Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Family Battlesnake
Ventral Stream

Gold Soundz #63

Cassette
£6.99


“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.

Alistair Crosbie/BM/Divine Coils/Family Battlesnake
s/t

Sound Holes 010

2xCassette
£7.99


“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.

Number None/Family Battlesnake
Split

State Sanctioned Recordings SSR-004

CD-R
£5.99


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.

Family Battle Snake/Astro
Split

Pan 1

LP
£16.99


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.