Our first release of 2020 is an imprint of Incentive's brilliant Happiness album on cassette. It's urgent, dense, claustrophobic, playful, ominous, melodic, and visceral. It's instrumental, but certainly not ambient. James (Incentive) says: Happiness is an an album comprised of inspired and emotional compositions and production — a deep, complex sonic journey that amalgamates deep mechanical …
News from the Conning Tower: More from FROM
Just a quick update to let you know that the FROM album, 'A Memory of Tomorrow', is now available for pre-order on digital download and CD from our Bandcamp store. To tempt you in, we've made another track (the title track, no less) available to hear immediately:
News from the Conning Tower: FROM
This week sees the release of the debut single from the newest addition to our roster, FROM. She Stands is taken from their forthcoming album A Memory of Tomorrow which is scheduled for September. FROM is the long distance (New York via Brussels) collaboration between experimental electronic producer Michel Mazza and singer-songwriter Piero Delux. They describe their project as …
News from the Conning Tower: Modwump
Sound the 'important news' klaxon! This week sees the release of the debut album by Modwump. Entitled Animal Bitrate, it's pretty different to anything we've released before. It's noisy, beaty, cheeky, dancey, glitchy, provocative and impossible to ignore. Modwump are Sheffield-based duo/trio Craig, Tim and Frankie, risen from the foundry ashes of wonk-prog outfit Mangabros. They …
News from the Conning Tower: Cousin Silas and Iyari
Two new releases this week, hand-crafted by artisans and curated just for you by our very own Captain Bob. First up is the new album from stalwart of the ambient scene, Cousin Silas. A Night in Centralia is an album of sombre, sobre pieces on different themes. Similar in tone to our previous Silas release Radio …
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New Release: GOATS ‘Far Out’
We've been publicising the new GOATS album for a couple of months now, so we're absolutely delighted to announce its general release. Far Out is GOATS' second album, with a change of personnel and a change of direction. The core members Alan Morse Davies and Declan Owen remain and are augmented by Jorge Mario Zuleta …
News from the Conning Tower: Menhir and leaving richmond
Our final two releases of the year will be released in December; both are new artists to the Submarine Broadcasting Company, with contrasting styles but both represent the highest quality of music possible. First out the blocks are Spanish project Menhir, with their beautiful and startling Sound Track, part of their multimedia project, Desert Series. …
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News from the Conning Tower: t.r. hand and Glauber K. de Souza
Ah, autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitlessness. Our release for the tail end of September is 'Suburban Solitude' from our resident mystic t.r. hand in collaboration with Glauber K. de Souza of the Amao Quartet. The album contains the field recordings and sound collages you've come to expect from t.r hand, but taken in …
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News from the Conning Tower: t.r. hand
Everyone here at the Conning Tower was winding down, lowering the periscope, ready for the traditional English August of drizzle and traffic jams, when a most remarkable thing happened... a new EP from the reclusive guru of mind-training, self help/abuse and prison tattoos, t.r. hand, landed on the desk. There's a super-size serving of concept …
New Release: Somacopia DeFacto
Friday 16th March saw the publication of our latest release, 'Somacopia DeFacto' by experimental artists Anthony Donovan and {AN} EeL (Neale D. Retke). By turns playful and brutal, Somacopia DeFacto is an uncompromising journey into the psyche and is strictly for the adventurous. Fiercely experimental, the album comprises three parts, each made up of multiple …
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