Earth Station - Control Belief

Really good downer sci-fi jams much like Lilypad. I don't know the dudes behind this band but this is totally a great album. Buy it from night-people.org

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Koi Pond - Volcano

Koi Pond is a three piece from NYC made up of some generally awesome dudes. Erik Roper plays bass and is a legendary artist/illustrator who does work for numerous bands, labels and publications such as Arthur, Southern Lord etc. while also playing in other bands such as Under Satans Sun and Mattalama. Pete Vogal plays synth while also jamming in Bow Ribbons, and designs arwork for clothes, David Aron plays drums, is the perpetrator for Little Cakes Gallery, used to skateboard alot, makes rad visual artwork, and jams in USUN with Mark Borthwick and Hisham Bharoocha. Despite these dudes epic resumes, Koi Pond is epic all on its own. Volcano is all about cosmic grooves, deep often minimal, endless repetitions that slowly evolve into more psyched out blissed out trances. Roper and Arons tight rhythmic foundations create the perfect backdrop for Vogal's synth improvisations. This is a meditative listen that never gets old, it just keeps grooving on and on forever. Like Neu! covering Dark Magus in a Tibetan Monastery.

Koi Pond - Volcano part 1
Koi Pond - Volcano part 2

Peaking Lights - Clearvoiant

Peaking Lights is Aaron and Indra (also of Numbers) from Rah Dunes new duo project recently relocated to rural Wisconsin from the Bay Area. Floating electronic pulses, controlled feedback, tape loops, organ, snyth, guitar, and vocal harmonies layered into waves of four track noise pop goodness. The perfect soundtrack to walking in mysterious places, haunted neighborhoods, lost river banks, and bike rides at night. This release really glows and grows. - Night People.

Peaking Lights - Clearvoiant

Wet Hair - s/t

Raccoo-oo-oon's mastermind Shawn Reed is not satisfied with all the blasting electric tribal storm he summoned in his band, so he digs up another hole in his cave and discover Wet Hair. This is the first solo outing of Shawn as Wet Hair, recorded during late fall of 2007. Cult vibe organ drone, slowed down tape hiss percussion warble, and chanted vocal bathed in echo, plus extra siliconized army of delayed blood bath. Play it loud. Play it forever. And you'll be a silver fox in your next life.

Wet Hair - s/t

Evan Miller - Beeswax Ephemera

Evan Miller makes finger picking folk music with lots of nods towards the san fransisco freak folk scene and the midwestern noise scene. Iowa City's six-string guru Evan "Swain" Miller pounded out this release just in time for the Night People (Raccoo-oo-oon/Evan Miller) east coast tour of 2007. Handcrafted paper with impressive printing and stitching packaging on the physical level, while the audio supplied features Evan expounding on his intricating fingerpicking stylings while evoking the spirit of Fahey's finger angels into your most vivid coloured dream of raga-intricated satisfaction. Highly, highly recommended.

Evan Miller - Beeswax Ephemera