A Long Ray's Journey into Light

Two new tapes!

EAGLE CHALICE - UNDERWATER PANTHER PARTY - C20

Magnetic, slow-motion trance music from a glue-age spirit warrior. Eagle Chalice has been rocking the Bay Area with his plasticized drones and narcoleptic beats, and according to music industry experts Eternal Tapestry, the songs on this tape have "rad vibes." The music is sort of droney and sort of shoegazey but more beautiful and minimal than either of those words make it sound.

MP3: Untitled #4

CHROME VAMPIRE - RAD ATTITUDE - C10

Chrome Vampire are some dudes that I seriously love, who seem to mostly live in a basement and only talk through MicroKorgs. They have made a 10-minute barrage of synth, drums, and vocoders that is sometimes catchy and sometimes caustic and will probably make your neighbors hate you if you play it too loud. This is pixie-stick party digipunk with an ear for beautiful noise and no attention span.

MP3: Glitchwave

get the tapes here

Kid Wizard in 20JFG

The kid keeps getting good press, this time from British synth-wave tastemakers 20 Jazz Funk Greats. You can read what they have to say here.

(I don't know, I'm thinking maybe it's finally time to do a photo shoot?)



Also, we are really feeling this self-titled tape we got in the mail from Night People-affiliated band Sewn Leather right now. Lofi bad trip electronics, with what sounds like Russian Tsarlag and friends on vox. But pretty much everything on NP is rad, check it out.

Return from the Ice Planet

Hi all, we are officially back from our winter retreat! Although actually, we just went to Hawaii for a couple of weeks.

It looks like we might have a new tape from synth-droners Eagle Chalice soon, so keep your eyes out for that.

Taking a Break

Hidden Fortress will be hibernating until the 15th. See you then!

NEW TAPES

Just in time for the holy daze, Hidden Fortress is resurrecting quite possibly the single stupidest format that music has ever been released in -- the cassingle!

Eyescraper - Blank Tattoo (C10)

Spazzy noisewave goth pop. Cool kids making songs that sound like knives. Cardstock insert, edition of 25. $2 in USA, $4 worldwide.

MP3: Eyescraper - Blank Tattoo

...and also...

High Society - I Fed the Dog (C10)

Two dudes and some drugs making wicked vocal drone music. Economy of means leads to maximal effect. Cardstock insert, edition of 25. $2 in USA, $4 worldwide.

MP3: High Society - Astral Vodka

...and finally, a much-awaited second tape from Kid Wizard, full of new songs from outer space.

Kid Wizard - On the Edge of Forever (C30)

Computer-age scifi music, edition of 50, color cardstock insert. $5 in USA, $7 worldwide.

MP3: Kid Wizard - On the Edge of Forever

Get them all here.

O.O.P. Tape Share #2

Dolphin Wizard - Prehistoric Animal Sanctuary
(Hidden Fortress, 2009)

SIDE A
SIDE B

On this classic C30, members of Kid Wizard teamed up with John Lilly and Dr. Raja Merk Dove to elucidate the underwater sounds of prehistoric oceans, as communicated by Atlantean glyphs using telepathic wave energy. Radical regressive mindscape sounds sucked straight out of the Triassic.