Non-Stop by KSDS

Bloxham Tapes BT14

Musique 'Non-Stop'. The fourteenth release on Bloxham Tapes is from Kosmische music guru (guru) and free-rock spirit animal Karl Asaa, the Horus eye in the raging cosmic storm that is… KSDS.

Deliciously prolific, a thorough Discogs entry for Asaa would provide a glimpse into a world of covetable, blink-and-you've-missed-them outsider-art limited edition releases – on CDR, cassette, 8-Track cartridge, lathe and vinyl – in various heavy psychedelic configurations. Enjoy your journey on the London Underground.

As KSDS – memorably described as "whorling like a day-glo electric galaxy" by the No-Audience Underground wireless operators at the essential Radio Free Midwich – Asaa has burrowed/Burroughed covertly for more than two decades. Breaking cover with micro-labels Babes in Arms and Stars, Dots, and the "New" Junk, Bloxham Tapes is now also delighted to provide KSDS a ferrous platform on which to refuel before setting the controls for the heart of the Yamaha SU10.

Exclusively curated for Bloxham Tapes and mastered by Galloway, 'Non-Stop' (2016-1997) is part archive trawl and all interstellar overdrive. Consider these cosmic compositions glittering in the night sky of this cassette as your crash course in KSDS.

Essential ingredients: four-to-the-four synth gurgle (somnambulate through 'Gimli's Dream', a standout hallucination from BT06); deep-fried Berlin School electronics; Les Rallizes guitar blitz and improv drum clatter; long-form repeato trance-out; and found sound. Watch the vapour trails unfurl. Hear the engines roar. "See your reflection/On the luminescent dash."

This extended play Bloxham Tape is "dedicated to all people who feel obliged to space". File under: Heavy Meditation.

Bloxham Tapes. Experimental sounds for an unsound world. Riding the London-Bergen ley line.

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