Lockbox’s Prince Soul Grenade popping up on a few blog zones:

Tiny Mix Tapes:

“With this Hausu Mountain release, the snowball effect of Lockbox music has reached top velocity.”

Ad Hoc:

“Lockbox might be challenging himself, forcing himself to keep doing something newer, better.”

The first HausMo releases of 2014 are on their way! We’re excited to announce new releases from two of our favorite contemporary electronic zoners:

Lockbox – Prince Soul Grenade

Lockbox is producer Jesse Briata’s kaleidoscopic electronic project. We’re releasing his full-length album Prince Soul Grenade on January 28 on CD and limited edition cassette. For more info on the release, check out our catalog. You can check out the a track from the album, “Brainhead,” at our Soundcloud page:

This album is available to preorder on CD and CS in the HausMo E-Shoppe.

Sugarm – Pure Racket

Mike Sugarman makes hallucinogenic music as Sugarm. We’re releasing his full-length album Pure Racket on limited edition cassette on February 11. You can learn more about the album at our catalog page. Stream a track, “Aspic Nipple,” at our Soundcloud:

You can preorder the album in our e-shoppe!

We’re beyond pleased to present the first Hausu Mountain Festival! (!!) We gathered a bunch of zoners from the HausMo roster and stuck ’em on a bill with some of Chicago’s deepest synthesists / shredders. The Empty Bottle will be decked out with an additional stage area for easy transitioning between all of the acts – promising infinite atmospheres (realms, even) to dip into from the comfort of your favorite venue. Music starts at 5:30 and ends when everyone has finished. The lineup:

Sam Prekop

Bitchin Bajas

Mind Over Mirrors

Good Willsmith

Quicksails

Moth Cock

Sugarm

Infinite love to WNUR Rock Show for sponsoring this event !!

To generate some additional funds for the performers (some of whom are coming in from the Great East), we’re making a rare# artifact of HausMo lore commercially available to the public: THE ZONES HAT

Another cool thing: the tickets cost a mere $10 !

Can’t wait to see y’all at the Bottle !! Woooo! !
Please refer to FacePlace for more intel or to tell us you’re coming.

We’re so excited to announce our next physical release! Zach Robinson has been one of our best buds and closest musical collaborators for years (we both play with him in a band called The Earth Is A Man). We remember being blown away by his earliest solo recordings as D/A/D, back when his dorm room served as his studio. His first full-length album under the D/A/D moniker, The Construct, demonstrates how far he’s come as a composer, guitarist, and synthesist since those sepia-toned days of yore four-ish years ago. Zach released The Construct online through Rossa Corsa Records earlier this year, and we’re lucky enough to be the ones responsible for its physical incarnation on the 3D universal grid. You can find more info about this release on our catalog page.

The album is available to order now in our e-shoppe, in limited editions of both cassette and CD, and will ship out starting next week.

You can stream the whole album at the D/A/D Bandcamp page, or in the embedded player below:

Hey buds,
We released a split cassette between Good Willsmith and Derek Rogers to commemorate Good Willsmith’s west coast tour this summer – and here we are, back home, with some copies left unpurchased. You can order this tape in the Hausu Mountain e-shoppe – it’s available now! The tape is limited to 100 copies – and we’re running low.

We’re very excited to announce the details of Good Willsmith’s next tour, which brings the band to the east coast for 5 shows in September as support for DATE PALMS!! These bills are crazy – we’re honored to play with some of our favorite contemporary zoners. Check out the dates, along with info on local support:

09.07.13 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen w/ Kwaidan, Mind Over Mirrors

09.08.13 – Cleveland, OH – Now That’s Class w/ Moth Cock, DJ John Elliott

09.09.13 – Boston, MA – Store 54

09.10.13 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie

09.11.13 – Brooklyn, NYC – Union Pool w/ Mountains, Plankton Wat

You can find all the details about these shows at each one’s Facebook event:
Chicago: https://www.facebook.com/events/317315638405203/
Cleveland: https://www.facebook.com/events/472500089513285/
Boston: https://www.facebook.com/events/1409887785897001/
Philadelphia: coming soon
Brooklyn: https://www.facebook.com/events/203001186528556/

Looking forward to seeing you out east!!

Hello and welcome! We’re so pleased to finally let you know about our next batch of tapes: the first four volumes of the Mugen Series! Infinite love to the guys at Tabs Out Cassette Podcast for premiering the series, and to Mike for his killer writeup. Check it out here.

Mugen Volume 1: MrDougDoug & Mukqs

Mugen Volume 2: TALsounds & Greyghost

Mugen Volume 3: Ron Tubman & Sugarm

Mugen Volume 4: Shingles & Josh Millrod

Each tape in the Mugen series features solo live performances from two artists, presented in single takes without overdubs. We make this distinction not to discredit other means of creation, but to identify recording conditions that these diverse sessions share. The eight musicians in the series approach their takes with different instruments in their hands, and structures (or lack thereof) in their brains – and they all produce sounds that might seem too dense to be the output of one human at one moment. But they aren’t really alone. Other brains help out, looping, processing, and layering live input: reactive synthesis, EHX2880 Multi-Track Loopers, auto-harmonizing frequency modulation, Boss RC20s, Line6 DL4s, way too much gear overall. Though the extent of the performers’ musical “educations” vary, certain masters provide overarching inspiration: Fripp and Eno’s tape loop collaborations, Klaus Schulze’s side-long synth odysseys, Terry Riley’s eternal swirling delay trails circa “Poppy Nogood.” These four tapes begin a series that we plan to continue indefinitely, adding more and more sessions to an already massive canon of tapes showcasing “one-take live drone / noise” and hoping something sticks out. If anything, the heads of the future will look back on Mugen and think “those young’uns were up to some weird shit.”

These tapes will ship on July 22nd, and they’re available to pre-order now from our e-shoppe! (Scroll down a little bit on the shop page to check out the MUGEN BUNDLE option – in the US, you can get all four tapes for $21 including shipping!)

ATTN: Hear ye! Bugle!

I know that you’re probably all like, “come on, more Big Ship stuff? Where them tapes at, Holmes?” But you better cool it, mister, because there are many more updates to be had.

We proudly present to you a video from one of our favorite collaborators, Brownshoesonly. Nick processed and edited home movies we found at Swap-O-Rama for the track “A Rabbit.”

Also mosey onto our store page to pre-order the LP or CD.

ZONES!

Exciting Announcements about The Big Ship!! The band’s debut album A Circle Is Forever comes into the world on March 26th on LP & CD!! The choice of which size disc to grip – 12 inches of analog or 4.75 inches of digital – is yours and yours alone. Both are available for Preorder in our e-shoppe!

The CD comes packaged in a white mini-LP jacket with liner labels and the LP cover image printed on the disc. – $10 US, $15 CAN/MEX, $17 RestOfWorld (These prices include shipping)

The LP edition features Coke Bottle Clear vinyl with Green Splatter, packaged in a hand-painted, hand-assembled tip-on sleeve, download code included. (Limited to 300 copies) – $15 US, $20 CAN/MEX, $25 RestOfWorld (These prices include shipping)

Either way, we know you won’t regret this sacred act of #commerce and we love you for supporting this project!! Thank You !!

ALSO: A Tour!! The Big Ship’s five-piece physical incarnation is heading out to the Great Eastern States of America for ten days of shows, driving, some breakfast foods, The Residents on the stereo, couches, shredding. Catch the band at these dates:

Sunday, 3/10 – Philadephia, PA – @ Kung-Fu Necktie

Tuesday, 3/12 – Richmond, VA – @ Steady Sounds

Wednesday, 3/13 – Baltimore, MD – @ Club K

Thursday, 3/14 – Manhattan, NYC – @ The Living Room

Friday, 3/15 – Brooklyn, NYC – @ TBA

Saturday, 3/16 – Philadephia, PA – @ Circle of Hope

Hope to see you guys on the road!!

xoooxoo

DOUG & MAX

We’re more than more than pleased to announce the release of our the first LP on Hausu Mountain: A Circle Is Forever by The Big Ship! You and I both know that the long highway into the cosmic womb of the Great Porpoise King is paved with cassette tapes, – but lo! the crafts traversing down those interplanetary lanes are built of the finest slabs of Coke Bottle Clear With Green Splatter Vinyl that #commerce has ever seen. (For serious, this was the first release we ever intended for our label – HAUSMO1 – and we’re proud to finally get it out into the world.)

Doug Kaplan and Aeron Small record music together as The Big Ship. The duo developed guitar techniques and musical interests in tandem for over a decade of their young lives, and diverged into solo performances for a split cassette right here on Hausu Mountain. The thirty-nine minutes of their debut LP A Circle Is Forever represent nine months of collaboration under the same roof – and the eternal love of fourteen years and counting. To stream the first cut from the album, “A Rabbit,” is to enter a succession of zones: multi-tracked guitar melodies, layered synth pads, acoustic flourishes, somewhere warm.

The duo’s live ensemble has expanded to include Max Allison – Doug’s bandmate in drone trio Good Willsmith and instrumental rockers The Earth is a Man – on bass and tape loops, and buds Matt Baer (on guitar) and Stephen Waller (on drums). Stay tuned for the dates of their East Coast tour this March.

Preorder A Circle Is Forever on LP our e-shoppe.