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From now until the end of February, get Coppice Halifax’s “High Hawaiian Fog” LP for only $12.00 (previously $14.99)! Purchase the LP here.
Check out the vinyl only exclusive track “Pacific Opal Hex” for a taste…
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Blind Slime – Mid-Atlantic Gothic (Cassette)
Out today! A brand new full length album by Blind Slime! Mid-Atlantic Gothic takes us into some new darker territory than Blind Slime’s previous release True Country. Here we find lonelier soundscapes dictated by reverb-drenched guitars and church-like organs over a backdrop of articulate percussive precision. Quieting Liturgical funeral-pop psychedelia by the master J. Adams!
Available now as a limited edition Cassette release (Digital version included). Grab them while you can!
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Lamont Kohner – Willamette Dubs (Double CD)
After a long summer, we are ready to welcome back the cold winter months with some new arctic sounds from WR’s latest member Lamont Kohner. Today marks the release of Willamette Dubs, the debut full length album by Lamont Kohner. Willamette Dubs is comprised of five long-form atmospheric dub techno works and a full second disc of Willamette Dubs remixes by Ndru, Ohrwert, Grey Deer, Morris Arch Nightwork and Coppice Halifax (who also happened to curate the remixes), adding up to nearly two hours of pure electronic bliss. Headphones are encouraged!
This double CD is limited to 100 copies, so grab them while supplies last.
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Lamont Kohner – Willamette Dubs Out Friday, November 16th, 2012
Out November 16th on WR: the debut album by Lamont Kohner. A beautiful work of art called Willamette Dubs featuring five long form hard-edged moody dub techno tracks. This limited edition CD will also include a bonus disc featuring remixes of Willamette Dubs by Ndru, Ohrwert, Grey Deer, Morris Arch Nightwork and Coppice Halifax! Check back on November 16th to preview the album in it’s entirety.
Listen to WD1 (track one) here:
Lonely Mescal Button Haberdashery (Free Fall Mix By Morriconez)
Morriconez dropped off a special treat for us today: a brand new free fall mix tape entitled “The Lonely Mescal Button Haberdashery”. As you can imagine with a title like that, this mix is loaded with some deep off the grid cuts and drugged-out pop obscurities a plenty! Masterfully mixed and compiled by Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens. Hypnotic and engaging mood music for the connoisseur…
Enjoy, this round is on Morriconez!
Track Listing:
1. Jim Sullivan “Highways”
2. The Moon “I Should Be Dreaming”
3. Donnie & Joe Emerson “My Heart”
4. Bernard Parmegiani “Dedans-dehors: En Phase/ Hors Phase”
5. Jah Shaka “Deliverance Dub”
6. Flaming Tunes “Breast Stroke Dub”
7. Corte Dei Miracoli “”…E Verra L’ Uomo”
8. Skip Spence “Grey/Afro” (very brief loop)
9. Jacques Dutronc “Hippie Hippie Hourah”
10. Nino Ferrer “A. Le Sud”
11. Jurgen Muller “Chasing Submarines”
12. Bonga “Balumukeno”
13. Augustus Pablo “King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown”
14. Jim Sullivan “Rosey”
15. Donnie & Joe Emerson “Give Me the Chance”
16. Jah Shaka “Blessings of Dub”
17. Johnny Jenkins “I Walk On Gilded Splinters”
18. Rahul Dev Burman’s “Teesri Manzil Theme Song”
Download mix tape here!
Feel free to stop by Jeff’s blog here for more curiosities…
Blind Slime – Dark Vibrations (In the Sky) Free digital EP!
Blind Slime returns to Wil-Ru with his brand new EP “Dark Vibrations (In the Sky)”. A free digital-only release featuring four lovely tracks of dark liturgical moon-lit psychedelia taken from the sessions of Blind Slime’s upcoming album Mid-Atlantic Gothic, which will be the official full-length follow up to last year’s excellent True Country release.
The single Dark Vibrations (In the Sky) [Taken from Mid-Atlantic Gothic] is joined here by three exclusive tracks: “Woad Robes”, “Stone Globe” and “Hazard’s Wall”, which will not appear on the upcoming album. An excellent teaser of things to come (very soon)! We couldn’t be more pleased..
Get the EP for free at our Wil-Ru Digital shop!
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Ozarks – “As I Lay Sleeping” Music Video!
Ozarks – As I Lay Sleeping from Robbie Augspurger on Vimeo.
Hello Everyone,
Over the weekend the new Ozarks music video was complete for their song “As I Lay Sleeping”. Now it’s presented here in HD for your viewing pleasure. It’s a mini gothic-horror film starring a Dracula played by Robbie Augspurger and former lord of the castle and ghost played by Eric Lee. Moody lighting and dark cob-webby atmospheres drive this short but sweet mini presentation.. Enjoy!
Ozarks – Self-Titled LP Out Now!
The wait is finally over! Today Wil-Ru is proud to announce the release of the highly anticipated debut self-titled album by Ozarks! Since the music contained on this album is so classy, we thought it best to give the album the proper treatment with a luxurious vinyl release! Ozarks deliver up some pretty impressive modern baroque-pop tunes played in the fashion of the late sixties and early seventies! Fifteen tracks in all crammed with dense moody arrangements and light-hearted poppy psychedelia spanning over 40 minutes in length! This limited edition LP (300 copies) comes in a super nice full color glossy LP jacket with a two sided insert featuring some stunning giallo inspired artwork by band members Robbie Augspurger and Eric Adrian Lee. Lots of other goodies are included in this package as well! Don’t miss out!
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Just interested in the digital version?
Ozarks record release show: Friday the 13th, 2012!
The highly anticipated Ozarks debut LP comes out tomorrow! For those of you in Portland Oregon, please join us at the record release party this Friday at the White Eagle Saloon! Ozarks will perfom along with Pony Village and Leisure. We heard the place is haunted, plus it’s Friday the 13th, so watch your back, just in case Jason is lurking in the shadows… 21+
Hope to see you there!
Morriconez – Cloud of Dust, Cry of Death (CD)
As promised, new psychedelic sounds from the WR camp arrive just in time to welcome the summer heat and bid the month of June adios…
With “Cloud of Dust, Cry of Death“, Morriconez (formerly Jjango Cleefworth Morriconez) dishes up some delicious widescreen spaghetti western treats on this brand new thirteen tracker. Cloud of Dust, Cry of Death takes you deep into a sun-kissed world of warped cowboy psychedelia, toasted electronics, neo classical preludes and ghostly sci-fi refrains. Don’t miss this limited edition CD pressing! And be sure to keep an eye out for Morriconez on tour this summer!
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Enjoy this new music video by Jason Iselin (Morriconez’ guitarist) for “Once Upon A Time” taken from Cloud of Dust, Cry of Death! Weird stuff!