Grey Ear, White Noise - The Lift

HEMP048 (Part 1)/049 (Part 1 - Instrumentals) - new releases
Part 2 & Part 2 - Instrumentals released by Setting Sun

The risqué spoken-rant/electronica duo is back with a double album made up of 4 EP's. This time the rants and rambles stretch out over long, grooving tracks for a more laid-back but still thoroughly entertaining experience - and if blue language isn't your thing, there's always the instrumentals, which make for hypnotic listening in their own right.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 1 - Instrumentals

Part 2 - Instrumentals

Thee Crumb - Thee Crumb Tapes

HEMP047 - new release

"This selection, culled from three years (2004-06) worth of offcuts, sound experiments, lost songs and general oddities, was originally going to be made available as a limited edition of 50 C-40 cassettes but was shelved before ever being revealed due to problems with dubbing such a quantity of tapes without proper equipment. This is the reason the two completed tracks both last 19 minutes and 54 seconds as they were originally designed to fit onto two sides of a cassette.

 

The inspiration for this project (both in the nature of the album itself and in the less-than-slick mixing - no Ableton Live here!) is clearly The Faust Tapes, although the precise ordering of the pieces was decided by assigning every section a number and then drawing cards at random from the major arcana of a tarot deck." - Thee Crumb

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Grey Ear, White Noise - Introducing... (EP 1)

HEMP046 - new release

Another UK group specializing in spoken word, electronic beats and ambient noise. Must be something in the water. ;) Little is known, or need be known, about this group, except that if snark or salty language aren't your thing, you might want to pass this one by.

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NOTE: Oops, I forgot one. Just goes to show I'm not perfect. Thanks to the group for reminding me.

Junkshop Coyote - Industrial Lullabies

HEMP045 - New release

A series of sound-paintings depicting a day in the life of a wage slave in the American Rust Belt. Two years in the making, and another spent in limbo before plans for a physical release were abandoned. Industrial, ambient, noise and plunderphonics all figure in the mix.

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Note: This completes the backlog of Hallo Excentrico! album releases. Coming up next: the mix-set archives.

Alien Hand - 2001-2004

HEMP041 - new release

Fans of Digital Vomit's Can Buy Me Love series will remember Alien Hand's very Celtic spin on breakcore. This is a compilation of his earlier works, as he explores and finds his sound, which even then was delightfully twisted....

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Meep remixing V/Vm - V/Vm 365 Remixes

HEMP037 - originally released 2007

During 2006's V/Vm 365 project, V/Vm cranked out at least one track a day and encouraged others to remix them. Meep was one of those who took him up on it, and this was the result. Loud and abrasive, but there are also stunning ambient landscapes among the audio ordnance.

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Thee Crumb - Eyeball Dust EP

HE! Extra - released by Digital Vomit

"7-Track EP following on from the CD When I Was King Of The Wilderness with three tracks [...] that didn't make the cut for that album along with four other tracks for your listening pleasure." - Digital Vomit

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