Coming Soon: Chlorine - Gallooner (CVC013)

Chlorine

Gallooner

(CVC013)

Limited Edition of 50 cassettes & digital download

Available Friday 12th July 2019

via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Tor Fest 'Tape Roast' cassette-only DJ set with Natalia Beylis

Photo by Sophie Cooper

As part if this year's Tor Fest, I had the pleasure of collaborating on a DJ set of tape-only cuts with Natalia Beylis (Woven Skull, The Sunken Hum, Divil A'Bit...), improvising our unplanned selections in a 'call-and-response' manner. This was recorded and has aired, warps, pops, hiss, cuts and all, by excellent human Tristan Bath, as part of his Spool's Out show for The Quietus on Resonance 104.4fm.

During our set we featured excerpts, in varying lengths, of:

Dick Sutphen - Detach From Your Emotions (Probe 7) (Valley of the Sun)

Recordings produced by Nigel Tucker and Andrew Jones – (Weird & Wonderful Nature Sounds / BBC Wildlife Magazine)

Kink Gong – The Lisu (Excerpt) (The Lisu / Discrepant)

Natalia Beylis - The Sunken Hum Vol. 1 (Extract) (The Sunken Hum Vol.1 / Deserted Village)

Leyden Jars – The Heat of Darkness (Heat Death / Mordant Music)

Eddie Lenihan - The Dalcassians' Banshee (Six Terrible Women / Claddagh Records)

Gail Ghimp – ‘Fire’ Side (Excerpt) (Fire/Failure Soundtrack / Soft Corridor)

Dan Beckman - Full Gallop Number 8 Audiozine (Excerpt) (Full Gallop Number 8 Audiozine / Full Gallop)

Butthole Surfers – Kuntz (Locust Abortion Technician / SST Records)

Willie Stewart - Non - Plastique No 9 1/2 (Excerpts) (Non - Plastique No 9 1/2 / Not on Label)

Score – Heavy Low Concentration (Slump / Cruel Nature Records)

Posset – Zappa Excuse (Friction Rivers / Singing Knives)

Natalia Learning to Talk - home recording by Jeff Beylis

Unknown Artist - Our Favourite Bird Songs of Australia  (Our Favourite Bird Songs of Australia , with commentary by Harold & Audrey Crouch / Not on Label)

Unknown Artists - Ladring Sri Kondur (The Sultan's Pleasure: Javanese Gamelan & Vocal Music / Music of the World)

Miles Davis – On The Corner (On The Corner / Columbia)

Unknown Artist - Sawt El Badii Vol1 (Not on Label)

Thanks to Tristan / Spool's Out for the opportunity to share this with you. And thanks to Jake & Sof / Tor Press for having us contribute our magnetic wares in the first place. Viva Tor Fest!

CVC002: Melting - 'Dusk' Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download Out Now!

Melting

Dusk

Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

(CVC002)

Available via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

New Release: Melting - Dusk (CVC002) Limited Edition Cassette / Digital

Melting

'Dusk'

(2016)

Limited Edition of 50 cassettes / digital

(CVC002)

I'm very pleased to be able to announce a new release through the Crow Versus Crow label, Melting's Dusk. 

This is the début release from the elusive Leeds producer, who, utilising the sampler as a compositional tool, explores an outsider approach to hip-hop beat craft and bass music. Soaked in an insomniac miasma, heavy sub and glitched-out edits remain anchored by woozy boom-bap rhythms, giving the tracks a complex, ethereal, deeply introspective feel. It's rare that a record so quickly lays such strong hooks in me, prompting intense, repeated listens, but Dusk has done just that. It's an incredibly affecting record. If melancholic ecstasy was a thing, that's exactly what it would provoke.

Dusk will be released as a limited edition cassette with accompanying artwork and sleeve design that, in its intricately designed minimalism, perfectly complements the emotional complexities of the Melting tracks. 

The 9 tracks are repeated on both sides of a C65 plain grey, professionally duplicated cassette, wrapped in a 3 panel, full colour j-card in a clear plastic library case. This is then encased in a specifically designed 300gsm black card sleeve, with laser –etched and –cut details. 

There cassette release comes in an edition of 50 copies. There will also be a digital version and both will be available from the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp from Friday 1st April 2016.

Melting has also released a video for the lead track from Dusk, titled, Road.

Posset 'Beast Tapes of 2012'

Beast Tapes of 2012...

As part of the 45th episode of The Crow Versus Crow Radio Show, Posset's Beast Tapes of 2012 mix was aired. The work compiles Posset's selections from his personal favourite cassette-only releases from last year. A bloody good selection it is too! You can stream and download the mix below. Over to the man himself...

'It’s been a very good year for tapes. Vocal mouth-jizz has been slurping all over the shop; noise seems to have got grubbier & dirtier; drone has been plumbing new depths of the soul; otherness has taken a pastoral trip and guitar pluckery has been crisp & sharp like a frosty morning. Here’s all the best of 2012. It’s clumsily mixed, sorry about the sloppy edits and tape hiss. It is what it is. Enjoy friends. Posset.'

1. Lovely Honkey – Set Sail for the Moral High Ground (Total Vermin)

2. Sindre Bjerga – Vocal Studies #9 (My Dance the Skull)

3. No Artist - Untitled AKA I Almost Drowned (Blue Spectrum Tapes)

4. Jazzfinger – Destroyed Form (Handmade Birds)

5. Benway – Ham Hock (Fucking Amateurs)

6 Bill Orcutt – Why Does Everyone Love Free Music But No-one Loves Free People? (Palilalia)

7. Tom Settle on the compilation Post-Industrial Freak Flag (Winebox Press)

8. Vampire Blues – Epistemological Relativism (Total Vermin)

9. No Artist – We’re Not Serving Him (Gloryhole)

10. Blood Stereo – The Eight Thumbed Hand Serenades (Ultramarine)

11. Acrid Lactations – The Presidential Cow is Bound to the Maypole (Total Vermin)

12. Lovely Honkey/Acrid Lactations – Sing the Futile Tapestry (Total Vermin)

13. Blue Spectrum – Witch Fucker (Blue Spectrum Tapes)

Posset 'Beast Tapes of 2012' by Crow Versus Crow on Mixcloud

Download

Thank You Posset.