Extraterra Has Landed

It's here! The day has finally come. Marianne, Andrea and Cale have all worked really hard to bring Extraterra to life and I could not be more proud to have it out on Rising Pulse Records. The album is available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, iHeart Radio and more. The album is also available on Bandcamp although I personally recommend picking this beauty up on vinyl.
 The packaging is really something in the flesh. The vinyl color is a perfect match to the color scheme and design. Not to mention it is one of the best sounding records I have ever put out through the label. Producer Aaron Bastinelli (Fun Sound Studio) did a splendid job capturing the bands true essence and tonality. It is a wonderfully dynamic listening experience.
 Well, that's all the hyping I'm gonna do. The rest is up to you.

12-Inch Vinyl LP Cover

12-Inch Vinyl LP Back Cover

You can also pick up the Vinyl LP bundled with a really awesome new tee shirt designed by singer / guitar player Andrea Horne. 

Tee-shirt drawing and design by Andrea Horne

The Secret to 'Secret' - The new single by Vaureen.

The second single Secret off of Vaureen's forthcoming debut album Extraterra has recently premiered at New Noise Magazine.

Singer / guitar player Andrea Horne created art for the single that reflects the thick, swirling layers of sound in the song and points to the lyrical theme.

The band sent the following out via their email newsletter :

 "We are incredibly excited to share the second single off our upcoming album Extraterra. Andrea was inspired to write "Secret" after hearing a Radiolab episode called "The Bad Show." One of its stories is about a serial killer (dubbed the Green River Killer), and the detective who hunted him for 17 years. When he was finally captured, the detective became deeply distressed by the absence of a clear motive for the horrendous crimes.

All of the stories in "The Bad Show" explored the central question: where does evil come from? "Secret" continues that inquiry; its lyrics blur between first and third person, but offer no conclusion — only room to wonder.

"Secret" took us years to finish. The song started out as iPhone recordings of Andrea's washy, intricate guitar loops. We iterated over it countless times, changing the song structure, messing with time signature shifts, and making small adjustments to the melody. Some of our long-time fans might remember a song called "Albatross" off our Dirty Floor EP of demos. "Secret" is sort of like Albatross 2.0, but more grand, way more heavy, and much more Vaureen-like."


The band's full length album Extraterra will be out on October 26th. To celebrate, Vaureen will be headlining at the Rising Pulse Records 10th Anniversary Party (Sponsored by Distrokid) on Friday, October 19th at Brooklyn Bazaar with special guests Pants Exploder and MC
Dälek. 

Vaureen Song Premiere

Stare Into The Sun, the brand new single by Vaureen has premiered on Louder Sound today!! Vocalist Andrea Horne had this to say about it: "Capitalism creates a superficial valuation of shiny things, but when we look at loss head on, and grieve and grow, the earthly things lose their meaning entirely."

(Stare Into The Sun artwork by Andrea Horne)

The bands full length album Extraterra is slated for an October 26th release date. To celebrate the band will be performing a headlining set at the Rising Pulse Records 10 year anniversary party on Friday, October 19th at Brooklyn Bazaar. Also performing will be the mighty Pants Exploder and Apollo's Ghost.

VAUREEN

Rising Pulse Records is extremely proud to announce the newest addition to our roster, Brooklyn grunge-gaze power trio, Vaureen. The band was formed by guitar player / vocalist, Andrea Horne and bass player / vocalist, Marianne Do in 2011. With the addition of drummer Cale Hand the band was able to hone their sound and self-release Violence a powerful three song EP thick with soaring melodies, swirling layers of harmony, ambient distortion, feedback and all kinds of magical things. The EP garnered the band some great press and now Vaureen's fan base is growing beyond their local music scene and out into the US and abroad.

Welcoming Vaureen to the Rising Pulse Records family couldn't be happening at a better time. The band has recently finished recording, mixing and mastering their first full length album titled Extraterra with Producer Aaron (The Beast) Bastinelli at the helm. They have also launched an Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign that will help pay for a proper release of the album including a 12-Inch deluxe colored, limited edition vinyl run, a proper PR campaign, music videos and other vital content that will help put Vaureen on the map in a big way! So get in now, on the ground floor like Rising Pulse Records and all the other cool kids did. Click that link for the crowdfunding campaign, choose your reward and be a part of it!

In the mean time check out the bands incredible cover of Night Goat by The Melvins which is available as a free download on the band's website and get a taste of what is yet to come. We promise you, it will be well worth it.

Bundles, Bundles, Bundles

‘Tis the holiday season and Rising Pulse Records is offering discounted bundles from artists such as Candiria, Spylacopa, Meek Is Murder and AFX. The Sale will run for one month from Black Friday to Christmas Eve.

First up, we have a poster bundle with 8 different Candiria promotional, tour and event posters.
This bundle includes these posters

Three different five borough NYC tour posters
Headlining events at The Studio At Webster Hall
Headlining event at Knitting Factory
Winter 2017 Headlining dates
Kiss The Lie promotional poster
November 2016 tour with Dalek.

You can purchase the poster bundle HERE for a huge discount!

We also have a complete Spylacopa vinyl and CD bundle. The package includes

S/T Redux deluxe colored 12" LP

Parallels deluxe colored 12" LP
Spylacopa S/T digipack CD
2008 promotional  poster
2008 1" promotional button

You can purchase this bundle HERE for a major discount.

Also available is the Meek Is Murder vinyl bundle! 3 releases in 1. This bundle includes

'Was' 12-inch full length album in coke bottle green colored vinyl
Onward / Into The Sun 2XEP 12-inch deluxe colored vinyl (Blood Red & Blue with Black splatter)

You can purchase this bundle HERE and save some bucks!

Lastly we have ONLY ONE SET of the EXTREMELY RARE AFX Analord bundle! Analord is a 12-inch vinyl series by Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin or in this case AFX. This is a great gift for a vinyl collector and at a great price!! This bundle includes

AFX Analord 1 in VG - VG+ condition
AFX Analord 4 in VG - VG+ condition
AFX Analord 6 in VG - VG+ condition

You can purchase this rare beast of a bundle HERE

We will be making more bundles available as this Black Friday Sale continues!! All of these bundles will remain available as long as the product lasts so act quick! Especially on that AFX bundle if you are interested. Thank you!!  

Tonight!!!

Rising Pulse Records presents : A Night of Terror and Doom!! 

New items in Store

Some rare and interesting items have been added to the on line store. First up we have a Pocket Piano by Critter & Guitari. An amazing and compact tool for all you synth heads who can't get enough bleep-bloop in their life. 

Next up we have three very rare pieces of vinyl just added to the on line store as well. One of Rising Pulse Records favorite vinyl series ever. Fans of electronic music and vinyl collectors alike should know a good deal about this 12-Inch analogue synth series by Richard D James or better known as AFX.

AFX Analord 1

Released in January 2005

Side A 

1. Steppingfilter 101 

2. Canticle Drawl 

3. MC-4 Acid 

4. Bubble n Squeak 2 (Unlisted and untitled until 2009 reissue)

Side B 

1. Where's Your Girlfriend 

2. Grumpy Acid 

3. Analord 158b

AFX Analord 4

Released in February 2005

Side A 

1. Crying In Your Face 

2. Home Made Polysynth

Side B 

1. Halibut Acid 

2. Breath March

AFX Analord 6

Released in April 2005

Side A 

1. Batine Acid 

2. Snivel Chew

Side B 

1. I'm Self Employed 

2. 2 Analogue Talks 

- Analogue Talks (Claknib) 

- Analogue Talks (Chorus 3) 

3. Analoggins

You can find all of these items and more at 

www.risingpulse.com

Thank you !!! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXXOXOXOXOX

Ephemera

If you have been keeping up with this blog then you will remember that I mentioned something about selling items from my personal collection such as books, drawings, prints, records, tapes, CD's, musical instruments, effects pedals, photographs and microphones. And so it begins. The first item listed is this guitar. It is a 2007 Ibanez ARX Artist Custom. It's a beautiful guitar and needs a new home. Find more info about it HERE

I will be adding new unique items to the store very soon. In the mean time here's a picture of my co-worker Bambi hard at work keeping an eye on the birds outside the window.

Testing testing!!

Hello friends, thank you so much for your patronage and interest in Rising Pulse Records and the product we carry. It really means a lot to us (meaning me and my cat Bambi). We have a big poster sale going on at the moment and it is moving along swimmingly. You can check that out HERE if you have not been hip to that info until now.

 Next up we will be selling off some Rising Pulse Records test pressings for several releases including The Bad Wife by Julie Christmas, Parallels by Spylacopa, Toying With The Insanities Volumes II and III and Kiss The Lie by Candiria among others. Prices for each release will vary. Test pressings for each release will begin selling within the next few days in no particular order. For each release there are at the very most 5 copies. They will be hand numbered and signed by myself... I mean by me. Although I will probably be by myself when I am signing them. Here is a photo a test press of our most recent vinyl release Spylacopa S/T Redux.

 After that I would like to make some items available from my personal collection of books, records and other collectibles. So stay in the loop to see how that develops in the next week or so.
 Once again thank you all so much for supporting the label! That is all for now - John

Poster and print mania!

Rising Pulse Records will be making all posters and prints available again in the on line store at reduced prices tomorrow!! There are several different Candiria show posters as well as a few limited edition promotional posters such as this Candiria poster with art by Colin Held and design by John LaMacchia. 

Prices for each poster will vary based on the limitation of stock and other factors such as if a poster is hand numbered and signed by the artist or if the poster is autographed by the band. It should also be noted that these posters will not be reprinted and once they sell out they will no longer be made available ever again. Additionally, posters will be rolled and shipped in poster boxes or cylinders unless a poster is purchased with another item such as a vinyl record or a tee shirt. Then the poster will be folded gently to the best of our ability to assure it arrives to you safely and in the best condition possible. 

Visit www.risingpulse.com to purchase these limited edition items!