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| Artist: ALU Title: Autismenschen Format: CD Label: C.I.P. Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Alu was a seminal German synth-punk band active 1979-83. This CD is their unreleased first studio album from 1980. For those to whom Alu is a new name, comparable audio would be Suicide, Throbbing Gristle (circa 20 Jazz Funk Greats), Esplendor Geometrico, or Algebra Suicide, not to mention myriad electronic German bands who existed concomitant to Alu and have enjoyed recent reissues of their own, including Phonophobia, Die Todlich Doris, and Thorax-Wach. Labels with similar artists include Zick Zack and Twisted Knister. Alu was born from the ashes of the seminal project Sand, whose releases were issued a few years ago through the persistence and passion of David Tibet. Not coincidentally, David Tibet also provided liner notes for this release. This release comes with a booklet of lyrics (in German), photos, plus a short biography (in English) of the band." - C.I.P. |
| Artist: DEMONS/VERTONEN Title: Split Format: LP Label: C.I.P. Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Demons is the synth duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steven Kenney (Isis, Werewolves). Their track was recorded live in Chicago in March 2007 and its like an underwater space journey. The Vertonen side is the atmospheric opposite, like an out of control fire scorching the chaparral. Edition of 500, co-released by the lovely SNSE." - C.I.P. |
| Artist: WICKHAM-SMITH, SIMON Title: Two 4 Dancin Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $14.50 |
| "The latest from prolific musical explorer SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH, and one of his most out-of-left-field releases to date. Two 4 Dancin shows Wickham-Smith at his grandest, as his music explodes at the seams with wonderfully resonant contradictions with exquisite textures capable of blissfully enveloping daily life and driving ones neighbors batty. An infinite block-rocking beat melts into deep transparency, revealing a subterranean omniverse of Casiotone mantras, silicon chip psalms, and the mystical babbling of angels and derelict gutter drunks. Think Steve Reich, 50 Cent, and a Buddhist throat-singing Devo." - C/Psi/P. |
| Artist: KNEALE, CAMPBELL Title: Pink Stalingrad Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "Imagine... a SOLO album! Some kind of loose-as-hell rumination on human tragedy of a magnitude beyond imagining. Take the everlasting, golden-superchord of Birchville Cat Motel, the growling tectonic, under-par riffage of Black Boned Angel, and the Burzum-o-phonic, cassette-left-on-the-dashboard fidelity disruption of Ming. A white-knuckled ride through snow and smoke and blood and fire. SHOSTAKOVICH!" - C/Psi/P. |
| 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: BIRCHVILLLE CAT MOTEL+A. COURTIS Title: Three Sparkling Echoes Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $16.50 |
| "Stars align in mysterious configurations. And then again, sometimes they dont...they just hang in the sky like some kinda sulky, hyper-nuclear mall-rat. I personally have had the misfortune of missing the company of ANLA COURTIS on tour on at least four different occasions...always either one week too early or too late. Three Sparkling Echoes mirrors these frustrated mis-meetings. Yearning and elusive...like two people who should know each other really well, but who just never had time. Ghosts in your peripheral vision, fleeting reflections in car paintwork, and blackening clouds that billow into grimacing bunnies only to be blown out of recognition. A deep, resonating, heaviness no more graspable than the shimmer of wet cobwebs. Moving stuff."-Campbell Kneale, BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, et al. |
| Artist: CAEDMON Title: Caedmon Format: LP Label: Caedmon Country: Price: $26.00 |
| Gray area repro of the 1st Caedmon album, originally issued in 1978. Previously reissued by Background. "This Scottish outfit released their sole LP in 1978. Considered one of the greatest and rarest psych/folk LPs ever released, it features bongos, female vocals, mandolin & crazed fuzz attacks. Comes with nice insert featuring all the lyrics and some cool artwork." |
| Artist: SNYDER, DOUG & BOB THOMPSON Title: Daily Dance Format: LP Label: Cantor Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
| "Daily Dance is a genuinely unique artifact from rural Ohio; a mythical frenzy of distorted guitar and improvised drums creating walls of psychedelic noise. Originally released in 1973, its sound is unparalleled for its time and precedes its closest kin, New Yorks no-wave explosion, by a solid 5 years. They generate waves of energy through cascading feedback squall and drumbo bash and shimmer. A few tracks will start with something vaguely resembling a groove, before they quickly deteriorate into their lonely Buckeye din. - Dante Carfagna. Cantor Records is proud to make Daily Dance available on vinyl for the first time in 35 years. Daily Dance was remastered from the original tapes, pressed at RTI, and is lavishly packaged with a heavy Stoughton paste-on jacket, informative Obi/U-Card, and an extensive 20-page booklet of liner notes. RIYL: Fushitshusha, Dead C, The Stooges, Velvet Underground." -Cantor. Finally available again after the now out of print 1998 CD reissue. Highly recommended! |
| 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: MIRRORS Title: Real State Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $13.50 |
| Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: Save The Dogs And Wolves Format: 7" Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
| a/k/a MYSTERY PEOPLE. 7" originally included in Captain Trips amazing Ya Ho Wha Box set. Limited to 300 copies. |
| Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: God And Hair Format: 13 CD Box Set Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $120.00 |
| "2nd edition now available. No longer comes w/ the original oversize box or booklet, but priced at a much lower price. This 13 CD box set collects the complete available recordings of 70s cult rockers from CA, Ya Ho Wha 13. Led by the late Father Yod, who supposedly died in a hang-gliding accident in the late 70s(?), Ya Ho Wha 13 released numerous LPs (and at least one 8-Track) on their own Higher Key label in the mid-70s. Only distributed locally at the time, some of these have been reissued in psuedo-legit (or outright bootleg) fashion in the UK over the last decade (although more recent Swordfish releases are fully authorized), but have never been widely available. These records epitomize the insanity of highly-personalized psychedelic exploration via the fringes of rock music and its subsequent private documentation better than anything else produced by the human race to date. Tribal-acid pound from the familys key group members (Djinn, guitar; Sunflower, bass; Octavius, drums) and freakish vocal output from Yod himself, wailing away on top like the king of the universe. The exact number of of Ya Ho Wha albums has never been clearly specified until now, but this incredible box set appears to put them all in place, plus a few CDs worth of unreleased material. This new edition features a wooden box with wax seal, with the 13 discs contained in 3 plastic cases. Its not as deluxe as the original packaging (which had 13 separate jewel case editions -- but that was for "then," this is for "now." The music still represents the ultimate in the weird & insane world of private press psychedelic documentation, not to be missed. Contains the following albums: 1) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76: Kohoutek (the debut release on Higher Key from 1973). 2) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76: Contraction (1974). 3) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRT OF 76: Expansion (1974). 4) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76:All Or Nothing At All (1974, with 4 bonus 7" tracks). 5) YAHOWA 13 (1974, with two bonus 7" tracks). 6) YAHOWA 13: Savage Sons of Yahowa (1974). 7) YAHOWA 13: Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony (1974, the masterpiece, one of the 25 most destroyed rock records of all time for sure!). 8) YAHOWHA 13: Im Gonna Take You Home (1974, again! & and another monster record; lets not forget Gregg Breths words from the past -- after all, his copies were handed to him by wisdom: The ultimate acid album there is. Insane vocals and screaming, 100% twisted guitar and total permeated feeling of being completely fucked up! This album is the epitome of the term acid.). 9) YAHOWA 13: To The Principles For The Children (1974-75). 10) FIRE, WATER, AIR: Golden Sunrise (1977, the 8-track only release). 11) YODSHIP (undated, showed up as a UK boot/legit issue a few years ago; classic acid-folk floatation/chant from Osirus & Sunlight with the brothers and sisters). 12) VA: Related Singles (featuring Sky Saxon on most tracks). 13): VA: Unreleased Materials (jamming post-Yod psych from Djinn, Sunflower, Octavius, etc., with Sky Saxon on some tracks)." |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Electrocon Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $23.50 |
| ""Recorded in 1980-1981. Previously unreleased full album, 14 tracks. With special paper sleeve. Digital remaster version, limited 1,000 copies!! " - Captain Trip. |
| Artist: KLUSTER Title: Klopfzeichen Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
| "New, very limited versions of these seminal Krautrock albums. Special puffy plastic packaging thats actually pretty impressive! There are no "regular" editions of these albums in print at the moment, either. "Originally released by Schwann, 1971 & re-issued by Schwann, 1980, Hypnotic, 1996 & Think Progressive, 1998. In limited edition miniature plastic LP cover with a multi fold-out repro of original album insert. Includes additional track by Schnitzler, Seidel & Freudigmann, 1971. With Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, Christa Runge, Sprecherin, Wolfgang Seidel & Klaus Freudigmann." Digital remaster + Miniature LP Jacket Series." - Captain Trip. |
| Artist: KLUSTER Title: Zwei-Osterei Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
| "New, very limited versions of these seminal Krautrock albums. Special puffy plastic packaging thats actually pretty impressive! There are no "regular" editions of these albums in print at the moment, either. "Originally released by Schwann, 1971 & re-issued by Schwann, 1980, Hypnotic, 1996 & Think Progressive, 1998. In limited edition miniature plastic LP cover with a multi fold-out repro of original album insert. Includes additional track by Schnitzler, Seidel & Freudigmann, 1971. With Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, Manfred Paethe, Sprecher, Wolfgang Seidel & Klaus Freudigmann." Digital remaster + Miniature LP Jacket Series." - Captain Trip. |
| Artist: S.Y.P.H. Title: S.Y.P.H. Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $19.00 |
| "Classic German abrasion, originally released on the Pure Freude label. First album this by group, later produced by Holger Czukay." - FE. "Original was released in 1980. German punk/new wave group. Remastered by Pyrolator." |
| Artist: DER PLAN Title: Japlan Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $19.00 |
| Japanese-only CD reissue of what was originally a Japanese-only LP in the 80s, issued in support of a Der Plan tour. "Der Plan is a German music art group who is running an independent label Ata Tak. The original LP was released only in Japan in 1985. Including 12" EP track, 2 unreleased tracks. Japan only." - Captain Trip. |
| Artist: ZWEISTEIN Title: Trip Flip Out Meditation Format: Triple CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $82.00 |
| "First ever CD reissue of one of the most extreme Krautrock-era albums ever made. Originally released by Philips Germany in 1970, the triple LP edition came in an elaborate mirror sleeve and has been near-impossible to find for 35+ years; there have been a handful of suggested reissues over the years, but finally Captain Trip has brought it to fruition, in collaboration with founding member Suzanne Doucet. Incredible fold out packaging emulates the original, with front embossing and silver-foil printing on the quadruple fold-out jacket. Zweistein were a trio of Jacques Dorian, Suzanne Doucet and Diane Doucet. This perfectly done reissue (including 2 bonus tracks from their single at the end of disc 3) is heavily anticipated." - FE. "Musically, Trip, Flip Out, Meditation is largely a sound collage containing massive amounts of studio effects wizardry. Listeners are bombarded with an hour and forty-six minutes (106 minutes) worth of effects-laden voices, natural sounds, electronic effects, organ, guitar, drums and other instruments. The side-long compositions are virtually strewn together avant-garde improvisations in which anything goes. It is this fact which acts as a catch 22 and splits the Krautrock fan base into two factions. First there are those who hail the album as a masterpiece due to its avant-garde nature, wild approach, and inherent reference to a drug trip. Then there are those who pass the album off as a complete timewaster due to its evident amateur musicianship, lack of direction and avant-garde nature." - Doug Brotherton. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: ANGELBLOOD Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
| "Featuring Rita Ackermann, And Lizi Dark (Gang Gang Dance) and Jesses band. All 3 members play drums, guitar, bass and sing. Like lo-fi Shaggs sound from wood. Recorded in 1999. Only Japan release." - Captain Trip. Restocked for the first time in a few years. |
| Artist: ANGELBLOOD Title: Masses Of Daggers Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
| "3 womens sivour mysterious punk! They are GTOS in the present age!?" - Captain Trip. Restocked for the first time in a few years, the second release. Features Liz, Tim and Brian from Gang Gang Dance, Dave Nuss of NNCK, Rita Ackerman and Jess Holzworth. |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER & WOLF SEQUENZA, CONRAD Title: Consequenz Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Early Self-Product Series. Collaboration with Wolf Sequenza (ex. Kluster-Eruption) in 1980. The original LP was pressed as 500 copies. Including previously-unreleased bonus tracks. 2008 digital remaster version with stickered paper sleeve, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Contemporary Suicide Music Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $27.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 500 copies in 1981. Including bonus tracks made at the same time. 2008 digital remaster version with stumped paper sleeve, miniature newspaper and debossed paper, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Context Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "This is a reissue of a cassette release on Transmitter Casseten in 1981. Sound materials for Schnitzlers street performance! Including one unreleased bonus track. 2008 digital remaster version with special paper sleeve. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Convex Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 500 copies in 1982. Including 6 bonus tracks from the Container cassette. 2008 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same as the original. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: 1.7.84 Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 222 copies and sold by mail order in 1984. Including 11 bonus tracks from the same time. 2008 digital remaster version with print + stumped paper sleeve, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD & GREGOR Title: Conrad & Sohn Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Great split album by Conrad Schnitzler and his son, Gregor Schnitzler! The original LP was pressed 500 copies in 1981. Includes previously unreleased bonus tracks by Gregor. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Control Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Recorded between 1978 and 1981. Non-keyboard electronics! The original LP was released on DYS records, an American independent label in 1981. Includes 14 tracks from T5 cassette materials. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve + miniature insert, same as the original. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Con 85 Format: Double CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $34.00 |
| "The original was released as a double cassette on Transmitter Cassetten in 1985. Includes 52 tracks on 2 CDs. 2009 digital remaster version with special gate-fold paper sleeve. First time released on CD. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Concert Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was released in 1986. Includes 3 bonus tracks from same time. Cover art design: Matt Howarth. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER & WOLF SEQUENZA, CONRAD Title: Consequenz II Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The second release of the collaboration with Wolf Sequenza (ex. Kluster-Eruption) in 1986. The original LP was released on Discos Esplendor Geometrico, a great Spanish industrial label. Including 6 unreleased tracks as bonus. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
| Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Congratulacion Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Recorded in 1986. The original LP was released on Discos Esplendor Geometrico in 1988. Including 6 unreleased tracks as bonus. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
| Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Seconds Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Four new tracks of Blankdoggica. Silkscreened sleeves." -Captured Tracks. New release on Mike Blank Dogs label. |
| Artist: DUM DUM GIRLS Title: S/T Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Debut vinyl release by lone girl making noisey pop in vein of Shop Assistants, Marine Girls and Black Tambourine. Silkscreened sleeves." -Captured Tracks. New release on Mike Blank Dogs label. Repressed! |
| Artist: WOODS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "WOODS are a real band. These are two of two of their best songs." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
| Artist: BRILLIANT COLORS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "girl trio, like LiLiPUT meets K! Records-style. Their 2nd 7". You have the first on Make a Mess, right? The best." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
| 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: BITTERS Title: Wooden Glove Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Bitters are the Cave Pop stars of the future.." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
| Artist: BLESSURE GRAVES Title: Learn To Love The Rope Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Doomsday duo make it to the large format." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
| Artist: BEETS, THE Title: Spit In The Face Of People Who Dont Want To Be Cool Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers label (Blank Dogs). "Debut twelve-track LP from these proud sons of Jackson Heights, Queens. Sprung from seemingly nowhere to playing constantly in Brooklyn. Shades of Los Mockers, Chicos Electricos, pre 65 Stones, early Ramones and Shimmy-Disc era Daniel Johnston. I saw these guys almost start a riot at a Fashion Week event and then proceed to party down with Mickey Rourke. Absolutely amazing. Beautiful full-color sleeve by Matt Volz." - Caputured Tracks. |
| Artist: GARY WAR Title: Opens Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Live at WFMU, 2/6/09. |
| Artist: GERMAN MEASLES Title: Demos Sorry Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Eight tracks of killer Bartlebees/Pooh Sticks-esque party pop from these Brooklyn goofballs. Strictly limited to 300 copies, this is one of the few Captured Tracks releases that will not stay in print. All 300 copies will be hand colored by the GERMAN MEASLES and their goofy friends. None of these recordings will appear on their forthcoming LP and only about half the songs will not be re-recorded for the LP. Featuring 2/4ths of CAUSE CO-MOTION! and 2/4ths of BEACHNIKS." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: KID ROMANCE Title: Funk Punx Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two ultra-shambolic, lo-fi cuts from fresh-faced Massachusetts maniacs. This is the good stuff-dropouts, tape hiss, bad attitude and catchy songs. Packaged in an oversized envelope (a la Mayfair Set) with one of three Polaroid reproductions affixed to the front. Deluxe packaging at an economy price." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: ROMAN SOLDIERS Title: Warmer/Yuppie Fires Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two new tracks from this gloomy-lo-fi supergroup. Mister Blank Dogs and Mister Gary War collaborate on fuzzy, bad-dream almost-pop. Two tracks, color sleeve and color insert." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: LITTLE GIRLS Title: Youth Tunes Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Canadian lo-fi creepazoids fuck about and blow minds. Fresh from their releases on Paper Bag and Mexican Summer and blog buzz, these manaics yet again deliever the goods. Two tracks, black and white sleeve." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: BEETS Title: Dont Fit In My Head Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Jackson Heights favorite sons make good and make their first recording in a real real studio. All the snarly, bratty fun of the LP with a newfound clarity and confidence. Stormer A-Side, sad-sack B-side. Full color sleeve, insert and labels featuring all of your favorite wrestling superstars, superheros and naked ladies with artwork by Matt Volz (The Fall) " - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: BRILLIANT COLORS Title: Brilliant Colors Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The out-of-print Make A Mess 7 inch coupled with the also out-of-print Captured Tracks 7 inch. San Franciscos indie-pop titans begin their world takeover here. One exclusive new track. This will be around forever but get it before anyone else does. Black and white reverse board sleeve." - Captured Tracks |
| 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: TEENAGE PANZERKORPS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Icy post-punky songs with barked Germanic vocals. Three great tracks. Freaky color insert. These guys (also known as DER TPK) have also put out killer records on Stiltbreeze." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: GRASS WIDOW Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Four new Grass Widow tracks including a cover of the Urinals "Black Hole." I cant gush enough about this band, but please pick up the LP on Make-A-Mess. The influence of The Moves bass sound and arrangements, 60s folk-rock vocal harmonies and the Neo Boys are present in the works, plus a whole magic power they have all their own. Thats right: magic power. Magick?" - Captured Tracks |
| Artist: GARY WAR Title: Galactic Citizens Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Six new songs of homespun psychedelic pop." - Captured Tracks |
| Artist: OH SEES, THEE Title: Dog Poison Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "We are proud to put out a full-length record by the prolific Oh Sees, and boy, is this one a monster. More layered and textural than previous Oh Sees releases while keeping all the typical Dwyer punch, oomph and weirdness. 10 fantastic new songs, terrifying pencil-drawn sleeve. Our second LP release, and we couldnt be more pleased with it." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: OH SEES, THEE Title: Dog Poison Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "We are proud to put out a full-length record by the prolific Oh Sees, and boy, is this one a monster. More layered and textural than previous Oh Sees releases while keeping all the typical Dwyer punch, oomph and weirdness. 10 fantastic new songs, terrifying pencil-drawn sleeve. Our second LP release, and we couldnt be more pleased with it." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: BEETS Title: Spit On The Face Of People Who Dont Want To Be Cool Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The instant classic Beets LP, now available on the popular "CD" format. The songs you love, available for listening to in cars, shower radios, etc. These guys are currently blazing their way across the States on the "Nightmare of Sound" tour with the Vivian Girls. (Check out the promotional tour video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rTvnBG-gO8) The inlay and disc contain all new Matt Volz artwork, featuring even more professional wrestling, blood and disrespect for people who dont want to be cool." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: GANGLIANS Title: Blood On The Sand Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "If you liked the 12" EP and LP by these Sacramento weird-poppers, then youll love this, their first non-split 7". Two equally amazing tracks, and in our opinion, two of their best." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: BITTERS Title: East Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "East" is the next installment of the Bitters story. Featuring Ben Cook of Fucked Up/Young Governor and the great voice of Aerin Fogel, The Bitters "cave pop" is doomy as it is infectious. Coming live soon to a theatre near you." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: GERMAN MEASLES Title: Wild Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Out of control, drugged up, fucked up madness from Brooklyns premiere party freaks. Almost the polar opposite of this springs cassette release - these songs are confident, insane and beautifully recorded by Gary Olson. Some sort of funky mix of The Soup Dragons, Black Randy, Protex and The Fall had they recorded for Bhudda. All the subtlety of Sonny Bono trying to barge his way into a restaurant while wearing a fur vest. Features 2/4ths of the legendary Cause Co-Motion!" - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: SPECTRALS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "A young British man named L. single handedly produced this dreamy, Sonic Flower Groovy fuzz-pop stomper, although it sounds like it could have been recorded at Gold Star in 1965 for release on Creation in 1985. Two tracks, one million hooks. Were really proud to be putting this out in anticipation of a 2010 Captured Tracks LP." - Captured Tracks |
| Artist: CHRISTMAS ISLAND Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two song seven inch about the pits and perils of ages Nineteen and Twenty-Nine, respectively. Part Flying Nun, part Bubblegum. This coincides with a fantastic upcoming LP release on In The Red. One of our favorite bands." - Captured Tracks |
| Artist: GIRLS AT DAWN Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Right on the the heels of their debut 7" on HoZac comes this 4-song 12" EP. Drawing from post-punk, psychedelic and 60s pop influences, these three girls from Brooklyn make haunting melodies bridged with there/not-there ghostly arrangements." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: LED ER EST Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Lunatic, freak-synth, perfect for gritting your teeth and flipping out in those chilly months." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: As Above So Below Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "A new six-track EP by this current NYC live staple. Eerie and experimental electronic pop from former members of SOILED MATTRESS & THE SPRINGS and CAR CLUTCH. Recent full-length album released by PPM." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: WILD NOTHING Title: Summer Holiday Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Emotive and well-crafted hazey pop from a 21-year old Virginian named Jack Tatum. His penchant for wistful melodies and full, gorgeous arrangements show a talent thats not just another bedroom pop one-man band. Debut LP on Captured Tracks coming next year." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: VERONICA FALLS Title: Found Love In A Graveyard Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "So this is what the afterlife looks like for the teenage bedroom-buried, cassette-tape entombed legacy of C86, now possessing a new generation of beautiful bookworms after its initial believers let slip their hopeful dreams of forever – a little more world-worn and ghostly palloured than its precursor but clutching the same cosy, sunday morning pop sensibility to its chest all the same. “Found Love In A Graveyard” by Londons sore-hearted collectors of all things group harmonised and unrequitedly in love VERONICA FALLS sees the rosy-cheeked, cardigan chaste pinup of countless 7” single sleeves ago revisited twenty years on and we find her in a strange state – powerlessly possessed in a torn wedding dress, tearing flowers to pieces by the grave of some morbidly handsome beau who jilted her for another world altogether. You get the feeling shell pull through though, and by the time the chorus (a real, dead-raising miracle of a chorus no less) drops, the declaration of “Im Broken Hearted” sounds less the weepy drivel of a person driven to distraction and more a declaration of empowerment and pride. Youve got to suffer to sing the blues, or something like that." -Transparent. |
| Artist: DIGNAN PORCH Title: On A Ride Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "A brief burst of sweetly melancholic garage pop reminding me of some mid-90s MTV vibe back when it had weird lo-fi videos in the AM that would kind of stick in your brain, or perhaps it was just me being easily susceptible at the time. Anyway, this new London band reminds me fondly of many things from the era, as well as having something of a more psychedelic Skygreen Leopards air to it. Definitely one to keep an eye out for." - Dont Die Wandering |
| Artist: WETDOG Title: Lower Leg Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Wetdog have a new 7" out called Lower Leg this week which is great. I immediately I get bits of The Slits and The Raincoats. Well this is far from cocks. Its great spiky pop music which sounds like its falling to bits but it somehow manages to stay in one piece relatively unscathed. Its a fantastic pop tune bursting with energy and Im already in my fifth spin... I will not leave this tune alone. Total single of the week if I ever heard one!!!" -Norman Records |
| Artist: BEACHNIKS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Four songs about the summer delivered to you in the early winter. Fuzzy bubblegum 4-track pop. Features members of Crystal Stilts and German Measles. Poster sleeve. Poster life. "The Worst Dressed Band in New York." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Across The Sea Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Im getting majorly sore cheeks from grinning and top tapping to these freewheelin bung pop gems from Sachsen, Germany, while being simultaneously amazed at how they explode in rich technicolour with such a full sound - fried guitar licks, cheery vocal squeaks and twinkling xylophone runs - but are largely the work of one guy named Oliver Scharf. I found Oliver through his Zac Efron-channeling solo project Male Models, but soon learnt it was just "a one afternoon project" - and that his other moniker Hanoi Janes will be used for all future musical forays, along with a couple of pals banging some drums from time to time." -Rose Quartz |
| Artist: COSMETICS Title: Soft Skin Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Cosmetics are a two piece from Vancouver, BC. Their music is made for dancing, and with feeling and attention to the details. Their trip is sleek and synthetic meets human emotion. Cosmic glamour meets do-it-yourself. Voice and a rhythm. Frosty tropics and hazy nites. Love on the beat. Nic M and Aja Emma formed Cosmetics in Summer 2008, the first band for both of them. In 2009 they put together the Tuff Trax 8-track studio in their home where they work on sound and visuals every day. Cosmetics is their lifestyle. "Soft Skin" is a bonechillingly cold track with an irresistable beat." - Captured Tracks. |
| Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: Hymn For The Crippled Mulatto Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brothers Harley. kicks ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis]" - Carbon. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Women Taken In Adultery Format: CD Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "a great compilation of heaviness/drone/noise/out sounds co-released with Glasvocht (Belgium). features Random reflections (Belgium), Noxagt (Norway, band of guitar anti-hero Kjetil D Brandsdal), Loren Connors (USA, legendary artist known from projects with Jim O Rourke, Alan Licht, John Fahey and much more), Flies Inside The Sun (New Zealand, including Peter Stapleton of the label Metonymic) and Lovely Midget (New Zealand, releases on Corpus Hermeticum en Ecstatic Peace of Thurston Moore)." - Carbon. |
| Artist: CARTER, TOM/SHAWN MCMILLEN Title: Colors For Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "10YR.Series.07 - the seventh in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. a beautiful collection of drones, tones and guitar magic. All of what you would expect from Tom Carter (of the Charalambides) and Shawn McMillen (Ash Castles On the Ghost Coast, Iron Kite) and more!" - Carbon. |
| Artist: COFFEE Title: Dik Mik Rabbitt Ear Antennae Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "10YR.Series.06 - the sixth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. almost a full hour of Coffee magic. consists of two live recordings from 1997 and 1998. includes the Coffee core of Dave Cross and Tim Poland, along with Brian Shafer (Nod), Phil Marshall, John Olsen (Wolf Eyes), Sticky Foster, Neil Campbell and Nuuj." - Carbon. |
| Artist: D YELLOW SWANS & JIM ALTIERI Title: Drowning Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "28+min of swelling and dro(w)ning guitar, glitched up blips and beeps, and ghostly vocal fragments. another amazing installment from D Yellow Swans, with help, this time, from Jim Altieri. connecting, connecting, connecting, click............." - Carbon. |
| Artist: PENGO Title: Alchemy and Bullshit Format: Double CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "a double CDR document of Pengos migration from a 3-piece out-spazz-noise group to 4-piece drone-psych-noise-rock group. recordings ranging from the 2001 Phi-Tour series, 2002 live and "studio" pieces (including a show with guests Dave Cross of Coffee, Ed Wilcox of Temple Bon Matin and Charles Leport of Hinkley/Finkbeiner/etc), thru pounding live 2003/2004 sets, much in the vein of current configuration. 2 black-bottom cdrs, glossy print insert, sealed in a 6"x8" silkscreened and spray painted chipboard mailer." - Carbon. |
| Artist: DOYLE, ARTHUR Title: No More Crazy Women Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "20 minutes of Arthur Doyles trademark vocalizations. recorded direct to cassette, this is a great vocal only recording from Arthur, to celebrate his recent mini-tour of the NorthEast US. [limited edition. packaging started as 3 4x4 paintings on 1/4" plywood. the pieces were then cut into 6"x6" boards that serve as the cover/carrier for the release.]" - Carbon. |
| Artist: V/A Title: I Dont Think the Dirt Belongs to the Grass Format: Triple CD Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "a year+ in the making, and originally slated for a 10YR celebration, this compilation is documentation of amazing people/artists ive worked with over the past, now, 12 years. it also started out as a double CD project, but with the growing list of people i wanted to involve, and the overwhelming volume of confirmations, i had to grow it to a triple CD (and even had to do some trimming to fit that format). the release is packaged in a standard-size DVD case, with a full-color cover, and holds the 3 CDs as well as a full-color card-stock insert. the dvd case is then housed in a natural-color cotton bag with single-color ink stamp art/logo. the sounds range from quiet ambient sounds, to meandering guitar work, to outsider rock, to full on noise, as well as a folk/pop track here and there. [limited edition of 500]" artists include: aaron rosenblum, andy gilmore,anla courtis, antony milton, asthmatic, autumn in halifax, blood and bone orchestra, blood stereo, carlos giffoni, carpentry, caustic solution, chad oliveiri, chris reeg,cock e.s.p., coffee,craig colorusso, crawlspace, crush the junta, the davenport family, dead machines, entente cordiale, foot and mouth disease, g55, gastric female reflex,heathen prayers, hilkka, hinkley, howard stelzer, irene moon, joe+n, john charlton, justice yeldman, keith fullerton whitman, lunt, mike shiflet, nancy garcia, neil campbell, pengo, phroq, pumice, rainbeaux, sindre bjerga, sindre bjerga / jan-m iversen, sq, taiwan deth, taurpis tula, the body, the north sea, thurston moore, and tinnitustimulus." - Carbon. |
| Artist: KAUFFMAN, NICOLAS & STEFAN NEVILLE Title: Owl Low Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "46+ minutes of acoustic guitar, bells, woodwinds, primitive percussion, patented PUMICE-style buzzing guitar, organ/keyboard, drone-vocals and more from Stefan Neville (aka PUMICE) and Nicolas Kauffman (part of FAMILY UNDERGROUND - Denmark) . recorded 2005 in a giant concrete room, this release is a fine companion to Stefan and Nicolas other recordings on various other labels such as Last Visible Dog, Soft Abuse, Audiobot, Chocolate Monk, QBICO, Into the Lunar Night). [packaged in hand-silkscreened cardboard cover in various colors]" - Carbon. |
| Artist: REEG & TUNIS Title: ....shhh... this is for Derek Bailey Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "recorded in the days and weeks after Derek Baileys death on xmas of 2005, the daughter/father duos of Ella and Joe Tunis and Ada and Chris Reeg, joined forces for this ultra-limited split lathe-cut release. Joe plays in Joe+N, Hilkka and used to be in Pengo. Chris plays in Blood and Bone Orchestra and Ian Downey is Famous. Together, they play in Crush the Junta, Entente Cordiale and Ada le O. the Tunis side is sparse acoustic guitar, vocals and running, while the Reeg side is overblown cymbals and keys. the duos also go together to create the covers. 3 seperate 2x4ft wood panels, painted, stamped, rubbed, scratched, sprayed, walked on, etc, and then cut into 7x7in squares. [7" lathe-cut. limited to 50 copies!!!!]" - Carbon. |
| Artist: SPACE DUST Title: First To The Future Format: LP Label: Carburetor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Artist: TOBRUK Title: Ad Lib Format: LP Label: Cash Box Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
| "Tobruk was formed by some North American guys living in Brazil, and this wonderful album got released in 1972 on the Cash Box label (sometimes you can see the album named as if Cash Box were its title). Its a pretty good psychedelic album with an astounding, original sound based in fuzz, organ, psychedelic effects and an eerie atmosphere. Its completely sung in English as well. With remastered sound." -Cash Box |
| Artist: WERREN, PHILIP Title: Electronic Music 1968-1971 Format: Double CD Label: Cast Exotic Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "Brand new CD reissue of an impossible to find early Canadian electronic 4xLP box by composer PHILLIP WERREN (only 100 copies where ever pressed of his early electronic work). Recorded at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), McGill University (Montreal) and Radio Warzawa (Poland) between 1967 and 1971. The album has heavy elements of tape collage, Modular Synthesis, voice, and experimental thought. Some of the pieces where conceived by psychedelic and occult influences. Much of the record was done with a Buchla System 100, the first of their modular synthesizers. Original cover artwork was created by local Vancouver Artist JAS Felter." |
| Artist: B.U.G. Title: Black Fire Format: Cass Label: Cast Exotic Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
| "Featured tighly edited unreleased recordings dating from 1996 to 1999. Classic Blown Out Noise Rock from Edmonton, (northwestern) Canada. Seriously fucked stuff. Sound sample on the web site. Features member of Staked Plain / former member of JOMF. Fans of Harry Pussy, early Chrome, Cromagnon, Black Flag, Brainbombs should dig. Breath the Fire!!!" -Cast Exotic |
| Artist: JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER Title: Europe 2002 Format: Double CD Label: Cast Exotic Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Cast Exotic Vol. 1 - Music For The Psyche-Eye Format: CD Label: Cast-Exotic Country: CANADA Price: $12.00 |
| New comp featuring Ashtray Navigations, Eyelickers, Metabolismus, Las Dirty Arcades, Outhern Acific+, Bushwick Trio , Brian Ruryk, Glands Of External Secretion, This Was Your House Until We Moved In, Terminal Waste Band, Tonalmotle, Kopfende and Staked Plain. Mastered By Scott Colburn at Gravelvoice in Seatttle, WA. Limited to 550."This compilation roams from modern psychedelia, sonic constructions and remnants of a no wave past." - Cast Exotic. |
| Artist: OH SEES, THEE /TY SEGALL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "A new single split between two of San Franciscos hottest acts. THEE OHSEES deliver a cover of TY SEGALLs "The Drag," followed by Segall, who offers his take on Thee Ohsees "Maria Stacks." Limited edition of 1,000 copies." - Castle Face. |
| Artist: OH SEES, THEE Title: Hounds of Foggy Notion Format: LP + DVD Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "A brilliant live performance collaboration between THEE OH SEES and video director BRIAN LEE HUGHES. Filmed and recorded, not on stages, but at a variety of hauntingly scenic sites in and around San Francisco. The LP features the audio recordings, the DVD features the performances along with dozens of stories, jokes and whatnots filmed during their four-day filming adventure." -Castle Face |
| Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: Debut Format: LP Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The groups self-titled debut full-length album strikes a balance between the psych-fried blur of the California sun and an amp-crackling, four-chorded garage basher."-Chris Sabbath/SF Chronicle. |
| Artist: METABOLISMUS 2 Title: Anthem Of The Moon Format: LP Label: Catatonic Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
| Artist: FRENCH PADDLEBOAT Title: Rome Loves Tan Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Rome Loves Tan," though just now getting a vinyl release, was originally released in 1996 as a small-edition cassette on the esteemed Union Pole label. F.P. was never quite happy with some of the idiosyncrasies of the record, but later Paddleboat recordings and his work as one-half of Vote Robot commanded his attention and the songs were left as-is until now. This new version of Rome represents a more fully realized vision than the original tape did: F.P. tightened up and reworked the songs and loops. One song was replaced with a more fully realized piece ("Indication of Motion," track 3, side 2). In a sense, this version offers insight into both the earlier work of French Paddleboat, as well as what hes up to now. Edition of 300 copies in "paint-by-number" silkscreened jackets." - Catsup Plate. |
| Artist: DOUBLE, THE Title: Palm Fronds Format: CD Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The Double that you hear on Palm Fronds is very different than what founding members David Greenhill and Jeff McLeod originally conceived. The band began as a guitar/drum math-rock-cum-outre-blues duo replete with intricate time signatures, multiple song sections, and an overall sense of angular complexity. After time, the two decided to focus on simplified musical structures and a more fleshed-out instrumentation and added two new members, Donald Beaman and Jacob Morris. But prior to recording what would be called Palm Fronds, Jeff hurt his hand—preventing him from drumming while it healed. Instead of postponing the recording, the band opted regroup and reconceive of the songs without the traditional drum kit. They experimented with drum machines and other electronic textures, learning as they went along. “Mistakes” that sounded good were left in (the band has a deep respect for Eno’s approach to music making a la Oblique Strategies, etc.) and discoveries used in one song influenced the sound palette in the others. The songs quickly took on a unique sound that was reminiscent of—but ultimately distinct from—the band’s live shows. Because of this, Palm Fronds is a compelling listen on a number of levels. The songs themselves could be described as singer-songwriter in scope; I hear echoes of mid-to-late period Smog and even “Horse With No Name”-era America (especially on “Standing on a Levee,” though some folks disagree). But the production, drum machines, and general vibe have a wonderfully overmodulated digital crunch, plenty of echo, broken electronics and all sorts of whatsit thrown into the mix. Which is to say that all that songwriter stuff, when The Double finally let you hear it, owes a lot to a bunch of digital dub and experimental electronic types. But through all this Palm Fronds has an impeccable balance; the production never overwhelms or obscures the essential song. So with Palm Fronds you’ve got ear candy AND brain candy when you get right down to it—lucky you." - Catsup Plate. |
| Artist: JOYNER, SIMON & DENNIS CALLACI Title: Stranger Blues Format: One Sided LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Dennis Callaci and Simon Joyner are two of the foremost channelers of "the song." Simon is known for his solo recordings, with releases on Jagjaguwar, Truckstop, Shrimper, and Sing Eunuchs!, among others. Dennis plays in Refrigerator and was the sole voice behind the criminally underheard Paste. They are singer-songwriters in that they write songs and sing them, but that appellation dumbs down and sanitizes what they do. I think it is more accurate to say that both have a way of tapping into the stream of collective creativity that flows from God-knows-when through to the present and beyond. Their songs have a gravity to them, an old soul, as it were, that cannot be mistaken. There are a few stylistic precursors to their work -- precursors that have been well-documented previously -- but the songs they write and sing tap into something more ineffable, timeless, and grave. The Stranger Blues set comprises three of Simons songs and two by Dennis, all recorded live in the Callaci living room to what seems to be a single microphone. The nontraditional (or better: non-studio) setting adds a palpable sensation of space to the recordings -- by space I do not simply mean the warmth of the room tone, but actual space: backing vocals and spare piano or guitar lines arise in such a way that you are aware of the physical geography of the room. You can hear Simon singing along with Dennis from an actual distance away; his voice is (literally) distant and all the more forlorn. The guitar lines that Dennis adds to flesh-out Simons songs have the same eerie effect. This sense of space underscores two seemingly contradictory strengths about Stranger Blues. On one hand, these songs are beautifully lonely and spare, highlighted by the echoes and distance in the room. At the same time, it is clear that two songwriters who know and love the others work, who are very much working in tandem to build upon each others strengths. Single edition of 500 one-sided LPs. Silkscreened and hand assembled chipboard jackets in a "traditional" Catsup Plate brown butchers tape design scheme." - Catsup Plate. |
| Artist: SMITH, STEVEN R. Title: Crown of Marches Format: CD Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Steven R. Smith is best known for his participation in Thuja and Hala Strana as well as his contribution to many Jewelled Antler projects. In the spirit of Keiji Haino, Popol Vuh, Dead C, and Flying Saucer Attack, Crown of Marches takes the possibilities of the basement psychedelic guitar excursion and fashions something very new and inspiring - a piece alternately beautiful and overwhelming. Crown of Marches begins with a low rumble of feedback and speaker hum; a lazy Eastern melody pokes through the haze and establishes a strong contrast with the rumbling. This is the basis upon which the piece will expand and contract over the next 40 minutes. At times the feedback rumble drops away and relatively bright guitar lines come to the fore. At other times faint keyboard lines or bowed cymbals add texture and additional gravitas to the proceedings, only to be pushed away with the wail of distant guitars and more distortion - like the heaviest rock with the skeleton removed." - Catsup Plate. |
| Artist: AXOLOTL/THE SKATERS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Both Axolotl and The Skaters (the "The" is essential, by the way) have been smoking peoples brain stems around the bay area for some time, releasing the occasional audio document that, more often than not, disappears almost immediately upon release. After cobbling together a woefully incomplete selection of their musics--both as individual entities and, on occasion, as collaborators--we knew we needed to get more of both bands stuff out to the "masses." For this split LP release (not a collaboration, mind you) we present "Holon" by Axolotl and "Bodydoor Procession" by The Skaters. Though the band has been at times a two- and three-piece, on this record Axolotl is just Karl Bauer. "Holon" is a three part suite of some of the most beautiful crush and drone youre likely to hear. Specific instrumentation is tough to nail down, though most all of the Axolotl stuff is based on violin lines, which are twisted and warped using electronics and other effects. The result nods to folks like Tony Conrad and the Theater of Eternal Music, but also evokes some of the cascading liquid drone that underpinned the more progressive shoegaze acts of the early 90s, though freed from the twee song structure and launched into the stratosphere. "Holon pt2" is a particular favorite around here, wherein Axolotl manages to create a drone piece with real soul and emotional content to it, something that most contemporary experimental acts cant seem to muster. The Skaters are Spencer Clark and James Ferraro. Their "Bodydoor Procession" begins with a vaguely east-Asian vibe, an urgent distorted piano line and a wordless vocal line that alternately sounds like moaning, choking or a prayer in a heretofore discovered language. The Skaters have always been about building up their pieces with layers of sound and initial simplicity of "Bodydoor" soon grows and mutates, grounded by an insistent (and distorted) piano, with payer upon layer of vocal cries and moans, amongst other unidentified sound sources. By the time their side concludes, almost twenty minutes later, youve either been taken to a deeply meditative and psychedelic part of inner space or been subjected to the cries of the damned in hell, depending on your taste in these things. Edition of 500 copies in generic black LP jackets with metallic gold screenprinted art and DIY-style photocopied insert." - Catsup Plate. |
| Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Chocolate Cherry Format: 7" Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Black Dices "Chocolate Cherry" seven inch comes hot on the heels of their album Repo (which is Catsup Plates favorite Black Dice record) and finds the band pushing themselves further "out" and paradoxically making some of the poppiest sounds to come from their camp in some time. If Repo was the sound of Black Dice making a funk record then "Chocolate Cherry" veers more towards soul, if you can believe that. The title track is all clipped ecstatic vocals and stuttering disco soul. "POP STD" pins a laconic guitar line and backmasked vocals onto a plodding drum line. And the record closes with the amazingly titled "Bob" which somehow merges insect like buzzing, an incessantly lazy rhythm and what this writer likes to think is a sitar drone (but probably isnt) into a piece of druggy brilliance. Silkscreened on heavy chipboard in four colors by the fine folks at VG Kids. Single edition of 500 copies only." - Catsup Plate. |
| Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Al Anon Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "_Al Anon_ concludes Eric Copelands two part album entitled _Alien In A Garbage Dump_. Where the first half offered a discombobulated collection of radio cross-signaling, here the alien finds its groove for a minute and tidies up the frequencies. There is still something outsiderish here, but with more of an effort to get inside, to play by the rules even? Or maybe the motivation is to sneak something subversive into the norms hideout? Since _Al Anon_ was recorded at the same time as two Black Dice albums, there are obvious parallels in the results; an uncompromised sonic landscape. But outside the group setting, Copeland has found places one can only find alone: small inner dialogues and isolated mind caves where an idea may only last a moment. He captures and tweaks these ideas into fragments of many memories; a déjà vu record déjà vu record. Funny characters drop in and out. Songs come and go. Al Anon proves to be a strangely curated time capsule of OUR time right NOW; music where birds beat-box with car-stereo subwoofers and the neighbors Espanol sings on top the Sabbath siren. With all this going on, Copeland sometimes disappears into the anonymity, playing a behind-the-scenes role, pushing cords and pulling buttons, laughing because the batteries are dying. Here the familiar becomes mysterious and the unknown feels normal and we can listen to this one all day trying to make those distinctions. Edition of 500 copies with jaw-droppingly amazing black and white collage artwork by Copeland, screenprinted by VG Kids." - Catsup Plate. Eric Copeland = 1/3 of BLACK DICE. |
| Artist: REYNOLDS, BEN Title: Basic Consciousness Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $8.50 |
| "Ben from ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS, UNCABINETED DUO, etc... a real circular psych dreamer. 4 songs of muddy water." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
| Artist: DEATH CHANTS Title: Valley Of Light Format: CDR Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $10.00 |
| "this disc will send you to the moon and back. 2 loooong tracks that sing about the deepest river on earth, your mind." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
| Artist: 6MAJIK9 Title: The Majik House Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| "Australian icy psychedelia. universal earth tones and pulsating sound. because the stoners are winning. 7 tracks from the minds that brought you MYMWLY, BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD and TERRACID. xerox / full color cover, painted tapecase." -Cauliflower Dreams. |
| Artist: YAMASHIRUBE Title: Akaki Yume No Naka Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| "Tokyo damaged psych vibes from Hide Uchida, the brain behind the SUBJECTIVE SPIRIT SOUND imprint. nice acidloops and dusty downervibes. a truly trip in space that sometimes walks pretty closely next to the tape and electronic experimentspectrum of ANGUS MACLISE... YAMASHIRUBE will issue some players on the upcoming volume of the classic series TOKYO FLASHBACK on PSF. xerox cover, painted tapecase." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
| 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: UTON Title: Live In Death Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| "UTON plays ballads for the new earth. covered under a blanket of tone colors and nature cones, this brain is transferring a total new spectrum of trance. including a super guest-appearance by BRIDGET HAYDEN. full color cover and insert, painted tapecase." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
| Artist: FOSSILS Title: Fly By Night Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| Artist: BART SLOOW/FAMILY THINKERS Title: s/t Format: Book/Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
| "tender drawings and tender sounds. personal and sincere visions by BART DE PAEPE, the cloudy head of SLOOW TAPES. 16 pages, part full color and part b/w. and a short cassette of recent FAMILY THINKERS jams. one part is jams, other part is strange tape collage." -Cauliflower Dreams. |
| Artist: FROZEN CORPSE Title: Acid Bubble Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| "good friends. carlo (AUDIOBOT head) and eva (ORPHAN FAIRYTALE) deliver a new sun. more timeless codes from the outside society in space. a comforting message of wisdom. "i think the ACID BUBBLE tapes (other one is on PUIK) is the best stuff these bongs have ever done..." full color cover, painted tapecase." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
| Artist: SHE Title: Outta Reach Format: LP Label: Causeway Records Country: Price: $16.00 |
| "She were an all-girl band from Sacramento, California, that operated between 1964 and 1971 and were led by sisters Nancy and Sally Ross. Unlike most acts ascribed to the "girls-with-guitars" genre, She was one hundred per cent authentic - they genuinely played their own instruments, sang and wrote their own striking but original material and copped one hell of a bad attitude that would put most self-proclaimed rebel boy bands to shame. Appealingly crude in their early incarnation as the Hairem, by their later years She was a force to be reckoned with. The group became a massively popular live attraction in northern California but unfortunately never made a commercial breakthrough, despite healthy airplay for their lone release on the Kent label, the classic Outta Reach. Far, far more than a mere novelty, musically and philosophically She were in a class of their own, with drop-dead good looks and such memorable tunes as Like A Snake, Piece Of You and Bad Girl. And indeed She were bad girls, getting thrown out of movie theatres and even the California State Capitol building for their disruptive behaviour and smart-ass punk attitude. Truly the female equivalent of the Stones." B Side features recordings as The Hairem. Limited.. |
| Artist: DIAL Title: 168K Format: CD Label: Cede Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The third album from this experimental rock band comprised of former members of UT, GOD, FURIOUS PIGS, and EARDRUM. "A stuttering beast of guitar-driven post-no wave frenzy...rock music at its finest."-Bruce Russell (Corpus Hermeticum) |
| Artist: LENS CLEANER TRIO Title: CD + Lenscleaner Format: LP Label: Ceiling Country: ARGENTINA Price: $15.00 |
| "This LP started out as a recording of an improvised by Jose Marchi (guitar), Marcelo Aguirre (drums). and C.D. (electronics). After which C.D. took the recordings disassembled them and constructed new sound shapes from the various pieces. C.D. calls the resultant sound "electro-acoustic rock". Early tracks on side A are faithful to the original recordings; strange polymorphous jams featuring nimble but muscular drumming, and a large vocabulary of guitar scrapes and molten distortion. But soon we start to hear the tracks fold into themselves, the sense of time and space distorting as if some powerful psychotropic drug is starting to kick in. Emerging from these folds in space, the listener enters new locations; guitars that echo like chimes through radio static into places both soothing and menacing, organic and manufactured- a deeply ambient space, yet jagged as broken glass." - The Ceiling. |
| Artist: CAR COMMERCIALS Title: Judys Dust Format: LP Label: Cenotaph Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Judys Dust is the debut full-length LP by Car Commercials of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Here, the duo of David Sutton (Friends and Family, Current Amnesia, Ladderwoe) and Daniel DiMaggio (Home Blitz) expand on the rock/mumble strategies from the self-released Jar 7” (Leaf Leaf, 2006) and a couple cassettes kicked around the New Jersey underpasses. Contains twelve songs of missing spaces, too much Center Ice, drums and wires, varispeed recording techniques, and facing backwards – all from the other side of the E Street. Limited to 300 copies including 25 with handmade cover art." - Cenotaph. |
| Artist: CHAINSAW Title: #12 Format: Mag/Flexi-Disc Label: Chainsaw Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| Original copies of this 1981 fanzine. Includes a flexi-disc with Instant Automatons, Tronics and Dancing Did. |
| 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: SESKIND, SCOTT Title: Chance Format: Cass Label: Chance Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "..impressively captivating and moving collection of four-tracked bedroom folk of the highest order, with an out-of-time vibe that didnt really snyc with its 1984 recording date. Definitely on the loner-ish end of the folk spectrum, with some aspects of the album harkening back to Skip Spences iconic Oar, while other moments revealed the urgency of the 80s lo-fi revolution. But most importantly, the songs were just really, really great and managed to remain haunting long past their leaving." - Michael Klausman (regarding his self titled debut LP). Original sealed copies of his 1991 private cassette, the only release after the 1985 LP, which is somewhat "known" amongst folk/psych/private collectors (and mentioned in Acid Archives despite the later date). These recordings arent quite as desolate and are more "lo-fi" than the LP, but still warrant repeated listens. |
| Artist: PRAN NATH, PANDIT Title: Earth Groove: The Voice Of Cosmic India Format: LP Label: Change Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Gray-area reissue of the first Western LP release from Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. Originally issued on the Douglas label in the U.S., in 1968. Classic, late 60s performance by the master of Indian vocal music. Two sidelong pieces grace this record. A morning raga and an evening raga. Vocals with sitar and tabla accompaniment. Not easy listening by any means, but rewarding in the end." -Change |
| Artist: ESSENDON AIRPORT Title: Sonic Investigations If The Trivial Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $19.00 |
| "The band Essendon Airport began in Melbourne, 1978, as a duo of David Chesworth (keyboards and electronics), and Robert Goodge (guitar). They released an incredible 7" EP in 1979 called Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial, on Innocent Records, a label run by David Chesworth with Tch Tch Tchs Philip Brophy. A track from this EP was recently included on Chapters Cant Stop It! - Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 compilation CD. In 1980 they released a 7" single accompanied by a singer named Anne Cessna. They also had a track included on the Innocent compilation New Music 1978-79. Essendon Airport later gained extra members and released the Palimpsest LP in 1981. They broke up in 1983... Chapter Music has gathered together Essendon Airports duo recordings onto one CD, along with the Anne Cessna tracks, and five previously unheard live recordings. Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial is a fantastic document of a band years ahead of their times. The reissue features liner notes written by Ralph Traviato of Tch Tch Tch, as well as reproductions of original posters, record sleeves, press clippings and even chewing gum cards given out at their shows." - Chapter Music. |
| Artist: PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS Title: Primitive Calculators Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
| "Melbournes Primitive Calculators met as teenagers in the early 70s, growing up in the grim outer suburb of Springvale. An older friend who lived in a bungalow behind his parents house provided an oasis of culture, and there they were introduced to music of a kind rarely heard in their neighbourhood. The Velvet Underground and The MC5 were obvious heroes, but they were also inspired by lesser known bands like The Fugs, The 13th Floor Elevators, and The Godz (they went on to dedicate their album to Godz singer Jim McCarthy) as well as the writing of obsessive rock journalist Lester Bangs. By 1977, they had deserted Springvale for the more musically liberated environs of St. Kilda, sharing a house in Park St and forming a band called The Moths. But they were a couple of years older than most of the punk bands starting up around them, and their uncultured accents clashed with the inner city, private school values of their so-called peers. Well-known figures like Nick Cave (The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party) and Ollie Olsen (Whirlywirld) would often come by to listen to borrow records, but the Primitive Calculators were always outsiders in Melbournes punk scene. A move to Fitzroy in 1978 helped Primitive Calculators cement their own identity and develop a network of likeminded friends. The band set up a series of gigs called Little Band nights, where up to ten hastily-formed bands, with names like Too Fat To Fit Through The Door and Thrush & The Cunts, would play sets of fifteen minutes each. Their own debut single was also released that year, featuring the songs “I Cant Stop It” and “Do That Dance”. Pressed with plain black labels and stark monochrome sleeve, the single introduced many to the impassioned, atonal, electronic chaos that was the Primitive Calculators trademark, and it has gone on to become a highly collectable classic of Australian post-punk. The following year the band attempted to relocate to London, but seeing how difficult life was for fellow expats the Birthday Party and Whirlywirld, hey decided instead to take an indefinite break. A 1979 live recording of a gig supporting The Boys Next Door turned out to be the Primitive Calculators swansong. Released by friend and supporter Alan Bamford in the early 1980s, Primitive Calculators is a crucial document of a band whose originality, power and humorously belligerent Australian mindset has never since been duplicated. But the story didnt end there, as the Primitive Calculators had an unexpected renaissance in 1986, when filmmaker Richard Lowenstein included them in his feature Dogs In Space (starring a young Michael Hutchence). The Primitive Calculators reformed to appear in the movie and recorded their song “Pumping Ugly Muscle” for the soundtrack (the song was also released as a 12” with some original late 70s recordings on the B-side). The Primitive Calculators revival continued a good fifteen years later when Chapter Music released the pioneering Cant Stop It! compilation CD of Australian late 70s/early 80s post-punk. The CD took its name from the Primitive Calculators track “I Cant Stop It!” and included an original 1979 recording of “Pumping Ugly Muscle”. Chapter Musics reissue of the Primitive Calculators album, twenty-five years after its original release, includes six bonus tracks (four by the Primitive Calculators, one by the Moths and one by a nameless Primitive Calculators/Whirlywirld hybrid band, recorded in the UK) plus a rarely seen video made for the “I Cant Stop It” single by band friend Janis Lesinskis." - Chapter Music. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: V/A Title: Songs For Nao - 14 Bands From Japan Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
| "Songs for Nao (pronounced "now") is a compilation featuring many incredible Japanese artists... Most work in a rarefied world of wide-eyed, folky psych-pop. Songs For Nao includes new tracks by Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Nagisa Ni Te, Tenniscoats, Kazumi Nikaidoh, Yumbo, Andersens, My Pal Foot Foot, Pervenche and more. Songs For Nao is a taste of an incredible music scene. Isolated from the music industry at large, these artists create genuinely inspired music, fresh even to the ears of the most conditioned music-geek. The release is accompanied by a full colour, 16-page booklet featuring extensive liner notes on each band, and beautiful photos by Eigo Shimojo (a member of Eepil Eepil, one of the bands on the compilation)." - Chapter Music. "I moved to Tokyo in September 2002 in search of new experiences, and ended up staying for a year and a half. I worked teaching English part-time at one of the big chain schools in Japan, which was neither here nor there, but when I wasnt working I was going to as many gigs as I could. I already had a couple of Japanese friends before I got there, and through them I was introduced to all these amazing bands, playing in tiny shoebox venues to audiences of usually about 50 people. Most of the best bands I saw seemed to be connected in one way or another to a record label called Majikick, run by Ueno and Saya, the husband and wife team from the band Tenniscoats. They were like the Prince and Princess of this small, vibrant scene, which was built on ideas about freedom, improvisation, fragile melodies and a kind of drug-free psychedelia. The most amazing thing about bands like Tenniscoats, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Andersens and My Pal Foot Foot is how they would sound totally different almost every time you saw them. They always had different lineups and instrumentation and played a completely new set at almost every gig. I couldnt understand how they could all write these incredible songs and then just throw them away and write new ones! Most of the bands had a CD or two on Majikick, or at least a CD-R that they would sell at gigs, and I bought whatever I could get my hands on. I listened to these CDs constantly in my little apartment, and maybe it was just being in a different country, not having my all my records and CDs with me, but it was the first time in years that I could just listen over and over to the same music, and find more to love each time. Apart from Nagisa Ni Te and Maher Shalal Hash Baz, who have had some records released in the US and the UK, it seemed like no-one outside Japan had any idea about these bands that I thought were just incredible. So it seemed like a great idea to put together a compilation, and Songs For Nao is what I came up with. I thought of the title because Nao is the name of two of the sweetest people I met in Japan - one a boy, one a girl - and they both play in bands on the CD." - Guy Blackman; Chapter Music. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Cant Stop It - Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| “A long overdue compilation of Australias incredible post-punk history, featuring the finest selection of bands from the period 1978-82, with many previously unreleased tracks. This is a fantastically inventive and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for the first time. All of the bands on Cant Stop It! released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the time such as Au-go-go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records. Unfortunately much of the music has since been ignored or forgotten ... until now!” Restock/repress of this incredibly well done, indepth and legit comp (which has since received a full page write up in the WIRE) of the elusive Australian scene. Features The Moodists, Voigt 465, The Take, Essendon Airport, The Apartments, Ash Wednesday, Primitive Calculators, Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast, Ron Rude, Xero, The Limp, Fabulous Marquises, The Slugfuckers, Equal Local, Tame Omearas, The Particles, People With Chairs Up Their Noses, Wild West, The Pits and Tch Tch Tch. Highly recommended!! |
| Artist: TENNISCOATS Title: Live Wanderus Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
| "Tokyos Tenniscoats centre around the duo of Saya and Taskashi Ueno, a married couple who have been making music since 2000, and together run the highly regarded Japanese label Majikick Records. In that time, Tenniscoats have released three studio recordings, 2001s Theme Of Tenniscoats, 2002s The Ending Theme and 2004s We Are Everyone. Although each of those records is a fine, fine work, many Tenniscoats fans say that the bands meditative intensity has never quite been captured in the studio. It is for this reason that Chapter Music is releasing a compilation of their live work. Live Wanderus (named in Sayas imaginative English to reflect the words Wander, Wonder, Wondrous and Us) presents songs from each Tenniscoats release in distinctive new forms, as well as a number of previously unreleased tracks. It presents the band in its many shifting lineups, and includes collaborations with members of revered Japanese bands Acid Mothers Temple, Stars and Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Tenniscoats are a combination of hummable melody and a kind of innocent darkness, their unashamed fragility set against a restrained power that at times can explode into a psychedelic free-for-all." - Chapter Music. |
| 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: BLOOM, KATH Title: Finally Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
| "Kath Bloom is a fifty year old American legend of folk, country, blues and avant-garde music, but very few people have ever heard of her. She has been making records since the late 70s, and has had her music featured in the movie Before Sunrise by Richard Linklater (starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy), but since 1984 has released no new material of her own bar a few self-distributed cassettes and CD-Rs. The daughter of world-renowned oboist Robert Bloom, Kath was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, where she trained as a cellist. However, she soon gave away formal musical education for the acoustic guitar, which she taught herself over long afternoons spent among the tombstones of her local cemetery. After a brief romance and musical collaboration with journeyman songwriter Bruce Neumann, she met avant-garde guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors in 1976, teaming up with him for a series of now highly sought-after recordings of traditional blues and folk songs and Blooms originals. Some records were released in editions of as few as fifty, most no more than 200 copies, until the duo released their swansong Moonlight in 1984. While Connors astounding solo work from that time has been compiled into a four CD set by Sonic Youths Thurston Moore, Bloom and Mazzacanes duo recordings still languish in un-re-released obscurity, except for a single CD compilation that is now almost as hard to find as the original LPs. Although Chapter Music, unfortunately, cannot help in that regard, it can present a compilation of Kath Blooms heartbreaking, lovelorn and remarkably beautiful songs recorded since the early 90s, when after a period of child-rearing, family life and daily financial struggle, Kath began to return to the studio. These are songs recorded on the fly in friends lounge rooms or cut-rate studios, but they reveal a mother-of-three songwriter as accomplished and affecting as any of her more hallowed colleagues such as Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch or Hazel Dickens. In the mid-nineties US director Richard Linklater stumbled across her music and used the song Come Here in Before Sunrise, but despite an initial flurry of interest, little came of the exposure and Kath soon returned to domestic obscurity. Ten years later, perhaps Kath Blooms moment has finally come, and one of the best singer/ songwriters of the last 25 years will be accorded some long-overdue recognition." - Chapter Music. |
| Artist: PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS Title: Primitive Calculators And Friends 1979-82 Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "After reissuing the landmark 1979 live album by Melbournes ferocious synth-punk snarlers Primitive Calculators in late 2004, Chapter Music follows up with a crucial compilation of tracks by Primitive Calculators and their friends from the legendary Melbourne Little Band scene. Including the Calculators only studio recording, the single I Cant Stop It b/w Do That Dance, plus the Little Bands compilation EP (both originally released in 1979 and now highly prized collectors items), plus numerous live and rehearsal recordings, the CD examines a particularly fertile and distinctive time in Melbourne music history, which has been discussed in hushed tones ever since. It takes in bands with names like Thrush And The Cunts and Too Fat To Fit Through The Door, and ranges from disaffected Fitzroy art-punk to Sudanese tribal chanting recorded in London. With liner notes culled from a revealing interview with Prim Calcs members Dave Light, Denise Hilton and Frank Lovece, plus rare photos and song lyrics, Primitive Caluclators And Friends is a revelatory companion piece to their live album, which received a rave review from Maximum RocknRoll and a 10 out of 10 Album of the Month feature in Australian Vice Magazine, amongst other stellar reviews on its reissue two years ago." - Chapter Music. Restocked! |
| Artist: V/A Title: Cant Stop It! #2 – Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "The second instalment of Chapters acclaimed Australian post- punk compilation series Cant Stop It! comes 5 years after the first, but makes up for the long interval by presenting another incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-84. This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for the first time. Cant Stop It! #2 features tracks by bands such as Severed Heads, The Systematics and Scattered Order, and early work by the likes of Dead Can Dances Lisa Gerrard, Hunters & Collectors Mark Seymour, and Candy soundtrack composer Paul Charlier. The CD includes a 16 page booklet with extensive liner notes, rare photos and Josh Pethericks striking design." - Chapter Music. TRACKLISTING: 1. The Systematics - International Voltage 2. International Exiles - Lets Be Sophisticated 3. Asphixiation - The Crush 4. Tactics - Watch My Hands 5. Severed Heads - Lamborghini 6. The Goat That Went "Om" - The Pirate Song 7. Use No Hooks - Do The Job 8. Microfilm – Centrefold 9. Scattered Order - Swiss Like Knives And Forks 10. The Jetsonnes – Newspaper 11. Rhythmx Chymx - The Now Generation 12. Brrr Cold - Mothers At War 13. SoliPsiK - See Saw 14. Wild Dog Rodeo - Charging The Lighthouse 15. Belle Du Soir - Treasure Island 16. Ya Ya Choral - Gods Buzzsaw 17. Essendon Airport - I Feel A Song Coming On 18. The Swell Guys – Sidetracking 19. Scapa Flow – Somewhere 20. Nuvo Bloc - Never Mind. Restocked! |
| Artist: KANENOBU, SACHIKO Title: Misora Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Originally reissued in 2006 by Chapter Music, this is the 1972 debut album by Sachiko Kanenobu, an artist generally acknowledged as the first Japanese woman to release an album of her own songwriting. Its a near-perfect folk masterpiece, alternating full-bodied arrangements (produced by Harry Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End) with Sachikos lonesome guitar and pure, soaring vocals. Discovered as a precocious 18 year-old in Osaka, Sachiko was signed in 1968 to Japans first real independent record label, URC (Underground Record Club), who changed Japans musical landscape irrevocably in the late 60s and early 70s with artists like Happy End, Folk Crusaders and Kenji Endo. Sachiko was the only female artist on this era-defining label. But just a few months before Misora (roughly translated as "Beautiful Sky") was released, Sachiko left Japan and secretly emigrated to America to marry music critic Paul Williams (Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone). She did not record again for almost a decade and didnt release another album until 1992. Instead, she settled with Williams in small-town California and raised two sons. Misora was released in her absence and promptly disappeared. World-renowned science fiction writer Philip K Dick, a Williams family friend, actually encouraged Sachiko to return to music in the early 80s. He was executive producer for a single recorded in 1981, but sadly died before he could realize his ambition to produce Sachikos comeback album. Still, Sachiko was inspired by his encouragement to reinvent herself as a "folk-punk" singer, forming new band Culture Shock in the mid-80s. Sachiko still performs to this day, and since Misora was rediscovered by Japanese fans in the early 90s, she has returned to her homeland many times to perform. Misora is now regarded as a landmark in Japanese musical history, and Sachiko is revered there as a true underground folk pioneer. Truly mellow, still relevant, and sounding as fresh as the day it was recorded, Chapter Musics edition of Misora is the first for the English-speaking world, featuring extensive liner notes, lyrics translated into English by Sachiko herself, and never-before-seen photos from the singers own archives." -Chapter |
| Artist: BLOOM & LOREN CONNORS, KATH Title: Sing The Children Over/Sand In My Shoe Format: Double CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $18.00 |
| "Originally released by Chapter Music in 2008, this is the first of two double disc reissues by extraordinary early-80s folk duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors. Meeting in 1976 in their hometown of New Haven, CT, Bloom and Connors formed a creative partnership that has haunted psych-folk fans ever since, releasing six albums of fragile, avant-garde folk-blues in miniscule quantities, all of which now change hands for huge sums. At first, Kath would act out monologues while Loren played his free-form guitar, extrapolated from Mississippi Delta and Chicago blues. But while Loren worked on his now-legendary nine-volume series Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations, he and Kaths performances gradually became more song-based. Kath began practicing guitar among the headstones of New Havens Grove Street cemetery, while Lorens idiosyncratic style had been developing since the 1960s. By the early 80s, after self-releasing two limited-edition live albums, the duo were playing occasionally outside of New Haven, and soon Boston independent label Ambiguous Records approached them to record their first studio effort. Acclaimed jazz critic and music historian Nat Hentoff wrote sensitive, insightful liner notes and Sing The Children Over emerged in 1982 and Sand In My Shoe in 1983. The albums mixed traditional folk and blues songs with Kaths originals, revealing Kath to be an accomplished and moving songwriter. It also set up the dynamic template that she and Loren would follow over their remaining recordings -- Kaths fragile voice and subdued finger-picked guitar set against Lorens playing: abstract, skittering, sometimes atonal but always intuitively supportive. Together the duo created a sound almost impossibly emotional and haunting, one unlike anything created before or since. By 1984, however, Kath was married with a young son, and Connors himself was entering a new relationship, so the duo found themselves drifting apart. And now, after almost 25 years, these original recordings are again available to be soaked up, marveled at and relished. Completely remastered, and containing extensive liner notes, original photos and artwork, and a treasure trove of bonus tracks." -Chapter |
| Artist: FOSTER, JOE/KELVIN PITTMAN Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Cherried-Out Merch Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "a side each by two former-Super Unity members. You may know Joe (South Koreas flavorite whitey) from his group English. Really awesome/dynamic electronics+sound poetry, nice use of quiet parts and hiss. You may know Kelvin as "the black guy in the Portland Bike Ensemble", but also he is the most talented/interesting saxaphone free improviser in Portland. If you were to try to sell me a tape and tell me it was a dude sitting in your living room playing a sax, I would say no fucking thanks (dont really care for the instrument in most cases). Kelvin is the immaculate exception, trust me. Edition of 98. " - Cherried-Out Merch. |
| 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: U.S. GIRLS Title: Kankakee Memories Format: 7" Label: Cherry Burger Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "English is my mother tongue but this Italian guy I found on Myspace has put it better than I could: "Your sound is primitive, essential and very good." U.S. Girls doesnt need you to know more than that. She is a girl making music in her bathroom on a cold Chicago (now Philly) night." - Cherry Burger. Previous release on Siltbreeze. |
| Artist: FANKHAUSER, MERRELL & HMS BOUNTY Title: (Girl) Im Waiting For You/Im Flying Home Format: 7" Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| Warehouse find of 1968 recordings issued in 1985 by UK post punk label, Cherry Red. New/unplayed copies. |
| Artist: EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN Title: Halber Mensch Format: DVD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "A DVD release of the 1986 film made for EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTENs groundbreaking Halber Mensch album. Basically a full-blown promo for each song on the album, the film is a stunning work of visual art. Ten songs in all." |
| Artist: V/A Title: Miniatures One + Two Format: Double CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Featuring artists as diverse as The Residents, Robert Fripp, XTCs Andy Partridge, Pete Seeger, Robert Wyatt and The Pretenders Martin Chambers, as well as cover artwork contributed by Ralph Steadman, Morgan Fishers 1980 release Miniatures truly was a first. Overwhelmed with concepts for potential releases, Fisher decided to see how many of these ideas he might be able to squeeze onto just one album. Rather than performing everything himself, he invited 50 musicians he admired to send in tracks of up to one minute in length. They responded with unanimous enthusiasm, and Miniatures was born out of Morgans precise editing and sequencing of these tracks, providing a unique snapshot of the cutting-edge music of the period and achieving legendary status amongst those who cherish such creativity and individuality in the process. Fast forward 15 years, several projects and the development of new realms of communication and data transfer afforded by the internet, and Morgan decided the time was right for a sequel. Little did he know that this project would take six years to complete and involve an international cast of players (taking in 18 countries across five continents), but it proved truly worth both the effort and the wait. The astounding Miniatures 2 brings together over 60 musicians and artists of all genres -- the bizarre, the eccentric, the contemplative, the rebel-rousers, the pioneers and the philosophers and no stone was left unturned in its creation. As with the original album, one minute creations were composed, then sequenced and edited by Morgan, again meeting with rave reviews and an acknowledgement that Fisher had produced something both original and vital to those with any interest in music existing outside the mainstream. Comprising both legendary tiny masterpiece collections, this new set brings together all one hundred and thirteen tracks (yes, 113!) in one two-disc collection for the first time, freshly boosted and tweaked for 2008. New artwork and sleeve-notes have also been provided by Morgan himself." - Cherry Red. Artists include: The Residents, Robert Wyatt, Fred Frith, Lol Coxhill, Steve Miller, Robert Fripp, Ron Geesin, Ralph Steadman, Trevor Wishart, Ivor Cutle, Metabolist, Gavin Bryars, 1/2 Japanese, David Cunningham (The Flying Lizards), Etron Fou Leloublan, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, David Cunningham, & Moondog (Louis Hardin). |
| Artist: TEENAGE JESUS & THE JERKS Title: Shut Up and Bleed Format: CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "The seminal no-wave band Teenage and Jesus and The Jerks were lead by primal screamer and guitarist Lydia Lunch, an individual who has fought her artistic way through the decades, always true to her own vision and always brutally honest. In early 1978, artist and producer Brian Eno attended a series of shows put on to benefit the Artists Space in Soho and influenced Island Records to finance an anthology LP featuring the four strongest bands -- Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, Mars and DNA. The resulting recording, entitled No New York and produced by Eno, remains as one of the most impressive and extraordinarily bold debuts of the time. Here we compiled all Teenage Jesus and The Jerks recordings, alongside some NEVER previously released live material. Simultaneous to Teenage Jesus, Lunch formed Beirut Slump, released one single and recorded an albums worth of material, which is also included on this remarkable release." - Cherry Red |
| Artist: STACK WADDY Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Cherry Red is delighted to announce the release of another classic album from John Peels Dandelion Records catalogue, 1971s self-titled Stack Waddy, a raucous four-piece from Manchester. Peel had first seen the band at the Buxton Blues Festival in September 1969. Their performance made a big impression, and a first single, Kentucky/Roadrunner, was released just under a year later in August 1970, they soon became Peels favorite band on the label. Raw, rockin power bottled in 1971 and unleashed again here! On stage they were loud, aggressive, fairly pissed and remarkably unsubtle, as befitted musicians who were often forced to supplement their meager gig money by working days on construction sites. Their frustrations and energies were poured into music that it was impossible to ignore. In fact, you were better off not to try to ignore it because one of the many Stack Waddy atrocity stories has John Knail (lead singer) jumping off-stage to beat to the floor a man who was paying more attention to his lady than to the band. As the late John Peel OBE said Stackwaddy were absolutely incorrigible, everything a rock n roll band should be." - Cherry Red |
| Artist: FIVE OR SIX Title: Acting On Impulse Format: CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "A timely retrospective of one of the less heralded groups of the classic Cherry Red era of the early eighties but one in whom interest is growing. Musically akin to such contemporaries as Wire and This Heat, Five or Six had the distinction of providing the opening track (Portrait) to Cherry Red¹s historic Pillows and Prayers compilation and this little masterpiece is duly featured on this Best Of collection. Also featured are such stellar singles as Another Reason (produced by the late and very legendary Kevin Coyne) and Polar Exposure and also the outstanding cuts from their impossibly rare and greatly sought after Spanish import album, Play Me That Song That Goes Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. After the group disbanded, its members went on to a multifarious range of artistic occupations, such as members of Spring Heel Jack, the Shock Headed Peters, at Factory Records and 4AD Records and in the drama department of the BBC." - Cherry Red |
| Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Fog Fluid Format: CDR Label: Chironex Country: France Price: $12.00 |
| Solo release from Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, Izititiz, Pigeons...) - edition of 80 copies in sewn, mesh packaging. |
| Artist: SHIMADA, NAOMI Title: Starlight Express Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Artist: POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND Title: Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "karen lollypops ever changing female outsider puff. two live pieces here by the first line up from 2001, a 5 piece which featured japanese writer akira kuroda. this release gave aaron dilloway flame in his teeth." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Toy Walkie Talkie Format: 7" Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
| "heir sideburns (dead c) conjours no nonsense neck ache in a toys R us stylee. semen vinyl." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: V/A Title: White Music Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| With Smack Music 7, Golden Calves, J Bradley & Neil Campbell, and Damian Bisciglia & Dylan Nyoukis. |
| Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: Angel Hair Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "face tripping you since the golden calves went up in a puff of rink-smoke? then worry not as many of the players from that stinkship are back with wooden wand & the vanishing voice. the spirit is there but the skulls are way more warped, like ESP-folkies pulling on the hate chain." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Swissotic Commune Document Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "eb.er compiled ass/mind magic w/ runzelsturn & gurgelstock, sudden infant, d. phillips, fear of god, wash your brain & others." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: SUPREME REALITY Title: Universal Rundle Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Anne Eickelberg (TFUL282) and her two man bitches Rich Wells and Scott Simmons perform north west conjure music, too much coffee and lack of direction lead the listener into a non-nonsensical chase scene, featuring bad leather jackets." - Chocolate Monk |
| Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Live From The American Snake Machine Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards) serves up some black electric goo. A humming attack on ghosts, full on primitive ear confusion from NYCs king of bearded wha?" - Chocolate Monk |
| 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: POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND Title: Eye Of Horus Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "The second PSKB release, and the first to feature the three piece line-up of the last year. Really full on screamer of crunked up live recordings, non-fidelity satanic ear blister." - Chocolate Monk |
| Artist: YKEO Title: Clot Too Brown Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Pretty boy Daniel Mitha serves up a diamond noise goiter. Arcade game cut-up hookum meets candle lit face drill romance. Dedicated to his future ex-wives 16 Bitch Pile-Up." - Chocolate Monk |
| Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: Live at Sonic Protest Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| “Blood Stereo featuring Professor Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and Milche Grand invaded the stage and spat a half-hour of pure sonic bliss. They offered an onslaught of ‘hydrostatic’ sounds that made both my constipation and blood circulation problems avoid the need for any form of homeopathy.” Hicham Chadly, Blastitude.com Joined by Milche Grand (Chrome Hoof), this is a mangled/remixed recording of the Blood Stereo show at Sonic Protest Festival in paris in 2004. - Chocolate Monk |
| Artist: NYOUKIS, DYLAN Title: norse fungi festivus Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Recorded in preperation for the No Fun Fest, "Norse Fungi Festivus" is a manky live piece for voice and prepared tape,, heavily delayed & lubed tonsils sending out throat claw signals... crivens!!!" - Chocolate Monk |
| Artist: BRADLEY, JULIAN Title: Heel intercom Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "all new solo recordings from Julian Bradley of Vibracathedral Orchestra.. 30+ minues of late night electric-tape loop whatsist? a subtle brain massage with hidden huh?!" - Chocolate Monk |
| Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: The Trunk Is Flexed Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "A late night whiskey jam with brain bent serenades. Nyoukis & Constance joined by Caroline Lewis (PSKB) and southern ladies man Billy Taylor (ex-Melted Men, ex-TL&SiLA)." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK/DECAER PINGA Title: Omiting The Troll Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Artist: GLAMOROUS PAT Title: Starer Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "New recordings by the glitter coated pin-up/numbskull/genius. Amazing all over the place sonic ear hate. Highly recommended. “....you need to change, and actually be more intense and real instead of some character of a character who just sits around and goes bwaaaaaaaaaaah........and you need to learn how to draw, and play some instruments, and how to be human, in stead of a cool monster, and i think your music should be funnier and you need stage presence sorry but you r last two performances can kiss a dick, I mean they were so boring, you were just standing there blasting noise, woooooooooo. Ultimately no one out side of a hand full of people dont care,” - hate mail to pat from an old boyfriend." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: CROSSBREED Title: We Dont Need A Pain! Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Rie Lambdoll & Mayuko are a Japanese female duo from Osaka, performing their own style of electronic drone noise, heavy flowing. "We direct to fault of the cloudy society, listen to lifes scream, catch the feels from bottom of our soul, and makeem beautiful sounds. We active as crossbred for everything..." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: GREEN MIST Title: Attack Of The Centipedes Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "One Man Band of Dallas K playing dissected walkmans with guitar strings, tongue and fingers. Electricity improvised, heathen style. "My mouth tastes like batteries." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: TAPE SALAD Title: Each Banana Is Unique Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Anders Artentoft (Bohman Family/Bimbo Sons) squats and lays a super Copenhagen retard style egg. Full on special needs anti-music with tiny face melt." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: DECAER PINGA Title: The Brown Mouth Downer Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "DP 5tet of Dylan Nyoukis & Dora Doll with Karen Constance (smack music 7), Rhian Thompson (ckdh) and Drew Demeter (withdrawal method) recorded in Edinburgh in 2004. A snippet from a sweaty ear rot session rescued from Demeters erase button finger." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: DECAER PINGA Title: Plate Of Failure Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "2 tracks. 1 is a high orbit clutter mong out with DP joined by Sticky Foster, the whole touchy/feely racket is mixed into putrid mindloaf by one Bad Ronald. Track 2 is a twilight gurner, lubricated sound collage with guests voices (including Hitomi Arimoto broadcasting truth!)." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: BLOOD STEREO/MOYSK EN CHIMYSER Title: Split Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Super split. Belgian learning disabilites duo Moysk en Chimyser produce some wondrous low brow scum/shit noise, elbow deep in patch cords and cheap beer. Blood Stereo get all bent out of shape and try to explain the sounds of tape machines dying. This is xerox psychedelia." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND Title: For The Blood Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Latest hookum from the outsider aural ugsters. Joyous, hysterical, broken, fucked up primitive, drunken speaker invasion. PSKB laugh in Deaths face and spit into the eye sockets of skulls." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: GIFFONI, CARLOS Title: The Last Analogue Session Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Mr Monotracts final analogue throw up is a Chimo paste dripping brain tangle. Recorded in Bushwick in 2002, here we hear Carlos stumble into broken electronic/radio confussion, and emerge the other end with some kind of sonic afro." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: DIRECTING HAND Title: A Old Soul At The Helm Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Alex Neilson is the UKs kid thunder, who may be known to you for playing drums in Jandeks band or being one half of Beating Stars with Richard Youngs, but Directing Hand is his own free form handshake. All kinds of joyous clatter in this baby. Guests players include Christina Carter." - Chocolate Monk. |
| 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: CAMPBELL, NEIL & JOHN CLYDE-EVANS Title: Live At Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Recorded 22 November 1998 this is a bliss blister of cello, violin, tapes and voice. Like some shortwave radio broadcast straight from the porch, the duo conjuer up Sticky Foster as a ghost presence. Karen Constance done did the artwork. You needs it." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: SPECTRE FONE Title: Newsday Long Island for Nipsey Russell Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "New solo smooch from Pete Nolan (Magik markers/Virgin eye Blood Brothers) letting out some primitive apartment style electronic/raga strangeness." - Chocolate Monk. |
| 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: TAURPIS TULA Title: Steel Rods Bruise Butterflies Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "This first recording as a trio (Heather and David Leigh are joined by Alex Neilson on drums) is a full on sonic avalanche. A wild exorcism, baby." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: V/A Title: From The Lips Of Lepers Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Gloriously bent compilation of tape manpulation/loop madness/whatever with John Wiese, Ashtray Navigations, Justin Meyers, Ones, Smack Music 7, Julian Bradley, Luke Younger, Green Mist, Neil Campbell, Aaron Dilloway, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Dylan Nyoukis, Skaters, Sisprum Vish & Gas Shepherds." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: For Heavy Lung Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "A one night only 5-piece when we were joined by Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell and Sticky Foster in Leeds. Just what you would hope for, tape loops, drone, vocal damage, confused percussion, reeds etc. A ten legged brew-up." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: 1 Hour As Something That Didnt Turn Out The Way I Intended It Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| “Another exercise in failure. Spring 2003: With assistance from Vic Rawlings, I fill my room at Club Awesome in Somerville MA w/ electric keyboards, synth, a small organ and set them all for drone. A radio plays static. Record to MD, output MD through my stereo for low feedback. An electric fan is aimed at the microphone for the distorted vintage 78 effect (rpm, not the year). Vic bowed a single cello note at some point and a cymbal was scraped. The intent: record in mono for 2 hours, communicate with the dead. After 1 hour, I couldnt take it any more. My intended "Two hours as..." is now "One hour as..." I fussed over it for a while. Its kind of boring. I like boring, but... Late Winter 2004: I must do something with this recording. I decide to look backwards into the archives... January 8, 2000: I send out a call to arms: Meet me at Twisted Village Records, Cambridge MA at 8pm. Its Scelsis birthday and we will play a memorial drone for him. The call was met by Oliver Alden, Mike Bullock, James Baumgartner, Seth Cluett, James Coleman, David Dougan, David Gross, Tatsuya Nakatani, Howard Stelzer, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings. Some automatic instruments played themselves. Others may have been there, but I dont remember. And you cant really hear them anyway. Back to Late Winter 2004: I record a new track onto my 4 track in my bedroom in Allston MA. Trumpet and radio static. (DJ Screws ghost inhabited my 4 track near the end of this track.) Then I record a burning guitar solo for the end of my new and improved "One hour as..." The mono drone, the Scelsi tribute band, the trumpet/radio track and the HOTT guitar track are all mixed down from 4 track to MD under the influence of Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout. A vocal intro and headphone feedback interruptions are then added. The task is complete. Its a bloodbath. What have I done?” |
| Artist: NYOUKIS, DYLAN Title: Owl Tapes Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Two solo pieces for voice and reel to reels (well one also has oscillator), plus one interlude. Includes the first ever solo live joint. Like if Terry Riley had down syndrome when he hooked up his time-lag accumulator." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: GAS SHEPERDS Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "These uk primitives are drooling. Salivating some wild liquids, most probably brought on from licking a finish mushroom, or toad. Bedroom plucking, strange clank and paranoid electricity. Its enough to send you back to the cave, asshole." - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: Little Creeper Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Recorded live at Resonance FM. Full on duo in kick back mode, trying to burrow out of the airwaves into the listeners spine via tapes, voice, violin, oscillators, percussion and various other junk. A very pleasant magnetic headache. " - Chocolate Monk. |
| Artist: AXOLOTL Title: Prophetic Ass Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "New psych damaged batch of nocturnal hookum from Karl Bauer. Zoned out crackling, tones and sweet SK-1 blowout all brewed up into a sweet load of tingling psychic non-songs and grot beats." -Chocolate Monk |
| Artist: LEXIE MOUNTAIN Title: Stone Shit Unicorn Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "The mighty Ms Mountain, Baltimores Queen of Tape Hiss and swagger squats down and lays another fine egg of head scratch. Lowbrow tape collage of all her chops, from backyard jam band to psychic accapella damage to ear/soul laceration and further still. All executed in her own street-level avant thug style. Like the sacred mushroom this will take you beyond mangled." -Chocolate Monk |
| Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Gravel Days Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Meghan Remy continues her one woman crusade to drain all humankind of bad blood and garbage, refilling our boots with hissed out affection while dousing us in white thunder. Hear the sound of a skull full of quartz being pounded by tiny yet powerful hands and listen to her inveigling vocals, the kind of thing Phil Spector hears in his pill poping nightmares. Note to Prog logs, this baby is a short and sweet slide (19mins)." -Chocolate Monk. Previous release on Siltbreeze. |
| Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Synapse Transit Format: 3" CDR Label: Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| Artist: HIVE MIND & JOHN WIESE Title: s/t Format: 10" Label: Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Artist: ASHLEY/WALTER MARCHETTI, ROBERT Title: Oct. 25th, 2001: Merkin Concert Hall, NYC Format: Double LP Label: Choose Country: Germany Price: $55.00 |
| "Back in 2001, Thomas Buckner organized a series of concerts at Merkin Hall in New York City. The idea was to have a contemporary classic composer inviting another composer, a kind of alter-ego, to perform together. When Robert Ashley, whose concert was considered the peak of the whole series of events, decided to invite his old friend Walter Marchetti, it was immediately clear that there would have been something unforgettable going on. The night of October 25th, 2001, the audience at the Merkin Hall had the privilege of being present at one of the more dense, intimate and breathtaking sonic events in contemporary music history. Sides A and B include the live rendering of two Walter Marchetti sound works previously issued on CD by Alga Marghen. A 25-minute excerpt of Nei Mari del Sud. Musica in Secca and one painful variation from De Musicorum Infelicitate. The performance of those tape pieces was conceived as an action theatre event, the first concert of the legendary Italian composer in the States after more than 30 years! Side C includes the recording of Robert Ashleys Yes, But Is It Edible?, a composition for piano and voice dedicated to Thomas Buckner who performs it with the composer. This 27:30 min long piece is a true masterpiece, with Robert Ashley introducing us to creation and coincidence, space and time, private parts and characters, with direct references to the ONCE group and his friends David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Blue Gene Tyranny, George Manupelli, as well as Maria Callas and Patsy Cline, Elvis and Lennon, Monteverdi, pop music, Irish and Jewish new-comers Broadway musical parody of America, Lloyd-Weber, Saturday Night Life, Chinese opera, mariachi bands, country music and much more. Side D includes Practical Anarchism, a touching homage that Robert Ashley dedicated to Walter Marchetti. Previously published as a text by Alga Marghen in the booklet of the Antibarbarus CD, this is actually the first time ever that this piece for solo voice, performed by the same Robert Ashley, is made available on record. Also on side D is Musica Per un Bicchiere non Molto Grande, an early ZAJ piece by Walter Marchetti, performed here by Robert Ashley. Edition of 300 copies." - Choose. |
| Artist: NEW HUMANS Title: Undercover Format: LP Label: Circuit Country: Switzerland Price: $16.00 |
| "Color vinyl 12" "Undercover" produced with artist Philippe Decrauzat through Switzerlands Circuit. Featuring New Humans soundtrack for Decrauzats 16mm film, "A change of speed, a change of style. A change of scene; Part II". Includes solo beat track on reverse side. Jacket design collaboration by Decrauzat and Mika Tajima, and special poster insert. Brutal and concise." New Humans recently collaborated with Vito Acconci and C. Spencer Yeh. |
| Artist: Z-FACTOR Title: Dance Party Album Format: LP Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "The first release on NYC based label, Cititrax, is a re-issue of Z-Factors “Dance Party Album” (originally released in 1984, 500 copies). Fronted by Jesse Saunders and Vince Lawrence, Z-Factor formed in Chicago in 1982, at the very beginning of the house era. Comes with a retro style 9×12″ poster & pressed on 160 gram vinyl. ESSENTIAL! Hugely influenced by the Hot Mix 5 radio shows on WBMX, Z-Factor incorporated European synth-driven sounds that theyd heard on the radio with 808 rhythm tracks. This disco: the rhythms, the basslines, the spirit, made by amateurs was to become "house". Farley Jackmaster Funk recalls the early Chicago scene: "We started experimenting, playing with drum machines. Jesse Saunders was on board with me at the Playground at the time, and he was a musician. In the early days, the kick drum and the electric tom-toms of the 808 was enough to make people dance without even putting any music to it. So a lot of the stuff was just beat tracks in the beginning. Then we came to steal everybodys basslines. See, all we ever did was regurgitate disco again by just stealing everybodys music. Because all the original house stuff that came out was somebody elses bassline." But when drum and bass patterns once played by skilled musicians were copied on cheap synths that sounded like the real instruments, they didnt seem old or stolen. Stripped of their songs, these recycled riffs sounded alien and new, like raw, minimal messages transmitted from another world. It was only a matter of time before tracks started to appear on vinyl, and since Lawrences father owned Mitchbal Records, the group had their opportunity to release what is now known as the first full length house album. Nowadays, original copies of the “Dance Party Album” are very rare, and therefore expensive. And so we present to you the reissue of this important record." -Cititrax. Sidelabel of Minimal Wave. |
| 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: CLARINETTE Title: Little Fluttery Screamy Thing Format: Lathe Cut 7" & CDR Label: Clarinette Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "With 2001s "Haze" on Ecstatic Yod and the forthcoming "Transmuting Fall" on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Clarinette has confounded a few, delighted some others and remained completely unheard of by just about everyone else. Drenching everything in blankets of echo (natural and synthetic) Clarinette has effectively evaded creating anything reasonably identifiable as proper music. Dusted’s Charlie Wilmoth called Clarinette’s “Haze” “a bizarre gem of a record” describing it as “like nothing a human being would try to make on purpose”. “Haze” went on to take an impressive 916th place in The Village Voices Pazz n Jop Poll for 2002. 2004’s Little Fluttery Screamy Thing EP and its accompanying album length CD-R explore what happens when too many equipment failures crash into an unhealthy obsession with the recent DNA CD anthology. It is nearly all guitar and echo and just barely appropriate for release. Lathe cut by Peter King in New Zealand and limited to 51 copies." - Clarinette. |
| Artist: BLEEKMEN Title: Seven Inch Format: 7" Label: Classic English Womb Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Witching Hour - Field Recordings of night-time Format: CDR Label: Claudia Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "Limited edition cdr (200 copies) featuring Lau Nau, Richard Francis, Phil Dadson, Tim Coster, Paintings of Windows (Antony Milton), P. Westbourne, Un Ciego, and Felicity Ford." - Claudia. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Procession Format: 3" CDR Label: Claudia Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| Tracks by: Nigel Wright,Adam Willetts, Tim Coster, Helga Fassonaki, Mark Sadgrove. Edition of 120. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Spoken & Field Format: CDR Label: Claudia Country: New Zealand Price: $11.00 |
| Tracks by: Fuyuko Akiyoshi, Grace Blindell, Paula Booker, Oliver Campbell-Calder, Kah-Bee Chow, Fiona Connor, Tim Coster, Chris Cottrell, Zoe Drayton, Bex Ellis, ep highway, Helga Fassonaki, Finn Ferrier, Chris Fitzgerald, Richard Francis, Alicia Frankovich, Catherine Garet, Thomas Graden-Guy, Dave Hall, Sam Hamilton, Anna Jackson, Daniel Jacobson, Liana, Gaelen Macdonald, Rosy Parlane, Nova Paul, pNuomoc, Joshua Rutter, Mark Sadgrove, Nick Sala, Adam Willetts, & Erica van Zon. |
| Artist: COSTER, TIM & MARK SADGROVE Title: Untitled (23:03) Format: CDR Label: Claudia Country: New Zealand Price: $11.00 |
| "Crackles, Hisses, and drones from computers, guitar & mixer feedback." -Claudia |
| Artist: CHROME Title: Alien Soundtracks Format: LP Label: Cleopatra Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Special limited edition vinyl reissue of the seminal 1978 Chrome album -- the first to feature the aggro-guitar stylings of Helios Creed -- includes the classic Chromosome Damage and All Data Lost." -Cleopatra |
| Artist: STORUNG Title: This Is Future Format: LP/CD Label: Clogsontronics Country: Belgium Price: $30.00 |
| "Störung was brought to life In 1981 by two young individuals from Europe. Eugenius and Arian Brunwin gifted the eighties their unique style of experimental minimal wave. Both in various recordings as well as on stage. Memorable songs originating from 1981 are Radio Lines, Two Miles, Enjoy Your Leather (Jacket), Macabre, Just Too Bitter, All Bow and Dreadfull Dance. Dreadfull Dance and B side All Bow was released on single (Clogsontronics) in 1981. In 1981 en 1982, Störung toured extensively around Europe and the band gave numerous concerts and radio appearances. In 1982, the band released their first album This Is Future on Clogsontronics records." Very nice 2008 reissue of this 1982 lp, with CD. Numbered edition of 700. Previous archival 7" release on Minimal Wave. |
| Artist: ENSEMBLE PITTORESQUE Title: For This Is Past Format: LP/CD Label: Clogsontronics Country: Belgium Price: $30.00 |
| "Ensemble Pittoresque, the music collective from the early eighties representing the minimal-electro genre created two classic albums. In 1983 they released For This Is Past on Clogsontronics records. In 1984 their second album Frequenz came out. In the heart of The Hague, Paulus Wieland and Richard Neumöller hooked up with whiz technician Ton Willekes. Recordings were made from 1977 to 1984. To overcome a lack of dynamics Wieland and Neumöller later turned to three fellow musicians: Ed van Hoven, Marion Prinz and Biko." Very nice 2008 reissue of this 1983 lp, chipboard, paste-on cover with printed inner sleeve, with CD. Numbered edition of 700. Previous archival release on Minimal Wave. |
| Artist: FRANCIS, RICHARD/STEFAN NEVILLE/HOWARD STELZER/CLINTON WATKINS Title: Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
| "Side A is an improvisation recorded one evening in August 2003 by myself (Richard Francis, Eso Steel) on computer, Stefan Neville (Pumice, Stabbies Recordings etc) on drums, cartridges and buzzbox, and Clinton Watkins (Three, Doe, Whitebass etc) on guitar. Side B is piece constructed by myself and Howard Stelzer after a mail exchange using sound material recorded at the August session. Home made paper cover and insert." - CMR. |
| Artist: LUGOSI Title: Dawn Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "Lugosi existed in Wellington, New Zealand from the mid to late 1990s and consisted of players Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, With Throats As Fine As Needles, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label boss etc), Andrew Savage (Sunship) and Leon Schutz, with a guest appearance on track two by Clayton Noone (Armpit, CJA, The Strange Girls, Root Don Lonie for Cash label boss etc). Dawn is the groups only CD release to date, following a trickle of fantastic and long out of print miniature edition lathe records and cassette tapes mostly published on Kneales Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label. The six improvisations on the album were recorded in the Lower Hutt Baptist Church in 1998. With electric guitars and keyboards the group creates multiple layers of swooning feedback loops, drifting guitar notes and riffs that interweave - sculpting rich harmonic drones that fall in and out of rhythm with sprinklings of intermittent percussion. CMR is delighted to bring this set of crisp recordings out of the vaults to a wider audience of wanting ears." - CMR. |
| 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: BEHRENS, M. Title: Architectural Commentaries Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "German composer and sound artist Marc Behrens has put forth a beautiful installment of sound work for CMRs second CD release, entitled Architectural Commentaries. Marc has been working with sound (in one form or another) since 1986 and is probably most recognised for his digitally re-worked field material and composition. With a long history of installation work and live performance, he has exhibited alone and in group exhibitions; and performed live internationally in locations such as Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK. He has completed tours with fellow sound artists Francisco Lopez, Bernhard Gunter and John Duncan and has had notable CD releases on Gunters label Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Digital Narcis (Japan), Raster Music (Germany) and Intransitive Recordings (USA). Architectural Commentaries is comprised of five tracks. The first three pieces, entitled Architectural Commentaries 1-3, are some of Marcs most recent compositions arranged in 2001 using basic material recorded from 1990-2000 in various global locations. Taking title, sleeve images and sound together we are left with new audible environments for architectural structures; jets of forced air and amplified nothing, distant machinery and tiny bites of frequency, faded and cut together to create beautifully atmospheric soundscapes. Track 4 was previously released on RLWs Tulpas 5 CD set (Selektion 024) and was constructed using source material from Ralf Wehowsky. Track 5 was composed in 1992 as a soundtrack to accompany the video Der Raum by Torsten Grosch - stills of which feature on the CD sleeve. The album permits a smooth flow between Marcs earlier and more recent work and shows the artists continuing exploration into the depth and dimensions of sound recording." - CMR. |
| 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: JGRZINICH Title: Intimations Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "Sound and Video artist John Grzinich has been working under the name jgrzinich since 1995. He has performed and worked extensively throughout Europe and the US. His sound compositions have been published internationally on such labels as Staalplaat (NL), erewhon (BE), Intransitive Recordings (US), Orogenetics (US), Elevator Bath (US), Pale-Disc (JP), Digital Narcis (JP). These works consist of collaborations with mnortham, Seth Nehil and Frequency Curtain (Josh Ronsen, Rick Reed, jgrzinich). Since 1994 jgrzinich has explored various approaches to sound generation, recording and production. His techniques range from the construction of original instrument devices and the capturing of acoustic phenomenon through environmental field recordings to digital multi-tracking and manipulation. intimations is the first solo release from jgrzinich. intimations began as a series of piano recording experiments in the spring of 2001 in Austin, Texas and continued as a sonic diary of life in transit throughout Europe. The resulting CD came from a culmination of experiences, continually worked through as dynamic and personal electro-acoustic reflections. intimations is comprised of recordings from Texas, Croatia, Italy and Germany and was composed at numerous locations from the Balkans to the Baltics. The CD includes an extended essay by the composer. "These are intimations of a different kind; as if listening was no longer about finding references in a mediated culture but is about sensing the coordinates of ones position through a set of precise signals present in the environment." John Grzinich currently lives in Estonia and works as a media lab coordinator for MOKS, an NGO organization dedicated to local and international cooperation in the fields of arts, social and environmental research." - CMR. |
| Artist: COSTER. TIM Title: Rowboat/Blackberry Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "Tim Coster, hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, presents on CMR his third solo release in the form of an acetate 7". Coster is a sound artist and improviser involved in a number of different projects: Plains (see new CD on www.scarcelight.org), his record label CLaudia (see www.cmr.co.nz/acroma for available releases), and solo practice recording works for CD, sound installation and performance. Working primarily with field recordings and various instruments Coster concentrates on short segments of recorded sound which he dissects, processes and loops. Over these he adds granular tones, field hums and live crackles creating delicate and peaceable sound works. This acetate is produced by Peter King in Mt Somers, NZ and shows Coster at his more musical, with two fantastic 5min songs showing his talent in the subtle mixing of tone and texture." - CMR. |
| Artist: ENGLISH,LAWRENCE & RICHARD FRANCIS Title: LERFAUSNZNWSD12006/LERFAUSNZNWSD22006 Format: 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| "This record was produced as part of an English/Francis collaborative sound installation for the Melbourne Next Wave Festival, 2006. Source sounds were recorded from old sound recording and playback equipment (gramophone, record players, magnetic tape machines, acetate and vinyl records, radio static). Recordings were exchanged and manipulated, resulting in two tracks pressed to vinyl." - CMR. Edition of 100 copies. Actual vinyl, NOT a lathe cut. |
| Artist: FRANCIS, RICHARD/ANTHONY GUERRA/MATTIN/JOEL STERN Title: Format: 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| "Two 5 minute cuts excerpted from about 3 hours of material. Recorded on 10 March, 2004 at the Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland, NZ when Anthony, Mattin and Joel were on their NZ tour. Richard Francis - computer, electronics, field recordings, Anthony Guerra - electric guitar, electronics, Mattin - computer feedback, Joel Stern - electronics, field recordings. edition of 250 copies. blue textured paper outer sleeve with grey screen print, brown paper inner sleeve." - CMR. |
| Artist: HOMETOWN FEILDING Title: Clouds Across The Bay Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $14.50 |
| "Mark Sadgrove is the man behind Hometown Feilding, as well as his other excellent solo sound project MHFS. He‚s also one part of Infinitesimal, one sixth of Plains etc. Hometown Feilding is defined by rough textural electronic sound generated by Sadgrove‚s mastery of sound generation application C-Sound which he uses to twist sounds in on themselves - like a hard drive driven to self mutilation. Great stuff, especially cut by Peter Kings lathe machine to polycarbonate plastic in mono." - CMR. |
| Artist: SCI HI Title: Lab Recordings Format: Lathe Cut 7"/CDR Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $18.50 |
| "Sci Hi is the moniker of musician and sound artist Paul Winstanley. Paul has been active for many years in numerous incarnations while in Texas and Auckland, New Zealand including P.H., LoCasta, Artificial Subterrane, Speed Cook, Paul Guilford from The Dave Dove Paul Duo, and more recently in Auckland groups such as Audible 3 and Plains. The Sci Hi sound is made from digital feedback. Sci Hi is like a school of small fish where each fish is represented by a tiny sine wave rising or falling in pitch. PW jumps in the middle of the school and all the little fishys go scattering in every direction, creating beautifully complex, multi-layered clouds of sound." - CMR. |
| Artist: HAMILTON, SAM Title: Tropics Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
| "two lovely looping tracks made from electric guitar, sampler pedal, spring reverb, computer and lathe. Music thats perfectly suited to the format, loops that shift and change over the 4 mins or so per side. When the records came back I wasnt sure if my old Garrard was sticking on a groove or playing the piece. It was playing, nice... Sam is currently in South America on various recording projects, an old bio below: sitting free from the shallow waters of borderline music, watching stones sink and demanding rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty in the ripples: "hey dickhead,your guitar is out of tune!"" - CMR. Edition of 45. |
| Artist: HUTCHINSON, IAN-JOHN Title: An Utterbook Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
| "An Utterbook is fantastic and features one track made from combinations of various field recordings of birds, train stations, hums and noises, beautifully combined. The other piece is a recording of that described below ("integrating utterances into various sound environments") as Ian-John wanders around the streets of Taipei, check it out....top stuff. CMRs first primarily field recording based release for quite some time (since K Mizutani and R Meelkop CDs)" - CMR. "Developing from an interest in poetry Ian-John began making field recordings in the late 90s, making collages with both a journalistic, documentary ethos and a flavour of audio-book narration…and none of the above. Subsequently he has developed a fascination with the linguistic and extra-linguistic vocal products (utterance objects) of various social situations, an interest amplified through exposure to the sound environments of Taiwan and Japan. One strategy is a performance practise of integrating utterances into various sound environments e.g. hes that nutter in the street wearing headphones and talking into an expensive looking microphone. Starting in 2003 he has published a short series of field recordings of utterance objects collected around particular themes under the title Utterbooks ?? . Ian-John is an active member of the Auckland improvised music network Vitamin-S, and is a contributor to the online archive soundtransit.nl." - artist bio. Edition of 45. |
| Artist: FRANKLIN Title: Life Circle Format: Double LP Label: Cocodrilo Country: Spain Price: $45.00 |
| "Franklin were one of the first underground bands from Spain, formed in the late 60s by some of the best musicians based in Madrid at the time. Fuelled by the killer guitars of Pablo Weeber and Antonio Gª De Diego, they only recorded two sought after & excellent hard-psych 45s (the first one, containing their psyched to the max cover of the Stones Satisfaction was recently included on the Andergraun Vibrations comp). In 1974, the band recorded a whole album which was never released until now. Their new line-up for those sessions featured two drummers and a new keyboard player. Life Circle is a conceptual album which sounds more prog-rock than their previous 45s, in fact we must say this is a must for anyone into Spanish progressive sounds. Nine tracks full of hard guitar, mini-Moog, Mellotron, analog keyboards, some spacey and experimental-symphonic passages, English vocals. Titles like Renaissance, Intro for Cosmic Body, Takeoff. Double vinyl set, 500 copies limited, featuring the whole Franklin output: their two 45s, the unreleased Life Circle album remastered from the master tapes and a couple of rare live tracks. Includes insert with liner notes and photos."-Cocodrilo |
| Artist: TOLL Title: Christ Knows Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "A first-time-on-CD reissue of the legendary Christ Knows LP released by Broken Flag in 1986. Featuring TIM GANE (STEREOLAB) and PAUL LEMOS (CONTROLLED BLEEDING), and PACIFIC 231, the album is a classic of old-school British industrial. Features the complete Christ Knows LP, along with three previously unreleased bonus tracks. Thirteen songs in all. Imported from the UK." |
| Artist: SUTCLIFFE JUGEND/SATORI Title: Split Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Limited Japanese tour CD. |
| Artist: PRURIENT Title: Black Post Society Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "The Black Post Society embraces and accepts the depression of not having anything left to hunt. The mask without a face to hold. The depression of the hunter after the deer is killed. It is better to be hungry than to have eaten. As fantasy shatters under the whip of reality, erotic malaise settles in the nest of the mind inverting this dormant fuel to rekindle the endless cycle of sexual chaos. Black Industrial / Power Noise from this highly respected US act!" -Cold Spring |
| Artist: COLONIAL, THE Title: #1 Format: Mag Label: Colonial, The Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Impressive debut issue of this journal from LA, this issue focussing on "Sound and Music". 124 pages, half full-color art-mag style, 1/2 b&w literary journal/fanzine style. Great design and approach, approximately half photography, half rumination, feels all right." - FE. Contents: "Ian Svenonius reconsiders Dylan. Alan Licht talks improv via Stan Brakhage. Oliver Hall talks noise with Yellow Swans and John Wiese. Rick Potts offers the first in a two-part epic on the Los Angeles Free Music Society. Kent Jones gets atonal on Robert Bresson. Michael Bracewell, Jon Wilde, and Stuart Bailey look at Mark E. Smith through the lens of the Vorticists. And Diedrich Diederichsen talks about the post-punk filmmaking of Mathias Poledna. Plus: Finnish folk, Luc Ferrrari, Ira Cohen, Ron Rege Jr, Richard Prince, and anagram record reviews." - Colonial. |
| Artist: RUST IONICS Title: Moving/Pictures Format: LP Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Moving/Pictures" marks the first vinyl release on Colour Sounds Recordings, and drummer Adam Kriney declares "This is the most insane record Ive ever recorded", nuff said? A black sheet of improvised sonic skull-fuckery from the depths of the most mind-splitting free-noise/brutal-jazz movement, brought to you by the ad-hoc first/only recording of RUST IONICS, the trio of freak drummer Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS/LA OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/CASTANETS), electric guitar wizard Doug Theriault (OFFICE PRODUCTS/DUAL, collab-er with Wally Shoup/Jeph Jerman/Brian Eubanks), and extreme sax-ist Ed Chang (DUAL/SPIN-17/AGENTS At MIDNIGHT, collab-er with Marshall Allen/Ravi Padmanabha). Full on grindcore/metal scapes clashed with fiercely extended saxaphone use and a dynamic whirl of free-improvisational magic, all together a blinding force, a drugged memory, and a leave-no-survivors presense. Comes on gorgeous transparent blue vinyl in a limited edition of 311 copies. Recommended for fans of BORBETOMAGUS, Keiji Haino, PAINKILLER, and Peter Brotmann10s more extreme work." - Colour Sounds. |
| Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: The Risk Of Gravitation Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| “The Risk Of Gravitation is the stunning new Summer 08 Tour mini-album by Brooklyns LA OTRACINA, who have long wandered and forged sounds in the hidden lands of heavy psychedelia and progressive space music. This 7 track 32+ minute excursion is a major paradigm shift for the group as drummer Adam Kriney is now on vocal duties as well, adding yet another layer of epic intensity to the swirling chaos of Evan Sobels Fender Bass VI low-end destruction and new guitarist Philippe Ortanezs ecstatically angular bliss-out. This disc shifts between tracks of classic LA OTRACINA free-form freakout brilliance and their current vocal-heavy jams, which put the progressive psych back into early heavy metal while exploring realms of dark doom-sludge thunder and the graceful complexity of early Canterbury jazz-rock. Refusing to be quantified, it is clear that LA OTRACINA remain in an orbit of their own, seeking out the cosmic weird and channeling it through hard rock power! First press limited edition of 100 numbered copies." - Colour Sounds Recordings |
| Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Gardens Of Blackness Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A CD-R version of the now out-of-print cassette released last year on the Digitalis Ltd label. Adventures in psychedelic sound collage, improvised meditations, and sky-soaring ambient textures of LA OTRACINAs boundless sonic universe. 3 songs, 21 minutes, professionally printed CD-rs and full color inserts, limited edition of 50!" -Colour Sounds |
| Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Woven Wanderers Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "BRAND NEW STUDIO ALBUM! Yes, these sonic spacemen have just finished yet another studio album, this one channeling yet even newer ideas into their boundless sphere of psychedelic transmissions! Quite different from their current "space-metal" live show, this new studio album swirls between worlds of loner cosmic psych-folk meditations, 70s european electronic-progressive space music (i.e. - HELDON/TANGERINE DREAM/CLUSTER/SPACECRAFT/PULSAR), overblown freak-rock improvisation and heavy-dark-brooding New Music-meets-Industrial sound-collage mind warp! 9 songs, 35 minutes, professionally printed CD-Rs and full color inserts, 1st edition of 100!" - Colour Sounds. |
| Artist: TREES Title: On the Shore Format: CD Label: Columbia Country: UK Price: $13.50 |
| "Formed in 1969, folk/rock quintet Trees used a similar blueprint to that pioneered by Fairport Convention, whose influence was unsurprisingly evident in the two Trees albums made for CBS and both released in 1970, The Garden of Jane Delawney , and On The Shore . The most obvious similarity to Fairport was that both groups had a female vocalist, Sandy Denny of Fairport and Celia Humphris. The other members of Trees on the two albums were Bias (short for Tobias) Boshell (bass guitar on the first album and also keyboard player on the second), lead guitarist Barry Clarke, David Costa (12 string and acoustic guitars, dulcimer, mandolin, etc.) and Unwin Brown (drums)" |
| Artist: UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS, YUYA Title: Challenge! Format: CD Label: Columbia Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| "Legit reissue with mini-LP style packaging; includes 5 bonus tracks. "First incarnation of the legendary Japanese hard prog psych rock act Flower Travellin Band. Debut album by Yuya Uchida & The Flowers which was started by Yuya Uchida (born on 17 November 1939) who already was making some rockabilly singles in the early 60s and was one of the opening performers when The Beatles came to Japan in 1966. But when he traveled to Europe in 1967, he was immediately inspired by Cream, Jimi Hendrix and The Who. When he returned to Japan, he started the band The Flowers with vocalist Remi Aso, and the band caused a sensation in the Japanese music scene. Most of the tracks on this album are covers of songs by Cream, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, and one original song." - Columbia. |
| Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: A Rainbow In Curved Air Format: LP Label: Columbia Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "180 gram exact repro reissue of this minimalist masterpiece, originally released in 1969. "All the music on this recording is played by Terry. In A Rainbow he plays electric organ, electric harpsichord, rocksichord, dumbec and tambourine. Poppy Nogood is for soprano saxophone and electric organ. The spatially separated mirror images were adapted for studio recording by Glen Kolotkin and resemble the sound Terry gets in his all-night concerts." -Columbia |
| Artist: O ROURKE, JIM Title: Corona - Tokyo Realization Format: CD Label: Columbia Japan Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
| Japanese-only release of two studio performances of Toru Takemitsus "Corona", performed by Jim ORourke. "Corona for pianist(s)" (1962), played by ORourke on piano, Hammond organ & Fender Rhodes. Recorded in Tokyo, 2006. "To be performed, Takemitsus score must be realized, either ahead of time or improvisationally; what ORourke plays here is his own Tokyo realization of the piece; there is also a well known London version recorded by Roger Woodward in 1973, reissued on CD in 2006 by Explore Records." --Seth Tisue. Booklet includes a 34 x 48 cm foldout print of a 1969 painting by Fumio Nambata. "An eloquent recording, one of the most crystalline of ORourkes serious works; with packaging to match." - Forced Exposure |
| Artist: NECROPOLIS Title: Song for a Working Man b/w Cocksuckerbastardmotherfucker Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Its not every record that makes you question the bands sanity. I can only imagine what Necropolis shows are like. They sound like fucking 19th century lunatics (but on guitars, drums, and keyboards instead of opium pipe). Seriously."- Rocket Reducer Edition of 500 |
| Artist: NECROPOLIS Title: The Hackled Ruff & Shoulder Mane Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The sound of frozen fire and brimstone hits the streets just in time for summer! Necropoliss long-awaited debut long-player is nothing short of a triumph-a true encapsulation of their pummeling live show. A neon punk album with hints of pre-Fontana Pere Ubu, Lee Scratch Perry, the Stooges Funhouse, and that first B-52s album. But seriously...theres nothing else quite like this one. Edition of 500" - Columbus Discount |
| Artist: NECROPOLIS Title: The Hackled Ruff & Shoulder Mane Format: CD Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The sound of frozen fire and brimstone hits the streets just in time for summer! Necropoliss long-awaited debut long-player is nothing short of a triumph-a true encapsulation of their pummeling live show. A neon punk album with hints of pre-Fontana Pere Ubu, Lee Scratch Perry, the Stooges Funhouse, and that first B-52s album. But seriously...theres nothing else quite like this one. Edition of 500" - Columbus Discount |
| Artist: PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT Title: Who Let The Dogs Out Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Armed with acoustic guitars that sound like trash cans, keyboards that sound like acoustic guitars and drums that sound like cardboard boxes, Psychedelic Horseshit quickly made a name for themselves in the current Columbus, OH lo-fi/punk rock revival. This is their first offering on vinyl. Equal parts Dylan and the Fall, Who Let the Dogs Out is a great example of Horseshits dissafected brand of fuck-all." - Columbus Discount. Repressed! |
| Artist: NIGHT OF PLEASURE Title: Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "The official debut (a demo tape, recorded by Jared Phillips, had been circulating for a few years now) from Pleasure in the form of the Godard vs. Truffaut 7". Its the most "Columbus" sounding thing CDR has put out probably ever, which if youve been paying attention is quite a feat. Three tracks of varying fidelity, all pushed to maximum redness with plenty of swing and speed like the Turks loved to do it. Singer Jim Cowman sounds like a classic Cbus frontman: muffled, literate and pissed at your utter stupidity. Pick this one up if you forgot where the best punk scene of the 90s existed."-Doug Elliott |
| Artist: NECROPOLIS Title: Stumpf b/w Van v. Art Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Artist: JAY, TOMMY Title: Tall Tales Of Trauma Format: CD Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The long-awaited reissue of the 1986 Old Age/No Age cassette, Tall Tales of Trauma. A collection of DIY barn and basement-recorded classic from 10 years (out of 30) worth of recording by TOMMY JAY-member/songwriter and co-producer of EGO SUMMIT, MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS, and the (Ohio) TRUE BELIEVERS. The tracks are of a musical dark matter, an unseen cosmic force connecting 1970s Ohio punk/folk 4-track experiments to the Cowtown lo-fi explosion of the early-90s and beyond. Limited edition of 500 copies on both formats. CD includes eight bonus tracks."- Columbus Discount |
| Artist: UNHOLY TWO Title: Kutter b/w Porkys Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "“Kutter” starts out in some plodding, kind of questionable James Williamson Stooge Explosion action, but once it lets loose it gets fucking crazy – fast rhythm and totally solid riffs, hurdled back and forth with reverb and delay, and benefiting from very sympathetic post-production. Buzzsaw jammer, will rock. Not too sure about “Porkys” as it points into a Lightning Bolt/Dan Deacon sorta artjock thing, but the same production and killer mixing helps this one out too as it gets going. A pure noise-rock single in 2008, right down to the offensive cover art; everything old is new again. Pretty rad." -Doug Mosurak...Dustedmagazine.com |
| Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: Songs The Grackles Liked Format: 12" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "After a rather lengthy hold up in manufacturing, the new Mike Rep & The Quotas EP, Songs The Grackles Liked, is finally in stock. It is a 45RPM 12" EP. It contains the Quotas takes on Tommy Jays I Was There (which appeared on last years Tommy Jays Tall Tales of Trauma (LP/CD), T.A. Laffterys Time on My Hands, An early 70s Tommy Jay gem called Im Goin Down and Reps own Lemuria. Its the first new Rep record since 2005s Black Hole Rock and the first on vinyl since 2001s Mama Was A Schitzo, Daddy Was A Vegetable Man / Rocket Music On." -Columbus Discount |
| Artist: PILLOW TALK Title: Downtown Unga Wunga Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "While we working out the details of the upcoming debut LP from Deathly Fighter, the tape of this DF side project struck a chord with us so much that we sent it of to press within the next few days. Dual synths and a hardcore singer warbling with Trashmen ooo-maumau gusto, or better yet, as our own BJ Holesapple declares: "Suicide if Suicide was Flipper." Six songs and a skit. Edition of 500." -Columbus Discount |
| Artist: OUTER SPACIST Title: The Mind Is As Outer Space Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Outer Spacist play a pummeling style of punk rock that sounds like Wayne County fronting Simply Saucer (or maybe weird period of early Alice Cooper). They have had a large cult of townies going giggly for years now. We approached them to do a single a long long time ago and for a while it seemed like a project that would never be realized, but lo and behold our day has come! The A-side has the band rockin heavy like the herd of Chocolate Watchband obsessives that they are, but the B-side is a steady trip that brings to the front the bizarre mind of their frontman DARTAGNON JONES KLETTING SALT, a man who truly escapes a singular adjective. Featuring members of Night of Pleasure and Day Creeper. Edition of 500." -Columbus Discount |
| Artist: EL JESUS DE MAGICO Title: Scalping The Guru Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "We asked El Jesus for a new album this past summer and a few months later they submitted this unusual album that was the most Jim Shepard-like thing that we had heard in a long time. While it doesnt necessarily sound like Shepard, its one of those dark records that lives within its own time and space, an epic work that couldnt be a further departure from their past (and more song-oriented) releases." -Columbus Discount |
| Artist: EL JESUS DE MAGICO Title: Klip Aught Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Lets start with a re-cap of the discography of El Jesus De Magico. Theres the crust punk rental property destroying Scratch Acid-ish x-tendo jams of their first CD, and theres the underground Taiwanese jungle kick boxing circuit bending chants of their last LP. Theres the darker side of Flying Nun indie by way of Skin Graft on their Unclean Ghost single and theres the AM radio conspiracy theorist Kennedy family bad vibes occultism of their Funeral Home Sessions E.P. And now theres this...KLIP AUGHT, their 3rd single and 5th release. This record swings from Spacemen 3 to Jesus and Mary Chain to Dinosaur Jr to the Puddle to Mayo Thompson without a lot of effort. All of the weirdness is distills into a single that hangs around in the neighborhood of their earlier singles. A tight pop music take on a thousand-million little bits of twenty-five years of underground music, all kind of run through the energy you get from recording and practicing around ghosts, corpses, milk crates full of fan club vinyl and pictures of obscure American Aristocrats in a downtown funeral home in Columbus, OH. This is another excellent single by a band that continues to build a remarkable and confounding discography." - Columbus Discount. |
| Artist: EYE, YAMATAKA Title: Re... Remix? Format: CD Label: Commmons Country: Japan Price: $34.00 |
| "Japanese-exclusive compilation of remix works by Yamataka Eye! Features various remixes that Eye has done over the past decade (most impossible to track down individually) of the likes of Gong, OOIOO, Atami, Flare (Ken Ishii), etc. Tracklisting: Walrus: "Moth (remixed by Eye)"; DJ Pica Pica Pica: "Spa"; Boat: "African Dawn Remix"; Flare (Ken Ishii): "Turbinates"; NXS: "Sleeper" (Micro Forest Mix 2000); Zeebra: "Smokin At The Lobby (Your Turn) (Magic Mushroom Mix)"; Gong: "Master Builder (EYE Mix) ; Wrench: "Cosmic Hierarchy (EYE remix)"; OOIOO: "Asozan" (EYE Mix)"; Atami: "Nightingale (x-mas mix)"; Black Drop Bomb: "When The Man Have Realized The Sound-Flow (its like that)" plus one more were too incompetent to figure out. Maybe its Kawamoto Makotos version of "Gimme Shelter"? One artist originally announced (Black Dice) didnt seem to make the final cut."- Commmons |
| Artist: YOSHIMIO Title: Yunnan Colorfree Format: CD/DVD Label: Commmons Country: Japan Price: $47.00 |
| "Japanese-only exclusive release, packaged in deluxe gatefold digipak. Yoshimio features Yoshimi from Boredoms/OOIOO w/guest vocals by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth (which includes a cover of "Death Valley 69"). Musically its mostly a solo release by Yoshimi (featured on steel guitar, vocals, shell syntheizer, percussions, electric guitar, shaker, bell, whistle, drum machine, keyboards, drums, field recordings, etc.). The music is a soundtrack to a documentary movie of the same name; the movie focuses on the women of Yunnan, a remote area in southern China -- near Tibet, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. This movie (which is included as the DVD in this 2 disc set) is 42 minute film with various street shots of these Yunnan woman -- in the markets, looking at food, in the fields and just standing around in total elegance, in the most colorful clothing imaginable -- with no-narration or overt linear intention. Not exactly Sublime Frequencies style, but not that far off, either! And Yoshimios ethno-trance soundtrack works perfectly. DVD is NTSC region free; Color; Stereo."- Commmons |
| Artist: BOREDOMS Title: Super Roots 9 Format: CD Label: Commons Country: Japan Price: $30.00 |
| "Japanese-only edition. First release from The Boredoms "Super Roots" CD series in nearly 8 years featuring live audio from the bands Christmas 2004 concert. Being the first live album from the band, this CD also includes a deluxe booklet with sheet music and a live photo collection. 3 songs, 35 minutes in all. The line-up was: "3 drums sets, 1 turntable, 2 DJs & 24 Choir." Oversize jewel-case packaging and great Eye-artwork, as always." - Commons. |
| Artist: BOREDOMS Title: Live At Sun Flancisco Format: CD/DVD Label: Commons Country: Japan Price: $52.00 |
| "2-disc Japanese-only release, from the same label that gave us Super Roots 9. The DVD features a 65-minute live performance, recorded in San Francisco, May 19th, 2005. The line up is Eye on vocals and electronics and general WTF, plus a circle of 3 drummers. The bonus CD features 2 new tracks: "U-bus" & "Relerer". The CD is a short EP, only about 11 minutes long. The info we received says: CD: "Yamataka Eye Original Breakbeats. DVD: Boredoms (V∞REDOMS) live DVD." The DVD is NTSC format, all regions, for worldwide play. Approx 65 mins., Color, 4:3 aspect ratio." -Commons. |
| Artist: BOREDOMS Title: 77 Boa Drum Format: Double CD/DVD Label: Commons Country: Japan Price: $117.00 |
| "Japanese-only live CD release from Boredoms featuring audio from their 77 Boa Drum performance July 7, 2007 in New York on two CDs. Also includes a bonus photo book and DVD. "Deluxe package containing the full 100-minute 77 Boa Drum performance on 2 CDs, split at the point in between the two sections of the piece. The two CDs are housed inside the front and back covers of a lovely 8"x12" hardcover book containing 28 pages of full color photos from the event. Also included is a DVD (NTSC format, All Region) including approximately 20 minutes of short segments from the performance. The presentation on this is truly top-notch. Its easily the most extravagant Boredoms artifact since 1999s Vision Creation Newsun box. The performance itself is an extraordinary example of the modern-day Boredoms approach to sprawling, rhythmic psychedelia. Their current lineup of three drummers (including mainstay Yoshimi P-We) plus EYE on electronics and vocals is further bolstered by an all-star cast of 74 additional drummers, including Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle, ex-Black Dice), Kid Millions (Oneida), Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear), Tim DeWitt (ex-Gang Gang Dance), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band), Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, Lumen), Sara Lund (Unwound), Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs), Josh Madell (Antietam) and Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) at #77." -ning nong |
| Artist: PALMER, CLIVE Title: All Roads Lead To Land Format: CD Label: Communion Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A founding member of The Incredible String Band, Clive Palmer is a virtuoso banjo player and distinguished folk musician who has recorded at least three (still sort of "lost") classic albums with ensembles C.O.B. (Clives Original Band) and The Famous Jug Band. Palmer has been in several other mythical bands, and has released a selection of awe-inspiring solo albums all the way up to the present time. Ten of the songs constituting All Roads Lead To Land were recorded during a 1999 session with two additional tracks culled from previous UK-only releases. The songs were picked by Steve Fellows, assigned songselector for an overview retrospective of Palmers long and varied career. However, upon hearing the 1999 sessions, it was decided that these magical tracks, previously unreleased, stood up with the best of his previously released material and deserved to be heard. Considering the high quality of Palmers previous work, this cannot be considered faint praise." - Communion. |
| Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS Title: The Galaxies Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field... Format: CD Label: Communion Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Artist: CARDBOARD SAX/WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT Title: Split Format: LP Label: Community College Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "CARDBOARD SAX is Holly (Uneven Universe), Dan (Uneven Universe, Haunted Castles, Body Morph), and Olson (Wolf Eyes, Graveyards, Dead Machines) on saxs and electronics. Amazing use of space and restraint on this killer LP debut. Haunting excursions into the dark basement sax damage happening across Michigan these days. Perfect recording and a great example to introduce this trio to the world outside the midwest. WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT is Jon Lorenz and John Rich repping Cincinati s Art Damage Lodge and ripping the B side up with their scathing sax assault. Walls of feedback and distorted jazz take you on a 16 minute ride of beautiful destruction. Artwork by JASON ZEH 33rpm, Limited to 300 copies on Black Vinyl." -- Community College. |
| Artist: UNITS Title: History Of The Units: The Early Years 1977-1983 Format: CD Label: Community Library Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "Community Library is proud to bring you the first ever legitimate reissue of San Franciscos synth-punk legends, Units! You can finally get rid of the crappy bootlegs: this is the definitive remastered collection of the bands most sought-after early singles and selections from their first LP, Digital Stimulation. It also includes unreleased material culled from early demos, recordings made for art happenings and film, and more. This anthology is a view not only into the Units seminal years, but is also a step into the rich and under-reissued history of San Franciscos punk, new wave and post punk years. The end of the 1970s saw Units and their compatriots (Pink Section, Voice Farm, Tuxedomoon, and Screamers) storming punk clubs like the Mabuhay with a new electronic punk sound. The co-opted, predictable guitar rock of the era had given way to aggressive synthesizers, film collage, and punk DIY ingenuity. Units were a cornerstone of this unofficial movement, later called synth punk and which would come to define a greater west coast DIY culture combining new synthetic sounds, ranging from Nervous Gender, Screamers and Monitor, to The Blackouts. Units tight keyboard riffing, raw electronic texture, monotone delivery, raging synth arpeggios and growling Moog basslines practically define synthpunks futuristic, alienated disposition. Thematically, Units music explored and exploded the very nature of unit-like conformity- perhaps using their synth blasts to tear away the very fabric of it. This compilation includes High Pressure Days, a testament to the loneliness and urgency of the times, and one of synthpunks greatest anthems. Like other bands of their era, Units musical language did not end with the three chords of punk or the drama of new wave. Many of the songs here clairvoyantly anticipate the rise of underground pulse driven electronic dance music (Cannibals, Warm Moving Bodies). Others feature complex arrangements, almost embodying an epic prog-rock ethic (I-5, Tight Fit.) Unlike Suicide and DEVO--their contemporaries from the east coast--San Franciscos Units are overwhelmingly Californian in their sound and ideas - whether its a satire of drag-racing car culture (Go) or a celebration of SFs Mission district (The Mission is Bitchin). The demos and film soundtracks included here further highlight the bands significant influence from experimental synthesizer music from a community that bore Buchla synths and Chris Burdens performance art at the height of the 60s, ten years earlier. Even Californian heavy guitar/hair rockers Trakstod Station get an ironic nod in the rare Units cover of Contemporary Emotions. We hope you enjoy this anthology, the results of over three years of negotiation, selection, and remastering." Includes an amazingly assembled 32-page booklet with a wealth of info, full-color band photos, artwork and more." -Community Library |
| Artist: TWEDDLE, CHARLIE Title: The Fantastic Greatest Hits by Eilrahc Elddewt Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Charlie Tweddles album The Fantastic Greatest Hits by Eilrahc Elddewt is an outsider folk gem. Try to imagine Bob Dylans unreleased basement tapes with the Band accompanied by French musique concrete composer Luc Ferraris masterpiece of natural sound Presque Rien, and youll get an idea of the brilliance to be found on this privately pressed, head-scratchingly amazing opus of Appalachian psychedelia. Originally from Kentucky, Tweddle found himself ensconced in the Haight-Ashbury scene in the late-60s where he experimented with a good deal of LSD." - Other Music. "Reissue of eccentric folk artist Charlie Tweddles self-released 1974 LP Fantastic Greatest Hits, a unique blend of psychedelic country and tape experiments. Charlie felt sure his new style of music would take the world by storm -- it didnt work out that way. Recorded in 1971, 500 copies of Fantastic Greatest Hits were pressed in 1974 under the name Eilrahc Elddewt with extravagant packaging. The LP was hand-distributed and received only minimal positive feedback; sales were poor. Why? Well for one, side two of the album is 25 minutes of chirping crickets and sound fragments. The abrupt patches of dead air on side one probably didnt help much either. More than a few of these albums were returned as defective. Of course, all of these production moves were intentional. The CD was transferred from a copy of the original album. It includes six unreleased tracks from the same period as well as all of the original artwork in a fold-out digipak." - Companion. "One of the more significant outsider 70s albums to finally get a reissue. Originally recorded in 1971 and rarely ever seen, never previously bootlegged even. High quality digipak packaging, with 6 bonus tracks." - FE. Highly Recommended! |
| Artist: NEW CREATION, THE Title: Troubled Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Welcome to the first commercial release of Troubled, the sole output from Vancouver, British Columbias all-but-forgotten Jesus rock trio, the New Creation. Originally pressed in 1970 in the vinyl LP format in a limited run, this album never quite made it out of its hometown borders. It would be another two or three decades before anyone outside of the groups small circle would hear it at all. The obscurity of this album is impossible to overstate. Only 100 vinyl copies were ever produced and none were available commercially. The New Creation were partly inspired by the music of the Jesus People movement, a Christian adaptation of the 60s movement, which shared the same Haight-Ashbury district birthplace. Jesus People patterned their language, fashion, and music after their hippie neighbors in an attempt to update their expression of faith. This street level movement gained mainstream media exposure around 1970 and within a year cover stories ran in Newsweek, Life, and U.S. News and World Report. Musicians in this scene plotted their own course in an attempt to counteract what they saw as the destructive themes in much of mainstream rock music. Acts born out of this grassroots movement would inspire believers worldwide to cut their own record -- contract or no contract." - Companion. "A showcase of raw, inventive musicality. Categorically, its -- I dunno -- Sixties Garage Godcore? Yet it transcends being a mere period piece. The songwriting is deliriously brilliant, the lyrical perspective haunting. The bands sincerity is unquestionable, even if its meters are unfathomable." - Irwin Chusid. |
| 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: LUIE LUIE Title: Touchy Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Some years ago, a Los Angeles area collector stumbled across an orphaned copy of Touchy in a thrift store. It was shared through tape trading networks and bootlegged on vinyl -- now, Companion Records is proudly offering this first official Touchy CD release. Luie Luie has to be the most jaw-dropping one-man band lounge act found to date. Touchy serves as a conceptual dance album, an experimental album, as well as a sort of healing LP for 60s burn-outs. What can his music be compared to? Nothing that we know of. Luis Johnston is a Southern California screenwriter, painter, and musician whos spent the past 30 years working in almost complete obscurity. But hes also written and starred in a feature film and shaken hands with Elvis Presley. Luie has been playing live at various restaurants, lounges, and country clubs for three decades and is still going strong. He released a handful of 45s in the 70s and one full-length LP, Touchy in 1974. And he continues to record unknown quantities of yet-to-be-released CDs. This deluxe CD version is housed in a digipak sleeve, includes 2 Touchy buttons, a 20-page booklet with rare photos, concert flyers, art work, and a new introduction from Luie himself which sheds some light on his original inspiration for the album." - Companion |
| Artist: ORGANUM Title: Submission Format: CD Label: Complacency Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| “Led by David Jackman, this legendary UK avant-noise outfits first album, released as a limited edition LP of 500 copies on the United Dairies label in 1987, is finally out on CD. Features performances by Nurse With Wounds Steven Stapleton, with Andrew Chalk and Dinah Jane Rowe. Haunting drones, moans and tortured screeching, as well as flute, bowed cymbal, environmental sounds, bells and mysterious acoustics.” – Complacency. 1994 CD reissue. |
| Artist: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS Title: Live In Tokyo + Osaka, 1996 Format: CD Label: Compound Annex Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "Live recordings of DAM performances in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, from 1996. This 17 track, 72-minute CD contains early revamped DAM classics of You Cant Kill Kill and Evil Works, plus many newer exotic oddities like Indecipherable and Show No Shame. Included are cover versions of The Seeds 900 Million People Daily All Making Love and the most bizarre cover yet of Jon Andersons Yes classic, Clear Day. Stretching out into spacey sonic territory, DAM attacks live in Japan at their crusty best with original founding members Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and Cary Loren supported by Art Byington and Dave Muller." - Compound Annex |
| Artist: PENS/GRAFFITI ISLAND/MALE BONDING Title: Three Way Split Format: Cass Label: Conan Country: UK Price: $6.50 |
| Only a few of these available! Pens release next year on Destijl. |
| Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Floor Child Format: Double CD Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "floor child is a collection of field recordings, home assemblies and live documentations organized and mutated by New York based composer and improviser Carter Thornton. Spanning five years and two CDs, this initial release from the fictional collective of Zashiki-Warashi is sewn together with appearances by members of NNCK, Izititiz, Enos Slaughter, Floriculture and TEST. The music shrieks, drones, floats, superimposes unlikely realities and outlines a subconscious narrative inspired by travels ranging from a South Carolina swamp to a Moroccan graveyard. A mix of shortwave transmissions, ukuleles, bowed and plucked strings, distant drums and voices, nearby birds and guitars, chanting crowds and not quite discernable sounds recorded in places as diverse as a Texas parking lot, Harlems Hinthouse, Roulette Intermedium and a Virginia old folks home. Presented in hand painted sleeves. Limited to a pressing of 502." - Conduit Creations. |
| Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Meat N 3 Format: Cass Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The first cassette release in a small series. Archival material including various home and field recordings, pieces for radio, water, prepared guitar, rooftop performance and voice. C60 limited to 50 copies. Hand painted/cut cloth/scratched plastic covers." - Conduit Creations. Zashiki-Warashi is New York based composer and improviser Carter Thornton (Izititiz, Enos Slaughter, etc..). |
| Artist: KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA & CARTER THORTON Title: Shrine Format: LP Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Shrine presents a Summer of 2004, post-midnight, outdoor field recording made on the footpaths of Japan’s largest Shinto shrine and documents the first time meeting of Japanese improvising duo Kuwayama-Kijima with NYC’s Carter Thornton (Izititiz, Zashiki-Warashi, Enos Slaughter). Constructed with a mixture of cellos, violins, guitars, sticks, leaves, rocks, toys, security guards and wind, the music drones, hisses, screeches and whines with the humid Japanese dark within which it was created. Limited to 500 vinyl copies." - Conduit Creations. |
| Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Garbage Archive Vol. II - Pulp Bulb Format: Cass Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "The second cassette release in a small series which covers the last ten years of activity. Volume II includes live cello performances, Texas sounds, harsh gurglings, broken piano in defunct bar hallways, basement duels with Count Hejnowski and much more. C60 limited to 50 copies. Hand painted/cut cloth packaging." - Conduit Creations. |
| Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Mail Wars Format: LP Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In 2004 the Zashiki Warashi organization began sending out pieces of music through the mail to various parties in different geographic locations asking them to interact with it in some way and return it, which would then be assembled into a larger whole. This album is the result. Includes battles with: Burning Star Core, Alan Dubin (Khanate, Gnaw, OLD), Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph), David Shuford (NNCK, Enos Slaughter), Pigeons, Kuwayama Kiyoharu, Marshall Avett (Zandosis), Greg Wildes (Gas Tank Orchestra), Carter Thornton, Carl Smith / Derek Phelps, Darwin Smith, Smith Harrison, Dr. Mijin Kim. Vinyl only. Limited to 550 Copies." -Conduit Creations |
| Artist: SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN Title: The Blaze Game Format: CD Label: Conspiracy Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Artist: V/A Title: U.S. Pop Life Vol. 17 Eclectic - The Adding Machine Format: CD Label: Contact Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
| "Post punk,No-wave....adding independent spirit and love of music. include 4 fantasitic visual artists. its eclectic explore. [BAND] Tallboys/ Moving Units/ Ssion/ Coachwhips/ Measles Mumps Rubella/ Numbers/ White Magic/Gang Gang Dance/ Blood On The Wall/ Tv On The Radio/ Kill Me Tomorrow/ Rogers Sisters/ Rah Bras [VISUAL] Paperrad/ Ssion/ Kill Me Tomorrow/LoVid [ARTWORK] Cody Critcheloe(Ssion)" - Contact. 2004 release. |
| 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: PHEROMOANS, THE Title: Revamper Format: 7" Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Debut EP by Britains best new band. DIY shamble avant garage at its finest in the tradition of The Keggs, Swell Maps, & Danny And The Dressmakers. B-side is a weirder spoken word number reminiscent of The Shadow Ring. One of the best bands on the planet at the moment and we are proud to be the ones to give you their first release." -Convulsive |
| Artist: ANIMALS & MEN Title: S/T Format: 12" Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "We are proud to announce the release of the first new recordings by legendary UK DIY band Animals & Men in nearly 30 years. Features 4 brand new songs and 2 new recordings of old favorites "Its Hip" and "Dreaming Of Babylon." Following the recent reissue of singles and demos on Mississippi Records and collection of unreleased material on Hyped2Death are brand new songs on par with the best of their old material and as good as the best of the modern bands keeping to their minimal DIY punk roots. It is rare for a band to come back after so many years and continue to be as fresh as they were in the early days. We at Convulsive have been fans of the band ever since we first heard them on the Messthetics compilations and follow up collection on Hyped2Death and are very happy to be the ones to release brand new material from one of our all time favorite bands." -Convulsive |
| Artist: ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI Title: Loverboy Format: Double LP Label: Cooler Cat Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Recorded back in 2001-2002, Loverboy was originally released as a bonus second disc with the first pressing of the House Arrest album. Later pressings did not include this record, and led many folks to freak out and obsess and do everything in their power to track it down! So it should come as a delight to outsider pop lovers and ARIEL PINK fans everywhere to discover that Loverboy is finally getting a proper release, as a super deluxe double LP. Its the one Ariel Pink record that features the most musical input from his buddy and big-time AQ favorite JOHN MAUS, who co-wrote a few of the tracks and whose instantly recognizable deep croon can be heard on a few other tracks as well. AP also gives a much deserved nod to one of his idols, R. Stevie Moore, kicking out a cover of "Hobbies Galore," and on top of all that, its also the record where we first got a sneak peak what would become the Holy Shit record that AP would make with Matt Fishbeck, as the track "I Dont Need Enemies" from that record first appeared here." - Cooler Cat. |
| Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: RGAG Format: CDR Label: Copeland, Eric Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Songs aborted from soundtracks, album outtakes, and private jams. Letting things ride." Eric from Black Dice, Ninjas, etc.. VERY limited self-released CDR in red, gold and green taped packaging. |
| Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Known Quantity Format: LP Label: Cord-Art Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Willie Lane is a New England-born guitarist mostly known for his sporadic appearances (both live and recorded) backing Vermont duo MV & EE, but he is also prone to indulge occasionally in solo endeavors. Fans of MV & EEs cottage label Child of Microtones will remember Mr. Lanes "Recliner Ragas" disc of several years ago, documenting a legendary session from early 2003 that MV engineered and produced at his home in Guilford. "Known Quantity" finds Lane sequestered in Philadelphia apartments with a tape machine, coaxing ragas and abstract blues from acoustic guitars as well as walking the plank of a pedalboard with his dangerously heavy Les Paul copy. The recordings date from 2006 to 2008 - a span of time that encompassed a considerable range of shifting moods and approaches in Lanes playing, in addition to yielding ample refreshment breaks. edition of 350 numbered copies with printed labels & a not-so-shabby 11"x17" folkways-style paste-on." -Cord-Art |
| Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Sleepy Hands Format: 7" Label: Cord-Art Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "...hes gone & put out this most excellent 7", Arrested For Decay/Sleepy Hands, again on Cord Art & its easily my favorite little record thus far in this wee year. These two works spark n flare with Jesus Acedo like motifs, the harmonics & melodies on both sides fan glowin embersve desert ragas that seem psychonautically informed via moments found within grooves one might encounter on the 1st Black Sun Ensemble lp. Even the sleeve art...looks...vaguely...Why, the whole thing is a goddamn Pyknotic conundrum I tell ya! Hand numbered edition of 350 & once the words out, not even the snappiest department store Santall have a chance at it." - SIltblog. |
| 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: TRUBEE, JOHN AND THE UGLY JANITORS OF AMERICA Title: Beyond Eternity/Lavender Flesh Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| Awesome 1986 LP of over the top psych/electronics/post-hippy rants/whatever by writer & musician John Trubee. 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: VRTACEK, C.W. Title: Learning To Be Silent Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| 1986 LP of mellow, folky avant garde from this longtime composer. 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: V/A Title: Obscure Independent Classics: Volume 4 (Special Japanese Edition) Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| Strange LP from 1987 compiled by Yutaka Tanaka of S. Core. Unknown experimental and new wave. 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: LANDED / SNAKE APARTMENT Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Corleone Country: US Price: $5.00 |
| "A vicious new EP split between SNAKE APARTMENT and LANDED. You get SAs "Ugly Poltergeist" and Landeds "Tip of the Whip." Only 500 pressed, so dont you sleep." - Corleone. |
| Artist: BLACK PUS Title: Black Pus Format: 7" Label: Corleone Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "BLACK PUS is the solo alias of BRIAN CHIPENDALE. Brian is mostly known for his antics in LIGHTNING BOLT and more infamously known in his funeral dirge noise act MINDFLAYER, but Brian is also known widely as one of the founders of Fort Thunder and an over all amazing printmaker. This record showcases both skill sets. Soundwise its a retard dub fest complete with blender sales and concrete bell tolls. Artwise the packaging is a 9-color silk screen of Brians. Limited to 500." - Corleone |
| Artist: DORAMAAR Title: Copula Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "Coalescing around the inspiration of Kim Pieters (Dadamah, Rain, Flies Inside The Sun), the line-up on this album includes Sara Stephenson, Adria Morgan and Andre Richardson. Favoring a revolving door policy with instruments, the group employ guitar, bass, synthesizer, organ, drums and voice to create sound-worlds that are at once enticing and threatening, like the paradigmatic songs of the sirens in Jacques Attalis Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Their approach is strictly free form; collective improvisation is emphasized at all times and the group have the uncanny cohesion and singleness of purpose which all truly great improvisational ensembles possess." - Corpus Hermeticum. |
| Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: Musica Humana Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "Corpus Hermeticum is Bruce (Xpressway, Dead C) Russells label. Handful of Dust is a free-noise group mainly made up of Russell and Alastair Galbraith (Peter Stapleton also appears on drums sometimes). Subtitled "Collected Works 1990-93", this is a compilation of all previously available material, including the now o/p Concord LP & "A Little Aesthetic Discourse" 7" on Twisted Village, plus various comp tracks. Also includes volume 2 of Bruces magazine of philosophy, music and culture-critique: Logopandocy: The Journal of Vain Erudition." - FE. |
| Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Painting The Passports Brown Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "This, the third solo album recorded by the artist currently known as Bruce Russell, consists of three live slabs of improvised guitar, electronics, and analogue tape loops, recorded live in Melbourne, Australia in May 1999. This was the first of two visits he made to Australia in that year, the second being in the company of Alastair Galbraith as A Handful of Dust. These recordings are totally solo, built respectively around a pre-recorded seven metre loop taken from the Anabase LP by Dust (Black Flies #1 & #2), and a slowed down and reversed tape of thumb piano improvisation (With Rimbaud in Abyssinia). These extended works are less brutal than the pieces featured on the first two solo albums, with more space and attendant dynamics in evidence. They abrade, rather than assault, the ears. This album represents a step forward in BRs solo work, integrating the pre-recorded and live sounds ever more fully into a seamless whole. The recordings have been edited at the front and back, but otherwise are presented totally live as recorded to minidisc by Melbourne resident and Freeway Sound label curator Marco Fusinato. The Rimbaud track is subtitled Ass Backwards as the reversal of the backing tape was an unintended but fortunate accident, resulting from a failure to rewind the tape after the first show. These kind of random factors do so much to enrich the work of improvisers of all stripes, as witnessed by the music on this compact disc. Going on at length about the artist responsible for these recordings would be needless in the case of the very great majority of those reading these words. Suffice to say he performs and records with the Dead C, A Handful of Dust, and Pieters/Russell/ Stapleton, manages the label on which this excellent disc has been released, and takes the kind of holiday snaps of bridges and buildings with which the cover is decorated. A 10" vinyl postscript to this recordings is being released about the same time on the Smalltown Supersound label in Norway, that record being of a much more dense and apocalyptic guitar-squall nature, recorded solo at one of the Melbourne Dust dates referred to earlier." |
| Artist: PIETERS, KIM/BRUCE RUSSELL/PETER STAPLETON Title: Last Glass Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| Debut by an improvisational trio made up of Kim Pieters (bass, organ, synthesizer), Bruce Russell (guitar, perc., synth) & Peter Stapleton (drums, synth, guitar). "Pieters & Stapleton are known as the core of the now defunct Dadamah, as well as for new projects like Flies Inside The Sun & Rain. Last Glass is comprised of 6 instrumental improvisations which range from the near-ambient to the red faced and throttling, sometimes covering this range in a single piece. Obvious points of reference are AMM, Musica Elettronica Viva and the Silver Apples, but Pieters/Russell/Stapleton skirt these static reference points like downhill slalom skiers. All the pieces bar one are single takes, without overdubs, but the soundscapes are far from sparse as a result. Built around propulsive percussive rhythms, the other instruments provide plenty of the scrub and woosh youd expect from an outfit with this kind of pedigree. The CD comes in the trademark Hermescorp manila folder, which contains a 14 x 42 cm. folder of Kim Pieters artwork." - Corpus Hermeticum. |
| Artist: DOO-DOOETTES, THE Title: Think Space Format: CD/7" Label: Cortical Foundation Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "Cortical Foundation releases #27, 28 & 29 are a series of deluxe packaged reissues of extremely rare and unreleased material from original LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society). Each comes in a heavy duty full color gatefold 7" jacket, with inserts, etc., limited to 700 copies each -- state of the art packaging quality and attention to detail." - FE. "Group improvisations intended to accompany a film on the viking space probe in 1975. Includes the original Doo-Dooettes lineup; Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez, Fredrik Nilsen, Tom Recchion, Harold Schroeder. The 7" includes a Doo-Dooette version of Fausts Picnic On A Frozen River recorded in 1978. Packaged in 7" gatefold jacket. Limited edition. First time available. The release includes: The Doo-Dooettes performing Fausts Picnic On A Frozen River 7", CD of Think Space. Hand numbered edition of 700 copies. Designed by Tom Recchion." "The unearthing of the LAFMS recordings is experimental rock history at its most historical and hysterical -- a completely bizarro and further-out counterpart to the LA punk scene." -- Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Ready For The House Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "There were plenty of significant events in 1978, ("Youre The One That I Want" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton John was quite a popular track, for example), and one of the most low-key yet significant events was the debut LP release on the Corwood Industries label out of Houston, TX. Mysteriously enough it came out under the name "The Units", but it was obviously a singular vision and not a band. That individual would come to be more commonly known as Jandek, and a total of 28 albums have been issued on Corwood to date. In 1978 however, there was no telling what was to come. Ready For The House was a mostly acoustic guitar/vocal record, of ethereal, shambling post-blues form. It set the stage for one the most individualistic and fascinating bodies of work in contemporary music. The original LP was casually issued in a beautiful color sleeve, featuring a mundane but striking image of a living room chair & table (replicated with almost pop-art brilliance on this CD). No other information was ever offered. As it remains today. Ready For The House sounded like no other record, and its doubtful that more than a handful of copies were sold at the time (promotional copies sent to out radio stations and reviewers were more voluminous). A second Jandek album wouldnt come out till 1981. By the mid-80s a wealth of documentation had occurred and the early Corwood albums became notoriously unavailable just as people were finally getting up the gumption to consider buying them. This record has been "in demand" for over a decade now and Corwood has finally caved in and reissued it proper. Find out what youve been missing for the last 25 years." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Six And Six Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The 2nd Corwood album, reissued on CD. Originally issued in 1981, this was the first actual album to be entitled to an artist named Jandek (the first Corwood album, 0739, was credited to the Units -- although that practice has been abandoned in the CD domain, an epic travesty in the minds of a few hardliners). The cover features a crude black & white photobooth-style portrait of the man weve come to assume as the singer, depicted at his most youthful, ready to accompany the power & glory of the Jandekian muse. Upon its release Six And Six defined Jandek as a significant album artist (no mere one-shot), featuring some of his most mesmerizing variations of trance-blues, especially the 10-minute centerpiece, "I Knew You Would Leave". Crucial, all round." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Later On Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| The third Jandek album from 1981, reissued for the first time ever. "Another installment in the digitization of the Jandek back catalog, and for those who have never heard his earliest records because of their scarcity, you can now own another piece of the Corwood catalog without having to fend off those cutthroat members of the Jandek community. This record, like Jandeks first (Ready for the House), is comprised of not just basically one chord throughout, but as far as I can tell he barely even touches the fret board of his guitar, using his instrument more for atmosphere and percussion than anything like a song. The usual lyrical motifs of the blues are all over the place, including women, roads, death, and even janitors, which in my tweaked view of the universe hearkens back to Howlin Wolfs paean to a custodian on his last record ca. 1972 (Watergate Blues), and much like the Loren Mazzacane Connors Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vols 1-9 1979-1980 box set reissue on Ecstatic Yod, this is proof that something that might be called the blues can be non-formulaic, just undiluted expression, and actually just a skeleton on which to drape a very whacked universe of your very own." -- Billy Kiely |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Chair Beside A Window Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fourth Jandek album, originally issued in 1982 (the first of 3 albums to released in this very prolific year). Notable for the track "Nancy Sings" which features the first appearance by an outside vocalist on a Jandek record -- an absolutely riveting acoustic gospel-blues tinged track." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Living In A Moon So Blue Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 5th Jandek album, originally released in 1982. "The title for this one actually comes from a lyric from his track Can I See Your Clock from his second LP Six And Six, and so one can already see The Artist creating an oeuvre filled with allusions, hints, motifs that really dont point at anything in particular. Herein lies one of Jandeks peculiar charms: his songs resilience. We find him in a more aggressive mode here -- singing and playing here like he really means it; therein lies another charm: we are never really sure what he means. All in all, Living In A Moon So Blue is one of his best, the presentation and approach seemingly from a different time altogether, how about some grayish Eastern Bloc country, ca. 1962?" -- Billy Kiely |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Staring At The Cellophane Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the sixth Jandek album, originally issued in 1982. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Your Turn To Fall Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Reissue of the 7th Jandek album, originally issued on LP in 1983. According to Seth Tisues Jandek discography, the track "John Plays Drums" features "the first appearance of an outside instrumentalist on a Jandek record." 16 short tracks." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Rocks Crumble Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Reissue of the 8th Jandek album, originally issued in 1983. From Seth Tisues data: " Jandek goes electric! Contains three eccentrically numbered (613, II, 501) versions of European Jewel and two versions of the rock anthem Message to the Clerk (refrain: "Take a message to the clerk/ Tell him not to work")." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Interstellar Discussion Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 9th Jandek album, originally released on LP in 1984. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Nine-Thirty Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 10th Jandek album, originally issued on LP in 1985. " A series of songs on side two forms a sort of travelogue of a trip Jandek took through the American Southeast." -- Seth Tissue |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Foreign Keys Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "CD reissue of the 11th Jandek album, originally issued in 1985. More singing from "Nancy" and beautiful atmosphere permeates all over the place." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Telegraph Melts Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| CD reissue of the 12th Jandek album, originally issued in 1986. From Seth Tisues Jandek web site: "In You Painted Your Teeth, Jandek frenziedly harangues an unknown second person: "Dont paint your teeth! You painted your teeth! DONT PAINT YOUR TEETH! The title Governor Rhodes may refer to James A. Rhodes, the Ohio governor who ordered the National Guard into Kent State; the song itself is a sort of incantation with Jandek and Nancy repeating after each other Celebrate our love, celebrate our magic, chant with love, chant always, etc., in endless variations." |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Follow Your Footsteps Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 13th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1986. "A song like For Today, w/its sparsely-plunked notes and melancholically assertive vocals, could almost be an out-take from one of Michael Hurleys classic albums on Racoon... As the soul of individualism is being destroyed by the forces of evil, Jandeks flame is an especially bright beacon in the dark." - Byron Coley. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Modern Dances Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 14th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1987. Features "Painted My Teeth" and 10 other classics. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Blue Corpse Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 15th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1987. "Jandek breaks up with Nancy and gets real depressed over it. All-acoustic except for the closer, One Minute." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: You Walk Alone Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 16th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1988. "A celebratory exorcism... His most hard-rockin, conventional record... The progression of the guitar playing is astounding... It recalls the savage beauty of Mr. Howling Wolf... A masterpiece." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: On The Way Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| 17th album, originally issued in 1988. Features a darkly obscured color photograph of a drum kit barely illuminated at dusk through a window shade. Im not sure it really translates on CD, but in original LP form it rated as one of the more staggeringly oblique jackets of all time. Working within blues-rock realms this one features "real" drums, bass, dual electric guitars, a possible guest vocalist on some tracks, etc. "Ill Sit Alone and Think A Lot About You" isnt far from Skip Spence-like detachment. "The most varied and easily-accessed Corwoodian brain-scrambler in a while... Of course, if you pay close attention you discover that the central core is as explosively cathartic as any of Jandeks previous recs." -- Byron Coley. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Living End Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "18th album, originally issued in 1989. Twelve shorter trackers, dual blues. Piercing b&w portrait photography graces the cover, "Nancy" sings "Crazy", which is the track youll put on your next mix tape." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Somebody In The Snow Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "19th album, originally issued in 1990. Brightly colored photograph of a well-gelled man is a favorite in many circles. Musically similar to the Living End sessions." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: One Foot In The North Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| 20th album, originally issued in 1991. "Electric guitar (sometimes one, sometimes two) and vocals, no woman singer, no acoustic guitar, drums about a third of the time. Yellow Pages is a kind of cousin to European Jewel. Alehouse Blues is a pretty straight electric blues. Upon the Grandeur is built around a very beautiful winding figure on the guitar; theres also a second guitarist and someone thumping along throughout on a kettle drum (?). (At the end you can hear two male voices speaking to each other, off-mike: I cant pick out any words except when one of them says What?)." -- Seth Tisue. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Lost Cause Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of Jandeks 21st album, originally issued in 1992. "Side one has 7 non-datable tracks of depressed blues-destroying ramble... Early optimism on the opening tracks transmutes into full desolation by the closing hack-gulps at the end... The Electric End is a nineteen-plus minute excursion into frothful extremes. Piercing electro-search guitar, revolutionary ultra-primitive drumming, lost-mind vocalism of real cracked creation and some sort of high end squeal (a penny whistle?) combine in an incredibly wasted fashion." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Twelfth Apostle Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of Jandeks 22st album, originally issued in 1993. This had been the final release during Corwoods vinyl era and now with this release, their CD reissue program is at last complete. "The most pure Jandek album since Blue Corpse -- rock and/or blues overtones are basically absent. All-acoustic, one guitar only, no drums, three to four minute songs. Uniquely, a heavy echo effect is added to the guitar on several songs on side two. Mood is thorny, ambivalent, a little impersonal, serious but not depressed like Blue Corpse. This is the first album in Jandeks late period; stylistically, it resembles the CDs that follow, not the LPs that came before." -- Seth Tisue. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Graven Image Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Repressed. Graven Image was the first Jandek CD (originally released in 1994) and when it went out of print a couple years ago, a whole legion of loafers freaked out and jumped into an extended Ebay clikathon. But now its back, thanks to Corwoods relentless pursuit of availabity. Jandek is an obscured Texan who has been privately releasing beautiful documents of fractured, internalized song de-con, since the very late 70s. There have been no tours, no interviews, no public appearances but the representation of individualistic creation has never been more perfectly rendered than via the Corwood discography. Utilizing guitars (one at time, both acoustic or electric), voice and percussion, this is music from the ultimate void -- vaguely related to genres like folk, blues and avant-garde, but in the end it can only be the sound of Jandek. And theres never been anything else quite like it. There were 22 LPs released by Corwood in the LP era (all reissued on CD now). With Graven Image Corwood moved into the CD era for the first time. Haunting, eternal genius, continued." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Glad To Get Away Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Jandek is an obscured Texan who has been privately releasing beautiful documents of fractured, internalized song genius, since the very late 70s. There have been no tours, no interviews, no public appearances but the representation of individualistic creation has never been more perfectly rendered than via the Corwood discography. Utilizing guitars (one at time, both acoustic or electric), voice and percussion, this is music from the ultimate void -- vaguely related to genres like folk, blues and avant-garde but in the end it can only be the sound of Jandek. And theres never been anything else quite like it. There were 22 previous LPs released, all of which are now out of print (CD reissues are happening & near complete). Graven Image was Corwoods first CD-only release (now o/p). Glad to Get Away is the 2nd Jandek CD, an all-acoustic masterpiece. Haunting, eternal genius, continued." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: White Box Requiem Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| 3rd full length CD, after a long delay. Fourteen tracks of detuned perfection, acoustic guitar and vocal. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: I Woke Up Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Fourth CD release. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: New Town Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The fifth Jandek CD release, his 27 album overall, has arrived. It features our man in acoustic mode, harshly stroking his guitar in a manner that suggests not penny of investment has been proposed towards technical advancement. The live-room, hiss-relevant recording quality is still omnipresent and if you were feeling good about your contemporary fortune its quite possibly that this album holds wordage of universal truth. Once again." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Beginning Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "8 track album, from 1999. The last track is a 16-minute solo piano -- a Corwood first. Its called "The Beginning". Only one person knows where it leads to next." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Put My Dream On This Planet Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Record number twenty-nine in the ever growing oeuvre of Jandek, and its certainly a head-scratcher. No guitar, no drums, no piano, just him rambling on for a small eternity in a sort of song/speech mode on two lengthy and one very short tracks; all of it sounding kind of like it was recorded though a 15 watt Peavey Bandit amp with a broken reverb spring and a noise-gate pedal. Eerie (some might say annoying or god awful), almost bluesy hiss bathed vocals are separated by some rather lengthy periods of complete silence, covering some of the places and feelings that populate his other records so vividly. Reading into it a bit (for in this place everything means something), we see that his last record ended with The Beginning (!) -- a 15+ vocal-less (!) piano meditation which certainly clouded the waters when it dropped -- which can now be viewed as an intro to this new acapella recording...you get the idea. So then, as concrete poetry its not so hot, and as some kind of Out Blues piece, its actually rather dire, but viewed in the microscope of the Jandekian Canon, its pretty massive, and thats saying something too." -- Billy Kiely |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: This Narrow Road Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The 30th Jandek album. As with Put My Dream On This Planet, this is an all-acapella affair, recording in same hi-hiss/gated-silence ratio. Opening with a 29-minute track, it follows through with 11 shorter vignettes. I have no idea what to say." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Worthless Recluse Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The 31st Jandek album, this is the third document in Jandeks new solo-vocal style, following Put My Dream On This Planet & This Narrow Road. The cover photo depicts our man wearing a sweater I wouldnt be got dead in, standing in front of a red barn. Your views of the farming industry might just change ever so much..." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: I Threw You Away Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "A return to form album, the 32nd Jandek full length. Cover features controversial photo of a street in Europe(!), rumored to be from Cork City in Ireland, with the St. Marys Pro-Cathedral church featured in the background. On this album, the Blues turn Black." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Humility Of Pain Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The 33rd Jandek album. An acoustic guitar/vocal affair, with funny song titles like "I Cant Leave A Clue" & "Share My Life". As they say at Googlism.com, "jandek is jandek." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Place Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "2003 Jandek album, his 34th. A return to music (a form of music, anyway). Guitar & vocal." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Gone Wait Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "35th Jandek album. "The Gone Wait" was a track on 1993s The Twelvth Apostle album, now its an album title. This has happened before, and will happen again. Five tracks, good titles: "I Went To Hell", "I See The Open Door", "I Was A King", "I Just Might Go Now", "I Found The Right Change". Cover photos features a continuation of the Cork window shopping theme that has developed through the 770 series of Corwood releases. This time: sale pricing. Musically, a new style: acoustic guitar and electric bass duoes, with Jandeks vocals teetering into almost-Steve Martin territory." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Shadow Of Leaves Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "36th Jandek album. Three long tracks, including the 30 minute title track. "Jandek plays bass again, claims to no longer exist, sings about drinking "mechanically produced beverages," and announces plans to think about breathing. Recently he took a walk. The music seems improvised but is satisfyingly varied and tracks the varying moods of the vocals closely. During the long piece, moments of abjection or desperation occur, but they pass; mostly the voice we hear is lucid. Hes leveling with us. When he sings I wont drive my car for the rest of the day, its a fact. The most harrowing moment comes during the last track, a love song that turns threatening: please take my bait... I want to eat you up... youll never get away, you wont want to... you dont have a life, you live in me. The music plunges down to the bottom of the basss range, but by the last line, the point of view has pulled back again to encompass the grand scheme of things." -- Seth Tisue. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The End Of It All Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "37th Jandek album, from 2004. 4 tracks, including the 20 minute "One of Those Moments". Vocals, electric guitar, in what one would think of as the "contemporary Jandek style. Cover photo of Jandek is hard to date, but more formal than usual -- how suprising." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Door Behind Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: A Kingdom He Likes Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "39th Jandek album, the 4th to be (technically) released in the very prolific year of 2004. Acoustic guitar and vocals. Cover photo features a bearded man wearing a hat. Just like Darby, "Jandek" says "there is no God"." - FE |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Six And Six Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "epressed. The 2nd Corwood album, reissued on CD. Originally issued in 1981, this was the first actual album to be entitled to an artist named Jandek (the first Corwood album, 0739, was credited to the Units -- although that practice has been abandoned in the CD domain, an epic travesty in the minds of a few hardliners). The cover features a crude black & white photobooth-style portrait of the man weve come to assume as the singer, depicted at his most youthful, ready to accompany the power & glory of the Jandekian muse. Upon its release Six And Six defined Jandek as a significant album artist (no mere one-shot), featuring some of his most mesmerizing variations of trance-blues, especially the 10-minute centerpiece, "I Knew You Would Leave". Crucial, all round." - FE. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: When I Took That Train Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Raining Down Diamonds Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "42nd Jandek album, 3rd new release of 2005. Like some sort of spirit photography, the cover photo features the ghostly image of a bearded man wearing a startling piece of haberdashery. Perhaps some sort of prayer cap? The darker side of Jandek, with deep, rumbling bass and despairing vocals, i.e. "Jesus take my will/take mine and make it yours.""- FE. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Chair Beside A Window Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fourth Jandek album, originally issued in 1982 (the first of 3 albums to released in this very prolific year). Notable for the track "Nancy Sings" which features the first appearance by an outside vocalist on a Jandek record - an absolutely riveting acoustic gospel-blues tinged track."- FE. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Khartoom Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "43rd Jandek album, 4th one in 2005! Fantastic, acoustic, classic Jandekian masterwork in the vein of his mid-period work Graven Image or Glad To Get Away . Cover features full-on Shroud of Turin-esque visage of a bearded man in a stunning white prayer cap." - FE. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Newcastle Sunday Format: Double CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "45th Jandek release, and the 2nd of 2006! This is a 1.5 hour live performance recorded at The Sage Gateshead England, May 22, 2005. First ever Corwood double CD, as well!" |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Monday - The Cell Format: Double CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "47th Jandek release, and the 4th of 2006! Features wandering piano strains, and whispered forlorn vocals. Pictured on the front, a stone cottage surrounded by hills. 10 tracks divided into parts, recorded live at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow on May 23, 2005." - FE. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Ruins of Adventure Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "49th Jandek release, and the final release of 2006. Cover art is the same re-cropped cover art as 2006s What Else Does The Time Mean?, focusing more intently on the red-haired adolescent. This CD contains such compelling track titles as "Completely Yours" and "Mysteries Of Existence." More plodding bass and world-weary vocals." - FE. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Manhattan Tuesday Format: Double CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "50th Jandek release. Recorded live at the Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, NY, September 6, 2005. The representative from Corwood plays Korg synthesizers (set to organ-like sounds) and sings; he is accompanied by Loren Connors (electric guitar), Matt Heyner (bass), and Chris Corsano (drums). Disc 2 is entitled: Afternoon Of Insensitivity. Very sympathetic playing from the backing musicians and in general, one of the heaviest Jandek albums in years." - FE. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Brooklyn Wednesday Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "51th Jandek release. The first Jandek 4CD release, in a slipcase, nice presentation. Recorded live at the Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, September 7th, 2005. This comprehensive release features both sets complete; Set One split up over discs 1 & 2 (78 minutes), with Set Two split up discs 3 & 4 (another 81 minutes). The performers are not listed on the packaging, but history has recorded that the Corwood representative played electric guitar during Set 1 and fretless electric guitar during Set 2. The backing for both was: Matt Heyner (double bass), Chris Corsano (drums)." -Corwood Industries. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Newcastle Sunday Format: DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "45th Jandek release, and the 2nd of 2006! This is a 1.5 hour live performance filmed at The Sage Gateshead England, May 22, 2005. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ratio: 4:3. The group is a trio, with Richard Youngs on bass and Alex Neilson on drums. The music is the same as the Newcastle Sunday 2CD, released in 2005. No bonus material, no Easter egg." - Corwood. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Monday/The Cell Format: DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "47th Jandek release, and the 4th of 2006! Features wandering piano strains, and whispered forlorn vocals. Pictured on the front, a stone cottage surrounded by hills. Filmed live at Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland, May 23, 2005. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ratio: 16:9. The group is a trio, with Richard Youngs on bass and Alex Neilson on drums. The music is the same as the Glasgow Monday 2CD, released in 2006." - Corwood. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: The Myth of Blue Icicles Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "52nd Jandek release, and his first 2008 release thus far. Cover art features a smiling man in a striped shirt having his picture taken high in a building against the Houston city skyline. Sparse acoustic guitar and voice, 4 tracks: "Too Course," "Blue Icicles," "The Daze" and "Theres No Door." "-Corwood Industries |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Ready For The House Format: LP Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "The 1978 release of Corwood Industries #0739, Ready For The House, began one of the most compelling, disturbed, and singular legacies in musical history. In the 30 years since this unique debut, Jandek has released 53 albums of mournful, atonal music that continues to defy classification and accessibility. And while the past three decades of intense productivity have yielded a depth of discussion, a handful of legendary live performances and even a film documentary, no amount of time or experience can prepare a listener for the experience of Ready For The House. Beyond stark, beyond oblique, beyond outsider, the first Jandek LP (originally credited to The Units) explores musical territories no one even knew existed, with just a hollowed-out voice and a lonely, detuned guitar. In 1985, it had infamously sold less than ten of the 1000 copies originally pressed, however by 1999, when it was issued on CD, the vinyl had completely disappeared, with original copies changing hands for hundreds of dollars. This exact vinyl repress on Corwood Industries, is the first time Ready For The House has been available on vinyl for nearly 20 years, finally giving collectors and fans the opportunity to own one of the most peculiar, solitary, and strangely magnetic records of all time." - Corwood Industries |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: London Tuesday Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "55th Jandek release. Recorded live at Londons St. Giles In The Fields church on October 18, 2005. Quite possibly an extended song divided into eight parts entitled "No Mind Was A Good Mind." The cover features a man in black posed at a gate overlooking a town somewhere in the UK. The Corwood representative performs solo on acoustic guitar." - Corwood Industries. |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: Hasselt Saturday Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The Places You Left Me" performed in eight parts. Jandek performs solo on piano. Recorded live at Kunstencentrum Belgie in Hasselt, Belgium, November 12, 2005." -Corwood Industries |
| Artist: JANDEK Title: What Was Out There Disappeared Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The title of track three, "Will There Be No More Photos," prompts an interesting question: just how many photos does this guy have of himself throughout the different stages of his life? What will happen when he runs out? Miraculously, after all these years, this album cover is another winner: just in time for the fall season, we are treated to a handsome young Corwood representative standing in a yard covered in beautiful fall foliage. Looking sharp in a suit and tie, he looks ready for the prom -- or a funeral... And the music? Well, Jandek is Jandek. World-weariness, isolation and some harmonica." -- Corwood Industries. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: For Ambrosius Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $22.00 |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN & DANIELLE LEMAIRE Title: Jada Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $16.00 |
| Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen is a Dutch artist whos been releasing limited LPs, CDs and cassettes for over 2 decades. They usually feature recordings from gallery installations and performances with the sounds varying from raw vinyl collage to experimental electronics. This 10" is a collaboration between Jan and his partner Danielle Lemaire. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Trainsongs Format: 7" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $10.00 |
| "This trainsongsrecord is very little edited from two recordings First performance recording at the Crossing Border Festival.The Melkweg.Amsterdam.4-11-2000. Electronic toy train devices by Danielle Lemaire and Marc Geerards Second performance recording at the Exposorium Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.28-11-2000. Together with M.O.S.A. Museum Of Small Art. Electronic toy train devices by Roel QoQo and Remko Schultheiss With the help of The Ethiopians on Train to Skaville and Engine 54 On A+B Micro Soundsystem,train,railway and electronics by Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen." - Cosmic Volume. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: ID-LP Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $30.00 |
| "All sounds are manipulated, nothing is what you think you hear. electric? acoustic?" - Cosmic Volume. 2000 release recorded 1995-99, playable at any speed. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: The Absolute Point Zero Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $28.00 |
| "Part of installation in the Exhibition The Absolute Point Zero at Lokaal 01, Antwerpen, Belgium. There are no sounds on this record. Edition of 50." - Cosmic Volume. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $24.00 |
| "Music : Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen. Drawings : Marc Nagtzaam. Recorded at the "Absolute point Zero” Installation. On side B Tonegenerators made by Hewald Jongenelis." - Cosmic Volume. 2004 release. Edition of 300. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Two Proposals Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $17.00 |
| "Sleeve silkscreened at Graphics Studio Daglicht. Proposal 1 on A-side 15 minutes. Proposal 2 on B -side 15 minutes. SleepWellStudio Eindhoven The Netherlands . Edition of 250 " - Cosmic Volume. 2005 release. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Make Over At Any Speed Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $46.00 |
| "Remade from 12">10" records and sleeves. Handcut Vinyl 10". Handcut Sleeves 10". 2 new holes in the label. All records and sleeves are one of a kind. Edition of 40. Assembled in a transparent heavy PVC outersleeve. " - Cosmic Volume. 2005 release. Co-release btw DayStorm and Cosmic Volume. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Three Variations Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $22.00 |
| Very nice Cluster-mixed-with-Conet-Project sound collage from this underappreciated artist. Limited to 150 copies. |
| Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Four Movements Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $24.00 |
| 2007 release, edition of 132. |
| Artist: KONONO NO. 1 Title: Congotronics Format: CD Label: Crammed Disc Country: Belgium Price: $17.00 |
| "The first volume of Congotronics, a series devoted to the spectacular styles of music which bloom in the suburbs of Kinshasa. These bands draw on traditional trance music, to which theyve incorporated the heavily-distorted sounds generated by DIY amplification of their instruments, making their music a sonic cousin of some extreme forms of experimental rock and electronic dance music. Konono N°1 was founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (the traditional instrument sometimes called sanza or thumb piano, consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). The bands line-up includes three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), equipped with hand-made microphones built from magnets salvaged from old car parts, and plugged into amplifiers. Theres also a rhythm section which uses traditional as well as makeshift percussion (pans, pots and car parts), three singers, three dancers and a peculiar sound system including megaphones dating from the colonial period, which they call lance-voix (voice-throwers). The members of Konono N°1 come from an area which sits right across the border between Congo and Angola. Their repertoire draws largely on Bazombo trance music, to which theyve had to incorporate the originally-unwanted distortions of their sound system. Just like most of the other bands which will appear in the Congotronics series, these are musicians who left the bush to settle in the capital and who, in order to go on keep fulfilling their social role and make themselves heard by the ancestors (and, more concretely, by their fellow citizens) despite the high level of urban noise, have had to resort to a makeshift electrification of their instruments. This has provoked a radical mutation of their sound, and has accidentally connected them with the aesthetics of experimental rock and electronic music, as much through the sounds they use than through the sheer volume of their performances (they play in front of a wall of speakers) and their merciless grooves." - Crammed Disc. |
| Artist: CRANK Title: #4 Format: Mag + 7" Label: Crank Automative Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Mid-1990s 7" x 7" mag, featuring interviews with Alan Licht and Bruce Russell. 7" includes a side each from Licht and Handful of Dust. |
| Artist: CRANK Title: #5 Format: Mag + 7" Label: Crank Automotive Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Mid-1990s mag in 8.5 x 11 full size format. Interviews with Stefan Jaworzyn/Ascension, BLABF & Richard Youngs. Single features Ascension/BLABF. |
| Artist: PIT VIPER Title: Wheku/Weku Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Crawlspace Country: NEW ZEALAND Price: $9.00 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Fit For Kings: A Compilation Of Peripheral New Zealand Music Series II Format: CD Label: Crawlspace Country: New Zealand Price: $5.00 |
| Compilation of the second Artist Series of lathe cuts. Includes RST, Pahjib, Crude, Emperical, Pit Viper, Wayne Gordon, Duncan Bruce, Lapdog, Sandoz Lab Technicians, James Kirk, Tim Cornelius and Nathan Thompson. Special liquidation price. |
| Artist: AVOTOR Title: Freezeover/Collectow March Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Crawlspace Artist Series Country: NEW ZEALAND Price: $12.00 |
| First of the latest Artist Series. This Heat-ish minimal electronics. |
| Artist: PRITCHARD, RHONDA/KELLY JAY/SOPHIA LYLE Title: War Against Terror Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Crawlspace Artist Series Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| "..recorded live at unit 9, Auckland, New Zealand. 1/4 inch tape machine, drums, percussion, synthesiser, voice and amplifier." - Crawlspace. |
| Artist: TAYLOR, DUB Title: Lumiere For Synthesized & Concrete Sound Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "this record is zonked. and by that i dont mean that i cant conjure up other adjectives (i most certainly can; fried, surrealist, inept, genius, etc...), just that i cant get my head around describing what it is mr. taylor is doing exactly. it almost sounds like someone... as the brits say “taking the piss” out of musique concrète... but then again theres this twisted logic to the construction of the whole thing thats just so... out... (i.e. “i know... lets just pile everything up on top of itself and not edit it at all...”) - the sound-combinations so seemingly random thats its hard to believe a conscious composer/technician type didnt lay this to tape back in 1972... my favorite bits are when a voice (i assume its the composers) comes in near the beginning, half-buried: “sounds good...” from there a wave of surging/burbling synths and filtered white noise let loose on the whole frequency range, leaving little in the way of... you know... “musical sense”... there are some bike-horns, what sounds like someone dialing in an fm radio (then leaving it between stations), a jet passing overhead, a guitar-amp feeding back while someone “snaps” into a microphone, etc... sounds are panned hard left/right for entire sides at a time. some backwards speaking kind of rises to the top, then its back to “normal”... and thats just the first side... from here on out, any time someone plays me a record like the shaggs or y. bhekhirst, reveling in the fact that it got made in the first place, im going to play them this, as its so much better on an example. im just completely dumbfounded that the sentient folks over at varese international went the distance... kudos! note: their are a bunch of drop-outs on the b-side that are, (un)surprisingly, part of the sonic stew, not any weird mastering issues on p.c.s part (wouldnt be the first time hes fallen asleep at the console though! that lout...)" - Creel Pone. |
| Artist: DOCKSTADER. TOD Title: Electronic Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "recent claims made re: dockstaders absence from the public eye since releasing his owl-label lps in the late 60s are somewhat off... in 1979 this and another “companion” volume were released on the boosey & hawkes library music label; consisting of a spate of sound-queues made by mr. dockstader for production/documentary use. i will say this; this sounds like no other dockstader recording youve heard. personally, i think its amazing and way ahead of its time, but i could understand if others out there are a bit befuddled by the music on the lp in question; mostly short (<2 minutes) rhythmic / melody-oriented modular-synth studies coming across like a paleozoic aphex twin (and i know people often say “xXx sounds like aphex twin” as thats the sole reference point they have in discussing contemporary experimental electronic music... give me the benefit of the doubt (youve probably gathered that my vocabulary re: electronic music is slightly more... verbose)... still... this really does sound like “afx”-era aphex twin, quite a bit - staggeringly so given the 15-odd-year divide.) there are a couple of “fat brass synth-fanfares for sci-fi” kind of queues, but for every one of those theres a drifting filtered white-noise beast or high-resonance/q oscillating beat with crazy atonal triplet-feel melodies that just hits home... definitely one for the completists (dockstader fans are known for not resting until theyve heard every sound carefully “organised” by the master), although theres enough here for casual early-electronic music fans alike... if anything, this would be a great creel pone to bridge the gap between fans of contemporary melodic/“into depeche mode” electronic dance music that find all of the cold, emotionally-distant abstract concrète that im always going on about here a bit daunting..." - Creel Pone. |
| Artist: WHITE, RUTH Title: 7 Trumps from the Tarot Cards Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "notably absent are ms. whites terrifying deer-in-headlights vocals, but this only leaves room for all kinds of late-60s psychedelic electronic treatments, ranging from atonal clavinet stabs to all kinds of home-brew & modular synthesizer glorp & even a bit of proto drum-machine... of course with tons of tape echo and reverb on everything, yeilding a murky fog of dissonance thats just right for your evening seance..." -Creel Pone |
| Artist: PYTHAGORON Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "reproduction of a rather odd, late 70s upstate new york “electronic music for healing” lineage lp; credited only to the corporation “pythagoron inc. 1977”, about whom we know very little (and maybe its best it stays that way...) you are relaxed, lying down in a darkened room - eyes closed, your mind quiets and the sound begins - it pours through like an enveloping shower. the tones gradulally become a familiar place where ethereal images and ideas flicker, then solidify. trusting the experience you let go and the sound seems to dissolve. you couldnt describe this space - yet its deeply familiar, a personal awareness that always was slightly out of reach. gradually it ends - coming back in stages - an experience as varied as your consciousness. any fan of zonked near-cultish exotica, “minimal electronics”, synth drones, etc... will do their bodies/minds/spirits well to subjugate their inner will(s) via this one..." - Miramoglu Music |
| Artist: WHITE, RUTH Title: Flowers of Evil Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "the setting of a set of poems by charles baudelaire to electronic instrumentation & vocal treatments, as realized by ms. ruth white in mid-1969. baudelaire was heavy, man... ms. whites posessed monotone-through-echoplex-through-vclfo-gate throughout is just bone-chilling, her howling synth & noise backdrops so perfectly capturing the “southern” essence of the text that its hard to believe that these poems werent conceived in the era they were realized here (the just pre-altamont “downer” hippie zenith), but in fact in the middle of the 19th century! certainly a creel pone more on the psych-end of things, but nonetheless a bizarre and terrifying vision into futures past-future that should speak to the inner satanist." - Miramoglu Music |
| Artist: V/A Title: Electronic Music - UNiversity Of Melbourne Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "the 6 composers on this disc all put in fine efforts making sense of the intricacies of this then-new technology, with all turning in excellent pieces ranging from the tick-tock krautrock of gary wrights “impulse” to the kosugi/c. spencer-yeh-ish violin-noise/synthi freakout of chris wyatts “conversations” to... however the hell one would describe/compare the dense/freaked-out analogue mess of ken guntars “three mobiles” (okay; ill try... douglas leedys ghost bathed in balvenie 17 year “very old”, imbibed by akos rozmann - is that esoteric enough for you?) just dripping vintage-era electronic soul out of every orifice... behemoth." - Miramoglu Music |
| Artist: V/A Title: Electronic Music Prague Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "electronic music - experimental studios in prague, bratislava, munich, university of illinois, warsaw, paris - this is just a great compilation, assembled by one vladimir lébl and released on the czech supraphon label in 1968 (on glorious, crackly eastern-european wafer-thin vinyl no less) featuring a bunch of scattered early pieces by scattered international composers that were executed at scattered studios all over gods green earth. the tying bond? anyones guess... other than that most of these are the sole “released” pieces by a few otherwise unknown/unreleased eastern-european composers of which you should most certainly take note. the disc starts out with a great 7 minute rundown of various tone-combinations by mr. lébl, then gives way to the epic komorous & zeljenka pieces. then; two pieces by our beloved mr. riedl (neither of which are on the riedl creel pone !), then perhaps lejaren hillers most awe-inspring piece (and strangely unavailable on disc otherwise), a piece by jozef malovec, one of pendereckis only tape pieces (the others can be found on the recently reissued score to “the manuscript found in zaragoza”), and finally the pierre henry edit/out-take..." - Miramoglu Music. |
| Artist: GRUPO EXPERIMENTAL ELECTROACUSTICO Title: Musikautomatika Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Heres a first (for Creel Pone at least) - a reproduction of the debut album by this Venezualan electro-acoustic collective, featuring Luis Levin, Alvise Sacchi, and Stefano Gramitto, recorded at some point between the groups inception in 1978 and the release of this lp in 1983. This one flew right in, way below my own radar - ive never heard/seen reference to this ensemble (nor its individual members!) - yet the music inside is yielding some fairly lofty comparisons; namely snatches of 60s-era INA-GRM concrète, electro-acoustic free-improv ensembles such as the other Grup(p)o, and synth-drone mavericks such as Jean-Claude Eloy and even Maurizio Bianchi. The overall wasted/challenged fidelity really drives it home... but whats the most remarkable is how the Grupo shift seemlessly between “serious” avant-garde signifiers (much ring-modulation of dissonant source material) and almost “pop” chord-progressions & sentimentalities (think: the kind of melodies evident on the “Song of the Second Moon” lp.) This sort of sensibility is referred to elsewhere on the web as “prog moves” (apt, even though that phrase causes me a little bit of dyspepsia every time i read it...). This Creel Pone comes with a reproduction of the hand-written/typed xerox insert, explaning the details of the ensembles modus (in Spanish) with diagrams and sketches (and at least one photo of a Grupo member with an iguana/sprite or two on his shoulders!) again, like “Iatrogenics” - not the hardcore dark-academia typical of the mid-series Creel Pone, but much closer in spirit to titles such as the Fuzzy/Svend Christiansen &/or the Warren Jepson." - Creel Pone. |
| Artist: V/A Title: “Musiques de LO.N.F. - Music of the N.F.B.” Format: Dbl CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Reproduction of a lovely 1977 double-lp set collecting only the earliest electronic music made in Canada; with a majority of pieces remarkably made without the aid of magnetic tape (!?) but directly on optical film..." -Creel Pone. |
| Artist: NELHYBEL, VACLAV Title: Electronic Music Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "This could very well be the most obscure creel pone yet... a 1966 10” record by Vaclav Nelhybel during which the composer/performer does ravage dissonant cheap electronic organ & piano clusters & occasional instrumentation through ancient waves of tape delay & other early electronic modifiers... not unlike a library-music version of Gene Moores score for “carnival of souls”, albeit with implicit extra-orbital connotations... decidedly alien; wholly evocative..." -Creel Pone. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Iatrogenics Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "...every so often theres a Creel Pone that breaks out of the underlying cold/academic vibe and reminds us that it wasnt all brimstone & hellfire back in the “era” (although i specifically see a “1983” cut-off date on the foil-seal and a “1984” production date on the print-work... hmm...) - case in point; this reproduction of a bizarre private-press lp, as assembled/produced by “the Electronic Music Club of Edmonds Community College” in 1984 (?)... this falls pretty damn far from the Creel Pone tree, stylistically... but then again this really isnt all that different from the “Conrad & Sohn” record; short song-length vignettes made on several modular-synth rigs, with the occasional vocoded vocal about some space-conceit or whatever... a few “out-there” collage-concrète beasts, but for the most part: songs. Its funny to think of a record that came out of a community college as “academic”... its about as academic as the "original compositions by junior and senior high school students" pieces on the Creelpolation (if not less-so !!!) - but even still, after a few listens this record certainly won me over with its uniquely singular vision. A few pieces on here (specifically the Richard Perkins radio-static-flip) rival the Dub Taylor Creel Pone for sheer head-scratch... and its certainly revealing to listen to a few early 80s hobbyists fumble their way around an electronic music studio... definitely not one for everyone, but for those infatuated with “outsider” concepts in music as applied to the new-wave era... well, youll find gold within..." -Creel Pone. |
| Artist: KARG, JURGEN Title: Elektronische Mythen Format: CDR Label: Creel Pone Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Dark & atonal free-synth concrète & chiming metallic minimalism from one-time Wolfgang Dauner (aka the “ring-mod jazz” kingpin) sideman Jürgen Karg; two 20+ minute/side-long suites... theres very little jazz-lineage vocabulary herein; much more in common with François Bayles 70s work & that of past Creel Pone candidates Reinhold Weber, Edward Zajda... hell even the krautrock lineage: early Schnitzler, Asmus Tietchens, Seeselberg, etc... yet another “unheralded classic of electronic music”. -Creel Pone. |
| Artist: VEE DEE Title: Public Mental Health System Format: Double LP Label: Criminal IQ Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Heavy times call for a heavy soundtrack, and thats what Chicagos VEE DEE has accomplished with their new double album Public Mental Health System. This record blurs the lines between garage, punk and psychedelia; it is the sound of desperate, no-compromise rock n roll of the past being absorbed and then re-interpreted for NOW. Short fast dark garage punk segues into heavy riffing and guitar freak-outs. Moody folk chords bang up against frantic fuzz turnarounds. Over it all, lyrics of abstract yet direct poetry are hollered and crooned, aided by well-placed backing vocals." - Heavy times call for a heavy soundtrack, and thats what Chicagos VEE DEE has accomplished with their new double album Public Mental Health System. This record blurs the lines between garage, punk and psychedelia; it is the sound of desperate, no-compromise rock n roll of the past being absorbed and then re-interpreted for NOW. Short fast dark garage punk segues into heavy riffing and guitar freak-outs. Moody folk chords bang up against frantic fuzz turnarounds. Over it all, lyrics of abstract yet direct poetry are hollered and crooned, aided by well-placed backing vocals." - Criminal IQ |
| Artist: SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE, IRMIN Title: Kamasutra Format: Double LP Label: Crippled Dick Hot Wax Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents Kamasutra -- an unreleased soundtrack from 1968 composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space. No overlap in content with the other recent Inner Space release, Agilok & Blubbo, released by Wah Wah Records earlier in 2009. Better late than never? A good four decades after its making, a rare gem is up for release: the soundtrack to Kobi Jaegers erotic and educational epic Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love. A precursor to Krautrock pioneers Can, Schmidts 1968 recording assembles Cans original line-up -- Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney -- who later went on to craft the bands seminal debut, Monster Movie. The film Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late-1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that -- more than a millennium earlier -- had spawned the erotic teachings of the Kamasutra. Fast-forward to the present day, and you will find the films well-intentioned, in parts pedagogical approach bristling with (un)intentional comedy. Many bands and composers from the late-1960s were intrigued by Eastern philosophy and influenced by sounds of the Orient. Besides several laid-back, percussive instrumentals laced with flutes and sitars, the soundtrack also features three vocal tracks: "Im Hiding My Nightingale" (sung by Margareta Juvan), "There Was A Man" (sung by Malcolm Mooney) and "Im Around You Everyday" (sung by Michael Karoli). Kamasutra was mastered from the original analog tapes by Calyx and is available as a CD digipack and limited gatefold double vinyl. Before Irmin Schmidt founded the now-legendary German band Can in 1968, he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology. Amongst others his teachers were Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ligeti. Between 1962 and 1969 he conducted numerous orchestras, including his own compositions. During this period, he also composed music for various film and theater productions. Between 1969 and 1978, he worked exclusively with Can (in 2003 they received the prestigious ECHO Lifetime Achievement Award)." - Crippled Dick Hot Wax. |
| Artist: HAFLER TRIO Title: If Take, Then Take--Tricks, Half Tricks, and Real Phenomena Format: LP/Booklet Label: Crippled Intellect Country: USA Price: $38.00 |
| Signed with Booklet. |
| Artist: GENDREAU, MICHAEL/FRANCISCO LOPEZ Title: Split Format: LP Label: Crippled Intellect Productions Country: USA Price: $18.50 |
| "Both Francisco Lopez and Michael Gendreau are extremely well known sound artists with dedicated fan bases throughout the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Japan. Francisco Lopez is perhaps best known for his dynamic studio and live performances that sway between crushing silence and dynamic, shifting volume swells. A trained acoustician, Gendreau uses extremely refined microphones - designed for acoustic and vibrational research - to record sounds such as turntable motor hum, belts, and run out grooves on records more than 70 years old to create incredibly rich recordings. Gendreaus side is an incredible journey through a forest of alternately prickly and soothing sounds generated from turntable motor hum, belts, and run out grooves. Lopez used similar source material for his side, creating a beautiful oceanic wall of sound based (predominantly) on crackle, hum, and scratches." - C.I.P. |
| Artist: DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND Title: Maskenstilleben Format: LP Label: Crouton Country: USA Price: $123.00 |
| "Enchanting special edition LP from sculptor, painter, drawer and composer, Raymond Dijkstra. Since 2003, his recorded work has been released in very grandly designed (though extremely small editions) on the Le Souffleur label, all of which are out of print and not easy to obtain. Those who have, discovered the odd, yet personal world of Raymond Dijkstra, whose recorded output relies heavily on the acoustic side of electro-acoustic music. Maskenstilleben is released in a limited numbered edition of 100 in a painted wooden box on 200 gram virgin vinyl. Raymond Dijkstra is a self-taught composer, musician, painter, drawer and sculptor, born in Sneek, (Netherlands). He works in the field of electro-acoustic music with high emphasis on the word acoustic. He has collaborated with Timo van Luijk (Af Ursin), Keith Connolly (NNCK), Dave Nuss (NNCK). Since 2003, he has run the music label Le Souffleur." - Crouton |
| Artist: V/A Title: Core Format: CD Label: CTI Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "After years of building a near mythical status we can announce the limited CD re-release of Core. Core features some of the finest collaborations youll hear between: Chris & Cosey, Robert Wyatt, Coil, Boyd Rice, Monte Cazazza, John Duncan, Joe Potts and Lustmord. This legendary 1988 compilation has been digitally re-mastered and features enhanced cover artwork and extensive sleeve notes by the artists. Core is limited to 1000 copies." - CTI. |
| Artist: STICK MEN,THE Title: Insatiable Format: CD Label: Cuneiform Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| 2008 repress. "In the early 80s, The Stick Men ruled the Philadelphia new/no wave scene. Reminiscent of James Chance and the Contortions with more hyperkinetic energy (!!), they created a frenzied psycho-funk-punk sound that featured gut-wrenching timing, extraordinary charm, personality with a plus, and tons of good humor. This CD contains the The Stick Mens entire recorded output as well as rare tracks from live radio broadcasts. Also included is bonus CD-Rom material: a 20 minute Quick Time video of the band. The band remains an incomparable phenomenon to this day."-Cuneiform. |
| Artist: OWL XOUNDS Title: Gypsy Monks On Holiday Format: Cass Label: Curor Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Exuberant outer-space free-jazz from Kriney (drums) and Janas (upright bass), joined on these wild-eyed live jams by Mario Rechtern (saxes, electronics) and Gene Moore (electric guitar). Edition of 51." - Curor. |
| Artist: CHORA/ON FIRE Title: Split Format: CDR Label: Curor Country: UK Price: $9.00 |
| "Primitive ritualistic freakouts from Chora coupled with On Fires extended semi-improvisatory song forms. Edition of 50 in elegant oversized card wallets." - Curor. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Cant/Carly Ptak/Heather Leigh/Zaimph Format: Doube Lathe Cut 8" Label: Curor Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "...double 8" lathe release of female vocal explorations, featuring Zaimph (Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards), Heather Leigh (Taurpis Tula), Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac) and Cant (Jessica Rylan). A follow-up release of male throat action is already in preparation." - Curor. Very nice full color artwork from Karen Constance. |
| 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: SWORD HEAVEN Title: Live at Little Brothers Format: CDR Label: Cut Hands Country: Netherlands Price: $13.00 |
| Artist: POOR SCHOOL Title: Voor Niets In Zijn Format: CDR Label: Cut Hands Country: The Netherlands Price: $13.00 |
| Artist: JAZZFINGER Title: Listen and Vanish Format: CDR Label: Cut Hands Country: the Netherlands Price: $13.00 |
| Artist: COLTRANE, ANDREW Title: Symphony of Black Holes Format: 3" CDR Label: Cut Hands Country: Netherlands Price: $12.00 |
| "New entry into the vastly expanding discography of this Michigan basement wrecker. Check out his brutal burners on American Tapes, RRR and Middle James Co., come right back if youre man enough and try this one right here. Symphony of Black Holes delivers crude streams of skullcracking sewer noise. Not a ray of light to be found in this putrid dirthole, all black, no joy. 50 copies in mini dvd cases. Artwerk by fartjerk." -Cut Hands |
| Artist: SACHIKO Title: Hverfanda Hvel Format: CDR Label: Cut Hands Country: Netherlands Price: $14.00 |
| "Hverfanda Hvél is Sachikos (Overhang Party, ex-Kousukoya) third solo album, after the purple vocal haze of You Never Atone For and the equally breathtaking Kunado, released last year on Utech. This one contains two, gutwrenching live performances at Tokyos Loopline. First track features Reiko.A of former Merzbow fame and travels through a thick, hazy fog of shimmering wordless vocals before collapsing face down in a pool of electronic voodoo damage. On the second, shorter piece Sachiko breathes out her zoned out mantras and washes of cosmic vocal beauty as if shes honouring Yoshi Wadas monumental spirit. A mesmerizing mayhem for real. 100 copies in the usual square dvd cases. Spi-fi art by Witchbeam, www.witchbeam.com" -Cut Hands |
| Artist: PHOSPHENE FORM Title: Decayed Inferno Format: 3" CDR Label: Cut Hands Country: Netherlands Price: $12.00 |
| "Sick collection of mangled Industrial soundscapes by this new Canadian cat with ties to the Hamilton, Fossils crew. Theres a sense of downright eerie frustration running through this album, twisted electronics mixed with thick, thudding blurts of frontal noise. Like a stack of heavy labour machines on the verge of breaking down. 40 copies in mini dvd cases. Artwerk by fartjerk." -Cut Hands |
| Artist: CENTURY PLANTS Title: Accidental Visitor Format: CDR Label: Cuthands Country: Netherlands Price: $13.00 |
| "Massive inferno style guitar destruction by this new crew outta Albany, NY. Part raging metallic clang by way of the holy Shred, part meditative feedbacking in total Zen style. Escaping melodies get trashed like Blue Humans digging on a Loren Mazzacane Connors riff. You can just hear their pleasure in the trashing and bashing. Century Plants mitglieds Eric Hardiman and Ray Hare (also making a mark as a part of Burnt Hills) have shared bills with Dead Machines recently and are bound to shake things up wherever they plug in their tools. 3rd official release, 50 copies in polyvinyl sleeves with bah-boom artwerk." -Cuthands |
| Artist: BURIAL HEX Title: Menstrual Hoax Format: CDR Label: Cuthands Country: Netherlands Price: $13.00 |
| "Super bleak slab of muddy graveyard electronics by the man who helms the Skulls of Heaven label as well as rock his cock out with the likes of Davenport, Zodiacs, Totem and a bunch more. Clay Ruby finds the path that leads through the frostbitten trails of early Industrial pioneers but with a bit more of a sickening feel throughout. As if hes purposely trying to nauseate the listener with geysers of bubbly noise. On Menstrual Hoax, Clay Ruby aka Wyrdskull hooks us up with two tracks, one is a studio recording and two live jammers packed in one thunderous caveman electronics track. The collaboration with Mumber Toes is extra sick, feels like drowning in blackened quicksand. End life. 80 copies in square dvd cases with b&w artwerk and psychedelic insert." - Cuthands |
| Artist: JACOBS, EZRA Title: Krkkl Format: 3" CDR Label: Cuthands Country: Netherlands Price: $13.00 |
| "Another Dutch talent in the Cut Hands stable that Im very proud of. Krkkl moves like a thick mudslide stuffed with mutated synths, sheets of metal being stroked, brushes of cello, shortwave transmissions that get massively interrupted by swirling effects and even some algorhythmic programming type stuff. Serious mindfuck potential. Jacobs manages to piece it all together into a cohesive and extremely overwhelming 24 minutes. A definite highlight in the current Dutch noise scene. Edition of 40 copies, in tiny polyvinyl sleeves with shady artwerk by Bas van Huizen." - Cuthands |