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Blood Stereo - 'Your Snakelike King' & 'All Are Ore Museum' LP & CDr

New LP in an edition of 330 copies. This batch is a limited edition of 54 which come with an extra CDr of material, featuring The BS track from The Psykick Dancehall 4x3"cdr comp,, the side from the Pod Blotz split tape on Bennifer and two previously unreleased pieces. Numbered and signed.

"Brand new release from Brighton mongs Blood Stereo, duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance. 'Your Snake Like King' picks up where last years 'The Magnetic Headache' left off, a shape shifting and strange mix of tape collage, free vocals and electro-acoustic mischief. Midnight to 3am recordings fueled by grape and smoke conjour up a blurred narrative, the meaning of which is never quite clear, like weird off camera sounds in some tripped out movie. The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. " - Pan

"Your Snakelike King takes up where The Magnetic Headache left off, going deeper into the kind of nocturnal zone where sustained tones and eerie low-level atmospherics combine with the rhythmic misappropriation of small instruments and domestic appliances to create a crude form of homemade psychedelia. Early Blood Stereo releases all but exploded any notion of ‘aura’ in favour of a violent prole-punk evisceration of prissy ideas like technique and cohesion but this latest incarnation seems to have much more to do with creating and developing a specific atmosphere, one that is often as dread-filled and disturbing as their earlier sides but that somehow has more (spontaneous) compositional depth and a lot more mystery and style. There are some beautifully weird half melodies sunk in here, ghostly keyboard patterns that bloom for mere seconds before disappearing in a smoke of lungs and percussion. I’d say Blood Stereo are at the apex of their own self-invented form right now, with a feel for improvised electro-acoustic weirdness that is as subtle and sophisticated as NNCK and you’d do well to file this one right next to The Magnetic Headache and refer to em both next time you’re looking for a way to navigate yourself clear of the noise = noise cul de sac. It’s all in here. Recommended." - Volcanic Tongue

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The Magnetic Headache is the perfect title for this latest blat from Blood Stereo, a.k.a. the husband-and-wife team of Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis. They're both rightfully legendary characters in the British underground, the former for her intensely hallucinatory visual art and music (in Smack Music 7) and the latter for helming the Chocolate Monk imprint, and blowing out gory gunks of crude tape noise with his sister Lisa Nyoukis, a.k.a. Dora Doll, in Prick Decay/Decaer Pinga. Over a decade on, Prick Decay's Guidelines For Basement Non-Fidel still sounds like a call-to-arms for worldwide underground magnetic tape mangling, as well as a perfect summation of Nyoukis's aesthetic: namely, gleefully dragging high art forms – musique concrete, sound poetry, improvisation – through the gutter.

But while they're true to their junk-shop take on music, Nyoukis and Constance have composers' ears. Even their earliest mutations, which at times sounded slapped together, have revealed, in retrospect, a very keen attention to sonority. The Magnetic Headache growls at times. Sputters. You can hear the tapes squalling and squabbling through the heads of the machine. But there are also great moments of repose, where Nyoukis and Constance leave things to unwind slowly, as with "Forgotten Tone Of Fire," where the steady hum of an organ tone is the bed upon which untouched field recordings and percussives of unknown provenance slowly fold and roll over each other. "The Magnetic Headache" itself opens with warped vocal tones, jump-roping each other to create a mutant frogs' chorus, where epiglottal trills are slowed to a tortoise's crawl. Neil Campbell joins the duo for the closing "The Broken Line Recorder," another slo-mo jaunt through primitive electronic spew, though there's a particularly disturbing moment where possessed babies giggle and splutter through a fog of wind and drone.

These pieces were originally written to accompany an exhibition, which might explain their relative openness. At no point does this quite approach the density of some of Prick Decay's music. But The Magnetic Headache still addresses Nyoukis and Constance's key concern: tape music knocked from its academic pedestal and made to acknowledge consumer electronics' takes on juxtaposition, cut-up and collage. A magnetic headache, indeed.

By Jon Dale, Dusted magazine

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Ludo Mich & Blood Stereo - From Tapes & Throats LP £10
Giant Tank  

Heavy duty collaboration LP by BS and belgian artist/gurner Ludo Mich. Side A documents the 2006 live appearance at Instal. A great crystal clear desk recording which puts you within feet of the saliva and sweat drench. While side B is a three piece electro-accoustic, smoked out, brain workover. Some of our most outthere stuff. Edition of 250 so get moving, nerdass.

Blood Stereo - The Magnetic Headache CD £10
Bottrop-Boy  

"Blood is dripping from my stereo and my ears. Blood stereo submerges its listeners in horror vacui. The awfulness of emptiness is made audible in all its horrific detail. This album can be construed either as a radio play for exhausted ears or the ideal soundtrack for waking up from a disturbing nightmare. Reality refuses to return this early in the morning and all that remains is a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. Voices wander around in your head, somewhere there is the creaking of a door and in the distance you hear someone softly crying. British noise wizard Nyoukis (from, among others, Prick Decay) and partner in crime Karen Constance combine to let rip under the name Blood Stereo. The pair set about their work in subtle way. Instead of loud eruptions of noise they set out to create the most quietly disturbing of soundscapes. Think an innocent walk in a Transylvanian mountain village or a Blair Witch forest or any other godforsaken place where your only companions are the whispering voices hell-bent on driving you insane and the howling wind. Listen to The Magnetic Headache with your headphones to feel the sounds dripping through your eardrum and crawling up your brainstem. On the last track, honorary guest Neil Campbell aka Astral Social Club sprinkles a little stardust into your stereo - a much-needed, soul-cleansing coda after such an ominous head trip." - label description.

Blood Stereo - The Magnetic Headache T-Shirt £10

Hey there scruff bag, why not pick yrself up for the summer? Make friends with a bar of soap and sling on some new threads. Yellow ink on navy blue Fruit Of The Loom shirt. Lard asses please note, only medium and small sizes left, please sepcify.


Blood Stereo & Pod Blotz - split cassette & book £10
Bennifer  

Brain drain!! Split c30 between Blood Stereo and Pod Blotz accomapanied by intense/insane oversized screenprinted book with visual voodoo by Jacob Horwood, Andrew Zuckerman and Jesjit Gill. The sounds and visuals are beyond the goof, so if you like them both crude, strange and drenched in psychedelic jelly, this package is for you, baby.

yep, going to israel in december, to play two shows.. insane..
Dec 18th: in Jerusalem at the Cave of the Khan Theatre w/ John Butcher & eddie Prevost, Machinefabriek and more
Dec 19th: in tel Avaib at Levontin 7, with Machinefabriek, Dora doll & Alex Drool and more..
full lines up here: http://digitalartlab.org.il/hapzura/

Kol Tuv!

urrggk,, so now its worth a gander at the website,, have added a bunch of artwork from us both, mp3s, podcast, photos etc etc.. hope to keep adding smooch at regular intervals, so worth checking back,,, and while yr at it check out the rest of the Monk pages,, ear dementia.  start them snouts digging: http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/BS.htm

all uk weirdos (and hell even many of you old euro goons) got to get yr asses to brighton for this years COLOUR OUT OF SPACE festival, thhree days of all out weird music, films and other shit. SEPTEMBER 7-9, at the Sallis Benney Theatre..
music line up:
Friday 7th
Conrad Schnitzlers 'cassette con-cert' by Wolfgang Seidel
Kuupuu & Pami
Jazkammer
Henri Chopin
Raionbashi & Kutzkelina
John Wiese
Bolide Awkwardstra
Gryn Brvs
Oceanic Wildlife S.F.


Saturday 8th
Dead Machines
Ceylon mange
Jazzfinger
Lamborghini Crystal
Family Underground
Maths Balance Volumes
Nackt Insecten
Tight Meat Duo
Jettatura


Sunday 9th
Hair Stylistics
Pod Blotz
Jaap Blonk
Dora Doll & Steven Lavender
Phil Mintons Feral Choir
Orphan Fairytale
Usurper
Vitamin b12
Slow Listener

full details of all them freaks, plus all the other goodies can be found here: http://colouroutofspace.org

please spread the word!!
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