NP091 Dead Luke - "Cosmic Meltdown" C45

Dead Luke’s Cosmic Meltdown is a full length album full of disenchanted wandering, psychedelic annihilation, working man blues, and torched pop mysticism. Some great stuff here from this prolific Madison WI resident. With previous releases on Sacred Bones and an upcoming LP on Floridas Dying this tape is a great primer for the newer more psych rock influenced songs Luke has been crafting. Cosmic Meltdown has a bit of a bitter broken heart vibe, and it fits really nicely with the blasted reverb soaked approach. Art by SDReed.
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NP092 Faceplant - "s/t" C30

Faceplant is Aaron Coyes from Peaking Lights solo recordings generated from his distinct home built pile of electronics and hand-made modular synths. Rhythmically propulsive space tones glide over a broken landscape of fractured cut up noise bursts and dystopian uneasiness. Faceplant sounds like the dark corners of Peaking Lights dreamy ethereal world. There is sometimes something nice to uneasy listening. Artwork by RGarbes.

NP093 Baronic Wall - "The Golden Sword/In Granite Parlor" C45

Baronic Wall is former Iowa City resident Jack Gilbert who recently moved back to his home turf in the Welsh countryside. This cassette is a re-release of the ultra limited self released “Golden Sword” cassette and the Agents of Chaos issued “In Granite Parlor”. After a series of destructive freak out prone live shows Baronic Wall was put to tape with help from Jeff Witscher and what found its way onto those tapes is a fucking weird stew of sci fi synth punk and sordid artistry. Dry as hell poetically fucked British ranting over torched keyboard sludge, the mannerism of this music are obessesion with detritus. There is a Lambkin/ vintage Fazzini vibe here, and the far out heights of this spaceship see no bounds. Art by SDReed.

NP094 Tracey Trance - "Fountain" C30

We first came across Tracey out on the road, passing through Bloomington Indiana. His organ with a big Dutch Hex painted on the back and keyboards piled up in a corner looked liked an interesting mess. The live result was a weird stunning mix of drum machine baked psychedelic zydeco, Tiny Tim like vocals, and sunny pop goop. The music was really fun, people danced, and Tracey turned out to be just as charming and interesting as his music. With a recent tape on El Tule and more to come on Not Not Fun, expect more from Tracey soon. Art by SDReed.
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NP095 Pink Priest - "Gulls Diving Into the Ocean" C20

Pink Priest is Arkansas resident William Cody Watson, who also spends time co-running the Bathetic Label, and playing with Wild Safari. Real deep loner zone feelings on this cassette. Low rumbling synth and electronics blowing over a windswept landscape by the sea. Isolating, atmospheric and gloomy but with subtle touches of light almost airy tones floating in and out to create a deeper more dynamic composition. New LP out on La Station Radar as well, and more on the horizon for sure. Art by SDReed.
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NP096 The Pheromoans - "s/t" C26

The Pheromoans are from the UK and poses some of the best forward potential in contemporary artsy garage punk. With prior 7inches out on Savory Days, Convulsive, and Yakisakana, a prolific discography is already in the works. Comparisons have been made to the Fall, the Shadow Ring, the Scrotum Poles etc. and that all fits well and good, but this cassette even further highlights The Pheromoans distinct collage inspired mess of lo fi spoken word junk, savage riffing, and pop tinted abandon. Really great stuff. Art by SDReed.
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NP097 DuneBuggy - "Suck Me Through a Flavor Straw" C10

New DuneBuggy via the Garbes/Taterbug axis, two longer jammers. A side is DeNudes loner guitar vibes transitioning into a short garage punk stomper. B side is Dunebuggys best moment yet, a long upbeat organ ripper, raw and on the spot, hazed, sad and heartfelt. Art by RGarbes.
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NP098 Wild Safari - "Cave Sequins" C24

Wild Safari is a mystery synth/electronics duo with connections to Pink Priest who record shimmering walls of atmospheric dream time music. The kind of jams that are perfect for headphone headspace, late night time spent in mind jungles and deep space orbits around tropical new planets. Isolating lush and uplifting. Art by SDReed.
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NP090 The Savage Young Taterbug - "River Mortis" C20

Well Taterbug is back with another release for Night-People. Even more dust and grime this time around, even more Americana smoke collecting in the recesses of your brain while you soak up these torched tunes. The dirtiest heartfelt heartland music you will ever hear... played by Taterbug... teenage wastoid mother fucker... Huckleberry Finn/ Peter Pan creep... lost in a cornfield for life searching for that mystic tee pee in the sky filled with pretty young boys and drugs.
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NP089 Ryan Garbes - "Born Under the Sun" C20

Ryan Garbes returns to his solo recordings after spending heavy time playing in Wet Hair and working on his Exterminator remix series. Some things have changed for sure, on this tape of Spectrum/Spacemen 3/ VU inspired tunes, Ryan drops head first into a sticky pool of reverb drenched burnt electric instrumentation. Its not as if the sensibilities of past solo recordings are gone, its as if the noisy rhythms have been refined and perfected, distilled into full on drone pop perfection. Ryan's keyboard and synth playing really flow on this one, leaving his gooey melodic pop centric vocals to be the big surprise. Great stuff. Expect a 7" from Arbor soon.
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NP088 California Son - "California Sun" C20

California Son is mystery music played by Iowa native weirdo clown of reknown, Charles Free aka the Savage Young Taterbug. Pure California dreaming on this one, songs for shitty headphone jammin while working the nine to five at the upstate pot plantation. Sleep on your drug rug under the sun, and let the weird vibes creep in. Lost mind time for sure, the sound of the 60's played warped speed slow for golblin ears and dogs.

NP087 Tee Pee - "s/t" C20

Tee Pee, prolific one man recording project from Miami is at it again after a bunch of tapes and singles from labels like Florida is Dying, Hozac, and Jerkwave. This one is pretty different though, the eclectic aspects of Tee Pee seem to be kind of spread out on these songs, spaced out, given time to stand on there own, a more minimal, darker, more atmospheric vibe prevails here that hints a bit more towards loner psychedelic guitar and improv then any prior Tee Pee recordings have. Still present is the punchy, noisy psychedelic synth punk of Tee Pees beginnings here and there, but its fused with an almost worldy sound, something really eclectic and unknown. A progression for sure.
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NP086 The Polyps - "The Gong is the Moon" C26

The Polyps is Raf Speilman, Portland OR resident, Golden Hours member, and Eggy Records main man. After checking out a killer Polyps tape on Digitalis and a 7" on Eggy, Night-People had to get involved with releasing something for this killer project. An eclectic collage sensibility prevails on this recording, track to track there is an interesting variety, synth goop and guitar drone mix with burnt to hell upbeat folky pop tunes vaguely reminiscent of a 90's Expressway vibe, totally its own deal though, another almost unclassifiable tape from Night-People.
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NP085 Dirty Beaches - "s/t" C22

Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai who has been living in Montreal for the last few years but has spent time in California, Hawaii and China and has plans to move to Vancouver soon. The aspect of distance, moving, upheaval seems significant to Dirty Beaches sound and aesthetic, drifting, weaving, pulsing... somber droney garage pop tunes, that seem to float off in some distant geography. Sonically there in your head but out of touch. the sound has a disconnected but beautiful feeling, a series of mental refractions going on, like looking into the infinity mirror at a packed night club from some old technicolor movie while good looking people from some other uknown lands dance around you. Strange stuff that feels right in its strangeness.
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NP084 The Twerps - "s/t" C30

The Twerps from Melbourne Australia are one of the best indie/guitar pop bands I have heard in a long time, and there is alot of good lo fi pop floating around right now. Its surprising more attention hasn't been allotted them already. Comparisons to prior down under bands from Australia and New Zealand from the 80's and 90's come to mind, but the Twerps rock in there own contemporary way evoking a real tasteful and straightforward approach that just hits the nail on the head. The approach is totally dynamic uplifting, and well composed... low key rock music with hints at 60's garage rock and pysch pop that doesn't rely on blown out production to create atmosphere, its already there in the song writing, in the reverb soaked guitars, in the contemplative vocals. Killer stuff from this new band just getting going.
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NP083 Smycken - "Video Haze" C28

Smycken are from Goteborg Sweden, they inhabit the same type of unpredictable sonic and musical realms that alot of there more Northern neighbors from the Fonal Finnish family of bands seem to inhabit. A sort of collage aesthetic binds together the unhinged synth pop sensibilities of Smycken with forays into field recordings, vocal freakouts, psychedelic electronics, and woodsy folk eruptions. Something shinny, cosmic, and glacial is always ridding over the sounds, mutating them together through weaving synth oscillations and vocal mantras, that seem to highlight the pop sensibilities of this recording as much as they blur them.
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NP082 Sewn Leather - "s/t" C20

Sewn Leather is scum anthem, beat heavy, new wave trash. Dance party tunes for dead beat punks, dirty weirdos, and those who aspire to morbid underground lifestyles. Essentially the wrong kind of party jams for the wrong kind of party. Mixed by Ryan Garbes for maximum crusty fidelity, the closest recorded document thus far to hit as hard as the raw live shows. Always on tour or sleeping on your friends couch. Artwork by SDReed.
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