Label: Digitalis Limited Russia’s latest star, explodes with no mercy. Cassette – 9.5$ postpaid worldwide Special offer: 5 items of your choice – 42$ postpaid worldwide Super special offer: 7 items of your choice – 52$ postpaid...

Label: My Dance The Skull “Asleep at the wheel… Mixtape” is a collection of original music from the powerful large-scale installation which took place at Milton Keynes International Festival 2010. Imagine a ghost road of cars in a darkened highway, illuminated only by hazard lights...

Woodpecker Wooliams is the guise of Brighton, UK singer-songwriter Gemma Williams. Her songs are a vast universe where art overcomes doom. Drawing together various influences: medieval folk, chamber pop, drone, field recordings – she sounds very fresh yet familiarly close to heart. A...

Lichen Gumbo is a rock’n'roll duo from unmapped rural Finland, where mystical muddy swamps and aurora borealis lit skylines mix with low signal sitcoms from overseas. No time for mumbo jumbo, just straight forward shredding here. These songs are about existential longing for god...

Imperfect Masters is the duo of Robert Horton and Dan Plonsey. While his frequent collaborator Plonsey plays the clarinet Horton himself occupies his self-made string instrument called “boot”. Robert’s odyssey goes back to 2005: numerous CD-Rs and tapes on such labels as...

Long may we praise Finnish underground scene! Banana Pill may not be the most well-known band around but they are hard “music workers” indeed. After all the shows they book in Helsinki and the tiresome-lovely hand-made packaging for tapes on the band’s Jozik label –...

Dva Zagorodnyh Doma is a duo from Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia. These fine folks are seriously inspired by Soviet children songs, Mississippi Records, woozy psych-pop, lo-fi tape underground and ragtimes. Dig the vibe on this heartfelt mix and check their website: while this guise is new...

Hasidim Against Shabbat is another moniker of Russia’s darkest bedroom psych star, Clathrus. This man is also responsible for Billiam Wutler Yea, the toughest project around. What would you expect if he got a kid and moved out of Moscow? Perhaps, he’d stop making weirdo noise? Not...

Label: Dumpster Diving Lab Here comes a new record from one of the best known Norwegian experimentalists. Eight tracks of quite dark, jiggeting electro-acoustic and noise soundscapes will open to you a door which you have never noticed before. Artwork by Anya Kuts. CD – 9.5$...

Label: 8mm The new installment from Pirako Kurenai and Kageo’s Suishou no Fune is finally ready, and it’s a true gem. Recorded in a Bonsai Shop in Tokyo, summer 2010, ‘Bonsai No Ie’ is a dream made out of floating guitar textures and vanishing vocal lines. Four...

I’ve no words to describe what a twisted mind could create this beast and let it out into the world. Get ready for some freakish gamelan, then Inuit disco musik – later radio hum will wash over them messy folk tunes. Trolls run around with bonfires setting fire to structures....

There’s tension in the air and the birds are quiet. The day is dull, life is still. Haunting cassette hiss fills the room. Outside, the children are screaming in agony but muffled whispers are all that comes out. Was that your first lover’s voice? Another flashback from...

With a beard like a flying carpet this American aural traveler is known far and wide. Besides numerous recordings under his own name and with Antique Brothers, there are slabs of Robedoor/Pocahaunted goodness with his drumming, appearances in L.A. Vampires and Warm Climate, killer DJ sets as...

“There is a natural progression to things, an organic or unforced way for an organism to grow, and it is in this natural way we find ourselves riding. After years of playing and recording together as Loud & Sad, we now have a great geographic distance between us that makes this...

Karelian synth dreamer Anton Filatov takes the chance to put together some gentle fuzz swashes. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Panda Bear...

On the reversed-pyramid-side of this tape you will find Banana Pill, a young Russian-Finnish family residing in Helsinki. You kind of know what to expect already, right? Their drones are fragile and nostalgic. Layered melodic pieces, cascading synth patterns, violin and guitar and a little...

A fresh and vibrant stream coming from Petrozavodsk, Karelia, thanks to our dear local provider. This album has been recorded over an old tape, pressing REC/STOP any time Sasha felt like. Not really bothering to calculate track/side lengths, there’s no soundwork either (except the...

This young gentleman is a tireless sound sculptor/explorer who has been doing field recordings since the age of 9! If you haven’t seen See You In Sleep blog, you’re yet to be amazed by how much time, effort and precision this man puts into exploring the sounds around him. This is...

A split cassette of endless beauty as channelled through young Finnish / Russian sound artists. Ous Mal is Olli from Oulu, now living in Helsinki. If you have slept on his early CDrs and the Preservation full-length – do your ears a favour and find this music asap. Ous Mal’s...

Republic of Karelia’s very own Anton Filatov is presenting his debut release. This young man lives on the outskirts of Petrozavodsk, basically right in the forest. When he’s not busy studying physics and astronomy he composes mellow soundscapes with synths and guitars. He...

Pententacles are a guitar duo from Moscow, Russia. Andrei and Vlad used to play in a couple of chaotic hardcore metal bands, however ended up playing drone. Having been around for a few years, liked by many when opening for Nadja and Ben Frost’s Russian shows, they are only now...

Some may have heard of the Russian band Madlene, ultra-heavy noise-rock collective fronted by a tiny shy girl, who sings, too. Gretel is Ekaterina’s solo venture. It’s not far from Madlene’s aesthetics but puts the music in a different setting. The guitar is not that...

To put it shortly: Moscow’s Arabian Horses dance on the edge or ‘plain weird’ and ‘fucking good’. Oh, how many times have I seen people’s reactions to their live shows! It’s always like: “What the hell are they trying to do? No, wait…...

Vincent Caylet’s Archers by the Sea is an ongoing solo excursion into endless eerie territories. Those not yet acquainted with this moniker may know “V” or The Pistil Cosmos, all highly recommended stuff. “Ħaġar Qim” brings a pallette of mixed approach: be...

The moniker shifting sound alchemist from Rostov-on-Don collects his favorite 00′s psych joints. Anton Oster is responsible for now defunct Polypus Sapiens and Polypus Acephalous projects, recently records as Sphagn. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to...

A debut release from Moscow-based collective. Their drone has a little bit of rock and their rock has a lot of droning. They use heavy bass and guitar plus lots of unrecognizable whirring and buzzing to set a frame – then they get wild. There’s free sax and there’s...

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Cellos made out of goat skulls await for the right hour to come while a devilish Amazon gives orders to her slaves. A crowd of gnomes commit mass suicide. Freak mutants make attemps to play funeral folk but their ugly paws barely hit the right chords. Yet there’s some hidden order in...

From Kudymkar to Moscow and from there right into your inner ear. BWY’s debut record is said to be the result of long isolation and silence; an attempt to get somewhere on mental/astral level. This is the therapy for “soul anorexia”. Heavy, bizzare electronics, all recorded...