New solo work from Sam Meringue, aka Explorers, Matrix Metals, half of Yoga et al. Flashback Repository is a crude Xerox-psych take on James Ferraro and Spencer Clark’s Hypnagogic memory-recovery process, positing a universal storehouse where all of the waste consciousness of humanity resides. It sounds like abandoned machinery heard through a fog of tape hiss and dreamtone, with keyboards spooling loops of wasteland texture beneath hallucinatory vocal forms and far-away melodies. The feel is closest, perhaps, to the early Skaters style, with peaking drones jump-cutting into keyboard carousels and flickering dreammachine actions, all rendered in a way that sounds as if its beaming across the decades, from the future as much as the past. A reissue of an obscure cassette from Meringue’s Outer Limits Collective, the LP comes with a stapled together booklet featuring ‘explanatory’ text. Edition of 425 copies. Highly recommended. 

Vinyl reissue of what was an obscure limited cassette on Not Not Fun from Sam Meringue’s (Explorers/Yoga/Flashback Repository) Matrix Metal project. This one is described as alien lounge music and it uses keyboards, 1980s soundtrack styles and huge clouds of brain-fogging static to hallucinate incidental music for the birth-pangs of galaxies. Call it Hypnagogic Kosmiche. Edition of 500 copies with full colour covers and digital download. Highly recommended.