Confuse the neighbours and show pride in the Monk. Now taking PRE-ORDERS for the Chocolate Monk 'Unravel the Knot Inside Your Head' t-shirt. These are white ink on black shirt (fruit of the loom)

We will be taking orders until 15th February, at which time Big Patrick of the mighty Heavyrock Screenprint will churn out the magic.

please indicate shirt size when ordering (s, m, l, xl)

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Piece for reel-to-reel tape and delay. Recorded live at home on Friday 13th of January, 2012.
Medicinal sounds for the back of your skull using only a learn to speak Swedish reel. No music here, just coffee fueled real time stylings. Come hear the voices and trigger meditations in yr subconcious mind or maybe learn jibberish in Swedish.
Numbered edition of 45 copies, comes with laminated section of the tape used.

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Numbered edition of 50 copies in screenprinted cover

New split LP by two of brightons more woozy sound makers. Bad Orb chimes on out with sweet clarity, before putting some salt in her socks with keys, drones and gob. Slow Listener doles out a fluttering and queasy lo-fi loop soup, and the croutons taste like melted dictaphone remnants.

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Split release of Joseph Hammer solo and a Constance/Wiese duo, both recorded live at the Colour Out Of Space festival, Brighton in 2009.
Hammer,the gloved maestro of live tape manipulation, conjures up amazing loop wobble. It was one of the most 'smoked-out' sets of the weekend, just what you would expect from a guy whom if you cut would bleed Ferric Oxide.
The pairing of Constance & Wiese was a last minute deal, brought about when Heavy Seals couldn't perform due to the non appearance of Brace Paine (allegedly laid up with a bent spine brought on by picking up another fat royalty cheque). No sweat though, as one hipsters back spasm is another mans mind spasm, and these two po-faced knob twisters delivered a spectral head scratch of marble losing proportions. A sweet ear pickle all round.

Hammer


Constance/Wiese

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All Hail Rochester!

1 sided c60, hand numbered edition of 28 copies.

"We all have moments when the universe seems to talk directly to the warped grey matter in our skulls. Moments when all outside interference disappears and you get a direct connection with the o-mind. While it doesn’t happen very often, it did happen to me on the night of April 19th 2011. That was the night that Blood Stereo performed at my bands practice/recording spot in Rochester NY. A small but eclectic crowd of noise enthusiasts, artists, troublemakers & weirdo’s packed into the Bunker and allowed Blood Stereo to enter their reality with a language of sound that only they can produce. Blood Stereo’s lingua franca is the result of Dylan & Karen having spent their whole adult lives soaking their brains in the deep well of underground sounds and culture. They create a sonic universe of beauty & ugliness using a bunch of broken sound equipment & their own deep telepathy. This is deeply focused weirdness. The only kind I want to drown in." - John Schoen, Pengo.

SOLD OUT, SNOOZERS

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Made the mistake of suggesting Justin Wiggan try out a cup of pure Robusta coffee before telling me all about the new Roadside Picnic disk. Wiggan wigged out.

“It's documents of current exploratory and collaborative works.
Track 1: "Merchant's Blood" was recorded live at "Noise and Capitalism first response salon, Vivid Birmingham" featuring Karl Willetts (bolt thrower), Nicholas Bullen (ex napalm death). It looks at the failed romance of greed, the urge to own, to command without regard of impact. During the first stages of the research of the Noise and Capitalism, the sea buoy became a personal obsession. I fantasized about a world grounded in 1970's post apocalyptical sci- fi which has publically placed sirens that would to warn us for forthcoming financial danger to give us foresight and plan for turbulence, so we could respond in time. This psychological symbolist link with the sea resonated with the drive and obsessional greed man has, displayed by Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and the mirrored psychological behaviours showed by trading floor merchants. Ahab's obsession with Moby Dick to me summarized man's tragic capitalistic ventures and the ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale being the anthropomorphic variant of the materialistic chase. In the tale, in a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab took revenge. The piece fluctuates between funeral dirge and whaling song, between fact and fiction, between romance and greed. To become king of the impossible with obsession and greed in our blood.
Track 2: "Cotton Candy House Fire" recorded with Louis Robinson form The Destroyers and Simon Kristoffer Thorjussen and Stephen Paxford. The phonic tale of Hearts in an abandoned house ,Inverted Large machines and sensitive Concrete tiny limbs with Bones protected from beating drums. The moral of the story? The plant is leafless, branchless and void of fruit, the beast is lustless, sexless, fireless and mute
Track 3. "Blood Tent" is a field recording of my son Leon Roman sleeping at 3 Am during a night of world turbulance.” - Justin Wiggan
Recorded by Laurence Hunt and mixed and Mastered By Darren Joyce, both who are members of the Modified Toy Orchestra.

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"I live just around the hill from highland park. at one time would go there 2 or so times a week, to catch a train, see a movie or go to that numerous dollar marts and produce markets. it is still one of my favorite places in los angeles. this is a collection of tracks that really have no connection to each other or highland park, but in a way they it all relates to the diversity of it. the street preachers, the sketchy bars, cheap grindhouse theatres and a multicutural soundtrack of spanish, english, farsi ranchera and and rap." - AMK

nine separate tracks ranging from the tranquility of "a midnight getaway"” to the ghostly static and voice maze of “technique of violence”. The first 14 minutes of “landmine sisinal” is constructed white noise before dropping off completely leaving absolute silence for a minute. “the rise and fall”, begins with a few seconds of a skipping records which continues to dominate the song, locking you inside; there’s no getting out of or around it until it ends five minutes later. Even with the addition of other noises which slowly bleed into the track, your attention can’t be pulled away. here is the beauty of the random; a rather addictive and mesmerizing piece of work. Features contributions from Gen Ken Montgomery, Damion Romero, Bob Bellerue, Das & Howard Stelzer.

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Silkscreened cover in a numbered edition of 50 copies

"Brighton-based audio-investigator sends chewed postcards from the eldritch heart of England. Melted snapshots of tea-breaks in post-diluvian seaside cafes, fading playgrounds ascending to heaven as the radiation levels rise, and village bells dissolving into pure light. Like Terry Riley's 'Music For The Gift' if the gift were a box full of eggshell and moss. Illogical, yes, but she has the tapes to prove it." - Daniel Spicer

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Numbered edition of 50 copies

"Above us, blizzards of fecal snow ravage the sky, dehydrated flakes leftover from the expunged waste of civilization's folly. Below, spasms of subterranean dyspepsia crisscross the globe, stalking nomadic malignancies to devour. Tape- and glottis-manipulators Dylan Nyoukis (ya bas) & Karen Constance conduct their Blood Stereo business beneath this noxious shit-rain and eludes these randomly appearing gaia dentata with nary a scratch or impurity tainting their tartan. Composed at home, side one of The Trachelin Huntiegowk wrangles recordings of friends and family, old tape letters, a drunk Canadian arguing with Daniel Spicer about microphones (apparently, his grasp of spatial relationships leaves Her Vagesty wanting), fair lasses from clan Spicer doing the hand-clap song "Miss Mary Mack," tape cut-ups of Karen Constance singing, wee Elkka Nyoukis on drums, the old man on piano, and Giant Tank comrades Ali and Collette participating in team-building exercises at a work picnic for a company staffed by ogres, insect-bodybuilder hybrids, and baboon-hearted psychos.

On side two, recorded live at Moderna Museet in Stockholm as part of the Sten Hanson festival, Nyoukis & Constance unravel the constituents elements of the event's namesake, eventually oxidizing delivery of instructions to the assembled Pee Wee Hermans on how to finesse a poison arrow out of his impaled cheeks without causing undue shredding of the flesh. Accompanied by typing lessons conducted in a burn ward and the tinkle of contaminated plasma and hemoglobin squirting into buckets underneath a poxy heifer, The Trachelin Huntiegowk wrestles across a landscape ruled by an inversion of signs, where irrational complaining is drama; despair is triumph; the haunted is droll; torture is delight; the mechanical wheeze of outdated machines is a function not of dehumanization but of Arcadian nostalgia; profundity resides within the inarticulate; virtuosity can be attained when the random happens to repeat; and speech, decimated into fragmented phonemes -- whether from internal mental agents compromising the intellect, or from intentionally adopted constructions and impairments, faulty reproduction and obstructions to enunciation -- is lyrical, soulful even."- Seymour Glass

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Raw and remedial stuff, a salve for your ear scabs. Two long tape cut-up collage pieces from this Greek freak including various experiments and manipulations from a stack of tapes recorded during the period 2003-2011, collaged in a cupboard under the stairs via dodgy tape recorder in the spring of 2011. Say 'NO' to music.

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Mike 'Vinny' Collino returns with yet more spirit of scrape, ready to triturate our tiny minds. Violin feedback bloom and suitably ajar tape swashbuckle with dollops of bent spooned electronic glup and soured bass harmonic preserve that whispers 'lets get mysterious'. Doglady truly represents the crude with lots of style, like a spleen tarantula running roughways, educating the peasants. Let the muscle be heard.

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Numbered edition of 60 copies

A Canadian take on non cerebral crud. Danker than a Michigan dudes ass crack but twice as fragrant.

"pleasing archival collection from the seemingly unstoppable one man canadian noise factory - this one's about as unsophisticated as it gets, with a sound so crude and urgent it circumnavigates any concept of mixing/mastering/presentation. it just is. deal with it." - Graham Lambkin

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Contains all the recordings from the 'Palatine Arches' cassette on Beartown Records, 'Tape Hiss For Brainwash' cassette on Feeding Tube records and the USA tour 3" 'The Gither'.

About 'Tape Hiss For Brainwash'
"Brighton's Blood Stereo, often described as the sound of a mental ward medication cock-up at the House of Hammer Horror, are in the midst of a particularly smart spurt of releases. With this duo there's often the feeling that any magnetic tape that they come into contact with somehow begins a process of a hybrid development of osmosis and rot. It feels as if the very air around Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance is charged with particles that both imprint and decay with their unique DNA strain. Wrapped in a typically horrifically odd piece of Constance's art, Tape Hiss for Brainwash's first side begins with a Sweeney Todd sausage fingered fumble of Black Sabbath intro tapes and backwards/forwards warped flurries. Blood Stereo's music could almost be classified as musique concrete if the term wasn't so skewed in favour of the avant pompous. What's always so entertainingly alive about Blood Stereo's chaotic sound is the way that everything feels born of mouth, spittle and groan. Even when they move across the bows of great elegiac tones, there's a meat-born Parkinsons buzz of damage to it. The organic mulchworld of the second side's Tape has Natural Voice is a further internalised action, new homegrown strains of life and the gestation periods of boneless parasite squidgy things." - The Quietus

and about 'Palatine Arches'
"Kids are running through the fields of hop and wheat. Kinds are running. Kids are running through the fields fast... What we can hear on this tape seems to be a rabid short wave, though there is a kind of trueness in all those elastic voices and rare rattletrap steel percussion. We stumble across more noise efforts on another side. One quenches the fire and pulls little naked people out of the cinder. They shimmer and cry creating phantasmagorical sound scheme. Absolutely freak and very inspiring work." - Dumpster Diving Blog

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USA tour 3" in an edition of 30. Sold Out.

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Edinburghs one man tape blub merchant presents recordings made in his home town and that of Offenbach, Germany. Warbling and clank are captured in loops. At one point there is some vague sense of a carnival tent in which the studying of stumps takes place and where bones tell tales. Croon dementia is set upon us, molecules warbled sideways, nausea. On the way out we get gnawing and gurgling camouflaged by mud, necks craned in formation. A goat haired bow and proclamations.

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cheeky wee re-issue of the collabe LP that came and went on Giant Tank.

"With Blood Stereo, you can always see the ribs of the sound – they jam sickly econo. This collaboration with Belgian throat-explorer Ludo Mich sees the lunatics stylising the imaginary asylum. Two vinyl sides of thick throated ugh, the 2006 set from the Instal festival is a macrobiotic spread of saliva into electricity and back again. There are few team-ups that so thoroughly ‘verbalise’ the thin line of the insanity lying right under our noses. Now titled “Awesome Alien Stew” the Instal piece could only have been made by the doolally, the degenerate or discoverers, it’s an incursion on the thin eggshell of reason. If this A side is of the moment improv caught in the stageglow, the B side takes a slightly more considered step through its postal collaborative nature. Blood Stereo taking Mich’s 2006 vocals and putting everything together in a The Blob style unstoppable moving jelly. Ludo Mich’s vocal work feels so obliquely outside and unconcerned with the niceties of the norms of sound poetry that’s its difficult to begin to categorise what he’s doing. Far enough outfuckingthere to be an obvious curio, their sound-rambling is still ‘here’ enough to corroborate the view that their as never been a better time for being out of your mind. 9/10" _ SCott Mckeating, Foxy Digitalis

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Bonus disk of material that comes only with the 'Art Edition' of the 'Carrion Hut' LP alongside poster insert and one off drawing, numbered edition of 100. You can find all the lowdown here.

Prices UK £17.50 EU £19.50 Rest Of The World £22.00