this was just written as a self introduction email, but then i realized......

....it is a good state ment of where i am at today 09/12/2014 9.35pm pacific coast time:



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so hi my name is brian. i started just self releasing suff under the name of SBTDOH in may. i had just come out of 2 bands ending and was starting a new 2 piece that i thought had a shit to on potential and was really ready to do.....then we lost our practice space.

in the meantime i started working more on this idea ive had for years of a one man band being able to do whatever, whenever etc. it was all up to me if anything happened.

and i got really into it. hard. and i started also to want to get into zine making again and find ways to help with fighting severe manic depression and a whole giant list of other medical and mental issues, including severe nerve pain left over from this weird neurological disorder that has come back for me that originally happened years ago.

so. as of last week the 'new' bands drummer left and since i only wanted to do a two piece and many neat and humbling things have come out of what ive started on my own i have decided to pursue the one man band and 3 zines-making with all of my free time or time where i can do whatever i want..

so i have first released a few albums but after the first had this total vision of an 18 part progression on the topic of death. exploring it through sounds and imagery etc. i make everything by hand start to finish by myself. music, art, duplication, assembly, and so on myself. all done with the heart and hand. i started my first zine and had two very successful interviews with sam from the rita and ted from negative paper assembly. i also did cassette only reviews and started a stupid blog of ramblings but has some musings from time to time but my main focus is physical objects. no 'on-line' releases. no mega blog but rather 3 different zines.

i have no launched 'shrouded recordings' as the overhead of all things. the first zine goes by that title and has seemed, though very simple and minimalistic, to have got some others interests in it.

this fall i start with release #001 of shrouded recordings which is a vomir/sbtdoh c-46 release. i have all the music done. all the art done and printed and about 1/3rd of the total packaging done. once that is complete i will releases it. i have a tape compilation of music by one of my best friends ever coming together as release  #2 it will be a hopefully very cathartic and personal release to me as until i began all these things i had spent close to a year in total self destruction following his unexpected death. for release #3 there is a few different possible things a foot but nothing solid yet.

i am going to start numbering my self released albums in the negative back so as to unify the cycle thus far.

i have conceptualized completed and printed my second zine all on mental health through picture collages. i am dedicated to the cut-n paste art form and will continue with that for as far as i can see.

i used to take many pictures know how to set up a darkroom etc but i have let those skills be lost. i hope to regain them and go back to using photographs i have taken and then placed together with cut-n paste art soon for all my tape covers. i am dedicated to analog format as i love it so intensely and i never see myself ever being able to fund a vinyl release, nor do i know if i want to. i adore the cassette and plan on my third active zine to be totally dedicated to 'tape hoarding' in every way possible.

i have 3 splits coming up on 3 different labels i am very humbled to be asked to be a part of. those will come with time. some music for that is done. some is not...but all are a helpful and engaging step away from my initial run of the series of 18 as envisioned.

i have not released the metal health zine as it is only being done in a run of hand numbered and assembled 100pc.i am currently about 1/2 way though the assembly of those

most everything can be found here: https://sbtdoh.bandcamp.com/merch  i am open to trading any of it. i also do small runs of other artistic pieces that i do not formally ''release" but rather use as extras in orders or trades.

as well. i am working very hard to establish a very dedicated group of folks to be part of a monthly to bi-monthly trading of mix tapes, zines, art, found objects and the like. i have a handful of folks ready to go and am still in the inquiry stage of seeing how this might work. i would love it if everyone was dedicated to a list of people that they all would send packages to consistently as a way of amazing pen- pallery and better days through mail.

if you are interested in that i can mark you down for when it starts. right now i have been just doing trades with folks getting to know them and then get an idea if they would want to commit to being part of a fun, consistent trading and networking of physical things not computer screens. yuck!

glad to have had the chance to introduce myself i would be thrilled if we could come to an agreement of a trade where the only money spent is on postage!  i love that concept and repeat it as much as i can.

take care.

brian.