FABREC025  RAMBUTAN  Inverted Summer  LP
“Inverted Summer” is the full-length vinyl LP debut of Eric Hardiman’s (Century Plants/Burnt Hills) solo project. As Rambutan, Hardiman has released a steady stream of quality material on a variety of underground labels since 2007. Subtly bridging realms of noise, dub, psych, drone, minimalism, and musique concrete, Rambutan brings listeners into a unique sonic headspace that finds common ground between bliss and dread. Utilizing various electronics, synthesizers, tapes, guitar, and bass, “Inverted Summer” is a sprawling, wide-angle piece of work, yielding deep zones of textural soundscaping that can soothe and unsettle in equal measure. “Inverted Summer” captures Rambutan’s thick, dubby atmospherics in all their glory, revealing Hardiman to be a sound artist whose improvisational techniques are as formidable as his sense of structure and development. These are alien soundtracks for the recombinant generation, just waiting for you to disappear into them. Mastered by James Plotkin, and cut by Golden Mastering. Edition of 300 on thick black vinyl. Includes free download card.

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Robert Turman began making sound experiments in the early 70′s employing reel-ro-reel tape, cassette decks, arp synth, drum sequencers, multiple string and percussion instruments, and whatever else he could scavenge. In the late 70′s he co-founded NON (along with Boyd Rice), but left shortly after the release of the Mode of Infection/Knife Ladder 7″ e.p. to focus on composing and releasing his own music on limited-edition, and now extremely rare, cassette tapes. Robert has collaborated with art rockers FZ13, post-apocalyptic industrialists Z.O. Voider, and more recently Aaron Dilloway (Wolf Eyes, Nevari Butchers), Neon Depth and Jandek.

Beyond Painting, with its 72 minutes of haunting lo-fi ambience, is probably one of Robert’s most accomplished recordings. Layers of meditative synth loops, guitar, and eastern tinged melodies, all beautifully delayed, bring to mind blistering desert landscapes, high-tension cold war era spy action sequences, and dark cavernous sounds.

Originally recorded in 1990, these tracks did not see the light of day until 2010 when they were self released on a limited run of 100 professionally printed and duplicated CD-Rs. Beyond Painting follows in the footsteps of the recently reissued “Flux” cassette on LP (Spectrum Spools).

Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk (Mississippi Records, Sublime Frequencies, Grouper, Wooden Shjips, Yellow Swans) at Stereophonic Mastering.

Edition of 500 on 140grm black vinyl in full-color gate-fold jacket.

First 100 copies sold through this website will include a small zine with an interview with Robert Turman, discography and photos.

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Fabrica Records also just released a 30 minute cassette with new material by Robert Turman, you can find it here.

FAB022 A FULL COSMIC SOUND Chemtrails C-40
Second official release by this improv. experimental pysch collective from Santiago, Chile on Fabrica.
Murky spacey distorted fuzz-drenched jams with a hint of Spacemen 3 and a pinch of Joy Division-ish bass-lines thrown into the mix. Play Loud! Buy Now

FAB021 AERONAUT Coronal Mass C-36
Aeronaut is Steve Fors, a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Brooklyn, NY. Also member of the Chicago-based drone/noise outfit, The Golden Sores, he’s been experimenting with long-form song structures since 1995. In his current work, he is interested in exploring the relationship between sound and time; specifically how sustained fields of sound can alter our temporal perception and physical awareness. He says of his work/process, “It’s that moment–when everything around you ceases to exist, or rather you become everything around you, or rather still the boundaries of skin and self and earth and air are shattered; when you’re acutely conscious but completely powerless and everything turns to white–when that split second turns timeless, there is nothing else but crushing joy.”
Two 18 minute side long tracks of ear blazing epic drone contained in a 36 minute pro-dubbed cassette secured in a black wooden box. Each and every box was painted. printed and hand-assembled by the artist himself. Includes digital download. Buy Now

FABCD024 LUCIERNAGA Plays Propaganda Songs CD-R

Luciernaga’s CD-R debut (after 2 cassettes and a split with Insect Factory) consists of 35+ minutes of disintegrating loops, slide-guitar drones, modified vocals and processed samples.

Although there are no lyrics, the sounds on this CD are very much a political statement for human rights, the right to self-determination and against violence. Each CD comes in an hand-stamped and hand-numbered 100% PCW recycled chipboard arigato pak, with full-color art on the front an back, and each copy includes a different card with islamic art on one side and a section from the “Mathnavi”, an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi saint and poet, on the other.

Limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies.

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FAB016 – LAZURITE  s/t  C-36
Fluorescent night dystopian city music.
This is the second full-length release by hyperactive Brooklyn-based experimental musician and visual artist Megan Moncrief. Her first release was a self-produced, self-packaged (each cassette was hand-painted and was one of a kind) cassette whose eerie ambient sounds captured our imaginations. A message offering to release more of her music was promptly sent via the world wide web. Lucky for us, she accepted, and now we are able to offer 36 minutes of amazing new sounds extracted from the ukelin, synths, drum machines, medicine balls, drums and voice processed through a diverse link of effect pedals.
Edition of 50 pro-dubbed high-bias chrome cassette.  Buy Here

FAB018 – SOUND OUT LIGHT  Bloom  C-30
Music like the sound of a power generator in the middle of a vast desert where the escaping ions affect the landscape, creating unusual lifeforms that grow out of the cracked ceramic floor after an acid-rain storm. Sound Out Light is David Doyen on digital synth.
Edition of 50 pro-dubbed high-bias chrome cassette. Buy Here

FAB019 – HAKOBUNE  The Still Life of Reverie  C-32
Hakobune aka Takahiro Yorifuji uses layers of guitar to create meditative hypnotic sonic landscapes. We are very proud of this release. Yorifuji is from a small town in Hyogo, Japan and currently resides in Tokyo.Edition of 50 pro-dubbed high-bias chrome cassette. Buy Here

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FAB017 – WOLF FLUORESCENCE We’re So Glad You’re Home C-36
Wolf Fluorescence is the solo project of experimental musician and NY-native Ross Devlin. On We’re So Glad You’re Home he conjures long summers, nostalgia for youth, and time spent with family and loved ones. Dream-like ambient music with a warmth that seems to be a missing from a lot of the very precise and clinical-sounding experimental music out there.

Edition of 50 on pro-dubbed high-bias chrome and full color j-card + insert (made by the artist).

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FAB014 – DEREK ROGERS Hex Illumination C-30
Six new dark electronic tracks from this distinguished and extremely prolific gentleman currently residing in the city of angels. Hex Illumination is the perfect soundtrack for a late night drive through post-recession America’s once thriving cities.

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FAB012 – INSECT FACTORY/LUCIERNAGA Split C-80
New sounds from Silver Spring, MD’s own guitar-drone project INSECT FACTORY and Gowanus Brooklyn’s LUCIERNAGA.

INSECT FACTORY provides two extended guitar-based drones of sounds and textures that meld into haunting yet-tuneful melodies. These two tracks are an excellent companion to the recently released full-length INSECT FACTORY LP on FABRICA/INSECT FIELDS.

LUCIERNAGA, normally a guitar-only project, this time around includes acoustic and electric guitar, mbira, buddha machine, and looped field recordings. LUCIERNAGA is accompanied by Sean Keane (STRNGLV) with additional sounds generated by circuit-bent synth and effect pedals.
First edition of 50 packaged in 1/4″ reel-to-reel box.

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May of 2012 will mark the 2-year anniversary of this project that is Fabrica Records. A project which was born on a Saturday afternoon in the quiet of my apartment in 2010. It was a rainy day. I remember this because on that day I recorded the sound of rain falling through my kitchen window, sounds which were then added as a background to one of the closing tracks of the first Fabrica release.

And so it was… I spent that Saturday doing the final “mixing” for the tape; designed, printed, cut, and painted the j-cards, and dubbed about 20 cassettes. A few days later, on Tuesday May 11, I launched this website. The label started (and continues really) with no major ambition other than to release music made by my friends and I, and/or people whose music I enjoy. The label pays some pretty obvious tributes to a few iconic independent music labels of the past, but it also is infused with a lot of personal experiences/lessons gained from the early 90′s hardcore-punk community which I was a part of while I completed my secondary and college education in Santiago, Chile. I owe a lot to my time spent volunteering with Chilean anarcho-punk collective Masapunk, as well as with the Washington, DC-based Amor y Lucha record label. My obsessive interest in music, radical politics, and my commitment to DIY culture I owe entirely to punk culture.

I may have stated this before in older posts, but Fabrica does not and will not ever take part in the “manufactured hype” game, I have no interest in PR agents/agencies (no matter how many of you scumbags “spam” the e-mail account or “follow” the label on Twitter), street teams or in making huge effort to convince music reviewers or major distributors to pay attention to what the label does. I am much more interested in taking things slowly and building this up not just as a place to “buy stuff” but as a label that is inspired and run by a community of like-minded people. If not for the patience, kindness, friendship and assistance from a countless number of people who have contributed their music, assisted with design, mixed recordings, distributed releases, and provided words of encouragement in moments of doubt, this label would not exist. And it will only continue to exist as long as it has a community around it that sustains it.

2011 was a good year for Fabrica, and if the first few months of 2012 are any indication than this will be a great year for Fabrica. We released our first ever vinyl record, my preferred format for music since the tender age of 15 when I dusted and plugged in my grandparents old Marantz turntable to play a used copy of Circle Jerks “Group Sex” LP I had bought from a friend. We also released a gorgeous new batch of cassettes by amazing artists whose work continues to impress me, even after many many many listening sessions.

We now have a new batch on the way (expecting to be ready by early May), a 2xLP reissue of an amazing 1990′s recording by a noise/experimental music pioneer, an LP by a multi-tasking multi-talented musician and fellow label owner, and much much more.

We’ve also expanded our distribution of non-label releases in our online store. A lot of what we carry in the store is the product of trades with fellow labels, so get in touch if you’re down with trading.

We’re celebrating spring with a spring-cleaning sale, a lot of records in the Fabrica store are marked down to wholesale or lower… also, use SPRING2012 promo code for an additional 10% off your order. All record and tape sales through the Fabrica store go directly to funding our future releases, we have day jobs, so the label sustains itself with the distro and its own releases.

As always, thank you very much.

Yours,

Joao Da Silva
Fabrica Records