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Blind Slime – Echofog (Digital Album) Out Now.

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Halloween, AD 2013. It is the season of Echofog. Echofog (AKA “Morirai Per Mia Frusta“) is a brand new twelve track album by Blind Slime, dripping with fuzzy guitars and ominous organs. Psychedelic funeral party music, just in time for your spooky holiday gatherings…

Happy Halloween to all!

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Blind Slime – ECHOFOG (Digital Album) out this Halloween!

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Blind Slime – Mid-Atlantic Gothic (Cassette)

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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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Blind Slime – Dark Vibrations (In the Sky) Free digital EP!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

Ozarks free single, video and album release date annouced!

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After what seems like ages, the mysterious Ozarks (Count Robbie Augspurger) finally emerge with a free singe, a release date and a brand new music video!

First off, the single..
This three track single (Called “As I Lay Sleeping/’Til I Die”) features the song As I Lay Sleeping from the upcoming self titled debut full length LP by Ozarks out on July 10th, 2012. Also included is a cover of The Beach Boys song ‘Til I Die from their 1971 album “Surfs UP” and an alternate guitar version of track one from the upcoming LP called I’m Never Bored.

Get the free three track single here!



And here we have the first official single from the album in video form. Pyramids of Love is taken from the “Amis/Pyramids of Love” split 7″ by Davis Hooker and Ozarks. This video was shot recently in a dark castle using only movie lights and total blackness. Ivan Rassimov is rumored to have acted as a hand model in this mini masterpiece of italo crime cinema. Perfect for watching when you are “driving all around”…

Check out the “Pyramids of Love” video in High Def here!

Panda Beach – Last Days Ashore (CD Reissue)

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We’ve assembled a very limited CD reissue of Panda Beach’s “Last Days Ashore” EP for those of you who missed out on it. One of the earliest Wil-Ru releases and still an absolute favorite! Dark, delicate, moody, and insanely beautiful ethereal folk songs (seven in all) by Ebi Nasution. Don’t miss it!

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And here for digital version.

Some upcoming new releases announced!

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Hello Everyone,
Just wanted to take a moment to announce that we are hard at work on some upcoming new releases here at the WR home base. Here are a few releases that will be arriving shortly…

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Coming soon to LP:

First up, we have the debut full length album by Ozarks. This will be a limited edition LP containing 15 tracks of bedroom baroque-pop psychedelia by Robbie Augspurger. 300 black LPs housed in full color jackets with inserts featuring some of Robbie’s weird 1970s giallo-inspired photography. You won’t want to miss it!

Check out the Ozarks album trailer here!

Can’t get enough? Check out the Ozarks LP infomercial here featuring Robbie looking like Benny Andersson, playing a bunch of songs that aren’t on the album, alone at the piano (on a beach).

Also coming soon we have a 12″ edition of EOD’s Qustionmarks EP that was released digitally last year. Six uber-melodic hard hitting acid tracks by our man from Norway: Stian Gjevik (aka CN)! This release will be limited to 300 copies on black vinyl in black sleeves.

All I can say is that these tracks have been on heavy duty rotation since they first arrived at WR. Not sure how else to praise such a solid release! Absolutely essential listening!

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Coming soon to Cassette:

New to WR, Morris Arch Nightwork (Izaak Schlossman, aka Starcircleanatomy) makes his debut appearance with his self titled full length album featuring six generous tracks of dense atmospheric abstract techno. These complex yet tastefully minimal tunes are perfectly suited for dance floors and headphones alike. Limited to 100 Cassettes. Highly Highly Recommended!

David Tagg makes his first appearance on WR with an insanely beautiful double album of ambient synth drones titled simply WR027 (the catalog number of the release). Formerly released as a 25 copy only double CD as EEDCD-07 at the now defunct Expanding Electronic Diversity label, this double cassette reissue is comprised of 8 long-form drone works constructed of synthesizer, field recordings and reel to reels. As if this album could have gotten any more beautiful than it already was, our man Brian Grainger did an absolutely breathtaking mastering job for this cassette reissue. Limited to 100 copies. Heavenly…

And last but certainly not least, Jonny Dillon is gracing WR with a brand new full length album as Automatic Tasty! “Speech and Silence” is a 10 track album of some of the best braindance tunes we’ve heard in forever (aside from his two new vinyl releases at Lunar Disko of course!). These tracks are loaded with bouncy acid hooks and bubbling hyper-color melodies. Can’t recommend this one enough!

Check out the Speech and Silence trailer here!

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You can expect these releases to begin to surface in the next few weeks.
Thanks for reading! More information and sound samples coming soon.

– WR