[TYPE 088V] Ezekiel Honig – Folding In On Itself LP (Album) 2011

Ezekiel Honig – Folding In On Itself
Label: Type
Catalog#: TYPE088V
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Blue
Country: UK
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Ambient

Artwork By – Ezekiel Honig

Guitar – Mark Templeton (tracks: 6), Nicola Ratti (tracks: 7,8,10)

Mastered By – Loop-o

Written-By, Producer – Ezekiel Honig

Edition of 100 copies on blue vinyl. All subsequent copies were pressed on black vinyl.

℗ & © Type Recordings LLC 2011

Tracklist:
A1 Material Wrinkle
A2 Subverting The Memory Of Your Surroundings
A3 Between Bridges
A4 Drafting Foresight
A5 Folding Us In On Itselft
B1 High & Low
B2 A Closed Loop That Opens Everywhere
B3 Ancestry Revisiting Each Other
B4 Tradition Is The Illusion Of Permanence
B5 Distant Breakfast Highway

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*Strictly limited pressing, initial copies on clear blue vinyl* Manhattan's Ezekiel Honig makes a welcome appearance on Type with the beautifully melancholy 'Folding In On Itself'. The frayed, spectral layers of ambient sound and dusty pulses within recall the works of jan Jelinek, The Remote Viewer or even elements of the first MvO Trio LP, but his serene, almost sorrowful palette of tones comes from somewhere more private and personal. While those artists are all defined by a sense of intimacy in wide open space, Ezekiel's location in one of the most densely populated areas on the planet perhaps gives it a more introverted insularity, as though he's cosily enveloped by his memories while the world scurries about on the outside. Those memories and their corruption or decay are at the core of this record, like the overlaid family photos on the sleeve, capturing a sense of entropy in his quickly disintegrating city. Locally made field recordings are placed as rhythmic and textural clues to the shape of his environment, and when they happen to fall in sync with his instrumentation the effect is lush, creating and effortless illusion of everyday aleatory syncopation. This beautifully measured sense of drifting, stigmergic arrangement with programmed elements makes for a captivating narrative as varied as a walk through the city itself, but subtly enhanced like some sort of moody augmented reality app or wandering blindfolded through some vivid sound art installation. If anything, it's as softly spoken and moving as anything Type have put out to date, so handle with care.


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[TYPE 050] On - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night (Album) CD 2009

On - Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
Label: Type Records
Catalog#: TYPE050
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 21 Jul 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dark Ambient, Drone

Credits: Artwork By [Layout] - Radu Prepeleac

Drums, Percussion, Piano - Steven Hess

Guitar [Prepared, Electric] - Sylvain Chauveau

Mixed By - Helge Sten

Photography - Shawn Convey

Recorded By, Mastered By - Jeremy Lemos

Notes: Recorded at Acme Studios, Chicago, July 2003.

Mixed at Audio Virus Lab, Oslo, December 2003.

Tracklist:
1 Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night And Flies Around My Bed 7:02
2 Erotique 6:02
3 Too Many Demons Still Haunt This Land 6:48
4 Oh Run Slowly 5:54
5 Façade 12:08
6 In The Forest Of The Night 8:08
7 The Lonesome Poetry Of Mark Rothko 17:29

*For all intents and purposes, this is the great 'lost' Deathprod album* 'Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night' seemed to go fairly unnoticed by the great listening public when it was initially released on a small cd-only pressing by the French DSA label back in 2004, but has since become the stuff of legend. To many this has become one of the great 'lost' death ambient albums, and an all too-rare full-length excursion from one of the most revered producers of the century - Helge Sten, aka Deathprod. As a producer, Sten molds the source material into the kind of menacing analog atmosphere established on his classic 'Morals & Dogma' long-player, leaving you with one of the finest examples of the genre this side of Deathprod's own peerless four-disc boxset. The real beauty of this record lies in the richness of its sound matter: you'll never encounter a drab low-frequency hum on this record. When you gaze beneath the surface you're always sure to make out something buried deeply within its dusky obscurities. Even during its most oppressive moments, such as the writhing, concealed darkness of 'Facade' there's a loaded atmosphere that plays on the mind - its vast sonorous clanking somehow reminiscent of Quatermass II's unseen monstrous mass, thrashing around in the industrial plant's cooling towers. Equally, much of 'Your Naked Ghost...' sounds like being stuck at the bottom of the ocean in a submarine only to hear someone knocking from the outside. It creepily plays on the subconscious in ways most records couldn't possibly hope to, resounding with a hollow metallic quality that conveys the utmost sense of sonic profundity - leaving you with a vacuum you can't help but fill with all manner of gloomy associations. Despite the sinister undercurrents, this is an unmistakably beautiful hour of music. From the penetrating blip narratives of 'In The Forest Of The Night' to the entombed industrial timbres of 'The Lonesome Poetry Of Mark Rothko', every moment of this once desperately overlooked album is incredibly special. In short, it's an absolute must.

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William Fowler Collins - Surreal In Springtime

William Fowler Collins - Surreal In Springtime

The sun's shining, so who better to usher in the light faeries than William Fowler Collins?

t’s hard to believe this is only William’s first mix for Type, and I can’t give a reasonable explanation why that is. While he might be best known for his doomy, blackened soundscapes, his taste varies far more than he’s given credit for, as this wide-reaching collection of surreal gems attests. Really, there’s no better way to spend your hot spring/summer days than listening to these peculiar sounds…
Tracklist:
1. Patsy Cline // “Sweet Dreams” // Decca Country Classics (1934-1973)
2. Lydia Lunch // “The Drowning” // Drowning in Limbo
3. Lefty Frizzell // “I Never Go Around Mirrors” // Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection
4. Helena Gough // “Yolk” // With What Remains
5. The Flying Burrito Brothers // “Sin City” // The Gilded Palace Of Sin
6. Maryanne Amacher // “Tower” // Sound Characters
7. Chris Watson // “Vultures, Nine Birds Feeding On Zebra Carcass, Itong Plains, Kenya” // Outside the Circle of Fire
8. Giacinto Scelsi // “Anahit” // Quattro Pezzi per Orchestra – Anahit – Uaxuctum
9. Xasthur // “In The Hate Of Battle” // Nocturnal Poisoning
10. Ennio Morricone // “The Man” // Once Upon A Time In The West
11. Butthole Surfers // “Whirling Hall Of Knives” // Rembrandt Pussyhorse
12. Jimi Hendrix // “Machine Gun” // Live/Isle Of Wight

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Pete Swanson - Type Podcast 3

Pete Swanson - Type Podcast 3
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A deep, psychedelic blend of modern electronics from ex-Yellow Swan Pete Swanson

For this third Typecast, Pete Swanson (ex of Yellow Swans) has grabbed hold of as much modern electronic music he can, to represent a subculture that seems to be bubbling and fizzing right now. Through electro, techno, idm and dubstep we’ve arrived on a sound that is just as connected to the bbc Radiophonic Workshop and Visage as it is to Carl Craig or Basic Channel. And that’s got to be a good thing.

Also of note is Pete’s inclusion of a brand new track from Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (from his forthcoming Type album – you heard it here first) and a brand new track from himself… which hasn’t even got a name yet. You can’t say we don’t drop the hott fresh dubs here, right?

Tracklist:
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Star Garden
Operative – Pulse
Rene Hell – X.O. Lucifer
C Section 8 – Music Box
Bulbs – Channels
Miracles Club
Mouthus – Where the Bridge Was Found
borg – Track 1 from IA!
Axolotl – track 2 from Of Bonds In General
Angel Rada – Carillion
Golden Retriever – Canonic Horizon
Nerve Net Noise – Smoke From Past
Caboladies – Caught In Cradle Fly Paper
Pete Swanson – Work In Progress

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Xela - Live at the Brattle Theater (with Ning Nong)

Xela - Live at the Brattle Theater (with Ning Nong) 


This set was recorded on 2nd May 2010 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA and documents a performance by Xela with Jim Siegel (aka Ning Nong) on percussion. Jim’s gong and cymbal drones and miscellaneous clanks were processed through John’s laptop and outboard effects and the results were piped through the PA. The set was captured by Adrian Montes (aka Noisevision) and then mastered by John Twells. This is not a soundboard recording, it’s live – warts ’n all.

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[TYPE 060] Indignant Senility - Plays Wagner (Album) CD 2010

Indignant Senility - Plays Wagner
Label: Type Records
Catalog#: TYPE060
Format: CD
Country: UK
Released: Apr 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dark Ambient

Tracklist:
1 Untitled 1 5:04
2 Untitled 2 6:01
3 Untitled 3 6:24
4 Untitled 4 7:43
5 Untitled 5 5:33
6 Untitled 6 9:55
7 Untitled 7 4:09
8 Untitled 8 8:17
9 Untitled 9 2:28
10 Untitled 10 13:36
11 Untitled 11 8:37

Pat Maherr might not be a name familiar to a lot of music buyers, but those in the know will probably already be salivating at the promise of a new release. Under a plethora of names he has hand-crafted some of the most beguiling sounds we’ve heard in the last few years – chopped and screwed hip hop as DJ Yo-Yo Dieting, lo-fi noise as Sisprum Vish, sample-heavy musique concrete as Moms Who Chop and cask-strength industrial ambience as here, under the Indignant Senility moniker.

‘Plays Wagner’ appeared as a very limited cassette on Maherr’s own label last year, but as soon as it landed at the Type offices we knew it needed to reach more ears. Using a handful of dusty Wagner pieces (no doubt scored from one of Portland, Oregon’s many thrift stores), he has stretched and distorted the hallowed tones into something indescribably dark and beautiful. Like David Lynch’s peerless Eraserhead soundtrack before it, this is music that sounds as if you are being dragged through rusted pipes and hearing the distant swell of broken gramophones playing in unison. Maherr has created music that is at all times exquisite but deeply disturbing. Like Leyland Kirby or even William Basinski, there is a sense of harmony, nostalgia and restraint in the layers of hiss, grit and noise.

It is only very rarely you hear something as pure and enveloping as ‘Plays Wagner’, and we are proud to be able to bring this to the wider world. Having mastered this from cassette tape, we have retained all the decomposing grime experienced on the original version (which was dubbed to aging, heavily used C90 cassettes), but have beefed it up for public consumption. The best way to absorb an album like this is to place the needle and simply slip away into a deep, nightmarish slumber. Just keep your eye on the radiator, who knows what might happen.

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