Bitchin' Bajas/ Faceplant - split 12'' - Bathetic records 2011

Bitchin' Bajas/ Faceplant - split 12''

I have to admit that there are a few labels that I love most. And Bathetic is one of them for sure. I really love everything they do, each release, each new tape or record, each cover art. Their recent output - slit 12inch between Bitchin' Bajas and Faceplant is not an exemption. Each project delivers quite a different sound but both manage to converge to the similar conceptual lim. Bitchin' Bajas appear here as masters of fresh synth opuses. Deep engaging waves blow up stifling room and precipitate mind mutations. Faceplant (Aaron Coyes from Peaking Lights) presents two fantastic orchestic songs. Both tracks drive me crazy: beatiful drums, juicy bass, unostentatious synth - everything is in right place and in right proportions. Really perfect release.
Absolute glee! One of the best records in 2011 so far.
Buy from Bathetic.

Derek Rogers, Wild Safari Cassettes - Bathetic Records 2011

Two new cassettes on Bathetic!
Many thanks to Jon for sending previews.

Derek Rogers - Relative Quiet Cassette 

Here's a new 6-track work from well-known sound-maker Derek Rogers.
That's what Bathetic says:
'With Relative Quiet, Derek Rogers offers us 6 tracks of shimmering ambiance. Tremulous tones flirt with the sensitive areas of your psyche while the bass coos you into slumber. This cassette drifts into areas not too removed from the likes of Tim Hecker, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, or Grasslung. '

Wild Safari - We Laid Our Heads In Their Laps Cassette

Wild Safari is a collaborative project between Bathetic's owner Jon Hency and William Cody Watson (ex-Pink Prist). The sound is tender and minimal. Hazy drones airily confuse nonchalant souls.
Wild Safari 'lay down sonic tumblers that drift in and out of nostalgic, schoolyard sidewalks into lush forests' (Bathetic).

Buy both cassettes from Bathetic. 

Age Wave - Telephone Dreams 7'', Bathetic Records 2011

Age Wave - Telephone Dreams Cassette

First of all I wanna tell you that that's one of the best cover arts I've ever seen in my life. Absolutely amazing work, isn't it?! I remember myself two years ago walking along snowy Moscow streets with pure meditative noise by God Willing in the headphones. That was my stepping stone to a big long love for a well-designed thoughtful noise composition.
This time Ren Schofield delivers some different approach and different fit to the unstable, delicate sound crafting. Very modern and industrial structures sound strangely amiably and even cordially. It seems that Ren has found something extremely vital in the trenchant globalized architecture and turned the drown working-outs into sound drafts. Now we can easily build a home for our dreams which used to be non-starters...
Buy this great 7'' from Bathetic Records.