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MUSCUT 016RE-LP
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Limited-edition Riso printed cover sleeve. Nostalgia Por Mesozo´ica is an exploration of "experimental exotica" consisted of synthesized tropical attributes -- an artificial landscape isolated behind the glass frame. Reminiscent of recording techniques and sonorities ubiquitous in the '60s and '70s, it could conceivably have been intended as a soundtrack for the Mesozoic Era exhibition at your favorite Natural History museum. Featuring Arthur Mine and Amphibian Man II.
"Alchemical combinations of musique concrète, samples, synthetic parts with fairy-tale melodies ('Muzak For Mesozoic Showreel') and sound-art ('Dark-Archeo'), produce a varied, fascinating and original music narrative." --The Quietus, Jakub Knera
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MUSCUT 027LP
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Eye Of Delirious is a long-awaited debut of Muscut's release of Chillera's bass player Ganna Bryzhata -- an Odesa-based sound artist. This ambient LP is a smoothy-flow sub-nautical journey with the songs of Black Sea sirens glowing under the moon.
"Ganna Bryzhata's ethereal, shape-shifting electroacoustic experiments feel equally conducive to beatific calm and deep melancholy." --Pitchfork
"Fortunately Bryozone is not singing and not going in a dream-pop direction -- this is a non-obvious, evocative, in a way visual, and narrative soundtrack to the journey to the Black Sea coast. Or elsewhere in the middle of hot summer, as this album with scraps of rhythm, melodies, and hazy vision of sunny afterimages catch with a very impressive and suggestive story." --The Quietus
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MUSCUT 030LP
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The fourth episode of the Test Pressing series compilations includes tracks from such artists as Memotone, Giuseppe Ielasi, Andrew Pekler, Rome´o Poirier, Nikolaienko, Felix Kubin, Jake Muir, Felicity Mangan, Star Searchers, and Tarotplane. The first episode was released in 2012 as a debut Muscut record named so and intended to become a label trial, a test of the audience to check whether the world needs one more label with the following episodes in 2018 (Test Pressing II) and 2020 (Test Pressing III). 300 copies (hand-stamped, hand-numbered).
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MUSCUT 024CS
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Transplant Rejection is the second in a trilogy of cassette albums released via Muscut in the latter half of 2022. The work of Estonian artist and IDA Radio co-founder Robert Nikolajev, this collection of seven "almost" dark ambient tracks embody the melancholy of autumn whilst hinting at the forthcoming eternal winter. A man with many hats, Nikolajev operates on the fringes of the leftfield house underground for labels such as Incienso, Collect-Call, and Sad Fun as well as being one half of the sporadic DIMA DISK act with Ragnar Rahouja. Eschewing the more rhythmic side of his productions for this Muscut tape, Nikolajev taps into the fictional soundtrack atmospheres the label is known for and brings his own brand of wistful, introspective world-building by way of machine harmony to the now Tallinn based imprint. There's a lo-fi, grainy quality running throughout the collection, a kind of sepia-toned nostalgia that envelops the listener and disorientates any perception of time or place. Buried vocal fragments sit in the mix on "Stifled" alongside decaying synthesizer drones whilst "DDM" channels an edgy post-rock dirge with its use of sagged bass guitar. Overall, an inspired look into the more 'at home' side of this increasingly prolific Estonian artist.
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MUSCUT 016LP
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Nostalgia Por Mesozóica is an exploration of "experimental exotica" consisted of synthesized tropical attributes -- an artificial landscape isolated behind the glass frame. Reminiscent of recording techniques and sonorities ubiquitous in the '60s and '70s, it could conceivably have been intended as a soundtrack for the Mesozoic Era exhibition at your favorite natural history museum. Mastering by Flaty. Cover artwork/photos by Dmytro Nikolaienko. Features Arthur Mine and Amphibian Man II.
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MUSCUT 022LP
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Vlad Dobrovolski (12th Isle, GOST ZVUK) is 1/2 of S A D, a band previously released as on Muscut and GOST ZVUK, a band LP on 12th Isle, came up with his solo album called Playbacks For Dreaming. Features P-SH.
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MUSCUT 014EP
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Odessa band Chillera, Anya Brizhata, Polina Matskevich, and Nastya Marikutsa, speak smoothly and confidently. For three summer months after a hard day's work, they played musical instruments, listened to hi-life and King Tubby, and enjoyed the beauty of the Crimean landscapes. The unique charm of Chillera is in their ability to find a positive meaning in the things far removed, transforming it into the source of their main strength. It is the music, which paints breezy summertime landscapes in our imagination.
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MUSCUT 013EP
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Mlin Patz is a solo project of Chillera band member Polina Matskevych (electric guitar), an outlet for her experiments with sound collages, field recordings and dub sound -- all accompanied by a warm southern guitar sound. Sunlimit -- exotic electronic dub with electric guitar and tape hiss, can be used for both listening rooms and dancefloors. Inspired by well-known dub pioneers and recent RAMZi, Jan Shulte, and Don't DJ. 45rpm.
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MUSCUT 011EP
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Oleg Buyanov, aka OL, DJ and electronic music producer from Moscow, Russia. Leading member of Gost Zvuk. On a hot summer day, you enter the main hall of a well-known local Vietnamese restaurant. The noise of the visitors' voices merges with the national music playing in the background. All seats are occupied in the hall and the polite staff takes you to a separate room where the atmosphere of calm and comfort prevails. Beautiful interior, cool air, and soft light conducive to relaxation. Exotic dishes and drinks allow you to fully enjoy the authenticity.
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MUSCUT 010LP
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Ukrainian label Muscut celebrates its anniversary with Test Pressing II, its tenth record. The first release, Test Pressing, was published in 2012 on 7". Like six years ago, the current title is a compilation of Muscut's resident producers, as well as new friends of the label. Test Pressing II is a 12" on which there are exactly ten tracks; both sides are significantly different in the color of their mood. The compilation starts with dub-drone sketches from key figures in the Odessa underground Wildstyle Crew and Bryozone. Then comes the mantra-like "M2" - the work of the creative union of Nicola Ratti and Mads Emil Nielsen together with Nikolaenko. The Canadian sound-artist Mark Templeton continues the line of rhythmic textures crowned with unhurried percussion on his "Soft Education". The first side is completed by an exquisite curtsy from Andrew Pekler, "Underwater Nocturne", a soundtrack for the perfect tea ceremony. The second side confidently sets a completely different compilation rhythm from the very start; the tribal dance from the Berlin project Native Instrument instantly introduces a trance. It is followed by a warm, enveloping minimal synth track from the Ukrainian trio Nisantashi Primary School. The middle of the second side is decorated with the pensive house-ballad of St. Petersburg producer Fadeev, working as AEM Rhythm Cascade. Another Russian has settled next to him -- Muscovite Oleg Buyanov, aka OL, with the massive broken dub "Nutmeg". The final composition consists of burning Afro-synth motifs from luminary Odessan Vakula. Edition of 300.
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MUSCUT 009LP
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Kiev-based label Muscut opens 2018 with an LP from St. Petersburg musician Eugenii Fadeev (Flaty). Raising the attention of the musical community with his work for the 12th Isle and GOST ZVUK labels as AEM Rhythm Cascade, he's also recently released on Udacha and his own label ANWO as Dada Ques. In addition to the aforementioned, Flaty also adopts such aliases as Ocurob and Wrong Water. Under the name Wrong Water, he presents this current release of a dozen tracks, most of which were recorded purely using analog instruments. Drawing inspiration from the music of such electronic pioneers as Delia Derbyshire, Bruce Haack, Mort Garson, and others, Wrong Water is an attempt to qualitatively re-think the heritage of the '70s and '80s. Thus, through tireless experimentation, Fadeev manages to create his own inimitable neo-library parable. Full of graceful flickering stars and midnight tropical breathing, Dozen is a welcome addition to the endlessly fascinating world of Muscut. Performed, recorded, produced, and mastered by Flaty. Lettering by Zhenia Anfalov; Graphic design by Dmytro Nikolaienko.
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MUSCUT 008EP
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Chillera, the new girl-band from Odessa, on Muscut. Three young witches mixed together the berries of surf rock, dub-rhythms ripened on the southern soil and greens of funky ornaments. The very title of the headline track, "SCHAX", sounds simultaneously as a spell and as an order. The composition of the gang also stupefies the imagination: Ganna Brizhata, known of her solo project Bryozone and collaborations with Vakula and Indirect; Polina Matskevich, working in the field of experimental electronics under the moniker p.m.; And a real girl-vamp in the style of techno-punk, Ira Lupu.
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MUSCUT 007LP
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From the city that brought you LSD comes a new album by Marco Papiro, the Swiss-Italian musician and graphic designer who has gained some notoriety with his album covers for the likes of Panda Bear and Sun Araw. Automare is Papiro's seventh solo album, recorded on 4-track cassette, on hard-disk, in public and in private, entirely self-produced and now released on Nikolaienko's Muscut label. The five hauntingly evocative tracks offer a variety of atmospheres from surreal to arcane, from celestial to subaqueous. Synthetic sounds (some mature EMS, Moog, and Roland) are combined with other assorted instruments (organ, shehnai, electric guitar, and bass), and emulsified through various time-and-space-bending devices. There are no percussions, with one surprisingly groovy exception, in which a drum machine is being generously treated with phaser and envelope filters -- think of early Cabaret Voltaire with a North Saharan touch. Papiro's handcrafted artificial vocals are anything but human, but all the more compelling: out of the fluorescent plankton of the side-long opening track "Rhenus Rebus" rises a siren's voice, reminiscent of Alide Maria Salvetta in Battiato's "Campane", joined in a final mantra by an oboe borrowed from an inebriated Third Ear Band. Entering a chimeric karaoke bar, the title track "Automare" makes the album even more bizarre by introducing a distinctive pop feel. Back to the abstract world, the following "Polmonella" -- a live recording with additional musicians Anthony Glass (aka Antenna Tony Monorail) and Markus Stähli (of Roy & The Devil's Motorcycle) -- is a fever-y exploration of cosmic territories in the manner of Harmonia, while the alien articulation of "Incom" sounds unlike anything else ever recorded. Edition of 300.
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MUSCUT 005EP
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Neumond is a 7 inch representing sound researches by Pavel Milyakov, also known as Buttechno. Composed and recorded by Pavel Milyakov. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Label artwork by Ed Emshwiller, from the movie Sunstone (1979).
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MUSCUT 004LP
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First vinyl edition of Andrew Pekler's Cue, originally released as a CD by Kranky in 2007. Reissued by the Kiev, Ukraine-based Muscut label (founded by Dmytro Nikolaienko) under exclusive license from Kranky, Ltd. Limited edition of 300. From Andrew Pekler: "Typically, library music albums were not available to the general public but were marketed directly to film, TV and commercial production companies. Judging by the information provided on the record sleeves, these consumers of library music were assumed to have little interest in the identities of the individuals who actually wrote and played the music, the musicians' names often being relegated to the very small print. Instead, it appears that the functional aspects of the product were of foremost importance; the persistently generic names of the tracks and their descriptions, durations and suggestions for their usage are the ubiquitous features of library album packaging. At the same time, the name of the production studio itself is given the kind of front cover top-billing usually reserved for a performer or composer (or to brand names on boxes of corn flakes)."
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MUSCUT 003LP
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2015 release. 140-gram LP. Includes download code. Canada-based label Graphical Recordings and the Ukraine-based Muscut label present Nikolaienko's The Sounds of Pseudoscience, a playful and intriguing archive of sounds influenced by the works of electronic music pioneers and experimenters. The album acts as a tribute to the golden era of early electronics, pondering the theme of nostalgia through warm, analog space-aged sounds. For the artist, it's an odd document with which he hopes to declare another way to make contemporary electronic music.
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