Tango Super Bock
(Chocolate Monk - choc.489) CDR $6.75
This Glasgow-based mystery merchant hatched in Holmfirth, before Bristol spritzed up their lugs. Here they serve slurries of audio ’shrooms for teetotalers while indulging in dry drunk sips from the wine hive of electric warble. Tape loops, violin, Yamaha keyboard, and a broken sequencer that a battery exploded in, (transforming it into a sound-mangler supreme), recorded in Lisbon, September 2019, mostly, then mangled and massaged a few months later up in the dreich. A woozy audio sip from the cracked glass of failure. Edition of 60
No Jacket Allowed
(Chocolate Monk - Choc.551) CDR $8.00
Raconteur, math whizz, fine thread dresser and psychedelic noise psychonaut Lewis Duffy follows up Tango Super Bock with a deep dive into his post-Covid brain drain. Shimmering electronics and repetitive glee pulse out euphoric ear worms. He has a mind boner for the impossible, like a more hirsute Neil Campbell with a skill for shitty pant throwing. Bow down.
Scalpel Flashes, Broken Glaciers, & Skin Instructions
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
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
Chance Topographies
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
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
Extra Joker
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
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
Dopamine Warrior
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
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
Beginners Mind
(Chocolate Monk) Magazine + CDR $12.00
Recordings and paintings from summer 2024. Tapes, contact mics, loop pedals, objects, Yamaha PSS-50 keyboard, percussion and field recordings. The Haiku paintings were made by exploring the parameters of minimalism, with just a red circle and single black stroke allowed for each one. The gouache paint gives a distinctive and delicate texture to each untitled piece. The sounds and textures flow together in a spirit of meditative minimalism, with each element given space to breathe and unfold, much like the strokes in the pictures. 24 pages, full color, in hand-stamped envelope. Edition of 60
Futile Phantoms
(Chocolate Monk - choc.597) CDR $8.00
Flout the floatation tank and the devouring of celestial orbs, lay down the pipe and lend your ears to the inimitable allure of sonic innovation of the two-headed nature. Atkins and Scott-Buccleuch seem to almost whisper out these transmissions of crisp psychedelic sound collage. Dictaphone scutter and vacillating tapes are folded into mellow drones and intoning loops deftly. Field recordings, electronic purr and gentle clatter infused with warm hiss. A sound paste that can be applied liberally to yr cracked case with rejuvenating effect. Edition of 60
Breaks
(Krim Kram) CD $14.00
Debut solo CD by Wuhan-born, London-based artist who also performs in the duos Oishi (with Ren Shang) and ecm (with Joseph Khan). Four lean and sinewy improvisations —tightly controlled buzzing and rippling electric currents; pointillistic, splintering rhythms and textures; sparse, jagged incursions; and wiry, static blasts — that explore “rhythmic patterns from dusty potentiometers and dirty electronic circuits in modular synthesis improvisation.”
Sinus Positioning
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier) CDR $10.00
Nauseating shards epoxied into three 20-minute sound collages — one mixed live on the air at KZSU in Stanford, plus two studio monstrosities, scarred by sharp-edged distortion, crushed by abstract oppressionism, riddled with harsh sentencing. Also includes "Senior Prom #1 - Oberlin," the first in a series of paper towel dispenser Fluxus actions for Leo Dilloway
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.