Chance Topographies
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Recorded on a dining room table in Tufnell Park in the summer of 2025, this explorative collaboration between two London-based artists drifts in spectral mode; you can almost hear lights flickering in the background and portals to nebulous realms opening up behind the net curtains. Crackling and thumping rhythmic passages bleed into subtle drones, wheezing accordions, and dense atmospheric smog. Edition of 50
Dopamine Warrior
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. A digital cauldron of souls, a well stirred pot of rapid-trigger samples of popular ditties and Shit Creek archival material smashed together and blended into a bitter soup. Notes of Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated,” reimagined as a single stuttering vocal catch, gradually unfurling; one violin / harmonium drone disassembled, its fragments glued together as another violin / harmonium drone; and a million terrible DJ sets decaying into one another, heard through a wall. Anthems and elegies for the AI slop age, assembled without heed to the bounds of context or tastefulness. A human attempt to mimic model collapse. Edition of 50
Scalpel Flashes, Broken Glaciers, & Skin Instructions
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Eleven tracks of mold school Michigan noise zest. Coltrane lifts the brain fog, hands deep in the busted shit that he calls gear. Let gummed up gears and feedback throb reinflate your crumpled adrenal glands. Feel the soothe of static synth stabs and radio grits. Inhale the odor of crusty cogs and vibrating thunk. Soon you will feel very absorbent and back to your regular rubber-eating self. Edition of 50
Extra Joker
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Zheng Hao own one Extra Joker playing card, gifted by a friend. After laughing about it, he tucked it away somewhere and completely forgot about it until he happened to look under the turntable. The card is now kept in a No. 92 Club Special Bee playing cards deck, which was purchased on Taobao for 24.28 Chinese yuan (equivalent to 2.55 GBP) on 26 January 2026, 20:00 UTC). This is relevant to what this album is about: false interpretations, short memory, and completely necessary details. And not for nothing, but he wins Solitaire twice as often using the No. 92 Club Special Bee playing cards deck as the Star Gold Series No. 1 A-30 Playing Cards. Edition of 50
Still Entangled
(Siltbreeze) LP $20.00
Originally a trio sans tubs, the synth-driven iron gulp of their early days was like Animal of Anti-Nowhere League crashing a Cabaret Voltaire rehearsal. Since then the band has enlisted the solid drumming prowess of Rachelle Hughes, and in doing so, have zoned into an intensive, beguiling churn of Dossier-era Chrome slipping into The Sleepers panic-creep of Painless Nights. Their hauntingly dense and layered murk is as authentically SF Bay Area as a bowl of Cioppino. Flannel is the new Goth. Include 8pp zine.
Gegenbewegung
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Dialogues between sounds and structures by Maximilian Glass and Marc Matter, using sampled field recordings, odd noises, snippets from YouTube and manipulated cassettes and turntables. Based on loose arrangements, pushing the process a step toward instant composition rather than free improvisation. Come feel the skittering throb of four greasy ears turned inside out. Wooden arms, real hands. Edition of 50
Ringing & Non-ringing
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Julian Bradley continues in his mission to erase all heads from shoulders in a disarming effervescent manner. Amps in a new room, pitched electronics, wrapped in plastic, warped in the partial sun, the window open, clearer ringing than before, more daylight, still facing the same way. Edition of 50
The Modern World
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
A new album by Emmert is no more complicated than a hand-written note on the screen door that says “Come on in, help yourself to Vietnamese iced coffee, I’m out back harvesting figs.” The tools of this introspective spirit farmer’s trade are amiable and familiar — acoustic guitar, an unaffected croon, and the heartfelt delivery ingrained in longtime mountain dwellers. Organ and keyboard flourishes amble in and out of Emmert’s self-produced mixes, understated, comfortable, and exquisitely balanced. His transparent discipline supports an unyielding pursuit otherworldly melancholy extracted out of thin air with the finesse of a state-of-the-art dehumidifier. The tempo is a warm pulsation. The harmonies shimmer and wobble. Via lyrics that are often achingly personal, The Modern World delivers near-cosmic insight on intuitive levels that are not convincingly accounted for. Anyone in doubt, fine, grab a soapbox and explain it to us. Western Carolina’s most prolific soul harvester is a seer of the invisible, a describer of the unexplainable, a distiller of the perpetually elusive, and he does not fuck around. Edition of 50
Chaos Pendulum
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
A bygone relic bubbled forth from the swamp. Already in motion, every swing reveals a new sound, each wriggling like a worm in one's ear. Here documented are some of its soundings, those that resemble voices, cans, junk, jagged electronics, crude musicking, and the hum of empty rooms. Collected air expelled from muck and sludge. Edition of 50
Rejuvenate Ghosts
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
In unzipping the unseen and busting a frantic astral soft shoe amid a shamanic drum circle of Euro-horror phantoms, Gaël Segalen performd spiritual CPR on a roomful of ghosts that are ghosting the beat. Guided by tectonic slow-motion of her sloth spirit animal, Segalen reaches a mind-expanding peak that pulsates with the ethereal intensity of a cursed, flickering hallway. Rejuvenate Ghosts is a unique, spacey plunge — a clout-pigeon’s mustache grown on the lip of the infinite — masterfully capturing the peak suspense of a ritual where she’s truly glazing the nebula while resuscitating the wind. The “Many” are vibrating at a frequency that’ll liquefy your teeth.
Succes De Scandale
(Advaita) CD $21.00
Nihilistic clamor. Part I includes excerpts from a previously unreleased performance at Morden Tower in 1984. Sleeve notes by Toshiji Mikawa (Hijo Kaidan / Incapacitants). Each copy includes a unique “artwork.” Edition of 200