sonics from which beneath famished forms awaken from long silted tombs. Glimpses of these sonic phantoms and smouldering red-eyed dutchman often materialise before tracks again shift focus and press onwards with the uncertain path ahead. Sloping further into ever inebriating fog, it’s a gradual descent which continues to churn up the fossilised remains of old beat tapes and evoke many other nostalgic ghosts along the way. 

Its companion piece 'Old Haunts’, a 40 minute cassette-artefact, is the craftsman’s own personal guide through the same realm (although perhaps more a guided meditation or healing tape of sorts). His experience treads lightly the same path and holds up a torch to expose the intoxicated delirium of its counterpart. This illuminating tool is best utilised before embarking on any such quest, at the onset of the gloaming or against the eventide of some lifted journey to this in-between realm. 

Excavate and uncover your own relics as you will...

‘Old Haunts’ cassette limited to 100 copies, each copy comes with a full digital download of ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ album.

Out 28th October.

Best Available Technology - Body Pill

BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY - ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ x ‘Old Haunts’ (PLAQUE02)


For its second instalment, Plaque presents a two-part offering from Portland’s Best Available Technology. ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ is a 14 track digital album diving headfirst into the archives of some of the producer’s steady craftsmanship over the last decade.

Once submerged skeletal hands tug at faded granular beats, throwing up densely clouded-sonics from which beneath famished forms awaken from long silted tombs. Glimpses of these sonic phantoms and smouldering red-eyed dutchman often materialise before tracks again shift focus and press onwards with the uncertain path ahead. Sloping further into ever inebriating fog, it’s a gradual descent which continues to churn up the fossilised remains of old beat tapes and evoke many other nostalgic ghosts along the way. 

Its companion piece 'Old Haunts’, a 40 minute cassette-artefact, is the craftsman’s own personal guide through the same realm (although perhaps more a guided meditation or healing tape of sorts). His experience treads lightly the same path and holds up a torch to expose the intoxicated delirium of its counterpart. This illuminating tool is best utilised before embarking on any such quest, at the onset of the gloaming or against the eventide of some lifted journey to this in-between realm. 

Excavate and uncover your own relics as you will...

‘Old Haunts’ cassette limited to 100 copies, each copy comes with a full digital download of ‘Broken Teeth & Dog Hair’ album.

Out 28th October.

Best Available Technology - Heavy Velvet

This is a rebirth quest. 

In dank and steamy chambers, self professed Eno-grime peddler and purveyor of fine glambient Broshuda coughs out hot, pixellated vapour at bequest of the Plaque overlords. 

Once the orbs settle, the kind and gentle ghost he has summoned slowly begins to evolve, levelling up into his new, more powerful ishvara. 

2020 welcomes Yata DSP.

Tape drops in time for the equinox. Only 100 copies.

Distributed by Rewind Forward.

Yata DSP -  Scheme (Broshuda/Yata DSP Split)

This is a rebirth quest. 

In dank and steamy chambers, self professed Eno-grime peddler and purveyor of fine glambient Broshuda coughs out hot, pixellated vapour at bequest of the Plaque overlords. 

Once the orbs settle, the kind and gentle ghost he has summoned slowly begins to evolve, levelling up into his new, more powerful ishvara. 

2020 welcomes Yata DSP.



Tape drops in time for the equinox. Only 100 copies.

Distributed by Rewind Forward.

Broshuda - Hype Cycle (Broshuda/Yata DSP Split)

Observe this liturgy of the wretched. Listen to their degenerate beat at your own discretion.

Celtic/West Country duo Salac conduct a seance, resurrecting the long cherished sound of our ancient isle’s esoteric underground. A forbidden ceremony performed by candlelight under venom induced delirium. Proceedings soon escalate into berserk and magick hysteria.

Once under its influence, debauchees chant incarnations and slither. Dancing sweaty, swivel-eyed into a frenzy of writhing, contorted bodies. Frantic incantations erupt from chilling reveries and hypnotic, screeching rhythms. It’s a trip that’s as lysergic and euphoric as it is truly unsettling and disturbing.

salac-music.bandcamp.com
credits
releases September 3, 2020

All tracks entirely written and produced by Clíona Ní Laoi & Max Kelan (Voice, Electronics, Piano & Violin)
Mastered by Austin Shepherd
Forged at West Kennet Long Tapes
Artwork by Hamish Trevis (Kin40k) & Clíona Ní Laoi

Salac - Pythoness (PLQ04)

Observe this liturgy of the wretched. Listen to their degenerate beat at your own discretion.

Celtic/West Country duo Salac conduct a seance, resurrecting the long cherished sound of our ancient isle’s esoteric underground. A forbidden ceremony performed by candlelight under venom induced delirium. Proceedings soon escalate into berserk and magick hysteria.

Once under its influence, debauchees chant incarnations and slither. Dancing sweaty, swivel-eyed into a frenzy of writhing, contorted bodies. Frantic incantations erupt from chilling reveries and hypnotic, screeching rhythms. It’s a trip that’s as lysergic and euphoric as it is truly unsettling and disturbing.

salac-music.bandcamp.com


releases September 3, 2020

All tracks entirely written and produced by Clíona Ní Laoi & Max Kelan (Voice, Electronics, Piano & Violin)
Mastered by Austin Shepherd
Forged at West Kennet Long Tapes
Artwork by Hamish Trevis (Kin40k) & Clíona Ní Laoi

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