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Skrow045: Bukkake Earlobe - Black Is the New Golden
Bukkake Earlobe - Black Is the New Golden
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Today we present two pieces unearthed from the ‘Lobe vault, which is quickly becoming somewhat vast. Made almost five years ago before being shelved, lost, and found again, this pair of drones de/reconstruct early versions of then-unreleased Saffron Slumber works, taking his penchant for pleasantly pensive atmosphere and twisting it into something somewhat more sinister.
A bit of doom and gloom to brighten your day. Loom ominously with your tenth animal of the Chinese zodiac exposed. Something like that.
Tracklisting:
- Sleeping Deep in an Obsidian Sea (7:08)
- Striking the Anvil of Cumulonimbus (8:58)
Skrow030: Skrow!Media Compilation #1: Quit Your Day Job
Quit Your Day Job
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Remember on the last album release post, when I said this thing was coming out in a few days? Yeah, well… we reside in a world in which thirty or so still counts as a few. Roll with it. You have no choice in the matter. ANYWAY…
The perpetually delayed mythical Skrow!Media compilation has finally come to light! This satisfyingly diverse collection boasts 27 tracks by alumni and friends of Skrow!, clocking in at almost an hour and 45 minutes of semi-organized disturbances in air pressure. Enjoy them with headphones and/or speakers, alone and/or with friends, drugs and/or no drugs. Try it however you like! See the included graphics for useless information about the songs and artists! Use bombs wisely!
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Tracklisting:
- Philistine on the Sidewalk - Taking Advantage of Impermanence (5:44)
- Portmanteau - Frenetic Relaxation (Dirty Mix) (4:42)
- Captain Tortilla - Raito (3:17)
- Recreational Episiotomy - Herring Diabolis (0:28)
- Frankenstain - Potassium Cyan (9:07)
- Bukkake Earlobe - Lassitude (6:14)
- Cigarettes & Clip-Art - An Introduction to Letterhead (4:48)
- Mithius - The Palace of 1000 Lizards: Level 1 Boss: The Lizard King (2:26)
- Dooz - Midelectrock (5:25)
- Saffron Slumber - Temicxoch (6:10)
- Thaumaturgist - Homosexuals (5:49)
- temp sound solutions and Phlogiston - grarfed (2:15)
- FreddeGredde - Mega Man 9 Medley (7:27)
- Zio and TEH LOLZ - Non-Micron Ribs (2:36)
- The Beauty of Grind - Family Feud - Punch Your Mom in the Face (0:55)
- Lunghammer - Untitled Skullfuck #1 (6:37)
- Aliasman - Thing (Put It In Yo Mouf) (1:14)
- Vito Genovese - Westcott (4:13)
- Hemostat - Hirudo Troctina (2:55)
- Nario - Welcome to 2002 (1:46)
- The Sticky Situation - Jhaw Driopo (4:00)
- Mowage - Ass Explosion Double Play (0:48)
- Unikron - Wolfmotherfucker (1:37)
- Daemon9623 - Solar Blossoms (1:35)
- Ellipse - Incomprehensible Void Patterns (5:25)
- earthbreather - Obsidian Beach (4:19)
- Quinn Fox - Solo Voltaic (3:14)
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:
- Talk in Blue (10:34)
- Fields of Desiccant (9:12)
- Ice Throne of Ullr (8:34)
- Pulling On Melting Glass (5:02)
- Black Fires Burn Gently (8:28)
- Craters (7:52)
Skrow026: Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
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)
Skrow023: Saffron Slumber - Cascades
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)
Exciting things on the horizon.
Skrow!Media is pleased to announce Most of Me, the forthcoming debut from creator of melodic progressive electronica and occasional chiptune, Nario (see video above). The album proper will likely drop sometime in November. You should check it out and stuff. Also coming around the bend, we have new material from Cigarettes & Clip-Art, entitled Motivational Poster, slated for the end of the year, and all kinds of good shit sometime next year, including new stuff from Beardslicer, Ellipse, Saffron Slumber, Grimbeard, the debut concept album from Soudou and its accompanying surrealist novel, and a very exciting collaboration between Saffron Slumber and Ellipse which will be known as earthbreather.
Skrow! explodes. Soon. Keep an eye out for the audio shrapnel that results.
Skrow004
Saffron Slumber - Meditations on Autumn
Skrow! is overjoyed to present this, Saffron Slumber’s first official release (and hopefully not his last with us).
Two stunning pieces of ambient beauty dedicated to that most melancholy of seasons. Delayed piano creates a droning wash to lay beneath soft vocalisations, carried away as falling leaves on the September wind.
Headphones encouraged.
Tracklisting:
- Her Hair Was Leaves on the Wind (5:32)
- Endings (4:42)
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