recent reviews
2007-01-13
"Fans of This Mortal Coil, Young Marble Giants, DO NOT miss this one! Cinematic, dramatic, spooky, lush, minimal, beautiful. Stripped down piano, synths, tasteful percussion and female vocals. Lots of instrumental tracks. Moments, shades of Cat Power, Faun Fables, Current 93, Danielle Dax here and there...Fantastic."
- Your Imaginary Friend - KZSU
2007-03-13
deletist "strives to be ignored"
- Jake Rose - WCP
2007-08-28
"Moving with the faint syncopation of ghost soldiers in midnight dress parade, floating atop the music box chimes of long-dead children, itinerant amongst the urban rubble of post-industrialism - these powerful set-pieces by SF's DELETIST (formerly BITTER PIE) accredit the recuperation of a valetudinarian and humanistic polar opposition to a putative and inescapable technological extinction undersigned by a politics of negation and moral ruin. Dissonance, hovering smoke-like over strategy and maps, is counterpoint to the DELETIST cultivation that beauty (here, battre de l'aile or palpably exhausted) and symmetry constitute that most subversive of artistic responses to an anti-human age; preventive grace, mollo affirmation and melodious agitation - more finely delineated than the crude weaponry and gas masks of symbolic rage - posit here a more artful treatise of heterodoxy in the face of institutionalized terror, trade-agreement imperialism and sanctified slaughter...
...this is art as much concerned with social change as transition, informed by compassion rather than catharsis. It is a refusal to capitulate, but to create (with vision) an astounding counter-array of merciful eventualities imbued by spiritual redress."
- Mitch LeMay - KFJC
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benefit compilation
w/ asian dub foundation
chumbawumba
coil
dj spooky
bill laswell
penny rimbaud [crass]
telephone jim jesus [anitcon]
+ more
[conncecta] germany
motion / deletist - clones
collaborative cd
[bpr]
deletist - 3rd class
cd
[bpr]
recent releases
appliance 4
motion / deletist collaboration
w/ robin rimbaud
vidna obmana
andrew lilles
janek schaefer
ringo christ
small rocks
+ more
12" vinyl- only compilation
[appliance] japan
motion - every action
motion / deletist collaboration
cd
[12K]
recon - white label
motion / deletist collaboration
cd
[highpointlowlife] uk
previous releases
spreading propaganda
dvd documentary
[400 blows]
deletist - s/t
cd
[entartete kunst/bpr]
deletist / drowning dog
split 7"
[entartete kunst/bpr]
free mumia now
benefit compilation cd
[jumpup] germany
bread & roses
compilation cd
[entartete kunst]
empty
limited edition cd
[bpr]
live at the complex 3
compilation cd
[entartete kunst]
bitter pie - apocollapse
limited edition cd
[entartete kunst/bpr]
bitter pie - i feel weird
limited editon cd
[bpr]
live at the complex
compilation cd
[entartete kunst]
NEW LIMITED EDITION CD
available [ in experimental ] @ amoeba sf
culminates in the 18 tracks captured on this new limited edition cd from the autonymous imprint,
BitterPieRecords/BeatsPerRevolution [formerly of entartete kunst recordings].
opting for simplicity and subversiveness over the superfluous and commercially crafted,
RELIVE combines bittersweet analogue melodies with lush electronic dissonance.
best described as "dark, cinematic lullabies" [mission creek music festival]
this release compiles recording sessions from
an old farm house on the outskirts of riot-torn bradford, england
to an intense collaboration with london-based sound artist motion [12K + fatcat],
to new york's east harlem with alex young [grand royal],
then on to chicago's engine music studios
courtesy of the admirable colin studybaker [engineer for iron & wine],
and finally returning to san francisco's mission district,
thanks to filthmilk, subarachnoid space and skullcaster's benovelence.
recently organized san francisco's 3nd annual global headphone festival[:] p l u g [:]
+ booking tour dates for spring 2008 with members of the 5lowershop collective + nullspace.
