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Format: Cassette
Released: Sep 2012
Catalogue Number: OPAL004
Tracks for: Split
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1. Best Available Technology / OND TON : 01
2. Best Available Technology / OND TON : 02
3. Best Available Technology / OND TON : 03

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best available technology / ond ton - Split

**Housed in colour J-card with insert** Sweden and Portland, Oregon's BAT & TON kick off a crucial 2nd batch of Opal Tapes with two sides of mind-smudging electronic abstractions reducing shards of house, drone and darker ambient to an uncanny agenda. Best Available Technology aka BAT takes the A-side, opening with a lo-fi, squinted take on classic Maurizio or Pole before dissolving into salty analog crackles and sinking through Actress-like decimations to a wheezing, impressionistic acid house blur. The emphasis is all on metastable texture and structure, conducted with a spectral sensuality. Much the same can be said for OND TON, whose side opens with something approximating a ferric-faded Sunn 0))) doing slow house before extruding your ears through strains of slung techno that veer from sounding like Kassem Mosse's darkest dreams to celestial synth peaks and glassy dreamhouse dimensions. This is really very strong - Tipped!

BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY / OND TON - Split, OPAL TAPES
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BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY / OND TON

Split

OPAL TAPES

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Sweden and Portland, Oregon's BAT & TON kick off a crucial 2nd batch of Opal Tapes.

WANDA GROUP - P*ss Fell Out Like Sunlight (Vinyl Edition), OPAL TAPES
COIN - Stilled, OPAL TAPES
HOLOVR - Lunar Lake, OPAL TAPES
UIO LOI - Cane, OPAL TAPES
LUMIGRAPH - Nautically Inclined, OPAL TAPES
MCMXCI (1991) - Skogen, Flickan Och Flaskan (Vinyl Edition), OPAL TAPES
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PROSTITUTES / BASIC HOUSE - Mirror & Gate Vol. I, OPAL TAPES
ROLLING ACRES / HOBO CUBES - Mirror & Gate Vol. II, OPAL TAPES
1991 - High Tech High Life, OPAL TAPES
51717 - Ovul, OPAL TAPES
BASIC HOUSE  - I'm Not A Heaven Man, OPAL TAPES
EX-CON - Manual De Força I Tactica, OPAL TAPES
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WANDA GROUP

P*ss Fell Out Like Sunlight (Vinyl Edition)

OPAL TAPES

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*Vinyl Edition* Slow fizzin', cryptic tape melt murk from Wanda Group.

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COIN

Stilled

OPAL TAPES

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A mysterious producer hides behind the Coin moniker on this seductively enigmatic debut for Opal Tapes.

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HOLOVR

Lunar Lake

OPAL TAPES

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A highlight of Opal Tapes' fifth batch is Holovr's debut mini-album, 'Lunar Lake'.

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UIO LOI

Cane

OPAL TAPES

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Smoke Room aka Young Henry adopts the Uio Loi handle for his hazy Opal Tapes debut.

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LUMIGRAPH

Nautically Inclined

OPAL TAPES

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Muddiest outsider house from Dublin-based tape scrawler, Lumigraph, new on Opal Tapes.

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MCMXCI (1991)

Skogen, Flickan Och Flaskan (Vinyl Edition)

OPAL TAPES

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*1991 returns with a set of heavy Bunker-style warehouse Techno cuts, 500 copies only*

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PROSTITUTES / BASIC HOUSE

Mirror & Gate Vol. I

OPAL TAPES

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Prostitutes and Basic House go two's up for the 1st in Opal Tapes and BUTW's 'Mirror & Gate' series.

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ROLLING ACRES / HOBO CUBES

Mirror & Gate Vol. II

OPAL TAPES

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Blowing Up The Workshop and Opal Tapes' deliver the 2nd 'Mirror & Gate' volume.

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1991

High Tech High Life

OPAL TAPES

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**Breathtaking debut from 1991 - you're going to be hearing a lot about this one**

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51717

Ovul

OPAL TAPES

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51717 makes a curious debut on Opal Tapes' third batch of ferric oddity.

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BASIC HOUSE

I'm Not A Heaven Man

OPAL TAPES

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Opal Tapes return with a mix of ritualist drone and industrial house patterns.

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EX-CON

Manual De Força I Tactica

OPAL TAPES

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Deconstructed acid and rogue industrial techno slurry, new on Opal Tapes.

STEPHAN MATHIEU - Coda (For WK), 12K
OLD APPARATUS - Realise EP, Sullen Tone
1991 - 1991 (With Exclusive Bonus Track), Astro:Dynamics
JOHN AVERY - Jessica In The Room Of Lights, Forced Nostalgia
DAVID SYLVIAN / JAN BANG & ERIK HONORE  - Uncommon Deities, Samadhisound
MIKA VAINIO - FE3O4 - Magnetite, Touch
ELI KESZLER - Catching Net, PAN
REINES D'ANGLETERRE - Globe et Dynastie, BO' WEAVIL RECORDINGS
STEFAN GOLDMANN - 17:50, Macro Recordings
KASSEL JAEGER - Deltas, Editions Mego
JODEY KENDRICK - Plus 10, Rephlex
LEO ABRAHAMS & OLIVER COATES - Crystals Are Always Forming, SLIP DISCS
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STEPHAN MATHIEU

Coda (For WK)

12K

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A 20 minute coda to 'A Static Place', created with a setup of two mechanical-acoustic gramophones.

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OLD APPARATUS

Realise EP

Sullen Tone

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The second EP salvo on the Old Apparatus collective's recently minted Sullen Tone label,

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1991

1991 (With Exclusive Bonus Track)

Astro:Dynamics

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*Includes an exclusive bonus track* 1991 is one of the most interesting new producers to emerge this year.

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JOHN AVERY

Jessica In The Room Of Lights

Forced Nostalgia

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**Crucial reissue of this spellbinding touchstone in the canon of Sheffield’s industrial music heritage**

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DAVID SYLVIAN / JAN BANG & ERIK HONORE

Uncommon Deities

Samadhisound

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*6 panel digipak with a matte laminate finish featuring art direction by David Sylvian*

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MIKA VAINIO

FE3O4 - Magnetite

Touch

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Incredible music, and yet another totally unmissable full-length from Mika Vainio.

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ELI KESZLER

Catching Net

PAN

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*Bumper double album that collects up all the disparate pieces of the Cold Pin recordings*

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REINES D'ANGLETERRE

Globe et Dynastie

BO' WEAVIL RECORDINGS

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Utterly engrossing second album from Ghedalia Tazartes and friends - new on Bo Weavil.

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STEFAN GOLDMANN

17:50

Macro Recordings

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Strange, outernational scales with infectious rhythm programming and electro-acoustic abstractions.

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KASSEL JAEGER

Deltas

Editions Mego

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Fifth album from Swiss-French sound artist Kassel Jaeger, his first for Editions Mego.

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JODEY KENDRICK

Plus 10

Rephlex

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After being delayed for almost a year, Rephlex present Jodey Kendrick's first CD.

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LEO ABRAHAMS & OLIVER COATES

Crystals Are Always Forming

SLIP DISCS

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**Brilliant album veering from Mark Fell like cryogenic rhythms to impossibly heavy, doom-laden drones**