Hello All,

I’ve added 4 new download albums to the irr. download site: ‘Perekluchnie‘, ‘Resurrection Of The Senses‘, ‘CTIoU&PREITMoGDoVC‘ (all expanded editions) and ‘The Jennies Made Me Do It {1}‘.

The original plan was to release some of these in a physical format, but I’m sure most of you are aware this is becoming more and more difficult to manage. Physical sales have been on a steady decline for years, and the enormous increase in postage rates (particularly international rates, which used to account for the majority of my orders) has dealt an extremely abrupt and serious blow to an already dubious situation. I am aware that downloads are not an entirely satisfying option for most of you: my feelings are the same. They do, however, provide a very tidy ‘Gordian Knot’-style solution to the postage issue. Also, people are more and more frequently asking me whether back catalogue items will be made available as downloads, so it seems things are inevitably shifting in that direction anyways. I am going to continue to try to come up with sustainable strategies to make physical-format releases available. Several of you have been extremely supportive of my work regardless of the format, and to those individuals I give my continued sincere thanks.

‘Perekluchenie‘ and ‘Resurrection Of The Senses‘ were originally released together in 2004 — ROTS included as a bonus disc with the subscription-only ‘art’ edition of Perekluchenie. Both albums have been thoroughly scrubbed and remastered, and ‘Wretched Density’ from Perekluchenie and all tracks on ROTS have been remixed from the original sources to allow more precise correction of flaws in the original audio.

Augmenting the original tracklist of Perekluchenie is ‘Hypothetical Tardigrade Resurrection, part 1’, united with its fellow Hypothetical Tardigardes for the first time, and the Wretched Density remix ‘Dented Switchery’. Both of these were formerly released on split 7 inch records in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Both have been revised and remastered so that they are closer to what was intended.

For ROTS, a new 13-minute track (‘Lassa Valde’) has been created using extracts from the lurching, guitar-based ‘Festina Lente’. Festina Lente itself was the focus of a considerable amount of work: I was determined this time to create the best possible mix, as I always felt the original version (the best I could do at the time) was significantly lacking in certain respects.

Both albums include all original graphics and texts. To Perekluchenie has been added the artwork I submitted to both split 7″ records, plus 7 of the hand-drawn ink-on-foil tardigrades that came with the original Perekluchenie art edition; to ROTS has been added 10 of the hand-drawn inserts I created for surplus copies I had for sale.

For those of you who own the original releases and aren’t interested in having to purchase the remastered versions in their entirety, the bonus tracks are all available as individual downloads.

The next download addition is the more recent ‘Concerning The Incidence Of Unexpected & Prodigious Radial Expansion In The Matter Of Generative Diversity Of Varied Character‘, released in 2013 in a 30-copy cassette edition by ReadyMades Tapes. The original tracks have been given a little extra scrubbing, and two related tracks have been added to the download version: ‘A Predictable Vector Of Development Overwhelmed By Abrupt Heterogeneous Radiation’, which was a submission to the Nine Day Antler Society at the same time the cassette material was created, and a radically altered version of ‘Incident II’ from side A of the cassette.

The final item in this batch is ‘The Jennies Made Me Do It {1}‘, the first collection of tracks from split releases and other projects instigated by my friends in At Jennie Richie. This set collects the irr. side from 3 split cassette projects released in early 2013: ‘The Monsters Are Due On Alder Court’ (featuring the unique guitar stylings of my very own sister) from ‘For You And Telly Savalas’; ‘Foregone And Ungotten’ from ‘Unknown Invertebrate Drama’; and ‘Studio Backflow’ from ‘Backflow Background’.

The next back catalogue items planned for the download shop are ‘Cosmic Superimposition’, ‘Dust Pincher Appliances’, and a combined release of  ‘Drone Works 10’, ‘While Unconscious In Compost, I Was Momentarily A Motile Vesicular Cluster’ and an unreleased track created around the same time as those two. They should be available within the next couple months. The slow work of finishing the reconstruction of the second irr. album ‘Foreign Matter, Nor Frequency Carrier’ is almost done, and I’m still looking into ways of releasing it in a physical format.

The download shop can be found at irrappext.bandcamp.com.

best wishes to all,

–msw