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Sudden Oak — Banquet Years c30 (Stunned no. 71) —out of stock—Ever since watching them torch down LA’s Echo Curio in 2008, John Ward & Matt Erickson of Sudden Oak have been our favorite Frisco free-sound bruisers. This cassette might come as a surprise turn even for those privy to the duo’s own Bezoar Formations imprint and its periodic outflow of Sudden Oak tapes and discs. A further refining of their road-toughened scuzz, ‘Banquet Years’ turns in a document of whiskey-soaked saxophone lurch and boogie guitar slime-motions. These two ataxic modalities are without individual agenda, fusing into a singular badass voice which is equally comfortable commanding a bulb-glaring bunker as it is crashing the narcotic pool party nextdoor. Bounce back & burn it proud. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.
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"Great tape that makes it clear how comfortable these two are playing together. It has such an unassuming start, some nice but maybe a little characterless clatter, but then slowly, confidently builds into a giant swaying tower of fried psychedelics. When this tape gets going, it's one of my favorite stretches of sound to cross my ears lately. Erickson's sax playing is discreet but pivotal, keeping the pace just right. These guys work a really great balance, keeping the playing fresh without letting it get sloppy or sound tossed off." - Eggy Records
Sean McCann — Open Resolve c43 (Stunned no. 70) —out of stock—Confounding expectations and annihilating boundaries, ‘Open Resolve’ is not only Sean McCann’s 3rd time back on Stunned, but its also his postcard from the utter edge. Hummingbird-speed cymatics liquefy the scaffolds of time in anticipation of a completed simulacrum. A flickering, sizzling future-spew for me & for you. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c43 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.
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— Biomusicosophy
— Forest Gospel
— Auxiliary Out
— Tiny Mix Tapes
— Album of the Year #18
Yek Koo — I Saw Myself c27 (Stunned no. 69) —out of stock—A lone voice etches straight to dictaphone the vibrations which have been petrified far too long in mere stone & silicone. Identity awoken in a night of raw fidelity, this oracle’s expression inhabits trance tones and punk-chant poesis. Gouge out your eye and trade it in for better ears, because Helga Fassonaki’s solo project Yek Koo is back after a nearly two-year hiatus. Quite a spirited fever has accumulated since this half of LA’s Metal Rouge performed her ‘Psychic Atonement for Land Deaths’ on Digitalis. ‘I Saw Myself’ shatters any restricting Mirror of our species with Yek Koo’s dynamically expanded vocal range and we are left freed, finding peace among the shards and surrender in the pieces. Special hand numbered edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c27 tapes with double-sided die cut color jcard and insert.
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— Auxiliary Out
Andreas Brandal — Secrets of the Snow c43 (Stunned no. 68) —out of stock—A silhouetted form beckons us into the darkened forests of Norway, and we follow anyway, sensing that secrets may be revealed in the thawing undergrowth. Seed and larvae which were burrowed deep all winter respond to the warming of Earth’s crust, and before one knows it, the snow rescinds to sprouting greens & creeping things. Who lead us here? How did he know this would happen now? Questions only Andreas Brandal could immediately satisfy, and does just so, on his newest tape release proudly presented here. Since the early nineties, Brandal has orchestrated significant visions of both seasonal & dimensional shift in his soundcraft. Likewise, ‘Secrets of the Snow’ weaves a tableaux of wilderness abandonment, sentient mycelia, and complex drone-frequencies emitted via planetary groans. Capturing these rich, subtle intimations on tape comes only with the extensive focus and practice Andreas Brandal is suspected to have had in those groves of intrigue he coaxes from perennially. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c43 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.
Wether — Here’s the Bet c32 (Stunned no. 67) —out of stock—In our pursuit for the most flipped out noise on the globe, we’re always brought back to the area code of 905 Tapes’ Mike Haley and his long-running project of pleasure and pain Wether. ‘Here’s the Bet’ is a mean half hour of Haley’s hot circuit purgation where sweat stings the eyes and nausea synchs in time to icicle-sharp oscillations. The uncompromisingly clinical meat locker mechanics on display here might be a punch in the gut for those uninitiated with modern devices of sonic weaponry and crowd control. But once the gauntlet of tinnitus dipped 666-pitch has been weathered on the first pass, ‘Here’s the Bet’ becomes an experience likely to be often repeated — it’s venom doesn’t seem to kill us, but only serves to make us stronger. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c32 tapes with double-sided color jcard.
Granitkorridor — III c60 (Stunned no. 66) —out of stock—Sven Dyllus hails from Germany and is the man behind Granitkorridor’s newfound brand of concrete mystique. ‘III’ is the follow-up to Dyllus’ debut pair of catacomb-carved cassettes on the Ruido Horrible label. The Granitkorridor approach is alluringly simple and resumed here; across 6 starkly unique pieces, deep floating bass guitar riff is drawn into fields of wayward gravitational ebb & flow. Dense coil reverberation materializes a vapor trail which charts a glorious slowburn toward cosmic core. Maximal effect springs eternal from the most minimal perpetuations of tone, and these blissful sixty minutes might as well be sixty years long. Hand numbered edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c60 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert.
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— Animal Psi
— Cassette Gods
