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Flower Man
Another Ozone Hex
Catholic Tapes No Cat
Cassette
£7.99
New solo jams from Chris Bush of Caboladies in an edition of 75 copies. Melodically complex structures of synth tone with layers of fuzz and confusion cloaking soaring harmonies and epic drones. Even better than his recent CD-R on Robert Beatty’s label.
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Dino & Nic
Plays Theme From Dino & Nic
Catholic Tapes No Cat
2xCassette
£10.99
Edition of 100 copies double cassette in moulded plastic boxes from the duo of ‘Dino St. Clair’ (aka Brett Naucke of Face Worker/Catholic Tapes) and ‘Nic Lamb’ (aka Chris Bush of Caboladies/Flower Man). Dual digital synth jams that move from ethereal/cosmic tones through heavier pulse-based wipe-outs.
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Carl Calm
Dayglo Port
Dekorder 045
LP
£13.99
Excellent solo album from one half of Caboladies, Eric Lanham. More pastoral and dreamtone-focussed than the mothership, Carl Calm focuses on lugubrious drone work that touches on UK experiments like Matthew Bower’s Sunroof, Spacemen 3 circa Dreamweapon/An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music, The Chalk/Ora cultus et al with gentle comedown melodies and rippling keyboards and percussion. This one really bridges DIY homemade synth stylings and zone-out 20th century electronics and makes for some of the most luminal psychedelia to come out of the Caboladies camp. A keeper.
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Flower Man/Rene Hell
Split
Agents Of Chaos 7026
Cassette
£8.99
Limited split cassette from Flower Man aka Chris Bush of Caboladies and Rene Hell. The Flower Man side features some cracked electronics, with glitch-riddled rhythms and bubbling synth intimating otherworldly melodies via a disorientating series of aural cut-ups and a bunch of hypnotic, almost Maryanne Amacher-scale third ear soundings. The Hell side is more symphonic and dramatic, with hissing drum machines and eerie soundtrack style keyboards giving way to simple Cluster-style melodies.
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Caboladies
s/t
DNT Records DNT-063
LP
£12.99
Fantastic collection of stray tracks from the Caboladies trio – Chris Bush, Eric Lanham and Ben Zoeller - that mops up the best of the material contributed to various cassettes and CD-Rs over the past few years. Features “Psychic Birthmark” from the 2007 CD-R of the same name on Smooth Tapes, “Aquarium Railroad” from the 2008 Students Of Decay Earth Canal CD-R, “Caught In Cradle Flypaper” from Arbor’s 2008 cassette, Waterslide Mines, “Giddy Atonement” from 2008’s Burning Portal Bathtubs” cassette on Smooth Tapes and “Body Tides” from 2007’s Body Tides CD-R on Mountaain. All tracks remastered by Pete Swanson. Some fantastic minimalist electronics here that have a crude DIY edge that touches on aspects of primitive UK circuit benders like Storm Bugs et al while factoring in psychedelic restatements of reductive 20th century avant classicism and some fully punked kosmische synth. Edition of 500 copies with double sided poster.
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