***Making his Peak Oil debut with a full length inspired by the CIA’s acid-dosing mind control experiments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Swiss analog synth mastermind FLORIN BUCHEL crafts a sprialling, immersive narrative of vital, psychedelic, acid-drenched, murky fugues recorded live to cassette. Whether the disoriented whirling dervish 303 echoes of “Behavioral Engineering” or the meditative dissolution of reality via cascading aural fragments in “Mind Control in Marin County”, Florin Büchel has scripted a conceptually layered, palpably thrilling love letter to all forms of transgressive psychedelia, musical or otherwise. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies with perforated blotter art covers, neon screen printed sleeves and redacted document inserts
LP $15.50
10/27/2015
***Since his self-titled LP debuting on Peak Oil in 2012, M. GEDDES GENGRAS has amassed a following for his distinctive take on synthesis, with releases on Umor Rex, Leaving and Opal Tapes. New Lines is his anticipated homecoming to Peak Oil. New Lines sees Gengras delve deeper into the copper plated, arpeggio spewing nooks and crannies of his prodigious modular synthesizers, dragging them across vast expanses of infinity oscillations via stops in Detroit techno’s neo-romantic strings (“Bushi”) and Manchester’s early 90s grime-soaked IDM clatter (“Cris Rose”). When absorbed in its entirety, New Lines is an expansive step forward for Gengras’ futurist sonic explorations. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies with lenticular covers and inserts designed by TIM GOODWILLIE.
LP $15.50
10/23/2015
***Portland’s STRATEGY’s impressive 15 year plus discography rests on his ability to reference disparate music forms whilst making them sound entirely and distinctly his own. Whether crystalline dub, cerebellum-tingling ambient, atavistic post-punk or two steps beyond, Strategy has remade these all in his inimitable image. On Pressure Wassure, he not only plunders the fertile bounty of early ‘90s UK hardcore, he eviscerates it’s taut snares, bowel shaking bass and Dionnysian spirit, reimagining that eras ecstasy enlightened explorations for contemporary dancefloors, whilst sprinkling in neon p-funk flourishes, deft bassline deconstructions and the sheer murder of once familiar samples. In the span of just four devastating tracks, Strategy offers up supple, devastating pressure. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies with hand-assembled, label-bankrupting red flocked covers.
LP $15.50
07/15/2014