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Limited Edition 12" Ep now available for preorder from one of our in house labels 4Q-HQ
Limited Edition 12" Ep now available for preorder from one of our in house labels 4Q-HQ
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‘Brilliant blown out Detroit tape deck techno. Destroyed and totally danceable Must have.’ -BH No. 102
𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗. 𝟸𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚕𝚘𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚠𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜. hand-numbered. sealed. stamped. 30-min analogue cassette. private [...]
𝚙𝚜𝚢𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚜. 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚋𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚘𝚏 𝟷𝟻𝚏𝚝. 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚏𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚢. 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚋𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒 𝚋𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚔𝚊 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚏𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜 ₂₀₂₃. [...]
𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝚊𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚕𝚢 – 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚖𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚛. 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚐𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜, 𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝟹𝚛𝚍 [...]
Expose Your Eyes is the long running UK noise moniker of Paul Harrison. Expose Your Eyes appeared in the early 90s with the artists own ‘Fiend Recordings’ and released splits and [...]
Label mainstays Moss Harvest + Death Kneel document traces and relics of trauma. Post-catastrophic behaviours, tragic scuba fatalities, the great herald of death! Presented in A5 sleeve, real [...]
‘Modular synthesis from Brandon Hill (Starved Relations, Cloud Rat, Plagues etc.) exploring themes of a Black / Portuguese heritage, adoption, and the sonic and emotional unknown. Debut [...]
Minimalist synthesizer juxtaposed with disquieting field recordings. A delicate atmosphere of musique concrète creep and death-ambient aesthetics. Unsettling, yet capturing moments of dreamlike [...]
Debut release of four on the floor industrial EBM from this side-project of Primitive Knot. Manchester’s current king of riffs and circuits delivers catchy, aggressive dance music with nods [...]
Collaborative project featuring Grand Rapids’ Brandon Hill and Milwaukee’s Alex Kmet. Layers of lavish synthesizer drones and gauzy hiccupping melodies. A poor man’s Midwest [...]
It feels as though words like ‘fragile’, ‘musical’, and ‘contemplative’ are often not used to describe the found sounds in the realms of many recordings of experimental tape music. Yet, here we [...]
“Intimate Ghosting“, a compilation album featuring nine musicians from Japan and South Korea, is being newly introduced to the roster of the Netherlands/US-based record label Psychic [...]
Laura Luna Castillo is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician currently residing in Puebla, Mexico. Through these convergences of time-based media, music, sculpture and narrative languages, she [...]
The trajectory of Fritz Pape’s music is a constant embrace of extremity in musical expression. Under Zijnzijn Zijnzijn! Pape created impenetrable walls of swelling guitar noise that recalled the [...]
Stephen Molyneux performs stirring, classically inspired folk music with both feet planted firmly in the American Avant-Garde tradition. Formerly a stalwart of the Nashville and Denver D.I.Y [...]
‘Underground uptempo Chicago acid tracks – Raw, late night rave sonics saturated in tape hiss.’ – BH Standard tape w/ j card edition of 50
‘Massive triple cassette compilation encompassing everything from gorgeous, tender ambient, to slow, brooding rhythmic industrial and beyond. An excellent look into the world of the very [...]
‘Stunning, gorgeous churning ambient – Modern sound design techniques and emotive tonalities. Intensely beautiful.’ -BH Cassette with full colour artwork. Edition of 100
‘Really rad free jazz meets krautrock inZanity. Awesome, psychedelic blissful jams right here. Dips in and out of thick grooves while remaining free and cerebral!’ -BH [...]
erick van ficken – sound & words tim gick – mastering drew davis – art composition
From Jackson, Mississippi, Nicholas Maloney carves a vision of lo-fi atmosphericana. Though there is some use of traditional instruments, like guitar, organ and banjo, Lignum Muzek functions more [...]
Coaxed perception is assured by constructing a narrative out of abstraction, leading one to posit the statement rather than examine the question. Perception is tainted by presumption. Prophecy is [...]
“There’s something life reaffirming about each Ted Byrnes release. The intensity of his playing is ejaculatory and joyful. His recordings are intimate, and every time I hear them I [...]
A placid study of shoreline life in Manitoba’s interior through noise, field recordings and tape loops. The album title is in Ojibwe and is pronounced “ve-sheep see-be”, which [...]
Andrew Nolan (INTENSIVE CARE, WOLFAGRAM) returns once again to Absurd Exposition, following “Background Music” (2018) and “We Know Now What a Modern Society Can Do with a [...]
A quick C14 of skipping discs, buzzing tones and humming frequencies soon savaged. At times bringing to mind the works of JOE COLLEY. MOT is the project of collage artist Paul van Trigt from [...]
A burning descent into a purgatory of humanity’s mistakes played back ad infinitum. The enormous door slams in the depths of hell. Will we wake up from this continuing nightmare? A savage [...]
A follow up to 2017’s “Egress Report”, and an appearance on Tesco’s “Projekt Neue Ordnung II” compilation, “Communication Denial” is perhaps [...]
Metropolitan concrete noise absurdity. Edition of 77
Right through the center like an icepick headache. Direct, imposing and saturated, with abrupt shifts, quick edits and instantly piercing shards of feedback. Second MT tape for Seany and [...]
Four untitled tracks of brutish, inspired and primitive organics, recorded at the Western Massachusetts pillar Cold Spring Hollow throughout 2019 and early 2020. Bowed, scraped and clattering [...]
Blown out and massed patterns of red-line scrape and abrasion; cyclical and blaring, a thunderstorm of gutter-nihilism emanates from the streets and sewers of NYC. 40 continuous minutes of rugged [...]
New European industrial music, minimal and brooding. Edition of 77
The requisite principles of 1990’s metallic burl distilled through layers of aggressively employed junk and sharp 2000’s-era hyper-cuts are merged with skill. Crisply engineered and [...]
Americana-concrète. Tape-pitched elements — organic, synthetic and mechanical — weave in and out, blurring reality with dread and unease. Buzzing, scraping, swelling; dying voices in [...]
Totally beyond insane psychedelia drenched harsh noise from the Japanese master.
Debut release from this new mutant hardware project from Cooper Bowman Chris Colla. Fried rhythmic exercises reminiscent of Australian DIY tape music from the 80s. Edition of 79
The debut release from Form Hunter, a duo that comprises S. Aune (Breaking the Will, Kjostad) and W. Czerkies (Sunken Cheek, Goddaughter). Everything pushed defiantly into the red, pummeling [...]
Mandatory noise from the boss of the flawless Dada Drumming imprint. Razor sharp slicing noise executed with breakneck speed and fearless propulsion. A longtime favorite here at New Forces HQ. [...]
New World Records 80411-4 Original Cassette issue. 1991 Verging on and entering the prog/fusion realms, this is one of the most early 90s things I have ever heard. Media Condition – NM [...]
Breakneck noise suffocation from Shane Church, taking the project back to it’s inception with two short, sharp shocks of fire and smoke that maintain the rawness and fluidity of live dynamics; no [...]
Previous Vat efforts have focused on the classic ‘americanoise’ approach of scrap metal through distortion overload. ‘A Pile …’ sees Chris Conroy merging elements of that [...]
Sean E. Matzus is a Houston-based artist regarded for his solo projects (Red Hook, Thewhitehorse, The Secret Geography, etc), while also known for his work in several Richard Ramirez projects [...]
The first completed material in over a year following a long battle with various creative blocks introduces a dark ambient element to the ongoing focus of placing harsh noise in different [...]
Four punctual tracks of frenetic, yet assured energy highly informed by mid-2000’s Southern California moves — from jarring and massed stereo profusion to moments of shrill, anxious feedback [...]
Acousmatic sound research from veteran bay area technician Jim Haynes. Electronic distress signals initiate panic and tension through abrupt jump cuts into alternate contexts. Echoes of John [...]
Torba is Mauro Diciocia, an Italian soundworker based in Berlin. As with fellow countrymen Lettera 22, elements of musique concrete, noise composition and electro-acoustic tape music are fused to [...]
Known for his visual work, his label Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere., as well as his many collaborations with Cremation Lily, False Moniker is the project of Belgian artist Niels Geybels, who also [...]