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Artist: BANANA HEAD/ROSEMARY KRUST Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Banana Head and Rosemary Krust obsess over the basic structures of popular music, deconstructing the same formulas until they dissolve into reflective plainness. Banana Head nods to the wedding ballad, schmatlz indulged to the point of confusion, eagerness and imprudence, a distant relative way too old to be that hammered bleeding an oldie-but-a-goodie into monotone. Rosemary Krust draws out the essentials of guitar-drums-keys, abstracts, flattens them into hissing post-pop atmospherics. Paired up like two Moby Dicks of dopeness." -Goaty
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Artist: CRO MAGNON/CIRCUIT DES YUEX Title: Bird Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: MOORE, THURSTON/KOMMISSAR HJULER and MAMA BAER Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The bearder flippin his hammer at Pieta or that lady who crinkles up the rosies for a Cy scribble. Institutionalized or I reckon almost slaughtered, I coulda put money on your anxious wish for destruction. But first lets deconstruct the "song" as this here taper follows a linear narrative from structure to not-structure." -Goaty Tapes |
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Artist: SMEGMA/KOMMISSAR HJULER UND MAMA BAER Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Theres very little I can say about these puff-poetry sound pundits that hasnt already been said at least twice over the last forty years. Smegma and Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baers long-standing shared interest in mutilating neo-con philistinism take on very different forms; while Smegma indulge in the aural vacuum of radio randos and FX ooze, K. Hjuler & M. Baer blast Hugo Balls voluble word play into the 21st century. On this tape, however, we find both bands almost making actual music; laying down some rhythmic infrastructure and arranging their weirdness accordingly. Smegma tumble through some Henry Flynt/Harry Partch trans-American hoboism, goosebumps gloop, and set a new bar for sleaze rock; K. Hjuler & M. Baer smear their rantings across the lilting wonk of a music box." -Goaty
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Artist: SOHNI CHAMBERS Title: Yaw Mah Ha Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Cameron Stallones and Nick Malkin seem two sides of the same moebius strip. As Sun Araw, they take pride in an almost ascetic game of self-restraint; honing rhythms, programming synthesizers, and modulating a long chain of effects until they hit a perfect, balanced and restrained groove.
Sohni Chambers, a side project in the truest sense of the word, finds an official release for pent up musical energies. As the title suggests, Stallones and Malkin are still traversing the same semiotic badlands, where pop culture signifiers are recontextualized with a dopey fineness and humor. But here Stallones and Malkin have a rougher and more honest program and the outcome drips with an unprecedented consecration. The rhythms hit harder, organ exercises swirl endlessly in a Dionysian blaze of primordial oneness.
Ya they might induce the sort of meditation weve come to expect from Stallones and his cohorts, but the genuine focus of these works lies in a sort of fetishized materiality: its just a Galaxie 8180 electronic organ and a five-piece drumset—odd timbres, distortions, broken keys, buzzing echoes and all. A dialogue vocal howls that flits in and out concretizes the intimacy of this musical space; while Stallones and Malkin are indeed wizards of levitated, shamanistic, and disembodied musical realities, here we see them straight on; two bros just letting shit out, warts and all." -Goaty
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Artist: TREETOPS/DAN MARINO Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "Subterranean Midwest boys sure got some reputation, but Treetops and Dan Marino represent a novel and downright invigoratin duality. Treetops rips through effects with overwhelmin honesty. Scrapin up amplifier discharge and molding passages of raw sentiment and ageless boon. Dan Marino pairs truth in field recording with a burbly gurgle and solid crystal synth mass. Less destructo, more dazer. Something for everybody, straight from the jabbers of our young future!"-Valhalla. Edition of 100. |
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Artist: UKE OF SPACES CORNERS Title: Albumen/Ovum Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| " Never did know how the Uke of Spaces Corners wove them mounds of spook through such innocent jam jam dillies. I reckon it is what must be the outlandish croon, or perchance that lonely electric guitar plunk. Ever it functions, sure leaves a rippling, swelling watermark of the solitary songmanship. Jangling in mulchy fullness, but reflecting a singular dream, apparition."-Valhalla |