Cubby Control Records

05/30/2024

Art Rock at the San Francisco Public Library this Saturday, June 1, with Surplus 1980 and Dizzy Twin. Music begins at 1pm in the Main Library's Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. https://sfpl.org/events/2024/06/01/performance-bay-beats-rockexperimental-music-concert

05/26/2024

Bay Area musician friends, this is the last week you can submit your music for consideration for Bay Beats, San Francisco Public Library's local music streaming platform. We won't be accepting submissions again until next year. https://baybeats.sfpl.org/

03/20/2024

Down Below World is the third in a series of sci-fi/fantasy concept albums from psychedelic proggers, Reptiel, which began with the wonderfully strangely named Hobbitozz…A Land That Never Was and continued with The Planet of Progkp. This latest instalment, and their fifth album overall, continues ...

02/07/2024

"Preserved in Amber" by REPTIEL from their new album Down Below World...

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02/02/2024

CUBBY CONTROL RECORDS ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF REPTIEL’S DOWN BELOW WORLD ALBUM, THIRD IN THEIR SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES

San Francisco psych-rock and experimental music label Cubby Control Records announces the release of a new album by label veterans REPTIEL entitled Down Below World. This is REPTIEL’s fifth album and third in their SciFi/Fantasy, Psychedelic Prog Rock series that began with 2015’s Hobbitozz … A Land That Never Was, proceeded with 2018’s The Planet of Progkp and now continues with Down Below World.

Down Below World resumes the story of protagonist Sine and his transgalactic guide the Spirit Usher. This time they have found themselves *inside* the planet of Progkp as they confront Progkp’s deity, Thos, after a journey to the planet’s core.

REPTIEL began recording Down Below World in 2019 at Light Rail Studios in San Francisco by outsider record producer Elton Cunniffe who is responsible for some of the most unheard underground recordings in San Francisco history. They resumed recording and mixing in 2021 when it was once again safe to meet in close proximity with other humans. Mastering of the album and solicitation of artwork for the Down Below World CD and website commenced and concluded in 2023 and the album was officially released on Feb. 1, 2024.

REPTIEL was formed in San Francisco in 2009 by Jason Gonzales, Jason Yakich, Alec Way and Brian Weaver, members of Bay Area underground indie rock bands The Cubby Creatures, Thee More Shallows and The Druggles. The REPTIELians claim to practice “ritual musick” in order to summon their stories and sounds.

14 track album

01/31/2024

Day 30, track 30 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World," coming Feb. 1 !!): "Progkp": Sine has completed his first series of tests that the Spirit Usher subjected him to on the planet of Progkp, thus fortifying his mind so that he can restore and sustain life on Hobbitozz via the body of the Druid of the Wood. He is now Aleph Adept, but the Spirit Usher is about to es**rt Sine to his next series of trials, this time *inside* the planet of Progkp, a place the inhabitants call Down Below World. https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/progkp (Artwork by Cyane Tornatzky)

from the album The Planet of Progkp

01/30/2024

Day 29, track 29 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World"): "Aleph Adept": Sine enters the temple of the Avian Aliens and undergoes his third and final test: an initiation, conducted by the Alien Elven Souls, in which Sine becomes Aleph Adept. https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/aleph-adept (Artwork by Doug Welch)

from the album The Planet of Progkp

01/29/2024

Day 28, track 28 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World"): "The Hallowed Bones of the Alien Elven Souls": Sine arrives at a structure constructed from the Hallowed Bones of the Alien Elven Souls (The Temple of the Avian Aliens). It is a temple the ancient Progkpians built to honor the beings they thought were gods who landed on their planet and then died shortly thereafter, but not before providing the Progkpians with knowledge of how to survive their dying planet (which as we will find out in Down Below World was to burrow into the planet itself.) https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/the-hallowed-bones-of-the-alien-elven-souls-temple-of-the-avian-aliens (Artwork by Anselm Yew)

from the album The Planet of Progkp

01/28/2024

Day 27, track 27 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World"): "The Cosmos of Your Mind Is Expanding": Guided by the Man Who Played the Sound Waves to delve deep into his psyche, feel the atoms and explore the triad of mind, hands and heart, Sine senses the cosmos of his mind expanding. https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/the-cosmos-of-your-mind-is-expanding-2 (Artwork by Rani Goel)

from the album The Planet of Progkp

01/27/2024

Day 26, track 26 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World"): "There's a Star in Your Mind": The Man Who Played the Sound Waves provides further insight, telling Sine that there is a star in his mind and a world in his hands and that his heart intermediates between the two. https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/theres-a-star-in-your-mind (Artwork by Roger Carvey)

from the album The Planet of Progkp

01/26/2024

Day 25, track 25 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World"): "Feel the Atoms": The Man Who Played the Sound Waves encourages Sine to feel the atoms, which vibrate in the key of D in perpetuity. https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/feel-the-atoms (Artwork by Daniela Yew)

from the album The Planet of Progkp

01/25/2024

Day 24, track 24 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World"): The Man Who Played the Sound Waves": In an effort to pull Sine out of his nostalgic funk, the Spirit Usher introduces him to the Man Who Played the Sound Waves, who explains how he turns sound waves into light waves inside his mind allowing him to travel through space and time. Sine learned about the Man Who Played the Sound Waves when he climbed the Tree Of Life on Hobbitozz. He is the only other person aside from Sine and the Spirit Usher who can approach the Tree Of Life without being torn apart by its vibrations. The Man Who Played the Sound Waves must occasionally travel to Hobbitozz to tune the Tree (to the key of D). This is only necessary every few thousand years. However, it had become a more frequent necessity as the previous Druid became increasingly unable to sustain life on Hobbitozz and the tree would go out of tune more often. https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/the-man-who-played-the-sound-waves (Artwork by Anselm Yew)

from the album The Planet of Progkp