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MOTION FOREVER - split 12” by Lee Noble and Ensemble Economique.
Available June 20 from Hands in the Dark Records (pre-order May 29).

Samples:
AdHoc
Hartzine

Hands in the Dark Records

NK33: Hobbledeions “Asyndeton” c44

Mr. Scott Martin returns to No Kings for the third time with this long player, which has been bouncing around studios and car speakers with explosive anticipation while this drummer savant has been out on the Lambchop world tour. Finally it’s out. Expect the usual paralyzing beats and whipped-into-shape sample blips. Onward forever. Edition of 60 pro-dubbed tapes with risograph artwork in pink and black gradient on thick cotton rag paper.

Hobbledeions side B excerpt by No Kings

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NK32: Cats’ Orchestra / Problems That Fix Themselves split c38 - SOLD OUT

Moscow’s Nicholay Sirov (Cats’ Orchestra) curated this split with his Chicago penpal Josh Tabbia. Cats’ side A is a curious amalgam of jumbled samples and looped riffs, mysterious late nite compositions performed by a sleepwalker, and on side B Tabbia’s Problems That Fix Themselves contrasts with slabs of two-fisted digital distortion and a few surprising moments of release. Edition of 60 pro-dubbed tapes with risograph artwork designed by Amy Fortunato and Lee Noble on varying shades of green paper. -SOLD OUT-

Please note that many copies will be available directly from the artists very soon.

Cats’ Orchestra “Footpints” by No Kings

Problems That Fix Themselves “Tell me something I don’t know” by No Kings

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NK31: Virgin Spirit “The Skull Tastes Like Metal” c50 - SOLD OUT

No Kings home team members and two of my favorite humans, William Cody Watson (Pink Priest, Malibu Wands, Gremlynz) and Joe Volmer (Clearing, Police Academy 6) combine their signature bleak atonal drifts and breathtaking melodic suites in their first effort as Virgin Spirit. Slowly warped tape recordings float in reverb, soundtracking your existential crisis. “These will conjure spirits into your bedroom.” -WCW. Edition of 60 pro-dubbed tapes with letterpress / risograph artwork by Lee Noble and Amy Fortunato on cream or salmon cardstock. -SOLD OUT-

Please note that many copies will be available direct from the artists very soon.

Virgin Spirit “Skull Tastes Like Metal A” excerpt by No Kings

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BLACK MIRROR - Zine #03

A series of symmetrical drawings and shapes by Lee Noble, designed by Amy Fortunato. Readers are encouraged to write what they see on the lines provided and in the margins.

Risograph printed in black ink on brown paper, pink cardstock cover, stapled binding. 8.5” x 5.5”. 20 pages. Second edition of around 30. Each copy comes with an original sumi ink blot on Crane’s 110# cotton rag paper. Select copies come with ink blot stickers and buttons. [Apologies, there are like 6 other things with this title out there, must just be in the collective unconscious right now].

New zines… info forthcoming!

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OOP tapes available from Tomentosa Records

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NK30: Talk West “Freights & Fields” c40 - SOLD OUT

Tulsa, OK multi-instrumentalist and Scissortail Records guy Dylan Golden Aycock delivers this stunning batch of drone-folk meditations fashioned with a truly refreshing mix of synths, loops, air organ, and expressive pedal steel. These sunken timber hymns harken back to the roots of American experimentalism but stand in their own new space, lonesome bedroom ballads tinged with universal nostalgia. Edition of 70 pro-dubbed/imprinted tapes with letterpressed and risographed artwork. -SOLD OUT-

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NK29: Soothsayer “Keynes Utopia” c40 - SOLD OUT

Moon Glyph head/designer Steve Rosborough’s Soothsayer project continues to evolve with this new long-player of solid now-age synth minus any overwrought gear-headedness. Subtle, slight ambient pieces that flutter into the air, and abstractly preach utopian economics. Makes your plants grow. Leave it on forever. Edition of 70 pro-dubbed/imprinted tapes with risographed artwork. -SOLD OUT-

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NK26: Dusted Lux “Canopy” c40 - SOLD OUT

Following a bewitching debut on Kimberly Dawn, this full-length is four soft organic drones caked in rust, waves of field recording hiss, elusive songs hidden in dust clouds. A soulful assemblage of textures and melodies that will reveal itself to those who listen thoughtfully. Edition of 70 pro-dubbed/imprinted tapes with letterpressed and gocco-printed artwork. -SOLD OUT-

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NK28: Trailing “Opacities & Allures” c28

Fadeaway Tapes co-head and Sundrips member, Ryan Connolly fucks up some solo guitar onto tape in these two side-long drones, his follow-up to last year’s self-release split with Thoughts On Air. Vibrating metallic sound particles collide and ricochet into a net of dusty reverb 28 minutes long. Edition of 100 pro-dubbed tapes with color labels, risographed and photocopied artwork on various cardstock, with insert.

Trailing “Opacities & Allures” Side A by No Kings

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NK27: Clearing “No Titles” c40 - SOLD OUT

The second album on No Kings of sumptuous electronic suites from Murfreesboro’s Joseph Volmer (Party Trash, Virgin Spirit, Skylines, Police Academy 6) is wrought with slow intensity. These 7 stunning tracks channel classic moments from Baraka-soundtrack-era Dead Can Dance and Philip Glass, with space-high extremes that then plunge into the bleakest depths. At times plaintive, at others frightening, the icy chord progressions shatter and reform with each passing moment. Edition of 100 pro-dubbed tapes with color labels. Risographed and photocopied art based on accompanying video work by Geoffrey Sexton, with insert by Amy Fortunato. -SOLD OUT-

Clearing - Blank from Geoffrey Sexton on Vimeo.

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NK25: Scissoring “We Hate Everything” c30 - SOLD OUT

Two crazy dudes, Dan “Cough Cool” Sviseny and William Cody “Pink Priest” Watson, have given up their corporeal bodies and made some kind of Voltron Mutant union that is Scissoring. Each half-mutant man taking a side of this tape, they have gathered the sound dust of civilizations and run them through the shredder a thousand times to make a paste, and they are smearing it all over our faces and stomachs. Cough Cool’s side is four tracks entitled 1. I, 2. AM, 3. WILLIAM, 4. BASINSKI. Cody’s is called Who Gives a Fuck. Truly they hate everything. This is Scissoring’s first effort, they have since gone on to complete two more albums, NUCLEAR WET EARTH, and NO DREAM / NO REGRETS. Pro-dubbed imprinted tapes with photocopied artwork designed by WCW, as well as a letterpressed mini-print of his drawing of what seems to be a gremlin flipping you off. Edition of 60. - SOLD OUT -

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NK24: Coupler “America in the Coming Age of Electronics” c32 - SOLD OUT

This member of Nashville legendary bands Lambchop and Hands Off Cuba presents his first solo effort as Coupler with America in the Coming Age of Electronics, featuring guests like our friends Hobbledeions, Sugar Sk*_*lls, and Corney Tidwell, all excellent studio musicians and artists in their own right. Playing a huge variety of unique equipment (how many tapes do you have that feature melotron?) Ryan Norris sketches out delicate compositions and spacious electronic riffs that are in places reminiscent of Jonny Greenwood’s film score work, and seem to tell a retro-futurist origin story of America. Pro-dubbed imprinted tapes with two-layer artwork: gocco screenprint pattern, and glass painting acetate overlay by Geoffrey Sexton, with double-sided risograph liner notes on newsprint. Edition of 70. -SOLD OUT-

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NK23: Ala Vjiior / Twin Polygamists split c20 - SOLD OUT

Frank Oullette of Hobo Cubes / Cult sends us minimalist love with a new side project Ala Vjiior on side A of this split, and leader of Copenhagen boutique BSBTA, Christian Kann, turns up the cold heat for side B as Twin Polygamists. Double minimalist electronic action! Microsound clouds drifting into deep space. Best listened to in a Cathedral. Two-layer artwork: letterpressed lino-cut designed by Amy Fortunato, with glass painting acetate overlay by Geoffrey Sexton. Pro-dubbed blue imprinted tapes, edition of 70. -SOLD OUT-

A - Ala Vjiior “Century Sky”
Mistycoded Aura
Memoristic Aeon

B - Twin Polygamists “Moist Foundations”
Part 1
Part 2

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