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NEWS: BLACKBOX UTILITIES WEB STORE / PILLBOX T-Z OUT NOW 9:54am EST 2012/01/29
Blackbox Utilities, or BXU, is a web-based storefront configured to be a centralized hub where materials released by both the INSTALL and Second Sun Recordings boutique labels may be carried. Additionally, music released on other imprints by current INSTALL-released musicians will also be carried in the store, as well as merchandise such as official label clothing, stickers, art prints, literature and more. Conceptualized as a unification of music, market and design that will allow listeners and collectors alike to create personal accounts, keep track of their order history, earn rewards points, shop in three different currencies, redeem or buy gift vouchers and subscribe to a mailing list, all in addition to having the convenience of several labels' worth of fantastic music available in a single place. BXU intends to expand and streamline the experience of finding, sampling and obtaining independent music to be one of comfort, ease and reliability, all the while maintaining a more efficient online workspace for creators David Tagg and Brian Grainger to experiment with release formats and configurations, marketing approaches and other ideas from their secluded fortified bunker, somewhere deep beneath the Atlantic ocean. At present, we have launched BXU with a massive supply of new and reissued materials, including David Tagg & Brian Grainger's four-year long 21Mg Series, presented in four 12-disc box sets and streamable in full at our 21Mg Bandcamp page. Collectors will note that the first three box sets of the 21Mg Series (A-G, H-M and N-S, respectively) have been out of print and scarce for some time now - all three boxes as well as the final T-Z box are now simultaneously available in the store. Additionally, a limited amount of Install t-shirts have been created and are available in different sizes.
DAVID TAGG - "I AM THE WOLF" 3:33pm EST 2011/01/24 David Tagg's first new album at SSR since 2009's Wind Blown Guitar has arrived. I Am The Wolf encompasses many of David's trademark styles, from emotive loops to dense layers of drones, while also bringing something new - the sound of David's raw, untreated guitar - to the fore. Wolf is a living breathing space filled with bone-white arch like structures that tower high above an ebbing red ocean. Bits of sonic debris silently fall like snow, making ripples of echoes as they land in the water. A looming sadness pervades the area - perhaps giving us the feeling that we are, in fact, standing in a grave. David's masterful way with etching despair, isolation and total disconnection out of six bronze strings continues to be nothing short of a dreamlike experience for listeners, who themselves are drawn directly into the gloom and tasked with lighting a torch, climbing the stairs out of the Pentecost cellar, and finding their way out of the castle. Outside the tower, the massive red unnavigable landscape watches, waits, knows - knows that no one who has been drawn inside it can leave without being marked. For samples click here. To order proceed to the shop.
MILIEU - THE LONELINESS OF EMPTY ROADS 3:32pm EST 2010/09/18 Heralding the return of rust-orange days and cool blue nights, Milieu's first new full-length at SSR since 2008 is an elegant and minimal affair. Comprised of three long tracks, all improvised and recorded live to tape with no overdubs, The Loneliness Of Empty Roads sees Brian at the guitar, unaccompanied, driving through the uninhabited backroads and highways of his subconscious. This is a blues album, reduced to single chords and clusters of notes. A live broadcast from an unmappable location to a humming car radio. Power lines and the occasional streetlight pass by, but nothing breaks the monochrome repetition of straight lines, static speeds and casino bonuses the hope of arriving at your destination soon. For those of you still finding your way home, here's one for the road. For samples click here. To order proceed to the shop.
VCV - HD 98618 OUT NOW 12:32pm EST 2010/02/28 Recorded live during David's visit to South Carolina in May, 2007 and sufficiently aged like a dry red wine in the SSR cellars since then, HD 98618 is VCV singing in the deep southern Summer. Open windows, palm trees and humidity, VCV have never sounded this warm or inviting before. Where you could say the first three records were transmissions from a distant planet, light years away, HD 98618 is the sound of a band in a room next door, playing towering tributes to the trees and the night air. This record is also a more diversified sound for VCV, as Brian played more organ and bass than guitar, and David utilized a more stripped-down guitar setup as well. Woodshop droning and water-tower bass, covered in the textural airy production sound from Brian's Eight Thousander album, which was recorded at the same time. Packaged in a similar style as David's Wind Blown Guitar album and limited to 100 copies. For samples click here. To order proceed to the shop.
PILL BOX 2009 OUT NOW 3:23pm EST 2010/01/03 After a long season of silence, waiting and darkness, SSR returns once again, in new clothes, dressed for a new year. You will find, among other things, that we have finally completed the missing eight 21Mg Series pill-discs. Please visit our new 21Mg series website for more info and samples. Click Here. To order please proceed to the SSR Shop. *For those of you that already ordered pills this year please get in contact with us HERE so we can give you a special deal to complete your 2009 series.
WIND BLOWN GUITAR 5:32pm EST 2009/06/02
 NEW PILLS AND ONLINE RELEASES 1:18pm EST 2009/05/30 It's been a long time since we've updated SSR, surely you thought we were dead. We're happy to say we were merely in hibernation and we now have lots of new music to share! With this update, we have four new 21MG Series pill-discs and the first new webreleases in well over a year. Starting the 2009-chapter of the 21MG Series off with PILL-N1 is David Tagg's contemplative drone "A Spindle Of Regret". At times sounding melodic and familiar, and other times completely disembodied, this 21-minute trip would definitely appeal to fans of David's darker ambient works within VCV or his releases at Install. Frail and horizontal tonalities stretched across an uneven, unending landscape. Light and heavy all at once. Order Here. Continuing on with PILL-N2 is Brian Grainger's "Winter Triptych", a hazy cloud of seemingly dissonant loops that actually yield monochromatic harmonies as the piece swells up. This piece focuses primarily on the procedural generation of decayed bass loops in the style of something like Eight Thousander, only much darker, and with minimal droning improvisations over the top. A gaseous accumulation of gloom. Order Here. PILL-O1 offers a much lighter atmosphere, titled "Carolina Allspice". David builds a very open and friendly mood with wobbly flutters of lead guitar and reel-to-reel looping. Using this as a backdrop he plays the occasional lazy guitar line to mesmerizing effect. This is the sound of Spring in limbo, or a very humid climate with birdlike melodies floating through the air like smoke. Order Here. PILL-O2 brings the dark back with Brian's "Sunken Swamp Widsoms". A heavy, pregnant bass drone creaks and groans in the belly of a warped wooden container. The chord's muffled joints bend like wet dinosaur bones and eerie archs of humming midrange tower above your head. Deep, murky and almost slightly scary, and a very dynamic companion piece to PILL-O1. Order Here. Bringing it back to the beginning, we have sorely neglected our online catalog of free releases. With lots more still unreleased in this catalog, we hope you like our two newest offerings: David's "Angry Weekend" is an Obscurist-document that feels so empty it almost sounds sad. This was the last field recording David did at his previous home, eight months before he moved. The air is filled with birdsong and the occasional sound of nails dropping, though the atmosphere is tense, as if two people are ignoring each other while in the same room. As if on cue, thunderstorms and rain break the piercing silence and bear down on the listener with a different kind of weight. Download Here. Brian's "Naked Sound Seven" is the seventh volume of his ongoing Naked Sound series of found sound, field recordings and musique-concrete experiments. Four 10-minute pieces creating using only numerical frequencies of sine tones to create mathematically-harmonic chord drones. Very warm and bassy, but incredibly monochromatic, and probably better suited to a "room listening" presentation where the sound is allowed to merely color the physical environment rather than surround it. This is incredibly minimal, dissonance-free ambience that would be best enjoyed in the evening as the listener relaxes with other activities such as reading a book or taking a warm bath. Download Here. Though this may seem like a lot, we're not planning on taking another extended break anytime soon - next month you can look forward to David Tagg's brand new album Wind Blown Guitar and the much anticipated second album by the White Star Line! PILL BOX H-M OUT NOW
5:21pm EST 2009/01/31
21MG SERIES
12:12am EST 2008/11/09
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