VA – Request Stop [Brachliegen Tapes]

UK label Brachliegen Tapes releases an album with 16 tracks by different artists for charity. for charity. Request Stop is a compilation of 16 tracks that revolves around bus travel and its infrastructure. All proceeds from this release will be donated to Autonomous Winter Shelter, a housing network and self-help initiative that aims to provide a safe and warm space for people to stay, create and care for themselves and each other in a community setting.

AWS were violently evicted from their home in June 2023 and the hope of Brachliegen Tapes is that the money raised through this fundraiser compilation can contribute to the collective’s future activities and solidarity fund in the face of the on-going brutality of austerity and the cost of living crisis in the UK.

Direct contributions can be made to the solidarity fund to help AWS sort out basic items like toiletries, sleeping bags, mattresses and other items needed urgently here.

Request Stop features a mixture of Brachliegen alumni and a number of new arrivals. Contributions to the comp range from audio documentary and sound collage to pounding rhythmic industrial noise and anarcho bus punk live from the depot. Blistering tapework, electro-acoustic experimental folk, warped techno, minimalist compositions, field recordings, deconstructed grimescapes, heavy electronics and demented psychojazz all conspire in solidarity against the dereliction off social care.

Release date: February 2nd, 2024.