A whole decade ago, an entity once known as Down Elcovka Records was ripped into pixels due to the opening of a portal through space, time, imagination, and many other dimensions. Through this wormhole came the emissaries of the PAPER MOON REPUBLIC 🌕 — a metaphysical state, the product of an ancient Egyptian space program for lunar terraforming. And for ten years now, we have been praising sound and noise, bringing physical audio-bearing artifacts into this world.
One hundred and nine releases — exactly that many we have spawned over a tenth of a century, and we are not going to stop yet.
In honor of our 🎂 JUBILEE, we present a special, limited (only 50 copies) postcard that will be included for free with any order of our products.
We present to you the reissue of the album, which was previously released in CD-R format (only 30 copies) on the OSTROGA label in 2018.
Arseny Litvin and Vitaly Maklakow - Windows
A Siberian-Ural mail-art collaboration in four parts. Two pairs of magical windows opening into sonic spaces with distinct dynamics. Anxious self-hypnosis, a noise acupuncture session, ecstatic dances, and a late-night chat with aliens in a cramped kitchen.
Recorded on recycled cassettes packed in a canvas sleeve. 14 numbered copies.
As our new release, we present the debut EP of the project from Dzerzhinsk, previously released only in web format on the PRISTRASTIE label.
Cmorchok - Sumer
Three ancient druids gathered by the nemeton, unbarring the portals of their minds to channel the concentrated magical ether.Hurtling through centuries and millennia, witnessing hundreds of their own youths and hoary ages, and the inception and ruin of dozens of civilizations, their bodies withered, crumbled into dust, and reassembled particle by particle, that they might reveal unto you who they were in the past, present, and future.It is in this very year that they have reconvened in the flesh, that ye might imbibe their power, feelings, and thoughts. These imprints of consciousness shall remain preserved upon tangible vessels until the final apocalypse, when they and all existence turn to ash.
Recorded on recycled cassettes packed in a canvas sleeve. 20 numbered copies
Trouver La Paix - Forced Out-Of-Body Experience On A Permanent Basis
The severance of connections. The bleep of the machine is left behind, yet it continues to operate. The gates to the Beyond are shut. The body refuses to take its essence back, lying as a dead weight. The hand of a curious puppeteer has bound this existence within the structure between This and That. He relishes the noise as the severed being vibrates in the eternal agony of a transcendent state. It is these sounds that he shares with you.
CD-R with printing on surface packaged in a Half-DVD-BOX.
A slow and viscous (like the currents of water at the bottom of the Atlantic) album based on the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft. A distorted and incoherent narrative from beneath the hull of a submarine that has lost its entire crew except for the captain, who is clinging to his sanity with the last of his strength.
VHS (with recorded static picture and sound), packed in a plastic case.
What is this? It's a broken link to something. Something related to the architecture of the slow collapse of software processes. But the malfunctioning computer remains somewhere in another reality, and here is 57 minutes of audio you can listen to. This is a new noise release, made according to the canons of underground cataloging (there is a catalog number PMR_PC4 and a limited edition of 32 numbered copies). But you won't be able to insert this object into a disc drive, cassette deck, or any other sound-reproducing mechanism. It's just a postcard, but with binary code. You can take your time listening to the release online, or first take the postcard and decipher the numerical code in various ways to get the exact same link to stream the album online. This will be a waste of time, but you might experience something while listening. Or you can save time and just listen directly via the provided link and keep the postcard as a souvenir. Or send it to a random postal address. Perhaps one day the album will disappear from the internet, but the postcard will remain (assuming it doesn't burn and turn to dust) as proof that you weren't dreaming. We'll give you a free postcard with any order.
As a new release, we present an album that was previously released a year ago only in WEB format on CATLOWONE NETLABEL
Arseny
Litvin - (Ten' Teatrov) (Shadow of Theatres)
CD-R with
printing on surface packaged in a Half-DVD-BOX. 10 hand-numbered copies. (Each
copy contains a unique, random fragment of a Russian translation of Horace's
"Ode to Melpomene" – handwritten in nib)
The Shadow
of the Universe hides traces of global extra-spatial and all-time processes,
and in the Shadow of the Theaters live echoes of rehearsals of failed plays,
seasoned with a viscous brew of performances by people's rectors and children's
troupes. Before you is a sleepy journey into the underbelly of provincial
cultural centers, filled with forgotten mysteries of Melpomene.
We present a new release from our Mexican friend of all cats
Gerardo Colin – CATguagE
A forty-minute, loud, encrypted message. If you've ever heard a cat drop a glass from a table, sharpen its claws on a tree, or run loudly, these are all fragments of a secret message from the enormous, invisible SuperCat, which he's been broadcasting since the first domesticated cat. Especially for you, the entire history of his monologues is condensed into one release. Perhaps it contains a prophecy, or a lament of loneliness, or simply funny stories and adventures for true children's hearts. Someday we'll find out. But not today - today, let's simply delve into this noisy cat language.
PMR_104-1: CD-R with printing on the surface, packed in a DVD-box (11 hand-numbered copies).
PMR_104-2: Recorded on recycled cassettes. (11 hand-numbered copies) Packed in a standard cassette case.
Each copy of the edition contains a unique meme card of CatTarot.
New release in the form of a Siberian-Karelian split:
Arseny Litvin & AD/HD
The sound of the end of the electrical era. Thanks to the efforts of a global community of magicians, the day arrives when the last switch, in its death throes, flicks. Once the ritual is completed, the familiar hum of wires will be replaced by the whisper of spells. Learn magic, master the art of meditative materialization. Spellcasting is the new physics!
Recorded on recycled cassettes (15 hand-numbered copies). Packed in a standart cassette case.
As a new release, we present to you the physical version of the album, which was previously released in 2024 only in digital form.
Principality of the Abyss - No Name
A minimalistic-melodic exploration of the phenomenon of memory frozen in the objects of the material world. The voices and emotions of the nameless shadows of our forerunners (who long ago stepped into Limbo and beyond), captured on an old, hissing magnetic tape. The sound is like a time capsule, holding the key to the beginning of a retrospective journey deep into old things, in search of the hidden and forgotten among familiar objects. The audio cassette remembers everything. Do you?
This edition contains a hidden (not stated on the cover) bonus track, which can only be heard on cassette (not included in all digital versions of the album).
Recorded on recycled cassettes. (26 hand-numbered copies)
2xCD-R with printing on the surface, packed in Double-Half-DVD-box (25 hand-numbered copies)
While the law of chance cultivates the path of the non-existent, the orchestral wall needs air conditioners. Prevention of inhalation of raw sunscreen aroma of unidentified varieties of algae in the middle of the week - involves sending consciousness to one or another things.
The Smell of Water is woven from field recordings, voices, modular system noises and homemade synthesizers, recorded throughout 2025 in various places and beyond.
Today we've prepared something special for the anniversary release of our Paper Moon Republic. We're proudly presenting what may be the first-ever Noise Opera - a collaboration between 17 different projects:
TIMERUPTION
Noise/Industrial/Dark Ambient/Drone
Two factory CDs, packed in a double digisleeve
100 copies
In a certain country, no one knows by whom and for no apparent reason, a boarding school was built on the slope of a dormant volcano. For years everything was fine: the ancient giant slept and only occasionally «grumbled».The pupils lived, studied and participated in various developmental school clubs. But the local “doomsday” was inexorably approaching. And at the most unexpected moment, the volcano erupted started! There's no chance of salvation! Or is there? Due to the increased shaking caused by the disaster, a forgotten device of unknown purpose, made in a fit of schizophrenic genius by one of the students, suddenly started working. Time merged with Chaos in ecstasy on the territory of this educational institution. Different timelines, eras and periods settled in different fragments of the school – like separate isolated bubbles (each with its own closed time loop). By a strange coincidence, out of 333 people in the building, one was free to move between offices - different timelines. And now he must find a way to simultaneously restore the correct flow of time and save everyone from the volcanic disaster.
Concept, plot and organization of the opera by Arseny Litvin
Ron don don you gare dor…*cough sounds* I mean, internal combustion engines are not popular on the Moon, but it's still our new release!
Binary Dirge – BKY
New recording (after three years of silence) of a noise project from Novosibirsk. The magic of everyday meditation, born under the hood of a bored car. The perfect soundtrack for your closed garage party.
CD-R with printing on surface packaged in a Half-DVD-BOX. 25 hand-numbered copies.
Our new release is marked by the metaphysical paws of cats from Mexico.
Gerardo Colin - Cat Signals Come Below
Drone/Noise/Musique Concrète
CD-R with surface printing, first packed in a decorated slimbox; then wrapped in decorated tracing paper; then placed inside a colored canvas envelope with a keychain; 19 hand-numbered copies.
Cats, omnipresent and seeping everywhere - brought us mysterious vibrations on their whiskers. This vibration hidden by everyday city noise and framed by root-naive children's drawing. If you also have a cat at home, scratch it behind the ear and immerse yourself in a thirty-two-minute domestic international meditation dug by some paws.
All recordings were recorded in the field from february to september 2024;
Soundcollage manipulated and created by Gerardo Colin;
Album titled artwork by Gerardo Colin;
Envelope artwork and all the other artworks by Anna Litvin
And this time we did not wait until next year and are ready to present you with our new limited edition (only 36 copies) postcard. Like last time, you can get it for free with any order.
Until this batch of postcards runs out, we will traditionally have a SALE. Discounts will apply to both our releases and to items from the distro:
-13% on editions published in 2023-2024
-23% on editions published in 2021-2022
-33% on editions published in 2019-2020
-50% on all other, older editions.
Write us an email to receive a full distro catalog, as well as to clarify the possibility of delivery to your country.
Enjoi!
Post cards circulation has been exhausted (The sale has also come to an end. Thanks to everyone who took part!)
As a new release from our PAPER MOON REPUBLIC, we present an album from a Belarusian industrial composer.
A-BELL - Hlieba i zmierćvielaja tuha
Dark Ambient/Drone/Industrial
PMR_97-1: Recorded on recycled hand-painted cassettes and packed in a colored canvas envelope with a double-sided cardboard insert. (15 hand-numbered copies);
PMR_97-2: CD-R with surface printing, packaged first in a Half-DVD-Box and then in a colored canvas envelope. (10 hand-numbered copies);
PMR_97SP: Recorded on recycled vintage soviet reel tape. Packed in a colored canvas envelope with a double-sided cardboard insert. (2 hand-numbered copies);
Monolithic, but at the same time viscous-transparent sounds, carrying the smell of historical monuments of the lands of western Belarus. A ghostly feeling of a native father's hand on the shoulder, together with a cozy cocoon of echoes of the voices of distant ancestors. A real root hum-droning that carries a slight sadness with inevitable spiritual acceptance and peace.
Vyacharsrozhlit - Wrong Magick Ritual In The New Young Magma Guts
Noise/Industrial
miniCD-R with surface printing, packaged first in a Half-DVD-Box and then in a colored canvas envelope.
14 hand-numbered copies.
Debut EP from an anonymous Siberian duo. A sound-story of the history of the formation of the primitive religious and magical path of a young (but already doomed) a humanoid race with a worm-like psychology, living in the depths of the active magmatic processes of the forming planet.
A new release that slightly increases the absurdity in your existence.
Satanic Satan - Bloody Moment / My Evil Pony
Noise
CD-R with surface printing, packaged first in a standard jewellcase and then in a colored canvas envelope. 8 numbered copies.
Two EPs from an anonymous project in one release. A schizophrenic cocktail of the pixelated anger of MS-DOS_sectarians and the insane laughter of pseudo-children's animation. No matter how long you listened and re-listened to it - everything still seemed to you.
We present to you a new release, maximally saturated with triangles!
Utoplennaya Utopiya (Drowned Utopia) – Triangle Blues
Dark Ambient/Drone/Noise
CD-R with surface printing, packaged first in a standard jewellcase and then in a blank-white canvas envelope. 12 numbered copies.
Debut full-length album from a project from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The underground Pythagoreans of the new century are sending encrypted appeals to everyone who is not indifferent to the beauty and magic of the triangular manifestations of cultures and subcultures.
