RECORD STORE DAY JUNE 12TH 2021 EXCLUSIVE

Suzanne Ciani
Xenon
FKSP020

Greg Kmiec’s Xenon pinball machine was released in 1980 and marked a significant milestone in pinball technology and design. The expansion of microchip technology would provide new opportunities for sound designer and synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani, allowing for basic oscillator control and a wider scope for sampling capacity which could facilitate the higher frequencies of a female human voice and entirely reshape the concept of the machine in the process. By using state of the art Synclavier synthesiser technology and an invaluable experience in film scoring and record production Suzanne would devise a complete minimal music score for the machine, then dissect the piece into separate fragments that would be triggered throughout the game play adding an extra creative dimension in player inter-activity (potentially turning the participant into their own musical arranger). By incorporating her own infamous voice box (which had been the focus of a seminal David Letterman Show feature) Suzanne’s combination of a harmoniser and a vocoder also provided the first-ever female identity to a pinball machine which in conjunction with the games ergonomic design and Paul Faris’ figurative graphics (echoing the aesthetic of Rene Laloux and Roland Topor’s La Planète Sauvage) Xenon was able to add a degree of subconscious sensuality to its performance, a feature previously unchartered in arcade development.

This disc presents the full extent of Suzanne Ciani’s groundbreaking musical effects for Xenon, in their isolated form, for the first time ever heard outside of the confines of the machine which recently earned the composer her own induction to the Pinball Expo Hall Of Fame.

LIMITED EDITION 1000 COPIES ON BLUE VINYL

Xenon

Xenon (Long Effects)

Suzanne Ciani - Xenon (Long Effects)

First time vinyl issue of 1986 cassette album by Brisbane band 'He Dark Age'.
Released on Purely Physical Teeny Tapes in September 2021 in an edition of 200

Ecce Homo Rupert Masters A

I Have Come Back Deborah

Release Date:  13.01.23
Label: Aural Conduct
Artist: Salutingrome
More and go - https://auralconduct.bandcamp.com/album/washing-hands

Another great Jeez coming up in the wadded blanket. NTOAB is jeezing today with Salutingrome, the second opus of the Utrecht label named Aural Conduct and orchestrated by Luke Cohlen, whose magic and genius can as well be appreciated when he operates behind the decks. Back to the jeez ... as magical and brilliant. 

Salutingrome offers with "Smouldering Evening", the final song of this EP, a pure descent into the bottom of the Dutch canals. Leaving time for the protagonist to turn around and see the tjalk's frame going up in smoke.

Washing Hands

NTOAB Jeez is - Salutingrome - Smouldering Evening

https://bruit-direct.org/product/nusidm-the-last-temptation-of-thrill/
This record needs ,or is pleading to have a FAC/tory catalogue number, but for an “actual”? factory state-of -mind ;-documentation for the disenfranchised and exiled snot !;-the love herein is turned fumescent and gluey NUSIDM (THE Australian Glen Schenau) has “de” and “re”-constructed a cell dwelling paradigm to his desire, or for it? Where whatever’s “ugly”? And squalid is honorable or not at all .
The artist, hard to believe, means to communicate through his incarceration, self -imposed but needing people “still” and needling away from people. Society .Community. Ptoooey,,
So, here is the sore kneed agitation audio. The cranky, sullen ,broken telescopic perception.,(for your delight). Here’s a record out of it !
Here’s a record because of it !!
,,the tap ,tap,tapping Throbbing Gristle as his Sam Cooke,coughing up hearts into his pillow, Cabaret Voltaire in times like these of strike anxiety,power outs,schematic curfews,
Can you hear !?-Through his wall
Dead c -on -45-faking Otis unplugged and dismissive of prescriptive sleep and food regimes , The most elegant ornamentation in the place is Chinese take out containers for drums ,leaving food half -eaten and ideals colder still,
Factory pharma #16
In isolation (quarantine ),the artist is many Itchy ,scrapey,picky,fidgety a neurasthenic rhythm orchestra hitting shit to establish his “voice”, corrupted and begging for translation,through crust caked sonic layers Ooze and stuck poster foliage ,
By the time he’s “understood”?
He’s enraged
Beyond “rescue “?Wronged again and flattening bugs not fast enough to scurry for cover with shoe heel percussion,
There’s anxiety in the hint taint of incoming Mass production, this after all is a small project, uncommodified Rodent protest to Romance Enjoying a bit too much the taste and texture of its own chewed up tail,
But Wait!! On occasion there’s light!!
Accessible toy flutes and whistles ,
Flare and scratch colors across the drain stained sound fields
Subliminal swathes from out of cut up ventilator shafts ,
Herald Interzone !! rooftop epiphanic -cacophonies of promise !1!
,as if Royal trux are scoring a requiem for a hasty wedding for quicker money ,
The only kindness ,..He may be gone already !?
He’s crossed out !
Abandoned himself to rumor
Of course he’s left , This before he “clocked out” as a big FACt#0 Gotta love NUSIDM ,,
- Chris Rowley (Adulkt Life, Huggy Bear)

Nusidm - Melody Moody - The Re - Incision

Las piranhas

Artist: Milan W.
Title: Envelope
Format: 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 6th of June 2018
Cat no: EKS016
Edition: 500

order here: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/envelope

Presenting “Envelope”. Album written, produced & mixed by Milan W. and pressed on 180g vinyl, to be released on the 6th of June 2018. With foil-stamped cover-drawing by Gerard Herman. Mastered & cut by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering. 


Tracklist:

A1: Slope
A2: Astma
A3: Orchestral
A4: In Limbo

B1: Heraldic Snippets
B2: Slow Runner
B3: Glaasjes
B4: Malady


The harlequin turns the handle. The contraption sucks in air, and breathes. Blows out tone poems. Wordless ballads that soundtrack enchanted scenarios. Issues forth magic. A sorcerer`s apprentice casting its spell. Animating the inanimate. To everything a life. Sets the frozen fluttering. Pirouetting in red shoes. Illuminates what was dark. Astma sings a Gamelan lullaby. Summons comforting angels to a post-Industrial landscape. Glaasjes has Jazz ghosts inhabit an empty bar room. Spirits stealing excuse-me`s under its deserted spot. In Limbo amplifies their whispers. Lead soldiers court jewellery-box ballerinas behind shuttered shop fronts. On Heraldic Snippets, a tin infantry marches. Ten thousand men up to the top, and back down again. Keys make-believing that they are massed brass and fife. 

The bellows pump, and the pipes all the while wheezing. An automaton philharmonic at the bidding of a steam-punk master. Analogue and digital. Clockwork and glitch. Malady finds sounds isolated, extrapolated, mutated. Orchestral`s organ-grinder moves with urgency, and alchemy. Spinning straw into gold. Snare rolls become bubbling mercury. Metallic, yet fluid. Racing at the speed of flight and escape. Slope is the music of water chasing through crystal caves. Slow Runner, a funeral crawl. Shoved into motion by a drama of strings remembered. 

Like the charismatic Rat-Catcher of Hamelin, the harlequin turns the handle, and we bang the cup.  (Text by Robert Harris — banbantonton.com)

Envelope

Milan W. — Envelope (Preview)

Ritme Jaavdanegi

Roaming Pulse

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Roaming Pulses (Latency 018)

https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/album/on-nature

We've decided to take a brief traipse away from our typical release schedule to present this digital exclusive from Athens based multi-instrumentalist Christos Chondropoulos. We're currently crossing the t's and dotting the i's on a forthcoming double LP, but such is the quality and quantity of his archive we opted to release these 9 recordings with a coinciding riso print from Crud* for you to do with as you please. Strictly available via Bandcamp, releases August 25th. From Christos:

"Philosophically you can regard this music as a fresh view of the ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure - Structuralism and Deconstruction. It is a new approach when it comes to linguistics, the traditional music of the area, where Greece stands as a crossroads and future intelligences. I was interested to hide a fundamental philosophical question in music which would have the same qualities and immediacy as the authentic local music of the area."

*Slow-to-cop chumps beware: The prints are a one-off run. Once they're gone, they're gone.

I Have Come Back Deborah

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