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Artist: ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO Title: 1980-1982 Format: Double CD Label: Staalplaat Country: Netherlands Price: $26.00 |
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"Alltough the sound quality of the original is not improved, this is still an impressive piece of soundwork. This double CD permits finally to accede to EG early stuff to all those that we did not had the opportunity of making it previously. It contains the full EG 1 tape, Héroe del trabajo / El acero del partido LP and Necrosis en la poya EP." - Staalplaat.
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Artist: IGNATZ Title: Mort Aux Vaches Format: CD Label: Staalplaat Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| "Belgiums Ignatz contribute to the Mort Aux Vaches series. Acoustic songs wrapped with effects and driven by improvisation and spontaneousness." -Staalplaat |
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Artist: MUDBOY Title: Mort Aux Vaches Format: CD Label: Staalplaat Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| 3-panel wooden cover, limited 500. |
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Artist: MUSLIMGAUZE Title: Damascus Format: Double LP Label: Staalplaat Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
| "Previously released and unreleased material. 2xLP gatefold b/w cover ltd. 700ex." -Staalplaat |
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Artist: MUSLIMGAUZE Title: Madrass Sitar Burner Format: Double LP Label: Staalplaat Country: Germany Price: $36.00 |
| Gatefold black and white cover, limited to 600 copies. "Madrass Sitar Burner harbours Muslim-world East-Indian/Pakistani flavours as well as North African/Middle Eastern into what could be described as among the more jumping Muslimgauze releases in the oeuvre. Curiously, sitars surface on only one track, perhaps reduced to ashes before further songs could be composed. Masters for Madrass... were submitted by Bryn Jones to Staalplaat in 1998, while Muslimgauze music was well into the dancehall-reggae-dub-cum-noisy-distortion phase. Those who wish to place the album in the overall context of the discography can do so among the ethno-electro (where traditional music is walked through a hall-of-mirrors of effects, deft panning, then dubbed-out into staggered bits) alongside Silknoose, Uzbekistani Bizzare And Souk, Lo-Fi India Abuse, and Alms for Iraq. Madrass... opens with simmering tablas, the mridangam and santoor for several tracks before the listener is transported to remote dusty villages of North Africa to experience both spirited and serene reed flutes that negotiate through high-voltage electronic rhythms. It is the rhythms that are the most pronounced element of this release as molten, toxic waste bass lines and tectonic strength beats both seep and clamour either like a force of nature or post-apocalyptic fall-out. The non-Indo tracks are familiar as parts were previously released on Dar Es Salaam while one track is straight off the Nommos Return 10". Jones was not always patient when certain tracks were not released soon enough to his liking and consequently were sent elsewhere without notice. The balance remains dangerously sharp unreleased gems ideal for the dance floor provided a sound system is robust enough to channel the sheer force of Muslimgauze. Despite the near-overwhelming rhythms and bass-ethnic elements along with voices from outskirts of Lahore and Bedouin caravan routes persist like determined insurgents against Western occupier styles. To harness this raw power and beauty, Staalplaat recruited Germanys surpassing audio engineer, Rashad Becker, who specially mastered and spanned these tracks over two pieces of virgin vinyl. Track listings on the inner circles are inscribed in Bryn Jones own handwriting no less. Madrass Sitar Burner is for Muslimgauze completists who want an artifact and new fans who want to hear an artisan put grime and dubstep proponents to shame." -- Ibrahim Khider, author of Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones |
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Artist: V/A Title: Yokomono 3 Format: LP Label: Staalplaat Country: Netherlands Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the third Staalplaat Soundsystem LP made for Yokomono! One side of this record the Staalplaat Soundsystem has made 55 loop SSS decided to compile a thematic Yokomono vinyl release. The theme: Helsinki and its environmental sounds. The other half of Pan Sonic, Mika Vainio, a resident of Berlin like SSS, was commissioned to produce a seven-minute composition. Petri Kuljuntausta from Helsinki was, in turn, asked to provide a composition of an equal length responding to Vainios piece. The sound material to be used for the compositions, field recordings from the turn of the 1960s and 1970s made at the Hietalahti shipyard in Helsinki, was discovered in the special effects archive of YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company. These sounds have a personal dimension for both composers: Vainio spent a part of his childhood living near the dockyard, while Kuljuntausta has used sounds recorded from inside ships hulls as material for his earlier works. Yokomono 03 will be pressed using an exotic method. The grooves holding the two compositions by Vainio and Kuljuntausta will be parallel cut. The other side of the record features the traditional loops of 1.8 seconds, commissioned from Blixa Bargeld, Merzbow, Main, Alexei Borisov, Donna Summer, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Andrey Kiritchenko, Zbigniew Karkowski, Staalplaat Soundsystem, Un Caddie Renversé Dans lHerbe and Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg, with five loops from each featured artist and their own sound environments." - Staalplaat. |