23 | JUNE | 2008
The Skull Defekts maniacal album The Drone Drug is now available in the store! Please play it loud. Will hit the regular stores/distributors and online retailers in 3 weeks.
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First there was Skkull then there was The Drone Drug... Continuing on the same path, the sound of The Drone Drug is of a similar relentless minimalistic nature as its predesessor. This could be seen as the electronic backbone to last years amazing Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing (Conspiracy Records), creating a heavy beast with the most basic and stripped-down use of variations in drones and frequencies instead of guitars and percussion. Monotonous motor humming via drugged-out machinery and assaults of feedback attacking with a strong feel of claustrophobia.
Compared to Skkull, The Drone Drug evolves more around a grim and abrasive sound, constantly toying with lo-fi aesthetics and a rough industrial edge. The atmosphere created is thick and black, bringing up visions of a dystopian society trembling on the edge of the world. Spreading the disease in a world slowly dying, The Drone Drug is poison and affect you it will.
On this recording, The Skull Defekts is Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander. 4 tracks cut by an unsharpened razor. Total playtime of 52 minutes. 4-panel digipack with artwork by Daniel Fagerström. Limited to 500 copies.
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We are celebrating the release of this album at the releaseparty of the Gothenburg 08 CD on Thursday (26/6). The Skull Defekts, Sewer Election, Tsukimono, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words + more are playing. The Drone Drug will be available for a lower cost this evening.
Loosers/Owl Xounds 7" is at the plant. Portuguese psychedelic jams from Loosers, a quite and subtle guitar-driven piece, and more out there jazz madness from Brooklyn's Owl Xounds on the flipside. Available within the next 2-3 weeks.
After several delays on the Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Lost In Reflections LP + 7" set, everything is finally ready for the pressing plant and will be shipped off next week!
The Blue Sabbath Black Cheer CD will be out late summer. Title will be Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass and this is a collection of several out of print vinyl-sides along with some new cuts.
Lots of RTB artists are touring this summer, check out the shows section!
Mailorder business will shut down for 2 weeks in July. Vacation, will be on tour with Tar... Feathers, re-organisation etc. To avoid delays, have your order in before 8/7.
Other RTB related release news: Warmer Milks - Soft Walks out now on Animal Disguise. Tar... Feathers/Happiness LP out in July on Adagio 830. New Pocahaunted LP on Weird Forest. Leafes - Seedland Tape out any day now on the new GBG label Klorofyll Kassetter. Everything available from the RTB store sooner or later...
More news soon. Big plans for the future.
Office rotation:
Pink Reason, Lie Down In The Light, The Drone Drug, Heavy Winged, Vivian Girls, Exquisite Fucking Boredom.
30 | MAY | 2008
Now distributed by RTB:
GOTHENBURG 08 CD (FANG BOMB)
In 1984, Gothenburg, Sweden based record label/gallery/publishing house/artist breeding ground Radium 226.05 released 'Gothenburg 84', a now legendary compilation LP. 'Gothenburg 84' documents an unusually creative period in Gothenburg. The LP featured artists such as CM von Hausswolff, Freddie Wadling, Zbigniew Karkowski and Jean-Louis Huhta, all then upcoming talents - now regarded as pioneers.
Now, in 2008, Gothenburg's electronic and experimental scene is again soaring with talent, and it is time again to document a unique era. This is what 'Gothenburg 08' sets out to do. And this is the tracklist:
Viktor Sjöberg & Jonas Lindgren - 'Guldheden'
Anders Dahl - 'Strätta, flockblomstriga 4'
Porn Sword Tobacco - 'Feminin arkitektur'
Sewer Election - 'Mot döden'
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - 'Facelessness Erases Every Trace Of Humanity'
Jasper TX - 'And I Close My Eyes'
The Skull Defekts - 'Invocation of Brother Rune Lindblad'
Tsukimono - 'Moan Jar'
Joel Brindefalk - 'Monitoring My Own Death'
Porn Sword Tobacco - 'Ett jaläger och ett nejläger'
Old news.
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LATEST STORE UPDATE: 2/7
NEW RELEASES:
THE SKULL DEFEKTS
THE DRONE DRUG CD
NTHNTHSTHSTH
UTON & ANTONY MILTON LP
THE SHAMELESS KISS
OF VANITY III TAPE
POCAHAUNTED/ORPHAN FAIRYTALE
SPLIT 7"
WARMER MILKS
LET YOUR FRIENDS IN CD
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