“Four approaches to destroying time... Alistair Crosbie hits with a mammoth drone fuzz out. BM serve up a soup of slow moving industrial static. Divine Coils play it minimal squeezing the air out of your lungs. Family Battlesnake destroy with a thug life side that pins you to the wall then leaves......... no explanation. Edition of 101.... black & white covers.... black & white tapes.....black & white spray.” – SH.

Beautiful new limited CD from Glasgow’s Alistair Crosbie (Eye Shaking Kingdom/Space Weather et al). A bit of a departure for Crosbie, I’ve Never Had  A Face is a single minimal piece for keyboard and electronic treatments  that has an evocative early music feel and a very English atmosphere, recalling everything from the music of William Byrd through the Canterbury sound and the settings of Dolly Collins. An interesting parallel to the electric Albion stylings of Space Weather and one of Crosbie’s most transfixing compositions. 

Three extended tracks of violently overloaded guitar from Glasgow’s Alistair Crosbie, recorded August/September 2010. Aspects of Haino/Fushitsusha in the way the strings are submerged and dissolve in the endless layers of fuzz, giving it a distant doom/drone atmosphere that is particularly thunderous. But who’s that on the cover?!

“The is the sound of your haywired central nervous system committed to tape... Beautiful, slowly evolving, yet unnerving electronic psych that bleeds out to a total shutdown on side 1. Blood is still boiling on side 2 even if the comatose state of mind is a fact... exploring the inner workings of a life support machine.. Black case C-30 cassettes in black/yellow fold-around paper cover. Edition of 50.” – GS.

New split CD release that pairs the London-based Family Battlesnake with Chicago drone duo Number None. One long 28 minute tone-float from the duo incarnation of Family Battlesnake (Bill Kouligas and Harry Astras) and four slowly collapsing galaxies from Number None. Hand-numbered edition of only 200 copies in oversize card sleeves.

Excellent split set from Family Battlesnake and Japanese psych/noise legends Astro on Bill Kouligas’s (Family Battlesnake) suave new vinyl-only imprint:”Delving into the realm of deep listening, transported by way of analog synthesizers, Family Battlesnake weaves an electronic web that cocoons the listener in warm cascading frequencies. Calls to mind classic electronic composers such as Charles Dodge, Eliane Radigue and even a hint of NWW. Family Battlesnake is Bill Kouligas, a London-based Greek who also performs and records with Sudden Infant. Astro is Hiroshi Hasegawa of the legendary and now defunct Japanese noise unit C.C.C.C. Sonic waves of squealing feedback and oscillating waveforms meld with biting distortion in the appropriately titled “Lunatic Luminescence”. Enveloped by haywire electronics and burbling loops & skree, Astro has constructed an impressive piece of modern electronic music of devastating magnitude. A fine document of pure Japanese sonic nihilism and fresh deconstucted electronic frequencies. The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs.” – Pan.