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	Afternoon Penis In The Evening Heavy Tapes C32 Cassette £12.99 Rarity: Debut solo splat from Nate Nelson, on e half of Mouthus and semi-regular shadow with White Rock and Religious Knives. One of the most startlingly original percussionist/pugilists on the planet, In The Evening presents more of the kind of bandstand trashing rhythms he's renowned for, with conceptions scored for electronically destroyed skins, vocals and general atmospheric scorch, at points sounding something like Abner Jay's one-man band plays the songs of James Chance beneath a slab of heavy form-scuppering concrete. Totally deformed/mush-mouthed vocals, skipping, caveman rhythms, a candy-thick atmosphere: a whole planet of unknown tongue. Edition circa 200 in full-colour printed sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and bonus sticker. Highly recommended.
	Failing Lights Dismal Winds Heavy Tapes One-Sided C20 Cassette £8.99 Rarity: Brand new solo radiation from Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes, Hair Police et al on Mike Bernstein of Double Leopards' imprint. Looped conveyor belts of tiny metal tracks are punctured by rattlesnake tones and steel blades of stumpy Morse code while fleets of black, tattooed helicopters come to a sticky halt in clouds of thick, flashing boo. Comes with a great full-colour printed cover by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and bonus sticker. Edition circa 200.
	Mike Shiflet Elaborate Palms Heavy Tapes 2 x C20 Cassette £12.99 Rarity: Hand-numbered limited to 100 double cassette set with full-colour sleeve by Maya Miller, released on the Double Leopards own Heavy Tape imprint. Three sides of extended synthesised noise/drone flux and a fourth Workbench/‘stasis style' remix that takes you all the way there from this key Columbus-based thinker. Packaged in a chunky double-cassette box. Volcanic Tongue is the exclusive European outlet for all Heavy Tapes product.
	Damion Romero Birth Twin Heavy Tapes C40 Cassette £7.99 Man, Damien Romero has been on fire recently with a run of 100% skull-stormers but this might be his best yet, a fabulously doomy set of intensely focussed and mesmerically manipulated tactile drone that slow-shifts and barely blooms with an uncanny organic logic. Something about this tape reminds me of Charles Curtis's Ultra Violet White Light set, I guess the way it suggests a whole architecture of coiled tones and massively staggered sine waves. Either way it's a beauty. Limited edition of 150 numbered copies.
	Walter Carson & Three Legged Race Nocturnal Hymn Heavy Tapes Cassette £8.99 Rarity: New wretchedly destroyed primitive rock ascension from Robert Beatty of Hair Police/Eyes And Arms Of Smoke and collaborator Walter Carson. One of the most repeat-killing Heavy Tapes blats to date, with full colour artwork by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and the usual classy HT production job.
	Ex-Cocaine Age Of Time Heavy Tapes Cassette £12.99 Totally beautiful psychedelic fuzz monster from this Montana duo that features Bryan Ramirez, John Olson of Wolf Eyes’ old sparring partner in Universal Indians, Plants et al. Limited edition with full-colour art from Maya Miller of Double Leopards in the usual suave Heavy Tapes style.
	Seven Depressions Pillar To Post/Mauled By Deer Heavy Tapes 7" £6.99 Second limited 7” vinyl release on Heavy Tapes presents two tracks from this new grouping that features noise actionist Damion Romero alongside Shannon Walter from 16 Bitch Pile-Up. First side is an intense duo synth exchange, second is a hallucinatory 16 minute field recording, “both recorded over the course of a getaway weekend in Northern Cali”. Sounds great. Killer full-colour art from Maya Miller, discs on grey/white vinyl.
	Sick Llama Alien Facial 3 Heavy Tapes Cassette £6.99 Latest instalment from Heath Moreland of the Fag Tapes empire’s gloopy cough-syrup-inspired noise crud series, with huge spoons of woozy electronic decay gobbled up in warps of distortion, delay and wonked tapes. Beautiufl full-colour art by Maya Miller of Double Leopards and the usual suave Heavy Tapes presentation.
	Tom Grimley Never Mind The Abstention, Here's The Semi-Automatic Heavy Tapes No Cat Cassette £6.99 A series of bewitching automatic electronic settings scored for a self-built ensemble of circuitry that spontaneously generates bullfrog croaks, modulated percussive twizz and slow tunnels of clatter that manages to sound both non-contemporary and a perfectly concise summation of various 20th century avant garde modes, from the self-regulating Fluxus orchestras through the kind of splat-punk basement moves of Nautical Almanac et al. Side A features both studies for the title track as well as the fully-realised version, while the B side features "Studies For A New Trio". Comes in the gorgeous new Heavy Tapes (run by Mike and Maya of Double Leopards, Religious Knives et al) packaging with letterpressed custom fabricated cardstock tape covers which wrap around and tuck into themselves and black ink on white cardstock artwork by Maya. Just about the most beautiful run of tapes you're ever likely to fondle.
	Withdrawal Method Live Letting Heavy Tapes No Cat Cassette £6.99 Two grimy, fog-bound, supremely heavy live sets from this solo project of NY-based Drew Demeter, who also runs the great Since 1972 label. The sound of metal bent like plastic, hailstones on broken bones and huge waves of rage that swell into the most precarious liquid noise constructs before exploding into silence. Great crowd noise punctuation too. Comes in the gorgeous new Heavy Tapes (run by Mike and Maya of Double Leopards, Religious Knives et al) packaging with letterpressed custom fabricated cardstock tape covers which wrap around and tuck into themselves and black ink on white cardstock artwork by Maya. Just about the most beautiful run of tapes you're ever likely to fondle.
	Workbench + Black Quarter/Cornucopia Live In San Juan Heavy Tapes No Cat Cassette £6.99 Mike and Maya Bernstein (Double Leopards/Religious Knives et al) live at the San Juan noise fest, with a wash of sandpaper-toned judder giving way to what almost sounds like one of John Fahey's concrete ragas for locomotive, helicopters, angel vox and eerie wide-open space. B-side features a set from renowned Puerto Rican noise outfit Cornucopia. Comes in the gorgeous new Heavy Tapes (run by Mike and Maya of Double Leopards, Religious Knives et al) packaging with letterpressed custom fabricated cardstock tape covers which wrap around and tuck into themselves and black ink on white cardstock artwork by Maya. Just about the most beautiful run of tapes you're ever likely to fondle.
	Religious Knives Evidence: Volume One Heavy Tapes No Cat CD-R £8.99 Limited edition of 150 copies, the first instalment in a series of releases documenting off-the-map live actions from Religious Knives. This one compiles action from four shows across 2008, with jams taken from WHOM, Hemlock, Death By Audio and Wierd. Anyone left unfazed with the production and pop stylings of the group’s Ecstatic Peace releases oughta find solace here, with some great lo-fi garage downs usurped by primitive delay and drugged keyboards. The Death By Audio set features a guest appearance from Pete Nolan of Magik Markers et al while the Wierd material matches that imprints ethos with some ginchy minimal synth/new wave settings of classic RK material including a take on “Basement Watch” that could almost be a reformed 1980s post-apocalyptic Music Machine. Or would that make em SPK? Either way, this is great.
	Religious Knives Evidence: Volume Two Heavy Tapes No Cat CD-R £8.99 Limited edition of 150 copies, the second instalment in a series of releases documenting off-the-map live actions from Religious Knives. This one compiles action from two shows across 2008, with a killer full band set live from 66 Hope and a weird RK2 style duo performance recorded at Big Jar Books in Philadelphia. Recommended.