Free Form Freakout, a weekly radio show on KMSU in Mankato, recently aired a one-hour feature on De Stijl Records from Minneapolis. In addition to playing various selections from the De Stijl catalog, the show included an interview with Clint Simonson from the label, which serves as a nice extension to the interview featured here on Foxy Digitalis.
You can click here to listen to a stream of this show.
MHA is a french novelist, poet & philosophy teacher. A musical project exploring the mystery of the world in connection to perception, emotion and its metaphysic enigma. A journey through french avant-garde and synthetic minimalism.
SYNTH002 ROB FUNKHOUSER "This is why Robots are taking over" limited 60
Vintage sci-fi modulations and spacey 80ies synth experimentations.
SYNTH001 LUNAR MIASMA "Monophonic ritual"
limited 60 (one copy left !)
Deep soundscapes and blackholed manipulations. Analogue drone beasts.
SYNTH000 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER "Young Beidnahga"
limited 50 _ Special reissue for march european tour
Smooth synthage continuous trepanation.
Originally released as rur062
FAUNASABBATHA
SAB020 QUEEN ELEPHANTINE "8 XI 08 Live in Brooklyn"cs48 or cdr limited 70
Heavy riffs and dark psychedelic atmospheres from Brooklyn. An absolute heavy tantric doom, like molten lava flowing down a mountain. Slow yet unstoppable, consuming everything in its path...
RURALFAUNE
RUR086 THE DRIFTWOOD MANOR "The Same Figure, leaving"cdr limited 50
Beautiful irish folk between melancholia and springlike feelings. A pastoral atmosphere from Eddie Kennan
RUR085 SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE "In a new Mouth" cdr limited 60
Following stellar releases on Digitalis, Students of Decay, Stunned...
Beautiful drifting melodies and haunted guitar figures. A patchwork quilt of drone influenced sound snippets, subtle synth undulations and strange ethereal vocal lines...
The come back of the king of pop Already sold out at source, please check the availability at every good retailer and reserve your copy . Lps will be available mid-april.
Mailorders, distros, record stores, please get in touch for wholesale prices. For those which ordered the Dylan Ettinger lp, everything could be sent in one go ( in few days )
Please allow 2-3 weeks for your parcel to arrive, i am my own machine
The last time we heard from Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand, the London cipher-weaver spun a most quixotic tapestry alluding to a nearby Other (Stunned no. 46). This next chapter raises the tension ever higher, thoroughly exploring ancillary avenues of nocturnal field recording & alien found sound. "Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden" is an amalgamation of organic and inorganic energies fused into a beautiful, breathing contradiction. Special recording & editing techniques employed over its hour align the sacred geometries uncovered in spider webs, fishing nets, and tantric sex positions. The luminous sub-dimension revealed by such transgressive use of tech might take some getting used to; its' presence suggestive of a Contact experience right under our own skins. Hand-numbered edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c60 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.
There are five other great releases for your ears...
spring weather here is fucking ruling... been trying to stay on top of emails and stuff while sitting on the porch. love you, wifi connection. anyway, a quick hit mini-batch to start things off right - there's a bigger batch of tapes coming in the next month-ish, but these three beauties are ready to go now:
ltd#132: jouurney "dancers in the time-flux" c24 $7 US / $8 CAN/MEX / $9 INTL
synthetic dreams blossom underneath perfect french skies, offering arpeggiated gifts to a sun god that never even existed in the first place. each step is liquid and melodic to a degree, looking for another avenue to paint in electric blue. on this debut our french explorer wants to cruise the high seas on a blast of square waves.
this time-flux is a warm place to be. jouurney's quixotic sounds have you floating in and out of consciousness, submerged beneath nobody drones and pink sunsets. of course, everything gets thrown out of whack for the last two minutes and the blitzed out beats and cacaphonic synth mayhem that ensues. it's an exclamation point for sure. edition of 72, pro-dubbed & imprinted.
ltd#136: sorc'henn "shadow is ov silver, phantom is ov gold" c56 $7 US / $8 CAN/MEX / $9 INTL
sorc'henn is the twisted brainchild of laurent boulouard and on "shadow is ov silver, phantom is ov gold" he's determined to invade your dreams and paint them all black. sickly organ drones proliferate every corner in this darkened soundworld. sometimes they're stretched and overrun by diamond-cut guitar riffage other times they're turned into the soundtrack to the worst funhouse imaginable.
there are few artists around who can turn their music into something so completely haunted like boulouard. he takes it to a different place. it's the most sinister church music imaginable. dampened chimes over ghostly voices creep into your psyche until you'd rather be dead than posessed. it's so fucking eerie it gets buried uner your skin. but in the end, "shadow/phantom" reminds me why i love sorc'henn so much: he takes you places you'd never go on your own and in that sense it's almost divine. almost. edition of 72, pro-dubbed & imprinted.
ltd#138: indian weapons "parousia" c30 $7 US / $8 CAN/MEX / $9 INTL
the salutations are over and everyone is wide awake. indian weapons is the new duo of yours truly and nathan young. of course there are similarities to ajilvsga, but this is something different, something new. organics are in fully supply. acoustic instrumentation is melded with oscillators and filters and processed into a delicious abyss. it's an attempt to meld the mangled into something less deconstructive and more composed. there's still a lot of crunch, but with melodicas singing and violins floundering on a bed of synthesized chaos, it finds its way behind the mask. and then somehow it became about derrida. edition of 80, pro-dubbed & imprinted.
get all three for $20 US/$22 CANMEX/$25 INTL. paypal to brad@digitalisindustries.com. shoot me an email w/ any questions.
ALSO! in moving some boxes over the weekend, i unearthed 4 copies of the imaginary softwoods 2LP that were reserved and never paid for. so if you missed out on the original pressing and want to grab one, email me. they're $25 US/$29 CANMEX/$37 INTL. they're available on a first come, first serve basis - so get in touch!
next up will be heather woods broderick's "from the ground," originally issued on CD on preservation - now on vinyl via digitalis (w/ an extra track). the ossining LP should be ready soon as well. the next tape batch includes the likes of red electric rainbow, michael james tapscott (of odawas),white leopards, mohave triangles and more.
The track Geode from Emeralds S/T 2010 release out now on CD - Hanson Records, LP - Wagon/Gneiss Things.
The video was shot on a Sony VX2000. Edited in iMovie.
The footage consists of liquid light/light refraction projections from three separate occasions, by Kannapell and Raglani. Michael Ferrer assisted on one occasion.
Some friends of Digitalis will be on the radio! Check it out:
Soundwave specials with Pefkin, Hanna Tuulikki & Ben Reynolds
News of two special edition of John Cavanagh's Soundwave.... This weekend's edition of the show in its regular timeslots will feature Pefkin in session. Yes, Gayle Brogan, Madame Boa herself, is playing live on the eve of her new album release on Digitalis. She'll be joined for the session by Hanna Tuulikki (Nalle, Family Elan) and John Cavanagh (Phosphene, ex-Electroscope) and will also choose a selection of her favourite records. Endless fun is guaranteed and exotic dancers will perform with pythons in the background, but as this is radio, you'll just have to imagine them! The show is broadcast four times online by Radio Six International from Friday evening (12th) - Monday evening (15th). See www.radiosix.com for details and to listen in the format of your choice. The Soundwave is also relayed by five other stations in New Zealand, the United States, Netherlands, England and Singapore. See the Soundwave playlists page for full details: http://www.phosphene.debrett.net/soundwave.htm
Meanwhile on Saturday 13th, Radio Six International celebrates ten years since it first began streaming audio online. There are programmes to mark this throughout the day and from 8-10pm GMT/UT, there'll be a special 2 hour edition of the Soundwave, which will also go out in New Zealand. The other stations which take the Soundwave will get this show when it's broadcast in our regular slots in the weeks ahead as two one hour programmes, but you can catch it live on Saturday when Hanna Tuulikki and Ben Reynolds will play live and there'll be archive session tracks and interviews too.
Free Form Freakout, a weekly radio show on KMSU in Mankato, recently aired a one-hour feature on De Stijl Records from Minneapolis...
blogpost :: by fffreakout@hotmail.com (Free Form Freakout)
032010 message _ end of hibernation new synth age / new rural / new sabbat SYNTH012 INNERCITY "Visions from dream state" limited 70 An animated semiotic d...
blogpost :: by Synth / Ruralfaune
v> v> v> v> v> v> v> v> v> Foxy contributor and Digitalis Ltd artist Peter Taylor releases his third full length effort under the Mortuus Auris guise...
blogpost :: by Peter Taylor
Ahhh, gotta love it when some stupid band/label sends out shitty promos blindly, not bothering to figure out what kind of music/content a publication cove...
blogpost :: by Brad Rose
The Bubbly Blue and Green is a four-day festival of eclectic 'water music' influenced by shipwrecks, rivers, waves and lighthouses...
blogpost :: by Peter Taylor
to accompany the diogenes interview, they've set up a nice little preview comp for foxy d readers to scope out some killer tracks...
blogpost :: by Brad Rose
There is a free compilation featuring bands like Blue Sabbath Black Fiji and Foot Village here t looks pretty cool...
blogpost :: by eden.hemming@gmail.com (EHR)
Ernesto Diaz-Infante Since the mid-nineties, composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante has been releasing some of the most boldly unclassifiable and uncompromising music that spans an unbelievably wide range of sounds... feature :: by David Perron
Bis auf’s Messer Berlin’s Bis auf’s Messer emporium has all bases covered. From two rooms in the Eastern borough of Friedrichshain, Robert and Stefan run a store and a mailorder operation, they organize gigs, and not one, but two labels... feature :: by Jan-Arne Sohns
Neon Marshmallow Fest Recap More so than perhaps any festival on the radar, the lineup itself was truly the draw of Chicago’s inaugural Neon Marshmallow Fest, the four-day cornucopia of experimental music of all stripes.... feature :: by Travis Bird
