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Skrow044: Dongle Doc - Ça gratte

Dongle Doc - Ça gratte

Dongle Doc - Ça gratte

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Skrow! dutifully and happily welcomes another newcomer to the fold, French improvisational guitar researcher Dongle Doc.  Ça gratte is a 35 minute psychedelic journey into a uniquely organic atmospheric experimental cybermetropolis, in which lurks twisted jazz-blues alleycats, vaguely rock-scented ruffians, seedy semi-sapient drone-noise night clubs, and other sonic creatures too wonderfully terrible to describe.

Enjoy carefully in your favorite aural apparatus today for the low low price of nothing!  Happy trails.

Tracklisting:

  1. Raphael track 1 (9:33)
  2. Impro Guitare (3:47)
  3. Impro Guitare 2 (3:27)
  4. Raphael track 2 (12:26)
  5. La cinquième rose (1:48)
  6. Peterpan (2:00)
  7. Reggae (2:54)

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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 Audio Releases 1 Comment

Skrow040: Guitar Bastard - Planeswalking

Guitar Bastard - Planeswalking

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Believe it or not, the perpetually delayed first installment of the Skrow! label compilation is officially coming out within a matter of days.  Yeah, I don’t believe it either.  It’s true though.  Srsly.  Meanwhile, feast your ears on the latest from our good friend Guitar Bastard…

One continuous 45-minute aural sphere of influence within which one may find themselves drawn, willing or not, into higher dominions of reasoning.  An incessant expanse of subtly fluctuating drones enveloping a limitless void of mystique and otherness.

Yeah.  Headphones, bro.

Tracklisting:

  1. Planeswalking (45:03)

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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 Audio Releases 1 Comment

Skrow038: earthbreather - Forget the Sky

earthbreather - Forget the Sky

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With great pride do we present the debut of experimental, free-genre duo earthbreather.  A collaboration between Saffron Slumber and Ellipse, this non-geographically proximal pairing came to be, as these things are, via the internet.  In late 2008, Saffron Slumber began “remixing” by way of manipulation and de/reconstruction some brief guitar clips sent to him by Ellipse.  The latter, as well, began to perform similar mutations upon pieces created by the former.  As this process continued, the songs would evolve into something entirely new, and the process itself became progressively more collaborative.  An unwritten manifesto took form between the two artists to ignore the perceived boundaries of genre conventions and to simply create.

On Forget the Sky, earthbreather experiment with various aural textures and explore atmospheres dark and light, concrete and ethereal, consonant and dissonant, all in flowing and relatively structurally free compositional forms.  The result is an album that is both cohesive and varied throughout its approximate 50 minute duration.

Headphones are suggested and encouraged.  Please join us.

Tracklisting:

  1. Talk in Blue (10:34)
  2. Fields of Desiccant (9:12)
  3. Ice Throne of Ullr (8:34)
  4. Pulling On Melting Glass (5:02)
  5. Black Fires Burn Gently (8:28)
  6. Craters (7:52)

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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Audio Releases 2 Comments

Skrow037: Bukkake Earlobe - Vasectomy Monologues

Bukkake Earlobe - Vasectomy Monologues

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Reclining at length upon a microfiber couch with stitches in one’s mildly malaised testicles and a head full of oxycodone warmth has a way of putting one into an insomniac haze fit to inspire the spontaneous midnocturnal creation of a certain pandemonious, sonorous whorl.

At least so we’re told.

Tracklisting:

  1. Dude? Dude. (4:32)
  2. Saturday Nite Librarians (1:52)
  3. Ghost of Plastic Basketball Hoop (2:44)
  4. Mirror Swimming (3:06)
  5. The Unmentionables (3:28)
  6. 512 (8:00)

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Thursday, May 19th, 2011 Audio Releases No Comments

Skrow035: Thaumaturgist - Entheogenocide

Thaumaturgist - Entheogenocide

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Our resident layer-on-of-hands returns, bringing incessant implacable waves of blistering digital dilation and occipital samplitude, as blithely experienced through the clarifying lens of a fungus-affused brume.  We should expect no less.

Tracklisting:

  1. Multidisciplinary Assassination of Psychedelic Studies or Why Choose Ego Death (11:47)
  2. LSD-69 (7:29)
  3. Food of the Godless (10:18)

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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 Audio Releases No Comments

Skrow033: Bukkake Earlobe - Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees

Bukkake Earlobe - Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees

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A relatively succinct ode to our flying swarming f(r)iends, for which the adjective “spooky” insistently presents itself despite the unwanted and incorrigible Scooby Doo connotation on the word.

Nonetheless, bathe in the sweet, dark honeys of our discontent within the hive of drones hypnotic and insecure.  Feed yourself to the queen.

Tracklisting:

  1. Wide Asleep in a Den of Bees (10:45)

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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Audio Releases No Comments

Skrow032: Guitar Bastard - In the View of the Mind’s Eye

Guitar Bastard - In the View of the Mind's Eye

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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:

  1. In the View of the Mind’s Eye (27:00)

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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 Audio Releases No Comments

Skrow031: Thaumaturgist - Trash of the Titans

You may be wondering what became of Skrow030.  Well, we tied that bastard up and locked him in our freezer.  We’ll let him out when the time is right.  Meanwhile, chew on this:

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.

These things and MORE can be yours today for just 6 easy payments of $6.66!  Order within the next fifteen minutes and get a free round-trip ticket to oblivion, courtesy of Zeus’ patented Shit Lightning, Jizz Thunder System™!   Put it on and turn it up, you fucking pussy!  Call now!!!

Tracklisting:

  1. Homosexuals (5:49)
  2. Noise Camp (12:48)
  3. Galacticide (10:46)
  4. Think Penis (20:19)

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Monday, June 21st, 2010 Audio Releases No Comments

Skrow029: Hemostat - II

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:

  1. The New Garbage (0:41)
  2. Good Morning Cocksuckers (0:37)
  3. One Minute (1:00)
  4. Celestial Bus Station (0:33)
  5. Sitcom-a-tron (1:46)
  6. Chavez Seesaw (1:17)
  7. Phash (2:24)
  8. eAtSTARe (0:50)
  9. Farther and Son (1:16)
  10. Grosse (1:00)
  11. Failure Live (0:52)
  12. Low Blow (2:11)
  13. Doombuster (7:25)
  14. Ondes Octobre (3:01)
  15. Pamela Schmid (1:35)
  16. Royo Arrowhead (4:34)
  17. Things That Are Big (2:05)
  18. Sperm-a-troid (1:13)
  19. This Next Tune (0:38)
  20. Freeware Gives Me the Vapors (1:56)
  21. Rock of Odds (1:10)
  22. Wunderspotter (2:47)
  23. Four-Forty Non Morti (1:46)
  24. The Residuals (2:51)
  25. Play Videogames for Twenty Years (3:02)
  26. Creamd (2:18)
  27. See U in the Geyser (2:43)
  28. Proprietary Quarters (1:00)
  29. I Like It! (1:01)
  30. WHAT HAVE I DONE (5:28)

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Friday, March 5th, 2010 Audio Releases No Comments

Skrow024: Bukkake Earlobe - Green Light, Motherfuckers

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:

  1. How to Inject OxiClean (4:46)
  2. Compulsive Tupperware Party (3:33)
  3. Lunar Polygons (8:12)
  4. The Arsehole Capitalist (3:34)
  5. The Galaxy Got Me Drunk (6:07)
  6. Jackson’s Arm (5:11)
  7. Swinging a Steel Pipe at a Thundering Sky (9:09)

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Saturday, December 12th, 2009 Audio Releases No Comments
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