RAINBOW BRIDGE
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☺ new releases ☺
☺ tapes ☺
☺ cdrs ☺
☺ lathe-cuts ☺
☺ digital downloads ☺
Why, hello there. I've been too busy to breathe for months and months,
so this one's been a long time coming. It's a doozy.
All URLs below the descriptions will lead you to the release's
Bandcamp page where you can purchase physical copies, all of which
come with an optional digital download. If anyone wishes to order
outside of Bandcamp, you can shop on Discogs (
http://www.discogs.com/seller/angelhair0 ) (lots of used items are
listed there). Or you can send me a message somewhere and we can
arrange an alternative method.
PEACE to you all, and see you at Voice Of The Valley 2014: Beyond
Rainbow Dome (
http://voiceofthevalleynoiserally.blogspot.com.tr/ )!
THE OTHERS
Anxiety Loops c32
Andrew Kirschner aka TOOTH (OH) and Jake Johnson (of Moltar, WV) swung some undeniably Cleveland-style bleakness and grit my way. Its far from wanky and heavy on the hypnosis. Two 15-minute bricks of horror drones and strange loops. Psychedelic hunks of blubbery industrial music.
Black ink printed on neon orange card stock j cards. Green and silver hand painted labels.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-loops-c32
SKIN GRAFT
Complete With Beast c101
Bowel-churning wide open spaces. Rising and falling machine hum. A reverberating 100 minutes of lying on tracks with street lamps flickering. Patient doom that dismantles from underneath. A climax that mostly fizzles before its in your face, followed by hopeless fall-off. At the risk of sounding cliche, turn all your lights off and crank the living death out of this tape. Weird, dark, minimal, abstract, industrial noise for droners that think they aren't gonna love this.
Black ink printed on red paper j cards. Clear red cassettes with purple and white hand-painted labels.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/complete-with-beast-c101
JML
Has Been Remixed By DEVELOPER c21
At Matt Reis's fingertips once laid a gift of archives... unreleased live shows, rehearsal sessions, field recordings of some circuit-bending test leads firing off at will. All recorded shittily. But what does Reis do best? Make totally awesome total shit out of shit. This tape has me all cut up and mashed into myself like some mangled madman between two violently bubbling anvils. Reis extended me no mercy. :'(
Black ink printed on neon green card stock. Prison shell tapes with stickered A side.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/has-been-remixed-by-developer-c21
J. MARCLOID
Promise Sweepers c16
It is not certain that Venus's inner-self is solid because it's weak magnetic field doesn't come from a dynamo located in it's center. Promise Sweepers is an EP of neo-nü-industrial downer music from Venus's METAL CORE. If living conditions there were bearable, you'd definitely be able to make a slam dunk at from an additional 2 feet. Mixed and mastered spiritually northwest of Cygnus X-1, inside a living room simultaneously located in Chicago, IL. Sounds come *as is* and are non-returnable without a restocking-fee of 229 Dollarpounds, as the economy has been adopted by Red Dwarfs.
Black ink printed on water pattern card stock. Orange and blue painted tape labels on solid orange shells. Hand-numbered with paint marker.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/promise-sweepers-c16
JUSTIN MARC LLOYD/PREGNANT SPORE
Journey To 0.004 Rendering #2 c120
Inappropriately unpredictable acid airspace. Mild-intensity head work-out from wading through self-talk and plasma. Fucking losing it! Occasionally TOTALLY frozen. Brain-fingers made it happen while meandering in the Matrix, drawing slow unfriendly lines with a number 0.004 pencil. Looped hypnosis dating dada under a blanket. Living in Pilsen!!! DOWNER FREAKOUT. Side B features previously released Justin Marc Lloyd & Pregnant Spore material, including the entire out-of-print Anxiety Flood Cont. c22.
Black ink printed on orange and white polkadot card stock. Each tape wrapped in a different color foil wrap with hot pink decorative tape. Red and silver painted paper labels with stickered A-side. Each comes with a glittery temporary tattoo and a small numbered and stamped type-written sheet.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-0004-c120
SOMNAPHON/INAPPROPRIATE KING LIVE
Hands Look Like Eyes c40
How is this 20-minute Somnaphon jam electronically generated tones manipulated on a computer? Sounds just like the modular set you've always wanted to hear. Yanking and stretching til you squeak. August Traeger, now living in Milwaukee, WI, says his piece was "the most lo-fi he's gone in a while." Well, there are some field recordings and sneaky crumbling bumps that fall around the place a little but I'd say it's a crisp drift into the disinformation super highestway. Thank you, August, for setting it up, because side B was spent dismantling everything and gluing it together so it bedazzles your pituitary just right. Sound collage at it's most hallucinatory. Piss on all the rules. Turn it down til you're turnt, blow it out like you're in love. Aluminum, electrons, feedback from the driver's seat, and all the world's machines that just hum and hum like they'll never stop. Until they start to give out, but we keep recording.
Black ink printed on double-sided pink card stock, with red as the opposite side. Clear shells with black leader and hand-painted recycled paper labels with stamped A-side. Limited to 31.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/hands-look-like-eyes-c40
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Potpourri Of Andrew c90
I had a dream a few years ago in which I was visited by a diverse group of real-life experimental musicians who's names were Andy or Andrew. And ideas are how realities are born. The more you know!~*
Black ink printed on yellow card stock j-cards. Purple and yellow painted labels.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/potpourri-of-andrew-c62
POSSET/PREGNANT SPORE
International Exports And The Reasons CDr
Minimalist tape college from one of the UK's most important red-heads. Two new shorties from cute buzzy tape players, and a one heck of a quarter-hour set live in London. Oh my god its like you're REALLY THERE. He's got a bunch of experimental oddities under his belt but I think this project is where his loops and holsters started to unravel and flake off? Pregnant Spore gets COVERED in flakes. Skin conditions; sounds like disintegrated skin. Ditches and magnet leak. I plug one up and another one starts dripping. I'm a bit scared, I'm haunted. Lyrics written, performed, and forgotten. Joe Murray (Papal, (The) Solar Plexus) & Justin Marc Lloyd (Dementia & Hope Trails, Inappropriate King Live) UNITED AT LAST.
Black ink, and purple and silver paint on white print-and-file CD sleeves.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/international-exports-and-the-reasons
PREGNANT BED
Bi-polar Masses c32
Midwest-downer equal-opportunity free-improv. Alex Steinmetz wet his bed and publicly transported himself to the city. The fetus inside me promptly barfed while my temple chilled on the couch. Alex played his DIY 4-track loops and an electro-acoustic anti-guitar contraption thing. I talked some while I flicked around tape loops. We punched out a few trinkets in isolated loads. Murky shtuff.
Black ink printed on dark blue double-sided card stock, with light blue as the opposite side. Music dubbed over brand new, unplayed Big Bird Sesame Street cassettes. Sticker labels left in tact.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/bi-polar-molasses
COPKILLER
Alien Soccer c62 |or| CDr
16 solid songs nearly 2 years in the making. Electro piss-pop industrial drunkenness. Absurd juxtaposition over psychedelic dada EDM. Health insurance claims, asshole drivers, government assistance, potholes, higher consciousness, the cost of gas, the dao meets REBT, irresponsible cyclists, and being violently high. You can't like music or noise if you like this. BLOWN OUT. Peepholes of noisecore and techno giving birth to musique concrete and excessively-hard-style. From babbling voice poetry to creep singing to dizzy drooling outer-influenced by inner-death metal. Hypnotic in/out-of-phase synths that sometimes dance in the binaural pool. Don't bob your noggin too hard. It'll get busted fallin' flat-faced on steamy tar. Write some stupid shit in it with a stick. Spend the rest of the day hallucinating the waiting rooms of hospitals. Pencil sharpeners as nurses, swords as eyes, illusions of health and sanity. Let the name fool you. Definitely alien. Definitely soccer.
Black ink printed on soccer ball patterned card stock. Hand-painted paper labels with a stickered a-side. Includes either a white or yellow lyric sheet. Packed in vintage halloween candy bags. Each purchase includes a rubber soccer ball flip popper and a different color throw-n-stick alien.
* The first 12 tape purchases come with a goodie bag containing a pop-n-fly soccer ball, and a sticky alien that you can throw at stuff.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/alien-soccer-c62-cdr
229
High Cube c5
You'll be trapped in a small orange box too small for the expanding brain it contains. You'll be able to get off when I run the truck off the tracks. You'll hear the countdown throughout because I'm washing myself. You'll be a vitamin-charged plasma when I breathe out the waste.
Black ink printed on grass pattern card stock. Pink and red painted tape labels on solid white shells.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/high-cube-c5
JUSTIN MARC LLOYD
Core Dump Diaries Vol 3 & 4 2xc90
The next 180 minutes of the massive archives has arrived, in a silly small edition as usual. Double-meat and dusted off. Music for cleaning the bathroom. Or destroying it. Rehearsals, experimentation, tests, interruptions of all sorts most likely. Recording methods from walkmans to cell phones to computer mics.
Black ink printed on a blue and white polka dot card. Each tape wrapped in patterned paper, and rubber-banded together. Each labeled A through L with a sticker.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/core-dump-diaries-vol-3-4-2xc90
TERRORIST FINANCING
Robbed / Wrecked c5
Post-noisecore. Okay, but for real, this is gross, blown-out, ~experimental~ noisecore with a really bad case of a lot of shit. Everything from death growls to temper tantrums to terrible shrieks. This minute-man of a tape (true minutemen can sometimes last up to five minutes) has even got real drums on it, kids. That means it's like REAL MUSIC. And also a ton of harsh noise made up of data-bending, pedal punching, mic feedback and whatever else noise legend Derek Setzer has collaged. Or out-sourced. This is an international super-group. And out of all of the sentences in this paragraph, I can assure you that at least the one before this one is true.
Black ink printed on white card stock. Clear tapes with top and bottom slim black leader.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/robbed-wrecked-c5
ENDOMETRIUM CUNTPLOW
Healt CDr
This one's the most hypnotic and subdued material to date for mister David Lucien Matheke. Compositions rooted in minimalism, looping, meditation, and utilizing the quiet. Voice poetry, from looped chants to in the back of a cathedral to bathing in saliva. Harsh dronages slowly moving and morphing, tape collage, feedback manipulation. New age ritual noise with a limited and dedicated palate. Dark experiments bathed in healing colors.
Black ink printed on silver and lavender card stock, symbolizing healing. Track listing and credits included, printed on a strip of red paper.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/healt-cdr
JUSTIN MARC LLOYD/+PREGNANT SPORE
Solar Activity & Social Unrest 6" Lathe+CDr & The Conscious Superbeing c16
Left-field, avant-garde electronics, electro-acoustics, tapes, voice and guitar. Smeared over a lathe in two direct statements, a CDr of self-solos and attempts at self+higher-self collaborations, and additionally, a 16-minute tape representing true actualization. A vessel for vibrations which all point to the same invisible Source Field/conscious matrix of reality, and the secret to life, love and existence.
Limited to 30 copies total. 14 lathe+CDr sets, 16 lathe+CDr+tape sets. When the first 16 orders with the tapes have been placed, the listing will be changed to reflect $17 without the tape. However, the tape's material will still be available for download when it has sold out.
The lathe & CDr are housed in a thick plastic sleeve. The CDr itself is in it's own protective, hand-painted envelope inside the sleeve. Full color, digitally made artwork on the lathes. Includes additional xerox art prints, including track listing and info, on white, red and/or pink paper.
The sound quality does not decrease on these lathes over time any more than a record will contrary to other lathes you may have. These are not flexi. They are thick and sturdy. They are high-quality mono cuts and will play on any record player.
There are a few bonus tracks lingering around this release that will not ever be available for download, but will only appear on the physical releases.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/solar-activity-civil-unrest-6-lathe-cdr-the-conscious-super-being-c16
SHADOW GOV'T
Self-Titled net release
Here we got one of those rare sore thumbs in the Rainbow Bridge discography. Shadow Gov't was a short-lived trio that existed in 2008 and 2009. After the band was finished playing shows, the planning and recording of this album began. The mixing and mastering has been an on-and-off process since then, and has only just been completed. Heavy emphasis on globalism, existentialism, anarchism, hope, and guitar pedals. Hanging out at the corners of punk, dream pop, shoegaze and traditional 90s melodic hardcore. Uplifting feels, long instrumental sections, and massive amounts of processing. Very sonically reminiscent of the members' past musical endeavors including the Baltimore-based bands Batcomputer, Seabreezes, and Age Sixteen.
http://rainbowbridge.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-net-release( F R E E )
: : : : : : : : : : NEWS : : : : : :
~ i'm sorry for the thoughts assigned to my name
http://youtu.be/R6aXwjGAG3k~ NEW FREE RELEASES ON SWAMP CIRCLE!
* Various Artists - Topographic Relief Vol 3
* Various Artists - Spice Up Yr Life
* De Amor - Rotting Nutflesh 10th Anniversary Edition
* ライフMIDI - Ghost
* Justin Marc Lloyd - Numerologeography Of The Blind Amaze: Live @ HDQTRS
http://swampcircle.bandcamp.com~ 3 18 13 I
http://youtu.be/Fh67PoHRbaE~ Manna Ray
http://youtu.be/InAM0T3AjlM~ NEW in the DISTRO
* SOS - Ancient Surfari Shindig @ The Ruins c90 (Pop Nihil)
* Path To Lobster Believers - In Its Place, Learning Flowers c10 (Fore Eyes)
* Various Artists - Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts 2xcs + Poster + Zine
* Polyptychs - Cloakfern c40 (Piles Of Quiet)
* Alex Drosen - Fences c40 (Piles Of Quiet)
* Alex Drosen & Justin Marc Lloyd - Untitled c20 (Piles Of Quiet)
* JML - I'm Sorry For The Thoughts Assigned To My Name (Wasted Capital Since 2013)
* Path To Lobster Believers/Su Sous Tolouse En Rouge - Split c60 (Saint Petersburg Institute Of Noise)
* Arvo Zylo+Wyatt Howland/Sharlyn Evertsz - Zippers With Eyes/In The Anal Sky c45 (Self-Released)
* Tärr / Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III – Split 12" LP (OMS-B)
* Power Windoze - An Air Of Fresh Breath CD (Crystal Magic)
* Various Artists - 4 Things 3" CDr (Bicephalic)
* new zines & art pieces
* + more~*~*
~ MINIMALISM & JUXTAPOSITION VOL 2 is almost complete. It will be posted to Bandcamp when the stars align.
~ Untitled
http://youtu.be/-ljnvBFH77w~ coming later: Preggy Peggy & The Lazy Babymakers, Marc Spore, Carl Kruger + Juice Machine, Widow's Bath, Tärr, Blue Spectrum, Robert Ridley-Shackleton, Silver Spore, The Human Excuse, 229, + more.
~ Sweepers
http://youtu.be/S-Gfbl7BJiY
