Popol Vuh - Das Hohelied Salomos

Popol Vuh emerged from the Krautrock movement and was the first German band to employ the Moog Synthesizer. Popol Vuh was founded by mastermind Florian Fricke in Munich in 1970 and are known as pioneers of electronic music as well as the predecessors of the 90's ambient and trance genre. The name and the book Popol Vuh stems from Incan mythology and is the memory of the evolution of humanity. The roots of all stairs to rainbow.

Popol Vuh - Das Hohelied Salomos

Religious Knives - The Door

New dope leak, enough said. A summer record for those dread days when the heat holds low and skin sticks to cheap car seats and old patio furniture. These six songs are brighter, sharper than anything that has come before, locking in tight on jugular rhythms. Grab this.

Religious Knives - The Door

High Places - s/t

The holographic finish line of our buttered anticipation! SELF TITLED! The band creates their layered recordings with Mary Pearson singing and simultaneously manipulating her vocals with various delay and reverb pedals, while playing some hand percussion, recorders, and creating and controlling various loops. Rob Barber handles the drums triggering a variety of percussive sounds with his drum pads, as well as playing hand percussion, wooden blocks with contact mics, and singing some ambient vocals. High Places’ self-titled debut was recorded by Rob and Mary in their apartment in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood between January and May of 2008. So yeah this is it! this is what you guys been looking for yeah? Enough said about these guys! Hit it!

High Places - s/t

Astral Social Club - Skelp/Ginnel

For Neil Campbell, the ascent to ecstasy has been at the center of his work with the Vibracathedral Orchestra; Astral Social Club is his solo vehicle, and it stands as perhaps the purest expression of his art of the ecstatic on record. Up to now, Astral Social Club’s music has only been available in limited run CD-R pressings. This record is a self-styled “mega-mix” of Astral Social Club highlights culled from those releases. He may be a master of droned out noise, but he's been flirting with club music on and off for the last few years, each full length hiding at least one dancefloor gem, and so Mr. Neil Campbell, ex of Vibracathedral Orchestra, now of Astral Social Club, at least on this here new 7”, is all about the tripped out psychedelic electronic groove with bonus remixes by John Clyde-Evans, Magnetize and RICHARD YOUNGS. MUST HAVE!

Astral Social Club - Skelp/Ginnel

Lanterns - Mad River

Hailing from Leeds, UK, Lanterns are Rhid Williams, Luke Vollar and Andreas Jonsson. Sonic vibrations of meandering drones resonating in eerie Taj Mahal Travellers-like mushrooms stuffed with chimes, ebowed strings, subtle electronics and other shimmering nightly meditation tools. The track begins with a repetitive but uncompromising drum rythm which occupies pretty much the whole 20 minutes. It starts slow and meditative, but soon various layers of guitar, feedback and violin (burried there somewhere) start to build more and more tension. Torwards the end it turns into a powerful splutter of guitar noise, feedback and fierce drum pounding. Do not wear your life vest.

Lanterns - Mad River

Boredoms - Seadrum/House of Sun

Honouring the goddess of sun, the Amaterasu, Boredoms (with Gang Gang Dance & Hisham Bharoocha) will conduct an 88 minutes colossal taiko war between 88 drummers TOMORROW in NY and LA, following the prior '77 BoaDrum' last year. To honour this holiest event, please load down this beautiful, rhythmic gallop of harmonic singing, freeform piano, chaotic harp and some of the most insane drumming you will ever hear in your life. My favorite Boredoms release. Tan tan tatatan!

Boredoms - Seadrum/House of Sun

Ben Reynolds - Two Wings

Glasgow, Scotland guitarist Ben Reynolds has been a prominent player in and contributor to the United Kingdom's fertile underground psych/drone scene for many years. A current member of the long-running and highly influential Ashtray Navigations, Reynolds appears on numerous recordings in the tight-knit UK drone cabal, including those by the venerable Vibracathedral Orchestra and Sunroof, and is also active via his duo project Motor Ghost with Directing Hand's Alex Neilsen. Entirely improvised, Two Wings effortlessly weaves shimmering melodic lines together to form spontaneous compositions of dazzling depth and clarity. Incorporating a variety of pacing techniques with his fingerpicking style, Reynolds explores a linearity that harkens back to the American ragas of Robbie Basho, while exposing Middle Eastern influences much like the acoustic trickery of Sir Richard Bishop. The last tune on Two Wings is a written composition, utterly graceful yet striking in its similarities to the spontaneous compositions, underlying the lyrical quality in Reynold's music making. Two Wings is a remarkably unique, non-traditional take on the steel string tradition from a budding musical talent.

Ben Reynolds - Two Wings

The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders

The Holy Modal Rounders' fourth album finds Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber joining forces with the Moray Eels, the morerock-oriented sideline band Stampfel had formed with drummer and playwright Sam Shepard, to make the weirdest album of their entire entertainingly bizarre career. THE MORAY EELS EAT THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS starts with the utterly loopy "Bird Song" and only gets more strange and fragmented from there. It's not just all freaky and noisy, though: songs like the genuinely lovely "One Will Do For Now" and "Dame Fortune" are actually pretty and melodic, and others, like "Half A Mind", work up a good boogie-rock head of steam. But then there's the unfathomable sonic morass "Mobile Line" and the cheerfully out-of-it "The STP Song", which are about as weird asrock got in the '60s. THE MORAY EELS EAT THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS is a true cracked acid-folk classic.

The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders

Justice Yeldham

Just saw this guy last night at an art school in Jakarta. Fucking amazing!












Check him out here.

Photos by Moses Sihombing