Deception Island
Availability
Editions listed as “Available” are those in which I have personal stock as of the most recent update. If you are interested in an item listed as “Sold Out,” please check the distributors linked from this site, and where applicable, the artist(s) featured on the release.
Materials
From di15-26, all cassette editions feature high bias BASF chrome tape, polyboxes (except DI27, which is in a side-by-side double Norelco case), and cardstock j-cards. Every tape in these editions is hand-numbered. Further specifications vary by batch and are as follows:
- di27-30 – White gloss enamel screenprinted j-cards, photocopied wraparounds, on-shell imprinting, pro-dubs by NAC.
- di23-26 – Full-color offset printed j-cards, one-color photocopied transparency inserts, full-color labels. First-generation, real-time, in-house dubs.
- di19-22 – Two-color photocopied j-cards, no inserts, full-color labels. First-generation, real-time, in-house dubs.
- di15-18 – One-color photocopied j-cards, photocopied cardstock insert (di17 only), full-color labels. First-generation, real-time, in-house dubs.
Pricing
di30 is available for $8ppd in North America, $10 world.
Please contact me via email at bee.mask@gmail.com to confirm availability.
Editions
- di30 – Bee Mask In the Balm Yard: the Nth Dream of the Thermo-Hygrometer c24
“In the Balm Yard” is the first Bee Mask material to see the light of day since last year’s “Shimmering Braid” c20, and it’s both an indicator of things to come under the tight-screwed studio hermit regime of Tranquility Base and a shout back at some long-neglected corners of the olde discography. This one comprises two dense, slablike new pieces for treated percussion and synths, burying sonic and structural nods to side two of “Hyperborean Trenchtown” and even 2005′s “Living’s Just Defying the Ocean” under miles of tinted fiberglass, as though you’re watching helplessly while your speakers emit a lychee-and-paint-thinner-scented mist that hardens quickly as it cools, encasing your couch in an ersatz McCracken sculpture. Good luck getting that one out to the curb on trash day!The nascent “electroacoustic music as molecular gastronomy of sound” agenda has Bee Mask poised on some post-Wylie Dufresne tip, transubstantiating a garbage bag full of Doritos into four small, jellylike mounds that’ll dilate your pupils from here to 2015. Essentially, I blame long, formative hours spent staring at a picture of a rabbit smoking a cig. If Cincinatti-style chili is your idea of “convergence technology,” I want off this bus right now! Edition of 150. Available.
- di29 – Telecult Powers Orgone Freakout: a Happening with the Telecult Powers c40. Edition of 150. Sold out.
- di28 – Tiger Hatchery Lemon Crystal Sunshine c40. Edition of 150. Sold out.
- di27 – Outer Space Lightyear Demonstrations 2xc60. Edition of 200. Sold out.
- di26 – Skin Graft Brick in the Mouth of a Corpse c20. Edition of 149. Sold out.
- di25 – Bee Mask Shimmering Braid c20. Edition of 144. Sold out.
- di24 – Fragments Kinetic Sphere c20. Edition of 150. Sold out.
- di23 – Chris Benedetto Madak Bees Removed c30. Edition of 50. Sold out.
- di22 – Bee Mask/Astronaut The World is Transformed and all the Heavens Sing for Joy!/Will they Remember F-Zero? split c30. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di21 – The Reel Deel Marked for Death c20. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di20 – Dlx Othr Nineties Youth Experience c20. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di19 – Steve Hauschildt The Stairwell is Long Gone c20. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di18 – Hot Air Balloon Ride Oktoberfest c30. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di17 – Bee Mask Honey and Salt c20. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di16 – Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Betrayed in the Octagon c44. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di15 – Bee Mask Neurasthenia c10. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di14 – Bee Mask/Rot Ton Bone Climb the White Willow/Heady Meds Mend Many Heads split c60. Edition of 100. Sold out.
- di13 – Lilypad Emitting Orange Smoke from a Canister 5″cdr. Edition of 50. Sold out.
- di12 – Catnap Distractions c20. Edition of 50. Sold out.
- di11 – Bee Mask I Will Hold the Bag c19. Edition of 50. Sold out.
- di10 – Bee Mask Live Mask c22. Edition of 50. Sold out.
- di09 – Bee Mask Invisible Radiation When Open and Interlocks Defeated Audio Exposure to Beam 5″cdr. Edition of 50. Sold out.
- di08 – Gay Robot Lemonade Zap! 5″cdr. Edition of 30. Sold out.
- di07 – Deluxxe Otherr Live at the Tower2012 3″cdr. Edition of 22. Sold out.
- di06 – Bee Mask Meth Colony 5″cdr. Edition of 31. Sold out.
- di05 – Bee Mask Living’s Just Defying the Ocean 5″cdr. Three editions of 11. Sold out.
- di04 – Bee Mask De la Nada Vida a la Nada Muerte 3″cdr. Edition of 6. Sold out.
- di03 – Bee Mask Plant City 3″cdr. Edition of 6. Sold out.
- di02 – Bee Mask Valparaiso Flesh and Green 3″cdr. Edition of 6. Sold out.
- di01 – Bee Mask Tomlinson Court Park 3″cdr. Edition of 6. Sold out.