Bitchin' Bajas/ Faceplant

33 RPM 12''

*includes 11x14 b&w poster

Bitchin Bajas: Consciousness I - 9:34 Consciousness II - 5:51

Faceplant: Ride the Ether - 7:16 Dickie Domecon - 9:05

The Bitchin Bajas & Faceplant projects really need no introduction.

Bitchin Bajas is the solo synthscapes of one Cooper Crain, maybe better known as a member of modern krautrock masters CAVE. With Bitchin Bajas, Crain creates worlds of sound, crafted from analog synthesizer and organ tones, not entirely too far removed from certain elements of Harmonia, Edgar Froese, or Cluster. Crain is definitely bringing a vintage sound to the table here. Clean, distinct arppegiated tones floating and bouncing, drifting and forming zones of their own. This is real deal psychadelia at its finest.

Faceplant is the solo work of one Aaron Coyes, of Peaking Lights and Rahdunes fame. Peaking Lights have made a sturdy name for themselves playing homemade synth-driven psychedelic, dub-infused drone-pop. With Faceplant -- described as Coyes' ''solo modular hessian noise trance project,'' he is mining a somewhat similar terrain. Driving percussive beats are slathered in dubby echo, while sweet synthesizers hover and chime; it's definitely a groovy affair. You can't listen to this and not shake your ass, just a little bit.

Artwork design by Justin Wright.

Poster by Zach ''Zz'' McLuckie.

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''Crane builds walls of synth burble that bump against the edges of motirik rhythm, though often they simply bask in the blissful valleys of tonal tranquility.'' - Raven Sings The Blues

''Crane wields a selection of old synthesizers and an organ, crafting a far-out playlist of meditative analogue melodies and looping arpeggios that instantly draw comparisons to modern day pace-setters like Emeralds as well as the kosmische pioneers of the past'' - Boomkat

''Coyes creates raw sonics from a hook up of vintage stereo components and hand-cut vinyl with a nasty-ass needle scraping thru. With his sense of rhythmic goop control and space organ jammering this is some sweet brutality.'' - Bryon Coley, Bull Tongue

On Bitchin Bajas: '''Consciousness 1' and 'Consciousness 2' are masterful studies in utopian kraut psychedelia, glazed organ arpeggios buffeting against a gently undulating backdrop of melodious drones - reminding us not just of Emmanuel but also modern-day standard-bearers like Lichens, Emeralds and Gavin Russom.'' - Boomkat

On Faceplant: ''If the soundly beat-led 'Ride The Ether' and 'Dickie Domecon' owe a debt to Germany, then it's to Kraftwerk in block-rocking mode. The former is a beautifully chewy slice of contemporary minimal wave, reminding us a little of vintage Tara Cross or Peter Bonner - proto-electro revisited with post-electro wisdom.'' -- Boomkat