Flower Man - Peppermint Steamroom (Young Tapes

A personal favorite. Chaotic, interstellar synth work from dude/half Caboladies/former Lexingtonian Chris Bush. Released on Young Tapes, 2009.

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Religious Knives - In Your Head CS (Rampart)

10 minutes of subterranean rumbles, tornado wind gusts, and half heard voices at a séance. 2006 release by Brooklynites on Lexington, KY based Rampart Tapes.

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Kites - Kites Vol. 2

Random blasts of lo-fi punk, creepy freak folk, and feedback squall from Providence weirdo Kites (Christopher Forgues), released in 2002 on Unskilled Labor.


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Uneven Universe - Nightcrawler Walls

Haunted horn blasts from Michiganders Dan & Holly on DNT Tapes.

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Total Life - S/T

T: "Yo, you robbing me? What tapes do you have there? That's good... That's good... OH SHIT TOTAL LIFE!"
Me: "Is it awesome?"
T: "Dude, it's like everything that you want Growing to be."

Keven Doria (Growing) conjures some thick walls of static on this Animal Disguise release.

Caves - s/t c15

Mind melting drones from Lexington nice guy Ben Allen (Wretched Worst, Benstances) on the now-defunct Blood Red Cassettes label. Side A features creeping war drums and malfunctioning short-wave static, while Side B holds a damaged guitar raga accompaniment for inter-stellar satellite beams. The whole thing plays out like the soundtrack for the deleted scenes of Apocalypse Now.


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Spare Death Icon - Northwind

Ambient synth and drum machine meditations from Jason E. Anderson (2 Hands on Knobs, Brother Raven) on Seattle's Gift Tapes. Warm analog textures that would be equally at home in a nature documentary or a Sega Genesis game.


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