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<label id="phthalo" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/boutique/phthalo/a-c/">
  <name>Phthalo</name>
  <shortname>Phthalo</shortname>
  <recording id="ph_26" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_26/">
    <artist>About This Product</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/26_PH.gif" />
    <title>Trash Art</title>
    <catno>PH 26</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Premier album par About This Product, de Houston (Texas) [Description anglaise]
    This is the triumphant and life affirming debut album by About This Product from Houston,
    Texas. It's an apocalyptarian vision, a chorus of many metabolisms, a toxic battle between
    neurotransmitters. Their production style shares affinities with Pita and most of the Mego
    label, Merzbow, and Iggy &amp; The Stooges. The texure of the individual sounds could be
    compared with Gyorgy Ligetti and/or the Sonic Youth electroacoustic series; the aggressive
    percussion shares common ground with The Boredoms, Black Dice, Phthalocyanine and possibly
    Autechre circa Confield. It&#8217;s a binge of sharded delays, crippled drumkits, and DSP
    overkill; this is what a present day punk band should aspire to.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_24" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_24/">
    <artist>Antenna Farm</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/24_PH.gif" />
    <title>Fog / Splinter Tracks: Early Mess</title>
    <catno>PH 24</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR</code>
      <availability>hors-catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] &#8220;The work on the Phthalo CD was
    taken mostly from pre-existing structures and material, then broken apart and put back together
    to reinvent new, fractured forms. Sometimes forcing two different rhythms / constructions into
    the same space, sometimes pulling the material apart to the point of collapse, then inserting
    guitar sounds; playing the springs of an old reverb unit with the casing removed; shorting out
    simple electrical circuits and dirtying signals; recording radio static and VLF radio signals
    and feed back loops through effect units.&#8221; - Antenna Farm</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_43" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_43/">
    <artist>Blectum From Blechdom</artist>
    <artistdetail>Blechdom</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/43_PH.gif" />
    <title>Fishin&#8217; in Front of People</title>
    <catno>PH 43</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>La fin de l&#8217;aventure Blectum from Blechdom, apr&#232;s de multiples albums
    chez Tigerbeat6, Deluxe, etc. 23 pi&#232;ces montrant le duo &#224; leur plus rigolo et
    d&#233;cadent. &#199;a fait tr&#232;s mal. Et on ne parle pas de la pochette, qui bat tous les
    records de mauvais go&#251;t. C&#8217;est bien pour &#231;a qu&#8217;on les aimait, les
    Blechdom... [dt] [Description anglaise] The last album for this computermusic supergroup. With
    edits and unlikely moments spanning a number of live performances, this also includes some
    previous favorites from the &#8220;Messy Jesse Fiesta&#8221; on the Deluxe label (which was a
    prize winner at a previous Ars Electronica competition) and the D84 album which is also on
    Phthalo (PH18), as well as 2 campy vocal pop tunes from the exceedingly evil mind of Kevin
    Blechdom, which is similar to her &#8220;I Love Presets&#8221; material on Tigerbeat 6. This is
    in Phthalo&#8217;s opinion the most raw/unrefined/thrashy Blechdom album available (containing
    the most messy and drunken moments according to the cover), and tracks such as &#8220;Rave
    Training Wheels&#8221; show the imagination and recklessness that techno can be injected with
    when executed by powerful minds. The duo will be missed, but solo careers for both Blevin
    (D84/Sagan) and Kevin (Forthcoming &#8220;Your Butt&#8221; on her own Dudini label - home of
    the &#8220;Boob-a-q&#8221;) look promising. The artwork also is rude, colorful, and
    provocative.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_17" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_17/">
    <artist>Kit Clayton</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/17_PH.gif" />
    <title>Shortwave Live</title>
    <catno>PH 17</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] This record is at the very least just
    as good as Stockhausen&#8217;s &#8220;Spiral&#8221;, probably even much more of an adventure
    what with Clayton&#8217;s programming tricks being involved.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_42" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_42/">
    <artist>Jay Cloidt</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/42_PH.gif" />
    <title>Dark Matter</title>
    <catno>PH 42</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Jay Cloidt est un v&#233;t&#233;ran de la sc&#232;ne de musique contemporaine du
    Mills College. Un album g&#233;n&#233;reux, diversifi&#233;, &#224; recommander. [dt]
    [Description anglaise] Phthalo is proud to finally unveil its first release from the world of
    &#8220;New Music.&#8221; A veteran of the legendary Mills College Center for Contemporary Music
    scene, Jay has been composing since before most so-called &#8220;glitchcore&#8221; or
    &#8220;quasi-academic-cum-i.d.m.&#8221; musicians were born. Jay Cloidt has spent half a
    lifetime&#8217;s study and work on the real nuts and bolts of structuring original electronic
    music, starting in the days before digital synths, samplers, drum machines, or DSP. Dark Matter
    is the follow-up to his noted &#8220;Kole Kat Krush&#8221; CD on the Starkland label (also
    noted for the re-issue of some classic Dockstader work). &#8220;Kole Kat Krush&#8221; included
    Kronos Quartet performing the title track, which they commissioned. This album is much more
    &#8220;brute&#8221; in the Phthalo/Techno sense than &#8220;Kole Kat Krush.&#8221; At many
    points it is a thorough study of very sustained notes; it demands patience from the listener.
    Cloidt was around when concrete sounds and synthesis were very deliberate affairs, and an
    actual inherent part of the creation of the sound itself as opposed to an "added" process which
    the sound "goes through", and it shows in this work. It is all composition and synthesis - all
    very intentional.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_18" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_18/">
    <artist>D-84</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/18_PH.gif" />
    <title>Pirate Planets</title>
    <catno>PH 18</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>hors-catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Computer coded
    zap/pop/crunch/zoom/splice/doorslam-spaceship sounds reverse voices kickdrum/hi-hat + guitar
    treatments. This is the debut release of D-84, aka Blevin Blechdom from Oakland. &#8220;A
    multitrack seamless piece of musique concrete-ish zaps and bass pops, flying saucer 'warning
    signals', Theremin-esq pitch bends circa Dr. Who, reverse FM'd 'talking", low octave crunches +
    hi-hat continuity, and computer language raw code programming. If there are 4 'fields' of
    electronic music (the electroacoustic, tapesplicing(concrete), synthesizers and music 'boxes',
    coded computer synthesis), then this D84 does a fusion of all 4 of them indiscriminately.
    Computer music and techno suggest more and more a 'seriousness' of rejecting identification
    with any past music. Dump your taste senses for a bit and join this music for the sake of your
    non-verbal and tasteless emotions...&#8221;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_34" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_34/">
    <artist>Daedelus</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/34_PH.gif" />
    <title>Her&#8217;s is &gt; [sic]</title>
    <catno>PH 34</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Premier disque, passablement cathartique, de Daedalus. Pour oreilles averties.
    [dt] [Description anglaise] &#8220;Breakcore/hardcore/cerebral-listening-noise-sample-pastiche!
    Very thematic &#8216;story&#8217; or &#8216;narrative&#8217; (loosly please) following a woman
    rambling/rhapsodizing about difficult things and being at odds generally with all! (PHTHALO
    textbook-eh!) L.A. native Alfred Weisberg Roberts - Breakcore/oldskool DJ + Avant Garde Jazz
    Academic - shoots us a take from his history&#8217;s beginning. Artist&#8217;s debut release -
    fresh power in your face no doubt!!! Alfred&#8217;s first formal CD is now out, and I love it.
    He&#8217;s not so sure. He thinks of this as &#8220;dark.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been thinking of
    liner notes where I would note Alfred&#8217;s nascent mastery of the electronic genre, wherein
    he acknowledges his intellectual debts and from the backs of which he gazes out on the as yet
    to be charted territory of the twenty-third century. Hard-core electronic music with a buzz, a
    hook and an attitude! Jungle roots! Todd Dockstaeder&#8217;s, Robert Ashley&#8217;s, John
    Cage&#8217;s and David Tudor&#8217;s, and &#8230;&#8217;s and George Clinton&#8217;s and the
    Funkadelic&#8217;s raison d&#8217;&#234;tre. Alfred is able to turn his musical
    forebearer&#8217;s turgid academics into a leitmotive, a high seriousness that enables one to
    somesault three times in the air comfortably, and pierce the water with nary a wave I think (I
    may be biased but&#8230;) it is serious and accessible electronic jungle. I&#8217;m anxious to
    hear what you think of it. I&#8217;m going to have to rip it out of Alfred&#8217;s reluctant
    fingers in order to send it out and off&#8230;&#8221;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_45" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_45/">
    <artist>Daedelus</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/45_PH.gif" />
    <title>Axe Murderation Remixes</title>
    <catno>PH 45</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xLP</code>
      <price>28.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Daedelus AKA Alfred Weisberg-Roberts
    has been very active in the years subsequent to his career debut release on Phthalo. He has
    recently issued albums on labels including Mush/Ninja Tune, Laboratory Instinct, Plug Research,
    and Eastern Developments. His live performances are unparalleled accomplishments &#8212; each
    one an epic, singular conjuring of transformative mania. In collaboration with Los Angeles MC
    Busdriver, detailed cerebral Hip Hop is crafted. On this &#8212; the first ever vinyl release
    on Phthalo &#8212; Alfred hosts a gathering of friends for the purpose of remixing a track of
    his made exclusively for this project entitled Axe Murderation. The theme is a short recording
    of a girl rhapsodizing about her grievances and nefarious intentions with reference to
    dogs.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_19" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_19/">
    <artist>Dntel</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/19_PH.gif" />
    <title>Something Always Goes Wrong</title>
    <catno>PH 19</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>hors-catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>Le deuxi&#232;me CD de Dntel chez Phthalo. IDM classique (la plupart des
    pi&#232;ces ont &#233;t&#233; compos&#233;es en 1994) dans une veine bien &#171;West
    Coast&#187;. Dntel a beaucoup fait parler de lui depuis, notamment avec le CD Life is full of
    possibilities chez Plug Research, et le premier album du duo Postal Service, Give Up chez Sub
    Pop. [dt] [Description anglaise] After releasing the masterpiece collection &#8220;Early Works
    for Me if it Works for You&#8221;, Dntel digs again back into his vault of unreleased backlog
    to give another collection, this time a concept mini-album telling us a story about a
    &#8220;hero and his arduous quest.&#8221; The tracks have the patented Dntel romanticism of
    melodic themes and a supersaturated drum machine sense moving sometimes into the zone of
    &#8220;war drums.&#8221; These are classic tracks originally scheduled for release on a
    Japanese dance label long ago and since re-discovered by a few L.A. techno diehards who can
    spot classic work even if it doesn&#8217;t have a fancy labelname written on it. The album
    includes extra Dntel tracks plus remixes by Seq, and L.A. artist Languis.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_40" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_40/">
    <artist>Andrew Duke</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/40_PH.gif" />
    <title>Consumer vs User</title>
    <catno>PH 40</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Andrew Duke is a musician, author, and
    educator from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has operated the Cognition Audioworks record label since
    1990 and has been composing, producing, remixing, and performing music since 1987. Consumer vs.
    User is Andrew&#8217;s first appearance on Phthalo. It is a focused study, filling out unlikely
    accent schemes with abstract DSP techniques. The aesthetic is semi-derived from something
    reminiscent of classic Detroit minimal techno. Consumer vs. User is mastered by Mark Gage in
    Vapourspace, and includes two collaborations with Phthalo artist Massaccesi.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_41" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_41/">
    <artist>Eight Frozen Modules</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/41_PH.gif" />
    <title>Random Activities and Broken Sunsets</title>
    <catno>PH 41</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Une autre agr&#233;able surprise chez Phthalo... Un disque un peu moins abrasif
    qu&#8217;&#224; ce &#224; quoi on s&#8217;attend normalement de l&#8217;&#233;tiquette, mais
    tout aussi inventif et vraiment plaisant &#224; l&#8217;&#233;coute. R&#233;alisation sans
    fautes. Remarquable. [dt] [Description anglaise] These are the refined techniques of one Ken
    Gibson who has released other music on City Slang, Trance Syndicate, LO recordings, and Kake
    mix. For &#8220;Random Activities and Broken Sunsets,&#8221; he has developed a completely
    original means of producing multitrack soundsources. He works in a massive rhythmic study of
    breakbeats as well as post-concrete techniques reminiscent possibly of certain science fiction
    music; and, equally noteworthy, though perhaps less apparent, is the sonic clarity and
    alive-ness here. Absolute attention has been given to instrument choice and placement in
    &#8216;the stereo field&#8217; creating a very effective &#8216;widening and deepening&#8217;
    of the actual space that one percieves the sound in, as well as a very convincing
    &#8216;movement of that space&#8217;; The mix itself seems to move as one instrument. Please
    consider this to be one of the very first albums on record to actually create a
    &#8216;performance&#8217; WITH the space heretofore occupied by passive &#8216;post
    production&#8217; techniques. It is similar in a way to how fellow Phthalo artist Terminal 11
    uses the edit itself as an instrument; Ken uses the whole stereo field as an instrument.
    There&#8217;s a current appearance on the Simball Sounds Recordings &#8220;45 seconds&#8221;
    compilation as well as other projects out now being: DubLoner, &#8220;Thought Process
    Disorder&#8221; on the Orthlorng Musork label, Electronic Music Composer for the Planet Mu
    label, Reverse Commuter, and Furry Things.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_22" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_22/">
    <artist>Ekswyzia</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/22_PH.gif" />
    <title>Live @ Phthalo Studio 2/16/99</title>
    <catno>PH 22</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR</code>
      <availability>&#233;puis&#233;</availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] The second Ekswyzia CD, following the
    very hard to find Logans EP. Ekswyzia achieves the impossible mixture of free jazz &amp; MIDI
    electronics. Hands down, some of the most bizarre music ever put to disc, from the man behind
    the quite deranged music of Phthalocyanine. Unfortunately deleted &amp; hopefully to be
    reissued someday.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_20" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_20/">
    <artist>Libythth</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/20_PH.gif" />
    <title>Dissolve-a-diamond</title>
    <catno>PH 20</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>hors-catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] &#8220;first is official Libythth
    release and it is probably the strangest sounding electronica you will ever hear. These tracks
    are built around oddly manipulated samples and honking synths sequenced on a keyboard. Drums on
    top of drums. Sometimes it gets really fast and has mosh parts. Makes you imagine a lot of
    different strobe lights and liquid crystal patterns. Upside down on a roller coaster eight or
    ten times in a row. You could almost compare the feel of it to some of the more manic work of
    squarepusher or venetian snares, but way more sloppy and hilarious. Recorded in Brooklyn 1999
    on a 4 track cassette.&#8221; -Libythth</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_27" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_27/">
    <artist>Libythth</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/27_PH.gif" />
    <title>Almost a Trillion Dollars</title>
    <catno>PH 27</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Libythth (non, on n&#8217;est pas certain de comment &#231;a se prononce nous non
    plus) est l&#8217;un des practiciens de musique &#233;lectronique les plus d&#233;jant&#233;s
    qui soient. Ceci est son deuxi&#232;me album, tr&#232;s diff&#233;rent (mais tout aussi fou)
    que son pr&#233;c&#233;dent Dissolve-a-diamond. Recommand&#233;. [dt] [Description anglaise]
    The second official Libythth release got even less reward than &#8220;Dizzolve a
    Diamond&#8221;. This one is the same kind of thing but more pop sounding, whatever that is.
    Probably beacause tracks were originally crated in 1998 before Libythth had a sampler. That
    means it&#8217;s all synth and drums straight from the keyboard. A few tracks have fresh
    scrizzatching by DJ Face-Down-In-The-River. This album is a lot more easy overall, using a lot
    of tweaked synthetic piano, guitar, and woodwind with Libythth&#8217;s specialty use of
    non-western keyboard tuning. And of course loud exciting drums, probably too much hi-hat sizzle
    in my opinion. - Libythth</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_28" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_28/">
    <artist>Massaccesi</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/28_PH.gif" />
    <title>I Never Fall Apart Because I Never Fall Together</title>
    <catno>PH 28</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Tr&#232;s bon disque de &#171;recyclage sonore&#187;, qui r&#233;jouira tous les
    amateurs de &#171;plunderphonics&#187;, mais &#233;galement les fans de bruitisme ludique genre
    Martin T&#233;treault ou morceaux_de_machines. &#201;nerg&#233;tique, rythm&#233;, chaotique et
    glorieusement bizarre. Et comme d&#8217;habitude chez Phthalo, une pochette horrible
    &#233;lev&#233;e au rang d&#8217;oeuvre d&#8217;art. On vous aura averti! [dt] [Description
    anglaise] &#8220;I am a fervent recycler and am obsessed with the way that materials can be
    used and reused. I try to use every piece of material I am presented with, be it fabric or
    sound. I'm rather tired of most of the ideals of the fashion &amp; music industries&#8230; but
    who with a sense of reality and humanity isn&#8217;t? Everything now is moving at hyperspeed
    and I hope somehow I reflect that in a way. A speeding garbage truck of sounds and fabrics,
    overturned and scattered. Or whatever. Your waste is my waste. My waste then becomes
    yours.&#8221; - Masaccesi</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_38" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_38/">
    <artist>Mimi+Boyd</artist>
    <artistdetail>Gage, Herrmann</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/38_PH.gif" />
    <title>Angular Island</title>
    <catno>PH 38</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Mark Gage of Vapourspace and Michelle
    Herrmann aka DJ Punisher of Seismic Records Detroit collaborate as Mimi+Boyd producing Angular
    Island&#8230; a 9 song full length CD, and 4 track remix EP (forthcoming beginning of 2003 with
    mixes by Venetian Snares, Scud, Hellfish and Vapourspace.) &#8220;The CD is techno pop with the
    emphasis on machinery&#8230; we wanted it to have somewhat of a hard edge to it with a pop
    chewy center, and kinda grooved on the whole &#8216;metallic&#8217; feel to the percussion. The
    obtuse blasts of synths and samples kinda remind me (Gage speaking) of bad Japanese
    sci-fi/Godzilla movies.&#8221; The CD is segued, traditional Mark Gage style, and is a triptych
    of clanging metals, 4/4 kicks and a manifesto of techno pop and the machinery of
    machines.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_47" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_47/">
    <artist>Pavillions Collective</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/47_PH.gif" />
    <title>Huge Pavillions</title>
    <catno>PH 47</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_01" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_01/">
    <artist>Phthalocyanine</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/01_PH.gif" />
    <title>Navy Warship</title>
    <catno>PH 01</catno>
    <year>1997</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Le premier album de Phthalocyanine &#224; &#233;tablir sa fameuse esth&#233;tique
    de rythmes super-rapides et de contrepointes d&#8217;une autre plan&#232;te. Une recherche qui
    se d&#233;veloppera sur le CD 25 tracks fer 1 track (Planet Mu) et qui &#233;voluera vers le
    tr&#232;s cryptique Zacks. [dt] [Description anglaise] Thrash drum machine, heavy counterpoint;
    lots of value here. (K-RAA-K)3 describes: &#8220;It looks like a bootleg, but it has a barcode.
    This self-released album contains another attack at samplers and sequencers. Stammered, pushed
    and disordered analogic soundshifts flying fast and sometimes rhytmic through a nuisance
    raid.&#8221; &#8220;Musically, this stuff attains that &#8216;somewhat improvised&#8217;
    feeling through off-kilter beat shapes &amp; harmonically &#8216;wrong&#8217; melody clusters
    unlike just about every other &#8216;scene&#8217; currently in media recognition. And
    he&#8217;s based in the US. Pretty unbelievable stuff, fully deserving of this official
    release. Hectic.&#8221; (Hrvatski). &#8220;This bristling, livewire documentation of DIY
    electronics is yet another head-melting missive from the currently hyper-creative zones of US
    electronica. As indicated on the paint splattered cover art collage, Phthalocyanine&#8217;s,
    lo-fi electronic adventuring is dense and massively messy. It obeys its own auto-destructive,
    scattershot illogic, stuttering and leaking lo-fi noises in a staggering, multidirectional
    chaos. Crude beat-blasts occasionally puncture the mix. Rhythm clips ricochet off sounds like
    bursts of small arms fire. Prismatic melodies circle off-pace. Foggy banks of synth noise puff
    up and seep out across a bubbling swamp of electronic noise. The EP&#8217;s highlight is Navy;
    3 a delicious sludge bath, where everything folds into its glorious, belching mess.&#8221; (The
    Wire)</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_03_2" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_03_2/">
    <artist>Phthalocyanine</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/03_2_PH.gif" />
    <title>Viridian EP (ed. 2)</title>
    <catno>PH 03_2</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] The first &#8220;generally
    available&#8221; pressing of Phthalocyanine&#8217;s first released work-originally as Plug
    Research 02 in the Spring of &#8217;95, and later as PHTHALO 03 in August &#8217;98 as a 50
    copy edition CDR. It is fully re-mastered with 4 additional &#8220;Viridian Period&#8221;
    tracks. The style was much easier back then; developed melodics and a sense of patience in the
    way things unfold, and mostly no distortion or heavy drum machine ethics. It was more of a
    romantic time - pre the confrontational mess we are now used to from
    Phthalocyanine.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_05" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_05/">
    <artist>Phthalocyanine</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/05_PH.gif" />
    <title>Zacks</title>
    <catno>PH 05</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] &#8220;This work, which Phthalocyanine
    calls his most advanced work to date, features 40 minutes of his unique experimental chaotic
    style of experimental techno/electronica that continually balances on the fineline between
    audio chaos and order. As in his previous 4 PHTHALO releases, the tracks are composed of
    disjointed rhythms, shifting melodies, dark atmospheres, and seemingly random sounds. After
    repeated listens, order slowly develops amid this chaotic sonic mix allowing the listener to
    appreciate the method to PHTHALO's madness. Fans of Kid 606, Lesser, The Electric Company, V/Vm
    and previous Phthalocyanine releases know what to expect.&#8221; (E.X.P.) &#8220;If the Aphex
    Twin is too sensible a sound and Mouse On Mars is too melodic, then the mad scientist ethos of
    Phthalocyanine is what you are looking for. This is the electronica sound of a tooth
    extraction. Spasmodic clatter ofdense walls of arrhythmic drill speed breakbeats.&#8221;
    (Aquarius Records)</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_21" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_21/">
    <artist>Jason Potratz</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/21_PH.gif" />
    <title>Transfer</title>
    <catno>PH 21</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>hors-catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Conscious efforts have been made
    towards illuminating the attitudes of Acid 12" listening habits. Affinities for Leo Anibaldi,
    Woody McBride, the Junkfood label, Axis, Italian acid in general, non 303 sourced basslines,
    brightly colored 12's from Belgium and the U.K., Djax, amongst many others are clearly present.
    Ideologies and new perspectives flow easily from such militantly based trainspotter ethics.
    Surely made by the trainspotter for the trainspotter-which may be the purest form of music; a
    complete disregard for commercial viability. PHTHALO is very proud to finally offer it's first
    presentation of Acid based music.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_15" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_15/">
    <artist>Sistol</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/15_PH.gif" />
    <title>Sistol</title>
    <catno>PH 15</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>L&#8217;un des premiers CD du finlandais Vladislav Delay, d&#233;sormais
    l&#8217;un des plus r&#233;put&#233;s dans son genre. Un classique de house exp&#233;rimentale
    pour oreilles sensibles. [dt] [Description anglaise] Stripped loops beats delays filters.
    Artist from Chain Reaction, Max Ernst, and Sigma Editions issues first full length for Phthalo.
    Bumpy asymetrical time sense, digital scrape artifacts and smudges, all propelled forward with
    straight tempo instruments and dance approach. All around the beats are filtered hiss
    instruments and sine wave bass accents on odd beats as opposed to &#8217;even&#8217; basslines
    on the one. Nothing seems to be on the one. Everything is carried forward by quarternote kicks
    but the rest resembles some kind of prime number type rhythm music. African folk music will be
    made with computers someday.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_16" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_16/">
    <artist>Stalaktiten och Mirjam</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/16_PH.gif" />
    <title>&#197;ngestmaskin</title>
    <catno>PH 16</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>hors-catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Extreme synthesis experiments computer
    coded soundeffects. &#8220;Brilliant 26-theme collection of relatively short 1/0 themed
    constructions by one Martin Abrahmsson (aka Bauri on the Saundart/Pitchcadet/City-Centre
    Offices/etc. labels), an electronic music producer based outside of Karlskoga, Sweden who
    claims to 'design sounds equivalent to hardcore mind magic, heavy mental noise love and lush
    polyexpanding units of lucky fresh feelings'. Ack (working on locking that thought away
    somewhere dark). Whether on not he's situated on the right bank of the self-presentation river
    is of little consequence; this has got to be one of the most sorted/eclectic sets of digital
    audio fuckery to come out of ANY camp over the last few months. Nice tidy IDM, minimal pulse
    bits, and analog washes are laced with blasts of random static/feedback/gangsta
    lean/Mego-isms/etc... An instant SAS classic.&#8221; -- Hrvatski.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_39" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_39/">
    <artist>Terminal 11</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/39_PH.gif" />
    <title>Speed Modified</title>
    <catno>PH 39</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Tr&#232;s recommendable album de breakbeats hyper-rapides, m&#233;lodies
    b&#226;cl&#233;es et tout le reste. On n&#8217;en demandait pas tant. [dt] [Description
    anglaise] The self-trained innovations and debut public release thereof of one Mike Castaneda
    from the American Southwest. In his own words: &#8220;&#8230; these are works based on an
    extreme lack of sleep and attention span. Tracks based on my efforts to speed and maintain.
    It&#8217;s an outlet for my pent up aggressions and emotions which vary throughout the album,
    making me sick and esctatic to have made it. I see it as starting it, destroying it, then
    questioning it. I&#8217;m fucking hell bent on making things worse.&#8221; It is mesmerizing,
    and jarring at the same time. It seems as though there is &#8220;no instrument&#8221; or rather
    ultra &#8220;Speed Modified&#8221; snapshots of both musical and non-musical moments. The
    notion of &#8220;a piece&#8221; -a single &#8220;track&#8221; or &#8220;song&#8221; seems
    discarded for a sort of ever-evolving beat ridden edit-scheme of bursts, stabs, slashes. It is
    like the edit itself is the instrument, as in early Mantronix, but with the contemporary
    soundchoices post-Squarepusher/Spy Mania, post-Venetian Snares, and also post-industrial, etc.
    Hard, fast, funky, mad, and fully alive-with-energy.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_51" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_51/">
    <artist>Terminal 11</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/51_PH.gif" />
    <title>Don Maximo / Postmod Premax</title>
    <catno>PH 51</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>La suite hyperactive tant attendue de son prec&#233;dent album, Speed Modified
    [Description anglaise] The mind-dissectingly sharp follow up album to the critically acclaimed
    debut Speed Modified by the master of firestorm drum bombardment, Terminal 11. Volleys of
    snares are compacted into a continuum of amphetamine overdosed edits. The patterns relentlessly
    limp, stutter, spin, turn upside down and inside out and then do miraculous backflips,
    somersaults, and other hard to describe tricks. These tracks channel the siren's song from the
    muse of mania. He's had compilation appearances on the Open Up and Say&#8230;, and Paws Across
    the World 2003 releases (both on Tigerbeat6). He has releases due out soon on Tigerbeat 6, Cock
    Rock Disco, Violent Turd, No Room For Talent, and Zod (both a split 12" with Phthalo artist
    8fm, and an appearance on an untitled 12" compilation), and is gaining vehement support from
    Donna Summer, Xanopticon, Duran Duran Duran, and Dev Null.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_33" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_33/">
    <artist>Tu M&#8217;</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/33_PH.gif" />
    <title>Pink Shark</title>
    <catno>PH 33</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_35" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_35/">
    <artist>Vid</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/35_PH.gif" />
    <title>Fragrant Stirrings</title>
    <catno>PH 35</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] This is the debut album by Vid aka
    Televasquez from the Incomplet label out of the Oakland/Berkeley area. Clear sound design and
    production, patiently molded into bites of mainly tonal situations set over slow moving drum
    machine patterns. It will focus on a pass of just one tone/beep/hum/buzz, and then manipulate
    it differently on each new pass, &#8220;stirring the fragrances&#8221; and creating atmospheres
    that are not beligerant but still demanding of scrutiny and repeated listens. Similar ideas
    which might compare include &#8220;The Mimic and the Model&#8221; from the Cytrax group as well
    as certain moments from Chessie&#8217;s early recordings.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="ph_29" href="http://www.electrocd.com/fr/cat/ph_29/">
    <artist>Wobbly</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/29_PH.gif" />
    <title>Live 99&gt;00</title>
    <catno>PH 29</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[traduction fran&#231;aise non disponible] Jon Leidecker has been producing music
    under the name Wobbly since 1990, but has been involved in electro-acoustic livemix radio
    improvisation since 1987. Wobbly concert appearences involve no laptops, no sequencers, no
    midi; edits are manually executed in real time using a mixer and several inexpensive samplers.
    Releases include the 3&#8221; CDs &#8220;Regards&#8221; for Alku, and &#8220;Playlist&#8221;
    for Illegal Art. Ongoing studio and live projects involve collaborations with People Like Us,
    Thomas Dimuzio, and Chopping Channel, a quartet featuring Leidecker and three members of
    Negativland (Don Joyce, David Wills and Peter Conheim).</description>
  </recording>
</label>
