ballast nvp061 and 064, tac and jacob deraadt, now available!

excited to share these two new releases!

nvp061: tac – vibrations 7” lathe and artifacts CDR

 

if you know tac, you know what joy awaits. if you don’t know tac, think electronics / field recordings collected and assembled in ways designed to  provoke uncertainty of source material and composition process and you’re (kind of) in the right ballpark….maybe. jeph jerman, joe colley, and chop shop are not too far afield. as for the packaging…again, if you know tac’s work, you’re likely already all in…and in for a treat. if you don’t, here’s a hint: almost hermetically sealed. here’s another hint: unequivocally hand made.
bonus: the lathe was cut for visual appeal. 

edition of 24 copies.
$28 ppd in US: overseas, get in touch so I can calculate shipping costs to your location.

 nvp064: Jacob DeRaadt: Universal Hotel CDR

 

 

I first knew Jacob’s work as Sterile Garden, which I enjoyed immensely: “wonderfully uncomfortable” electronics, let’s call it. this release, his second solo work under his own name, is primarily field recordings—as Jacob says, it focuses on “water and natural and urban domestic sounds of places I lived in, with very little or no effects or manipulation.” personally, this feels a bit of a descriptive oversimplification, if only because the choices of sounds to capture (and then present here) reflect Jacob’s ear for creating small “scenarios” with each track. akin to what I noted with tac, Jacob is definitely playing on the same side of the street as jeph jerman, albeit by slightly different rules....

edition of 45 copies.

$11 ppd in US: overseas, get in touch so I can calculate shipping costs to your location.

 

 

thanks as always for your interest and support!

b

two new ballast releases to kick off 2024!

pleased to announce the availability of nvp059, MV Carbon's tears rotate the river 10" lathe, and nvp062, vertonen: flora CDR.

mv carbon’s tears rotate the river is the fourth release in the 10” lathe series.

I first met Carbon some 20+ years ago when she was in the duo Metalux. Since then, Carbon has created a solid body of solo works as a transdisciplinary artist. She also has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad and Charlemagne Palestine.

The recordings on this 10” emphasize her use of magnetic tape, voice and extended vocal techniques, poetry, electronics, and other handmade objects to create sound.

Although Carbon’s approach to audio output is uniquely and indelibly hers, I cannot help but think this release would pique the interest of folks familiar with Algebra Suicide, Inflatable Boy Clams, Nervous Gender, Devo, or Suicide.

 edition of 25 numbered copies. each lathe in the series is $50 ppd in the US.

If you subscribe to the lathe series, the price per lathe drops drastically and guarantees you will get copies of each release in the series, which includes Aaron Dilloway, Evicshen, vertonen, Olivia Block & Adam Sonderberg, and Relay for Death.
See this post for more information.

 

the vertonen CDR, flora, is possibly the closest I have come to intentionally creating “ambient” music—in this case, audio for a botanical conservatory. 

The four main audio facets explored for this release are:

1. warmth (residential and institutional heating vents, institutional floor and baseboard radiators, residential window air conditioning units)
2. moisture (rain, freezing rain, hail, drainspouts)
3. pollinators (birds, wind)
4. sine waves (659.26 hz, 587.33 hz, 440 hz)

Suggested playback is low volume over speakers or over headphones.

 

 

edition of 24 signed and numbered copies: $10 ppd in the US.

folks outside of the US, please get in touch so I can calculate shipping to your location. 

thanks as always for your interest.