Ashtray Navigations
Legendary psychedelic/noise act based around Phil Todd, hailing from Stoke-on-Trent. Active since 1991, AN have released a huge number of albums, cdrs and tapes on numerous labels including Slitbreeze and American Tapes. They have also collaborated with Alex Neilson, Ben Reynolds, Melanie Delaney, Family Battle Snake and more.
Legendary psychedelic/noise act based around Phil Todd, hailing from Stoke-on-Trent. Active since 1991, AN have released a huge number of albums, cdrs and tapes on numerous labels including Slitbreeze and American Tapes. They have also collaborated with Alex Neilson, Ben Reynolds, Melanie Delaney, Family Battle Snake and more.
One From Then Another
*300 copies limited edition* Phil Todd's existence as Ashtray Navigations began in the mid-1990s. Since then, it has been everything from a fully-fledged group to a solo endeavour that's embraced ur-drone-orientated noise, sprawling psychedelia, crude electronics and the more lysergic realms of the avant-garde. Amongst many other things. On One From Then Another, however, we are presented with two lengthy pieces (the first of which is broken into two sections and clocks up almost 30 minutes in t…
Heavy Invertebrates
Tip! *99 copies limited edition* “This particular brand of home brew lysergia falls in and out of underground fashion, but it's to Todd's credit that he doesn't seem to give a shit, carrying on as he would regardless. That's what legends are made of, kid… if the hall of fame doesn't give my dude a lifetime achievement award soon, the whole of Greatest Imaginary Hits might be reason enough to start storming the gates and demanding action.” – The Quietus
“AN remain a puzzlingly underrated but in…
Plaster Projection Instruction Record
EXCLUSIVE! Guitar+tape manipulations create a hypnotic noise pastiche akin to the background buzz in the switching station of your local phone company. 1-sided. Limited 500.
To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First
Ashtray Navigations's To Make A Fool picks up where the nerve-damaged exotica of 2015's A Shimmering Replica left off - acerbic "surf" guitar and synthetic salt-breeze fit for the Tropic of Yorkshire. Instant immersion in a potent, pungent psychedelia that feels equal parts cosmic and aquatic. What Phil Todd wrenches out of his instrument these days is a language unto itself - a helical, grieving howl, a (super)natural efflorescence, beyond earthly description - ur-rock and post-everything. Equa…
A Shimmering Replica
This first-ever VHF release by the 21-years-running Ashtray Navigations brings one more core piece of the UK freakout underground back to the mothership. With a discography that boggles even the most ardent Discogs user and an on-point WTF graphic sensibility, Ash Nav fits perfectly into the extremely fertile and prolific scene that has produced titans like Sunroof! and Vibracathedral Orchestra. On this generous 100-minute package, Phil Todd and Melanie O'Dubshlaine essay a kind of guitaran…
Six imaginary scenes from the life of Muhammad Ali
This newest candle burning outing from the long going UK Psych project headed by Mr. Phil Todd continues the quest for the farthest possible cosmic frequencies through FX, guitar, synth, and saz on a bed of field recordings. Some tracks in here almost enter the pantheon of new age music ! Edition of 240 copies.
Running on autokinetic
classic Ashtray Navigations, two hallucino-kinetic tracks each side
How do siamese twins arrange their love lives?
Recorded at Ashtray Navigation's basement in Leeds - November 2007 Phil Todd, Melanie Delaney, Bill Kouligas, Christelle Gauldi. Total lo-fi psychedelic sound. Classic UK underground filth. Limited to 300 copies.
Exploding blue floor Martin Denny
Here we are, with the new full-length album from Leeds-based underground legend Ashtray Navigations, featuring ninbe new tracks recorded in studio during 2008 and dedicated to the memory of the great american composer Martin Denny, father of Exotica! 'Exploding Blue Floor...' is one step ahead into Phil Todd's hallucinatory travel into the galaxies of the Unknown. A cornucopia of what he has been doing for more than 15 years with unique dedication and passion. Passion is in fact, the first word …
Four more raga moods
Follow-up to Phil Todd’s long-revered Four Raga Moods side presents four more slow-glowing trance bombs that combine lucid, transparent guitar gliss with spectral folk, subliminal drones and guest appearances from Alex Neilson, Ben Reynolds, Mel Delaney, Chris Hladowski, Matt Cairns, Andy Jarvis and Pete Nolan of Magik Markers et al. Fold-out full-colour four-panel digipak. Includes “The Pete Nolan Effect”, one that we’re all familiar with, right? Highly recommended, one of the best Ashtrays thi…