Bleak Bliss

Zombi & Dead Brain - Animal Emergenacy

Let's face it, if you don't like Hair Stylistics or American Tapes then you're not having the greatest time here at the moment.

Never mind. No one cares.

This a collaboration between Mike Connelly and John Olson and it is so so good!

A C42 released on American Tapes in 2002. It's AM COLLAB 24 btw.

zombie no go go, unless you tell am to go

Zero Days United - A Front As Well As Any Other

Another Olson one-off project. It's a lovely piece of "I wonder what will happen if I do this and press that?". You also get the ghost of a Native American shaman haunting the skronk. Obviously.

C38 relaesed on American Tapes in 2009. It's AM835 btw.

zero the hero

The Pink Chunk Jazz Band - Alone And Uneffected

Well, excite my american bike!

C36 released on American Tapes in 2008. It's with AM708 btw.

alone again tonight my dear

Hair Stylistics - EP

This lies at the "noisier" end of his spectrum ... as though that means anything at all.

Yeah ... it's that year again.

MD

Hair Stylistics - Transparent Grave

F.R. David.

Self-released CDr from 2010.

i spit on your translucence

The Frying Membrane Boyz - Waiting For The Minded

A on-off Olson project that takes you through the looking glass and leaves you there.

CDr on American Tapes from 2005. It's AM381 btw.

inzane in the membrane

Wolf Eyes - Centralized Choirs B

You know what? "Pernicious" is a completely misunderstood word and it should be understood as a healing superpower utilised beneficently to further human evolution. From that perspective, Wolf Eyes are already here leaping tall buildings in a single bound (admittedly with varying degrees of success). We should all go outside right now and build statues in their honour, firm in the knowledge that in a couple of centuries, those self-samed symbols of idolatry will be torn down as our tape-ripping ancestors will consider them too mainstream. Brothers and Sisters, hear me know and go forth and create the future!

A self-released C60 from 2019 in an edition of 19 ... one less than Centralized Choirs A. Take heed, the signs are everywhere!

bark at the moon

Hair Stylistics - The Rape Commander

Describing defies logic.

A self-released CDr from 2010.

Commander

Hair Stylistics - The Rape Dojo

!

Self-released CDr from 2010.

Dojo

Wolf Eyes - Centralized Choirs A

Twisted crunk ahoy!

A self-released C52 from 2019 in an edition of 20.

choirboys

Dead Comet Alive - Still Alive

I used to wonder what it would sound like if I literally fried my synapses. Luckily for me, you know who decided to get there first ...

Two C60s and a CDr released on American Tapes in 2007.

There were only twenty of these puppies ... it's AM637 btw.

roll away the stone

don't bother

Dwelling Unit - Load For A Dwelling

You'll never guess what ...

C34 from American Tapes in 2019. 30 of them ... it's AM 812 btw.

house

Attachment Parenting - Flower Ravine

Triple tape torture from Mr Olson in the trademark hand painted repurposed box.

For specificity, a C66 and two C92s. Released on American Tapes in 2010. The cover says eight copies. Discogs says 10. blah. It's AM 886 btw.

anxious-ambivalence

avoidant

John R. Spykes - Electronics & Pipes Vol. Three

I'm assuming that there were at least a Volume One and Two but if they exist I haven't seen them (yet).

A self-released C82 from 2019 in an edition of 14.

the pipes of spykes

How People Speak - I Was Tempted To Tell Him That I Had I No Idea What I Really Wanted But Decided To Keep It To Myself

Me and Mrs Inside regularly have discussions about Nakahara Masaya and John Olson. I say discussion. I mean, we go "oh my god have you heard this?"; "yeah, I know, it's fucking amazing innit"; "I'm Canadian, what the fuck does innit mean?": cue regardless fanboy/girl screeching. Turns out there are quite a few people like us.

So, here's one back to the ledge who gave us the Universal Eyes tapes. It's the pretty classic split-channel Olson mind-fuck sorcery that makes me warm inside and slightly moist on the outside.

C52 on American Tapes from 2009 ... it's AM829 btw.

everyone's a winner, baby, that's no lie

Hair Stylistics - No Pony

onwards ...

Self-released CDr from 2010.

saddle up and ride no pony

Deux Pingouins - Karisma Ha

I love this space! Today, a Norwegian friend of ours sent us the missing Pingouins. Cue happy face.

A 3" CDr released on Éditions Cactus in 1993.

catch the pingouin

U.Eye - Field Deviations Vol. 1

Stil shitting and giggling ... what can I say? The idea of these four people sitting in a room making magic makes me moist! Probably sounds a lot weirder than I suspected it would ... ah, well. What's one more restraining order ...

A self-released / no label C58 from 2019 ... 24/96 from wav ... I'll return to more usual rates soon ...

deviancy

d'mega thing

U.Eye - Field Deviations Vol. 2

Ahh, Universal Eyes ... the gorgeous combination of Universal Indians & Wolf Eyes. Aaron Dilloway, Gretchen Gonzales, Nate Young and John Olson. That on it's own is full on "shut the fuck up" but it's better than that. A mutual friend of ours sent some of his rips to post. This is the part where all of the people here who arrive for the same reasons that we post should be doffng the proverbial or actual hat. I've just donned an actual hat in order to doff it ... that's leadership for you!

I think it gets even better than that ... it's 24/96 from wav, entirely for shits and giggles. It sounds fucking amazing.

Mrs Inside doesn't even know I'm posting this so hopefully this makes her smile (or at least raise one eyebrow at a suitably jaunty angle) and it does the same for you too.

A self-released C54 from 2019 that may have been in an edition of 12 copies ... John's a great human and will sometimes rip an additional copy or two. Even so, an edition of virtually fuck all.

always the darkest before the dawn

mega option etc

The Gerogerigegege - >(decrescendo) Final Chapter = デクレッシェンド最終章

"Recorded in a park before dawn in August 2019, it was released for the first time in December on a series of cassettes by fashion brand CAV EMPT and sold out immediately. In 2020, "Ugusudani Apocalypse" was released on LP by The Trilogy Tapes in the UK. In 2020, he self-released a cassette box with three versions recorded in the same park. In 2021, The Trilogy Tapes will release a second pressing of the album with a poster in a double-page jacket. Finally, a limited release of a record buried in the same park for a week. For the first time on CD, the entire recording will be released on two discs as a completely new and final form of sound image."

That will be this then. I have "Ugusudani Apocalypse" and what seems to be a rip of the first Trilogy Tapes LP and maybe the tape ... apparently the tape boxset actually exists as well but don't get your hopes up. I've also recently bought the gatefold second edition so will be able to compare etc ... when I'll get around to ripping it is anybody's guess, it'll work as a reference point tho'.

A double CD released on いぬん堂 last month ... it will inevitably disappear into the scalper's whorepool so if you want to buy it. I'd recommend you do it now before they start adding a zero to the price.

bon voyage Totoro

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