reaching for indigo
A moment that fell down in the life of Haley Fohr on January 22, 2016 — now in album form! Redefining and realizing the goals that were set to allow Haley become Circuit des Yeux and Circuit des Yeux to become Haley.
Plays Paradise Artificial
Another year on the HITD calendar, another stunning new solo release with Brian Case Plays Paradise Artificial. This third album somehow manages to compile and condense the best bits of its predecessors, and the magnificent viridian, glacial universe…
Tom Carter/Pat Murano
The brilliant Pat Murano (NNCK member who has brought out a staggering amount of high quality electronic darkness under his Decimus alias in recent years) has sent us two new LPs on his Kelippah imprint this week, which is nice. As usual with this la…
Aakash
Aakash marks the debut recording of the Portland, Oregon-based trio of Matt Carlson (Golden Retriever), Michael Stirling (a disciple of the late Hindustani master Pandit Pran Nath and a student of Terry Riley), and Doug Theriault. Derived from live i…
...it's eternity, Ester
Rubix cube electronica from Sheffield unit Carers and featuring artwork by EVOL main man Roc Jiménez. Over the course of twelve minutes or so, the sounds meander between noisy interludes of musique concrète to more drooping eyelids drone passages. Gr…
Toxic City Music
NYC based artist Evan Caminiti breathes life into the Dust Editions imprint with the release of Toxic City Music. Caminiti has explored electro-acoustic music since the mid 2000's, the latest transmission being 2015's Meridian. While that album was C…
Dream Memory
"Guitarist Ken Camden returns for his third solo album, continuing his explorations to seek out new techniques and sounds from the electric guitar. By utilizing both a steel slide and e-bow technique, Camden has moved into micro-tonal territory to b…
Dayglo Port
Carl Calm ist the solo project by Chicago citizen Eric Lanham of Caboladies. “Dayglo Port“ was recorded and mixed over two days in the tiny back bedroom of The Fact House (a house Chris and Eric of Caboladies used to live and host shows in Lexington,…
Dreaming Remembering
Ectoplasm Girl Nadine Byrne returns with her first solo album in 4 years, a woozy, unnerving and dreamlike soundworld somewhere betweenLaurie Anderson, James Ferraro and Ryan Trecartin. Huge recommendation... Ectoplasm Girls’ Nadine Byrne lures liste…
Plastik / Mechanik
Berlin’s hardcore minimalist Frank Bretschneider tweaks the freqs for Shitkatapult, rolling out pronged stabs and inhuman vocals on the physical electro flow of Plastik, and with head-slapping tones swept up in a sort of drily swanging house vortex w…
Hostile Environment
Bolder is Martin Maischein, who used to record as Heinrich At Hart on Position Chrome, and Peter Votava, also known as Pure, who has recorded previously for Mego and was half of Ilsa Gold. With their combined background in electronic music of all kin…
A Survey of Locked Modes
A Survery of Locked Modes is a collaboration between Blood Wedding (Chuck Johnson and Danishta Rivero), critical theorist Timothy Morton and visual artist Marlo Pascual. Blood Wedding has described these recordings as sonifying what Morton defines as…
Episodes
Edition of 300 copies, comes with riso printed insert featuring an interview with bloom offering. Bloom Offering is the synth-wave / blighted electronic project of seattle’s Nicole Carr. having released a handful of well-received cassettes through cl…
I was a teacher
Limited Edition of 100 copies Includes artwork insert by the artist** Swiftly following his appearance on The Slaves' ace 'Spirits Of The Sun', Birch Cooper really cuts loose on his homebuilt electronics across 'I Was A Teacher'. It's his 1st solo a…
Decadent Yet Depraved
Double LP version. Decadent Yet Depraved, the debut album by Belief Defect, finds shelter and complicity in Raster as a home and label. Familiar with the underground music scene and how its skeptical nature can also be an obstacle to overcome, Belief…
Oats
Basic House is the solo electronics project of Stephen Bishop, a mainstay of the DIY scene in the UK’s North East and the brain behind the label Opal Tapes. Bishop works with equipment both rudimentary and highly technical which become aligned togeth…
Vergessene Träume
Edition of 250 copies. Johannes Schebler’s body of work released under his Baldruin moniker may not exactly be as groundbreaking as the old geezer’s from Königsberg, but it’s fair to point out that his discipline is comparably versed and experienced …
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.
A Place of Solace
Cinematically-scoped synth music with an intimate personality; the debut from Jachym Vandenbeele aka Aponogeton for Stroom. RIYL Heldon, Klaus Schulze, Eduard Artemiev scores for Tarkovsky. This album is the result of some musings on what drives us i…
Ghost Notes
Ghost Notes is the third album from Nottingham-based musician Dan Layton, aka Apalusa. Whereas Apalusa’s previous release, Obadiah, was a dense, murky affair, filled with apocalyptic imagery and impenetrable layers of sub-sonic dirt, Ghost Notes is a…