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"New record from Darksmith years away from the previous... well, it is not easy to talk about the records of Tom, even if this difficulty, on the borders with the impossibility, validates the complete success of his work. We are not dealing with an abstract thing, reality is omnipresent in these furrows... yet it manages to escape any attempt at semantic classification and makes even impossible the definition of an emotional tonality; rather the listening leads back to places of the familiar insignificance in which life is immersed. The two sides are both tripartite, perhaps less messed up than usual, with the usual limping of difficultly identifiable sounds, phantom appearances of music, deteriorated, elsewhere." --Francesco Tignola Edition of 200.
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"An immersion into classics. That kind of classics which holds in his pantheon Pierre Henri and Pierre Schaeffer, even though I should maybe refer to Michel Chion, given the powerful dramatic intensity displayed by these two compositions. Mario De Vega has once again proved himself a master at mixing in his works all of the elements that make me love electro-acoustic music so much. The unpredictability of the sound sources, some sort of spectral musicality, and the sudden moves; those compositional jumps that drag you from one space to another, from a world which you've just settled into, to another one, totally unknown, sometimes frightening, sometimes simply disorientating. There are also many moments of delicacy in these 27 minutes, and I find the punk aura that lingers over every turning point so fascinating, reminding of the early works of Valerio Tricoli, so volcanic and unpredictable, and yet so controlled. Mario De Vega's sure is a very personal work that displays enormous respect for the history and the classic narrations of experimental and concrete music, without losing anchor with the present." --Claudio Rocchetti Edition of 200.
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W.H.E.A.D. is the first solo vinyl effort for the Naples based sound artist Mimmo Napolitano, aka SEC_. Over the course of the last ten years, he has developed an elaborate body of work where electroacoustic rumors interact with electric clangors and magnetic object presences, all reassembled and digested through his main instrument, a reel-to-reel machine. The result is a visceral language where the city of Naples plays a central role in the process; vivid and dramatic feelings of this composition breathe the humors of everyday life of this complex city. It couldn't have been born anywhere else. Mastering by Riccardo Mazza. Printed inner sleeve; Edition of 200.
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Second Sleep present Claudio Rocchetti's Kennedy Pantheon : Alter Meister. Claudio Rocchetti is a key figure in the European experimental scene. An enthusiastic traveler and a deep researcher, Rocchetti is known for creating a strong sonic universe made with fragile melodies and electro-acoustic incursion. Kennedy Pantheon : Alte Meister is time travel made by field recordings, stolen tales, historical documents and interviews. The composition is vivid and filmic - mixing real memories and fictions and also combining meaningful sounds with time. The result lies not in the ability to disorient, but rather in creating a new story, one disconnected from the place or time. Single-sided LP. Edition of 200.
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Second Sleep present Body Text - the first proper album for Primorje, the duo of Giovanni Donadini and Matteo Castro. After a couple of tapes and a split with Exoteric Continent, the Italian duo have finally found their shape, removing all the instrumentation and focusing only on the possibility of the 4-track recorder. Body Text offer six tracks made only by tape loops. Playing with speeds and pauses, the duo play a mix of mechanism and field recordings, tails of beats and degraded tempos creating quiet and sinister compositions. Edition of 200.
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Second Sleep present Treriksröset's Heteronormativ Musik För Att Stärka Medelklassens Självbild. If the term "noise" still makes sense in 2016, it is thanks to figures such as Tommy Carlsson and his project Treriksröset. Since the beginning of 2000s, Tommy had offered some of the most inspired harsh noise ever heard. Simple and complex, at the same time pushing the boundaries of the genre of pure harsh noise. Tommy also experiments with low-key electronic or dig with static frequency studies as he did in a series of cassette releases together with Sewer Election. Heteronormativ Musik För Att Stärka Medelklassens Självbild is his first solo LP since 2002. It was previously released in 2014 as a small private edition. Heteronormativ Musik För Att Stärka Medelklassens Självbild presents two of the most refined and focused pieces by Carlsson. Edition of 200.
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Second Sleep present Valerio Tricoli's Vixit. Valerio Tricoli is an Italian electroacoustic composer based in Munich. Valerio is very good at creating a narrative structure where sounds take shape and become real characters of a story. The track "La Solidità della Nebbia" evokes the ghosts of Luigi Russolo, it's a composition based on 1/4-inch-tape treatments of samples of both Intonarumori and self-built acoustic instruments made to resemble the sonic qualities of Futurist's instruments. "Di Vaga Crepa, di Gelido Futuro", on the other side, is a long tracking shot in which electronic and concrete sounds are recounted by Revox tape recorder and digital processing techniques. Edition of 200.
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