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DB 19001CS
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In a blur of smudged, psychedelic jams with a distinctly aquatic tone, Wrecked Lightship shores up on Dead Bison. This new collaborative project from Laurie Osborne and Adam Winchester speaks to their considerable experience in the fields of leftfield electronic music with a dubwise, bassweight bias -- Anderson is better known as Appleblim and Winchester can be found recording in Dot Product and under his own name. Wrecked Lightship intentionally alludes to sci-fi as much as maritime imagery -- vast alien atmospheres being explored in breached vessels. Ramshackle rhythmic impulses from off-center delay trails are a recurring theme, calling to mind blown-out hyperdrives and creaking masts, but there remains a submerged groove carrying these loose shanties no matter how far off course they veer. Sonically, Winchester's interest in electro-magnetic noise generation interweaves with Anderson's woozy, melodic psychedelia, while years of musical engineering experience combines with a readiness to embrace imperfection in pursuit of honest, immediate expression and interaction. The improvised element which fed into the making of this album is intrinsic to its cracked beauty, resulting in a Ballardian soundworld full of question marks and corridors leading to unexpected places.
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DB 1704CS
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Armed with just a backpack sub-woofer and an around-the-neck mobile modular, Jeff Blank set off to the outer Mongolian reaches, seeking out his parvita. His rippling sound vibrations resonated back and forth bringing love, fertility and devotion (all at the optimum level of 80db of course). Jeff's Landscapes Part 1. is a collection of new and previously unreleased music, all of which was recorded originally for his own lantern-lit, incensed bong cavern. But here big Jeff shifts the emphasis from the bong to the gong; one can hear a more experimental, electronics-focused sound.
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DB 1702CS
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Natsukashii's Driving East is a foundational landmark in functional music intended to occupy a particular space. Their minimalist composition techniques prove that only a prophet of the quantum cycle may manifest this harmonizing of intention. One could describe this previously unreleased cult album as ambient or new age, perhaps drawing similarities to minimalist contemporaries of the early 1980s, but if you look within and realize you have never experienced this rekindling on a cosmic scale, it can be difficult to believe. The stratosphere is calling to you via frequencies. Can you hear it?
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DB 1701LP
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Dead Bison is a soundtrack label, setup by a group of movie nerds. Spawned from a shared passion of B-rated sci-fi and horror movies, and a mutual appreciation for score writers such as John Carpenter and Alan Howarth, Vangelis, Clint Mansell, Hans Zimmer, and more. Words from Mark-Henning Sargent: "This album is the soundtrack to the sci-fi movie swimming round my head. It fittingly marks my departure from touring as a DJ and producing club music to focus on the pure enjoyment of writing music from the heart with no agenda, influence or boundaries."
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