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Design & text layout for Cardiac Cats (2016) Digital

Thank you for your patience as developers at Hacktivism Headquarters prepare for our newest software, H7CK71V15M 2.0!

We just put a feature freeze on the software and are preparing for BETA testing. Our new software will feature nicer designs and better products overall. The first two betawares are out today, Ando Laj's Diagonal Rotation CD and ƸC†OPL∆SM's Worthless Plastic as our 2nd VHS Single.

This is our first CD and we utilized the underrated lightscribe technology to burn disc images and our VHS singles will now include gloss liner notes and Hacktivism business cards.

We do realize that today is Zero Day for many of you and you are probably busy mounting drives and cracking W4R3Z but please take a break from working on your new demo and allow us to make some announcements.

There are still tapes available from our recent batch, more pictures in next post.

There are also some great reviews up for the recent releases; check out the most recent review from Hearfeel on Cestine's final album Rugosa: http://www.hearfeel.co.uk/2015/05/12/cestine-rugosa/

Our friend Theodore Schafer who provided us with our first release and has since had a release in our recent batch with Cestine has now went on to produce his own imprint, Atrium Tapes, and he already has a mention in Decoder about their stellar first three tapes.

Here at Hacktivism HQ located in the Sprawl just a trip off the Matrix, we are undergoing a lot of changes. We are no longer going to be doing releases as a batch, instead we will be employing everything with a release date and doing things one at a time. This will space out releases more and we won't be releasing as much.

Our first release with this in mind is Opaline's new album "Open Source". You may recognize Opaline's ambient, dream-synth sound from his recent releases on Phinery, Constellation Tatsu, and more recently Psychic Troubles. We are very excited for this release, Opaline's music meshes really well with Hacktivism and is a warm welcome to our discography.

We are also working with Ando Laj again on a CD out in mid-summer. This time Ando has a full length in store and we will also have a very limited number of T-shirts to coincide with the release.

Somerset is still melting in the production booth, but you can expect their release to be done cooking reasonably soon.

Also, without a current release date, we are working with Jude Noel of Half Gifts and Tony Freijat on their new project SHINIG▲MI. Jude was one of the first to help Hacktivism and to get our name out there and we are very honored to have him on board.

Lastly, there is one more VHS Single scheduled for the year which will coincide with the release of Ando's full length and it is by experimental IDM producer Ectoplasm. We will be giving his single "Worthless Plastic" a VHS Cassingle release.

Thank you,

Moral Guest - Fade Away

Excited to be a part of this compilation based out of Detroit, MI - Hacktivism Records!! 

Various Artists "Bedroomcore Vol. 1"

Edition of 25 on orange C61 tape.

1. Dear Tracks - Moment Of Clarity 03:42

2. Californian Sleepovers - Ice Nine 04:15

3. handsome eric - bird hell is real believe me 03:05

4. Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Out Of 03:17

5. Stupid Bummed - You Should Know 02:48

6. Kevin Greenspon - Machine Shop 02:58

7. Yuppie Teeth - Bonetricker 02:16

8. Pearl Diver - Glass LSD 03:14

9. Sob Story - Aspartame 04:12

10. dandelion hands - What's The Earliest Bill Murray Has Ever Gotten Drunk? (Feat. Fishermen Narcs) 04:20

11. Charles Rogers - Of Blooming 04:22

12. The Normal Years - Fumbling For The Keys 01:37

13. Apollo Vermouth - Pool Of White Light 04:35

14. Moral Guest - Fade Away 03:18

15. Soft Youth - Coming Over 03:29

16. Stars Are Insane - Rain Check 01:55

17. Similarity - Davenport Days 04:02

Before reading this post please scan your consciousness onto a USB drive and send it to us at 1400 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC. Our service centers are eagerly awaiting.

Until then, we have three new brainwashing rectangles available today!

First is the Bedroomcore Vol. 1 Compilation featuring 17 awesome artists: Dear Tracks, Californian Sleepovers, handsome eric, Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Stupid Bummed, Kevin Greenspon, Yuppie Teeth, Pearl Diver, Sob Story, dandelion hands, Charles Rogers, The Normal Years, Apollo Vermouth, Moral Guest, Soft Youth, Stars Are Insane, and Similarity.

The next is the last release by ambient/drone band Cestine.

The last is a split between Bristol based ambient artist Fontaine and Cleveland based artist Forest Management.

In addition to this we are also starting our VHS Singles series today and our first release is by Achromaticist. These singles are designed to look like recordable VHS of the 80s and 90s and the first one was designed by the graphic artist Mike Sears. Special thanks to him!

Any 3 cassettes are $12 and now also come with a button and a floppy disk!

The Hacktivism VHS Single Series will be an ongoing series where we ask artists to produce two 5-minute sides and we package them in a cassette disguised as a small VHS.

For our first single, we decided to go for something more challenging; we asked long-form ambient artist Achromaticist to produce two short pieces with a slightly brighter tone than what he usually works on. What we got was surprising: a mixture of Robin Guthrie, Brian Eno influences and Achromaticist's signature dark tone. This C10 sounds like forces tearing between good and evil. Throwing this single into your cassette player is a lot like throwing the VHS into the VCR in Ringu. We can't guarantee that you will die in 7 days but you might.