SPECTRUM SPOOLS
Spectrum Spools was founded by Peter Rehberg of Editions Mego and John Elliott in 2011. The label catalogue (mainly vinyl) releases by Forma, Bee Mask, Mist, Container, Driphouse, Hive Mind, Gary War, Three Legged Race, Unicorn Hard-On, Steve Moore, Donato Dozzy any more.
"Ren Schofield has returned with a new installment in his notorious "LP" series for Spectrum Spools. "LP" has all the earmarks of the classic Container sound with it's uber-mangled, saturated tape garble and headlong tempo macabre. However, this new set of tracks ...
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SP048 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"Since it's release in early 2006, Belongs debut masterpiece has accumulated a dedicated cult following, with comparisons to the work of Christian Fennesz and Gas, with some claims that it plays like My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" sans the songs. While these ...
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SP046 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
""The Mansion" finds Naucke at the peak of his powers with a fresh array of meticulously composed psychotropic tapestries. Themes based on a childhood home, now a distant memory, reveal a mysterious narrative in mind-bending sonic detail. These complex ideas fuse ...
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SP045 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"Max Eilbacher's "Red Anxiety Tracers" is the debut long player from the multi-talented Baltimore, Maryland stalwart . Elibacher has performed with various projects such as Matmos, Horse Lords, and the mind-altering underground Needle Gun aktionist unit. Despite years ...
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SP031 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"This record was downloaded over 5,000 times from the Palm myspace and bandcamp pages; and now it will finally become a tangible artifact. "Escape From New York" is an enigmatic blast of fully focused, high-speed pursuit tunes channeling the 1984 tropical shoreline ...
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SP028 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"Ben Billington is a resident Chicago staple and multi-instrumentalist crucial to the Metro area experimental landscape. He can morph his styles seamlessly and is fluent in many musical languages, wether he's playing in Moonrises, Circuit de Yeux or in the legendary ...
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"Spectrum Spools is pleased to release the debut album by veteran musician Toko Yasuda's PLVS VLTRA project. Toko has been working for years already in established pop acts such as Enon, Blonde Redhead and now touring with St. Vincent handling synthesizer duties for ...
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SP018 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"POPULAR TAGS: Ambient, Analog, Baroque, Beautiful, Bizarre, Boring, Cold, "Daren Ho", Digital, Driphouse, Drone, Electronic, Electronica, Experimental, Floating, Harpsichord, "Library Electronics", Modular, Mysterious, Piano, Psychedelic, Puzzling, Satie, "Spectrum ...
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"Future music duo Second Woman's sophomore full-length for Spectrum Spools further hones their distinctive fusion of shapeshifting software sculpture and tessellated footwork. Shivering digital textures oscillate with and against algorithmically mapped percussion ...
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SP043 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"David Borden, born Christmas Day 1938, in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American Minimalist composer and electronic music pioneer. Music for Amplified Keyboard Instruments is his unsung masterpiece, released in 1981 on the now defunct Red Records based in Holland. After ...
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SP036CD | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"There's a large empty space on your record shelf, in between Nurse With Wound's "Space Music" and Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue's "Shades of Orion": a gap between the cold, lifeless experimentations of Steven Stapleton - space heard as a largely silent void punctuated by ...
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SP037CD | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
""Petit Cochon" is the third LP and debut album for Spectrum Spools by James Donadio under his Prostitutes guise. From "Psychedelic Black", the self-released debut LP limited to only 100 to the esteemed "Crushed Interior" on Digitalis, it's safe to say Donadio has ...
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SP035 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"How can we imagine the future of the world, away from the standards of time that we have insisted upon giving it? How to conceive of the movements of a world in its arcs and sweeps of continents and oceans across ages without reducing it to cheap historical ...
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SP032CD | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"How can we imagine the future of the world, away from the standards of time that we have insisted upon giving it? How to conceive of the movements of a world in its arcs and sweeps of continents and oceans across ages without reducing it to cheap historical ...
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SP032 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
special offer "Recorded at his apartment studio, "Headboggle" is the manifestation of Derek Gedalecia's acoustic/electronic research utilizing the "kitchen sink" in every sense of the idiom: Moogs, Harmonica, Banjo, Harpsichord, Irish Harp, EMS Synthi, Violin, Drums, ...
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SP012 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"OFF/ON is an evolutionary act of fissure, the opening of a rift in FORMA's sonic landscape. The second LP from the Brooklyn cosmic synth trio of Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam, and George Bennett, OFF/ON's universe is darker, its terrain more enigmatic and aggressive than ...
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SP024CD | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"It's been nearly two years since we've heard new music from Gary War and we are excited to announce the release of his inevitable breakthrough "Jared's Lot". Through the years we have heard the developments from the D.I.Y. psychedelia of "New Raytheonport" to the more ...
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SP020 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"It's been a long time coming and it's great to finally announce the release of Eric Lanham's "The Sincere Interruption", his first long-playing record under his own name after performing for years under various solo guises such Carl Calm and Palmetto Moon Electronic ...
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SP021 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"Outer Space is a rapidly evolving sound entity headed by John Elliott and joined by a constantly rotating cast of midwestern U.S. electronic figures. "Akashic Record" sees the project grow in many different directions from the self-titled Arbor album created throughout ...
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SP019 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
""Flux" is the 1981 debut solo outing of Robert Turman, an American multi-instrumentalist and avant-garde composer. Until recently, Turman was perhaps best known for his contributions to the ballistic NON project with Boyd Rice, as well as other obscured U.S. industrial ...
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SP010CD | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"For the last few years, Chris Madak has been on a tangled and cryptic path toward the full realiza- tion of his Bee Mask alterego. Now, for the first time there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel - a chance for old plans to come to fruition and for new ideas to ...
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SP005CD | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"FORMA (Mark Dwinell, Sophie Lam, & George Bennett) emerged on the NYC minimal synth scene in 2010 with a singular vision of cosmic Krautrock for a new age. On their eponymous debut LP, the Brooklyn-based electronics trio merges the melodic flow and primitive rhythms of ...
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