Indefinate Hiatus

Time has come to take a step back from this blog. Both this and the matching facebook page are taking up a large chunk of my life, which I need to reclaim. While I am saying indefinite it could be for good. I am way behind in writing posts and reviews and it is becoming a bit of a chore - I've never been that much of a writer/reviewer anyway.

 Don't get me wrong I love the music I receive I'm just not able to articulate it better. My apologies go to the good folks behind the Hidden Shoal (check out free downloads for Kramies here and City of Satelites here), Feedback Loop, Room40 labels plus artists that have sent me stuff to review. I will be concentrating on the label with occasional forays into social media when required. Thanks to all who have sent stuff or commented, it's been fun.

A selection of Mixes/Podcasts

If you, like me have to use public transport to get to work an mp3 player is a necessity. If you can't be bothered changing tracks/artists nothing is better than a mix or a podcast. The following are some of my favourites that are either mixes or label podcast. All can be downloaded at their links.

*Irish musician Donnacha Costello aka Modul has a great Ambient based mix for the Bodytonic series that includes  artists like Burial, Shuttle 358, Aphex Twin, Rachels, etc.. a really great mix which can be picked up here.

*Rachel Evans of Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Quiet Evenings (duo with her husband Grant aka Nova Scotian Arms) and the Hooker Vision label has a mic on the mnml ssgs page that covers the underground experimental drone scene with tracks from Emeralds, Expo 70, Lee Noble and others and can be got here.

*Pontone have a bunch of great mixes/podcasts up, such as the uber groovy Not Not Fun, Strategy, GAS, Raster Noton, Kranky and others.

*Big American Night (formerly Kinosport) has some great mixes. I recommend Kylma Musiikki a winter/ambient mix that in it's almost 2 hours in length features Brian Eno, Oval, GAS, Stars of the Lid, Spiritualized and others.

*Low Light Mixes, well there is no mix to recommend, I recommend them all. Great minimal, haunting, droning ambient mixes which can be found here.

*Typecasts are radio style mixes from artists affiliated with the Type label. You can get podcasts/mixes from such diverse artists such as Svarte Greiner, Xela, Pete Swanson, Shaula, Yellow Swans, Jeffre Cantu-Ledesma, Simon Scott and others here.

*Headphone Commute, other than posting a bucket load of posts have a mean line in podcasts from the likes of artists/labels such as Field Rotation, Time Released Sound, Hibernate, Home Normal, Hidden Shoal, Raster Noton and tons more. Check them out here.

*Local promoters Life is Noise have a series of mixes called "Eat a Bag of Mix" where they get some local creative types to do a mix. Such creatives have included Craig McElhinney, Camryn Rothenbury, Traianos Pakioufakus, Andrew Sinclair, Adam Trainer, Predrag Delibasich and others ans can be found here.

Twice Removed Records

Just a quick plug to get you to check out the blog for my micro label which will have it's first release in stores next week. please check out Twice Removed Records. Thanks.

N-qia "Qia songs"

There are times where I get links in my inbox from artists and labels that I haven't heard about or can't remember signing up for newsletters,etc... N-Qia and their "Qia songs" release is one such release where I can vaguely remember signing up to the net label that released it, Italian net label La bèl records. N-qia are a Tokyo based duo of Nozomi (vocals) and Takma (programming) and their short 4 track 18 minute Ep "Qia Songs" is a nice little treat. Starting off with "Frosty" which mixes Jazz percussion  classical/flamenco guitar with cute Japanese vocals before the glitches and loops start kicking in (reminding me of Nobukazu Takemura) and ends quite far removed from the beginning. "Dust" has some sax, vocals, piano, clicks and cuts and glitches. "Wander" would sit well on the Raster Noton catalogue again with a jazz element mixed with synth glitch and some almost break beat like minimal percussion. "Fullmoon" is the more frantic of the tracks on the EP with chimes, various layers of sound - percussion, loops, vocals, ambiance and comes across as the most IDM like of the tracks on this EP. As I said before it's a nice treat of an ep and you should also check out their "Sweet Sequence" ep on Portuguese net label MIMI. You can pick this up from La bèl

Talvihorros "Descend..."

Talvihorros is UK artist Ben Chatwin and his most recent release id the CD/LP "Descent into Delta" which came out on August 26 on the great Hibernate label (I've been sitting on my digital promo since the 24th of September, while I did the Home Normal,etc... posts). A guitarist by trade, his albums aren't just "guitar based drone, etc..." he is more of a sound artist that utilises the guitar in crafting his pieces.

According to the label: "During the mixing process the concept to Descent Into Delta was born and it slowly developed through many hours of editing and arrangement. Chatwin became interested in different states of mind, realising it actually produces frequencies or waves - much like sound, itself. When the mind is alert, awake or anxious, these waves are Gamma, at the other extreme, during deep sleep, Delta waves are produced. It was in turn Chatwin's intention that the sounds of Descent Into Delta would loosely depict a journey from Gamma through to Delta, as a kind of experiment to see whether the listener could be subconsciously encouraged to trace this path through sound."

This is first evident when the track "Gamma" morphs into "Beta", a track so impressive that I've thought the album should be named "Descent into Beta". "Beta" has wafts of guitar, background drones, voices buried deep in the mix, crunchy textures and for some reason the central melody makes me think of Brian Eno, though I can't put my finger on why. "Alpha" is a slow building track where over time the background becomes the foreground and the drones, guitar loops come to the for around the 5 minute mark and become the central part of the piece, before ending in a vapour trail of guitar.

If the album is a concept on frequencies/waves and the patterns of the mind, the track "Theta" starts to signal the coming of sleep cycle with the restless activity coming to an end at the track. The track is a logical progression for "Beta" and "Alpha" in that the music is getting more active, lots of guitar loops cutting in and out, left and right, building up until around the 7 and a half minute mark where the music becomes more subdued and almost ambient, but with restrained elements of what has gone before it signalling the oncoming deep sleep waves of "Delta". "Delta" is a soothing drone piece of guitar and violin that while embracing the the idea of deep sleep has elements of it that link around to "Gamma" and "Beta" and bring the album full circle. Totally recommended.

You can buy this and other Talvihorros releases from his band camp here. Also check out and get your hands on anything you can by Hibernate Records.

Perth Discography - Update 1



Perth Discography 2000 - Onwards
 Edit: This is the first update of the discography. Initially I wasn't going to bother as I had received zero feedback, but the blog's statistics showed that this was one of the more popular post. I also got in contact with some people (Scott Bishop - Heartless Robot Productions, Adam Trainer and Dan Griffin - Future Past records) who filled in some gaps. As always, feedback is appreciated for this to be an ongoing post.

The idea behind this was to get some sort of concrete view of what had been released in the independent scene in Perth. Originally I wanted to do once post Meupe (ie around 2004 - onwards) as getting into that label brought me back to getting into Perth music. I decided to then focus on releases since 2000, but of course there are several releases included that are pre 2000 and they belong to The Tigers and Gata Negra. I decided to include them as their influence and continued involvement is still visible (see the recent "Human Xerox" compilation). The list was drawn from my collection, myspace, facebook, blogs, record stores, etc... and of course there are going to be some omissions. The main rule for the discography was that the release had to be available for purchase (either physically or via download) or free download. If it was a digital single that was taken from another release or just a soundcloud track then it wasn't included. It was obvious that the music fit into the the style that is covered in this blog, so therefore there is a bit of a bias.

I would like to make it as complete as possible so help with the missing parts (Catalogue #'s, copies made, year of release, etc...) is greatly appreciated. You can contact me at twicerememberedtwiceremoved@gmail.com

A
Abe Sada "Subzilla" (Bloodstar, cd-r, BS32) 2009
Abe Sada "The Lost Chord" (Kubitsuri Tapes, cd, S;E;X59-030CD) 2008
Abe Sada "Tatare Steppe" (VLZ Produkt, cd) 2009
Abe Sada / Sub Ordnance split 12" (Heartless Robot Productions, 12", HRP007) 2011
Acapulco Boatmen "Water Dwellers in a Desert World" (Emerald Cabal, cd-r, MEC005) 2011
Airport City Shuffle 3"
Airport City Shuffle "Death of Robot"
Airport City Shuffle "Iceberg"
Airport City Shuffle "Kitty Clean"
Airport City Shuffle "Set this Record Straight"
Airport City Shuffle "Something is at the Window Scratching
Airport City Shuffle "Summer 06/07 Tour cd"
Airport City Shuffle "When Simians attack"
Apricot Rail "S/T" (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR053) 2009
Apricot Rail "Surry Hills" (Hidden Shoal, download, HSR0 ) 2011 Astral Travel (Fifth Column, 7", Ze4004, 150 copies) 2009. Absolutely no idea what the songs are called.
At Waugh With Gieles "May Echoes from Ballard" (Farmer Frontier, cd-r, FF01) 2005

B
Bamodi "S/T" (Love is My Velocity, cd, LIMV     ) 2009
Bamodi/Bariken "Split" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd, HRP HRP004) 2009

C
Canyons (At Waugh With Gieles) "Scraped clean by the Wind" (Farmer Frontier, cd-r, FF02) 2006
Cat Hope/High Impedence "Split" (8" polycarbonate)
Cat Hope "Fetish" (cd)
Cat Hope "Live Regret"
Chris Cobilis "Courtesy of the Young Lad’s Parents" (cass) 1997
Chris Cobilis "I Get So Mad" (cass) 1998
Chris Cobilis "Running to Rhythm" (cass) 1998
Chris Cobilis "I Am Quit" (cass) 1999
Chris Cobilis "St. Catherine" (CDr) 2000
Chris Cobilis "Black Leotard & Purple Leotard" (FFace Records, cd-r) 2004 Business card cd-r.
Chris Cobilis "Great Days, Blocked"  (Wilting Flower Recordings, cd-r) 2006
Chris Cobilis "Two Hams In a Can"  (Brothers Eerie Stratum Records, cd-r) 2006
Chris Cobilis "Have you seen her?" (Meupe, cd-r, Meupe 07, 100 copies) 2006, 3" cd-r in printed jewel case and hand sewn bag.
Chris Cobilis "Double Satan" (Meupe, cd-r, Meupe 14, 30 copies) 2009
Chris Cobilis "Triple Satan" (Disc Snap, cd-r) 2010
Chris Cobilis/Psychedelic Desert "Split" (Heartless Robot Productions, cass, HRPM001) 2010
Chris Cobilis "Some Sounds"(Disc Snap, cd-r) 2010
Clustering Illusion "Creatic Secretions" (Friends in the World, FITW001, download) 2011
Cobilis/Hudson "Hello Satan" (cd-r)
Cycle ~440 "The Geography of Collapsing Structures" (Download) 2011

D
Pablo Dali "California Grey" (Meupe, cd-r. Meupe 2, 100 copies) 2005. 3" cd-r in printed jewel case.
Predrag Delibasich "Serpent Bites the Young Man + This season's Colourful Tones" (Heartless Robot Productions, 7" + cd-r, HRP003/HRP003.5, 150 copies) 2009. Both 7" tracks appear on cd-r.
Predrag Delibasich "Dance to my gentle music, monster" (Download) 2011
Dobson and Fitch "S/T" (cd)

E
Enargeia "Gulag! 25/09/98" (Hidden Shoal, download, HSR009) 2007
Enargeia "UFO: Stryker Force" (Hidden Shoal, download, HSR006) 2006
Erasers "S/T" ep (Owls, cd-r, 40 copies) 2010
Erasers "Summer" (Solid Melts, Cass/download, Solid Melts 011, 50 copies) 2010. Comes with Download code.
Erasers "Autumn" (Metal Postcard, 7", MP22, 500 copies) 2010. Comes with download code.
Ermine Coat " Lp" (cd-r/download) 2010

F
Fall Electric "...three A.M." (cd-r) 2005
Fall Electric "...these asteroids make rings from afar" (cd-r) 2005
Fall Electric "Measure and Step" (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR041) 2008
Fall Electric "Cold Bahama" (cd)
Fall Electric "Burning Flag" (cd-r) 2010
Gilbert Fawn "Dead Rhythm" (Grave New World, cd-r, GNWCD02) 2010
Gilbert Fawn "Tangkuban Perahu" (Friends in the World, FITW004, download) 2011
Field of Sound "Monochrome Sky" (cd)
Field of Sound "Solar" (cd)

Paul Fiocco "Torsions and Drifts" (Meupe, cd-r, Meupe 15, 150 copies) 2009
Andrew Forster "Accept and forgive human flaws" (Owls, cd-r,) 2010
Found: Quantity of Sheep "S/T" (cd)
Found: Quantity of Sheep "Monkey + Valve" (cd & dvd)
Frank & The Can I Speaklys/Soul of a Condemned Ape "Split" (Farmer Frontier/Ros, 7" FF010/Ros01, 150 copies) 2008
Javier Frisco "Opiate Southern Gardens of Orchids" (Emerald Cabal, cass, MEC007)
Javier Frisco "Graveyard Summer Blues / Songs from Cedar Chalice" (Emerald Cabal, cass, MEC008)
Frozen Ocean "Initial Mission" (cd)
Frozen Ocean "Filthy Fuckin Ruckus" (cd-r) 2011, in hand spray painted card board sleeve.
Frozen Ocean/Clean Living "Split" (Future Past, cass,/download, 35 copies) 2011

Fur Chick "Rabbits in Space" (cd-r, 75 Copies) 2010 Hand made sewn covers.

G
Gata Negra "Cage of Stars" (Telescopic, cd) 1999
Gata Negra " Saint Dymphnae" (Bloodstar, cd) 2002
Gata Negra "Once Upon a Star" (Bloodstar, cd) 2002
Gata Negra "Ruby" (Bloodstar, lp/download, BS31) 2006
Glassacre "Slow Attack" (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR05) 2006
Ghost Drums "S/T" (Love is My Velocity, Usb/Download/cd-r, LIMV11) 2009/2011. Initially a USB/download release, but copies where pressed as a cd-r following the "Human Xerox" launch.
The Ghost of 29 Megacycles "Neil Diamond is not the God of Thunder and Rock and Roll" (cd-r)
The Ghost of 29 Megacycles "10, 000 Flying Girls" (cd-r)
The Ghost of 29 Megacycles "Love Via Paper Planes" (Sound & Fury, cd, S&f025, 500 copies) 2009
The Ghost of 29 Megacycles "The Hummingbird Dream" (Hellosquare, cd, Cube043) 2010
The Gulls "California Christmas/Yam Yam" (Gull Slug, cd-r/download, 100 copies) 2010
Gutter Guitar & Bassta! Pex "Split" (Heartless Robot Productions, Lp, HRP001, 100 copies) 2009. Each copies cover was hand designed drawn by an individual artist.
Gutter Guitar & Bassta! Pex "Split" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd-r, HRP1.5) 2009. Cd-r edition mainly for those artists that designed covers of the Lp with some going into stores.

Harmony Joy Ride

H

Happy Familys "Demo" (Emerald Cabal, cass, MEC002)
Harmony Joy Ride "Calypso Rag Pronto" (cd-r) 2005 Each cover seems to be unique.
Harry Smith "Scooter" (cd)
Harry Smith "Preleigh" (cd-r) 2005
Hooper's Store "When was the Plasticine Era?" (cd)

I
Injured Ninja "Circuitboard" (cd) 2007
Injured Ninja/French Rockets "Split" (Heartless Robot Productions, 12" & dvd, HRP005) 2010
Injured Ninja "Golden mountain Top" (Heartless Robot Productions, 7"/download, HRP009) 2010
Injured Ninja "Vs Skylazer" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd/download, HRP011)  2011
Injured Ninja / Fangs of... Split 7" (Aniseed Records, 7", 200 copies) 2011
Injured Ninja "Redeemer/Skylazer Remixed" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd, HRP014) 2011

J
Jasmine Loop Control "On the Last Days of Christmas" (Wilting Flower, cd-r) 2005
Jasmine Loop Control "Eeterin Kutsumus" (cd)

L
Lux Mammoth "Hertz Circus" (cd)
Lux Mammoth "New Gauge Sinner" (cd)

M
Matzal "At the Instant" (cd)
Craig McElhinney "You and Me are Young and Brutal" (Meupe, cd, Meupe 12) 2009
Craig McElhinney "Loser Orientation" (Meupe, cd-r, Meupe 16, 66 copies) 2009
Craig McElhinney "Be Water My Friend" (Grave New World, cd-r, GNWCD04) 2010
Craig McElhinney "Temple Pathworkings" (Grave New World. cd-r, GNWCD08) 2011
Craig McElhinney "I Wish you had believed me" (Friends in the World, FITW003 download) 2011
Mental Powers/Free Choice "Split" (Fifth Column, 7", FC02) 2009
Mental Powers "Untitled" (Badminton Bandit, cd, BB04, 500 copies) 2010 in hand painted kraft mailer sleeve.
Mental Powers "Stuffed Alive" (Badminton Bandit, cd/Download, BB08, 500 copies) 2010 comes in clam shell.
Mental Powers "Homoh" (Badminton Bandit, Lp/Digital, BB013, 150 copies) 2011
Dave Miller "Mitchelss Raccolta" (Background Records, cd, BG045) 2005
Dave Miller "Regional Raccolta Remakes" (Meupe, cd-r, Meupe 05, 100 copies) 2006 3" cd-r in printed jewel case and hand sewn bag. Remixes from Victor Berman, Stina, Pablo Dali and Chris Cobilis.
Milkless Fridge "S/T" (Unit5 Records, cd, Unit6001) 2005
Mukaizake "Mapping the Static" (Quietly Suburban, cd, QSR015) 2003
Mukaizake "Unknown Knows" (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR060) 2009
Mundaring Weird "S/T" (Grave New World, 3" cd-r/download, 30 copies) 2010
Mundaring Weird "Southern Crosshair" (download) 2011
Mundaring Weird "Isolation" (Friends in the World, FITW005, download) 2011
My Majestic Star "Ideas are the Answer" (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR02) 2006
My Majestic Star "Fining" (Hidden Shoal, download, HSR014) 2006
My Majestic Star "Too Late the Day" (Hidden Shoal,cd/download, HSR037) 2008
My Majestic Star "I Haven't Got it in Me" (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR063) 2009

O
Obscotch "Counterconsumate" (Obscotch, cd-r, Oscotch 03, 20 copies) 2006. Comes in Dvd case.
Obscotch "Samael Makaw" (cd-r/download) 2010
Obscotch "Miasma Eden" (cd-r/download) 2011
Ourobonic Plague "Gaap" (cd-r/download, 25 copies) 2011

P

Penetrating Stairs/Magic Window "Live at 208" (Farmer Frontier, cd-r, FF04) 2007

R
Rabbit Island/Gilbert Fawn "Split" (Badminton Bandit, 7" BB012, 150 copies) 2011
Rabbit Island "O God, Come Quick" (Badminton Bandit, cd, BB014, 500 copies) 2011
Radarmaker "Aristocracy and the Horse" (cd, 500 copies) 2005
Radarmaker "Drawn Like Spires" (cd, 500 copies) 2006

M. Rosner "Post" (12X50, cd-r, Carbon Series 3, 200 copies) 2004

M. Rosner "Alluvial" (Room40, cd, RM408) 2005

M. Rosner "Morning Tones" (Apestaartje, cd, staartje 020) 2006

M. Rosner/Gareth Hardwick "Silhouettes 1" (Hellosquare, cd-r, Cube10) 2007

M. Rosner/Seaworthy Split 3" (Hellosquare, 3" cd-r, Cube17) 2008

M. Rosner "Repeat" (Miatera, LP, Miatera02, 500 copies) 2009, came in deluxe, black and white vinyl editions. 

M. Rosner "Tape Series, Volume 1" (Meupe, cass, Meupe 17, 50 copies) 2010

M. Rosner and Seaworthy "Two Lakes" (12k, cd, 12K1062) 2010
Camryn Rothenbury "Patina" (Grave New World, download, GNWDIG01) 2011
Camryn Rothenbury "Schrödinger's Pet Hate" (Grave New World, download, GNWDIG02) 2011
Royal Vomit "Graveyard Summer Blues" (Emerald CabalCass/cd-r, MEC001)
Royal Vomit/ Union Sacred Ibis "Split" (Emerald Cabal, cass/download, MEC003)
Royal Vomit "Gross Coven" (Emerald Cabal, cass/download, MEC004)
Royal Vomit / Cock Safari "Split" (Badminton Bandit, Cass/doownload, BB010) 2010

 S
Sacred Flower Union "Wave" (Future Past,cass)
Sacred Flower Union "Bali Wedding" (Future Past, cass)
Sacred Flower Union "The Babbling Brook" (Future Past, cass)
Sacred Flower Union "Ocean Friend" (Future Past, cass)
Sacred Flower Union "Bright Tree Villiage" (Future Past, cass)
Sacred Flower Union "Live @ Eden" (Future Past, cass)
Sacred Flower Union "Miley Cyrus vrs the Ross river Virus" (Future Past, cass)
Sacred Flower Union "High Tea" (Future Past, cd-r) Hand painted sleeve.
Sacred Flower Union "The Reptile Age" (Future Past, download)
Salamander "Overslugs" (Ep, download) 2010
Salamander "Jaws of theVise" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd/download, HRP012) 2011
Salamander/Ourobonic Plague "Burnt Vessels" (Ep, download) 2011

Schvendes "The Scoundrel Is made an Outcast" (cd)
Schvendes "Turn Out Your Lights" (Schvendes, cd, SCH001) 2005
Schvendes "Twice The Man" (Schvendes, cd, SCH002) 20s05
Schvendes "Small Mercies, Sweet Graves" (Schvendes, cd, SCH003) 2005
Schvendes "Sweet Talk Your Enemies" (Good Cop Bad Cop, cd, GCGC003) 2008
Schvendes "Lay the Noose" (cd-r, 200 copies) 2010
Schuster "Breaking Down into His Own Oblivian" (Adeptsound, cd-r, ADSPC03, 50 copies) 2009. Packaged in screen printed mailer type sleeve which is sealed and requires to be teared open to get to cd-r.
Schuster "1-5 Microns" (Adeptsound, cd-r, ADSCDR02, 50 copies) 2010
Sexy Band "Sexy Band" (cd-r) 2002
Sexy Band "Sexy Band 2" (cd-r) 2002
Sexy Band "Sexy Band 3" (cd-r) 2002
Andrew Sinclair "Evil Summer" (Owls, cd-r/download, Owls 10, 100 copies) 2011
Andrew Sinclair "Extra Summer" (Owls, cd-r/download, Owls 11, 50 copies) 2011. Available at launch only.
Soviet Valves "S/T" (cd-r) 2004
The Silent World "Eye for an Ear" (cd) 2010
Silver Bulletin "Four Elephants/ O'er" (Farmer frontier, cd-r FF05, Business card cd-r) 2009
Silver Bulletin "Diamond Vibrations" (Grave New World, cd-r/download, GNWCD01) 2010
Silver Bulletin "Obsessive Mantras" (Grave New World, cd-r/download, GNWCD05) 2010
Silver Bulletin "Magnetic Dimensions" (Grave New World, cd-r/download, GNWCD07) 2010
Silver Bulletin "Opposing Forces" (Grave New World, download, GNWDIG03) 2011
Silver Bulletin "Futureless Future" (Grave New World, download, GNWDIG04) 2011
Silver Bulletin "Ox of the seven Combats" (Friends in the World, FITW002, download) 2011
smRts "Sun Sets on a new Tomorrow" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd, HRP008)2010
Soviet Valves/Whitechapel "Split" (7" polycarbonate, 50 copies) 2005 SV track from "S/T Whitechapel track is "Self Taught Anaesthetist".
Soviet Valves "Fun, Safe & Anonymous" (cd) 2005
Soviet Valves "Sight that harms/Gaze that Harms" (SmartGuy Records, 7" smart 024) 2005. 4 tracks from "Fun..." 100 copies on green vinyl.
Splendid Friends "Prognosis Negative!" (Farmer Frontier,cd-r, FF08) 2009
Splendid Friends "Summer Moon Illusion" (Farmer Frontier, cd-r, FF09) 2009
Splendid Friends "Denpasar Love Triangle" (Grave New World, cd-r, GNWCD03) 2010
Splendid Friends "Winter Sun Reality" (Grave New World, cass, GNWCASS01) 2010
Splendid Friends "Black Drugs" (Grave New World, cass, GNWCASS02) 2011
Stina "Pocket Songs" (Meupe, cd, Meupe 1) 2004. First press with Tracer paper sleeve and badge, second press a Digipak.
Stina "Summer in Mariana" (Someone Good, cd, RSMG011) 2011

 T
Taco Leg "Spider in the mouth" (Taco Leg, Cass) 2008.CS20
Taco Leg "Freemason's Hall" (Fan Death Records, 7" FDR04) 2009
Taco Leg/Constant Mongrel "Split" (Wuss Records, cass, 80 copies) 2010
Taco Leg "Live at Tanya's" (Badminton Bandit, cd-r, BB09, 150 copies) 2010 in riso printed cover.
Tangled Star "It's now or later" (Hidden Shoal, download, HSR012) 2006
Tangled Star "Our Man on Eden Hill (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR031) 2008
Tangled Star "That Time" (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR052) 2009
These Shipwrecks "Leda" (Frosty You Haunt Me, cd-r) 2009
These Shipwrecks "Salt, Sulphur, Mercury" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd, HRP010) 2010
The Tigers - "Death From Above" (cd) 1998
The Tigers - "Space Coyote" (cd, DEB001A) 1999
The Tigers - "Remixes" (Sensory projects. 2cd) 2000
The Tigers - "Christmas Album" (Sensory Projects, cd) 2002
The Tigers - "It Hath Been… "(cd) 2002. Came in DVD case.
The Tigers - "Beautiful Forest" (CD, Sensory Projects 2007)
The Tigers / Stina "Now That I’m Old…" (Love Is My Velocity, 7"/Download, LIMV09, 500 copies) 2008
Adam Trainer "Happy 3" (Wilting Flower Records, 3" cd-r, No #, 50 copies) 2007
Adam Trainer/Shoeb Ahmad "Split" (Frosty You Haunt Me, Frosty You Haunt Me 5, cd-r, 50 copies) 2008
Adam Trainer "Twice Worn" (Hellosquare, cd-r, Cube 030, 100 copies) 2009
Adam Trainer "Tour Ep 2010" (cd-r, 60 copies) 2010
Trash Band 1987 "At Midnight I will Take Your Soul" (Wilting Flower Records, 3" cd-r) 2005

U
Usurper of Modern Medicine "Acid Chess" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd, HRP013) 2011
V
Various Artists "A Million Square Miles" (Hidden Shoal, cd/download, HSR057, Mukaizake, Tangled Star, Apricot Rail, Fall Electric, My Majestic Star, The Slow Beings, Toby Richardson, Glassacre) 2009
Various Artists "Ambassador from Everywhere" (Meupe, download, Meupe 13, Contributions from: M. Rosner, Craig McElhinney, Chris Cobilis, Wooshie, At Waugh with Gieles, Paul Fiocco, Traianos Pakiofakis) 2009
Various Artists "Christmas" (Meupe/Wilting Flower Records, cd-r, Meupe 08/WFXMAS, 90 copies, Stina, At Waugh with Gieles, Oakover,M. Rosner, Traianos Pakiofakis, Chris Cobilis, Jasmine Loop Control with Emily Williams) 2006, Given away at December 20th gig at Rosemount Hotel.
Various Artists "Farmer Frontier Two Dollar Series Cd #1" (Farmer Frontier, cd-r,  At Waugh   
with Gieles, Chris Cobilis, Wooshie, Marc Kaminiski, Gargamel Gibson) Covers made from pages of a book. 2009
Various Artists "First Past the Pawns" (First Past the Post, cd-r, Contributions from: Chr15m and Fenris, Louis Inglis, Miteyko, Jeff Strong, Superengine) 2005. Came with Issue #7 of "First Past the Post" 'zine.
Various Artists "First Past the Pole" (First Past the Post, cd-r, Contributions from: Paul Fiocco and Kane Ikin, Airport City Shuffle, Matt Rosner and Snowman) 2004. Came with issue #6 of "First Past The Post 'zine" and also came with Radarmaker "Arm vs Fiery Antenna" dvd
Various Artists "First Past the Pose" (First Past the Post,cd-r, Contributions from: Found: Quantity of
Sheep, Jasmine Loop Control, Milkless Fridge, Dave Miller) 2005 . Came with issue #8 of First Past the Post 'zine.
Various Artists "Heartless Robot Label Sampler 2010" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd-r, Wind Waker, Quick, smRts, Steve Matzkov, French Rockets, Craig McElhinney, Injured Ninja, Mauna Loa, Ravens and Crows) 2010 Gig Giveaway 16 April 2010.
Various Artists "Human Xerox Project Beautiful Florist" (Emerald Cabal, cd-r, 100 copies, Silver Bulletin, Ghost Drums, Riddles, Javier Frisco, Lil' Leonie Lionheart, Tristan + the heat death of the universe, Gilbert Fawn + Ambrose Rock, Lines, Predrag Delibasich, Rabbit Island, Tin Man, Omar Olajuwon) 2011
Various Artists "Mixed Season" (Owls, Cass, Owls 009, 75 copies. Contributions from: Erasers, The Ghost of 29 Megacycles) 2011
Various Artists "Owls Sampler 2010" (Owls, cd-r, Owls 007, 25 copies, Andrew Forster, Erasers) 2010, Comes rapped in brown paper and tied up with string.
Various Artists "Smell You Later" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd, HRP002, 3 way split from Stina, Chris Cobilis and Gutter Guitar) 2008
Various Artists "Snapshot 1" (Feral Media, cd-r No #, features Adam Trainer, The Ghost of 29 Megacycles) 2008
Various Artists "Tea for Two" (Meupe, cd, Meupe 04, features contributions form local artis: Stina, The Break-ups, Pablo Dali, Dave Miller, Victor Berman, Fiam and Chris Cobilis) 2005
Various Artists "The Dada Tapes" (Dada Records, cd/download, 200 copies. Features contributions from Royal Vomit, Kabouter's Forest, Seams, Salamander, Bamodi, Astral Travel, SmRts, Frozen Ocean, Theintensoband, The Tigers, Mental Powers, Masonik, Mayor Dadi, Kynan Tan, Jane Harris, The Ghost of 29 Megacycles, Gilbert Fawn, The Wednesday Society, The Good Boys, Electric Gooch, Sonpsilo Circus,These Shipwrecks) 2011 Given away at gigs at the store.

W
Water Temple "Leg Session Demo" (Download) 2011
Whalehammer "Subterranean" (Farmer Frontier, cd-r, FF05) 2006
Whalehammer "Dream Tape" (Badminton Bandit, cd-r, BB07, 40 copies)
Wigwam "Sweat Lodge" (Badminton Bandit, cd-r, BB05, 40 copies) 2009
Wind Waker "S/T" (Heartless Robot Productions, cd, HRP006) 2009
Wooshie "Natural is in it" (Farmer Frontier/Meupe FF 07/Meupe 11, 7", 150 copies) 2009

Z
Zilverhill "+Eotvos+" (Adeptsound, cd, ADSBSCD01, 500 copies) 2008
Zilverhill "Latent-Active-Descent" (Adeptsound, cd, ADSPC02, 500 copies) 2009. Comes with #'d postcard.

Tokyo Droning

Here is the second installment of the recent Home Normal/Nomadic Kids Republic/Tokyo Droning releases. This time focusing on the Tokyo Droning imprint which has recently been reactivated. The first release came out in August of 2009 and they where two releases by Offthesky and Segue before the label was put on ice. Now that the label has been reactivated, the first two releases and been re-released, with a selection of other known artists. The renewed focus has also seen a change in the packaging from a card #'d sleeve to a more intricate and home made look which can be best seen at the Tokyo Droning site.

Offthesky's "Fluorescence" (TD001) is a 30 minute drone composition based on a two minute recording of fluorescent light. It is a piece that is steady building with an ominous drone that veers into noise territory around the 8 minute mark before shifting into a slow glacial drone around the 16 minute mark. Offthesky aka Jason Corder is a prolific artist, most recently having "The Beautiful Nowhere"  release on Hibernate, "Subtle Trees" on Nomadic Kids Republic and "Endless Yonder" on SEM with a new one due soon on Rural Colours. His work covers alot of the musical spectrum such as the minimal house release under his own name, but this release is probably Jason at his most experimental. Interestingly enough he still has copies for sale of the original sold out first press available here.

Segue is Jordan Sauer from Canada who ran the now defunct Duckbay label and his work has appeared on labels such as Autoplate, Slow Flow Recs and Under The Spire to name a few."Grey" (TD002) originally came out in September 2009. Described by the label as an "Organic folk drone record" it is a release of subtle beauty. The drones contained within are very soothing without getting anywhere near that annoying grating style that some drone records can be.Each track has the element of time in the sense that they are able to unfold at their own accord, not be rushed or have too many elements cluttering them. Highlights are "Turn" and "The Holiday".

Tobias Hellkvist's name would be familiar to Home Normal fans/collectors as Ian has already released his "Evolutions" album on that label. This time round it's "Kaskelot" (TD003) with a future release planned on Nomadic Kids Republic. When you read that recordings like this are improvised it's hard to believe as the compositions seem so formed like the musician has been working for a long time and perfected just what they are doing. "Kaskelot" was recorded one night in April using piano, vibraphone, pump organ.guitar, pedal steel loops and percussion. Divided up to 4 "Kaskelot" tracks, the tracks have a building post rock sound  with chiming guitars that are complimented by the piano and vibraphone, kept in time with the subtle steady

percussion. "Kaskelot 3" sees the piano coming to the fore, while "Kaskelot 4" is dominated by the droning guitar. Easily a favourite release of mine from this year.

 Tanner Menard's "Dark Pianos" (TD004) is composed using 30 foot long piano. As the label states: "There were absolutely no effects used, with all the "reverberation coming from the fact that the damper pedal is held down through the entirety of each track". To label this as a solo piano record would be only hinting at it's contents. It's more of a minimal sound record using the piano as the sound source not as a conventional instrument. For example the piano is more obvious in the track "I Don't remember her name" than it is in "In (CC) and Decay". This is the kind of album you need to listen to in complete silence as it is very minimal and requires deep attention. You should also check out his works (and those of others) on his Archaic Horizon label.

David Newlyn "Social Claustrophobia" (TD005) is an artist and label owner himself (October Man Recordings) whose releases have appeared on labels like Mobeer, Time Released Sound and Cotton Goods. His release for Tokyo Droning is a release that like in it's title seems a little claustrophobic in the sense that it has so many things going on in it's 38 minutes and 15 tracks. It shifts from haunting ambiance/drone (see "Bright Dusty Things") to orchestral (see "In January") to processed field recordings (see "Unmapped") and for me if