Reissue of a still infernally-potent head-shredding side from Phil Todd’s Ashtray Navigations unit, originally released by Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers back in 1998. This edition comes in a hand-numbered run of 100 copies with full colour artwork.

Edition of 64 copies. New work from these excellent European baroque/psych surrealists with guest appearances from Duncan Pinhas, Phil Todd of Ashtray Navigations and Steve Warwick of Birds Of Delay.

“Following CDRs and cassettes for Smokers Gifts and Kovorox Sound, and a track on an Idwal Fisher comp, Melanie Delaney gulps down some fermented plantain extract, squares her shoulders, embarks on another  temporary exile from Ashtray Navigations, and takes her rightful place atop the Chocolate Monk bully pulpit. The musical spastasms of her solo project Ocelocelot goink in tandem with Jovial Bowel Syndrome, that Midlands medical condish afflicting those with diets high in pig’s milk and sausage muke. Ring modulator abounds on the CD, attaching itself to every decibel like a Louisiana eyeworm, leaving pockmarks across landscapes defined by cornball menses tutorials and cloudy waters from the snout of the matriarch. Delaney charms plasmagnetics and electrosputum with the deftness of the Janitorial Custodians of Jajouka. As Ocelocelot splays her space nuptials across a skyline smeared with mushy peas, and junked Vespas limp across the tarmac at Dragonfly refueling stations, orphans gaze away from the mysterious metal chambers it is their duty to scrub with steel wool. Gawk, urchins.” - S.Glass

Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies self-released CD-R from Ashtray, ‘officially’ available on their upcoming US tour. This one reissues an Ashtray Navigations CD-R originally released in 1997 on the Ignivomous label. It’s based around hypnotic circling fuzz tones illuminated by distant choral melodies and shortwave fidelity and it kinda orbits the whole William Basinski/Grouper school of entropic loops.

Edition of only 200 copies LP from Phil Todd’s Ashtray Navigations, using a combination of field recordings, guitar, F/X, synth and saz to transport the whole deal into an electrified fourth world zone where ethnic string miniatures go up against glazed drones and the kinda heavy psych rock – complete with phased drums – that could easily have been cut at the sessions for Walter Wegmuller’s Tarot. Every Ashtray releases is compulsory but this is a particularly great LP, with a killer hi-fi studio sound that repays deep listening and some of Todd’s most psychoactive creations. Highly recommended.

New album from this fascinating, schizophrenic French outfit (the solo project of Laurent Gerard, a frequent collaborator with Ghedalia Tazartes) who seem to have inherited the surrealist tradition of Jacques Berrocal/Red Noise/Futura Records, the same current that so entranced Nurse With Wound’s Steve Stapleton. Capitaine Present 5 is a collage of spoken word, sound poetry, weird synth pop and Industrial cut-ups, all rendered with the sophisticated élan of an experimental Gallic chanteur. Singular. Edition of 160 copies.

New album from Phil Todd’s Ashtray Navigations, a real CD with full-colour pro-printed digipaks. Todd describes this new one as being closest in spirit to last year’s Johnny Fuckoff Minotaur and there’s plenty of that early Heldon style of guerilla sonics softened by reverb electronics and power drones. The fucked-up drum machines on “You’d Look Good As A Five Pound Note” relocates Richard Youngs & Simon Wickham-Smith’s “I Live In A Big City” to some kind of cybernetic nightmare zone complete with lead guitar that could almost be an unissued live take of  “Run Run Run”. Pretty choice. Edition of 200 copies.