An immediate digital DL of this EP is available when pre-purchasing the 12" at www.SecretStudioRecods.com. Digital DLs are limited to available 12" stock (300 copies), and will not be found anywhere but on our website, ever. As a vinyl only label at heart, this is our thanks to you for supporting Secret Studio Records directly and pre-purchasing the vinyl. This release is being pressed at Archer in Detroit. We are currently waiting for our TEST PRESS, Vinyl SHIPS IN OCTOBER... 

More about the CIRCLING VULTURES: Circling Vultures is a hardware driven project fronted by Chicago natives Justin Long (Hugo Ball), and Ken Zawacki (Dar Embarks). Making no apologies and taking no prisoners, The Vultures sonic output follow within (and outside) the traditions of warehouse dance music culture and DIY punk practices. Zawacki and Long spent a predominant amount of their teenage years traversing through the hedonistic spaces of the Midwestern techno scene of the 1990’s, which was an era that saw a unification of acid house, knuckle biting electronics, and unforgiving hardcore. These experiences together with their adoration for subversive mutant music served as the base of inspiration for the establishment of the Vultures sound, which can be viewed as a brutal photograph of a world dipped in chaos that continues to optimistically grasp for air.

Secret Studio Records (Secret Studio), is a blue collar DIY label and production team based out of California's Bay Area with deep roots to Chicagoland. Six releases deep, Secret Studio has established a strong acidic catalog centered around hard-hitting jack tracks and lo-fi techno with raw aesthetics. The label features co-productions with D'Marc Cantu, D-Wynn and Jason Kendig (Honey Soundsystem), while also releasing EPs by fringe/upcoming artists Josh Elle, and Circling Vultures. Secret Studio is a vinyl only label at heart, focused on short runs of 2-400 copies, hand-stamped and numbered with limited distribution. Supporters of the label are urged to purchase direct at www.SecretStudioRecords.com, where digital copies of their material can be found with all 12” purchases.

Circling Vultures | EP

Circling Vultures - Goblin Cleaver - Secret Studio Rec - SCS06

Justin Aulis Long is a sonic sorcerer, urban Homeric poet, and cosmic wanderer that exists within the liminal spaces where light meets dark. Long is the offspring of a gorgon, conceived within a brick and mortar labyrinth while surrounded by the supernatural electronic voices of angelic forces.

While engaging in themes of the uncanny and erotic, Long opens thresholds which lead to psychedelic realms during communal dance gatherings. Applications of sonic alchemy during ritual action generate vibrant forces created through collective effervescence, causing a bubbling over of ecstatic energy leading to rapture. During the rite, incantations are expressed through fusing a swarm of aural fragments composed from diverse temperaments by way of a personal and singular technique.Sacred objects (records), selector’s tools (turntables and mixer), body, spirit, harmonic and discordant voices unify and become one - The Soft Machine. 

During a ritual performance, phonic collages are created intuitively on sight, sigils are aurally  direct with specific intent, and offerings are bestowed before an alter, all charged by an engine of chaos. Time and space unravels while normality ruptures and disintegrates as foundational structures of the status quo are dismantled through intensive executions, founded in the practices surrounding musical selection.  

Currently, Long is resident at Smart Bar, the Chicago dance institution, and has become an organ in the body of that space. Recording for L.I.E.S. as one half of the Circling Vultures, Long continues to tell tales of rave gatherings past, while divining the the future.

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Formed in the Bay Area by Bryan Balli & Tyrel Williams with deep roots in Chicago, Secret Studio has specialized a sound steeped in acid, jack tracks, and the rawest House and Techno imaginable.