Sounds from the edges of culture and between the cracks of category

Latest Releases- 
​Cassette Imprint

LOR116 - Jeffrey Larson
-414: 4-Track Studies

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The fifth release in Linear Obsessional's Cassette Imprint is this scintillating collection of pieces by the Texan musician Jeff Larson. Using his four-track recorder Larson piles up the simple phrases of his guitar into dense enveloping washes of juddering mesmerising sound. The results resemble to an extent the early minimalist experiments of the 1970's minimalists, but with an almost punky DIY texture and urgency.
​Available as a profesionally duplicated cassette in yellow shell,
and full colour inlay card, or as a free/name-your-price download.
​To view, listen, download or purchase, please visit the release page.

LOR105 - Ben Glas
-Music for Listeners

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The fourth release in Linear Obsessional's cassette imprint is this phenomenal collection of compositions by the American composer Ben Glas...
"This record is a collection of psychoacoustic and experiential aural pieces composed without a teleological result in mind. ...What I sought to compose was not necessarily limited to a sonic experience; with these works I was seeking to explore expanded forms of hearing, listening and experiencing"
-Ben Glas music is an audio hall of mirrors, wherethe phantom melodies are being produced by your own imagination.
​The resulting
Ben Glas (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist and composer based in Portland, OR. 
"Music for Listeners" is available as a limited edition professionally duplicated cassette and as a free/name-your-price download and comes with a PDF booklet of notes.
To purchase, download or listen please visit the release page

Forthcoming Cassettes

LOR117 - Daniel Spicer and Paul Khimasia Morgan
​-Sepertae

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The sixth cassette in the Linear Obsessional cassette imprint is by two improvising musicians from Brighton, UK. "Sepertae" is two long works - textural, stately and absorbing with sustained sequences of floating tones and mysterious incident.
Daniel Spicer plays violin, bugle, bamboo sax and piano, Paul Khimasia Morgan plays acoustic guitar body with electronics.
To be released as a cassette and a free/name your price download.

LOR108 - Peter Nagle
​-An Equal and Opposite Reaction

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 The seventh release in the Linear Obsessional cassette imprint is this impressive collection of compositions by the British composer and cellist Peter  Nagle. Using cello, quarter tone guitar and percussion, this tape includes two lengthy compositions featuring thickening, mesmeric, microtonal drones full of brooding suggestion, alongside shorter works of startling intensity. The pieces bare comparison to the early work of Tony Conrad, and are very Linear and Obsessional.
​be released on cassette and free download with illustrated PDF booklet. soon...

Latest Releases -
​Compact Discs and Downloads

LOR107 - The Static Memories
​-Puddling

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The Static Memories are a free improvising duo from Brighton, UK, consisting of Gus Garside on double bass and electronics and Dan Powell on electronic and acoustic  objects. "Puddling" is a collection of  10 pieces. Each of these shorter pieces is a wonderful exploration of timbre and mood - subtle, mysterious and enchanting. "Puddling" presents this duo at the top of their game - ever inventive and forging a very individual identity.
Available on CD and as a free/name your price download.
To stream, download or purchase please visit the release page

LOR113 - Kev Hopper
​-Corbyn Sceptic Club

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We're very proud to present the latest solo album by Kev Hopper (Stump, Ticklish, Prescott) his second for Linear Obsessional Recordings. The mischievously entitled "Corbyn Sceptic Club" is a joyous collection of new tracks, some are abstract and beautiful vignettes- tone colours and splanging electronics and his unique electric bass sound, others use the quirky gurgles and squelches Hopper has rather made his trademark, and some, including the majestic title track, are glorious pop songs complete with heroic twangy guitar and lush vocoder choruses. Limited edition of 100 CDs.
Available as a CD (limited to 100 copies) and as a free/pay-what-you-like download.

To listen, purchase or download,  please visit the release page

LOR111 - smallhaus
​-lutra

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Following on from his slow burning self-released cassette "Unweather", "Lutra" is the first CD release by smallhaus (AKA South London based guitarist, electronicist, percussionist David Little). It expands his singular sound environment into a full-screen, full-colour and hugely enjoyable collection.
At times this almost feels like a tribute to the classic sounds of 70's ambient - the choral textures, the infinite guitars, the synthesizers, but it's done with a knowing wink and a contemporary layer of grit and dust. But mostly it's an enveloping, immersive wash of precision moulded sound.

Released as a CD in plastic wraparound cover with insert and free/name your price download.

​To purchase, listen or download - please visit the release page

LOR121 - Duncan Chapman
​-Piddocks

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Linear Obsessional is delighted to present this short(ish) single work by the composer Duncan Chapman - as a prelude to a longer, physical work to be released in the future. "Piddocks" is a spare, but engrossing exploration of a fascinating sonic world.
"Piddocks" is one of a series of solo works exploring field recordings with generated sounds (mostly using digital sinewave generators) and live electronic processing. 
Piddocks also includes what could be described as "the sounds of necessary actions". In this case a recording I made of making tea which was part of the preparations for a live performance in Dewsbury Minster. "
(from sleevenotes in accompanying booklet by Duncan Chapman)
Released as a free/name your price download with 10 page PDF booklet of notes and photographs.
​To listen or download please visit the release page.

Forthcoming CDs

LOR098 - Stephen Shiell
Sonance