Paul Gorman, the author of an excellent book about the iconic Hawkwind sleeve designer Barney Bubbles, has written a blog in appreciation of Johnny O Rockets sleeve design for our Sonic Attack series (TR013, TR014, TR015). It goes into the various sources from the original Hawkwind sleeves that Johnny used .... check here.

"Electric Lava" by Whirling Hall of Knives, is now available on our CD LP offshoot, Nute.

Go here to listen to samples and securely purchase.

The opening track, '2-Bar Heater And Smoke', is featured on the most current Wire Tapper - a CD series given away occasionally with the infamous Wire magazine. This will be followed later in 2009 by a 7" on Trensmat.

All but shunning rhythm, Electric Lava combines melted guitars, gurgling analogue synthesizers with shards of white noise, digital skree, sheets of feeding back effects processors, and a mighty wall of white hot static and crunchy digital throbs. In keeping with Nute's white label aesthetic the lp comes in a white hand stamped sleeve & cd.

Those that pre-ordered the Expo '70 and Black to Comm 7"s should have them now. If you didnt have a chance to pre-order there should be some copies with our usual stockists through Cargo (TR016 TR017) and other good vinyl stockists.

Some great projects on the way for 09, more news on these very soon.

We've also got a sub-label now - Nute - this is to release stuff we get which we love but works better as an album rather than a single. All releases are CDr's with hand stamped white labels & sleeves. Full samples of the first two releases are on the website with quite a few more in the pipeline. The next of these being an LP by Whirling Hall Of Knives, 'Electric Lava'. The next Wire Tapper CD features a track from this LP. A 7" by Whirling Hall of Knives will follow later in the year on Trensmat.

The highly recommended radio show Sideways Through Sound had a Trensmat special show, you can download it here.

Finally, Magnetize will be playing a gig for Second Square to None at the Joy Gallery, Dublin on Sun 22nd Feb. This is a free afternoon gig (from 1pm to 7pm). As well as his own noise he'll be previewing quite a few forthcoming & prior Trensmat releases. Drop in if youre in the area.

Sorry to see the great Ron being the first to fall in 09...

Theres a piece on Trensmat, including an interview, done by Foxy Digitalis here.

Our next two releases from Expo'70 & Black to Comm are now available for pre-order for a Jan09 release and are, of course, limited edition lovely 7" vinyls in full colour picture sleeves.

Go here & here to read about, listen to samples and pre-order.

The Sonic Attack trilogy is now on its way to pre-orderers and UK/US distros. We are sold out here but they can be got from TR013 TR014 TR015 (UK) and from Aquarius, Thrill Jockey and Revolver (US).

Pre-Ordering of the Sonic Attack trilogy is now closed, big thanks to all those that snapped them up. Fear not if you weren't able to get some as they'll be in all the usual top notch vinyl emporiums both sides of the Atlantic by mid-November, hopefully... we'll post here and to our mailing-list when theyre ready to go.

Well, this project has been a long time in planning but its FINALLY ready to go!. Does Mudhoney, Acid Mothers Temple, Kinski, Bardo Pond, White Hills & Mugstar covering the mighty Hawkwind on three lovely 7"s in full retro picture sleeves sound good? If so, go here to become a Trensmat member and pre-order. Full-length versions of all the tracks can be heard on our Last FM page.

As usual we will be pressing limited editions and once theyre gone, thats it....only pre-orders are guaranteed copies.

Expected release date, Mid-Nov.

A big shout out has to go to Mugstar for organising this project and to Johnny O from Rocket recordings who's done an amazing job on the sleeves of these records. See hi-res images - TR013, TR014, TR015

Well, there's been some seriously bad voodoo with TR011 & TR012 (lost masters, pressing plant meltdowns & courier 'issues') that've held them up way beyond our initial expected release date but we're finally good to go...all good things...
Copies can now be ordered from here. They will also be available through most decent stores in the UK through Cargo distribution & in the US through Thrill Jockey distribution and Aquarius in San Francisco.

Our next two releases are now available for pre-order from the members section. Go there for details, audio samples and to order. Pre-ordering will only be open for a few days to guarantee our members copies of the records before the full release in late July.

The Astral Social Club (TR009) & Shining Path (TR010) releases are now finished & available to buy either from here or from Piccadilly, Norman & Second Layer in the UK or Aquarius, Thrill Jockey, Fusetron & Eclipse in the US.

Members pre-ordering is closed for The Astral Social Club and The Shining Path releases. Thanks to all who've placed orders, theyre expected to ship at the end of March...youll be notified by email.

Details of the next two Trensmat releases are now in the members section. Go there and register or log in to read about, listen & pre-order.

Happy new year! The old news has been archived at the link below...we should have some news about new releases coming pretty soon. So you can either join the mailing-list or subscribe to our RSS feed to ensure availability.