Field recordings transpire on a dusty reel-to-reel. From East to West. From hanging moss to Hollywood haunts. From Dirty South humidity to the invisible voice of the streets. From The Woods to the Big city. Caught between channels, between frequencies. Tuned to a short-range satellite transmitting across eternity.
LRH002
hand-painted CDr, total runtime 40.1 min
limited to 150 copies
$12.00
DISK II is a full-length series of unreleased ambient music from Matthewdavid compiled since Vol.1 (2008-2012), burned to CDr, then housed in a hand-painted 5 & 1/4″ floppy disk. The nine-track collection features the friendships of Eola, Run DMT, Speculator, and a live performance on KXLU. We’ll be posting more documentation of the painting & processes over the next few weeks. Please allow 1-2 weeks to ship. *DISK II was designed for the invested listening experience, immersion, and background ambiance/noise too!
DOWNLOAD TRACK#5 FROM DISKII feat. EOLA
LR017
CS, total runtime 33.4 min
Limited to 200 copies
$7.00
BOOMKAT LOVE
ITUNES IS THERE TOO
Baltimorian Alex Deranian (Ferrari Jackson, member of the RUN DMT FAMILY BAND, Wigflip posse, Culture Dealer posse) releases his debut full-length as Semya. Effortless hues, splashes of synths, tapeflute, and the mystery reflecting golden days of past present and future. Includes deluxe multi-panel foldout with original Semya photography.
Shot & directed by: Semya
Opening origins further, the Matthewdavid – Jewelry album is free for download via LR.
Cover art painting by: Felix Jackson Jr.
Download: Matthewdavid – Jewelry
01. Gold Rope (Stones flip)
02. Bracelet (Radiance flip)
03. Grill (frosty’s interview tape)
04. Locket (Chi flip)
05. Rolex (RFTW flip)
06. Pendant (Remix for Dynoo)
07. Medallion (Remix for Princeton)
08. Diamond Ring (Deele flip)
Excited to tour w/ Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras, and Diva kicking off Tues, March 6th.
3/6 TUE LAS VEGAS @ BUNKHOUSE SALOON (21+)
3/7 WED TEMPE, AZ @ MEAT MARKET (ALL AGES)
3/9 FRI LUBBOCK, TX @ PRAIRIE FIRE THEATRE (ALL AGES)
3/10 SAT MARFA, TX – TONALISM
3/13-17 AUSTIN SXSW
3/23 FRI BOISE, ID @ TREEFORT FESTIVAL
3/25 SUN CALGARY, AB – MTT FESTIVAL
3/27 TUE VANCOUVER, BC @ WALDORF HOTEL (16+)
3/28 WED SEATTLE, WA @ THE RENDEZVOUS
3/29 THR PORTLAND,OR @ ROTTURE (21+)
3/31 SAT OAKLAND, CA @ PERALTA PALACE
4/1 SUN SANTA CRUZ @ THE CATALYST ATRIUM (16+)
LR018
CS, total cassette runtime 38.9min
Limited to 200 copies
$7.00
..or find the digital from BOOMKAT
EMV meets white noise with a warm hand on the texture of things previously inanimate. Static, soul, the superficial. Dilla, La Monte Young, Jodorowski.
Eric Michael Vallely’s debut full-length “Resolutions” promotes a continuation of what we believe to be the rising new sort of Fluxus movement for Los Angeles music. Real-time pro duplication on chrome tape, designed by Seth Ferris + printed on custom marbled-stock JCards.
Original cult bass, edits, screws, remixes, and oddities selected from EMV’s secret stash, happy to celebrate the debut release Resolutions out Tuesday February 21st.
DOWNLOAD ASPIRATIONS MIX
TRACKLIST:
EMV – REALLY
TOM DISSEVELT & KID BALTAN – VIBRATION
RUSTY SANTOS – A UP HIGH
COIL – S IS FOR SLEEP
DIETER SCHUTZ – LITTLE PLANT
RYAN YORK – HIGH LIFE (EMV’S GENUINE DRAFT)
CRUCIFIXION OF SEAN PENN – EMPTY
EMV – VIRGIL VILLA (DEVONWHO REMIX)
RENALDO & THE LOAF – A SOB STORY
FRED FRITH – WALKING SONG
THE HUMAN LEAGUE – DREAMS OF LEAVING (EDIT)
BILL NELSON – CUBICAL DOMES
Los Angeles’ community-gathering gurus Lucky Dragons have a new 12″, and we’re celebrating.
MIXED BY MATTHEWDAVID: funkenboogie all from select wax recorded to tape, digi-fied for you.
VINYL + Digital, VINYL total runtime: 40 min
Custom Metallic Silver Jackets designed by: Jesselisa Moretti
*2nd pressing of 500 copies SOLD OUT*
PURCHASE DIGITAL FROM:
BOOMKAT
ITUNES
BLEEP
At long-last, Leaving Records is proud to present the debut long-player from Los Angeles’ Julia Holter. Based on the ancient Greek play “Hippolytus”, Tragedy is an epic that merges neo-classical composition with foot-tapping moments of movement, the opus for LR
DOWNLOAD “GODDESS EYES”
Video directed by: Jesselisa Moretti
CS + digital, total runtime: 18 min.
Limited to 200 copies – now SOLD OUT
Cover art: Felix Jackson Jr.
Sept 23rd: Cassette (w / #tape-only B-Side ambient & spoken word piece)
Oct 11th: Digital (A-Side only)
BOOMKAT
BLEEP
ITUNES
**
Serengeti – raps / words
Matthewdavid – prod.
ASIDE is rap songs
1.Levert
2.#Nope
3.Renalt
4.Better When You Flow
5.Sexting
6.Stepson
BSIDE isn’t
~
DOWNLOAD: DAVIS – LEVERT
CS, total cassette runtime: 41.8min
Limited to 200 copies
Custom Metallic Gold J-Card
CASSETTE SOLD OUT
**
Featuring the centerpiece “Swedish Tapes”, a nineteen-minute ambient performance piece from Odd Nosdam, recorded at the Swedish-American Hall in San Fransisco, 2010, and four B-Side Matthewdavid supplements.
DOWNLOAD MATTHEWDAVID – REUNITED
Video by: Miko Revereza
Music: Matthewdavid – “Reunited”
Odd Nosdam / Matthewdavid – SWEDISH FISH (SPLIT CS), July 26th
*Notes about Jarrod Fowler‘s P.S. by Timothy Morton:
To generate, or rather to discover from within music itself, substances that resist not only classification as music, but music as such. To locate music as a small island of pseudo-consistency in a gigantic ocean of non-music, after François Laruelle. To locate noise as the infinitesimal subsidence of this island into the ocean, much bigger than noise, quiet, sound and silence.
To force music to think about itself, as music. To see thinking about music as distorted by what is exterior to thought, and even to human being. To discover, with a slightly uncanny horror, that the wall between human being and nonhuman is the appearance of the nonhuman itself. To realize that this wall of resistance is a symptom of what the philosopher Quentin Meillassoux calls hyperchaos.
To delineate through this method a working model of causality itself, which operates by what Jarrod Fowler calls rhythmicity. To investigate beats, which break up sonic continua: one beat as the minuscule flicker of causality. To realize that this causality floats on top of and emerges from the ocean of rhythmicity. To see, to hear that there is only this ocean, continually sampling itself, breaking itself up into itself. To announce this inherently contradictory reality in a sonic form as dialetheia, double-truth: p ∧ ¬p.
DOWNLOAD P.S.
Inaugural vinyl release from LR is a limited pressing of 150 copies. “FAKE” is a one-sided five minute and thirty second 12″ at 45rpm from underground rap group USUAL, each vinyl individually hand-stamped and numbered.
$7.00
Collagist jar moFF returns, this time heavier than ever. VID R explores new sonic treatments of found free-jazz, synth/kraut/space, SFX, and film soundtrack through a maturing lens of the Greek artist.
DOWNLOAD
LR012
CS, total cassette runtime 32.2min
Limited to 300 copies
Ryan York appears courtesy of Non Projects
$7.00
BOOMKAT
BLEEP
ITUNES
Cassette Includes:
*Limited edition ZIPPERLEGS 11×17 POSTER
*1 of 2 cassette-edition covers
*CS-ONLY bonus track “The Other Side of Backwater (feat. Baths
*CS-ONLY bonus track “They Will Do Anything”
Zipperlegs is Ryan York’s third release following his eponymous debut album on the Non Projects label under the moniker of Asura. Where Asura found York investigating the boundary line between the city of angels’ beat jungle and the artist’s own ties to modern classical and jazz, Zipperlegs represents a shift toward a deeper form of beat-one.
The title Zipperlegs is a word representing the state of trance that creative traditions can elicit inspired by Haitian rara, West African polyrhythmic musics, E.E. Cummings’ linguistic flips, Bulgarian and Georgian choral traditions, Tibetan chants, Kwakwaka’wakw dance, the poems of Rumi, and, of course, the spectre of contemporary electronic production. Influenced by its parallel conception with the Haitian earthquake of early 2010, Zipperlegs explores death, inequality, and the oddness of embodiment in a human form.
(Cover Art & Posters by: Jesselisa)
Video by: Miko Revereza
Wednesday, April 6th 2011
LEAVING RECORDS PRESENTS:
LOW END THEORY
RAS G
SUN ARAW
DAK
PROJECTIONS FROM: MIKO REVEREZA
Resident DJs Daddy Kev, Gaslamp Killer, DJ Nobody, D-Styles
Resident MC Nocando
10$ / 18+ / 10pm-2am
The Airliner
2419 North Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90031
LR011
CS, total cassette runtime 25.1min
Limited to 200 copies
ALL OUT OF TAPES, THANK YOU!
BOOMKAT
ITUNES
Cassette Includes:
*BBBBBBBonus CS-ONLY “Moonblood feat. JEREMIAH JAE“
*Super-secret download code.
*Warmth, hiss.
WHAT IS SSALIVA ? HOW MUCH DOES IT WEIGH ? AND WHY ?
THIS ****D UP GLUE DOES NOT COME OUT OF YOUR HEAD, I GUESS.
ALL THESE PATTERNS COLLECT AND SPIN AROUND TOGETHER.
THE WEIGHT IS A WEIRD THING. DOES IT HOLD ANY WEIGHT ?
WHEN SSALIVA GOES INTO THE WATER DOES THE GLUE SOFTEN ?
WHEN IT WAS ALL BORN IT CAME OUT OF A YELLOW MOUNTAIN
THE GLUE, THE SPIT, THE GAS AND THE SOUL PETROL
IT SLID DOWN AND KEPT ON ****IN MOVIN.
WHEN THE BEACH IS OPEN FOR SUMMER THEN YOU SEE IT ALL.
THE WOMEN ON THEIR BACKS AND ALL THIS HAIR IN THE WATER
THE WEIGHT OF THE GLUE ?
WHY DOES IT HAVE WEIGHT ?
THE HAIR AND THE SOUNDS THAT COME FROM SSALIVA IS HEAT, I GUESS.
THIS IS WHERE THE BEACH COMES IN.
THE GLUE HITS THE SAND AND THE SEA AND IT GETS STUCK TOGETHER
THAT IS WHAT SSALIVA IS.
ALL ELEMENTS OR BEACH PREGNANCY AND THE EARTH INSIDE ITSELF.
DOIN WHATEVER IT WANTS AND WITH NO CONCERN FOR WEIGHT.
IT AINT THAT ****IN STUFF THAT ROLLS AROUND INSIDE YOUR MOUTH, THROAT AND HEAD.
OPEN YOUR SKULL UP ABOUT 4 INCHES AND THEN YOU WILL GET IT.
-Sarina Sangkala
DOWNLOAD “CRAYOLA”
Video by: Ssaliva
Video by: Ssaliva
Thought Has Wings on Feb 28th
True friend Forrest Reiff aka Off Balance Atlas has curated an intense internationally-collaborative sampling project with producers & musicians from all angles of beyond.
Featuring a handful of Leaving familiars, OBA describes the Sample Based Life project as “a reanimation of raw crystal sound waves into a new gem fortress. The artists were not asked to use the material exclusively, but merely to implement it into the creative process. Thank you to all the producers who participated out of their sheer creative drive in the first round. May the future bring bright things for us all.”
***The compilation is available at a name-your-price download via bandcamp, BUT HOLD THE PHONE, if you donate a price of $8.00USD or more.. Forrest will personally hand-craft and ship you a cassette of the compilation.
New video by Miko Revereza remixing the Delofi track,
Med Scene #3/In Search of the Fantastic on pure vhs.
Matthewdavid
Asura
M. Geddes Gengras
DubKnowDub
Thumbs Up Machine \\Video//
at Public Fiction Gallery
749 Avenue 50 Los Angeles, CA 90042
8pm, Jan. 21, friday
$5 donation
This video was made by Miko Revereza in support of Mane Mane, Yuk., and Triple You tapes. Mane Mane skin fox ep is for free download at mane mane’s bandcamp! Triple You Tapes releasing “Mane 2 Mane” full-length 2011.
Manemane.Bandcamp.Com/album/skin-fox-ep
More on the way from Miko shortly…..
Our close pal dakim has two hand-made CDR discs that you can buy from the dude personally here (scroll down). Support DIY, expect a new EP from dakim in January, and hopefully enjoy the free MP3 from Wooly Set below.
We’ve been sitting on this one for over a year now, and in all honesty it is some of our favorite experimental hip-hop ever. LRF008 is coming from New Zealand’s MGR relentlessly creating from his immediate environment i.e. free internet, friends walkmen, friends MPCs, college campus computer labs, found 1/8″ cables, bare feet… Shouts to that important global email circle scene of dak, Oscar McClure, Jonwayne, Delofi, Ichiro, Durlin Lurt, JQua, Enemy Earth, and Miko for this one. It’s almost summer in NZ so spread the warmth.
Collage credit: MGR
LR008
Digital+CS, total cassette runtime: 30 min
Limited to 200 copies, cassette edition includes:
*Secret download code.
*LIMITED Samo Milagro button pin.
Pushing the Leaving sound, Sumsun’s Samo Milagro is a deep breath of fresh air for LR’s wide open aesthetic. The album title, Samo Milagro, serves as both an ode and a reminder: a reference to an early Jean-Michel Basquiat pseudonym as well as the Florida collective of which Sumsun’s main-man Judson Rogers was involved within. A dance record at heart, Sumsun prods the listener through the album’s languid atmospherics with a healthy slathering of uptempo breaks and teal grooves of Sumsun’s humid locale (FL, US).
SUMSUN’S STREETS OF BEIGE MIX
SUMSUN’S SUPER SPACEY SUNBURNT SUMMER MIX
Do yourself a flavorful favor, and tune in to dublab during the “Proton Drive” to support the intensely inspiring crew.
*November 1-17th from Monday-Friday: 8am-8pm
+ 24 hour “No Sleep Session” Marathon: November 18th Noon – November 19th Noon
*Times listed as Pacific Standard / GMT -7.
Awaiting his full-length full of flutter dropping on LR “when it’s done” / “super soon“, it’s our pleasure to present new and unreleased styles of L.A.-based experimental producer EMV.
Delofi mailed us this tape about a month ago (cover above), turns out the man has been creating tape-driven compositions for quite some time now. LR is happy to provide an outlet for the influential Cleavland Ohio producer with the aptly titled new edition to our free release series.
From the limited edition CD, Poo-Bah Records Presents "Follow The Reindeer" featuring many Los Angeles artists such as Rick Potts, Blackmonk, Jah Grinch, Mitchell Brown, Matthewdavid, The Tenses, Take, and Tom Recchion in a delirious nine track christmas special.
DOWNLOAD: POOBAH RECORDS PRESENTS "FOLLOW THE REINDEER" (50MB, ZIP)
This week, Beat Soup welcomes Yuk of MHD and Pudge of VJC playing some very, very rowdy cuts. Come thru and and experience the sounds of LA's very talent filled kin, Pudge and Yuk with guest sets from My Hollow Drum on the DJ. Get up with the new at Poo-Bah records.
Poo-Bah Records would like to thank all those who came out to our Free the Robots in-store event. For those unable to make it, don't sleep, and stay tuned for upcoming events.
