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Fit for Consequences: Original Recordings, 1984–1987 is the first ever archival release from Repetition Repetition, the “two-man electric minimalist band” consisting of Ruben Garcia and Steve Caton, arriving on May 30.

Hailing from Los Angeles in the mid 1980’s. Repetition Repetition’s unique blend of cosmic art-rock minimalism / maximalism was self-released across a series of cassettes produced in micro editions, and while garnering the attention of and collaboration with luminaries such as Harold Budd, remained under the radar during the band’s initial tenure.

We’re priming the senses today with “The Machinist,” which demonstrates the vitality of this collection. Fit for Consequences collects additional material from across the duo’s catalog, remastered, restored, and presented in viny and digital editions.

The first pressing of Fit for Consequences: Original Recordings, 1984–1987, is available now for pre-order in a first edition of 550 LP direct. Furthermore, Over & Over, a supplementary collection of Repetition Repetition material, is available alongside seven test pressings directly from the FT$ and RVNG webstores, lovingly assembled and numbered in custom inner sleeves and jackets (both while supplies last!).

Satomimagae has described her new album Taba as a loosely connected series of short stories. “Omajinai,” the second tale shared from the collection, considers the vague mystery and infinite poetry contained in even the most transient moments. The story ends afloat, enigmatically unresolved, and deeply flickering in memory.

The accompanying video, directed by frequent collaborator Norio, is an imagistic ode to these moments of quiet contemplation, charting the expanses of the mind that can be captured in a single breath.

Taba is available now for pre-order in a limited edition, hand-screen printed Artist Edition vinyl (exclusively through RVNG), on black vinyl, Japanese import cd (via Plancha), and wherever music awaits you.

“In every iteration, the pieces get shaken around and placed somewhere else in your mind. just the same clouds re-forming again and again and the same notes and letters too.”

Marking one year of Discovery Zone’s beloved 2024 album, Quantum Web EXP arrives today, reimaging, extending, and reshaping the album with new mixes / unheard tracks, inviting a deeper dive into its maze-like, shimmering circuitry.

Reveling in reinterpretation, expect to encounter fragments–a loop, a shadow or perhaps just a memory, of the familiar, before entering again into the unknown. Continuing her work with enigmatic french producer E/T, JJ Weihl breathes new life into the record with a weirder, wilder approach, questioning the permanence of music as a form.

The full album, released by RVNG and Mansions and Millions, is available now from our webstore and Bandcamp page in a cassette edition and digitally. A second hologram edition of the initial quantum web LP is also available, and shipping, now. Today happens to be bandcamp friday, so… you know what to do.

“We are just one element in the collective (taba) and yet each individual’s invisible experiences and memories remain somewhere, influencing us, or society, without realizing it.”

Taba is the new album from Satomimagae; her breathtaking follow up to 2021’s Hanazono. The record marks a subtle yet surprising shift for the Japanese musician and producer. whereas Hanazono bloomed from the soil of a kind of insular, private beauty, Taba takes a bird’s eyes view, placing Satomi in a wider, wilder world.

Observing and absorbing the fleeting scenes and sounds of life flowing outside of her home studio, Satomi has turned slightly away from linear songwriting, moving towards a more circuitous sense of storytelling, backed by an expanded palette of tones and textures. Casting her eye towards the perplexing nature of the seemingly everyday, there is a sense of an impulse towards defining our increasingly alienated age.

The first signal of sound from Taba comes today with the hypnotic “Many.” Wrapped in a warped intimacy, the track arrives alongside a video directed by creative collective ON-EI <音映>.

Taba is available now for pre-order in a limited edition, hand-screen printed artist edition vinyl (exclusively through RVNG), on black vinyl, Japanese import CD (via Plancha), and wherever music exists digitally.

In the world today, respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis, Colin Self’s third album. 𓅪𓅫

r∞L4nGc is the result of years of work by Colin to give voice to nameless spirits. Drawing from a well of broad influences, the record find’s self singing in both Latin and Polari, an over 500 year old form of slantwise English used by queer and underworld forces to communicate selectively.

As Self says “people around me might not know what those words mean, but all of these trans or queer ghosts that are listening to the music or watching the performance are having a really good time. I wanted to find a way to breathe life into this act of hiding the explicit in the quotidian-sounding atmosphere of pop music.”

Colin’s soaring, undiluted vocals are highlighted across the record, backed by instrumental experimentations as diverse true, queer dance music, to operatic and orchestral maneuvering. The variety and depth of Colin’s influences and knowledge is a joy to behold, and this record marks a beautiful reflection of that love for knowledge and desire to honor those who have left us.

r∞L4nGc is available in a highly limited artist edition of the LP, including a unique watercolor painting by Colin, black LP, Japanese import cd (via Plancha) through the RVNG webstore, and in digital formats wherever you may turn for them.

“The further you zoom out the more you can see there are shapes and patterns and not just colors covering the eyes of everything.”

JJ Weihl, aka Discovery Zone, returns with Quantum Web EXP. What first arrived as her sophomore solo album and collaboration with the mysterious producer E/T, resurfaces, resequenced with extended cuts, remixes, and additional, unheard sounds. This new expanded edition allows for a wide-eyed wander through the interconnected bliss and bedlam of our whirled wide web.

The first shapes of QWE arrive today in the form of “Qw4nt0hmw3b,” a new collaged odyssey accompanied by a mulch-y synthesis of videos from Quantum Web by James Barry, Pacôme Henry, JJ Stratford, and Janosch Pugnhaghi.

The full album will be released by RVNG and Mansions and Millions Friday, March 7, available for pre-order from our webstore and Bandcamp page as special hologram and standard cassette editions and digitally. A second hologram edition of the Quantum Web LP is also up available, and shipping, now.