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implied melodies. The barely perceptible abuts the overwhelming. Placid soundfields are lacerated with incisions of digital fragments and static on the
opening track. Sonic reductions boil and release evaporate melodies on the track Xicifu and then are decimated by the scouring noise of Left of
Swept. All across Re-Ups, disorienting and comforting elements sit side by side. When so many noise and experimental artists seem to be hemorrhaging
releases, Cristal’s compositional rigor is refreshing.
Dj Scotch Egg Drumized 604197111411 $15.97 Vinyl Electronic
Powerful cosmic energy using the simplest tools available: 4 Nintendo Gameboys & mixer. Not a noisy release by any means, instead a fully activated
set of lean muscular gabber pop music that stares boldly into the sun with the jihad of a suicide vest full of gummi bears. Drumized takes cues from
older trad jazz, Earache era gabber & some of your better ringtones.
Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too 600116845320 $17.97 CD Dance
Well known for his epic & ultra melodic disco, it might come as a surprise that this album only contains three long tracks, with the opening track being
almost 29 minutes long! But when you listen to this album, you hear that it is still very much Lindstrøm... just more Lindstrøm— bigger, longer, more
epic & more melodic. Lindstrøm says, I realized that working within 30 minutes instead of five minutes frames forced me to think very differently to
what I was used to... when working on longer tracks, there’s so much more time to develop different themes & to let them evolve.
Original Silence Second Original Silence 600116844422 $17.97 CD Rock/Pop
Recorded at a September 28, 2006 performance at Rome, Italy’s Brancaleone
Shit & Shine Kuss Mich Meine Liebe 604197110216 $19.97 Vinyl Rock/Pop
Limited to 500. 2 LP set. Eight sprawling sonic puddles of Gibby’s spittoon soaked puddle juice emerge from the hot flaps of England’s Shit & Shine.
Combing a dense percussive chug & a megaphoned fart helmet the band emerges with a sound closest to the neck ache of powerful metallic
headbang & the distorted totality of cheap speaker decay. The band has been known to employ up to 16 separate drummers & 12 feet of vertical bass
amplification, so they are no strangers to erecting long standing brown waves of sound, an onslaught of bass boomed rock totality.
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Bitcrush Shimmer & Fade 702224116023 $17.97 CD Rock/Pop
Originally released in 2005, ‘Shimmer and Fade’ was a limited time download EP from n5MD’s sub-label En:peg Digital. Within its forty-eight minutes,
bass and guitar arose from the background to a place of prominence and carried the EP’s melodic content. This change in form represented an
important period in the natural evolution of the Bitcrush sound, a time that found Mike Cadoo transitioning from his post-industrial and IDM beginnings
found on Enarc to the more ambient/post-shoegaze direction of ‘In Distance.’ After years of requests to bring Shimmer and Fade back, n5MD has
chosen to re-release it as a re-mastered CD which contains four extra tracks not found on the original EP. Limited to 1000, this release will serve as
a time capsule of what was yet to come.
Cubenx Cold Swells 708527122723 $15.97 CD Techno
Deep tecnho with dub and IDM melodic flourishes with beautifully processed sounds. México’s Cubenx is the new face of Techno who recently signed
into Paris’ Infiné recordings. Buy if you like intelligent techno a la Kompakt.
Hotpants Romance Its A Heatwave 795103605824 $15.97 CD Rock/Pop
Three girls! Three years! Three chords! Hotpants Romance debut album ‘It’s a Heatwave’ is shouty, shambolic, garage pop that wears its heart on its
sleeve. On the 14th February 2005 Hotpants Romance formed two hours before their first gig, with a vow to play once a year on Valentines Day, after
a storming two and a half song set the audience wanted more. The original plan was dropped in favour of playing anywhere and everywhere that
Anyone would have them. The rest of 2005 had their first tape ‘The Greatest Hits’ was released on Manchester DIY label Soft Presents and the 50
copies quickly sold out. Gigs were played all around the UK with many amazing bands, winning over audiences with energetic and shambolic live
shows. In 2007 things started to really come together when the girls were able to tour with their post punk heroes the Nightingales, only to be followed
by a support slot for the Ting Tings UK tour. In 2008 after a win on a horse called Purple Moon, Nightingale Robert Lloyd is able to release the fir
Hotpants Romance Its A Heatwave 795103605824 $15.97 CD Rock/Pop
Three girls! Three years! Three chords! Hotpants Romance debut album ‘It’s a Heatwave’ is shouty, shambolic, garage pop that wears its heart on its
sleeve. On the 14th February 2005 Hotpants Romance formed two hours before their first gig, with a vow to play once a year on Valentines Day, after
a storming two and a half song set the audience wanted more. The original plan was dropped in favour of playing anywhere and everywhere that
Anyone would have them. The rest of 2005 had their first tape ‘The Greatest Hits’ was released on Manchester DIY label Soft Presents and the 50
copies quickly sold out. Gigs were played all around the UK with many amazing bands, winning over audiences with energetic and shambolic live
shows. In 2007 things started to really come together when the girls were able to tour with their post punk heroes the Nightingales, only to be followed
by a support slot for the Ting Tings UK tour. In 2008 after a win on a horse called Purple Moon, Nightingale Robert Lloyd is able to release the fir
Kid Montana Temperamental + Singles 5024545515022 $22.97 CD Rock/Pop
LTM is pleased to announce a double CD set from Kid Montana, the Belgian electronic pop duo who recorded a string of acclaimed releases for chic
label Les Disques du Crépuscule between 1984 and 1987. Temperamental + Singles gathers together the Temperamental album from 1986 with six
track mini-album The Las Vegas Gold Rush and singles such as Revisiting Yalta, Spooky, Love May Be Blind and Still Colour Waiting. Featured
producers include Marc Moulin and dan Lacksman (of Telex) and Gilbert Lederman (Berntholer). Digitally remastered, the 31 track, 2 hour 2xCD
compilation also includes all tracks from the rare debut ep Today from 1982, and three tracks from a final unreleased demo recorded in 1987.
Kid Montana Temperamental + Singles 5024545515022 $22.97 CD Rock/Pop
LTM is pleased to announce a double CD set from Kid Montana, the Belgian electronic pop duo who recorded a string of acclaimed releases for chic
label Les Disques du Crépuscule between 1984 and 1987. Temperamental + Singles gathers together the Temperamental album from 1986 with six
track mini-album The Las Vegas Gold Rush and singles such as Revisiting Yalta, Spooky, Love May Be Blind and Still Colour Waiting. Featured
producers include Marc Moulin and dan Lacksman (of Telex) and Gilbert Lederman (Berntholer). Digitally remastered, the 31 track, 2 hour 2xCD
compilation also includes all tracks from the rare debut ep Today from 1982, and three tracks from a final unreleased demo recorded in 1987.
Latinsizer 110 708527122822 $15.97 CD Disco
Electronic disco pop digitalized with analog machines. Latinsizer is Pepe Mogt, one of the main engines of the Nortec Collective (Fussible). 110 is
Latinsizer’s second album and debut for Static Discos, a banging collection of electro songs and neu-disco anthems.
Lights Out Asia Eyes Like Brontide 702224116122 $17.97 CD Rock/Pop
Once a band has developed a sound that is undeniably theirs it can be difficult to push beyond those confines and expand the sound
into new territory. Lights Out Asia set out to do just that and have succeeded in writing a record that was as much a sign of the times as it was an
expansion of their aural bubble that has been their watermark. They have been called ethereal, post-shoegaze and sleep-rock, but on their third
full length “Eyes Like Brontide” the band slides into a darker more ominous and less lucid dream than on previous efforts. The release is a
stylistic shift from the sweet lullabies of their debut “Garmonia” (Sun Sea Sky) and the electronic drum driven post-shoegaze of 2007’s “Tanks and
Recognizers” (n5MD). The song dynamics on the album deserve special attention. For the first time in Lights Out Asia’s history they have gone for
broke with some of the most epic drum machine driven post-rock this side of the Pacific along with solemn disconnected
Near The Parenthesis L’Eixample 702224115927 $17.97 CD Rock/Pop
Near the Parenthesis follows up 2007’s “Of Soft Construction” with “L’Eixample,” Tim Arndt’s most focused work to date. L’Eixample draws on
inspiration gained during travels through Barcelona, Spain. Of particular interest was the innovative and sometimes peculiar modernist architecture
of the L’Eixample district. In Catalunyan, L’Eixample literally means an extension, a strong symbolic parallel to the music found on Arndt’s latest work
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