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2014
lf Records
United Kingdom
CDr, Limited Edition
1. The Solar Factory
2. 002
3. The Tower Revolving
4. 004
5. A Sequence Of A Short Dream
6. Neotenic
7. 007
8. Guiseppi
Number Mask is the first long player format from Hagman, the Leeds based pairing of Daniel Thomas and David Thomas (no relation) who have been aptly described by Rob Hayler (Radio Free Midwich) as “scene-leaders in crescendo management and deep, heavy electronics”. Number Mask sure fits the bill nicely – with molasses thick primitive synthesis and lysergic dronewerk. It’s a jerk of thump and pulse, power-electronics in the sense of hefty head-zone, minus panto fist-pumping antics. Number Mask is the mutant child of classic German analogue synth experiments and 90’s NZ free drone stylings – a dark and rich meat indeed. Fill your boots.
Hand sprayed limited CDR with cover art by Daniel Thomas.
2014
lf Records
United Kingdom
CDr, Limited Edition
1. The Solar Factory
2. 002
3. The Tower Revolving
4. 004
5. A Sequence Of A Short Dream
6. Neotenic
7. 007
8. Guiseppi
Number Mask is the first long player format from Hagman, the Leeds based pairing of Daniel Thomas and David Thomas (no relation) who have been aptly described by Rob Hayler (Radio Free Midwich) as “scene-leaders in crescendo management and deep, heavy electronics”. Number Mask sure fits the bill nicely – with molasses thick primitive synthesis and lysergic dronewerk. It’s a jerk of thump and pulse, power-electronics in the sense of hefty head-zone, minus panto fist-pumping antics. Number Mask is the mutant child of classic German analogue synth experiments and 90’s NZ free drone stylings – a dark and rich meat indeed. Fill your boots.
Hand sprayed limited CDR with cover art by Daniel Thomas.
![V/A - De Appel 3/84
1984
Stichting De Appel
Netherlands
Cassette , Compilation
A1. Johan Cornelissen - Frozen Lakes / Melting Ice
A2. Katrien Gottlieb & Floris van Manen - Mon oeil en parachute
A3. Christopher Williams - Catalogue Listing
A4. Peter Zegveld - Annucatie
A5. Dick Raaymakers - Ping Pong
A6. Larry Miller - Accord / Segment 3
A7. Relly Tarlo - Tracks 1 (Fragment)
A8. Mark Stahl - Concert Crowd Sound
A9. Rod Summers - Forest Story Two
B1. Michael Brewster - Press on for Sculpture
B2. Harry de Kroon - Chinese Vlinder
B3. Peter Gordon - Return of the Animals
B4. Terry Fox - Segment of the Berlin Wall, Scored for Sound
B5. Stuart Brisely - Nothing Beyond the Frame
B6. Franziska Lingg - Conversing Sheets
B7. Moniek Toebosch - Zonder titel
B8. Remko Scha & the Machines - Roll Over Eindhoven
Many of the artists De Appel has worked, or will work in the future, are involved with sound. This time we have invited seventeen artists to contribute to a cassette. The idea was, originally, to compile the cassette like a sort of magazine, and to alternate pieces of texts with artists contributions. However, the artists contributions proved to be self-contained works, so that interspresing them with texts would turn them into illustrations. We have therefore decided to let the sound speak for itself.
Johan Cornelissen [NL] spent a few weeks on the small island of Grimsey, north of Iceland. In the quiet that reigned there he recorded the sounds of the environment: ice breaking and the sound of sliding over an ice-covered lake.
Katrien Gottlieb & Floris van Manen [NL] aim to break through the pattern of expectancy, and so the recognition of sounds, in order thus to gently
shift the border-lines. By giving a subtle twist to what is presumed to be reality, removing sounds from their familiar contexts and making them reproduceable, it must be possible to listen to the same environment through different ears.
Christopher Williams [USA] uses the loop of an answering machine.
Peter Zegveld [NL] has tune a piano in the quint AE; the instrument is played crescendo and smorzando. The crescendo is reinforced by a compressed-air-driven sousaphone.
Dick Raaymakers [NL]. The sound invented by Dick Raaymakers originated during a game of pingpong played by Louis Andriessen and Cornelis de Bont. Contact microphones attached to the bats and the table record the sounds of the game. The tones of the two bats differ by half a tone. In the course of the game the players move closer together in time, towards the end of the game the strikes are almost simultaneous, eventually they coincide exactly and the game is over.
Larry Miller [USA] Accord is the title of a piece performed by Larry Miller in collaboration with De Appel. It is a composition in which people are orchestrated as personified instruments. The work consists of five parts: Prelude, Attune, Entity, Machine and Refrain. Through the mediation of a spiritist Larry Miller selected four players, each of whom were invited to choose a tone from his score to sing.
Relly Tarlo [NL] has for some time been concerned with exploring the tonal possibilities of tubes and pipes. The length, diameter and material of the pipes determine the kind of sounds that are produced. The tubes and pipes are suspended horizontally and are played with different materials. The sound on this tape is made with five PVC tubes and played with boxing gloves.
Mark Stahls [USA] sound is a recording of a mass of people before and after hearing a symphony orchestra.
Rod Summers [NL] uses his own voice to play the parts of different characters in his story.
Michael Brewster [USA] presents his acoustic sculpture, which was set up in the Artists Space, NYC, in June 1984.
Harrie de Kroon [NL]. His piece Chinese Butterfly is based on a poem. The poem expresses wonder and bliss verbally, in the sound-piece they are expressed by means of sound.
Peter Gordon [USA]. Near Castello Rivoli [Turin] Peter Gordon came across the sound of a braying donkey, to which he gives an instrumental reply.
Terry Fox [USA] sound originates from a 10 m. long piano string attached to the Berlin Wall which is twisted taut with a thin metal rod. The sound is acoustic and is not amplified.
Stuart Brisley [USA]. By recording his voice on different tracks a soundsymphony is created.
Franziska Lingg [Swiss] produces her sounds with sheet metal. along which she moves a speaker. The frequency - which is adjustable - brings about a certain vibration between the metal sheet and speaker. The sound changes depending on the distance between speaker and metal, and the shape of the metal sheet.
Moniek Toebosch [NL] the sound of her voice leaves no room for doubt.
Remko Scha [NL] plays on the instruments of Zev, thereby producing new sounds with his machines - electric guitars set in a frame, across which a number of strings are stretched; the strings are actuated by electric drills.
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![Tropical Trash - Acts Of Reversal
2011
Loin Seepage
United States
CDr, Limited Edition
1. Sure She Will
2. Remove The Gift
3. Passing Through Light
4. Grip:Neckless Police [All Ages]
Edition of 20 copies. Tropical Trash - Acts Of Reversal](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qq_ASrQbn88/mqdefault.jpg)

