King Necro

A great combination of diverse arrangements, the album reaches for the sounds of a fun mixed experimentation. Rhythmic, dance-able, an eagerness to innovate, “King Necro Presents...Macronesia: The Mixtape.” The music deemphasizes melody and pushes groove and rhythm up front. Interlaced with sound recordings, either created or sampled off of late popular music, the appeal is slow and provocatively loose, jumping from genre to genre, instrument to instrument. Its a complex drive, an innovative amalgam, and an expression of the free mind. Listen to King Necro's new tape, 'Macronesia: The Mixtape'.

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Ewphoria

Mario Gonzalez is releasing his second, anticipated album, titled, “Ewphoria.” The April release is still reaching for the dark shades on tones of music, the album is well shaped and varied with a very Mario Gonzalez-style. Creating a new word, I don't think “Ewphoria,” needs much explanation – Gonzalez brings an exalted feeling of disgust, with the overwhelming, euphoric sounds. Each track on the album displays its own cold side; an added distortion, a whirring feedback, a mixture of awry notes and a steady beat that has rhythm replacing any melody. The album doesn't stray too off course in keeping to a progression and following through in each song. Overall, the album demonstrates a nature for experimentation and a diversely, yet maturing sound for the musician.

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Piper Spray

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Adderall Canyonly & Oxykitten

RIYL: Ghost Box, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, brisk walks on an analog plain
Spawned from a barroom conversation light on recall but heavy on purpose, The Cutting Room is a collection of incidental music from scenes that never made the cut, more specifically, "underscores" - soft, unobtrusive background music that accompanies the action in a performance. This collection of underscores (not all soft) from the mind of Adderall Canyonly and Oxykitten are imagined for a Michael Caine 1971 absurdist sci-fi romance flick that was never made.

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Field Hymns

Susurrus

RIYL: Drone with a capital D, headphones
Susurrus filters through the cracks of the city buildings and blocks broken only by the sharp, static pangs of decay - chaos begets order which begets chaos again - this is the root of all languages and is audible and accessible to all who have the patience to stop and listen...
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 imperceptible beginning it rises in complexity until electrical arcs are almost visible...

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Detainee

RIYL: grimy synths, cold beats, a morose feeling of nostalgia for black denim
In 1991 Capcom USA, in a bold move to reclaim market share lost to rival video developers and taking advantage of the new16 bit processors in the Sega Genesis and its rival, the Super NES, commissioned of Andy Fletcher of Depeche Mode to develop a more modern soundtrack for a game in development with a working title "Vital Organs". The project was eventually scrapped, the music forgotten and the world moved on. This is what that music would have sounded like.

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Field Hymns

Pregnant Spore

A broken field recorder inspired experiments in post-production alteration. During the recording process, the direct signal's left channel constantly and intermittently cut out, and when it cut out, it used the internal microphone to pick up the emitting sounds. Therefore, a mix of line and microphone signals are heard. There is a strange compression, noise gate and artificial stereo replication by means of delay, complete with HPF and LPF filters, so the result is slightly perception-bending. Channeling into the decomposition of bodies and the biological processes involved. This is Rainbow Bridge's first official release of 2012, the year in which humanity in itself will likely begin and end it's rotting.

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A collection of 13 psychedelic compositions by Baltimore's Pregnant Spore, recorded in real-time with no edits. The illusion of chaos becomes apparent in the chaotic collages and textures. Centered around the theme of personal spiritual growth, and inspired by the poetry of Dao De Jing and it's integration into every day life. This is something to get lost in because Pregnant Spore had lost itself in the making.

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Near 80 minutes of one-take composition. Creeping, odd drones. Electronics, voice, old appliances and furniture. Meditative, bi-polar, attention to detail. Focusing on the necessity of wholeness over partnership. The track is called "Alive Alone First And Foremost, Dreams Twitch Alive, Glory In Color."

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These 24 tracks, some as short as 39 seconds and others nearly 10 minutes long, document a span of 8 months of self-realization and self-actualization. The sonic diversity on this release and its jumping from one idea and mood to the next, track-to-track, archives experiences, thoughts and emotions like files organized into different drawers of the brain. Eerie vocal pleadings, a hand-full of rhythmic cacophonies, sludge-ridden bass, reflective walls of sound, and disfiguring sorcery. There are not otherworldly beings trying to catch your attention by interfering with the frequency at which your mobile device sitting by your speakers is operating on. These are mangled vibrations and abstracted energy recorded onto a digital format for you to interpret as you may.

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Rainbow Bridge

Inappropriate King Live/Scant

Inappropriate King Live brings a strange contrast with it's no-limits field recording manipulation and unloads 9 new short tracks of weird and mysterious collages. Running water, windshield wipers, clips from a live Quicksails set (used with permission from mister Ben Billington), guinea pigs, building a new bathroom, razors, space heaters, thunderstorms, string section rehearsals, wind, plastic bags, conversations with sketchy people and terrorized rubber bands, all mangled into a moderately-paced mess. Scant is the solo harsh noise/ambient moniker of Matt Boettke. Matt provides an upsetting and minimal 22 minutes of Ibogaine treatment-influenced static and light rumble that creeps slowly and cuts out abruptly. This material is hopeless and powerful. Meditative and steady.

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Rainbow Bridge

False Flag/Scant/Whitewater Orgasm

Loud, skin-ripping noise from 3 harsh artists from Baltimore, DC and Finland. Flag Flag is a new world order-obsessed harsh noise/power electronics project bringing you 3 tracks involving the 911 attacks on the Twin Towers and the event's involvement with national and international leaders. Scant, a member of the Sex Complex supergroup, provides an onslaught of pummeling textures centered around how it is to be next to someone and feel completely alone. Whitewater Orgasm completely ruins your life every time you hear his material and this is no exception. Some of the most harsh and sickening vocal and distortion madness I have ever heard since Masonna.

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Rainbow Bridge

Brandon Marshall (WR)

This anonymous Baltimore young man responded to my request to put out his first tape with enthusiasm after I saw him perform at an extremely awkward show. He did this amazingly powerful new-age synth piece that would have made Housecraft or Deep Tapes shit themselves (although it pretty much bored the hell out of the audience to the point where the only people left were the chaperones and 6 other people. Yea, let me emphasize how awkward this show was.) He submitted only two synth pieces reminiscent of his performance, however. The rest of the material is made up of a lengthy and un-altered movie clip and the most calming wall of static and rumbling I've ever heard.

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Rainbow Bridge