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Any tape freaks still on the Phazebook? We got three new ones out today at https://spleencoffin.com

TIM OLIVE – SINTERED cassette
Tim Olive lives in and operates out of Kobe, Japan, where he has built an impressive discography of solo and collaborative recordings using magnetic pickups as a primary instrument. Sintered was created with several of these magnetic pickups, along with metal objects, radios, and spring reverb. Working with such temperamental technology, it’s clear that Olive’s intuition and timing are assets put to good use here, sharpened from decades of collaboration and improvisation, from his early work as a core member of avant noise-rock group Ni**od through his continuing collaborations with Anne-F Jacques, Jason Kahn, Takuji Naka, Kayu Nakada and many others. With a sharp ear and a steady hand at the helm, Sintered unfolds almost as if the hum and interference of the electronics were simply being presided over, carefully guided to elegant compositions of their own internal logic.

HUMAN ADULT BAND – THE MOVERS BROUGHT RAINBOWS cassette
Long-running Jersey outfit Human Adult Band come to us after dropping a sickening array of no-fi noise rock and damaged art punk tapes and records upon the public. And yet, The Movers Brought Rainbows is probably their most abstract and alien work to date. While the guitar/bass/drums/voice formation is still the genesis of these recordings, at its core feedback and reverb are the star players here. Source sessions recorded at various locations are unapologetically run through the ringer, subjected to tortuous electronic post processing, and what reaches your ears is an almost atmospheric level of abstraction as echoing drums, voices, amplifier feedback, and electronics are all mashed up and smeared together.

COMFORT LINK – METAPHYSICAL SWATTING cassette
After emerging from a red shag-carpeted basement in Baltimore in 2012, Comfort Link produced a series of skewed concrete muzak albums knitted together with wobbly tape loops of found and recycled sounds, gradually shifting toward a darker post-industrial sound collage style on more recent releases.

On Metaphysical Swatting, battered reel-to-reel tape machines and portable cassette recorders scramble up the primary sound sources of voice and organ - ancient reels of tape with loose oxide are oversaturated, obsessively spliced and delaminated, re-worked into skittering loops, crunchy tape delays, shifting waves of hiss and endless feedback devouring itself. Metaphysical Swatting feeds on familiar tastes and tactics employed in earlier Comfort Link works but regurgitates something more conspicuously surreal and sinister.

https://youtu.be/pw4_tuOjbd4

Comfort Link at the True Vine, 6/16/2022 Thursday night at True Vine fest III organized by Crass Lips That night's line up was Dead Guy (NY), Flesh Axe, Lilumnia (NY), Comfort Link (Baltimore), and ...

Out today! Tanzprocesz CEO Jo Tanz (Femme, Opéra Mort, Placenta Popeye, Reines D'Angleterre) unloads an electropsychedelic opus dripping with emotional intensity. Blurry synth slow-cookers, baroque abstractions, vibrating static spasms and Jo’s trademark lethargically possessed vocals ooze over 12 inches of vinyl divided into 5 self-contained movements via forward and reverse cut grooves and intercut double grooves.

Translucent acid cotton candy pink vinyl with hand screen printed inner sleeves featuring groove maps to guide your stylus travels.

Out today!! Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble - “Borderline Dogfood” CD - a table scrap pâté of junk percussion, recycled sounds, roasted tapes and electronics, surrealist soliloquies, and decontextualized lyrics squished through the meat grinder and smeared into a professionally replicated compact disc. Packaged in hand screnprinted gatefold chipboard CD wallets.

Tonight at True Vine!

Don’t miss the legendary S. GLASS (founder of Bananafish Magazine, Glands of External Secretion, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble) all the way from San Francisco! On tour with RUMP STATE (new duo featuring Mark Morgan of the killer noise rock band Sightings)! Local support from COMFORT LINK, SLAB OF 🥩, and $2 ROMANCE! 8PM!

New review of Candi Nook 2xCD in Lost in a Sea of Sound.

Candi Nook - How I Invented Sound And Redesigned The Human Ear Reviews and descriptions of cassettes, tapes, records, labels and vinyl. Including pictures and links to help the reader.

LA RACE LP reviewed in Maximum Rock n Roll.

Je Me Rapproche de Mon Squelette LP - MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL Recorded in an abandoned Belgian brewery, LA RACE presents brutally stark, molasses-thick rock-noise. Finding a place just north of black metal hell, the absolutely shredded vocals sound more like KK Null ran out of lozenges again. All jokes aside, this band means fu***ng business. LA RACE channels....

OUT TODAY!!

La Race - “Je Me Rapproche De Mon Squelette” LP

Recorded in the former stables of an old Brussels brewery, French trio La Race’s third album is a work of extreme focus and restraint. Super repetitive drum rhythms, controlled feedback and skeletal guitar textures, with barely discernable vocals, La Race builds on ideas kicking around in NYC no wave, 1980s Japanese noise rock, and the early Load and Skin Graft rosters, creating a heavy, alienated sound that is wholly the band’s own.

https://spleencoffin.com/portfolio/je-me-rapproche-de-mon-squelette/

Review of HAIRS ABYSS CD in this week’s Vital Weekly.

Radio Trouble digging deep into the vault for this one. Nat Roe cassette we released back in 2009. A classic!

A week from today! Excited to announce this sPLeeNCoFFiN label concert, part of Experimental Sound Studios excellent Quarantine Concerts series and presented by Feed Your Head collective. Tune in for a smorgasbord from the spleenco roster, from long time comrades to glossier countenances. Intense live performances, long form meditations, video art, and obsessive assemblages of sound and image. Thanks to Gladys Harlow for the hookup and assistance from the cockpit!

TQC: Feed Your Head Collective presents s P L e e N C o F F i N Records Showcase : Experimental Sound Studio Feed Your Head Collective highlights Baltimore, MD based label SpLeEN CoFFin that reaches into the soul and whispers sweet sonic sensitivies. Visceral and grandious, the artists and founder create a world of exquisite beauty and art that will never be forgotten!

HAIRS ABYSS - Aposematic Displays CD out today! An hour plus of oily, sprawling electronics and saturated rhythmic bombardment by the duo of Chandor Glöomy and Paul Harrison.

Hairs Abyss – Aposematic Displays CD HAIRS ABYSS APOSEMATIC DISPLAYS Hairs Abyss is Chandor Glöomy (Feral Copse, Cromlech Shadow, The MK Ultraterrestrials, Coma Kultur label) and Paul Harrison (Expose Your Eyes, Egone, Smell and Quim,…