extramuros five and six, wherein sTutZZ

observes the tedium of passion . . .

extramuros five by Rope and Pulley Records

. . . and eats a bowl of industrial sweetener. . .

extramuros six by Rope and Pulley Records

New Jersey Ambient 2

It won't stop snowing. Stutzz is reduced, prelingual but still sentient. Other symptoms: vertigo, disorientation, blurred vision . . .

New Jersey Ambient 2 from Rope and Pulley Records on Vimeo.

Music and video by Sttutz.

extramuros four

Back in 1987, StUtZZ removed the ROM cartridge from his left hip. It wasn't time yet. Having placing it in a brushed metal box, he left for the woods. Living as a hermit, gathering herbs and raising chickens, sTuTzz bided a while. Decades. In the box waited the cartridge. On its label, written in pen: "extramuros four."

extramuros four by Rope and Pulley Records

Roy L'Ambas remixes "extramuros three"

Here's a noisy one-take remix of this.

extramuros three (r l'a remix) by Rope and Pulley Records

New Jersey Ambient 1

Sttutz: "Let the reins go slack."

New Jersey Ambient 1 from Rope and Pulley Records on Vimeo.

Says Stutz

"Live is hard."

extramuros three by Rope and Pulley Records

Inside Baseball

Did you like the hand claps in SIGSALY? Wonder where they came from?

We at Rope & Pulley have a long-standing policy forbidding the sampling of artists outside our roster. In the prehistory of the label (1999), however, one finds an outlier. The Royal Ambassadors, including the young and fresh Roy L'Ambas - at the time recording under the name of Doctor Peter Venkman - used their Casio SK-1 sampler to lift a second or so from a track by hip hop greats The Roots.

Apparently, the theft left a niggling thorn in Roy's side and so, when he set to work on current pop hit SIGSALY, he decided to steal from himself. Those drums and hand claps, performed by Roy's very own hands and drums, have made a ten year journey from Red Pig Studios at 299 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY to Rope & Pulley's 2010 New Jersey digs.

Here's the untitled track 16 from Lubra-Smooth by The Royal Ambassadors, circa 1999.

L-S Track 16 by Rope and Pulley Records