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LIFE’S BLOOD
PO Box 17513
Irvine, CA 92623
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FLOW 13
Glurgly beats and contorted everythings. A taut manifestation of that perfect balance between something and nothing, with reverb. Heavy live sampling, unafraid manipulation, locked groove swirls of color, and a solid grasp on how to do exactly this. Like the soundtrack to a Jurassic Park with less death. 12″ LP with eye-poppin labels in a disco sleeve with a wraparound poster-sized collage. Limited to 250. Includes download code.
“Sports”
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FLOW 12
New full-length album featuring many tracks from last year’s VHS/CD-R release “Next New Sun” remastered and with new songs. So excellent it hurts. Immaculately polished ruminations on death, not growing up, and life at home and on tour. Emotionally sincere, ever-urgent and plaintively sad (but never obnoxiously slogging). This is the perfect set of songs for a set of imperfect moods. Plus, really grooves. 600 black LPs in matte pro-printed jackets featuring blown up Polaroid photos and a photocopied insert. A co-release with GILGONO RECORDS of Tempe, AZ. Includes download code.
“A Tiny Seed”
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FLOW 11
The best rock and roll band in Orange County, California? Probably. The nicest rock and roll band in Orange County, California? Definitely. Lo-fi but not to hide anything. Here is a total and holistic appreciation of punk-everything and not in a trite, soon-to-be-passé manner: this is heart-on-DIY-Tiger-Trap-shirt-sleeve. There is a passion and ambition in these songs way beyond so much of what lackadaisically drips out of MP3 blogs and PR emails. Remember the last time there was a really exciting, viable rocknroll duo? Me neither. CD digipak featuring art by T. Lucero using poorly developed photos from Walgreens.
“Till Dawn”
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FLOW 10
Wholly discombobulated pop gems. This album is filled with totally bewildering guitar playing, dope beats, and some of the weirdest overtly pop music I’ve ever heard. It’s like the recontexualization of all sorts of fringe and avantgarde in a pop context without any net loss. There’s enough variety, too, often within one track, to warrant several immediate repeat listens. Woman Year is the work of Michael RJ Saalman, whom you have maybe heard as guitarist warlock in Afternoon Brother (whose truly shredding “Maiden America” we’ve just released recently), as well as in his work both live and on record with Pregnant. 50 white tapes with printed labels, 13 jammin tracks.
“Funkify No”
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FLOW 9
Listening to Afternoon Brother is sort of like watching two people fervently argue. You are totally lost between the two streams of vocalization, and the structure of their sentences is lost in the increasing tension: you can make out a word here, a word there, logical building blocks from each superficially opposing side meshing together. And then, like many of our most energetic arguments, it all becomes immediately clear: there was no tangible argument. Despite their dogmatic differences, both people were on the same page all along. Except with guitars. 6 tracks on a prison shell tape with printed labels, limited to 50 surfy a-bombs.
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FLOW 8
This is that perfect “IDM.” No pretension or inaccessible coldness. Just chopped up samples whirring elegantly together, awash in brilliant, emotive synthscapes. This is warm like a hearth. Wish Boards Of Canada would finally make another record? Well, it’s 2010, so quit holding your breath and relax with this record. A debut release of very surprising strength and consistency. Two distinct EPs tied together on one piece of wax to create one illustrious, cohesive LP. 12 inches in an edition of 500 with a pro-printed collage on matte jackets, with an insert featuring some thoughts and information. Includes download code.
“Pollen” (ALONE)
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“Dancing Sprinklers (SECRETS)
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FLOW 7
Expertly home-recorded krautgaze by the fiercely prolific Paul Rosales. Dangerously compressed and unrelenting rhythms sync with in-the-pocket washes of guitar; effortless pop melodies, brilliant tambourine clang, and effected vocal refrains sit atop. What comes from this fine-tuned apparatus is totally human and its deeply-seated momentum is remarkable. 8 dense tracks on a prison-shell tape with printed labels, 50 made.
“Deep In The Bottle”
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FLOW 6
Hopeful melancholy, two warm keyboards interlocking, grounded by one fully propulsive drumkit; two voices fully emotive without any sense of banality: sincerity! A breezy, living sincerity that belies its cut and dry suburban source. CD digipak.
“The Turning Point”
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FLOW 5
Garret Anton Harkawik is obsessed with the potential of the smallest musical unit; his songs are mosaic mandalas, thoroughly shattered tracks reassembled via Apple’s Final Cut Pro into calculated, impeccably-arranged mantras. His samples are not used as reference points but rather as literal building blocks pieced together with his digital finesse as mortarl. Macroscopic plastic surgery performed with a razor-sharp digital blade, the most transient sound captured and slapchopped with deceiving ease. What results is impossibly melodic and rhythmically unified: the synthesis of dozens of skipping CDs dramatically interlocking like jigsaw pieces. 327 black LPs in DIY jackets with a small but informative insert. Includes download code.
“Delicious Tears”
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FLOW 4
Melancholic noise, dance music, and the weird space in between. Endlessly textured and contorted electronic drones that ebb and flow, building up to huge-sounding and surprising cadences that crash like sleet and hale; four-on-the-floor club-ready jams: unselfconsciously, infectiously, and fundamentally pop. And, a Casiotone For The Painfully Alone cover. 10 seamless tracks on 50 blindingly red tapes with printed labels.
“Kom Närmare”
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FLOW 3
Obtusely didactic music: morality tales, love songs, theses on geo-politics. Ex-“The Diskettes” producing unarguably pleasurable algorithmic calypso. 7 tracks on the A and 7 on the B, a wet surprise there. 99 sunshine yellow tapes with no identifiable marks.
“Wednesday Night”
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FLOW 2
Gestating ideas of life; refracted into a fucked-up tapestry beautifully stitched together from scraps of dormant inklings and theories. An immaculate conception birthed from the agile hands and emotions of and the innate strangeness of all the people, everyday. 98 white cassettes with stenciled pink spray-paint.
“Do That”
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FLOW 1
Essence of song; poignant truths crooned; big beats and space synths making out with the delicate timbre of nylon strings. Chill, like summer. Self-confident but humbled. 14 micro-funk workouts for summer walks on a purple tape with silver stenciled spraypaint. 99 tapes.
“Our Loves”
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Histrionic barrage, floating voices, huge attacks of every timbre. Total utilization of all negativity toward the destruction of of all negativity. A fake minimal punk-kraut desperately reaching for maximum, wide-screen goals. A gold-stamped CDR with second-generation xeroxed artwork and a real, old-timey postage stamp, fit for use. Recorded by Paul A. Rosales a/k/a Wonder Wheel in his well-decorated living room with 2 mixers and 1 computer and probably 13 microphones and 8 people playing music. This is Life’s Blood Flow -1, but the site won’t display the negative number. Bummer! Limited to about 130. $2 with any other Life’s Blood order, else $3ppd US.
Also, available as a “au gratis” download right here, if that is more up your alley.
“Hand/Stand”
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FLOW 14
The best album by the band “Pregnant” (not the punk band). Purely pop songwriting that is unafraid to bliss out into pure error glitch. Blue screen of life. There is nothing “usual” about this music, and it cannot feel more normal, organic, and timeless. 500 copies on “Big Bird” marbled yellow vinyl. Includes download code.
“Uphill Divination”
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Preorder now and you can get the record for $10 shipped in the US. The album will ship sometime in early September. All preorders come with Pregnant’s last Life’s Blood cassette release “Liquidation On Swans” included (“while supplies last”). Sorry! No more tapes! All preorders and a handful of regular orders will come with a mix CD from Daniel of Pregnant.
FLOW 15
Four tracks by four very different yet geographically-related artists. Mason Lindahl of Mason Lindahl. Ellie Fortune of Ellie Fortune. Raleigh Moncrief of The Advantage, Who’s Your Favorite Son, God?, and Marnie Stern. Zach Hill of Zach Hill, Hella, Zach Hill & Mick Barr, Holy Smokes, Marnie Stern, CHLLPLL, -bygones, Wavves, Diamond Watch Wrists, Crime In Choir, Nervous Cop, El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (etc.). Each panel of the gatefold will be individually designed by the artist (the image above is a teaser of the art).
The songs contained herein are artifacts of the incredible rich, tight-knit, and incestuous musical community in the legal heart of California. These songs are all different and evocative and do not coexist as musical parallels aside from their innate togetherness. Pretty much these songs attempt showcase the scope of an infinite well of creative musical expression. 500 total sets.
Preorder now and you can get this beautiful package for $9 shipped in the US. The split will ship sometime in August.
FLOW 16
Bridgetown head honcho spreads his warmth. 2 tracks a side of emotive guitar work, swells and drones melting into one another, melancholy melodies searing through with an unexpected lightness. Distilling side-long drone missives into pop-sized scenes. Fast-paced time-lapse photographs of the heart of Kevin Greenspon. 4 tracks.
AVAILABLE MID SEPTEMBER
