Replacement Stylus for AT-XP5 cartridge
Frequenzbereich 20 - 18,000 Hz
Kanaltrennung 20 dB at 1kHz
Vertikaler Abtastwinkel 20°
Empfohlene Lastimpedanz 47,000 ohms
Spuleninduktivität 1.0 H (1 kHz)
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0.3 x 0.7 mil elliptical replacement stylus for these cartridges: AT-XP7
Frequenzbereich 20 - 20,000 Hz
Kanaltrennung 22 dB at 1kHz
Vertikaler Abtastwinkel 20°
Schaftform der Nadel Bonded Round Shank
Empfohlene Lastimpedanz 47,000 ohms
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Features:
0.3 x 0.7 mil elliptical bonded stylus tip
Highly rigid, lightweight polyphenylene sulfide (PPS)/glass fiber body
5.5 mV high-level output
Tracking force of 2.0 to 4.0 grams (3.0 grams standard)
Durable carbon fiber-reinforced ABS cantilever and nylon wire suspension ensure precise tracking
Design offers maximum visibility of the stylus tip
Great tracking and channel separation for high-fidelity sound
Universal ½"-mount headshell for 4-pin turntable cartridges
Sprecifications
Cartridge & Stylus
Frequency Response 20-18,000 Hz
Channel Separation 20 (dB at 1 kHz)
Vertical Tracking Angle 20°
Vertical Tracking Force 2.0-4.0 g (3.0 g standard)
Stylus Construction Bonded round shank
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EN: Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic accessory set
handy accessory set for Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic 2.0 (1360008)
consisting of:
1x reusable replacement filter aluminium/glass
2x replacement brushes made of goat hair
1x sponge brush for cleaning and drying the tub
DE: Disco-Antistat Zubehörset Ultrasonic
praktisches Zubehör-Set für Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic 2.0 (1360008)
bestehend aus:
1x Wiederverwendbarer Ersatzfilter Alu/Glas
2x Ersatzbürsten aus Ziegenhaar
1x Schwammpinsel zur Reinigung und Trocknung der Wanne
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Die große Tasche im Rucksack-Stil aus hochwertigem Nylon und mit gepolsterten Wänden kann aufgrund verstellbarer Trenner wunderbar dem eigenen Bedarf angepasst werden. Ingesamt sechs Außentaschen (jeweils zwei an der Seite, oben und vorne) bieten genügend Raum für jegliches Zubehör.
Für den komfortablen Transport sorgen ein Tragegriff sowie ergonomisch geformte, abnehmbare Schultergurte.
Mittels integriertem Zahlen-Schloss am Hauptfach besteht die Möglichkeit, den wertvollen Inhalt vor ungewünschten Zugriff zu schützen.
Spezifikationen
* Gepolstertes Fach für Midi Controller (z. B. Akai APC40/20, Vestax VCM-600 oder Denon MC600)
* Laptop Fach für bis zu 18,4" Modelle
* 6 Außentaschen für Accessoires
* 2 Tragegriffe oben
* Ergonomisch geformte und abnehmbare Schultergurte
* Integriertes Zahlenschloss
* Erhöhter Schutz vor Abnutzung durch verstärktes Material am Taschenboden
Maße (W x H x T):
Außen
cm: 46 x 56 x 25
inch: 18,1 x 22 x 9,8
Innen
cm: 32 x 46,5 x 15
inch: 12,6 x 18,3 x 5,9
Gewicht:
kg: 3,25
lbs: 7,2
Inspired by the legendary UDG ProducerBag, the UDG Ultimate ProducerBag Large has been created to cater for those electronic musicians who crave more space for their performance equipment. The UDG ProducerBag Large offers increased space for performers using laptops up to 18.4" and larger MIDI Controllers. Constructed from high quality fabrics, the backpack style UDG ProducerBag Large features padded walls with an adjustable divider to create an internal partition to suit your own requirements. Available in black, the bag offers both comfortable transportation and padded protection for your valuable items.
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Cartridge & Stylus
Frequenzbereich 20 to 18,000 Hz
Kanaltrennung 20 dB (1 kHz)
Vertikaler Abtastwinkel 20 degrees
Schaftform der Nadel Bonded Round Shank
Empfohlene Lastimpedanz 47,000 Ω
AT-XP3/H
Audiophile DJ cartridge mounted on AT-HS6BK Headshell
Tonabnehmer der Serie AT-XP sind perfekte Partner für alle Vinyl-DJs, denn sie kombinieren die Features robuster DJ-Tonabnehmer mit erstklassigem HiFi-Sound – ideal für Live-Auftritte und alle Club-DJs, die Wert auf eine hervorragende Klangqualität legen.
Audiophiler DJ-Tonabnehmer AT-XP3, vormontiert auf Headshell AT-HS6BK
VM-Dualmagnetsystem
Robustes, langlebiges System für anspruchsvolle DJ-Einsätze
Carbonfaser-verstärkter ABS-Nadelträger und Nylon-Aufhängung für präzises Tracking
Upgrade-fähig: Kompatibel mit Ersatznadeln ATN-XP5 und ATN-XP7
Lieferbare Konfigurationen: Tonabnehmer, einzeln (AT-XP3), Ersatznadel (ATN-XP3) und Komplettsystem mit Headshell AT-HS6BK (AT-XP3/H)
Serie VM95 – Kompatibilitätsübersicht Tonabnehmer
Selbst die beste Diamantnadel verschleißt nach einiger Zeit – konische Nadeln nach ungefähr 500 Stunden, elliptische nach 300 Stunden, Microlinear-Nadeln nach 1000 Stunden und Shibata-Nadeln nach rund 800 Stunden.
Aus diesem Grund haben wir unsere Dual-Moving-Magnet-Tonabnehmer der VM95-Serie so konzipiert, dass sich die Abtastnadeln untereinander austauschen lassen und der Tonabnehmer selbst fast unbegrenzt eingesetzt werden kann. Ist die Abtastnadel abgenutzt, brauchen Sie also keinen neuen Tonabnehmer zu kaufen, sondern nur die passende Ersatznadel – oder können Ihr System mit einer anderen, höherwertigen Abtastnadel aufwerten.
Our VM95 Series dual moving magnet cartridges can be used almost forever by replacing the interchangeable stylus. It is no longer necessary to purchase a complete cartridge when your diamond is worn out, you can simply buy the matching replacement stylus, but also enjoy the experience of upgrading your cartridge with a different stylus.
Alle sechs VM95-Tonabnehmermodelle verfügen über die gleiche elektromagnetische Antriebseinheit (Gehäuse). Daher sind auch die sechs Abtastnadeln dieser Serie 100% kompatibel.
AT-VMN95C
AT-VMN95E
AT-VMN95EN
AT-VMN95ML
AT-VMN95SH
AT-VMN95SP
Konische, gefasste Nadel
Der Vorteil konischer Nadeln (selbst bei „schlanken“, günstigeren Systemen) besteht darin, dass die gerundete Oberfläche die Rillen von Vinylschallplatten sehr präzise abtastet.
Vormontiert auf Headshell AT-HS6BK
Dieses Komplettsystem umfasst den Tonabnehmer AT-XP3 und die Headshell AT-HS6BK mit Druckgussaluminium-Gehäuse (9 g).
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4-channel headphone amplifier, RCA and 6.3 mm jack
Distributes the signal of 1 audio source to 4 sets of headphones
1 stereo input (switchable to mono) via RCA, 3.5 mm and 6.3 mm jack connectors
4 separately controllable headphone outputs via 6.3 mm jacks
Technical specifications
Power supply: 100-240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
12 V DC 150 mA
Power connection: Mains input Coaxial power connector (M) Power supply cord with AC adapter (provided)
Frequency range: 20 - 20000 Hz
S/N ratio: >90 dB
THD: 90 dB
Klirrfaktor: <0,008 % bei 1 kHz
Impedanz: Eingang 100 kOhm , unsym.
Ausgang 51 Ohm
Gain: 20 dB
Max. Pegel: Eingang: +14 dBV
Farbe: Silber
Maße: Breite: 11,3 cm
Tiefe: 8,5 cm
Höhe: 5,5 cm
Gewicht: 570 g
Gerät
Gewicht: 390 g
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No spot in music is immovable. No music can sit still but it’s hardly ver as true as it is for Dowdelin, a band that can’t be tied down to a single geography and genealogy. The creole language, Caribbean rhythms, urban energies, dazzling virtuosity, sensual electro: The group evolves in a unique place where genres and colors, heritage and audacity can merge.
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EN: - NEW - Highly effective cleaning concentrate - NEW -
Disco-Antistat Ultraclean, concentrate for record washing
200ml cleaning concentrate
Makes 5 litres of ready-mixed cleaning liquid (in a ratio of 1:25, e.g. with high-purity water Disco-Antistat BiDest)
Reliably removes dirt such as dust, grease, protein or nicotine
Antistatic effect
Alcohol-free
Dries without leaving residues
Disco-Antistat Ultraclean works deep into the groove and cleans your records gently and thoroughly, even from stubborn dirt. For an optimal cleaning result we recommend
the use of our highly purified special water Disco-Antistat BiDest.
Disco-Antistat Ultraclean concentrate is suitable for use with all record washers!
DE: Hochwirksames, alkoholfreies Reinigungskonzentrat
Disco-Antistat Ultraclean, Konzentrat zur Schallplattenwäsche
200ml Reinigungskonzentrat
ergibt 5 Liter fertig gemischte Reinigungsflüssigkeit (im Verhältnis 1:25, z.B. mit hochreinem Wasser Disco-Antistat BiDest)
Entfernt zuverlässig Verschmutzungen wie z.B. Staub, Fett, Eiweiß oder Nikotin
Antistatische Wirkung
Alkoholfrei
trocknet rückstandsfrei ab
waschen von Schellack Platten ist problemlos möglich!
Disco-Antistat Ultraclean wirkt bis in die Tiefe der Rille und reinigt Ihre Schallplatten schonend und gründlich auch von hartnäckigen Verschmutzungen. Für ein optimales Reinigungsergebnis empfehlen wir die Verwendung unseres hochreinen Spezialwassers Disco-Antistat BiDest.
Disco-Antistat Ultraclean Konzentrat eignet sich zur Anwendung mit allen Schallplattenwaschgeräten!
Produktionstechnisch kann es zu leichten Farbabweichungen (durchsichtig bis gelblich) kommen, dies hat aber keinen Einfluss auf die Qualität des Produkts!
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EN:
Automatic ultrasonic record washing machine
Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic - The most thorough way to wash records!
Our record washing machine Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic combines over 40 years of experience in the pflege and cleaning of records with highly developed, state-of-the-art cleaning technology.
The combination of ultrasonic cleaning and our proven goat hair brush system ensures gentle, groove-deep cleaning of your records and an audible improvement in the sound image. During operation, the cleaningfluid is permanently clarified by a filter system and dirt particles are rausgefiltert to minimize impurities in the liquid and thus achieve the best possible cleaning result.
Through our special cleaner, the record is treated antistatically and thus permanently prevented from re-soiling by adhering dust. With only a few handgriffen our washer is ready for operation and the intuitive operability ensures optimal results from the first record!
The simple and intuitive handling as well as the operating elements reduced to the essentials enable best cleaning results from the first record.
The cleaning time can be conveniently adjusted to the degree of soiling of the record, supported by a functional display.
A clearly visible progress indicator provides information on the cleaning status at a glance.
After use, the gefilterte Reinigungsflüssigkeit can be conveniently filled back into the bottle at the touch of a button via a built-in pump.
The permanent filtering of the cleaner prevents the liquid from accumulating dirt. Thus, a consistent cleaning result is achieved.
Thanks to the innovative magnetic coupling, inserting and removing the record is simple and quick.
Driven by an electric motor, the record rotates evenly in the tank, whereby a homogeneous treatment with ultrasound is achieved.
Cleanliness you can hear! A powerful ultrasonic transducer generates so-called cavitation bubbles, which act directly on the dirt and remove it gently and effectively. The ultrasonic waves also reach places that are inaccessible to conventional cleaning methods and ensure cleanliness down to the depth of the groove. The loosened dirt particles are then wiped off on the soft goat hair brushes.
DE:
Automatische Ultraschall Plattenwaschmaschine
Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic – Die gründlichste Art der Schallplattenwäsche!
Unsere Schallplattenwaschmaschine Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic vereint über 40 Jahre Erfahrung in der Pflege und Reinigung von Schallplatten mit hochentwickelter, modernster Reinigungstechnik.
Die Kombination aus Ultraschallreinigung und unserem bewährten Bürstensystem aus Ziegenhaar sorgt für eine schonende, rillentiefe Reinigung Ihrer Schallplatten und einer hörbaren Verbesserung des Klangbildes. Während des Betriebs wird die Reinigungsflüssigkeit permanent durch ein Filtersystem geklärt und Schmutzpartikel herausgefiltert, um Verunreinigungen der Flüssigkeit zu minimieren und somit das bestmögliche Reinigungsergebnis zu erreichen.
Durch unseren speziellen Reiniger wird die Schallplatte antistatisch behandelt und so dauerhaft die erneute Verschmutzung durch anhaftenden Staub verhindert. Mit nur wenigen Handgriffen ist unser Waschgerät betriebsbereit und die intuitive Bedienbarkeit sorgt für optimale Resultate ab der ersten Platte!
Die einfache und intuitive Handhabung sowie die auf das wesentliche reduzierten Bedienelemente ermöglichen beste Reinigungsergebnisse ab der ersten Schallplatte.
Die Reinigungsdauer kann, unterstützt durch ein funktionales Display, bequem dem Verschmutzungsgrad der Schallplatte angepasst werden.
Eine gut sichtbare Fortschrittsanzeige informiert auf einen Blick über den Status der Reinigung.
Nach Gebrauch kann die gefilterte Reinigungsflüssigkeit auf Knopfdruck über eine eingebaute Pumpe bequem in die Flasche zurück gefüllt werden.
Durch die permanente Filterung des Reinigers wird verhindert, dass sich die Flüssigkeit mit Schmutz anreichert. Somit wird ein gleichbleibendes Reinigungsergebnis erzielt.
Das Einsetzen und Entnehmen der Schallplatte ist Dank der innovativen Magnetankopplung simpel und schnell erledigt.
Angetrieben von einem Elektromotor rotiert die Schallplatte gleichmäßig in der Wanne, wodurch eine homogene Behandlung mit Ultraschall erreicht wird
Sauberkeit, die man hören kann! Ein leistungsstarker Ultraschallschwinger erzeugt sogenannte Kavitationsblasen, die direkt an den Verschmutzungen wirken und diese schonend und effektiv ablösen. Die Ultraschallwellen erreichen auch Stellen, die für konventionelle Reinigungsverfahren nicht zugänglich sind und sorgen für Sauberkeit bis in die Tiefe der Rille. Anschließend werden die gelösten Schmutzpartikel an den weichen Ziegenhaarbürsten abgestreift.
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Girl With No Face: Das vierte Album von Allie X, Girl With No Face, ist eine gewagte Ausgrabung ihrer Identität. Eine wahnsinnige Reise in den Kopf
einer Künstlerin, die gerade drei Jahre in der Isolation verbracht hat und jeden Input verweigert hat, während sie zum ersten Mal in ihrer Karriere die
alleinige Produzentin, Autorin und kreative Stimme wurde. Inspiriert von der Technologie und dem Hedonismus der New-Wave-Szene der frühen
80er Jahre, sind die analog angehauchten Songs des Albums eine Reihe von krassen Widersprüchen - retro im Gefühl, aber ultramodern in der
Thematik, pointiert, unvorhersehbar und doch tanzbar, zugänglich und doch herrlich bedrohlich. Kurz gesagt, Girl with No Face ist völlig untypisch fü
die hypergetunten, automatisierten Formen, die den heutigen Alt-Pop dominieren.
Durchdrungen vom britischen Experimentalismus der frühen 80er Jahre, mit Anklängen an The Human League und New Order, ist das Album ein
deutlicher Schritt weg vom 2020er introspektivem und sparsamen "Cape God" - so viel schneller und bedrohlicher.
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EN: The Ultraclean set is designed to mix a total of 5 litres of cleaning fluid.
Set consisting of:
1x 200ml Disco-Antistat Ultraclean concentrate (Art. No. 1302000)
5x 1 liter Disco-Antistat BiDest (Art.No. 1302001)
free of charge:
1x Disco-Antistat mixing bottle (art. no. 1302002)
1x sponge brush for cleaning the Disco-Antistat devices
1x microfiber cloth
DE: Das Ultraclean Set ist abgestimmt um insgesamt 5 Liter Reinigungsflüssigkeit anmischen zu können.
Set bestehend aus:
1x 200ml Disco-Antistat Ultraclean Konzentrat (Art.Nr. 1302000)
5x 1 Liter Disco-Antistat BiDest (Art.Nr. 1302001)
gratis dazu erahalten Sie:
1x Disco-Antistat Mischflasche (Art.Nr. 1302002)
1x Schwammpinsel zur Reinigung der Disco-Antistat Geräte
1x Mikrofasertuch
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EN: Replacement filter for record washing machine Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic (1360008)
Durable, reusable filter with housing made of high-quality anodised aluminium and glass
Extremely easy to maintain, as the filter can be removed in just a few steps and completely dismantled for cleaning
Easy to use, you can see at a glance when the filter needs cleaning
Suitable for all record washing machines Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic, units with older filters can be converted without any problems.
DE: Ersatzfilter für Schallplattenwaschmaschine Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic (1360008)
Langlebiger, wiederverwendbarer Filter mit Gehäuse aus hochwertigem, eloxiertem Aluminium und Glas
Extrem wartungsfreundlich, da der Filter mit wenigen Handgriffen ausgebaut und zur Reinigung komplett zerlegt werden kann
Einfache Handhabung, auf einen Blick lässt sich erkennen, wann der Filter gereinigt werden muss
Für alle Schallplattenwaschmaschinen Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic geeignet, Geräte mit älteren Filtern können problemlos umgerüstet werden.
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EN: Bottle for mixing ‘Disco-Antistat Ultraclean’ concentrate (1302000) with the high-purity water ‘Disco-Antistat BiDest’ (1302001) and for storing the cleaning liquid.
Easy mixing of the concentrate in 3 steps (marking on the bottle)
Easy handling thanks to large opening
Practical storage option for mixed record cleaner
- We recommend the purchase of 2 mixing bottles. This allows you to keep and store the freshly mixed cleaning liquid separately from the liquid that has already been used. -
DE: Flasche zum Mischen von "Disco-Antistat Ultraclean" Konzentrat (1302000) mit dem hochreinen Wasser "Disco-Antistat BiDest" (1302001) und zur Aufbewahrung der Reinigungsflüssigkeit.
Einfaches Mischen des Konzentrats in 3 Schritte (Markierung auf der Flasche)
Einfache Handhabung durch große Öffnung
Praktische Aufbewahrungsmöglichkeit für gemischten Schallplattenreiniger
- Wir empfehlen den Kauf von 2 Mischflaschen. So kann man die frisch angemischte Reinigungsflüssigket separat zur bereits benutzten Flüssigkeit aufheben und lagern. -
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One size fits all! The new MULTI-FORMAT TURNTABLE CASE II is a heavy-duty road case that was especially designed to fit the popular Technics SL-1200/1210 Turntable or the Rane Twelve Player. It includes several foam pads to accommodate various new turntable models such as a Pioneer PLX-1000, Mixars LTA and other models from Stanton, Vestax, Reloop, American Audio or Numark.
- Heavy duty construction of 9 mm vinyl laminated plywood
- Solid aluminum profiles and spring loaded latches
- Secure stacking due to stackable ball corners
- Full padded interior keeps equipment well-protected
- Incl. adjustment foams to accommodate different turntable models
- Outer measures: 52 x 43 x 22 cm
- Inner measures: 45,5 x 36,9 x 9 cm
- Weight: 8 kg
- Color: black/black
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One size fits all! The new MULTI-FORMAT TURNTABLE CASE II is a heavy-duty road case that was especially designed to fit the popular Technics SL-1200/1210 Turntable or the Rane Twelve Player. It includes several foam pads to accommodate various new turntable models such as a Pioneer PLX-1000, Mixars LTA and other models from Stanton, Vestax, Reloop, American Audio or Numark.
Heavy duty construction of 9 mm vinyl laminated plywood
Solid aluminum profiles and spring loaded latches
Secure stacking due to stackable ball corners
Full padded interior keeps equipment well-protected
Incl. adjustment foams to accommodate different turntable models
Outer measures: 52 x 43 x 22 cm
Inner measures: 45,5 x 36,9 x 9 cm
Weight: 8 kg
Color: black/silver
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Togo’s most celebrated vocalist, Bella Bellow, first achieved international attention in 1966, when she represented her country at the first World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, which caught the attention of the pioneering Paris-based Togolese musician/producer Gerard Akueson, who sought to market her as the next Miriam Makeba. Album Souvenir compiled singles cut for Akueson between 1968-71, including ‘Nye Dzi,’ ‘Zelie’ and ‘Bem Bem,’ all marked by the slick production values that aimed for international audiences, rather than the grassroots African niche. Tune in and understand the iconic Bellow’s commanding appeal!
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Moody cacophonies, sonic dispatches from Japan, crystalline breakbeats that are more environment than rhythm: Jake Muir’s enmixed, described by Muir as a “(re)mixtape,” is a mind-bending deep dive into the enmossed archive. Besides reflecting the history of the label, Muir’s mix is a production in its own right. A Los Angeles native based in Berlin, Muir is a DJ and field recordist who “sees mixes as a vehicle to explore narratives outside of the album format.”
In Bathhouse Blues (2023), where Muir sampled various sources to explore gay cruising culture and sensuality, his more expansive, conceptual approach to the form is illuminated. Mixes are not just a linear succession of tracks with transitions—they’re excavations that also result in the creation of new audio artifacts. Inspired by the psychedelic impulses of illbient, Muir uses DJ and sound engineering techniques to melt down genre distinctions and create alien atmospheres.
From the enmossed community, Muir pulls from artists like bad lsd trips, Angelo Harmsworth, Nick Klein, Tetsuya Nakayama, and Patrick Gallagher to coalesce a super-compendium of the global sonic underground, all viewed through his own unique lens. Muir takes major liberties with processing and effects automation to carve new worlds from the soil of these preexisting works. Some of the tracks and material on enmixed are heavily edited, emphasizing specific harmonics or bass frequencies, and some portions contain three or four layers, putting artists in direct conversation with each other.
This heady approach—using the tools of both mixtape and remix—results in a super textual and dense palimpsest of the enmossed catalog. “Because mixes are more open- source,” Muir says, “it’s easier to express some ideas since there is more material to pull from.”
- Rob Goyanes
Silver foil printed j-cards on heavyweight iridescent ('Lapis Lazuli') recycled paper Duplicated at a carbon-neutral facility
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“My introduction to “noise” came from a record shop in Lake Worth, Florida ran by a musician named Kenny 5. Kenny had left Detroit sometime in the mid nineties and had begun selling used records and CD’s from the downtown strip of this tiny southern Florida city in a humble shop sandwiched between a deli and a dog grooming business. Kenny previously was on labels like Amphetamine Reptile and timeSTEREO, and the records and videotapes that would be on repeat at his shop were a vast sonic expanse that spoke to the eclecticism of his experience as a touring musician participating and adjacent to American noise culture through the early to late 90’s. In 1998, I was eleven years old and I would order a pizza with him and watch VHS tapes of Japanese noise and deathmatch bootlegs, as well as any other sonic and subcultural rarities that far outstripped my age to comprehend (notably the RRR “Journey Into Pain” compilation and various Vanilla Tapes videos). This widecast net of information formed an introduction to a reality that did not fall deaf on me, but it took many years later for me to reorient the specific freedoms of what this dense and cathartic sound culture had imparted on my life and would continue onward to.
What does this have to do with this selection of choice recordings from the Secret Boyfriend catalog for the enmossed label? For the uninitiated, Secret Boyfriend is the long running moniker of Ryan Martin, North Carolina musician and label proprietor of the Hot Releases imprint. For over a decade from this writing I have watched Secret Boyfriend, and Hot Releases by extension as a curatorial and archival effort, embodying the multiplanal capacity that noise loosely functions from as an umbrella ideology and formalist avenue for sound creation. For anecdotal purposes, from (before) 2006 until roughly 2023 the East Coast of the United States showcased a vibrant network of eclectic regional festivals that saw wide swaths of artists addressing and negotiating the notion of what qualified “noise” from a conceptual and ideological perspective. Some festivals honed in on particularities in aesthetics and tropes, and others had a kind of “catch-all” implementation that allowed for a salvation of the sort of alienated and singular artistry that was amassing throughout these territories. While clear guidelines had been set from regional predecessors as to how noise with a capital “N” should maneuver, Secret Boyfriend is emblematic in the spirit of fluidity that was either implicitly coupled to the notion of the genre, or grew to evolve towards or devolve from.
Within Secret Boyfriend performances, I have seen and admired a mirroring from a ravenous appreciator of this culture at large back towards itself. Typical of a Secret Boyfriend set is an interchangeable narrative arc wherein blistering feedback laden scrap metal improvisations are forayed into naive ambient or “pop” songs, or skipping CDs, or mixer feedback play, or delayed Roland 707 drum workouts all at once and in a unique hegemony. Secret Boyfriend's stylistic mastery of each endeavor is at once an homage to a history of loving listening and enacting, while a brave step into the realm of actualizing the unique fluidity of his own practice. In performance and the action of network engagement, Secret Boyfriend operates a survey of that which he sought to hear and that which he cultivates around his work. His operations are mirrors, and the project (alongside his other peers) is a reflection on the ethos of his time.
Conversely his recording practice narrows in on these moments and allows for a different kind of intimacy or alienation for the non live listener. This record of selected “pop songs” (let's call them that) is particularly poignant at a time when the culture Martin mirrors is at a strange crossroads with itself. The aforementioned festival networks necessarily change and shift. The onlookers become the artists, the artists find new horizons, and the spaces for these cycles fade into locales of a distant memory. It seems, from my perspective, that audiences currently yearn for a more bottlenecked experience, searching for some ontologically vetted manifestation of an idea, of a sound and less for an experience that functions in opposition to our collective banalities. This makes sense in the face of general global catastrophism that plagues us. We need certainty of what something is somewhere, don’t we? Noise as an idea has expanded and contracted to so many iterations of itself it is hard to tell what it even is, and it is particularly difficult to identify in the absence of solid network activations a moment to reflect on its own complexities and nuances. In the face of so much change, I argue that the language of noise culture at large has on one hand become increasingly didactic and predictable, and laughably inclusive and non linear on the other. Probably has always been this way, but now we are in the midst of a moment of extreme access and indexicality, which somehow cauterizes expansion and naivety and chance.
This record highlights the Secret Boyfriend that obscures didacticism by highlighting output that opens up for more challenging catharsis and emotive signal processing. It provides an entry to the materialism of a cultural field full of ecstatic complexity and beautiful inconsistency. In these muted moments Secret Boyfriend has given us over his career we have an argument for evolving languages that further challenge our notions of what is supposed to happen and how it is supposed to be presented. In his more song oriented expansiveness, we can punctuate the ability to think in new modalities. Listening to these recordings reminds me of the polarity of sitting in the record store as a kid and understanding that His Name Is Alive is on 4AD and (gasp!) timeSTEREO. This trite early impression that nothing is really as different as our imaginations might want them to be, and that we can do whatever we want mostly within the creative realms we work through is an important filter to look through Secret Boyfriend as a project and a vessel. If we can achieve abandon and vulnerability through our artistic endeavors, then we have a sound model for, maybe, new potentialities. If that’s too much projection, or just complete liberal bullshit, I am fine with that. Secret Boyfriend's oeuvre at best offers us moments of reprieve to ponder these complexities, or at least a moment to zone out on a drive through North Carolina Highway 54.
You have one pocket of life that you must do whatever you want to inside of. Secret Boyfriend does it affectionately, in a variety of forms, and always with deep sentimentality. These recordings are a wonderful set of songs to begin further investigation from. Thank you Ryan for allowing as many avenues as possible to continue a broad cultural exchange and conversation that intersect and refract while being the kind of artist that is brave enough to not phone in the effort.”
- Nick Klein , May 2024
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After a kickass track on the newArray0 V/A, along with Nineties Entities, Binary Digit, MAURER and bell hooks, Silent Manifesto now returns with full length power, still advocating the power of the rave, the acid and the electro to cleanse the soul and start anew.
Yet, the journey is dark and difficult: meadows of technological ruins, rivers of benzodiazepine, mountains of self-contrition and guilt, these are but a few of the obstacles on this record, but do not fear, dear listener, as the fattest of the fattest kicks and the most sinuous bass lines will be your best allies.
Whether you want to dance, to reflect upon the past, the present, the future, to get fucked up in your apartment, this record is perfect for you.
Whether you are an electrohead, an urban pessismist, an optimist pastoral raver, a nostalgic of a future past, this record is also perfect for you.
Traders, cops, bankers, neo-liberalism enthusiasts, start-uppers, neophiles, technological believers, soldiers of power, authority, domination and progress, you can go fuck yourselves.
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