1. Charles Barabé “Dates & Confessions” (Tranquility)
Dates & Confessions is probably the strongest effort from Charles Barabé, a dude who seems to up the ante of his sonic experimentation with each release. The ten tracks on this Tranquility tape (4 “dates” and 6 “confessions”) are sizable in scope and momentum, a contemplative sculpting of dazzling electronics, gyratory spasms of tones, and intriguing field recordings, found sounds, and/or synthesized voices. All of those elements spiral together, handily bringing the listener in and out of distinct moods. If you give Dates & Confessions a listen in a hyper-focused state– similar to the one Barabé was most definitely in while creating it– you’ll easily be able to envision the sounds as an anatomical cross section: complex and divergent material working together. Thick & Thin. Wet & Dry. Bone & Meat. Veins & Nerves. Dates & Confessions. |
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| 2. German Army “Tassili Plateau” (Field Hymns) |
| 3. Social Junk “Give Up” (Ascetic House) |
| 4. Ryan Emmett “Portrait Of A Dog” (Orange Milk) |
| 5. Angel Olsen “Burn Your Fire For No Witness” (Bathetic) |
| 6. Ant’lrd / Gardener split (Digitalis) |
| 7. Grandma Lo-Fi “The Basement Tapes Of Sigríður Níelsdóttir” (Hornbuckle) |
| 8. Tlaotlon / Střed Světa split (Baba Vanga) |
| 9. Matthew Akers “A History Of Arson” (Out Of Body) |
| 10. Diode s/t (Crash Symbols) |
| 11. The Electric Amygdala “Lion On The Beach” (Happy Puppy) |
| 12. V/A “Ohio Volume One” (A Soundesign Recording/SKSK) |
| 13. G.S. Sultan “AG_GREATESTHIT” (Umor Rex) |
| 14. A.P. Vague “Uhura” (Bluebird Recordings) |
| 15. Ben Varian “Real Domestic Scene” (Patient Sounds) |
| 16. Doberman “CB004” (Castle Bravo) |
| 17. Jeremy Bible “Collisions” (False) |
| 18. Sewer Election & Puce Mary “Masks Are Aids” (Total Black) |
| 19. Jeremiah Fisher “Martyrboys” (Tonal Shit) |
| 20. Black Thread “Contemplation/Incompleteness” (Turmeric Magnitudes) |
| 21. Unguent / Mincemeat Or Tenspeed split (Refulgent Sepulchre) |
| 22. Karl Fousek “Relative Position Of Figures” (Phinery) |
| 23. Looks Realistic “VA/A” (Beer On The Rug) |
| 24. Watchword “Rose And Cross” (Arable) |
| 25. Tredici Bacci “The Thirteen Kisses Cassetta” (NNA) |
| 26. Q///Q “N Sa Bwa” (Skrot Up) |
| 27. V/A “Haord’s Buncha” (Haord) |
| 28. Motion Sickness of Time Travel “Ballades” (Hooker Vision) |
| 29. Charlatan “Dead Drop” (Umor Rex) |
| 30. Bromp Treb “Abuse Abandon Abort” (Yeay! Plastics) |
| 31. Czern “Mind In Transit” (Castle Bravo) |
| 32. Andreas Brandal “Hidden Rooms” (Tranquility) |
| 33. Yom San “Playa Piano” (Crash Symbols) |
| 34. Derek Rogers “Visual Echos” (Umor Rex) |
| 35. Anthony Janas “Funny And Pretty” (Catholic) |
| 36. Moltar “Oval Enounters” (Mistake By The Lake) |
| 37. Ray Phaze Tropics “Motello Fish” (Rotifer) |
| 38. Quicksails / Headboggle split (Hausu Mountain) |
| 39. Wrong Signals “However, The Joke Became Serious” (Third Kind) |
| 40. Knit Prism “Pace” (Scissor Tail Editions) |
| 41. Yves Malone “Three Movies” (Field Hymns) |
| 42. Long Distance Poison “Mirror Totality” (Moss Archives) |
| 43. Severed + Said “Crying In Dreams” (Popnihil) |
| 44. Good Willsmith “14 Years Of Desperate Research” (Umor Rex) |
| 45. Karl Fousek “Codicil” (Adhesive Sounds) |
| 46. Charles Barabé / Black Givre split (La Cohu) |
| 47. Watchword / Stopped Clock split (A Soundesign Recording) |
| 48. Radio Shock “Romanse Is The Death Of Intellect” (Suite 309) |
| 49. Ryan Harris “Endless Shadows” (Wood Between Worlds) |
| 50. Maurizio Bianchi / Roadside Picnic split (USSR) |
| 51. Dane Patterson “Ghosting” (Fabrica) |
| 52. Witchbeam / Mister Matthews split (Hausu Mountain) |
| 53. Portopia ’81 “Stardust Memory” (Field Hymns) |
54. Many Mansions “Night Sesh” (MJMJ)
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| 55. Sleep Museum “The Vitrine Of Blindness” (Golden Cloud) |
| 56. Astral Social Club “Meadow Mechanicals” (Fort Evil Fruit) |
| 57. Sam Gas Can “I Sat Around” (Crash Symbols) |
| 58. Japanese Treats “*E 468” (Adhesive Sounds) |
| 59. V/A “The Two Benji’s Remix” (Refulgent Sepulchre) |
| 60. HRRR “Adwa” (self released) |
| 61. 夕方の犬 (Dog in the evening) “mb_s_4_ch” (Patient Sounds) |
| 62. Micromelancolié “Surface Shift” (La Cohu) |
| 63. Sound Sleep “Shape” (Exitab) |
| 64. Jung An Tagen “Vielheiten” (Feathered Coyote) |
| 65. G.S. Sultan “intermediate mv. (demonstration)” (Nada) |
| 66. Giant Claw “22M Never Felt So Alone” (Suite 309) |
| 67. Dominic Republics “Black Blizzard” (Auralgami Sounds) |
| 68. Hunted Creatures “Mogollon Rim” (Dynamo Sound Collective) |
| 69. Josh Millrod “Seeking the Millenary Kingdom” (Solid Melts) |
| 70. Hakobune / Oliwa / Former Selves / Panabrite “Oceanic Triangulation” (Inner Islands) |
| 71. Mukqs “どうか Please Can You Keep My Secret” (Patient Sounds) |
| 72. Jerry Paper / Andy Boay split (Hausu Mountain) |
| 73. Seeami “Health & Safety” (Adhesive Sounds) |
| 74. Homogenized Terrestrials / Nigel Samways / Arma & Refusenik / Gushing Cloud “Noosphertilizer II” (Aubjects) |
| 75. En Nihil / Filth split (Out Of Body) |
| 76. Andy Loebs “The Shell & Spectacle’d” (RTA Art Collective) |
| 77. Marreck “Mechanism” (Telsa) |
| 78. Solvent “C for Comfort” (Suction) |
| 79. Xunholm “Asleep In The Shattered Mirror” (Skrot Up) |
80. Maar “Ceto” (Umor Rex)
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| 81. Moulttrigger “Gamme Majeur” (The Centipede Farm) |
| 82. Terror’ish / Textbook Punk split (self released) |
| 83. Friesen / Waters Duo s/t (Shaking Box Music) |
| 84. Half High s/t (Eiderdown) |
| 85. DJ DJ Tanner “Townie” (Warm Gospel) |
| 86. Foodman “Drum Desu” (Noumenal Loom) |
| 87. Wes Tirey / Andrew Weathers split (Scissor Tail Editions) |
| 88. Dreamcrusher “Suicide Deluxe” (Hausu Mountain) |
| 89. wzrdryAV “Medicinal Circuits” (Digitalis) |
| 90. Lost Trail “Without Streetlights” (Rano) |
| 91. Lake Mary “There Are Always Second Chances in the Mountains” (Planted) |
| 92. Rick Weaver “The Perfect Man” (Bezoar Formations) |
| 93. Matthew Akers “Bayern” (self released) |
| 94. Jason Soliday “Phase Transitions” (Alien Passengers) |
| 95. Juice Machine “Spiritual Nutrition” (Dumpsterscore) |
| 96. White Resin “dektol” (VAALD) |
| 97. (( Husband Material )) “Go Ahead and Start the Family Without Me” (Patient Sounds) |
| 98. Drut PD / Larry Wish / Elegance / CH Rom “Orange Milk Split Series Vol. 1” (Orange Milk) |
| 99. Arnvs “Peltre” (Vwyrd Wurd) |
| 100. Zaïmph & Yek Koo “L’interieur De La Vue” (Obsolete Units) |
| 101. Cane Swords “Temple Swords” (Field Hymns) |
| 102. (D)(B)(H) “Beyond Antiobiotics” (Human Conduct) |
| 103. Âmes Sanglantes “Defects Of A Crystal Lattice” (Los Discos Enfantasmes) |
| 104. Spiricom s/t (Wood Between Worlds) |
| 105. Henderson/Metler/Foisy/Lachance “Built Like A Brick Shithouse” (Small Scale Music) |
| 106. Micromelancolié “Ensemble Faux Pas” (A Giant Fern) |
| 107. Seth Kasselman “Mmediate Rolls” (UR Sounds) |
| 108. Sarah Davachi “August Harp” (Cassauna) |
| 109. Bean Snack “II” (Personal Archives) |
| 110. Mark Dicker “Livestock” (Econore) |
| 111. KILT “She’s Got The Evil In Her Ear” (Fabrica) |
| 112. Invertabit / August Traeger split (Bicephalic) |
| 113. Nigro “Meeker” (Oxtail) |
| 114. The Volume Settings Folder & Tanner Garza “Sprintgtime Return” (Bookend Recordings) |
| 115. Roofer’s Nest “De-escalate” (Power Moves Label) |
| 116. X.Y.R. “Arktika” (Constellation Tatsu) |
| 117. Dark Half “Moon Through Dark Trees” (Third Kind) |
| 118. Susan Balmar “Signum” (Beer On The Rug) |
| 119. Ak’chamel “Fucking With Spirits” (The Centipede Farm) |
| 120. Little Spoon “Girlfriend Forever” (MJMJ) |
| 121. dugoutcanoe / Juxwl split (Warm Gospel) |
| 122. Gay Shapes s/t (Moss Archives) |
| 123. Hollowfonts “XLVIII” (Phinery) |
| 124. Icepick “Hexane” (Astral Spirits) |
| 125. V/A “Quality Time Vol.1” (Bonding) |
| 126. Layne Garrett “Assemblages” (Individual Lines) |
| 127. Feels / Death Club split (Limited Interest) |
| 128. Big Waves Of Pretty “It Is A Sight He Never Forgets” (Bridgetown) |
| 129. Sungod s/t (Holodeck) |
| 130. SEEZUREFACE “Moon Moan Hymnal” (Warm Gospel) |
| 131. Ruairi O’Baoighill “The Faceless One” (Feathered Coyote) |
| 132. Control Unit “Burn” (Fort Evil Fruit) |
| 133. Savage Cross “Nothingness” (Spirit Throne) |
| 134. Rosemary Arp “Sakura” (Ascetic House) |
| 135. Rachel Thomasin “Outlines” (Otherworldy Mystics) |
| 136. The Last Sound “Outer Raidio” (Fort Evil Fruit) |
| 137. Matt Boettke “Richmond Tape Club Volume Eight” (Richmond Tape Club) |
| 138. Larry Wish “Free Willy Style” (Orange Milk) |
| 139. Gora Sou “Living XXL” (Noumenal Loom) |
| 140. Pauwel De Buck “Tape Your Skin” (Smeltkop) |
| 141. Cliffsides “Headspace” (Tranquility) |
| 142. William Selman “Equatorial Night” (Hausu Mountain) |
| 143. Conrad Wedde “Spaceworld” (Field Hymns) |
| 144. Mads Emil Nielsen s/t (Plant Migration) |
| 145. Carey “VI” (Crash Symbols) |
| 146. LXV “Superimposed & Hunted” (self released) |
| 147. Atop / Ryan Harris split (Wood Between Worlds) |
| 148. Rake Kash “Old Masters” (Unread) |
| 149. DJM “Foreground Music” (Patient Sounds) |
| 150. Topdown Dialectic “/\\02” (Aught) |
| 151. Andrew Anderson “The Red Dream” (Misanthropic Smile) |
| 152. German Army “Socotra Scripture” (Horror Fiction) |
| 153. Nodolby “Pulse Paralysis” (Ghetto Naturalist Series) |
| 154. Head Dress “Warren” (Phinery) |
| 155. William Selman “Chaîne Opératoire” (Digitalis) |
| 156. Sunroom / Deep Catalogue split (Cosmic Winnetou) |
| 157. Disguised As Birds “We Buy Gold” (Geology) |
| 158. Dismal Light “Mindswap” (Auasca) |
| 159. ADSW “Fixtures” (The Centipede Farm) |
| 160. this is esophagus “Mellotron Quartet: ends no ends” (Amok Recordings) |
| 161. Los Condenados s/t (YDLMIER) |
| 162. Softest “Music for Rain Volume 1” (Inner Islands) |
| 163. Q///Q “Jardim” (Self-Help) |
| 164. Yankee Yankee “Segments” (USSR) |
| 165. Lindsay Dobbin “Arrival” (Phinery) |
| 166. Hiro Kone “Fallen Angels” (Geographic North) |
| 167. Glou Glou “Hymn Her Hum” (Full Spectrum) |
| 168. Drophead vs. Silent Land Time Machine “From Ashes Comes the Day” (Holodeck) |
| 169. V/A “Eden In Reeds: Collected Misanthropic Sounds” (Bleak Environment) |
| 170. Seth Graham “Goop” (Noumenal Loom) |
| 171. Cask s/t (Tranquility) |
| 172. Curative Measures “England Wears A Mask” (Strange Rules) |
| 173. Andrew Weathers & Seth Chrisman “Louella” (Full Spectrum) |
| 174. Bob Bellerue “Cure The Antidote” (Los Discos Enfantasmes) |
| 175. 156 “A Life Lived As If In Hell” (Out of Body) |
| 176. Body Morph “Ogre” (Moon Myst) |
| 177. Allegory Chapel Ltd. “Resurrection” (Chondritic Sound) |
| 178. Oven “III” (Mongoloid Production / Legion Blotan) |
| 179. Smokey Emery “Soundtracks for Invisibility Vol. III: Qui Mal y Pense” (Holodeck) |
| 180. Yantis / McLaughlin / Mason / Houpert “Alice Sketches” (Digitalis) |
| 181. Form “Trips” (Adhesive Sounds) |
| 182. Roan Linden “Residential Services” (Golden Cloud) |
| 183. Ou Où “Ou Ng” (self released) |
| 184. Banana Pill “Weave” (Cosmic Winnetou) |
| 185. Ki Oni “Autumn, In Real Time” (Inner Islands) |
| 186. Reactive Identity “Angelfolc (Strange Rules) |
| 187. Benjamin Finger “Mood Chaser” (Digitalis) |
| 188. Mutwawa “Richmond Tape Club Seven” (Richmond Tape Club) |
| 189. Strategy “Cerebral Hut AKA Off The Grid” (Field Hymns) |
| 190. Elizabethan Collar “/\\01” (Aught) |
| 191. Axnaar “Shite Inside Death” (Legion Blotan) |
| 192. Height with Friends “10,000 Devastating Watts” (Illuminated Paths) |
| 193. Ashtray Navigations “Aero Infinite” (Tape Drift) |
| 194. Death’s Dynamic Shroud.wmv “世界大戦OLYMPICS” (Orange Milk) |
| 195. Bus Gas “Snake Hymns” (Spring Break) |
| 196. Tashi Dorji and Frank Meadows “Number Six Is Sacred” (Cabin Floor Esoterica) |
| 197. Joshua Dumas “Rough Matinals” (Horror Fiction) |
| 198. Poet Named Revolver “Meets Gruesome” (No Kings) |
| 199. øjeRum “There Is A Flaw In My Iris” (A Giant Fern) |
| 200. Kenny Basil Sound System “Dick Picks Vol.1” (self released)Kenny Basil Sound System @ about 2 hours in
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