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NP060 FNU Ronnies- s/t 1 sided 12" (silkscreened picture disc.) This record has been in the works for a little while now and we couldn't be more happy to see it finally out. FNU Ronnies find home turf in both Philly and Oakland and have a previous 7inch on Richie Records. This 12" contains the same material as the recent cassette/CD on Denmark's Skrot Up label but we think you'll find the reissue well worth it. Deluxe art work by band member Jim Vail with silkscreening by Shawn Reed, FNU Ronnies are a weird almost indescribable mix of fucked up hardcore propulsion, industrial heaviness, electronics thrashing, and punked out cyborg nihilism. Aesthetic themes elude to psychedelic nightmares, Middle Earth monsters, and generally dark times. Seeing this band live last summer was a revelation into how musical genres could be mutated into something truly unpredictable and inspiring.
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NP058 Kites / Earth Crown - Split LP This is a cold vision of a dark trash covered future full of Sci Fi
nightmares and strange out of body experiences. This is the final
Kites recording and is perhaps the strangest and most chaotic piece in
the prolific discography. Annihilation synth and tape collage, cut up,
sped up and dialed to oblivion. Earth Crown steps it back, slows down
the pulse, lets the edges of the static curl around the drone to the
breaking point, where the damage is let loose, purged out and built
again. This LP is a reminder of how cold, desolate, and haunting life
can be. Silkscreened by Shawn Reed, Art by Kites and Earth Crown.
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NP058 Peaking Lights - Imaginary Falcons LP (BACK IN PRINT!) This
is the debut full length LP by Madison Wisconsin's Peaking Lights.
Members Indra Dunis (Numbers/Rah Dunes) and Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes)
created a stunner that's full of hypnotic analog electronics, pulsing
drum sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, and
Indra's warm drifting vocals. This record is all its own, everything it
needs to be, and it won't disappoint any expectations of its harmony
and beauty. Groovy, spacey, heartfelt music for a new age. Art work and
silkscreen by Shawn Reed.
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NP069 Truth Syrum - "The Taker's Mistake" C20 Truth Syrum is one of the newer solo projects in the Iowa City weirdo underground. Will Kapp (spent some time in Pukers) as Truth Syrum creates strange loner mutant junk folk with damaged electric guitar, weird distorted vocals, and subtle noise textures. A bit like something you might hear out of New Zealand ala the Expressway label in the early 90's wtih a nod to contemporary junk art aesthetics and fried pysch guitar. Artwork by Will and RGarbes. |
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NP071 DuneBuggy - "s/t" C20 Dune Buggy is Ryan Garbes and Charles "Taterbug" Free, expanding on both members obsessions with classic garage, punk, and pysch rock tunes and images. Dune Buggy is the pop realization of these obsessions. 20 minutes of catchy organ, guitar, and drum driven punkers delivered in Iowa City basement scum style haze. Cleaner then you think it will sound but with enough grit to keep it grimey, who new these two could play it this cool? Teeny bop, youth cult Armageddon rockers. Expect more on NP and Gel by Dunebuggy in the future. Artwork by RGarbes.
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NP072 Terror Bird - "Sociopaths are Glam" C36 Terror Bird is Nikki Never from Vancouver's Modern Creatures solo outlet. One of the finest recordings released in any format on Night-People, Terror Bird is honest, heartfelt, nostalgic pop music, layered in touches of dark ambiance and glittery sheen. Centered around Nikki's amazing voice and dirgey piano arrangements, Sociopaths are Glam references classic 80's and 90's dark pop without any historic worshiping or posturing. Couldn't be more excited to just sit around and listen to this amazing album. Artwork by SDReed.
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NP073 Meth Teeth - "s/t" C16 This is a re release of Meth Teeth's Indian Spirits Demo from last summer's nationwide tour. Long time Night-People pals, Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once. LP on Woodsist soon. Artwork by SDReed.
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NP074 Hanging Coffins - "s/t" C40 Hanging Coffins are a strange new pysch punk band from Eugene OR. Night-People got exposed to these dudes Chrome esque, creeped out, dark, druggy jams via there cassette on Madison's Jerkwave Tapes, and this new cassette is just as good, and maybe even weirder. This is a stark album not in its lack of fullness of instrumentation or composition but in its isolated downer feelings and mood, there are times when something brighter and slightly uplifting shines through the fog of the menacing psychedelic guitar grit, but for the most part this is damaged primordial alien rock and it rips. Artwork by SDreed.
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NP075 Earth Station - "Control Belief" C20 Earth Station is Mike Pollard (Abror Rec./Treetops etc.) and Peter Friel (Young tapes) new now age, space suit, field studies in the deep trenches of mars, power ambient band. Tidal waves of glacial synth murmur, the kind of intentionally epic stuff that you can't help but like if you let yourself truly drift off. The end is coming and this what it might sound like. Space music for earthlings. Total harmony, total control. Artwork by SDReed. |
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NP076 Shearing Pinx - "s/t" C32 Shearing Pinx are long running Vancouver staples and are one of the bands that seemed to really help solidify that cities underground weirdo music community to an audience outside of its own geography. This new tape in there very prolific discography is tension filled angular noisy post no wave dirge, waves of cascading guitar dread and percussion propulsion, gliding over a subtle underbelly of chimey strum and atmosphere. Technical, tectonic, chaos. Artwork by SDReed.
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NP077 Hochman & Hopkins - "Live NYE" C34 Jonathan Hochman (Holy Balm, Pagan Dawn) and Matthew Hopkins (Naked on the Vague, Near Tapes etc.) are from Sydney AU and this is there live Synthesizer project focused around otherworldly tonal eruptions, trance inducing electronics washes, science fiction fucked vocal sludge, and generally weird psych synth vibes. Lost mind submarine rides, drifting sitting at the point where the desert meets the sky, volcanoes erupting onto cities, all moving along past out of your control in your ears and across your mind.
Artwork by SDReed.
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NP078 Weirding Module - "TIMEW33D" C46 Much in line with the weapon Weirding Module references in its name this cassette TIMEW33D attacks with varying sonic textures and sounds with a specificity that seems quite distinct. As strange as anything Night-People has ever released, this cassette of out world synth pulse, subtle interplays of heavy electronics, and queasy trance oscillations, is as spaced out as it gets. Peel the skin back something else is inside of us, speaking through the mind to the deep lost universe. Artwork by SDReed.
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