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Minerals
With the trio all hailing from the Pennine moorlands just above the manc sprawl, Jon Collin & Demdike Stare’s shared musical expression understandably reflects a parallax purview that follows leylines between lusher nooks of the inner city and windswept, barren landscapes. Never ones to play it straight, the Swedish Nyckelharpa - a sort of hybrid viola/hurdy gurdy - is deployed deep into a mix of oblique soundscaping, seeping into a swirl of field recordings, screwed spoken word and phosphoresce…
Fragments Of Nothing
Edition of 500 copies pressed on white vinyl * Demdike Stare’s immersive set of windswept, strung out blues made in collab with Jon Collin. First time on vinyl after a small run of tapes back in 2020, this is an evocative suite of low-lit sonic tapestries like some Coil x Ry Cooder collab that never was. Teasing out vintage, arcane threads of connection between deep-South porchside styles and their native industrial blooz, Demdike sound at their most red-eyed and pensive in this strung out, limi…
Still Strange
Rescued and restored from rediscovered original 1/4” analogue tapes in the loft, "Still Strange” is a second volume of previously unheard early 70’s post punk/kosmische and early ‘90s ambient/drone gems by the largely unknown Orior, remastered and issued by DDS. It’s a bewildering, engrossing set that comes highly recommended if you’re into anything from Deathprod to John Bender, Joy Division to Boards of Canada and Vangelis. ‘Still Strange’ reaches back into the prized tape archive of Jeff Sh…