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Noumenal Loom’s Winter Solstice Jams
12.22.13 by Mike Haley

Noumenal Loom, who was recently voted Best New Cassette Label by the Cassette Label Society of North America (CLSNA), which is just me and a cardboard cutout of Henry Rollins I found in a dumpster, just released their second batch. It’s a handsome looking and sounding set of four with artwork by Aiden Koch. Each is an edition of 100 home dubbed tapes, full of haunting melodies and clouds of painkiller hazes. Here’s how she breaks down…

G Sweems “Treasure Island”  C34
International Parallives Institute “Memoirs of Anomie Gray” C31
Calico Field Recordings s/t C17
Tuluum Shimmering “Festival at the Shallow River” C40

Cardboard Henry could go on all day about how tight these tapes are (even that version doesn’t shut the fuck up) but why don’t you be your own judge and check em out. Then buy the shit out of them for $8.50 each, or $28.00 for all four. Those prices include postage in the United States. Email noumenalloom@gmail.com about international prices.

Photoshop Merzbow Contest
12.19.13 by Tabs Out

Since 1979 Masami Akita, commonly known as Merzbow, has released nearly 400 recordings and played countless numbers of shows. In that time people have remastered, remixed, and collaborated with him. But, to the best of our knowledge, there has not been much demand to Photoshop him. Well, in celebration of his birthday today Tabs Out is here to right that wrong.

Click the image to the left to download a high res PSD (or here if you’d rather grip a PNG or JPG) of Masami Akita. Once the file is living on your computer, use the program Adobe Photoshop (or an equivalent) to render old Merzy, or place him somewhere zany like a KFC or something. Go crazy. Have fun. Be a dick. We’ll choose our favorites and throw em up on the site. Whoever makes the best ones will get a grip of cassette tapes from us as a little prize.

Use WeTransfer and send your works of art to contact@s935781125.onlinehome.us. Be sure to include your name and where ya live. Contest ends when we want it to NOW.

Okay, we’ve combed through all of the submissions. Some were pretty awesome, some were just fucking terrible. And the winner is…

 

 

 

 

Winner: Jared Micah

 

Honorable Mentions

Andrew White

DAS

Simon Stroup

Max Allison