Browse by Label: C.i.P.

Artist:	ALU
Title:	Autismenschen
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CIP 013CD

"Alu was a seminal German synth-punk band active 1979-83. This CD is their unreleased first studio album from 1980. For those to whom Alu is a new name, comparable audio would be Suicide, Throbbing Gristle (circa 20 Jazz Funk Greats), Esplendor Geometrico, or Algebra Suicide, not to mention myriad electronic German bands who existed concomitant to Alu and have enjoyed recent reissues of their own, including Phonophobia, Die Todlich Doris, and Thorax-Wach. Labels with similar artists include Zick Zack and Twisted Knister. Alu was born from the ashes of the seminal project Sand, whose releases were issued a few years ago through the persistence and passion of David Tibet. Not coincidentally, David Tibet also provided liner notes for this release. This release comes with a booklet of lyrics (in German), photos, plus a short biography (in English) of the band."

Artist:	TALBOT, JASON
Title:	A Love So Bright It Shines A Hole Through My Heart
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	CIP 014CD

"An active member of the Boston experimental sound community, he is perhaps best known as the 'turntable abuser/modifier' half of the Stelzer/Talbot duo. However, Talbot has a refreshing take on how to 'perform' a turntable: in addition to modifying vinyl recordings, he also modifies the tonearm and needle, with objects as diverse as balloons, sheet metal, and wood, creating a diverse palette of sound. The first 'segment' is reminiscent of cassette spools falling down an elevator shaft coupled with elegant musique concrete; the second half presents whispers of hiss and static fuzz that become a storm of distortion; a loaded 18-wheeler driving through a glass bottle manufacturing plant." 20 minute CD EP.

Artist:	HAFLER TRIO, THE
Title:	If Take, Then Take - Tricks, Half-Tricks & Real Phenomena
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	LP
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	CIP 016LP

"Hafler Trio is Andrew M. McKenzie, and others as necessary. Hafler Trio has consistently released some of the most challenging and invigorating experimental audio in aesthetically exceptional packaging. This is his first full length LP in ten years and comes with a trapezoidal booklet of additional texts. In addition, each copy is signed by the artist. Unanswered questions, unasked-for responses, stimulus and response exercises conducted and presented for the benefit of a select few. Hafler Trio has always asked more of the listener than many sound artists do, with questions and ideas that provoke and, like an open invitation, await response from those who are willing to tackle, often at length, the ideas presented. The audio cleanses the aural palette and refurbishes it nicely. The ideas in the booklet are available to those who wish additional illuminations, provocations, questions, and -- when the light is right -- answers, may add greater tricks to their own personal repertoire of knowledge. Please note: in this instance, knowledge may be considered fact, fiction, or entirely up for debate." Edition of 400 copies.

Artist:	HANS GRUSEL'S KRANKENKABINET
Title:	Happy As Pitch
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CIP 017CD

"Hans Grusel's 'sound' might best be described as the sounds of a Bavarian music box designed by an artist who had been bonked on the head with a brass cuckoo clock chime and left in a dark room for three years with only the music of Scriabin, Wagner, and Prokofiev mixed with off-speed 1960s sci fi soundtracks and folkloric anthems pumping through the slightly clogged vents. HGKK audio combines numerous divergent elements -- rigid structures and sweeping washes of plucky improvisation; classic violin sounds twisting in a mobius strip of clashing yet beautiful sounds and tones; flitting marches and delicate traipsing at the bottom of the sea -- to create dense and blissful audio rainstorms."

Artist:	NULL & Z'EV, KK
Title:	Artificial Life
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CIP 018CD

"A continuation/permutation of the well-received collaborative release on Touch that featured Z'EV, KK Null, and Chris Watson. Percussion and percussive elements are the primary source material on this disc. However, combining Z'EV's diverse materials (and methods for drawing sounds out of them), and Null's rich tone washes and electronic manipulation, the five pieces on this disc are anything but traditional percussion. With tracks ranging from dense, complex rhythms that sound like angry gnats to sonorous bowed metal and shifting sine waves, this disc shows why these artists have earned their places in the pantheon of experimental sound artists."

Artist:	GENDREAU/FRANCISCO LOPEZ, MICHAEL
Title:	Split LP
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CIP 018LP

"Both Francisco Lopez and Michael Gendreau are extremely well known sound artists with dedicated fan bases throughout the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Japan. Francisco Lopez is perhaps best known for his dynamic studio and live performances that sway between crushing silence and dynamic, shifting volume swells. A trained acoustician, Gendreau uses extremely refined microphones -- designed for acoustic and vibrational research -- to record sounds such as turntable motor hum, belts, and run out grooves on records more than 70 years old to create incredibly rich recordings. Gendreau's side is an incredible journey through a forest of alternately prickly and soothing sounds generated from turntable motor hum, belts, and run out grooves. Lopez used similar source material for his side, creating a beautiful oceanic wall of sound based (predominantly) on crackle, hum, and scratches."

Artist:	VERTONEN
Title:	Stations
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CIP 019CD

"The audio on this CD was culled from three years of live performances with the aim of creating a finely decorated abattoir of sound -- a place where beautiful chandeliers and dusty, creaking floorboards sit side by side, where the gentle sweep of a drone butts up against a turntable being eaten alive. From abrasive rhythmic chugging and musique concrete to drones and noise explosions -- sometimes within the same piece -- my goal with this CD is to present a buffet of live Vertonen that holds together as a satisfying cohesive while benefiting from its diverse scope of sounds."

Artist:	DEMONS/VERTONEN
Title:	Split
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	LP
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	CIP 020LP

"Demons is the synth duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steven Kenney. Vertonen has been exploring the forest of sound since 1991 and has received three city of Chicago CAAP grants in recognition of his work. This release will be of interest to folks who enjoy Wolf Eyes, Hive Mind, Carlos Giffoni, 1970s sci-fi recordings, synthesizer music, Merzbow. The Demons side was recorded live in March 2007 at Enemy in Chicago. The Vertonen side was recorded in January 2007."

Artist:	BRAN(...)POS
Title:	COIN-OP KHEPRI
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	CIP 021CD

"bran(...)pos is the solo experimental electronic music project of Jake Rodriguez. Given life in 1995, bran(...)pos focuses on real-time sonic plasticization and voice manipulation, achieving these ends with both hardware synthesizers and a custom set of software-based sound grapplers that interface with the real world via tactile control. bran(...)pos' recordings (heavy and heady like Cannibal Corpse doing Xenakis covers) and performances (rounded out with facial interpretations and physical gesture-butoh and Max Fleischer-inspired) are consistently praised for their inventiveness and attention to detail. Come explore the Valley of the Dead as casino with bran(...)pos, gambling wildly with life issues as you teeter on the precipice of securing a good afterlife or another horrid reincarnation. Mix an aural palette that encompasses such disparate elements as The Residents in the late 1970s, Dick Hyman, Stockhausen, Runzelstirn and Gurglestock, and maybe Emerson Lake and Palmer circa Brain Salad Surgery. Assemble this palette with the compositional complexity of Ennio Morricone and Beethoven and you get close to COIN-OP KHEPRI, a collection of tracks ranging from beautifully dense and complex to whimsical, making multiple stops between: folks, place your bets! For fans of: '70s electronic music (Peter Thomas, Gert Wilden), Runzelstirn and Gurglestock, German Shepherds, Caroliner."

Artist:	ILLUSION OF SAFETY
Title:	Sedation & Quell
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	10"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	CIP 021EP

"For 25 years, Illusion of Safety has charted the terra incognita where sound, silence, noise and music intersect. Current audio emphasis includes electronic synthesis, computer composition and manipulation, musical reference, and close microphone recording. Side one is a pleasantly dense, yet not cluttered by any means, assemblage of diverse elements including an old typewriter, turntable pops/crackles, and what appears to be shortwave radio interference topped by subtle frequency and oscillation tweaks. Side two offers a beautiful counterbalance: after an initial punch announcing the track, we waver through numerous delicate swimming tones that are eventually subdued by a listing rhythmic faction suffused with other surprises."

Artist:	ZEH, JASON
Title:	Heraclitus
Label:	C.i.P.
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	CIP 022CD

"Jason manipulates multiple spools of cassette tape (and their shells, reels, guide rollers, and pressure pads) with fire, water, hand held demagnetizers, and manual tweaking -- and that's just the starting point. Each cassette component may be disassembled, reassembled (with parts added or expelled), stretched, shrunk, or otherwise permutated into a condition it was likely never intended to be put into. The result is rewarding listening for dedicated ears."

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