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.
"Reactions" is the debut album from First Tone, the musical partnership of New Orleans-based artists Turk Dietrich (Second Woman, Belong) and composer Duane Pitre (Important Records). While the project has been at work quietly sculpting their sound for years, ...
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SP049 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"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
""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
""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
"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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SP027 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
"That old saw about dancing and architecture notwithstanding, I am like most people who make records in that I do not especially relish the task of writing about them. I seem to have drawn the proverbial short straw, and so it falls to me to tell you something useful ...
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SP023 | 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
"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
""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
"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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SP008 | 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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SP003 | SPECTRUM SPOOLS
