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 di15-34, 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:

• di31-34 – Two-color matte screenprinted j-cards with interior stamp, gold foil spine detail, on-shell imprinting, pro-dubs.
• di27-30 – White gloss enamel screenprinted j-cards, photocopied wraparounds, on-shell imprinting, pro-dubs.
• 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

di34 is available for $8ppd in North America, $10, world.

Please contact me via email at bee.mask@gmail.com to confirm availability.

Errata

While the liner notes of di31 read “Recorded by John Delzoppo at the Embassy”, Apnoea was in fact recorded by John at his own studio, Negative Space. Our apologies.

Editions

• di34 – Radio People Leapt c22.

  Dear reader, you’ve probably never considered the notion that there might be beaches in Cleveland (full disclosure, my erstwhile hometown actually features one of the ten worst in the nation), but Pizza Nite impressario Sam Goldberg probably isn’t letting your parochial mentality get him down. With Leapt, Goldberg, who works as a lone entity on this latest offering from his still fresh/exploratory Radio People project has delivered a suite of miniatures that go to the beach without going to the beach, if you take my meaning. Here, as in all of Sam’s myriad endeavors, including Mist (with John Elliott), Free Time (with Mark McGuire), Docile Dawn (with Zach Troxell of Fragments), Pages, and his eponymous output, the animating concept is his own idiosyncratic take on the varied/storied traditions of bedroom recording, from the mossy, rainstreaked, and heartstring-tugging microcomposer-era futurism of “Korg” to the classic four-track aesthetic of the title track.

  “Finding One’s Self” is made up of endlessly tumbling/unfurling synth riffs bisected by a gracefully hissing, atomized spray of pseudo-guitar, like a carnival swaddled in a heat-sick shimmer that rises from the pavement, or like the idea of amusement itself as a gas that someone, somewhere, who may or may not be you, is inhaling. “Leisure,” on the other hand, proceeds with the sort of spare, courtly, and slightly menacing melodic poise that recalls Jarre’s Les Granges Brulees, late La Dusseldorf, and Wendy Carlos circa A Clockwork Orange, while “The U.S,” ironically enough, is more like a weird, stretched sort of italo, replete with bleary hustle, egg-frying pwm leads, and a self-aware sort of desire left in the backyard to evaporate in the late afternoon sun. It’s a fitting conclusion to a summer that left your brain and mine too cooked for anything less lovely.

  Edition of 250. Available.

• di33 – Bee Mask From a Will-Less Gigolo of a Divinity to the Gore-Spattered Lion on His Own Hearth, Odysseus Becomes “Odysseus” c22. Edition of 150. Sold out.
• di32 – Mark McGuire Misunderstandings c30. Edition of 300. Sold out.
• di31 – J Guy Laughlin Apnoea c30. Edition of 150. Sold out.
• di30 – Bee Mask In the Balm Yard: the Nth Dream of the Thermo-Hygrometer c24. Edition of 150. Sold out.
• 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.