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HOTREL 022LP
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"After well over a decade of CD-R and cassette releases from the likes of Dontrustheruin and Therapy Tapes, this is the first 12" vinyl statement from Todd Emmert's Inspector 22 project. Ten blown out, satanic, and death-obsessed folk songs with a pleasingly bent guitar style. Death has come, the time is near."
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MORE 004LP
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"Profligate is Noah Anthony from Philadelphia, formerly Night Burger, with previous/current entanglements with Social Junk and Form a Log. This is a more personal counterpart to the Videotape/Conditioning Trench 12" put out by Not Not Fun, with dark, contemplative tracks (one even entering into John Carpenter territory on 'Triumph') in addition to the moody industrial strength bangers. Lots of ear-pleasing oddness in the production that rewards multiple listens." Co-released with More Records.
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HOTREL 015LP
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"I met Raub of Horaflora during his tour down from New England when he had his entire set-up on a bicycle. Using a clever and economical system that included a hand drum, trumpet mouth piece, balloon, computer sub-woofer, transducers, hand-held tape recorders and various found objects, he created an immersive shuddering meadow mecha-organic sound environment. Empty cans and scrap metal rattled to the same pulse, balloons exhaled lost-in-the-fog tones on the taut drum skin, tapes whirred weird in their lascivious carriage in the front and back : the sum being a barnyard of coldly throbbing sounds from all angles harmonizing with the resident frogs and insects. Two years later we have this, the vinyl debut of both Horaflora and Secret Boyfriend. On his side, Raub wrings pleasingly alien sounds from his systems - taken in this instance from a live session with Andrea Williams on KALX. The electro-acoustic room-rattling is crisply recorded but still very inscrutable ... strange sounds mingling spatially guided by unseen hands of a restless poltergiest . . . The Secret Boyfriend side begins stunned in the still room where Horaflora left us, oozes and flirts with a baroque chamber mentality giving away to exquisite / blown speaker melodies and drooling song-form, morbid and tender. A sense of calm and peripheral melancholy is held, abrasion dialed back. One quarter alive in a cold apartment for twenty years. The windows are open. Pro-printed jackets, 300 copies."
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HOTREL 018LP
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"VVAQRT (say 'Vak-art' or 'Vak-ert') are a dark, crumbling consciousness minimal synth pop duo from Saxapahaw, NC. Well-recorded, tightly-wound succinct synth sculptures are coupled with ornately mangled text, evoking a mind forcefed too much useless information that has begun to froth and die. This LP is party music for the modern apocalypse... we're very proud of this one, the record with the strongest, bitterest pop appeal that we've released so far. Definitely not witch-house. Pro-printed jackets."
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HOTREL 016LP
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"Mostly recorded during a year in Las Cruces, New Mexico with a reverb unit and other gear found in a spider- and cat-infested geodesic dome in the desert. Smoke is a mottled sound diary of sweltering mutant pop, distressed voices, sweaty-dense-and-deep drone in a wider, darker sky, wretching cassettes, sparse stone garden melody, gamelan, plus a lengthy field recording of an exorcism in India that was interrupted by a wandering bull. All tracks evoke an overwhelming sense of heat and empty space, life and death, distance, isolation -- carved with broader, more direct gestures than Jeff's previous releases, but still with flourishes of his trademark bewildering, confusing sonic style. Pro-printed jacket, 300 copies."
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HOTREL 009LP
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"2nd full-length collaboration between Lee Counts, Matt Franco (of Air Conditioning, Holy Family Parish) and Jason Crumer -- power tools on scrap metal, and, by the way, one of the rawest light shows of any band ever (sheets and sheets of sparks). This record is more spare and moody than their first; lush/industrial, elegiac sanders and spareness building up to and blasted away by the brutal second side. 500 copies."
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HOTREL 008LP
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"A completely idiosyncratic and slippery album of honey religious field recordings, noise, tape collage with sprinklings of nitrous-damaged pop recorded during a year abroad in Korea. Highly listenable, Jeff has it going on. Handmade art, 300 copies." Paste-on front and spray-painted back cover.
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