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Pile

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Flying Apparatus - Silly Little Man 02:51
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Apertome - Transmortification 06:16
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Zed Salt - The Lead Up to the War 08:36
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Simon Waldram - Transparent Radiation 06:55
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Flying Apparatus - Ol’ Snail Master 02:00
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Lampeo - Her Majesty's Candle 04:10
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Halaka - Featureless 03:15
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Manko Force - Blue Devils 06:18
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Experimental College - Vertical Circle K 02:15
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someone on the phone at the same time put it on the tape
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The Kalanchoes - Thank You 01:59
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The Creeping Man - Run Like Hell, Ken 02:18
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Algebra Project - The First Lowering 03:45
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Halaka - Nineteen Nonstop 04:22
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Here we go I see a lady screaming She ain't gonna wear no mask The man at the store says It just ain't much to ask She says, "Let me in So I can buy all the shit I need." Then he tells her a story That we all should heed
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Swandive - Chowder Planet 04:06
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Experimental College - The Euphoria of Not Living Where You Live 07:44
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Appalachian Yard Art - Rocket (#1) 04:02
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Fanch Taylor - Temples and Taverns 03:07
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Manko Force - Drilled Mind (Fukt) 01:29
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Flying Apparatus - Some Shit About Kentucky And Bees 02:01
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Appalachian Yard Art - Select Readings from Florida 09:07
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Apertome - Tesseract 06:37
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John P Lyons with Kingo Sleemer - Manniquin Sanity 05:57
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John P Lyons - Savage Elegance 06:00
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Flying Apparatus - Nostrils are Made of Skin 02:47
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EmoTrashBoy - Substance 04:25
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Doorknob - Dancefloor Concrète 11:21
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The Orchestra of the Blow of the Hand - Mind Won't Work 05:39
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John P Lyons - The Last Hurrah 09:03
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Halaka - Family Heirlooms 01:54
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In 2077 a number of members of a panel of disparate (un)intelligences called "Pile Records," for reasons no longer clear, dreamed, practically in unison, of having gathered a collection of loosely-unconnected music in The Dark Period, which started in March of 2020. They then became aware that the dream created the album in their past.

Seventeen artists, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 artists, or anywhere between 12 and 30 artists, anyway, contributed material, some never before heard, some never to be heard elsewhere, some materializing just in the nick of time, to be included on the cassette/CD/eight-track/LP you now do not hold in your hands. The nature of the dreams that created it did not allow for physical manifestation beyond the ones and zeroes (and occasional eights) available in the ephemerasphere.

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released September 18, 2020

This compilation features artists we've known over the years to be exceptionally good at making exceptionally weird, dynamic, and interesting music, along with some we've discovered only recently.

Flying Apparatus - out of somewhere in the US Northeast, these dudes have been constructing weirdness on-and-off since I met them on a site called DMusic in the early 00s.

Apertome - apertome.bandcamp.com - a Pile Records founder, member of Halaka, and brilliant synthesist working with Eurorack since before it was cool.

Appalachian Yard Art - appalachianyardart.bandcamp.com - once from Appalachia, now in the Pacific Northwest, performing and recording lo-fi, punk, homemade fuzzy coolness

Zed Salt - archive.org/details/@zed_salt ,
soundcloud.com/zed-salt ,
www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandid=98311&content=songs - an independent musician out of the midwest, somehow I also met through DMusic back in the day, with one of the coolest singing voices I know.

Simon Waldram - simonwaldram.bandcamp.com - a singer/songwriter from the UK making brilliant experimental tracks as well as fantastic indie music.

Lampeo - lampeo.bandcamp.com - Buchla Music Easel Artist creating noise and weirdness in Western Maryland

The Creeping Man - www.thecreepingman.com - Minnesota sound collage and video artist, often combining samples from horror and a deft touch with a Digitakt (and a room full of other goodies) to create horrifying and beautiful soundscapes

Halaka - wearehalaka.bandcamp.com , halaka.bandcamp.com - not existing, a fictional collective, unavailable, except when they aren't. half of them don't know the other half.

Manko Force - mankoforce.bandcamp.com

Swandive - soundcloud.com/user-47939846

John P Lyons - Indiana musician recording beautiful songs and atmospherics

Fanch Taylor - claims to be a member of Halaka. no relation to chuck.

Doorknob - what the fuck? These guys/this guy used to be part of Algebrassiere, and likes to scare the birds away with creepy-as-hell looping collage madness

The Kalanchoes - littleredwagonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lot-q-the-kalanchoes - Still a bit of a mystery, but we love what we're hearing

Algebra Project - Eurorack modular madman

EmoTrashBoy - recording lo-fi goodness like mom used to make, bedroom garage basement music if we've ever heard it

Cover Design and Illustration by Craig Spoth
Promotional Materials by The Creeping Man and Kingo Sleemer

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not a dentist. a pile of releases from a pile of goons. still not a dentist. free.

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