Page 29 and Page 44 are part of an iterative text-sound project Hopkins began in 2018. In this ongoing project, text generation software is used to repeatedly alter a page of text. Each alteration is collated in an expanding document that he uses to inform recordings and performances. The pages were read, but not a great deal was said.Flakes 1 and Flakes 2 are collages made from test signals and found audio fragments from Australian television between 1974 – 1979. Anticipating the broadcast, but nothing begins. ---Recorded and assembled in 2021 on Gadigal and Wangal land.Mastered by Renato Grieco.Artwork by MP Hopkins.

Collage for found text 2018-2020 Voice – Claire Bloom, Daffy Scanlan, Duncan Harrison, Josh Peterson --- Regional Bears, 2021

Objects at Hand is the result of an ongoing collaboration between Dirty Electronics (John Richards) and T M Shaw.   Just before lockdown in 2020 Richards and Shaw finished a tour, Points of Failure, which involved building performance-installations in various venues across the UK. These environments, made up of DIY devices and found objects, were constructed in response to the performance spaces, and consisted of sound, light, smell, smoke and other sonic processes.    Objects at Hand was recorded retrospectively in remote locations and then edited and mixed as a memory trace and document of the sounds, physical spaces and objects encountered on the tour.   Action, uncontrollable instruments, unstable systems, performative failures, reimagined affordance of objects, playing with resource, improvising inside electronics, assembling and disassembling sound devices, architectural features are folded into this performance document.   Richards and Shaw see their work as a form of ‘cybernetic wayfaring’, improvising with materials, feedback and new situations, as they continue, and repeat.  --- 1. Praxis [4:34] - coil, circuits, feedback, motors, metal sink, tin can, transducer 2. Imposed_Adjacent [4:35]- rubbing motor, interjections, radical nails, tin can, voice, large glass vessel 3. Opus 25 [3:48] - sparkler, filtered noise/whistle, hacked speak n’ spell, vowels, tin can, Tesla coil 4. Thinking in Time [5:35] - boat, creeky platform, gated noise, thrupenny synth, spring reverb feedback 5. Temporary Needs [7:18] - disposable cameras, large capacitor discharge, circuits, AM radio, prepared speakers, spark gaps 6. newCorpus [1:59] - travel, flights, hotel, coil, Dictaphone, large speech corpus, pd patch (disorderly jukebox --- Opal Tapes, 2021

Mind bending spoken word from the weird brain of Eric Schmid.  Released 2020 by Regional Bears

Available as a 320k MP3 or 16bit FLAC   Tracklisting: 1. Schism 19:452. Eremozoic 14:35 "Stumbling into the Age of Loneliness I carry cloudy glass bottles to the edge of the Pacific. After 100 years in dirt beneath San Francisco they breathe fresh ocean air, fill with the energy of breaking waves. Microphones inside, ear to conch, I hear shadows: scurrying, wing flaps, chirps and chatters, whimpers and bellows. So many creatures, once emerged from the sea, now gone. How many vessels would the disappeared fill? What is the weight of a lost species? I make an offering of listening to help me carry all these ghosts we made." ⟶ Cheryl Leonard Life through the computer. We all have had to grapple with it over the past year, as we attempt to wring as much meaning, intimacy, experience and variety as we can from our shiny boxes of electronics. Concerts, plays, ballet, meetings, dates, dinners, coffees and conferences all became just a click away. Some of us cocooned ourselves in soundscapes lost, from old streams from noisy bars, to recordings of natural locations we could no longer get to. It was by turns revelatory, empty, full, sad and comforting. In Schism’s title track Cheryl E. Leonard treats us to her own imaginings of the world within her laptop; a pulsating, flickering, stuttering morass of coil pick up recordings, set amid the co-mingling of crickets, squirrels, birds, bats, and sounds played on natural-object instruments. She asks: “What does it mean when our mediating technologies have both the power to connect us to and distance us from the ecosystems we are part of?” Certainly this is a question which predates the pandemic, but it is one which we grapple with now with a set of new knowledges which speak to both the possibilities, and the shortcomings of a life lived digitally.In addition to her laptop recordings Leonard also turns to mics placed inside bottles to render the second piece on this release, Eremozoic. In the context this simple gesture takes on new resonances; a separation, enclosure, limitation which captures and reverberates particular tones, while missing others entirely. When I think of the computer in this era, I think of it like this, it exists as both echo chamber and conversation; alienation and hope. I think many of us have felt the last year, a little like life was lived inside a bottle. With this release Leonard reminds us of what we lost during the pandemic, but more profoundly what we might lose more permanently as we continue into the climate crisis. - Kate Carr --- Composed, performed, and recorded by Cheryl E. Leonard Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Studios   Liner Notes by Cheryl E. Leonard Words by Kate Carr  Artwork and design by Juliána Chomová  Stone composition and photography by Ester Sabik  Risograph print by Kudla Press  Photography by Zoltán Czakó Dedicated to Patty Chen-Wei Liu Released by mappa as MAP026 in 2021

Anla Courtis: guitar, water, ebow S. Glass: voice, field recordings, tapes, objects, violin --- Recorded, mixed, and edited at Yaguareté Studios, Buenos Aires and at No Spray 205, San Francisco --- Ikusiuus, 2021

Co-released with Unread Records (USA). #272  --- Recorded mostly with Korg Minilogue XD in September-October 2020. S ome additions & mixing & cassette mastering November 2020 - February 2021, Digital version mastering July 2021. Music & artwork by Jani Hirvonen. inspiration: Quantum physics, universe, cosmic vibrations / dimensions / frequencies, spirituality, the unknown... --- Ikusiuus, 2021

The Anaksimandros: Janne Laurila, Jan Anderzen, Markus Mäki, Arttu Partinen, Kevin Regan. Limited edition of 80 copies * Including a hidden bonus track, which wasn't on the original cassette release. Originally released on Huutomerkki in 2000. --- Sleeve artwork and layout by Johannes Schebler --- Ikuisuus, 2021

Jim Strong is a visual artist, painter, performer & experimental instrument builder. Until now his music is released on respectful labels like Vitrine and Crisis Of Taste. He is the one half of Melkings, a collaborative group with T.D. & founder of the experimental label Cor Ardens. im Strong’s music is characterised by a structural complexity, combining amorphous instrumentation and spoken words. His handcrafted instruments, that looks more like artifacts or sculptures, reproduce a big variety of cracking noises, broken electronics & drone sound effects. The outcome is a poetic mix, consist of free improvisation, crank-based mechanisms and sound poetry. Voluntary Letters are probably his most exciting work by Jim until now. This release includes eleven tracks, who successively structure an interior mystery play between paraphernalia & human soul --- More Mars, 2021

Brandstifter: field recordings, voice mails, sound poetry snippets, German and English poems, streams of consciousness and ad hoc philosophy, Casio tunes and loops all from dictaphone Diurnal Burdens: homemade twin walkman tape looper, dictaphone, mobile phone field recordings, multi track loop pedal, modular synth, evil moisture chopper/masher, effects pedals --- Collages by Ross Scott-Buccleuch & Brandstifter Master by Moras Marios Released More Mars, 2021

Italian sound artist Ezio Piermattei is an active musician since 2010, releasing works under different aliases like Autopugno, Hum Of Gnats, Poisucevamachenille. In 2014 he started releasing music under his real name, through labels like Chocolate Monk, My Dance The Skull, Steep Gloss and through his own Tutore Burlato label. His "From Afar It Looks Like An Oriflamme" captures some of the most delicate compositions by him. Detailed narratives are mixed with a big variety of field recordings, object and instrument sounds, as well as tapes. Ezio Piermattei delivers us two long compositions, with a cinematic point of view, humour and sound detail. --- "From Afar It Looks Like An Oriflamme" released on 80 numbered cassettes. Artwork by Agata Mastered by Moras Marios.

Human Heads are an electro-pop sprechgesang duo from Glasgow. Human Heads deliver a whopping sensory twofer; a vial of fragrant oil for your proboscis and six doses of throbbing-synth-extrusions and poetry-speak-sung for your inky flappers. On listening, it’s the overall heaviness what mugs you first – narrative and synthetic. ‘You shouldn’t have met’ is a slice of crafty street recording, school kids on the blab rapping on death, that’s soon dive-bombing deeply like Sabbath picked up a couple of Korg SB-100’s rather than them dirty guitars. As the tracks unspool we follow stories (possibly reflections, possibly prophecies) on the full-body foxtrot and crucifixion. Pixelated piano is preceded by the delighted squeaking of a small child, a train’s rhythmic rattle and Scott Joplin’s entertaining hands. R.D. Laing is in a nostalgic mood so things end with the sort of dry-rot clunk Kanye would have chipped a tooth for on his self-titled Yeezus opus. --- Ben Ellul-KnightHannah Ellul --- They reverberate,they also absorb dregsthat came from our teenage diversionsCold and stony, the rubbery shadowBrought to lifeWith a whiff of a dank man-made holeAnd now a brightnessFeels higher and more determinedFuller now, gathering to block out extraneous letters, sightsMy own fingers trawling and trailinglips overstretchedRid the flavours from the mouthA narrative fading - goodMetallic churning // reaching out,receding again and overlaid with a negative etchingTryingA breathing cogNot circular but returning// familiar but not minea sweet spot between nape, pit, popper, pear //TryingA breathing cogNot circular but returningDo it with your eyes closedForA sweet spot between now, then, the rear of a dreamTrapped Doppler,Metal is cooling, becomes corkyLips overstretched, adjective snatchedSucked and blownTo reach equilibrium //Thinly domestic nowA drawn out teeter I can no longer perceiveBut it came from somewhere massive and hardA slow shock// A pattern cut from a metal sheetand now it’s on the movelays itself down over spoken undulationsuntil they form a new pattern, called a beat //received, pressing, driving,old and flammablesneaked up from within a refrigerated boxanother slow, pleasant shockThickly domestic now as we sinkSurvey the scatterManipulate the jointTiny and early, the echo ate its tailRebecca Wilcox --- Fractal Meat Cuts, 2021

Heavyweight Tag-Team split tape from Outclub and DT Dream. Embodying the adrenaline of challenging for the Princess of Princess Title and the comedown of losing. Zoned out beats drowning with tears and exhaustion. Gltichy Idol music through the ambience of a Joshi locker-room. --- First relase from Manchester label Profound Mystery ---Released May, 2021 ---

Crystalline music miniatures composed using numerological games and abstract metronomes. “The basis for Cavaliere’s music is derived from the prowess of his imagination, which at a young age was stimulated by a gift, given to him by his grandma. “At a very young age, my grandmother, who was a music teacher, gave to me a cassette record player. And as I was an only-child, I would sit in my room alone, and have conversations with the record player and my pre recorded voice. I communicated with it.” (Spencer Clark) --- Recorded between Berlin and Bruxelles March - April - May 2020 --- Self Released, 2020

Since the birth of this nation, our leaders have recognized the value of a civil service merit system to the orderly administration of our country's day-to-day affairs. During his Presidency, George Washington set high standards for federal government service based upon the individual's qualifications for the position sought. This concept was eroded in subsequent administrations by preference for veterans, geographical distribution of appointments, and reliance on Congressional recommendations. Culminating in Andrew Jackson's administration the use of patronage and the building of political machines led to low morale, indifferent service and payment for jobs." The excesses of the "spoils" system eventually led to public demand for reform. In 1851, Congress passed a resolution requesting Cabinet officers to draw up a plan for the classification of their subordinates, to equalize salaries and to provide for "'a fair and impartial examination of the qualifications of clerks and for promoting them from one grade to another'. Subsequently, in 1853, Congress passed legislation which carried out those recommendations. At the state and local levels, the evils of the "spoils" system also led to pressure for reform. In 1877, New York be- came the first state to form a Civil Service Reform Association. That system served as a model for reform associations in other states, all dedicated to the regulation and improvement of civil service. Following the movement initiated by the federal and state governments, municipalities and counties began to incorporate civil service systems into their local governments. - Rea T Markin (1974) --- Regional Bears, March 2021

Ikuisuus presents Une Rose by Beyt Al Tapes. Layers of dark lightness. Airy sounds combined with a de-constructed organic weaving. A vanishing point in constant extension. --- Cassette, March 2021 Edition of 75 copies --- Ikuisuus Records

SDF - less a band more a corrupt construction company with synthesisers, hammering against the ruins of the night. SDF is a pulsating orb vibrating in oceanic hyper space. --- Alana is the third release in the Wild Pop Series ---Mastering by Joe at Subsequent Artwork by Cecelia Serafini Psykick Dancehall Recordings, 2017

Takashi Masubuchi (acoustic guitar) and Staytone (modular synthesizer) are musicians based in Tokyo. Both of them are new generation involvers in post onkyo Japanese improvisation music scene, active in Ftarri, Otooto, Permian and other small, quiet, warm spaces. Takashi Masubuchi is also one of Permian’s runner, which is specially focus on free improvisation music. This duo has deep collaboration for many years. 2527 are some selections from their 2018 recordings in Permian. --- Takashi Masubuchi - Acoustic Guitar Staytone - Synthesiser --- Recorded by Keita Asahi in May 2018 at Permian, Tokyo Edit and mastered by Keita Asahi Released: Zoomin' Night Released: March 23, 2020