Fae Trap - Scenes From Another Earth

 

Matt and Will percuss and sample, with James mastering.  12" vinyl by Tangible Formats.

Gio Mesto - Gatos

 

Recording and mastering by James Phillips at Mangum Street Grocery in Durham NC; mixing and additional recording by Gio Mesto at Studio Magik in Chapel Hill NC, November 2024.

Cover painting by Edward Max Fendley 

Cole Nichols - Bass, Piano, Synthesizer
Dexter Moses - Alto Sax
Joseph Silvers - Electric Guitar
Matt DeBellis - Electric Guitar, Sampler, Vocals
Will Kitchin - Drums, Vocals

Photos from that session are here.

Brinq - Fairytale 10"

Side 1 is a remix of "Group Grope" from the Fairy Tale EP, Side 2 is a remix of "Pits" from the Rehash EP, plus some new and old sounds to close out 2024. Recorded April-Rocktober 2024 at home in Chapel Hill NC

Lathe cut 10" records by Tangible Formats (thanks, Wes!). All the end loops on side B are unique to each record!  Check out a video here.

Various Artists - Aspirin Age Volume Four (a shoegaze compilation)

From Broken Sound Tapes: "the fourth edition of Aspirin Age (a shoegaze compilation) is here! Truth in advertising, this is a shoegaze comp. But this is also THREE HOURS of shoegaze. 48 gazers from all over the world."

The comp includes an alt version of "Gold Standard" called "Balid", recorded, mixed, and mastered by James Phillips at Mangum Street Grocery in Durham NC, May 2024.

compiled by Nicole Davis and Michael Wood

mastered by Brian John Mitchell

art by Mellisa Dumas

Gio Mesto - Live At Carrboro Music Festival

Gio Mesto live at the Central Theatre Company in Carrboro NC as part of the Carrboro Music Festival, September 29, 2024

Brinq - Hubba Hubba

Recorded August-September 2024 in Chapel Hill NC

Instruments:

Roland SP-404MKII sampler
Yamaha PSR E363 keyboard
Fender Squire Strat Electric Guitar
Evans SE150 amplifier
Egg shaker
Metal guitar slide

Cover inspired by The Sea-Ders

Samples:

Carl Perkins
Cuba
The Double Feature
Gio Mesto
Lydia Lunch
Peter Finch
Thievery Corporation

Brinq - Fairy Tale

Recorded July 2024 in Chapel Hill.

Features:

Roland SP-404MKII sampler
Yamaha PSR E363 keyboard

Samples:

Accelera Deck
Amp
Arab Strap
The Asteroid #4
Bardo Pond
Beatles
Dino
George Lamond
Jermain Stewart
Krystol
Matt DeBellis
Mogwai
Piano Magic
Transient Waves
Trinere

Cover idea borrowed from John, Ringo, and Julian.

Brinq - Satisfaction Always

Instruments:

Roland SP-404MKII

Yamaha PSR E363 keyboard
Human Voice

Samples: 

Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon
Flux
Patience & Prudence
The Bob Crewe Generation Orchestra
Martin Short
Riffs
Bardo Pond

Recorded at home in Chapel Hill.

Gio Mesto - Booya Ooya

Cole - Bass, Electric Piano, Synthesizer
Joseph - Guitar
Matt - Guitar, Sampler, Vocals
Will - Drums, Vocals

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by James Phillips at Markham Groceries Studio in Durham NC, May 2024.

All song by Gio Mesto.
"OJ" co-written with Joel Floyd.
"Nugs" samples "We Can Make It If We Try" by The Sylvers.
Artwork by Nikki B Collage

Brinq - Rehash

Roland SP-404MKII sampler

Evans SE150 amplifier

Human voice

Yamaha PSR-E363 keyboard

Brood XIX Cicadas

Alternate artwork, below:

Brinq - Westward

Roland SP-404MKII sampler

Fender Squire Strat Electric Guitar

Evans SE150 amplifier

Human voice

Metal guitar slide

Plus samples:

The Honeycombs

JVW325

Black Ivory

You're Whole

Brood XIX Cicadas

War Of The Worlds

Bardo Pond

Riffs

Cover borrowed from The Association

Brinq - Gayway To Heaven

New tunage with the Roland SP-404MKII, plus:

Fender Squire Strat Electric Guitar 
Evans SE150 amplifier
Human voice
Egg shaker
Metal Guitar Slide

Samples:

Attilio Mineo
Sal Mineo
Listen Up
CeCe Rogers
Arts & Crafts
The Rascals
Windy and Carl
Mark Adams/Slave
Kaleidoscope
Johnny Harris Orchestra
Spoonfed Hybrid
Tommy Roe
Jason Paul
Tom Zé
War Of The Worlds
Marty Gold & His Orchestra
The Playground
Pop Workshop
Bill Ding
Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon
Friar Tuck
The Newtrons
Brood XIX Cicadas

Cover borrowed from The Kinks

Brinq - New Folder

Recorded in April at home in Chapel Hill

• Roland SP-404MKII
• Fender Squire Strat Electric Guitar
• Bugera amplifier
• Human voice
• Egg shaker
• Evans SE150 amplifier

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Contains samples of the following artists, via the Roland SP-404MKII sampler:

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Flux

Everything But The Girl

Cat Miller

Dynasty

Black Ivory

Brooks Benton

Dave and The Customs

Hammond Brothers

The Starlets

John Fred and His Playboy Band

Friar Tuck

SSQ

Artz & Kraftz

The Sylvers

Susan Carter

Bill Ding

The Giant Jellybean Copout

Bardo Pond

Boyce & Heart

Bob Dileo

The Rascals

Los Johnny Jets

JVW325

The Beach Boys

Pop Workshop

Will Kitchin

Marianna

Vigrass & Osborne

The Playground

Mark Kleinschmidt

Leo Addeo and His Orchestra

Marty Gold and *His* Orchestra

Tom Zé

Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon

Pipes Of Pan

Jason Paul

George Harrison

A.M. Gately

Cover borrowed from Cheri

Brinq - Token She-Van

Recorded April 2024 at home in Chapel Hill NC. More P-40 MKII wackiness, plus guitars, vox pedals, vox, and a Can sample, a Spoonfed Hybrid cover, and a HNIA sample.

Gio Mesto - Live @ The Cave

recorded at the cave, chapel hill nc, on march 21, 2024 at 9 pm. with step friends.

cole - bass

joseph - guitar

matt - guitar, vocals, sampler

will - drums, vocals

DELETED 10/01/2024.  If you need a live fix, go here

the following may or may not be alternate covers:

Caruso - Kitten

20th Anniversary Vinyl Limited Edition Deluxe Remix and Mastered Reissue! Recorded January-December 2003 in Downtown Raleigh, NC, except "Wait 4Ever", "Sushi Blues", "Right Arm" and "The True Meaning Of Winter" were partly recorded by Rob Girardi at Lord Baltimore Studios in Baltimore MD on March 05, 2003.

Originally a CDR demo that was sold in the UK during a short tour in April 2004, and mailed out to labels throughout 2003.

"Wait 4 Ever" originally by Swirlies. Vocals and bass by Beth Varden.

"Sushi Blues" also features Beth on bass and vocals. She plays guitar on "Right Arm" and "The True Meaning Of Winter", too!

"The True Meaning Of Winter" also features Rob Girardi on guitar and Dave Bergander on percussion.

All songs by Caruso except where noted above.  Mastered by Guy Fixsen.

Photography, artwork, inspiration and design courtesy of Mark Robinson/Teenbeat Graphica. Type set in Teenbeat 611. Thank you to Mark for everything, ever!

Vinyl pressed at Citizen Vinyl in Asheville NC. Limited copies of 100 on opaque pink vinyl.

Brinq - Black Bats II

Electropop mixed with non electropop.  Featuring the Roland SP-404MKII.

Brinq - Mauvelous

New Band (name subject to change)! Brinq is lead by Roland Navigator.  Made mostly with samples via the Roland SP-404MKII.

Riffs - Phase(d) Out

Recorded at home in Chapel Hill NC.

Eastar drum set

Squire Precision Bass

Korg ES-1 Sampler

Tambourine

Shakers

Handclaps

Riffs - Sunsetting

Eastar drum set

Squire Precision Bass
Korg ES-1 Sampler
Tambourine
Shakers
Handclaps

Recorded at home in Chapel Hill.

Riffs - 3 EPs

New drumset!, plus riffs underneath.

-Eastar metallic green drumset

-Squire Strat electric guitar

-Bugera amplifier

-Vox wah wah pedal

-Boss CS-3 pedal

-Blue vocal mic

-Korg ElecTribe Sampler

-Tambourine

-Vocals

Digital download includes 4th EP recorded September 16, 2023 called "Crazy Town", recorded without drums and with Korg drum machine.

Recorded at Studio Magik in Chapel Hill.

Tracks 1-5 ("Sacred Band of Thebes"), recorded October 21, 2023.

Tracks 6-9 ("Scrambleverse"), recorded October 24, 2023.

Tracks 10-14 ("Screw-Up"), recorded October 28, 2023.

Various Artists - Aspirin Age Volume Three (a shoegaze compilation)

From Broken Sound Tapes: "Top notch shoegaze bands from all across the world, put together by Aspirin Age (a shoegaze and psych podcast) and Broken Sound Tapes. The cassette will be released as part of Cassette Week 2023 and limited to only 50 copies.

The cassette will be 13 tracks but all purchases give you a download to all tracks (many more tracks are being added daily)."
CD limited to first 17 tracks.

Photo: Patrick Hinkle
Mastered by Brian John Mitchell.

Available at https://brokensoundtapes.bandcamp.com/album/aspirin-age-volume-three-a-shoegaze-compilation.  Features remixes of a Gallus Mag song and a Riffs song (CD and digital only).

Tracklist:

1.Cigarettes for Breakfast - Hollywood Daydream 06:58
2.Lilys - Won't Make You Sleepy 06:43
3.Magic Shoppe - Have You Seen Bella? 02:58
4.Funeral Homes - Lucid (want to) 02:38
5.Caustic Flowers - Foxhole 02:42
6.Paper Angels - Place In Line 03:31
7.Central Pacific State Beach - Apparition of Metamorphosis 01:26
8.Black Massive Sun - Amour Fou 03:53
9.White Cascade - Timeline 04:06
10.Stoney Point - No Way 04:50
11.Gallus Mag - Newer Face 04:51:

12.Rainsong - Karoshi 03:08
13.Tommy Tipton - Lost in April 04:06
14.Riffs - Rosa Winkel 05:51:

15.Shades of Violet - A Matter Of Time 03:14
16.9-volt velvet - Blues From a Gun 03:50
17.Sunlotus - Glass-like Dreams 06:40
18.Olympus Mons - Automate 05:36
19.Nick & Jeff Discover Infinity - Utopian Meditation 03:15
20.Skot Kremen - Condone 03:48
21.Kerosene Eyes - Sol 03:07
22.Caramel Snow - Soft Hearted 04:15
23.Treyverb - The Faherty Convention 02:01
24.Goodbye Ranger - Memories and the Sky 03:43
25.Always Other - Waning Moon 04:17
26.Dark Patterns - The Screws 05:28
27.Van Goght - Absent 03:02
28.Lumari - Starlit 03:47
29.Muscle Mass - You Can't Always Know 01:54
30.Dramamine - Hypnotized 04:57
31.Tombstones In Their Eyes - We Are Gold 04:32

Various Artists - For a Ltd. Time, Vol. 2

Second compilation featuring mostly NC bands:

Angel Boy Cow (Will from Gallus Mag, late 2010s)
Riffs (Matt from Gallus Mag, 2010s- early 2020s)
Cicaeda (from Baltimore, around 1996-2005)
Clok-Lok (originally from Carrboro, late 90s/early 00s)
Kar​ō​shi (originally from Chapel Hill, late 2010s/20s)
Bringerer (originally from Chapel Hill, mid 00s)

Riffs - 2012-2023

All tracks recorded in Chapel Hill, NC, except #2, parts of which were recorded in Durham, NC.  All songs by Riffs.  Most songs reappear in a different form on a previous release from another year.  

Caruso - Pnk Cloud

Side 1: Loops, sounds, and noise recorded in and around Durham NC in 2010-2011. Inspired by Duke, Julie Perini, Julie Boler, and Love Is A Stream by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.

Side 2: Recorded live, immediately following the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear in Washington DC on October 30th, 2010.

Recorded by Matthew DeBellis.

Acoustic guitar on 'Side'2 by Matthew Burchett.

Vinyl jackets printed by Matthew Tauch at Super G Print Lab, Durham, NC.

Both vinyl and digital releases mastered by Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering in Detroit, MI, 2023.  Vinyl pressed at Citizen Vinyl in Asheville, NC.  All copies come with a free 11x17 poster.

Gallus Mag - Gamllagus

Recorded at Studio Magik in Chapel Hill NC

February-April 2023.

All songs and sounds recorded and mixed by The Gallus Mag.

Joel "Pink" Floyd - bass, vocals, keyboard, trumpet.

Joseph "Leon" Silvers - guitar, vocals.

Matt "Hew" DeBellis - guitar, vocals, keyboard, saxophone.

Will "Sunrise Biscuit" Kitchin - drums, vocals, percussion.

Cover art by Ron Liberti (www.ronlibertiart.com)

Mastered by Jack Hartley

Riffs - 80 Yds From Home

Recorded on January 30, 2023 with Brenton.

Riffs - Pond Songs

More geetar noise celebrating the wah wah.  Includes a little keyboard, a smidge of vox, and the spirit of Bardo Pond.