NEW BATCH NEXT WEEK! Available for pre-order from ARCHAIC FORMATS…

*A quick note: in a move sure to set the cassette underground on its ear, I’ve switched FM DUST cassettes from the old “painted cardboard folder” style to traditional plastic cases. I’ve had a lot of luck culling clean old cases from old tapes at ENCORE RECORDS lately, so don’t worry: I’m still committed to reducing/reusing/recycling. However, I’m now also committing to getting people to stop complaining about not having a good place to store FM DUST releases. Anyway…

DUST031
GEOFF DUGAN- Everything Is Water
C48 cassette
$5 USD

A few months back, a dude who looked like an ’80s minicomic cartoonist (high-waisted polyester slacks, madras shirt, mustache, etc.) brought a bunch of homemade cassettes of a mostly late ’80s vintage into my work to sell. Said he got it all back in his Factsheet 5 reading days… anyway, some of it was pretty whatever, kinda Residents-y stuff and forgettable folk, BUT BUT BUT he did have three cassettes by sadly overlooked sound artist GEOFF DUGAN. I’ve yet to ask Mr. Dugan much about the impetus for this tape, and I’m honestly kinda scared to do so… truly perverse synth damage, Burroughsian cut-ups, and just general mind’s-eye damage (de)control, really singular (although fans of ROBERT TURMAN’s output might be encouraged to delve).  Authorized reissue, with a replica of the original photo j-card and insert.

DUST032
SKYMALL SPLIT CASSINGLE SERIES VOL. 4: WILD ANIMALZ/MALL MUTANTS
C25 cassette
$5 USD

FINALLY. I’ve had the W.A. master for probably over a year, which is totally lame and shitty, but nobody but me was willing to follow these guys. Can’t blame ‘em. Blood Necklace played our first official show with these dudes in Hamtramck a couple years back, and they were a fuckin’ WHIRLWIND. Slopbucket duo bruisecore, ex-U.P. residents who used that region’s propensity for spare time and freaked headspace to develop a sound that makes me think of Jason Loewenstein and GodHeadSilo starting a grind band, but then getting too stoned to play all that fast, but not so much so that they can’t be noisy and spilling all over the place. Rad style! Mall Mutants side is way more melodic and dream-damaged than previous releases by a long shot… synth goo on “repeat”, devolving into bedroom La Dusseldorf or something. Total contrast, but not unpleasantly so.

DUST033
PINK OCTOPUS with SUJIT- Sujitlicious
C40 cassette
$5 USD

Pink Octopus (AKA the duo of Jason Adam Voss and Ian “MC Trashpedal” Fulcher, currently of the Rainbow Vomit Family Band and with pun-intended tentacles stretching forth into dozens of other units past/present/future) haven’t been particularly active for awhile now, but they made themselves a known quantity in Ann Arbor/Yspilanti in their more heavy-action daze as proponents of sticky psych/noise investigations akin to NNCK, early Destroy All Monsters, Pigs For Lepers-era Smegma(!), Gang Wizard’s more melty moments, and other great stuff like that. This near-lost session with much-beloved (and sorely missed, as he skipped town earlier this year) Ann Arbor socialite Sujit Das is prime illustration of their long-form free-gurgle vibe. Proud to put it out, and I hope it puts a fire under their ass to get on top of things again.

To order all three of these (plus a free download code for the new Mall Mutants collection of out-of-print tracks, Detritus Dreams On The Edge Of Paradise… more info on that shortly…), send $15 (postage-paid) to archaicformats@gmail.com via Paypal, with the words “THE NEW BATCH” in the comments field. To order them separately, go through the Archaic Formats website.