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Inbox: Total Black

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Just in from Berlin. 

New releases from Total Black

  • Entertainment Club Ibiza.
  • Joel Danielsson - Lines Of Withdrawal / The Possibility Of Resonance.
  • Desroi - Voi.
  • Tourist Gaze - Lounge Lover.
  • Various Artists - New Brutalism III.
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Limited Interest.

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I'm excited to announce our new, in-house label, Limited Interest. 

Curated by Alessandro Cortini (Skarn, SONOIO, Nine Inch Nails) and myself, Ted Butler (Head Dress, Norelco Mori), Limited Interest is a Los Angeles label featuring new experimental and electronic recordings from artists both familiar and not yet known. 

First up is LTD-2: Delible. This self titled cassette sees founding Jane's Addiction member, Eric Avery, explore less traditional sonic territory with modular synthesizers and some pretty gorgeous effects chains. Limited to 75 numbered copies.

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LTD-3 features new solo work from Montreal's Karl Fousek, who has sold out several stellar releases on Denmark's Phinery Tapes, Canada's Adhesive Sounds, and most recently, his collaborative effort as Fousek / Hanson / Tellier-Craig for LA's Spring Break Tapes. Another edition of 75 numbered copies. 

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Both cassettes are hand-dubbed in realtime on chrome tape. 

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Top Tapes 2015

Germ Class - S/T (Night People)

H Takahashi - Sea Meditation (Entertainment Systems)

Tropic of Cancer - Stop Suffering (Blackest Ever Black)

Ecferus - The Tourniquet Hemisphere (Black Horizons)

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Unlucky Listener #5: Monte Burrows - Fantasy Living, Auxiliary Priest - In The Last Days Of The Sutro Fog

This week’s Unlucky Listener was chosen, at random from a list of our mailing list subsribers. Congratulations to Jason Shanley, of Chicago, IL. who has won a copy of Monte Burrows’ Fantasy Living and Auxiliary Priest’s In The Last Days of the Sutro Fog care of Spring Break Tapes.

Jason Shanley might be better known as Cinchel. He’s got a number of self released recordings available his latest physical release is a great tape called Worry

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