Goodbye and Hello

The former landlord of Dogs Can Read Your Mind is now retired from the blog business.
From now on, the new man in charge is some guy named Sam !
See ya !

Ghostandthesong & Chris Rehm

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Susurrus

Susurrus is a 31 minute piece in two parts, composed of feedback, ground-loops and other various unintended ephemera endemic to electronic instruments and the recording process. Taken singly these defects are purposefully avoided but when joined a remarkable synthesis can sometimes be observed. From an almost imperceptable beginning it rises in complexity until elecrical arcs are almost visible...

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Eyes

An astute observer will recognize within the first seconds of the crackling drums that open A Candle in the Crown of the Dawn that this record is supercharged, blown out and stripped down. With the intensity of Black Mountain soaring over a splashing, hypnotic rhythm section, EYES bypass to the center, to a place beyond knowledge, beyond rock, where human batteries are charged by a Dionysus crystal, where the shimmering organs read your mind, and the sun and shadow voices dwell. 

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Ganjatronics

Filled with rainy day lament, sputtering drones, funked-up basslines, luscious analog synths, and arrhythmic drums, ANCIENT HISTORY does not fall comfortably among the labels of 'ambient', 'IDM', or 'noise-prog'. Seemingly never slowing the car to turn, Ganjatronics make gestural shifts that range from new age synthscapes to piercing feedback and even occasional sing-song night club crooning. Also available as a limited edition CDR.

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Hhome Vvideos

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Radical Ritual Tapes

Nattymari meets Ectoplasm

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Occult Modem Settings

Based out of the rust belt, Occult Modem Settings creates dense, curious sonic landscapes while still retaining vague pop sensibilities. "Compression Artifacts" is 7 tracks of ghostly drone layered with curated lyrics harvested from overheard conversations and spam e-mails. Moods range from warm to sinister.

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Daniel Bachman

New album from Daniel Bachman (previously known as Sacred Harp). Daniel often is hailed as the successor to the Jack Rose/John Fahey school of American guitar, but his new release falls outside of those simplified parameters. Improvised and recorded dirty into a boombox "Grey-Black-Green" has more to do with Loren Mazzacane Connors, Ben Chasny or even some of Bill Orcut's recent acoustic work. The titled is a reference to Robbie Basho's “Esoteric Doctrine Of Color & Mood” as Daniel puts it: "There’s a chart based on a circle of fifths where every key represents a color and a mood.  'Grey Black Green' is the most fucked up sounding one." Droning dark improvised American ragas by a very impressive young talent.

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Craig Colorusso

Two field recordings from Massachusetts on colored vinyl with a digital download.  Recorded by Kevin Belli.

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Bubo

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Crystal Hell Pool

Review from The Stranger :
What a metamorphosis Crystal Hell Pool's undergone with Domain. Previous releases like Incantation to Nothingness and Infinity Medicine offer minimal ambient music that plumbs both radiant heights and tenebrous depths. Reference points include Mick Harris's isolationist Lull project, Brian Eno's beautifully desolate On Land, and Eliane Radigue's ARP synthesizer "aum"s—sounds geared toward deepest introspection and meditation. In other words, the output of Crystal Hell Pool (Seattle musician Chris Majerus) is the polar opposite of party music. Domain won't get spun on C89.5 or anything, but compared to past releases, it seems positively ecstatic. The most obvious difference here is that the tracks pulsate and have actual beats—beats that humans may even want to dance to. In an oblique way, Domain is a disco record; in a more overt way, it's a horror-film soundtrack waiting for a perverse Italian director to create grotesque images for it. "Life in Silence" lurches like an ogre in lead boots while synths whorl disorientingly above the menacing rhythm. "Visionaire" shimmies into a foreboding 4/4 groove somewhere between Goblin and Giorgio Moroder, entering a condition that PiL coined on their 1979 single: "Death Disco." The steadfast beats of "Debris" sound like gunshots in the distance while CHP's synths arpeggiate and swell in post-midnight melodrama. "After Image" evokes a beautifully damned Chris & Cosey club anti-anthem. But tracks like "Radioactive Cop," "Disembodied Features," and "Melting Face, Melting Hands"—pitiless trawls down industrial music's darkest, loneliest alleyways—show that CHP still ain't ready to throw his arms in the air and wave 'em like he just don't care. Deep down, he's still harboring antisocial feelings—but, thankfully, they manifest themselves in chilling, gripping music.

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Narrow Sparrow

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Brian TV

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Parae

We are a band from San Francisco CA. We are not the reconstituted past, we are from the future of the alternate now. We have made an album of new music and entitled it thusly POST-CAMP / NONPLUSSED? We implore you to please check it out!! We have no hype or machine or anything behind us.  All we have is this artifact that we have made in the cultural vacuum and that it is brilliant and pure.

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J. Dujardin

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Subterrestrial

Gary says :
Dead But Dreaming' is a dark ambient tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, a virtual soundtrack to the Cthulu Mythos. Creeping atmospheres inspired by the ancient nightmares portrayed in his fiction work.

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Peopling

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ĸŋüłł

They take the inspiration in occult melodies and maniacal post-punk, in pop-muic and religious literature; they dip swift pain-hymns into a viscid drone and prayers. Overdriven guitars and voice break hardly thru the beat or on the contrary take it up. Young The Stooges could have sounding like that if it happen for them to be in Russia these days. But just this music makes teenagers from eastern part of Europe shake their heads, fuck and write "suicide" on walls of school-loo. The story repeats itself but in another place. It's 1969 baby.

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Fydhws

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Our Ceasing Voice & Satory

Sebastian says :
Combining the thrilling intensity of Post-Rock/Ambient quartette Our Ceasing Voice and the raw power of Vienna's Post-Metal pioneers Satory, this split 7" marks a blood-tingling release that proves the Austrian bands' talents by opening the door to a world full of melancholy and despair.
For Darkness Fears The Light poses the deeply moving return of Our Ceasing Voice after the success of their debut album 'When the Headline Hit Home'. Striking vocals and powerful drumming enable the band to dare the leap and take their ambient based tunes a step further, while retaining the outfits's full melodramatic force.
Originated in a time of change, Satory's track, The Translator, defines an important turning point in the story of the beast that was introduced in their 2009 EP. Expressive heaviness and valleys of hope constitute their new sound, bringing the powerful machinery back to the post-metal front.

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Zac Nelson

Maybe it's a bad idea to start a description of a piece of music by admitting you don't know how to describe it. But we'll be honest with you: this album synthesizes so much of our taste that it's like trying to describe the taste of water to a fish. Part crooning electro-pop, part drone, half found-sound and all original, "Towards Your Own Worlds" from this frequent Zach Hill collaborator is a remarkable achievement in the abstract and concrete.
Cassette with download is out November 1st.

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Cordyceps

Brecht says :
(bass) guitars, loop recorders, effect units, closed-circuit feedback & sequenced beats.
Physical copies can be bought on shows or here. Four tracks on mini-cd with handmade artwork, each sleeve is unique. Limited to 75 copies.

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Samuel Uffus & Cage Cabarrett

Andrii says :
This electroacoustic improvisational jam session features two Portuguese experimental musicians and is dedicated to the Macaense people and their culture, being a mix of Chinese and Portuguese cultures. 
Samuel Uffus – altered bass guitar, diatonic accordion, Roland Juno-60, Roland SH-201, analog effects; 
Cage Cabarrett – Korg MS-20, Moog Little Phatty II, Roland Juno-60, Yamaha CS-5, ARP Axxe, Roland SH-101, analog effects.

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Ermo

Ermo is a young music project from Portugal. We produce a delicate folk, that some friends tagged as post-folk.

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Kösmonaut

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Pregnant Spore

11 live recordings from the 14-day Infinite Rainbow Bridge tour that Pregnant Spore did with Yellow Crystal Star during May and June, 2011. This features live collaborations from Saint Louis's Jizzgurgler and Philadelphia's Cincinnatus C.

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A digital release of 7 shows performed by Pregnant Spore on this past January tour. The Detroit show was left out because it sucked (issues with the sound system and I... made for a weird night). Also, the Dayton show was cancelled. So what is left is 7 field recordings (decent quality for a little MP3 recorder). Most performances consisted of lyrics by the NJ band "Prawn" near the end of each set, and then for the Chicago show, you'll hear some Bjork lyrics.

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I rarely contribute to or put out tapes this long. However, the approach I wanted to take toward this recording specifically called for length. This tape is centered around the painstakingly slow process of having no choice but to mentally let go of something held dear. One of the elements of healthily coping with loss is to accept what is not in one's power to change. To manifest this concept audibly, I decided to let the instruments play themselves while I stepped back and "accepted" what I was hearing. Before recording, I routed and tweaked electronics so that there would be constant, out-of-sync, mysterious, apparent audible movement when initiated; oscillation and waveforms soaring against and within each other at a sluggish rate. Although I feel that these recordings could have been better composed and more dynamic, I let things operate naturally in order stay true to the concept. What you will hear on this tape is a form of nature uniquely taking it's course.

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Government Alpha

I spoke with Yasutoshi, the man behind Government Alpha, about the recent Earthquake in Japan. He described it as "a terrible shaking!" The same could be said to describe the material he submitted to Rainbow Bridge for this release. It is almost as if he manifested the recent Japanese natural disasters in noise-form months before they occurred. This tape is plagued with swirling, swarming, scathing, oscillating textures that do not follow most harsh noise trends. These sounds seem to hurl you into a spiral of head-melting chaos more so than they crush your skull. Side B is a live performance recorded in June of 2010 is even more dynamic and diverse, including some nutty screaming from Yasutoshi's own vocal chords. This material is strange, ruthless, and the more I listen to it, the more I love it. Japanoise at it's finest, ladies and dicks.

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Inappropriate King Live

15 tracks of concussion and resentment. A year's worth of sound collage dilapidated and uncared-for, pieced together and dubbed to tape. Dismantled and remixed recordings of instruments, traffic, extreme weather, animals, paper ripping, plastic crinkling, thumbtacks being dropped, voices, household appliances, speeches, performance art, various objects being rattled and scraped... static, buzz, beeps, cuts, punches, squeezes and squeals. Despite the project name, none of this was performed live. This is a compilation of pieces that took months to put together.

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Ghost Volcano

Ghost Volcano is a brand new 3-piece noise outfit from Baltimore, Maryland made up of both members of Mold Omen and Justin Marc Lloyd (Pregnant Spore, Inappropriate King Live, False Flag and more). Electronics, violin, records, metal and guitar. Reminds me a lot of... dare I say it... Wolf Eyes? Expect even more from this trio soon.

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Boar

20 minutes of unchanging, unrelenting, un-fuck-with-able harsh noise wall from the malicious, anti-musical depths of Iowa's Alex Nowacki. Go ahead, look up HNW in the dictionary. It will read "Boar" with an illustration of the cover artwork of this release.

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Even The Dew Is Porous

Gorgeous aural soundscapes using samples, guitar, synth and electronics. This tape will make you take flight and dream in blurry, vague visions until it's time to flip the tape. Tyler Brassard originally swept me off my feet after listening to his release on Mars Pyramid. After wiping the dew from my eyes and coming down off my cloud, I stalked this guy until I convinced him to record something for a Rainbow Bridge tape. What I got was something even more sensational than I thought possible. This audio seems to sparkle, pulsate, float and flow like a shining, calm rapid amidst the cosmos.

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Acid Police Eternal

Here we are with the first edition of Acid Police Eternal, a series of free net compilations co-released with the Egyptian Tea label. These compilations will focus on all aspects of noise and avant sound... everything from harsh walls to sparse and quiet experimentation. Featured on this compilation we have Mold Omen, Gluttoness, James Douglas, Sid Yiddish, Heartstrung, Cincinnatus C, Dementia And Hope Trails, Inappropriate King Live, Zebra Mu, False Flag, Ground Zero Mosque, Syntho Maggot and Breakdancing Ronald Reagan. There are 20 tracks because some artists provided more than 1 track each.

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Romantic States

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Megabats

The third major Megabats release in as many years, Solaria finds our heroes mixing the heads down droney blissbeat of the previous release with some new tricks. “Solar Eulogy” and “Enchantment” zone out into oblivion, driving forward, looking skyward. “Virtual Reality Enthusiasts” mixes micro-loops with reverb to create something akin to a brain-dead/chiptune Steve Reich.  While “Bog Surfin’” rides a wave of filth through Technicolor dub. Solaria is a sun prayer from under the shade of an ice cream truck. Sticky hands on Gameboys. Deal with it.

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Mind Alien

Super tube wormholes through the fabric of face-time.  M theory is Mind Alien Theory.  Encino Flute shredders.  Power to the greys, for they are suave fuckers.  Members of Chrome Wings and The Dead White.

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Lost Harbours

Leaf Decay is series of songs written during the turbulent Spring / Summer of 2011. Recorded at home, most tracks started off as improvisations which were then edited and added to with extra vocalisations / instrumentation and locally sourced found sounds. Whilst not moving away from a sound we've developed over the last year and a half, these recordings have a darker note to them than anything previous.

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Divine Shell

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Rudawoda

Andrii says :
Live ambient improvisation using Korg EMX-1 and a bass-guitar. Recorded in summer 2009.
In an industrial city in southern Ukraine, in the downtown, factory drains flow. People call them "Ruda woda" (The red river). RudaWoda is a symbol of the toxic polluted water, which gets into the drinking water supplies and makes people rusty from the inside…

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Dementia And Hope Trails

A 2-part album of psychedelic ambience and deeply emotive soundscapes, all created with guitar and effects to the key of letting go, letting the universe work, falling in love, and paying attention to every piercing detail as one's internal chemistry collides with the cosmos. This album destroys Limerence, lights the way for genuine affection and illuminates it's depth. Reflective, meditative, reactionary, memorable, comfortable, cryptic. Not one key from a synthesizer has been struck. This is an abstract form of post-rock meets shoegaze guitar playing, rarely allowing the conventional sound of a guitar emerge. Slow, dense, shimmering drones and tastefully arpeggiated riffing that sparkles as well as haunts. Loosely improvised, extremely focused, always knowing where it's going, experiencing uncharted wonder along the way. For fans of Hammock, Stars Of The Lid, Appleseed Cast, This Will Destroy You, Sam Goldberg, Spermwhales, Quiet Light Water Gap...

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Brian TV & Cold Coffee

Brian says :
Leopard Libido is proud to present a cassette-only, split release between Brian TV and Cold Coffee. Brian TV and Cold Coffee are the respective solo projects of Das Black Milk's Brian Emmert and Nathaniel Kane. Dark pop dirges and disjointed rhythms recalling a drunken evening from long ago. Bitter self discoveries of the plagued artist. The right an left sides of DBM's brain split in two.

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Secret Colors

After a string of releases and reissues on such labels as Digitalis, Aguirre, and Group Tightener, Matt Lawson brings us his brand new full length.  Confusion Control is full of surprises and small additions to the Secret Color sound.  More casio and piano than ever before.  Haunting 80’s post punk melodies bumping up against his beach haze guitar.  “Lime Green” brings us his catchiest melody yet, while the closer “Time Lapse Garden” is a meditative lullaby. A beautiful and mature work from one of Seattle’s rising forces.

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Sorry

SORRY is one David Bourgin.  SORRY is an attempt to create something that is unconsciously self-conscious, playfully serious, and unrepentantly apologetic; a celebration and resolution of false conflict.  SORRY creates something organic out of inorganic elements (alchemy) in the hopes of, during some fleeting moment (the decisive moment), capturing something that is greater than the sum of its parts. This is a burbling, buzzing, blissed (and blessed) out transcendental pop record in the same vein as work by pioneers EMERALDS, FORMA, KWJAZ, and LUCKY DRAGONS.

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Brain Fruit

Brain Fruit is electronic duo Christopher Owen Davis and Jonathan James Carr hijacking the human transport and driving it into sustained temporal anomaly. A motorik synthesizer drum palette that smoothes your body into the choral liquid peripheral.
Album comes in a six panel wallet with insert.  The first edition also contains a Brain Fruit sticker.

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Thunder Grey Pilgrim

ᛁᚫᛟ is a 45 minute single track opus culminating two years of work by Mitchell Bell. Starting with layered vocal drones, moving through ghostly guitar work and full-on one man black metal, finally culminating in an acoustic group chant to the gods and a crescendo of crushing fuzz; this is album is the heart and soul of a modern druid being poured out in front of you.

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Hive

Debut release from this new duo of Jeremy Long (Tecumseh, Brown) and Chris Philips (Squim), as one would expect from a meeting of these two minds, Hive trade in deep detailed drones and crisp textures. HIVE bring a new approach to a well worn genre, taking full advantage of each other’s strengths to become something more than the sum of their parts.
For Fans of KTL, Concern, A Story of Rats

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