Aphasein Records - Recording Revolutions.

// 909: This Is The End

2009-09-09T19:14:00.014-04:00

And so it is. Today we reach the end of the line for Aphasein Records and bring this experiment in structured chaos to a close. 2 years, 2 months, and 2 days producing 50 videos and 50 audio releases (45 catalog releases and 5 unnumbered). 45 is an appropriate number for completion and another bit of structure - the '45' record single representing the creation and explosion of music as an industry and commodity (and also a classic gun/bullet caliber).

There are a lot of numerological, structural and symmetrical constructs running through the Aphasein Records catalog - many have been touched on during their release and many others still remain. It's been a fun and interesting challenge building these and fitting them together, and collaborating with life as it built in and provided its own as things unfolded. And context and structure can really help highlight art, give it sharper relief and broader meaning, but really, all that's mainly been hoped for with our music is that it was fun and moved you - to dance or rock out or bust a gut laughing or see something in a different light. Everything else is bonus.

This final batch of releases is mainly comprised of solo work. Schwärzer Vögel returns with 'Ivanhoe Row Sleep Lab', another full album of cracked garageband dance hits, many newly discovered. Jeremy McNeil has a final emotional single, 'Staring Back at Me', recorded shortly after his other e.p. The final catalog release is the haunting self-titled e.p. and only release by Coastal Exchange, with its minimal Leo Kottke meets Radiohead treated atmospherics. The very last release, 'Brake Out', is appropriately enough a final single by aphasein and is composed entirely from samples on an "office sound effects" CD.

Other than the first aphasein album 'Catalyst' (which is designed after the 'A Hundred Days Off' album by Underworld for the trainspotters), none of the releases have had the traditional thank you credits. And not because it hasn't been important - there have been many great musicians, collaborators, participants, critics, fans, and friends over the past 12 years that helped make this crazy journey possible, including but not limited to:

* Original Titusville crew, esp. Wolford for being there before the start and dropping by occasionally to add some flavor, and Nate-Dog for hooking up again later with us on SGE * original Orlando clubs crew for the early support, through mixtapes and shows, esp. Andy (Electron-C), Rob O. (Isotope) and Eichner (#1 Superfan) * Plantation Posse, esp. Ian and Chris for being strong fans from Day 1 and sticking through the years as amazing friends (and also to Dot and Dauray) * Anti-babe for bringing us all together and letting us write the first several aphasein songs in your living room * New College '96-'98 crew, esp. Joe Good and Colonel Heighfeitz, for hosting our best live gig * John Wagner and Morgan Freeman, for all the studio help and advice and friendship from '99 all the way through * Danica and Danette for hanging out during and being a catalyst and putting up with all our early sessions * Johnny Leach, John France, Christine and many others for playing with us momentarily over the years and being supportive * Knoxville boys, Kirk, Ira, Sloan, and Nate, for throwing down and joining in, but esp. Samuel, mountain-brother, for all the musical love * Sean O'Harra, soul-brother, for joining our little trip right at the peak and creating some amazing music and memories before you caught the next wave * Comics crew, Nick, Nathan, David, J.P. and Jim for being guinea pigs for new releases every Xmas before the label even started, and esp. to Steve Mangold for extreme support, friendship and being a soundingboard * Jonathan Pratchios for inspiration and universe-consulting, and all Park Ave CD's and Stardust crew over the years * Shaun Cricks and David Bucina for support and taste-testing * Amy and Jenners for loving what we do and encouraging all the madness * Foot for being a B.O.B. and jumping in our songs whenever you could (love you face) * Jeremy, Brandon, and Josh for being the most ridiculously amazing and illest musicians, improvisers, comedians, brothers-in-arms, and friends on this winding twisted path. Also to our anonymous web fans and anyone who has enjoyed or appreciated our music. Thank you. Good bye.

And Fade.

Aphasein Digital Releases:
All releases are Free.

adr-001: evix / 'rock' e.p.
adr-002: The Dogwood Forest / 'Through the Valley' e.p.
adr-003: evix / 'cold' e.p.
adr-004: aphasein / 'second hand smoke' B-single
adr-005: aphasein / 'Catalyst' A-album
adr-006: evix / 'heat' e.p
adr-007: Repeating Frank / 'The March of Time' A-album
adr-008: Repeating Frank / 'April Reigns Down' B-album
adr-009: Pete and Frank / 'Marches On' A-album
adr-010: Pete and Frank / 'Kwality Kuts' B-album
adr-011: Summer Gets Electric / 'Cold Roads (Sun is Still)' A-album
adr-012: Summer Gets Electric / 'Dark Ends (Blacktop Burn)' B-album
adr-013: aphasein / 'Abiogenesis' A-album
adr-014: aphasein / 'Burning in Reverse' B-album
adr-015: Repeating Frank / 'Come What May' A-album
adr-016: Repeating Frank / 'June Bug Blue' B-album
adr-017: aphasein / 'sechs_shift' A-album
adr-018: aphasein / 'spring imagination' B-single
adr-019: Pete and Frank / 'Til It Bleeds' A-album
adr-020: Pete and Frank / 'Confirmed Bachelors' B-album
adr-021: aphasein / 'phace-maker' A-album
adr-022: aphasein / 'Selected Oddities Volume 1' B-album
adr-023: SGE / 'Hard Paths (Sun Is Still 2)' A-album
adr-024: SGE / 'Last Days (Death of Spring)' B-album
adr-025: aphasein / 'ist ein schone nacht, nein?' A-album
adr-026: aphasein / 'World View' B-single
adr-027: Repeating Frank / 'Augustine Depths' A-album
adr-028: Repeating Frank / 'Lone July Skies' B-album
adr-029: Pete and Frank / 'On A Dime' A-album
adr-030: Pete and Frank / 'I Am Nemo' B-album
adr-031: SGE / 'Fuzzy Golden Waves' A-album
adr-032: SGE / 'Ultra Violet Haze' A-album
adr-033: aphasein / 'Bohr' album A-album
adr-034: aphasein / 'Bohm' album A-album
adr-035: Schwarzer Vogel / 'Willful Life Suit' album
adr-036: Jeremy McNeil / 'Waiting to Dream' e.p.
adr-037: aphasein / 'rebuilt'x' B-album
adr-038: aphasein / 'Death Game'n' B-album
adr-039: Pete and Frank / 'Cult Classics' C-album
adr-040: Pete and Frank / 'Vintage Digs' D-album
adr-041: evix / 'kaos' album
adr-042: evix / 'void' album
adr-043: Schwarzer Vogel / 'Ivanhoe Row Sleep Lab' album
adr-044: Jeremy McNeil / 'Staring Back at Me' single
adr-045: Coastal Exchange e.p.

Unnumbered White/Gray/Black Labels:

Summer Gets Electronic / 'Euro Disco Blaze' single
evix / 'Lite' e.p.
Junebugg / 'Chaos is Beauty' mega-album
evix / 'OWAE' album
aphasein / 'Brake Out' single

// 808: evix, Pete and Frank Vaults

2009-08-08T19:41:00.018-04:00

Back on a mission: 'From the Vaults', a miscellany of Pete and Frank diamonds in the rough from our massive tub of cassette tapes (seriously, over 200 of them in there). Recorded during the early days of 1997 through 2004 straight to cassette, before we started up all our laptop-based sessions at the end of 2004. Not that we didn't have computers around the whole time, but they were mainly for programming aphasein songs or playing samples (as you'll hear briefly on a few tracks here), and didn't lend themselves to improvised and often confusing recording sessions. Tapes, on the other hand, were the perfect medium for this.

Vol. 1, Cult Classics, represents the early years of 1997 -1998, which were filled with weekly constant recording and lots of experimentation. Basically any chance was taken to record or try something new. Roughly half of the tub o' tapes was produced during these 2 years. The recording levels and quality varied wildly, and songs fell apart and turned into new ones (though really that's always somewhat the case), but a few interesting gems have been found after skimming the top layer of the tub (who knows what exists in the depths). Highlights include early classic 'The Guilt' and the 34-minute 'Petey McFrank' which is a mega-mix taken straight from our 'Best of Pete and Frank' tape complied in 1998. The years 1999 to 2002 were mainly spent in separate cities working on solo stuff, very rarely all getting together to jam.

Vol. 2, Vintage Digs, represents the new-found cohesion and style after we all joined up again and moved into a house together in 2003. There was another explosion of recording then, aided by our Music Den room, photos of which grace the album cover sleeves (early setup on Vol. 1, later setup on Vol.2 - only real pictures of the early 1997 place are tacked to the walls on the inner covers). Another catalyst was the two Zoom SampleTrak units that had been used for solo creations in the intervening years. The effects units from these can be heard all over the tracks on this album. Our long-running affection for Ween can be heard distinctly here in some of Pete's vocal stylings and our unusual cover of 'The Blarney Stone'. This album also ends with a 34-minute exactly mega-mix from one straight tape featuring the hilarious 'Senor Chaos' song (and yes, I did find it odd and, um, interesting when both of these segments that I thought would be good bonus stuff to throw on at the end and weren't worth cutting up, turned out to both be just a few seconds from 34 minutes even, and even more so when I added them to the finished tracks for each album and both albums just barely came in under the 80-minute limit. I really did.)

Also released is OWAE, the last evix album, a four song ambient excursion and another one from the vaults, made on the Korg M1 keyboard back in 1997 just before it was sold. Standing for the "Overall Way of Anything and Everything", the letters also stand for what they represent: O for particles, W for waves, A for the arrow of time, E for the 3 joined dimensions of space. It completes the abstract minor tour of the universe represented by the evix releases and is a nice relaxing come-down, at least until 'matter' kicks in (but isn't that always the case).

One more drop to go before we get out of the game for good. Thanks for playing. Your results may vary. Stay tuned.

// 404: Free Debut Albums

2009-04-04T16:29:00.008-04:00

Time to float in the abyss for awhile. This will be the last post until/if/when we create more material or dig deep into the vaults. It's been an amazing run: 42 releases (32 albums, 10 singles/eps) and 48 videos.

As you may have noticed, our online stores have been closed since early this year. As a parting gift, all of our releases are now FREE - specifically the four main debut albums which were previously only available for sale. Get them now as high-quality zip bundles through their download pages: aphasein, Pete and Frank, Repeating Frank, and Summer Gets Electric. We'll also be rolling out high-quality zip bundles for all our other releases over the next couple months, so now's a good time to pick up the whole catalog if you haven't already.

Thanks for your time and interest, and for checking our output. We hope some portion of the musical fun and love we've put into it has gotten to you. peace.

// 707: Junebugg, SGE & Anniversary

2009-07-07T20:16:00.007-04:00

So we're back, briefly, before we disappear completely...

Today is our 2-year anniversary (though we've been making the music now for 12), and to celebrate we're offering up our last 2 videos and a colossal mega-album. These final videos are also mega-mixes containing 4+ songs each of Summer Gets Electric during the 'Cold Roads/Hard Paths' session. This is the best of the only footage from the earlier days, presented as it was caught on tape. They are a little over twenty minutes each, so they've been put up on Vimeo (embedded below - full credits at Vimeo). This brings our video total to 50, which is an appropriate place to stop.

And so the mega-album: in the vein and spirit and influence of all the best long-form works, including Aphex Twin's 'Drukqs' and 'Analord', NIN's 'Ghosts', and FSOL's 'Lifeforms', we've crafted a 48-track 210-minute epic of Brandon's early solo work as Junebugg. Culled from several cassette tapes recorded during 1999 - 2001, these tracks were the foundation leading in many ways to Schwärzer Vögel and his other later work, but also represent a unique style and form all their own.

The first half pulls from several sources and features many great vocal tracks, while the second half is from 2 tapes presented straight through. Even though there's a lot of variety (like the albums mentioned above), the methods, equipment, and time period give it a consistent texture and feel that bring it all together (but feel free to mix and match your own). Important points of reference include early DJ Spooky and FSOL's 'ISDN', especially in composition methods - sampling, looping, and effects work, live keyboards, live scratching and vinyl atmospherics (although this was with a Zoom Sampletrak, broken Technics table, and low-budget old Casio). Other notables are the experimentation of Underworld's 'Riverrun' series and the dirty low-fi funk-pop of Cody Chestnut's 'Headphone Masterpiece'.

Get the entire experience as 4 zip bundles or individual tracks from the Records Downloads page. More goodness on the way next month - 2 more drops to go. Dig in. Keep up.

SGE_A Stranger At Sea (Inside) from Aphasein Records on Vimeo.

SGE_Tell Me I'm Wrong (Outside) from Aphasein Records on Vimeo.

// Official Launch Date!!!

2007-07-07T15:29:00.002-04:00

We've been around on Myspace for 10 months now and we've put out 3 Free EPs there since March, but today the full site finally goes live. So we're making today the Official Launch Day of Aphasein Records - it seemed an appropriately auspicious date for it.

We've put up new high-quality Mp3s and album art for 'The Dogwood Forest - Through the Valley' EP on the Download Page. There's also a new epic 10-minute video of The Dogwood Forest jamming last summer in the Video section.

The biggest news is that we'll soon have albums for sale on iTunes (US, UK, Europe, Japan), Rhapsody, and Musicnet (Urge, Yahoo, HMV, etc.) The first two have already been sent off - 'Catalyst' by aphasein and 'The March of Time' by Repeating Frank. We'll let you know when they are available - 3 to 4 weeks.

Today is also the official launch of the new aphasein site. Go check it out and see what we've been up to. We'll be rolling out sites for the other main groups through out the summer as we prepare their albums.

Keep an eye on us - there's a lot going down. peace.

// First Albums Released! New websites!!

2007-07-29T15:55:00.001-04:00

Our first commercial album 'Repeating Frank - The March of Time' is now available for sale at major online retailers (iTunes US/UK/Europe/Japan, Rhapsody, Urge, Yahoo Music). To celebrate our first full album we've launched the Repeating Frank website and put up our first FREE full release for download. Get 'Repeating Frank - April Reigns Down' from their new Download Page and visit their Store Page for links to different retailers.

The full website for evix is also now up. We have re-released the first two EPs as FREE high-quality downloads on the new evix Download Page. As part of the site launch we have also prepared the third Free EP for release - 'evix: heat'. Get it now over at www.aphasein.com/evix.

Enjoy and thanks for checking us out. We've got a lot of music coming your way.

// Evix: Lite + Zips

2009-03-22T19:30:00.002-04:00

One more release before we wind this thing down - a little 4 song white label from evix. The 'Lite' EP is comprised of 2 leftover songs from the 'cold' session and 2 from the 'void' sessions - a funny bit of light before we go.

There's also zip file bundles of all the evix releases, which include updated tags for the Mp3s and updated album artwork. We'll be expanding this packaging to all the other groups as well in the coming months. Thanks. Enjoy.

// Pete and Frank: On a Dime

2009-02-28T16:37:00.003-05:00

So here it is - our final 2 albums (at least for a while). Don't miss out on the Pete and Frank album pair of 'On A Dime' and 'I Am Nemo'. Featuring the most recent material, from October 2008, 'On A Dime' is a widely varying album, as the title implies, reflecting both the quick changes in style and the low-budget nature (among other meanings). It also features 2 instrumentals, a rarity for Pete and Frank.

'I Am Nemo', on the other hand, has a strong nautical theme, not only lyrically, but also in the feel of the recording. The majority of the album was recorded in November 2007 solely through a camera microphone, giving the songs an echoey, distanced, underwater feel. The videos for these 8 songs are now on the Pete and Frank YouTube channel (below), with Pete giving some of his best understated performances. The album's final songs are some past Pete and Frank favorites, and finish out the last of the computer-based sessions - everything else that remains now is from the huge pile of 4-track and cassette tape recordings.

This completes the major run of our best group recordings: 6 Pete and Frank albums, 6 Repeating Frank albums, and 6 Summer Gets Electric albums. It's been a strange and interesting (and fun) ride... who knows what the future will hold. There's still 5 or so more releases we'd like to create someday, and in the meantime, there's some more surprises on the way, starting next month. Dig in, and stay tuned...

// evix: void + kaos

2009-01-26T16:18:00.006-05:00

January brings a new beginning and a close to what has come before. Just a few more releases to go and the label will be on indefinite hiatus for a while. The bulk of our best material and recent spurt of music the past 3 years has finished and been released. There's still tapes 'n tapes from the previous 10 years before this to wade through and possibly release as podcasts or such. And there's still the potential for a couple more aphasein and Pete and Frank releases, but we'll see where that goes...

This all makes the new evix releases pretty topical subject wise: the instrumental double album pair of 'void' and 'kaos'. Both were composed four songs at a time (just like all the other releases) and improvised live in one take. The instrument this time was the ridiculously fun and inspiring Korg Kaossilator. 'void' explores sounds one minimal track at a time, while 'kaos' (as the name suggests) uses the loop record function to build up mountains of funked out sound. Also updated all the early evix album covers. Enjoy this prelude to the end...

// aphasein: Death 'n Rebuilt

2008-12-21T22:34:00.010-05:00

Hello kids, Happy Festival o' Lights!! We lost a month and moved shop (geographically), but we're back again with presence (and presents). Today brings the last of the aphasein releases, capping the nearly 12 years together and clearing out the archives. This is all of aphasein's catalog until new tracks are created.

The Free double B-side albums, 'Death Game'n' and 'rebuilt'x' are some interesting oddities; 'Death Game'n' is an archive of the very first songs together, reflecting the ebm/industrial and early videogame influence of their origins (esp. Zelda and Super Mario dungeon themes), while 'rebuilt'x' is a remix album of songs from that same time period, constructed over an 11-year timespan (so the first couple tracks are from late '97 and the last 2 are the newest tracks from '08).

The album covers are also a throwback, with 'rebuilt'x' being an obvious recreation of the 'Lunatic Harness' album by Mu-ziq (one of the most important catalyst albums for aphasein during 1997). The reel-to-reel has appropriately enough been replaced with the Amiga600. 'Death Game'n' on the other hand, is a nod to all the blank CD labels that were filled in on mix/demo CDs throughout the years (and mildly to Tortoise's 'TNT' album). The 'x and 'n from the titles reflect the transition from the early days of aphasia - aphasiax - aphasian to aphasein, and are also an homage to Squarepusher's 'Burningn'n Tree' early archive album. Plus, the titles fit the themes better. Enjoy the origin story.

// aphasein: phace-maker

2008-07-31T21:19:00.005-04:00

Two new albums drop from aphasein today - the A-album 'phace-maker' collects two of their concept EPs, and features their biggest and longest stompers to date; the B-album 'selected oddities volume 1' is exactly what it sounds like: a collection of real early songs from before the debut album, still pretty raw and strange (the title is both a reference to their early compilations and an obvious bite at AFX).

Get them both from their Download page, as usual. peace.

// Anniversary Time!!1!%#$!!

2008-07-07T21:35:00.009-04:00

So we're celebrating our official one-year anniversary of the label launch today! (Yes.) It's been a great year - we put out 26 official releases (3 singles, 4 EPs, 19 full albums); expanded the family to 9 groups; rolled out 6 websites; put a couple albums for sale on iTunes/Rhapsody/etc and a lot on Snocap; started up some YouTube channels; and put a good dent in the mountain of music we've been pilin' up.

And what are we doing to celebrate? Um, we got a blog (as you've obviously noticed.) Yeah, I know, pretty out-there, never-been-done, etc. Time we consolidated and join this 21st century. All news for our many groups, as well as the label, will now be funneled through this bad-boy, making updates so much easier for us, and everything much easier for you: searching, RSS subscription, embedded YouTube channel, Archive of past year's News, and direct links to all our Websites, Stores, MySpaces, and Download pages from one page. Yeah, I don't know why it took so long either, but we're ready now for Round Two.

The other news is we'll be rolling out a new double-album video series of Repeating Frank instrumental performances entitled 'Drifts_1 + 2', starting tomorrow the 8th. We've also got this month's pair of albums from aphasein dropping soon and a video series from Pete and Frank in the works. The future can't come soon enough. Thanks for listening - keep your head up, don't sleep.

// Schwärzer Vögel & Jeremy McNeil

2008-10-28T22:44:00.003-04:00

October brings a strange surprise: two FREE solo releases from our two singers, by their own hands. The two brothers have been laying down their own magic in Garageband for a bit, working on their own late at night and in transitive states. The results are experimental but surprisingly smooth and focused songs. We're really digging them.

Get Schwärzer Vögel's 'Willful Life Suit' album of dirty dance hits and Jeremy McNeil's 'Waiting to Dream' EP of deep atmospherics from the Aphasein Records Download page now. Really - you can't live without them.

// aphasein: Bohr 'n Bohm

2008-09-30T23:35:00.007-04:00

Tonight we're dropping another pair of FREE high-quality A-albums! aphasein's 'Bohr' and 'Bohm' albums are our original double-album pair from way back in 2000. They were conceived concurrently as 2 sides of the same coin, focusing on the subject of matter - one album about waves, the other about particles.

The theme is more about the method of composition than the subject of the content, though that's present too; the 'Bohr' album was our most discreet, poppy and tightly programmed tracker album at that point, while the 'Bohm' album explored a new technique of building up live improv recordings of drum machine and keyboard tracks, often rerecording them over top and merging tracks (hence the wave nature). The new technique also a gave us a chance to throw a couple nods towards our influences in Autechre, Plaid, Prefuse 73-style glitch-beat IDMness.

The album names and theme were hard to pass up when we realized the two most prominent scientists in the two major schools of quantum mechanics (one decidedly particle-based, the other predominantly wave-like) were named Niels Bohr and David Bohm (respect). Last names separated by a fraction of a letter - too sweet. The covers reflect the themes (as usual) and even feature a stylistic throwback to Clean & Clear. Enjoy. The end is nigh.

// SGE: Fuzzy Video Days

2008-08-31T15:47:00.005-04:00

To follow-up on Summer Gets Electric's recent 2 full albums and a single, we've posted 2 full videos and a snippet at the Aphasein Records YouTube Channel. And the funny thing is, that's all the video we have from the 2 album sessions - kind of strange how that worked out (but then there's a lot of strange things about these albums). So enjoy this small glimpse of the recording process - hope you had a great summer.

// SGE: Fuzzy Disco Haze

2008-08-25T23:37:00.002-04:00

To celebrate the end of the summertime, Summer Gets Electric is dropping a fresh pair of A-albums today for FREE! Check out the eclectic psychedelic stylings of 'Fuzzy Golden Waves' and 'Ultra Violet Haze' now on their Download page.

Both albums represent a new direction for the group, taking in drum machine work-outs, fuzzed-out passages, jangly rock epics, Neutral Milk Hotel lofi electric folk, and even a Flight of the Conchords track each. The albums are a uniquely matched pair: they were recently recorded back to back this April and July, are presented in the order they were recorded in (12 songs each, 40 seconds different in running time), and have a deep parallel structure in their song flow. We don't really know how it happened. They are a bit odd (um, even for us), but they're also a lot of fun and feature the best darkwave song in a long time.

There's also a bonus white label single - 'Euro Disco Blaze' - featuring 2 extended club jams ready to end your late summer dance party with a bang!

// Repeating Frank: 'Drifts_2'

2008-08-13T21:53:00.003-04:00

The second half of the Repeating Frank 'Drifts' video series is now fully available on YouTube. Visit their channel to check it out in high-quality. out.

// Repeating Frank: Drifts_101

2008-07-09T23:08:00.004-04:00

So the first 6 tracks of 'Drifts_1' are now up on the Repeating Frank YouTube channel. We suggest popping over and watching them in high quality. We've also started a Vimeo channel at vimeo.com/aphaseinrecords and will be adding 'Drifts_1+2' there as well.

'Drifts' is a series of instrumental jams done in new locations without our normal recording setup, just captured on a small camera as they happened, the only record. Music for spaces. Trainspotters may notice the naming and theme takes some influence from the NIN "Ghosts" album (though the first session and idea happened in December 2007, before "Ghosts" was even mentioned - another case for tapping into ideaspace.) Stay tuned, more RF to follow...

Drifts_101 - Repeating Frank from Aphasein Records on Vimeo.

// Pete and Frank: Let It Bleed!

2008-04-27T23:18:00.002-04:00

So... Pete and Frank are finally back to drop their next two albums for your aural pleasure. Get the new album 'Til It Bleeds' and it's B-side companion 'Confirmed Bachelors' FREE from their Download Page.

We also have a higher-quality version available now on their Store Page. Check out the new performance videos in their Video section and look for the new video-only mini-album dropping soon on YouTube. Til it bleeds...

// aphasein: ist ein schone nacht, nein?

2008-06-30T23:28:00.000-04:00

...is the name of the newest album from aphasein - a collection of EPs and singles. Get it today Free from their Download Page and scoop the B-side 'World View' single as well. Two more albums dropping from them next month. Nice.

// Repeating Frank: Augustine Depths

2008-05-26T23:26:00.000-04:00

The next pair of albums from Repeating Frank is available today for Free download. Get "Augustine Depths" and its companion "Lone July Skies" now from their Download Page. This completes the six-album cycle of all their main sessions from last year. They also have two video-only albums from more recent instrumental sessions that will be premiering next month. Dig in.

// aphasein: sechs_shift Out

2008-03-30T23:16:00.001-04:00

The next album from aphasein, ’sechs_shift’, is available today. Get it FREE from their Download Page. As always, we also have a higher-quality version for sale on their Store Page.

This album is a collection of two E.P.s recorded throughout 1998: ’sechspunktvonhell’ (or "six points of light") and ’atmospheric shift’, which was obviously written about the seasons.

We’ve also released the FREE ’Spring Imagination’ single, featuring an A-side from each of the E.P.s in higher-quality (for, um, assorted reasons) and the odd B-side ’Silhouette’. Dig in.

// SGE: Sun Is Still Out

2008-02-23T23:06:00.000-05:00

The next major album for Summer Gets Electric, 'Hard Paths (Sun Is Still 2)' is now available for FREE from their Download Page. If you're interested in supporting the band or want the album in higher quality, we also have it for sale at 320kbps on their Store Page.

'Hard Paths' is the second part of the same one night session that produced 'Cold Roads' and is a funkier, more dirty blues beast. The companion album 'Last Days (Death of Spring)' is from the first full session of SGE at the start of that summer. Feel the heat.

// New Album - ’Catalyst’ by aphasein

2007-09-01T16:20:00.004-04:00

aphasein's first album 'Catalyst' is finally available on iTunes today! Go check out their Store Page for direct links to iTunes and hit up their Download Page for the album packaging.

It's been a long road, but we think it's been worth the wait. More releases coming throughout the fall and winter. The dam has finally broke - enjoy the flood. out.

// SGE Albums and Site Release!!1

2007-10-14T16:44:00.006-04:00

The full website for Summer Gets Electric is now finally up at www.aphasein.com/sge to coincide with the launch of their first two albums!! We are pleased to offer their first commercial release 'Cold Roads (Sun Is Still)' through Snocap, available at SGE's Store Page or Myspace Page.

Continuing the Aphasein Records tradition, we are also releasing a full FREE album alongside the commercial album. Get 'Dark Ends (Blacktop Burn)' at the SGE Download Page, along with the full-package album art for both releases. Cheers. Welcome to the Swamp.