(Repress 2024 / Limited Edition Riso Printed Cover Sleeve) “Nostalgia Por Mesozo´ica” is an exploration of "experimental exotica" consisted of synthesized tropical attributes — an artificial landscape isolated behind the glass frame. Reminiscent of recording techniques and sonorities ubiquitous in the 60’s and 70’s, it could conceivably have been intended as a soundtrack for the Mesozoic Era exhibition at your favorite Natural History museum.



Tracklist
A1 Muzak For Mesozoic Showreel (feat. Arthur Mine)
A2 Troglodytes (feat. Arthur Mine)
A3 The Ancient Musical Complex Of Mammoth Bones
A4 Glass Flowers
A5 Sacrifice I

B1 Misantropicalia
B2 Dark Archeo
B3 Sacrifice II (Curse of Snakes Valley)
B4 ExotiCon
B5 Yalta (feat. Amphibian Man II)


Mingling kitsch with surrealism, it makes for a fanciful and engrossing trip into the past".. — Pitchfork (Philip Sherburne)

At its best, the album sounds like the high points of ex-Skater Spencer Clark's varied catalog (think Vodka Soap or Monopoly Child Star Searchers) and harmonizes with Christina Vantzou's bizarre and brilliant "Multi Natural" full-length." — Boomkat

The natural and unnatural have rarely sat together in such perfectly unsettling harmony." — Juno

Nostalgia Por Mesozo´ica is an “exploration of experimental exotica.” ‘Troglodytes’, for example, reimagines the age of dinosaurs and their leaky cave-dwelling existence, through a distorted and nostalgic lens that evokes movie soundtracks from the ’60s and ’70s." — if-only

Great production and mix by St. Petersburg musician Eugenii Fadeev aka Flaty, author of a good album of electronica on the same label in 2018 (Wrong Water – Dozen LP)". — Laurent Fairon

Alchemical combinations of musique concrète, samples, synthetic parts with fairy-tale melodies (‘Muzak For Mesozoic Showreel’) and sound-art (‘Dark-Archeo’), produce a varied, fascinating and original music narrative". — The Quietus, Jakub Knera


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Genre: Jazz, Instrumental, Funk, Krautrock



TRACKLISTING:



A1. Hennadii Boichenko - Detouch
A2. Hennadii Boichenko - Entracte

B1. Hennadii Boichenko - Sea Song
B2. Hennadii Boichenko - Grand Opening


• 7” vinyl, mono, direct master tape to vinyl cut, 33rpm



This is the 3rd appearance of Odesa-based Hennadii Boichenko (ex-Indirect) on Muscut, after his contribution as a part of the Indirect band (Ab Pharmacy / Waltz - 2014, Ode To The Sea 7” single, “Sea Songs,” - is a record mixed and tape mastered by Dmytro Nikolaienko. This is also the first episode of a newly started series of analog production chain releases with master reel tape transfer to lathe cut (the label has only been sending digital master files to the record plant before that). This year, Muscut twists from electronic music to instrumental and eclectic ones with more similar releases in the queue - Cukor Bila Smert's recordings from 1990-1993, Nikolaienko's "Meta" (exploration of metallophone on tape loopings), Fleischesmarkt's - disbanded Odesan punk/kraut band from the late 2000s.
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Format: C-50, cassette, edition of 50


Tracklist

Side A:

01. Ambianta IV
02. Ambianta VI
03. Ambianta VII
04. Uomo Di Mondo I + Mirrorage
05. Untitled
06. Ambianta Il

Side B:

07. Uomo Di Mondo Il + Mirrorage Il
08. Ambianta I
09. Ambianta V
10. Glass Flowers
11. Dark Archeo
12. Jazz Tape


Recorded at Cafe Oto.

Sagome event on the 3rd of December 2022. London, UK.

Contains live versions of the fracks previously released on Faitiche and Muscut labels.

Cover art: Lettering by Cafe Oto

Cover image taken from a video by Andrew Pekler

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(12” LP, 300 copies, compiled by Dmytro Nikolaienko & Ats Luik) Ukrainian Muscut & Estonian Mida team up for "???? x Rahu" compilation (Ukr: Volition x Est: Peace) with 100% of label profits donated to ‘Livyj Bereh’ - a volunteer group based in Kyiv & working in regions affected by the war. The A-side curated by Muscut & holds only Ukrainian artists: Kavkazka Sound, Radiant Futur, Mlin Patz, Iury Lech & Ihor Okuniev. The B-side by Mida has Portuguese trio Niagara stuck in between Estonians Maarja Nuut, Rotrum, Luurel Varas & Terry Long Hermy.


TRACKLIST

(Volia) side by Muscut:

A1. Kavkazka Sound - All Forces On The Love Of Animals
A2. Radiant Futur - Journey In The Deepest Of The Eyes
A3. Mlin Patz - smspce
A4. Iury Lech - Here Comes Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes
A5. Ihor Okuniev - Vernal

Rahu side by MIDA:

B1. Rotrum – Kured
B2. Niagara – Maja
B3. Maarja Nuut – Flamingo Pop
B4. Luurel Varas – Phantom Island
B5. Terry Long Hermy – Eratifications On Observatations Of Unica

INFO

Ukrainian Muscut & Estonian Mida team up for “Volia x Rahu” compilation (Ukr: Volition x Est: Peace) with 100% of label profits donated to “Livyj Bereh” – a volunteer group based in Kyiv & working in regions affected by the war.

The A–side is curated by Muscut & holds only Ukrainian artists: Kavkazka Sound, Radiant Futur, Mlin Patz, Iury Lech & Ihor Okuniev. The B–side by Mida has Portuguese trio Niagara stuck in between Estonians Maarja Nuut, Rotrum, Luurel Varas & Terry Long Hermy.

Atmospheric & mellow selections on both sides, with a couple allowed left turns here & there.

Compiled by Dmytro Nikolaienko & Ats Luik
Volia illustration by Anna Makarchuk
Layout & design by Jan Tomson
All tracks mastered by Jörgen Hermaste
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300 (hand-stamped, hand-numbered) The fourth episode of the Test Pressing series compilations includes tracks from such artists as Memotone, Giuseppe Ielasi, Andrew Pekler, Rome o Poirier, Nikolaienko, Felix Kubin, Jake Muir, Felicity Mangan, Star Searchers, and Tarotplane.


TRACKLIST

(Side A)
01 Memotone - False Cobra
02 Giuseppe Ielasi - Untitled, February 2023
03 Andrew Pekler - Neon Nocturne
04 Rome´o Poirier - Haut Lieu
05 Nikolaienko - Ambianta VI
06 Felix Kubin - Spukflattern

(Side B)
07 Jake Muir - Spindle
08 Felicity Mangan - Wings
09 Star Searchers - Previsual Stingray Motion FX
10 Tarotplane - We Stutter Between

INFO

The fourth episode of the Test Pressing series compilations includes tracks from such artists as Memotone, Giuseppe Ielasi, Andrew Pekler, Rome´o Poirier, Nikolaienko, Felix Kubin, Jake Muir, Felicity Mangan, Star Searchers, and Tarotplane.
The first episode was released in 2012 as a debut Muscut record named so and intended to become a label trial, a test of the audience to check whether the world needs one more label with the following episodes in 2018 (Test Pressing II) and 2020 (Test Pressing III).


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TRACKLIST

A1 Ultramarine XY — feat P-SH
A2 See And Keep Silence
A3 Void
A4 Sundayish All Over — feat P-SH
A5 La Llum
B1 People Who Still Sleep
B2 The Shadow Side Of Joy Fungi
B3 Matovo Fog, Squeezed Pt.1
B4 Ugra Ice
B5 Matovo Fog, Squeezed Pt.2

INFO

Vlad Dobrovolski (S A D, 12th Isle, GOST ZVUK) is 1/2 of S A D, a band previously released as on Muscut and GOST ZVUK, an upcoming band LP on 12th Isle, came up with his solo album called Playbacks For Dreaming.


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TRACKLIST

A1 Young Planet
B1 Etude I
B2 Etude II

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Stanislav is a well-known techno musician and a passionate analogue photo and synth enthusiast constantly experimenting with his visual and audio outputs. As a result, Stan brought us three timeless electronic pieces wonderfully fitting and at the same time complementing the Muscut soundscape.


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