HLM38
How to use the reserve function
If you'd like to purchase items from our site but want to save money on shipping costs, you can use our reserve function to combine your orders over an unlimited period of time, and ship them together for one combined shipping price when you are ready.
Just hit the 'reserve' button at the checkout page as your shipping option when you've finished making your order, and your order will automatically be held in reserve here until you are ready for us to ship everything to you.You can keep as many orders in reserve with us via our site as you like, until you are ready to ship. Just send us an email when you are ready to ship your reserve orders, and we will get in touch with the combined shipping price, or ship for free if you have exceeded the minimum order amount for free shipping to your address.
Can the reserve function be used to get free shipping? Yes - If your combined order total is more than £50 within the UK, over £150 within the EU, or over £225 worldwide, we'll ship your order to you via courier service, for free.
Here's a step by step guide to using it:
1. Click on the account icon to log into your account.
If you don't have an account, please click 'create account' to make one. If you had an account on the old RWDFWD site, please create a new one with the same email address used on the old site - this will ensure your previous orders are brought through to your new account.
2. Add records to your cart as normal.
3. When you're ready to check out, select 'ship'.
4. Then select 'Reserve items' on the shipping method list, then continue to payment.
5. Once payment is complete, your order will show in your account as 'unfulfilled'. We will have put all the products aside in reserve for you to combine with other orders and ship later in bulk.
6. When you're ready to ship all the items you have in reserve, email us on info@rwdfwd.com and we will calculate the shipping due and arrange for payment to be taken.
7. Sit tight and wait for your records to arrive in the post!
Free Shipping?
We offer free shipping on orders over a certain value
UK orders over £50
EU orders over £150
Worldwide over £225
This is automatically applied at checkout and reserve orders also count towards it.
EU Order info
Unfortunately, the UK is no longer part of the EU - This means that certain shipments sent to addresses there from us may be subject to tax and / or import duty - All orders sent from RWDWD are sent ‘DDU’ - That is, duty unpaid - any import tax and/or duty is the sole responsibility of the buyer.
If you would like to use our reserve function to group several orders into one large shipment, we can arrange for it to be sent tax and duty pre-paid so you don’t have to worry about it at a later date - Contact us for more information.
Re-Run for the 2k26 gang!
Rising like smoke through the creaks of the floorboard above the echo chamber that caught fire when the ghost of Lee Perry summoned the Disco Devil. HLM38's tape is back in business for low-key bristol institution - for those who know - PLAQUE.
We're glad we can repent for our sins of somehow missing the first run of this tape on here, despite being big fans (&friends) of the PLAQUE label as well as HLM38 / Notte Brigante's work, and can now present this tape to our dear RWDFWD kru (that's you btw).
We'd recommend getting a copy of this fine, fine cassette including all the 11 cuts on the reels. You won't regret it. Especially if you happen to dig the sound of burnt out dub vibrations, skewed melodics and rolling drum tracks that let the bassline undulate underneath like the swell of the ocean, steady and with a mighty, yet fluid force.
Ferric vocal pitch fvckery and highly amplified keyboard stabs go head to head with the elasticity of the reverb's spring being tested to max effect on HLM38's self titled album. A heady concoction of nightmarish dream sequences where tension equals release, and release equals tension - no letting up, but don't worry it's all under control, just let the music do the healing and get used to the fact that this music ain't no softporn soundtrack... This one is streetwise, kind of gangster, but in a more cool & deadly, old school kind of way. Equally at home in the backstreets of Kingston, London or Paris, but only at night, when the lack of light conceals all necessary secrets.
Rumour has it that there'll be more HLM38 gear on PLQ soon... so make sure you're up to date when the time comes, and get your fix of this piece before it's too late, again.
All tracks written and produced by Julien Viallet (HLM38)
Saxophone on “Negligence Affective” and “Sombriété Heureuse” by Alexandre Chaigniau.
Vocals on “Grey Fedora” and “Sunflower Sutra” by Anna Renault.
Vocals and guitar on “South of No North” by Laurent Fege.
Mastered by Austin Shepherd
Artwork by Hamish Trevis (Kin40k)