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Barsebäck released!
Back from Mjölby and Malmö! Thank you! Optic Nest, Sphynxs, Time Deleters and Altar of Flies delivered their best performances ever. Mental. Shout outs to everyone. The Barsebäck tape is out now. 50 copies. Act fast. A soundclip will be out in a day or two. The Je Ne Sais Quoi 12" has a slight delay. Stay even more tuned.
February = Two New Releases!
Yes. We'll work hard this year. And the site got a minor update the other day. To cut some slack.
Moptaco Dics 22: The Je Ne Sais Quoi »Protection« 12"
A onesided beauty from the masters of devo-ish new wave rattle. This is the first sign from their upcoming LP »Transparent For You All« on their own Family Affair label. This disc is NOT a single, but a 10 minute cut of a track from their upcoming. The version on the LP stops at a lame 3.40, just when things start getting interesting. And it is interesting indeed. A touch of the old Moroder in this mourning uptown disco-hit. Recalling the times of Eno-kinda breakdowns and mumbling rap-choirs. The track just goes on and on like that old krautrock. Nuff said. And as if that wasn't enough it has a bonus version made by Richard Brain. Master of the class, Patric Cowley style. Big words here, but big MUSIC! Pre-orders will be up in a week or so!
Moptaco Dics 23: Basebäck »If We Were Young« C30
These guys don't joke. Bringing on some of the most courageous third world electronics there is. Rusty buckets part with prepared guitar and modular synthesizers. The sounds is a slowly grinding waving one. Some buzzing in the background, a man stuck in strings, the grunting of the squarewave. A 30-minute live document. With good sounds, good almighty! It all ends in a blues we all can relate too. Very unexpected!
And yeah. We team up with Hästen & Korset and Nightzone Tapes for some action in Mjölby (Feb 5) and Malmö (Feb 6). Optic Nest, Sphynxs, Time Deleters and Altar Of Flies among other things live! Be there or be □!
2010 will be here to stay!
The 10ies will be here in little over a week. The last thing we did before closing for xmas was to send off Moptaco Dics 22 to the pressingplant. The release will be out February 1st. Wait for it. More info in January! Stay tuned. If all plans will be realized, next year will bring fresh and exziting releases by Optic Nest, Evil Moisture, New Rose, CMG & Death Dub. More stuff is in the loop. Just need to find the time! Merry everything!!
New Site!
After 12 hours of human decay and mayhem. The new site is up and running. The coming days we'll try to get everything sorted that we did not have TIME to do. Human errors are such.
Direct orders via the site is now available. And HOW ABOUT THAT. Isn't that a blast? We try to ship AZAP! So, go bananas!
Releases
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If We Were Young
Barsebäck is the new moniker of one Martin Linder, a free spirited character in the Stockholm underground. His musical past talk of everything from raw garage rock to straight up full blown noise. On this 30 minute recording, which is the first ever, he teamed up with Gustav Nygren (New Rose & Borås Energi) and Daniel Söderberg (Dwayne Sodahberk). It takes of as a bubbly drone hallllellllullllja-moment travels through a wierder Synth to Sonic Youthy guitarpassage and ends in the best cover version of Neil Youngs »Tonight's The Night« one has ever heard!! Hence the title. A must have for lovers of the old Young. Done deal!
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Aural Mandalas Volume One: Coiled On The Universal Ocean
Somewhere around Mercury and Pluto this recording takes shape. Integalaxian synthsequences like the germans did it somehow. Sounds truly updated and skilled. Tapehiss in the background and everything. Secret recording by a new secret artist. Truly kosmik stuff!! Co-production by Fagerström at The Bedroom.
Cover is something like PIL's Metal Box with spraypaint and metal stampers!! But for the CD format.
€5.00
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Död Metall
Altar of Flies dude goes solo!!! After spending years with moniker Altar Of Flies and alter-ego Worms, Mattias Gustafsson releases his first ever tape with his christian name. Mattias Gustafssons solo work is a smooth handgesture to John Carpenter soundtracks, pre-sequencer Tangerine Dream and the dirt of Rune Lindblad.Melted loops contrast deep-fried synths in small delicate movements. Totally undistorted and melodic!! Beautifuly crafted metal cover with spraypainted jeans-girdle.
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Golden Hiss
New Hit-duo from Sewer Election and Optic Nest dudes This duo by Dan Johansson Vit (Sewer Election) and Daniel Zoot Fagerström (Optic Nest) has a sound of their own. Based ONLY on white noise and hiss, the band has created a techno-like sound, without any hints of dance. Basic noise-hymns and fanfares of buzz that seem to twist and bend. And yes, it's Minimal and strange in a way.
€5.00
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Live At Ny Tid Ny Strid
Finally! A rare documentation of a rare Vic Sinex. Bad sound. All tape. Nothing to hide. Contains the multiclassic Tips Zum Selbstmord!! A must!
€5.00
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Prata Normalt
The Talk Normal sound is very unique. Their music being the wikipedia of New York's no wave-scene and at the same time delivering the very FUTURE of music. They are what Teenage Jesus And The Jerks should have been, and what DNA was but noone truly understood. Blasting drumbeats with a hard jazz-feel backed up by walls of noisy guitars and looped feedback-noises. Extreme in a way, but still basic pop. Vocally they sing about short men and smiling kids in a way that could only be desribed as the bastad child of Diamanda Galas and D Boon. Still being the child of teenage Kim Gordon and Laurie Anderson. The CDR is a cut-up documentation from a series of live performances by the band from Brooklyn, Rochester, Boston and Washington DC. All recieved through basic non-dolby tape. 20 copies made. All with unique creepy collages by Daniel Fagge Fagerström.
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Night Touch
The second LP by this monumental swedish band! Under the innocuous name of Knife And Ape, four boys from the North: Rohbau (guitar, synths, etc.), Geo (synths, etc.), Marten (drums, etc.) and Scott (vocals, etc.), with bass-section assistance by the Kid Commando masterman Laagrrluv - create an often awesome pre-industrial vibe that explore a dark state of mind only hinted at by '60s psychedelia. Taking cues from Chrome, Suicide, Wolf Eyes, Jesus Lizard, The Residents and anyone who ever made home tapes in their bedroom, the band's dense, chaotic science-fiction epics are vivid vinyl nightmares - a thick blend of mechanical noises, filtered, twisted voices and fantastic, bizarre lyrics - that flesh out a frightening world both absorbing and repellent. Though conventional song structures are preserved to the point where tracks can be distinguished (indeed, the band's early efforts aren't all that far from semi-normal guitar rock), Knife And Ape's strength is their ability to create sounds of horrible beauty that transcend discrete musical units. Their sonic intensity is something to behold. Comes with thick sleeve and inlay poster and MP3 download.
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Plays The Buchla 200
The new release by Optic Nest is somewhat of historical nature. Recorded entirely on the old Buchla 200 system at Ems, the swedish Elektric Muzic Ztudio. Well quite. For you nerds it's partially controlled by Serge Sequencer, with a single Serge Oscillator and through the Serge Analog Delay. The recording as such is two 20 min tracks. The A side being a strictly and raw sequenced track, the B side being more of »exprimental« character. You chose your side!!The Buchla is a monster, Optic Nest has told us. But this tape is beautiful in it's whole composition. »Music for driving and drinking« as stated by the composer himself.
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Death Is King of The Dancefloor
As the sticker says: With members of The Skull Defekts and Cut City. A classic and one time recording made in 2003. And finally parts of that session is coming out. In a PIL kinda way they funk up their dark groove into eternity, covered in lovley sexy vocals. Rock de minimalism with a BIG and heavy sound. A must have for everyone!
Contains MP3 download.
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Tigers Run Wildly Blindly
Full freak and downright messy music with a twist of The Residents and Suicide, but in a more »pop« manor. First non-tape release by this new star freaky musicmaster. It's Harmonic!
€5.00
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-Harry Bisthday Josefine
The follow-up to their succesfull Bloodfreaks Mixtape on KSP. Live mixed at Josefines Birthdayparty summer 2007. Two iPods, two delays, one Mischpult and two men. What could go wrong. Contains songs by Residents, The Je Ne Sais Quoi, Ariel Pink, Misfits and whatnot. Released exclusively as a gift for the Micro Show!
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Live Ass Bootleg
Live recording from Bologna with Italys masters of freejazz / metal / noise fusion. Their gig was something out of the ordinary. Delay saxamaphone on blend with turntables and crackle boxes, with grindcore drums. One track consists of their brilliant soundcheck, one of the gig and remixes by Optic Nest and Jean-Louis Huhta. Split release with stockholms brilliant DFK label.
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Pick A D
Through analouge and digital transmissions to his harddrive for a couple of years now, Martin Vogel has created the most blastin Teckno / Acid / Wierd stuff around. This man grew up in a swedish little town listening to 90ies breakbeat, Eno & Syd Barrett. What more can we say! Contains the now classic psychadelic skew B-side. Fancy DJ's beware!
Comes with MP3 download.
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Underströmmar
First ever release from the main man from Kassettbolaget Svart Pyramid (KSP). Music that speaks of old rotten seas and treasures buried in the low sand. Sounds like blubb-blubb at times. Underwater sounds at it's best.
Comes in a screenprinted paper bag with wooden deepwater chrystal attached!
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Affentanz
Vic Sinex has made music under as many monikers as songs he has written. This sums up his love for NDW and Industrial Techno (DAF / Liaisons Dangereuses). Had to threaten the man to get it to release. There are many MP3s with this man. Total classic release!
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Harl Chypst Agnoxiaktz
Ranging from Technologic Punk to Funky Rave (?). Contains more or less classics from EB's early era. Bad, low sound though. The releaseparty was a magic night at GO's old place. EB played his first live gig and was supported by a Pre-Miniman's solo gig.
