Killer debut full-length from Thessaloniki based boy/girl duo w/ 60 minutes of material, 33 songs entirely based on samples! Sounds of despair, eastern promises, kookoo audio haikus and underground electronica all mash up together w/ a really fresh and unique blend aesthetic.
Edition of 80 copies w/ handmade heavyweight digipacks housed in cloth spine and spraypainted discs.

They have already gained a critical acclaim in the (way deep) underground and we can surely say they will eventually make a fan club soon. The very first recordings of To Dio Evro (a.k.a. Horistra in vocals / chant / prose and Paranychis in musical accompaniment), the enigmatic transexual lo-fi power duo are presented here under the title "Kingdom of the Fat". This is where they all started!
Edition of 50 copies w/ stamped / handwritten discs by Paranychis.

Drowned in VHS noise madness and into a new, more free dimension, Wham Jah offers two conceptual –nevertheless signature– tracks. Nightmarish, orgiastic, moody but soothing as well, the trio of Pavlos Gkousios (synths, reeds), Kostadis Michael (drums, electronics) and Panagiotis Spoulos (guitar, vocals) shreds every audible inch through liberated male bonding noise.
Edition of 50 cassettes in spraypainted cassingle cases. Listen to the full-length tracks here.

Debut release from Athens' most prolific black metal / spoof performance solo project, Putsum. This release is a recording from northern Greece earlier in 2011. Negative low frequency drone at the gates of a minimal hell.
Edition of 60 copies w/ screenprinted covers, rubberstamped discs + die-cut skull sticker. Extra limited first run of magenta print (instead of blood red) on the first 10 or so.

PHR-84
BETTY LOOP LOOP / ANGELOS KYRIOU / KTIRIA TI NYXTA - Split 2xCS

This double cassette set surely is an original early 10's Athens' artefact. Two solo projects, Angelos Kyriou & Ktriria ti Nyxta (Buildings at Night), completely diffrent from what we've heard till the negative urban space has thrown them up, they redefined music with greek lyrics. Angelos' side offers a typical example of his spastic, obsessed, sincere miniature song-marathon collage while Ktiria delivers a thunderstorm cut-up of -sometimes bootleg- recordings of friends' conversations blended w/ the signature hi-pitch electronic mayhem. The two 5-minute sides sound like a dream radio station. The one we've all wished to exist, the one we're pretty sure will never happen.
Betty Loop Loop takes all over the second 36-minute tape and all of her gig highlights are present with further more self-exploration / experimentation. She's nothing more than the two above mentioned guys together. Literally. She's more than just beautiful...

Below is some Betty Loop Loop action at ElCulture rooftop, downtown Athens, May 2011:

And here's a video of excerpts of solo sets, live in Thessaloniki, shot by Alex:

Reviews:
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A stunning new album including 5 long jams (23 minutes each side) which balance perfectly between the homey "Strange Maine" sound, the collage aesthetic of "The Grove" and the extraordinary singer/songwriter approach as heard on "Dead Songs". If it wasn't released by Phase!, it would certainly top a position in the 2011 TOP-13 albums!
Comes in an edition of 350 copies w/ 2-color awesome screenprinted jacket + insert.

“DJ mistakes are two exercise bicycle driven turntables fabricated and ridden by Casey Farnum and Elliot Hess. This project re-introduces spontaneity into the DJ experience and asks how production and industry have assembled to create a listening experience quite different from the hand-cranked turntables it was initially borne from. With a shrug to the practice of crystallizing performances and their reception through vinyl and the audiophile entertainment- center this project re-introduces human touch into the listening experience. It looks back nostalgically to a time when gears and bicycles were the stuff of aural and physical revolutions. Yet it also seeks a contemporary framework in the DJ era where cutting and mixing revolutionized production making it both unpredictable and live. Bikes, turntables, gongs, a mixer, records, and a microphone all mash in this recording live from the Chicken Hut and 1086 Broadway, Brooklyn NY 2006-7.” Phil Schapp, 2011
Limited numbered edition of 200 copies on 1-sided 12”LP, offset covers on metallic paper + inners.

Here's a wicked DJ Mistakes performance at the University of Iowa:

And here's another one from WFMU:

Slicing Grandpa. No fucking joke. They're ripping it harder than anyone else. One of the favorite bands on the house. Garbage grunge collage abstractness at its lo-fiest, away from every trend, away from any hip. They're not old-fashioned, they're slicing-fashioned. Buy at your own risk...
Edition of 60 copies w/ screenprinted covers.

Lens traveling through inner depths of transatlantic mirrorings. Light is never enough to clearly get the whole picture. On two homogeneous sides, two blindfolded cinematic enigmas are the only clue. Dig Sherlock, dig!
Edition of 65 copies w/ screenprinted covers.

Dead Gum is the solo project of Panagiotis Spoulos (other projects of his include: Reverse mouth, Wham Jah, Postblue, and running Phase! Records), from Athens, Greece. This past summer we toured with Dead Gum in Greece and we were blown away every night. Doubleganger is quite a journey, the constant thread seems to be loner style electric guitar that feels like the end of it all … quite, desolate, brutal, noisy, and 100% sincere. Handmade screen printed Art work by Colleen Kinsella (10 songs – 38 minutes)

Much anticipated proper full length release from this wonderful maine duo after a long running string of self released cdrs & a collaborative 7inch with visitations. colleen kinsella & caleb mulkerin have been key personages of the portland / south portland sonic underground for over a decade, as members of cerberus shoal, threads, fire on fire, etc. while those groups have no doubt left an impressive body of sound, the intimacy and directness of their big blood recordings take things to a higher plane of personal expression, freed from the group mind / “serious” band trapping of their past musical outlets. here they are free to romp in their personal microverse, following whim & fantasy through the gates of acoustic transcendence. all of the off-the-cuff spontaneity, intimate home fidelity, and deep personal charms of their older releases are as present as ever, but the the duo’s scope is now focused to a crystalline clarity of vision. dead songs is as sorrowful & joyful in its mirrored symmetry as the infinite life cycle itself, flowing on cleansing waves of inner release & spirit absorption… wailing fuzzed-up garage folk anthems mesh into twisted poetic acidfolk and drift to expansive melancholic meditations of boundless depth. two voices howl, swoon, alternate & join, lyrical layers peel away endlessly, tiny amps weep in pain, crude percussion booms thunderous, and ragged, beautiful hooks unfurl straight out of the void… packaged in an identical mini-lp style gatefold cover with clear varnish overprinting & offset printed vellum insert. first pressing of 1000 copies.

A documentation of the Festival that took place at 22-23/10/10 in Athens School of Fine Arts (A.S.?.?). Two days dedicated to electronic sound improvisation.

SIDE A-Plink, Adam is, Goosli noise (Russia),
SIDE B -Georgios Karamanolakis, Dead Gum, Mecha/Orga, Analog Suicide (Turkey).

Limited to 100 copies.