Tathāgata (1691)

 7 months on from TP#4, Demdike return with the 5th instalment in their ongoing research and development series - a double-headed monster split between gnarly reductions on the A-side, and industrial strength edits on the flip. ‘Procrastination’ edges through Grimey detritus and gunshot snares within a vast open space perfectly primed for that Demdike slow build. ‘Past Majesty’ on the flip offers up a feral take on some kind of cyber-industrial insanity, somewhere between Ministry and Powell - with a denouement which should probably come with a public health warning attached to it. All we’re saying is - watch yr eardrums.

Procrastination

DarkHole

JABKO

Limited edition of 700 copies.
All tracks written, played by Muslimgauze.
Previously released on CD as part of Box Of Silk And Dogs (Muslimlim 013).

"Those not familiar with Jones’ style, will listen slack-jawed at the shear anticipatory nature of his sound collage. Initially released by Staalplaat in 1999 (the same year of his passing away) as part of the ‘Box Of Silk And Dogs’ comes out again as a double LP. He was a cult artist, politically motivated for the arab-palestinian cause and a seminal experimenter of the ethnical samples’ use with minimal and electronic rhythms. The atmospheres retain intact the original charm made out of full and gloomy, but pulsating in the provoked emotions, very different from the exotic and ornamental processing of certain world music. Drum machines, old synths, percussion, all combined in a traditional way, without any computer help. Sounds anyway already permeated with what will have come, drawing on different genres but always supporting a specific poetic. “Peace is a distant dream” Bryn Jones said, in one of his latest interviews. He died for a rare blood disease, and on both sizes things seem to unfortunately still be the same.
Ingaza is thematically and stylistically all over the place, sporting atmospheric instrumental loops one moment and jarring, heavily barbed and distorted beats the next. Differences between tracks, not unlike changing channels on TV or switching between net browsers, predominate, imagery conjuring Middle Eastern travel and tourism on one screen plays against grisly proxy war footage on the next. The only threads linking these tracks were made during Jones' grittier production-cum-dub days during the last years of his life.

Tracklist:

A1. Meesur
A2. Satsooma
A3. Pen Your Atlas, And Find Kurdistan
B1. Divotee, Lie With The Dogs
B2. Baljit With Copper Wire
B3. Silk And Mint.
B4. Kumari
C1. Banjari
C2. Sacrifice Pit
C3. Sandblind
C4. Hand Of Henna
C5. Moonshi
D1. Hamas Internet, Gaza
D2. Grass Of Sidi Bou Said
D3. Allah Will, Provide You Forfeit
D4. Temple Carcass
D5. Hamas Internet, Gaza

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D1. Hamas Internet, Gaza (track #13)

A2. Satsooma (track #2)

A1. Meesur (track #1)

⚠️Physical release only ⚠️

VA Test Pressing II
Muscut 10
12" LP
Release date: 10 Nov 2018

Ukrainian label Muscut celebrates its anniversary - Muscut X (10) Test Pressign II - is the tenth record in a row. The first release was published in 2012 on 7 inches and was called simply Test Pressing. Like six years ago, the current vinyl is a compilation of Muscut's “residents”, as well as  new friends of the label. Test Pressing II is 12 inches on which there are exactly ten tracks.
Both sides are significantly different in color of mood. Party A starts with dub-drone sketches of key figures of the Odessa underground - Wildstyle Crew and Bryozone. Then we hear the mantra-like  M2 - the work of the creative union of Nicola Ratti, Mads Emil Nielsen together with Nikolaenko. The Canadian sound-artist Mark Templeton continues the line of rhythmic textures crowned with unhurried percussion - it is in all senses of Soft Education at number four. The first part is completed by an exquisite curtsy from the Andrew Pekler label frequenter called Underwater Nocturne as a soundtrack for the perfect tea ceremony.
The second side confidently sets a completely different compilation rhythm from the very start - the tribal tribal dance from the Berlin project Native Instrument instantly introduces into a trance. It is followed by a warm, enveloping minimal synth track from the Ukrainian trio Nisantashi Primary School. The middle of the second side is decorated with the pensive house-ballad of St. Petersburg producer Fadeev known as AEM Rhythm Cascade. Another Russian settled next to him - Muscovite Oleg Buyanov, aka OL, with a massive broken dub Nutmeg. The final composition consists of burning afrosint motifs from luminary Odessan Vakula.

Tracklist:

A1 Wildstyle Crew - Intro (edit)
A2 Bryozone - Juicy Quiddity
A3 Ratti Nielsen Nikolaienko - M2
A4 Mark Templeton - Soft Education
A5 Andrew Pekler - Underwater Nocturne

B1 Native Instrument - Thud
B2 Nisantashi Primary School - Flaneur 
B3 AEM Rhythm Cascade - Biruza
B4 OL - Nutmeg
B5 Vakula - Afromadness

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Graphic design by Jugoceania

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VA Test Pressing II, Muscut 10 (12'', 2018)

New track out on @12th-isle 's V.A comp 'Inkosi' alongside Nikolaienko, Cru Servers, Robert Bergman and Luar Domatrix.

https://soundcloud.com/12th-isle/va-inkosi-isle0075

In shops worldwide in early October, limited to 300 copies.
Distribution by Rubadub
Artwork by Al White

The Man Is Out

Muscut founder Nikolaienko and Arthur Mine collaborate on some experimental Mesozoic exotica.

'Nostalgia Por Mesozóica' is out March 6th on Muscut.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3cnKkkJ

@nikolaienko
@deverze
@muscut

Premiere: Nikolaienko Meets Arthur Mine - Troglodytes [Muscut]

Room for the Moon

Sayonara

Kate NV - Sayonara

Staalplaat is a physical and online record and book store located in Berlin Neukölln (Germany) and focused on experimental, unusual and extreme music, underground tape culture and DIY art and graphic design.

Staalplaat also hosts an in-house label, publisher and itinerant gallery called Le Petit Mignon.

Feel free to visit both our Berlin store and mailorder page to get an overview of our offer, projects and activities.

We speak English, feel free to contact us!
Wir sprechen Deutsch, wenden Sie sich an uns!
Nous parlons français, n'hésitez pas à nous contacter!

Staalplaat store, mailorder and distribution
Elbestr.28-29
Hinterhof
12045 Berlin, Neukölln, Germany
email: mailorder(at)staalplaat.com

A2. Satsooma (track #2)

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