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| Artist:M AX NOI MACH Title: One Deep Format: 10" Label: Ozonokids Country: Spain Price: $14.00 |
| "A gap between Rap/Club Music, Noise, Power-Electronics and Stand-up Comedy. Influenced by the likes of Dj Screw, Baltimore Club, Puerto Rican Dancehall music and the South Philadelphia city urban decay. Over 20 minutes of pure, filthy harsh dance-hole mayhem. The cover is a five inks silk-screened light blue cardboard wrapped up in a plastic bag with insert. Art by: Robert Francisco." -Ozonokids |
| Artist:M AX NOI MACH/UNCHAINED Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Ozonokids Country: Spain Price: $8.00 |
| "Split between M Ax Noi Mach (bringing his heavy fuzz beats out, slowing them down to the core. Pretty "industrial" i must say) and Unchained (originally Knifestorm).His songs involve guitar lines over harsh and semi-melodic tones making his voice run thru an internal feedback that effects all the tones, sometimes being unrecognizable as a human voice. This incredible split brings out a 50% harsh 50% psychedelic variable feedback attack. Art by: Nate Davis / Robert Francisco." -Ozonokids |
| Artist:M.B. Title: Symphony for a Genocide Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "reissue. zero explanation needed. master work. true industrial." - Hospital Productions |
| Artist:M.B. Title: Untitled 1980 Format: Cass Label: Hate Song Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| "and about MB tape, its originally right channel only recorded stuff (+ low level white noise on left channel). here is a MBs note: "Concerning the description of why only the right channel, Ive only this in memory: I was trying some experiments at my first approach on my new MS20 Korg synthesizer, without any experience on it (because Im not a musician) and I pushed some button by mistake and the sound came out only in a right channel." "The "UNTITLED 1980" tape is an old tape without title found from a friend of mine, and I called it "UNTITLED 1980" because its without title." - Maurizio Bianchi |
| Artist:M.N.D. Title: M.N.D. In Stockholm - New Nordic Light II Format: LP Label: Leiterwagen Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "lp single-sided (vinyl, 180g), recorded 25. 8. 1970. norbert eisbrenner guit., vla., voc., werner götz vla., bass, sven Åke johansson dr., voc., p, autogeräusche, geläute, etc." |
| Artist:MAAILMAS Title: Noitalauluja Format: LP Label: Tjarnen Country: Sweden Price: $25.00 |
| "Its a handmade art edition of 133 copies on vinyl, with paste-on art on recycled paper, hand-stamped labels and an insert. Debut record for this free folk trio collaboration between Laura Naukkarinen (from Lau Nau) and Kristian Holmgren and Matti Bye (from Vinter), featuring out-of-tune meandering, slow paced walking-tunes, and folk songs of a tradition invented on the spot, with delicate female vocals over plucked, bent, bowed and hammered strings: from the fragile lyricism of "Saa puu" or "Pimeyden viimeinen säde," over the insect battle grounds and lonely wanderlust of "Pitkä matka," to the eerie, desolate wastelands of "Ishavets sång," where lonely, ghost-like voices drift over the frozen bass strings of the dampened piano, sounding "...as if already drifting under the ice," as someone said of the poet Heym..." -Tjarnen |
| Artist:MAC BLACKOUT Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Dead Beat Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The debut solo album from MAC BLACKOUT of FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS and DAILY VOID fame. Upon listening to the songs, one distinctly get the feeling something special is going on. The tracks have a sweet DIY home recording feel to them which makes these deeply personal tunes shine. Performed with guitar and vocals, self-created clarinet, saxophone and electronic violin all intricately layered into very cohesive, concise songs. Twelve tracks. For fans of Electric Eels, Blank Dogs, Chrome, early David Bowie, Catholic Boys, Factums, Frustration, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Daily Void, Haunted George, Jay Reatard, Funtional Blackouts and Dead Hookers."- Dead Beat |
| Artist:MACHINEFABRIEK/BLACK TO COMM Title: Stofstuk/Stickstoff Format: 7" Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| "Private release in a limited edition of 100 copies! Grey vinyl, handstamped labels, 100 different individual full-colour sleeves (handmade laserprints)! Alternative version of "Stofstuk" on one side and a Black To Comm-remix thereof (titled "Stickstoff") on the B-side (both not included on the recent Machinefabriek remix-CD / previously unreleased)." - Dekorder. A few copies of this 2008 release. |
| Artist:MACHINEFABRIEK/DAVIES, MATT Title: Onkruid/Sanctuary Format: LP Label: A Room Forever Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Second volume to be released in this amazing new series. Machinefabriek: recorded for an installation made for Polderlight 2007, Amsterdam, re-edited for this release. Matt Davies: Recorded at Lee Valley Park Bird Sanctuary, East Indie Dock Basin, London on July 3, 2007." - FE. "Concept and art direction by Joshua Zucker. Photography by Kurt Mangum. A Room Forever is an art project realized as a curated series of limited edition 12" record LPs. Packaged in a custom-made box with high-quality digital C-print covers and letter-pressed inserts, each record features an original musical composition on one side and a field recording on the other. Pressed in one-time editions of 300, A Room Forever takes a unique and personal approach to the vinyl record LP. Conceived as a physical manifestation of the Roadside Picnic Radio podcast, the project draws upon the rich history and mythologies of audio recording to produce a final object of art that will resonate uniquely within each listener. More than anything, a room forever is inherently about the act of listening." Please note that these records are cut at the Dubplates & Mastering lab in Germany and are designed to be played at 45 r.p.m." - A Room Forever. |
| Artist:MACKAY AND THE RADON ENSEMBLE, STEVE Title: Tunnel Diner Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $23.50 |
| "Sax player Steve Mackay blow with The Stooges on the legendary Fun House session in 1970 (and rejoined them in 2003 when they played their first show in 29 years at the Coachella Festival, and he has performed with them ever since + rec. two more albums)... nearly 25 years later he got involved w/Radon Ensemble, which includes members from such disparate groups such as Temple of Bon Matin & the Arthur Doyle EAE (Paternostro/Wilcox), Nimrod (Lohman), Koonda Holaa (Kamilsky), ect... the 10 tracks from his 3rd release as a leader. Musically speaking youre on a magic carpet for a wild ride: they rock hard and swing free with whimsical & powerful electronic touches... its really a unique ride in his genre!" - QBICO. |
| Artist:MACKENZIE, GREGOR AND THE MISANTHROPES Title: Torture That Girl Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "The definitive anthology of this very unconventional Minnesota band (sometimes compared to FRANK ZAPPA, THE RESIDENTS, or THE GIZMOS), this includes all the tracks from their four rare singles on the cult label Breaker Records between 1978-81, some of which have appeared on various "Killed by Death" and "Hyped by Death" volumes in recent years, plus many previously unreleased studio tracks, 24 songs in all. With good artwork, plus liner notes and band history by Gregor."-Rave Up |
| Artist:MACRODOT Title: Macrodot Format: CDR Label: Manhand Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Macrodot is John Moloney of SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN. |
| Artist:MACRONYMPHA Title: Sex And Death Format: 7" Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "the title perfectly sums up the ultimate dichotomy of thunder and scourge, fire and flood, iron and breast. cock and bat...the hammering continues...whoever dies with the most cums - wins. on this recording line up of roemer, stella, fernow. full color 2 sided pro print cover of classic transsexual art brut." - Hospital Productions. |
| Artist:MAD DOG Title: Dawn of the Seventh Sun Format: LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $30.00 |
| "Monstrous & unreleased at the time heavy/psychedelic/West coast artifact of the highest order. This is one of the five best ever promo only releases to emerge from California. Only released in a quantity of a couple of copies to get a major record deal that never materialized. Three of the songs were used in a low-budget biker flick called Black Angels. The original demo LP had only a plain black label with no kinds of credits. We found this hidden gem looking for unreleased music by the band The Zoo of Presents Chocolate Moose fame. Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with unseen pictures and a band bio written by Morgan Cavett." - RD. |
| Artist:MAGIC AUM GIGI Title: MMMM (My Metal Machine Music) Format: LP Label: Sparkling Spare Wheel Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "First solo release. Acid Mothers Temple soul collective members Magic Aum Gigi have one solo track on the AMT family compilation "Do whatever you want, dont do whatever you dont want!!" MMMM is an experimental concept album described as drone trip music aka Raga Metal. Recorded in 1986." - Sparkling Spare Wheel. |
| Artist:MAGIC AUM GIGI Title: Starring Keiko Format: LP Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $27.00 |
| "Magic Aum Gigi 2nd solo album after his first raga-metal-drone opus My Metal Machine Music released in 2004 on SSW label. Started since 3 years, this new project due to be released on CD by a Japanese label has finally saw a terminal issue on vinyl produced by Fractal. Starring Keiko with its pastiche cover from Ash Ra Tempel 5th album is a deep cosmic Chant dAmour concept album turned around an ensemble of 4 tracks for 4 instruments: a piece for Jews harp, a piece for voice, a piece for synthesizer and a piece for guitar. Space music, highly repetitive. Limited numbered vinyl edition of 200 copies." -Fractal. |
| Artist:MAGIC CARPATHIANS Title: Ethnocore Format: CD Label: Fly Music Country: Poland Price: $12.00 |
| 1999 release. |
| Artist:MAGIC CARPATHIANS Title: Zygmunt Stenwak Format: CD Label: Fly Music Country: Poland Price: $12.00 |
| 2002 release. Very nice digipack with full color booklet. |
| Artist:MAGIC CARPATHIANS Title: Ksiega Utopii Format: CD Label: Obuh Country: Poland Price: $12.00 |
| “A soundtrack for a show "The Book of Utopy" by Theatre of Dreams, guest appearance: Andrew Nixon - a hurdy-gurdy (UK), Ramunas Jaras - a clarinet, a mini-moog, voice, an accordion” – OBUH Records.2000 release. |
| Artist:MAGIC CARPATHIANS PROJECT Title: Euscorpius Carpathicus Format: CD Label: Fly Music Country: Poland Price: $12.00 |
| "Their sublime Ethnocore trilogy impressed me with its haunting melodies and deep psychedelic drones, based on cross-germinations of traditional folk of their native Poland together with indigenous music and instruments from around the globe. The Magic Carpathians utilize transcendental combinations of harmonium, hurdy-gurdy, accordion, guitar, violin, sitar and Carpathian woodwinds harmonized with more modern conceits such as vintage synthesizers, tape loops and field recordings." - Psyche Van Het Folk. 2003 release. |
| Artist:MAGIC HOUR Title: Heads Down Format: 7" Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| Debut single, from 1995. |
| Artist:MAGIC LANTERN Title: High Beams Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "After far, far too long lost in the merch-less dark, the LBCs most married band, Magic Lantern, finally beam down the blinding full-length psych-statement we always knew they had hidden inside. It only took the Southern California sector a single 5-song demo plus a handful of incense-dense komische live flights to fully fall under the spell of MLs oncoming headlights, but now the rest of the globe can hop on the bands wild wagon. Hold on. High Beams throws out the total 20-sided die of the their illuminative powers, from stomping, storming show staples like Deathshead Hawkmoth and Vampires In Heat through to Sun Araw-vibed chime trancers (Feasting On Energy) and even a good time acid-addled feedback boogie (Cactus Raga). These are all of the Lanterns classic long-form anthems, captured in glorious high-def thanks to Bobb Brunos attuned production/recording capabilities and a radiant mastering job courtesy of James Plotkin. The riffs rip, the drums destroy, and the organ burns a hole in the sun. Walk into the light. Black vinyl LPs (with full color center labels) in glossy jackets with flag photography by Cameron & Erica Stallones, plus a fried-eyed, full-color 11x17 poster. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Songs For Sada Format: LP Label: Textile Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Inverted Belgium Format: One Sided LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "one sided lp of the infamous bloody face cutting show in beligium.. instrumental noise assult edited and remastered to slow motion shit attack" - Hospital. |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Relax In a Panic Free Atmosphere Format: LP Label: Spring Press Country: Australia Price: $30.00 |
| "Our first release by Hartford, Connecticut outfit Magik Markers is out now. The beautiful 12" LP [featuring artwork by Pete Nolan] contains the best Markers free rock meanderings youre bound to hear. The current lineup consisting of Elisa Ambrogio & Pete Nolan sees Steve Gunn (General Head Quarters) & Josh Burkett (Joshua, The Believers) pitching in on the new material. The record is in a strictly limited edition of 250 copies. Excited? So are we. Tracklisting: Relax In a Panic Free Atmosphere [10.39] (lIve at Smell, LA), Come Back to the Five & Dime, Tex Watkins [12.27] (Live in Cleveland), When Big John Gets Up [8.12] (Live in Denton, TX)" - Spring Press. |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Real McCoy aka Road Pussey Redux Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "This is the lost mid-period Markers record which was partially issued last year as "Road Pussy". This is the studio summer jam in all its glory. Swings from very strange songs and rotten summer garbage - the road to Markers studio knowledge that paved the way for the forthcoming "Boss" album." |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Boss Format: CD Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "When confronted with an example of magnificence in nature, such as a waterfall, Jane Goodall reported that the chimpanzees she observed were captivated, as if in awe of the beauty of the world. On BOSS, the Magik Markers have tried to capture the chimps awe. A formality and restraint the Markers have never exerted on their previously recorded material is present on BOSS. Now the Markers are Jainists, with their mouths masked so as to not inhale even one tiny insect, here pursuing the killer gentle with a vengeance. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West, with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. Mixing a gentle vulnerability with a winded egomania, the Markers have always had a musical tunnel vision; BOSS is that vision made manifest. The tug of war the Markers enact, the way they are fully prepared to start yanking their world apart as they find themselves losing their place in, makes moot possibilities of greatness or mediocrity. It makes them unapologetic soothsayers with their ears pressed to the ground, waiting for footsteps. With Peter Nolan, we finally hear what Lou Reed would have sounded like had he sallied with the drums instead of getting seduced by the easy praise of front man status. Like Rashid Ali squeezed into the Teutonic leather pants of Faust, Nolan drums like there are hell hounds at his heels but he just cant be bothered. Here both laconic and frenzied, Nolans drumming arms reach out like an octopus: tickling the ivories, humming the organ and blasting taps on some kind of endtime trumpet. As a pianist, Nolan reminds us that the piano is a percussive, beating out the whoomp of some old war dance, a bare foot-fall rhythm of fighters to battle and the heavy hands of a whiskey burlesque in the afternoon. Nolan is easy to underestimate, but finally, here is high fidelity record of the strange soul of one of Americas most natural and quizzical musical minds." -Ecstatic Peace |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Boss Format: LP Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "When confronted with an example of magnificence in nature, such as a waterfall, Jane Goodall reported that the chimpanzees she observed were captivated, as if in awe of the beauty of the world. On BOSS, the Magik Markers have tried to capture the chimps awe. A formality and restraint the Markers have never exerted on their previously recorded material is present on BOSS. Now the Markers are Jainists, with their mouths masked so as to not inhale even one tiny insect, here pursuing the killer gentle with a vengeance. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West, with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. Mixing a gentle vulnerability with a winded egomania, the Markers have always had a musical tunnel vision; BOSS is that vision made manifest. The tug of war the Markers enact, the way they are fully prepared to start yanking their world apart as they find themselves losing their place in, makes moot possibilities of greatness or mediocrity. It makes them unapologetic soothsayers with their ears pressed to the ground, waiting for footsteps. With Peter Nolan, we finally hear what Lou Reed would have sounded like had he sallied with the drums instead of getting seduced by the easy praise of front man status. Like Rashid Ali squeezed into the Teutonic leather pants of Faust, Nolan drums like there are hell hounds at his heels but he just cant be bothered. Here both laconic and frenzied, Nolans drumming arms reach out like an octopus: tickling the ivories, humming the organ and blasting taps on some kind of endtime trumpet. As a pianist, Nolan reminds us that the piano is a percussive, beating out the whoomp of some old war dance, a bare foot-fall rhythm of fighters to battle and the heavy hands of a whiskey burlesque in the afternoon. Nolan is easy to underestimate, but finally, here is high fidelity record of the strange soul of one of Americas most natural and quizzical musical minds." -Ecstatic Peace. Vinyl issue of the EP CD. Silkscreened jackets, insert. |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Songs For Sada Format: CD Label: Textile Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Baltimore Trust Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Super quality recording of a great I trust my guitar era Magik Markers show in Baltimore back in 2003. The early band were in full effect here, creating tight organic instant no wave compositions each night out of naive guitar, rocking/shambling beats, screams and whatever happened to be going through Elisa Ambrogios mind each night. This is a really cohesive show and it kind of sets the record straight about what the early Markers actually sounded like. The banters on point too. Cool document" - Arbitrary Signs. |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Balf Quarry Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Balf Quarry is the an all-new album-length piece of the puzzle from MAGIK MARKERS. Long known for their shattering live appearances, Magik Markers put together really hot albums too -like Balf Quarry. Working with engineer SCOTT COLBURN (Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Sir Richard Bishop), Magik Markers have captured a lot of different moods and twitches on Balf Quarry. Tremoring mid-rhythms form the body, with a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free-duo style and several clinking music boxes of woe as well. On slower tunes, the mass of brooding guitar tone generated is ELISAs signature, a carving all of her own. Fills, licks and other touches move the songs a broken arms length away from a fundament of chaos and horror." - Drag City |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Balf Quarry Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Oh, Magik Markers -- you dirty fuckers! You look like a reasonably intelligent young woman and man -- perhaps a bit intense, but who isnt in these end times? Then the needle drops and youre amok, dusting us from the git-go, wild-eyed in a china shop where stop keeps meaning more. Ah, if it were only music -- but it would appear youve rethought that too. And would it kill you to crack a smile? When an album begins with a song called Risperdal, one should assume a mind-and-body-slamming forty-five minutes or so are underway. And one wouldnt be wrong, dickhead. Sure, Balf Quarry has moody space in its soul, melodies whether stretched over rock, ululating rhythm, chimes n piano and/or wah-wah. Regardless of the configuration, Elisa Ambrogio and Pete Nolan are locked together, beating it out, listening to feeling the sound of their earth quake. And slicing through all the atmosphere, Elisas voice is a spear of light, splashes of mud, an acid purple flashback. The Balf Quarry libretto reads like an inner monologue of some poor bastard from The Stand: desperate and vengeful musings from the head of a witness to and survivor of an apocalypse, in a world they never made, dreaming helplessly of the demons out west. Safe before their life sets in might mean hope in this landscape. The worlds not broken -- people ruin it every time. Working with engineer Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls, Animal Collective, Sir Richard Bishop), Magik Markers have captured a lot of different moods and twitches on Balf Quarry. Tremoring mid-rhythms form the body, with a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free-duo style and several clinking music boxes of woe as well. On slower tunes, the mass of brooding guitar tone generated is Elisas signature, a carving all of her own. Fills, licks and other touches move the songs a broken arms length away from a fundament of chaos and horror. When colors actually match and you have grey music for grey days, its great -- but what about grey music for cherry red lava days, or rainbow sounds arcing over six months of darkness? Anything goes -- and just your luck, Magik Markers have brought anything with them on Balf Quarry -- a multicolored projectile of vomit you can sing along to! If psychosis is your thing, Balf Quarry is like a jukebox just for you. The only thing its missing is a brick attached to the CD to facilitate throwing it through your window! No, were not talking about you, asshole. This is the royal you -- the you of all Magik Markers fandom, the you of anyone with ears and the guts for this shit. Wot fun! Prepare for the birth of the second sun, yall." - Drag City |
| Artist:MAGIK MARKERS Title: Shame Mask Format: CDR Label: Arbitrary Signs Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Out-takes from the Balf Quarry LP on Drag City. |
| Artist:MAGNETICRING Title: Debris Magnetiques Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Magneticring is Josh Stevenson of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. "Debris Magnetiques" is the first in a series of "solo synth" tapes on Heavy Tapes. Here Josh uses a EMS Synthi, a cracklebox, and his ecstatic electromagnetic field to produce a cut up, deep sounding crack of electricity and momentum. Very different in flow and form from most Heavy Tapes releases, this focuses on the gush and rush and is a great head cleaner." - Heavy Tapes. |
| Artist:MAGNETICRING Title: Magneticring Format: LP Label: Uzu Country: Canada Price: $24.00 |
| ""Im pretty happy with the new stuff... going for a dream music sort of thing... early German shit, new age... let them roll, they are big dreamers. Magneticring is the solo project of Josh Stevenson, member of Staked Plain (est. 1993), Von Bingen, B.C.V.C.O. and formerly Jackie-O Motherfucker. Not to mention contributions to a Kemialliset Ystävät recording, touring as a member of Samara Lubelskis live band, Pink Mountaintops, numerous mastering credits, and is currently working on recordings with Montreals Sam Shalabis Land of Kush Orchestra and Steven Wray Lobdell (Faust, Davis Redford Trio) After a couple of cassette releases, we are pleased to present his first long playing LP. Three tracks of hazy vintage synth pieces. This album is a one time pressing of 449 copies of clear 180 gram vinyl packaged in a tip-on style gatefold jacket with custom silk screened art." -Uzu |
| Artist:MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ Title: Faux Depart Format: CD Label: Yik Yak Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "a collection of songs by japanese underground shambolic-pop legends Maher Shalal Hash Baz, inspired by their visit to the west coast and recorded at Dub Narcotic with help from the Curtains, McCloud Zicmuse, and Arrington de Dionyso on bass clarinet. also includes a rousing rendition of Bright Lights for guitar, bassoon, and drums as well as live tracks from their northwest shows. limited edition with letterpressed jacket." - Yik Yak. |
| Artist:MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ Title: Live Aoiheya January 2003 Format: CD EP Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $12.00 |
| "Maher Shalal Hash Baz is the oddly-named band for Japanese cult figure Tori Kudo and his wife Reiko (the name is apparently a Hebrew biblical phrase that Tori translates as “be quick if you mean to steal something”). Since the late 1970s, Tori has been a pioneering figure in Japanese punk, post-punk and avant-garde circles, beginning with bands such as GuysnDolls, Cock CNell, Noise and Tokyo Suicide (a cover band dedicated to New York synth-punk pioneers Suicide). Tori formed Maher Shalal Hash Baz in the mid 80s with neighbours who could not play any instruments, and for the better part of 20 years has been pursuing a single-minded vision of music as simple, spontaneous and unpredictable. The bands always changing lineup of anywhere from three to thirty people features mostly untrained musicians playing music often shown to them on the day of its performance, expressing the innate beauty of failure as much as of success. The band began releasing records in 1989, but did not come to worldwide attention until a decade later, when their marvelously ambitious triple album Return Visit To Rock Mass was released. MSHB were invited to tour outside of Japan for the first time. In 1999, when UK label Geographic released From A Summer To Another Summer, a compilation of Maher recordings. Soon the band were touring the US and Europe regularly, and Geographic released their most recent album Blues Du Jour in 2003. Live Aoiheya January 2003 documents an entire brief performance by this unique band, incidentally the first Maher show that Chapter boss Guy Blackman saw after moving to live in Japan in 2002 (he returned to Melbourne in 2004). It captures the band in a variety of guises unusual even for them, including an extended abstract instrumental, songs based on conversations between band members, passages by Japanese composers, vocal relays and a Brahms Waltz. In the EPs 26 minutes Maher Shalal Hash Baz manage to cover more ground than most bands do in their whole career, all the while maintaining a spirit and idiosyncracy that is idenitifiably their own." - Chapter Music. |
| Artist:MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ Title: Kunitachi Kibun (84 & 85) Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Maher Shalal Hash Baz stand at the pinnacle of Tori Kudos eccentric and beguiling musical weltanschauung, a stew of soaring melodic genius, naïve wisdom and the eternal amateur freshness of left-footing your own brain. Emperors of error, indeed. Their very special talent has been recognized by a slew of underground labels across the world and garnered them famous friends and fans aplenty including The Pastels. But until now, the very earliest roots of the band have remained shrouded in misty tendrils of mystery. Kunitachi Kibun delves deep into the bands beginnings, presenting two previously unreleased gigs, including their first show from December 1984 when they played in a legendary triple header with High Rise and Kosokuya at the Kid Airaku Hall in Tokyo. The second show from six months later includes an appearance by the late alto saxophonist Masami Shinoda. Both soar with idiot-savant genius, Toris truly distinctive guitar and vocals creating their own idiot-savant networks of logic with the rest of the group. A stupendous glimpse into a simpler world of communal transcendence and music making." - Alan Cummings. |
| Artist:MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ Title: Cest La Derniere Chanson Format: Double CD Label: K Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Tori Kudo, the conductor and band leader of MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ, fuses stray elements of pop, folk, jazz and experimental music into pieces of candid musical gestures. Cest La Derniere Chanson is a double album of songs composed by Kudo between 2005-2007. For the recordings, Kudo assembled nine musicians from Japan and bunkered down for six days in St. Pierre-Eglise, France. Bassoon, guitar, drums, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, glass percussion, organ, rocks and sticks are expanded by a sophisticated counter-repetition technique into an extensive tonal range of colors; the effect is at turns serene, dissonant, enchanting, crisp, spacious and maddeningly catchy. The future of music on Planet Earth. Listen closely, please." - K Records. |
| Artist:MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ WITH MASAMI SHINODA Title: Koshi Kudake No Inu Format: DVD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $25.00 |
| "Enticing archival document of an early (1987) show by wide-eyed mystics Maher Shalal Hash Baz at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo. The visuals provide a rare and valuable opportunity to pick apart the working methods of one of the Japanese undergrounds most truly original and agile thinkers, Tori Kudo. In Maher Shalal Hash Baz, he took the heterophonic voicings, the deliberately fluctuating rhythmic mis-steps and the non-unison unison so characteristic of Japanese traditional music and re-applied them to idiot savant mini-hymns arranged for electric guitar, euphonium, ocarina and organ. Its a music that exists in a unique world of its own, alternately donning and shedding the armor of rock and jazz. Another major draw is the presence of the late Masami Shinoda on alto sax. Shinoda was an important, though largely unsung, figure in the history of the Tokyo underground during the 80s and 90s, showing up in all manner of groups from punk iconoclasts Jagatara and Pungo, to his own experiments with chindon marching advertising bands. He spent a few years in Maher in the 80s and this DVD captures the innocent joy and rapturous invention he brought to their music. 24 tracks, 75 minutes. Color, NTSC Region Free (says Region 2 on the package, but that is a typo, it plays Region Free), Stereo, 08.09.21." -PSF |
| Artist:MAHOGANY BRAIN Title: Some Cocktail Suggestions Format: LP Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $26.00 |
| "Brand new and third album by the 70s French underground free-rock cult band Mahogany Brain. Some Cocktail Suggestions (March 2005) is the logical and inevitable prolongation of the first two albums, With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger) (December 1970 - released in 1971) and Smooth Sick Lights (June 1972 - released in 1977), all in all the third shutter of a trilogy and which could be entitled: Mahogany Brain or how to play Russian roulette in the artificial paradises. Thirty-five years for an unexplainable trilogy. However, if one symbolically looks at the first album on Futura as the injection of drugs (the true original record cover was a photograph showing an arm with a syringe and following the stop to publish the famous stereotype for reason of censure of the time, the group chose an entirely black cover as a mourning). The second on Pôle (with the title wink in Sister Ray) would be rather the action as if the track headlight suggests which opens the album Green Winter of Revolvers which is the soundtrack of the crazy short film of Michel Bulteau Main Line. Mahogany Brain always developed a music radical, unforeseeable, hard, voluntarily unfinished, and with this album, they continue the adventure even further: decomposition of the music, recomposition of the juxtaposed voices, artistic blur, collages, mad guitars, all very amalgamated in a magma broken rocknroll. Mahogany Brain was created during the summer 1970, and was composed by two central personalities, the alter ego Michel Bulteau (leader and founder of the group) and Patrick Geoffrois (the man without whom Mahogany Brain could never have existed). Writer, film maker, Bulteau also carried out five albums in solo (whose Rinçures on Fractal in 1999) hes the last of the electric poets and his meeting with Geoffrois was also electric - Bulteau created a rock band but it is Geoffrois which created the dynamics of the group. Geoffrois was a sharp sectional view, and he recall a little the revolted and destroying spirit of a certain Peter Laughner (Rocket From The Tombs), he will join later the group of James Chance & the Contortions in New York at the end of the 70s or he will sow the discord besides! Two complementary strong energies and spontaneousness, the process was engaged. Mahogany Brain is an atypical group in the Parisian underground, they play with their tripes and as with their veins, it is an experience out of the limit, not-conventional, with only one concert in all their history, and probably the most subversive formation as there was to see in France! Some Cocktail Suggestions is incontestably matter dangerous? To taste with great whiskeys." - Fractal. Great record! |
| Artist:MAINLINER Title: Psychedelic Polyhedron Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $19.00 |
| "First CD reissue of the long time deleted Mainliners second album featuring the legendary heavy psychedelic trio : Asahito Nanjo (bass, vocal), Makoto Kawabata (guitar), Tatsuya Yoshida (drums). Warning : including an unreleased 10 minutes ultra killer track as bonus. An absolute must for all fans of this unique Japanese Underground scene from the late 90s." - Fractal. |
| Artist:MAJOR STARS Title: 4 Format: CD Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "And here they are, spiralling thru their own universe but still occasionally sending a missive back down to earth. This one was recorded summer 03, after an intense period of touring (which also resulted in the Major Stars/Comets On Fire live split LP) and just before an intense period of reflection (read: inactivity). Somewhere during the latter they realized they had made a record, and finally we bring it to you. Calls for increased fidelity have not fallen on deaf ears: 4 brings them to the world of 24-track recording for the first time, finally getting their studio sound close to their live onslaught. Musically they continue to hit all points a little harder each time, with open-stringed folk melodies getting pummeled on the Who/Cream/Hendrix anvil til you think modal and heavy have always coexisted. Their best yet? You bet. Should they go deaf, it was all for you." - Twisted Village. |
| Artist:MAJOR STARS Title: Black Road EP Format: 7" Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "The story from where we left off: Major Stars play their most recent tour of the USA in May of 2003, return in June to make their definitive studio record (Major Stars 4), and then head to NYC a week later to record the Live In Europa split LP with Comets On Fire. All good so far. They unexpectedly lay low for for the next eighteen months, losing longtime drummer Dave Lynch along the way and ending up with an empty bassman spot when Tom Leonard joins Kate Village and Wayne Rogers in the guitar frontline. But then Major Stars mark two starts to come together. Casey Keenan (drummer-turned-guitarist of local pop heros Carlisle Sound) is roped into resuming his place behind the drumkit. Dave Dougan, already a veteran of the band as bass understudy (he was the unfamiliar figure on stage at their Terrastock 02 performance), returns to claim the position permanently. The new sextet is completed by the arrival of lead singer Sandra Barrett, formerly of local art-punk legends LA Drugs. By the time Major Stars 4finally appears to universal acclaim in April 2005, the new band is awake and pummeling the locals with renewed fervor. The future: a new LP is due to appear in the fall 2005, and Major Stars will be playing select east coast dates with Japanese psych titans Miminokoto and Uptight this October 2005. But why wait the summer in silence? Heres a two-track taster of heavy things to come." - Twisted VIllage. |
| Artist:MAJOR STARS Title: Portable Freak Factory/Can You See Me? Format: 7" Label: Important Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Two brand new burners (including a Hendrix cover on the B-side) recorded during the same sessions for The Major Stars next full length album for Important." - Important. |
| Artist:MAJOR STARS Title: Mirror/Messenger Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Now giant-size and louder than ever, Major Stars plunge further down the path of their second, larger life with Mirror/Messenger. Their new sextet record features the same triple-guitar frontline and fervid vocalizations from Sandra Barrett as did 2006s Syntoptikon - but with more songs then ever before found on a single Major Stars album (as many as two albums, in several cases). Mirror/Messenger is an assault on popular music, with considerable muscle exerted to create a jukebox-ready duck-and-shuffle - if the needle dont get tossed out the groove, that is." - Drag City. LP version. |
| Artist:MAJOR STARS Title: Space/Time Format: CD Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Space/Time is the Major Stars second full length attempt to explode the boundaries of Rock-with-a-capital-R. Side one features two songs with pickin and singin: Apples To Grapes is a moody folk rock number that gets blown apart in a hurry & subjected to several improvisational deconstructions in the course of its 14+ minutes, and Runout is done up short n pretty to set you up for the all-instrumental Side Two. Getting Air From A Stone is a riff heavy cruncher, while Dream Of The Accidental Bird follows its brief opening revolving door with a massive & exhilarating one chord jam thatll twist your insides just right. The CD adds one track from their now out-of-print debut 12" Rock Sounds Of People -- the pounding Its A Blessing, Brother, I Cannot Lie, a song so relentlessly single minded that the band was asked daily who the hell it was a cover of (Wayne, in fact, wrote it...in far less time than it took to play it). Major Stars aim to take higher-key improvisational wizardry and clobber you on the head with it while simultaneously caressing your mind. Space/Time does just that."-Twisted Village. |
| Artist:MAJOR STARS Title: Rock Revival,The Format: CD Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Major Stars, men (and woman) who have made many records, up the pile one more with The Rock Revival. Guitarists Wayne & Kate come to Major Stars straight from Magic Hour, whose quick ascent from snarly West Coast-influenced rock band to all instrumental thugs brought many a tear To helpless Galaxie 500 fans. Bassist Tom Leonard has been at one time or another a member of every non-Magic Twisted Village ensemble, and Dave laid down the big beat in Vermonster. Now that these four have reconvened, they are taking their LOUD polystructural ROCK to the people. The Rock Revival consists of four songs. The first, Rock Revival Theme, is a purely free bit of tape captured at one of their bi-weekly recording sessions. On follows, a lovely little tune that then gets masterfully deconstructed for 13+ minutes. Strange Reaction is the token short song that sets up the epic Deep End, their live instrumental tour-de-force. Throughout the disc they jump in and out of structure and freedom like no other post-Isle Of Wight rock ensemble can. And theyre that loud. Really. Go see them fuck up the upcoming Terrastock in SF."-Twisted Village. |
| Artist:MAJOR STARS Title: Return to Form Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "When youve got a love for music, theres no time to spare. The band called Major Stars all got other gigs that take them from place to place without room to converse much. Thats okay, because theyre about playing music, not small talkin! So whats been going on around the practice space then? Major Stars have a new one that might lay it on you all at once like a plank of solid stone, and theyre calling it Return to Form. Starting with a mid-fight schoolyard threat like Better Stay Down (what, no exclamation point?), Major Stars do definitely seem to be returning to somewhere on this new new album, maybe even perhaps somewhere adolescent where the rock and roll was never better? But really, titling the whole damn thing Return to Form has some humor in it. Mirror/Messenger wasnt out of form; all Major Stars records have been a part of a vision and even if some shit said he or she (probably he) didnt like it, that doesnt really call for a response title on the next album. We read it like this: its you whos returning to form! Major Stars atomized you to fucking bits on the last record and only now are you returning to a fully formed entity. And here Major Stars are to blow you to pieces again. Youre fucked up. Return to Forms got eight pieces, all heavy rocks, a few of them come with power jams. Theres also a few just under three minutes, but distinguished by riffage that lifts em up. The guitars trio of Wayne Rogers, Kate Village and Tom Leonard is into their third full album as such, allowing them to have fused into a wall of distorto with a myriad of identities but singular purpose. Behind their ubiquitous combination signal, the drums trample with pummelous authority. Still, they cant help but sound a bit crushed by the din, glorious din. This is Major Stars signature rock of the easties -- more likened to the sounds of Motorpsycho than any of that psych-rock these days! Again, this is organic growth, home territory. Could it be that the space you know is better than the space you dont know? Major Stars got answer, and its Return to Form." - Drag City. |
| Artist:MAJUTSU NO NIWA Title: At The End Of Summer Format: CD Label: There Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
| "Majutsu no Niwa is the new psychedelic rock band which Rinji Fukuoka of OVERHANG PARTY which stopped the activity at the beginning of 2008 leads. This album extracted from live show in the last year have variety, from deep song and more vivid rock instrumental to heavy feedback drone." -There |
| Artist:MAJUTSU NO NIWA Title: Frontera Format: CD Label: Music Atlach Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "The second album (first studio) by whats left of Japanese heavy, psychedelic rock favorites OVERHANG PARTY." - Music Atlach. |
| Artist:MAKOTO, ANLA COURTIS & ROKUGENKIN, KAWABATA Title: Kokura Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Kokura is the fruit of a collaboration between Acid Mothers Temple/Mainliner main man Kawabata Makoto, Argentinian guitarist Anla Courtis (Reynols) and Japanese underground musician Rokugenkin. Based around hushed, mellow guitar drones and hypnotic, yet restrained guitar wails, Kokura captures the sound of life beneath a hurricane. Like Sunn O))) on half volume!" - Riot Season. |
| Artist:MAKOTO, KAWABATA Title: Rainbow Of Love Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Blackest Rainbow Records is extremely pleased to announce this one. Brand new solo record from one of the most prolific Japanese recording artists around right now. Most people will know Kawabata Makoto as the guitar-wielding shredder from Acid Mothers Temple. This brand new solo recording is a two piece epic of some of the most beautiful tones Ive heard in a while. Side As You Are From The Rainbow Over The Sea is a piece of bowed beauty, taking you to a higher plain of consciousness. The B-sides Waiting For You Till The End Of The Rainbow is just as cosmic as its predecessor, with cascading waterfalls of tones washing over you again and again. Kinda reminds me of some of the Inui series, which is probably some of my favorite material from Makoto. Edition of only 300 copies." -Blackest Rainbow |
| Artist:MALACHI Title: Holy Music Format: CD Label: Fallout Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| Recorded in San Francisco in August 1966, and originally released on the M.G.M./Verve label, this collection of lengthy, acid-tinged folk instrumentals is one of the earliest specifically psychedelic albums ever recorded, and it makes its CD debut here. As the original sleevenotes state: "Malachis music transcends the traditions of East and West, and represents the new synthesis which is still being worked out in aesthetics, philosophy and religion by those participating in the psychedelic revolution." Features Steve Cunningham (pre-Red Krayola). |
| Artist:MALARIA! Title: Compiled 1981-1984 Format: CD Label: Moabit Country: GERMANY Price: $14.50 |
| 2001 year release which compiles 16 tracks from all their early releases, originally released 1981-84. Malaria were an all-female art-wave group from Berlin, with connections to Die Haut, Einsturzende, Nina Hagen, Static, etc. A seminal early 80s document. "Contagious diseases, uncertain modes of transmission: Malaria evolved from Mania D., a trio that had already gained a following even without music through their style and artwork. When they expanded into a quintet, they not only retained the first two letters, recurring in medieval, mask, magister artium and mama, they also kept a world of signifiers: heat, illness, fever, ill-defined states. At the time, the beat and the saxophone, which signalled the continuity of both bands, could only be comprehended through inevitable misunderstandings and other contemporary beats and sounds. And -- like an italicised letter -- they incarnated the promise contained in the title: elusive funk, undeveloped jazz, an unresolved and strained insistence on a difference for which no words existed at the time, and certainly no music that one could put a name to." - Diedrich Diederichsen. |
| Artist:MALCOLM, GREG Title: Hung Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "Recorded live, without the cumbersome weight of newfangled techniques such as overdubs (gee-whiz!) which may seem a little commonplace for you hip-to-be-square cats until you realise that the good Mr Malcolm plays two guitars and percussion with his feet. His third guitar, the guitar he actually holds in his hands, has about half a million strings and a number of contact mics imbedded where the sun-dont-shine to amplify a host of springs, triangles, and other junkyard ephemera. This is a second-to-none ride through a world of sunshine, as viewed through net curtains from a darkened room in suburban New Zealand. Charming, stupifying, and profoundly accomplished. The noise of music!" - C/Psi/P. |
| Artist:MALKUTH Title: Mutus Liber Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "raw dual guitar necro black metal in the vein of moonblood and blackdeath with its own sense of harmonic tension. no bullshit. no intros. occult 4 track assault." - Hospital Productions. Featuring Pat and Matt from NNCK. |
| Artist:MALKUTH Title: Sefirah Gevurah Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Featuring Pat and Matt from NNCK. "second full length album from this obscure occult black metal." - Hospital. |
| Artist:MALKUTH Title: Sefirah Gevurah Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "second full length album from this obscure occult black metal. hail!" -Hospital |
| Artist:MALLANDER, J.O. Title: More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970 Format: CD Label: Anoema Country: Finland Price: $17.50 |
| "Anoema Recordings is proud to present a complete collection of sound works by the influential Finnish artist J.O.Mallander. (This CD) collects two sought-after vinyl EPs Extended Play and Decompositions (the only Finnish entries in BROKEN MUSIC catalog), and a previously unreleased piece. J.O.Mallander began his artistic activities in 1960s within the blooming Finnish Underground movement, taking part, amongst other things, in the notorious music-performance collective SPERM. He has since assumed a multitude of roles within the world of art, operating as an artist, critic, writer, gallerist, and curator. Through his international connections he became a singular node of the FLUXUS network in Finland. Extended Play, released in 1968, was his debut as an artist. It is simultaneously an intriguing aural ready-made, a mantra-like tape piece, and a commentary echoing the Finnish cultural climate of the day. It displays in torturing detail the drama surrounding the presidential elections in 1962 and 1968. These pieces have haunted the Finnish popular consciousness for decades, and probably caused more complex reactions than any other Finnish sound work. In 1968 Mallander opted for life in the more internationally inclined Stockholm. Among other activities he composed a mind-boggling plunderphonic collage In Reality at the prestigious premises of EMS for Text-Sound Festival held at Fylkingen. And two years after Extended Play, in 1970, it was time to confuse the Finnish audience again. Mallander issued his second (and so far the last) music release Decompositions on the legendary LOVE Records. Applying scratching, looping, and other manipulations on records he created a hilariously energizing work and pre-dated the methods and attitudes of contemporary popular musics. More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970 comes packed in the original cover designs and features extensive liner notes by Leif Elggren. The times they are not a-changin." - Anoema Recordings. Mallander is also featured on the amazing "Arktinen Hysteria: Suomi-avantgarden Esipuutarhureita" CD comp issued a few years back on Love Records. Highly recommended! |
| Artist:MAMMAL Title: Double Nature Format: CD Label: SNSE Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Mammal s fog-powered sonic dispersal units yield some serious fuzz force on this, the follow-up to 2002s Fog Walkers LP (SNSE021). Electronicaly processed signal and modulated ring power the mix, while hazed distorto screech propels the re-routed beat device attack. These are the most viciously raw, real Mammal sounds to date. WARNING: Originally intended for release as a vinyl LP only, this recording was turned away by no less than three mastering engineers, all of whom refused to cut the disc out of fear of damaging or destroying their cutting needles due to the "extreme" nature of the sounds. Mammal and SNSE bear no responsibility for damage to your hearing and/or stereo equipment resultant from the playing of this monster." - SNSE. |
| Artist:MAMMAL Title: Repulsion Format: Cass Label: Nihilist Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| Artist:MAMMAL Title: Lonesome Drifter Format: Double LP Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Recorded during 6 months of isolation at his home in Detroit, Mammals 4th full length album Lonesome Drifter is an epic soundtrack for the industrial depression of the city. Brooding, psychedelic, loner blues." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist:MAMMATUS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "MAMMATUS are a new four piece rock band from Santa Cruz, California. The album consists of four long tracks, the longest, "Dragon of the Deep Part 2" clocks in at a staggering 25 minutes long. With an excess of fuzz and wah noise they manage to combine all the best b-its of 70s psychedelic rock with the sonic attack of early Monster Magnet as they simultaneously enter the realm of heavy drone sludge rock. The sleeve of this album was crafted by ARIK ROPER who has also worked with likes of Sleep, Sunn O))), Comets on Fire and Arthur Magazine. Since forming at the begining of 2005 Mammatus have been playing regularly in their native town of Santa Cruz and in venues in San Fransisco, which has gathered them lots of praise and interest. They are embarking on an intense nation wide tour with their friends Residual Echoes this summer. A deluxe vinyl version is upcoming." -Holy Mountain. |
| Artist:MAMMATUS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Invada Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "MAMMATUS are a new four piece rock band from Santa Cruz, California. The album consists of four long tracks, the longest, "Dragon of the Deep Part 2" clocks in at a staggering 25 minutes long. With an excess of fuzz and wah noise they manage to combine all the best b-its of 70s psychedelic rock with the sonic attack of early Monster Magnet as they simultaneously enter the realm of heavy drone sludge rock. The sleeve of this album was crafted by ARIK ROPER who has also worked with likes of Sleep, Sunn O))), Comets on Fire and Arthur Magazine. Since forming at the begining of 2005 Mammatus have been playing regularly in their native town of Santa Cruz and in venues in San Fransisco, which has gathered them lots of praise and interest. They are embarking on an intense nation wide tour with their friends Residual Echoes this summer." -Holy Mountain. Limited UK vinyl editon. |
| Artist:MAMMATUS Title: The Coast Explodes Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "MAMMATUS second album The Coast Explodes straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects. The music is heavily influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness. "Excellent Swordfight" is a continuation of the same story told in the debuts epic "Dragon of the Deep." "Pierce the Darkness" explores being a light in a dark world. "The Changing Wind" is a pipe-led psychedelic folk tune that could have been sited by Ghosts Second Time Around and the shanga vibes of the forest in the Autumn. It unfurls into the title track which encapsulates the massive fury of the ocean. For fans of similar Holy Mountain artists Om, Lesbian, or Residual Echoes." - VHF. "The same heavy, spastic psych as Acid Mothers Temple, Psychic Paramount, Comets on Fire and Green Milk from the Planet Orange."-Dusted Magazine. |
| Artist:MAMMUT Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Long Hair Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
| "Originally released in 1971, this album is an intense and bombastic hybrid between heavy fuzz acid guitar, instinctive free rock improvisations and some lyrical, classical influenced interludes/fragments. Mammut played in an impressive and convincing manner their conception of an psychedelic rock opera. For that each title includes the name Mammut. The opening track Bird Mammut is a groovy, percussive, crazy psychedelic affair featuring an avalanche of drums, trippy organs, bluesy e-guitar and wistful flute passages. Classical Mammut delivers a short piano interlude, a pleasant melodic moment. Mammut Ecstasy is a fuzzy heavy psychedelic composition with furious rhythms, an efficient bass guitar leading theme and some nice keyboard moves. Foot Machine Mammut alternates a bluesy pop song with free guitar jams accompanied by Hammond organ. Perhaps parts of the first Embryo album are comparable to this. Nähgarn Mammut" is their attempt to be more lyrical and melodic, while the album closes with 14 minutes of Mammut Opera, which show Mammut at their best. Dark sounds with hints of Amon Düül II, heavy blues rock with all sorts of strange, ethnic and gothic touches combined in their music. Altough the band themselves quoted Deep Purple in rock as a major influence, their spirit was purely Krautrock. Their sole album is a legendary rarity. Comes with 1 bonus track, comprehensive insert, digitally remastered. A classic! Don´t miss it!" -Long Hair |
| Artist:MAN PACK VARIENT Title: Sticky Wickets Format: CDR Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Manpack Variant is the persistently intermittent commingling of electronicists Jaime Fennelly (Peeesseye, peeinmyfacewithsurgery, Phantom Limb & Bison) and Chris Peck, resulting in transcendent sound rituals and unexplainable detritus such as the recent "Flash Vault" 7" split with Gerritt on Misanthropic Agenda and now "Sticky Wickets," the bands first full-length CD. "Sticky Wickets" will take the paint off your walls. Bone-crunching noises fly in an analog heaven, short on altitude but high on fire? Insanity? Asylums? Try it all on for size. Manpack Variant are bringing barrels of concrete to the show, ready to build a scuzzed-out monument complete with skeleton electronics and bags of fuzz. And to add even more sparkle, "Sticky Wickets" features original artwork by Jason McLean. Entranced by latent characteristics of military-industrial sound hardware, Manpack Variant has laid audiences from Vienna to Vancouver (to waste) with there own special bland of ecstatic nose drool. Ambient ambient ambient! Ambient ambient ambient! Four years now they have failed to either get a sharper blade or have a new one made. Take a load off: the album woks!" - Digitalis |
| Artist:MAN SLAUGHTER Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Yes! First recordings of Superman Groop outta SF/Oakland with AJ aka RJ aka SIXES, Paul C. of XBXRX and ESP Layout, and Noel of Comets= Caveman inzanity power 600 BC sound= close your eyes and see AJ break a table infront of you!! Reeds/guitar/electronic bomb attack. Amazing assault. Dedicated to all shorties, everywhere apparently. Color cases, crazed artwork. Rules."- American Tapes |
| Artist:MANÇO, BARIS Title: Live In Tarsus 1975 Format: LP Label: Destur Country: Germany Price: $31.00 |
| "Destur Records is proud to present more ultra rare, previously unreleased material from the 70s Turkish rock scene: Baris Manço, Live in Tarsus 1975, a live bootleg from the end of 1975. In the concert, Manço and Kurtalan Express mostly present songs from their new LP called 2023 which had not been released in that period. During the concert, the group displays an eclectic sound from space rock to psychedelic funk which is blended with Turkish traditional music and a mystical atmosphere. 500 copies only, blue vinyl and with liner notes. Sound quality is not perfect but its more than enjoyable. A fantastic piece of Turkish rock history!" - Destur. |
| Artist:MANCO, BARIS Title: Sakla Samanı Gelir Zamanı Format: LP Label: Turkuola Country: Germany Price: $31.00 |
| "Third Baris Manço reissue on Turkuola. Like the rest, limited to 500 or less and not long for this world." -Turkuola |
| Artist:MANIACS DREAM Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "This wild group is a distant relative of Avarus. Maniacs Dream think they are playing punk rock but all they can catch on tape is dizzying, swirling and tumbling lunacy. They dont know how some of the sounds ended up on tape, the sounds have just somehow emerged from somewhere. But still there is a logic deep in all this. Relentless energy and a constant flow of ideas, some of them good, some of them something else. And these are hi-fi 4-track recordings. This is the fresh and exciting sound of the 21st century!" - Lal Lal Lal. |
| Artist:MANIACS DREAM Title: Turku Hold em Format: CD Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "A 66 minute excerpt from a 2 hour session from 2005. Recorded in the middle of the night after christmas - the result being the most detailed mess this trio has ever made. Bella is banging the drums naked, releasing lots of skin power. Fricara is giving the bass some feedback and Hesedelic is playing guitar very, very fast." - Lal Lal Lal |
| Artist:MANIACS DREAM Title: Zanzibar Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Finland is the epicenter of collective music-making. Under the name Maniacs Dream, members of a variety of Finnish bands such as Avarus, Fricara Pacchu, Kemialliset Ystävät, and more come together to create blown-out free rock (not your typical stoner guitar jams). Their unique/bizarre approach to music-making constantly questioning the construction/deconstruction of sound creates songs at times recalling the electro-acoustic clatter drone of Avarus crossed with tribal rhythms and intergalactic guitar zones. Total sonic freedom with a punk ethos directly influenced by a trip to Zanzibar prior to recording this record (which is a reissue of the long sold-out tape originally released on Lal Lal Lal in 2006). In an edition of 450 records on light blue vinyl with printed labels and full color pro-printed fold-over sleeves with art by Benjamin Bergman and an insert." - Arbor |
| Artist:MANIAX Title: The Lost Tapes Format: CD Label: Palo Alto Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "In the annals of Hardcore Punk history, there are certain bands who stumbled their way on to many vinyl and cassette compilations of the early eighties that stuck out so severely you just had to ask yourself Why?. Although their intention and sentiment fit right in with the Reagan Sucks/Drugs Suck/You Suck vibe of the time, their ineptitude and spirit created something so unique that it hit a vein of expression that was entirely of its own. None of the mask sporting pre-conceiving art wavers of the time could have come up with statements as effortlessly bizarre as the ones presented by such brave and confused one hit compilation wonders as Church Police, B.I.U, and Demented Youth. On the tipity top of that teetering list is Fresno Californias Maniax who supplied us with the beyond classic anthem Off to War on the beyond classic Not So Quiet on the Western Front double LP compilation in 1982. For nigh on twenty five years now, this track has intrigued the fuck outta me. With the fidelity lower than whale dung, a truly buzzsaw guitar battles for space with a barely pubescent vocalist who drones on and on reciting the words Off to War over and over again for a good five minutes. I always wondered if their other songs were this disorienting and wonderful. Well, I need not wonder no more! Maniax vocalist Gregg Mitchell has finally found the time to share with us the lost tapes of Fresnos youngest early 80s Punk band and its every thing Ive dreamed it would be and more. 34 tracks of bedroom recorded early teenaged Punk Rock anthems about dead dogs, posers and having a crush on Wendy O. Williams. Are they using an air organ on track 29? What the fuck? THE MOST ESSENTIAL AND NEEDED POSTHUMOUS PUNK ROCK RELEASE OF OUR CENTURY AND I MEAN THAT. Even though I really hate how nothing of the past is left to the imagination anymore these days, I gotta say my brain is exhausted after twenty something years of wondering what those other Maniax tracks sounded like. Thanks for the rest, Gregg." -- Tony Rettman. |
| Artist:MANSON FAMILY Title: The Family Jams Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Elite Hunting Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "The lost acid-folk "desert music" songs of Charles Manson, recorded during his trial in 1970 by Family members Clem on guitar and vocals, Gypsy on violin, and featuring the ultra-ethereal vocals of Gold and Country Sue. Artwork by Adam Parfrey and Robert N. Taylor, with included postcard. Very limited pressing of 500 copies, German import." -Elite Hunting. |
| Artist:MANTLES Title: Dont Lie (aka Trust)/Secret Heart Format: 7" Label: Mt. St. Mtn. Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "With the deceptively determined surge of a sleepy glacier, The Mantles have been quietly and slowly perfecting their trademarked dark n dirge pop sound over the past few years. Starting as a trio, the band recorded their Dulc-i-Tone single with the mysterious & unreliable Cram-Ro production team. The band then dug themselves out of the Cram-Ro shit-morass for a batch of sunnier sounds courtesy Papercuts Jason Quever, two songs of which make up their forthcoming Mt. St. Mtn single. Soon after this session, the band lost a bass player but simultaneously absorbed both halves of the Cram-Ro team (including the half that sometimes gets Personal wink-wink), and its this current four-piece incarnation that recorded the upcoming Siltbreeze full-length album with Gris Gris Greg Ashley. Reviewers & showgoers alike regularly struggle without success to pin down the Mantles sound, though the Paisley Underground scene somehow seems to come up a lot, and though reviewers have an affinity for the words New and Zealand when describing the Mantles, band members insist that Mantles songwriting mainman and Graeme Downes-lookalike Michael O. has no idea what Flying Nun is other than a goofy TV show, nor is he familiar with that Slitbree label people keep talking about." - Mt. St. Mtn. |
| Artist:MANTLES Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "With two acclaimed seven-inches under their belt, THE MANTLES answer the call for more with a stunning debut LP sure to please all who cross its path. The Mantles have been dead-on in distilling a contemporary pop / psych concoction that mixes equal parts early Chills with early Dream Syndicate-and really, who among us wouldnt want a bottle of that with which to quietly tipple the day away? Recorded by GREG ASHLEY, the LP taps said hybrid, and if anything, burrows deeper into the core of rock, extracting essential magma that fuses early SF Ballroom psychedelia, Byrds-ian jangle-pop, and the Velvet Undergrounds extraordinary ability for serpentine leads and bridges. And yep, that pretty much covers all the bases. The band is currently on their first US tour supporting Ty Segall coast to coast. LP includes free digital download." -Siltbreeze |
| Artist:MANY BRIGHT THINGS Title: Many Bright Friends Format: LP Label: Gates Of Dawn Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "The idea of the Supersession album dates back to 1968 with Al Koopers LP with Michael Bloomfield and Steve Stills. Fast forward thirty-seven years to the new album by Many Bright Things. It opens with the twenty-second title track, followed by the twenty-minute centerpiece: The Paul Butterfield Bands John Coltrane/Ravi Shankar-inspired masterpiece, East West. Across its twenty minutes and forty-four seconds no fewer that FIVE guitarists step into the center ring with solos that begin with Larry Demyer (Windopane) and include back-to-back fiery electric sermons by Nick Saloman (Bevis Frond) and Al Simones. The Silver Witch is written and performed by Alisha Sufit (Magic Carpet) accompanied by Frank DeFina on a beautiful Stephen Gilchrist F-5 mandolin. We think this song opens the second side of the vinyl as nicely as Within You Without You opened side two of Sgt. Pepper. Alishas voice reminds us of our dreams of angels. A tamboura drone and tabla accompaniment (by Paul Tescher) are the foundation for Minor Parade for 18 Strings and a duet between Stan Denskis acoustic 12-string Guild guitar and Paul Majors lead electric. Stan Denski & Larry Demyer play guitars, David Tufty Clough (Zero Boys) adds bass and Lon Paul (Marmoset) adds percussion, all of which form the ground upon which Jello Biafra (The Dead Kennedys) improvises observations on rare psychedelic music on I Am Not a Collector Potato! We guarantee youve never heard anything quite like this. The CD adds the ambient bonus track There Will Be a Slight Delay." - Gates Of Dawn. CD also available. |
| Artist:MAQUILADORA Title: White Sands ep Format: CDR Label: Acid Mothers Temple Gold Disc Series Country: JAPAN Price: $24.00 |
| "Phil : voice, hermonica, bass, divine incantations, frying pan; Eric : Acoustic guitar, bass, voice; Bruce : Hammond organ, guitar, xylophone, melodica, upright bass, accordion, water phone, voice. Additional musicians : Morgan - drums; Tobby - piano; Pall : guitar. Remixed by Kawabata Makoto. Original released by eunice music 1999. Art work by ELF / Sachiko Ichikawa. An Acid Mothers Temple reissue of the "White Sands EP", the second release by MAQUILADORA, an underground psychedelic trio from San Diego. Remixed by Makoto Kawabata. A classic of real American psychedelia, illuminated by a deep acid glow." - Acid Mothers. Long out of print. Numbered edition of 100. |
| Artist:MÁQUINA Title: Why? Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
| "Originally born as the backing band for spanish folk-singer Sisa after his electrification around 1969, this bunch of catalan youngsters led by the Batiste-Herrera tandem became soon the most prominent and visible heads of the grassroots movement which shake the foundations of the citys musical world at the beginning of the seventies and which can be considered asthe parting shot for progressive rock in Spain.. Why?, their debut album (also known as the "croissant" lp) is widely regarded in and out of Spain as one the best records ever to come out of Spain.. A wah wah (of course!), fuzz & hammond feast by this talented pioneering crew. An astonishing freak-out croissant baked with love by JM Paris (fuzz guitar), Lluis Cabanach (wah wah guitar, bass), JM Vilaseca "Tapi" (drums), Jordi Batiste (vocals, bass, flute) & Enric Herrera (organ, piano). Limited reissue (1000 numbered copies) of the album that was originally released on Diabolo in 1970." - Wah Wah. |
| Artist:MARBLE SHEEP Title: Tokyo 1988 Format: CD Label: Dirter Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "Brand new re-mastered and expanded edition of this long out-of-print seminal live CD from Japans Marble Sheep (or to give them their full title on this release: Marble Sheep and the Run-Down Suns Children). This was originally issued by Cold Spring back in 1995, and sold out within a week of release. This classic Marble Sheep line-up boasts the inclusion of some giants of the Japanese scene. Members of Zeni Geva, Incapacitants and Hijokaidan all grace the CD for this blistering performance. This is by no means a noise release though - it is incendiary Japanese rock music in the tradition of the likes of High Rise, Fushitsusha and Acid Mothers Temple. The CD is lavishly housed in a beautiful mini-LP gloss laminated sleeve, with brand new full color artwork. It is rounded off with the inclusion of two previously unreleased tracks from the same period in the bands history. The special mini-LP packaging is exclusive to the first 1000 copies." -Dirter. |
| Artist:MARBLE SHEEP & THE RUNDOWN SUNS CHILDREN Title: Big Deal Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
| First Captain Trip release from 1992. Produced by Souichirou Nakamura of White Heaven. |
| Artist:MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: De Musicorum Infelicitate Format: Book/Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: ITALY Price: $66.00 |
| "Two years ago Alga Marghen issued the third compact disc by Walter Marchetti, the mysterious and inaccessible De musicorum infelicitate. The edition included a folded poster with the presentation written by Gabriele Bonomo, a series of aphorisms to introduce the listeners to this work. The composer had then decided to let this edition circulate with no extra information looking at it as a perfect final statement. But a complete score was existing, and what a score. And it took several months to convince him to let it be printed as a book in order to provide a new perspective to this multi-layer cryptic unhappiness of music. For this is not only the score of a great composition but also a series of statements which help us to enter the composers epistemology and his point of view about music, creation and our contemporary condition in general. Now as we approach the end, music seems to hasten our pace; now that the word is mantled in a vast cloak incessant vibrations and, sadly, everything is becoming music; now it was the perfect right time to issue this precious book. A book with no poetic moments, never obscured by art, never the servant of art, meant to give an immediate image of music. Such a book could only be published as a high quality industrial object, album hardbound, 200 pages in DIN A 4 size, published in English and Italian, issued in an edition limited to 300 copies only. Music! Deadly dust for the mind. The world as music: a cosmic catastrophe. At this point, music remains in possession of only a single sound; all the others have been discarded. The last sound is recorded on the double-LP, as well as the complete painful variations previously issued on the Alga Marghen CD with the same title." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist:MARCHETTI, WALTER Title: Utopia Andata e Ritorno Format: Double CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
| "Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence, that is an objective future. But, accepting its negativity, makes of this self-negation the real act, the true reality - the true foundation, the real and actual continuity: this is musics sense. Utopia Andata e Ritorno is the title of the new composition by Walter Marchetti, recorded in Milano in 2005. It has two parts, each one CD long. The first part, LAndata, puts together two former recordings of Marchetti. The recording of a real storm and a recital for solo piano. This is not the first time that Marchetti mixes a piano solo recital with the recording of a natural live event, thus creating a piano concert. The second CD, Il Ritorno, reverses the direction of the first record and literally destroys itself. In the first part of this work, Marchetti puts music successfully in the place it has to have today: on the road to renewal in contact with reality, a reality that is a synonym for vacuity, that is the interdependence of phenomena, music, reality, technology. There is nothing mimetic or anecdotal in this work. The storm is a real storm and the solo piano recital is a modern work of pure music, without the excesses that the society expects of a piano recital from composer and virtuoso player. Pure music, in the best sense of the word. Three-folded digipack 2CD edition. It includes a 32-page booklet with essays by Water Marchetti, Gabriele Bonomo and José Luis Castillejo. First edition limited to 500 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist:MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN Title: Guitar Drag Format: LP Label: Neon Gallery Country: Sweden Price: $25.00 |
| Soundtrack from the video Guitar Drag, 2000. Recorded in San Antonio Texas, on November 18th 1999. 12" one-sided transparent vinyl. 14 minutes. "The record is actually the soundtrack for Marclays video with the same title that was shown first at Londons Hayward Gallery sound art exhibition Sonic Boom in 2000. The piece as well as Marclay has become an icon in sound art circles, and although the video can only be seen in exhibitions as an installation, it is widely known. The full 14-minute soundtrack is released on a beautiful 12" clear vinyl record packaged in a sleeve with stills from the video. Filmed in San Antonio Texas, it shows an amplified Fender Stratocaster guitar attached to a rope being pulled behind a pick-up truck. As the guitar drags across the road it produces a range of sounds from the bumping and the friction against the varied surfaces. A fantastic visual piece, but also an amazing sound piece, that stands just as well alone, and in some ways just as visual! From the first sounds of duct-tape being ripped, the familiar sound of someone gently slamming the strings of the guitar, to the sounds of an engine starting and then slowly the beginning of a sound that is hollow and at the same time human, and that takes us through the deepest roarings to high pitched screams until the very end when it all slows down and stops, unwillingly it seems. Knowing the story behind the work or not, the sound itself triggers your imagination, leaving your soul no peace. For even if this could be seen, or heard, solely as a beautiful noisy sound piece, there is too much to the idea behind Guitar Drag, for it to not leave you restless and thoughtful." - Neon Gallery. |
| Artist:MARHAUG, LASSE Title: One Eye and Watching Format: 7" Label: Melektronikk Country: NORWAY Price: $6.00 |
| "Lasse Marhaug should be know to all fans of leftfield electronic music and noise by now. The last couple of years he has used most of his time in the lower-case electronica duo Jazzkammer. Jazzkammer has released albums on Rune Grammofon and Smalltown Supersound. Outside Jazzkammer Marhaug has collaborated with artists like Aube, Merzbow and Kevin Drumm." - Melektronikk. |
| Artist:MARHAUG, LASSE & FEILER, DROR Title: No More Drama Format: LP Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Edited live recordings, sometimes sounds like a borbetomagus storm, sometimes sounds like being in the middle of a bombing in Palestine. A Picture of this record should be next to every definition of Noise music. Lasse Marhaug plays in Jazkamer and has at least 300 other great projects solo and with other people. Dror Feiler served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and refused to serve in the occupied territories in the early 70s. He is now a Swedish-Israeli musician and artist and has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is active as a composer of modern music and enjoys giving ear problems and headaches to classically trained musicians. The most brutal vinyl record you will hear this year. Limited to 300 copies." -No Fun |
| Artist:MARR DEL Title: The Mystery of Love Format: LP Label: MSP Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Accurately described as "sparse cosmic female real people" by the guy who invented this type of descriptions. Her voice is somewhat arch and lofty, but the refined, serious mood is effective. Acoustic guitar and autoharp, some songs, some spoken poetry with musical backing and occasional sounds of nature such as rain and thunder." - Douglas McGowan. Sealed, original copies from 1979. |
| Artist:MARS Title: Mars LP: The Complete Studio Recordings NYC 1977-1978 Format: CD Label: No More Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The Mars LP is the definitive collection of the 32 minutes of studio recordings released between 1977 and 1979 on vinyl by the first of the no wave bands. Supervised by the surviving members, remastered from original sources without any added effects, and packaged with detailed notes and lyrics, the Mars LP is an effort to recuperate the groups legacy and make up for the unavailability of these tracks in their original sound." "Static transmissions from a distant dark star. Taking up and tripping out further than the Velvet Undergrounds Black Angel Death Song , Mars punished not with blunt force, but with a propulsive agitation which signaled a neurological insanity. A crippled tension swathed in nervous friction. A cavernous musical universe riddled with eerie sound storms whose poisoned atmosphere seduced and threatened. Obtuse and unforgiving. Sickly sexy. Red noise redefining bass urges, forcing the listener to question their own sanity by drilling into ear holes using electroshock guitars as saw blades trepanning into grey matter. Mars unleashed a choking cacophony illustrating the body as machine in disrepair fuelled by the impending repulsion and disintegration of a perverse romance with ones own demons. Demons who once wrenched free, made mimicry of the jangling nerve centers, and given voice as song, turned schizophrenic and howled these testimonials to the unbearable." -- Lydia Lunch. "[note: Mars LP is the title, but this is a CD only release]. Includes their first single on Rebel/Ze, the No New York tracks, the Mars EP on Lust/Unlust -- their complete discography. This CD should be considered as an alternative to the still-valid Mars 78+ CD on Atavistc -- this one features all the original recordings as intended, with all the Thirlwell sound reprocessing of the Atavistic CD eliminated." - FE. |
| Artist:MARS Title: 78+ Format: CD Label: Atavistic Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Crucial document of this seminal NYC band from the late 70s, considered by many in retrospect to be the most influential no wave band from the era. A quartet of Sumner Crane, China Burg, Mark Cunningham & Nancy Arlen, they recorded revolutionary EPs for Ze and Lust/Unlust, as well as contributing to the infamous No New York LP." - FE. "To the uninitiated, Mars may sound like listening to a laundromat magnified. Thats because every instrument is making a sound, but who is making which sound? Instead of one direct sound or beat the music travels in at least 3 different directions, speeds of rhythm making a totally orbital sound, one that never really enters the ear instead spinning around the head. At times it sounds like tortured children singing in 7 different tongues." --Stella Doon, 1977. |
| Artist:MARTIAL CANTEREL Title: Refuge Underneath Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Wierd Records is proud to present Martial Canterels first full-length CD release entitled Refuge Underneath, a compilation of the artists first two long-deleted self-released cassette tapes Drilling Backwards (2006) and Sister Age (2004) as well as 5 previously unreleased tracks, all digitally re-mastered. Over the past 5 years the state of electronic music has seen artists slowly remove themselves from their work and visceral musical expression in general. Traditional electronic machines have been replaced by the computer as the dominant generator of contemporary sounds. It is in this climate that Sean McBride, aka Martial Canterel, began performing at bars, clubs and private parties in Brooklyn, NY in 2002, functioning singlehandedly as the pioneer and instigator of what has now become a new movement of minimal electronic bands in the United States. Martial Canterel records and performs using only vintage analogue synthesizers and sequencers, producing a highly-crafted, complex, and idiosyncratic form of electronic music that is simultaneously romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggressive. Inspired both by the first wave of relatively unknown minimal electronic bands in Northern Europe(a musical genre also often referred to as minimal synth) and the seminal industrial noise bands such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK, and Cabaret Voltaire, Martial Canterel presents a new optimistic paradigm for electronic music in which the analogue synthesizer functions anew as a folk instrument of humanist resistance to a virtual soft synth, iPod, and iTunes saturated world of click and drag dematerialized abstraction." - Wierd. |
| Artist:MARTIN, ROBERT Title: Long Goodbye Format: LP Label: Yik Yak Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "I first heard ROBERT MARTINs Long Goodbye while surrounded by friends. Even over the din of voices rallying to quantify, qualify, contain, bag and tag what we were all hearing, I was sure Id never heard anything quite like it. Long Goodbye opens with some broken acoustic noodling that sounds like a Derek Bailey slow motion replay, over which a double-tracked cry of voices transmits mournfully, meticulously, and with an unnerving sense of purpose. From there it gets stranger and more beautiful, as Martin sings with unique abandon-is there such a thing as sad joy?-often wordlessly, frequently incoherently. The tunefulness of Martins achingly beautiful voice sits in sharp contrast to the crudely played guitar, and sets Martin apart from his lamentably more in the know contemporaries. There are few touchstones for the magic contained herein-Bobb Trimble at his most wounded, Tony Caro and Johns All On The First Day LP, the earliest blues recordings of Guitar Roberts-but Martins intensely private music is all his own. And now, ours to share."-James Jackson Toth San Francisco, July 2007. |
| Artist:MASATO, MINAMI Title: The Tropics Format: CD Label: Showboat/Sky Station Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
| "2nd CD reissue from Showboat of this classic Japanese underground folk-rock album, originally released by RCA Japan in 1971. Great mini-LP gatefold packaging, but very few made and not long for this world. "The Tropics was Minami Masatos first record on which he got assisted by Mizutani Takeshi of the Rallizes Denudes, his only appearance on record ever. Minami Masato was one of Japans first beatnik hippie scum singers, who before venturing into the music world, spent some time in Mexico where he indulged himself in the narcotic goodies the country had to offer, went to America and witnessed in 1964 the rise of the beatnik movement and saw one of Bob Dylans early performances. Minamis life would never be the same again. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean, criss-crossed through Europe and returned to Tokyo in 1966. He participated at the 1968 Kyoto Folk Jamboree Festival. However, his debut single did not appear until October 1969, followed by a second single in 1970. This album, his debut appeared in July 1971 for which he got assisted by a loose collective of fan musicians and befriended artists. Hadaka no Rallizes Mizutani Takeshi was such a fan collaborator since he was quite in awe for what Minami stood for, being the unattached beatnik and drugged singer-songwriter he was. He let loose some ear shattering electric guitar on the albums closing track. This is the sole recorded output of Mizutani on disc. At least officially, if one ignores the dozen bootlegs and unofficially released music of his (like the Arthur Doyle-Mizutani 2LP set that was released without his consent). An unbelievably valuable document of the early Japanese underground. Hyper-rare and demented all the way. For lovers of Hadaka no Rallizes, Tomokawa Kazuki, acid folk, Jandek, and obscure and psyched-out sounds." -Showboat/Sky Station |
| Artist:MASTER QSH Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "Side A was captured live outdoors in northern Finland, during the season of the midnight sun. Reminds you of an Ocora field recording from Xxxzazazastan. But that doesnt really mean anything. On the B-side, theres a mellow 9-piece percussion workout from the catacombs of Turku, Finland. Believe me, this is unbelievably satisfying free ethnic hippie music." - Lal Lal Lal. |
| Artist:MATHS BALANCE VOLUMES Title: Cattle Skulls Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Demented basement hollering and white spirituals delivered from Mankato, Minneapolis. The sound of young America stirring up their own cult and aural confussion." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist:MATMOS Title: Rat Relocation Program Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A street rat was breaking into our apartment, eating our food and chewing holes in our clothes, skittering across our kitchen in the dark, scuttling inside our walls late at night. Since we already had a pet rat, the prospect of trying to kill one rat while feeding another struck us as intolerable hypocrisy, so we bought a non-lethal Have-a-Heart Trap. After several days of luring the invader closer and closer towards and then inside the trap with peanuts, we captured her. The first track is an unedited recording of the rat protesting its incarceration. The second track is our response, in which the timing and duration of the rat screams from the first track have been preserved. The following morning we took the rat to a wealthy suburban neighborhood and set it free." -- Drew Daniel. "The dynamic hybrid electro-rock duo Matmos strike again hot on the heels of last years celebrated Matador full length the Civil War with this zany, completely mesmerizing 2 track contribution to the Met Life series of field recordings and ingenious sound responses. The Matmos boys stretch an ominous canvas with the bare sounds of an incarcerated rat ensconced in a friendly trap and paint an unlikely response. Rat Relocation Program is a heavily elevated, gleeful electro-rock epic that combines Matmos patented blend of humor, drill & bass with cinematic prog reminiscent of the cult fantasy sci fi film The Fantastic Planet." - Locust |
| Artist:MATRIX METALS Title: Flamingo Breeze Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Remastered issue of the out-of-print tape released over the summer by Not Not Fun. Limited to 500 copies. Full color pro-printed covers and includes coupon for free digital download." "The Matrix vision is to grow a long term, copper bi-product based on the fitness workouts and dance moves of Frank B. Harnsaul & Marianne Weisner MD. Located in the world class Mt. Isa base dance studios, this routine will be achieved by elevating the cities existing frozen yoghurt resource and reserve inventory through the special achievements of ongoing exploration success on the largely unexplored, unexpected Jackson portfolio. The various phases of the dance will be implemented with ongoing due respect to all participating parties particularly homeless natives, native title claimants and landholders in the extended families of both Mr. Harnsaul & Ms. Weisner. Applications: High Pressure Gas Cylinders, Scuba Tanks, Medical Gases, Fire Extinguishers, Fire Suppression Systems, Over The Road Trailers, Refrigerant Gas Cylinders, Specialty Gas Cylinders." - Outer Limits Incorporated. |
| Artist:MATTA LLAMA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Mad Monk Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Matta Llama are already one of the most talked about bands in New York City, but after the psych beardstrokers, dateless dronemongers, and stoner rock wastoids get ahold of this, the bands name will be express-delivered to legendary status alongside Trad Gras Och Stenar, Edgar Broughton Band, and High Rise. Featuring gifted artist Arik Moonhawk Roper on bass, this relentless foursome have crafted one of the most explicitly psychedelic and teeth-rattling albums to come along in years. With deluxe fold out poster and fancy matte printed covers, only 500 copies and destined to fly." - Mad Monk. |
| Artist:MATTA LLAMA Title: The Witch Channel Format: LP Label: Black Dirt Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Sometimes, throughout the process of creating a record, it is easy to forget how much magic is involved. When one is surrounded by wires, microphones, dials, tubes, screens, and stomp boxes there can be a decided lack of mystery. These are the earliest Black Dirt recordings, originally captured a mere few days after our humble doors were opened. As a matter of fact, everyone involved approached the experience as a sort of favor – youll be our guinea pig and well do our damn best to get a good document out of it. Matta Llama dug in for a session and did what they do so well... wordlessly picking up their instruments – and at certain points, each others – and opening up that secret door that allows access to a timeless wellspring of past and future sounds. After the band had improvised more than an albums worth of music, something seemed off on playback. Another session was scheduled and a different approach was taken. Oddly, the results were the same. We placed the recordings on a shelf and high fived each other before they rode off on their way back to the big, dark city. And there the recordings sat. But a funny thing happened a few years later after we received our Alchemists robe in the mail. We went back to the them and realized that whatever was leaden about the sounds Matta Llama had laid down so many months before was purely a result of a young studio – and novice engineer! - and once some of those problems were corrected, a blazing, golden, psychedelic beacon shot out of the speakers. The band was immediately contacted and at an impromptu meeting many things were discussed. Seeds grown to trees, lead to gold, and finally the idea of this record. Now, so many years later, this record glows with magic. It is hard to believe that there were any of the mundane trappings of a studio involved at all. It is a swirling, mysterious, and dark record and the document of the birth of Black Dirt and were proud to present The Witch Channel to you." - Black Dirt. Edition of 500. Recorded at Black Dirt Studio Westtown, NY. Mastered by Carl Saff Chicago, IL. 140g vinyl pressed at Brooklyn Phono Brooklyn. NY. Covers silk screened by VGKids Ypsilanti, MI. |
| Artist:MATTHEWS, KAFFE Title: This Many Planes Format: 7" Label: SSS Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| 1998 release. |
| Artist:MAUS, JOHN Title: Love Is Real Format: CD Label: Upset The Rhythm Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "John Maus lives and works in Austin, Minnesota. Although first drawn to our attention as a core member of Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti and keyboard player with Animal Collectives Panda Bear, Maus has proved himself an extraordinary musician with a distinctive sound in his own right. Love Is Real is an album of contrast, of obscurity and familiarity, of darkness and light. Moments of intense disco anxiety warning against the sins of avarice (Too Much Money) find themselves rubbing shoulders with romantic virtuoso fugues (Green Bouzard). The juxtaposition of the buoyant 80s synth pop alongside Johns sombre, sometimes even morose lyrics is another good example of this tension. Without you girl, Im going over the edge, Maus sings over the four-to-the-floor dance rhythm of the albums prescient closer Times Is Weird. Over the fantastical keyboard gymnastics of The Whole Worlds Coming Apart, John finds relief in repeatedly confessing This is my nightmare, my nightmare. Its contrasts like these which point towards Johns preoccupation on this album with confused emotions and misunderstood intentions. Ariel Pink, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Scott Walker, Echo & The Bunnymen, Goblin, Ultravox, Joy Division, The Cure, Bach."- Upset The Rhythm |
| Artist:MAUSIM Title: s/t Format: CD Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $12.00 |
| "Two tracks capturing live/archival recordings of MAUSIM in its initial phase. Four guitars coagulate into a dense psychedelic mass...emerging from the squall are soaring sounds which disintegrate into an overpass pile-up. Only the rhythm of wind remains. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies and packaged in wood, twine, canvas, etc." - HP Cycle. |
| Artist:MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA Title: They Never Learn Format: LP Label: Trash Ritual Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Second reissue of post-mortem industrial / power electronics album from Italys legendary MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA. Violent sound art originally released via Aquilifer Sodality 1985. Edition of 250." - Trash Ritual. |
| Artist:MAUVE SIDESHOW Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Ventricle Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "a curious mixture; the floating light ambient of Golden Sand, moody disjointed sound collages on Beneath the Rose and the pulsing darkness of the legendary Barricades", the first of the Ventricle releases and showing the different moods of Treva." - Ventricle. All available titles from Mauve Sideshows (post-Kangaroo Kourt) long running label, exclusively releasing experimental, "mysterious female vox". "(Mauve Sideshow is an) extraordinary trippy US girl combo, sometimes kinda Current 93 meets "space whisper" era Gong, other times a weird space-trip, brain movie, noise & soundscape trip & flip out! There are numerous other Ventricle label interconnected acts to check-out, like: Angel Provocateur, Blessed Oblivion, Minus Infinity, Mistress Of Strands, Thistle, Torn Curtain, etc." - Ultima Thule. "A new CD on Mauve Sideshows Ventricle label is always a thrilling event." - FE. |
| Artist:MAUVE SIDESHOW Title: The Girl Format: CD Label: Ventricle Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "more moody gothadelica with the singer frequently sounding like shes talking/singing to herself in a strange dream, nice long mellotron washes in the titles cut." - Ventricle. |
| Artist:MAUVE SIDESHOW Title: Blood Will Tell Format: CD Label: Ventricle Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Fifth and final CD by this always intriguing Seattle duo of Treva (vocals, effects) and Dusty (sound collage, mellotron)." - FE. "the final and most minimal MS release, subtle glimmering electronics and whispery vocals which wont make send if played in broad daylight, but after midnight when the candlewax is all over the carpet and the wine is spilled it gets put on auto repreat." - Ventricle. |
| Artist:MAX CLOUD Title: Legs (Dub) Format: 7" Label: Spite Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| Edition off 100 copies. |
| Artist:MAYET, HISHAM Title: Palace of the Winds Format: DVD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Shot over the course of two years (2006-2008) by Hisham Mayet, Palace Of The Winds is an intimate and dream-like journey exploring the music of Saharawi culture from Guelmim in Southern Morocco to the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott. With spectacular images from inhospitable landscapes, chimerical phenomena that transpire by the sheer remoteness of the land, and haunting indigenous music from a people that have long been shrouded in mystery, this is a genre-defying film of profound beauty. Explore the intoxicating tapestry of sight and sound that this obscure region has to offer through its most awe-inspiring musicians. Featuring live performances by Group Doueh, Group Marwani, Sadoum Oueld Aida and Group Bab Sahara. Color; 52 minutes; digipack; all-region DVD; NTSC format. Limited edition pressing of 1,000 copies." - Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist:MAYFAIR SET Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Dum Dum Girls and Blank Dogs co-op band. More, more sad hits. (Reference intentional.) Slightly oversized envelope sleeve. Half w/ silver print, half w/ gold." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
| Artist:MAYFAIR SET Title: Young One Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Dum Dum Girls/Blank Dogs collaboration continues with six new spooky jams. Like the Legendary Pink Dots attacking The Primitives in an alleyway. Spooky 4ADish pop charmers. Beautiful full-color sleeve." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist:MAYPOLE Title: The Real Format: LP Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Anopheles Records is proud to announce our latest archival release, the first ever authorized, high quality vinyl LP reissue of Baltimore, Marylands Maypole, whose sole album, The Real, was recorded in three days, July 1970, and released in early 1971, shortly before their label folded, dooming the album to stillborn status commercially at the time, and collector want list status today. The LP is an ambitious, 50-minute feast of tight harmonies, powerful arrangements, fluid improvisation, and flat out great songs, and serves as a touchstone for twin guitar-driven, West Coast-styled psychedelia, soaring power pop, and blistering hard rock - some even call it prog - everyone wants a piece of the Great One. If youve been looking for an LP to complete an imaginary trilogy with S.F. Sorrow and Parachute, then this is your tonic. The stature of Maypole has been muddied by the previous CD reissues, but this LP edition gets it right. Featuring state of the art remastering and pressing, a high quality full color tip on jacket featuring original artwork, and a full color insert loaded with lyrics, photos, and complete historical notes by Maypole founder, Dennis Tobell, this is the closest to classic psychedelia Anopheles Records has delved in to date, and were glad we didnt settle for something second rate - Maypole is The Real." - Anopheles. |
| Artist:MAYYORS Title: Deads EP Format: 12" Label: Hurling Man Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "If youre a fan of listening to AmRep-style, throat-hammering noise rock while operating a lawnmower, Sacramentos Mayyors have been your favorite band for quite a while now. The stories that Ive heard about the general directive of this band (self-release ten singles and call it a day, suggest a coastal alliance and rarely leave the state of California) points towards a treatise on how to make people remember them. I hope the streak of conceptual purity holds out, and it looks as if it might, because this four-song 12" is better than their first two singles. Luxurious 45 RPM mastering at as little as four minutes per side makes this one of the loudest punk records since In Love with Jetts, guaranteeing that whatever rental properties its played in are going to lose significant fractions of their security deposits. Im not normally a fan of effects pedal abuse, but what Chris Woodhouse does with them on Clicks, the way he builds a simple, two-note progression into percussive blastloops that line up with the drums, and dial through them like the channel knob on a now-useless TV set, has turned me around. These guys busted DJ Ricks forehead open at a house show -- not on purpose, of course -- but when was the last time any of you felt so much for a band that you were willing to risk bodily harm to let them play? I think he took the hit for us all. Serious Hazelmyer/Gear Jammer worship put to a hefty rhythm section that fires the kick on the up and the down beats, possessing that rolled-up-in-a-rug-and-tossed-downhill sorta ambiance that really makes these sorta things come together. Prolonged exposure to these times has been difficult. Mayyors dont take the burn away, but they do blot out the rest of the world for refreshing, two-three-minute bursts -- in the parlance of the Cinco Toilet Shower, just enough time to get clean." - Doug Mosurok. |
| Artist:MAZZACANE CONNORS, LOREN & ALAN LICHT Title: Live In NYC Format: LP Label: New World Of Sound Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Improvised live at CBs Gallery, 2/5/94. Sealed copies of this mid 90s release. |
| Artist:MC TRACHIOTOMY/OCCASIONAL DETROIT Title: Split Format: 12" Label: Ignivomous Country: US Price: $12.00 |
| "A mess-up-your-mind new LP split between two outside-the-norm screwballers. New Orleans MC Trachiotomy scores with some more of his patented, deep-in-the-game experimental hip hop stylings (including some Drum Buddy work from fellow Marginy mate Quintron), while Michigan freak sound motherhumpers Occasional Detroit just get fucked. Packaged with cover art by Devin Flynn." - Revolver. |
| Artist:MCCLURE, BRUCE Title: Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture (Fain Make Glories) Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "limited advance edition of an upcoming OESB release - only 120 copies - most of which are for sale at Bruces performances this month (april 2009) with Throbbing Gristle... all covers uniquely hand-painted.. excellent recording of a projector performance at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN - January 2009... all sounds generated by Bruces array of 16mm and 35mm film projectors and processed live... kind of an unintentional power electronics take on steve reich and terry rileys early tape experiments -- ranges from off-kilter mimimal techno vibe to full-on aube/merzbow pandemonium..." - OESB. |
| Artist:MCCLURE, BRUCE Title: Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture - Fain Make Glories Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Bruce McClure is well known on the international experimental film circuit for his unique projector performances that utilize film loops & modified 16mm projectors. But there is also an equally innovative sound element to his work and he has been embraced by the experimental music community as well. Bruce performed at the Chocolate Monk curated Colour Out of Space festival in 2008 and was chosen as an opening act for Throbbing Gristles reunion tour in the spring of 2009. During McClures performances the optical sound signals from each projector are fed through banks of guitar pedals, manipulated live, and played at extremely high volumes through the p.a. system. The different loops phase in and out of each other resulting in what could be described as a power electronics version of the early tape experiments of Steve Reich and Terry Riley, while sparser sections have an off-kilter minimal techno feel reminiscent of Plastikman and the early works of Thomas Brinkmann. This album features four excerpts from a professionally recorded performance in early 2009 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Edition of 375 copies in heavy duty covers silkscreened by Monoroid." - Olde English Spelling Bee. |
| Artist:MCDOWELL, FRED Title: Fred McDowell Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Reissue of the Arhoolie LP originally titled Fred McDowell - Volume 2. A beautiful set by the Mississippi blues legend. One of Freds best. Intense Delta blues." - Mississippi. |
| Artist:MCGRATH, SUNI Title: Seven Stars/Fantasia Format: 7" Label: Near Mint Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| Artist:MCGREGORS BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH, CHRIS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Fledgling Country: UK Price: $35.00 |
| "Reissued by Fledgling in 2007, this is a classic title from 1971 by Chris McGregors magnificent big band -- Brotherhood Of Breath. Arguably one of the most influential albums to emerge from the London jazz scene of the early 1970s, the Brotherhood of Breath was an exuberant big-band created by South African-born pianist and composer, Chris McGregor. In South Africa, McGregor had formed the racially mixed Blue Notes in the early 1960s. By 1964, finding it very difficult to work at home, they left for Europe, finally settling in London in 1966. The Blue Notes -- Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo -- made a huge impact on Londons jazz scene and befriended many in Londons emerging avant-garde jazz community. The Brotherhood Of Breath was essentially the expatriate Blue Notes augmented by a large number of their friends from the British jazz community. The ensemble played an energetic mixture of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra, but retained a unique feel due to the South African influences and the intelligent arrangements. McGregor dreamed of keeping the band together "not as an institution, but as a community." Unfortunately, the economics of touring with such a large ensemble made that impossible. The group with a varying line-up continued to perform and record sporadically until McGregors untimely death in May 1990." - Fledgling. |
| Artist:MCGUIRE, MARK Title: Pocket Full of Rain Format: Double Cass Label: Pizza Night Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The absolutely most current recordings out by Mcguire having just been recorded a little over two weeks ago. hes in top form right now - these jams are thick and well thought out... sonically perfect ..obviously alot of big things happening with emeralds, but his solo work has become nearly its own thing completely..lots of LPs coming out plastic,weird forest etc" - Pizza Night |
| Artist:MCGUIRE, MARK Title: VDSQ - Solo Acoustic Volume Two Format: LP Label: Vin Du Select Qualitite Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Melodic ballads and new songs from Emeralds guitarist spark new innovations and memories thought to be lost. One third of the drone masters Emeralds." - VDSQ. Recorded Oct-Dec 2008. Silkscreened jackets, limited to 500. |
| Artist:MCLEAN, BARTON & PRISCILLA Title: Electronic Landscapes Format: CD Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| Originally issued in 1979, first time on CD w/ bonus tracks. "Although Barton and his wife Priscilla McLean have had a long and distinguished history of LP and compact disc albums throughout their professional composer/performer career, this album is unique in that it is the first one to present, on one CD, such a broad and comprehensive picture of their purely electronic music, spanning 1975 through 2001. Interestingly, although their materials and equipment have changed, their ideas of musical composition are still basically the same, creating a unity throughout the CD." From the liner notes: "When Bart introduced me to the new studio with the Synthi-100, I stared unbelievingly: here was a huge synthesizer, along a whole wall, with hundreds of push-pins (a matrix setup for connecting sounds, rather than the old patch cords), and twenty-two oscillators! The Synthi-256 Digital Sequencer was a full-sized keyboard, standing alone diagonally to the analog synthesizer, but connected internally. In that studio with the giant machines, one raced from one end of the room to another to play and record the sounds, never sitting down, and in removing unwanted noise or editing out a recorded section, the composer had to take a metal splicing block and sharp razor blade, and pressing down very hard, cut through the 1-inch wide acetate tape in two places, remove the unwanted time segment, and rejoin the two remaining ends with special splicing tape! So we three - Bruce, Bart, and I worked all our spare time, alternating with each other, in the I.U.S.B. Studio. I spent whole days there, sometimes 22 hours long, working and working to get just the right sound-combinations and record them." - Priscilla Mclean. |
| Artist:McMILLEN, SHAWN DAVID Title: Catfish Format: LP Label: Emperor Jones Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The debut solo release from former ASH CASTLES ON THE GHOST COAST member and current IRON KITE and RUBBLE player SHAWN DAVID McMILLEN. Five epic, mostly instrumental songs performed with bowed bass and metal, Indian goat bells, analog synth, a rusty old autoharp, amplified springs and an abundance of guitars. Features guest appearances by BC SMITH (Iron Kite, ETHEREAL PLANES INDIAN) and MATT MARTINEZ (FRIDAY GROUP). One-time vinyl-only edition of 500 copies, packaged with eye-blistering artwork by McMillen reproduced in a sickening black cast created with multiple passes of ink." -Emperor Jones |
| Artist:MCPHEE, JOE Title: Soprano Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "A document of Joe McPhees first solo concert devoted exclusively to the straight horn, Soprano is both a companion volume to his previous LP for Roaratorio (the critically lauded Everything Happens For A Reason) and a follow-up to his classic album Tenor, which raised the bar for solo saxophone music over 30 years ago. Recorded live in St. Georges Church at the Guelph Jazz Festival in 1998, Soprano was inspired by Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening performance at the venue the previous year. The acoustics of the church provided a natural web of reverberation and delay, and compose as much a part of the sonic palette as Michael Overhages farmhouse did for Tenor. McPhees art is informed by the head and the heart in equal measures, and Soprano is thoughtful, passionate music from one of jazzs most eloquent practitioners. A limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by McPhee and Oliveros." - Roaratorio. |
| Artist:MCPHEE, JOE Title: Alto Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Alto joins Tenor and Soprano to complete a discrete trilogy within Joe McPhees catalog of unaccompanied waxings. Recorded live at a Lower East Side bar in 2009, McPhees explorations on alto saxophone and clarinet are alternately fiery and contemplative, imbued with the masterful intelligence thats marked his work for over forty years. A limited edition of 525 copies on 180 gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by Hank Shteamer. Digital download coupon included." - Roaratorio. |
| Artist:MCPHERSON, DONALD & TETUZI AKIYAMA Title: Vinegar & Rum Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
| "Recorded in New Zealand in 2004, is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising. Donald McPherson, a native New Zealander has been playing the guitar since the tender age of 12, he studied at the Otago Art School in the 80s and in the 90s he released a number of extremely limited lathe-cut folk records. Tetuzi Akiyama is often associated with the improvising community in Tokyo generated around Tokyos Off Site venue. But to Tetuzis sound owes just as much to the country blues guitarists of the 30s. His sound has taken the blues form into a new world of minimalist improvisations. His loose playing side steps the usual clichés of the guitar in both the free improv and traditional folk scenes. Tetuzi has a varied number of very different projects from free improvisations, working with musicians across the globe, to hard minimalist electric blues boogies, a startling example can be found on Idea Records Dont Forget To Boogie LP and Headz live CD version. This record finds Tetuzi and Donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing, that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem. And the CD is limited to 1000, there are two extra tracks on the CD that do not appear on the vinyl version." First CD on BoWeavil; LP version is coming out later..." - Bo Weavil. |
| Artist:MCPHERSON, DONALD & TETUZI AKIYAMA Title: Vinegar & Rum Format: LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| "This LP was recorded in New Zealand in 2004, and is the duo recording of New Zealand guitarist Donald McPherson and Japanese guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. A beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising. Donald McPherson, a native New Zealander has been playing the guitar since the tender age of 12, studied at the Otago Art School in the 80s. and in the 90s he released a number of extremely limited lathe-cut folk records. This record finds Tetuzi and Donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. Both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem." - Bo Weavil. |
| Artist:MEAN MOTION Title: Eternal Struggle/Meditation On The Flame Format: Cass Label: Silver Ghosts Country: Netheralnds Price: $7.00 |
| "...taking the slow motion flowing bliss of oceanic green cubes and merging them with layers of homegrown spirit yearns of soul bubbling harmonies synchronizing with the sun of tomorrows." - Christian Wilberstein (Kosmische Quelle). Features Christelle Gauldi of Stella Om Source (LP soon on Jason Meaghers [NNCK] Black Dirt label). |
| Artist:MEAN MOTION Title: Life Jams Vol. 1 Format: Cass Label: Silver Ghosts Country: Netheralnds Price: $7.00 |
| "Three floors underground heavy basement jams, bare knuckled, bleeding gums but hanging in there to glimpse these short visions of beauty deep in within the murk. " - Silver Ghosts. Features Christelle Gauldi of Stella Om Source (LP soon on Jason Meaghers [NNCK] Black Dirt label). |
| Artist:MEBUSAS Title: Blood Brothers Format: LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "A large and multitalented group, THE MEBUSAS Blood Brothers album (1973) reflects the diversity of its members. Elements of soul, funk and psychedelic rock as well as Latin, Caribbean and African music come together in a powerfully unique album recorded in Nigeria. This is the first ever reissue of their only LP." - Academy. |
| Artist:MECKI MARK MEN Title: Running In The Night Format: CD Label: Mellotronen Country: Sweden Price: $23.00 |
| "Mindbending heavy acid space rock from Sweden 1969! Mecki Mark Men was (together with Hansson and Karlsson) Jimi Hendrix favourite Swedish band. When Jimi came back from his Swedish tours he probably told tales about the wild Swedish organ tormentor Mecki Bodemark who did the same things with his grinding Organ as Jimi did with his guitar. They sound like a mix of Teargas, High Tide and Jimi Hendrix but with a wild organ player in glittering space costume. The mighty guitar wizard Kenny Hakansson has never been more psychedelic than this!!! "While I was searching for the master tape to Mecki Mark Mens 2nd album titled "Running in the Summer Night" I discovered the original master which was originally meant to be released as the Swedish version of the album. Mecki Mark Men was contracted by Philips in Sweden but it was Limelight records in the USA who released the album in 1969. I compared the Limelight tapes and the newly discovered Philips tapes. Basically it was the same album but sound wise it was two totally different ones. Musically it is still brain melting Heavy Acid Space Rock driven by the fury of demons, but now with a fantastic pure and dynamic sound! The CD includes the album plus bonus material from the US version as well as short conversations from the studio. Detailed biography by Reine Fiske and Tommy Dahln!!!" - Mellotronen |
| Artist:MEDIO MUTANTE Title: Inestable EP Format: 12" Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Cititrax is proud to present Medio Mutantes debut 12 inch EP. The six tracks on this record are the product of a serendipitous meeting of minds and the feverish week of recording sessions that followed. Mariana Saldana, Jose Cota and Seth Nemec met in 2007 in Austin Texas and began recording the same night, writing the title track Inestable as soon as the synths had been plugged in. Drawing on a shared love of synthesizers and drum machines, each had worked as a solo electronic artist before uniting, the three immediately found a shared vision. Having grown up listening to Hip-hop, Jazz, Latin freestyle and New Wave records from Europe, America and Japan, Medio Mutante wrings a mutated blend of raw and propulsive energy from their limited analogue gear. The bands name, literally “Average Mutant” in Spanish, is also an indication of their subtle perversion of familiar themes in their songs. Love, science fiction, and disenfranchisement in a future gone bland are turned on their ear in 6 danceable electro songs sung in Spanish and English. Medio Mutante are an American band, born of working class values, with their feet planted in the past but looking to the future. Limited edition of 600 copies." -Cititrax. New side label of Minimal Wave. |
| Artist:MEDIO MUTANTE Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: PDSW Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
| "You know their songs from their MySpace site? You also have already ordered their great 12" from CitiTrax Records? You think Medio Mutante is the best SYNTH band around? Oh hell yes!!! So what are you waiting for? Go and get their brandnew 7" NOW!!! 2 Tracks-2 winners!!! Definitely the best record to start with in 2009!!!" -PDSW. "After more than 5 years of releasing only old and mainly german stuff, I made the decission to come out with a new label for actual NATIONAL+INTERNATIONAL Elektronik Minimal Artists. The name, oh what a big idea and hours of great thoughts, is PSDW what stands for whatever you want it to. Prisoners Should Declare War, Peter Sagt Die Wahrheit, People Should Dance on Water or whatever." - Statement from Was Sol Das? Platten re; their new side-label, PSDW. |
| Artist:MEDVES Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "Medves is Andrea Belfi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Stefano Pilia, Renato Rinaldi and Riccardo Wanke. Guitars, double bass, tapeloops, drums and percussion recorded in a week long summer session, 2003. Andrea Belfi is the drummer of Rosolina Mar and has released a cd on the SAgita label. Giuseppe Ielasi, half of Oreledigneur, has releases on Sedimental, Erstwhile, Fusetron, Fringes, Sonoris and others. Stefano Pilia, from 3/4HadBeenEliminated, also has a beautiful solo cd out on Last Visible Dog. Renato Rinaldi is the other half of Oreledigneur, has releases on Fringes, Fusetron, Public Eyesore and is currently preparing his first solo cd. Riccardo Wanke is a classically trained piano player, here on guitar, and this is his recording debut. This is Medves first public appereance, 30 minutes of modern and melancholic all-analog psychedelia, and the first in a series of lps to be released later this year. 180gram vinyl, full color cover and insert. Numbered edition of 300 copies." - Fringes. |
| Artist:MEEHAN, SEAN Title: Sectors (For Constant) Format: Double CD Label: SOS Editions Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "it gives me great pleasure to announce the release of sean meehans first full-length solo since the early 1990s. this long overdue recording, titled sectors(for constant), is exquisitely encased in two sheets of handmade paper molded from recycled materials, pressed and assembled by sean himself. this limited production of the double cd set (in an edition of 500) is an important document of seans current work with cymbals and single snare drum." - SoS Editions. Due to the oversize packaging, this set will have to be shipped on its own. Highly recommended! |
| Artist:MEEHAN, SEAN Title: Preconceived And Improvised Compositions For Drum Set Format: CD Label: NYC Artists Collective Country: US Price: $8.00 |
| "Five drum solos. Some sound like drum solos and some dont." - Sean Meehan. |
| Artist:MEEHAN, SEAN AND ELLEN FULLMAN Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Cut Country: US Price: $13.00 |
| "Longtime friends who had hoped to play together for some time, Fullman and Meehan were surprised by the initial efforts of their collaboration. Their instruments -- or rather the sounds of their instruments meeting in the acoustic space -- strongly influenced one another: combination tones, sympathetic resonances, beating, and even cancellation of each others sound. Mapping routes through this unusual territory would become the piece presented here in three parts. The recording was made Easter (R.C.) weekend 2006. It is an acoustic work, recorded in stereo, without overdubbing or effects. Ellen Fullmans long string instrument is a unique instrument of her own invention. Waist high, parallel wires, strung in two sets span 14 meters. Fullman produces rich, microtonal drones by pacing up and down the wires and applying friction with her fingertips. Each of her ten fingers precisely finds the appropriate string and the sound emanates from wooden box resonators bolted into the wall. At her studio where this CD was recorded, the strings run through the patio door and terminate in the backyard: "the extra length affords me an additional lower octave," Fullman explains. For the last ten years or so, Sean Meehan has been focusing on playing the snare drum with cymbals. On this recording he produces long, continuous tones from them using a dowel and friction." - Cut. |
| Artist:MEEHAN, SEAN AND SACHIKO M Title: s/t Format: CD Label: N/A Country: US Price: $13.00 |
| Five pieces for sine waves and snare drum. Packaged in white paper folio, letterpress printed, each one unique. Recorded in Tokyo 2001. |
| Artist:MEEHAN, SEAN AND TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA Title: From Tour Format: CD Label: Quakebasket Country: US Price: $13.00 |
| "Live recording from a series of concerts given in America in 2002. In a letterpress envelope with a jigsaw map piece from a State that the two toured to on the cover." - Quakebasket. |
| Artist:MEEHAN/FUJIEDA/SATO Title: Improvisations 07 October 1994 Format: CD Label: Trust Country: US Price: $13.00 |
| "Studio recording of the trios only meeting. Features Meehan on drumset, Mamoru Fujieda playing a laptop amplified through aluminum ductwork and Michihiro Sato playing Tsugaru-Shamisen. Compact Disc in black paper folio with stainless steel nameplate. Recorded in Tokyo. " - Trust. |
| Artist:MEELKOP, ROEL Title: (onkyo ok) Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "Launching CMRs new line of hand-numbered 78rpm dust jacket CD packaging is Dutch sound artist Roel Meelkop. Roel was a founding member of audio art group THU20 in the early eighties who continue to perform and record, is currently a member of electro-acoustic live project Kapotte Muziek, and the electronic rhythm group GOEM (both along with Frans De Waard and Peter Duimelinks). Roel has a long history of visual art, sound installation, curation and organization of various live music events in Rotterdam, his city of residence, and abroad. His well-received solo work has been released on numerous labels including trente oiseaux (Ger), V2_Archief (Neth), line (US), Intransitive Recordings (US), Korm Plastics (Neth) and most recently Tariff Records (US) and Klingfilm (Bel). onkyo ok is composed of recordings made during Roels tour to Japan in summer 2001 (along with Frans De Waard and Peter Duimelinks). Where Kiyoshi Mizutanis Yokosawa-iri CD (cmr1) uses primarily rural sound sources from a selected area, onkyo ok may strike a special chord and familiarity with anyone who has visited Japans urban areas, cities and outlying regions. Various components of the rich Japanese soundscape (to name a few: pachinko parlours, train crossings, crows, electrical machines, people) have been captured, abstracted (or not), blended and re-composed creating unique sonic snapshots of this beautiful and at times bewildering country. The sound pieces are relatively constant over time (Roels characteristic silences are at a minimum) containing numerous complimentary sources simultaneously building together into broadband structures, then falling away to focus on various seperate objects and events. This album serves as a beautiful document and expression of the ever-changing Japanese acoustic environment as it was at the beginning of the twenty first century." - CMR. |
| Artist:MEERCAZ Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "("OLD SCHOOL" TIP-ON JACKET w/ INSERT) Debut LP from Muslim Delgados (Leaders) Meercaz. This is Muzzs post-Leaders solo effort with assistance from Sarah Epstein (Hunches), Kyle Raquipiso (Meth Teeth), Clay Silva, and many other contributors. "The approach is primitive but spacey, simultaneously "retro" and "futuristic" without batting an eye. Its aggressive guitar music thats "punk" in its DIY manic quality, but with an aesthetic thats much closer to the late 60s and early 70s. To my ears, Meercaz is one of the handful of things in recent years that matches what I think modern rock music SHOULD sound like (and rarely does)." -Eddie Flowers. Mastered for vinyl at the great Chicago Mastering Service, with a nice old school "tip-on" jacket, and insert w/ liner notes by Eddie Flowers." -Tic Tac Totally. |
| Artist:MEERK PUFFY Title: Nung Format: LP Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Providence, RIs Meerk Puffy brings the throb and bounce to a boil in your pores. Observe the acid drenched ashes while hearing the melting temples melt in temples over and over again. Edition of 500 with silkscreened covers and poster" - Animal Disguise. Meerk Puffy is Matt Brinkman (Mindflayer, Forcefield, PPP (with Pleasurehorse and Prurient), Danse Asshole, Mystery Brinkman, etc..). |
| Artist:MEERK PUFFY Title: Orange Muss Tape Format: CDR Label: Stomach Ache Country: Mexico Price: $6.50 |
| Meerk Puffy is Matt Brinkman (Mindflayer, Forcefield, PPP (with Pleasurehorse and Prurient), Danse Asshole, Mystery Brinkman, etc..). |
| Artist:MEF TEEF / OWL XOUNDS EXPLODING GALAXY Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Pure energy and total expression are the only boundaries around the free-jazz/music movement. Primitivism and psychedelic confusion act as the main themes. Mef Teef of Iowa City, a relatively new collective, have one past release on Raccoo-oo-oons Night People Label (of which MT percussionist Andy Spore is a member). Spastic drumming acts as the basis for which brass, piano, and silence interweave. Culled from a hometown live session, "Dark Star Voyage Pt. 1" features unique instrumental interplay causing the piece to progress almost theatrically with definitive mood changes. Brooklyns Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy is a heavy hitter in the free jazz underground. Comparisons to avant-garde greats are not unjustified. With a recent LP out on Wooden Wands Mad Monk label and a plethora of sold out self released jams, this is the collectives first tape. Focused on the youthful energy of punk music and centered around the drumming of Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Castanets), in "Transmission To The Pineapple Universe", Owl Xounds produce pure blown out oblivion never faltering in its onward progression. Recorded live at the Cakeshop featuring Gene Janas on upright bass, Darius Jones on alto sax, and Greg Vegas on electric guitar the jam is a total freak-out, seething equally with nods to Sonny Simmons as it is to Sonic Youth. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes with printed labels, art and an insert by Andy Spore." - Arbor |
| Artist:MEIFERT, ARNULF Title: Unrein Bis Zum Abend/Reise Ins Diesseits Format: LP Label: Die Taubnessel Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "A record of extreme poetry and sound. Arnulf Meifert was the first drummer in the legendary German group Faust (he is only present on Faust, the first LP issued by Polydor). Later, and for many years, he was a companion of Vienna actionist Guenter Brus, whose 50th birthday was celebrated with the publication of the Panishes Liederbuch LP (the now mythical first LP issued by Die Taubnessel back in 1988). For the recordings of this new project, Meifert met Kommissar Hjuler and his wife Mama Baer, also experimental musicians, but nearly two generations younger. They have been working together for just a few hours, so everything had to be totally improvised. Nevertheless, Meifert brought some texts with him, fascinated by confrontations of word and music. These texts range from the Old Testament to Renaissance artistry and Christian hate-speech from the 20th century, ending with a modern guide for the voyage from death to rebirth. The impressive and singular cover artwork was done by Klaus Holzmann, an upcoming Austrian artist. Two letters showing the discussion between Meifert and Hjuler after the meeting are also included. Edition limited to 280 copies." -Die Taubnessel |
| Artist:MELCHIOR, DAN UND DAS MENACE Title: Dim Are The Lights Format: 7" Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two more great ones from one of the best and most prolific songwriters around. A-side is a great dark stomper and B-side is a cover of John Cooper Clarkes classic keeping up his streak of quality and quantity. Fans will not be dissapointed with this one." -Convulsive |
| Artist:MELEE Title: Bare Those Excellent Teeth pt. 2 Format: LP Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The second in the series of compositions from the Graveboys dis-rhythm section of Hell and Bunny this time with Nate Wooley doing the duty on trumpet while Olson maintains his Wolf-obligations. Perhaps darker and more trance-inducing than the first "Bare" it sounds very much like chamber music played by stamping machines which aint exactly a bad thing." - Brokenresearch. Edition of 200. |
| Artist:MELEE Title: Violent Forms Of Laughter Format: Cass Label: Meu Dia De Morte Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "new stuff by the Graveyards arrhythmia section of Hans Buetow and Ben Hall with Nate Woley on trumpet. " If Graveyards looks like just the skeleton than this looks like just the muscle."cover by p.h. lim to 200" -Meu Dia De Morte. |
| Artist:MELTAOT Title: First and Second Rites Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release in a limited-edition of 250 copies. Meltaot are a bass-heavy, improvised noise duo made up of UK artist/musician/broadcaster Sharon Gal and artist/writer/musician SavX (aka Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey). After recording together at a session for Pestrepeller (the other band they are a part of), they decided to take the project one step further and record as a separate entity. Although black metal, drone and doom would seem to be at the core of what Meltaot are involved with here, the real intention was to paint a series of atmospheric sound pictures (not all of them dark) using voice, bass guitar and other instrumentation/effects as their materials. This is the first release by Meltaot. There will be others. SavX (electric "rooster" guitar); Sharon Gal (electric bass guitar, voice, percussion, feedback). Recorded at the SavLab, 6/17/2009. Illustration by SavX." -The Tapeworm |
| Artist:MELTED MEN Title: The Sheets Are Soaked Format: LP Label: Champaign Audio Country: Price: $16.00 |
| Out of print LP from 97. Silkscreened jackets. |
| Artist:MELVINS Title: Melvins Format: 12" Label: From The Nursery Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "A limited edition three-track 12-inch EP from MELVINS featuring a long version of “Dies Iraea” and a remix of “It Tastes Better Than The Truth” on the A-side, and a 9-minute version of The Wipers “Youth of America” on the flip. None of these tracks have appeared on vinyl prior. Limited to 2,000 copies (with 1,500 for distribution) pressed on silver/gray vinyl, with artwork by STEVEN PARRINO (ELECTROPHILIA)." - From The Nursery. Latest release on artist/writer Bob Nickas new label. |
| Artist:MENCHE, DANIEL Title: Scather Format: 3" CDR Label: Taalem Country: France Price: $7.00 |
| "Another great artist in the taâlem series that should need no introduction. Daniel Menche has fastly gained a strong reputation in the experimental/noise scene thanks to many releases on various labels all around the world (Tesco, Soleilmoon, Beta Lactam Ring, Antifrost, to name but a few) and extremely physical live performances. Heres another fine example of his huge talent to create loud and powerful but subtle music !" - Taalem. |
| Artist:MENEGUAR Title: The In Hour Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Switching instruments and experimenting with recording techniques, Meneguar has cooked up a totally unique(and surprising) record. The In Hour channels the spontaneity and aesthetics of Swell Maps, the pop hooks of the Zombies, and lyrical collage of Guided By Voices. Everything was home recorded at their little Xanadu in Brooklyn, Rear House, home base to Jeremy Earls Woodsist label (Blues Control, Sic Alps, Wooden Wand, Jana Hunter) and the changing roster of Meneguars alter egos (Woods, Shepherds). Only six months since their last record, The In Hour represents a serious departure that still holds true to the bands undeniable pop sensibility." -Woodsist |
| Artist:MENEGUAR Title: The In Hour Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Switching instruments and experimenting with recording techniques, Meneguar has cooked up a totally unique(and surprising) record. The In Hour channels the spontaneity and aesthetics of Swell Maps, the pop hooks of the Zombies, and lyrical collage of Guided By Voices. Everything was home recorded at their little Xanadu in Brooklyn, Rear House, home base to Jeremy Earls Woodsist label (Blues Control, Sic Alps, Wooden Wand, Jana Hunter) and the changing roster of Meneguars alter egos (Woods, Shepherds). Only six months since their last record, The In Hour represents a serious departure that still holds true to the bands undeniable pop sensibility." -Woodsist |
| Artist:MENSTRUATION SISTERS Title: MA Format: LP Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Reissue of their legendary first LP, released originally in an edition of 100 in Australia only. Best band ever?" - No Fun. Limited to 500 copies. |
| Artist:MENSTRUATION SISTERS Title: Samantha (My Wack Panther) Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Unlike anything book or animal, the Menstruation Sisters destroy wholly" -- Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth. "Menstruation Sisters hail from Sydney, Australia. Basically a duo comprised of wildboy poet ululationist and guitar strangler Nick Kamiussis (aka Rizili aka Riz) and OZ wonderkid Oren Ambarchi (Sunn 0))), Burial Chamber, Grave Temple, John Zorn etc etc), and sometimes aided by Brendan Walls and others. Their first LP, Ma, was in an edition of 100 copies, all of which had razor blades, balloons and hypodermic needles applied to one side. As an objet dart it became a highly desirable item for noise believers (and was recently reissued -- sans appliques -- by No Fun Productions). Every once in a while an LP drops out of nowhere only to further confuse whomever is fortunate enough to grip it. 2005 saw the Holy Africa 7" on White Denim, in 2001 the infamous Goog LP on Saucerlike, in 1999 the Dead At Slugs LP on Menlo Park and in 1998 the Triple Bogey On A Ma Par Hole 3x7". All of these are essential documents of one of the most bizarre, genuinely inspired free time outfits working the avant-mind body love/noise worship axis today. This newest LP has been patiently waiting to be released for the last few years, initially a multi-label project instigated by Menlo Park and now fully realized by Ecstatic Peace. Long a champion of Menstruation Sisters after witnessing an out-of-nowhere set at NYCs legendary lost underground experimental oasis The Cooler in the late 90s, Thurston Moore invited the Sisters to open for Sonic Youth in Sydney shortly thereafter and, as inspired and weird as the NYC set was, the Sonic Youth gig was perhaps one of the most astounding question marks of music the seasoned Moore had ever experienced. So we present you Samantha (My Wack Panther) -- a new and beautiful peek into the edge of musical menstruation." -Ecstatic Peace |
| Artist:MENSTRUATION SISTERS Title: Should Sisters Suck? Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $31.00 |
| "A rabbi who yells at a higher pitch and more psycho than NIK RIZILI, and a guitarist other than OREN AMBARCHI who can make strings yell in Yiddish yelling-about as rare as, according to Ultra Eczema, "ladies [who] have their period nonstop, since five years [and] are 456 km away from the hospital while the head of a baby is forcing its way out of a mangina." So much stress, guitar strings so loose you can put your legs and arms between them, a hyperactive and creepy and slow carnival of absolute madness. Reminiscent to the more sparse parts of Harry Pussy, the screaming of Hanatarashi. 300 copies, with an insert, a small poster, a sticker, an etching on the B-side, and found footage cover art by DENIS TYFUS." - Ultra Eczema. |
| Artist:MENTAL MIDGET Title: Somewhere In Lovely Nowhere Format: Double LP Label: Orpheus Country: Denmark Price: $33.00 |
| "Copenhagen 1983 saw one of the most obscure and strange bands in Danish rock, real out there music from a bunch of dope crazed young musicians. Its all there, basement sound, drug induced intensity, long jams, demented songs like Paranoid Wreck", Shadows In The Dark or Lucifer On The Wall. Evolving out of the first wave of Danish punks, featuring ex-members of a.o. SODS!!, BUT inspired by DOORS, LOVE, HENDRIX. If YAHOWA 13 would have started out from the late 70s/early 80s punk environment, they would have sounding like this. PSYCHEDELIC AND STONED!" - Orpheus. |
| Artist:MERRY, HARRY Title: Village Life In 1905 Format: 7" Label: Ole Country: Netherlands Price: $7.00 |
| "Harrys keyboard has been producing Bach, Beatles and some clever barrel organ sounds ever since Harry got his organ back from the factory. Where he had send it with the task to rearrange it so it could produce the sounds and structures he needed. Harry Merrys hilarious apearance and total baroque musical style is often misunderstood in the popscene, mainly seen as a funny gimmick. He first got recognised in the Rotterdam artscene as a representant of typical dutch avantgarde music. Like Willem Breuker uses march music, Harry uses the street organ sound and sings with a strong dutch accent and puts these typical elements in a new perspective. Harry is a talented composer being ironic and absurd, singing in his own unique way about the Panorama paper, moody busdrivers and Hoydenish Ambrosial. For more talk about this 7" www.monochrom.at or visit the tocado website for more Harry Merry." - Ole. |
| Artist:MERRY, HARRY Title: First Contact Format: LP/7" Label: Ole Country: Netherlands Price: $27.00 |
| "On First Contact we find the most excentric corners of the first 7 years of Harry, the years that he invented himself. This is Punk. Synth Punk, Village Fair n Roll, Barrel Organ Opera, Avant Quiz n Roll. Harry re-invented the heart of rock n roll." - Ole. These are from the first 200 copies, which include a bonus 7". |
| Artist:MERZBOW Title: Live Destruction at No Fun 2007 Format: CD Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "At this years No Fun Fest, the legendary Japanese noise king Merzbow gave a blistering performance that stunningly brought together both his classic analog and recently-explored digital concerns. Keeping pace between two laptops and an amplified sheet-metal instrument, the walls of computerized droning distortion and psyched-out metallic scarping easily reminded those attending to the world of noise that even icons with twenty-plus year careers under their belts can still vivaciously channel the advancements they helped build as well as compose stunning untried sounds. Along with the recent Pain Jerk/Incapacitants split CD and the upcoming Aaron Dilloway/Carlos Giffoni split LP, Live Destruction at No Fun 2007 manifests itself as an essential audio document of one of many striking performances at this years festival. Often considered a genre best experienced live, the gargantuan walls of outer-region sonics set forth by noise were aptly spawned in-the-moment and afresh by their performers, and the variety, sheer power, and unrelenting confidence of Merzbows set in particular no doubt left longtime followers thoroughly fulfilled while those whove only heard the name thrown around in mythical regard were bound to have been left with a hearty appreciation of his genius. " - No Fun. |
| Artist:MERZBOW Title: Protean World Format: LP Label: Noiseville Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Edition of 1,000; total Merzbow genius, as youd expect. Noisy and great." -Noiseville |
| Artist:MERZBOW/CARLOS GIFFONI/JIM O ROURKE Title: Electric Dress Format: CD Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Electric Dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. A total face melting collaboration recorded live in Tokyo using an array of analog synths and a variety of custom analog equipment,including Merzbows classic home made spring/junk metal instrument. Warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated. Edited and mastered by Jim for maximum sonic annihilation. comes in our deluxe mini-gatefold package." - No Fun. |
| Artist:MESMER Title: Kensho Format: 7" Label: Mesmer Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Restock of cool San Francisco free-rock with an experimental Twisted Village vibe. Limited to 300 copies with handpainted, 1-of-a-kind photograph adorned sleeves. |
| Artist:MESS FOLK Title: Something I Remember Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Nova Scotias underground punk output has been sorely ignored by most of the world, and with the debut 7-inch EP by Sydneys brilliantly belligerent MESS FOLK, hopefully a little more light will be shed on this systematically-neglected barren frontier. With an immediate slop/savant aesthetic that conjures a drooling, drugged-out, and agitated ball of putrescence, Mess Folk keep their blurry message straight to the point and deliver three devastating punk cuts simmering in anxiety, depression, and the delusional inner turmoil that sets in after months of cabin fever. The deranged, discombobulated vocals go so perfectly with the frantic razored guitar slashings and choppy songwriting that eeks out resemblances of discarded Electric Eels and Urinals ruination/infatuation, radiating with a sticky familiarity you just cant quite put your finger on. Anyway you cut it, Mess Folk have arrived and its gonna take a hell of a lot of zit cream and/or stain remover to eradicate their slimy presence from the ugly face of modern punk." - Horizontal Action. |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Spriebwartsdrall Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "This full length is firmly rooted in the rich German experimental music tradition of such bands as Can, Amon Duul and Popol Vuh. The album begins with subtle tones that shift and eventually build into a Silver Apples psychedelic groove. Things move back and forth through layers of analog synthesizer orchestration, electronics and droning violin, eventually accentuated by ambient recordings of wind chimes, cow bells, birds, crickets, barking dogs and the sounds of Stuttgart. An absolutely stunning record, which Bananafish claims, has "24-7 potential." Vivid full color artwork by German animation artist Petra Kolitsch. Edition of 600." - Amish |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Rauchzeichen Anstelle Einer... Format: LP Label: Moonflower Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| Restocked. Early to mid 90s recordings from these semi-legendary contempo krautrockers. Numbered edition of 300 copies with full color jackets. |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Spriebwartsdrall Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This full length is firmly rooted in the rich German experimental music tradition of such bands as Can, Amon Duul and Popol Vuh. The album begins with subtle tones that shift and eventually build into a Silver Apples psychedelic groove. Things move back and forth through layers of analog synthesizer orchestration, electronics and droning violin, eventually accentuated by ambient recordings of wind chimes, cow bells, birds, crickets, barking dogs and the sounds of Stuttgart. An absolutely stunning record, which Bananafish claims, has "24-7 potential." Vivid full color artwork by German animation artist Petra Kolitsch. Edition of 600." - Amish |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Dying Donkeys On High Hills Format: 7" Label: Moonflower Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| Original copies of this 3 track e.p from 1992. Includes insert and sticker. |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Das Geschenk Format: 7" Label: Pyscho Terror Entertainment Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| Taken from the original motion picture score for Andreas Geigers Das Geschenk. Original copies of this 1994 release. |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Grounded Format: 7" Label: Swamp Flower Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| Original copies of this 13 track 7" from 1994 which features Samara Lubelski on violin. Includes color inserts. |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Ungrounded Format: 7" Label: Moonflower Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| Original copies of this 7" e.p from 1997. |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Offgrounded Format: 7" Label: Moonflower Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| Original copies of this 7" e.p from 1999 which features Samara Lubelski |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Wonderful, Dangerous, Confusing - Or What? Format: 3" CDR Label: BGF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Vor Anker Format: 3" CDR Label: BGF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS Title: Social Club No. 7 Format: 7" Label: Social Registry Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "The METABOLISMUS collective has been making music since the mid-1980s, self- releasing most of their early material on cassette and vinyl LPs. The band comes from the town of Stuttgart, Germany and creates music that is rooted in the rich tradition of German experimental bands such as Can, Amon Duul, Popul Voh and Kraftwerk with touchstones in rock, folk and electronic music. With this release they are joined by SAMARA LUBELSKI and provide two beautiful tracks of arboreal shimmer with glimpses of soft 60s psychedelic sheen." -Social Registry |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS 2 Title: Orgasm Death Gimmick Format: 10" Label: Psycho-Terror Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| Live recordings from 1989. |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS 2 Title: Anthem Of The Moon Format: LP Label: Catatonic Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
| Artist:METABOLISMUS AND KIM FOWLEY Title: Stranded In Stuttgart Format: 7" Label: Psycho Terror Entertainment Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| "Three members of Stuttgart experimental rock band Metabolismus moved over to Berlin to meet Kim Fowley and tell the world that rock and roll was here to stay. Kim feels that the atmosphere created on these performances was of the same high standard as the "Night Of The Naked Angels", which he was unable to complete. This record is dedicated to all the lost souls stranded in their empty rooms through out this universe." - Psycho Terror Entertainment |
| Artist:METALUX Title: Waiting for Armadillo Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Clipped and chopped radio beamings from a Middle American bunker, Metalux bring a rodeo of galactic proportions home to your speakers. M.V. Cärbon and J. Graf play a dual synth/tape soundtrack to an uneasy nation. The vibe is dark and alien and the recording on this record is top-notch. Crazy voices and spectacle mounting live action! Ballpark reference points include Chrome and the Residents in the same thought as Chicago form shapers from the early 90s Milk of Burgundy scene like Duotron, Scissor Girls et al." - Load. CD also available. |
| Artist:METALUX & JOHN WIESE Title: Exoteric Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "A cold and chopped journey awaits you in this collaboration between electronic duo Metalux and sound levitator, John Wiese. Vocals are chopped and oscillation wave forms move themselves into long sheets of ribbon thin taffy with confusing intent. The middle ground in this collaboration has a coldwave appeal that clicks with fans of throbbing rhythmic noise like Wolf Eyes and Forcefield. This record is not noise however, more a full blown Kevorkian cocktail of reverberated malaise. The seven unnamed tracks flow one into the next with a rebounded tape smack that does not forget foot bounce, while keeping the main dome fully occupied with variable speed vox fukkk and equipment groan. This one is for the heads and takes notions of either artist to places where neither artist is safe going. This is for late nights and early mornings." - Load. |
| Artist:METALUX/EVIL MOISTURE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Veglia Country: Belgium Price: $13.00 |
| Artist:METH TEETH Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Night People Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "This is a re release of Meth Teeths Indian Spirits Demo from last summers nationwide tour. Long time Night-People pals, Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once. LP on Woodsist soon. Artwork by SDReed. ." - Night People |
| Artist:METH TEETH Title: Everything Went Wrong Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once."- Shawn Reed/Night People. |
| Artist:METZGER, PAUL Title: Deliverance Format: CD Label: Locust Music Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Minnesotas Paul Metzger is an unsung hero of the unaccompanied string instrument and a master musician of an instrument of his own invention. On Deliverance -- a real time performance on his overhauled 21 string banjo -- youll be treated to some of the most deeply satisfying & impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia youre ever likely to hear. Clocking in at nearly 60 colossal minutes, Deliverance is 3 tracks of unfiltered aural transcendence; a hypnotic raga epic thats by turns a slow burning meditation & an urgent mind / body duel. Pauls playing may summon up the spirits of Sandy Bulls searching inventiveness, Billy Faiers out Tacoma sides, J.P. Pickens tweaked Americana, Henry Flynts searing harmonic drones or Big Jim Sullivans psychedelic exotica, but at the end of the day, Metzger is no idolater and were all a little luckier to have him around to occupy his own singular post in this post-Fahey world." - Locust. |
| Artist:METZGER, PAUL Title: Anamnestic Tincture Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Anamnestic Tincture is a live album by virtuosic musical carpenter Paul Metzger, culled from many hours of concert recordings. Side one comprises Metzgers public debut on his modified banjo, recorded in 2002 at a former church-turned-underground art space in Minneapolis. One of his most memorable compositions, "After Milo" later turned up as an untitled improvisation on his CD for the Chairkickers label. Jumping ahead six years (and several more banjo alterations later) to side two, the glittering "Orans" gets a workout at a memorial show for the artist Matt Zaun. As an acknowledgment of the occasion, Metzger also gave a one-time-only performance -- "Dark Green Water" -- on another of his mutant instruments: an acoustic guitar with the body drilled out to accommodate a cymbal set into its face, and ten assorted strings of varying lengths laid over the top, giving it a particularly metallic and dissonant sound. Anamnestic Tincture is released in an edition of 425 copies, with an original vintage snapshot mounted on each cover." -Roaratorio |
| Artist:MEV Title: Pieces Format: CD Label: IRML Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Third archival MEV release on Allan Bryants label. The first track, Quadrupl Play, is a piece for rubberbands recorded in 1966 by Allen Bryant. It can be described as variations on melody and was played at the first MEV concerts in St. Paul du Vence, France and at Teatro Argentina in Rome. The second track, Pich Out (or Rocket Take Off), for 4 guitars, is loud and thundering, played by 4 musicians through 4 speakers at Sala Beloch, Rome in March 1967. Features Rzewski, Phetteplace, Curran, Bryant." |
| Artist:MEV/AMM Title: Apogee Format: Double CD Label: Matchless Country: UK Price: $36.00 |
| The first CD features a joint recording of the six musicians of Musica Eletttronica Viva and AMM together: Alvin Curran, Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and John Tilbury. It was recorded April 30th 2004. The 2nd CD contains separate performances that MEV and AMM gave at the Freedom of the City festival, London on May 1st 2004. "After the generally low dynamic levels and relatively slow pace of the AMM trio set on 1 May, the MEV trio opened with the blast of Alvin Curran playing the sho far, a trumpet made from a rams horn, a defiantly primitive, prototypical music, fit to leave the walls of the Conway Hall, like some new Jericho, pitched down fiat. If I spoke earlier of the way in which AMM might deal, in Reeve and Kerridges phrase, with the internal, microscopically-enlarged body surface which becomes a landscape - and the same is true of some of Teitelbaum and Currans quieter use of radically pitch-shifted and extended samples - particularly that ululating operatic-theatrical voice, coming to sound almost like something from AMMs label-mates FURl - then this is the extrovert mode, which refuses any easy accommodations. Which division is inherent; as Bourdieu explains, the culture which unifies via the medium of communication is also the culture which separates via the culture of distinction, and which legitimates distinctions. It may be, as Adorno remarks, that a work of art is great insofar as it registers a failed attempt to reconcile such objective antinomies; failure then being in the highest sense the measure of success." - Harry Gilonis. |
| Artist:MHFS Title: Driving To Rawene Format: 3" CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $9.00 |
| Artist:MICH, LUDO & BLOOD STEREO Title: From Tapes And Throats Format: LP Label: Giant Tank Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Heavy duty collaboration LP by BS and belgian artist/gurner Ludo Mich. Side A documents the 2006 live appearance at Instal. A great crystal clear desk recording which puts you within feet of the saliva and sweat drench. While side B is a three piece electro-accoustic, smoked out, brain workover. Some of our most outthere stuff. Edition of 250 so get moving, nerdass." -Chocolate Monk |
| Artist:MICHAEL AND THE MUMBLES Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Before Michael Yonkers would revise the history of recorded music with the clarion chords of Microminature Love he was in a band called Michael and the Mumbles and they made this self-titled LP in 1966. Upon immediate spins, their would-be debut comes off as a naive, teenage trip thru the typified garage band moves of this era. But repeated spins reveal a darkness beneath what some dullard might be deceived by as its crisp, winsome visage. Its only to a slightly less visible degree that the Mumbles LP has the same characteristics that would make Micro the singularly original piece that is; its emotionally bleak themes, dissonant undercurrents, and recklessly wild performance. So, once again we have a Michael Yonkers LP that is going to turn the world upside down, make the college girls scream, and leave you wondering how many more times this can happen. Seriously, Pigeon Falls up here looks like a Riot on the Sunset Strip. Indulge yrself. PS. Michael and the Mumbles is on the king of all known formats (with a digital download coupon, natch). The mastertapes used herein are 45 yrs old and aside from the glitch on Cold Town they sound amazing." -Destijl |
| Artist:MICKEY Title: Shes So Crazy Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "When it comes to local bands in Chicago, it definitely goes in phases, as no one would have assumed a band such as MICKEY with its assortment of random ex-band members could have come up with a sound this ridiculously compelling. Rather than run down the list of their various past projects, its best to take Mickey for exactly what theyve become: a top-notch gutter-level glitter punk band that runs circles around everyone else, both live and now on record. What makes them special are the combined forces of experienced and inexperienced nuances that really shine on their recordings and will soon show the world how their now signature brand of glammed-up/dumbed-down shambolic pop music can hold up incredibly well under any circumstances. Everything from the unexpectedly touching T.Rex-style backup vocals on the show-stopping, "Shes So Crazy" to the heartfelt and brazenly-delivered innocence they muster up on the already-classic "I Am Your Trash," Mickey are quickly becoming Chicagos most notorious and best-loved band and we couldnt be more excited to offer their debut single for your adoring eardrums." - Horizontal Action. |
| Artist:MICROCLIMATE Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| "A well known NZ musician/soundartist/all around good guy adopted the moniker of "Microclimate" for this project. Like a robotic Sunny Murray or maybe even what wouldve happened if Conlan Nancarrow had found a player drumkit... okay, whatever, it sounds fucking ace." - A Binary Datum. |
| Artist:MIDDLETON, IAN Title: Aural Spaces Format: LP Label: Swill Radio Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Ive been in touch with Ian Middleton for over 13 years now, lured into contact by a Remora lathe-cut LP, I believe, which sounded similar in intent to IFCO material that Karla and I were working on at the time. Ian was a somewhat prolific figure of the 90s UK underground scene, both with his music and his visual art. There was an LP for Swill Radio in the can, which ended up on Eclipse as there wasnt any money here to release it. Ians music has always had both organic and artificial elements combined with the vague melancholy of distant beauty. With Aural Spaces, Ian has refined and distilled his processes into a gorgeous electronic diamond. To quote my good friend Oskar Spee, Aural Spaces is an exotic, scientific, and beautiful perfume that slows down time and allows one to live, however briefly, in a better possible world. I couldnt agree more. There is not a wasted moment. Ian has kept a low profile the last few years, preferring to concentrate on his work and make it better, an approach of which I heartily approve. The sequencing of this LP is immaculate, a skill that is becoming a lost art in this shuffle-play world. Aural Spaces is totally removed from the confines of todays backwards looking fads and instead points its bow directly towards the future. Fighting the good fight." - Swill Radio. |
| Artist:MIDNIGHT CIRCUS Title: Richard, Roger, Rodney, Rastus, Raoul, Roderick, Randy, Rupert Format: CDR Label: Hyped2Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Midnight Circus appeared on the the absurdly rare Angst in my Pants compilation EP in 1980 (that also featured H2Ds Digital Dinosaurs), but they put most of their energy into the cassette-only wing of the D.I.Y. movement. They churned out gnarly, edgy, vinyl-worthy DIY-punk galore, and here are 21 of their favorite tracks from 1980-1983, mostly gathered from their five impossible-to-find cassette albums. With a deluxe 10-page insert with bio, photos and discography. (Our second "regular"/glass-mastered release!)" - Hyped2Death. |
| Artist:MIGHTY BABY Title: A Jug Of Love Format: CD Label: Sunbeam Country: UK Price: $15.50 |
| "This is the first official CD release of UK psych legends Mighty Babys second and final album. A Jug of Love sank without a trace on its original appearance in late 1971, but has gone on to become one of the best-loved recordings of its time. Produced by Mike Vernon (David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After), it showcases their fluid, expressive musicianship and the astonishing guitar playing of Martin Stone to glorious effect. This long-awaited official release has been assembled with the bands full involvement, and comes complete with rare photographs, full liner notes and four ultra-rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks, making it an essential purchase for all fans of acid folk and psychedelia." - Sunbeam. |
| Artist:MIGHTY BABY Title: Live in the Attic Format: Double LP Label: Sunbeam Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
| "Previously released on CD by Sunbeam, now issued as a 180 gram double vinyl release. Mighty Baby are firmly established as one of the best-loved underground bands in British rock history. Combining elements of blues, folk, jazz and psychedelia, their unique brand of experimental rock n roll is brilliantly captured on these rare recordings, finally given an official release here. Three tracks were captured live at a gig supporting U.S. legends Love in March 1970, while the remainder were taped soon afterwards at Londons Olympic Studios. Finding the band midway between the blazing psychedelia of their self-titled November 1969 debut and the mellower sounds of their October 1971 swan song A Jug of Love, the set comes complete with sleevenotes, rare photographs and an introduction from their bassist, Michael Evans, making it simply essential for all fans of the band." - Sunbeam |
| Artist:MIGONE, CHRISTOF Title: Crackers Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "In 1997, electronic sound installation artist Christof Migone enlisted the bodily aid of a group of Canadians through classified ads and over the radio for a cracking session and interview at Ottawas Gallery 101. A what, you ask? Part ambient sound investigation and part wacked out art science project, Crackers is a 7 track collection of unadulterated recordings and clever digital remixes of the sounds of cracking knuckles, knees, wrists, jaws, toes, ankles, backs, necks, elbows, and hips. The percolating, popping polyrhythms are at once amusingly bubbly and oddly trance inducing. Cheaper than a trip to the chiropractor and far more entertaining. Crackers was first presented as an installation in a group show curated by Emmanuel Madan entitled Incredibly Soft Sounds at Gallery 101, in January 1998 (originally documented in an exhibition catalog and limited cd-r). Documentation of Crackers was also featured in Site Of Sound: Of Architecture And The Ear, a book with CD edited by Brandon LaBelle and Steve Roden (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 1999) and presented the following year as a solo installation curated by Michael J. Schumacher and Ursula Scherrer at Studio 5 Beekman in New York City, January 2000." - Locust |
| Artist:MIGRANTES Title: Monsoon Moods Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| This is the 2nd LP by Migrantes (Jason Bill {guitar, air organ, Hammond organ, cymbal} & Caroline Vickers {Hammond organ & vocals}) of Tucson, AZ. Pressed in an edition of 536 copies and housed in a lovely printed full color jacket, this is a sublime record! “For those that have never been there, the desert signifies space, sand, and nothing. When I (who live nowhere near any deserts) first visited Jason & Caroline (who live smack in the middle of one), that was what I had thought too. I was a bit surprised that the desert in fact looks nothing like its platonic counterpart - it is in fact interlaced with ropy thorned plants, crawls with life of every species, and is inevitably circumscribed by distant mountains. For some, Monsoon Moods may capture the real desert, the one where home fires burn under looming stone, where love and life flourish in austerity. For me though this LP somehow encompasses sweaty nights in 100 degree summer warehouses, ghostly drives through Norfolk shipyards, the slow crack of datura pods drying in the sun, and all the other things that have grown inside j&c to buoy them up into this warmly inviting space illuminated by their big hearts. A stunning record that camouflages the simplicity of its ingredients with songs of glowing precision and vox-laced Hammond drones of vertical majesty.” - Tom Carter. |
| Artist:MIJ Title: Yodeling Astrologer Format: LP Label: Jackpot Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Yodeling Astrologer (aka: Color By The Number) could be considered an anomaly, a one-off or a miracle of circumstance in the history of psychedelic pop music. Mij, a.k.a. Jim Holmberg was discovered by ESP owners while playing in Washington Square Park in the summer of 1968. His style and persona mesmerized the label heads, and he explained to them a recent auto accident had fractured his skull but left him changed. He perceived sound, color and vision differently and he had funneled this new world of perception directly into his music. All this was enough to warrant getting Mij into the studio to lay down a record of his rambly, cosmic folk songs. The entire album was recorded in three hours, first-takes and impromptu production intact, then pressed up and introduced to the world shortly thereafter. To focus on the yodeling aspect of the Yodeling Astrologer would miss some of the depth of this album. Not just a hippie novelty act of the time, this is a truly thoughtful and somewhat frenzied document. Like Buffy St. Maries Meditations, Linda Perhacs Parallelograms or Cold Fact by Rodriguez, this is an album of sincere folk songs colored with subtle psychedelic touches. Uneasy reverberations and soft echoes glide over Holmbergs breezy songs, creating a consistent sonic environment as spontaneous as it is intriguing. Available on vinyl for the first time since an incredibly limited original pressing in 1969 on ESP Disk." -Jackpot |
| Artist:MIKAMI, KAN Title: Bachi - From Oak Village Format: CD Label: Turtles Dream Country: France Price: $19.00 |
| "Universal songs. Beyond language and meaning stands the blues. Not the one the GIs brought with their pack in Japan, but Kan Mikamis own vision seen through the prism of enka music. Such songs we cannot find in popular music nowadays. The blues, its spirit and its agonizing mood comparable to the Portuguese fado. Black songs, free form songs, with their beauty and violence, rudimentary electric enka ill-treated Blues tore to pieces. We could almost hear Blind Willie Johnsons ghost activating the guitar and the voice. Kan Mikami strums his guitar with violence and sensuality, telling stories hardly ever told in Japanese songs, at the edge of black humor, surrealism and Dada. And his voice is unique, nearing violence, screams and a sticky melancholy. Bachi was recorded by François Dietz at the end of Kan Mikami French tour at studio CCAM in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy. Nine songs where the voice bears new inflexions never heard on his previous recordings, maybe close to an exotic folklore as dreamt by our western imagination. Sombre and moving Chants skinned by his harsh voice, with guitar on the background, haunting lavish blues." - Turtles Dream. |
| Artist:MIKAMI, KAN Title: 19 Years 2 Months 16th Night Format: Double CD Label: Mikami Komuten Country: Japan Price: $42.00 |
| "A monster of a reissue -- by a long way the rarest item in Mikamis discography, a fanclub-only DLP released in an edition of 100. These are the very earliest recordings by surrealist folk legend Mikami, captured on tape in 1970 at the legendary Shibuya underground club and hangout, Station 70. The club used to host regular sessions by free-jazz heroes like Motoharu Yoshizawa and Kaoru Abe, while the cream of the citys avant-garde community rubbed shoulders with Japanese Red Army terrorists and Yukio Mishimas private army. Thrust into this ferment comes a nineteen year-old police academy dropout from the far north of Japan, armed with nothing but his guitar and a satchel full of coruscating, carnal songs of anger, lust and hate. This reissue isnt going to stick around for long either -- an edition of 777 copies, in a special card digipack." -- Alan Cummings. |
| Artist:MIKAMI, KAN Title: 1972 Kochi University Live Format: CD Label: Mikami Komuten Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "A long-circulated set of intense early recordings from Mikami. "Kan Mikamis 1972 Kochi University Live has long circulated in fan circles and is whispered to be one of the most powerful dates the bald colossus ever played. Captured live at Kochi University in front of a crowd of hyped-up wannabe student revolutionaries, Mikami breathes raging white-heat into a set of lurid, rabble-rousing classics. Stunning cover painting by Kazuki Tomokawa. Special card jacket, limited edition of 1000." - Mikami Komuten. |
| Artist:MIKAMI, KAN Title: Hoi 1973-1992 Format: CD Label: Mikami Komuten Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Hoi (Addendum) is another long-rumoured record that at last sees the light of day. It was originally scheduled to have been released by Mikamis fanclub as a follow-up to the 19 years 2 months 16th night DLP, but the project was shelved at the last minute. Now, ten years down the line, the world finally gets to hear this wonderful trawl through Mikamis deepest archives. Eighteen tracks, all previously unreleased, comprising live versions, outtakes and much more. Special card jacket, limited edition of 1000." - Mikami Komuten. |
| Artist:MIKAMI, KAN Title: Juw Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Latest in PSFs popular long-running series of solo releases by Kan Mikami. Its another coruscating slab of truly individualist Dada-folk-blues, obliquely twisted songcraft that refuses to pander to the banal realities of contemporary society. For those that choose to partake in its bounty, theres richness aplenty here -- the utter devastation and the unbearable ecstasy of the quotidian, transmitted just through six strings and the sandpaper rasp of Kans vocal chords." -PSF |
| Artist:MIKAMI, KAN Title: Yuyake No Kioku Kara - Aomori Live Format: CD Label: Showboat/Sky Station Country: Japan Price: $29.00 |
| "Originally released in 1976 on the legendary Victor SF series documenting outsider folk activities in Japan, this is one of the hardest Mikami LPs to track down, apart from his first two albums. This record sees Mikami returning to his home base, the northern prefecture of the bone-chillingly cold and weather beaten Aomori, delivering an intimate performance where he accompanies himself just on guitar with no back-up. A stunning and blood curdling live performance that proves once again that he is the ultimate acid folk/rural beatnik guttural hero. He wails out elegiac songs with enough conviction to strip the paint of the walls. But at the same time it is possibly -- partly due to his return to the motherland after having spent so much time in the concrete jungle of the capital -- his most private statement to date, loaded with cries of sorrow and grief, introspective mind trips and venomous laments that suggests he cries his heart out for dead souls and lost memories. In other words, his performance squeezes the last whiff of air out of your longs, leaving you exhausted and emotionally distressed. Great, only superlatives do him justice, all time possible highest recommendation. By the way, the audience response in the small theater is great and provides at times the ideal backup for his songs. You have to hear it in order to believe it... again quality reissue job, complete with mini-LP style gatefold jacket, obi, etc, all the works... it makes you drool just to hold it in yer hands."-Showboat/Sky Station |
| Artist:MIKAMI, KAN Title: -1 (Minus 1) Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "With the coming of spring, another year brings another bulletin from the mind of post-war Japans greatest blues singing surrealist poet, Kan Mikami. Part of the pleasure of Mikamis annual solo releases on PSF is plotting the changes in his rough-cut voice and guitar style. This time around the blues and enka feel of the last two or three albums has been pruned back to a more restrained psychedelic core. The voice too seems deliberately held in check, the melismatic flourishes excised in favour of a plain and meditative directness. The lyrics are as scabrous and bewildering as ever, focusing again and again on images of his native place in the north of Japan, but also devising a great triptych of spread legs, Bush and the wall of a Dada toilet. Another classic, then. Six tracks, twenty-nine minutes. Lyrics in Japanese and English." -- Alan Cummings |
| Artist:MIKAMI, KAN Title: Nishiogi No Tsuki Format: LP Label: Siwa Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "New solo studio recording by Japans reigning surrealist blues poet. Forty plus minutes of all new material recorded in France during Mikamis 2008 European tour. Numbered heavy weight vinyl only edition of 333 in handpulled screen printed sleeves. Includes lyrics in Japanese and English (title track alone is a trip through painted omelets and the moon to a rusty French bicycle). While Mikami is building up a massive body of work through his long running association with PSF records this is the first of his studio dates to be committed to vinyl in decades. Singular and essential." -Siwa |
| Artist:MIKAWA, TOSHIJI Title: Gyo-Kai Elegy Format: CD Label: Anoema Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "Pioneer, innovator and visionary are words easily associated with Toshiji Mikawa. One of the prime movers of Japanese noise, he started his musical activities in the late 1970s and joined the legendary and notorious Hijokaidan. In 1981 he formed Incapacitants to pursue his interest in pure noise, in contrast to the more performance art oriented Hijokaidan of that time. Initially a solo project, later he was joined by Fumio Kosakai to make Incapacitants a duo that has been widely acknowledged for their extreme sound and intense live performances. Gyo-Kai Elegy is the debut CD release under Mikawas own name. It grants us a close-up view of his sound which is normally immersed inside Incapacitants mighty sound structures. We get highly-detailed, unforgiving electric annihilation, invoking images of imaginary lifeforms trapped inside cages of silicon crystals." - Anoema. |
| Artist:MIKE GUNN, THE Title: Durban Poison Format: LP Label: Double Naught Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Sealed copies of this 1992 psych release featuring Tom and Christina Carter (Charalambides). |
| Artist:MILLER, EVAN Title: Transfigurations On Lap-Steel Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Iowa Citys Evan Miller is never one to stay in the same rut for too long. His earlier releases were composed of Fahey-esque spells, heavily emotional acoustic guitar work emanating tones of nostalgia and simplicity. On "Transfigurations" a new zone is crafted with lap-steel guitar and tape collage, creating equally nostalgic music from the other end of the spectrum: delicate, minimal drones. Tones interweave and textures evolve: it is Evans most personally progressive work, combining past themes and reinterpreting them on another medium: electric lap-steel guitar. Mastered by Pete Swanson. In an edition of 450 full color pro-printed cardboard LP sleeves and printed labels designed by Jeff Witscher (Secret Abuse / Callow God)." -Arbor |
| Artist:MILLER, EVAN/GOWN Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Arbor Country: US Price: $6.50 |
| "The power is out. The power is back. This tape juxtaposes two expert guitarists against each other on the natural A/B boundaries of the cassette medium. Iowas own Evan Miller creates long drifting ragas (or as he like to call them, spells) of acoustic guitar work akin to contemporaries such as Fahey and Rose, but strays from their "minstrel in the country" vibe and going more towards "a fisherman on the wharf" style. Even though there are no words, the emotion and story of his songs are obvious. "Specter" was recorded during a storm adding an ominous atmospheric quality to the meandering spell. On the flip side, Gown creates sky high electric guitar drones similar to his work in Bark Haze, but his presence in the solo setting adds a particularly nice clarity to his work; much less of an overload leaving more time to really soak into the jam. "Pigeon Church" is one of his first recordings since leaving his internship at Ecstatic Peace and moving up to rural Maccan, Nova Scotia. In a numbered edition of 100 tapes in 3 color silkscreened sleeves with tape labels and an insert." - Arbor. |
| Artist:MILLER, ROGER Title: "Pop" Record/Evolving Format: 7" Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| Artist:MILLER, ROGER Title: Oh Format: LP Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Rogers reigning post-Burma moment; basement 4-track recordings of unknown-tongue space psych, ecstatically rendered." - Forced Exposure. Early 90s release. |
| Artist:MILLER, ROGER Title: Oh. Guitars, etc... Format: LP Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Rogers reigning post-Burma moment; basement 4-track recordings of unknown-tongue space psych, ecstatically rendered." - FE. Late 80s release. |
| Artist:MIMAROGLU, ILHAN Title: Agitation Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Finally back in print, were happy to present two albums of agitprop electronic music -- Tract & To Kill A Sunrise cut between 1968 and 1975 -- by mysterious & controversial Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu -- one of the truly underrepresented pioneers of the golden age of the Princeton-Columbia electronic music scene. Produced as a direct reaction to an extended period of intense repression, counterrevolutionary terror, & execution style murder in Turkey, Tract is a scrambled mash up peppered with spunky electronic bursts, radio ads looped ad nauseum, the breathy, soulful & defiant voice of Turkish singer Tuly Sand & the go-golicious backing jams of little known psych group Topsy Turvy Moon -- all shot up with lines lifted from old left wing standbys Chairman Mao, Karl Marx & Bertolt Brecht among others. To Kill a Sunrise follows suit with a wild, uncompromising orgiastic electro-dirge for those who are murdered by the lackeys of the ruling class while the collection closer, La Ruche, brings the audio gestalt to a somewhat more subdued end. Brilliantly remastered from the original tapes, Tract features close to 80 minutes of music and original liners. Ilhan Mimaroglu emerged out of the Columbia -- Princeton Electronic Music Center and public radio programs at New Yorks WBAI where his socially and politically charged radio programs took the city by surprise. He is best known for his work with Edgard Varese, mentor Vladimir Ussachevsky, a spellbinding collaboration with jazz musician Freddy Hubbard and as a chief composer of Fellinis Satyricon as well as electronic albums released on his own Finnadar label." - Locust |
| Artist:MIMINOKOTO Title: Live Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Rising from the ashes of Tokyo Velvets obsessives and Keiji Haino collaborators Broomdusters, Miminokoto are a more immediately auraless proposition. Their dynamic blues constructions are held together by taut, clean guitar lines coiling and snapping around a rhythm section thats liable to alter course in mid-air. The hopping patterns beaten out by Ex-White Heaven bassist and drummer Koji Shimura anchor Kawaguchis machine gun guitar, which stutters in a polyglot tongue drawing equally from Rory Gallagher, Jerry Garcia and Lou Reed. But Kawaguchis remarkable vocal most defines Minokotos sound, his distressed moan giving every track the urgency of deathbed blues." - The Wire. |
| Artist:MIMINOKOTO Title: Orange Garage Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "At this late date, anyone who hasnt yet heard of Miminokoto simply hasnt been paying attention to (or has no interest in) the Japanese psychedelic underground. In all respects a super-group (with ties to LSD-March, White Heaven, Broom Dusters, Aihiyo, Chie Mukai, High Rise, etc.), Miminokoto has quickly earned a name for itself with its restrained, Velvets-influenced sound (as opposed to the all-in-the-red, fuzzed-out approach so common to so many other Japanese psychedelic groups). With most of their releases available only from Japan (at high import prices), Last Visible Dog once again offers a domestic-priced alternative in the form of Orange Garage, a top-notch live release that rivals Miminokotos studio efforts. Featuring three songs unavailable anywhere else (one over 16 minutes), and revamped heavier versions of some of the bands best numbers, Orange Garage is perhaps Miminokotos most immediate and well-balanced release to date." - Last Visible Dog |
| Artist:MINAMI, HIROAKI Title: Obscure Tape Music of Japan Vol. 10 Format: CD Label: Edition Omega Point Country: Japan Price: $27.00 |
| "...Electronic Symphony No. 1. Little-known composer Hiroaki Minami was a professor of electronic music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music and is a pioneer of synthesizer music in Japan. He built a private studio for his self-made synthesizer in his home in 1976, and shortly thereafter, he composed this piece, Electronic Symphony No. 1, filled with spacey and very noisy analog synthesizer sounds, much like Roland Kayns 60s concrète works. Contains liner notes by the artist in Japanese and English; housed in a limited-edition specially-designed cardboard paper sleeve." -Editions Omega Point "The artist himself: "At the age of 15, having more of an interest in technology than music, I began to build radio sets and vacuum tube amplifiers. In the next 20 years, electronics advanced into the realm of transistors and integrated circuits, creating a huge potential for the use of the synthesizer for musical applications. In the 70s as knowledge about experiments in transistors, integrated circuit oscillators, and filter technology became available in electronic technology magazines, I attempted IC even though I only had vacuum tubes to complete an analog synthesizer, and I also purchased 2-channel and 4-channel tape recorders. I was finally equipped with the necessary equipment to create electronic music when tragedy struck my family: my 8 year-old daughter died from liver disease. It compelled me to compose the fifth movement Sorrow Song The Stars Sang of the Electronic Symphony No.1 as the requiem for my daughter. The piece, created from my own analog synthesizer, was distributed throughout the world as an individual work, and only later did I compose the rest of the movements in order to complete Symphony No. 1." -from the liner notes |
| Artist:MINIT Title: Bootleg Format: 7" Label: Tonschacht Country: GERMANY Price: $6.50 |
| "after their highly acclaimed debut-cd last year on sigma and their successful tour through europe this is the second record of the sidney-based duo minit (jasmine guffond and torben tilly), on which they present their very genuine constructions of dense electronic music based on loops and samples. bootleg is their first remix (of the chicks on speed) from late 1999 - deconstructing techno... on the flipside theres another jewel - the very first minit-piece from 1997 which originally appeared in an edition of 20." - Tonschacht. |
| Artist:MINMAE Title: My First Brush With Infinity Format: 7" Label: Octane Grammophon Country: Finland Price: $5.00 |
| "My First Brush With Infinity is Minmaes latest 7" on the Finland based Octane Grammophon label and includes some of the best Minmae stuff Ive heard yet. "Were All Friends Here" has pulsating keyboard lines, almost jazz styled drumming, and slowly winding power guitars that remind me of the Finnish band Circle, and makes for a floating but heavy rocking psychedelic ride. Great stuff. I hope this gives us a hint as to what the next Minmae full length will sound like because this is excellent stuff." -Jerry Kranitz, Aural Innovations 2003. |
| Artist:MINUS INFINITY Title: Format: CD Label: Ventricle Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "dark underground lo-fi classical using mellotron as well as two ultra rare mellotron spinoff machines- the birotron and chamberlain,adding a dustcovered creakiness to the mournful plaintive waling of the medieval maiden lost at the edge of the graveyard..." - Ventricle. |
| Artist:MINX/ZIMMERMAN Title: Dance Music 2000 Format: 7" Label: Feedback Country: NETHERLANDS Price: $7.00 |
| "2001, edition of 200 copies, electronics 80s in a comic style sleeve." The Feedback label (along with sublabel HYENA) release limited edition synth/minimal electronics/homemade new wave. |
| Artist:MIRANCHITO Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Maim and Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Artist:MIRROR Title: Still Valley Format: LP Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $34.00 |
| "Fantastic new album by Andrew Chalk, Christoph Heemann and Jim ORourke recorded between May 2002 - January 2004. This strange atmospheric work ranges among their finest works to date and is first released on vinyl only (the CD version feat. extra material to follow in spring 2005). Edition of 500 copies." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist:MIRROR Title: Viking Burial for a French Car Format: CD Label: Plinkity Plonk Country: Netherlands Price: $18.50 |
| "Through the past few years Mirror have gained a wide reputation for some of the most beautiful unearthly drone music. Mirror is usually regarded as a duo of Christoph Heeman and Andrew Chalk. Their Viking Burial for a French Car consists, partly, of a recording made by Mirror in Dundee, Scotland in October 2003, where Mirror was extended with David Keenan (author of Englands Hidden Reverse), Gavin Laird and Alex Neilson. The concert was an accompaniment to the film Haxan, about witchcraft through the ages. In an epic thirty-seven minutes, Mirror extends beyond the drone music and comes up with an orchestral piece, in an almost Xenakis style: building a large crescendo and in the middle an explosion Afterwards the piece slowly follows its course in descrescendo. A surprising piece for Mirror, that would not have worked on a LP release. Its length requires an uninterrupted listening. Viking Burial for a French Car is one of the rarer CD releases by Mirror, who usually release their work on LP, and will surely appeal to those with a limited music budget. Packed in the usual Plinkity Plonk sleeve." - Plinkity Plonk. |
| Artist:MIRROR Title: Still Valley Format: CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| "Re-release of DS78 incl. one extra track. One of Mirrors finest works recorded by Andrew Chalk, Christoph Heemann and Jim ORourke between May 2002 - January 2005. The music on Still Valley might seem calm on the surface but something mysterious is going on underneath. Edition of 1000 copies in dye-cut cover similar to the LP version." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist:MIRRORS Title: Another Nail In The Remodeled Coffin Format: CD Label: ROIR Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "An expanded reissue of the classic but criminally under heard Another Nail In The Coffin album from 1970s Cleveland underground combo MIRRORS. Led by JAIME KILMEK, the band are as gleefully damaged or as bubbly brutal as anything that came out the Cleveland scene, delivering hook-and-harmony-loaded power pop like nobodys business. Includes all eleven tracks from the original release (last issued in 1989), along with fifteen bonus tracks culled from both the Nail sessions and some sessions done for an unreleased second album. Includes great liner notes by Klimek." |
| Artist:MIRRORS Title: Real State Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $13.50 |
| Artist:MIRRORS Title: Something That Would Never Do Format: LP Label: Violet Times Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Finally! The classic Cleveland, OH sounds from the 70s all on one handy full length- 15 trax, including both sides of the Hearthan 7" single, all but one of the "Those Were Different Times" Scat 10" cuts, and others from "Hands In My Pockets" cd on Overground. Its solid, some might say a "best of" even. Officially licensed from the band. Remastered for the ear by John Golden, includes those cool old school, tip-on jacket covers that most of the record nerds i know love, but dont seem to know what they are. 800 copies, worldwide." - Violet Times. |
| Artist:MISCARRIAGE Title: Miscarriage Format: One Sided LP Label: Gods of Tundra / American Tapes / Hanson / Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "THIS ONE-SIDER JUST REPRESSED...AVAILABLE AGAIN....ORIGINALLY A 4-LABEL SPLIT edition of 200 copies...now 400 more copies have been pressed...100 more for each label!! Grab it BEFORE IT HAS TO BE REPRESSED AGAIN!!!!The band that shouldnt have happened.. and kind of didnt. Olson/Dilloway/Connelly/Holger. co-released in a SECOND edition of 400 by HANSON / GODS OF TUNDRA / AMERICAN TAPES / CHONDRITIC SOUND." - Hanson |
| Artist:MIST Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Amethyst Sunset Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Vinyl debut from the Ohio duo of MIST (john elliot and sam goldberg). Following up their "certain expansion" and "stole colors" cassette releases on pizza wagon, MIST offer up two full sides of their best material yet. Electric Organs. Beautiful and dreamy preogressive synths, kosmik string synth zone." - Amethyst Sunset. |
| Artist:MISTRESS OF STRANDS Title: Format: CD Label: Ventricle Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "soft drifty summery ambient but with the quiet moodiness Alice might have felt moments before falling down the rabbit hole (or the kid in Dandelion Wine)." - Ventricle. "Mistress of Strands is one of the many bands from the Ventricle stable; a label dedicated to putting more cosmic and experimental music with female vocals into the world. In addition to this project, Dusty Lee has appeared on recordings from Mauve Sideshow, Torn Curtain and Angel Provocateur." - Liner notes to the Anomalous Compilation LP "Electrically Induced Vibrations". |
| Artist:MITSURU, TABATA Title: Lumrapideco Format: CD Label: Utech Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Japanese sound artist Tabata Mitsuru (Boredoms, Zeni Geva, Acid Mothers Temple, 20 Guilders, Leningrad Blues Machine) is a musician who has claimed his solo voice and skillfully hones it with each release. Lumrapideco (Speed Of Light) is a collection of spaced-out electronics, bleak feedback and sedate guitar passages. Sometimes oppressive, sometimes heart-stirring, it is never less than astonishing." -Utech. |
| Artist:MITTELWINTERNACHT 71 Title: Format: CDR Label: Betley Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Shit, man? Whats kosmische for "illusion". Klang! Hammond organ and guitar apocalypse. It just carries on phasing.disappearing.phasing.disappearing.furry-freakin. Ahhhhhhhh. takes me back to my mate Wolfgang, us stoned on the floor of his caravan in Torquay when we were 14 year old Heads. Still, who were "Edward Fraser and Christopher French"? Was this really recorded way back in "21-22 Dec 1971"? Is the man with the midiverb having us all on? Put it like this, the kids who believed in Santa were the coolest in the school, right?. Right! And for those of us still feel obliged to space? Yeah!!Its a fucking riot that our Zweistein tribute band back in Tamworth never even got close to" - Uncle Florian, "Schlagwerk Heritage Gazette." - Betley. Limited to 50 copies. |
| Artist:MITTENS ON STRINGS Title: Pushing Buttons Format: 7" Label: Pickled Egg Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| "culled from one of the earliest luddite (Elephant Micahs inhouse label) releases, this is four songs issued on vinyl by the great great british label pickled-egg. catches the strange secluded feel of our kentuckiana music making way back in 2001 - feel the infinite reverie of la talking box. probably wont be getting many more of these." - Elephant Micah. |
| Artist:MIXED BAND PHILANTHROPIST Title: Format: 7" Label: Hypnagogia Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| Artist:MIZUTANI, KIMIO Title: A Path Through Haze Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $31.00 |
| "Kimio Mizutani was the guitarist in the excellent Japanese freak out group Love Live Life +1 and this is a long-desired reissue of his first solo album from 1971, originally issued by Japanese Polydor." - FE. |
| Artist:MIZUTANI, KIMIO Title: A Path Through the Haze Format: LP Label: Therapeutic Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Regarded as one of the absolute best albums from the Japanese 70s scene, this 1971 release by Japanese rock guitar hero Kimio Mizutani is a psychedelic-progressive masterpiece. Tons of fuzz guitar, moog, keys, impressive drumming. Something like a wilder King Crimson." - Therapeutic. |
| Artist:MIZUTANI, KIYOSHI Title: Yokosawa-iri Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "CMR is happy to present its first release by long term sound artist Kiyoshi Mizutani. A former member of Merzbow, Mizutani has been creating his solo work since 1989, delving into areas of electronic noise, structural sound systems of feedback and instrumentation as well as natural compositional arrangements of field recordings. Yokosawa-iri falls into the latter category. All field recordings were made at this Satoyama, a traditional form of agricultural environment consisting of a mountain, a rice field and a small village where people and nature coexist in harmony. With beautiful clarity Mizutani illustrates an environment and its inhabitants through the delicate combination of found sounds both natural and mechanical. The Satoyama is a very rare setting in contemporary Japan, no doubt one of the reasons Mizutani chose to document the area. Constructed from overlapping forest sounds of wind, trees, birds, rocks, insects, animals and children (to name a few sources) the tracks rise and fall with intensity, at times suggesting the encroaching modern world on this traditional area. Yokosawa-iri is a beautiful entry into Mizutanis already impressive dossier of sound work." - CMR. |
| Artist:MLEHST Title: A Puritan Am I Format: LP Label: Belief Recordings Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "150 copies only. rec summer 2005 :ambient and harsh textural works interspersed with cut-ups in the trademark style of mlehst: comeback works first recordings in 7 years!!" - Belief |
| Artist:MLEHST Title: As A Man Thinketh In His Heart, So He Is Format: LP Label: Belief Recordings Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "150 copies only. rec jan 2006 :wide range of dynamics and frequency interplay (concrete music for the hard of hearing) with some more spacial passages. sound quality and production values are to the fore." - Belief |
| Artist:MLEHST Title: I Am, I Was, I Will Always Be Format: LP Label: Belief Recordings Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| Recorded April 2006. "this is a "concept" album in a way - the building blocks are introduced and the composition is revealed! the first track is used as source material for each other track that follows, the results are quite astounding! more than just an exercise in technique, or showing off the ability to really engineer sound, this is a highly listenable and laidback album. 200 copies - 200 gram vinyl LP in pro-printed black and white sleeve with some suitably pompous sleeve-notes too!" - Belief. |
| Artist:MODERN ART Title: All Aboard The Mind Train Format: LP Label: Out Of Depression Country: GERMANY Price: $18.00 |
| Gary Ramons pre-Sun Dial band. Out of print. |
| Artist:MODERN SHIT Title: Will Make You Ill Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "After surfacing briefly in 2007 in a very limited number of copies on slim-jewel-box together with the Artkoustics catalog, Alga Marghen is now proud to present the final edition of Modern Shit, a very singular chapter in the Amos/Its War Boys/Milk from Cheltenham/Homosexuals history. Directly taken from the original Its War Boys catalog, here is one of the most obscure sonic works of the early 1980s, Modern Shit! First issued on tape (cat No. $21) this work circulated only privately among the close friends of the label and was never officially distributed. Actually it represents one of the most intense and experimental outputs of this creative London period. The idea was to create a contemporary non-stop, vaguely in emulous contradiction to product by people like Cerrone and Biddulph (1970s disco queens). Lepke and Amos, the two minds behind this project (and 2/3 of the Milk from Cheltenham adventures), each constructed a half hour near-continuous non-stop using only the foulest materials. In those days they had their 8-track studio in a moldy basement below Brixton Road, South London and they happened to occasionally record some awful wannabe pop bands. It was a truly horrible experience but with a good side. Almost as soon as the idiots left the studio, Lepke and Amos would start re-mixing their music, often stealing and sticking it (suitably mangled) onto new tracks, the basis material for Modern Shit! The CD is presented in a new digipack edition with full color cover. Final edition of 500 copies." - Alga Marghen |
| Artist:MODERNE Title: Moderne/L Espionne Aimat La Musique: 1980-81 Format: DoubleLP Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
| "A limited edition release of Modernes two full length LPs: Moderne (1980) and LEspionne Aimait La Musique (1981), remastered from the original analog reels and pressed on 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl, is now available. The gatefold artwork features photographs of the band, and is printed on heavyweight 350 gram double white board, with a matte laminate and black inner sleeves. The release is accompanied by a double sided 18" x 24" poster featuring an interview with the band on one side, and photograph on t he other. Moderne was a Minimal / Synthpop band formed in Tours, France in 1979. The band consisted of: Gérard Lévy, Thierry Teyssou, Bernard Guimond, Dominique Marchetti and their videographer Patrick Millerioux. After releasing two albums and two corresponding 7" singles between 1980-1981, nothing was heard from Moderne and aside from "Switch on Bach" (released on the compilation So Young But So Cold in 2004), very little has been heard from this band. Moderne remains notoriously hidden in the past, and their albums and singles have become collectors items. The albums were recorded in their Tours studio and mixed by Joschko Rudas and Henning Schmitz at Studio Rudas Düsseldorf, the same studio Kraftwerk used for Man Machine (1978). The production is exceptional. This is French new wave at its best." - Minimal Wave. |
| Artist:MODULO 1000 Title: Nao Fale Com Paredes Format: CD Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Modulo 1000 is one of Brasils famous progressive rock bands of the early 1970s, their only album became legendary in the collectors scene, as one of the best South American records of all times, besides Laghonia, Emiliano Zapata, Psiglo, Opus Alfa. As Luiz Simas (organ) remembers: "The music of Modulo 1000 had its own appeal to an audience that wanted a heavy, raw, experimental, psychedelic sound. Our kind of music did not make it to the radio stations. It was too wild. The distribution of the record was done in a very limited way. The record label directors, which probably didnt understand or even didnt like our music, did zero promotion for the LP." This CD-issue contains 8 bonus tracks and comes with the original cover artwork, an outstanding psychedelic painting, presented in a triple fold hardcover (as Mystic Siva) plus a 16 page booklet with, bio and lots of photos. Highly recommended because of its individual and intense progressive sound." - World In Sound. |
| Artist:MOEBIUS Title: Tonspuren Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "LP version, pressed on 180 gram vinyl. This is the first solo album by Dieter Moebius, recorded at Conny Planks studio and originally released in 1983 on Sky Records. By 1969 at the latest, Dieter Moebius was synonymous with the avant-garde electronic music scene in Germany. He and Hans-Joachim Roedelius formed Cluster, a seminal electronic/ambient duo, while Moebius was also a member of the so-called Krautrock supergroup Harmonia (with Michael Rother and Roedelius), as well as collaborating on various other projects with the likes of Brian Eno and Mani Neumeier from Guru Guru. Somehow, it took Moebius until 1983 to release his own solo debut album. Tonspuren is an album of minimalisms, miniatures and stringent form -- 10 consistently concise and precise pieces. Moebius develops tonal variations out of minimalistic, rhythmic, harmonic basic tracks, sometimes coming close to tangible melodies. Yet this is exactly the point at which he purposely steers clear of electronic pop criteria. Nevertheless, Tonspuren is a pop album, its radically stripped-down contents replenished with harmonious elements of prevalent popular music. Echoes of Cluster notwithstanding, the music of Tonspuren is a separate entity altogether. Moebius seems to be avoiding improvisation as the devil keeps his distance from holy water. Each piece is thoughtfully composed, as Moebius crafts his miniatures layer by layer. Spontaneous inaccuracies have no place here; noise escapades are nipped in the bud. Baroque, folklore and frivolity are not admitted into the studio when the red light is on. Thanks to Tonspuren, the keen listener now has the opportunity of direct comparison in his appraisal of the solo albums of Moebius, Roedelius and Rother. Tonspuren thus represents a vital piece of the Harmonia puzzle. Full color inner sleeve with liner notes by Asmus Tietchens." -Bureau B |
| Artist:MOGOLLAR Title: Mogollar Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $18.00 |
| "Incredibly rare second album from Mogollar, which does not even appear in the bands own discography, but was released on Diskotur all the same sometime around 1971; eleven perfect examples of the groups Andalou pop mixture of ethnic Turkish music and Western elements, plus eight bonus tracks from singles (including different heavier versions of two tracks from their Danses et Rhythmes album) makes for one great disc. Booklet comes with band history and includes some photos." -World Psychedelia |
| Artist:MOKINOX Title: Im Your Chair Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Sonic Youth cabin boy Chris Habib gushing out audio tourettes with electronics and voice garble. Word on the street has it that he wheezed this baby out while wearing a full adult sized frog costume, no shit." - Chocolate Monk |
| Artist:MOLLS Title: Mushroom Live/2002.9.23 Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: JAPAN Price: $11.00 |
| Hiroshi on harp, vocals and keyboard; Kazuo (Pormm Circles) on bass; Masao on drums; Toku on guitar. |
| Artist:MONGOLOID MEN Title: From The Void Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "For one night only the Mongoloid Men (connelly, olson, young and nyoukis) came lurching into a brighton basement. Cheap beer and indian food in their stomachs, beards and hair full of hash smoke. A swarm of metallic insects shitting debris into ears of those who attended. Horrible, horrible noise." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist:MONOFONICORCHESTRA Title: Musicdesign Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "Monofonicorchestra is not a disc recorded in mono / is not ambient music / is not funky / is not experimental music / is not funny / Monofonicorchestra is not avant-garde / is not pop / is not op / is not dada / Monofonicorchestra is not fashion / is not hard-core / is not horror / is not Frigidaire was writing Maurizio Marsico at 10h20 on Wednesday, December 23rd, 1981. A country: Italy. Several countries: Italies. Late seventies, early eighties. The ether of punk is in everyones nose and disco virus invades even the most reticent legs. New-wave for sure rules the underground. Neo dandyism attitude applied to the Italian post-rock era; Dolce Vita with a dreamed revolution in the background. United Countries of Italy! Bologna and the Confusional Quartet, Gaznevada, The Stupid Set. Not to forget the Naif Orchestra from Florence and all trans-borders adventurous navigators such as Piermario Ciani, Vittore Baroni (Lieutenant Murnau, Trax), the members of the musical theatre Magazzini Criminali. The vivid eclecticism of the above mentioned is to be compared to the aesthetic manifesto of the AtaTak crew from Düsseldorf (Der Plan, DAF, Tödliche Doris, Pyrolator). or the Vanity labelJapanesee explorers (Tolerance, Aunt Sally, Normal Brain, BGM, RNA Organism). These bands were not leading the italo disco movement neither were they really punk or industrial nor waving cold-wave banners. They went off the industrial darkness adolescent like romanticism to assert humor, may it be black, as a revolutionary weapon throbbing over the ruins of radicalism. Its getting cold in here. The dreams have moved toward conscious needs: the desperate hope of having fun. And so is the Monofonicorchestra. The music of Maurizio Marsico is repetitive music. Mi. La. Short pieces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,... Every record Marsico makes is a conceptual sequence of drawings. Casual Casio-jazz cartoon soundtrack like. There is nothing to decipher here, its all given already, all referenced. The appearances are pleasant and you get trapped into the depth of some cynical easy listening rhizome where ZNR merges with Steve Reich and Blue Gene Tyranny. Indeed, it has something of the Lovely Music elegance. First pressing limited to 500 copies with full color digipack sleeve. Also including a 12 page full color booklet with original graphics, photos as well as liner notes by Samon Takahashi." -Alga Marghen. |
| Artist:MONOPOLKA Title: s/t Format: Book/7" Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $25.00 |
| "Phil from USSR, first time on vinyl, wackies silkscreen and marbling book madness. Art by Jacob Horwood, Dylan Nyoukis, Sekitani Norihiro, Jeff Garcia, Andrew Zukerman, etc. Edition of 150." - Beniffer Editions. |
| Artist:MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Mandala Levitations Format: Cass Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The representation and actualization of patterned symbols for the integration within the communities temple (MIND)." - Pacific City Sound Visions |
| Artist:MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Mandala Levitations Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The representation and actualization of patterned symbols for the integration within the communities temple (MIND)." - Pacific City Sound Visions |
| Artist:MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Prince of Parrot Shooters Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
| Artist:MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHES Title: Start Levitating Now Format: Cass Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Levitation for reconfiguration of star charts as limboed vertical parallelled light beams bevelled for vocalizers meditation. Meditation toward levitation facilitated new star charts for the development of life cycled community spiritualization, levitator an rites performer as collaborators on the meditation up the recreation of community, star charts to be reinformed by by newly appropriated cymbold visions as monopoly star child star searchers holds the levitators at meditations bay within a parroted starred nightlis as levitations provokes the fourth planed mind of symbol meditations to your coconuts content." - Pacific City Sound Visions. Spencer from the Skaters solo work. |
| Artist:MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHES Title: Gittchii Manitou... Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| ...12 Step Retrance Program For Troubled Dream Warriors. "deep space possesions of troubled pacific city dream warriors as a means to recovery . retrance progams for reconfiguration of star charts , hallucination cleansing." - Pacific City Sound Visions |
| Artist:MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHES Title: Piper Maru Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "piper maru(music for pacific city barbecue pit levitators) pacific city sound visions. ritual music music of pacific city for drum meditations of barbecue pit levitators. recorded live."- Pacific City Sound Visions |
| Artist:MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHES Title: Infant Spirituality Rates Coconut Percent Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Compositions constructed coconut excerpts recorded during parrot presentation of space sensed rituals within infant meditation camps.space cymbold visioning arrives within the imagined coconut nebula as a new star chart constellation. to inuit infant realizations-walking lucid meditation exercises-the study of meditation as an act towards the creation of a community spiritual awakening to be involved in the limboed levitation of futured star chart creations..." |
| Artist:MONOS Title: Generators Format: Double CD Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "Long announced new drone release by Colin Potter & Darren Tate. This double album consists of two different works recorded between 2002-2003 at IC studio. Disc one features 3 tracks that are loosely based on processed field recordings in the classic Monos style, exploring internal spaces. Disc two has one long track of organic and electronic tones which combine to give a dense cloud of flowing sound. Full colour digisleeve. Artwork by Darren Tate & Helen Potter. Design by Jonathan Coleclough." - Die Stadt. |
| Artist:MONOSHOCK Title: Walk To The Fire Format: CD Label: Blackjack Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Artist:MONOSHOCK Title: Runnin Ape-like From The Backwards Superman: 1989-1995 Format: CD Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "One of the 90s most STUPIDLY ignored bands. The forerunners of the modern psych punk scene, the Monoshock have turned the ears of the Stooges Steve Mackey, Julian Cope, the schmoes at WFMU, & even Mitch Cardwell. Crazed wah-wah attack with enough drive to send Hawkwind back to outer space. There is so much scuzz on this CD that you will rip your damn head off in a state of frenzy and like it! All the singles & comp tracks washed of mud, plus demo. live stuff, & outtakes. A sample of Model Citizen. A sample of Striking a Match...." - S-S. |
| Artist:MONOSOV, ILYA Title: Vinyl Document #1 Format: LP Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Music performed by 2 organ glitches, songs by broken music boxes (+ added circuits), a remix of my 2002 catalog (Music For Everyone) by my friend Andrew Deutsch: All broken music -- music breaking away from the surreal and the intellectual in order to gain physical characteristics -- I think music can be found in just about anything, just like everything can be said to have a musical quality. You can use sound to power a small motor that will be used in an autonomous sound piece or you can use it for a light bulb and play light songs for few green plants or maybe you can simply listen to the sound and observe things changing all around you -- I think that for me it is such small joys that can have a lasting effect on things and it is this perspective from which I continue to work." - Ilya Monosov. |
| Artist:MONOSOV, ILYA Title: Architectures on Air and Other Works Format: CD Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Elevator Bath proudly presents the first full-length CD from Ilya Monosov. Architectures on Air and Other Works is a challenging collection of recordings, perfectly summarizing the various interests of this inventive sound artist. The range of these works is tremendous: From harsh intensity to gorgeous drone to virtual silence, concluding with the deeply affecting title track. Monosov recorded three of the six pieces presented here as solo works, while the other half are collaborations. Two of these collaborative tracks feature conceptual sound artist Civyiu Kkliu (Banned Productions) and the third includes the work of veteran electronic composer Larry Polansky (Frog Peak). Architectures on Air and Other Works displays the fruits of several years worth of activity, and though each piece is distinct in concept and execution, the album offers a solid block of organic sound, compelling from beginning to end. In addition to the stunning audio work, this enhanced CD also features two QuickTime movie files of Monosovs sound performances (about 18 minutes of material)." - Elevator Bath. |
| Artist:MONOSOV/SWIRNOFF Title: Seven Recorded Works (Volume 1) Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "The sound of two souls, all alone in claustrophobically infinite space. These two volumes see disenchanted Californians Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff whittling out their own autonomous spaces far from the surf and sun, then climbing in and nailing the door firmly shut behind them. Seven Recorded Works comes over like someone has leached the spirits of Ennio Morricone, Eric Satie and Pauline Oliveros, stuffed them in a leaky wooden barrel, and set them rolling out to sea on a spring riptide. Uncertain, hesitant piano and melodica miniatures undercut with the evil drone of harmonica and hurdy-gurdy. Its a creaking and queasy trip, guaranteed to heave underwater, piratical nightmares out of some long suppressed substream of your subconscious." - Alan Cummings. Edition of 500 copies. |
| Artist:MONOSOV/SWIRNOFF Title: Two Recorded Works (Volume 2) Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Two Recorded Works opens in equally brooding, cinematic fashion with Swirnoffs air organ slow gasping its weighted way through magenta dust-clouds of bowed guitar. Later, sea-shanty bellows underscore the spectral traces of whistles and ghosted vocals and whistles to particularly melancholic effect. But the final side, credited to Monosov and Swirnoffs rock unit The Shining Path, is a whole other kettle of herring. It rockets upwards into the fuzzed out expansive zones of the Rallizes sound, but is tethered to an on-edge, speedfreak shake of a Suicide rhythm, just too fast for comfort. Bliss handily circumvented, higher mind tied to delerium tremens. I think theyre trying to tell us something…" - Alan Cummings. "Time passed, and we began recording Volume 2 which contains our experiments with song form and our rock band, The Shining Path. We would like to thank Ed Hardy for offering us creative freedom over a span of four vinyl records, the last of which we plan to record in 2005." - Eclipse. Ilya Monosov (2005). Edition of 500 copies. |
| Artist:MONOSOV/SWIRNOFF Title: Recorded Works Vol. 3 Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "California sound artists Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff return with two more sonic labyrinths stretched over disparate terrain. As on their previous albums, Monosov and Swirnoff cast boundaries to the wind. Disillusioned and wise to the ways of the world, the duo not only succeeds in propping up the shambolic planet they created on Recorded Works Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, but also in soaring toward the furthest reaches of distant suns. Blurring the line between composition and improvisation, these new installments are rare, unearthed gems. Volume 3 begins with dancing shadows and acoustic myopia. Monosovs minimal vocals lead Swirnoffs piano ramblings deeper into the cerebral maze, inadvertently finding the best route out. Setting off the shaky delicacy of the opener and Side A closer, Repeat Again (with enchanting vocals from Naomi) are the raucous, industrial rhythms of Snake Lust and Fly Away. The Indian-inspired drones of With Charles Curtis top the whole thing off with cinematic splendor. Monosov and Swirnoff manage to seamlessly mesh these ideas into a cohesive whole." --Brad Rose. |
| Artist:MONOSOV/SWIRNOFF Title: Recorded Works Vol. 4 Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "California sound artists Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff return with two more sonic labyrinths stretched over disparate terrain. As on their previous albums, Monosov and Swirnoff cast boundaries to the wind. Disillusioned and wise to the ways of the world, the duo not only succeeds in propping up the shambolic planet they created on Recorded Works Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, but also in soaring toward the furthest reaches of distant suns. Blurring the line between composition and improvisation, these new installments are rare, unearthed gems. Volume 3 begins with dancing shadows and acoustic myopia. Monosovs minimal vocals lead Swirnoffs piano ramblings deeper into the cerebral maze, inadvertently finding the best route out. Setting off the shaky delicacy of the opener and Side A closer, Repeat Again (with enchanting vocals from Naomi) are the raucous, industrial rhythms of Snake Lust and Fly Away. The Indian-inspired drones of With Charles Curtis top the whole thing off with cinematic splendor. Monosov and Swirnoff manage to seamlessly mesh these ideas into a cohesive whole." --Brad Rose. |
| Artist:MONOTON Title: Monotonprodukt 07 20y++ Format: CD Label: Oral Country: Canada Price: $16.50 |
| 2003 reissue, originally recorded 1982; seminal German underground electronics. "Born from the desire to reintroduce on the market an outstanding, yet surprisingly unknown work of the 1980s, this ORAL release is also the result of a dialogue with hypermedia researcher and artist Konrad Becker, which occurred during chance, yet fruitful meetings. Sometimes in the path of a music lover and record collector, a work will beckon you, imposing itself with its singularity, depth and timelessness. Monotonprodukt 07, produced in 1982, is such a work." "...is so alive with the pulses that triggered many electronicas to come, from techno through trance to Megos creeping static, you could make a case for Beckers guruhood. Yet, for all its prescient washed out tones, threadbare textures and minimalist rigour, it has the edge on much that followed. Adopting an imperious art stance towards mainstreams and margins alike, Becker cast a cold analytic eye over electronicas urfathers, picking up on Suicides jittertronic urgency, if not their melodrama, and DAFs throbbing sequencers, but with the sex threat removed, which he patched into his own crackling circuits, hissing vistas and tumbling beatstreams." -- The Wire, #175, Sept. 1998, from the article "100 records that set the world on fire (when no one was listening)." |
| Artist:MONOTRACT Title: Red Tape- 1999 Format: CDR Label: Monotract Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "the Monotract tape on White, which was ratty as f**k, a live band in a basement and/or apartment playing loud to an audience of themselves and the recording head of a cheap cassette four-track. Two guitars and a sparse drummer, much of the time playing straight-out noise (heavy on wacked effect-box stompery) but not without a strangely swaggering rock undercurrent. 98% instrumental, and when the singing comes you barely notice it, and the lyrics cant be real words....just some quiet wail and chatter coming from somewhere in the basement." - Blastitude, 2000. CDR reissue of late 90s White Tapes release, handpainted, bound in wire. Edition of 100. |
| Artist:MONOTRACT Title: Live In Japan Format: CD Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $11.00 |
| "This document of the NYC trios 2002 J-jaunt is heavier on electronics than usual (no bass or guitar this time), and explodes with crunch, crackle, and sizzle. Its some of MONOTRACTs most inorganic music, robust and unintelligible. ROGER RIMADA, NANCY GARCIA, and CARLOS GIFFONIs crowded mix has room for a rhythmic base, but the beats are just another conflicting voice within many. Packaged inside origami-style card foldout, silkscreened in eyeball-searing pink, designed by JELLE CRAMA." -Gold Soundz |
| Artist:MONSTER DUDES Title: I Know That Youre Ok Format: 7" Label: Troniks Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Bizarre artschool audio by the father/son team from Idaho. artwork layout by Glamorous Pat. coreleased with Breaking World Records, Cephias Treat, Deathbomb Arc, Dying is Deadly, Fort Hazel, Hello Asshole, Nothing Gets Worse Than This, Nightpass Handmade Records, Sao Bento Music, and Weird Forest." - Troniks. |
| Artist:MONSTER ISLAND Title: Children of Mu Format: Dbl LP Label: The End Is Here Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "The Children of Mu is a group of songs, lyrics & extended performance revolving around the psychic and mythic origins of Mu, a Pacific island or lost continent (and counterpart to Atlantis) some believe to be fiction and others the cradle of civilization, and relevant to our present condition. It has been mythologized by the founder of Theosophy, Madame Blavatsky who contends that Mu was a land bridging India and Africa, inhabited by our spiritual ancestors, non-physical psychic beings. The LP charts the migration of Shadow Theater, the earliest visual/ musical form of storytelling from Mu to China, India and the invention of cinema in avant-garde Paris at the end of the 19th century. Songs on side one and two follow this migration and are performed in Chinese, French and English. Early wax recordings of poet Apollinaire (reading Bridge Mirabeau) and the first Chinese opera are mixed into collaged sections within the music. Sides 3 and 4 are a single long jazz improvisation over the channeled voice of Madame Blavatsky who reveals the history of creation and Mu. This is the fourth album by Monster Island, a four year project, whose previous recordings included; From the Michigan Floor, Dream Tiger and Peyotemind. This double LP is an edition of 500 copies with fabulous four color + metallic gold cover by ratty art genius Gary Panter. Performances by; Aliccia Berg (Slumber Party), Bill Brovald (Larval), Matthew Smith (guitar, bass, pipa, Outrageous Cherry, THTX), Robert Waller (synth, Pere Ubu), H.H. Ma Meenakshi Devi (Indian Saint and classical Hindi singer), Anneke Auer (psychic voice), Johnny Evans (sax, Howling Diablos), Len Bukowski (bass clarinet, Northwoods Improvisers), Tim Barnes (percussionist, Quakebasket), Mattin (avant-noise, Sakadda), words & music: Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters), mastered by Warn Defever." -The End Is Here. |
| Artist:MONSTER ISLAND Title: Dream Tiger Format: CD Label: Mvd Audio Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "Reissue of this 2001 album, previously self released on The End is Hear label. "Dream Tiger is a 13 song CD album by the Detroit group Monster Island. This is their first album since the 1996 LP recording From the Michigan Floor on Ecstatic Peace! Performing members on this album include; Cary Loren (Destroy All Monsters), Warn Defever (His Name is Alive), Erika Hoffman (ex-Godzuki) and Matt Smith (Outrageous Cherry, THTX, Volebeats). Dream Tiger features a mixture of ethnic folk instruments: (oud, sitar, tanpura, harmonium, shakuhachi, djembe, gamelan gendr, and African percussion) mixed with traditional (guitars, bass, violin, cello, flute, drums) and novelty sounds: (Chinese organ, water harp, mini-Moog, samples, toy piano, gongs)." - Mvd Audio |
| Artist:MONSTURO Title: F-44 Format: LP Label: Rasbliutto Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Rasbliutto Recordings is very happy to make the transistion from a small run, cdr-only limited distribution label to a small run, vinyl and cd limited distribution label! We are celebrating with the release of this beautiful solo synth record from David Rothbaum, a major and humble force in the Los Angeles experimental music community. This record is a psychedelic study in stasis and density wonderfully realized on Dofner synthesizers as part of an ongoing project called Monsturo. limited edition of 200 in multi-color hand silkscreened and letterpressed covers." - Rasbliutto. |
| Artist:MONSTURO Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Los Angeles Monsturo, aka David Rothbaum, presents two side long pieces of minimal, focused, consistent and masterful analog modular synth pieces. Future releases with Hanson are of key note, as well as contributing a side long piece to the upcoming 2xLP Modular synth record to be released by his own EMR label, which also has contributions by Aaron Dilloway, Envenomist, Rale and Pulse Emitter. Hand-dubbed C-10 in classic PPR style Letterpressed, duplexed wrap-around sleeve and letterpressed insert." -Phaserprone |
| Artist:MOOLAH Title: Woe Ye Demons Possessed Format: LP Label: Moolah Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| Self-described as "...a cosmic rock relaxation creation to elevate sensory awareness to include the aura of intuitive perception of higher realm of human/divine consciousness using the astral body projection experience vehicle to pierce time/space/logic dimension barriers on the return voyage to the ultimate concept." Gray-area reissue of this classic 1974 private press LP. Recently reissued on CD (and apparently deleted already) on Em Records in Japan. On Stapletons NWW list, of course. Moolah were a duo of Walter Burns and Maurice Roberson. "The [kozumitsuku] psychedelic album where 1974, two youths of New York are identified [mura] and announce. The piano, the keyboard and the percussion musical instrument electric set and electronic sound, esoteric Buddhism vocal sound, drawn, concrete sound, the delay effect, it is the work which is formed with tape opposite revolution." |
| Artist:MOON DUO Title: Killing Time Format: 12" Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Moon Duo is the solo alter-ego of Wooden Shjips guitarist and singer Ripley Johnson. Under the Moon Duo moniker Johnson creates expansive Krautrock influenced tapestries of warm cascading fuzz and controlled feedback, organ, and accenting keyboard. This four song 12" is the second release and incorporates a much more concise, composed and driving sound than before. Johnson expands on ideas only hinted at on the Sick Thirst 12" (which is already long gone) adding a driving drum machine beat behind the thick walls of layered sound. Dont sleep on this one." -Sacred Bones. |
| Artist:MOON DUO Title: Love On The Sea Format: 12" Label: Sick Thirst Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Love On The Sea is the first single from San Franciscos MOON DUO. Not strictly a duo, and not necessarily from THE moon, the group was conceived by RIPLEY JOHNSON of WOODEN SHJIPS. Operating within the same discipline of steady beats and maxi-minimalist rock n roll as the Shjips, the Moon Duo group utilizes machine rhythms and degrading riffs to create a stupor-ific miasma of sound. Second pressing due to high demand." -Sick Thirst |
| Artist:MOON PHANTOMS Title: Moon Phantoms Format: LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| On Moon-colored gray vinyl. "Limited edition of 500 copies pressed on virgin vinyl. Moon Phantoms is a collaboration of Bardo Pond, Alasehir and Suishou No Fune. The fourth release in our simultaneously released four part Bardo Pond related vinyl set. We Suishou No Fune and Alasehir played in East Coast tour of one week together again in the autumn, 2007. During the autumn concert tour, we had felt like that Moon always chased us. I started to look for where the moon was unawares when we visited each town. I have strongly remembered that the moon was full and very clear cut one night in Boston. The night was very pleasant and let us relax. Michael, John and Jason had a good conversation comfortably, looking at the moon. Kageo and myself also enjoyed the night to be just eased under the moonlight. I believed that we, Suishou No Fune and Alasehir could be one band under this special moonlight. The next day, I spoke my wish to perform music in one band to the members and we, all fall in each other in Providence. Therefore, the Japanese and American band named Moon Phantoms based on the concert tour with the full moon. And Moon Phantoms made the concert tour in the East Coast of the U.S.A. and had recording in Spring, 2008. Then we made this album. -- Pirako Kurenai of Suishou No Fune." - Important |
| Artist:MOONDOG Title: Playing Moondogs Music Format: 10" Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
| "Recorded in 1955, released on his own short lived Moondog label. 4 tracks of manic saxophone and snare drum mayhem. You will not find an original of this anywhere. Blind from the age of 17, classically trained in music, Moondog aka Louis Hardin left the countryside in the late 1940s to busk on the streets of New York, playing percussion instruments of his own creation. He later became the darling of the NY arts & music set. He also recorded for Folkways, Woody Hermans Mars label, then Prestige and CBS." - Honest Jons. CD of this was previously issued in 2003 by Moondogs Corner. |
| Artist:MOONDOG Title: The Viking of Sixth Avenue Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| Tremendous gatefold presentation and one of HJRs most impressive documents to date. "This new release from Honest Jons is the first overview of Moondogs amazing artistic life -- including recordings spanning from 1949 till 1995, with numerous 78s and various other vanished records revived for the first time (not to mention a couple of Weegee photographs!). Though the compilation is rooted in the decades Moondog regularly lived rough in New York City, performing on street corners -- the Viking Of Sixth Avenue -- at the same time it lays the musics claim to the future. It makes vivid sense of his inspiration of fans from Igor Stravinsky to Bob Dylan, Mr Scruff to Frank Zappa, Charlie Parker to Elvis Costello, Janis Joplin to Anthony And The Johnsons. As Moondog put it himself in 1989 -- I still love horned helmets and swords and spears. I like to feel that Im loyal to my past. I wouldnt want to be on the street anymore. But, you know, that led to a lot of things. Moondog was born Louis Thomas Hardin on May 26, 1916, in Marysville, Kansas. Noting the five-year-olds interest in percussion, his father -- an Episcopal minister -- took him to see an Arapaho Sun Dance. During the ritual the budding musician was allowed to sit on Chief Yellow Calfs lap and play the tom-tom. This experience -- and later playing tom-tom and flute with the Blackfoot tribe in Idaho at another Sun Dance -- would have a profound and lasting effect on the development of his own music and ideas. The American Indians have this basic beat, Moondog said in 1995, a heartbeat in two speeds -- a walking beat (in twos) and a running beat (in four). I use those rhythms to this day. In fact it just came to me recently that American Indian music is just so syncopated that any jazz musician -- especially in the swing era -- would see a clear connection between jazz and Indian music. Those songs are not improvised -- theyve been handed down from generation to generation -- theyre extremely old. I think of America as an Old World too, maybe older culturally than Europe. And elsewhere: Harmonically, my music is the same as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms; rhythmically, it goes back to the past -- the swing rhythms of the Indians. You really couldnt find anything more syncopated." - Honest Jons. |
| Artist:MOONDOG Title: Moondog And His Friends 2006 Format: CD Label: Moondogs Corner Country: Germany Price: $18.50 |
| "The music played by Moondog and his friends on this CD was originally released on vinyl in the early 1950s as EPIC LG 1002. Moondogs Corner is happy to present this great collectors item, as carefully restored and remastered by Andreas Torkler at the Sonopress Studio in Gütersloh (Germany), for the first time on CD in a complete edition -- now including the two suites from Side B of the vinyl. And as a special bonus for all Moondog fans, Moondogs Corner has added in some relatively new but hard to get selections of music by Moondog: in 1987, the American musician Paul Jordan recorded Logrundr XVIII in C-Sharp Minor for his solo organ CD, Buxtehude, Moondog and Co. Fleur de Lis was included by the young German harpist Xenia Narati in 2005 on her debut album, Moondog Sharp Harp. And, finally, Sun Collector In 7/8 is an improvisation uniquely realized by Stefan Lakatos using Moondogs own percussion instrument, the trimba." The 1953 recordings here were previously reissued on vinyl only by Honest Jons (HJP 024). |
| Artist:MOONDOG Title: Snaketime Series Format: LP Label: Moondog Records Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Grey area repro of the very rare original Moondog label version of one of the earliest Moondog LPs (soon after reissued on Prestige as the self-titled Moondog LP; both versions were released in 1956). Same music as the commonly available Prestige edition, but this has the original half-moon line-art cover that will enhance your mantleplace so much more. Originally recorded in New York City, 1956. From the Prestige liner notes: "Sometimes Moondog the enigma defeats an unprejudiced view of his music. But, if we ignore the cloak of seeming inscrutability and concentrate on the music, the experience can be astonishing. Moondog possesses an admirable virtue; he perceives music everywhere in life. The collection of vignettes contained in this album are fully realized attempts to integrate music and sound. Music and lifes sounds are inseparable to Moondog. Thus, the complete Lullaby contains the cry of the baby; a string duo appears comfortably at home in a Frog Bog setting; a New York Street Scene includes (American-Indian inspired) drum solos, the wisdom of a Far-Eastern philosopher, and the strident blowing of a police whistle commencing the flow of traffic. A vast amount of the worlds music is part of Moondogs working vocabulary. This reservoir of material serves his eclectic approach to composition. Moondog chooses deftly amongst all of music to elicit his surprising couplings. A pair of violins bowing a Bach-influenced counterpoint might be heard over a rhythmic pattern of Cuban drumming. The ability to find unexpectedly complementary areas of music is an essential ingredient in these miniature portraits of lifes many parts. The countless hours spent by Moondog on the streets of New York provides a constant stream of material for this great silent observer. Moondogs music is what he has found in the world in which he lives. Through him we can view the world in a more perfect form." --Robert S. Altshuler. |
| Artist:MOONDOG Title: The Story Of Moondog Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Originally released on Prestige in 1957, this is the third LP from NYC street performer and avant-garde/minimalist composer Moondog. Perhaps the least accessible of his early releases, this album is made up of percussive jams, usually on instruments of his own creation, street sounds, poetry and Far East melodies, despite opening with a swinging number that is, oddly, the most bizarre thing on the album. Another classic from Moondog reissued with its original Andy Warhol artwork." -4 Men With Beards |
| Artist:MOONDOG Title: S/T Format: LP Label: 4 Men With Beards Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Moondogs debut release, originally on the Prestige label, came out in 1956, long after hed become a legendary New York City street performer. The blind Kansas native showcases his talent for the minimal and avant-garde here, with compositions driven by percussion and Japanese-inspired melodies, complimented by street sounds, recitations and animal noises. Bizarre even for todays standards, its a wonder this was released over a half-century ago. A brilliant debut." -4 Men With Beards |
| Artist:MOONDOG Title: The German Years 1977-1999 Format: Double CD Label: Roof Music Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "Originally released by Roof Music in 2004, this is a 2CD compilation of recordings from the last 20 years of visionary composer Louis Thomas Hardins (aka Moondog) life, when he lived in Germany and composed, arguably, perhaps the most vibrant and eclectic music in his whole canon. CD1 is comprised of studio recordings from 1977-1999 -- songs for pipe organ, chamber ensemble, piano and voice, string quartet, saxophone, etc., and CD2 is an exceptional recording of his last live performance from Arles, France, recorded a month before his death. Featuring pianist Dominique Ponty, who plays 34 of his pieces for piano. Includes a 44-page booklet of photos, notes, essays, interviews, lyrics, and more, housed in a deluxe hard cardboard package." - Roof Music. |
| Artist:MOONKYTE Title: Count Me Out Format: CD Label: Sunbeam Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "First legit reissue of this album, one of the all time classic UK folk/psych albums, even better than Simon Finn! Yorkshires Moonkyte only made one album, and - though it was supported by John Peel, who wrote the effusive sleevenotes - it sank without a trace when it appeared on the tiny Mother label in 1971. This is extremely rare folk-psychedelia with originals changing hands for hundreds of pounds. Sunbeam is giving it its first official reissue, showing it to be a great lost British acid folk gem and an absolute treat for all lovers of acid folk and psychedelia. With new liner notes, Peels original liner notes and unearthed photographs." -Sunbeam |
| Artist:MOORE, GEORGE Title: Plastic Flowers Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "George Moore lives in Connecticut. He is the 20 year old son of Ecstatic Peace recording artist Gene Moore. Regardless of these obvious bloodline connections George Moores musical world should, would and could easily creep into the living underground on its own mystic merits. He recorded these instrumental pieces at some point in early 2001 and issued them privately in an edition smaller than Albinis dick. The music therein is an amalgamation of spurious signals wholly independent though readings and mis-readings of John Fahey, Whitehouse and Jackie-O Motherfucker are in probable detection. The basement aura of this session will appeal to anyone even slightly aroused by the aforementioned troika. Ecstatic Peace will continue to release artifacts from the Moore boys and their Connecticut Nutmeg State of Mind environmental joob." - Ecstatic Peace. |
| Artist:MOORE, R. STEVIE Title: 1952 - 19?? Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| 1973 - 1986 recordings by this home recordist who has self-released tons of cassettes and lps over the years and most recently collaborated with Jad Fair. Restock of all the available releases from Alan Jenkins (main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, etc..) late-70s-through-mid-80s Cordelia label and a few other related titles. |
| Artist:MOORE, R. STEVIE Title: Meet The R. Stevie Moore! Format: Double LP Label: Get Back Country: Italy Price: $35.00 |
| Subtitled: An Introduction to the Godfather of Home Recordings. 180 gram vinyl. "R. Stevie Moore, son of Elvis bass player, has spent the last 40 years fiddling around in his home studio, and simultaneously creating a huge body of work that has covered everything from psych-pop, to hip hop, to spoken word, to found sound, making him one of the great unsung heroes of underground music. This release, compiled with Stevies help, is a doorway into one of his most accessible and prolific periods (1974-1986). Contains an insert with liner notes and lots of pictures." - Get Back |
| Artist:MOORE, R. STEVIE Title: Phonography Format: CD Label: Recommended Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Phonography was Stevies first LP release, and an out-of-the-blue masterpiece: terminally idiosyncratic but with all the compositional qualities of great pop. A gifted songwriter, R Stevie (son of Bob Moore, Elvis bassist) grew up and was steeped in Nashvilles countrypolitanism; but, as a recidivist rebel, he inevitably slipped into strange byways, following his own, unique path into celebrated obscurity - as this strange and compelling record attests. Hans Arp said, My paintings are like fingernails: they keep growing and I keep cutting them off. R Stevies songs seem to follow the same rule. They create worlds, tell stories, trifle wantonly with form, harmony, structure and execution, and throw off passages of casual brilliance on the way. Lo-fi is integral to its purpose. You cant pay to get a sound like that. So, when nobody seemed to want to keep Phonography in print, ReR Megacorp were happy to oblige - its history. We took the opportunity to re-master and restore it to its original form. Instruments used: Red plastic Hagstrom electric guitar, Gibson SG Junior electric guitar, Fender Precision Bass, Yamaha acoustic guitar, Alvarez classical guitar, Premier snare drum, upside-down cardboard box bass drum, various full drum kits, Fischer grand piano, Franz metronome, Maracas, Tambourine, Cry Baby Wah Wah pedal, Jordan Creator sustain pedal, Korg synthesizer, Elka string synthesizer, Magnus chord organ, Realistic frequency equalizer, Maestro phase shifter, Univox echo chamber, hi-hat cymbals, extra cymbal (old), Panasonic cassette player, Koss and Vanco headphones, Fender Twin Reverb and Eenque amplifiers, Cords, Picks, Voice." - Recommended. |
| Artist:MOORE, STEVE Title: Outer Bounds Of Sound: Vaalbara Format: LP Label: Noiseville Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Outer Bounds Of Sound is an experimental LP series in an edition of 300 copies with a hand-made cover. Steve is half of the duo known as Zombi. This is a solo project, very ambient electronic passages." -Noiseville |
| Artist:MOORE, THURSTON Title: Sensitive/Lethal Format: CD Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Sensitive/Lethal is Thurston Moore in deep basement cosmosis. Investigations into acoustic guitar as noise instrument as well as noise/amp discussion for a hopeful and bright blackness. Childhood dreams of noise essayed with photos of unsuspecting innocents running from noise weirdo (front cover) and texas blues albino drug zap (johnny winter – still alive and well detail – back cover). This is the story told in drone meditation and sweet slice." - No Fun. |
| Artist:MOORE, THURSTON Title: Built For Lovin Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Lost Treasures of the Underworld Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| " A scabrous grab bag of weirdo recordings assembled by Thurston Moore: hardcore basement slam jammer with Mark Ibold (bass) and John Moloney of Sunburned (drums), a rough demo cue made for an HSBC TV ad (w/ Steve Shelley-drums – uncredited – sorry Steve!), a few noise b-sides from various lost releases and a couple of long psycho-bead kosmi-killersz. And some subterranean acoustic luv — all wrapped up n a pic disc with art by T Moore extracted from his Street Mouth series of collages......."-Lost Treasures of the Underworld |
| Artist:MOORE, THURSTON/GRAHAM MOORE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Nihilist Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "GRAHAM MOORE, head honcho of the splendid Blossoming Noise label (and latest addition to TO LIVE & SHAVE IN LA) teams up with THURSTON MOORE, head honcho of the venerable Ecstatic Peace label (also of the band SONIC YOUTH) for an all out noise attack! Pro-pressed covers, 140-gram marbled color vinyl in an edition of 500 copies." -Nihilst. |
| Artist:MOORE, THURSTON/KOMMISSAR HJULER and MAMA BAER Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The bearder flippin his hammer at Pieta or that lady who crinkles up the rosies for a Cy scribble. Institutionalized or I reckon almost slaughtered, I coulda put money on your anxious wish for destruction. But first lets deconstruct the "song" as this here taper follows a linear narrative from structure to not-structure." -Goaty Tapes |
| Artist:MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE Title: Cello Anthology Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $136.00 |
| "Stunning oversize boxset (similar in production to Alga Marghens OU box of a few years ago). Historic Fluxus sound documentation at its finest. Featuring music by: Earl Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Giuseppe Chiari, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Jackson MacLow, Nam June Paik and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Recordings from 1964-66 & 1982. Performed by David Behrman, Philip Corner, Malcolm Goldstein, Terry Jennings, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, etc. Limited to only 500 copies and worth the extra pennies." - FE. "Cello Anthology is a collection of documents - sonic and photographic - as well as original texts and testimonials, made available for the first time in a unitary form, which permits a complete recognition of Charlotte Moormans work. Luxury edition including a 154-page book with original documents, full color photos and scores; a set of 16 full color inserts reproducing the original posters and programs of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York; 4 compact discs. First boxset edition limited to 500 copies." -Alga Marghen. |
| Artist:MOORMAN, CHARLOTTE/NAM JUNE PAIK Title: TV Cello Format: Double LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $52.00 |
| "A documentation of Charlotte Moorman activities as a performer is generally available only on the iconographic level in various catalogues which documents the crucial intersection with the work of Nam June Paik or the association with events connected to the Fluxus movement. One of Charlotte Moormans more substantial merits is having consciously reversed the traditional role of the virtuoso performer on her own instrument, uncovering by this overturning one of the most authentic keys for comprehending the aesthetics of experimental music. It was properly the natural spontaneity in this attitude to fascinate Paik and to have decreed her indispensable capacity as a performer, thus giving rise to the reasons animating their fecund and symbiotic collaboration. Cello Anthology is a collection of documents (sonic and photographic) as well as original texts and testimonies, made available for the first time in a unitary form by Alga Marghen. One of the CDs included in the edition, currently in a final process of realisation, will offer an in situ recording of the famous TV Cello, realised in September 1982 during the three days inaugurating the Paik retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The 2LP edition presented here introduces to a different version of the same piece, conceived by Paik for Moorman as a living sculpture: the Concerto for TV Cello and Video Tapes historical World Premiere, recorded at Galeria Bonino, New York City, 1971. More rough and primitive than the masterpiece recorded in 1982 in Chicago, these uncompromisingly obscure original recordings will not be included in the forthcoming 4CD anthology. 2LP set in gatefold cover reproducing photos of Charlotte Moorman with John Lennon and Yoko Ono playing the TV Cello at Galeria Bonino 1971 vernissage. Private edition limited to 200 copies." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist:MOPS Title: Psychedelic Sounds In Japan Format: LP Label: Mops Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
| "First LP from 1968 by hottest Japanese psych band; original LP plus 2 rare bonus; perfect & beautiful sleeve & limited on heavy vinyl LP." |
| Artist:MORGEN Title: Morgen Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $17.50 |
| "ABC Records valiant attempt at the hip/youth market, Probe, released many memorable LPs by such groups as Saint Steven and The Litter along with debut offerings by Zephyr, Soft Machine and Rare Bird, but none generate the frenzy at this late date quite like the quartet led by guitarist/vocalist Steve Morgen, first unleashed in 1969. Even before dropping needle on groove, the stark black-and-white sleeve with inset Edvard Munch lithograph, in contrast to the multicoloured hues so prevalent then, makes an immediate statement. And then the music makes another immediate statement... A foreboding bass riff and staccato drumming introduce Welcome To The Void, and for the next thirty-eight minutes one is hurled headlong into a vortex of dual-guitar overload, lyrically woven with romantic and Victorian imagery residing on a tab of microdot. World Psychedelia has at last given this near-perfect album a proper presentation, reproducing the original insert with new transcriptions of the handwritten lyrics and, for the first time, including the rare 7" mono versions of Shes The Nitetime and Of Dreams. Radio stations didnt bite on the single, Probe closed up shop, and the world became a decidedly sadder place." - World Psychedelia. |
| Artist:MORLEY, MICHAEL; MY CAT IS AN ALIEN; PONZINI, RAMONA; RANALDO, LEE Title: Live At Sensational Fix Format: LP Label: Starlight Furniture Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "On June 17, 2008, the exhibition SONIC YOUTH etc.: Sensational Fix opened at LiFE in Saint-Nazaire, France, with a focus on their multi-disciplinary activities since 1981-collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians, as well as other works selected by the band. As part of the exhibition project, MY CAT IS AN ALIEN performed on stage with their long-time collaborator RAMONA PONZINI (PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST, BLACK MAGIC DISCO, ZEV) singing Japanese, MICHAEL MORLEY of New Zealands free noise band DEAD C, and LEE RANALDO of Sonic Youth. As a non-programmed live act, My Cat Is An Alien were supplied with two guitars from Sonic Youths memorabilia wall of old guitars. No MCIAA show would be complete without sounds and beams generated by space toy guns, which they liberated from a local vintage toys warehouse (including a toy microphone for Robertos vocals). Exhibition curator ROLAND GROENENBOOM recalls: "Michael Morley joined My Cat Is An Alien and Ramona Ponzini on stage for an improv piece. They were already way into developing [it] when, to their surprise, Lee Ranaldo picked up the guitar that Maurizio had left lying on stage when he moved on to playing percussion, [which only] made the already phenomenal sonic achievement even denser." Stills from the live footage shot by Groenenboom appear on the color insert. During the performance, Roberto shot photos with a Poloroid, which are front and back cover and labels of this LP. Side B features a collection of solo pieces by each of the five members of this extemporaneous ensemble. The perfect compendium to the unicity of this historical document. Limited edition vinyl-only release." -Starlight Furniture |
| Artist:MOROI, MAKOTO & KOUBOU ABE Title: Obscure Tape Music From Japan Vol.3 - Music Drama Format: CD Label: Omega Point Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
| "Akai Mayu" is a short fiction of Koubou Abe (1924-1993). This music drama version was broadcasted by NHK in 1960. Makoto Moroi is a pioneer of Japanese electronic music, and he composed the music used chamber ensemble, mixed chorus and electronic sound on this work. Also this work was performed at Sogetsu Art Center as a part of concert program of Morois works. This different version included a pantomaime by Mamako Yoneyama, abstract image projection and stage setting by Hiroshi Manabe. Also in this concert, Kuniharu Akiyama (about his name, please see note of CD "Music for Puppet Theatre of HITOMI-ZA") performed his work "Arcana 19". This work was consisted of text, object sounds, piano and pre-recorded tapes. On this CD includes only some tape parts because live recording source of this performance was lost. track 1 : Makoto Moroi (music) + Koubou Abe (text) "Akai Mayu" (1960) / 2556" track 2-6 : Kuniharu Akiyama "Arcana 19 (excerpt)" (1960) / 1521" - Omega Point. |
| Artist:MORROWS BIG BAND Title: To The Band Format: CDR Label: Lonely Whistle Music Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Roots sideman Joe Morrow takes up his trombone and leads the ensemble through some insane duck call and horn arrangements while Joe rasnts over the top with some militant statements." - Don Campau. Archival recordings from Campau (Roots Of Madness) and friends. Recorded Oct 7, 1973. |
| Artist:MOSES Title: Changes Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $48.00 |
| "Numbered edition of 500, glossy heavy sleeve on 180 gram vinyl with insert. "Moses was formed in 1969 in Esbjerg, Denmark by Søren Højbjerg -- guitar / Jørgen Villadsen -- bass / Henrik Laurvig -- drums and vocal. Moses played their own heavy and punshy and stoned progressive blues. Their record Changes from 1971 has now become cult in the collectors market. By the end of 1969 the band got a contact with the independent record company Spectator Records in Denmark and in the summer 1970 they recorded the only album, Changes in 2 days in the Spectator Record Studio in Ålborg, Denmark. Finally the rarest and perhaps best album on the rare Danish Spectator label. The music is strongly influenced by the Cream and other hard psychedelic guitar bands. It took us quite a while to get a deal together and we are happy now to close the final chapter of the Spectator story with this great release of Moses. Extra heavy fuzz-guitar madness all over with strong bass and drums and great vocals." -Shadoks |
| Artist:MOSLANG, NORBERT & RALF WEHOWSKY Title: Einschlagskrater Format: 7" Label: Meeuw Muzak Country: Belgium Price: $8.00 |
| Norbert Moslang = 1/2 of Voice Crack. Ralf Wehohsky = RLW/P16 D4 |
| Artist:MOSLANG-GUHL Title: Knack On Format: CD Label: Atavistic Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "From Jim ORourkes liner notes...: Moslang-Guhl. Youd be forgiven if you thought it was food. Its not, but they use food. Previous to Voice Crack, Norbert Moslang and Andy Guhl were longhair troublemakers on the European improvising scene, more power to them. Their first record Deep Voices (FMP 510) pictured the boys rocking out on a variety of very small percussion and very large reeds. There are home-made instruments, not so odd for the time, there was Hugh Davies, Michael Wiszwicz even Evan Parker was rockin an oscillator. But somewhere in St. Gallen, Switzerland, these guys were doing their homework. Knack On was released in 82, and in the interim, they must have come upon something that sent them on towards their path to Voice Crack. On this record youll here them crossing the line, moving past the improv w/electronics sound of the Tony Oxley/Allan Davies, Paul Lovens/Paul Lytton, AMM, MEV etc. axis, jumping headfirst into everyday SOUND."- Atavistic |
| Artist:MOTH DRAKULA Title: Tree Of Sores Format: 7" Label: Static Aktion Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "..."Tree Of Sores" is coming out just in time for the Hive Mind / Moth Drakula tour. Frantic feedback driven harsh noise from California. Horrifying fractured vocals and electronic grime fill each side of this release. Grisly soul wipe-out highly recommended for the cursed. Recorded in early 2006. Moth Drakula are on the California 10lp box and have a new collaboration CD with D Yellow Swans." - Static Aktion. |
| Artist:MOTHER FLOCK Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Period Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Recorded during the Summer of 1991 in London, Mother Flock is the outcome of a one time jam featuring Morrison Edley of Psychic TV/PTV3 on drums experimenting with two cohorts on heavily effected bass and guitar. Never before heard by the public, the vocal-less result is at once eerie, hypnotic, droning and tribal." - Period Tapes. |
| Artist:MOTOR GHOST Title: A Gold Chain Round Her Breast Format: LP Label: Dancing Wayang Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "MOTOR GHOST is the new project of free drummer / vocalist Alex Neilson and multi-instrumentalist Ben Reynolds. Both Glasgow residents and frequent collaborators on the live circuit, A Gold Chain Round Her Breast is their first recorded document as a duo. From the brooding opener through tracks of soaring electricity to the beautifully fragile a capella rendition of the folk song Leaves Of Life, this album sees Alex and Ben exploring darkness and light and all shades in between. Alex drumming provides much of the backbone of the album supporting and conversing with Bens acoustic and electric guitars, loops and the call of the dürmuk (a Greek horn). Recording in a studio environment allowed MOTOR GHOST to define their sound and experiment with overdubs to lay down some intense tracks. The album comes in screenprinted sleeves, all of which have been hand embellished with gold enamel and are individually numbered. ALEX NEILSON SOLO bonus disk – The first 100 copies of the album include a 3” bonus disk containing a 4 song solo vocal set Alex performed at the Macbeth in London the day before the MOTOR GHOST studio session. The bonus disk features exclusive liner notes by Scottish folk singer Alasdair Roberts (Drag City). ALEX NEILSON has been drumming up a storm in the last few years playing with some of the UKs finest innovators like Richard Youngs, Ashtray Navigations, Taurpis Tula and Scatter as well as accompanying Jandek on his first ever and subsequent UK live shows. More recently hes been playing internationally with Bonnie Prince Billy and developing his solo project Directing Hand further to include (solo) singing as well as his inspired freeform drumming. Alex personal interest to investigate parallels between improvised, experimental and more traditional folk music is clearly audible on A Gold Chain Round Her Breast. BEN REYNOLDS (www.benreynolds.tk) is an improviser, guitarist and composer who has been an active participant in the UK underground music scene for several years, playing and recording as a solo artist as well as in Phil Todds Ashtray Navigations and with such underground activists as Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra), John Fail (Lied Music, Oakwhistle), Andy Jarvis (Sculptress, A Warm Palindrome) and Jani Hirvonen (Uton). More recently Ben has become increasingly interested in the potential of music as a psychedelic force, which can change life by illuminating the usually unconscious faculties of the human psyche." - Dancing Wayang. Limited to 300 copies. |
| Artist:MOUNTAIN FOLD MUSIC JOURNAL Title: Issue #1 Format: Mag Label: Mountain Fold Music Journal Country: Australia Price: $5.00 |
| "Mountain Fold is independently published music quarterly based in Sydney, Australia. It is an interview-based magazine concentrating on both Australian and international acts. While primarily music focused, Mountain Fold also acts as a forum to discuss art, film, literature and culture, providing the reader with intelligent and informed interviews. The publication is available for free throughout Australia. Internationally, the only cost occurred to stockists will be to cover postage. Issue #1 features: - Beaches - Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Fabulous Diamonds - Naked On The Vague - Michael Rother - Songs" -Mountain Fold |
| Artist:MOUNTAIN FOLD MUSIC JOURNAL Title: Issue #2 Format: Mag Label: Mountain Fold Music Journal Country: Australia Price: $6.00 |
| "Mountain Fold is an independently published music quarterly based in Sydney, Australia. An interview-based magazine concentrating on both Australian and international acts, Mountain Fold also acts as a forum to discuss art, film, literature and culture, both high and low. Issue #2 of Mountain Fold Music Journal features interviews with and artwork by Sean Bailey, Philip Brophy, Circle Pit, The Dead C, Wet Hair and Woods. Cover artwork by Rhys Lee. 72 pages, full colour offset print, perfect bound, A5 format." - Mountain Fold. |
| Artist:MOUNTAINHOOD Title: Death Pod Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Brand new one-sided LP from Michael Curtis Hilde following his recent LPs on Time Lags Red Records sub division, as well as a string of ultra limited self-released CDRs and releases for Yod and Reverb Worship. This is a far gone trip thats totally out there and very hard to pin down. The closest categorization for this beast would be folk, but its like some total mutated, distorted lurker mirror image. Wild psychedelic strings and heavy bedroom vibes run throughout this delicate beauty. Limited to 300 in pro-printed black and white wraparound sleeve featuring amazing artwork by Michael." -Blackest Rainbow |
| Artist:MOUNTAINS Title: Choral Format: Double LP Label: Thrill Jockey Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, friends since their middle school days. The duo were brought together by mutual artistic and musical interests, and both ended up at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was during this time that they began exchanging musical ideas and compositions which led to them founding the Apestaartje label in 1999. As their collaborations and individual projects blossomed, they decided to create Mountains as a vehicle for live performance. A love of sculpting sound in front of an audience is at the heart of Mountains. The groups third album, Choral, (their first self-titled release and second album Sewn were both on Apestaartje), is the culmination of their work to date and a balanced mix of the first two efforts. Mountains is often compared to artists such as Brian Eno and Fennesz citing their extended melodies and their unique broad guitar work. Mountains seamlessly blend pastoral electronic sounds with both field recordings and a plethora of acoustic instruments. The resulting soundscapes are broad in scope and rich in detail. The effect is incredibly sublime and hypnotic as the sounds slowly wrap themselves around each other and alter themselves in the mind of the listener. Choral is a uniquely soothing and addicting listening experience and an aural crazy quilt: warm and inviting with many details to discover and explore." - Thrill Jockey. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: Slow Globes Format: LP Label: Troubleman Unlimited Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The latest from New York noise chargers MOUTHUS. A six-track sonic storm that tears through electronic noise, drone, and psychedelic rock styles with effect-drenched guitars, primeval drum beats, and intensely sick vocals." - Troubleman Unlimited. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: The Long Salt Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This album is a return to more abrasive and heavy Mouthus territory after forays into acoustic instrumentation and, yes, a Fleetwood Mac cover on their recent Troubleman full-length. Free/tribal percussion spatter n clatter duels with endlessly mutating three chord sludge-riffage beneath thick, poison clouds of delayed-out vocal groan. Truly CHOCK full of manic bad-mood energy but maybe psych-droney and resin-soaked enough for the new crop of crunchier noise-heads to nod to as well. Electric guitars strung with duct tape and drums equipped with hundred-year old heads are jettisoned into deep space and dynamited, combusting so vividly that the after-images soak our retinas with mandalas of interwoven earthworms and beer funnels for hours afterwards." -Important |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: Sister Vibration Format: LP Label: Our Mouth Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: For The Great Slave Lakes Format: CD Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: Follow This House Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Follow This House by Mouthus is a companion piece to their 2005 full length for Important titled The Long Salt. Picking up right where The Long Salt left off, Follow This House is a record chock full of manic bad mood energy, crunching resin-soaked jams and hundred year-old instrumentation emerging from the soggy mire only to be slowly pushed back in by poison clouds of delayed-out vocal groan. Mouthus are on a stated mission to incorporate new sounds and new instrumentation into their recordings. Never repeating themselves Follow This House is less fractured and more minimal, embracing the Mouthus sludgefest like a settling foundation." - Important |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: Saw a Halo Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Brooklyn-based duo BRIAN SULLIVAN and NATE NELSON have crafted a considerable body of work since forming in 2002. Of the many records on labels they have released over the years: Ecstatic Peace, Psych-o-Path, Important, Troubleman, Music Fellowship, this record comes as their first studio record. Recorded in nude fidelity at Rare Book Room by SAMARA LUBELSKI, this recording realizes the furious skin pound and crackling amp burn the duo is so capable of, and adds an organic clarity. MOUTHUS are very much in the school of NY bands like Excepter and Sightings that merge hard and sometimes velvety psych sounds with a pioneering spirit of experimentation. Mouthus do not forget the rock and in fact melt flatware into silvery puddles. Over the course of two segmented suites, the band journeys deep into the no-mans land between the kick drum and guitar amplifier and returns with the golden teeth of the dead. Nate Nelson records with many other bands, among them RELIGIOUS KNIVES and AFTERNOON PENIS. Brian Sullivan records with other bands such as ESKIMO KING and WHITE ROCK." - Load. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: Dual Drift Format: CDR Label: Our Mouth Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: s/t Format: Double LP Label: No Fun Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Mouthus is Brian Sullivan on guitar and Nate Nelson on drums, but the real question is not who they are but rather: is Mouthus a rock band? Last time I saw them live someone said they look like they are rocking, but it sounds like a giant air conditioner testing facility. Not only is this 2x12" very rocking in the sense that you are going to want to headbang until your head falls out, but it also sounds like an industrial record, a prog rock record, a heavy psychedelic guitar record, and a giant air conditioner testing facility, and yes that is only the first side out of four of these 2x12" wonder. strangest,weirdest, and yet most rocking band in new york city,Mouthus rules. Comes on thick screen printed covers, limited to 350." - No Fun. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: No Canal Format: CD Label: Bottrop Boy Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
| "Guitar, drums and electronics. There are no further requirements for turning the world on its head. Since their inception in 2002, Mouthus from Brooklyn have delighted and enraptured their audience. Thundering noise eruptions, mail-fisted guitar drones, infernal drumbeats and an indomitable drive are these devilish duos hallmarks. This is undiluted rock n rock for noise junkies. When it comes to live performances, Mouthus are unbeatable. Nevertheless, in order to nourish the other parts of the soul, Mouthus alternate their teeth-grindingly loud shows with recordings into which rage and energy are consummately channelled. No Canal follows a different path altogether. Guitarist Brian Sullivan and drummer Nate Nelson lead the listener on a journey of exploration. Past bricked-up walls of sound and through a swamp of drones the duo descries a terra incognita, a dark world of sound in which innocent idylls of nature are soon subjected to the destructive forces of industrialisation. Initially, pastoral guitar parts are heard, pursued by drums in the distance. This is ethereal music in the tradition of bands like Popol Vuh. The promised land is hidden behind low mist and impenetrable green. But all hope proves idle: torturing guitar feedback and tribal drums soon tear the dream apart. The industrial torrent of sound seems unstoppable. This is music that reveals itself as a tired, technological beast with a slow heartbeat and creaking limbs. The subliminal menace and naked demise remain audible and tangible. This is a story that has to be told. Mouthus cannot be silenced. No Canal is packed in the beautiful envelope packaging, designed and hand printed by Jason Dodge & Christine Roland, a one-off pressing of 250 copies." - Bottrop Boy. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: Saw a Halo Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Brooklyn-based duo BRIAN SULLIVAN and NATE NELSON have crafted a considerable body of work since forming in 2002. Of the many records on labels they have released over the years: Ecstatic Peace, Psych-o-Path, Important, Troubleman, Music Fellowship, this record comes as their first studio record. Recorded in nude fidelity at Rare Book Room by SAMARA LUBELSKI, this recording realizes the furious skin pound and crackling amp burn the duo is so capable of, and adds an organic clarity. MOUTHUS are very much in the school of NY bands like Excepter and Sightings that merge hard and sometimes velvety psych sounds with a pioneering spirit of experimentation. Mouthus do not forget the rock and in fact melt flatware into silvery puddles. Over the course of two segmented suites, the band journeys deep into the no-mans land between the kick drum and guitar amplifier and returns with the golden teeth of the dead. Nate Nelson records with many other bands, among them RELIGIOUS KNIVES and AFTERNOON PENIS. Brian Sullivan records with other bands such as ESKIMO KING and WHITE ROCK." - Load. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: Days Through The Combine Format: CDR Label: Our Mouth Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: Divisionals Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "After releasing the first Mouthus LP years back, Ecstatic Peace returns to unleash another beast by this always amazing duo. Brian Sullivan (gtr/vox) and Nate Nelson (perc) connect here with a focused, thematic hayride through long tone static and fried mind amp terror. Anyone following the arc and molten flow of Mouthus last few LPs and CDs (on Our Mouth, Troubleman Unlimited, Olde English Spelling Bee, Music Fellowship, Important, Three Lobed, Weird Forest and the exemplary Saw A Halo on Load) will be surely intrigued by Divisionals as it is Mouthus at their sweetest. Almost. Just when youre drifting through the electric skies you find the Earth reaching into your soul pulling you back to a primordial foreverness. A charming action." -Ecstatic Peace |
| Artist:MOUTHUS Title: EU Tour Singularity Format: CDR Label: Our Mouth Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Recordings from Aalst, Leiden, and Paris." -Our Mouth |
| Artist:MOUTHUS & AXOLOTL Title: 12-15-04 Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "X-mas 2004, Brooklyn. Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson of Mouthus meet up with Karl Bauer of Axolotl for some sonic celebration and let the tape machine roll. Two side-long psilocybe-inspired scoops of shimmering and stumbling drone/zone/sludge ragas. Better dust off yr bib." - OES. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS & VALERIE ALLEN Title: Format: CDR Label: Our Mouth Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "collision of dance and retardation" - Our Mouth. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS & YELLOW SWANS Title: Live On Conan Island Format: LP Label: No-Fi Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "The ultimate East Coast/West Coast soundclash as Oregons Yellow Swans and Brooklyns Mouthus present a smouldering document from their onstage interactions on their Fall 2006 US tour." - No-Fi. |
| Artist:MOUTHUS/COUSINS OF REGGAE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A side each of fertile noise-rot from Montreals Cousins of Reggae and Brooklyns Mouthus. Soundly rejected by Discovery Channel - the Cousins five-track suite about the Hudson Bay follows up their limited & hard-to-find debut l.p. (on Ohnonoise) & a recent cd-r on Mouthuss Our Mouth imprint. They set sail with some hyperactive stompers and narcoleptic stumblers intent on capsizing all vessels in their path before coming under attack by a squadron of pissed off jet-skiiers. On flip are two massive Mouthus jams - "New Drugz" & "Better Than Facemask" which perfectly capture a day spent peaking on mescaline at the Daytona 500. Limited edition of 500 with unique handpainted covers and full-color inserts.." - OESB. |
| Artist:MOWE Title: Humsibum Format: LP Label: 90% Wasser Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "The first full length album of MOWE is a 50 minute collage of field recordings, acoustic & electronic instruments combined with different materials of the ether. For this release MOWE were Stea Andreasson & Rotraut Z." - 90% Wasser. |
| Artist:MR. BRINKMAN Title: #1/#2 Format: 10" Label: Endleseries Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "aka synb, meerk puffy,mucid cuspidor,kreemy ffup delivers/ 2 tracks of skull bouncing down the dungeon steps" "ENDLESERIES is a collection of music exclusive to our catalog. The catalog is continuously growing. We hand lathe cut 10" virgin lacquers with aproxamately 9 minutes of audio per side. Each lacquer is cut to order. The records play at 33rpm." - Endleseries. New series of customized split 10"s from Caleb Johnston (Anonymous, Nautical Almanac, etc..).. Beautifully packaged, metal-core virgin dub plates, with handstamped, old style 78 sleeves and labels. |
| Artist:MR. CALIFORNIA & GX JUPITTER LARSEN Title: Collaboration Format: LP Label: Peer Pressure Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Patience-frying "punk rock" ear-gauger MR. CALIFORNIA hooks up with industrial noise pirate GX JUPITTER LARSEN (HATERS), and goes all-out to fuck your shit up. A confounding blend of lo-fidelity tweets, bleeps, blurps, noise and looped beats completely bathed in dust-on-the needle static. There may be some singing in there as well, cant be certain." |
| Artist:MRTYU Title: Ornate Shroud Format: LP Label: Tipped Bowler Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Hopefully Mrtyu requires little introduction, because the project evades easy description. An odd compound of Vedic imagery, metal misanthropy, and violin agony, this music moves away from any particular fan base in pursuit of its distant, darkened idols. Ornate Shroud is Mrtyus most potent spawn to date. Hewing closer to song form than previous releases, the album conceals Antony Miltons violent guitar and violin work behind Mrtyus characteristic murk. Its pieces transition from jagged riffs to eerie ambient scrapes through wooly feedback, approaching the uncanny. Although the year is yet young, 2009 will likely not produce a bleaker aggraga record. Edition of 350 180 gm. LPs in heavy-stock linen-paper sleeves hand-screened, -cut, and –glued by Reuben Little of 43rd Parallel Press. Available from Tipped Bowler in the US and Faunasabbatha in France." -Tipped Bowler |
| Artist:MUCKRAKER Title: #6 Format: Mag Label: Muckraker Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
| Late 90s issue with Shaking Ray Levis, LaDonna Smith & Davey Williams, Milo Fine, Ecstatic Peace discog by Thurston Moore, tons of reviews, etc.. Does not include the 7". |
| Artist:MUCKRAKER Title: #9 Format: Mag/CD Label: Muckraker/Giardia Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Mammoth final issue, featuring interviews with legendary improvisor Derek Bailey, mental-health rockers Ceramic Hobs, laundry room satanist Eddy Detroit, AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost, Argentenian weirdos Reynols, trombonist Roswell Rudd, squeaky wheel Tamio Shiraishi, Majora Records boss Nick Shultz, E.S.P.-Disk alum Alan Sondheim, silence enthusiast Sukora, and family values man Diz Willis, as well as an overview of Very Good Records by John Olson (which includes interviews with Metabolismus, Coits, and Phonophobia). The CD includes exclusive tracks by Bailey, Hobs, Damaged Life(Sondheims mid-80s outfit), Eddy Detroit (supported by the Sun City Girls), Reynols, Shiraishi, and Willis." - Muckraker. From 2000. |
| Artist:MUDBOY Title: This Is Folk Music Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Now heres an odd one. Mudboy makes and recreates old circuit bent church organs, customising and retrofitting old keyboards for his own nefarious means. Then he plays rich music that hints at psychedelia and drones on them, mixing in field recordings, noise and complementary sounds, and even the odd drum sound that sounds like hes been let loose on Aphex Twin circa Ambient Works 85-92 s drum machine. At times it sounds like a primitive electronica, far abstracted from the hyper-beats of so-called IDM, and reclaimed for the contemplative and wide-eyed explorers and discoverers of new territories and new states of mind." - Last Visible Dog. |
| Artist:MUDBOY Title: MuDMuX Volume One Format: 7" Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "This is the first installment of a series of 7"s to be released by various labels. Each record contains a single track on each side by a different band- produced, mixed, orchestrated, destroyed, mutilated and brought back to life by the dark dreams of Mr. mudboy. Side A of this first edition features an unearthed file by the Extreme Animals resurrected as a tribute to "Lil John Carpenter." Percussion by Jeremy Lazy "animal" Magnet Harris. Side B is a devastating whirlpool cliff walk based on a song written and sung by the DarkDarkDark band. Backup fingers by Alec K Redfearn of the Eyesores fame. Cover art is a hand made blue and gold 4 pass silkscreen by R Lyon in collaboration with Kevin Hooyman. Limited to 535."- Dnt |
| Artist:MUDBOY Title: Mort Aux Vaches Format: CD Label: Staalplaat Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| 3-panel wooden cover, limited 500. |
| Artist:MUDBOY/AUK THEATRE Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Dutch Beer Country: Belgium Price: $8.50 |
| "side A is last visible dog recording artist MUDBOY. dude with a circuit bended 1975 organ. every tone he pushes out of his equipment is bliss and joy for everyone. pure new-age. side B is AUK THEATRE, straight outa CHARLES MANSION. better known as IRENE MOON, SARA OKEEFE, etc. great spoken word, scary theatre, weirdo voices and beauty melodies." - Dutch Beer. |
| Artist:MUDBOY/MUDBOY & ORPHAN FAIRYTALE Title: Let It Be A Nightingale Then/ Whose Words Are My Words Format: LP Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $19.00 |
| "side A is MUDBOY solo atmosphere meditation. (with a little help from PUMICE on the first track). blurry HANS GRUSEL vibes mixed with early 80s sci-fi moods... its like watching VIDEODROME and feeling the gun (gung) crawling a way into your own hand... side B is MUDBOY together with Belgian 6 year old synthwizard ORPHAN FAIRYTALE. very deep meditation .... birds, wolves howl, beauty vocals and synthlayers, walking arm in arm into the dream of you. BO HANSSON checking things from the side... correct. heavy silkscreened collab cover! too many colors to mention. scratch and sniff paint!" - Cauliflower Dreams. |
| Artist:MUDSUCKERS Title: Mudsuckers Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| Pete Swanson & Gabe Salomon (Yellow Swans), Tom Carter (Charalambides) & Robert Horton. "Swamp noise drone. Feedback is layered like mud on the carcass of song structure. Robert uses primitive cassette manipulation as well as digital processing to thicken the sound into a swamp. Think Credence Clearwater Revival without the one chord they knew. On three of the songs, Pete uses his analog reel-to-reel wall-of-sound processing apparatus. Longjaw Mudsuckers was inspired by a mid-eighties cassette where Merzbow mixed John Hudaks nature sounds into a screaming mass of sonic debris. Robert recorded a stream after the huge New Years Day storm and Pete plugged it into his system, making it sound at times like a stream, an ocean, and robots whispering mechanical secrets. This CD contains some of the first recordings of Tom Carters circuit-bending. Individual attributes of Gabe Mindels guitar roar, Tom Carters ebow laptop whirl, and Horton s clanky homemades merge into the mud stew. Driving the swirl are samples of boogie woogie piano, riffs from the session, and pounding drums." - Important. |
| Artist:MUELLER, JON Title: Strung Format: LP Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| ""Peripatetic composer, performer, improviser, and designer Jon Mueller is a busy guy, and both the rock and experimental music scenes are the richer for it. As a drummer, he propels the ecstatic whorl of Collections of Colonies of Bees and the occasional guitar army of Rhys Chatham; alternately his solo project, Metals, is the most harrowingly intense percussive barrage youll ever encounter. He also finds time to collaborate with artists ranging from Wilcos Glenn Kotche to Swans Jarboe. Whether its minimalist bombast, free-improv interplay, or electro-acoustic finesse, Muellers got it covered. But what can he do with a guitar? In Strung, Mueller doesnt play the guitar; he scrambles its molecules. Laying down a photon-blast of sound, he initiates a relentless, rapid-pulse attack signal that summons wave upon wave of white noise. Think inexorable alien invasion -- The Day The Earth Stood Still, with Lou Reed as Klaatu and Metal Machine Music as the message. Earth doesnt stand a chance." Pressed on clear vinyl with great Savage Pencil etching on the b-side." -Table of the Elements |
| Artist:MUKAI, CHIE Title: Crossing - Solo Improvisation Format: CDR Label: There Country: JAPAN Price: $16.00 |
| Recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo on July 31, 1996. |
| Artist:MUKAI, CHIE Title: Solo Improvisations Format: CD Label: Siwa Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "CD reissue of Chie Mukais second solo album originally released on LP in 2000. Three tracks recorded at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo in the late 90s. Just over 40 minutes of solo improvisations featuring the beautiful deep drone of the er-hu (a traditional bowed Chinese instrument) augmented by voice, kengali, rings and cymbals. Mukai is an important (and underdocumented) figure in the Japanese underground whose work goes back to her time as a student under Takahisa Kosugi in the late 70s which resulted in her participation in the legendary "East Bionic Symphonia" album. Since then she has continued to work with her own Ché-SHIZU outfit and appear on recordings with artists such as Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Rinji Fukuoka (Overhang Party), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms) and Masayoshi Urabe. This CD is housed in a screenprinted gatefold chipboard sleeve and is released in an edition of 600." - Siwa. |
| Artist:MULLENDER, ROB Title: Human Resources Format: CD Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Subtle acoustic improvisation on nylon string and steel string guitar."- Bo Weavil. |
| Artist:MUNDY, MARK Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| A CD reissue of MARC MUNDYs self-titled 1971 LP; a truly unique, privately-issued curiosity rescued from obscurity by trailblazing collector Paul Major. Many (Mid)East/West crossover albums surfaced during the psychedelic era but none that sound quite like Mundys. "Youll have a hard time finding another LP to compare with this combination of feeling and sound," Major claims. The emotional effect of Mundys vocals coupled with his bands irresistible groove is a strange pairing-one could argue that the two are at odds with each other, but the result is a sound and feel so unique and compelling to the ears, it has to be in a class all its own. "In one stroke, impossibly good and charmingly average. How could this record exist? How could it not exist? Distant foretelling of East Coast new wave (recorded in 1970?!), but built on a Turkish rock, Marc sincerely doles out musical xs and os, eager to please, wanting to be loved. This was supposed to be top of the pops-it didnt work out but this record is still pure Turkish delight." - Companion. |
| Artist:MUNEIRO, NARITA Title: Solo Live Format: CD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "With HIGH RISE being basically an inactive band the last few years NARITA MUNEHIRO has been keeping his electric guitar skills sharp gigging around Tokyo in various duos and other small groupings. This Archive release documents two live sets Narita recorded in late 2005 and the Summer of 2006, and clearly displays the talents of the man who the term Psychedelic Speed Freaks was really captured from. One time pressing of 600 copies, packed in extra glossy 2.5-panel sleeves with appropriately chemically treated photographic work from the live dates." |
| Artist:MUNTJAC Title: Warp Format: Cass Label: Imvated Country: Belgium Price: $11.00 |
| "Paul Grimes, an allround ace guy and member of the now defunct DEATH CHANTS walks a surprisingly personal path on this album. very outside the common psychedelic genre he draws a path of his own. on WARP, Grimes scrapes together a faboulous blend of easy listening, light marbles and more retro space tunes. a hot mix of elements of KITARO, JOE MEEK, and even some liquid hits of an introspective DENNIS WIZE. fantastic stuff for the upcoming summer hangovers not many people are ready to be in the MUNTJAC waters..... are you?" - Imvated |
| Artist:MUNUAISSYMPOSIUM 1960/MANIACS DREAM Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "A split by two obscure bands from Finland. Munuaissymposium 1960 is retarded drunken noise. Fuzzy buzzy blazed out grainy brainstorm with spikes and snivel. Maniacs Dream (an Avarus side project) makes it with a more rock and even more fuzzy approach. Fricara Pacchu has left guitars and moved behind drums. Bella Blossa doesnt sing this time." - Lal Lal Lal. Restock of this 2004 release. |
| Artist:MURDER/SUICIDE Title: Murder/Suicide Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "well i still cant really wrap my head around this one.... greg kelley/dave doogan duo... extremely rough sounding.... first jam sounds like oscillators and drums, weird vocals every now and then..... sounds angry, would not want to be in the way with this jam going down.... 2nd track = harsh high pitched trumpet "runs" with out of tune tom beating off time in the background.... listened to it with a crew last night, all agreed one of the "harshest" things weve ever heard.... track 3 = longer jam... real loud/in the red oscillators, trumpet etc.... edition of 60" - Maim & Disfigure. |
| Artist:MURDERED HOUSEWIVES Title: Format: LP Label: Nauscopy Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Called "a much sillier Locust". An absurd epic tale in gonzo crust form. Yellow on black silkscreened covers, with yellow vinyl to match." - Nauscopy. |
| Artist:MURRAY, HEATHER LEIGH Title: Devil If You Can Hear Me Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Debut vinyl full length by this long-time H-town expat/pedalsteel visionary. Past CDRs on her and Dave Keenans VOLCANIC TONGUE imprint have sketched out the breadth of her possessed solitary vigils, but her three pieces here are even more untamed and unique. Voice, electric strings, song tendrils blowing in the souls breeze. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun. |
| Artist:MURUGA & THE GLOBAL VILLAGE CEREMONIAL BAND Title: s/t Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: USA Price: $23.50 |
| "New rocket by Muruga, after the Free Funk LP! This healing session opens and closes with two funk/jazz tracks, rec. by Muruga in trio & 4et with Ken Kozara on muted trumpet and Richard Smith on bass; Belita Woods, from P-Funk, is added on the last track of the album, May The Funk Be With You. The middle of the record is mostly perc. heavy and trance/ethnic oriented. Ascension had been written by the late master Baba Olatunji and had been rec. live @ The Spirit Drum Fest. w/special guest Badal Roy (who rec. w/Miles Davis, Ornette, Don Cherry, ect...) and Sikiru Adepoju (who rec. w/Mickey Hart, Olatunji, ect..). Nelson Ledges is a drums trio rec. live as well @ The Rhythm Fest in Ohio. Out of Nothing is a very special duo piece rec. w/Prem Das: here Muruga uses a unique Nada drum, while Prem Das (long years of apprenticeship in Mexico with a Huichol shaman and was also a colleague of Timothy Leary & Ralph Metzner) uses a water drum for a quite hypnotic effect ! Open your heart and let your body move... to the rhythm, to the groove!" - QBICO. |
| Artist:MURUGA/PERRY ROBINSON Title: Dyad - Bubble Waves Format: LP Label: Qbico Country: Italy Price: $24.00 |
| "Artworks by Muruga. Recorded in 2007 at Sage CT. Studio, Michigan. Muruga (drums, bells, shaker, Nada drum, conga, jimbay, synth); Perry Robinson (clarinet, wood whistles). This magical duo is the result of more then 30 years of playing together/friendship... two side long tracks, Muruga on side A is on drums/synth, while on side b on various perc. instruments. the bubble waves bring you closer to the light, while the bubble beat makes you wanna dance... the preacher met the magician." -Qbico |
| Artist:MUSIC ENSEMBLE, THE Title: Format: CD Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The first documentation of this important free improvising group, featuring Roger Baird, Billy Bang, Malik Baraka, Daniel Carter, William Parker, and Herb Kahn. Existing during the heyday of NYCs Loft Scene, their name has often been cited as a crucial stage in the development of its members -- the seeds of such current ensembles as Other Dimensions In Music and Test can be found here -- but their singular music has gone largely unheard, save by those who were present at their concerts. This CD has been compiled from archival tapes recorded by Roger Baird; one complete performance from Brooklyns Kingsborough College, on 24 April 1974, and excerpts from a concert at the Holy Name School Auditorium, on 15 February 1975. Packaged in a mini-LP gatefold sleeve, with liner notes by Parker, Bang, Baird, and Carter, paintings by Marilyn Sontag, and a reproduction of the poster for one of the shows, this is the recording debut of one of jazzs greatest "lost" groups." - Roaratorio. |
| Artist:MUSICA DISPERSA Title: Musica Dispersa Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "1971 Spanish album that featured the talent of three of the most significant musicians from the Catalonian underground movement of the late sixties: Jaume Sisa, J.M. Brabo El Cachas and Albert Batiste, who after their Miniatura project with Pau Riba were joined by young hippie girl Selene. This sole effort by the group is a masterpiece of melodic tunes that pay a tribute to the English folk movement of the era, as it does to the early Amon Duüls freak out sound concept . Echoes of The Incredible String Band are present mainly in the guitar parts; drums are absent in all but one track on which they are played by Josep M Vilaseca Tapi, of Máquina & Tapiman fame, but percussion, harmonica, organ, mouth harp, piano and wordless vocals are heard throughout the album, as is Selenes flute work. All in all this is a strange, relaxing little piece of underground from Barcelonas early seventies hippie youth that has become a classic of Spanish pop music; available in a 1000 copies only strictly limited edition that respects the original gatefold artwork, including the slight relief of the cover illustration. Extensive liner notes and photographs." - MMS. Highly Recommended! |
| Artist:MUSICA DISPERSA Title: Musica Dispersa Format: CD Label: Discmedi Country: Spain Price: $17.50 |
| "Spanish album from 1971 that featured the talent of three of the most significant musicians from the Catalonian underground movement of the late sixties: Jaume Sisa, J.M. Brabo El Cachas and Albert Batiste, who after their Miniatura project with Pau Riba were joined by young hippie girl Selene. Echoes of The Incredible String Band are present mainly in the guitar parts; drums are absent in all but one track on which they are played by Josep M. Vilaseca Tapi, of Máquina & Tapiman fame, but percussion, harmonica, organ, mouth harp, piano and wordless vocals are heard throughout the album, as is Selenes flute work. All in all this is a strange, relaxing little piece of underground from Barcelonas early seventies hippie youth that has become a classic of Spanish pop music; a masterpiece full of melodic tunes that are equally indebted to the English folk music of the era, as they are to the early Amon Duül freakout sound concept; beautiful digipack edition." - Discmedi. |
| Artist:MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA Title: Friday Format: CD Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
| "The MEV group was formed in September 1966 by Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Frederic Rzewski, Allen Bryant, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, and Jon Phetteplace. In the beginning they performed compositions by themselves and others which involved the use of electronic sound produced in real time, or live electronic music. In the summer of 1967, they began to work more with improvisation and less with determinate structures. MEV focus more on interpreting the moment, rather than constructing repeatable programs; creating meaningful rituals, not images; becoming involved with the process, the operation, and not with the result of it, or its effects on people. MEVs music is highly eclectic, resisting ready classification by combining elements of improvised music, computer music, world music, jazz and classical composition, without being clearly definable as any one of them. Being creatures of the 60s, MEV members partook of many of the apparent contradictions which the very richness of those extraordinary times, made possible mixing rationalistic social and political theories and action with magic, mysticism and hashish, musically juxtaposing pseudo-primitive rhythmic pulses, drones and chants with avant garde post-serial textures and techniques, inter-connecting organic rhythms of the human body with cutting edge, high-tech synthesizers. But by maintaining an attitude of openness, acceptance, and inclusiveness that allowed for any and all things to co-exist equally, and refusing to regard such dichotomies as contradictions at all, they made what were undoubtedly among MEV, major contributions. For the realization of Friday, recorded in London in May 1969, MEV were Frederic Rzewski (piano, electronics, etc.), Alvin Curran (flugelhorn, etc.), Richard Teitelbaum (Moog synthesizer), Franco Cataldi (trombone, etc.), Gunther Carius (saxophone, etc.). The main theme around this MEV piece is communication. Communication by means of music can be a very efficient means of reaching quick agreement among large numbers of people, because when you call something music, you have tacitly accepted a convention by which it is understood that the sounds that you make have no particular meaning, they are just sounds and therefore free to serve the general purpose of pure communication. Music can bring people together where language divides them. When this happens, the concert will come to resemble other other liberated forms such as the party or the day-off, themselves secular remnants or earlier ceremonies. MEV music is not meant to impress people, but to liberate them. This CD is included in a beautiful digipack full-color sleeve with photos and liner notes. Also included is an 8-page booklet with an essay on Friday by Frederic Rzewski as well as MEV Then and Now by Richard Teitelbaum." Alga Marghen |
| Artist:MUSIQUE CONCRET Title: Bringing Up Baby Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Reissue of a rare UK album from 1981. Musique Concret were an obscure London duo composed by Jim Friedman & Michael Mullen with a short lived musical history : their sole album Bringing up Baby was originally released on Steven Stapletons label United Dairies and there is also one short track on a compilation. This is a great experimental power electronics works with the use of many delay and echo, tape recorder manipulations, collages, rhythms box, noise, and others studio trickery, naturally close to Nurse With Wound first period, Faust or others German 70s innovative bands. Completely forgotten nowadays, Bringing up Baby is really much more than just an interesting curiosity, its a true highly original recordings from the early 80s. A lost jewel." - Fractal |
| Artist:MUSLIMGAUZE Title: Madrass Sitar Burner Format: Double LP Label: Staalplaat Country: Germany Price: $36.00 |
| Gatefold black and white cover, limited to 600 copies. "Madrass Sitar Burner harbours Muslim-world East-Indian/Pakistani flavours as well as North African/Middle Eastern into what could be described as among the more jumping Muslimgauze releases in the oeuvre. Curiously, sitars surface on only one track, perhaps reduced to ashes before further songs could be composed. Masters for Madrass... were submitted by Bryn Jones to Staalplaat in 1998, while Muslimgauze music was well into the dancehall-reggae-dub-cum-noisy-distortion phase. Those who wish to place the album in the overall context of the discography can do so among the ethno-electro (where traditional music is walked through a hall-of-mirrors of effects, deft panning, then dubbed-out into staggered bits) alongside Silknoose, Uzbekistani Bizzare And Souk, Lo-Fi India Abuse, and Alms for Iraq. Madrass... opens with simmering tablas, the mridangam and santoor for several tracks before the listener is transported to remote dusty villages of North Africa to experience both spirited and serene reed flutes that negotiate through high-voltage electronic rhythms. It is the rhythms that are the most pronounced element of this release as molten, toxic waste bass lines and tectonic strength beats both seep and clamour either like a force of nature or post-apocalyptic fall-out. The non-Indo tracks are familiar as parts were previously released on Dar Es Salaam while one track is straight off the Nommos Return 10". Jones was not always patient when certain tracks were not released soon enough to his liking and consequently were sent elsewhere without notice. The balance remains dangerously sharp unreleased gems ideal for the dance floor provided a sound system is robust enough to channel the sheer force of Muslimgauze. Despite the near-overwhelming rhythms and bass-ethnic elements along with voices from outskirts of Lahore and Bedouin caravan routes persist like determined insurgents against Western occupier styles. To harness this raw power and beauty, Staalplaat recruited Germanys surpassing audio engineer, Rashad Becker, who specially mastered and spanned these tracks over two pieces of virgin vinyl. Track listings on the inner circles are inscribed in Bryn Jones own handwriting no less. Madrass Sitar Burner is for Muslimgauze completists who want an artifact and new fans who want to hear an artisan put grime and dubstep proponents to shame." -- Ibrahim Khider, author of Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones |
| Artist:MUTANT APE Title: Erotic Yorkshire Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Mutant Ape is the insane noise project by Yorkshire, UK resident George Proctor. George runs the Turgid Animal label, which since 2005 has been the go-to place for harsh noise, power electronics and other demented spuzz releasing over 500 CDs, CDRs, cassettes, LPs, 10"s, 7"s etc. He has been releasing Mutant Ape sounds wherever and whenever, establishing his classic yet contemporary noise/horror vision of lust and spectacle as one of the premier scum artists of the last decade. Erotic Yorkshire is Mutant Ape at its most corrosive delivering from track to track occult ambience to skin shredding power drug electronics. All bookended by the demented and misogynist rants of Jamie Gillis. Artwork by the fractured mind of Tisbor. Disgust, depression, defilement and demotion are all here for those of you who demand only the best in carnal crud." -Ecstatic Peace |
| Artist:MUTUMBAJOY, SANTIAGO Title: Yagé Pinta! Psychedelic Shaman Songs of Santiago Mutumbajoy Format: CD Label: Latitude Country: UK Price: $14.50 |
| "Weaving in and out of the shamans body, which is the same as the body of the song, these songs are the medium by which spirits are conjured, witchcraft laid to rest, and the universe put on edge. Treat them accordingly. They might change your life. They did, mine. They are sung by Santiago Mutumbajoy whom I taped with a cheap old tape-recorder at different times, mostly in 1976, when I was living with him and his wife Ambrosia. Their two-room wooden house sat on a hill in the cloud forest near the town of Mocoa where the Andes drop into the Putumayo River Basin in southwest Colombia. Today their son, Luciano, carries on the practice there, while their daughter, Natividad, sustains it in neighbouring Caqueta province. For the whole night, under the influence of a hallucinogen called yagé, the healer sings his song the power of which is due not to words, lyrics, or poetry. Instead it lies in the quality of the sound and the way that sound creates pictures in your mind while dissolving your body. The singing is the key to the magical power. It is that power. It is what brings the healer and the patient into the realms of the spirits that lie within and behind every visible thing." - Michael Taussig; Nearly 80 minutes of hypnotic, droning wild microphone field recordings of shamanic ceremonies recorded by celebrated anthropologist Michael Taussig." - Latitude. |
| Artist:MV & EE Title: Old Black Joe Format: 7" Label: Great Pop Supplement Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "wonderful smoked out blues with erika elder lead vocal and refrained geetar genius from mv. byron coley sleevenotes. 500 only ready late jan/early feb. 500 only..." - Great Pop Supplement |
| Artist:MV & EE Title: Catalytic Dung Format: Cass Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
| Artist:MV & EE Title: Meet Snake Pass & Other Human Conditions Format: LP Label: Singing Knives Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "This limited edition, heavyweight vinyl document captures an improbable but precious moment in time. Matt Valentine and Erika Elder are prolific mainstays of the psychedelic underground - their releases as MV & EE and with The Bummer Road fuse noise, raga and Americana to trace out misty ley lines and forgotten pathways with languid intensity. Although this live set is far more stripped down than recent Ecstatic Peace records like Green Blues and Getting Gone, its wonderfully hushed quality only enhances the otherworldly resonance of their songs." -Chris Sharp, The Wire |
| Artist:MV & EE Title: Barn Nova Format: CD Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Still harvesting and sustaining in the deep woods of Vermont , MV & EE (Matt MV Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika EE Elder, CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture and The MV & EE Medicine Show) are following their 2008 release Drone Trailer with their feature-film-for-the-blind Barn Nova, which marks their return to the Ecstatic Peace! label. MV & EE aspire to the sort of beautifully rewarding standard in their documented output that Sun Ra or The Grateful Dead achieved. It is with Ecstatic Peace! that their most consistent works have been born and continue reach fans with The Golden Road, their most constant band. Together with Doc Dunn (pedal steel, rhythm guitar, vocals, drums) and Mike Smith (Rickenbacker 4001, vocals), who appeared on Drone Trailer, as well as J Mascis (drums, guitar, plate reverb) and Woods Jeremy Earl (vocal, drums) they take you on the ride now known as Barn Nova and here they jam. Justin Pizzoferrato also appears contributing percussion, space echo and aiding once again at the controls. This album was recorded at MV & EEs own home studio Maximum Arousal Farm as well as their current local New England rooms of choice, Bank Row (an old mid 1900s bank) and Js home studio Bisquiteen. These kindred spirits share a wealth of ideas including a serious reverence and desire to upgrade/expand the classic-rock idiom. Barn Nova marks the return of Spectrasound, MVs production technique that places tones dancing all around the stereo sound field: it has to be heard to be believed. This effect is all the more impressive that the majority of it was created recording live, rather than conjured through studio post-production during mixing. Especially potent on the A side-ending stomp Summer Magic, where Erikas economical leads go head-to-head with Js on a particularly mind-blowing live-in-studio effort; It brings to mind the vibe of Green Blues, Mother Of Thousands and even an electric Moon Jook with matured songwriting. Inspired by the likes of Jerry Garcia, John Cipollina and Tom Verlaine, Matt Valentine displays an insatiable appetite to play in various idioms with constant exploration and development. Meanwhile, Elders harmony leads recall the glorious twinned guitar lines of Canned Heats Al Wilson & Henry Vestine at their most potent." -Ecstatic Peace |
| Artist:MV & EE Title: Barn Nova Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| LP version with poster. "Still harvesting and sustaining in the deep woods of Vermont , MV & EE (Matt MV Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika EE Elder, CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture and The MV & EE Medicine Show) are following their 2008 release Drone Trailer with their feature-film-for-the-blind Barn Nova, which marks their return to the Ecstatic Peace! label. MV & EE aspire to the sort of beautifully rewarding standard in their documented output that Sun Ra or The Grateful Dead achieved. It is with Ecstatic Peace! that their most consistent works have been born and continue reach fans with The Golden Road, their most constant band. Together with Doc Dunn (pedal steel, rhythm guitar, vocals, drums) and Mike Smith (Rickenbacker 4001, vocals), who appeared on Drone Trailer, as well as J Mascis (drums, guitar, plate reverb) and Woods Jeremy Earl (vocal, drums) they take you on the ride now known as Barn Nova and here they jam. Justin Pizzoferrato also appears contributing percussion, space echo and aiding once again at the controls. This album was recorded at MV & EEs own home studio Maximum Arousal Farm as well as their current local New England rooms of choice, Bank Row (an old mid 1900s bank) and Js home studio Bisquiteen. These kindred spirits share a wealth of ideas including a serious reverence and desire to upgrade/expand the classic-rock idiom. Barn Nova marks the return of Spectrasound, MVs production technique that places tones dancing all around the stereo sound field: it has to be heard to be believed. This effect is all the more impressive that the majority of it was created recording live, rather than conjured through studio post-production during mixing. Especially potent on the A side-ending stomp Summer Magic, where Erikas economical leads go head-to-head with Js on a particularly mind-blowing live-in-studio effort; It brings to mind the vibe of Green Blues, Mother Of Thousands and even an electric Moon Jook with matured songwriting. Inspired by the likes of Jerry Garcia, John Cipollina and Tom Verlaine, Matt Valentine displays an insatiable appetite to play in various idioms with constant exploration and development. Meanwhile, Elders harmony leads recall the glorious twinned guitar lines of Canned Heats Al Wilson & Henry Vestine at their most potent." - Ecstatic Peace. |
| Artist:MV & EE Title: Live Road Format: LP Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Collection of very recent live excursions with MV & EE, all high quality recordings from shows in November 2009. The A side opens with a MV/EE duo performance of Mine All Troubled Blues from Art Damage Lodge, Cincinnati, OH on 20/11/09. This heads straight into two interpretations of Environments, one from Project Lodge, Madison, WI which again is just raw MV/EE action, but the second features an enhanced line up with Muskox and Doc Dunn. The two versions are blurred together into one long blazing 11 minute space jam. The flip side opens with the classic blues soaked Tea Devil with Erikas laid back vocals backed with MVs rippling guitar shreds, Rongooses (Ron Schneidermann of Sunburned/Spirit of Orr/Pewtr) heavy bass bliss outs, and Chris Corsano showcasing a slow moving stoned out drum kit. Straight from here we head into a completely trance-inducing psychedelic haze of wild jamming with a totally different version of Environments. The whole of the Bside was recorded with Chris and Ron at Bank Row, Greenfield, MA. Edition of 400 pressed on heavyweight vinyl with hand stamped labels in black and white pro printed wrap around jackets with cover art by Jeremy Earl of Woods/Woodsist Records." - Blackest Rainbow. |
| Artist:MV & EE WITH THE BUMMER ROAD Title: Mother Of Thousands Format: Double LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "after piles of privately released cdrs & long gone vinyl only releases, heres the mv/ee album for the masses, who are no doubt quivering for it... dont be fooled though, this is neither the medicine show zone of recent years, nor a mere echo of the tower recordings flame, but a new beast stirring awake in the beaming sun of now. aided by the bummer road and the omni present erika elder, mv has here pushed his cosmic sounds beyond the apex of high. no doubt theres plenty of lifted rural raga vibrations, and big woozy doses of haunted folk-blues as well, but the mix of flat-out killer songs and extended electric psych-outs is something of a revelation. beautiful mountain & sunshine girl are tantalizingly close to being something like modern underground hits, while the side-long album closer death dont have to mercy is an epic head-spinning trip loaded with moments of fragile piano lull, layers of serpentine acid guitars, and all-around smoky late-night jam vibes... throughout the album both mv & ees vocals are more present & stronger then ever, and the harmonies have a real sweet lonesome glow... surely the finest blossom yet from the mighty maximum arousal farm... features matt valentine & erika elder with mo jiggs, sparrow wildchild, nemo bidstrup, tim barns & samara lubelski adding harmonica, percussion, flute, electric guitar, tambura, violin, ukelin, and more to the usual assortment of mystic strings... packaged in a beautiful heavy old-style gatefold cover with glossy laminated photo outside and silver on white interior. classy sliver/black labels. analog saturation mastering by wojcek czern, poland, for maximum aural radiance, and pressed on two slabs of audiophile grade 180gm virgin vinyl. limited edition of 1000 copies." - Time-Lag. |
| Artist:MV & EE WITH THE BUMMER ROAD Title: Mother Of Thousands Format: Double CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $20.50 |
| "double cd digital version with the same tracks/sequence as the 2lp. miniature lp style heavy gatefold covers just like the vinyl version, plus a nice insert, and woven japanese inner sleeves. first edition of 1000 copies." - Time-Lag. |
| Artist:MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD Title: Gettin Gone Format: Double LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| Double vinyl version, gatefold sleeve. "A new sound has organically evolved that will most certainly astonish listeners new & old, but still find a special place on the formidable shelf of their back catalog. So rejoice in this disc, which boasts some of MV & EEs most finely-crafted songs to date and along with The Golden Road present a feast of tones & riffs that will stick to your ribs for a long time. Like its predecessor, Gettin Gone is a family affair of like-minded freak and friendly hair waves. Most fascinating is the Ecstatic Peace! soundboard premier of Zuma, one of the coolest dog minds north of New York City. Also the one part golden addition of Doc Dunn and the harmonium magic of Luisa, she of Mascis child. Oh and J his self blams some mountain heavy drumming on a few of these tracks. Matt and Erikas devotional dharma is open to all true vibes of rock n roll and folk n roots ramble both tender and tuff." - Ecstatic Peace. |
| Artist:MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD Title: Gettin Gone Format: CD Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A new sound has organically evolved that will most certainly astonish listeners new & old, but still find a special place on the formidable shelf of their back catalog. So rejoice in this disc, which boasts some of MV & EEs most finely-crafted songs to date and along with The Golden Road present a feast of tones & riffs that will stick to your ribs for a long time. Like its predecessor, Gettin Gone is a family affair of like-minded freak and friendly hair waves. Most fascinating is the Ecstatic Peace! soundboard premier of Zuma, one of the coolest dog minds north of New York City. Also the one part golden addition of Doc Dunn and the harmonium magic of Luisa, she of Mascis child. Oh and J his self blams some mountain heavy drumming on a few of these tracks. Matt and Erikas devotional dharma is open to all true vibes of rock n roll and folk n roots ramble both tender and tuff." - Ecstatic Peace. |
| Artist:MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD Title: Drone Trailer Format: LP Label: DiCristina Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Orbiting the earth in Vermont is MATT "MV" VALENTINE, once the brawn of the TOWER RECORDINGS, and ERIKA "EE" ELDER, CEO of HEROINE CELESTIAL AGRICULTURE and The MV & EE MEDICINE SHOW. Together with their dog Zuma, they run the Child of Microtones library of exploratory music--sometimes their own lunar blues, sometimes finger-picking-style noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier folk. MV & EE have landed at the DiCristina Building bearing Drone Trailer, featuring THE GOLDEN ROAD: DOC DUNN (pedal steel, guitar, harmony), MIKE SMITH (bass, Fender Rhodes, harmony), and JAMES ANDERSON (drums, engineer). You may recognize these names as part of MV & EEs touring band when they scorched across New England and the Rust Belt en route to Terrastock this past June. Drone Trailer is a consolidation of the previous musical high-life of the duos space shanties for the 21st century. In other words, MV & EE explore their unique mix of lunar raga and astral string band music, with a couple deep-space burners/covert jams such as opening blast "Anyway" thrown in to bust it all open. Nobody is gonna mind if they hear a little Crazy Horse and prime-era Dead here as well! Previous releases on their own Child of Microtones label, along with notable albums on Time Lag and Ecstatic Peace." -DiCristina |
| Artist:MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD Title: Moment Spacing Format: 7" Label: Golden Lab Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Yes, you heard us right. We just got this summer loving bliss festival of a record back from the pressing plant and it is everything we hoped it could be and more. Side A, "Moment Spacing" is a two-and-a-half-minute blast of "ooh-la-la-la-la-la" joy that wraps a posi+ aura around the world. B-side, Bong Judge is the stoned, slowed down, phaser-drenched, stretched-out basement tapes version of (almost unrecognisably) the same song running at six+ minutes. The most beautiful record we think well hear all year. (And we sold half of the 500 copies in the first week, so be quick if you want one)." -Golden Lab |
| Artist:MV & EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD Title: Limits/Jacked-Up Format: 7" Label: Golden Lab Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Side A is called Limits and its a full Golden Road blaster with riffs as meaty as a New York deli sandwich, ripped-up MV vocals and swirling EE vocals through a fat Leslie speaker. Side B is a sleww, stonnnned (possibly 4-track) recording called Jacked-Up with a haunting, almost dissonant vocal from MV and one of the greatest examples of Erika Elders intuitive, whacked-out lap steel playing weve yet heard. There are only 300 copies, so get in quick if you want some." - Golden Lab. |
| Artist:MV EE MEDICINE SHOW Title: Uranian Ray Format: LP Label: Spirit of Orr Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This beautiful vinyl LP edition MV & EE MEDICINE SHOWs URANIAN RAY, originally released on the legendary CHILD OF MICROTONES label in 2004, is a stunning get-hi-fidelity remastered reissue prepared on the spirited channels of the SPECTRASOUND mastering system developed by MATT VALENTINE himself. Therefore a fresh take on a previous favorite, the lunar brother to MOON JOOK" hand picked from their catalog by SPIRIT OF ORR, capable of achieving a glorious exit velocity, and slightly rearranged for the time limits & opportunities vinyl provides. Limited single pressing on black vinyl." -Spirit of Orr. |
| Artist:MWM/MARYFIST Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "First side is a bit embarrassing and the other is scary. Heres a tape that can be way too much for you. MWM is a teenage industrial punk band including two dudes from Avarus. They serve six songs full of angst, passion and Nine Inch Nails influences. Maryfist side is a psychedelic solo EP by the singer of MWM. It was first released as a limited edition CD-R in 1998. Tomi presents here an epical journey in strange and dark trip-hop with lots of whispers, rattling, breathing and heavily dosed sounds. At the time Tomi had his cats skull as a necklace. He also had a pet rat which also died. He put it in freezer planning to make a charm of it too. Accidentally he moved away and forgot the rat for the next people living in the apartment. Edition of 200." - Lal Lal Lal. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: The Rest Is Silence Format: Double LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The Rest Is Silence is till now the most complete and varied work of My Cat Is An Alien. After some totally improvised works, such as Landscapes of an Electric City on Ecstatic Peace and Il Segno on Starlight Furniture Co., with this debut release on Eclipse Records MCIAA start a more complex and oblique studio-modus operandi, in which the instantaneous composition is now a basement open to stratified extraterrestrial fluxus of sounds, often permeated by melancholic vocal inserts. The title of this new double album is taken from the last words spoken by Hamlet before his dying in the homonymous Shakespearians tragedy. The whole corpus of the work is an ectoplasm of sounds flowing from the earth surface towards the sky; with their electric and acoustic guitars, some pedal effects and a series of weird space-toys, MCIAA light a candle as a bright beacon in the darkness of the Great Void. From the Infinite Spaces incipit, a sad whispered voice delayed through a toy-megaphone, moving on isolated guitar strokes going downhill, defines The Rest Is Silence vocabulary: a new intimate alien folky-blues mood expanded on the avant-space sounds that have marked MCIAA since their beginning. Self-recorded and produced in Torino at their own Space Room headquarters during the cold winter time, The Rest Is Silence speaks the same intimate and desolated language of Tim Buckleys Lorca and reflects the same suffering of some primitive folk-blues masters such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, projected in the deepest outer space. Each track is dedicated to the mystery of the 4 elements (air, earth, fire, water), as surrealist metaphors involving the mystery of life and death. When all is over, things vanish in the quiet brilliance of the Cosmos; MCIAA will stay till Silence will come to stay forever." - Eclipse. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: The Cosmological Eye Trilogy, Part 1 Format: CDR Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
| "special handmade ltd ed. of 175 in painted & drawn wood package" |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Landscapes Of An Electric City Format: CD Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "first edition in heavy full color cardboard jacket with 9 art-card photos insert" - MCIAA. From 1999. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Floating In The Void Format: CDR Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "One streamline-track of estranged sorrowful alien mood, featuring Robertoswordless vocals style- The latest Space Room session, recorded July 2004. special handmade ltd ed. of 99 in imitation leather & heavy cardboard jacket!!" - MCIAA. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Il Segno Format: LP Label: Starlight Furniture Company Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Through The Reflex Of The Rain Format: CD Label: Free Porcupine Society Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "In early 2004, the free-floating guitar chords of MY CAT IS AN ALIEN interacted with the real voice of their hometown Torino, Italy. After several days of incessant winter rain, they let down a wide-stereo-range microphone fixed to a thirty-foot-long cable from the window of their Space Room, which hung three feet off the ground, swinging by the wind, capturing the sounds of rain and cars from the outside streets. Inside the Space Room, MAURIZIO and ROBERTO OPALIO performed alien guitar tunes and astral percussive textures, with Roberto mixing the outside soundscape in real-time with the inside improv session. Through The Reflex Of The Rain is a weird, intimate and very impressive atmosphere." - Free Porcupine Society. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: On Air At Sound Projecting Format: CDR Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $17.50 |
| "The entire improv performance recorded live at Ed Pinsents “Sound Projecting” radio show, broadcasted on Londons Resonance 104.4 fm, December 10th 2004; in these sessions MCIAA dont play their guitars, but only a bounce of space toys & mics, plus a pocket theremin & mini-casio, featuring Pinsents turntables interaction. A different aspect of MCIAAs experimental research, as well as a new amazing adventure in the heart of the Cosmos!" - Opax. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Different Shades of Blue Format: CDR Label: U Sound Archives Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "MY CAT IS AN ALIEN is the improv duo formed by the brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio from Torino, Italy, in late 1997. They both primarily play electric and acoustic guitars, various toy-instruments and voice toy-microphones, percussions. This recording was made in their Space Room on February 12, 2004." - U Sound Archives. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: When the Windmills Whirl Dies Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "The new work by the space-brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, alias My Cat Is An Alien. Both the words, recited and shaped by Roberto from his own homonymous poem that suggested the title of the album, and the oblique minimalism of the complex musical texture made of flowing space sounds, represent the abstract neo-expressionistic substratum of the whole corpus of the work. Moving throughout a nebula of space dust and debris, the starting spoken-word vocals alongside the percussive section sound as powerfully impressive as the violent imagery of trees beaten down by the storm, while the whispered silence of Perspective of Time and Fallin, on side two, discloses the emotional and existential universe of an isolated broken soul, lost in a world of inanity. This is the center of the No-thing Universe, where each single word or sound assumes the aspect of a sort of pagan prayer that speaks the language of astral folk-blues. In this context, MCIAAs outer space becomes a re-found uterus, meant to be the form of a new self-biogenesis. At the same time, space is conceived as symbol of the eternal theatre surrounding the mysterious cycle of life & death; such infinite space, despite such limited time. This cosmic-chant of the new millennium may heat our nights like a flame left to enlighten the shadows of the coldest darkness." Edition of 600 copies. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: The Cosmological Eye Trilogy Format: Triple CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Collects the original volumes I&II, the unreleased volume III and an hour and 15 minutes of additional, never-before-heard material. The most organic and certainly cosmic minimalism Ive yet to hear." -- LVD. "Refreshing Improv that stems from a tradition of space rock, psychedelic jamming and the lo-fi explorations of groups like The Dead C. The music of the Turin-based Opalio brothers has an untutored, instinctive charm that has been championed in the past by Sonic Youth and Blonde Redhead. These jams...are far looser and dreamier than the work of their mentors. [these] pieces describe patient, slow moving parabolas, rising from amplifier hiss and hum, to more urgent dialogues of percussions and guitar feedback, finally following long arcs into silence."- The Wire |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Theres a Flame...Sometimes Format: LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "MY CAT IS AN ALIEN is the improv duo formed by the brothers MAURIZIO and ROBERTO OPALIO from Torino, Italy, in late 1997. They both primarily play electric and acoustic guitars, various toy-instruments and voice toy-microphones, percussions." - Rococo. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Cosmic Light Of the Third Millenium Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Here the Opalio space-brothers push their improvised music of the Spheres in new cosmic territories, where the use of Robertos wordless vocals impresses a still unheard lyricism inside the sublime complexity of their unique musical textures. Section I opens the album with a slow and emotional epic crescendo generated by floating waves of electric space-guitars alongside glittering sounds of mini-xylophone and toy piano; this impressive astral monochord-blues increase leads to a denouement of electronics & cymbals storm. Whispered wordless moaning vocals and sparse rhythmic percussions resonating in the distance open Section II, where the celestial explosion is followed by droning walls of guitar sounds and space-toys effects, lost in a vertical streamline of astral debris. An ambient minimal guitar tune introduces the final Section III: reiterated and limpid single guitar chords disclose the enlightened beauty of the Cosmos." - Important. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Listen Before Black Falls Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "A third eye laser beam shot from the catacombs of Torino. An Acoustic guitar lullaby leads down a long dark tunnel of alpha wave feedback. Killer. Black chipboard covers with silk-screened fronts and hand drawn text/numbers on the back." -Root Strata. 2006 release. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Different Shades of Blue Format: LP Label: A Silent Place Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "A remastered, re-edited vinyl reissue of the Different Shades of Blue CDR from MY CAT IS AN ALIEN. Originally released on U-Sound Archive, the album features an improvisation recorded February 12, 2004 in Torino, Italy. Space ambient soundscapes with minimal textures from the heart of the cosmos. Limited edition of 700 copies. Imported from Italy." |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Leave Me In the Black No-Thing Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "New full-length album recorded April 10th, 2006, at MCIAAs Alien Zone, located in a remote region of the Western Alps, Piemonte, Italy. After having been irradiated by the Cosmic Light Of A New Millenium, you find yourself facing a black and white cover, where the only view of the universe is foreshortened, and represents a lighted shape showing branches of pine trees under a white sky, within the darkest black. Element which represents the aesthetic detaching and, at the same time, a further step in the duos artistic process, which determines their willingness to go beyond any goal already achieved. For MCIAA to make art means to risk daring the unknown, daring the listener himself to excel his own limits of perception of the work of art in music, without losing anything of their unique and unmistakable style. If, as many of the international critics have been remarking, MCIAAs works live on the boundary between light and darkness, its also true that Cosmic Light of the Third Millennium celebrated the light of the outer spaces as well as Leave Me In The Black No-Thing represents a jump into the No-Thing of the empty inner spaces." - Important. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Into the White Vortex Format: LP Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $64.00 |
| "private press ltd. edition of 110 copies / the entire surface of side AA features an original painting by Roberto Opalio in white translucent acrylic film etched texture; individually signed and numbered by the artist. A new special SPACE ART limited vinyl issue from Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka audio visual improv duo My Cat Is An Alien. A 23 minutes piece of cosmic wilderness crescendo." -Opax |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: On Air At Sound Projecting Format: LP Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $42.00 |
| "re-issue of the long-out-of-print cd-r, in a special private press edition of only 158, with heavy textured cardboard sleeve + full-color insert, individually numbered. "The entire recording of the improvised live performance at Ed Pinsents "Sound Projecting" radio show, broadcasted by Londons Resonance 104.4 fm on December 10th 2004. In these sessions MCIAA dont play their usual cosmic guitars, but only a couple of space toys & toy-microphones, plus a pocket theremin & mini-casio provided by Pinsent on the occasion; also featuring Pinsent himself at turntables. A different aspect of MCIAAs experimental research, as well as a new amazing adventure through the ether. Absolutely a key-document for all the fans of the band." -Opax |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Plutonian Flames Format: Double CDR Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
| "second edition; look-like-vinyl black-bottom cd-rs in heavy-cardboard gatefold sleeve, handpainted by Roberto Opalio. "These are four of the wildest sessions ever recorded by Italian space brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio at their famed Space Room in Torino, Italy. Cosmic guitar whirls and piano-toy action alongside a tribal, compulsive percussion-set which makes their space drones shake the air the way Xenakis would have made if he ever had directed a primitive tribe from another galaxy. If you never considered Pluto as one of your favourite hangouts, the 85 minutes of "Plutonian flames" will definitely break you in." - Opax. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Sotto Le Stelle Format: One Sided LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $42.00 |
| "Special Art Edition of 100 copies ..... Art and etching (onto b side of LP) by Roberto Opalio. Three color screen-printed covers by Jared Phillips (from the band T/N/V) and the Self Esteem studios extreme crew!!! (Purple Vinyl )" - Lost Treasures Of The Underworld. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Speak, Alien, Speak! Format: Triple Cass Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $30.00 |
| "private edition of 60 handnumbered copies; in heavy cardboard with paisted artwork. "Entire session of one of the latest MCIAAs live killer performances, recorded at Feedback Festival in Dijon on September 29th, 2007. Split over 6 sides of C20 analog tape cassettes, the duos performance couldnt but draw inspiration by the name of the event, launching a massive attack of feedbacks from the highest spheres." - Opax. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Music for Phantoms Format: CDR+DVDR Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $26.00 |
| "private edition of 99 handnumbered copies; in heavy cardboard with paisted artwork + insert. "New project by Italian space-brothers improv duo My Cat Is An Alien, recorded in remote Western Alps in fall 2007. Forget all the space psychedelic textures... forget all sort of space toys... this is a totally different affair: this is haunted music created with wooden primitive instruments, distant echoes from the other dimension. A pagan ceremony to welcome winter. Stunning film by Roberto Opalio to introduce you to the reign of the phantoms." - Opax |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Roberto Opalio/ Maurizio Opalio Format: LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Limited edition of 300 copies packaged in heavy duty screenprinted jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Each side features a 20-minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the acclaimed My Cat Is An Alien. Both brothers were quiet about the inspiration for their tracks. Dig in and find your own meaning in the comfortable alien world of the Opalio space brothers." -Important |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/MATS GUSTAFSSON Title: Cosmic Debris, Vol.IV Split Format: LP/Artwork Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $135.00 |
| "Fourth volume in the ongoing "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records. This time the space improv duo from Torino, Italy, shares one side of the vinyl with Swedish radical saxophonist MATS GUSTAFSSON, whose twenty-year career boasts collaborations that range widely over the contemporary improvised music world, from masters of the free jazz such as Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, to famous members of the noise scene such as Thurston Moore, Jim ORourke, Yoshimi & Yamataka Eye among others. In every personal message exchange between MCIAA and Gustafsson, their own respective ALIEN FAITH! & PEACE & FIRE! mottos always occur, often combined by the artists themselves into new formulae & meanings: ALIEN FIRE! / PEACE & FAITH! / ALIEN PEACE! / FAITH & FIRE!. Needless to say dear gents, this is not a joke, yet each of these words combination assumes a deep rule in describing this new exciting adventure in the Cosmic Debris saga. In fact both artists tracks represent an exemplary encounter between open-minded artists, resolute in creating something to go beyond limits and their own goals too, looking for something truly alive and free: Peace & Fire! and Alien Faith! indeed. In his track I Have Not Set Any Time Limits For The Attempt Mats Gustafsson plays tenor and slide sax, weevil sax, and electronics. In MCIAAs Everything Burns Like Cosmic Debris the space brothers play astral and cosmic guitars, vocals, mouth harmonica, space toys and burning percussions. The five-volumes series "Cosmic Debris" features My Cat Is An Alien alongside Text Of Light, Steve Roden, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Loren Connors & his Haunted House band. Each record comes with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm proper canvas, with a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece, representing 100 different perspectives of a same subject related to My Cat Is An Aliens own cosmic imaginary." - Opax. Edition of 100. |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/PRAXINOSCOPE Title: For The Tears Of Land, Prayers From Outer Space Format: Double LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $35.00 |
| "Limited edition of 300 hand-numbered copies packaged in heavy duty screenprinted metallic ink jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. My Cat Is An Aliens new surprising master work is a concept-album split with their side project, Praxinoscope. As always, in a world full of compromises, MCIAA represent fierce independence and complete freedom. Take Robertos own words in the liner notes as the best introduction to this work: One day we realized it was no more possible to discern archaic art and post-modern art in our palette; it was clear that they were both reflected in the same hall of mirrors. In other words, alien art and archaic art are the same thing. All archaic art deals with death, sex, transcendence and Eternity. Were all living days suspended in the Void. The difference is in consciousness: this is real artists duty. Beyond and other than this, only oblivion." -Important |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/STEVE RODEN Title: Cosmic Debris, Vol.II Format: LP/Art Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $112.00 |
| "Second installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.II sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Californian visual and sound artist Steve Roden. What makes this collaborative release so peculiar is the natural interactive exchange occurred between the artists, and that came out from the concept behind the experience itself. Rodens contribution thus represents the unique experience of hearing him literally playing guitar chords. His first track, "E-bows and Rainbows", developes through the minimal and reiterated sound architecture of Rodens so-called possible landscapes, where singular source materials such as objects and field recordings are abstracted through electronic processes to generate new audio spaces, characterizing the artists aesthetic in sound works; the following "My dog is a Yufo" is so far a pretty unheard aspect of Rodens ability to shape a fascinating intimate piece only with an old electric guitar and his own fingers, and it also demonstrates how a true artist can re-create his own personal universe, no matter what kind of source utilized. On their side, MCIAA deliver another piece of cosmic debris, centered on multilayered echoes of voice, toy piano, space drones raising from a distant horizon, and their own physical gestures performed during the recording, which reproduce themselves through the air, re-play and give birth to echoes of real time that overcomes its own essence, becoming field recording itself, mirror and spectre of its immutability. Their track entitled "Everything waves like cosmic debris" also features Ramona Ponzinis Japanese bells contribution. The five-volumes series "Cosmic Debris" features My Cat Is An Alien alongside Text Of Light, Steve Roden, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Loren Connors & his Haunted House band. Each record comes with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm proper canvas, with a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece, representing 100 different perspectives of a same subject related to My Cat Is An Aliens own cosmic imaginary." -Opax |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/TEXT OF LIGHT Title: Cosmic Debris: Vol.I Format: LP/Art Label: Opax Country: Italy Price: $100.00 |
| "The first installment in the new Cosmic Debris split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. Volume One sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and his all-star ensemble Text Of Light (this time featuring Alan Licht, DJ Olive, Ulrich Krieger and Tim Barnes). Their track "033103 Paris" has been recorded live at Centre Georges Pompidou in 2003 and mixed in dual mono by Ranaldo & Licht at NYC Echo Canyon studio in 2004. MCIAAs piece entitled "Everything Falls Like Cosmic Debris" is a conceptual overture to the whole series, performed in April 2006 at their secret recording space called Alien Zone, located up the Italian Western Alps. Each record comes with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm proper canvas, with a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece, representing 100 different perspectives of a same subject related to My Cat Is An Aliens own cosmic imaginary. Limited edition of 100 copies." |
| Artist:MY CAT IS AN ALIEN/VALERIO COSI Title: Stories From The Vacuum Format: 7" Label: Black Horizons Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
| "A truly ethereal pairing from Italy. While MCIAA has already established a massive offering in all formats, this 7-inch is VALERIO COSOs first vinyl appearance proper. His side is dominated by free jazz sax loops and trance vocals, with moments of twinkling percussion and electronic euphoria. An amalgamation of improv styles pulled off in a way only Valerio can. On the flip is a beautiful example of the lush guitar ambiance, wordless vocals, and alien space toy sound effects that the OPALIO brothers are known for. Gold ink offset printing on metallic vellum, clear vinyl with gold ink on white pro-printed labels. Edition of 500." -Black Horizons. |
| Artist:MY WHOLE HAND WAS WET Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "A poop stained, pajama wearing Mark E. Smith molested by the Muppet Babies would be a treat compared to this pile of rubbed rhubard crap. Skipping glitches massage the mundane into your palm(fair tempered crawl unit coaxing strangulated beatoffs grandeur), while the first dose of mutilated pop improv invokes flailing limpness in the vein of Costes and Mens Recovery Project. This wouldve fit uncomfortably onto the superb "I Hate The Pop Group" or "Killed By Death Swingalongamuck" comps. You wanna get wet? Northen California has never been so amused and constipated. Limited to 100 copies on white w/gold marble vinyl. Two variant covers, randomly chosen." - Weird Forest. Same label as Klondike & York, D Yellow Swans, etc.. |
| Artist:MY WHOLE HAND WAS WET Title: Docking Format: CDR Label: Cherried-Out Merch Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "After spending the day in a room with no light watching Golden Girls and Starting Over mix VHS-tapes all day, Sacramento, CAs MWHWW transforms into a horrible manic barf-troll gurgling starkly and proudly while fighting with water-proof radios and skipping cds. This is truly something special and unique. With artwork by Mr. My Whole Hand himself, its packaging is printed COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT in a jewel case w/ an 8-page booklet and tray card and a silk-screened disk. Edition of 100. " - Cherried-Out Merch. |
| Artist:MYELIN SHEATHS Title: Do the Mental Twist Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Yet another Canadian entry in HoZacs new batch, Lethbridge (about 100 miles south of Calgary), Albertas MYELIN SHEATHS have boldly thrust themselves forward and erupt here with an incredibly powerful debut 7-inch featuring blistering production that jumps out of the grooves, and a wall of noise/pop vocals that sends chills down your spine and raises all hairs unshaven. As each song contained within offers up a thundering blast of icy guitars and pulse-pounding rhythms, each more intense than the last, Myelin Sheaths have found a perfect platform to desecrate the chill and melt the frozen wilderness around them. The endlessly reverberated dual male/female vocals blend together on the B-sides "Drugstore Pharmacy" so well that you can feel the sky open up and suck you straight into heaven, as it washes away the troubles clouding your weary consciousness. Like if someone plugged the entire C86 sound into a fried-out supergenerator, Myelin Sheaths have the potential to skyrocket straight to the top of your list of new favorites." - Horizontal Action. |
| Artist:MYERS, RICK & MATT KREFTING Title: Three Days Format: Book Label: Gladtree Press Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| "Wunderkind production, created in a whirlwind of laboratory activity in early September, 06. Material is object, as our two experimental scientists submit paper to a number of inventive processes: steaming, crushing, inking, tearing, wetting, etc. The results are here collected in a series of beautiful ditigal prints that are immediate and yet obscure, good for a breezey stroll or intensive investigation alike. 8 pages, 5x6.75in, w/ hand-sewn binding. Edition of 300." - Gladtree Press. |
| Artist:MÜLLER, WOLFGANG & NAMOSH/FRIEDER BUTZMANN Title: Die Schuld Struktur & Er ist ein Punkstar/Er ist ein Guru Format: 7" Label: Monitor Pop Country: Germany Price: $6.00 |
| "This standout 7" features Wolfgang Müller, Namosh & Frieder Butzmann of Ingenious Dilletants fame. Wolfgang Müller, mastermind of Die Tödliche Doris, is joined here by Berlin electro punk diva Namosh. Sound designer / collector Frieder Butzmann amplifies his salad spinner and kicks ass in minimalistic 1979 style. Very authentic! Ddition of 500 copies, in handmade and numbered silk-screened cover." - Monitor Pop |
| Artist:MYSTERIOUS BLUE SOUPS OF THE SOUTH Title: Format: CDR Label: Audiobot Country: Belgium Price: $13.00 |
| "Some soups are best eaten boiling hot. This soup comes close to being stripped naked, smeared with goose fat and feathers in a far off southern bar. Someone vomits down your neck and swings your nutsack across the room. Its just like trading braincells for amphetamine, a joyous almost cheerful adventure into the bowl prepared by Dylan Nyoukis and friends. Eerie sounds from forgotten times, starring the radioactive behemoth and the voluptuary nobbler to drink you under the table. Burying bears with melting feedback cheese. Its a downward spiral of flammable gas under pressure that sets your hips straight against the wall. No cowboy dramas or desert road plasma, but a dismembered spirit shuffling among the autumn leafs. As with the teeth of lions you know the time has come to testify. Halfway through youre one step away of leaving for vacation without your slippers. Anybody. A dizzy maelstrom of home recorded freenoise blatter. Chants crawl into the mix accompanied by childlike instruments for an en-garde slaughter fest with the four horsemen. The implied honor-like atmosphere is swept aside in favor of party time on a sunken submarine. A sinister force holds the soup in its power, evoking spirits too intense for average living rooms. Now suppose what could have happened when the Arthurian Knights would have exchanged their magical potions for a sip of the mysterious blue soups of the south ? Be a slug in a saloon and join the acid bikers cult. Fold out covers with obi-strip designed and screenprinted by Janus Prutpuss (covers for Quetzal, Trumans Water, Starfish Pool, Sickboy, Stifled Cries and lets not forget the tons of sweat for Prutpuss and Rotkop) with the kind help of Knust – Nijmegen." - Audiobot. |
| Artist:MYSTIC UMBRELLAS, THE Title: Langton Freemans Summer House Tomb Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "The Mystic Umbrellas made their debut in 1980 on the Deleted Records tape Deleted Funtime with the ethereal, drifting keyboard composition Journey To The West. Compared then to the work of Popul Vuh and The Residents, the pieces meandering mournfulness won admirers, and an album-length release was recorded and planned, but did not come together. Now, over twenty years later, the rediscovered tapes of the lost album have been remastered and remixed for release on the Waterden label. As well as Journey to the West, the album features a suite of five pieces inspired by an eccentric 18th century Northamptonshire parson who decreed in his will that he should be buried on his feather bed in a summer-house in his garden. The story of Langton Freemans Summer-House Tomb is evoked by the gentle, wistful and also faintly eerie sounds of Mark Valentines reed-organ compositions, considerably enhanced by Mark Lancasters sympathetic production. So bid the butler fetch a pot of Earl Grey and a slice of Madeira cake, pull the overstuffed leather armchair up to the study fire and settle back to enjoy what may be the first ever Antiquarian/Chillout crossover album..." - Waterden. |
| Artist:MYSTICAL FOOTPRINTS OF ASIA/ZAAT Title: Split Format: LP Label: Nauscopy Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Enchanting finds from Asian & Arabic 78s on one side, spastic ludicrous treble-y punk from Nova Scotia on the other (kinda like Neos or Larm, with a keyboard!). Cloth & spraypaint stencil on the covers. Full color insert. Beautiful! Blue vinyl" - Nauscopy. |
| Artist:MYTHICAL BEAST Title: Scales Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Yellow/black-speckled vinyl. Vinyl edition of this nomadic psych-soul trios beloved 2008 studio debut, released on CD on Greg Weeks (of Espers) Language of Stone label. This edition has swank glossy jackets, plus an 11x11 pro-printed insert, on colored vinyl. One time pressing of 500." -Not Not Fun |