Unpleasant Nostalgia - 2D Memories

Otherworldly pop music for treating catatonic schizophrenia from Unpleasant Nostalgia with 2D Memories on Illuminated Paths. Thoroughly bizarre to the point of near indescribability, a seamless blend of flatlined slow motion samples chopped, degraded and pitch shifted through the floor. At least that my impression, because what this is, is really hard to figure out what it is. One of those tapes that gets you lost in how it's constructed. And it's pretty massive, 11 tracks and almost an hour. This stuck with me, I found my mood affected by it for days after I listed to it. Sounds like trying to run on the bottom of the pool when you were 9.

Edition of 25, the usual complete rawness from Illuminated Paths. Home dubbed to order over old tapes, sealed with a smiley sticker, with liner notes and an old X-Files trading card included. Anything more DIY than this and they'd be sending me a blank tape and a thumb stick and telling me to dub it myself. I love this stuff. I grabbed as part of a 5 tape IP binge purchase from the fantastic Tomentosa, but you will likely have to grab via the label Bandcamp.

Strange Mountain - Levitation Mist

Murmurs of the earth and concentration on the eightfold path buried in looping analog drones from Strange Mountain with Levitation Mist on Illuminated Paths. Unfiltered ambient mediation often juxtaposing a warm open melody against a more complex slightly noisy rhythmic movement. A push pull of complimentary pieces, each presented raw and damaged, sometimes so much so that a complete unraveling of the soundscape seems imminent. Moments that must be enjoyed consciously, perceived with the purity of the present, for they did not exist before, and will not exist after. 10 Tracks, five on each side, with two exclusively on the physical release. The run time of each side was considerably shorter than the length of the actually tape, causing you to have to consciously seek out the second half.

Edition of 25 hand made unique works of reconstruction. Each tape duplicated on top of an old church tape with labels stuck on top of the originals. Album art and liner notes folded inside the old soft poly case with a "Flags of the World" trading card adhered to the back, the whole thing sealed with a smiley sticker. Madness, I love it. Grab as I did direct from Illuminated Paths.