Stuff and things – Spring edition

Field Hymns — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:52:03 +0000

A bit of a sleepy Spring here on the Field Hymns internets waypost – upcoming Summer releases will be Giant Claw, Mattress and Lazercrotch – and if you haven’t picked up the Spring releases, they are going fast! Don’t hesitate, paper weight – buying tapes is totally great! In the meantime, here are some of [...]

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Be back in two weeks!

Field Hymns — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:39:26 +0000

We are taking a two week leave of absence from the shop – all orders placed before today, the 2nd, have gone out – orders placed in the interim will be on their way after the 17th. In the meantime, you should watch this…

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FH035 PLVS VLTRA – Yo-Yo Blue

Field Hymns — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:15:08 +0000

RIYL: Alog, Bjork, Brigitte Fontaine, The Focus Group Rippling like a thumbed-through flip book of vaporous, hazy memories or maybe like a box of old photos left to the devices of the wind, Yo-Yo Blue feels like a curated tour of a fevered dream. Replete with childhood recitals, fragments of half-remembered stanzas and sumptous j-pop [...]

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FH034 Cremator – Alpha Ralpha Boulevard

Field Hymns — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:14:42 +0000

RIYL: Heldon, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, John Carpenter Cremator’s new album title comes from a tale about a sudden, radical shift from a controlling, benevolent, and sterile society to one of individuality and danger ruled by an elite group called the Instrumentality. Now picture the soundtrack circa 1979 by Klaus Schulze and filmed by Jean [...]

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FH033 Black Hat – Covalence

Field Hymns — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:14:03 +0000

RIYL: Tim Hecker, Mouse on Mars, Loscil The voices of futures past howl through PNG files of grass and waterfalls – thumping and thrumming, bumping and humming – but always subservient to the pulse. It’s a very pleasant factory where the tunes for imaginary holidays of post-Christian digital paganism are made: some static is playing [...]

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Oxykitten – Fugue State

Field Hymns — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:10:45 +0000

Not technically a Field Hymns release but an offering from Oxykitten: “Fugue State is a collection of 4 and 8 track tape recordings from Oxykitten’s past. Previously floating around as the spirits of albums never requited, these killer but odd cuts are newly assembled in a shiny and happy home. Hope you enjoy….” GET IT [...]

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Other releases by peeps you should know about

Field Hymns — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:38:18 +0000

So the cassette/small run/net label world is a pretty incestuous thing – because we don’t have to wait until we sell 1000 CDs or 500 records to release another album, artists like us tend to be prolific. This really is the benefit of tapes – burn bright and fast, and leave them wanting more. Make [...]

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FH031/032 – The Cats’ Orchestra / Regular Music split

Field Hymns — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:36:30 +0000

THE CATS’ ORCHESTRA – NO KEYS RIYL: Fonal Records, Kluster, early Kraftwerk + a touch of biscuit It’s just a normal night for The Cats’ Orchestra…somewhere else. The little factories hum, tiny drunks stumble home, miniature drive-ins play wee adventure movies, a flock of robot geese flies over, and an orchestra made of pint-sized Russian [...]

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FH030 Nodolby – Aftermath / Inception

Field Hymns — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:35:26 +0000

RIYL: BBC Radiophonic Workshop, an expedition to the afterbirth of synthesis, the compression of space and time due to a fever dream. As you may have noticed, we in the world of synth-based cassette music are awash in a tide of baby-faced analog synthers and teen arpeggiators, but we at Field Hymns are here to [...]

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A year-end thanks and early hello to 2013

Field Hymns — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:46:21 +0000

Man, it has been a stellar year for Field Hymns, the best yet. We released an ass-load of great music – in fact, it’s kind of unbelievable that we released 13 albums this year, all A+ caliber : Bastian Void – Fluorescent Bells Boron – The Beige Album Jonathan James Carr – Well Tempered Ignorance [...]

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