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MARRIAGE 064LP
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"Institut fuer Feinmotorik (IFF) is an artists' group working in different formats and media, although the main activity is acoustic-art/music. IFF is located in Bad Sackingen, Berlin, Cologne, and Karlsruhe, Germany. The group was founded in 1997 for a club event in Basel, Switzerland at Brisant kiosk/club. IFF produces different outputs (photography, video, music, drawing, computer-programming, printed matters etc.), organizes artistic/cultural events, does lectures and workshops and publishes artistic goods such as music records, books etc. IFF got some reputation for their acoustic work with a reductionist set-up called octogrammoticum: 8 turntables, 4 DJ mixers + end-mixer, which is served by the group members. Anything (except records) which somehow fits between turntables and pick-up cartridges (household-rubber bands, paper-stickers, rubber gums, handicraft-tools + various tinker-trivias) may be played."
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MARRIAGE 063LP
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"Experimental heavyweights Adam Forkner (White Rainbow, Rob Walmart, Atlas Sound), Honey Owens (Valet, Miracles Club, Atlas Sound), and Eva Salens (Inca Ore) collaborate to exploit their highly vibed-out dubby post-yoga practice chilling with the cats killer band that has made a great debut record called Proper Eats. Vinyl version comes with bonus download remixes."
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MARRIAGE 067CD
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"Stag Hare's second album, Black Medicine Music, was recorded among the redwoods of Arcata, Calfornia in the fall of 2007. Mastered by Adam Forkner, Black Medicine Music was first released by Stag Hare under his (now defunct) A.Star record label, as an edition of 350 in May 2008. For fans of: Spires That In the Sunset Rise, Ya Ho Wha 13, Cave, Espers and Joanna Newsom."
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MARRIAGE 061LP
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"Laurel Knapp, just Laurel singing with her acoustic guitar. Bare, simple, and original folk music, sung in the writer's own breathy, pitch perfect, deep voice."
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MARRIAGE 050LP
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"Appearing originally in the fall of 2002 as a limited CD-only release from the pioneering indie electronic label 555 Recordings, Lucky Dragons' first full length Dark Falcon circulated widely through burned CDs and tapes traded amongst friends. Now this mythical mixtape creature is getting a royal reissue treatment from Marriage Records, coinciding with the release of Lucky Dragons' newest full length, Dream Island Laughing Language. This is where the Los Angeles-based collective learned how to make a record: culling from two years' worth of accumulated field recordings and tender homemade spirituals, each of the 21 tracks hangs together in a delicate reinventing of traditional song structures. For all of its densely layered nostalgia and boldly digital textures, this is a lucid and revealing listen, a microscopically poetic vision into the process of blossoming collaboration between good friends in hard times. Cassettes traded through the mail, chance snippets of radio from a friends' bedroom, firecrackers in the street, drums in the living room, overheard conversations, every sound is to be listened through: a window perpetually opening. Spare and gentle, explosive and candid, all of the collective's prolific output relies on this record as its foundation."
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MARRIAGE 052LP
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"Panther is the two-headed effort of Charlie Salas-Humara (The Planet The) on vocals, cello, guitar, and keys and Joe Kelly (31 Knots) on drums. But even when it was Charlie's solo effort, he was never really alone. Whether live or on record, there was a sense that Panther was being overtaken by something, not an alter-ego, this was something else. Think Ian Curtis' convulsive intensity and James Brown's spastic swagger, and you still won't have Panther, but a sense of what-the-fuckness that all of them seem to call up. The early recordings born in the basements and warehouses of Portland, OR around 2001 brought a new brand of broken electro that when coupled with the lunatic immediacy of his modern dance meltdowns, defied categorization entirely. Panther landed on bills as varied as opening slots from Peaches to Wolf Eyes. The monstrous throb of the beats matched by Charlie's intensity bring a sense of religious visitation to any room Panther humps the floor in. His panic-driven falsetto howling non-sequiturs about paranoid sexuality make his jams hysterical, compelling, but most importantly, danceable."
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MARRIAGE 038CD
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"Marriage Records offer a second compilation documenting the rude health of this Portland, OR based community. The first noticeable difference between this collection and the previous compilation from 2004 is the extra disk. Marriage have grown up, cherishing the artists it set up to serve while welcoming new voices into their crucial discussion. Disc one represents the more psychedelic elements of the Marriage stable; the windy tones of the opening track by Privacy, the purple wash of Adam Forkner's White Rainbow and the scaling folk of Adrian Orange all sound different but somehow make sense in their shared home at Marriage. Disc two stands as a testament to the open philosophy of the Marriage family; The Watery Graves' lounge-punk homage to Portland shares a journey with the enigmatic figure of Rob Walmart and his warped hip-hop jams. This is a collection of people who collaborate and support one another through art and are excited to share their work with the rest of the world. The outcome is joyous and essential."
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