Advent 2023: Day 1
For the first day of the Bleep Advent 2023, Disciples present crucial early American Tapes releases by Wolf Eyes - the first five volumes of the infamous ‘Drolls’ series anthologised in a beautiful limited edition boxset, originally produced for the group’s 2023 European tour. The box set includes 3 discs in individual card wallets + 16 page booklet inside a bespoke manila printed matchbox style case.
Also for 24 hours only, get 25% off Wolf Eyes and Lower Floor catalogue plus a bonus A2 folded poster with all LP orders.
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- Bespoke manila printed matchbox style case
- Individual card wallets
- 16 page booklet
- Adorned throughout with inzane Olson art from the original tapes
- Limited to 300
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Wolf Eyes spawned a fire in the band’s early years, with a highly prolific release schedule that has yet to die out over two decades later. Their Drolls series is what lit the match: twenty volumes of ultra limited handmade tapes, numbered in the tens and released between 2001 and 2006 on John Olson’s American Tapes label. Prized among collectors, archivists, and day one fans, they were once “likely lost for good”, and now Disciples compile the first five volumes into an indefatigable gauntlet of noise and free improvisation.
Chirps, caws, and tweets are amplified in the iron echoes of jackhammers and steamrollers sawing throughout these tapes, influenced by Droll Yankees Inc. (former Rhode Island record label, now birdfeeder manufacturing company) who released folksongs, spoken word comedy, and “mind blowing rare non-speech weirdo records” of nature and animal sounds during the 1960s. The energy of those curios is shattered into throttling loops and gales, and stretched into a state of eternal shredding across extended runtimes.
Sputtering noise delves right into the heart of Volume 1. Lumbering scrapyard percussion stomps with mighty force, anvils of turbulent bass drop, and tornadoes tear up muffled vocals. Silver shards of cymbal crashes lead into the hard industrial rhythm of ‘Edit A2’, guttural with screeching, scorching feedback and jets of harmonic noise. The anchoring beat eventually morphs into total freeform, replaced by scribbling highs and lurching lows, and a flurry of uppercuts punching with concrete force. The next few volumes manipulate psychedelic steam whistles and hypnotic train track rhythms, while ghostly sirens call into the rumbling depths of sludged out conversations.
Some of Wolf Eyes’ heaviest and most abstracted material is unearthed in this devotedly made Box Of Drolls.
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Droll V1 Edit A1
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Droll V1 Edit A2
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Droll V2 Side A Collage
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Wolf Eyes and Lower Floor Catalogue
Get 25% off the Wolf Eyes and Lower Floor catalogue until Christmas. Offer ends 26th December 2023
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13 Tracks- Artist
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- May 26, 2023
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- May 26, 2023
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- Difficult Messages
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- DISC14D
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- January 27, 2023
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5 Tracks- Artist
- Nate Young
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- Volume Three: Dance Of The Weeping Babe
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- Lower Floor
- Catalogue Number
- LFDL008
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- May 16, 2019
- 12”
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- Nate Young
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- Volume Two: Nightshade
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- Lower Floor
- Catalogue Number
- LFCS007
- Release Date
- February 8, 2019
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9 Tracks- Artist
- Nate Young
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- Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity
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- Lower Floor
- Catalogue Number
- LFDL004
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- February 8, 2019
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- Nate Young
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- Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity + Volume Two: Nightshade - Bleep Exclusive Bundle
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- Lower Floor
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- LFDL004/LFCS007
- Release Date
- February 1, 2019
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3 Tracks- Artist
- Universal Eyes & Wolf Eyes
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- TWO CIVILIZED CENTERS
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- Lower Floor
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- LFDL006
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- December 7, 2018
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- Universal Eyes
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- Four Variations on "Artificial Society"
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- Lower Floor
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- LFDL005
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- September 7, 2018
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- Wolf Eyes
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- Dread
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- Lower Floor
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- LF003
- Release Date
- July 13, 2018
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- Wolf Eyes
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- Strange Days II
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- Lower Floor
- Catalogue Number
- LFDL002
- Release Date
- August 11, 2017
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- Undertow
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- Lower Floor
- Catalogue Number
- LFDL001
- Release Date
- March 24, 2017
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