No Kings

NK33: Hobbledeions "Asyndeton" c44

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:40:00 -0700

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

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

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:35:00 -0700

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

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

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:33:00 -0700

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

BLACK MIRROR - Zine #03

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:32:00 -0700

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!

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:49:40 -0700

New zines… info forthcoming!

OOP tapes available from Tomentosa Records

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:06:27 -0800

OOP tapes available from Tomentosa Records

NK30: Talk West "Freights & Fields" c40 - SOLD OUT

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:27:00 -0800

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-

NK29: Soothsayer "Keynes Utopia" c40 - SOLD OUT

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:27:00 -0800

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-

NK26: Dusted Lux "Canopy" c40 - SOLD OUT

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:06:00 -0800

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-

NK28: Trailing "Opacities & Allures" c28

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:57:00 -0800

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

NK27: Clearing "No Titles" c40 - SOLD OUT

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:25:00 -0800

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.

NK25: Scissoring "We Hate Everything" c30 - SOLD OUT

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:49:00 -0800

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 -

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

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:48:00 -0800

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-

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

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:47:00 -0800

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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Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:13:36 -0700

NK22: Ophibre "Chronic Complications" c40 - SOLD OUT

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:30:00 -0700

Ben Rossignol offers up 40 minutes of raw experiments in synthesis from his frontier workshop in Boston, playing built-from-scratch analog machines of his own design, and other mystery equipment. This dramatic document is rooted in the tradition of noise/music boundary exploration, while its upper limbs claw the modern mist. Edition of 60 pro-dubbed / imprinted tapes with letterpressed artwork. - SOLD OUT -

NK20: Aerial Jungle "Tales of Acoustic Levitation" c50 - SOLD OUT

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:16:00 -0700

This epic follow-up to their Hooker Vision debut deftly captures the ideal essence of contemporary synth / ambient music, and further cements the Midas touch of both Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis Industries) and Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Quiet Evenings, Hooker Vision). The 50 transportive minutes of “…Acoustic Levitation” invoke a supernatural science fiction spirit, with tones and rhythms that are both manufactured and organic, as if dredged up from a future where technology and nature are intertwined. With titles like “The Meissner Effect” which has to do with magnetic levitation, the science magic vibe is clear.
Edition of 60 pro-dubbed / imprinted tapes with letterpressed artwork on pink or white paper. -SOLD OUT-

NK19: Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier "Discovering Mathematics 2" c42 - SOLD OUT

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:04:00 -0700

This prolific triple-threat talent (artist / writer / musician, obviously) from Belgium has graciously allowed No Kings to handle 42 minutes of her chance operation / intuitive sound collage work, after a myriad of releases on such underground institutions as Digitalis, Stunned, and Kaugummi. “Discovering Mathematics II” is warm, spacious, and immersive, and is treated with the same emphasis on process, openness and relationships between elements as her visual art. Edition of 60 pro-dubbed tapes with gold foil / green imprint, letterpressed artwork based on a text book. -SOLD OUT-

NK21: Ttotals "Live at Grady's" c20 - SOLD OUT

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:56:00 -0700

This psych two-piece are mining something raw and hazy from the Nashville undercurrent, skimming off and putting it down thick and black. And after several self-released vinyl EPs and a CD on Kimberly Dawn, they sent us over some appropriately fuzzy live recordings from their last tour out to California, during which they also played a blistering show at No Kings HQ. Four tracks of pure, stripped down, raw psychedelia, which are nicely warmed up by a cassette dub. Brian’s cranked straight-into-the-amp guitar, and Marty’s heavy hitting, over-sized cocktail drum set up combine into a kind of focused hypnosis rapture. Pro-dubbed, imprinted tapes, letterpressed design by Amy Fortunato with insert by L. Noble, edition of 50. -SOLD OUT-

NK18: Hobbledeions / Sugar Sk-lls "Secret Fugue Machine" c44 - SOLD OUT

Wed, 18 May 2011 11:34:00 -0700

Nashville drum hero Scott Martin returns as Hobbledeions, and this time brings his Forrest Bride / Hands Off Cuba bandmate and champion of the underground, Ben Marcantel as Sugar Sk*-*lls, for side B of this split. This rad, rad split. Martin sutures dynamic blast beats to electronic atmospheres, while Marcantel brings razor-sharp saw waves and haunted hip-hop gameboy jams. Terribly enjoyable. Special edition of 99 produbbed/imprinted tapes with 4-color letterpressed artwork by No Kings, some printed on variant blue paper. -SOLD OUT-

No Kings

NK33: Hobbledeions "Asyndeton" c44

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

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

BLACK MIRROR - Zine #03

New zines… info forthcoming!

OOP tapes available from Tomentosa Records

NK30: Talk West "Freights & Fields" c40 - SOLD OUT

NK29: Soothsayer "Keynes Utopia" c40 - SOLD OUT

NK26: Dusted Lux "Canopy" c40 - SOLD OUT

NK28: Trailing "Opacities & Allures" c28

NK27: Clearing "No Titles" c40 - SOLD OUT

NK25: Scissoring "We Hate Everything" c30 - SOLD OUT

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

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

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NK22: Ophibre "Chronic Complications" c40 - SOLD OUT

NK20: Aerial Jungle "Tales of Acoustic Levitation" c50 - SOLD OUT

NK19: Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier "Discovering Mathematics 2" c42 - SOLD OUT

NK21: Ttotals "Live at Grady's" c20 - SOLD OUT

NK18: Hobbledeions / Sugar Sk*-*lls "Secret Fugue Machine" c44 - SOLD OUT

NK18: Hobbledeions / Sugar Sk-lls "Secret Fugue Machine" c44 - SOLD OUT