RATSKIN NEWS

(Updated: 1/11/12)
2x release partay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RATSKIN + TUSCO EMBASSY Present/////
Saturday, Feb 4th . 8pm $4 @ Heco's Palace of Music. 705 Peralta Ave. West Oakland, CA
DYING COMES ALIVE (Cleveland)
HEAD HEAD
ALIENSLANG (CD release)
PRIMITIVE FEAST
HEADBOGGLE v. VIBRATING GARBAGE
DJ'S = HECO DAVIS, TAPEHEADCLEANER

Due out Feb 4, 2012 :::
RSR027: ALIENSLANG "Hazmat Cape" CDr<(ed of 103) + ltd ed tape
TERROR'ISH "Weak Stance" c40 (ed of 66)

ALIENSLANG "Hazmat Cape" Eighteen tracks of blip blotter radar scan exorcisms mapping the future failure of Nanotechnologies of the spinal colum. This album is the hazmat blanket for 2012 hybrid dying season- synth swells, radar spolen vocals, dense percussion patterns, thwarted broken techno riffs- Get your cloaked laugh plastic somic protection suit here first folks. Preorders come with a limited edition "audio grafitti" cassette only available systematically pasted to the sequenced infrastructure of the United States and elsewhere via a to be released schematix. for fans Of : Oval, Nerfbau, Controlled Bleeding
$7 / $10


TERROR'ISH "Weak Stance" Twenty minutes of chopped visceral beat hope hyped through cassette Tape rapid fire triggers for the blind, and maybe even the depth. Rhythmic and precision chop and paste style aesthetics is all over this thing, and yet it still has spacing and PACING , a rarity these days. dense dense frequencies coupled with the gurgling sounds of tape machines eating their own organs and maybe some of yours. Theres plenty of tape based music bubbling to the undergrpund surface these days, but WEAK STANCE is some of the best we have come across. Chrome tapes with snaxzy artwork by Mr. Terrorish himself. Grip it now, a must for analog heads. $5 / $8

PLUS ::::: RATSKIN TITLES CAN NOW BE FOUND FROM THESE KIND FOLKS :
HEART & CROSSBONE (Isreal)
1,2,3,4 GO RECORDS (Oakland, CA)
REDSCROLL RECORDS (Wallingford,CT)

ON THE HORIZON = SKIN GRAFT cs , HEADBOGGLE/C. DENNY VHS, LOACHFILLT /HECO split, SHARKIFACE/DIFFERENT DENTIST split, BRAN (...) POS , STYROFOAM SANCHEZ LP/DVD, LESLIE KEFFER, PANICSVILLE LP + more!! Ok that concludes the u for now, we have a twitter up now and keep eyes peeled for a big show announcement FOR april! Woohoo. Check the mailing list signup below! Over and out!

OUT NOW!!!!(Updated: 10/11/11)

+++++OUR BIGGEST BATCH YET == 5 NEW TAPES AND ONE PRO PRESSED CDR!!!
FOR THE NEXT 2 WEEKS WE GOT A SPECIAL GOIN>>>>>>
GET ALL 6 FOR 30.00 ppd in the US, $35.00 world.+ extra goodies. {{{{{{{{{{{{
PAYPAL = ORDER{AT}RATSKIN.ORG }}}}}}}}}}}}

RSR021: TERROR APART "Beyond The Blue" c40
RSR022: VERTONEN "Le Coeur Mecanique" CDr
RSR023: JERK "Some Trauma" c20
RSR024: CHROME GENIE "Beyond Normal" c30
RSR025: XOME/JOLTHROWER "Gold Five" c5
RSR026: HANS GRUSEL'S KRANKENKABINET/HEADBOGGLE "Gold Six" c5

WOAH...........

A REAL EMAIL LIST SIGNUP, NOW THATS NEWS!
Drip yer email in the rat box below::we send 1 per month maxx

PAYPAL = ORDER{AT}RATSKIN.ORG
....... soon on the horizon.....
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"Gold Box" 9xC5 BOXSET Preorder/Subscription:
Nine split five minute tapes in a handmade box with extentions..Very quite proud of this one. Peep the info... $36.00 ppd in US/Can / $42.00 ppd world. All nine five minute cassettes in a custom handmade case with a bonus c5 only available in the box set. Edition of 19. (7 RESERVED ALREADY)
Sleekly packaged classy renditions of your favorite time pop structures regurgitated through tippity top brain lobe digestions from the likes of....
Horseflesh / Skozey Fetisch (3 copies left, excluding boxset!)
Sharkiface / Different Dentist
Coagulator / Collapsed Arc (OUT NOW!)
Horaflora / Julia Mazawa (OUT NOW!)
Loachfillet / HECO's Music Machine
Bran(...)Pos / Anti Ear( 1 copy left, excluding boxset!)
Hans Grusel / Headboggle(OUT NOW!)
Riververb / Crisperion Fett
Xome / Jolthrower(OUT NOW!)
...All these tapes released in editions of 50 chrome hi bias C5's in gold foil shells in custom designed gold cassingle cases.

usa/can/mexico $36.00 world $43.00

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STIL FRREEESSSSHHHH...., up first, RSR019: COAGULATOR / COLLAPSED ARC "Gold Four" (8 copies left???)
split.
The fourth in an edition of nine c5's that will come housed in a handmade box set. Two Cleveland born projects who deploy starkingly different means to the same DISMAL END. The second of three new tapes,

RSR020: GUMBALL RIMPOCHE "Epic Fail"

by one of the bay area's numero uno surrealist collage masters. Fourty minutes of schitzo music concrete roped/raped by the best (worst) that popular culture to offer. EACH COVER is HAND COLLAGED and uniquely different,(( it took the artist nearly a year to complete the edition of 57!??)) Click here to see ALL OF THE COVERS!!!!

from the LEWCID JOOSEBOX label, from the glock block print synth master
FSLUX,

another Oakland project.Dark and subtle textures explore bleak urban landscapes through the eye of the listener, time is stopped and your stuck in a permanent blood red feedback looped onto your brain. Ltd to 44 with block printed covers and inserts by the artist herself. Distroed here exclusively! Get all three for $15.00 ppd. USA / $19.00 PPD WORLD
PAYPAL = ORDER{AT}RATSKIN.ORG


ALSO, WANT TO cUM SEE US IN PERSON = HUGE DISTRO IN HOUSE STYLE ONLY. WRITE US FOR APPOINTMENTS AT OUR WEST OAKLAND, CA headquarters.....

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SLIGHTLY OLDER BUT STILL NEW NEWS...

OUT now!! : HATERS/CRANK STURGEON/PCRV/STYROFOAM SANCHEZ split CDr, BRAN (...) POS / ANTI EAT split c5, + DENTAL WORK CDr +
feast your eyes and ears upon ..........

RSR017:THE HATERS/CRANK STURGEON/PCRV/STYROFOAM SANCHEZ split CDr
. , Specially made for the April 2011 Northwest/Mountain Noisey Outings tour, consisting of , you guessed it, the legendary HATERS, PCRV (Matt Taggart), CRANK STURGEON, and some hacks STYROFOAM SANCHEZ. One track from each project offers a great balance of chaos and insanity. For this late night driving disk, voraciously loouuuddd master makes this rare gem extra sweat your speaker cone pulses for true sonic tactile mayhem. About 40 left after tour...Get ummm nowwww...
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RSR018: BRAN (...) POS / ANTI EAR split c5,
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On side A the Bran (...) Pos opens up with exploading head synthesizer face through cervex rumbling pulses, whisps, crawls, blips, and scrapes chopped and screwed into a hyperspeed teleportation into the future of your decaying skin particles, that force your face to drip back into place. Slow low synth rumbles switch into high speed shriek blasts ina psuedo collage sounding style of sonic madness. Side B, Anti Ear offers up chirpy, chattered, nervnous ryhthmic blasts of symthesized tone warble that pushes one's ear skin to the outer limits of flesh peak audio limiters. A Must have for fans of strange outings along the beach where the sand critters infect innear ear sexual teases of wave peaks and troughs... Jams best with a cold beer. annnnnnnnddddd lastly,
RSR016: DENTAL WORK "Rostov's Breakthrough of A Multitextured Turbulent Forcefield" CDr
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Michigan/Chicago's DENTAL WORK brings us a wild sonic ride on RSR016: "Rostov's Breakthrough Of A Multitextured Turbulent Forcefield" CDr.

GOTO THE RELEASES page for ordering info, mp3 samples and images of the releases, as always....
STILL FRESH::::: RSR014: SKOZEY FETISCH / HORSEFLESH split as well as RSR015: HORAFLORA / JULIA MAZAWA "split" both come in editions of 50, on chrome hi bias cassettes in handmade cassingle cases.
Click on above links for audio samples.

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Old news / Why bother./.......
RECENT PAST HAPPENINGS FOR THE CURIOUS AFOOT::::::

(Updated: 12/26/10)

WHISPS OF DOCUMENTS for JAN/FEB 2011 : FIRST UP::::SKOZEY FETISCH/HORSEFLESH c5, SHARKIFACE/DIFFERENT DENTIST c5, and...
OK,Best in the coming time shifts from all hear at Ratskin documents...Much love to all our friends and family...We live in a perpetually shifting anti-landscape/new communications mindfuck we call life,it's almost time to start living fast, time is shrinking..so is sound..dont forget to write letters and cook real food..

(Updated: 11/16/10)

CRANK STURGEON and NERFBAU TAPES OUT NOW..PLUS LOTS MORE COMING SOON!

FIRST UP, CRANK STURGEON's new album, "LASTING WHIP". >>
Sixty minutes of structured schizophrenia magnified through inpeccable structures of sturgeon philosophies. Some of this fish's MOST structured/dynamic recordings to date. Come along on this deep sea audio tour of a british fish's nervous system. There's even real songs on here! Edition of 140 hi bias chrome cassettes, with a mini zine, sealed in recycled tape by Crank himself.
AUDIO SAMPLE: LastingWhipexcerpt.mp3


Also out now a 42 minute cassette from NERFBAU, titled, "Dr. Meniere's Sideshow".

Recorded in early 2009, but still fresh. An edition of 111 on chrome hi bias tapes with transparent cover art of the band sixty years into the future. Six tracks of spine crunching acoustics, demonic voices filtered through homemade weather modification devices, glass bottles reverberating foreheads, and evp.
AUDIO SAMPLE:Claws.mp3

Both tapes are $6 ppd in US, $8 ppd world. Paypal = mfdthree@yahoo.com

Plus lots of new stuff in the distro from Cold Spring Recordings, Ground Fault, Placenta Recordings, and more+ lots more coming soon.

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Still Fresh//////

.... Oakland's BONUS BEAST titled, "Just Because You're Paranoid, Doesen't Mean There Not Out To Get You"
No, but in this case, if you own this tape, he's guaranteed to track you down , and extrapilate your consciousness via bone drill bullseyes. This album presents a dense, meticulously crafted psychoatropic landscape of bulging
eyeballs which see only the bleakest snakes of history, chattering teeth which will gnaw at your spine, and ears that leak brain grey radiation into your desk, amplified through the skillful destruction of magnetic tape, brainwave oscillation studies, and readymade sonic tragedies. There's no point to fight it, just jack in and achieve enlightment, because its more peaceful when you don't have to think, and can just fucking listen.
Vertigo/insanity pretty much guaranteed if listened to with headphones/proper stereo field. Comes with real XRay of the artist's teeth...grosss....Ltd to 120 chrome cassettes.
AUDIO SAMPLE: Terminally Yours.mp3
$6 ppd in US. $7 ppd World.




and also SALSA PILE's "Memory Apprehension Goggles" c60
Fifty seven minutes stuck in a liquified conspiracy blender, gassily crafted by members of Soup Purse, Bonus Beast, Nerfbau (both), and Crisperion Fett.Side A offers up just over twenty eight minutes of a push and pull harder landscape of gelatin microbials, skillfully shifted through a master mixer that fell into the stew for extra dynamic benefit.One sound triggers another which triggers twelve more and then back down to silence, or so you think, Endless display of contextualizing seemingly unrelated sounds into a well oiled salsa machine, Some super dense sonic landscape is layed forth on Side A, where Side B , will decimate your orientation...as it slowly and curdily wraps itself around your ears and ankles and slowly pulls you into the veggie gutter of slime where you belong. This epic mess was improvised on gov't land in San Diego, CA at the beginning of 2010 @ la Casa de Soup. Uncannily dynamic for a buncha big-man bruisers. Ltd to 130 on blood red chrome cassettes.
AUDIO SAMPLE: Side A Excerpt.mp3
$6 ppd in US. $7 ppd World.
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NERFBAU "Weaponized Weather" CDr ltd to;54 (first edition SOLD OUT!, Just dubbed 25 more)----8 left????

These were handmade for the Nerfbau/Take Up Serpents West Coast Axtions
Movements from Dec 30-Jan 10th. Order Now. $6 ppd un US. $7 ppd World
HAUNTING HUMAN REMAINS!!!!!!!!!

Also please note, All  mailorders etc:  should now  be sent to the new  address.

1131 24th st. APT 104. Oakland, CA 94607.

CHHHECK THESE (oldish) RELEASES..

V/A: (TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA) 13,000 MilliSeconds

CD, Limited to 900 (only 100 left!)

215+ plus bands doing 13 second songs, featuring tracks from< MATMOS. VENETIAN SNARES. COCK ESP. RICHARD DEVINE. WHITE MICE. I AM SPOONBENDER. PANICSVILLE. THRONES. SWORD HEAVEN. NO DOCTORS. DAVID SCOTT STONE. EVIL MOISTURE. TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. TARANTISM. RUBBER O CEMENT. ASTRO. GREENMIST. DAVE PHILLIPS. PIGS IN THE GROUND. SHARKIFACE. ANALOG SUICIDE. NO DOCTORS. LAETITIA SONAMI. WOBBLY. BLEVIN BLECTUM. LOACHFILLET. ANTENNA FARM. and tons more.. ++++ get it from us...

$9.00 ppd. in the US. $10.00 ppd. in Canada
$12.00 ppd. World To:
ratskin. c/o m.d. 2833 taraval ave. san francisco, ca 94116 usa

paypal to ; Order@ratskin.org CLICK HERE for order info. ++++

Now You can order from these fine places..
The Norman Records Emporium{UK}
Ear/Rational {UK}
TOCHNIT-ALEPH{Germany}
Aquarius Records {USA}
RRRecords{USA}

COMPLETE TRACK LISTING

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V/A: "STEAMER VAN" CDr ....{out now!---10 left????}

V/A: STEAMER VANCDr: 4Way Split CDr with ARACHNID ARCADE, CHROME CHILI WIGG, NERFBAU, and SABRETEETH.. Goto the Order section to preview a track off this! Limited to 40. Order here. paypal $7 ppd to : order@ratskin.org.