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CVN - Matters
DJWWWW - Arigato
Giant Claw - Deep Thoughts
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Deep Thoughts continues the hyperreality of Dark Web, focusing on melody and harmony as established musical tropes utilized to elicit very specific emotional responses. By pairing colorful use of harmony (sentimental, jovial, menacing, pensive) with general MIDI and other soundfonts that are traditionally thought of as the least expressive available, I was hoping to highlight the harmonic and melodic ties to those emotional responses, allowing them to become more clear than if played with more traditionally expressive sounds.
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Seth Graham - No. 00 in Clean Life
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On his newest Orange Milk effort, Seth Graham plays to the rafters, saturating his compositions (richer and more adventurous than ever) with an operatic gravity — skitteringly combining the
powers of Wagner and Robert Ashley. — Joe Bucciero |
Tendencies - Waterbed
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Brandon Smith's Tendencies project shines through a lot of 2015's Vaporwave overload with some of the heaviest and most heart-pounding grooves I've heard in the Future Funk sub-genre. The music is beautifully trapped between poles: hi-fidelity disco shimmer and YouTube digital grit, 70s and 80s material Product placement excess and early 21st century intangible commodity explosions, side chained sample madness against a clear and distinct producer and songwriter's ear.
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Man Made Hill - Totally Regular
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This is our second release of beautiful and weird DIY scummy electronic pop from Toronto's Randy Gagne aka Man Made Hill. Totally Regular straddles a perfect line between total musical abandon and immaculate songwriting with deep and funny lyrical themes ("Double Dippin'" and "Mutton for Lawyer" are two personal favorites). Overall we think Randy is a continuously blossoming underground popstar.
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G.S. Sultan - ad.sculpt tutorial
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Digital modern avant-garde MaxMSP pointillism. I'm always drawn to music that feels sculptural or tangible in some way, and ad.sculpt tutorial definitely falls into that category with its variety of spare but effective tone colors. It feels like music you could reach out and touch, like tiny cold and smooth metallic balls hovering in a large white room with patches of colored shag carpet pasted on the ground and walls. I think of it as a sound installation piece with overall ties to aleatoric, generative, and sound-design music of the past and present day.
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Larry Wish - Born Outside My Window
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Our previous Larry Wish album was a collection of favorites from his vast Bandcamp library. Born Outside My Window is all new and all original (except an amazing cover of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love") and it delves even deeper into epic weird outsider prog-pop. A lot of the songs are around ten minutes building and mutating around Larry's low-register vocals and intense live drumming.
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Darren Keen - He's Not Real
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Darren Keen has been performing for over ten years under the monikers The Show is the Rainbow, Touch People, and now his given name. His new album, He's Not Real, continues to explore Footwork, Juke, Bass, and African polyrhythms, merging these various forms with the ease of a master producer and lifelong dance-music aficionado. Minimal in execution but complex in it's composition and forward motion, He's Not Real functions as thrilling club music while sitting on the edge of the avant-garde's recent fascination with rhythm and deep bass.
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Bruce Smear - Chlorine
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Bruce Smear's Chlorine is meticulous, liquid bass music. Compositionally smooth and precise, it mixes classic bass and New Jack Swing (Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Seal, Prodigy, etc.) with a hyperreal, futurist sheen, allowing for moments of pure body-music bliss as well as textural electronic abstraction.
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Machine Girl - Gemini
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As part of the Dred Collective and Nu-Kawaii movement, Machine Girl is like a swirling, hyper-delirious summation of distant sectors of electronic dance music converging in 2015 under an umbrella of Brooklyn cosplayers and extreme beats per minute.
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Gora Sou - Ramifications
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Germany's Marc Übel, aka Gora Sou, follows up his fantastic Living XXL album with Ramifications, an increasingly composed and masterful hybrid of ethereal synth abstraction and new MIDI sounds. The music is direct and effortless, seeming to arrive fully formed with few overdubs, even if we know that not to be true. In fact each instance of ambiance, rhythmic movement, and pure sound texture is labored over in a conscious effort to emphasize arrangement. According to the artist, Ramifications is about dealing with problems and changes and accepting them as something constructive, opposed to looking back all the time.
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Event Cloak - Life Strategies
Under the moniker Event Cloak and as part of the duo Sundrips, Montreal's Nick Maturo has been a heavy purveyor of avant-garde synthesizer music since 2010. Life Strategies is his first LP release and a major step for the artist, with an emphasis on sparse arrangements of digital electronics and chopped vocal samples. Each track unfolds with total clarity, utilizing the minimum amount of elements necessary to highlight their melodic, harmonic, and textural themes. The result is an overwhelming lightness, like a calm exhilaration, or the aural equivalent of a hidden sun-drenched room of bright whites and soothing grey tones.
DJ Fultono - My Mind Beats Vol.1
DJ Fulltono has been described as the godfather of Japanese footwork, and My Mind Beats Vol. 1 is a seminal work. The album is relentless, beautiful, and harshly minimal, channeling the spirit of RP Boo and other early Chicago footwork artists via the adaptability of Osaka, Japan.
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mus.hiba - White Girl
Another Japanese artist we are happy to make available in the US, mus.hiba records meticulous, uplifting but sometimes achingly bittersweet electronic pop music. White Girl features a high pitched digital-idol voice over tightly wound beats that recall older artists like Tujiko Noriko and newer soundcloud producers who love dipping into upbeat and cute aesthetics.
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Padna - Rimmesa Truppa Suite
The three other releases in our March batch form a Japanese trilogy of sorts, while Padna represents the other end of the abstract electronics spectrum. He is a middle school teacher from Brooklyn, and has recorded a homage to avant-garde modern classical music, entirely for voice and MIDI instruments. Rimessa Truppa Suite is often sparse and direct, filled with the plasticity of MIDI piano and woodwinds, but it's also irresistible in it's playfulness and energetic bursts of dissonance.
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Foodman - COULDWORK
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COULDWORK is semi-compilation album, featuring some old and some new sounds that summarize Foodman's path leading into 2015. It straddles the lines between experimental footwork, vapor-collage music, and modern minimal electronics. We are happy that the label Melting Bot is releasing a Japanese CD edition alongside our cassette. Foodman will also be releasing a full length vinyl LP on Orange Milk later in the year.
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Giant Claw - DARK WEB (cassette edition)
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With Dark Web, Keith Rankin has created a skeleton of the internet’s lifespan. The album threads together icy net metallics and nuances of intimate pop songs. An asthmatic gasp, grinding teeth, MIDI clips and trap beats writhe around against R&B samples like a robot booting up to have sex with a human. The interplay between effortless sensuality and battery-charged electronics builds an atmosphere of horny apocalyptic nihilism. Dark Web is a whole new thing, and for my money, it’s something 2015 will have to get used to. – Lizzie Plaugic, CMJ
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Jung An Tagen - Aeussere
You could look at Aeussere as an austere, precise, chilly minimal synthesizer record. It reminds me more of an intimate sound installation piece. I imagine surreal blotches of color, or, as seen on the album cover, an amorphous white blob painted in oils, dripping a sliver of brightly colored ooz against a vast black canvas. Every note is like a finely placed stroke; an overall methodical piece of art.
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Nico Niquo - Epitaph
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“Epitaph” is a digital native’s exploration of the limitless and
compounding possibilities of data in an age free from stylistic
convention. Bass and techno forms are re-imagined through the
inflections of new age and early digital compositions, distilled from a
vaporous haze of web fixation.
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UltraaBright - Roue de Fortune
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Roue de Fortune plays like a summary of the past ten years of underground electronics, seamlessly transitioning between different modes like industrial noise, tranced-out beat music, and R&B glitch/sample abstraction. Everything is glued together by a sense of confidence and directness, as if each track was pulled from a collective subconscious into existence. Another unifying force would be a low key aura of foreboding; I don't want to say this is a dark or gloomy album, but even at it's most upbeat it casts an almost nihilistic shadow of modern interconnectedness.
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Nick Storring - Endless Conjecture
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Endless
Conjecture is an epic work of modern composition; a one-man chamber
ensemble, overdubbed orchestral music, meticulous musique concrete. It
has dissonant shrieking crescendos next to exuberant rhythmic movements,
and a general stitched together nature that feels fresh, like Ligeti
overdubbing in his bedroom. Nick has a versatile range that even extends
beyond the sounds on Endless Conjecture. He is always ready online with
a link or recommendation and finds the excitement in all sorts of
sounds, probably craving that joy of discovery like any master internet
curator.
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Yves Malone - Ebony Sunrise |
Ebony Sunrise is the follow up to Yves Malone's three-cassette box set of Italo-horror, John Carpenter worship music, and I think he's getting close to perfecting the sound. Or maybe even transcending it. The 20th century exploded so fast that a million branches of underground music ignited and fizzled out before they could even begin to flex their muscles. An album like Ebony Sunrise is simply picking a cultural loose end and honing it, experimenting with it, and generally pushing it forward. Definitely a high point for the synth-underground.
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Death's Dynamic Shroud - 世界大戦OLYMPICS
Search bandcamp for the 'Vaporwave' tag and you'll be faced with a horde of vaguely connected works of modern, sample-based music. The genre has sprung upon the internet like an underground meme, and it's grip seems persistent, partly because the act of sampling and manipulating an already existing source is so easily accomplished. In my mind, 世界大戦OLYMPICS is one of the best vapor albums of the year, partly because of it's incredible curatorial sense, partly because of it's sharp editing, and partly because it beams a specific artists intent through the prism of internet sub-genre.
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Orange Milk Split Series Vol. 1
In the Orange Milk Split Series we highlight four artists from different regions independently focusing on similar, culturally connected musical strains. For the first installation, the artists are Drut PD, Larry Wish, CH Rom, and Elegance (featuring Peter and Kassie from the band Guerrilla Toss). The theme is experimentation within the pop music setting. Each song question the meaning of pop music in 2014 by employing sparkling electronics, bizarre baritone vocals, tangential song structure, and a sense of freedom and joy at the prospect of manipulating a catchy tune. The cassette art features beautiful 3D action figures by artist Jordan Speer.
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Giant Claw - DARK WEB LP
Composed primarily through intricate MIDI notation and sampling, Dark Web could be viewed through the tradition of hyperrealism, where established cultural tropes and recordings are cut up and stitched back together as new compositional tools. Dark Web expands the concept by muddling the line between sampled material and newly composed fragments, packing realities and layers of cultural data into each musical instance.
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Jerry Paper - Big Pop For Chameleon World LP
Jerry Paper’s Big Pop For Chameleon World is a sonic riddle. Through both lyrics and specific timbral choices (a marked shift to digital synthesizer from Jerry’s earlier analog work), the album deals with themes of simulacra, an inter-dimensional infinite man existing in a finite world, the discomfort of existence in Body World, and love as the pinnacle of our time here. It is a continuation of Jerry’s ongoing attempt to ‘talk about’ the anti-logic of mystical experience through the ‘grammar’ of pop music, this time using album-form and timbre as a more central part of the overall language of the work.
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Pajjama - Karakasa
Karakasa is the third tape we've put out for Norway's Pajjama, but it's their first full length, 40-minute masterpiece of synth prog. That description might be reductive though, because there are so many entry points for this record. Many moments still recall JRPG landscapes or futurist neon cities, but in a lot of ways Karakasa is defined by its adoption of repetition and the german kosmische aesthetic, employing darker harmonies and slowly unfolding structures to great effect. I know Pajjama's leader, Eirik Suhrke, is a musical sponge, which I admire in artists. So much absorption has evolved into versatile composition techniques, creating an almost meta-genre from the underbelly of 20th century media.
Larry Wish - Free Willy Style
I met Larry Wish (real name Adam) when we played a show together in Minneapolis. It was bar with a heavy rock-band atmospheres, and Adam stood on stage with only a mic and iPod, singing in a strangle dramatized low-range croon over some really intense, almost Frank Zappa-like pop music. There are 31 Larry Wish albums on his bandcamp, Free Willy Style is a compilation of some favorite tracks, all bursting with inspiration, exploring the possibilities of pop music. Adam is clearly an artist of seemingly endless creativity and energy, and we are happy to have captured some of that for you on tape.
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Scammers - American Winter
It's been a busy year for Phil Diamond's Scammers project, with albums on the Field Hymns and Jehu and Chinaman labels already displaying Phil's restless and prolific nature. Each of his albums makes me think about the joy of creativity and making music in the 21st century, partly because each seems so considered, or at least confident in their own sound-worlds, yet disparate. American Winter is no different, possibly the most deeply strange and deceptive Scammers album yet. It is filled with sweeping MIDI orchestration and minimal, quivering vocals that transition into all out cheese-funk, slap bass, and staccato vocal phrases about walking to work amidst a frozen corporate American.
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EQ Why - Chitokyo Mixtape
Chitokyo definitely possesses the sonic trademarks of the [footwork] genre: dizzying 808 snares and syncopated kick patterns abound throughout the album's hour-long duration. And yet, the overall aesthetic of the album is very different from your average footwork record. The listener is constantly bombarded with a mesmerizing, endlessly mutating collage of samples and sound sources, creating a sense of hysteria not entirely unlike the adrenaline rush generated by DJ Clap's most frenetic compositions. Smith demonstrates an uncanny ability to cycle through and deftly manipulate these samples, building lurching sonic structures that only last for a few moments before evaporating and being replaced by something new. - AdHoc
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Flower Man/Seth Graham Split
It’s not that complicated. Flower Man is simply presenting the facts of “Once Lost Unknown.” Take photosynthesis for example: you got the sun, and soil, water, and plant stuff that moves around, right? Then like, okay, what about the existence of the sun, or how all these seeds ended up in all this soil? All this SOIL! And water? Forget it. There’s explanations and mysteries. Flower Man divulges their in-betweens.
Side-B is a whole other oneness as Seth Graham takes a “Serious Shart” on new and great heights. Completely sample driven, this piece is meant to serve company as polite dinner music at your favorite American holiday. Be happy in your work, pear. These digestions were made for fibering, and “Serious Shart” is just what Seth Graham will make you do. - CM
Side-B is a whole other oneness as Seth Graham takes a “Serious Shart” on new and great heights. Completely sample driven, this piece is meant to serve company as polite dinner music at your favorite American holiday. Be happy in your work, pear. These digestions were made for fibering, and “Serious Shart” is just what Seth Graham will make you do. - CM
Ryan Emmett - Portrait of a Dog
The distant shores of thought trickle into the frozen pull of sound. As iced waves sculpture the water line, Ryan Emmett shatters their thickness and finds the intricacies of time hidden below. Deep archeology pursues as the Portrait of a Dog is dug out between crevasses of time and reality. Cracks in the carving monuments vision through sound. Perceiving the beyond is merely a play button away. Find yourself lost in Ryan Emmett’s Portrait of a Dog, for the bark is roughly the bite. - CM
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Wes Tirey - Home Recordings
And sometimes when someone comes along, they change your laugh entirely. As one would become more familiar with a sound of what they found breathable before, this sort of smile bares more body. And sometimes when another feels a song, a big pair of shoes are in need of being filled. While others seek out the innocents of crayons and colors, a hollowed vibration materializes within the real and twang and grace. And sometimes when Wes bounds in strong, rejoicing in directions other than the similar flays mystery. Pretending in being is as one does through earnest humanity and tireless practice. Finite solutions are of the Tirey. They are meant to be felt. Sound not only fills a room, but can become the tangible. And Wes Tirey begs listeners to reach out and meld with Home Recordings. - CM
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Genetics and Windsurfing - Audio Stream Continuum
Bows were meant to be broken. DNA was made to make up. Audio Stream Continuum is complete antithesis. There’s no need for explanation. Demystifying the secret is entirely up to you: the observer. To reel Geneticists and Windsurfing - together as one, one as a combination - is too real. Silence becomes surrounded by touches of golden lingering flurries. Stress is one thing, but to melt it with a Audio Stream Continuum is pure treasure. Sound mongrels delight! The ecstasy of Geneticists and Windsurfing is all about making splashes. Will you ride those choppy waters? - CM
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Luxury Elite - TV Party
Upon entering this TV Party, dim-flashing lights make eyes squint through a foyer of unlimited bubbles. Wide-eyed now, the Luxury Elite is revealed dancing within, silhouetted against a pale blue sky and fading sun. Hips sway, shoulders shake, and the lax of distant bass filters in through a mirage band of sax, keys and hissed beats being played in holograms on the center stage. Indeed, this is a TV Party, for thick televisions are placed about the glass-walled high-rise penthouse, surrounded by champagne flutes and bottles, amongst everything else draped in velvet. One patron grips a mic that really isn’t there and begins to syrup lyrics to a song that’s known, but not quiet, and the scent of nostalgia overwhelms the room. Hearts flutter and knees shake to the beat and bass of Luxury Elite’s unabashed tenacity to recycle, thus setting this TV Party in an uproar of symbiotic connection. And as the glasses clink, Luxury Elite powers on through the night with class and sleaze, false romance and liquid bubblegum, mesh suits and tight vanity, taking this TV Party to that c45 level of infinite tape flipping. - CM
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Nikmis - Nicht Mass
Here we hear Nikmis (William Simkin). Take it in slowly. Breathe out swirls of Nicht Mass. To begin brings us back to being outside at night as a child: fireflies in jars with air holes, shadows under trees, and street light flickering. Discovery sets in and sneaking out of the house around said “tween-age” finds frolicking through the Kettering golf course is enjoyable, while collecting pieces of green and daring to climb the legendary Frankenstein’s castle. The teen years are complete in liberation of love and fear, basking in the moon glow, watching shooting stars atop the Rosewood Arts Center field, and becoming someone that won’t exist in years to come. Daring the debauchery them twenties hazes the mindset into a professional setting, which is also hazed between television and window gazing. It’s not until retirement when one finds rocking away porch lit evenings means as much as the night before, for bed times are for the workers, and experiencing life is made in dreams. Find your dreams on Nikmis’ newest cassette Nicht Mass. - CM
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Ventla - Smuggled
Teasing listeners to play along, Ventla’s only interest is being Smuggled into depths of collective imagination. Checker-speckled minds twist in the program of fleeting jingles, mingling in the midst of chip-life lifting rays of electronic pulse emitters higher. To pluck. To blip. Whistle away stress and melt within Ventla’s most dripped platform of fun. Seek higher meaning to being Smuggled as your day persists on the basis of reality. Upon the layers of who’s in control, this castle of software only beckons to that of the physical. And at the whim of nearly hundreds of keys to press, the Ventla eternity continues without remorse. Only ears are involved in sound's creative thought process. What is it like to hear noises echo off walls made of mere microchips? How does one feel about the nature of not being? Find salvation to life within Ventla’s newest cassette Smuggled. - CM
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Jerry Paper - International Man of Misery
Dawning all the wobbles, in all the mope-ding vintage tuxedo shops, Jerry Paper just deloused his finest threads and stepped into his alter-ego: International Man of Misery. Conveying his personification in steady-walking melodies, Jerry Paper fixes his musical bowtie in just enough time to give listeners straight situations that’ve unraveled within a warp of faded feelings. Mutant harmonies paired with lounge beats float along the purple lei covered water while red and blue sonic tones get 3D up in any mind trying to follow along with these six-tracks. Here, Jerry Paper slow-motion croons himself face-first into this lavish pool of water, content within this muck ditty-land. Behind glasses that catch all his tears and then-some, our host and International Man of Misery drags himself sopping from this situation only to slow-dance alone in the moonlight, dreaming of the next country he intends on dampening. International Man of Misery - CM
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Cream Juice - Man Feelings
The Cream Juice duo is back and on the ear attack, ready to give you a dose of Man Feelings. Comprised of Keith Rankin (Giant Claw) and Seth Graham, Cream Juice mixes a plethora of sounds to imbed their vision of music in your mind. Through wandering and lost scapes of tings and warps, one can hear the melody and stutter of two men delivering their collective consciousness via cassette within 30 minutes. Alien languages and faithful suspicions, Man Feelings will instantly telephone your most extra terrestrial being into the mysteries of “Mank-Ind.” Recordings of drums and keys falter, climaxing again and again into a musical perversion, introducing your imagination to the depths of masculinity. Samples of “Oh” instantly create a “My” reaction, and sped up synthetic melodies turn into an array of resonance, bouncing about your skull, and guitar solos gutted, projecting the culmination what’s most important in the minds of men. Wait, whoa, was that Schwarzenegger fighting a pterodactyl; action is always at its finest with Keith and Seth. On the level here, Cream Juice brings a fun atmosphere to all headphones, after a slew of live and candid gigs across the north-east and their last year’s Self Titled album, to bring you their most to-date and perfected meanderings in Man Feelings. - CM
Maharadja Sweets - In An Orange Milky Way
Maharadja Sweets' In An Orange Milky Way is a lo-fi sci-fi epic concept album about ethnomusicologists who travel to a distant galaxy to make a field recording. Maharadja has been making home recordings since 1981, for many years releasing his cassette albums (one copy each) into shoe boxes. His music was featured on WFMU's pioneering "lo-fi" show in 1987-88 (under the pseudonym Chadwick Dwanzhir) putting him squarely within the early wave of 1980's underground basement and bedroom recording artists. Most of the music on this album was recorded recently, but some tracks were re-purposed from his earliest days. For instance the song "Radio Broadcast" features melodies programmed in BASIC into a Commodore 64 computer in 1983. But all this does not begin to describe how good the record is. Maharadja Sweets is a true bizarre outsider folk spirit, harnessing a sincere oddness that translates into some beautiful exploratory lo-fi noise songwriting that only a certified New York City sightseeing guide could deliver.
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PHORK - Splish
I love hearing Neil Reinalda's use of musical elements, particularly rhythm, in his Phork recordings. He seems totally comfortable playing in both the realms of the avant garde and in pop, which was instantly appealing to us. I think it's easy to view rhythm functioning narrowly by set genre rules, but Splish can't really be tethered down, it's interesting in it's duality and playfulness. Neil describes the album himself as "top 40 de-skilled", a de-construction or meditation on the idea of pop performed with a layman's skill set. All the soup's ingredients are there, but they are cut too thin, cooked too long, or not long enough. It's a perfect example of how limitations can fuel the creative process, producing unexpectedly beautiful and forward thinking results.
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Christopher Merritt - Imaginary Colors
Coming down off his jungle-ish menagerie of twitch-rich sounds heard on last year’s Spirit Quest album, Christopher Merritt comes out from behind his Crystal Palace (moniker) to bring you Imaginary Colors. So sit back, relax, and enjoy creating the most vivacious piece of mind you’ve ever been lead to perceive. Feed the seeds of your thoughts and dreams in licks of strawberry and levity. Pretend that the floating sensation is only in your mind. Notes spliced into a mazed-out landscape, where the Minotaur serves you plate after plate of swelled tones and spilt electronics, swirling in a bowl full of reverberation. Yet, Christopher beckons the notion of patience throughout each prism on Imaginary Colors, easing the tension of the daily stresses we all face, bubbling joy within anticipation, and calmly settling the seems that leak into all of us. Hands-on or –off, Imaginary Colors is much more than just a cassette tape on Orange Milk, but a gateway to inner relaxation through Christopher Merritt’s telepathic sounds and psychic modular arrangements. - CM
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Pajjama - Jane Papaya
Jane Papaya is just as thoughtfully written and arranged [as the first Pajjama EP], but it focuses more on 80s pop/synth idioms and somewhat less on the more aggressive prog moments of the debut. Imagine the transition between Phil Collins' mullet period to his later skullet period, and you'll get the general idea. There's sometimes a bit of a moody 80s fusion vibe, too, ala Tribal Tech and the like, especially in the outro of "Salty Price." - words on sound
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Homeowner - Themes from 172
Homeowner is the project of Joe Bastardo, also of Bastian Void, Gay Shapes, and the Moss Archive label. His newest album, Themes from 172, finds a halfway point between seemingly aleatoric computer squawks and more compositional frameworks. It reminds me of early experiments in electronic music; very exploratory, sometimes clinical or 'theoretical' sounding -- as if an intricate computer code was behind it all -- but also paradoxically carefree and fun. Maybe it's Joe's perfectionist nature meeting the intrinsic chaos in non-traditional music that creates such a wonderful clash of sensibilities. Whatever the case, we are happy to present this album to you.
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CHASMS - Silicone Islands
Cody Kirkendall has been quietly releasing great pieces of music out of his hometown in Sandusky, Ohio for the past 10 years. He plays in the band Darger and co runs the great tape label DBLWLF, he occasionally also does solo releases under the moniker CHASMS. Silicone Islands is his most recent album that we are glad to be releasing, glistening digital sheets of sheen, carefully placed moments of beauty, a fantastic slow spring afternoon listen.
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Henry Dawson - Brain Love
Follow up record from Thunder of Wonder on Goldtimers, Seth Graham’s new record is a wielding every type of genre and sound into one 22 min record of ecstatic bursts, anxiety, joy and frustration all at once. A pile of exuberant bursts of beauty, digital tension, drum machines and carefully placed glitch and meticulous sound collage.
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Dozens - Pinball Mansion
Frank (Hobo Cubes/Hobo Cult) Ryan (Sundrips) new explorations that sounds like a wonky pinball.
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Piper Spray - Telegraph
Telegraph is a collage of bedroom nostalgia and some form of surreal and romantic songs that melt together in a wonderful record.
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Foodman - Shokuhin
We heard about Foodman through Soundcloud and a Japanese footwork compilation, but his record on Orange Milk escapes most genre classification. There is an element of warped dance music going on, but it's always interrupted by a flowing sense of randomness and perpetual change. I played a few tracks from Shokuhin for the older women at my day job, and all they could say was that it sounded ultra "modern". Utilizing dance, noise, sampling, and chaos, but not relying too heavily on any single element, we couldn't agree more.
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Lafidki - Absynthax
Lafidki is Saphy Vong creating dance electronic collage, a series of bursts of ecstatic energy, reminiscent of caboladies jamming out with a techno version of the boredoms in a nightclub. We highly recommend the track – Vong Wong.
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Weather Exposed - Yeon Mountain
To be frank, I'm a bit disillusioned by one of my favorite genre's, ambient drone -- so much of it to me fees like long uninspired pieces of nothingness where I am supposed to understand the introspective existentialism in a C chord held down for 12 minutes.
Jason Gray's Weather Exposed project really does the opposite with Yeon Mountain by delivering an interesting, short, concise and passionate record without bowing to many current trends in the genre to boot.
Picking up where his previous band Saudade left off, the album guides us calmly through this mountain. I'm never bored, and I don't feel like I'm being forced to gleam any form of contrived beauty, it feels natural. The tracks simply seem contemplative, never over reaching or desperate. Jason's style emphasizes stillness over asserting ones 'greatness'.
Jason Gray's Weather Exposed project really does the opposite with Yeon Mountain by delivering an interesting, short, concise and passionate record without bowing to many current trends in the genre to boot.
Picking up where his previous band Saudade left off, the album guides us calmly through this mountain. I'm never bored, and I don't feel like I'm being forced to gleam any form of contrived beauty, it feels natural. The tracks simply seem contemplative, never over reaching or desperate. Jason's style emphasizes stillness over asserting ones 'greatness'.
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Giant Claw - Mutant Glamour LP
Mutant Glamour is the new full length LP from Giant Claw, a culmination of three years of steady musical output. The album has plenty of themes: mutation, fashion, sex, trash culture, our weird alien bodies, and so on. Musically it's a sprawling, layered combination of improvisation and meticulous composition through editing, one that is deceptively seamless and of a whole. You'll also find wild atonal saxaphone, free jazz breakdowns, a lush ballad, and the insane sequences and broken arpeggios that one might expect from such a "synth act." Except Mutant Glamour is much more than synthesizer music. It's a restless document of clashing cultures and sounds expressed through electronics, flirting with a lot of traditions (dance, noise, jazz, prog rock) but never really settling on any one platform.
Teamm Jordann - Champion CS
Music makers known as Daytime Television and Teams join up to form Teamm Jordann. We're excited to present their record, Champion, on Orange Milk. I keep saying that I'm not exactly sure what is sampled and what's performed on the album, which is part of what makes it so exciting. What I do know is that it bangs pretty hard, is super catchy, and puts an emphasis on editing, chopping, and screwing. If you've seen the video for "Stadium" (https://vimeo.com/26452463) then you have a decent idea of what you're getting into: the sounds of a pixelated digital screen within a screen, a beach run against a DX-7, Michael Jordan dunking.
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HCMJ - Honeybee
James Webster's HCMJ project continues to evolve in unexpected ways, and we're happy to present Honeybee, an experiment in twisted droning metal, dark synth weirdness, and galloping acoustic ballads. Diversity is key here, with contrasting movements passing by like cogs in an epic tone poem. The album is also a conceptually based around a group of sailors from the late 16th century who return to the shores of spain only to discover that the land has become like a corrupt jpg - broken and whitewashed.
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Pajjama - Starch CS
I have a hard time resisting the urge to call Pajjama an epic Norwegian prog rock outfit. Really though, their sound is more nuanced than that description might imply. There is a heavy synthesizer presence, for one, and a certain winking cheesiness that recalls a darker Yellow Magic Orchestra or some forgotten funky library record. Also -- the composition skills. They are at the forefront for much of Starch, which makes the album's 13 minute runtime go by in a flash. But don't be fooled, some band's work their whole careers to stumble on this many exciting sounds, ideas, and irresistible melodies. Just listen and you'll probably be hooked.
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Man Made Hill - Intercourses CS
Randy Gagne aka Man Made Hill is amazing at taking electro-pop and infusing it with a warped experimental vibe. His album Intercourses is dripping in warm analog goo. It has funky disco bass, vintage tom fills, eerie baritone vocals, and a general weird-pop aesthetic that should turn on fans of Arthur Brown, Ariel Pink, Zappa/Beefheart, and
most of the freaky synth stuff happening now. I can't really begin to explain how much I'm into Intercourses -- it's probably my favorite album of 2012 so far, we just happen to be releasing it.
most of the freaky synth stuff happening now. I can't really begin to explain how much I'm into Intercourses -- it's probably my favorite album of 2012 so far, we just happen to be releasing it.
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Criminals - Babes CS
Criminals is the exploratory noise project of Leslie Weibeler and Andy Burkholder (who are both cool visual artists). The textures on Babes instantly drew me in -- particularly the introductory low end motor
machine sound. It's huge, grinding, and scary... not even harsh, really, but more menacing and deep, a very unique tone. Then the second side breaks down into a scorched synth, noise, and violin mishmash before giving way to the grand finale: a violin and piano duet. An ultra haunting, beautiful, and tonal one at that, which I find pretty
awesome in the context of the whole record. More "noise" records like this, please!
machine sound. It's huge, grinding, and scary... not even harsh, really, but more menacing and deep, a very unique tone. Then the second side breaks down into a scorched synth, noise, and violin mishmash before giving way to the grand finale: a violin and piano duet. An ultra haunting, beautiful, and tonal one at that, which I find pretty
awesome in the context of the whole record. More "noise" records like this, please!
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Maharadja Sweets - Engines of Joy CS
We met Maharadja Sweets at an open mic show.
He shocked everyone with an uninhibited one man
performance, clearly something special amidst the usually tepid open mic fare. It turns out he is a long standing open mic staple around New York, going from venue to venue blowing unsuspecting listener's minds. He has a pretty common setup -- vocals and guitar -- but what he does
with it is intense and uncompromising, more in line with vintage outsider musicians than your current breed of clean cut folk. There is a total lack of cynicism in his music, and we hope he finds the audience he deserves.
He shocked everyone with an uninhibited one man
performance, clearly something special amidst the usually tepid open mic fare. It turns out he is a long standing open mic staple around New York, going from venue to venue blowing unsuspecting listener's minds. He has a pretty common setup -- vocals and guitar -- but what he does
with it is intense and uncompromising, more in line with vintage outsider musicians than your current breed of clean cut folk. There is a total lack of cynicism in his music, and we hope he finds the audience he deserves.
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Ashley Paul - Slow Boat LP
Slow Boat pulls out every last sound in the organic world and puts it into a context of sheer beauty and conceptual interest simultaneously. It is masterfully original and well thought out with superb musicianship and puts hope into the polarized world of conceptual vs. analytic.
This is a limited pressing of 300. Featuring Eli Keszler on percussion.
This is a limited pressing of 300. Featuring Eli Keszler on percussion.
La Big Vic - Actually CS
La Big Vic is a phenomenal band from Brooklyn. I know its backwards, but we are releasing a cassette of their full length, Actually, which is already out on LP from Underwater peoples.
Cream Juice - Self Titled CS
Seth Graham & Keith Rankin (Giant Claw) bringing some improv synth randomness. This is a sprawling hour-long debut.
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Sean McCann - Open Resolve LP
A seminal recording of sound collage and experimental synthesizer sounds from one of the brightest musicians in underground America.
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Aidan Baker & THIS QUIET ARMY - Orange LP
So “Amplifier” begins urgently, a massive engine sound crowding out the slasher-film carryover from the previous track: two of the more electrifying features of the album. It closes with a brief space odyssey, promising only further permutations at other stops along the way. “Milk” finishes the album with two minutes of random buzzing along the chromatic scale, applying a galactic tautness to what is already an angst-fueled release. In the final few minutes the production tapers gently to silence, and you know you have been somewhere: a cavern of sound, ill-lit at times, with some inner chambers, each poorly divided from the other.
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Piper Spray - Omnicron Girls CS
Russia’s Piper Spray gives us bizarre electronic cosmic pop. This is experimental stuff when it works on an established and trodden musical realm and subverts from within.