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MEX 147LP
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"Turning away from the suspense and dread of their other band Grails, Emil Amos and Alex Hall pursue a different angle of playfulness and perversion with their newer project Lilacs & Champagne. Their self-titled debut of 2012 warped samples from around the world to build a new kind of psychotic mood music, and their secnd record Danish & Blue manages to be even grander and more ambitious, yet somehow more damaged and bugged-out. Alternately beautiful and deviant, Danish & Blue showcases a unique sense of humor and digging understanding that escapes the car-commercial-ification of the sample-based styles that have been left for dead or un-updated. Lilacs & Champagne take the classic crate-digging methodology that built instrumental hip-hop and direct it back into darker unexplored creases of cult music history. From an alternate dimension where 'behind the curve' and 'ahead of the curve' conjoin to make music actually fun to listen to again and mysterious, we give you Danish & Blue."
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MEX 135EP
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"This is the lead single from Atlanta-based Mood Rings' debut album on Mexican Summer; a moody, sexy pop song cloaked in an air of mystery, but loaded with enough reverberant guitar hooks to soar the track skywards. Produced with a rich, glossy lacquer, and painted with Will Fussell's breathy, whispering vocals, this is pop at its most intense and arresting. They switch up the tone on B-side '333'; barbed, catchy guitar pop with psychedelic flourishes and a crunchy, fuzzed-out finish. Limited edition of 350."
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MEX 111LP
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"The company has a diverse body of work which consists of forays into music, video, sculpture, drawing and writing. Originally self-released, and later released digitally and on CD between 2004 and 2006 through Kemado Records, these three records have been re-mastered, expanded and pressed to vinyl for the very first time. A Sectioned Beam, an EP originally released in 2004 has been expanded with a previously unreleased, swirling 15 minute track called 'Seaside.' The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of "path" paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike." Includes download code. Numbered limited edition of 500 copies.
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MEX 112LP
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"The final reissue is 2006's dense and ambitious The Dividing Island which was lauded by Pitchfork for morphing from 'nighttime neon new-wave, replete with spitting drums, Caucasoid-funk breakdowns' into 'mellow soul... and watery drone.' The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of 'path' paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike." Numbered edition of 500 copies.
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MEX 148LP
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"Wait to Pleasure is the product of the Montreal noise-pop band's first foray in a fully-furnished studio environment. Here the band has flourished, delivering their finest set to date, rooted heavily in ripcurls and devastating melody, finishing sentences whispered long ago with depth, variance and force. Singer-guitarists Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd and drummer Garland Hastings knock down the fence between nostalgia and modernity, chaos and control, in a perfectly-realized effort made to bridge their uncompromised musical pasts with the alarmist tendencies of the present."
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MEX 110LP
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"The company has a diverse body of work which consists of forays into music, video, sculpture, drawing and writing. Originally self-released, and later released digitally and on CD between 2004 and 2006 through Kemado Records, these three records have been re-mastered, expanded and pressed to vinyl for the very first time. The company's 2003 The Incomplete Triangle LP, which was described as 'dreamy space rock... with a psychedelic metal twist" by Spin Magazine, has been expanded with a previously unreleased ambient section. The mysterious, oblique nature surrounding Lansing-Dreiden has not only earned them critical acclaim but an appropriately cult-like fanbase. As the company has stated, 'all projects are fragmentary, mere stones in a path whose end lies in a space where the very definition of "path" paths.' These reissues seek to illuminate these paths for original and new listeners alike."
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MEX 128LP
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Gatefold double LP version with download code.
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MEX 128CD
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"Vietnam marks their long-awaited return with a new full-length album, An A.merican D.ream. Michael Gerner, the creative force behind Vietnam, is back for the first time in five years with a new six-piece lineup laying down their renowned signature cocktail of apocalyptic street blues. After taking a long break to explore his interest in ambient analog synth soundscapes on the West Coast (scoring films and recording with his project D.A.), Gerner has now made a bold comeback to both New York City and rock and roll with his best record to date - adding a new dimension to the instrumentation with a moog player and a violinist. An AD is a cinematic dark concrete ride that revs through demons and detours with greasy grace. Throughout the 2000's, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Gerner and his revolving lineups spent years tirelessly burning up America's moonlit highways and releasing memorable records that include the critically-acclaimed self-titled debut LP on Kemado Records in 2007, three prior EP's on The Social Registry, and their debut, The Concrete's Always Grayer on the Other Side of the Street, on Vice Records in 2003. When the work, hopes, and dreams finally culminated in a crescendo of across-the-board success, Michael Gerner and Vietnam disappeared without a trace, until now."
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MEX 131EP
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"Vietnam marks their long-awaited return with a new single 'Kitchen Kongas' from their forthcoming album, An A.merican D.ream. Michael Gerner, the creative force behind Vietnam, is back with a new six-piece lineup laying down their renowned signature cocktail of apocalyptic street blues, and adding a new dimension to the instrumentation with a moog player and a violinist."
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MEX 140LP
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"Truth comes today from France's Gregory Raimo, once again taking up the mantle of the performance moniker GR. Raimo has been shredding with ingenious ferocity for a number of years now, both alone and as guitarist/vocalist for Gunslingers, a power trio fortified by his relentless barrage of guitar noise and rhythmic imperative. A Reverse Age is Raimo's third and most intense solo album, following a collaborative EP with Michael Yonkers. Those of you in the know will hear Yonkers' late '60s period influence, whether it be myth or reality (only the artist is telling), as you might also find the strange, hissing atmosphere of Alien Soundtracks-era Chrome or the psychic limbering-up of The Magic Band evident in GR's music. Real, productive damage comes from within, however, and that's where A Reverse Age performs its miracles. It figures that you would need to go back 30 to 40 years in the history of underground or fringe music to find any sort of precedent to its eight songs. Its restless nature highlights Raimo's frantic compositional structures and explosive playing across guitar, bass and drums alike, the product of one guy with real vision and the skills to pull off a work of virtuosic hostility such as this one. Riffs sizzle and burn up, pushed through effects that somehow cheapen lesser works yet bolster this one. Things you know -- eldritch forest folk, roadhouse blues, aggressive jazz-style drumming -- are distended near to the point where they become part of GR's own musical syllabus, grounded by GR's street-corner vocal hustle, sounding like Armand Schaubroeck rapping into a CB radio in a stolen car, out joyriding and knocking off side view mirrors."
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