Vinyl Releases
KNIVES REPLACE AIR VOL. 1 (VINYL ONLY)
12 Inch
20.11.15
for the fifth installment in the common thread series we are launching our series of various artists eps called *knives replace air*. for the first effort in this series we have the likes of chinaski, mangulicafm, 33.10.3402 and gitchell moore cooking up stuff. expect an odd mixture of genres all sharing a common thread in terms of feel. maybe not the most dancefloor friendly record but definitely some kind of miniature soundtrack in its own right.
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this is another incident of despair, hope and rhythmic adventures. nothing beautiful without struggle.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
12 Inch
10.11.17
identified patient & sophie du palais / randstad / mitchell goor / stevie whisper.
amsterdam / london / rotterdam / beograd
a untitled tale of feminism, broken hearts and futurism.
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THE FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA
12 Inch
24.06.16
this one is dedicated to the female medical college of pennsylvania. identified patient is identified but yet unknown. artwork by google streetview. machinedrums not machineguns.
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BURN IT / EXPERIMENTS IN THE DARK
12 Inch
02.07.15
a year and a half after black merlin (george thompson) opened the common thread series with the much praised new world fantasy / ice house release george sent over some adventurous bits for a follow up and we were immediately sold. george is a true artist in his own right. all of the black merlin tracks evoke different sentiments. this time around the feeling it bring up is very conflicted. both tracks have those dark aesthetics with elements of paranoia and both also share some apocalyptic elements. it is for this reason that this is the perfect follow up for ct01. instead of just releasing music on vinyl we (with the blessings of zoroaster) are looking to evoke spirits, cross boundaries and maintain quality. major cliches, but with an artist like black merlin on your books, cliches sometimes become truth.
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BODY PARTY
12 Inch
13.04.15
the endurance club was launched in london on friday 13th november 2009 and ran as a regular party for the next three years. the aim was to treat electronic body music as an important genre in its own right rather than just a sub genre of industrial music, whilst linking it to early house and techno, belgian new beat and synthesizer dance music in general. body party is a tribute to all those that were part of the endureance club and to the artists that made the records we danced to.
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RED PLANET / SILENT RUNNING
12 Inch
19.01.15
havamal inspired briton will flisk takes his filmic approach to music to the streets with his first output on our curious little imprint. with the help of good friend black merlin (george thompson) on synths and drum machines and natasya hodges on cello, this amazingly orchestrated title track (red planet) takes us to different planets and back, even though our money is too short for commercial space travel. nashville, tennessees very own grey people (alex j michalski) works his distortion on a sinister remix (b1) thats leaning towards the more techno side of things. for the b2, will bestowed an amazing bit of roughness upon us.
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NEW WORLD FANTASY / ICE HOUSE
12 Inch
06.02.14
after efforts on andrew weatherall s bird scarer records and the mighty world unknown. black merlin is kicking off the common thread series with new world fantasy / ice house. dark and progressive synth music that comes in strictly limited pressing of 400 copies.
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