★Joy de Vivre
Split
South Bohemia's Remnant (also well known for his activities as Chevallier Skrog, Cosmic Cause Productions, Pant Y Meddygon among many others...) and Western Alps exile Elisha Morningstar share this one hour long split... Plenty of tense and deranged …
Dedicate to Forget
Thomas Carney, also active as Giugno and as sound technician mixing and mastering in an audio spectrum going from techno to hardcore punk, delivers here seven delicate blossoms recorded while traveling Europe and in NYC. Fragmentary poetry, with a fi…
Meadow creature
Overdriven Casio tunes and bittresweet tape grime miscellanea by Kait Jensen finally (partially) collected!
Krásno Mé Rozpolcené
Deep into inner struggle to find harmony… Abstract noise, spooky atmpspheres and sparse melodies from South Czechia by the restless M.B. ( Chevallier Skrog, Cosmic Cause Productions….).
Blue Mountains
One day Hannes told me he had a new band with Christian that would more or less sound like Spacemen 3 / Stereolab "but not all at the same time" (!). When I received these tracks, after some initial acid noise and a piece that sounds like Suicide wit…
Statue Falls
Renowned for some beautiful guitar work, as Translucent Envelope, Portland based artist Bob Desaulniers explores the more abstract side of sound managing to hold together a sparkling synthesis of agitation and precision, detail and roughness, perfect…
Lemon Squeezy
Intimate songwriting fades into sound deconstruction. The most gentle and songish JDV release so far....
Circular Cages Of Graded Tin And Rusted Wind
Last sonic gift left from a great artist....
Obscured Focus
ISoD is the most recent arrival in the adventure in sound started by Gerritt Wittmer more than 20 years ago. In this dazing mixture of industrial and avant-garde - which anticipates and completes an imminent full length album - he drags all the previ…
Policies Of Satisfaction
"A kind of old school stab at straight ahead harsh noise tape but trying to keep some of my personal glitchy bleeping computer influence". I sincerely think that there can be no better words than what Jacob Winans wrote to describe these flaming trac…
s/t
Following last year’s “the Inner Room” Freddy Ruppert continues to explore false cinematic world building within these five tracks that are exclusive to this split cassette. Focusing on heavily manipulated samples, this time he brings textures to the…
Samling / Collezione Vol.1
"If you are familiar with the two names here you are probably right about what to expect from this tape. Francesco sent instruments and field recordings from Italy and Jonas mixed them with more music, sounds and tape acrobatics." - JDV
Murder In Blue
Not that droney as often but circular, grainy, dreamy melodious doodles from Scotland's finest Fraser Burnett…. Might ring in your head just like a summer hit!
Rosume
Italian sound artist Ezio Piermattei returns with a new tape. Atopic sound reality made of voice, tapes, unrecognizable guitars, post horn, organ. Stratifications through subtractions, autobiographism wrapped in abstraction, musique concrète and idio…
Hverdag
Fragile yet intense compositions for acoustic instruments and field recordings. Recorded on tape and carefully dubbed from the original cassette master.
Handmande Paper Pipe
Handmade Paper Pipe is the collaborative project of Danish improviser Claus Haxholm and eclectic Italian sound-maker Renato Grieco. These two set pieces are the result of mutual manipulation of each other's voices and archival materials. Not many wor…
Passione Farfallina
Awesome tape! A side project by A Spirale band, first release for the label Joy de Vivre, the Aspec(t) snuff/jazz, their second work after the first one by the Belgian label FFHHH, harsh-noise and electroacoustic research.