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Glosses fur die Masses is an independent record label that releases D.I.Y., hand-made CD-Rs to an unsuspecting public. Glosses fur die Masses has no musical remit.
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Releases:
GFDM016: ocdc: Vapour Songs Label porter ocdc stitches together the sounds of his friends from around the world to make a lovely electroacoustic quilt that we can all get underneath and fuck and cuddle or whatever. Out Soon!
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GFDM015: Laish: Laish Quartet Limited edition, 15 track album with hand made cardboard packaging and hand drawn cd. £9. This particular edition is limited to 100 copies.
Tracks: In the Morning, The Love Written Down (new version), OCDC Birthday, Down Pens, Dying Son, Backwards Crawling Sprite, Lady Bird, Pity No More, Disappointing, Pituitary Gland, Awake Sweet Mother (Call), To Do, Push the Knife In, Anymore, Drain Hair
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GFDM014: Over Kodiak: Cubed Released 10th October 2008. Three musicians, three cities, three layers, three movements, three circles, three emails produced three tracksof three minutes. Free download from Last.fm or hand-made CD-R, £3 (inevitably). 9 minutes.
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GFDM013: Preslav Literary School & Fake Mistress - Radioarchiv Urgent whispers over beautifully distorted dictaphone melodies and vocal symphonies over moving seas of static. Download for free here (click).
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GFDM012: ocdc - Vapourss CDR COMING SOON! Details ABOVE!
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GFDM011: Laish: Tributes/Ass, 4 track EP
"Tributes/Ass EP" GFDM:011, (2008), 4 tracks, 17 minutes. £4. Edition of 20, SOLD OUT. Provides a nice example of the kind of hand drawn cd you might find inside:
SOLD OUT
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GFDM010: Preslav Literary School - pretext/context (June 2008) (Two extended collages of unspooling cassettes, empty hum, sounds of nature, Yamaha feedback and tuned-out pop for Resonance FM Live Session) Available through alt.vinyl & Maquillage et Crustaces (click).
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GFDM009: Laish - "Tan hits and trinkets EP" (December 2007) (6 tracks, 27 minutes. Four songs and two bits with an exploration of room. Scrape and hiss and creak and sigh. A new Spanish guitar and a sense of purpose. Humble and endearing. ) Ltd CDR. Cover by Graeme Walker, hand drawn cd, £5
Tracks: Lady Bird, The Love Written Down (old version), Pituitary Gland, Soiled and Slaughtered, Pity No More, With Myself
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GFDM008: Laish - "The Sea Summons" (August 2007) (Debut album, post-Nachmi come down. Acoustic odes of movement and change, lyrical and direct, with bouts of experimentalism) 9 track album, 39 minutes, cover by Graeme Walker, hand drawn cd, £7 Ltd edition CD-R
Tracks: Drain Hair, Disappointing, We Want You to Succeed, University, Rainbow Family, Skirting Empties, Into Ourselves, To Do, Wwaaaaaaa!
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GFDM007: OCDC - Ghost Tapes (2007) (Haunted textures, dark matter and repeated death moans) Ltd edition tape.
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GFDM006: Over Kodiak - Live at Tripswiches (2007) (Three men and some dictaphones) CD-R and download only.
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GFDM005: When No Means Yes - Verge (Expected July 2007) (Ropes, bell towers, ciders and sunsets from folk historian and antiquarian soundmaker) Hand-made CD-R, download available.
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GFDM004: Sweet Veal - Vagitarian (April 2007) (Robot monologues and delightfully dreary dictats on the socialisation of the middle classes) Download only.
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GFDM003: Preslav Literary School - Live At Tripswitches (April 2007)
(Live spoken-word and arabic classicalisms, ruptured by Casiotone) Free download available through myspace. Limited edition hand-made CD-R also available.
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GFDM002: Preslav Literary School - Autumn Bricolage (Nov 2006)
(Soundscapist compositions set in English parkland) Free download available through Clinical Archives re-release (click). Limited edition hand-made CD-R no longer available.
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GFDM001: Over Kodiak - Noijen Falsies (Oct 2006)
(Live, one-take improvisations of jazz and blues elegies occasionally overwhelmed by sourced feedback and static traumas) Limited edition hand-made CD-R.
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For those releases without BUY IT NOW buttons from Paypal, please contact us on glossesfurdiemasses@gmail.com .
Send any demos to Glosses Fur Die Masses, 48 Brunswick Street East, Hove, BN3 1AU
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