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Guitar Bastard - In the View of the Mind's Eye
Hypnotic buzz and swirling ghostly tones, a vortex of haunting sound for one to fall into. One extended guitar-based soundscape from the aptly named Skrow! newcomer, known in other circles as shawn phase of temp sound solutions, who had this to say about the work:
“27 minutes of prepared guitar by yours truly. steinbererish koa/graphite into behringer v-amp2, operating table, fan/duster recorded/postrecorded directly to sony tc-570 3 head reel to reel and digital hdd simultaneously. monitored and recorded in stereo using univox/lafayette 80 watt quadraphonic hifi stereo system and randall 150w amp ran to a 4×12″ speaker to simulate stereo effects.
thanks to sony, sanyo fans, the luthier that made my guitar, the skrow family for embracing my weirder side.”
Dark meditations for dark minds. Headphones required.
Tracklisting:
- In the View of the Mind’s Eye (27:00)
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Thaumaturgist - Trash of the Titans
All the fires of hell. Cosmic ultimatums made to screaming wenches. The delicious piss of the gods. Laurence Olivier in a spandex zebra-print leotard. Horrible roaring distortion and decimated looping bits of scratchy genital herpes infested ear rot.
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Tracklisting:
- Homosexuals (5:49)
- Noise Camp (12:48)
- Galacticide (10:46)
- Think Penis (20:19)
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Hemostat - II
Ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen today we bring you another raucous exposition of 21st century trash art - and we mean that in the nicest way possible. Step right up and feast your ears upon Hemostat’s long out of print second album, now available in digital form only on Skrow!. 30 tracks of decidedly delicious destruction, delivered in a way that is uniquely Hemostatic. Hemostatian? Hemostatistical? Hemosapiens? Heeeeeeee
Tracklisting:
- The New Garbage (0:41)
- Good Morning Cocksuckers (0:37)
- One Minute (1:00)
- Celestial Bus Station (0:33)
- Sitcom-a-tron (1:46)
- Chavez Seesaw (1:17)
- Phash (2:24)
- eAtSTARe (0:50)
- Farther and Son (1:16)
- Grosse (1:00)
- Failure Live (0:52)
- Low Blow (2:11)
- Doombuster (7:25)
- Ondes Octobre (3:01)
- Pamela Schmid (1:35)
- Royo Arrowhead (4:34)
- Things That Are Big (2:05)
- Sperm-a-troid (1:13)
- This Next Tune (0:38)
- Freeware Gives Me the Vapors (1:56)
- Rock of Odds (1:10)
- Wunderspotter (2:47)
- Four-Forty Non Morti (1:46)
- The Residuals (2:51)
- Play Videogames for Twenty Years (3:02)
- Creamd (2:18)
- See U in the Geyser (2:43)
- Proprietary Quarters (1:00)
- I Like It! (1:01)
- WHAT HAVE I DONE (5:28)
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Ellipse - After the Sun
Ethereal sonorities in a shadowy berth, a meeting place for things both dark and light. Here are our dualities investigated, awash in colour and grey, claustrophobic in an infinite space: the locus of a soul.
Ellipse presents us with three pieces for electric guitar that are at times quietly introspective, and at others screaming at the heavens with fire and futility. Please adorn your ears and explore.
Tracklisting:
- Becoming Empyreal (18:22)
- The Immeasurable Breadth of Night (9:59)
- An Ocean Upon Us (23:17)
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Dag Swanö - Permafrost
Skrow!Media is proud to present the digital issue of the latest masterpiece from Sweden’s own Dag Swanö, of the epic rock gods, Nightingale. An impressive multi-instrumentalist, every sound on the album is produced by Dag himself, with lyrics in Swedish by Jimmy “Dr. Dark” Thunlind. With 11 muscular tracks of dynamic progressive rock, including a re-envisioning of the Nightingale classic, “Falling,” Permafrost shows Swanö’s true commitment to bringing manly back.
You too can help bring manly back by purchasing this digital issue. Click here to listen to samples and buy the album for just 8 bucks and get your choice of highly quality mp3’s for your iPod, mp3 player or other listening device. We haven’t yet figured out how to wire the tracks directly to your head. Your purchase, however, takes just one extra step. Invite Mr. Swanö into your home via your computer today, and within minutes he’ll be all up in your brain. Warning: Dag has a sneaky habit of settling in, building a man cave in one’s cranium, and becoming a permanent resident. We’re sure you won’t mind.
Tracklisting:
- Undret (2:16)
- Paraden (3:23)
- Turister (3:20)
- Jag tänkte på havet (3:54)
- Kvinnojouren, var god dröj (2:23)
- Permafrost (3:25)
- Under ytan (3:28)
- Maten tystar mun (3:59)
- Hellre död än röd (2:57)
- Ställd till svars (2:34)
- Lösnäsan (4:28)
© All songs copyright Dag Swanö
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Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
Awash in a ceaseless cloud of lost memories, reaching for light. We find ourselves in a sea of our own reckoning, clutching driftwood to our bared breasts, a subtle heat radiating from within that warms the cool mists around us. The atmosphere thickens, becomes as a gelatin which slows our existence and reflects us from within until, finally, we are encased in an unfrozen ice of our deepest fears and desires; static, yet internally vivified. We shatter into numberless shards, waltzing silently in scintillating bliss as we dissipate into the air. The cycle begins anew.
So it is that we present the first (and certainly not the last) split release from Skrow! fellows Ellipse and Saffron Slumber. It showcases arguably some of the greatest work of two fine artists of complimentary mentality and style while exploring a vast musical space of mystique and airy melancholia. Assume an appropriately fetal position and adorn your ears with a suitable binaural apparatus. Surround yourself in translucence, close your eyes and peer through.
Tracklisting:
- Ellipse - Drifting Endless Ethereal (11:33)
- Saffron Slumber - Viscosity (4:01)
- Saffron Slumber - Glass Variation (Silicon Dioxide) (5:46)
Captain Tortilla - Ninjanomics
Captain Tortilla - Ninjanomics
Okay, I swear I’m not going to turn this place into a blog or any of that kind of shit, but this is too awesome and I’ve been enjoying it way too much lately to not give it some props. I’m gonna have to make this quick anyway, there are shuriken flying everywhere and one of them is bound to hit my laptop display ere long.
On this first full-length effort from the esteemed Captain, he pays exceptional tribute to some obvious Tecmo and Konami influences while putting his own indelible stamp on the entire half hour duration. Catchy and extremely addictive, with dangerously hummable melodies interwoven through spectacular bliprock grooves that create an authentic NES action atmosphere laced with hints of metal, progressive rock, early 90s hip hop, blues and funk. Tracks like “Ninja Pie,” “Into Progress,” and “07″ are perfectly capable of slicing your face off if you’re not careful. The capstone to the collection, however, is the brilliant Zappa cover, flawlessly arranged within the limitations of the VRC6 chip.
Ninjanomics leads me through twelve different worlds of drama, mayhem and awesomeness, each one full to the brim with salient men in masked jumpsuits swinging cleaving steel in my general direction with intent to separate my head from my body, which would seem like a generally negative thing if not for how awesome it is when ninjas decapitate people. It is Dennis Mott’s magnum opus, and if I were me (which I am), I wouldn’t miss it. And I haven’t, as you can tell from the way I’m telling you how much it rocks. Which means that you shouldn’t miss it either. Unless you’re afraid of losing your head.
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Illnathix - Play. Stop. Delete!
On this sunny but frigid solstice, we present the Skrow! debut of a human called Alexander Kibanov, known for our purposes today as Illnathix. This highly prolific and many-named Russian madman has assaulted us with a veritable plethora of synthetic breakcore miniature freakouts. 20 tracks clocking in at under 16 minutes will have you bobbing your head and/or waving your hands frantically in the air while sucking on a glow stick, amongst other amusing activities. So come on down, everyone, and indulge your excessively limited attention spans! Yay.
Tracklisting:
- Cycle of evolution (2:16)
- A.C.A.B. (1st version) (0:43)
- Nintendocore Riot on Noname Streets of Noname World (0:46)
- Factory Of Madness And Death (0:46)
- HAL 9000 needs some avant-garde (0:52)
- What We Can? (0:34)
- I Have Nothing Say To You (1:03)
- The Rave (0:41)
- death of trance dj (Trance the trance but not dance) (1:02)
- Spaaace (not end) (0:46)
- death of dnb dj (0:49)
- in the catacombs (0:51)
- piano_shazam! (0:38)
- Disco In Massacre Club Ending With Beautiful Dawn Of Our Era (0:33)
- Discomfort, yeah? (0:33)
- 16-bit (0:43)
- Failed System Failed. Fuckin System. (0:18)
- nintendoviolence (0:26)
- the start (1:13)
- Солнышко (mix) (0:31)
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Bukkake Earlobe - Green Light, Motherfuckers
As proof of the adage “we only hurt the ones we love,” Bukkake Earlobe takes his friend Vito out to lunch but shoves him into traffic after they exit the restaurant. Where there once was a young man full of sound and musical ideas, joie de vivre, and beef lo mein, naught remains but a hideous smear of gore, twisted car parts, and partially digested soba. And yet, the modern artform that now decorates the nameless streets of this metaphorical city still resembles that which came before it, in a pseudo-neo-post-Surrealist kind of way.
In short: Vito brings the storms, the ‘Lobe brings the lightning rods. The masses scream for pause, but weathermen such as these see no red, like Bruce Willis in Color of Night. “Your traffic lights have no effect on us!” they shout in reply, careening through their craft heedless of the splattering of bodies and food, knowing full well that smearing themselves on the ground is all part of the process. Grab some headphones or crank those speakers and put your ear to the road. Hear the smear.
Tracklisting:
- How to Inject OxiClean (4:46)
- Compulsive Tupperware Party (3:33)
- Lunar Polygons (8:12)
- The Arsehole Capitalist (3:34)
- The Galaxy Got Me Drunk (6:07)
- Jackson’s Arm (5:11)
- Swinging a Steel Pipe at a Thundering Sky (9:09)
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Saffron Slumber - Cascades
It is with great excitement on this cool December eventide that we present the long-awaited Skrow! followup from Salem, Oregon’s Saffron Slumber. Cascades is a gently tumbling avalanche of harmonic sound, resulting in four pieces with all the majesty, mystique, and enormity of the prodigious landforms which inspired them. Orography in aural form. Orogeny, even. Music to create mountains by.
Tracklisting:
- Cascade I (5:19)
- Cascade II (3:48)
- Cascade III (4:32)
- Cascade IV (7:27)