GOLDEN CUP - In Deep cassette
Bis Auf's Messer - £6.00
This is the 2nd installment of the BIS AUFS MESSER live series. GOLDEN CUP is Luca Massolin (ex-member of Golden Jooklo Age). Golden Cup's wild sound comes from there unique use of electronic mandolin, electronics, electric guitar, and electric organ making a wildly original psyche out blast that is truly immense. on SIDE A is "in deep" set (movement one and two) recorded at Bis Aufs Messer. on SIDE B is the "antipodes - journey to the end of the land" - recorded at CASA DAS ATOCHAS All songs got mixed and edited in Porto, Portugal by Luca Massolin, cover design by HLG and all 100 copies got screen printed by HLG and every tape is unique. Every Tapes comes w/ a little inlay and tehy are limited to 100.

VARIOUS - Pakistan Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966 - 1976
Sublime Frequencies - £29.99
Compiled and researched by Stuart Ellis of Radiodiffusion International. Spending the greater part of the last decade assembling this masterpiece while tracking down most of the musicians in the process, Stuart Ellis of Radiodiffusion International has compiled a mind-blowing set of Pakistani instrumentals spanning the period between 1966 and 1976. It's all here: rock and roll beat, surf, folk traditional mixed with pop, film tunes, electric guitars, sitar and organ solos, brilliant percussion and arrangements crafted by the grooviest bands of the period: Rana. Situated between Afghanistan, India and Iran, the collision of cultural influences in Pakistan gave birth to music that was, and still is, unlike anything heard anywhere else on the planet. By the late 1960s, previous restrictions on musical expression began to soften and bands that were playing American and British pop covers became popular in Karachi's burgeoning night club scene and at private dance parties. Long hair came into fashion among young men and hashish became the popular drug of choice on college campuses across Pakistan. Soon, hippies from both North America and Europe began flocking to Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Very few of the bands that formed during this time actually got to record. Like their neighbors in India, the Pakistani record industry was more focused on releasing "filmi" music, which had just started to incorporate the electric guitar and electric sitar. Pakistan's musical revolution ended in June 1977 after a coup d'état and the establishment of a pure Islamic state governed by Sharia law. This marked the end of the "Swinging '70s" in Pakistan as night clubs and alcohol were banned throughout the country. Television and cinema, as well as popular music, were now subjected to government censorship. After the clamp-down, many Pakistani musicians left the country and moved to America, Canada and England. The audio quality here is top-notch, sourced straight from the original EMI Pakistan masters.

OREN AMBARACHI / CHRIS CORSANO, PAUL FLAHERTY & C SPENCER YEH - Split 7"
Krayon Recordings - £4.99
Oceans of drum kit fire bawling and fluttering string overtones fuse a complex web of ear asterism. Infiltrated by a woozy sax line that soon reduces in duration and increases the overall vehemence, with fragmented reed chewing rasp & roar joining a myriad of coordinates in this dense labyrinth of free magic. On the flip stunningly crafted harmonic percolations of feedback glare and riff particles slam into tantric drum force blast beats by Matt Skitz Sanders, on this unexpected monolith from Oren. Art by Paul Coors.

Silver Bullets - Città Invisibili c62
Stunned Records - £6.99
“In outer Firnu from two z z eight to two z one z were corded then recorded these sounds. The music of ‘Città Invisibili’ invites up out of overextensi in sixtyfour evolutions per second audtac overlap: the chopstack uke lay with the yarnstruck drum; rattles on the rise over foghorn-string syncos; dreamsplicing onto scoglitti seaweed; breathing as swimming; passage through open city as a particle of dust, yielding to three-part sunrise; warble-waves the message. ComisoDJ ora, now, noi? Ecco lo statico.” — Silver Bullets. Special edition of 222 pro-dubbed & imprinted c62 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.

Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand - Sleep cassette
Stunned Records - £6.99
His third release with Stunned finds MABH’s Peter Taylor explaining: "The journey to fatherhood took a turn I never expected. Upon the birth of my daughter I felt compelled to communicate in the early stages of her life. A newborn has a whole world of sound and shapes to contend with. I used this as a point of reference to begin a sonic trip into nebula static, white noise and otherworldly tones. I built a pallet from a hundred culled cassette tapes, eroded vinyl and electronic tones. ‘sleep,’ is conceived for ultimate spatial displacement, allowing the listener to absorb, focus and drift. Each tone is focused on a particular emotion and state of slumber — the drift, the doze and the deep sleep." Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c33 tapes w/ double-sided jcard and insert.