***Music just moves on them, has its way with all seven of them simultaneously and they just let it. It's already out before anyone can do anything about it. Audiences aren't sure how to help, first horns then heavy synth then dangerous headbanging, laughing bravely as they help music do even more things to them. Mercifully for all, this album is a brief, 17-minute pants tingler. It bears witness to 30 years in the loving choke-hold of every genre that ever ogled Brown Whörnet's innocence, from 1993's legendary Emena Pestisode right up to their pandemic premonition Doctor Dickle, and now... this. Not only crazed synths, metal guitar, bass, and multi-percussion but also trumpet, trombone, sax, and organ because how else could you make the run from Zeuhl to Swamp Rock to Punk to Free Jazz to Noir R&B and Kosmiche Ambient in seventeen minutes? “Mangled free jazz, luv-me-baby R & B, parodically straight hardcore, and something that sounds like Yes on a boom box whose batteries are dying are all in their arsenal.” -Chicago Reader “Best gig I've been to was Brown Whornet, impossible to pigeonhole – the entire performance was mesmerising.” -Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) in The Irish Times
12" $21.95
03/31/2023
***For the first time, San Francisco legend THOMAS DIMUZIO presents an all Buchla-synthesizer album. Custom algorithmic crossfades of complex sound synthesis fuel this improvised synergy of mind and machine in real-time, no overdubs. His Buchla 272e module incorporates a polyphonic FM tuner introducing chance-factors snatched from live transmissions and steered via algorithmic mixing through oscillator arrays and envelope generators before spilling into the ears of blood-pumping audiences huddled in the slanting five thousand foot shadow of SF's iconic Sutro Tower. Each track is a site specific improvisation blooming in the dark of two underground venues on opposite ends of Haight Street just blocks from where Buchla invented the world's first synthesizer. Limited edition of 300 copies.
LP $21.35
01/07/2020
***BACK IN STOCK!!! IKUE MORI and CHRISTIAN RONN are the superlative electroacoustic duo, well... “duo” unless you count the instruments themselves and you should: prepared piano, FX, Buchla and Serge synthesizers. These masters of unrule are radically attuned to time and sound, invoking the personhood of space and object, chordis et machina, as you'll soon discover once their music, laid down at Elektron Musik Studion (EMS) Stockholm, gets loose in your own environ. No meandering muddiness, the precision and responsiveness of this heady collaboration steps swiftly from fine grit distortions to leaky sinewaves, sweeping from the playfully melodic to the seriously xenomorphic. As prepared-piano hammers against braiding electronics, each possibility unfurls the next. Tossed from the final groove, you'll hike up your needle and want to plunge right back in. “Endless probing that hooks into your neurons, this album leaves sonic organisms floating around you. Even if that's merely an illusion, the alchemy of Mori and Rønn’s hyperactive stew is very real.”—Marc Masters
LP $20.95
08/10/2018