Spoils & Relics - 'Threadbare Adult Life' x4 CS Boxset (Second Sleep)

x4 cassette boxset on Second Sleep

available directly from the label here: http://www.secondsleep.org/

Spoils & Relics 'Private Garage Collection' Cassette on Feral Debris

limited copies available directly for £5.00 plus postage - email mantilerecords@gmail.com to order

Digitally available here: https://spoilsandrelics.bandcamp.com/album/private-garage-collection-feral-tapes-010

 "It’s curious to note how meticulous in their output Spoils & Relics have become in recent years. Following the first couple years of frantic activity, the trio has become as of late. 2014 saw the release of the Embed And Then Forget cd on Porta, while 2015 finds two scant outings - a track on the Found Secret comp. and this, a relatively brief cassette from Rich Hopkin’s well-curated Feral Tapes. Perhaps the extended text on the cover of the tape discussing the sticky twists and turn of the j card artwork should serve as some indication of the band’s thoroughness. A blunt noise, silence and then faint crackle announce this, the new Spoils & Relics release. Next we we hear more clanging and perhaps the sound of a contact mic being dragged against a surface, maybe amplified breath? A high frequency, then perhaps a clipped vocal bleep. There’s always a relational agency to the interplay of sounds on Spoils & Relics release. Some shuffling is contrast with a sound rising in pitch and faint sonics which are perhaps musical in nature. There’s more mystery at hand than on, say, the Martin & Mobin discussed above. There’s humor, much like the Posset, but it’s always icy and bleak, sometimes brutal. Every sounds seems to have a significance, but one also wonders why even bother. There’s a caustic void which is almost Beckett-esque in its grotesque pallor. More silence, very faint talking, maybe laughing and maybe dial tone. Then, a throat sound, no voices. Everything remains very low-end, aside from the intermittent outburst and drilling hum. Then, a click. Silence, the tape turns over. More shaking, a hum and more overt electronics open side b. I think I can clearly make out radio, maybe a horn of some sort. A tape is clearly being manually sped up and slowed down. There’s the echo of footprints in water and again, more aggressive electronics. Obsolete malfunctions. It’s terrifying while never resorting to being cheap. The use of space in Spoils & Relics is perhaps their most sophisticated technique. The silence flows as an inky void into the sounds themselves, leaving everything vacant, whether its an unprocessed scream which abruptly arises in the mix ora mid-range bluster which could just as either be an explosion or a recording of a door driven into the red. And that’s where the tape ends. With a question."  Allen Mozek

Various ‎– Map Of The Interior (VT06) Cassette

"Vitrine is proud to announce its very first compilation as well as its final release of 2014. Map of the Interiors nine tracks present a love letter to the heyday of mail-art culture and a promise that such international friendship is still thriving across postal channels and on the internet. In his collection, After Lorca, American poet Jack Spicer resuscitates the Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca through a series of letters sent across the gulf of time and mortality. Map of the Interior attempts to bridge a spatial, rather than temporal divide, with nine tracks devoted to the marriage of tape and breath. Tape prolongs the life of the voice, extending it beyond the body into the greater polis. Hiss, flutter, yawn. Map of the Interior features contributions from a distinguished pedigree of international artists, including Matthew Philip Hopkins, Arv & Miljö, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson Yeast Culture, and Spoils & Relics, as well as Vitrine house artists Good Area and No Intention. “Things do not connect. They correspond.” Limited to 250 copies." - Vitrine.

Tracklisting:

A1     Intro   
A2     Matthew Hopkins - Scrambled Candle   
A3     Yeast Culture - Imposition
A4     Spoils & Relics - Infrared Air   
A5     No Intention - Place Names   
B1     Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson - Go To Sleep   
B2     Arv & Miljö - Det Mesta Regnar Bort   
B3     Good Area - Limericks   
B4     Outro

Price: £5 Each

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Spoils & Relics - Embed And Then Forget (Porta #9)

CD comes with a screenprinted foldable cover inside a thick PVC sleeve. Screenprinted and glassmastered CD. £7.00.

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FÖRDÄMNING #4 ft. interview with Spoils & Relics

32 A5 b/w pages. English. 250 copies.
€5.00 ppd worldwide.
Available from: http://fordamning.blogspot.se/

Spoils & Relics 'Sins Of Omission' LP (HARBINGER113)

  
The Spoils & Relics LP on Harbinger Sound now available direct from Mantile

Prices inc. postage £14 uk / £15 euro / £17 row

To Order Email: mantilerecords@gmail.com (please email to check availability before making payment)
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for wholesale please email: harbingersound@lineone.net 

Spoils & Relics 'Turner' 7" (HARBINGER109)

Limited 7" record on Harbinger Sound. Only available from The Chameleon venue in Nottngham, UK. The price is TBC at the point of purchase - no doubt dependent upon the proprietors luck down the bookies that morning. Good luck.

If you can't make it to Nottingham then be resourceful.

There will be a full-length album from Spoils & Relics on Harbinger Sound over the summer months too.

Spoils & Relics - Angels Trumpet Over Moonbeams (choc.247) CDr

"Volume 4 in 'The Well Spliced Breath' series started for sound-tape collage, text-sound, radiophonic, horspiel-type muck. Spoils & Relics are one of the best UK acts doing this kind of thing just now, tuned in collage.  Come take in their strange narrative."

We've read that you could actually get to the "actual" and that behind the Real Utopian Gateway lays an (almost) encoded set-piece of information. Within it it is said that those loose apples fished from the rabbit hole will emit odd electricities when fermenting. Stick your head over the barrel and inhale before you swig for brief baseless effect. Now without climbing the walls, walk the ceiling from the otherside and take the stairs to the bottom.
Angels trumpet over moonbeams.

Available from: http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/available.htm

New Releases - Burd, Fossils, Kayaka, Brood Ma, Spoils & Relics

Five new cassette + download releases from Burd, Fossils, Kayaka, Brood Ma, Spoils & Relics.

All artwork hand stamped / handmade
All cassettes pro dubbed (stereo)
All cassette editions are limited to 50 copies
Downloads (320 kbps) will stay up until they expire

Cassettes: £5 each (for wholesale prices please email)
Downloads: £donation?
Payment via paypal to mantilerecords@gmail.com or cheque. all payments in british pounds (GBP £).

Postage Costs:
UK: £1.50 + 50p per additional
Europe: £2.00 + 50p per additional
Everywhere Else: £2.50 + 50p per additional

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Burd – Wild Saloone (Mantile#019)

Melodic and rhythmic sensibilities occasionally get the better of us. Burd finally gave into his - delivering this one take, direct to four-track cosmic synth recording with shades of house to me in early 2010  – it never should have taken so long for it to see the light of day. Wild Saloone will probably draw most comparisons with the output of Steven Warwick’s Heatsick project, since it hit the dance floor.

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Fossils – What A Drag (Mantile#020)

Tarred with the crude brush, What A Drag was someplace and now they’re somewhere else. Studio & live cuts from Payne and Farr, edited by Scarr. “Where else can you do a half-a-million things”.

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Kayaka – Operation Deep Freeze (Mantile#021)

Operation Deep Freeze came out of a period where Kaya Kamijo was working with a more structured form of noise music, towing a line quite close to what could be considered a more straight form of rock music, but its warped by an odd sensibility that’s pinned around the scattered beats of a primitive drum machine. At times it's reminiscent of the more abstracted moments of Peter Hammill’s A Black Box, and a somewhat less fractured To Live And Shave In LA. 

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Brood Ma – F I S S I O N (Mantile#022)

Brood Ma is the musical alias of (multi-disciplinarian) artist James B Stringer. F I S S I O N resonates within a field of contemporary electronic (dance) music which has developed a hybrid form - where numerous genres exist within the whole - simultaneously, fittingly. As for reference points - the first few 12”s of Dro Carey, and the likes of Nguzunguzu with a more industrially tinged and unhinged mind-set.

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Spoils & Relics – Stammer Challis (Mantile#023)   

  
Now I know where to bring my raspberry pies. Yes, send them to the Blessed one.

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Previews of the forthcoming cassette releases...

Mantile#019
Mantile#020


Mantile#021


Mantile#022


Mantile#023

cM nG / Spoils & Relics split cassette

Availble now via - http://armedwithinmovement.bandcamp.com/album/cm-ng-spoils-and-relics-split 

Excerpt from the Spoils & Relics side

Missing Nothing – a 6cdr set from Bang the Bore featuring Spoils & Relics

"Missing Nothing is Bang the Bore’s first fundraiser compilation, a 6cdr behemoth featuring music donated by John Butcher, Alvin Lucier, Astral Social Club, Mark Sanders, The A Band, Ashtray Navigations, Bolide and many, many more.

We wanted to release something beautiful that people would want to keep; something that represents the musicians who have played for us during our first three years of events; and something that helps introduce some lesser known bands from our home town of Southampton, UK.

All music was donated by the artists with the intention of helping us raise money to fund our Southampton shows. Initially this will entail purchasing a PA. You can help us by spreading the word, whether that’s via forums, social networking, reviews or however else you see fit.
Missing Nothing will be burned to order, with packaging assembled by hand, in an initial run of 100."

Available from: http://www.bangthebore.org/archives/3208

SPOILS & RELICS LIVE AT RAMMEL CLUB WEEKENDER: NOTTINGHAM, UK. 9 - 11 MARCH 2012.

more info: http://www.rammelclub.org/

SICK HEAD TAPES #32 - SPOILS AND RELICS “AMMONIUM BULB” (C30)

"The professors of sound fuckery get right inside your head and rip that shit wide open. Something is being assembled, I’m sure, but how many functioning orifices will the resulting beauty have is your guess. Imagine making sweet love all through a hot night only to discover that your loved one is in fact a C30 cassette with two holes and over a minute of blank at the end of each side. S&R do the unhurried hunting and gathering of sound to the notch and with zero wank. Another static aural delight. -TA"

Spoils & Relics sample by sickheadtapes

available from - http://sickheadtapes.tumblr.com/

£4.50 UK / £5.50 EU / £6.50 ROW - prices inc. postage

contact - sickheadtapes AT gmail DOT com

Mantile #016 + #017 + #018

Three new cassette + download releases from Spoils & Relics, Mark Durgan w/S&R and Abysses.

All artwork hand stamped / handmade,
All cassettes pro dubbed (stereo)
All cassette editions are limited to 50 copies.
Downloads (320 kbps) will stay up until they expire.

Cassettes (each) £5.50 (UK) / £6 (Europe) / £6.25 (Rest of the World) all prices include postage,
Or all 3 for £15 (UK) / £16 (Europe) / £17 (Rest of world) all prices include postage.Please email before making payment, to check availability - mantilerecords@gmail.com
Payment via paypal or cheque. all payments in british pounds (GBP £).

Spoils & Relics - 'A.O.N.' (Mantile#016)

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Side A - 16.58 mins

Side B - 14.33 mins

This release was created from improvised material recorded on 24 - 26th of September 2010 in Leeds LS6, and composed in Plaistow E15.

No buses No trains Nowhere. Three Shadows in a cage.

This record is dedicated to Rhid Williams.

download link (donations appreciated) - http://www.mediafire.com/?otwoj7trgzr044m

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Spoils & Relics - A.O.N. by Mantile Records

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Mark Durgan w/Spoils & Relics 'All Mistakes Straightened' (Mantile#017)

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Side A - 10.14

Side B - 10.23

On the 3rd of October 2010 Spoils & Relics acquainted themselves (sonically) with Mark Durgan at Chameleon, Nottingham, NG1. This acquaintance took place due to the fact these artists were asked to collaborate at the 'Lowest Form Of Music' festival, in celebration of the LA Free Music Society. They were asked to use material culled from numerous recordings of the LAFMS. This record was composed from what improvised material occurred during that preparatory period.

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Abysses - 'First' (Mantile#018)

Artwork by Daniel Ward.

Side 1 - 27.06 mins

Side 2 - 17.57 mins

The debut release from a project featuring Daniel Ward and Johnny Scarr. "Loitering outside supermarkets, emitting high pitched whines that teenagers find irresistible. Cut up voices and skinny guitar recall the bedroom experiments of early ‘80s miscreants like This Heat or The Storm Bugs but that all pervading bass wobble and unhealthy pulse could only have been made by misfits that have been sick on the dance floor, trying to shake the mdma out of their legs. A surprising amount of underhand beauty and melody is exuded from this pair of misanthropic motherfuckers on this cassette. Long may they reign." - Feral Debris

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Abysses - First by Mantile Records

Twenty-Fifth Module: Spoils & Relics - Not Everyone Thinks Like This C30

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since this release is now long sold out it has now been made availble for download: http://www.mediafire.com/?go97odxexxvaord

new cassette release on the cylindrical habitat modules label...




















"Subtle yet horrifying c30 of disconcerted, scurrying sounds from this UK crew. Total avant gutter-scraping musique disintegration, completely Michigan style but with a very distinct aesthetic. Never winds up getting harsh, just very unsettling and gives you nothing to hold on to. Scrapes, warbles, weird voices, tape wreckage, everything sounds like it's in the room with you, just covering everything and rusting and molding every surface it touches. Sounds like it was recorded in a sewer or a really bleak attic. One of my favorites from this batch. Damaged, extra fitting cover photography by Caitlin David, taken when we spent a day exploring an abandoned hotel in one of the grimmest corners of Cleveland. Full color with labels. Edition of 65."

Total Vermin #34: Spoils and Relics - Reconstituted Monowhere (C28)

"Churning tapes, nauseous electronics, unexpected sounds and swampish shifts in focus from the hottest new properties in UK underground noise, following up their split LP on Harbinger Sound." Total Vermin

£2.50 each, plus postage.
Email - smearcampaign@hotmail.com
http://totalvermin.blogspot.com/

Spoils & Relics - 'Dependent Arising' - Mantile #015 - (C33)

"Sliding through. I saw a man get cut up tonight? weak satellites about nothing deciding everything hiding in the shadows of Dependant Arising. Octoplunder unknow."

all artwork is hand stamped / handmade,
pro dubs
all cassette editions are limited to 50 copies.

Cassettes £5.50 (UK) / £6 (Europe) / £6.25 (Rest of the World) all prices include postage,

please email me before making payment - johnny_scarr@hotmail.com
payment via paypal or cheque. all payments in british pounds (GBP £).

HARBINGER085 - SPOILS & RELICS / BRB>VOICECOIL - 'SPLIT LP'. ( #100 copies )

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"The sound of Voice Crack and Morphogenesis being evicted from the toolshed on one side, and Small Cruel Party being unravelled on the other. Two new major U.K. players. Here first !" - Harbinger

£13 U.K. / £15 Europe / £16 World (prices inc. P&P)

please email me before making payment - johnny_scarr@hotmail.com
payment via paypal or cheque. all payments in british pounds (GBP £).

Mantile - #012, #013, #014

Well it's taken a fair while for Mantile to go 'Label' again, and here we are...

all artwork is hand stamped / handmade,
all cassettes dub'd real time, high quality.
all cassette editions are limited to 50 copies.
downloads (320 kbps) will stay up until i see fit.

Cassettes £5.50 (UK) / £6 (Europe) / £6.25 (Rest of the World) all prices include postage,
or all 3 for £15 (UK) / £16 (Europe) / £17 (Rest of world) inc. postage.
please email me before making payment - johnny_scarr@hotmail.com
payment via paypal or cheque. all payments in british pounds (GBP £).

cheers, johnny.

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Burd & Scarr - Mantile #012 (C30)

**********SOLD OUT**********Comprising of a selection of studio sessions recorded throughout December 2008, Mantile #12 presents the culmination of two-years spent by Burd & Scarr playing improvised music together. It is a thought-provoking event in so-called sound art, intermingling and exploring two notions at once separate and related: the constructed soundworld and the latent voice of emotive popular music.

Blade Runner provides an audio-visual life-model from which Burd & Scarr sketch out their own soundworlds. Whilst ‘songs’ in the movie soundtrack remain extradiegetic parcels that support the narrative, compositions on Mantile #12 are an approach towards a more fully-integrated, dynamic and independent soundworld.

As such it is a fascinating inversion of an often-repeated process of using the ‘real’ (environmental sound recordings) as the basis for composition – a process in which we depart from the ‘real’, leaving the world in ever-softer relief.

By starting with an overtly fictional world, it would be tempting to say that Burd & Scarr are in search of the ‘real’ amongst the mythic, future-historical and utopian voices of the movie. Where though will they find it if the world of Blade Runner is not populated by real people or even fixed fictions? Instead, what Burd & Scarr have produced in this recording is a kind of gorgeous sound-map to the world of Blade Runner.


In a French film called Le Concert de Mozart protagonists variously speak of a clarinet accompanied by orchestra: “It tells about someone who is in love, and his grief at not being able to love… It is telling its stories, the clarinet is telling its own stories… These are operas without words, they say what the words don’t say.”

In another vein of sound on Mantile #12, Burd & Scarr have extracted single notes or chords from undisclosed ‘emotive’ popular songs. Isolated from their context, these little envelopes of sentiment are subjected to various forms of manipulation to open up and form the very substance of the composition. It is a kind of forensic approach where the artists cut in closely and present what they have found.

What they found, it seems, is grief and unrequited love. Burd & Scarr’s compositions dissolve the voice of ‘emotive’ popular songs into murmuring and mournful laments. To paraphrase one of the men in the French film, they have become “operas without words, they say what the words don’t say.” - Jonathan P Watts, Norfolk, 2009

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Johnny Scarr - (re)muxcuth - Mantile #013 (C20)
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So say we buy into the Ballardian idea (though I’m sure he wasn’t the progenitor) of the temporal collective unconscious, the rising out of the night, structures and environments that predate our bones and relate to parts of our biological and social genealogy. Well, certain soundscapes attempt to uncover this forgotten past and strike out in the dark discord through ‘musical’ echolocation and when they hit something, it sends out white reverberations around the structure and the shape of some colossal construction looms out of the pitch-black. Think not to the ear of traditional composition; think to the bat and its sonar capabilities, the mammal creating a mental picture of the surrounding landscape by means of dissonant frequencies. Imagine the bat's ear picking up the skeletons of ancient, long-dismantled structures and you're there.

This particular abnormality has the hum of a colossal factory, a warped relic from the industrial age. Somehow in its phonic recreation, in its looking backwards through time, the events are rewound and flow backwards, the sounds are somehow unmade and become underworldly. They contain that specific horror evoked on looking upon yesterday’s ruins where the rats decay with the framework (B, 8:10) and at night, the ghosts of the machines still boom, hum and generate a cold heat; the haunting splashes of the previous inhabitants walking through the oily puddles tickle the ear (A, 5:00) and quieten to the roar of the siren and the cobwebbed common-room radio. The echoed reverberations of clanging metal send the night birds; the last fragment of life in the factory, madly fluttering and melting into the sky. - Jack Andrew Lenton

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Fossils / Spoils & Relics - Split - Mantile #014 (C30)

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A side - Fossils - 'Whybrow'

This number was called up from a time before the chicken lizards dance was even conceived. When the telephone was his sole method of communication. He always claimed to be a Mr Whybrow; Always banging on about this rustle and a bustle seeping out of an appartment down st.james. He said it wasn't music. I told him he had to be kidding, and that it'd be a farr off payneful place with no known personel, and instruments, for that kind of tripe. Next you'll be claiming one of your party is named smith! he just screamed back at me "i'm so much higher (brow) than you guys". Whybrow indeed. - Mantile

B Side - Spoils & Relics - 'Shut In Place'

Shut In Place - Overlooks leeds six's current landfill epidemic from a penthouse view. The bins check inn amidst dying lights and begin to empty themselves over the dining table. Foreign objects, twisted spools and infernal devices are gathered and arranged dribbling new recycled fluids that scour and cleanse textured corridors. Waste forms trip left to right down uneven stairs, the fluids seep through the ceiling forming puddles in the empty lobby. New rooms unlocked.. too late to check out. Shut in place. - KP