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| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs" Vol Two/The Farwood Duo Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Second in this collab CD series. This time paired with Plants/OG American Tapes/NAACP guitar master/weirdo Jeff Dunn who sent in a tape of solo guitar that gets a thick reworking by Coorz Liberty. Three strange tracks with guitars, j-tar, and alto sax. Band started in 1991????!!!! Handpainted cover in DVD case."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Galleries 4-6 Format: CD Label: 20 City Country: Japan Price: $14.00 |
| "A brand new hotshot Tokyo label. This is a wonderful 3 band split featuring 20-ish minute contributions from BCM (in guitar vs crockery mode), the macro/micro field recording whizzkid, Esosteel, and a new chap round these parts, Doe, who go down deeeeep with some truly astounding drone-swuzz. A lovely aquisition indeed and NO, its not a CDR in case you are wondering." - 20 City. |
| Artist: V/A Title: 267 Purkkia Liimaa Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| Features L?RSSON, AVARUS, PLAT YPUS, GREY PARK, RAKENNUSTUHKAA, PYLON, KEMIALLISET YST?V?T, BUNSENLAMPPU, BRASPYREET, KUKKIVA POLIISI, DI MAISSINT?HK?, FUTURIANS, TIVOL, THE BURIED CIVILIZATIONS, KULKIJA, RAUHAN ORKESTERI, PEKKO K?PPI, AÏR, KEIJO, THE FRANCISCAN HOBBIES, SONIC TEMPLE ASSASSINS, AGNOSIA, LAMPPUKELLO, O SAMULI A, CAN CAN HEADS, VAPAA, UTON, and CLAY FIGURE. "A 267 lattajjaa compilation featuring some old tracks, some remixes, some new versions and mostly new tracks." - 267 Lattajjaa. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Kekkonen - Anarchy in the UKK Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Released 24.5.2005, hand-painted sleeves, limited edition of 120 copies, the ultimate party album! Compilation, versions or tracks inspired by J.O. Mallanders legendary tracks "1962" and "1968" which are based on the counting of the votes in finnish president election. The winner was Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, who was the president of Finland for 25 years." - 267 Lattajjaa. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Kanoja, Myos Hanoja Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| ??A compilation of the psychedelic underground, limited edition of 100 copies on black CDRs.? ?? 267 Lattajjaa. Includes ROBERT HORTON, THE GRAND HOTEL, PARTICLES COLLECT, BEN REYNOLDS AND ALEX NEILSON, VAPAA, GREY PARK, O SAMULI A, HANS GR?SELS KRANKENKABINET, PEFKIN, HANNU KARJALAINEN, FELIPE+FORTE, PUMICE, LEAFY GREEN, SEAN ?G, WESTERN AUTOMATIC,RAMESES III & ZELIENOPLE. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Oscillation III Format: 10CD Box Set Label: 3Lobed Country: USA Price: $82.00 |
| "Along the lines of the prior subscription CD EP series, Purposeful Availment and Modern Containment, Oscillation III consists of ten CDs by ten different artists which were released over the course of 2008. These discs were previously only available through Three Lobed Recordings as a complete set and not a la carte. The only way to get this set was to subscribe to the series via mailorder. Each CD is at least 25 minutes long (or longer in most cases) and features new, exclusive material from that particular artist. Each disc is only available through the purchase of a complete set. Again, these discs will *not* be sold individually (except for a small number of copies of TLR-055). Similar to the previous two series, the set comes in a hand silkscreened slipcase to house the series. The slipcase for Oscillation III features new artwork from Robert Beatty of Hair Police. 10 CDs housed in mini-LP style sleeves with inserts. Housed in a silk screened slipcase." Contains the following CDs: Bark Haze - One For Merz; Bardo Pond - Circuit VIII; Tom Carter - Skyline Grinder; Lee Ranaldo - Maelstrom From Drift; Jack Rose - I Do Play Rock And Roll; The Michael Flower Band - The Michael Flower Band; Magik Markers - Gucci Rapidshare Download; Howlin Rain - Wild Life; GHQ - Everywhere At Once; Vanishing Voice - The Morning After. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Live AT AC Temple - Arthur Doyle + Hollow Bush, Demons, Drug Knives Format: DVDR Label: AA Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "In Birmingham, Alabama there is a fountain at the Five Points. The fountain is of a goat lord surrounded by small animals. Water sprays from the mouths of each animal, the streams cross and a pentagram forms. Birmingham is also home to Arthur Doyle and Hollow Bush (Rodger Stella, Bryan Martin). A collaboration between Arthur Doyle and Hollow Bush is a strange thought for anyone who knows Rodger Stella or has seen Arthur Doyle. Even more complex is the image of the two of them behind closed doors discussing the approach and direction of the set to follow. What truly blew my mind was the set itself. Starting out with Doyles vocal work alone, the sound had a sparse and delicate feeling. Rodger Stella soon joined Doyle with a mirror of vocal samples. Doyle hears himself, smiles, then stops to listen. What followed was a intricate working of vocal loops and cut up sax with hand over beer electronics. Rodger Stella and Arthur Doyle are an odd couple but some how a perfect match. My favorite performance of the 2007. This is followed by the latest in live Demons visual music straight from the Invisible Darkness tour and committed to DVD here for the first time. The night ended with a very rare Drug Knives set - Demons with Stella playing for themselves in the muscle-relaxed atmosphere of each others company. Drug Knives is just that deep long stare into oblivian." - AA Records. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Live At Oberlin - Wolf Eyes, Sick Llama, Raven Strain Format: DVDR Label: AA Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Oberlin rules because even though its a school theres a bar with good beer and the bar is like 20 feet from the stage. What happens when you have a bar on a campus and a killer gig = Wolf Eyes, Sick Llama, Raven Strain? Witness the mayhem that ensues! Someone gets so excited they pull the fire alarm to jam along! This dvd has all you would expect from a truly wasted line up playing in Ohio. Lots of slamming, lots of pits and lots people you know. Sounds from Raven Strain and Sick Llama to make you pass out and puke, and a slam section from Wolf Eyes for the masochistic minded." - AA Records. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Aryan Asshole Records Compilation Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: AA Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "This LP features the next 13 lathes since the first comp = Isis & Werewolves, Ex-Cocaine, Mirror/Dash, Pengo, Christina Kubisch, Birds of Delay, Sick Llama, Jackie Stewart, Evil Moisture, Prurient, Rusted Shut, Carlos Giffoni, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Demons. All the messy atmosphere of lathes on freshly pressed vinyl, weird! Banned in Canada due to the jacket (guess why)." - AA Records |
| Artist: V/A Title: Lagos Disco Inferno Format: Double LP Label: Academy Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Welcome to the Lagos Disco Inferno, the first compilation of rare, Nigerian Disco to be released outside of Africa. Compiled by Frank Gossner (of Voodoofunk.com fame), this record contains 12 tracks that represent the sound of Lagos in the late 1970s. Dean Disi (Music Journalist and formerly Director of Lagos based label TYC Records) wrote the liner notes for this album: ??It was the era of sheer ecstasy. The music not only represents the vibrancy of youthful expressionism of the time but is also deeply rooted in African rhythm though not traditional in phraseology. This collection of songs marks the development of Nigerian urban pop culture. There was diametric difference in the music of the discos and the music play by the groups. Disco music as played by the DJs was essentially western. The fans could connect with this easily. It was hip, urban and stimulating. The young Nigerian groups were hooked on it and tried to play it but with a distinctive African stamp of their own.? Some of the artists on this record were stars of their times while others remained in obscurity. Lagos, a uniquely vibrant, gritty, energetic and sometimes quite dangerous tropical metropolis has always been much more than just a city. A state of mind where third world poverty met the oil boom, where African traditions clashed with Western decadence. Make no mistake, this stuff will have you dance in a feverish rush in no time." - Academy. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Woof: 7 Inches Format: CD Label: Ad Hoc Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| Compilation of material that originally released by the UK Woof label, in the early 80s. Deluxe foldout digipak. "This CD comprises all four 7" releases by the British underground label, Woof Records, plus extra tracks by The Work and The Lowest Notes. All tracks were originally released on vinyl between 1980 and 1985, but most have never before been issued on CD. This disk features a whos-who of the London art-rock scene from those years (Bill Gilonis, Mick Hobbs, Tim Hodgkinson, Rick Wilson, Andy Bole, Trefor Goronwy, to name a few), plus the Belgian expressionist-singer, Catherine Jauniaux." - Ad Hoc. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Night Gallery - 21st Century Psychedelic Underground Format: CD Label: Alchemy Country: Japan Price: $22.50 |
| Excellent comp featuring LSD March (LP soon on SIWA), Uptight, Doodles, Mimi No Koto and Chouzo. |
| Artist: V/A Title: OU 20-21/OU 23-24 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| "Available now in very limited quantities (less than 40 copies of each title) the single picture LPs of the Revue OU series. The picture LPs are the same pressing as the one included in the Avant Marghen Vol.3 boxset, but they are not numbered. Including Bernard Heidsieck Poème-partition D4P, Ou Art Poétique; Brion Gysin I Am; Brion Gysin Pistol-Poem; Henri Chopin Vibrespace; François Dufrêne Batteries Vocales; François Dufrêne Paix En Algérie; François Dufrêne Ténu-Tenu; Mimmo Rotella 7 Poèmes Phonétiques; Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition J; Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition H1 + H2: Le Quatrième plan; Brion Gysin 3 Permutations; Henri Chopin Lénergie Du Sommeil. - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: V/A Title: OU 28-29/OU 30-31 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| Including François Dufrêne Triptycrirythme; Paul De Vree Verokina; Paul De Vree Ogenblik; Paul De Vree Kleine Caroli; Paul De Vree Vertigo Gil; Paul De Vree Een Roos A Rose; Henri Chopin Sol Air; Henri Chopin Le Corps. |
| Artist: V/A Title: OU 34-35/OU 36-37 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| "Including François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (June 1967); François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (December 1967); François Dufrêne Haut-Satur (November 1968); Bob Cobbing Marvo Movie Natter; Bob Cobbing Spontaneous Appealinair Vontemprate Apollinaire; Henri Chopin Mes Bronches; Ladislav Novák La Structure Phonétique De La Langue Tchèque; Hugh Davies Shozyg 1 & 2; Sten Hanson Dont Hesitate Do It, Do It Right Now; Sten Hanson The Glorious Desertion; Henri Chopin Les Grenouilles dAristophane; Bernard Heidsieck Ravaillac, Tu Connais?: Passe-Partout N° 1". |
| Artist: V/A Title: OU 38-39/OU 40-41 Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $44.00 |
| Including Henri Chopin Le Rire Est Debout; Bengt Emil Johnson Among II; Sten Hanson Revolution; Sten Hanson Railroad Poem; Jacques Bekaert The Day After; J.A. Da Silva Audio-Poem; William S. Burroughs Valentine Day Reading; Brion Gysin Poems; Bernard Heidsieck Chapeau: Passe-Partout N° 4; Henri Chopin La Soleil Est Mécanique. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 1 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
| Incredible set of 3 boxes, each with 7LPs in it, from the Alga Marghen archives. These are all previously released LPs, but most have been o/p for many years now. The boxes are limited to a numbered edition of 80 copies each. "The VocSon series might be identified as the starting point of all the Alga Marghen activities. This series, which still continues to present on limited LP records the most advanced international vocal experiments, is mainly dedicated to the documentation of sound poetry. Since most of the titles immediately sold out, Alga Marghen decided to issue a kind of anthology, specially issued for ArtBasel where Alga Marghen will present its catalog following an invitation by Maurizio Nannucci of the Artists Record Pavillion. This also in order to give the opportunity to those who missed the-now-rare original editions to be able to find them now, even if in a very limited run. Each LP is numbered on the VocSon innersleeve expressly conceived for this edition. This luxury boxset edition actually includes the first 7 LPs issued for the VocSon series, or: 1) Bernard Heidsieck Poème-Partition X LP. First 80 copies from the original 300 copies edition issued in 1997. The very early experimental poem by Bernard Heidsieck may be considered one of his first important creations. The record which started the VocSon series. 2) Henri Chopin Cantata for Two Farts & Co. LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Henri Chopin presents previously unreleased audiopoems as well as the reprint of two pieces from the Radiotaxi LP (the tracks taken from Radiotaxi are here presented for the first time mastered at the correct speed). 3) Bernard Heidsieck Vaduz LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Vaduz (12:23) can be considered one of Bernard Heidsiecks major works. Very experimental with a lot of electronic manipulations. According to Henri Chopin, this is the only true audiopoem by Heidsieck. Composed June to December 1974 and recorded on a Revox A 700 at the authors studio. 4) Philip Corner Word-Voices LP. First 80 copies from the original 500 copies edition issued in 1997. A record LP of vocal utterances including early Fluxus voice and instrumental pieces. 5) Henri Chopin Les Mirifiques Tundras & Co.. Original pre-released edition of 80 copies on yellow vinyl, never offered before. Extreme voice sound manipulations. Somehow in the vein of Hodell Text-Sound composition, just more primitive and visceral. 6) Sten Hanson The Sonosopher Retrospective LP. First 80 copies from the original 545 copies edition issued in 1998. An anthology of Sten Hanson Text-Sound composition. This edition pre-dates the anthologized CDs which were issued in Sweden. 7) Ake Hodell 220 Volts Buddha LP. First 80 copies from the original 545 copies edition issued in 1998. Fantastic electronic music LP. The pieces on this LP were included in the 3CD anthology issued by Fylkingen. Your chance to get the original edition on LP now." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 2 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
| Second volume of the Avant MarghenVocSon series, numbered edition of 80 copies. "This luxury boxset edition actually includes the second group of 7 LPs issued for the VocSon series: 1) Brion Gysins Poems Of Poems LP. First 80 copies from the original 630 copies edition issued in 1998. Very early poetical experimentation recorded in 1958 at the Beat Hotel, Paris. The origins of cut-up are documented in this radical edition. You will experience why Brion Gysin was a strong reference for Henri Chopin and Bernard Heidsieck. 2) Bernard Heidsieck 50/70 LP. First 80 copies from the original 480 copies edition issued in 1998. The third Bernard Heidsieck LP issued by Alga Marghen draws the picture of two specific moments on artistic creation: the 1950s and the 1970s. 3) Jose Luis Castillejo The Book of is LP. First 80 copies from the original 240 copies edition issued in 1998. Very limited and immediately sold out edition of Castillejo conceptual recordings. Jose Luis Castillejo books always included him among the Concrete Poems and were regarded as very special graphic creations. A deep exploration of his abstract and radical poetry will lead to a more conceptual and philosophical understanding as this LP clearly states. 4) Jil G. Wolman Lanticoncept LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Edition of Gil J Wolman megapneums, or the beginning of the whole sonic adventures. If Gysin was a strong conceptual influence for the Henri Chopin and Bernard Heidsieck generation, Wolman was showing them the sonic direction. Just with the use of the breath and respiration, his Megapneums had the same intensity of the electronic manipulation that will make Chopins audiopoems so radically new and uncompromising. This LP also include excerpts from Wolman sound-film LAnticoncept from 1952. 5) Isidore Isou Poèmes Lettristes 1944-99 LP. Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Historical edition by Isidore Isou. This is the first record LP ever published by the father of Lettrism. Poems from 1944 to 1999 including a breath taking improvisation, some 1970s recordings by Maurice Lemaitre and an early, primitive and incredible performance by Francois Dufrene. Recorded at Isous apartement in 1999. 6) Juan Hidalgo Una Voz LP. First 80 copies from the original 323 copies edition issued in 2000. First ever ZAJ LP record! An historical recording of Juan Hidalgo Una Voz, including concrete sound interventions by Walter Marchetti. A large size booklet with the transcription in English and Spanish of the spoken text is also included. Capital! 7) Arrigo Lora-Totino Fonemi LP. First 80 copies from the original 345 copies edition issued in 2000. Arrigo Lora-Totino is probably best known for having been the editor of the famous sound poetry anthology issued by Cramps Records in the 1970s with the title Futura. But only a few know about his sound poetry production. Following Henri Chopins idea that poetry is above all an expression of the body through its own language, Lora-Totino started his important poetic practice in 1965 with Fonemi, a sound sample of erasure: the reading of a text recorded on tape is filtered through an electronic pulse generator that splits it into small fragments." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Avant Marghen Vol. 3 Format: 7 LP Box Set Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $178.00 |
| Third volume in the Avant Marghen boxset series, numbered edition of 80 copies. "This luxury boxset actually includes a new picture disc edition of Revue OU anthology plus an Henri Chopin LP and the Ben Patterson LP. 1) VA Revue OU. Record 1 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. First of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 2) VA: Revue OU. Record 2 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Second of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 3) VA: Revue OU. Record 3 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Third of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 4) VA: Revue OU. Record 4 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Forth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from 1958 to 1974. 5) VVAA Revue OU. Record 5 picture LP. Original pre-released of 80 copies on picture disc with different graphics, never offered before. Fifth of a set of 5 picture discs reproducing the integral recordings of the journal OU edited by Henri Chopin from1958 to 1974. 6) Henri Chopin The Body Is A Sound Factory & Co. LP (16VocSon046). Edition of 80 copies with new labels. Originally issued in an edition of 300 copies, only available with the vinyl edition of the Revue OU LP anthology. This LP includes previously unreleased audiopoems dating from 1965 to 1981. 7) Ben Patterson A Fluxus Elegy LP. First 80 copies from the original 345 copies edition issued in 2006. This Ben Patterson composition, issued on is based on the basic principles of the polyphonic music of the Bantu tribes of West and Central Africa. First principle: the practice of interlocking individual pitches or tones performed by one person into spaces between other pitches or tones performed by another person, thus alternating pitches or tones of one part with those of another part to create a whole. Second principle: use of cyclical and open-ended forms involving one or more ostinato melodic/rhythmic pattern as a foundation. Third principle: community participation... non-specialists are encouraged to join in long performances with much repetition. Fourth principle: rhythmic complexity with the juxtaposition of double and triple patterns, multiple layering of different patterns, and interaction between a core foundation and improvised parts. And, most important, the family ownership of a specific tone: in the musical culture of these tribes, each ancestral family owns and is responsible for one or more specific tones, which must be sounded at specific points, sequencing with the many other specific tones owned by other families, to create a seamless melody. Ben Patterson made a music based on this information by taking the initials of artists listed in Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties and encoding them in basic International Morse Code. These dots and dashes were then performed on a Yamaha DJX keyboard (voice pattern setting), connected to a Digitech JamMan Looper (over-dub setting), connected to an Eurorack MX 602A mixer. Front cover reproducing the original score." - Alga Marghen. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas - Volume 8 Format: LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The eighth installment in the Worlds Lousy compilation series abandons the 7" format in favor of the full twelve. Pretty much everyone worth talking about in 09 is on here, as the LP collects exclusive tracks by Blank Dogs, Vivian Girls, Tyvek, Oh Sees, Sic Alps, Times New Viking, Intelligence, Pink Reason and Guinea Worms. Beautiful, silkscreened covers with art by Cassie of the Vivian Girls." There are nine different screened covers, one by each band. Currently we have Sic Alps, Pink Reason, Blank Dogs, Guinea Worms, and Tyvek. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas - Volume Seven Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| An all Australian edition, featuring Super Wild Horses, UV Race, Straight Arrows, and Eddy Current Suppression Ring. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Worlds Lousy With Ideas Volume 6 Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "(exclusive cuts by Little Claw / Eat Skull / and Psychedelic Horseshit) Printed labels this go round...all new sleeves!" - Almost Ready. Repressed. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. One-Evenings & Spykes Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "New CD series, in standard hand painted ink calligraphy style sleeves. All collabs, here the first: Kzoos master musician and Ding Dong Destroyer Miless Evenings project with full reworking by Spykes of the Sleeptalking cassette, that one loop release and his homemade lathe cut 9" record. Eerie tracks, mystery sounds for your brain to wander off its beaten track." - American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Three/AC & Spykes Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Been just a Strangled Pair winter here, been collab nutzo. Here is the first in the Batch= Andrew Coltrane and Coorz. Heavy electronic noize sound inside. Dense, mystery clouds of homemade inzanity. Rewordings of various Hermitage limited gems. Stoker. As with all the Pairs series, handmade art in large DVD case."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Four/Fletch & Kegcharge Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "This odd one is a complex inzane remix of a killer Fletcher Pratt (from Canada) tape. Involved cut up collage style. Different sound from the others, the hope of a unique union of both sources together is achieved inside the cubist world. Hand drawn style cover, color case."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs- Vol. Five/The Exploding Mixers Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Stoked on this collab. While the Hair Police boyz were going over old tapes in Lexington, me and Walter Carson jetted on a sunny wintery afternoon to the empty basement of the Frowny Bear, set up real close together and jammed for an hour straight with our new band THE EXPLODING MIXERS. Great feedblack trading linez sound. After the rad sound afternoon, we packed up, went to Roberts, ate Pasta and jammed the Handicapper Hornz/Hair Police gig in a Skate Park later. A perfect day save for old man Oldson havin to tell some young shredders to chill on the mini ramp while me and Handicapped Sara had to do our reed thing. That officially makes you an OLD MAN. Handrawn covers, color cases."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Five/Language Morph Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Fav band outta the MI Mitten now with strange electronics and reeds add over makes for one inzane recipe. If you heard the tape on Excite Bike you know you cant hold black adding in your two audio cents to the ground zero fidelity Body Morph sound. Completely weird, like fully yo. Colored cases, handrawn Strangled Pair style."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Six/Spyked Fossils Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "There you go!! Inzane Payne and Kegcharge showdown here. When the Fossils crew came down for a weekend of intensive liver abuse during the 517 Fest in Lansing= we had one hell of an afternoon jam "Shit Noise Fest" = AC played first amazing gig, Dillo jammed dark afternoon basement synth, Connelly did his organ thing, Khrust and PE Paul danced with sheet metal and laundry detergent bottles, and Spyked Fossils jammed. So included is that strange gig and two other tracks of reworking of other rad Fossils Hammer Town Sound tapes. Ruling one, this. Good timez got no borderz homeboy! Handrawn covers, colored cases= you know the drill."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Seven/Khrust & Kegcharge Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Speak of the devil = heres KHRUST KHRIS paired with Kegcharge. Odd metal thumps and rubbings with really abstact electronic soundz. Strangely calm and repetitive, like if your dryer had a glowing ET-thing having a spin inside. All the electronic garbles are the recordings of the new instruments being made= so actually there is no "playing" involved= thats interesting i guess. Strange collab. Drawn covers/ colored cases"- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs-Vol. Eight/Dead Dour Alive Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Last Collab for this update, this was handed to me as the AM 666 "Satanic Slaughter" master but SIXES has that slot (funna be a 3C60 set) so DCA remixed the fuck outta it instead. Clean crisp evil electronics inside. A strong one. Good rheumatic style with bite. Concludes with drunken New Years discussion with me, dour, awesome Allison (right before the Noh Neighbors set) and Copymax Crystal about a flying squirrel attack in Detroit. Rad. Drawn covers, cases, blah blah."- American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs -Vol. Nine/Outer Space (Emeralds John & Spyked) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The last time a mug was in Cleveland going to see the amazing KUOLEMA with the local crew, the after gig 3am session landed us at Big John Jrs apartment. The homeboy was jamming a bunch of Emeralds outtakes where they were so brain transported on _ _ _ _ that nothing sequenced up or matched or went in the forward direction. It was pretty amazing to see the jamm components of a massive unit scrambled beyond working order. After that, Big JohnJr played some Lilypad and Outerspace solo pieces that were SUPER weird, like radio ad cut ups, metal cups clinking around, planes taking off, etc. It was REALLY STRANGE. So as me and the DilloDad were stumbling out to the truck, B. John JR. hands me a STACK of the works-in-progress CDs we have been jamming and says "shit man...just take it...get em outta here..." So here is the FIRST in the Big John and Big John, Jr. Collab...total Outerspace/homespun fruit loop electronic squall. Definite headphone other world negative universe upside down town Lilypad soundtrackz....definately more on the way.........Emeralds (and Fragments) were amazing at the AM 800 party this last July Fourth. Rulin tymez. Color Covers"-American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Ten/Spyked Stelzer (Howie S. and Spyked Coorz) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "This one was long time coming?was funna be collab lp but the Troniks Howie lp was unsurpassable audio A++. So heres a long more relaxed effort betwinst the Boston Neu Wave sound scrambler smoker and the no-solution empty set style with Spykes. Super worked thru brain forestry via tapes and lo-tech electronics. Howie edits cookbooks so maybe a recipe would be a better descriptor: 1) One cup lowercase HS tape supply 2) Bake at 400 degrees, then instantly bury in the backyard after a rainstorm in night 3) Soak in chili powder, dig up tape, play on a cat litter tape head urine box tape and record 4) Play for 60 min on slow mo 5) Bake for another 4 hours with a garnish of metal shavings from shredded Microbrewer IPA cans 6) Serve with a silent frozen solid dinner guest, at 5:30 AM Well, there you go??.Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Twelve/Green Palace (Green Mist and Spyked Coorz) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "WHOA!! Brighton UK cum Canada China/Lansing sound show/bro down here. Spykes gives a full working to the amazing Green Mist ??Suit Case Bomb? cd he busted a couple years ago. Total tangled web of audio miasma. More rotten angles than a T Square leper rally. Just a nonlinear sound collage of ear cells plotting against an attack against brain cells. Dallas man?.killer dude, should change his name to LLCOOLYMD (Ladies Love Cool Yoga Master Dallas). Hear it rip across the cold ATLANTIC. The only bloke kicked out the China Olympics for sneaking a case of brew...?.Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Soundtrack To No Solutions Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Uneven .Universe, Dead Machines, Cripple Crimes ??Triangle?, Pink Chunk Jazz Band c60 WARNING : WEIRD TAPE ALERT. New tape in the new ??weekly audio diary? series. This one was the week of Halloween, the DM and the UU tracks are from a TOTALLY weird art/gig show in Mt Clemens. Empty concrete wide basement sound ambiance dominates the two tracks with a crawling, evil sound. CCT and PCJB round out the comp in circle in square home inzanity sound style. Tried a style of just recording the gigs/home jams in short tracks from the week and dropping the master in the masta box and now there is a thick tangling growing grip of these that will slowly leak out. . Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Mentalist Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Tovah DDay, Spykes, Graveyards, Communication Palace, Shared Menace c60 Part two in the style of the ??Soundtrack? week sound world documentation style. Various home terror, the Graveyards track is from fall gig at the MOCAD in Detroit and is ultra cubist non-subjective quarter speed boxed in slow burning mayhem. New tracks by C. Palace and strange mystery squad Shared Menace. Tons more in this style still comin??lots of small ghost towns to inhabit within this c60 wordless audio map. Dedicated to the Tovahnatorz new fav TV show . Packaged in a new mega color slip case style with full color inzane art." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Strangled Pairs Vol. Eleven/Kitchen Clatter (Family Underground and Dead Machines) Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "There is a whole nasty grip of bands that would rule to be in: early Allman Bros., early Nerve Noise Net, Kanssan Uutiset , The Singing Alvias, "Victims" Period Cimex, others. Add the amazing Denmark underground thick drone mystery troupe Family Underground to that long list. You wanna be in the band? Just jamm happily along to the audio of choice and sail away?thats exactly what The Dead Machines did to the FU (re: not FUs) totally rad ??Candle Fingers? cd. Here are the results?..a complete electronic dense world of scrape, buzz, and hum. Hopefully we will all jamm live together someday, somewhere, somehow?? Electronics for the setting of all suns underwater. ??.Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: No State No Sound Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hold on gnaw...last but not least..... the NO STATE NO SOUND comp lp. Dont know what led up to it...think I vaguely remember getting "dared" by Nurse Khrust to put out a record of silence by the crew, not sure, but maybe told Haunted Square D about it....but anyhow.....flashblack to an average but killer brewsday in the late summer, got the crew shooting the gip, no biggy, and Square D rolls up with his "Body Morph" one minute silent track....takes a sec to remember but all right...lets do this. Greh and V invite the now deep crew black to they hut, and on the way I had a walkman in the whip, so i popped in Ds master, hit record and the stop watch for a minute and me and the Connartist sat in silence for a minute and recorded the second track BIRTH REFUSAL. As we got to Grehs, we assembled all the jammers present and hit em up for a minute, all on three different Walkmans all on the original master tape. Was totally strange, Sick Llama was just standing in a yard with the crew looking at him pointing a recorder his way while nothing happened. It was like a very strange gig. So after everyone at the party got recorded/ trapped in NO SOUND, some the garage, some inside a bathroom whilst the crew stared at the close door, someone had the idea to call up some jammers. So No Fucker Johnny, Romero, others all held on the line for a minute of NOTHING. Totally rules. The end result sounds like a Folkways experiment. I ended up coming home and getting busted for "recording silence and not grabbing the Air Condition Window Unit" which was the only reason i went Grehs begin with. Hey, Window AC Unit or not, you are still KOOL with this platter!! Heres the Full Iiterary, recorded in order, no overdubs or tom foolery, no voices nothing, just weird hiss and an occasional bird chirp in lonesome... 1) Body Moprh 2) Birth Refusal 3) Hive Mind 4) Sick Llama 5) New Pledgemaster 6) Tom & John 7) ??????? (we eventually figured out who it is, heres a hint: weighs 90 lbs, goes from 0-Passed out in 3 brews, now in P. Rico) 8) Moontravellers 9) A.C. & Khrust 10) Alicia Warning 11) No Fucker 12) Burning Star Core 13) Hair Police 14) Rodger Stella 15) Damion Romero 16) Hellfire Holly 17) Iron Lung 18) 16 Bitch Pile Up 19) The Haunting All pressed on colored gray vinyl on the new AT style wrapped around sleeve with creepy art, Numbered edition of 200." -American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Learning for Insipid Zeal = Pool Water, People Pollution, Imaginary Unit In Electronics Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Whoa! Hold on now! Heres the big one! All recorded in a one week in late April, heres the line up: Track One ) Pool Water: Super new heavy unit with Connelly, Zone One and Mega Mike Collino. Violin, kitchen percussion, slow tapes - every ingredient to make your pulse quicken/slow-en!!! The track sounds more akin to a Cook Labs recording of a train journey thru a snow covered mountain at midnight rather than three mug blokes in ultra concentrated jam mode.... Will make your skin stand at attention, soldier!! Recorded in Inzane-Dimension sound with the IZTF in full effect mode. Mad style: File Under: Misshapen Jam Growths. Track Two ) People Pollution: What the? Ultra distorted retardo basement rock trio with Juice & Raddix (AKA Raven Strain Matt and Fag Health AKA Sick Llama Heath) on guitar and bass and Inzane on plodding go nowhere drumming. Was meant to be a Justice-style garage unit turned Frankenstein- style into a twisted distorted Mega-mess! Recorded under the influence of afternoon sun, left over Milwaukee Beasts from the Aries Assault party, and the shadows of the dank interiors of the Frying Pan. WARNING! = worst guitar/bass tone on earth!! Would make Joe Young, Vorkriegphase, and Wretched sell they kitty littered amp speakers for opening a Baskin and Robins Franchise. Just a stinking rocking mess of a track!! More to come by this mutant unit! Name taken from a strange puzzle the puzzler master Tovah found in a rotten Lansing thrift store. Track Three ) Imaginary Unit in Electronics: Im sure yall are like "Why not just call the jam J?" Well, Im not quite sold on the concept of being that you cant take the square root of a negative, but you CAN call it a J and then next thing you know it has a value of 1 or-1. Huh? When rad Instructor Max got asked the question by a stunned Electrical Math class, he just looked down, counted his voltage, current, and resistance markers and said, "Well, thats a discussion for Carl Jung." Shit, lost me too. Like the button my crazed mom had (no ya turkey, not the OVERSEXED one) , = "Ninety Percent of Life is Just Showing Up." True. Soundtrack for confusion, included. So what the hell else for this heavy pack? How about a stupid-colorful overload hand painted collab jackets with artist Raymond Salvatore Harmon, painted in Automatic Writing Style. Why? Cause Tyfuss once told me "Zines and Collaborations keep the underground scene together and alive" You got it!!! Killer flow and strange new sounds will leave your day inzanity haunted with this new comp platter!!! Go nutzo young player. Edition of 100, numbered, hand done, THE WORKS." - American Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: And To The Disciples That Remain Format: CD Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Celebration of 11 years of Amish Records. 11 of 13 completely exclusive tracks. Deluxe 6-panel foldout packaging. Front cover by visual artist Sebastiaan Bremer. Includes members of & former members of Hall of Fame, Metabolismus, Tower Recordings, Windsor For the Derby, Polvo, Idyll Swords, Oneida and Town & Country." Artists include: P.G. Six, Mike Wexler, Theo Angell, Oakley Hall, Black Taj, Bird Show, Helen Rush, The Oranges Band, Samara Lubelski, Dan Matz and the Birdwatcher, Dan Brown and Chuck Johnson." - Amish |
| Artist: V/A Title: African Scream Contest - Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds Format: CD Label: Analog Africa Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "From Benin & Togo 70s. Spectacular package with thick 44-page booklet and slipcase packaging. This CD is licensed for release in the U.S. later in 2008, unsure if it will have the same deluxe packaging... "Just like with the labels first two releases -- albums by Zimbabwean 70s bands the Green Arrows and Hallelujah Chicken Run Band -- the essence of Analog Africa is clear yet again: searching in dusty warehouses for forgotten music to keep it alive. All the tracks have been officially licensed, usually from the artists who Ben Redjeb also met with for detailed research. He conducted 16 interviews in various cities in Benin and Togo with artists, producers and sound engineers to reconstruct the history of the 70s music scene for the 44-page booklet which also includes many rare photographs directly received from the artists. Like most modern music in French-speaking West African countries, the music of Benin and Togo was influenced by a few main musical currents: Cuban, Congolese and local traditional music, as well as Chanson Francaise. Additionally, the geographical location of Benin and Togo -- sandwiched between Ghana and Nigeria -- exposed Beninese and Togolese musicians to Highlife music. The cultural and spiritual riches of traditional Beninese music had an immense impact on the sound of Benins modern music. Benin is the birth place of Vodun (or, as it is known in the West, Voodoo), and some of the rhythms used during traditional rituals -- Sakpata, Sato, Agbadja, Tchenkoumé and many others -- were fused to soul and Latin music as early as the mid-1960s and later to funk. That fusion is the essence of this compilation. In the late 60s and early 70s, rock and soul music started creeping into the region. In particular, the music of James Brown and Johnny Halladay became immensely popular with university students. It was then that the music scene in Benin really started to take off. What made this musical revolution even more interesting is that most of the musicians could not read music. Often the music they made sounded one semi-tone away from being out of tune, but somehow they always managed to bring all the elements together into something new and exciting. One of the greatest bands of their era, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, who are featured on this compilation, took the Afro sound to another level by showing their musical versatility in many forms. Although they were consciously copying Western artists, they would always inject a dose of psychedelic Afro grooves that would make their music unmistakably Beninese. Their biggest song, Gbeti Madjro is believed to have revolutionized the music industry in Benin in the 70s when the country went through a period of political turmoil. The song is full of raw breaks and the hypnotic rhythms as well as screams à la James Brown -- after this song, many bands in Benin started screaming on their recordings, hence the title of this compilation. Latin-influenced sounds are present on this compilation, too. Ouidah, a city on the Atlantic coast of Benin, is home to a large Brazilian community, or, as they are called in Benin, Agoudas. Members of that community are descendents of slaves who returned from Brazil at the end of the 19th century. Their dances (such as Kaléta and Buriyanj) and songs are still being performed and fused into the traditional Beninese rituals. That, too, can be heard in modern Beninese music. The proximity of the giant neighbor Nigeria can be heard on the track Djanfa Magni which features the amazing trumpeter/ saxophonist Tidjani Koné fronting the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo. Koné whose career started in Mali as the founder and band leader of the Rail Band de Bamako, had played with Fela Kuti for a short while hence the strong Afrobeat influence. There are countless stories to be discovered in the extremely well-researched booklet and the music is truly mind-blowing. So delve into the forgotten raw and psychedelic Afro sounds from 70s Benin and Togo and experience the African Scream Contest." -Analog Africa |
| Artist: V/A Title: Wierd Presents: Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics Vol. 1 Format: Double LP Label: Angular Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
| "Angular Records (UK) are proud to announce the release of Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol.1-a new seventeen-track compilation put together by New Yorks Wierd Records founder PIETER SCHOOLWERTH and Angulars JOE DANIEL. The album chronicles the secret underground cult genres of cold wave and minimal wave, which mostly originated from continental Europe between the years 1981-1985. Active largely in small towns and isolated, non-metropolitan areas of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and The Netherlands, the first wave of minimal electronic groups functioned at the time as a raw, aggressive, affirmative antidote to the superficial excesses of commercial new wave. Using analog synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines the minimal synth artists successfully combined the sounds of the German electronic bands of the 60s and 70s (Amon Duul, Neu, Faust, Can) with the seminal early industrial bands largely active in the UK (Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire) to produce a new form of electropop that went on to be crucially influential on European and American pop and dance music of the late 80s and early 90s (Italo, New Beat, EBM). Features songs that have only been available up to now on ultra rare 7-inches, lost radio sessions and cassette tapes, as well as never before seen photos and extensive sleeve notes about the genre." - Angular. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Secrets And Sounds Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "3 YEARS IN THE MAKING, THESE ARE THE SECRETS AND SOUNDS OF ANIMAL DISGUISE RECORDINGS. THE DEFINITIVE SOUNDTRACK TO ADR PACKED FULL WITH 22 TRACKS AND 74 MINUTES. FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS FROM OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS: ARNOUX, CHARLES LAREAU, CIPHER FOX, FEROX HEAD, FOOTBALL RABBIT, GROWING, HAIR POLICE, LIBYTHTH, LIGER, MAMMAL, MEERK PUFFY, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, NEON HUNK, PANAMA, PRURIENT, ROTFLOL, SINKING BODY, SMASHED FEMUR DANCE PARTY, THE LOWDOWN, TON B / TON B, VIKI, ZOMBI." - Animal Disguise. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Electrically Induced Vibrations Format: LP Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Compilation with Edward Ka-Spel, The Silverman, Omit, Steve Thomsen, Colin Potter, Arkkon, Mistress of Strands, Fibrillation, and Cyclobe. limited edition of 427 copies. 4 color screen printed cover (by Alan Sherry of SIWA) with photography by Arthur S. Aubry of electrical devices built by Dale Travous. multicolor vinyl. This is a collection of music created with electronic means by artists residing in Luxembourg, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand and The Netherlands. Most of these people have been making music for 20 years or more, and have diverse histories. Their music as collected here is varied, but arranged into a cohesive flow. "- Anomalous. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Uncommon Nature Format: LP Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Features Jeph Jerman, Mirror, Agog, Climax Golden Twins, Jonathan Coleclough, Mike Shannon, Richard Lerman and David Knott. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Three Aural Interpretations of a Drawing by Eric Lanzillotta Format: 7" Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Limited edition of 250 copies pressed on clear vinyl and packaged in double-sided 14.5" by 10.5" poster sleeve. This 33 RPM EP include three sound artists playing a drawing by Eric Lanzillotta. Each artist has a unique, though abstract take on the drawing, which is included in the inside of the poster sleeve. The sounds include the quite moments of Jeph Jerman, the static of Leif Elggren and harsh noise of Ralf Wehowsky. Jeph Jerman gained attention under the name Hands To, but has created his most refined work under his own name. He performs mostly with natural objects (stones, plant parts, feathers, etc) and has collaborated regularly with Wally Shoup, Greg Davis, Sean Meehan, Tim Barnes, Mike Shannon, Dave Knott, Eric Lunde, and many others. He has had several previous releases on Anomalous Records, and a new CD of his work will be released by Little Enjoyer this year. Leif Elggren is a pioneering sound, performance, book and installation artist from Sweden, as well one of the two kings of Elgaland-Vargaland. In the last 30 years, he has released a great deal of material on labels such as Radium 226.05, Anckarström, Flykingen, Ash International, Korm Plastics, Some, Absurd, Meeuw Muzak, Kning Disk, iDEAL Recordings, Touch and his own Firework Edition, which has also published many of his book works, such as the legendary "Experiment with Dreams" done in collaboration with Thomas Liljenberg. Ralf Wehowsky started making music in the Neue Deutsch Welle period of Germany history with his band P.D., which later became the group P16.D4. Since the dissolution of these groups, he has been recorded largely as a solo artist, though in truth always incorporating collaborations with various friends. Over the years he has worked with Andrew Chalk, bernhard günter, Kevin Drumm, Lionel Marchetti, Bruce Russell, David Grubbs, Jim ORourke, and many others." -Anomalous. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Four Way Split Format: 7" Label: Art Fag Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| A four-way split 7-inch from these up-and-coming young faves. You get CROCODILES "Hollow Hollow Eyes," GRAFFITI ISLANDs "Moon Tan," DUM DUM GIRLS "Brite Futures," and PENS "The Weekend Starts Here." - Art Fag. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Land Of Tuh Format: CDR Label: Audiobot Country: Belgium Price: $20.00 |
| "Tracks by Wolf Eyes, Mephitic Ooze, Maximum Cloud, Nautical Almanac, Van Meter Viper, Discs Of Tronn, and Rubber-0 Cement. Insane fold out 12? covers designed and silkscreened by Jelle Crama (covers for Tan As Fuck, Julian Bradley, Sickboy and shitloads more work for Prutpuss and Rotkop) in countless color combinations. The real packaging deal!" - Audiobot. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Avanto 2006 Format: CD Label: Avanto Country: Finland Price: $14.50 |
| Includes Tony Conrad, Ralf Wehowsky and Jim ORourke. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Pomegranates Format: CD Label: B-Music Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Its no accident that the phoenix is an exalted moral, mythical, and figurative symbol in Iran. Like the phoenix, Iranian culture is in constant flux and, at times, elusive, with its existential wavering and blurred panoramas. Most of contemporary Irans artistic and creative leanings, its grapples with history and identity, are loosely and mystically conjoined and contested in memory. Iran is marked by the complex interplay of diverse constituencies, philosophies, and influences: ethnic, religious, political, geopolitical and historical. The glorification of pre-Islamic antiquity (in search of authentication) marked the socio-cultural attitude of a bygone era and is witnessing revival in the present day. The discordant reality of eastern traditions complicated by the rampant confusions of modernity has become a norm in Persian dialogue, not to mention revolution, exile, and diaspora. Like many other countries, the sixties and seventies were a time of tumult in Iran, bringing growth (via petrodollars) and freedom (under the banner of socioeconomic development) while exacerbating inequalities within the country. The music and voices that blossomed during those decades exemplify the turbulence and excitement of the age. It is worth recognizing these left out and lost artists individually and as a group in the global happenings of 60s/70s psych, rock and folk, while exploring their influence and relevance to the present day. Is it possible that there is a genus of delectable sounds and fetching images that almost exclusively reside in the elbowroom of memory and nostalgic yesteryear storytelling? Little consideration has been given to the correlation of these sounds and stories within the universal psychedelic phenomena: parallel to the shared stylistics of British and American players, and the radical politicking of their Turkish and Korean counterparts. This collection endeavors to re-contextualize these songs from the realm of reminiscence, nostalgia, and memory into a specific and accessible narrative to share and relate within the universal musical gamut. It is for aficionados, the curious, and collectors alike. We hope that Iranians around the world will rediscover these songs. This collection is, in some sense, dedicated to a generation in self-imposed mental exile, due to years of war and catastrophe; decades of lies and bombs; a fundamentalist theocracy of reformist shams; addiction; isolation and alienation; unemployment, and inflation. These are voices and stories that may again prove relevant to a psychologically damaged and spiritually corrupt society, a society whose discontents recall the latter years of the Shahs rule. The recordings excavated here are highly sexual musings, voluble love songs, and simple folk tunes." -B-Music |
| Artist: V/A Title: Popular Electronics: The Singles Collection Format: 4x7" Boxset Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $105.00 |
| "Limited, numbered edition of 1000 copies, housed in an embossed red velvet box. This boxset reissues 4 original 7"s as first issued by Philips in the late 50s/early 60s, with exact repros of the original picture sleeves, liner notes and labels. This music was previously compiled on the 4CD compilation box set Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories (1956-1963), as released on Basta in 2004. Historical, long desired early electronic music from legendary Dutch composers. Included here are: H. Badings, Electronic Ballet Music: Cain and Abel (1956); Kid Baltan, Electronic Popular Music (1957); Tom Dissevelt, Electronic Movements (1958); Tom Dissevelt/Kid Baltan, Electronic Music (1961). Expensive, but excessively deluxe and very costly to manufacture; a one-of-a-kind artifact that you will have a hard time believing really exists!"-Basta |
| Artist: V/A Title: Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music, Volume 2 1966-1977 Format: Double CD Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $23.00 |
| "This second volume of the Anthology of Electronic Tape Music contains works composed after 1966, when electronic music broadened its horizons and established links with other disciplines, as studios opened their portals to influences and involvement from outside. Although electronic music after 1966 became very fragmented and took many new forms in Holland, Volume 2 of the Anthology aims to provide an overall survey of pure tape music. Other movements, such as computer music, and their links with each other are discussed in the liner notes. We have attempted to offer groundbreaking and influential works as well as first electronic works by pioneering composers. Volume 2 presents composers not represented on Volume 1. Jacob Cats, Tera de Marez Oyens, Jos Kunst, Gilius van Bergeijk, Frans van Doorn, Thomas Arras, Simeon ten Holt, Victor Wentink, Louis Andriessen, Peter Smith and Tony van Campen." -Basta |
| Artist: V/A Title: Golden Apples Of The Sun Format: CD Label: Bastet Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A compilation of current underground folk music, as selected by DEVENDRA BANHART. Includes tracks from VETIVER, JOANNA NEWSOM, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, JOSEPHINE FOSTER, ESPERS, VASHTI BUNYAN, JANA HUNTER, IRON AND WINE, JACK ROSE, MATT VALENTINE, ANTONY (w/CURRENT 93), COCO ROSIE, SCOUT NIBLETT, CURRITICK CO. and more. Features artwork and hand lettering by Devendra on cover, back cover, sleeve, tray and the disk itself. Packaging by Thumbprint Press. File under "Various", "Devendra Banhart" or "rad". Originally released as a mailorder item via Arthur Magazine, these are the last available copies." - Bastet. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Two Million Tongues Festival Format: CD Label: Bastet Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Released to commemorate the second annual PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE-curated, Galactic Zoo Dossier/Arthur-presented Million Tongues festival at the Empty Bottle in Chicago, Two Million Tongues, spotlights work by artists performing at the festival. Includes tracks from NO NECK BLUES BAND, TIM KINSELLA & AMY CARGILL, JOSEPHINE FOSTER, CHRIS CONNELLY, JACK ROSE, TONY CONRAD and more. Previously only available via mailorder direct from Arthur magazine, these are the last available copies." - Bastet. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Helter Skelter Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| 1986 comp with Le Syndicat & Merzbow, The Hantarashi, Hijo Kaidan & Null. |
| Artist: V/A Title: No Body Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
| 1986 comp with Gerogerigegege, Yellowhouse, We Never Sleep, Buruno Cossano, etc.. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Dwarf Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
| 1987 comp with The Hanatarashi, Incapacitants, The Vickly & Oddrockanize, Bruno Cassano and TV Cherubs. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Zatsuon No Higan Format: Cass Label: Beast 666 Tapes Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| 1994 comp with GG Allin, Costes, The German Shepherds, John Trubee, etc. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Beniffer Editions Winter Anthology Format: 2 Cass/Book Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $40.00 |
| "96 page monster book featuring the visual smegma of Jacob Horwood and Andrew Zukerman and more! Contains Ayal Seniors The Last Screenplay, an unabridged, unwound stammer through his 340972 film ideas, an instant classic, really... The book includes a 4-way split over 2 cassettes, featuring Man Made Hill (Canada), Dolphins into the Future (Belgium), Lead Sister II (Japan) and Crown Now (USA)... Man Made Hill is all of the Jackson 5 (even the dead one) channeled through one white-man with his sub-par pawn-shop electronics and extensive knowledge of "avant-aesthetics". This is guilt-free dance music. Dolphins into the Future is Lieven Martens of Imvated, or whatever label hes doing right now, a reformed nude-noise ruffian now turned onto the New Age by the holographic entities of Jung, Gurdjieff and Watts and trying to replicate the sound a dolphin makes in a napolitaner carton filled with peroxide. Lead Sister II is a one-man Kemialliset Ystavat forging new directions with a battery of home-made instruments and noise-makers. Why this is not a colony of dumpster-diving vegans in the foothills of some 60s parody is a mystery to me. Crown Now is a boy and a girl, a dejected duo brought together because they wanted to make the cheerleading squad. This document of their practice the night before and also the reason why they were rejected is the fourth and final side of your patience." -Beniffer Editions. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ass High And Left Of Center Format: VHS Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Last copies of this ultra limited video compilation compiled in 1997 through the damaged lenses of a very Siltbreeze world view. Two full hours of psychedelia, free-jazz, noise, lounge-music infitration-confrontation, experimental film (high and low brow), live footage, collage and beyond. UN, featuring Marcia Bassett now of the Double Leopards and Hototogisu and Tara Burke now of Fursaxa, offers a scorching live set that included found films projected on to them and addition video tweakery from Chris Gray who now plays with Double Leopards and Endless Boogie. Twisted Village shredder Bob Bannister (with TONO-GUNGAY) throws down hot licks guitar based psychedelic speaking in tongues rock from a live show in Cleveland. NOGGIN presents home made film a la the Stan Brakhage paint directly on the celluloid approach accompanied by some of their best audio, ever. CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS construct a radio circus in a room full of record players simultaniously playing beautiful handmade "art records" construct by Jesse Paul Miller of SECRET RECORDS." -Black Velvet Fuckere. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Menagerie #2 Format: LP + Mag Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "The second compilation compiled and conceived by London-based illustrator Jake Blanchard continues on its strength of eclectic audio vibes paired with visual glory by an array of excellent artists. Eight artists were given a track and their finished artwork is based around their assigned track. With the previous CD release of Menagerie #1, there was only 100 copies available with the zine. But with this new issue, every single copy comes with a super-slick, pro-printed, full-colour zine of artwork from: Jake Blanchard, Pete Fowler, Will Sweeney, Andrew Rae, Sarah King, Solange Gularte, James Trimmer/Mirt, and Mat Pringle. This time the audio is appearing on vinyl only, with exclusive tracks from: Moon Duo, Natural Snow Buildings, Wand (aka Wooden Wand), The See See, Seadog, Joanne Robertson & Matthew Ashworth, Married In Berdichev, and Akron/Family. The pro-printed sleeve features artwork by Jake Blanchard. Heavyweight vinyl, with full colour labels. Edition of 500. Joint release between Blackest Rainbow, and Jakes new Tor Press label for zines and music." -Blackest Rainbow |
| Artist: V/A Title: Free London Format: Double LP Label: Bo Weavil Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| Features: Rob Mullender, Wooden Spoon, Ladywoodsman, The Eidetic Band - each given one side of an LP. "Free London, is a split double LP (heavy weight vinyl), of 4 bands/musicians currently working in Londons growing improvised folk music scene. LP One: Wooden Spoon is seeking to create a music free from the influence of the contemporary world, to evoke some kind of state of pastoral introspection at once joyful and sad. Influenced by the Takoma school of guitar players, Popol Vuh & folk music from around the world. Rob Mullender, takes the other side of this LP with some solo acoustic pieces that owe |
| Artist: V/A Title: BJ#64 Format: Double 7" Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "One side each by King Frog, Crank Sturgeon, Wham-O, Pork Queen. Beautiful cover art by Pork Queens Miss Devon." -Bobby J. 1995 release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: GL?MP8 Format: Book Label: Boing Being Country: Finland Price: $24.00 |
| "232 pages of new Finnish comics in full colour featuring Sami Aho, Benjamin Bergman, Roope Eronen, Jyrki Heikkinen, Ina Kallis, Anna-Kaisa Laine, Jan Konsin, Reijo Kärkkäinen, Jarno Latva-Nikkola, Ville Loponen, Piirustuskerho, Hanneriina Moisseinen, Tommi Musturi, Pauliina Mäkelä, Jyrki Nissinen, Henna Raitala, Katri Sipiläinen, Kasper Strömman, Janne Tervamäki, Jari Vaara and Amanda Vähämäki. Edition of 800." - Boing Being. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Unlucky For Them A Format: Cass Label: Borft Country: Sweden Price: $10.00 |
| "international noise-comp; Mohr, Disumana Rez, Etat des stocks, DSIP, Alvars Orkester, Paul Kelday, A.B.O., PPP, Nux Vomica, New 7th Music (previous releases on Colin Potters ICR label and Bourbonese Qualks Recloose Organization), Smell & Quim, Las cometras alegres. c-60." - Borft . Numbered edition of 75, released in 1992. Last copies.. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Most Unwanted - Electronic Compilation 2006 Format: LP Label: Borft/UFO Mongo Country: Sweden Price: $16.50 |
| "The first compilation LP on UFO MONGO is now completed. Experimental music, noise & crazyness from: Interzone inc, Treriksröset, CPU, Jeanne Fremaux, Inyurmania, Maor Appelbaum, Alvars orkester, Commando Laarz, Goz mongo alliance, Smell & quim, En halvkokt i folie, Eugenics council, FDASFDA, Five o´clock traffic, Sewer election & Enema syringe." - Borft/UFO Mongo. |
| Artist: V/A Title: BIPPPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85 Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "Includes A TROIS DANS LES WC, ACT, LES VISITEURS DU SOIR, VOX DEI, COMIX, TGV, C.K.C, MARIE MOOR, DEUX, RUTH , VITOR HUBLOT, VISIBLE and CASINO MUSIC. Includes 36 pages booklet (in french, sorry for that, but well have soon a translation of the insert) with bands bio and full of cool and unissued photos. Remastered sound from original masters (when they werent lost or damaged)> so huge sound LP with cool print undercover. OFFICIAL comp." - Born Bad. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Des Jeunes Gens Modernes 1978-1983 Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $17.00 |
| "A collection of French post-punk recorded between 1978-1983. A beautiful exploration of Franco post-punk, electro-pop, cold wave and no wave action." -Born Bad. Includes Tokow Boys, Guerre Froide, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Ruth, Henriette Coulouvrat, Kas Product, Ice, Matematiques Modernes, Metal Boys, Visible, Mecanique Rythmique, and Charles de Goal. |
| 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: V/A Title: Congotronics Format: 6LP Boxset Label: Crammed Country: Belgium Price: $172.00 |
| "We have taken the bold decision to create an extravagant Congotronics box, containing vinyl versions of the albums by all the Congolese artists featured so far in the celebrated Congotronics series (which documents the incredible electrified traditional music of Konono N°1, Staff Benda Bilili, Kasai Allstars and other like-minded bands). The box set contains vinyl versions of all 5 Congotronics albums to date (full list below), an exclusive 7" featuring a collaboration between Kasai Allstars and US psych-rock-folk adventurers Akron/Family, plus a re-usable Congotronics USB pen drive packed with videos & mp3s, and an album-sized booklet. More details on the contents of the box: -Konono No 1: Congotronics 1 (1x vinyl LP). -Congotronics 2 /BuzznRumble From The UrbnJungle feat. five different Kinshasa bands: Sobanza Mimanisa, Kisanzi Kongo, Basokin, Masanka Sankayi and Kasai Allstars (1x vinyl LP). -Kasai Allstars: In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic (1x vinyl LP). -Staff Benda Bilili : Très Très Fort (1x vinyl LP). -The brand-new Konono No 1: Assume Crash Position (2x vinyl LP). -a specially-designed book featuring photography from Kinshasa, Congo. -a customized, re-usable 2Gb USB pen drive containing 9 videos, and mp3s (in 320 kbps) of all 5 albums. -a 7" with 2 exclusive tracks: Coupe-Jarret by Kasai Allstars + Akron/Family and Bana Mbende by Kasai Allstars. Each vinyl LP (180 gr) comes in an original sleeve, and an inner sleeve of a different colour, reproducing the Congotronics fabric on the box (with a design resembling that of the fabrics used for dresses & robes in the Congo, based on the Congotronics logo)." -Crammed |
| 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: 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: ??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: 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: 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: V/A Title: Electric Pure Land Stars Format: CD/DVD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $60.00 |
| "CD includes (previously unreleased): 1. Lost Aaraaff, Meiji University April 74 2. Hiroshi, summer 73. 3. Masato Minami, Back Page Studio May 79 4. Lost Aaraaff, private session July 73. DVD features: 1.Electric Pure Land #5 Document in Hibiya,May,74 - The treasuring document films of the situation of work of Venue of those days etc. is recorded focusing Rallizes special session on the super-magnificence films of Mizutani, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Acid Seven, Keiji Haino, Kenny Inoue, Masato Minami etc (about 18 min). 2. Evening Glow Festival/Hadaka No Rallizes - The performance of Rallizes in the legend event performed by Ishikawa ,August,76 Rallizes to play is the new film which can rarely be seen in daytime. (about 5 min)." |
| Artist: V/A Title: Yuuyake Matsuri Best Format: DVD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $75.00 |
| "Including the performance from "Yuuyake Matsuri" regarded as Japanese Woodstock fes. Mentanpin is like Grateful Dead. And this is a complete version for the performance of Rallizes gig, that can be seen just a few minutes on "Electric Pure Land Stars" so far." THIS IS A JAPANESE REGION 2 DVD. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Electric All-Night Show @Saitama Univ. 1973.11.3-4 Format: Double CD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $55.00 |
| Tracks by 70s festival regulars Les Rallizes Denudes, Masato Minami (who recorded the classic "The Tropics" LP and was featured on "Oz Days Live"), Gypsy Blood, Acid Seven (on "Oz Days Live"), Anzen Band, New Soul Session, Lazy Kim Blues Band, and Mentanpin. Includes an insert entitled "Dead Flower Chronicle - Japan Rock History" (in Japanese unfortunately). Purchase a copy of this CD along with at least one LP and youll get a free Dead Flower promo poster of Mitzutani (and it MUST be ordered with at least one LP - no expections). Limited supply available. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Nova Popularna Format: LP Label: Decemberism Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
| "The first release on Decemberism records is a document of the temporary bar that the artists Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska ran for one month in Warsaw, 2003, in collaboration with Foundation Gallery Foksal. In a limited release of 1000, with extravagant pop-up gatefold sleeve, the LP presents the music of: donAteller, Bianca Glazebrook, Mathilde Rosier, Nightshift [forthcoming release on Kompakt], Marcin Dutka. All of whom played live in the illegal salon, many performing material specially written for Nova Popularna. An eclectic mix including house, show tunes and prepared piano, the record reflects the amalgam of finesse that was that place. donAteller is an ongoing collaborative project from London. The work comprises records, CDs, live performance, video, various forms of publicity and other strategies associated with the promotion and distribution of pop music. All tracks involve the re-editing and mis-matching of popular melodies and lyrics. donaAteller are, were, or have been, at various times Ed Liq, Mark Leckey, Bonnie Camplin and Enrico David. They have released CDs, artefacts and 7?s through High Society Records, Cabinet and GBE. Bianca Glazebrook was born in 1975 in London. She studied vocals at the Warsaw Academy of Music, graduating in 2000. Biancas repertoire is a mixture of classical jazz, blues and cabaret songs, which she performs in galleries and salons in Warsaw and London. She also performs with experimental audio-visual group RH+, whose first recordings are to be release soon. Mathilde Rosier lives and works in the rural outskirts of Versailles, devoting her time to filmmaking, painting and song writing. Her work featured here was performed live as a duet with a hidden piano which emanated from behind a curtain, actually generated by a soundsystem. Nightshift are the Berlin artists Makus Selg and Marcel Hüppauff. Their music blends samples from Ibiza house, soul and cock rock with vocals, performed in a ravishing style. Releases include on their own Parfüm label, through L`AGE D´OR / LADO Musik and we currently await the Christmas 2004 release of their first album Still Crazy After All These Years on DIAL records. Marcin Dutka was born in 1974, and studied painting and mural design in the Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw, finishing his MA degree in 1999. Since seven years old he had taken violin lessons, but when twenty he decided to concentrate on investigations in music with piano. He uses piano as a whole body instrument. He still works in fine art, painting and music and often combines all of the above. Some of the recorded concerts include: Teatr Studio, â Szpachla na Fortepianâ 2004, Kielce â Preparated Pianoâ 2003, Marcin Dutka also makes music for short length feature films. Decemberism is a label based in Glasgow devoted to new music and the spoken word. Particular attention to detail is given considering vinyl LPs and their attendant sleeves as objects of beauty. Upcoming releases for 2005 include Cosey Fanni Tutti, Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska, Bonnie Camplin, Alasdair Gray and Joanne Tatham and Tom O Sullivan." - Decemberism. |
| Artist: V/A Title: XXperiments Format: LP Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "...varied in instrumentation and sound (from total primitiveness to entirely grandiose) but overall has a very cold/creep vibe. All the songs are currently unreleased except for the Buckets of Bile track which was on her short-run, self-produced cassette. The artwork for XXperiments is a one-color spraypaint stencil and a couple little stickers. One-time only pressing on this one." Includes Cro Magnon (members of Circuit des Yeux), Luxury Prevention, Circuit des Yeux , Buckets of Bile, Bird, U.S. Girls, and Zola Jesus. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Difficult Fun Format: 7" Label: Difficult Fun Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
| "The Difficult Fun compilation introduces an additional 3 equally adventurous bands and repeated visits to difficultfun.org had me pretty keyed-up to get my hands on a copy. Sharing the A side with Antifamily, Philosophy Queen bring a fractured drop in fidelity to beautifully render a fragile and hazy display of emotion, "Lucy" a.k.a. "defeat is not important/defeat is not unimportant" is a rough-hewn gem. For the flip, Hellogabalus celebrate the damaged acoustic sonorities of their instruments. Then the brilliant Asja Auf Capri round things out with a tempered strut of Zick Zack/Ata Tak but without all the pomp and pose of the Neue Deutsche Welle. The packaging is a kit composed of six parts that beg interaction and offer a multiplicity by design. A card inserted into my copy includes a phrase that I think might be Marxist in origin. This is so much more fun than the bulk of what hits the singles rack these days." - AG, Other Music. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Game & Errancy Format: LP Label: Difficult Fun Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
| "Difficult Fun follow their critically acclaimed first compilation 7" with a 10 track collection of eclectic left-field and DIY music. The LP features kraut/punk collisions from Antifamily, experimental music from Sarcomasine Bloc and Larcin, Electronic pop from Petit Mal and Break/Flow and ambient guitar excursions from Vaw, and avant-folk from Moscow courtesy of Star Wars. Comes with individual hand made cards and a 16 page zine containing beautiful text and images from each artist featured. Limited 500 copies." - Difficult Fun. Recommended! |
| Artist: V/A Title: Gold Leaf Branches Format: Triple CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $22.50 |
| "Gold Leaf Branches is a massive collection. It is an undertaking that is years in the making, one that often looked as though it would never be completed. But after endless hours of emailing, calling, and generally harassing the 59 artists presented here, Gold Leaf Branches is complete. This is a compilation with two simple motives: to collect as much of the music I love from all over the globe in one place and to expose as many people as possible to numerous outstanding artists they might not have heard. Gold Leaf Branches succeeds with flying colors. Of the 59 tracks here, all but one are exclusive to this release." Artists include: Six Organs of Admittance, Charlambides, James Blackshaw, Hala Strana, Lau Nau, Wood & Wand featuring the Rose, Nick Castro, Marissa Nadler and more. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Unattainable Text #1 Format: LP Label: Diskono Country: UK Price: $12.50 |
| ??9 tracks. 9 artists. 38 minutes. Clear vinyl. Clear Cover. No identifying marks. 500 copies. The first two releases in our self-styled anonymous series. The representational analysis of music and the nostalgic sick bucket trip of music journalists provided the impetus for us to commission this series of releases. Wild boar attacks in France and Austrian immigration police also played a part. Only Peter knows the identity of all the participants, and he can neither read nor write; though he did whisper something about Madrid and biology. So throw away your copies of The Wire and forget Wagner meeting Throbbing Gristle in car crash with the Monkes whilst chewing the innards of a laptop computer, in the end, the only thing that can assist you are your ears.? |
| Artist: V/A Title: Waterpipes & Dykes: Dutch Psychedelic Underground 1966-1972) Format: CD Label: Distortions Records Country: Netherlands Price: $12.00 |
| "...Volume One. "Dutch & English language psychedelia from 1966-1972. In 1968 the new foreign hippie gods caroused through the pristine Dutch tulip gardens. In musical history, this moment marked the end of the typical Nederbiet scene as we knew it. The impact on culture and society of these new rockstars was totally overwhelming. People were dumbfounded. The handful of pearls which were produced by these bands are amongst the least-known and most sought-after vinyl that was ever produced in the Netherlands. After 30 years, these peals are wrested from oblivion and this unique collection of recordings finally gets the well-deserved recognition in the world of pop music." --from the liner notes. Artists include: Karel Appel, The Maskers, Met & Zonder, N.V. Groep 65, Dirty, The Motives, Crash, The Bumble Bees, Woorden, Mothers Love, The Nicols, Incredible, St. Giles System, Short 66 I.L.N., Children of Jubal and Suprieze." - Distortions Records. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Caked Paradise Format: Mag/CDR Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Guess what everybody? DNT has now been around for two years! This is the compilation to celebrate it! Who wants cake? Totally (not really) in the making since last years birthday comp. This one tops it for certain. Drone cake batter by Warmth & Quilts. Psychedelic icing by Moonmilk. The socks that grandma always gives you by German. Stringed folk-balloons by The North Sea & Nomen Dubium. Melted ice cream by The Mighty Acts of God. Art by: Puff & Magic, Dean Sullivan, Zach McCraw and Adam Baz of Night Wound fame, and Zach Fleming. Comic by Britt Brown (NNF). Writing by DJ Rick (Art for Spastics), Eric Hesson (maan), Bob Gregorio, plus reviews of the past years releases, by Z-Gun, Animal Psi, Cassette Gods & more. Plus then its like, flip to the back bro and pop in the disk (remember when disc was spelled with a k? what changed that?). Anyway, full-color art for some of it, black ink-colored paper for the rest of it. In a dvd case with birthday stencils and invisible cake. Hand numbered out of 150. Eat up!" - DNT. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Musics (1918-1955) Format: CD Label: Dust-to-Digital Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Recordings made between 1918-1955 compiled by Ian Nagoski. A compilation of 24 recordings from the first half of the 20th century of music from Syria, Bali, Scotland, Thailand, Ukraine, China, Cameroon, India, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Japan, Poland, Greece, Java, Portugal, Laos, Sweden and Burma, all newly transferred and mastered from 78 rpm discs, at least 18 of which have never been issued before on CD (all but one never having been previously reissued in the U.S.). Influenced by Pete Whelans Origin Jazz Library, Pat Contes Secret Museum of Mankind, Harry Smiths Anthology of American Folk Music, Henry Cowells Music of the Worlds People, Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayets Sublime Frequencies label, Lance Ledbetters Goodbye, Babylon, Michael Snows The Last LP and much more. Sounds like zamr, naa phaat piphat, gong kebyar, Northumbrian piping, periya melam, rhumba, Carpathian weddings, Rulin opera, Uilleann piping, Bollywood, dan bau, Handel, rembetika, gusle, tembang sunds, flamenco, fado, prayer, djanger, kabuki and yien pwe." -Dust-to-Digital. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva Format: CD Label: Dust-to-Digital Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Recordings from 1969 of Tuvan folk music and throat-singing with liner notes by Dr. Pekka Gronow of the University of Helsinki. With the advent of the folk music revival in the 1960s, a new interest in Tuvan music swept through Asia and Eastern Europe. Capitalizing on this appeal, these 16 recordings were issued in 1969 in the Soviet Union. Dust-to-Digital is proud to reissue for the first time on compact disc these traditional performances including several khoomei songs plus one modern take on the classic Tuvan sound. In khoomei, the singer simultaneously produces two more distinct musical notes: a low, sustained bass note and a flute-like higher note. Tuvan sheep herders often practiced khoomei in an effort to calm animals and appease spirits. The effect is hypnotic, eerie, and drone-like, unlike any sound youve heard come out of a cowboy. The Republic of Tuva lies between Russia and Mongolia in the Altai Mountains, at the geographical center of Asia. Tuva is a land of mountains, lakes and rivers. Although the geographical area of Tuva is as large as the state of Florida, it has only 300,000 inhabitants." -Dust-to-Digital. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days Format: 2CD/BOOK Label: Dust-to-Digital Country: USA Price: $44.00 |
| "Recordings made between the 1920s-1950s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the Seattle-based experimental band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese opera, Persian folk songs, fado, hillbilly, jazz, blues and much, much more. Climax Golden Twins have designed gallery and museum installations, composed soundtracks (most notably the film Session Nine), worked on documentary films (Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts Of Isan released on Sublime Frequencies) and contributed soundscapes to NPR radio programs in addition to releasing numerous recordings on CD and LP, including a recent LP on the Sun City Girls Abduction Records imprint entitled 5 Cents A Piece. Influenced by the Secret Museum of Mankind, Yazoo releases, Harry Smiths Anthology Of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also inspired by art and design books such as those published by Chronicle. Sounds like vintage music from around the globe. Looks like a clothbound book printed on extremely fine museum quality wood-free paper and is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs. Hundreds of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more." - Dust -to-Digital |
| Artist: V/A Title: Bunte Bezuge Format: LP Label: E-Klageto Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Multicoloured relations(connections), a sampler whose name is a program! Twelve artists whom only one connects, the enjoyment in the music. The pieces are, although all electronically, experimentally and minimal, so differently, how the artists themselves. Music: screechy...nervous...deep...coloured...strange....distorts...." New label related to KERNKRACH. Includes CLOSEDUNRUH 30GR.WEN.FETT, ORDNUNGSAMT, YANGWELLE, BRANDSTIFTER, MESSDIENER, MILFORD T., SICKDOLL, ALDI, GOTT 30 + BRANDSTIFTER, WOHNRAUMHELDEN, and DR. PROLL. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Primitivismo e Mito della Macchina Format: LP Label: Edipan Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Walls Are Whispering III Format: CD Label: EE Tapes Country: Price: $13.50 |
| "Final part of this compilation trilogy, and maybe the most adventurous one of the series, digging further into the experimental worlds of minimal | weird | field-recordings | drones | noise | whatever? Did anyone say ??dark ambient? ? Again we managed to gather a superb international-artistic crew : Af Ursin (BE) ?? Oren Ambarchi (AUS ?? published by Touch Music) ?? Contagious Orgasm (JP) ?? Yannick Dauby (FR) ?? Fear Falls Burning (BE ?? aka vidnaObmana) ?? Felix Kubin (DE ?? aka Felix Knoth) ?? Eric Lanzillotta (USA ?? ex-Anomalous Records) ?? Mnortham (USA) ?? Seth Nehil (USA) ?? Shifts (NL ?? aka Frans de Waard) and absolute newcomers Acid_Soma (GR) and Azymbol (BE) Worth a very special mention is Yannick Daubys track ??Sanguine? that won the second price on an international festival for unpublished music in Taipei (Taiwan)! The full metallised CD comes housed in a heavy cardboard 7? cover(colour : shiste) with gold and black offset-print." -EE Tapes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Granulat Format: Double LP Label: Electric Transfusion Country: SWITZERLAND Price: $16.00 |
| Cool comp of experimental/minimal electronics. Features tracks by Anselem Caminada, Steinbruchel, Margaritis/Schallbetter/Kalabrese, Ramon Orza and Roger Roto. See also the Steinbruchel 7"s. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Live from the Afterworld: Recordings at the Afterworld Lounge 1991-1993 Format: LP Label: Electro Motive Country: Price: $20.00 |
| "Yes, Virginia, there really was an Afterworld Lounge. Heres live tracks from the remarkable early-90s eclectic music venue, including SUN CITY GIRLS, CAROLINER, RUINS, THINKING FELLERS UNION, MECCA NORMAL, ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET, C.C.C.C., THE MOLECULES, O-TYPE, THREE DAY STUBBLE, SPLATTER TRIO, VOMIT LAUNCH, FIBULATOR, VACUUM TREE HEAD, CRAWLING WITH TARTS, and more." - Electro Motive. Mid-90s release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Nativity Scene Format: CDR Label: Elefantplatte Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Subtitled ??An Anthology of Christian Psychedelia & Exploitation?. What better soundtrack to the end times than this 24 track collection of "turned on" Christian youth music? The material is wildly diverse; the hard Hendrix-influenced fuzz of 4th Movement, the avant-classical/ garage stylings of Tedd Smith, the psychedelic chamber folk of Trees, the naive, orchestrated pop of Turning Point, the Byrdsy harmonies of The Mission, the huge breakbeats of David Fanshawes "African Sanctus", the inner space mind-melt of Crosscurrent Communitys "Genesis", and so much more. Assembled from various thrift store finds, and contains no overlap with the similarly-themed "Resurrection" and "Holy Fuzz" comps. Includes a three panel booklet with photos, artwork & commentary. This is a split release with co-compiler Daniel Presnells Feed & Seed Records. Jewel case, 24 tracks, 79 minutes." - Elefantplatte. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Perils of Paradise Format: LP Label: Elitepop Country: Netherlands Price: $21.00 |
| "A truly old style industrial record which shows the various sides of the genre: from rhythmic noise to bombastic sounds and from minimal electronics to ritual music. The obscure Dutch Vektor project teams up with Echo West, ICK and Terroritmo for a celebration of real industrial music." - Elitepop |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ohm+ - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Format: 3CD/1DVD Label: Ellipsis Arts Country: USA Price: $40.00 |
| "OHM: the early gurus of electronic music. Met with critical acclaim, this award-winning box set celebrated the composers and inventors who led the electronic music revolution. Five years later due to continued demand from passionate aficionados (eBay sales at $150, etc.) were now re-releasing the Special Edition OHM+ containing a bonus DVD with over two and a half hours of performances, interviews, and experimental video. Three CDs (42 original music tracks from 1948-1980) packaged in a deluxe fold-out digipak, slipcased with a 112-page book of notes and information about the contained material (texts by: Brian Eno, DJ Spooky, Otto Luening, Francois Bayle, David Toop, Robert Moog, etc.). Plus, unique to this new version: a Special Edition DVD -- Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video." Most works are in excerpted form (full versions of everything here would have required a much bigger set to say the least), but there are a number of exclusive, previously unreleased tracks as well (Richard Maxwell, MEV, Raymond Scott, La Monte Young, Maryanne Amacher & Jon Hassell). Crucial release for the beginner or the connoisseur, and everybody inbetween. Artists: Clara Rockmore, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, John Cage, Herbert Eimert/Robert Beyer, Otto Luening, Hugh Le Caine, Louis and Bebe Barron, Oskar Sala, Edgard Varese, Richard Maxfield, Tod Dockstader, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbit, MEV, Raymond Scott, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Joji Yuasa, Morton Subotnick, David Tudor, Terry Riley, Holger Czukay, Luc Ferrari, Francois Bayle, Jean-Claude Risset, Iannis Xenakis, La Monte Young, Charles Dodge, Paul Lansky, Laurie Spiegel, Bernard Parmegiani, David Behrman, John Chowning, Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Alvin Lucier, Klaus Schulze, Jon Hassell, Brian Eno. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Festival Der Genialen Dissidenten Format: LP + 7" Label: Enfant Terrible Country: Netherlands Price: $28.00 |
| "The compilation Festival der Genialen Dissidenten can be considered as a sort of sequel to the highly acclaimed and long time sold out collectors piece and cult LP Electronic Renaissance (Enfant04). Especially realized for the Enfant Terrible label night (12 april 2008 in Bruxelles) is the 7" release by Wermut. The following artists are present on the compilation: Agent Side Grinder ?? known for their releases on Enfant Terrible. Dolina ?? very promising new elektro band from France/Belgium. Vincent K. ?? also known as RA-X, established and long time producer of electronic music. Nosztalgia Direktíva ?? new alias of artist who previously released on Invasion Planete Records. Adolf Filter ?? Swedish duo who create elektro and EBM influenced analogue tracks. :Codes ?? Belgian act who released on a Kommando 6 compilation but is now working with Enfant Terrible. Le Triangle De LAndrogyne ?? interesting new commer on Enfant Terrible with spacious electronica. Pierre Normal ?? Belgian / French band who play poetic electronic music. Yseult Descieux ?? playful and weird band from Belgium/France. Jongbloed featuring Sofia E.R. ?? Enfant Terrible boss and Wermut member collaboration. Coeurvert ?? twisted elektro chansons from Belgium" - Enfant Terrible |
| Artist: V/A Title: Trumpett Days Format: LP Label: Enfant Terrible Country: Netherlands Price: $25.00 |
| "After the highly acclaimed and already long time sold out Trumpett Sounds (Enfant02) compilation Enfant Terrible presents the second (and last) collection of sounds from the legendary Dutch 80s tape label Trumpett. This time we went deeper into the Trumpett archive and came out with some material even the Trumpett gatekeeper forgot about. Trumpett Days is maybe a little bit weirder as its predecessor (even though it also features some excellent dance tunes), it will make the true minimal electronics heart beat faster for sure!!!" - Enfant Terrible |
| Artist: V/A Title: Wooden Octopus Skull 2006 pFestival Format: CD/Book Label: Enterruption Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Originally these program guides were given to the ticket purchasers for the pFest in Sep. 10"x10" pro printed magazine, 32 pages, full color cover with art by Santos. Magazine contains info/bios/interviews/photos of the 2006 Wooden Octopus Skull artists line up including: Japanese New Music Festival (Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Ruins Alone, Zubi Zuva X, Zoffy, Akaten, Scikazoku, Shrinp Wark) Midmight (of Hans Grusels Krankinkabinet), MV Carbon (of Metallux), Dialing In, Tovah Olson (of Dead Machines, Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice), Laticia Casteneda, Replicock (Jackie of Smegma teamed up with Angie Sharkieface), 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Amber Asylum, irr.app.(ext.), Ear Venom, Soriah, Waldteufel (members of Crash Worship). Magazine also contains the most up to date and complete discographies of the Noise night artists + a pro pressed CD with exclusive tracks by these artists as well: Wolf Eyes (2 pages worth of discog!!!), Dead Machines, Double Leopards, Yellow Swans, Hive Mind, Cherry Point." - Enterruption. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Killing Melody - Instrumental Music From Japanese Pinky Violence Movies Format: LP Label: Ethbo Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Subtitled: Instrumental Music From Japanese Pinky Violence Movies. The title Killing Melody is from the movie Criminal Woman: Killing Melody and sets the scene for a taste of Pinky Violence. Any filmgoer new to the genre should be warned: Pinky Violence movies are not for the prudish or faint hearted. With the irreverence of Luis Bunuel, the slapstick of a Carry On film, the frisson of Russ Meyer, all combined with callous violence. That said, they can be a whole lot of fun. They have more than a resemblance to Blaxploitation movies, yet these films were made before Cleopatra Jones, Coffy and the like. The music selected for this album is not limited to Pinky Violence films, but also the New Action gangster series and the erotic avant garde of Koji Wakamatsu. Very much products of their shameless and liberated times, expressed with a uniquely Japanese mania; essential viewing for anyone interested in early 70s Japanese culture. Featured on the record are cult gloom-folk-rock band THE JACKS. Instead of their signature suicidal folk, they are represented here with one of their earliest recordings, a fuzz rock discotheque hoe-down. Alongside them THE FLOWERS, one of the most renowned Japanese 60s rock acts, beat out a hippy jazz bossa version of their first hit Last Chance. Enka goes RnB, meat and potatoes drums, clavichords, rocking horn sections, driving drones, big reverb and beats to die for. Some of these sounds could easily have been made by Ramsay Lewis, Duke Ellington or Lalo Schifrin. Instead they were banged out by the tight studio bands and orchestras of the Toei, Toho and Nikkatsu film studios. Released on Ethbo Music, its first release for several years, the label being a product of the fevered mind of Howard Williams. Normally found holed away in the basement of Honest Jons record shop, where he runs the distribution for the Honest Jons label and a select group of imprints from around the world. Co-compiler of the Moondog - Viking Of Sixth Avenue compilation album for Honest Jons, he also co-ran Rita Records in the mid 1990s, which launched Smoke Citys international chart hit Underwater Love. This is a 1000 only limited edition vinyl run single LP with insert. Liner notes are written by Mark Schilling, author of No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema. Mastered in at Dubplates and Mastering Berlin and pressed at Pallas." - Ethbo. |
| Artist: V/A Title: 4 Way Split Format: 7" Label: Faceneck Country: Belgium Price: $6.50 |
| "The 7" contains new tracks by Spykes (John Olson)/ Warning Sign (Nate Young)/ Vomgrill (Dennis Tyfus (Ultraeczema))/ Faceneck (Matthieu Ronsse and me)." -Faceneck |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super St. 8 - Nervous Downer Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "all live comp. featuring:jessica rylan, sick llama,cotton museum, evenings,paranoid time,newton/knifestorm,slither,odd clouds." - Fag Tapes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 10 - S.O.S. Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| All live comp featuring DJ Dog Dick, Hair Police, Prurient & Lambsbread. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super St. 7 - How To Make Brains Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "all live comp. featuring : odd clouds, fe-mail, taliban, luasa raelon, charlie draheim. 5 heavy hitters w/ the longest jam by Norways (?) fe-mail.edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 11 - Death Elections Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. featuring: KVLTS, PRURIENT/FFH/AIRCONDITIONING, SICK LLAMA, GRAVESIGHTS, RAVEN STRAIN." - Fag Tapes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 13: Deserted Angles Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. cassette featuring : juice and bondo, failing lights, slither, lambsbread. edition 77." |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 14 Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "featuring: wolf eyes, sanitarium[charlie drahiem, sick llama, raven strain]." - Fag Tapes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 15 - Strangers In The Night Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. featuring ; evenings, emeralds, sick llama, graveyards, lambsbread, halibet tin metal sewage band. edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 16 - Scram! Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| Includes Raven Strain, Evenings and Slither |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 17 - Functionally Damaged Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. featuring: aaron dilloway, helicoptere sanglante, kvlts, deathroes, + retarded shit from dilloways 31st B-Day. hand-printed b&w photo covers. edition 50 cassette." - Fag Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 18 - Born to Hang Out Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "all live comp. featuring : west coast tour dogs hanging out and like jamming a stereo or something, short dilloway interviewing draheim after a set, total retard goofery, some band at grehs that i cant decipher, Germs, + many surprises ! edition 50 cassette." - Fag Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 19 Nah Look No Wuk Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: US Price: $8.50 |
| "All live comp. cassette featuring: Evenings, Barf Thoth, Sick Llama, Wigwamfossils, Paranoid Time. Color covers, edition of 50." - Fag Tapes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Street Freaks: Super Street 2 Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Features Tape Deck, Sick Llama, The Haunting, Pengo and Wolf Eyes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Super Street 3: Diamonds In the Ruff Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Featuring Sightings, Aaron Dilloway, Sick Llama, Connelly, Death Comm, and Wolf Eyes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: All Ears Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Breaking The Plastic Hymen, Vinyl Virgins & Lo-Fi Whores. Vol 1 Format: Double 7" Label: Fisheye Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| Volume 1 features contributions from Rake, Wingtip Sloat, V-neck, Hood, Delphium, Small Things, Geiger Counter, Paste, Scaredy Cat, Richard Youngs and Simon Wickham-Smith, Sone and The Negative Kite. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Breaking The Plastic Hymen, Vinyl Virgins & Lo-Fi Whores. Vol 2 Format: Double 7 Label: Fisheye Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| Volume 2 has The Shadow Ring, Tea Culture, Refrigerator, Noggin, Prick Decay, Bugskull, Starstruck, Mother Tongue, Im Being Good and The Glands of External Secretion. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Psykoscifipoppia Format: CD Label: Flenix Country: Japan Price: $14.00 |
| "German New Wave techno compilation produced by FELIX KUBIN and CD version of LP from GAGARINE Records in Germany. ELECTRIC HELGOLAND, BREZEL GORING, FELIX KUBIN, MAX KLEYDERSTORM, GROENLANDORCHESTER. All sounds are maniac techno pop avatgarde like as DER PLAN in 80s. Bonus track by FELIX KUBIN is recorded in this CD. Highly Recoemmended." - Flenix. Limited edition in full color cardboard box packaging. Released on MSBRs label. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Solo Show Solo Soul Sounds Of Soul Share 2 Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Part two of the Chris Johanson / Mike Donovan compiled compilation series. This one is in conjunction with the Solo Show Solo Soul exhibition that took place at the Baronian Francey gallery this summer in Belgium with artists Chris Johanson, Jo Jackson, Christopher Garrett, Haley Tompkins, Scott Myles, Dale Hoyt and Steve Thurston. Covers by Jo Jackson. Music by: Noel Von Harmonson (Comets On Fire), Morning Champ, Tits, Magic Star Band, ABK, Bonkers, Coachwhips, Big Techno Werewolves, No Doctors, Jess Hilliard and the Zach Institute, Ponies, Houndstooth and the Wolfhounds, Condor, Enablers, Kevin Thomson, Si-Cops, California Lightening, Fakers." - Folding. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Amaterasu Format: Double CD Label: Fractal Country: FRANCE Price: $33.00 |
| "First volume of the Fractal Twin project (volume two is forthcoming). Amaterasu is a new themed concept Japanese compilation featuring : Mineko Itakura (Angel & Heavy Sirup), Kengo Iuchi, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Kousokuya, Jun Kuriyama (ex Ox), Miminokoto, Naoaki Miyamoto, Chie Mukai, Seiji Nagai (ex Taj Mahal Travellers), Overhang Party, Space Machine, Mitsuru Tabata (Zeni Geva, Leningrad Blues Machine), Totsuzen Danball, Atsushi Tsuyama (Acid Mothers Temple, Omoide Hatoba), Masayoshi Urabe. Liner notes by Alan Cummings. 15 unreleased long tracks." - Locust |
| Artist: V/A Title: Scenes from Ringing Isle... Format: Double CD Label: Freedom From/Giardia Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Feat. Ashtray Navigations, Sunroof, Surface of the Earth, K. Salvatore, Surface Of The Earth, Matthew Bower, etc. Late 90s release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Freenoise: Fusion Format: CDR Label: Freenoise Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Features Astral Social Club (Neil Campbell of Vibracathedral Orchestra), Martin Archer, Acolytes Action Squad, Filthy Turd, Johnny Scarr and many more.. Limited. "A rare, highly charged 78 minute electrical-organic fusion of some of todays finest noisicians and sonic artists. This is a commemorative launch CD which will not be available again!" |
| Artist: V/A Title: Red Wine For Grapes Format: CDR Label: From The Same Mother Country: AUSTRALIA Price: $11.00 |
| Nice comp of mostly Australian artists; features Dworzec, Bruce Russell, Chris Smith, Solids, Hi God People, Pip Proud, Julian Williams and many more. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Elektronmusikfestival 1982 Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "Since 1979, the Swedish Radio Company and the Stockholm Electronic Music Studio (EMS) have arranged an annual 3-day Stockholm Electonic Musik Festival. Its purpose is to present a sample of the electronic music being composed in different parts of the world. This record contains four works from the 1980 festival -- two are Swedish and two are international; two are for tape and two combine tape with live performance." Lars-Gunnar Bodin: Epilogue; rhapsodie de la seconde recolte; Sven-Erik Bäck: Annus Solaris; Charles Dodge: Any resemblance is purely coincidental; John Melby: Concert for violin and tape. |
| Artist: V/A Title: 5 September 1982 - A Tribute to John Cage Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| Original LPs from 1983. "This is Fylkingens contribution to the celebration of John Cages 70th birthday. The album presents works -- all commissioned by Fylkingen on this special occasion -- by composers from the 1960s generation and shows their relations to an important precursor." - Fylkingen. Includes pieces by LARS-GUNNAR BODIN, LEO NILSSON, FOLKE RABE (!!), STEN HANSON, ARNE MELLNAS. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Swedish Contemporary Music Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| Original LPs from 1983. "This album is released in collaboration with the Swedish section of the ISCM and presents both orchestral and chamber music from the World Music Days in Greece, Belgium, Sweden and Israel." Featured composters: Mats Persson, Jan Sandström, Lars Sandberg, Tommy Zwedberg. - Fylkingen. |
| Artist: V/A Title: SOUN Format: 7" Label: Gameboy Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "100 artists submited very short pieces that were randomly assigned numbers and then merged into one track. this pieces covers all subgenres of sound from field recordings to harsh noise. IDM meets electro-acoustic meets lonely home taper. Sometimes it flows well at other points its really choppy. Gonna sound a bit redundant, but its really fucking random. Some of the 100 artists: Merzbow, Reynols, Matmos, Aube, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Hrvatski, Alan Licht, Neil Campbell, Sudden Infant, many other gameboy friends & family. An edition to 650." - Gameboy. Also includes Burning Star Core, Charalambides, Joe Colley, Due Process, Evolution Control Comittee, Dylan Nyoukis, etc.. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The East Village Other Format: CD Label: Get Back Country: Italy Price: $9.00 |
| "Recorded in August, 1966 to celebrate Hiroshima Day during Lucy Johnsons wedding. A collage/montage electric newspaper featuring STEVE WEBER, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, MARION BROWN, ALLEN GINSBERG, GERARD MALANGA, TULI KUPFERBERG and many more." - Get Back. Special low price on this classic ESP-Disk. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Gladtree Journal #2 Format: Book Label: Gladtree Press Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Second installment of assorted written and visual pleasures... features works by Elisa Ambrosio, Marcia Bassett, Amy Borezo, Joshua Burkett, Conrad Capistran, Dan Cashman, Meg Clixby, Byron Coley, Dredd Foole, Scott Foust, Jess Goddard, Jeff Hartford, Sara Jaffe, Matt Krefting, John Moloney, George W. Myers, Rick Myers, Bill Nace, Lauren Naylor, Pete Nolan, Lauren Pakradooni, pi, Phinehas Roy, Kevin Scalzo, Nadine Schneider, Ron Schneiderman, Jessi Swenson, Matt Valentine, Joshua Vrysen, Matthew Wascovich, and Steven Zultanski. Edited by John Shaw. 50 pages, 6x9in, screenprinted cover w/ hand-sewn binding. Edition of 200." - Gladtree Press. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Noise Is All In Your Head Format: CD Label: Gold Soundz Country: NORWAY Price: $14.00 |
| "A Norway-centric comp of surprisingly cohesive free sound, with THURSTON MOORE, NOXAGT, OREN AMBARCHI, VOLCANO THE BEAR, NEIL CAMPBELL (VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA), DYLAN NYOUKIS (PRICK DECAY, DECAER PINGA, CHOCOLATE MONK), LASSE MARHAUG, RATS WITH WINGS, SONGS OF NORWAY (AARON & NICK from VOLCANO THE BEAR), CONTINENTAL FRUIT, OJN (ex-LANDSHIPPING /METROTONE), SINDRE BJERGA/ANDERS GJERDE, THE WIFE CONTRACT, IF YOU MEET YOUR ANTI-SELF DONT SHAKE HANDS (NEIL MACKAY of LOOP, HAIR & SKIN TRADING CO., JUICY EUREKA), JULIAN BRADLEY/A COMPANION AS GLAMOUROUS AS SLEEPING, DUO KANEL, AND DJ BRA NESEGIR." |
| Artist: V/A Title: Hi-Fi Allergi Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $8.00 |
| "Norwegian compilation disc featuring loads of noise / improv / rumble /whatnot artists.... Taming Power, Vehiculos de Ocasion, Anders Gjerde, DJ Bra Nesegir, Qrt, Origami Epeleptika (aka Lasse Marhaug), Andreas Meland, Marakel + a bunch of other... Edition of 125 copies.." - Gold Soundz. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Orange Gold Format: Cass Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $12.00 |
| "Compilation tape with 1 track each by ROBERTO OPALIO, RAMESES III, AGITATED RADIO PILOT and SHATTERED MINDS. Orange cassette, orange paper fold-around cover. 40 copies." - Gold Soundz |
| Artist: V/A Title: Green Gold Format: Cass Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $12.00 |
| "Compilation tape with 1 track each by ARMPIT, CRUSH THE JUNTA and COARSEBANGOR and 2 short tracks by JAZZFINGER. Green cassette, green paper fold-around cover. 40 copies." - Gold Soundz |
| Artist: V/A Title: Yellow Gold Format: Cass Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $12.00 |
| "Compilation tape with 1 track each by ENTENTE CORDIALE, MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, NUMBER NONE and SECRETS TO THE SEA Yellow cassette, yellow paper fold-around cover. 40 copies." - Gold Soundz |
| Artist: V/A Title: Pink Gold Format: Cass Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $12.00 |
| "Compilation tape with 1 track each by FUTURIANS, BLOOD STEREO, ANVIL SALUTE and VILLE MOSKIITTO Pink cassette, pink paper fold-around cover. 40 copies." - Gold Soundz |
| Artist: V/A Title: Red Gold Format: Cass Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $12.00 |
| "Compilation tape with 1 track each by INFINITE ARTICLE, CRAZY RIVER, SINDRE BJERGA, PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST and UNITED BIBLE STUDIES. Red cassette, red paper fold-around cover. 40 copies." - Gold Soundz |
| Artist: V/A Title: It Happened... But Nobody Noticed & Temps Supplémentaire Format: Double CD Label: Gustav Group Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "In 1982, New Haven, Connecticut indie label Gustav Records (formed by Craig Bell, former Cleveland resident, former bassist in both Rocket From The Tombs and Mirrors, leader of CT-based Saucers at the time) released It Happened...But Nobody Noticed, a 13-track LP documenting the local scene, so close-knit that punk, power-pop, new wave and art rock could peacefully coexist on a single record. Twenty-five-or-so years later a digital version is planned, and by the time the original material is cleared for copyright, another thirteen tracks by thirteen more bands are unearthed, and hence, our second disc Temps Supplémentaire. 16-page booklet features band pics and member credits for all 26 tracks." Artists include Poodle Boys, Subdueds, Scout House, Hot Bodies, The Furors, Saucers, The Snotz, TV Neats, International Q, Troupe Di Coupe, No Music, October Days, The Bats, Stratford Survivors, Disturbance, The Excerpts, Epitome, Valley Of Kings, The Not Quite, The Sabres, Dada Banks, Radio Reptiles, The Cadavers, The Plan, Happy Ending and The Reducers." - Gustav Group |
| Artist: V/A Title: Underground Series Vol 2 Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Second Volume in the HANSON UNDERGROUND SERIES. 6 artists on a C-30. Only the most gutterball in experimental & noise music.. This volume contains tracks from SICK LLAMA, SMEGMA, FAILING LIGHTS, OUBLIETTE, TUSCO TERROR, & HIVE MIND." - Hanson. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sounds Of Indian Snake Charmers Vol. 2 Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Labyrinths & Jokes Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "CD reissue of HANSON comp LP released in 1998. Tracks from NAUTICAL ALMANAC, RON OF JAPAN, ISIS & WEREWOLVES, THE BEAST PEOPLE, MINI-SYSTEMS, AND ANDREW WILKES KRIER (now known as ANDREW WK). This is the birth of Hanson Records." -Hanson. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Michigan Format: 6LP Boxset Label: Hanson/Chondritic Sound/RRRecords Country: USA Price: $55.00 |
| "HANSON & RRRECORDS present: "MICHIGAN", a 6-LP BOXSET featuring a full side each from TWELVE MICHIGAN NOISE projects. Full LP sides from: PRINCESS DRAGONMOM, RAVEN STRAIN, REDROT, AARON DILLOWAY, TOVAH D-DAY, CHARLIE DRAHEIM, HIVE MIND, MAMMAL, EVENINGS, COTTON MUSEUM, SICK LLAMA, and WOLF EYES. Compiled by Greh Holger and Aaron Dilloway. Limited to 600 copies. Packaged in fully silkscreened record mailers." -Hanson |
| Artist: V/A Title: Instant Pop Classics Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: Happy Lux Pop Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Collection of "Punks best witness," "forgotten singles" that defined the fervor of the late Seventies and early Eighties. Youll even find familiar names in case you require them. Everything and More by Dolly Mixture was produces by Captain Sensible, the Cult Figures are of course the Swell Maps, Essential Logic featured an X-Ray Spex member (Lora Logic). Quintessentially rare bursts of inspiration from when the boring polyester lifestyles and perms flew out the window and the door opened for fanzine making and bedroom labels, sometimes with only one or two releases- and here they are." -Nana Gold. Includes tracks by Blitzkrieg Bop, Ludus, Agony Column, Legs Akimbo & the Titanics, Krypton Tunes, Essential Logic, The Fakes, Desperate Bicycles, 48 Chairs, Static Routines, Disturbed, Moondogs, Versatile Newts, Dolly Mixture, They Might Be Russians, and Weekend. One of the first comps of late 70s/early 80s DIY/art punk singles. Mid 90s release restocked. Limited to 300 copies, fullcolor cover, insert. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: V/A Title: Training Im Achter Format: 7" Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $6.50 |
| "Compilation 7" with 8 different tracks and musical projects from Bremen/Germany, Austria and Lithuania. Silkscreened Cover... improv, electronics etc." - Happy Zloty. HAPPY ZLOTY is a small label from Bremen that has released a series of beautiful 7"s and LPs. All are editions of 200 or 300 in silkscreened sleeves. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Flesh Records Format: CD Label: Haswellediger & Co. Gallery Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Haswellediger presents FLESH RECORDS, a CD/Audio Exhibition with fifteen tracks from a new generation of artists excited by the intimacy of sound and its possibilities as a plastic art. The works, many of which were composed specifically for this project, range in shape and tone from Romantic to Pop to Cinematic and Sculptural/Body based. What they have in common is perhaps the idea that sound-art, with its lack of visual stimuli, connects us to an earlier time, both personally and collectively, when the body intuitively acted as artist, muse and medium. ARTISTS: RITA ACKERMANN (Diadal, Angelblood, etc..), RICHARD ALDRICH (Hurray), MIKE BOUCHET, BOZIDAR BRAZDA, OLAF BREUNING, C.R.E.E.,P, PIA DEHNE & MARK O, SARA GLAXIA, K8 HARDY, JOHANNES ATLI HINRIKSSON, MARIE-EVE JETZER, PAUL-AYMAR MOURGUE DALGUE, ANNA PARKINA, AIDA RUILOVA & NANCY GARCIA (Monotract) & TANER TUMKAYA." - Haswellediger & Co. Gallery. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ten Grand Tonearm Format: LP Label: Heard Worse Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Nodding to the fetishization analog audio, gear and vinyl, the Australian label Heard Worse presents a collection of noisy improvised music, side by side with more structured electronic noise. Features xNOBBQX (the Australian Harry Pussy); ARSE LUNCH (triple guitar feedback drone by an XNOBBQx side project); CASTINGS (improvised psychedelic rock with noisy electronics, releases on Chocolate Monk and American Tapes); CYGNUS (lo-fi guitar/synth jam by Sick Llama / Fag Tapes / Slither side project; LOACHFILLET (American noise blast); MARCO FUSINATO (another noise blast by Australian who has collaborated with Thurston Moore); MARK HARWOOD (processed field recordings by the Synaesthesia honch); MISTY LAVENDER DOUGHNUTS OF SHAME (electric violin with dialogue samples); PIGS IN THE GROUND (more American electronic noise); RAHDUNES (post-Unborn Unicorn; RLW (with Ralf Wehowsky on sitar and Johannes Fritsch on double bass); SUN OF THE SEVENTH SISTER (two separate recordings synched-up as a 25-piece big band); THE VITAMIN B12 (vocals and electronics from the UK); WEREWOLF JERUSALEM (harsh digital noise that sent the cutting engineer into a frenzy); WILLIAM DE CUNTING (locked groove shenanigans by this Texan). In recycled classical covers with attached poster."-Heard Worse |
| Artist: V/A Title: Heat Directors Format: 7" Label: Helicopter Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "File Under: John Wiese, Damion Romero, Mitchell Brown, David Kendal Helicopter Records, limited to 300 copies. 4 part noise compilation curated by noise genius and collaborator with Bastard Noise, Wolf Eyes, Sunn O))), Dead Machines, Merzbow, Hive Mind, Cherry Point, etc, etc? JOHN WIESE debuts the first installment in an ongoing series committed to supporting personal favorites in the noise scene. This volume contains new material from Mitchell Brown, David Kendall, Damion Romero and John Wiese." - Helicopter. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Put Out C-Out Format: 10" Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Features Transmission (Adris Hoyos of Harry Pussy and Graham Lambkin), Shadow Ring & Bloodmouse. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Color In Absence Sound Format: CD Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Chocolate Monk tour benefit CD w/ Diadal, Monostat 3, ?????, Watt (pre-HP band for Bill Orcutt), Ash Nav, White Out , Idea Fire Co., Gar Funk & more. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Bring Me The Head Of Nick Cain Format: CDR Label: Hells Half Halo Country: Price: $12.00 |
| Features Reynols, Montract, Twig Harper, Carly Ptak, Lee Ranaldo, Crank Sturgeon, Staked Plain, Neil Campbell, Sun City Girls, Rubber O Cement, Angelblood, Jackie O, Electrophilia, Points Of Friction, etc.. Benefit CD for a west coast Decaer Pinga/Smack Music 7 tour. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Bust! - A Compilation of Original Early Worldwide Punkrock Format: 10" Label: Henry Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "Fan Club" compilation released in 1998 which features Saigon, AntiÐBand, Blind Panic, Sperma, PVC 2, Steve Treatment (with memebers of the Swell Maps), Mono-Schtop Problems?, The Crewsy Fixers, and S7 Kez. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Eyes of the Mind Format: VHS Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Eyes of the Mind, Video, 53 minutes 1. nate young Nait Art 2. leif ritchey Flatbush Windows 3. carly ptak Funnel Take 4. aaron dilloway Stand UP 5. carly ptak Take a Look Inside 6. anthony miller Paws Pause on Pause Paws 7. nate young Nudes and Music 8. nate young & aaron dilloway Rambo & Bev 9. carly ptak & twig harper Fragile house Bends and shakes Pliant in the wind" |
| Artist: V/A Title: Reverse Engineers Format: Book Label: Herndon Gallery Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Catalog from last months Reverse Engineers show at Herndon Gallery, Antioch College. Includes Tony Conrad, John Olson (Amercian Tapes, Wolf Eyes, etc..), Paper Rad, Leif Ritchey, Daniel Bozhkov, Miguel Calderón, Christian Jankowski, and more. 15-page, b/w with silk-screened covers (printed at VG Kids), featuring curator comments and artist statements as well as images from the show. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Hoera! Een Hex voor thuis! Format: LP Label: Hex Grammofoonplaten Country: Netherlands Price: $20.00 |
| "Since 2004 we organize the Hex nights at OCCII in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At these nights the audience is being served all (sub)styles of new wave music from the past and the present... and more... The nights are known for their ever suprising live acts (and not only because of the fact that most of these bands have their live debut in The Netherlands at Hex) and the dj sets by connoisseurs dj M & Kramp... Although Hex is a relative small clubnight it has built a name for itself around the world among fans of obscure new wave music and many bands and specialized labels. To celebrate the existence of Hex there is now a compilation LP... so everybody can have a Hex night at home... On the LP are twelve bands that all performed live on stage at Hex. Ten out of the twelve tracks are exclusive recorded for this LP (and the other two are absolute hits on the Hex dancefloor). What you get is what we do... it is all there... from apocalyptic disco to post-punk, from elektro to Neo Deutsche Welle and from minimal electronics to cabaret ... The artwork is of course done by Dutch artist Edwin Stoutjesdijk (also known as dj Kramp)..." - Hex Grammofoonplaten. Hex Grammofoonplaten is new side-imprint from Dutch synth label Enfant Terrible. Artists include Vanishing, Frustration, Sixteens, Swann Danger, Saralunden, Cheveu, Laurence Wasser, Wermut, Kania Tieffer, Agent Side Grinder, Hval Mus, Punk Soul Loving Bill. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Never the Same: Leave-Taking from the British Folk Revival 1970-1977 Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Never The Same celebrates the lost years of British folk: the 1970s. As far as mass popularity goes, the folk scene most definitely peaked in the 1960s -- with Bert Jansch, Anne Briggs, Martin Carthy, Davy Graham and all. By the end of the sixties, according to conventional wisdom, it had morphed into folk rock (Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span) or singer-songwriters (Nick Drake and John Martyn), prior to disappearing into a netherworld of beards and real ale. But what the pop histories dont tell you is that the seventies were the real golden years for British folk music. The scene had gone underground, disappeared into the now totally unfashionable world of the folk clubs But the musicians whod come up in the heady years of the sixties hadnt gone away: they were just getting better and better. The trouble was the major record labels werent interested, not even the more folk-friendly indies like Island and Transatlantic. There was one exception, a man called Bill Leader. Leader was the man who had been behind the mixing desk on almost every major British folk record of the sixties, from Anne Briggs first EP to Davy Grahams Anji to Bert Janschs bedroom debut. In 1969, seeing a yawning gap in the market, he finally started his own label. Some of the names he signed up were already familiar on the folk scene -- like Lal and Mike Waterson from the legendary singing family The Watersons. Most, however, were new names, emerging stars from the folk club scene. There was Dick Gaughan, a shy Scotsman who had to be talked into making records; and Nic Jones from Essex, who was close to giving up the unequal struggle to make a living from music when Leader signed him up. Over the next ten years Leader put out a series of albums of a standard unmatched by any other major folk label. Not all of it was straight traditional folk. Leader was always open to experimentation and released albums as varied as the psych folk of Dave and Toni Arthur, the singer-songwriting of Rosie Hardman, and the elaborate arrangements of John Tams Muckram Wakes. He also released the peerless song suite Bright Phoebus by Lal & Mike Waterson, and two of the songs here represent this lost classic. But at the heart of the labels output were very simple virtues: great singers and great instrumentalists playing and singing the traditional music of Britain. So here, for the first time, is a compilation of the lost wonders of the Leader label, repository of the hidden history of British folk music." Artists: Lal Waterson, Nic Jones, Dorothy Elliott, Alistair Anderson, Dick Gaughan, Dave Burland, Aly Bain, The Boys of the Lough, Tony Rose." CD also available. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted: Baghdad, 1925-1929 Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Double LP version, in deluxe gatefold sleeve.This is the second in Honest Jons series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive, featuring recordings from Baghdad, originally commissioned by The Gramophone Company -- soon before it became EMI.Restored and remastered at Abbey Road.Package includes a booklet with full translations, rare photographs, and notes -- including an extensive interview with a citizen of Baghdad who knew many of the musicians here personally."-Honest Jons |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "This is the third in Honest Jons series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. Honest Jons has spent the last two years delving through more than 150,000 78 records in the temperature-controlled steel vaults of EMIs Archive in Hayes, Middlesex. Following studious compilations of West African and Iraqi music of the 1920s, the latest release in the Honest Jons Hayes Archive series is a sparkling late-summer lucky dip, Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive. An eccentric survey of the Hayes shelves, Sprigs Of Time is thirty tracks recorded between 1903 and 1957, everywhere from England (Percy Graingers recording of the title song, sung by Joseph Taylor in 1908) to Japan (the bewilderingly beautiful "Seigaiha," by the Japanese Imperial Palace Band, five years earlier). Organ rolls from Georgia run alongside Tamils impersonating motorized transport, and rumba from Beirut; 40s fado sits next to the songs of Bengali beggars. As with the other Hayes releases, the tracks have been restored at Abbey Road and are beautifully presented, with extensive contemporary photographs included. There are recognizable names (Joseph Taylor, the incomparable Fairuz, Mighty Sparrow and an uncredited Rubén González, singing lead vocals on "Rumba Negra") and extraordinary oddities (Vengopal Charis rather unfunny "Laughing" and the peculiarly affecting hand bells of "Gas All Clear"). Taken out of the library and put back on the turntable, every track here is remarkable; every one worth the saving." - Honest Jons. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive Format: CD Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the third in Honest Jons series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. Honest Jons has spent the last two years delving through more than 150,000 78 records in the temperature-controlled steel vaults of EMIs Archive in Hayes, Middlesex. Following studious compilations of West African and Iraqi music of the 1920s, the latest release in the Honest Jons Hayes Archive series is a sparkling late-summer lucky dip, Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive. An eccentric survey of the Hayes shelves, Sprigs Of Time is thirty tracks recorded between 1903 and 1957, everywhere from England (Percy Graingers recording of the title song, sung by Joseph Taylor in 1908) to Japan (the bewilderingly beautiful "Seigaiha," by the Japanese Imperial Palace Band, five years earlier). Organ rolls from Georgia run alongside Tamils impersonating motorized transport, and rumba from Beirut; 40s fado sits next to the songs of Bengali beggars. As with the other Hayes releases, the tracks have been restored at Abbey Road and are beautifully presented, with extensive contemporary photographs included. There are recognizable names (Joseph Taylor, the incomparable Fairuz, Mighty Sparrow and an uncredited Rubén González, singing lead vocals on "Rumba Negra") and extraordinary oddities (Vengopal Charis rather unfunny "Laughing" and the peculiarly affecting hand bells of "Gas All Clear"). Taken out of the library and put back on the turntable, every track here is remarkable; every one worth the saving." - Honest Jons. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Open Strings: 1920s Middle Eastern Recordings- New Responses Format: 4LP Box Set Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $52.00 |
| "Deluxe 4LP version in cardboard slip case with individual sleeves for each LP. Unbelievable packaging! This is the fourth release in Honest Jons series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. Open Strings is a dazzling selection of virtuoso string-playing from Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Turkey, all recorded in the 1920s, and pretty much unheard ever since. In addition, Open Strings includes a disc of newly-commissioned responses to the themes in this music by underground luminaries committed to the drone such as Sir Richard Bishop of legendary Sun City Girls renown, West Coast psych-guitarist Ben Chasny aka Six Organs Of Admittance, UK folk-guitarist Rick Tomlinson aka Voice Of The Seven Woods, and Western Massachusetts raga-inspired duo, MV And EE. From resonant bow-drone, to frenetic fret-runs to delicate, circular acoustic musings to sitar fever-dreams, no matter the nationality, there is a resonance and truth in this music that is ancient, timeless and transcendent. Scorchers past and present, every one. Other artists include: Micah Blue Smaldone, Michael Flower, Charlie Parr, Bruce Licher, Paul Metzger, and Steffen Basho-Junghans." - Forced Exposure |
| Artist: V/A Title: To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings From Istanbul Format: 4LP Boxset Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $54.00 |
| "Luxuriously packaged deluxe 4LP version in cardboard slip case with individual sleeves for each LP. Honest Jons presents a package drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, during the first three decades of the 20th century. Amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, it crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country‐people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system. Most of the singers are hafız, versed in a musical reading of the Koran, and renowned for mastery of the exalted, improvisatory form of the gazel. There are several magnificent examples here, by legendary artists. Three of these gazelhans beautifully interpret folk songs, and another contributor, the folklorist Ağyazar Efendi, sings a long Armenian air with utter authenticity, but in the style of a gazel. Exemplifying the new political freedoms of the Republic, there are two heart‐melting female vocal performances of a kind of art‐song called sarkı. Also featured is the taksim, a kind of improvisation in which one‐off musical fireworks, designed to ravish the listeners soul, illuminate deep fluency in the makam. A whos-who of the pre‐eminent instrumentalists of this first half-century of Turkish recording, in performances which are simply stunning, breathtaking, exquisite and other‐worldly. The music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating. " -Honest Jons |
| Artist: V/A Title: Showtunes of The Condemned Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Two years in the making, Showtunes of the Condemned emerges not as a compilation, but a massive unified whole. Spinning, spinning, spinning. A dark, edgy, electronic epic, acting as a Pandoras Box of social and urban anxiety. Ranging from lo-fi ambient soundscape to high-tech industrial powernoise, and rotten sound collage, the varied styles on this cd merge into a compelling argument for despair. Featuring roughly fifteen minutes each from: Smashed Femur Dance Party, Sinking Body, Pleasurehorse, Work/Death, Kites, and Meerk Puffy, plus an extensive short story of contemporary mythology from Scott Wilson." - Hospital Productions. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Old Tyme Lemonade Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Eclectic compilation of independent music from Providence including noise, grind, hardcore, electronic, and experimental. Reissue of extremely limited cassette release. 100 specially coloured Pink Lemonade numbered copies randomly inserted into the first pressing." - Hospital Productions. Includes Landed, Noise Nomad, Necronomitron, Mindflayer, Knights of Timbre, Em Dath Rir, Prurient, Dropdead, Mahi Mahi, Seratone, Football Rabbit, Suffering Bastard, Smashed Femur Dance Party, Throne of Blood, Kites, Lightning Bolt, Knifestorm, Meerk Puffy, White Mice and Patootie Lobe. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Cottage Industrial Volume 3 Format: CDR Label: Humbug Country: Norway Price: $11.00 |
| "Third instalment of our eclectic compilation series, fully sucked to capacity at 79:59, though theres "only" 17 tracks this time. You get two tracks from norwegian duo RYFYLKE (Humbug releases an LP with them sometime in 2005!), bristling with heavy frequencies. A sample of up-close "selbstverprügelung" and subtle barnyard heckling from unidentified mental patients RAIONBASHI. Crude electronics from WAWA. A glacial and feverish meditation for metals, springs, radio and wire hangers by ORANGE, MANIFOLD. SINISTRI are sculptors of molten pulses and charged convulsions, look out for their album on the Häpna label in the spring. Theres two tracks from PH? - a short blast taken from "This is Handiwork" CD + a live track from Rhiz in Wien where the boys are fronted by one Didi Bruckmayr in best maniacal form. Also from Italy (along with Sinistri) are OvO, hot on the heels of their fully cracked jamz of the live tape on Imvated. This trackss for guitar and whistles, Stefania and Bruno captured here in full stereo sound. WOODEN WAND & SATYA SAI BABA exhales and hits a strident rock chord, trances out, lays it bare. "Wet Margarete" by EXCEPTER is a keening call to hush things down, before the gorgeous slow movements of LUNTs "You Keep Me Unafraid", a daydreaming haze of crystalline guitar loops. MASKINANLEGG tests your stereo output, while MOTHs "Ohne Titel" (the final Moth recording), draws to a fried conclusion with subliminal hum and skeletal buzzes. ANDERS HANAs piece is quiet and poised, barely pinches the skin. VIOLETS ROCK N ROLL suggests in the crudest of terms you better get the hell out of here, and finally IDEA FIRE COMPANY offers a salute to the weary listener with the epic 11-minute "Heroes".Comes in a heavy full colour cardboard packaging, stupefying "pensjonist" themed artwork, an insert and a sticker. Limited to something." - Humbug. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #8 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Astounding DIY gnarling and scrubbing including 4 tracks previously available on cassette-only from the Desperate Bicycles, Devils Hole Gang, Different Is, Dry Rib, The Dogmatic Duo, Dogma Cats, Divert Off Centre, Dolphins, Dislocation Dance, Dum Dum Dum, Diagram Bros, Dangerous Girls, Discount Chiefs, Delmontes, Disturbed, Deep Freeze Mice, The Dad, Desperate Bicycles, Danny & The Dressmakers, De Tian, Denizens, Digital Dinosaurs and The Dole.? - H2D. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #7 - UK DIY bands, Letter "C": 1978-81 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "[H2D#55] UK DIY bands, ALL from the letter "C": 1978-81. With five of Johans all-time top 100 DIY singles (see if you agree!). Contact, Cravats, Commercials, Current Obsessions, Carl Gustav & the 84s, Czechs, Crash Action Winners, Cherry Boys, Alan Clayson & the Argonauts, Captain Swoop & the Fabulous Wonderfuls, Cracked Actor, Clockwork Criminals, Cold War, Colours, Chefs, Cinematics, Club Tango, Camera 3, Cindy & the Barbi Dolls, Collective Horizontal, Concrete, Crazy English..." - Hyped 2 Death. |
| Artist: V/A Title: HOMEWORK #101 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "U.S. "D.I.Y."/ punkwave / experimental R & S 1976-86: 26 tracks. Screaming Urge, Realtors, Red Asphalt, Re*Cords, Really Red, Radio Free Europe, Rentals, Readymades, Screaming Urge, Social Climbers, Special Affects, Spanish Dogs, Scientific Americans, Space Negros, Mike Runnels, Rave, Reversible Cords, Secrets Of Loveliness, Real Wigs, 17 Pygmies, Screamin Mee-Mees and Small Change." - Hyped 2 Death. Includes fairly extensive liner notes and reproductions of the original 7" sleeves. |
| Artist: V/A Title: HOMEWORK #102 - U.S. "D.I.Y."/ punkwave / postpunk: S & T 1977-86 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "U.S. "D.I.Y."/ punkwave / postpunk: S & T 1977-86. 25 tracks from The Stroke Band, Tiny Desk Unit, True Believers, Telefones, Tommy Dog, Student Teachers, Styrenes, Teenage Boat People, Tom & Marty Band, Standing Waves, Story Of Failure, Two By Fours, SST, Tanks, Tenants, Marc Thor, Twinkeyz, Tidal Waves and Underachievers." - Hyped 2 Death. Includes fairly extensive liner notes and reproductions of the original 7" sleeves. |
| Artist: V/A Title: HOMEWORK #103 - U.S. "D.I.Y.", punkwave & postpunk: V-to-Z 1979-84 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "U.S. "D.I.Y.", punkwave & postpunk: V-to-Z 1979-84. 22 tracks from the Zoomers, X-X, Velvet Monkeys, Yo, Vores, Voodoo Idols, XXOO, Y Pants, Wild Stares, Velvet Monkeys, WKGB, V:-, Xmas Eve, Zoo Types, Zyklon, and Blake Xolton..." - Hyped 2 Death. Includes fairly extensive liner notes and reproductions of the original 7" sleeves. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #1 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| ??UK "Do it yourself" bands: R & S, 1978-81. 29 tunes, 24 bands. Record Players, Scrotum Poles, Royston, Scritti Politti, Six Minute War, Scabs, Reducers, Reacta, Restricted Code, Czechs, Six Minute War, Scrotum Poles, Sema 4, The Rest, Scritti Politti, Scissor Fits, Second Layer, Seize, Sara Goes Pop, School Meals, Reflections, Scissor Fits, Schizoid, Decadent Few, Nigel Simpkins, Ripchords, Reducers, Paul Reekie.? -H2D. "Anti-masterpieces on the order of the Scrotum Poles Pick the Cats Eyes Out, a three-chord wonder that cant decide whether to chug or strum, with the singer at a loss as to how to sing the title after 16 repetitions" - Franklin Bruno, L.A. Weekly. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #2 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| ??UK DIY singles & LP tracks S-to-Th: 1978-82. 22 bands, 26 songs: Steppes, Andy Stratton, 35 Mm Dreams, Teenage & the Wildlife, Spherical Objects, Thin Yoghurts, Sods, Spitfire Boys, Tagmemics, Stockholm Monsters, Strutz, Spunky Onions, Tv Personalities, Take It, Stereotypes, Predators, 35 Mm Dreams, Stepping Talk, Tea Set, Terraplanes, Take It, Surgeons, Slight Seconds, Stolen Power.? - H2D. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #3 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| ??UK DIY singles & LP tracks Ti-to-U: 1978-82. 26 songs from 21 bands: Tronics, Tiny Town, Steve Treatment, Trwynau Coch, Thermometers, 23 Skidoo, Trance, Thought Police, Twelve Cubic Feet, Tronics, The Turn, Vandells, Vacants, Trwynau Coch, Hugh Volk, Vdus, Tiny Town, U.X.B., Treatment, UK Decay, Toys, Two Fingered Approach, Steve Treatment, They Must Be Russians, U-Turn.? - H2D. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #4 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| ??UK DIY singles & LP tracks V-to-Z: 1978-81. 27 tracks by 25 bands. Vacants, Vitamins, John Voysey, Wimps, Zipps, Wasteland, Visitors, YMG, Walking Floors, Vital Disorders, XS Energy, Victimize, Xpozez, The What, Wild Beasts, Peter & the Test-Tube Babies, Hugh Volk,, Zeitgeist, Wild Beasts, X-Defectors, Wavis OShave, Versatile Newts.? - H2D. "The Messthetics bands flail around and make awful mistakes, because they know theyre on the verge of something really exciting and thats the only way to get there." -Douglas Wolk, The Boston Phoenix. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #5 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| ??UK DIY singles and LP tracks, ALL from the letter "A": 1978-81. Brand new for late summer 2001: Article 58, The Arnold, Astronauts, Afflicted, Anorexia, Autopilot, Attic, Armed Force, Addiction, Artery, A Sudden Sway, Animals & Men, Again Again, Acid Drops, Avocados, Aquila, Alvaro, Animals & Men, Art Failure, The Atrix, Anorexia, Atoms, A Certain Ratio, Auntie Pus, Keith Armstrong. ?? - H2D. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #6 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| ??UK DIY singles and LP tracks from A & B: 1978-81. Our current favorite kicks off with the legendary Beyond the Implode... Also the Bloated Toads, Bleach Boys, Blanks, Base, Bouncing Czechs, Buzz, Balloons, Bee Vamp, Honey Bane, Bearz, B-Film, Big In Japan, Beach Bullies, Big Sleep, Beevers, Basczax, Brills, plus a couple that wouldnt fit last time! The Ankh, Avant Gardeners, Airmail. ?? - H2D. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Homework #9: DIY/Post-Punk A,B & C LP Cuts, 1977-1986 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "This time its Lester Bangs, Citizen 23, Chalk Circle, Bonemen of Barumba, Christmas, Black Cat Bone, Asbestos Rockpyle, Artyard, Crap Detectors, Crystallized Movements, Big Boys, Agitpop, Craig Bevan & The Tourists, ALRN [Scott Miller pre-Game Theory], B Team, Cubes, Colorplates, Crippled Pilgrims, BPA, Bob, Amoebas in Chaos. Plus cool links, daunting trivia, and amazing stories from all of the bands." - Hyped 2 Death. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Homework #10 Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "American experimental, postpunk and No Wave from the letters A, B & C: 1979-89. Enjoy a[nother] spectacular survey of the artistic and the accidental, the homely and the home-made, the involuntary and the visionary, the unselfconscious and the unbelievably cool... with the Adults, B People, Cardboards, Carsickness, China Shop, Culturcide, Bound & Gagged, Band of Susans, Arms of Someone New, Bomis Prendin, Black Cat Bone, Brain People, Blue Trapeze, Robin Crutchfields Dark Day, Chemicals Made from Dirt, Crash Course in Science and the August Sons. 20 tracks." - Hyped 2 Death. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #8; UK DIY singles, LP and cassette tracks from 1977-81: ALL from the letter Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "UK DIY singles, LP and cassette tracks from 1977-81: ALL from the letter "D" Astounding DIY gnarling and scrubbing, including 4 tracks previously available on cassette-only. Desperate Bicycles, Devils Hole Gang, Different Is, Dry Rib, The Dogmatic Duo, Dogma Cats, Divert Off Centre, Dolphins, Dislocation Dance, Dum Dum Dum, Diagram Bros, Dangerous Girls, Discount Chiefs, Delmontes, Disturbed, Deep Freeze Mice, The Dad, Desperate Bicycles, Danny & The Dressmakers, De Tian, Denizens, Digital Dinosaurs and The Dole." - Hyped2Death. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #101 D.I.Y. 77-81 London I Format: CD Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "The Messthetics #100-series launches its grand tour of the U.K. with two full CDs of London-area D.I.Y. - from some of the most famous, most obscure, and most idiosyncratic members of an extraordinary scene. Between 1977 and 83 hundreds of U.K. bands put out their own records and tapes - usually on the cheap and utterly without apology. With D.I.Y., punk and everything that came before it collided gloriously with D.I.Y.s fresh aesthetic of making and sharing recordings outside of the established music business - with only the slightest regard for an audience. Theres no common style: instead these songs are united by wit, enthusiasm, musical risk-taking (especially these London bands) ...and a conspicuous lack of pose. Rare tracks from the Scissor Fits, the Rich & Famous, Exhibit A, Different Is, Acid Drops, Grinder, Take It, the Jimmy Nipper 5, Funboy Five, Twelve Cubic Feet, Tiny Town, Existence, Collective Horizontal, Karel Fialka, and The Door and the Window. Never released material from the Homosexuals, Blue Screaming, Rejects (the final original from their 1977 demo, pre-Homosexuals), Milkshake Melon, George Harassment, Different Is, Grinder, TDATW. 16-page book, pix, 22 songs (27 if you count 5 ripping MP3s of related stuff that wouldnt fit)." - Hyped 2 Death. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #102 D.I.Y. 78-81 London II Format: CD Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| Rarities from Steve Treatment, Tea Set, Lines, Vacants, Walking Floors, Metrophase, Nigel Simpkins, Astronauts, London PX, Restricted Hours, Auntie Pus, Frank Details, and The Dad. Never-before-heard treasures from the Lines, Dry Rib, MLR, Innerpropriates, Walking Floors, The Syrups, and London PX. 16pp book / 4500-word liners / cool photos / 23 tracks. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Rocky Mountain Low - The Colorado Musical Underground Of The Late 70s Format: Double LP Label: Hypercynical Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Rocky Mountain Low is a unique portrayal of a late-1970s American Punk/New Wave scene. It is the first time that a Punk/New Wave scene, from its inception in 1976 through to the end of 1979, has been documented in its entirety. In their presentation of Colorados musical reaction to the initial wake of Punk Rock in the late 1970s, the compilers have set the bar unattainably high for future would-be historians. Until now, very little has been known about what transpired in Colorados musical underground in the late 1970s. Did you know that Wax Trax, who later became world famous for their record label in the 1980s, started as a store in Denver in 1975? Their early story is told here. Or that JELLO BIAFRA of DEAD KENNEDYS fame is a Boulder native? Contained in this compilation you will find the origins of the Dead Kennedys name (see RADIO PETE bio) as well as some of Jellos pre-Dead Kennedys recordings, available for the first time ever (including a bonus, vinyl only recording of the improvised, very crude original "California Uber Alles"). Deluxe, double LP package which includes a bonus CD of the recordings, as well as a 24-page booklet containing extensive historical liner notes, dozens of photos, and complete biographies for 19 bands, 17 of which are represented with recordings: RAVERS , FRONT, RADIO PETE, JONNY III, IMMORTAL NIGHTFLAMES, JOEY VAIN & SCISSORS, DANCING ASSHOLES, DIRTY DOGS, CORVAIRS, LILLY ROSE & THE THORNS, DEFEX, HEALERS, INSTANTS, PROFALACTICS, GUYS, CELLS, AND TRANSISTORS. 32 songs/84 minutes of music. All material is previously unreleased with the exception of the Dirty Dogs track which was taken from their 45, self-released in 1978. "Rocky Mountain Low is an insanely great insiders view of the Colorado underground scene of the late 70s. Wed never even heard of half the bands here, but JOSEPH POPE was an active participant, and along with DALTON RASMUSSEN he pulled together a great set of unreleased nuggets from demos, rehearsal tapes & whatnot. Like lotsa scenes in their early days, the sounds here are heterogenous-60s style Pop, hard Garage, weird experimentalism and Brit-damaged lunge are all part of the mix, just as they were in the day. The book included is a great blend of history, attitude, crappy-looking fliers and the best picture of Jello Biafra you will ever see in this lifetime. Every town deserves this kind of deep investigation. Superb shit." -BYRON COLEY & THURSTON MOORE (Bull Tongue). |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Conet Project: Recordings of Short-Wave Numbers Stations Format: 4CD Box Set Label: Irdial Country: UK Price: $58.00 |
| Repress now available of this all-time cult classic shortwave radio transmission CD. "Numbers stations are found all over the shortwave spectrum. They emit unusual transmissions of synthesized voices reading sets of phonetic letters and or numbers. The origin of these stations is in dispute. Their purpose is unclear. There are many dozens of different signal types on the air, each run by different organizations. Some of these organizations should have been closed down after the end of the cold war, yet they continue to transmit like clockwork. No one has ever compiled a set of numbers stations recordings for sale to the public. Until now. The Conet Project: a quadruple CD of 150 recordings covering 25 years of numbers station activity, with detailed logs, essays, and a definitive lookup table of all known numbers stations, including morse numbers stations. An invaluable and fascinating resource for all listeners, this is the definitive reference work on the mysterious field of numbers stations, containing very rare recordings from as early as 1971 and up to date examples of currently operating stations. The quadruple CD comes with an 80 page perfect bound booklet in two jewel cases, with a post card." - Irdial. Very highly recommended!! |
| Artist: V/A Title: Not Alone Format: 5CD Label: Jnana Country: Canada Price: $46.00 |
| "Five-CD box featuring music by a wide variety of artists traversing many boundaries and genres. All proceeds go to benefit Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), specifically their work on the AIDS pandemic in Africa. The majority of tracks on this collection are previously unreleased and exclusive to this set." Artists: Vashti Bunyan, William Basinski, Bill Fay, Simon Finn, Six Organs of Admittance, Angels of Light, Antony, Baby Dee, The Hafler Trio, Pearls Before Swine, Jarboe, Devendra Banhart, Pantaleimon, Faun Fables, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, irr. app. (ext.), Thighpaulsandra, srmeixner, Little Annie Anxiety, Jim ORourke, Lynn Jackson, Small Creatures, Michael Yonkers, Linda Perhacs, Edward Ka-Spel, Teenage Fanclub, Richard Buckner, Mary 5E, Anomoanon, Isobel Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, David Surkamp, Matmos, Jad Fair, Sundial, Ghost, Mirror, Bonnie Prince Billy, Marc Almond, Damon and Naomi, Charlemagne Palestine, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Unveiled James William Hindle, Rose McDowall, John Maslen, Larsen, Mr Durt, Shannon Lyon, John Contreras, Brett Smiley, Cyclobe, Blue Eyed Black, Stephanie Volkmar, Howie B, Bevis Frond, Thurston Moore, Shockheaded Peters, John Terrill, Max Richter, Colin Potter, AUBE, Keiji Haino, Jeremy Reed, The Hollowings, Tom Recchion, Fursaxa, Amy Curl, Joolie Wood, Genesis P-Orridge, Suishou no Fune, Coil, Eric Lanzillotta, Scott Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Ghostigital. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Kassettentäter Vol.7 - Deutscher Kassetten Untergrund 1980-1983 Format: LP Label: Kassettentäter Country: Sweden Price: $45.00 |
| "kassettentäter (cassette offender) is a compilation of rare and mostly forgotten records from the early 80s. its a tribute to the german cassette underground scene. its absolutely limited (100!)" - Kassettentäter. Latest in this series of super-obscure synth/primitive NDW/experimental artists, mostly only previously "available" on cassettes. Limited edition of 100 copies, with liner notes. Includes Wochenschau, Felix + Oskar, Jennome Dorée, Tumorbeus, Lars, More Changes, Die Verspannten,Freundschaft, Georgie,The Reihenhaus Glück, P and S.A.A.B. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Geisteskrank - The Compilation Format: Cass Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| Includes 80s style fanzine/booklet. "C-90-tape with 41 bands between electro and punk incl. Sütterlin, Fröhliche Eiszeit, Human Puppets, Mazzolata, Pornoheft ..Collaboration with nine other DIY-labels (Aldi Punk, Strictly commercial, Hundehütte Records, Hafi Records, SKP Records, Scheishaus Records, Katze-Platten & Empty-Head-Records)" - Kernkrach. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Doppelhertz Format: Double LP Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $36.00 |
| Includes contemporary synth artists Chris Denerf, A², Dr. Doomsdy & his nuclear wisemen, Dadatronics, Roithammer, Notstrom, Foucault, Die Perlen, Private Entertainment, Gary Flanagan, Superdome 80, Wave Tank, Liquid dreams, Klax, Imiafam & Veronica V. (of Minimal Wave label), Fan of 83, Adolf Filter, Seth Nemec, 317 Wurst, ZE422, Projekt Ortsschild, Atmospheare 0, Konform, Kinder aus Asbest, and Radio Murmansk. 500 copies in in a very nice numbered/printed tote bag, paper mached/newsprint lp jacket and insert booklet. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Mein Bester Freund Ist Tot Format: 7" Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| Recent release of comtemporary synth on this label known for its "gimmix" packaging. "Only for animal lovers. Tribut to Dr. Kernkrchs best friend 4-track-EP with Philippe & Phluffie, No-Bell-Preis, Treue Seelen and Nacktmull 1. 220 copies." - Kernkrach. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Analoges Russland - Musik Aus Der Zukunft Format: LP Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "Analgoes Russia is a compilation of contemporary Russian (synth) music - eleven songs with Roboti, Private Entertainment, N.E.M.O., Klax and Electrodynamique (hertz 25). " - Kernkrach. Handpainted and stenciled covers tied together with wire. Numbered edition of 333. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Meet the Philly Elite Format: 7" Label: Kraak Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Four exclusive tracks from the elite of the Philadelphia scene. You get JACK ROSE on a live improv recorded during his first solo tour; KURT VILE with an amazing new song in the melodic Vile tradition; U.S. GIRLS (aka MEGAN REMY) cooking up the mind-frying "A Day at the Races;" and MEG BAIRD (ESPERS) working a cover of 1960s Xian folk unit Felts "Wave Crashed on Rocks." - Kraak. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Circuit Dactes Format: LP Label: La Formte Lente Country: France Price: $15.00 |
| "Featuring new solidly froidetastic uptempo trax from Wierd label bands Frank(just Frank) from Paris and Automelodi from Montreal, both of whos long-awaited debut LPs will be released by WIERD later this spring, this release is an excellent introduction to the new French minimal synth scene. Edition of only 500 copies, get one while theyre still cold..." - Wierd. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Kuolleena Haudattuja Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
| "Buried Dead - A Sociological Survey on Finnish Youths Secret Musical Activities" "this compilation includes outsider-type home recordings by a bunch of people over here in finland, when they were young and/or inspired. some of these people were actually a bit ashamed of these recordings but lal lal lal encouraged them to bring it all out to the public, and as a result we found many moments of brilliance. this tape is full of enthusiastic genius and true joy of expression." - Lal Lal Lal. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Lal Lal Lal Festival Format: CDR Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "Kind of gothic compilation of all the bands that performed on Lal Lal Lal Festival May 2007. Songs by Kukkiva poliisi, Reijo Pami, The Ray Pacino Ensemble, Mary Fist, Nuslux, Snake of Life, Master Qsh, The Skaters, Kemialliset ystävät, Maniacs Dream, Keijo, Kheta Hotem and Arttu Partinen & His Partiers. All the songs are previously unreleased except KPs track was released on Audiobot and MFs song on a self published CD-R. Edition of 200." -Lal Lal Lal. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Feelin Strong Format: CDR Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "Compilation of all the solo projects that performed on "brown cloud over Europe" - tour April 2008. Music by Amon düde (Arttu Partinen), Kiiskinen (Tero Niskanen), Nuslux (Roope Eronen) and Reijo Pami (Erkki Sinnemäki). Edition of 100 copies." -Lal Lal Lal |
| Artist: V/A Title: Lal Lal Lal Festival Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "The official compilation that includes all the artists performing at the second annual Lal Lal Lal festival. 60 minutes of deep, uncensored and unreleased sounds by Sus & Jacob, Kiiskinen, Lussu & Pami, Benjamin Franklin, Good Band, Buffle, Kompleksi and Avarus! The tape comes packed in four different kind of found photograph covers (Four Eyes Lady, Drinking in the Mirror, Babysitting and Loch Wheel Chair)." -Lal Lal Lal |
| Artist: V/A Title: Somethings #1 Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Third installment for our avant-garde/free-improv/difficult listening series. Compilation of unreleased and new, challenging music assembled by Ilya Monosov. Somethings #1 features Chie Mukai, Sarah Peebles, Masayoshi Urabe, Nick Castro, Preston Swirnoff, Andrew Deutsch/John McPhee and of course Ilya Monosov himself. This collection stresses an ill-defined region between composed music and improvisation, where both elements come into play. Some of the pieces use traditional instrumentation, others use field recordings. Regardless of construction, these are all artists working at the farthest boundary of what is defined (or not yet defined) as music, hence the title of the album." - Last Visible Dog. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sleeping in the Market: Ethiopian Music & Sounds from Amhara Format: CD Label: Latitude Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Some twenty years ago, under a near total media blackout, a widespread Israeli effort to resettle Ethiopian Jews called Operation Moses was rapidly set in motion. Within a year, 10,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel and resettled amidst growing threats in the region. Telescope forward to 2001, Yayehe Smon took a leave from Israel and traced the footsteps back to Ethiopia with his father Mehari. The result, heard on Amhara, is a mesmerizing collection of the sounds & songs along the coastal islands and city centers of Ethiopias Amhara & Adis Abeba. Busking Azmare children along the shores of Lake Tana, blind beggar playing flute in Gondar, the city of kings; praise work songs in the village of Benkar, improvised jamming among a group of teens on zege island & city songs in tea houses in Addis-Abbaba constitute a part of this beautiful time & space traveling documentary." - Latitude. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Naked Prey Original Soundtrack Format: CD Label: Latitude Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The music in this motion picture is African music, played by Africans on African instruments. In the mid 1960s, the Hollywood star and former Olympic fencer Cornel Wilde took on the ambitious task of producing, directing and starring in an adventure film shot entirely in Africa. The tale takes place in the 19th century, and concerns a white safari leader who, after being stripped of his clothes and weapons, is forced to play a long round of the Most Dangerous Game against a clutch of strapping tribal warriors. The story is lean and harrowing, and so was the production, which took Wilde and his crew to a variety of remote parks and preserves in Rhodesia, South Africa, Bechuanaland, and Mozambique. The film Wilde wound up with is what you might call a classy Mondo movie, a strange and compelling blend of ethnographic exotica, exploitation, and solid Hollywood fare. With nearly no dialogue, and a taut economy of shot and motive, The Naked Prey is a nearly perfect action movie, and you can understand why the Coen brothers were compelled to remake the film on Super-8 when they were kids. The film is also full of heart of darkness thrills: graphically slaughtered elephants, nubile ladies, and a series of fiendish tribal tortures delivered by cruel young men and ululating grannies. But as in the best exotica films, the exploitation sneaks up on something like the real deal, which here includes non-pro actors, rousing village dances, cool drums, excellent textiles, and, most importantly, great music." -- Erik Davis, from the liner notes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: No New York Format: LP Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $17.50 |
| Artist: V/A Title: No New York Format: CD Label: Lilith Country: Russia Price: $17.00 |
| "One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York was released in 1978 on Islands sub-label Antilles and became a total cult in the indie scene. Featuring some of the most incredible rule breaking bands of the underground New York art and music scene, the project-strongly pursued by BRIAN ENO-is a genuine snapshot of the massively creative NYC scene, from which innumerable trends started and became part of the modern pop music as we know it. Influential, powerful and ground breaking, this collection features Gotham City no-wave giants like JAMES CHANCE (CONTORTIONS), ARTO LINDSAY and IKUE MORI (DNA), LYDIA LUNCH (TEENAGE JESUS) and SUMNER CRANE (MARS). If you missed the original its time to get your hands on this reissue. The CD digipack version includes a detailed booklet." - Lilith. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Fun From None: Live From The No Fun Fest 2004 & 2005 Format: DVD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "A document of the 2004 and 2005 No Fun Fests held in Brooklyn, New York featuring the cream of the underground crop. You get live footage from sweat-soaked song stranglers TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA, KIM GORDON & THE SWEET RIDE, WOLF EYES, HAIR POLICE, DOUBLE LEOPARDS, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, SIXTEEN BITCH PILEUP, BORBETOMAGUS, MAGIC MARKERS, PRURIENT, LEE RANALDO + ROGER MILLER & WILLIAM HOOKER, and more." - Load. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Wooden Guitar Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A simple title with a simple concept. Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica & a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germanys Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattles Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japans Tetuzi Akiyama & Virginias Jack Rose give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched out solo compositions." - Locust |
| Artist: V/A Title: Wooden Guitar Format: Double LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Limited 180 gram vinyl version. Fall 2008 marks the 5th anniversary of Locusts inaugural Wooden Guitar compilation touted then, as today, as a simple title with a simple concept. Back in print on CD and available on double 180 gram vinyl for the first time. First vinyl edition housed in screenprinted jackets much like the original compilations first CD release. Wooden Guitar is an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern delta-delica and a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore (remember that great Kottke, Lang, Fahey collection?) where guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists -- Germanys Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattles Sir Richard Bishop (the Sun City Girls), Japans Tetuzi Akiyama & Virginias Jack Rose give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched out solo compositions." -Locust |
| Artist: V/A Title: Arktinen Hysteria: Suomi-avantgarden Esipuutarhureita Format: CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $15.00 |
| ??The Arktinen Hysteria compilation that came out in November 2001 was compiled by Jukka Lindfors, based on his series of radio documentaries for Finnish Broadcasting Company. Together here are gathered for the first time some seminal tracks usually considered the milestones of early Finnish electronic music; being the real predecessors of the sounds of Mika Vainio, Pan sonic & et al.; combined with some rarities and previously unpublished tracks. The album concentrates mostly around the output of the now-legendary Love Records label, varying from electronic music to avantgarde sounds, free-jazz and experimental rock. Here one can witness some truly timeless electronic pioneering works, delving into the real Finnish analogue roots of glitch, clicks & cuts and even modern laptop sounds. Artists include: M.A. Numminen, Tommi Parko, Pekka Kujanpää (future underground guru M.A. Numminen and his cohorts burping and gurgling to a simple blues theme playing in the background, as part of this home-made tape recorded in 1961), M.A. Numminen & Sähkökvartetti (Holy Grail of Finnish electronic music, creepy-sounding and even hymn-like, with wailing and sounding like electronic insects), Tommi Parko (avantgardistic pranks), Erkki Salmenhaara (sounds like a constant switching of dial between radio stations: snippets of orchestral sounds, reverberated electronics, harpsichord, piano etudes, whatever), Blues Section (the territory of backwards tapes, tape loops and other "mind-blowing" sonic regalia of the late 60s), Erkki Kurenniemi (This could be something by Hecker of Mego Records, only 30 years before laptops), Jukka Ruohomäki (non-machine-like electronic pop music), Jouni Kesti & Seppo I. Laine (Pure noise inferno of explosions and chaos), The Sperm (a combination of an experimental rock group and a provocative performance group, features undecipherable vocals mumbling, screeching, murmuring, screaming utter nonsense), J.O. Mallander (Dadaist piece of conceptual art, an aural counterpart to what Andy Warhol did with his movies of repeated boredom), The Sperm (a free-for-all melee of cacophony, like some collective lunatic asylum art therapy), Pekka Airaksinen (murky sauna hut sound expressions, total antimusic and again, totally ageless), S. Albert Kivinen (This aleatoric assault is about the then-US Vice President Spiro Agnew).? - Love. Amazing CD of LAFMS-type sounds, but recorded 10-20 years earlier! With thick, indepth booklet of photos and text (in english and finnish). Highly recommended!! |
| Artist: V/A Title: More Arctic Hysteria/Son of Arctic Hysteria Format: Double CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $24.00 |
| ...the later years of early Finnish avant-garde. "Another incredible volume, following the inspiration and eye-opening 2001 CD Arktinen hysteria - Suomi-avantgarden Wsipuutarhureita. Pefectly packaged document of more utterly obscure electronic mayhem and theatrical intoxication, presented as near-high-art." - FE. "Now covered are the 1970s and 1980s. 34 artists. Featuring a lavishly illustrated leaflet of 20 pages. Compiled by Jukka Lindfors. Featuring Jimi Tenor, Läjä ?ijälä and early Mika Vainio (Pan sonic), The Sperm activists Mattijuhani Koponen and Pekka Airaksinen, Edward Vesala at his wildest, Kari Peitsamo, Kauko Röyhkä and Sleepy Sleepers at their most experimental and many other musical alchemists from Pekka Streng to Reinin Myrkky - as a bonus some no-holds-barred sound experiments of Kaj Chydenius and M.A. Numminen from the 60s." - Love. Highly Recommended!!! |
| Artist: V/A Title: Psychedelic Phinland Format: Double CD Label: Love Country: Finland Price: $25.00 |
| Subtitled: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967-1974. Amazing collection of underground Finnish music, presented in definitive fashion by the original Love Records label. Great booklet of English notes and photos, Love Records does it again! From the liner notes: "CD1 opens with some topical commentaries on drugs and the hippie lifestyle, as well as with early Finnish psych-rock, followed by more agitatory and provocatory stuff like Suomen Talvisofta who hilariously combined anarchist ideas with psychedelic imagery. After the heyday of he Underground movement, the more mystic legacy of hippiedome was preserved by the esoteric balladry of Pekka Streng, Hector and others. CD2 presents more experimental Underground, avant-garde and laternative music, most of it for the fist time on CD or previously not issued. Love Records and the small Eteenpain! (Forward), Finlands counterpart to ESP Records, were the main labels for the kind of music heard on both CDs." - Love. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Electric Holyland Format: LP Label: Lysergic Sound Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "12 cuts from some of the rarest and most fuzz-drenched Jesus Rock obscurities from the 1960s and 70s. Artists are: The New Folk, Barrie Hobbie, Johann Black & Sweet Destiny, First Revelation, Wild Olive Branch Band, Earthen Vessel, Shekina Glory, The Jesus Band, The Ark, Children Of The Lamb, Renacimiento, Paul Clark and The Four Corner Gospel Experience. Its a limited (500 copies) press, all hand-numbered, of some of the rarest, most obscure & most fuzz-drenched Jesus Rock from the 1960s & 70s. Theres 12 cuts from 12 different bands, all authorized, restored & re-mastered. The cover is an eye-popping throwback to the best of the 60s Fillmore posters and leaves no doubt about the nature of the music." - Lysergic Sound. |
| Artist: V/A Title: MTR-01 Format: LP Label: Macro-Eden Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "An 18 band one sided LP on gray marble vinyl featuring Temple of Bon Matin, Hop-Frogs Drum Jester Devotional, AMK, Sander Roscoe Wolff, Books on Tape, Kyozin Yueni Dekai, I Heart Lung, Foot Village, Tres Quatro, No Age, BARR, Debaser, Sharon Cheslow, Hestbak, Bavab Bavab, Organisms, Fanboys, and Whitman. With a color collage front cover and a gritty black and white photo of Ed Wilcox (Temple of Bon Matin) for the back, no corners were cut in the making of this album. The record itself is a document of how 18 different bands responded to the challenge of writing a 45 second song. The transitions between songs come so seamlessly that the piece stands as a massive effort by many musicians, rather than a series of individual tunes." - Macro-Eden. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Live At Spooky Action Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "live @ spooky action cdr (w/ c spencer yeh, axolotol, skaters, lambs.... "- |
| Artist: V/A Title: Nekromantik - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Format: LP Label: Mauerstadtmusik Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| Soundtrack to the Jorge Buttgereit films (1 and 2). Features music by NDW artists Hermann Kopp, Monica M, Buttgereit and others.. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #103 D.I.Y. 77-81 Midlands I Format: CD Label: Messthetics Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "D.I.Y. and (very) indie postpunk from the Midlands, 77-81. The Messthetics #100-series hits the metal-weary Midlands, where it encounters a sparse but energetic rabble of (mostly) teens - happily raising their own musical racket, completely outside the mainstream music business. Faster, louder, and less arty than their D.I.Y. counterparts elsewhere in the U.K. Messthetics #103 collects rare tracks from the Versatile Newts [pre-Felt], Swell Maps, Prefects [pre-Nightingales], the Accused, Profile, Hardware [pre-Pigbag], Famous Explorers, School Meals, The Shapes, the Buzz, Domestic Bliss, Cracked Actors, Lester and the Brew, Human Cabbages, 021, and Cult Figures. Also selections from the first releases from Digital Dinosaurs, Spizzoil, Cravats, and Dangerous Girls. 22 songs on the CD plus four bonus MP3 tracks. Lavishly illustrated and documented 24-page booklet, with histories, photos and ephemera." - Messthetics |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #105 D.I.Y. 77-81 Scotland I Format: CD Label: Messthetics Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "D.I.Y. and (very) indie post-punk from Scotland, 77-81. Messthetics first Scottish installment focuses on a brief, intense scene of ardently independent bands who got started rubbing shoulders with 1977 punk then paid no attention at all to London after that. (London returned the favor.) The sound was based on guitars of all sorts, ingeniously skewed melodies and unashamed local accents. Naturally, it all fell apart as soon as The Sound of Young Scotland became a marketable commodity, but they left behind a rich cache of lost alternative hits. Plenty of traditional D.I.Y., too... 24 songs on the CD plus nine bonus MP3 tracks. 90 minutes of music. 24-page booklet, lovingly documented with histories & photos galore. Messthetics #105 features rarities by Fire Engines, Scrotum Poles, 35mm Dreams, The Exile, Commercials, Fakes, Metropak, Tony Pilley, Visitors, Article 58, Radio Ghosts, Rapid Dance, Strutz, Vertical Smiles, Restricted Code, Brills, Rhythm Method, Hes Dead Jim, Friction and Paul Reekie. Unreleased first recordings by Dirty Reds [who became the Fire Engines], 35mm Dreams, Jazzateers, International Spys [pre-Radio Ghosts, Wee Cherubs, Bachelor Pad] and Edinburghs legendary Ettes. Plus other never-before-released material from the Scrotum Poles, Commercials, Tony Pilley, Article 58, Radio Ghosts, Vertical Smiles, and Restricted Code..." -Messthetics. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #106 The Manchester Musicians Collective Format: CD Label: Messthetics Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "...1977-1982. Messthetics first visit to Manchester surveys the most successful and innovative of Britains post-punk-era musicians collectives. The MMCs most famous spawn were obviously The Fall (who first played at an MMC meeting) and Joy Division (who loaned their P.A.), but the MMCs emphasis on public performance and its egalitarian ethic of shared gear, expertise, and, frequently, band-members, affected and inspired future stars and faintest sparks alike to create an unparalleled range of truly alternative sounds. Twenty-one songs on the CD plus five bonus MP3 tracks. 80+ minutes of music. 24-page booklet, extensively documented with histories, photos and artifacts. Messthetics #106 features songs by the Mud Hutters, Gods Gift, Dislocation Dance, Elti-Fits, Diagram Brothers, The Liggers, The Passage, Bee Vamp, Spherical Objects, Grow-Up, Contact, Slight Seconds, Armed Force, the Manchester Mekon, The Spurtz, and never-released tracks by The Elite, The Hamsters, Manchester Mekon, Bee Vamp, and Property Of (Messthetics fans will also note an unusual concentration of women-in-charge, unorthodox effects, provocative lyrics, wildly varied electronics and general non-punk stylings)." -Messthetics |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics Greatest HISS: Classics Of U.K... Format: CD Label: Messthetics Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "...Cassette Culture D.I.Y.: 1979-1982 (Volume 1). An introduction to the D.I.Y. cassette scene 1979-84. The U.K.s original cassette-scene hosted some of the most inept shambling in the history of recorded music, but there was no shortage of musical genius, either (be that accidental or otherwise). From endless bedrooms filled with home-made gadgets, Woolworths guitars, Casios and soldering fumes, came sounds both stunningly simple and sophisticated -- and vastly more varied than anything on vinyl. These artists seldom made more than 100 copies of their cassettes and typically circulated them for free, with untold thousands of tapes changing hands through the Royal Post. Messthetics new series samples the more, er, musical sides of the scene (lots of cool electronics, but no ambient or industrial -- and everythings under 5 minutes!): Here is D.I.Y. at its most liberated. Twenty-five tracks on the CD plus five bonus MP3s. 90+ minutes of music. 24-page booklet, crammed with histories, photos, artifacts and an essay from Mick Sinclair, who wrote the original Cassette Pets column for Sounds. Messthetics Greatest Hiss features the superstars of cassette culture and plenty of others: The Jelly Babies, Danny & the Dressmakers, Storm Bugs, Colin Potter, Event Group, The Get, Instant Automatons, Missing Persons, Gravity Craze, Farming Jim & his Hepcat Groovstas, 391, The Chromosomes, Mike Jones, The Living Dead no. 5, Digital Dinosaurs, The Twizlers, Aconite, Casual Labourers (Bendle and other DIY heavies), Midnight Circus, Milkshake Melon, Funhouse, Cultural Amnesia, Stripey Zebras, Chimp Eats Bananas (pre-Chumbawamba!) and Dean Johnson." -Messthetics |
| Artist: V/A Title: Messthetics #107: D.I.Y. 78-81 London III Format: CD Label: Messthetics Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Messthetics returns to London - mostly to a handful of Tube-stops along the Central and Northern Lines. #107 also includes a special 7-band, 6-page feature on the legendary Dining Out label. Rough-edged new wave wonders, scrappy D.I.Y.-punk, ear-boggling home experiments - and the usual quota of accidental pop from fifth-form teens, art-school grads and committed hippies. Some recorded in actual studios, others on stand-alone cassette-decks placed just so on the squat- or church-hall floor. With ex-members of Spitfire Boys, Tax Exiles and Flying Lizards; others went on to Weekend, Alien Sex Fiend, A Certain Ratio, 400 Blows, Alabama 3, Celestial, Afro Celt Sound System, Fraff, Late Night Poker, and ..and the Native Hipsters. Plus 5 bands that got their start at Raynes Park High School for Boys, Morden. Messthetics #107 features obscure vinyl sides from Disco Zombies, Demon Preacher, Jelly Babies, Six Minute War, Stepping Talk, Occult Chemistry, The Patterns, 49 Americans, Avocados, Methodishca Tune, Jangletties, Stolen Power, Flags, The Steppes, The Insex, The Milkmen, Design for Living, Twilight Zoners, and Club Tango. Unreleased material from Disco Zombies, Buddy Hernia & the Rickets, Twilight Zoners, Milkmen, and the White Brothers. 23 songs on the CD plus 7 bonus MP3 tracks: 90+ minutes of music. 24-page booklet, extensively documented with histories, photos and artifacts." -Messthetics |
| Artist: V/A Title: Just A Little Bit Of Milvia Son Records Format: 7" Label: Milvia Son Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Just A Little Bit provides an overview of the labels current roster, four tracks clocking in around 9 minutes total, each by a different artist. First up is O Carl by Bob Frankford, recorded during Bobs middle period. Says Bob: After the car accident, I was unable to move my fingers or toes for several months. But I could sing and I could play the turntable. And thus, a song is born. Next we hear from the Korg-abusing electrofreak, Jaki Jakizawa, providing his impression of one of R2D2s greasiest dreams, entitled Now You Hate the Swedes. Side B blasts forth with Day Nudes, a guitar feedback mini-nightmare created by Bad Drumlin Grass as an homage to a few of their southern hemisphere heroes. Concluding the record is the unforgettable Little Bit, sung and strummed by a certain Petomane, a fellow who sounds not unlike Lou Reed doing an imitation of Skip Spence covering Lou Reed. Full color jackets, insert featuring pictures of the artists, 250 copies pressed, priced for the Great Recession." - Milvia Son. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Found Tapes Format: LP Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "A compilation of North American Minimal Wave 81-87. The Found Tapes is a follow up to The Lost Tapes compilation of European Minimal Wave 81-86 (2006). It features previously released, rare tracks, as well as some unreleased tracks from Futurisk, Iron Curtain, Deo Toy, Experimental Products, Mark Lane, Ohama, Crash Course In Science, Dark Day, Craig Sibley, and Tara Cross. This release represents some of the best synth songs from the North American scene during that 80s period, some of them you may already know (as they are highly collectible minimal gems) and if not, will soon surely love. Thanks to all the bands involved in making this happen. Limited to 500 numbered copies with insert, 180 gram vinyl. Featuring Futurisk, Ohama, Iron Curtain, Deo Toy, Mark Lane, Crash Course In Science, Dark Day, Craig Sibley, Tara Cross, and Experimental Products." -Minimal Wave |
| Artist: V/A Title: Last Kind Words (1926-1953) Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "2nd edition with regular printed jacket. Incredibly well compiled 20s-30s era blues comp. High quality of sound for the time period of its recordings. This compilation is filled with the most accessible blues songs made to be appreciated by enthusiasts and those new to the genre. Features Blind Willie McTell, Memphis Minnie, Geechie Wiley, etc." -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Fight On, Your Time Aint Long Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Compilation of sanctified blues recorded between 1927-1934. This is our sequel to the popular Life Is A Problem LP. Twelve songs of pure guitar-driven gospel. This slab is as melodic as it is rockin. Features songs by Bukka White, Willie Mae Morris, Bo Weevil Jackson, Kid Prince Moore and more. This is packaged in the old-fashioned tip-on sleeve." -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: I Woke Up One Morning In May Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Sequel to our Last Kind Words compilation. All country blues recorded between 1927-1934. Features favorites such as Memphis Minnie, Lottie Kimbrough & Robert Wilkins. This slab also has a few of our favorite obscurities like Little Hat Jones and Louie Lasky. Fourteen songs -- all classics! Full color beautiful cover in the stylish tip-on sleeve." Other artists include: Cryin Sam Collins, Henry Spaulding, Kansas Joe McCoy, Buster Johnson, Elvie Thomas, Willie Baker, Blind Blake, Charlie McCoy and Joe Callicott. |
| Artist: V/A Title: String of Pearls Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "A compilation of international 78s compiled by Ian Nagoski (compiler of the Black Mirror CD on Dust To Digital). 14 amazing songs ranging from Calypso, Indian vocal music, Jewish Cantorals, Native American chants etc. Includes a two-page insert with detailed notes on each song." -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Mata la Pena Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Compilation focusing on mellow dramatic music from around the world. Everything from Calypso to Flamenco to Thai ballads to Indonesian instrumentals to American country to Hawaiian music. Designed as a sort of sequel to our I Dont Feel At Home In This World Anymore compilation. Cover art by Chris Johaanson." Heavyweight sleeve with paste-on cover. -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Mortika: Recordings From A Greek Underworld Format: Double LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Amazing 2LP set of Greek underground folk music sometimes called Rembetica and/or Greek Oriental Music. Compiled by Tony Klein. Songs about drugs, sex, crime, poverty, and heartbreak. Housed in a box and includes 20 page notes with extensive archival photos and full lyric translations." - Mississippi. SOLD OUT |
| Artist: V/A Title: Fanajana Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A Collection Of Recordings And Photography From Madagasikara. Over a three year period in the late 1990s, Charlie Brooks embarked on two long field recording trips in Madagasikara. Brooks primarily concentrated on the more remote north and west regions of the island. Upon his return in 1999 he pressed 200 copies of a triple record and stored them under his bed for the last ten years. The three themed LPs: Vocal, Valiha Marovany and Miscellaneous Instruments were released as the now out-of-print MR-061 Fihavanana. This single LP collection compiles seventeen tracks from Fihavanana. Comes with a twelve page booklet of photography and notes." -Mississippi. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Been Here All My Days Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, George Mitchell recorded extensively in the South. Mitchell concentrated mainly on local blues traditions, recording some famous bluesmen and many otherwise ignored artists. The George Mitchell Collection was originally released as a series of forty-five EPs on Fat Possum; this LP contains our favorite fourteen tracks. This LP represents songs from many well-known blues musicians such as Fred McDowell, Furry Lewis and Joe Calicott as well as some from criminally under-represented artists like Jessie Mae Hemphill, Rosa Lee Hill and John Lee Ziegler. Comes with a short booklet of photos, discographical notes and recollections." -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Im Gonna Live Anyhow Until I Die Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Fifth installment in the Field Recordings From Alan Lomaxs "Southern Journey", 1959-1960 series, featuring recordings from North Carolinas Mountaineers, migratory labor songs from fishermen The Bright Light Quartet, a stark religious meditation on the end of days from Virginia service station owner E.C. Ball, Bessie Jones (later a touring performer) singing the spiritual "Daniel In The Lions Den," an evening worship service at a Pentecostal Temple in Memphis, Emma Hammonds dance tune "Shout Lula," an excerpt from Alabama religious radio testimony and music performed on caned panpipes (or quills) at a country picnic in Senatobia, Mississippi." -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ill Be So Glad When The Sun Goes Down Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Fourth installment in the Field Recordings From Alan Lomaxs "Southern Journey", 1959-1960 series, featuring recordings from Blue Ridge instrumentalist Wade Ward performing alongside an eighty-one year old Charlie Higgins, sought-after Mississippi church singers James Short and Viola James, more from Fred McDowell ("Woke Up This Morning"), a locally composed religious piece written from words spoken by Mountain View, Arkansas resident Joseph Looney while on his deathbed, Hillsville, Virginias The Mountain Ramblers, spiritual singers from the Georgia Sea Island of St. Simons and banjo master Hobart Smiths "Banging Breakdown." -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ill Meet You On That Other Shore Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Third installment in the Field Recordings From Alan Lomaxs "Southern Journey", 1959-1960 series, featuring recordings from Fred McDowell, Carlos "Bookmiller" Shannons rendition of "The Eighth of January" (another variation of which -- "The Battle Of New Orleans" -- was a Billboard charting hit by Johnny Horton in 1959), a medley of classic African American spirituals by Virginias Union Choir of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, lined hymns from Kentuckys George Spangler and a Baptist Church congregation, Ozark balladeer Neal Morris, work songs from Mississippi State Penitentiary, a previously unissued version of "Moses Was A Servant Of The Lord" performed by Charles Barnett (vocal and washtub) and Arkansas Almeda "Granny" Riddle performing "Rainbow Mid Lifes Willows," based on a British broadsheet originally published in 1631." -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Worried Now, Wont Be Worried Long Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Second installment in the Field Recordings From Alan Lomaxs "Southern Journey", 1959-1960 series, featuring recordings from blues singer Sidney Carter, seventy year-old Norman Edmonds, Rosa Lee (or Rosalie) Hill performing on Fred McDowells porch, two Mississippi gospel groups, the United Sacred Harp Convention in 1959 Alabama, the first-ever recordings of the fife and drum music of the Mississippi Hill Country and The Bright Light Quartet, a group of fishermen recorded in Virginia in 1960." -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Wave The Ocean, Wave The Sea Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "People were saying that Southern folk song was dead, that the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile." -- Alan Lomax, 1960. "In 1959 and 1960, at the height of the Folk Revival, Alan Lomax undertook the first-ever stereo field recording trip through the American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical culture. He traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70 hours of recordings. The trip came to be known as Lomaxs Southern Journey, and its recordings were first issued for the Atlantic and Prestige labels in the early 60s. Those, however, as well as subsequent releases on New World and Rounder Records, are now all out of print. To remedy this, and to celebrate the Southern Journeys 50th anniversary, Mississippi Records and the Alan Lomax Collection have collaborated on five commemorative LPs, spanning the breadth of Lomaxs 59-60 Southern recordings, drawing on new transfers of the original 1/4" tapes, and featuring a considerable amount of previously unreleased material. The five LP volumes feature singing siblings Hobart Smith and Texas Gladden from Saltville, Virginia; menhaden fishermens chorus the Bright Light Quartet; the Young Brothers Mississippi Hill Country fife and drum band; Blue Ridge instrumentalists Wade Ward and Charlie Higgins; Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers; work songs and hollers from Parchman Farm; congregational hymns from African American and white Appalachian meeting-houses; Alabamas singing washerwoman Vera Ward Hall; the 1959 United Sacred Harp Convention; and the debut recordings of bluesman Fred McDowell, among much else. Each volume is being sold separately with its own distinctive packaging. All come with a 12-page booklet featuring many never before published photos. Old school tip on sleeves & beautiful sound. Not to be missed!" -Mississippi |
| Artist: V/A Title: Berlin Super 80 - Music Underground West Berlin 1978-1984 Format: DVD/CD/BOOK Box Label: Monitor Pop Entertainment Country: Germany Price: $64.00 |
| "Staggering package featuring a DVD, CD & 100-page book; three hours of music and video clips, including Malaria, Die Todliche Doris, Einsturzende, etc. Essential document of the early 80s German whatever-wave scene." - FE. "A DVD-flashback of early 80s Berlin subculture, featuring output by virtuosos of the citys underground movie scene, who rediscovered Super 8 as an adequate outlet for their creative endeavours. Accompanied by a compilation of music, covering a huge range of styles and currents - from punk to ingenious dilettantes - this lavish package recalls the walled-in citys unique feel and lifestyle. By no means a nostalgic review of times long gone, this is, rather, an appraisal (with no claim to completeness) of a creative Berlin which to this day exerts its influence on German pop culture and beyond. Besides the DVD featuring 18 elaborately restored Super 8 films (running time: 120 minutes), the luxurious package also contains a CD compilation of Berlin bands from the period of 78-84, as well as a 100 page book with extensive material: lyrics by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Martin Schmitz, Rolf S. Wolkenstein, essays, background information, discographies and photo series plus interview with Wolfgang Müller (of Die Tödliche Doris)." - Monitor Pop. CD Artists: Mona Mur, Malaria, Die Todliche Doris, Christiane F, P1/E, Mono/45 UPM, Sprung Aus Den Wolken, Kosmonautentraum, Valie Export & I. Wiener, Alexander V. Borsig, Din a Testbild, Flucht Nach Vorn, Frieder Butzmann, Sentimentale Jugend, Einsturzende Neubauten, MDK. The DVD is in NTSC format for the US, no regional restrictions. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Music From South India Format: LP Label: Music From South India Country: Price: $14.00 |
| "from the land of a thousand gods / godesses from the land of ragas and talas ancient mystical music field recordings from the south of india that embody a psychedelic soul so deeply seeded that few westerners have ever matched take a tab of something strong / stay away from the mirror / grow roots. micro-pressing / snooze = lose." Very limited pressing. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Northern Unlights: Musically Incorrect Compilation Vol 3 Format: CDR Label: Musically Incorrect Country: Finland Price: $9.00 |
| "Ambient, drone, sound collage, experimental and even a bit of a noise compilation of Finnish and Scandinavian artists. Featuring: Sindre Bjerga (if Neil Campbell had a dip in the Arctic Ocean he would sound like this), Perkust (metal junk sound manipulations, less noisy than their earlier efforts), Iversen (excellent collage of manipulated field recordings and other sounds), Lokustus (darkest possible analog synth / guitar drone ambience), Gelsomina (up and coming harshnoise artist with more ambient/drone type material) and Ovum (Pan Sonic meets darkest ambient). Altogether over 70 minutes of dark sound art. Limited edition of 100 copies." - Musically Incorrect. |
| Artist: V/A Title: X-Plural-US Format: LP Label: Mystra Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "..limited compilation LP of Western Mass music, made to be released in concurrence with a week long series of music events in the area. This comp attempted to chronicle 10+ years of musics by solo artists, bands, & ex-bands from west mass like: Noise Nomads, Squidlaunch, Chris Corsano, Laudable Pus, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Shurt Kwitters/Bromp Treb/Chris Cooper(all from Fat Worm Of Error), Head of Wantasquit(Paul from Sunburned), Bill Nace, Red Favorite, Viking Funeral, Avocet &Kurt Weisman(from Feathers), Aaron Rosenbloom, Matt Krefting, Lil Dusty(Pete from Magik Markers), Gastric Lavage, Jow Jow, Mirror/Dash (Kim & Thurston), Whyte Kastles, & Slander Puff (Dredd Foole meets John Shaw & Tarp). All music has previously unreleased on vinyl and most has never been released before in any format(!). All copies come w/ bonus 7", hand assembled "3-D art(?)" covers, liner notes by Byron Coley, & local area flyers(!)." - Mystra. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Video Games of the Twelfth Century Format: CD Label: Nauscopy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A wide assortment of weirdness, including Faxed Head, Trumans Water, MSBR, Eeyore Power Tool, Sockeye, David Phillips, and thats not even the beginning. Handmade covers." - Nauscopy. Also includes Schimpfluch Gruppe, Rancid Hell Spawn, Brown Cuts Neighbors, Pope Paul Pot, Tape Beatles, Dreamstalker and tons more. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Date Fork Seeps the River Format: LP Label: Nauscopy Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "69 tracks of non-musical nonsense and wackiness on one LP! 200 pressed. Includes The Mary, The Gerogeritarashi, Compared Meats, Crank Sturgeon, Ranger Dump, Helen Tomasello, XV Parowek, Jobi, Green Andy, Serendipity Queued, Electrogreen, Beeber & The Gab Gads, Guerraeterna, Poopy, Han Yew Kwang, Jason Cooley, Gino Robair, Nevea, Old Nick, Malignant Sarcoma, Dick Panthers, ID M Theft Able, Singing Carpet Samples, The Toil, Cum, Schist, Roman The Edge, Plastic Razor Protector, Critical Theatre, Reuben Vinal, Patrick Lewis, Mike Duncan, Slop Cake With Guaranteed Katch, Consumer Testicles, Fever Spoor, Viscious Elvis Cyst, Robert Dragos, Lead II Nitrate, Killers Loose In The Parking Lot, Socialistic Jonny Goblet, The Zach Howard & Friends Comedy Hour." - Nauscopy. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Imaginational Anthem Format: CD Label: Near Mint Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Imaginational Anthem brings together pioneering acoustic guitar heroes of the Sixties and Seventies alongside a new generation of gifted players. The album contains sixteen tracks, of which fourteen are previously unreleased and nine were recorded specifically for the project. Inspired by the music of John Fahey and the Takoma Records LP Contemporary Guitar Spring ??67, Josh Rosenthal tracked down finger-picking legends Suni McGrath, Max Ochs, Steve Mann, Janet Smith and Bob Hadley??all of whom recorded their first instrumentals in decades for Imaginational Anthem. A new breed of solo acoustic guitar masters is represented by Kaki King, Brad Barr (The Slip), Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Harris Newman, and Gyan Riley, who performs a live duet for guitar and piano with his father, legendary composer Terry Riley. The album also includes a 1965 recording by Fahey contemporary Harry Taussig, previously issued only on a long-unavailable private pressing; an unreleased piece by the late Sandy Bull; the first-ever acoustic guitar track by Ornette Coleman collaborator Bern Nix, and a rare John Fahey cut from a 1991 Christmas album." - Near Mint. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Orbital Confluence - Benefit 2000 Format: CD Label: Neurec Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
| 1999 release with Aube and ORG recording artists Nagisa Nite and Naoki Zushi. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Runner - A Compilation Of NZ Music Format: CD Label: Nextbestway Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
| NZ comp. CD featuring: David Merritt & David Kilgour, Garbage & The Flowers, Alistair Galbraith, Cake Kitchen, Demarnia Lloyd, Sophie Moleta, Deva, Bob Cardy, The Puddle, Bruce Russell, Matthew Middleton, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Nigel Bunn, Jane Harris, Robert Scott, Chris Heazlewood, Ozi Bay & Jef T. Mitchell. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: Nosmoke Country: Portugal Price: $32.00 |
| "60s garage rock and jerk out of South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Ghana, Madagascar and Cameroun! Yes guys, theres still much more to offer! If you were raving on Cazumbi Vol. 1, wait to hear the second. I swear, its much, MUCH better than the first! Absolutely stunning collection of 21 tracks, ranging from the more sophisticatedly produced (but hell, WILD!!!!) fuzzy garage sounds of South African groups like The Gonks, Birds of a Feather, Them or The Invaders, to the primitive raw garage, beat and jerk of Tall Emma & His Skipper (from Ghana with their killer Hammatan), Vum Vum and Os Rocks from Angola, Les Kilts from Cameroun, Les Safari and Les Jokers from Madagascar, and a good number of Mozambique combos. This brilliant release comes with great artwork, and an insert is included with photos and information on some of the groups and the African 60s rock scene. Limited release of 500 papersleeve CDs. Fully remastered sound." -Nosmoke |
| Artist: V/A Title: My Estrogeneration Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Over-a-year-in-the-assembling 12? comp of all femme musical energies. Spans the spectrum of modes and moods. Includes NNF friends/fam like Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Inca Ore, Pocahaunted, Talk Normal, Valet, etc. In a beautiful art-jacket designed by diva dompe plus comes with a full-color double-sided insert. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli Format: Double LP Label: Numero Group Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Double LP version, great gatefold sleeve. "Bridging the gap between American primitive pioneers John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke, and the California modernists William Ackerman, Alex de Grassi, and Michael Hedges, Guitar Soli explores the private side of the solo guitar movement from 1966-1981. While Takoma and Windham Hill were laying the groundwork for the new age marketing juggernaut of the mid 80s, these fourteen loners were picking away in tiny cafes, selling records hand to hand. The double LP set comes housed in a beautiful recycled cardboard gatefold sleeve and features Ted Lucas, Daniel Hecht, Dan Lambert, Jim Ohlschmidt, Tom Smith, Mark Lang, Richard Crandell, William Eaton, George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Brad Chequer, Dwayne Canan, and Dana Westover."-Numero Group |
| Artist: V/A Title: Boddie Acetate Box Format: Triple 7" Boxset Label: Numero Group Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Three 45s with original Boddie acetate artwork plus extensive notes, housed in a 7" shipping box, and sealed with faximile Boddie paper shipping tape. From 1965 until 1987, husband and wife Thomas and Louise Boddie provided the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area with custom recording and affordable record manufacturing. The Boddie Recording Company operated out of the African-American couples house on the east side of Cleveland, complete with a fullservice, hand-wired analog recording studio and a busy pressing plant steaming around the clock in a converted dairy barn at the back of the estate. A kaleidoscope of northern Ohio musical acts used the Boddie services in one way or another, booking time in the tracking room, cutting reference acetates, or pressing a couple hundred 45s for local distribution. Selecting from the reliable parade of musicians crossing paths with his enterprise, Thomas found time to curate his own stable of talent through his Soul Kitchen, Luau, Caribi, Plaid, and Bounty labels. But by and large, Boddie Recording Company was not a creative endeavor for Thomas or Louise. Instead, it made the Boddies an honest living by providing teenage bands and aspiring gospel ensembles an inexpensive shot at having their own creations laid to wax. Of these hundreds of groups, weve selected three that were found in unmarked boxes, never picked up, certainly never released. The labels are a facsimile of the Boddies custom acetate sticker, pressed on 48 gram vinyl, housed in a tape box, and sealed with Boddie Recording kraft tape." -Numero Group |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Memorial Elvis Project Format: CD Label: Odd Size Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Features ?lève Modèle , H.N.A.S., Asmus Tietchens, La Sonorité Jaune, Psyclones, Bene Gesserit, Duck And Cover In A Psylobottle, Laurent Pernice. Still sealed original copies of 1992 release packaged in 7" folder sleeve. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Manifesto Rumorarmonico Post Futurista Format: Double LP Label: Old Europa Cafe Country: Italy Price: $45.00 |
| "Vinyl compilation devoted to Luigi Russolo the father of Futurist music and the first man to theorize that music has to be composed mainly by rumors and not by harmonic sounds! His music was played with an instrument lIntonarumori or Rumorarmonio which was invented by himself. Russolo is the forefather and theorizer of the electronic music concept and for sure we can say today that he was the first man playing industrial music. For this project, we found four artists known for being neo-Futurists and uncompromising industrial artists. GX Jupitter-Larsen from the USA is known for being the mind behind The Haters and for all his very futurist performances where a click becomes the main sound. Merzbow from Japan is the father of Japanese noise. This is the sound Russolo would be playing if he were alive today. With his first project Zoviet France, Robin Storey, aka Rapoon, was one of the very first artists using toy instruments. Sacher Pelz from Italy was the very first project by Maurizio Bianchi, also known as MB. He was one of the very first artists using electronic noise. Each artist gives his contribution to this tribute playing long tracks on a full LP side. White vinyl. Discs are packed in a hand-numbered limited edition of 765 copies -- a folding cover shows Luigi Russolo and his Rumorarmonio." - Old Europa Cafe |
| Artist: V/A Title: Songs from 20th Century Homes Format: LP Label: Old Gold Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Back when Old Gold was all about cassette tapes, we got a curious package in the mail from Winnipeg. In it was a letter from Michael Dumontier extolling the virtues of our Howard Finster cassette release, some highly amusing collaborative drawings, and a "Tape for Old Gold" crafted with unique handmade slipcase/booklet. That began an ongoing correspondence/swap of art and music with numerous Canadians within and around the soon-to-be-famous Royal Art Lodge collective, all tied together by Dumontier. As our enthusiasm for their efforts grew, we revisited the first tape in 2000, and this time it sounded like a record. Michael tracked down what musicians he could, made a few changes, and the result is Songs from 20th Century Homes, an LP with hand-screened cover released in an edition of just over 200, with songs by Eyeball Hurt and the Medicine, Drue and Myles Langlois, Albatross, DJ EZ Pot Roast, and two tracks from the always mind-melting Untanned Hide of a Young Cow (whose 10" on Old Gold is sold out, sorry), and snippets of artwork by Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, and Neil Farber. All in all, a brilliant glimpse into an odd world inhabited by people who must stay inside the majority of the year. Intimate, powerful performances and tomfoolery sure to be the life of your Christmas party." - Old Gold. |
| Artist: V/A Title: OGX Format: Double LP Label: Old Gold Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "You could break into our homes, pull out all the boxes and cases and drawers of tapes and cdrs, strap on headphones, and listen to the hundreds and hundreds of hours of music we have somehow managed to collect/compile/create over ten years, or you can buy this before its gone. Limited to just over 200 copies, handmade gatefold sleeves with spraypaint/collage/ distress upon each (not always at once), this 2LP compilation features the humdingers of the entire decade of adventure that has been Old Gold. With unreleased sounds from R. Stevie Moore & Jad Fair (Jad remixes RSMs "Under the Light"), David Daniell (San Agustin), Petland Toy Faktory, Charlie Parker (the band), Bad Poet, Morgan Guberman, C.D. & Audiodelica, Eyeball Hurt & The Medicine, Cheryl Leonard (Caroliner), Zandosis, How to Kick Yourself, Two Geniuses, Danger Woman, L. Contra, Dog, Eugene Chadbourne & Davey Williams, Drue Langlois, Bon Vivants, Autobody (Dymaxion/Fly Ashtray), Untanned Hide of a Young Cow, The Buford Highway (Justin of the Rockateens), Yximalloo, More, Tom Heasley & Ken Rosser, Gold Sparkle Band (original lineup), Die Spatzen, and of course Craig from the "Confessions Over Lunch" tape who really pegs what its all about. Seriously outrageous/contagious music from all walks of life provides the soundtrack to all your best forgotten dreams. "A lyrical and heartfelt blast of catastrophic, iron-clad whimsy" - Flan OBrien. Edition of 200. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Field Recordings from India & Nepal Format: 2CDR Label: Om ha sva ha ksha a la va ra yam Country: Finland Price: $14.00 |
| "Sound documents from India & Nepal, including Pushkar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Udaipur, Rishikesh, Varanasi, Bundi, Kathmandu and Pokhara. From street sounds to wedding ceremonies to street music to temple prayings and birds & sounds." |
| Artist: V/A Title: Poetry Out Loud, Number 3 Format: LP Label: Out Loud Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| Original, sealed copies of this stunning 10 LP series, which ran from 1969 to 1977. Primarily based around various vocal/sound poetry collaborations between two couples, Klyd and Linda Watkins and Peter and Patricia Harleman (solo or multilayered voice with very sparse instrumentation/effects), these LPs bridge the gap between private press "folkiness", Euro academic sound art, and desolate Jandek-like atmospheres. And strangely they managed to rope in Bernard Heidsieck, one of the founders of the sound poetry movement along with Henry Chopin and others, as well as the lesser known Françoise Janicot. Truly "heavy" sounds. Limited quantities.. "produced by Klyd Watkins and Peter Harleman. Madison, N. J., 1970, Out Loud Productions, out loud records OLP 103 (Patricia Harleman; Klyd Watkins; The Harlemans; Linda and Klyd Watkins; Bernard Heidsieck)" Small restock after being sold out for 4-5 years. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Poetry Out Loud, Number 4 Format: LP Label: Out Loud Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| Original, sealed copies of this stunning 10 LP series, which ran from 1969 to 1977. Primarily based around various vocal/sound poetry collaborations between two couples, Klyd and Linda Watkins and Peter and Patricia Harleman (solo or multilayered voice with very sparse instrumentation/effects), these LPs bridge the gap between private press "folkiness", Euro academic sound art, and desolate Jandek-like atmospheres. And strangely they managed to rope in Bernard Heidsieck, one of the founders of the sound poetry movement along with Henry Chopin and others, as well as the lesser known Françoise Janicot. Truly "heavy" sounds. Limited quantities.. "produced by Klyd Watkins and Peter Harleman. Madison, N. J., 1971, Out Loud Productions, out loud records OLP 104 (Klyd and Linda Watkins; The Harlemans; Klyd Watkins; Patricia Harleman; Bernard Heidsieck)" Small restock after being sold out for 4-5 years. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Poetry Out Loud, Number 6 Format: LP Label: Out Loud Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| Original, sealed copies of this stunning 10 LP series, which ran from 1969 to 1977. Primarily based around various vocal/sound poetry collaborations between two couples, Klyd and Linda Watkins and Peter and Patricia Harleman (solo or multilayered voice with very sparse instrumentation/effects), these LPs bridge the gap between private press "folkiness", Euro academic sound art, and desolate Jandek-like atmospheres. And strangely they managed to rope in Bernard Heidsieck, one of the founders of the sound poetry movement along with Henry Chopin and others, as well as the lesser known Françoise Janicot. Limited quantities.. "produced by Klyd Watkins and Peter Harleman. Madison, N. J., 1972, Out Loud Productions, out loud records OLP 106 (The Harlemans and Klyd and Linda Watkins; Klyd Watkins and Peter Harleman; Klyd and Linda Watkins; Linda Watkins; The Harlemans; Peter Harleman)" Small restock after being sold out for 4-5 years. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Poetry Out Loud, Number 7 Format: LP Label: Out Loud Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| Original, sealed copies of this stunning 10 LP series, which ran from 1969 to 1977. Primarily based around various vocal/sound poetry collaborations between two couples, Klyd and Linda Watkins and Peter and Patricia Harleman (solo or multilayered voice with very sparse instrumentation/effects), these LPs bridge the gap between private press "folkiness", Euro academic sound art, and desolate Jandek-like atmospheres. And strangely they managed to rope in Bernard Heidsieck, one of the founders of the sound poetry movement along with Henry Chopin and others, as well as the lesser known Françoise Janicot. Truly "heavy" sounds. Limited quantities.. "produced by Klyd Watkins and Peter Harleman. St. Louis, Missouri, 1973, Out Loud Productions, out loud records OLP 107 (The Harlemans and Klyd and Linda Watkins; Klyd Watkins with Tony Cowan; The Harlemans; Bernard Heidsieck and Françoise Janicot; Tony Cowan; Klyd Watkins; Patricia Harleman; Linda Watkins; Tony Cowan and Klyd Watkins; Peter Harleman)" Small restock after being sold out for 4-5 years. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Poetry Out Loud, Number 8 Format: LP Label: Out Loud Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| Original, sealed copies of this stunning 10 LP series, which ran from 1969 to 1977. Primarily based around various vocal/sound poetry collaborations between two couples, Klyd and Linda Watkins and Peter and Patricia Harleman (solo or multilayered voice with very sparse instrumentation/effects), these LPs bridge the gap between private press "folkiness", Euro academic sound art, and desolate Jandek-like atmospheres. And strangely they managed to rope in Bernard Heidsieck, one of the founders of the sound poetry movement along with Henry Chopin and others, as well as the lesser known Françoise Janicot. Truly "heavy" sounds. Limited quantities.. "produced by Peter Harleman. St. Louis, Missouri, 1974, Out Loud Productions, out loud records OLP 108 (The Harlemans; Bernard Heidsieck and Françoise Janicot with The Harlemans; Peter Harleman)" Small restock after being sold out for 4-5 years. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Poetry Out Loud, Number 9 Format: LP Label: Out Loud Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| Original, sealed copies of this stunning 10 LP series, which ran from 1969 to 1977. Primarily based around various vocal/sound poetry collaborations between two couples, Klyd and Linda Watkins and Peter and Patricia Harleman (solo or multilayered voice with very sparse instrumentation/effects), these LPs bridge the gap between private press "folkiness", Euro academic sound art, and desolate Jandek-like atmospheres. And strangely they managed to rope in Bernard Heidsieck, one of the founders of the sound poetry movement along with Henry Chopin and others, as well as the lesser known Françoise Janicot. Truly "heavy" sounds. Limited quantities.. "a record of oral poetry produced by Peter Harleman, St. Louis, Missouri, 1975, Out Loud Productions, out loud records OLP 109 (The Harlemans; Peter Harleman)" Small restock after being sold out for 4-5 years. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Poetry Out Loud, Number 10 Format: LP Label: Out Loud Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| Original, sealed copies of this stunning 10 LP series, which ran from 1969 to 1977. Primarily based around various vocal/sound poetry collaborations between two couples, Klyd and Linda Watkins and Peter and Patricia Harleman (solo or multilayered voice with very sparse instrumentation/effects), these LPs bridge the gap between private press "folkiness", Euro academic sound art, and desolate Jandek-like atmospheres. And strangely they managed to rope in Bernard Heidsieck, one of the founders of the sound poetry movement along with Henry Chopin and others, as well as the lesser known Françoise Janicot. Truly "heavy" sounds. Limited quantities.. "a record of oral poetry produced by Peter Harleman and Klyd Watkins. St. Louis, Missouri, 1977, Out Loud Productions, out loud records OLP 110 (The Harlemans; Klyd Watkins)" Small restock after being sold out for 4-5 years. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. 1 Format: Double LP Label: Outernational Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
| Subtitled: Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48. "This series of archival 78 transfers was originally released in 1995 on CD only. Now for the first time on vinyl, a deluxe gatefold presentation and limited edition pressings. Produced by Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies) in conjunction with Yazoo Records. Compiled here are many of the greatest performances of world and ethnic music ever recorded. This volume represents a trip around the world, stopping at each port to sample one of that countrys finest recordings of its indigenous music. Each of these recordings was captured at a period during the golden age of recording when traditional styles were at their peak of power and emotion. Included inside are extensive notes and beautiful period photographs that work together with the music to communicate an exciting sense of discovery." "One of the most consistently rewarding world music compilations in years, the cuts range from Macedonian fiddle jaunts to Puerto Rican Christmas tunes, from Abyssinian religious chants to ominous Japanese court music. The instruments include Ukrainian sleigh bells, Sardinian triple pipes, Vietnamese moon lutes and Ethiopian one-string violins...a profound artistry lurks beneath the alien vernaculars." --Village Voice. Vol. 1 contains music from Nigeria, Sardinia, Russia, Ceylon, Rajahstan, Cuba, Rumania, Vietnam, Macedonia, Morocco, and more." -Outernational. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Secret Museum Of Mankind, Vol. II Format: Double LP Label: Outernational Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "...Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48. This series of archival 78 transfers was originally released in 1995 on CD only. Now for the first time on vinyl, a deluxe gatefold presentation and limited edition pressing. Reissue produced by Hisham Mayet (Sublime Frequencies) in conjunction with Yazoo Records. Compiled here are many of the greatest performances of world and ethnic music ever recorded. This volume represents a trip around the world, stopping at each port to sample one of that countrys finest recordings of its indigenous music. Each of these recordings was captured at a period during the golden age of recording when traditional styles were at their peak of power and emotion. Included inside are extensive notes and beautiful period photographs that work together with the music to communicate an exciting sense of discovery. Early 20th century recordings from Bulgaria, Puerto Rico, India, Mozambique, Ukraine, Trinidad, Kazakhstan, Ceylon, Tibet and elsewhere, compiled by archivist Pat Conte." -Outernational |
| Artist: V/A Title: OZ Days Format: Double CD Label: OZ Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $20.00 |
| "New CD reissue of the super-rare 1973 2LP set commemorating the Oz Days benefit festival for the owner of Tokyos legendary Oz Rock Cafe, which had been shut down after one too many drug busts. (Japrocksampler). Without a single doubt, this is one of the holy grails of the Japanese early seventies lysergic psych scene, together with Speed Glue & Shinki, Sato Masahiko & Soundbreakers and People/Ceremony. Privately released in a tiny edition on the Oz Records label way back in 1973, the original artifact was and is till this day the only legitimate recording on vinyl to feature the Rallizes and Acid Seven, in addition to a side each from Minami Masato and the legendary Taj Mahal Travellers. Each of the four bands has a whole side to their disposal onto which they were allowed to open up the sonic floodgates to Valhalla. The music is completely stellar, mind-boggling and just jaw-droppingly great, leaving you, the listener, gasping for air on several moments while spinning this disc since your vital organs will just forget to function properly upon being exposed to this archeological sonic gem. Kosugis clitter-clatter Fluxus-induced ramshackle psychedelic drone unit the Taj Mahal Travelers put down a stunning outer-worldly and almost transcendental performance, and the Rallizes venture into an ephedrine soaked sub-linear universe of ear ripping feedback and slowed down stroboscopic madness. Authentic packaging, with hand-stamped outer bag and gatefold insert. The Les Rallizes Denudes and Taj Mahal Travellers sides have been briefly reissued before -- heres the complete picture!" New, much lower price.. Highly recommended! |
| Artist: V/A Title: I.D. Art #2 Format: CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "When the Los Angeles Free Music Society 10 CD set came out I eagerly flipped through the contents to see what treasures had finally been made available again. Much to my surprise the early compilation I.D. Art #2 was not included in this otherwise major overview of the LAFMS. I.D. Art #2 was the second LP release on their label, coming after Le Forte Fours Bikini Tennis Shoes LP, and before the 2LP Live at the Brand, a split album between Le 44 and The Doo-Dooettes. It dates from 1976. It is also probably the most difficult LP on their catalogue to find. Originally released in an edition of just 200 copies, most of which were given out to the 44 artists and groups who appeared on this extraordinary LP. The deal was that each track was paid for by the contributor at a rate of $8 per minute in exchange for 4 copies of the disc. Consequently very few copies were ever made available via the LAFMS mail order service. With a running time of 66 minutes and the sheer variety of contributions, I.D. Art #2 remained for most people a mysterious and tantalising item. Among the known names from the LAFMS scene are: Le Forte Four, Joe Potts, Fredrick Nilsen, Mr Foon, Ace & Duce, Dennis Mehaffey as well as 6 tracks by Smegma." -Paradigm Discs. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Excavated Shellac: Strings Format: LP Label: Parlortone Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Subtitled: Guitar, Oud, Tar, Violin And More From The 78rpm Era. Jonathan Ward, a young 78rpm collector and music researcher who has amassed an absolutely incredible collection of rare 78rpm records from around the world. Generally sharing these through his well-known blog, Excavated Shellac, Wards one of a kind collection is showcased for the first time on Dust-to-Digitals vinyl imprint, Parlortone. None of these tracks have appeared prior to this release either on Excavated Shellac or on any CD or LP compilation. The Excavated Shellac archives are hosted on WFMUs Free Music Archive, and are essentially an (inter)national treasure. This LP features 14 outstanding compositions from the four corners of the world played on stringed instruments and recorded and released 78rpm records circa 1920-1950. Featuring fiddles, shamisen, charango, Paraguyan harp, Indian vina, Lebanese oud, Persian violin, Vietnamese moon guitar, and more. All previously unreleased, carefully transferred and mastered and presented with detailed liner notes. Pressed on high quality vinyl, full color cover featuring 78rpm record sleeve graphics, with an insert of extensive liner notes and photos." -Parlortone. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Acid Dreams Format: CD Label: Past & Present Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Recognized as one of the truly great comps of all time, this 1979 selection of 60s U.S. hard guitar-psych, compiled by the owner of a record shop in Berlin, has often been reissued on CD with the wrong tracklisting and non-existent liner notes. Originally released on LP, only 77 copies were pressed and apart from a few that were given to friends and family, the remaining records were only sold through the compilers shop or shamelessly bootlegged. Unavailable on either LP or CD for years, the Past & Present label are pleased to make this important compilation available again. This reissue, which stays faithful to the original, comes with an 8-page booklet detailing each of the 18 tracks. Acid Dreams proved that punk rock was not a new thing; kids had adopted the same snotty attitude in the mid-to-late 60s. The opening track, White Lights "William," sets the standard for whats to come: a compulsive, classic, hard guitar-psych 45 rocker and 17 more psych diamonds follow in its wake. A true gem mined and polished by Past & Present. Artists include: White Light, Caretakers Of Deception, Outcasts, The Music Machine, Mystic Tide, Stereo Shoestrings, Velvet Illusions, Unrelated Segments, Beautiful Daze, Painted Faces, Teddy & His Patches, Vejtables, Faine Jade, Balloon Farm, Minds Eye, Zakary Thaks, Remaining Few." -Past & Present |
| Artist: V/A Title: Getting Rid Of The Glue Format: LP Label: Pendu Sound Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "GETTING RID OF THE GLUE is a phrase first used by Henry Cowell before introducing the music of Christian Wolff, Earl Brown, Morton Feldman, and John Cage at a New School concert in 1950s. John Cage in his influential lecture entitled ??History of Experimental Music in the United States? recounts the remarks of Henry Cowell. "That here were ... composers getting rid of glue. That is: Where people had felt the necessity to stick sounds together to make a continuity, we ... felt the opposite necessity to get rid of the glue so that sounds would be themselves." - John Cage This will be the first in a series of "Getting Rid of the Glue" themed LPs dedicated to improv / experimental / & noise music. Limited to 300 LPs so they wont last long. Includes a 11x17 xerox poster with art contributed by each of the bands." - Pendu Gallery. Includes Dirty Churches, Spin-17, K.P., BIG A little a, Fessenden, Eager Meek, Mialessot + Daniel Carter + Old Ghost, Maria Chavez, Talibam, and Excepter. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Music for Plants Format: Double CD Label: Perfectifon Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Compiled by artist Peter Coffin. It contains over two hours of music composed by the following musicians specifically for this project: Black Dice, Alan Licht, Jutta Koether & Tom Verlaine (of Television), HiM, Chris Corsano, Tim Barnes, Barry Weisblat, Sean Meehan & Michael Evans, seed( ) & Tetsu Inoue, Mice Parade, Weise & Koh, DJ Olive, Kenta Nagai, Ara Peterson (of Forcefield), Hiroshi Sunairi, Liam Gillick, Arto Lindsay (of DNA), Electrophilia (Steven Parrino and J. Koether), Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom, David Grubbs, Deaken and Geologist (of Animal Collective), Carter Thornton, Fugu, Languis, Anthony Burdin, Phil Manley (of TransAm and the Fucking Champs), Zs, Roland Alley, Rusty Santos, Kites, Wiese & Koh, This Invitation, LoVid, Tony Goddess, Flanged Confection, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Ariel Pink, Dearraindrop, Christian Marclay and the No Neck Blues Band." - Perfectifon. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Nine//Underground Format: LP Label: Perimeter Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Cool comp of early to mid 80s Atlanta-based raw minimal synth/experimental electronics. Includes PVC Precinct, Pillowtexans, Clubfoot, Incest, Jarboe, Young Schizophrenics, Sequence 3, Accidents Of Culture and 349. Original copies of this 1987 release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: DIY Canons Format: Double CD Label: Pogus Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "The pieces on this CD are all based on the ideas in Larry Polanskys four voice canons, a series of pieces he began in 1975. These canons are usually mensuration canons, which means that the tempi of successive voices is proportional to their start times, so that the voices end together. They also use simple ideas of moving through a list of permutations, and applying the elements of those permutations to various musical parameters. A set of Polanskys canons was produced on Cold Blue Records as four voice canons. Polansky described these ideas in Four Voice Canon #13 (DIY Canon), a kind of open-source meta-canon score. He distributed this at talks and on the web as an open invitation to others who wanted to make four voice canons of their own. Composers responded with a wide variety of variations on the basic idea; a selection of these works is presented here." - Simon Wickham-Smith, curator. Features: Kyoko Kobayashi, Bruno Ruviaro, Mike Swinchoski, Mike Winter, Ross Craig, Giuliano Lombardo, Simon Wickham-Smith, Steven M. Miller, Masaki Kubo, Drew Krause, George Zelenz, Stefan Tomic, Bo Bell, Philip Corner. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Source Records 1-6 Music Of The Avant Garde, 1968-1971 Format: Triple CD Label: Pogus Country: USA Price: $40.00 |
| "The digital reissue of the Source LPs on 3 CDs: CD1: Source Records 1 And 2 featuring Robert Ashley - "The Wolfman" (1964); David Behrman - "Wave Train" (1966); Larry Austin - "Accidents" (1967); Allan Bryant - "Pitch Out" (1967). CD2: Source Records 3 and 4, featuring Alvin Lucier - "I Am Sitting In A Room" (1970); Arthur Woodbury - "Velox" (1970); Mark Riener - "Phlegethon" (1970); Larry Austin - "Caritas" (1971); Stanley Lunetta - "Moosack Machine" (1971). CD3: Source Records 5 And 6, featuring Lowell Cross - "Video II (B)/(C)/(L)" (1965); Arrigo Lora-Totino - "English Phonemes" (1971); Alvin Curran - "Magic Carpet" (1971); Annea Lockwood - "Tiger Balm" (1971). "Pogus is extremely proud to reissue the recordings included in the seminal new music journal, Source: Music Of The Avant Garde, Vols. 1-6, Issues 1-11, Source Records 1-6, 1967-1973. The original six ten-inch LP Source Records contained some of the most important experimental music of the nineteen-sixties to mid nineteen-seventies -- and they have now been reissued as a 3 CD set. Source ended publication in 1973, having published, since 1967, contemporary musical materials, scores, articles, interviews, photo essays and recordings over seven years, with up to 2000 subscribers to the semiannual journal: the subscribers avidly anticipated receiving two new and critically acclaimed issues each year during that period. Most of the original tape masters for the records, after over forty years, have vanished or have seriously deteriorated; hence, we have carefully transferred, noise-reduced, and crackle-removed all the actual LP record tracks to the digital medium, then mastered to the compact disc format for this reissue: the result is an authentic recreation of the original LP, characteristic sound." Includes 20-page booklet." -Pogus |
| Artist: V/A Title: Maan Matoset Format: CD Label: POK Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "A beautiful compilation CD of 15 songs from Finnish bands. Its called Maan Matoset and it comes in hand assembled 4-colour sleeves with a twig. The artists are Hertta Lussu ?ssä, Kemialliset Ystävät, Kiila, Sala-Arhimo, Lau Nau, Pekko Käppi, Islaja, Taikuri Tali, Kuupuu, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Keijo & Jussi Karsikas, Tomutonttu, Avarus, Päivänsäde and SewerPyysalos." - Lau Nau. "truly one of the most lovely looking & sounding comps in the history of compilations, Maan Matoset is the sound of Fins tinkering, shuffling, strumming,,, some of it in the form of gentle songs & some in the form of abstract squeaking & droning electronics or folk percussion. it all flows like an album or a river of broken church bells. tomutonttu, kiila, pekko kappi & kuupuu & keijo & taikuri tali & lau nau etc. etc?..they are all here & more..." - Glenn Donaldson. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Jewelled Antler Library Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Porter Country: USA Price: $67.00 |
| "With thirteen groups, fifty-nine tracks and over 4 hours and 40 minutes of music and sounds, the Jewelled Antler Library box-set brings together experimental music from the US, Finland and New Zealand that ranges from psychedelic, abstract drone, soft psych, noise, folk and field recordings, to the outright strange and bizarre. This set collects together the entire twelve volume set of the limited edition Jewelled Antler CD-R Library, plus the limited edition recording of THE WAYS OF GOD TO MAN and also twelve new field recordings by LOREN CHASSE. Musicians include: FURSAXA, UTON, LOREN CHASSE, TOMES, THE IVYTREE, HALA STRANA, DEAD RAVEN CHOIR, THE FAMOUS BOATING PARTY, CLAYPIPE, MUONS, THUJA, KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT, THE WAYS OF GOD TO MAN. Limited edition box-set of 1,000 copies." -Porter |
| Artist: V/A Title: Going Format: LP Label: Poststjoost Country: Netherlands Price: $15.00 |
| Features Jan van den Dobbelsteen, Leon van den Langenberg, Peter Fengler, Majorca, Leon van den Langenberg, Tijmen Smit and Tom Verbruggen. "This Going Lp is a result of an invitation by The Lumpen Organisation Chicago to take part in a multi media festival in april 2004. The B side is a total freefolkwhistlingimprovisation and messedupedit to this piece by Tom. On the A side Great sounds and songs for Chicago The Empty Bottle,specialy for this LP. Traditional Chicago blues influenced stuff you wanna hear. Limited edition but Not Numbered black vinyl LP." - Cosmic Volume. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Little Band EP Format: 7" Label: PRS Country: AUSTRALIA Price: $16.00 |
| "In late 1979/early 1980, the Champion Hotel in Melbourne held weekly Little Band nights, where 10 small, barely rehearsed groups would take the stage one at a time and play for ten or fifteen minutes each. Bands with names like Thrush And The Cunts, The Oroton Bags and the Soporifics all took their turn to shine briefly, and than as quickly disappear. Mostly, synthesized art-punk was the order of the day, although anything was fair game. In early 1980 a four band seven inch was released which came to be known as the Little Band EP. Morpions, Too Fat To Fit Through The Door, Ronnie And The Rhythm Boys and The Take each contribute a track. The Take included Frank Lovence from the Primitive Calculators." - David Nichols; Cant Stop It liner notes. Primitive Calculators and friends in different configurations (and using all the Calculators equipment) playing gnarly electronic/experimental no wave. Original 1979 release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: A Lowtides Rising (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music) Format: CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "A year long adventure comes to a close with the release of this compilation. Explore the semantic indeterminancy of the word acoustic alongside such luminaries as: Peter Wright, Sleep, Pumice, CJA, Birchville Cat Motel, Richard Francis, 1/3 Octave Band, Antony Milton, Kunst/Veet (Witcyst), seht, Donald McPherson, Tim Cornelius, James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Techs), Swagger Jack, gFrenzy, and Kieran Monaghan. Includes short sweet folksongs, shrill drone epics, gestural collages and more besides." - Pseudoarcana. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Tokyo Flashback 5 Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Fresh from the darkest depths of the Tokyo psychedelic underground, another crop of ten of the citys wildest sounds. The fifth volume in the modern psychedelic worlds most reliable compilation of out-of-nowhere urban mind liberation. As ever, Tokyo Flashback brings you some old faces alongside the hottest young gunslingers from the wrong side of the Tokyo tracks. Old favourites this time include White Heaven with a vintage track of live acid cool isolationism, Kyoaku no Intention burning down the barn with themselves inside, and Overhang Party ruminating on contemporary world affairs. Most surprising showing is the first track to be released of Keiji Hainos experimental DJ-ing sessions - full-on and unmistakeable Haino, with little fader action and no scratches. New names to juggle with are the dense and crushing tortured muzz of Aural Fit, hallucinatory analogue noise from the mysterious Kabemimi, dark and melancholic gloom from Suisho no Fune, and the beautiful and fractured late-night textures of Hisato Higuchi. 200% head-spinning action." - Alan Cummings. Artists: Aural Fit, White Heaven, Kyoaku no Intention, Kabemimi, Suisho no fune, DJ Keiji Haino, Hisato Higuchi, Tsurunoko, Overhang Party, Marble Sheep. |
| Artist: V/A Title: PSF & Alchemy - 20th Anniversary Live Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $19.50 |
| "In 2004, Tokyos PSF and Osakas Alchemy labels commemorated their anniversaries with two joint concerts bringing together luminaries from both labels in a celebration of freedom and independent thinking. The highlights include inspired one-off collaborations between free guitarist KAZUO IMAI and the INCAPACITANTS, KAN MIKAMI and JOJO HIROSHIGE, JUNKO (of HIJOKAIDAN) and MASAYOSHI URABE, GO HIRANO and MAHER & MAJIKICK stalwart TAKASHI UENO. Also includes performances by EXIAS-J, MARBLE SHEEP, HAINO KEIJI and MUNEHIRO NARITA, and USUI HIROs L with guests." - PSF. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Tokyo Flashback 6 Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "The long awaited return of PSFs legendary, scene-defining compilation. For two years since the release of Tokyo Flashback 5 in 1995, we have been scouring the deepest dives in the darkest alleyways of the Tokyo underground in search of the newest mutated manifestations of the lysergic paradigm. The quest has not been an easy one, but now after dozens of gigs and hundreds of hours listening to demo CDRs, we have finally reached its conclusion. Tokyo Flashback 6 presents the fruits of that search, a treasure trove of the unheard. Twelve new groups poised on the cusp of greatness, driven by a fervent belief in the transformational potential of sound and the dimension-altering power of cranked amps, delay pedals and a third-eye opened to the cosmos. The groups included span a wide definition of the psychedelic, from the no-wave intensity of Onna (led by underground manga artist, Keizo Miyanishi), to the acid-punk splatter of Ainotamenishis, the art-school insanity of Kinky Pigeon, and the loner canyon-magic of Genshi. - Alan Cummings. Featured groups: Ahobune, Hananoyoni, Onna, Yamashirube, Sarod, Retort Mandala, Ainotamenishis, Kinky Pigeon, Yakochu, Ogikubo Connection, Masami Kawaguchi, Genshi. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Asian Flashback: Underground Music From Asia Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Asian underground compilation with 13 groups. Featuring Li Jianhong, Narita Munehiro, Hano Shoji, Mustangs, Kuyasu Orchestra, Mafeisan, 10, Xiao He, D!O!D!O!D!, Sato Yukie, Yoshiteru Koga Jizo, Kim Young Jin, Li Daiguo, Amature Amplifier, Soonie." - PSF |
| Artist: V/A Title: Tokyo Flashback Volume 7 Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "An essential document of the psychedelic improvisation scene that exists in the deepest catacombs of the Tokyo underground! Includes unparalleled live performances by six of the scenes freshest groups. Recorded live at the legendary Koenji Show Boat venue in Tokyo on May 31, 2009! 1. Le Son De Los - Still Water : An improvising unit formed by Yuko Hasegawa from Onna-Kodomo, Masahiro Deguchi from Gendai Sokkyo, and Shizuo Uchida from Hasegawa-Shizuo. The group began playing together several years ago, concentrating on outdoor performances. Deguchis flute and guitar swim freely creating circles of ma, while Uchidas bass and subtly profound voice and acoustic guitar knit together sounds that exist solely at their instant of creation. 2. Bon no Kubo - Untitled : Formed in 2007. An improvising trio consisting of guitar, contrabass and percussion. The group aims at the sublime, whispered in a uniquely Japanese sensibility. Drums, Percussion: Naoto Yamagishi; Contrabass: Shintarou Takasugi; Guitar: Masahiko Ota 3. Derakushi - Red Shoes 303 : Formed in 2008 at Suzukis instigation. The project aims to express everything that bubbles up during performance or is generated as its by-product, without hesitation or exception. The group had one track on Real Japanese Underground 2008 compilation on the Lost Rivers Project label. 4. Sabu Orimo Unit - Inochi : Natural-Bore Shakuhachi: Sabu Orimo; Harmonica, Drums: Tomohiko Namiki 5. Touyounomajyo - White Light Spear : Formed in January 2008 and active in live houses around Koenji. They have released several live recordings.Guitar, Vocals: Keisuke Kajiwara; Bass: Mitsu; Drums: A. 6. Hasegawa-Shizuo - Gray Ray : Improvising duo of Hirotomo Hasegawa and Shizuo Uchida. Their genre-less music blends ma (space) and drone, while internalizing noise, ethnic music and contemporary composition. Their performances are made up entirely of sounds produced in the live moment and space. To date they have released three albums, on PSF, Tiliqua Records and haang niap Records. Hichiriki, Voice, etc.; Hirotomo Hasegawa Bass, Voice, etc.; Shizuo Uchida." -PSF |
| Artist: V/A Title: Tokyo Flashback I Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "This is a good and obvious place to start with the Poor Strong Factory (P.S.F. -- originally stood for Psychedelic Speed Freaks, which was the name High Rise first used for their group) label -- unquestionably the best, weirdest, wildest currently ongoing label in Japan. Exclusive tracks by Ghost, Fushitsusha, White Heaven, High Rise, are here & the 68 minutes of overloaded distortion and simple, modern, psych-underground destruction going on here is honestly breathtaking. First of 5 volumes (to date), all editions of Tokyo Flashback are worth investigating." - FE. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Tokyo Flashback III Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "All unreleased material by White Heaven, Fushitsusha (w/ an amazingly dense live track), Ghost, Mahel Shalal Hash Baz, Shizuka, Uchu Engine, Sweet & Honey, Overhang Party, Kumo to Hae, Daiichi-Hakkensha, etc." - FE. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Tokyo Flashback IV Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Features Haino (solo vina), Musica Transonic, Shizuka, High Rise, Broomdusters, Pukapuka Brians, On-na Kodomo (female voice/bass/violin ecstasy), Akiyama-Sugimoto (psych-blues deconstruction), Kakashi, Construction (acid-punk extensions), Psychedelic Crazy Horse (jazz-psych guitar trio improv), Hikyo String Quintet (another Taku Sugimoto project; world transporting string density). Typically non-compromised view of interesting music out of Tokyo." |
| Artist: V/A Title: Space Is No Place - NYC: Noise From The Underground, Vol. 2 Format: CD Label: Psych-o-Path Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Exclusive tracks by Aero & Anderegg (apestaartje recording artists), Lucerne (I-Sound / D.Raffel), Nashville/NYC art collective Tan as Fuck, Jah Division (members of Home dub project), C.Bettis & T.Kajiwara of Phonomena @ Tonic, Cocaine (Excepter/ Sightings/Fusetron), Beard-o (Mouthus / Axolotl), Spaceman of demented IDM label Dumb Brooklyn Production, doom metal/noise duo Squaw, Chaw Mank (Sightings / Mouthus)." - Psych-o-Path |
| Artist: V/A Title: (si-ke-del-ik) Volume 1 Format: CD Label: PsychForm Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "featuring Contagious Orgasm, Christian Renou, The Haters, Grillhaus, Noggin, John Wiese, Rowenta/Khan, Mixed Band Philanthropist vs. Broken Penis Orchestra...all new tracks" - PsychForm. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Room of Loud Sound: Heavy Psych from the USA 1968- 1972 Format: CD Label: Psychic Circle Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "...White Lace & Strange Vol. 2. The Psychic Circle label presents a follow-up to the White Lace & Strange: Heavy Psych and Power Fuzz from the U.S.A. 68-72 compilation, further delving into the less-frequented areas of late 60s and early 70s heavy psych rock from the USA. Gone are the twee excesses of psychedelia. Whimsy has been given a swift boot in the groin and in its place we find a mean bunch of longhairs getting down to some heavy riffing. Post-Hendrix, sub-Cream, quasi-Zeppelin, some of it primitive, some of it sophisticated, all of it rockin with amps turned up to eleven plus. On this volume, youll hear the band that would spawn Cheap Trick, a former member of Dions Belmonts getting all funked up, the drummer of The Knickerbockers working under a pseudonym, the young Leslie West stretching out, and a whole lot more besides. Laid back it isnt!! Enter The Room Of Loud Sound and live to tell the tale. Twenty never-before comped burners specially compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Artists include: Hot Soup, Bump, Fuse, Carlo, Five By Five, Plant & See, Morning Sun, Todays Special, Fantasy, Mister Beeler, Peace & Quiet, Six Pak, Salem Witchcraft, The Vagrants, Hammer, Blowtorch, Locomotive, Eagle, The Mystic Number National Bank and Silk." - Psychic Circle. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Qbico U-Nite III, Bruxelles Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $23.50 |
| "Rec. April 19, 2005 @ Cinema Nova. "The animal which could best depict the music of this other memorable nite @ Cinema Nova is a cobra, in fact i think this music kills! Worth mentioning is the final jam: a rare meeting between psych drones and free music, here Family Underground & Rauhan Orkester unite to burn loose..." - Qbico. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Qbico U-nite-IV, Aarhus Format: Double LP Label: Qbico Country: Italy Price: $42.00 |
| Features the Global Experience Orchestra (Daniel Carter, Vin Paternostro, Marc Gade, Pernaus Salon, Qbico & Ed Wilcox on one side, Family Underground on the other. Record 2 features 2 trios of Carter/Paternostro/Wilcox. Live in Denmark, 2006. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Qbico U-Nite V, Turku, Finland Format: LP Label: Qbico Country: Italy Price: $24.00 |
| Recorded live @ Dynamo Klubi on March 11, 2006 by Mikko Lagernohm. "Two unique sides: on side A youll hear a rare meeting among Rakhim (Circles more dark side project) and Hans-Joachim Irmler from legendary Faust! While on side B, a two male/two female playful affair (Qbicos idea) among brothers Tolvi (Rahun Orkesteri) and Antti Tolvis wife Lau Nau with Kuupuu. True united spirit and perfect balance between both sides with opposite moods..." Pressed on blue marbled vinyl. - Qbico |
| Artist: V/A Title: Love, Peace & Poetry - Turkish Psychedelic Music Format: LP Label: QDK Media Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the ninth volume in the impressive Love, Peace & Poetry compilation series, following America, Latin America, Asia, UK, Japan, Brazil, Mexico and Africa. In Turkey, as the 1950s became the 1960s, just as in cities and towns across Britain and America, countless musical groups began to spring up as young people felt the pull of a growing youth movement. The music that would come from Turkey would blend European and Asian influences unique to that country and essential to the cultural synthesis of Turkish folk and Western rock music that emerged in 1967-1968. The great Delta blues players like Robert Johnson created music with one acoustic guitar in much the same way that traditional türkü arrangements were played originally on one saz (traditional Turkish instrument). If you consider the ways in which classic Delta blues songs were later given electric rock arrangements by musicians like John Mayall ,Eric Clapton ,The Rolling Stones and others you will have a fuller understanding of the Turkish rock/pop music of this era. Artists featured include: Mo?ollar (described as "Anadolu pop" or "Anatolian pop" -- the essence of the ancient and mystical soul of Turkish folk music; known as the "Turkish Pink Floyd"); Selda (politically-themed music, a transformation of traditional Turkish folk music and poetry into more contemporary rock-based music similar to the transformation of traditional folk-blues in the West); ?zdemir Erdo?an (well-known jazz guitarist, vocalist and arranger; his track was originally a well-known türkü by Asik Veysel , one of the most revered Turkish folk poets); Erkin Koray (the most psychedelic Turkish rocker ever, made his best recordings between 1970 and 1974 -- the song here was recorded in 1971 with his band, Erkin Koray Supergroup ). Edip Akbayram (a türkü arranger and singer -- one of the last examples of the best Turkish rock music of the 1960s-1970s, as there was a definite shift away from those traditions after the beginning of the 1980s). Cem Karaca (another important rock singer known for his political stance); ?ç Hürel (Turkish rock group formed in 1970 by three brothers; unique for designing their own instruments: drums created from traditional Turkish percussion instruments, a double-necked stringed creation that had an electric saz on one half and an electric guitar on the other); Bülent Ortaçgil (songwriter and singer who released his debut LP in1974, an album which has become a Turkish pop classic recently reissued on CD; Ortaçgil is unique because of the absence of Eastern influences in his music, sounding more Western as a result). As the smoke from the hookah rises around you and the intricate patterns in the finely-woven carpet open upon new worlds of meaning, breathe in the music deeply and enjoy." - QDK. CD also available. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Love, Peace & Poetry - Chilean Psychedelic Music Format: LP Label: QDK Media Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
| "LP glossy gatefold heavy sleeve; 180 gram pressing; transparent red vinyl, 62 minutes. The Love, Peace & Poetry series from QDK continues in Chile, with 17 tracks culled from some of the lost treasures of the psychedelic music scene of the 7-year period between 1967-1973. In 1973, the Chilean dictatorship banned most rock bands and most musicians had to stop or leave the country, or take it underground. The ban extended to the retroactive destruction of many master tapes for many of the albums included here, which only just stopped as recently as the 1980s. Kissing Spell represents with "Yellow Moon" taken from their 1970 album Los Pajaros, as well as Embrujo who released their self-titled LP in 1971. Los Jaivas debut LP was pressed privately in 1971 in a small edition of 500 copies, making this track extra-rare. Los Vidrios Quebrados were one of the real South American psychedelic classics -- their Byrds-like jangle-pop coming through clearly on their track. Aguaturbia were pioneers of psychedelic rock in Latin America, who also generated considerable controversy over their album covers. Los Blops released three now very rare and very sought-after LPs between 1970 and 1973, and their sound was focused on their guitarists electric 12-string guitar (an unusual instrument in Chile at the time). Sacros were among the first electric folk-rock bands to perform during Catholic mass -- their recording was almost destroyed by the military and only a handful of copies survived. Los Macs 1967 masterwork, Kaleidoscope Men, is rightfully considered by many collectors to be one of the finest examples of 60s psychedelia from South America and original copies are impossibly rare. Los Beat 4 was one of the most successful groups of the national scene in the mid-60s and both of their rare LPs are represented here. Tumulto was respected for being non-commercial, and their track is taken from their rare debut album. Escombros released their sole LP in 1970 and are a gem in the psychedelic progressive folk style. Congregación released their sole LP on the IRT label in 1972, and El Congressos sound is the result of a unique blend of contemporary elements and Andean roots. Chilean psychedelic music was produced during a time of great cultural change and social turmoil and is exceedingly rare and very special. "-QDK Media |
| Artist: V/A Title: Love, Peace & Poetry - Chilean Psychedelic Music Format: CD Label: QDK Media Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
| "The Love, Peace & Poetry series from QDK continues in Chile, with 17 tracks culled from some of the lost treasures of the psychedelic music scene of the 7-year period between 1967-1973. In 1973, the Chilean dictatorship banned most rock bands and most musicians had to stop or leave the country, or take it underground. The ban extended to the retroactive destruction of many master tapes for many of the albums included here, which only just stopped as recently as the 1980s. Kissing Spell represents with "Yellow Moon" taken from their 1970 album Los Pajaros, as well as Embrujo who released their self-titled LP in 1971. Los Jaivas debut LP was pressed privately in 1971 in a small edition of 500 copies, making this track extra-rare. Los Vidrios Quebrados were one of the real South American psychedelic classics -- their Byrds-like jangle-pop coming through clearly on their track. Aguaturbia were pioneers of psychedelic rock in Latin America, who also generated considerable controversy over their album covers. Los Blops released three now very rare and very sought-after LPs between 1970 and 1973, and their sound was focused on their guitarists electric 12-string guitar (an unusual instrument in Chile at the time). Sacros were among the first electric folk-rock bands to perform during Catholic mass -- their recording was almost destroyed by the military and only a handful of copies survived. Los Macs 1967 masterwork, Kaleidoscope Men, is rightfully considered by many collectors to be one of the finest examples of 60s psychedelia from South America and original copies are impossibly rare. Los Beat 4 was one of the most successful groups of the national scene in the mid-60s and both of their rare LPs are represented here. Tumulto was respected for being non-commercial, and their track is taken from their rare debut album. Escombros released their sole LP in 1970 and are a gem in the psychedelic progressive folk style. Congregación released their sole LP on the IRT label in 1972, and El Congressos sound is the result of a unique blend of contemporary elements and Andean roots. Chilean psychedelic music was produced during a time of great cultural change and social turmoil and is exceedingly rare and very special."- QDK Media |
| Artist: V/A Title: Radiodd Superselecta:Abbuffet! Format: 10" Label: radio.ddd Country: Italy Price: $12.00 |
| Cool comp of of Italian homemade new wave/electronics. Includes Rodion, Slow Motion, Micropupazzo, Okapi, Pigneto Quartet,and Romantic Pianella. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Poesia Sonora: Antologia Internazionale di Ricerche Fonetiche a Cura di Maurizio Nannucci Format: LP Label: Recorthings & Zona Archives Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| Second edition (orig. CBS, 1975) on clear vinyl. Feat. Brion Gysin, Bob Cobbing, Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Bernard Heidsick. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Juddy In The Sky With Nazis Format: LP Label: Reep Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Looney compilation album dealing with phonetic 60s rock. The cover art speaks for itself. A collection of tracks sung in English by bands from faraway countries that DONT! speak English. Just play the opening track Juddy In The Sky by Romanian band CVINTETUL MAMAIA from 1968 and you know what this album is all about. Limited edition of 500 copies, sky-blue coloured vinyl and coming with inlay, with extansive info on the bands involved. Featuring 60s garage bands from all over the world; ATLANTIS, OS SELVAGENS, THE OX, LOS WALKERS, GEN ROSSO, SYRIUS, LOS HURACANES, DIE KETTELS etc. Beautiful artwork and vinyl only." - Reep. |
| Artist: V/A Title: String Of Artifacts Format: Double CD Label: Resipiscent Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Yep, this is the compilation you heard about. Solve the enclosed crossword with your ears or find the cheat sheet hidden inside; your clues include: Sun City Girls , Caroliner, Nautical Almanac , Metalux, Wolf Eyes , Mono Pause, Hans Grüsels Krankenkabinet , Tarantism, Tom Recchion ,Fat Worm of Error ,Sixes, Bran(...)Pos, Masonic Youth , Pod Blotz, Smegma & Wild Man Fischer, Panicsville, Tom Grimley, Points Of Friction, Stilluppsteypa, Spider Compass Band, Damon Romero and too many more." - Resipiscent. |
| Artist: V/A Title: ...And Shiva Came for Charlie Format: LP Label: Ri Be Xibalba Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
| "This LP collects the monthly mp3 series hosted on the Ri Be Xibalba web site from June 2006 to June 2007. Each track was only available for one month and then deleted. In the midst of this, our friend Charles Gocher passed away. As an immediate reaction to this, I bumped Sir Richard Bishops track from the March slot and left the page silent in remembrance of Charlie. As all the artists in the series are based in Seattle, and many were good friends of Charlies, it was decided to dedicate this collection to his memory. These were the people around him most, and fittingly the album features images based on photographs of Charlie taken by his old friend Janet McCracken. Accompanying this is a 20-page booklet with a little about each artist here, many of which are still unjustly underappreciated in the larger scheme of things. Charlie himself was a unique human being. And of course rather than leave him in silence, it seemed better to represent him on this record in his voice, as he was rarely silent. So on this LP, alongside the mp3 tracks, is a previously unreleased Charles Gocher recording from the Sun City Girls archives. Unlike the other material on the album, which is quite contemporary, Charlies track dates from July 2, 1990 when it was recorded live on the air at CITR radio in Vancouver, B.C. As all but this track were previously available as free mp3s, and I just happened to have 320 useable black jacket left over from the Piano Bar release (which Charlie was quite thrilled by), this release is limited to that number of copies. The music on this release is quite varied. Experimental rock music from Factums and The Sea Donkeys, free jazz from Spider Trio and Michael Shannon, spoken word from Charles Gocher and Uncle Jim, acoustic guitar solos from Dave Knott and Michael Ohlenroth, creepy soundtracks from Wizard Prison and Sir Richard Bishop, Climax Golden Twins drone, Katharina Tunicatas catchy accordion and voice song and the utter disaster of Lung Wing not being able to play any instrument. Yet there are multiple connections between the various artists presented here, both musical and otherwise, not to mention a few players who appear on more than one track. This is a document of a group of friends and compatriots in Seattle who are poorer for the loss of our friend, but continue to create strong music. Includes a previously unreleased track by Charlies Gocher from 1990. Pressed on 120 gram vinyl manufactured in the USA by RTI. Hand screen printed covers and inner sleeves printed by Alan Sherry at Siwa. Includes 20-page booklet. Limited edition of 320 copies." - Ri Be Xibalba. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Menhir Format: Double 7" Lathe Cut Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $18.00 |
| "Featuring gfrenzy (onehunga, nz), autoharpies (dunedin, nz), criadero en seres (Buenos Aires, Argentina), kraus (devonport, nz), shelterdeath (orange county, usa), witcyst (whangarei, nz), fabio orsi (turin, italy), flushing device (turin, italy), cja & chrissie butler (wellington, nz), bright duplex(austin, texas, usa)." -Root Don Lonie For Cash |
| Artist: V/A Title: Moby Dick Format: VHS Video Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| With Die Todliche Doris, F/i, Emil Beaulieau, Big City Orchestra, Borbetomagus, Bulge, Dilaudid, Lance Gargoyle, The Haters, Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, Joiesko, LAFMS, Macronympha, Rougeux, Adam Spellman, The Whales and John Wiggins. |
| Artist: V/A Title: American The Beautiful Format: Double CD Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Includes Borbetomagus, Rougeux/Negativland, Lee Ranaldo, Randy Grief, Barry Dalive, Mono Pause, AMK, Chop Shop, The Haters, Vampire Rodents, John Wiggins, Thomas Dimuzio, ST37, Mandible Chatter, Idea Fire Company, Gregg Turkington, Luxurious Bags, Grae-Com, Small Cruel Party, Hands To, TAC, Slughog, Out Of Band Experience, Faxed Head, Neil Hamburger, Phil Milstein, Horse-Cow, Commode Minstrals In Bull Face, Goosewind, The Easy Goings, Philip Perkins, Blowhole, Shrilltower, Specula, Nisi Period, Nicolas Collins, Crawling With Tarts, Con Demek, Scott Marshall & Mark Giagrande and Kings Of Feedback. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Rising From The Red Sand Format: 5 Cass Box Set Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| Includes Chris & Cosey, Attrition, Legendary Pink Dots, Konstruktivits, Pseudo Code, Nurse With Wound, Sutcliffe Jugend, DDAA, Human Flesh, John Hurst, Section 25, Metamorphosis, Fan Tan, Test Dept., Nocturnal Emissions, Portion Control, Lustmord, Tone Death, Un Department, Scram Ju Ju, Five Or Six, Bene Gesserit, David Jackman, Bushido, James Braddell, P16.D4, We Be Echo, Onnyx, Aeolian String Ensemble, Ian Boddy, Muslimgauze, Cultural Amnesia, Two, Nexda, Dave Jones, Hula, Colin Potter, Smegma, David Knight, Die Todliche Doris, Radio Free Europe, Sirius B, Irsol, Philippe Laurent, Ptose, Kopf Kurz, Merzbow and Conrad Schnitzler. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Journey Into Pain Format: 4 Cass Box Set Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| Includes New Blockaders/Organum, PGR, P16.D4, Helene Sage, Merzbow, SBOTHI, The Haters, Asmus Tietchens, Hijo Kaidan, The Boredoms, Hanatarash, John Duncan, The Gerogerigegege, Masonna, Incapacitants, Odal, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Kallabris, Muslimgauze, Function Disorder, Autopsia, Cranioclast, Frank Dommert and Core. Originally released on Beast 666. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Texas Format: 3 LP Box Set Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "1 side each - A Fail Association, Concrete Violin. Goat, Inhalant, Steel Hook Prostheses, TEF" - RRRecords. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Portland Format: Triple LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
| 1 side each - Bdong, Daniel Menche, Nkondi, Okha, Pulse Emitter & Smegma. Handscreened/painted edition of 300. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Best,The Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Extreme noise and power electronics, mostly all new artists. I asked people to submit the best track they ever recorded and voilà, The Best -- features Halflings, Cathode Terror Secretion, Ichorous, Is, Brutophilia and Cherry Point, including 10 inserts, all covers hand decorated, 200 copies only."-RRRecords. |
| Artist: V/A Title: RRR-1000 Lock Groove Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "RRR-1000 LOCK GROOVE LP has 1000 lock grooves!!! Thats 500 per side by myself, FRANCISCO LOPEZ, TNB, INCAPACITANTS, DAMION ROMERO, and..." - GX Jupitter Larsen. "50 grooves each - AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, C.Giffoni, Incapacitants, GX Jupitter-Larsen, J.Lescalleet, F.Lopez, L.Marhaug, New Blockaders, J.Noetinger, D.Romero, Prurient, RLW, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant, Keith Whitman, C.Spencer Yeh, Otomo Yoshihide." - RRRecords. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Fuck Like A Nigger, Think Like A Jew Format: 7 x 7" Box Set Label: RRRecords/Stomach Ache Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| With Malta, Gar.Funk, Kandalini Nivagretski (Classic Mpls "Power Violence" featuring Rick Smrrstckk), Kostas DLary, Monostat 3, Sticky Foster, Neil Campbell & Stewart Walden, Mitch, Cunt Eats Cock, Witcyst, Wagstaff, Medieval Hendrix, Chupa Chups, Subs, Erotic Shergar, Shite Girls, Rev. Larry Parker, Cavaties, Arterial Slash, Rubber-O-Cement, Jim Roach and Hidden Treasure. |
| Artist: V/A Title: California Format: 10 LP Box Set Label: RRRecords/Troniks/Ground Fault Country: USA Price: $72.00 |
| "1 side each - Amps For Christ, Cherry Point, Joe Colley, Control, Gerritt, GX Jupiter-Larsen, Moth Drakula, Open City, Oscillating Innards, Damion Romero, Rubber O Cement, Sixes, Skaters, Solid Eye, Spastic Colon, Tralphaz, John Weise, Xome, RHY YAU, Yellow Swans. - RRRecords. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Tête de Bébé Format: LP Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Ten releases ago we gave the world Babyhead, our look at the state of punk rock. The record got great reviews and was touted as what a compilation should be. To celebrate our twenthieth release, SS, Sr. put together Tête de Bébé with some help from French rock & roll luminaries Jack Volt and Seb Normal. This time S-S Records focuses on 12 bands from France and Belgium, all doing very different things to this thing we like to think of as punk rock. Of course that means nothing straight forward here. Instead this noise gets a unique Francophone twist. Bands/artists here are Volt, Crash Normal, Kania Tieffer, Le Club des Chats, Cheb Samir & the Black Souls of Leviathan, Cheveu, Crack und Ultra Eczuma, Lawrence Wasser, Lili Z., The Electric Guitars, Dragibus, & The Normals. For all of you who know that France has been turning out some of the best rock and roll as of late, this will be a much expected treat. For those of you who still cling to the tired cliche that the French cant rock, be prepared to have your world shattered. On white vinyl. 1000 pressed."- S-S |
| Artist: V/A Title: Hilarity and Despair: American Answering Machine Tapes 1 Format: LP Label: Sebastian Speaks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "These answering machine tapes were found in thrift stores and yard sales all over the Southeast over the course of a seven-year period and include some very bizarre chance finds. Sebastian Speaks Records have compiled these fragments of conversation, childrens pranks, bits of weary monologues, and dramas. A fascinating listen for those dismayed by the instant gratification and instant communication of the digital age." - Sebastian Speaks. |
| Artist: V/A Title: For the Dead in Space, Vol. II & III (Tribute To Tom Rapp/Pearls Before Swine) Format: Double CD Label: Secret Eye Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Features Marissa Nadler, Kemialliset Ystavat, Olive Tree (Jewelled Antler), Bardo Pond, Aquarium Poppers, Gentle Tasaday (of Salamander), Noxagt, Kawabata Makoto (of Acid Mothers Temple), Oren Ambarchi, Prydwyn, Fursaxa, Black Forest / Black Sea, Kitchen Cynics, James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand + The Vanishing Voice) , David Rapp, Aspera, Monster Island, Adrian Shaw (of Bevis Frond), Thurston Moore and Mike Watt, Alastair Galbraith, Dead Raven Choir, Stone Breath, Cauldron (of Spacious Mind), and Pearls Before Swines Translucent Carriages (unreleased 1967 alternate version). "The new double CD set FOR THE DEAD IN SPACE is a continuing tribute to TOM RAPP and PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. This is a follow-up to the first volume that we released in 1997. This new 2CD volume features all different tracks and more than 25 different artists than the 1997 CD. Both sets represent simply the finest artists in the folk, experimental and noise undergrounds paying tribute to an acid folk legend. Liner notes by Phil McMullen (editor of Ptolemaic Terrascope) with additional notes by Jeffrey Alexander." - Secret Eye. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Terrastock Six Format: CD Label: Secret Eye Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Secret Eye hosted Terrastock Six, held in Providence, RI in April 2006. We compiled this special compilation to celebrate the fantastic festival - it features eleven EXCLUSIVE tracks from Terrastock bands. The beautiful gatefold cardboard sleeves were designed by Jeffrey Alexander and silkscreened by Neil Burke. This release is limited to 500 copies and are each hand-numbered. Includes The Magic Carpathians Project, Kemialliset Ystävät, Major Stars, Fursaxa, PG Six, Black Forest/Black Sea and Larkin Grimm, Avarus, The Spacious Mind, Paik, Kinski, and Bardo Pond." - Secret Eye. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Fundamental Experiment Format: LP Label: Semina Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| Includes Julian Lynch, Metal Rouge, Sam Goldberg, Swanox, Sun Araw, Stag Hare, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Trevor Healy, Avocet, and Matt Mondanile. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Blow of Oblivion Format: Triple 7" Label: September Gurls Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
| Three single set of unreleased tracks by TWISTED VILLAGE house bands Vermonster, Crystalized Movements (pre-Major Stars) & Luxurious Bags. Silkscreened/hand assembled package. Mid-90s release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Auto Glamour Sound: A Hospital Records Compilation Format: CD Label: Shake It Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Shake It is proud to reissue the locally influential & nationally sought after Auto-Glamour 2x7" compilation issued by Hospital Records in the early 1980s which included Cointelpro, BPA & 11,000 Switches. In addition, weve comped tracks from other Hospital artists from the same period including rare 7"s from Dementia Precox, Qi-zz, & the impossible to find Teddy & The Frat Girls. We also included unreleased stuff from Spiritual californians & Lopez Sophisticates. Essential" - Shake It. |
| Artist: V/A Title: World Noise Federation Tag Team Noise Rumble Spectacular Format: LP Label: SHF Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Just unearthed a small stash of these long-out-of-print ludicrous concept records from the mid-90s. 12 noisy duos battle it out in a tag team split-stereo stylee, all rounds lasting 3 minutes and separated by a "ding! ding!" bell. Contestants are Smell + Quim (w/ Neil Campbell), Incapacitants, Richard Youngs & Simon Wickham-Smith, Evil Moisture, Prick Decay, Runzelrstirn + Gurgelstock, Haters, Strict, Shite Girls, Expose Your Eyes, Macronympha and Dogliveroil. Red vinyl, natch." Mid 90s release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: White Trash Motherfuckers Format: CD Label: Shock Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "6 motherfucking bands, 76 motherfucking minutes of music: Ascension, Beautiful Penis (pre-Vibracathedral Orchestra), Cosmonauts Hail Satan , Derv, The MikePostMortem, Splintered. THE motherfucking compilation of 93 (92? I forget...). Plus lots of grotesque Sav X artwork..." - Shock. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Smooth Sounds: The Future Hits of Wckr Spgt Format: Cass Label: Shrimper Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "All of them sparkling clean digital hand-jobs (of late) got me to thinking about the years I spent renting a room above a former farmers garage, dubbing tapes when my better-minded friends were going to college and/or fucking with crystal meth. Time flies (except when you are constantly typing in 0s and 1s to get someones laptop to cum) and certainly somewhere, a 16-year-old kid is online awaiting some hilarious critiques of the 20th anniversary Shrimper compilation Smooth Sounds: The Future Hits of Wckr Spgt double-CD: 36 exclusive songs specifically written for this project by Wckr Spgt and then given out blindly to the artists participating. With close to 200 releases under our belt and hundreds of artists that have recorded for the label, it was near impossible to choose bands for this project, so blindly into the depths of the third circle went we. "Smooth Sounds features key Shrimper acts (Soul-Junk, Sentridoh, Joy, The Mountain Goats, Simon Joyner, Jad Fair), recordings by artists from the surrounding environs that influenced the label (Norma Tanega, Kurt Ross, John Harrelson) and over a dozen new bands to keep intact the spirit of what a Shrimper compilation is supposed to be. The first pressing features covers lovingly hand-decorated by artists who have recorded for the Shrimper label, as well as extensive liner notes by Franklin Bruno. There are a number of festivals set to take place on July 24th, the official 20th anniversary of Shrimper, in Southern California, Virginia, England and New York, with all proceeds to benefit local art collectives. Keep your eyes peeled for more guerilla events that correspond with this release." --Dennis Callaci. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Tard & Furtherd Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Selected Tracks From The Siltbreeze 7" Catalog." Includes Halo Of Flies, Gibson Bros, Monkey 101, V-3 (Jim Shepard), Dead C, Alastair Galbraith, Sebadoh, Queen Meanie Puss, Mike Rep, Terminals, Guided By Voices, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and Shadow Ring. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Bound With Skin Format: 5 CD Set Label: Skulls of Heaven Country: USA Price: $44.00 |
| Includes "The spliced tribal frenzies of the Tomutonttu, raw and intimate portraits of the Skaters astral beginings, triptych portrayals of the Ashtray Navigations, a split journey backwards down the Zodiac Mountain, and fucked wwvv more than a non-horse could carry. and Synth fried elegies from the sick as Pengo, a post apocalypse waltz with the Maths Balance Volumes, until the fried and breaking cast of Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood bare down, to hear the first howling death of the White Dog, and the unhinged knighthood of the Armpit responds. while reUniting the elemetal forces here called Zaimph and Fursaxa, Axolotl scribed sensations for era, a further triolgy from albions Astral Social Club, the seer describes the tight rope lunacy of Excepter, and the sounding of the great solar call by ghq and pelt veteran warrior master PW Best until Uton opens a forth still universe, where Watersports lay bathing in soothing stasis, Anla Courtis plays a solar shamans lullaby, courting the southern realm by the spirits of Pan to Scratch, and the earthbound mantras of Taikuri Tali where now ends the great sonic architecture of the Wolfskull, with haunted lighthouse rituals and United Bible Studies, Kyrgyz buzzing meditations posted scripture to the silence, as silence captures Navy Black, and Clixcx revolts at their own analog prophecy." - Skulls of Heaven. |
| Artist: V/A Title: My Favourite Magazine Format: Mag Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $10.00 |
| "Old school paper magazine featuring extensive interviews with Julie Mittens, Samara Lubelski, Fabio Orsi, Plastic Crimewave and Wally Shoup. Writings and drawings by Nemo Bidstrup, Tara Burke, Sara Czerny, Bart De Paepe, Bram Devens, Bridget Hayden, Jani Hirvonen, Robert Horton, Jonna Karanka, Steve Krakow, Lieven Martens, Chris Miller, Maurizio Opalio, Roberto Opalio, Andy Ortmann, Stefano Pilia, Eva Van Deuren and Ronny Van Hee. Comes in eye popping two-sided silkscreened cover by Jelle Crama." |
| Artist: V/A Title: February 03 Format: Book Label: Slow Toe Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Squarebound book featuring writings from Thurston Moore, Todd Colby, Alex Gildzen and Matthew Wascovich. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Playground Forcing Hearts Ensemble Format: Mag Label: Slow Toe Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "First Edition ?? 350 copies. Solo and collaborative poems by Christina Carter (Charalambides), Byron Coley (Father Yod & the Hamburger Panties), Matthew Wascovich (A Real Knife Head/Jackie-O Motherfucker), Valerie Beth Webber (Thee Montreal Whispers) written in 2003 after Coleys semi-retirment from performing." - Slow Toe. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Fluxus Anthology V. 1 Format: Double LP Label: Slowscan Country: Netherlands Price: $62.00 |
| "Ed. of 350 Most of the material on this compilation comes from Slowscans very limited and legendary "Fluxus Anthology 30th Anniversary" box with 9 audio cassettes, released in 1993." Contents: Emmett WILLIAMS - Interview (1995) / Ray JOHNSON - Shrinking Woman (1987) / Dick HIGGINS - In Memoriam / Robert WATTS - String Record Composition (1969) / Marcel ALOCCO - Pour Fluxus (1960/1967/1968) / Maurizio NANNUCCI - Some Sounds (1995) / Joe JONES - 5 Piano Pieces (1980) / Al HANSEN - Intermedia L.A. Roadside Streetwise Poetry (1988) / Mieko SHIOMI - A Celestial Tune by 108 Marbles (1991) / Ay-O - Add Collection for George Maciunas (1981) / Jean DUPUY - Paris Bordeaux (1991) / Dick HIGGINS - Sonata for Prepared Piano (1981) (Performed by Margaret Leng Tan) / Carolee SCHNEEMANN - Look What the Cat Dragged In (1985) / Eric ANDERSEN - Opus 32 (1963) / Yasunao TONE - Anagram for Strings (1961) (Performed by Malcolm GOLDSTEIN and Takehisha KOSUGI) / Ben VAUTIER - Musique de Ben (1998)." |
| Artist: V/A Title: Trax Format: Double CD Label: Small Voices Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "Much more than a simple record label, the TRAX experience coordinated from 1981 to 1987 by Vittore Baroni and Piermario Ciani represented a very original contribution to the "networking culture" that, making its first steps with Fluxus, Mail Art and other avantgarde circuits of the Sixties and Seventies, largely anticipated the advent of Internet and its interactive modalities. Twenty years after the end of a project that involved over 500 international artists and musicians in the creation of products in a wide range of media (cassettes, records, audio-magazines, comics, etc.), Small Voices in collaboration with Vittore Baroni launches a reprint programme of the most representative titles from the TRAX catalogue, one for each letter of the name: T for Traxman, the comics series created for Frigidaire magazine by Massimo Giacon and Vittore Baroni; R for Rednight, a collective homage to the work of William S. Burroughs; A for Anthems, alternative national hymns for real and imaginary countries; X for Xtra, audio works composed at distance through a process of crossed interferences. Each reprint, accompanied with old and new texts, contemplates a digital remastering of the original works with the addition of remixes, remakes or new compositions created in concordance with the peculiar and distinctive "modular" approach of TRAX." - Small Voices. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Northwest Passage - The Birth Of Portlands DIY Culture Format: DVD Label: Soleilmoon Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "During the late 1970s and early 1980s the Pacific Northwest witnessed a surge of idiosyncratic creativity that, for a time, banished the slack-jawed banality of mainstream music and art to the shabby bargain basement of the cultural wasteland. Northwest Passage - The Birth of Portlands D.I.Y. Culture is an independent film that examines the exciting alternative music movement in Portland, Oregon from 1978 to 1983. Directed and produced by video pioneer MIKE LASTRA, the film is a narrative told by musicians and artists via interviews, performances on video, photographs and vintage news clips. Bands that appear include THE WIPERS, POISON IDEA, THE RATS (later to become DEAD MOON), DEAD KENNEDYS, SMEGMA, THE BAGS, SADONATION, NEO BOYS, and THE STYPHNOIDS. Bonus features include a trailer, photo gallery, show posters, band videos and chapter selection." |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Continuing Saga of the Visiting Kitten Format: CD Label: Sonic Dust Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "All new and unreleased tracks by Richard Youngs, ILK, Space Weather, Brian Lavelle, Tex La Homa, Alistair Crosbie and Andrew Paine" - Sonic Dust. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sonic Protest Format: CD Label: Sonic Protest Country: France Price: $14.00 |
| "Unreleased tracks by Hair Police, Skatters, Zaimph, Bulbul, Monno, Viki, Panicsville, Don Caballerro, Tomuttonto, Volcano The Bear, etc.." - Sonic Protest. Nice oversized, silkscreened packaging. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sonic Protest 2007 Format: Double CD Label: Sonic Protest Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "Textile is proud to offer the last copies of this year Sonic Protest festival double CD sampler including unreleased material or unreleased on CD tracks from No Neck Blues Band, Trencher, Tetuzi Akiyama, Hive Mind, Jazzkamer, Carlos Giffoni, Yellow Swans, Quintet Avant, Justice Yeldham, Astral Social Club, Harry Merry, Brotzman / Pliakas / Wertmueller And more... This 27 tracks double CD compilation is packaged in a beautiful silkscreened 7inch sleeve. Illustration by Marie Caillou based on the Textile Rds vinyl serie sleeves characters. This year was the last ever edition of the Sonic Protest festival and was dedicated to the memory of Benoit Sonnette Textile Rds and Sonic Protest founder who passed away earlier this year.May he rest in peace. missed Sonic Protest?" - Sonic Protest. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Noise Room Format: CD Label: Sonig Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| "The NOISE ROOM CD documents the NOISE ROOM, an autonomous surround sound space built for pre-recorded musical works and sonic experiments. Each musical work which is performed in the NOISE ROOM has been selected, edited and arranged for a listening situation in which the listeners can dedicate themselves to a maximum listening experience. The pieces presented in the NOISE ROOM refer specifically to the concept of a so-called speaker concert in contrast to a so-called live concert. Each composition is played back through a multi-channel 5.1 speaker setup that is configured according to the spatial acoustics of the NOISE ROOM. The CD version offfers a selection of shortened stereo edits. NOISE ROOM 1 was built and set up at STEIM, Center for research & development of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts in Amsterdam in 2005, Version 2 was located at the Melkweg concert space in Amsterdam in 2006. Version 3 will be installed in the Cubitt Gallery in London in september 2008. The NOISE ROOM was initiated and designed by Jan St. Werner, former artistic director of STEIM and member of Mouse on Mars." -Sonig |
| Artist: V/A Title: D-I-Y: Do It Yourself Format: Double LP Label: Soul Jazz Country: UK Price: $22.50 |
| ...The Rise of the Independent Music Industry After Punk. The enclosed booklet for the LP set is done in a newsprint punk-fanzine style! "Do It Yourself charts the rise of the independent music industry after punk - from the hundreds of bands and tiny labels that sprung up with like-minded ideals, to the network of shops, manufacturers, studios, printers etc, all connected via a loose network of record distributors that would help define independent music over the following thirty years. Beginning with The Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch EP released in early 1977, on the newly formed New Hormones label, in Manchester, it soon seemed that every town in Britain had its own music scene complete with bands, small labels, record shops and studios. Directly influenced by the ideals of punk - self-determination, freedom of expression, etc - as much as the music meant that these bands were interested in alternatives to the status quo in managing their careers. This meant finding new ways of getting their music heard outside of the mainstream music industry. It also meant new ways of making music away from the traditional guitar, bass, drums and vocals line-up of rock bands. The reasons for these two factors would be sometimes practical (they couldnt get signed/they couldnt play) and sometimes ideological. Pivotal to the development of the scene was the Rough Trade Records shop run by music fan Geoff Travis." - Soul Jazz. "The first records I remember bands bringing into the shop were The Buzzcocks Spiral Scratch, Scritti Politti Skank Bloc Bologna and The Desperate Bicycles. Rough Trade Records had started as a second-hand record shop. In 1977 customers began to bring their own newly pressed-up records into the shop, Travis soon began distributing the records to a handful of like-minded shops throughout the country. This developed into a network and bands soon found they could sell 1000s of their own records with no marketing, management, agents etc. At first, the records were all coming from people bringing in music to Rough Trade in London, but soon new bands would turn up at their local store with their locally-pressed record and this led to the emergence of a music scene in each town. All the bands on this record released their music independently, either themselves or on a small label. Some went on to be incredibly famous and others didnt. This record celebrates all factions and discusses the social and economic conditions that allowed independent music to thrive in the years to follow up to the present day. It comes complete with interviews with label owners, bands, studios, mastering and pressing plants and even printers!" - Geoff Travis. Artists featured are: The Buzzcocks, Kleenex, A.P.B., Fire Engines, The Naffis, Swell Maps, Patrick Fitzgerald, Artery, Blurt, Glaxo Babies, The Flys, Russ McDonald, Scritti Politti, Windows, Icon A.D., Thomas Leer, The Frantic Elevators, Throbbing Gristle, The Last Gang, Biting Tongues, Tom Lucy and Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry. CD also available. |
| Artist: V/A Title: New York Noise Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: Soul Jazz Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "...Music From The New York Underground 1977-1984. "The new wave of New York art/rock groups such as DFA, the Rapture, Juan McLean, James Murphy, The Strokes, The Liars and Radio 4 all have their roots in the early 1980s New York No Wave music scene. This is the second volume of Soul Jazz Records New York Noise and delves further into the post-punk/dance world of New York in the 1980s. The music ranges from the guitar-driven experimentation of Sonic Youth, Red Transistor and minimalism of Rhys Chatham to the dubbed-out disco of Arthur Russell and Nicky Siano and Pulsallama. All alongside a healthy dose of punk-funk from the likes of Y Pants, Vortex and more. Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham (minimalist classical composer), Jim Jarmusch (film-maker and founding member of Del Byzantines), Arthur Russell, Ned Sublette (writer), Thurston Moore -- all included here -- played key roles in bringing the New York music and art scene together in the early 1980s alongside the artist Jean Michel Basquiat, actor Vincent Gallo, poet Lydia Lunch and a host of other characters. This album features text, original photos and interviews documenting this amazing period."- Soul Jazz |
| Artist: V/A Title: 135 Grand Street, New York, 1979 Soundtrack Format: CD Label: Soul Jazz Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
| "Soul Jazz Records are releasing separately on CD the soundtrack to this film (with bonus tracks). Featured groups include Theoretical Girls, UT, A Band, Rhys Chatham, Chinese Puzzle, The Static, Morales, Youth in Asia, Steven Piccolo and Jill Kroesen." - Soul Jazz. Includes a 12-page booklet with notes and color photos. |
| Artist: V/A Title: 135 Grand Street, New York, 1979 Soundtrack Format: DVD Label: Soul Jazz Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Garage band line-ups in varying degrees of post-punk musical destruction. Ericka Beckmans film matches the rawness, minimalism and radicalism of the music - a fitting document and visual statement of new forms created out of New Yorks anti-everything musical nihilism, circa 1979. 135 Grand Street, New York, 1979 is history. This is a film about bands made up of painters, filmmakers, actors - and occasionally musicians - thriving and thrashing in the pulsating, vibrant post-punk world of New York where high art met low culture. Ericka Beckman documented the cross-fertilizing art and music scene in New York in the mid-1970s. Her film captures the driving energy and posturing of early No Wave bands performing in a sparse downtown loft. Featured bands include Theoretical Girls, UT, A Band, Rhys Chatham, Chinese Puzzle, The Static, Morales, Youth in Asia, Morales, Steven Piccolo and Jill Kroesen. The film has been shown throughout the world as part of Sonic Youths Sensational Fix touring art exhibition as well as screening before Glenn Brancas shows in New York City (Sep 2009). The mid-price DVD comes in a thin-DVD case with booklet." "If you want to see what the Soho side of No Wave looked like this is the only place youre ever gonna find it." - Glenn Branca. Dual-sided DVD in both NTSC and PAL formats; 60 minutes. |
| Artist: V/A Title: New York Noise Vol. 3 Format: Double LP Label: Soul Jazz Records Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Latest installment in Soul Jazz Records journey into the underground music of New York City in the 1980s, this time focusing on the electronic dance/post-punk mutations and proto-electro music that originally came out on mainly small D-I-Y labels. Today the new wave of New York art/rock groups such as DFA, The Strokes, the Rapture, Juan McLean, James Murphy, The Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs all have their roots in this early 1980s New York Noise music scene. This album features text, original photos and interviews documenting this amazing period. The album will be followed later in the year by a book of photographs of the New York scene as well as an exhibition and series of concerts at the Barbican, London. New York Noise Vol. 3 is compiled and annotated by Stuart Algabright, an important participant in the New York music scene during this period and features music from Implog, Suicide, Snatch, James Blood Ulmer, Dominatrix and many more. Beginning in the mid-1970s, the East Village of New York City, aka Downtown, became a hotbed of musical and artistic ideas. In this small ten-block area practically every musician was also an artist, every artist a film-maker and every film-maker was in a band. Experimental music clashed with the aftermath of punk and groups such as Snatch, Dominatrix and Implog blurred the boundaries of art, punk and dance music. New York City at this time featured a bewildering array of musical communities: the birth of hip-hop in the Bronx: the punk scene of CBGBs and Maxs Kansas City (Ramones, Talking Heads, Television): the emerging art music scene of Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson: the underground disco scene of David Mancusos Loft, Larry Levans Paradise Garage; The free jazz loft scene (James Blood Ulmer, Rashied Ali) and the no wave art/rock scene of James Chance, Lydia Lunch et al. The artists featured here created new music influenced by all these scenes." Artists: Dominatrix, Ike Yard, Dark Day, Boris Policeband, Implog, James Blood Ulmer, Martin Rev, UT, Snatch, Judy Nylon." - Soul Jazz. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Hiroshi Shiotanis Work - Oto no Hajimari wo Motomete Format: CD Label: Sound Three Country: Japan Price: $32.00 |
| "Hiroshi Shiotani was an engineer of NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai: National Broadcasting association) electronic music studio, and then he cooperated with some avant-garde composers of Japan. This CD get Shiotanis works together, and released several years ago as a memorial of him when he died. It was repressed 500 copies by a private studio. All tracks are legendary early electronic works of Toshiro Matuzumi and Makoto Moroi. These works had originally released in 50s-60s, but we have not been able to listen long time because all LPs was out of print long ago. This repress edition included the original source of Stockhausens "Telemusik" (he had come to Japan and made this work at NHK studio. Shiotani helped him.)" - Omega Point. Pieces include Toshiro Matuzumi"Music for sine wave by propotion of prime number"(1954); Toshiro Matuzumi"Music for modulated wave by propotion of prime number"(1954); Toshiro Matuzumi"Invention for square wave and saw-tooth wave"(1954); Toshiro Matuzumi & Makoto Moroi"Variations on numerical principle of 7"(1956); Makoto Moroi"Stars of Pythagoras"(1959); Makoto Moroi"Variete"(1962); Toshiro Matuzumi"Olympic Campanology"(1964).. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The World Ends Part 1 Format: Triple LP Label: Soundway Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
| "Deluxe gatefold triple LP version. Part 1 of 2. Includes two vinyl-only bonus tracks not included on the CD version. The World Ends is the latest title from Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar-driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s. This bumper collection is brimming with youthful exuberance, fuzzed-out guitar and cosmic organ vibes and owes much to the psychedelic sounds of Jim Morrison, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and James Brown. As the Summer of Love was blossoming in London and San Francisco, Nigeria was imploding into civil war. Also known as the Biafra War of 1967, it was a grisly conflict taking over three million lives, yet at the same time the country was being pulled apart, there was a new world beginning. The tracks featured represent a forgotten chapter in Nigerias musical history when the youth threw their varied morsels into the pot, from hard rock to psychedelic soul, when guitars were cherished instruments, symbolic of a new movement, when highlife and Afrobeat played second fiddle to "the beat." - Soundway. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The World Ends Part 2 Format: Triple LP Label: Soundway Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
| "Deluxe gatefold triple LP version. Part 2 of 2. Includes two vinyl-only bonus tracks not included on the CD version. The World Ends is the latest title from Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar-driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s. This bumper collection is brimming with youthful exuberance, fuzzed-out guitar and cosmic organ vibes and owes much to the psychedelic sounds of Jim Morrison, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and James Brown. As the Summer of Love was blossoming in London and San Francisco, Nigeria was imploding into civil war. Also known as the Biafra War of 1967, it was a grisly conflict taking over three million lives, yet at the same time the country was being pulled apart, there was a new world beginning. The tracks featured represent a forgotten chapter in Nigerias musical history when the youth threw their varied morsels into the pot, from hard rock to psychedelic soul, when guitars were cherished instruments, symbolic of a new movement, when highlife and Afrobeat played second fiddle to "the beat." - Soundway. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Yokomono 3 Format: LP Label: Staalplaat Country: Netherlands Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the third Staalplaat Soundsystem LP made for Yokomono! One side of this record the Staalplaat Soundsystem has made 55 loop SSS decided to compile a thematic Yokomono vinyl release. The theme: Helsinki and its environmental sounds. The other half of Pan Sonic, Mika Vainio, a resident of Berlin like SSS, was commissioned to produce a seven-minute composition. Petri Kuljuntausta from Helsinki was, in turn, asked to provide a composition of an equal length responding to Vainios piece. The sound material to be used for the compositions, field recordings from the turn of the 1960s and 1970s made at the Hietalahti shipyard in Helsinki, was discovered in the special effects archive of YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company. These sounds have a personal dimension for both composers: Vainio spent a part of his childhood living near the dockyard, while Kuljuntausta has used sounds recorded from inside ships hulls as material for his earlier works. Yokomono 03 will be pressed using an exotic method. The grooves holding the two compositions by Vainio and Kuljuntausta will be parallel cut. The other side of the record features the traditional loops of 1.8 seconds, commissioned from Blixa Bargeld, Merzbow, Main, Alexei Borisov, Donna Summer, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Andrey Kiritchenko, Zbigniew Karkowski, Staalplaat Soundsystem, Un Caddie Renversé Dans lHerbe and Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg, with five loops from each featured artist and their own sound environments." - Staalplaat. |
| Artist: V/A Title: State Capital Field Recordings Format: LP Label: State Capital Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "A collection of tracks recorded at various locations around New York City featuring the areas lo-fi revivalist best. You get exclusive tracks from VIVIAN GIRLS, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, SILK FLOWERS, THE BEETS, CITY CENTER, SPIRAL FLAG, LAME DRIVERS, DINOSAUR FEATHERS, BEAUTY SHOPPE, VON HAYES, and more. Seventeen tracks in all." -State Capital. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Friends Format: LP Label: Stitching Muziek Nieuws Country: Netherlands Price: $25.00 |
| Original copies of this compilation released in 1986, limited to 550 copies, silkscreened jackets, insert. "A curious combination of interesting electronic/industrial bands, such as Gerrit Hoekema, Das Ding, The Klinik, Solenoid, De Fabriek and Kapotte Muziek and odd balls like The Bearcage and Michel Timmerman." - No Longer Forgotten Music. Also includes Hans Paus, G.E.N., A.D. Eker and O.R.D.U.C. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Red Badge Of Courage Format: VHS Label: Stomach Ache Country: Mexico Price: $13.00 |
| Includes Backyard Wrestling Association, Beast People, Bringdownzz, Cock ESP, Compomicro Dexail, Lawrence Cook/Thurston Moore/John Voigt, Crank Sturgeon, Chris Cutler/Tom Dimuzio, Due Process, Geddys Fork Players, Government Alpha, Mark C. Jackman, The Jaunties, Jason Lescalleet/Achim Wollsceid, Little Princess, Slusser, Brian K. Smith, W2/Nneng, Andrew Wilkes-Krier, Walter Wright/Zipper Spy. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One Format: CD Label: Stones Throw Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf has always had a love affair with that 80s new wave, post punk and DIY sound. Here he scours the archives of New Yorks own Minimal Wave, a small indie label dedicated to reissuing lost and rare gems from around the world originally released on limited edition cassettes or vinyl by the artists themselves." Artists: Linear Movement, Crash Course In Science, Oppenheimer Analysis, Mark Lane, Tara Cross, Turquoise Days, Bene Gesserit, Esplendor Geometrico, Das Ding, Martin Dupont, Deux, Somnambulist, Ohama, Das Kabinette." - Stones Throw. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Minimal Wave Tapes Format: Double LP Label: Stones Throw Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "This is the first official volume of minimal wave music from Europe and North America recorded in the 1980s. Most of the songs were originally released on limited edition cassettes or vinyl by the artists themselves, and only a handful of people knew about them. Now, theyve been remastered from their analog source tapes for your listening pleasure. Brought to you by VERONICA VASICKA and PEANUT BUTTER WOLF." - Stones Throw. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Oh, Run Into Me, But Dont Hurt Me! Format: LP Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $15.00 |
| "...Female Blues Singers - Rarities 1923-1930. The Sub Rosa label presents a collection of works from obscure and forgotten female blues singers. These voices have survived, through hardship and death, through the dark years of The Great Depression, when profoundly sincere and ferociously ironic blues were at their peak. However, this selection does not constitute a theme-based anthology: it is simply a few little-known female blues singers whose ambiguous leanings, double-entendres, and uncompromising crudeness had been censored by the propriety of their times ruled by sanctimonious prudishness and despicable segregation. These women were expressing a radically new form, or perhaps an ancient, primitive one that plumbs the depths of a universal heartache. Featuring Lucille Bogan, Virginia Liston, Lil Johnson, Margaret Johnson, Monette Moore, Margaret Carter, Jenny Pope, Lena Henry, Anna Jones, Rosa Henderson, Coletha Simpson, Martha Copeland, Ivy Smith and Memphis Minnie." - Sub Rosa. |
| Artist: V/A Title: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 1 Format: Triple LP Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $39.00 |
| "Subtitled: First A-Chronology 1921-2001. At last, the Sub Rosa label issues the highly-acclaimed Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music collection on vinyl -- 3LPs housed in a luxurious triple gatefold sleeve. Containing early and contemporary classics as well as pieces that had never been heard before. Volume 1 begins in the 1920s with the Russolo brothers, and examines each decade in turn -- Varèse, Cage, Schaeffer, Xenakis, the great pioneers crafting the first traces of a music that was markedly revolutionary: electronic music, created from nothing and an artifice without boundary that was to be entirely invented. Whereas composers such as Stockhausen, Berio and Pousseur had come from Serialism and began making electronic music as a continuation of their work with traditional instruments, others such as Boehmer and Oliveros immediately began composing using electronic bases. There were those who invented new methods, like Schaeffer and musique concrète, others were outsiders, revolutionaries and visionaries like Xenakis and Cage, and still others who derived their sound from Dadaism, the complex forms of free-jazz, John Coltrane, the acoustic and electronic improvisation scene, alternative rock, psychedelic and industrial music, the German Krautrock wave of the 1970s, and so on. The contemporary generation of electronic musicians on volume 1 are DJs, reinventors of drones, painters and sculptors using sound as a process, and maverick software creators. An absolute must for anyone interested in the roots and history of electronic music, now in a beautiful deluxe triple vinyl package including liner notes. Other artists include: Walter Ruttmann, Gordon Mumma, Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad, Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide and Martin Tétreault, Survival Research Laboratories, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nam June Paik, Sonic Youth, DJ Spooky, and Ryoji Ikeda." -Sub Rosa |
| Artist: V/A Title: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 2 Format: Triple LP Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $35.00 |
| "Sub Rosa issues the highly-acclaimed Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music collection on vinyl, containing all of the music on the 2CD version -- 3LPs housed in a luxurious triple gatefold sleeve. The story continues with volume 2, featuring slow explorations of the past and the present. Given the present system of production, there are reasons, some of them identifiable, why only a few names emerge in each period. There may also be a preference for concentrating information rather than letting it pile up in disordered fashion. Over the past 40 years, the same ten electronic music composers get mentioned again and again (including in music dictionaries and histories). Yet behind them are many other names. Who are they? Second-raters? Not necessarily. For we then need to define the concept of top-rate (rated by who, and on what criteria?) and second-rate or minor artist. Great pleasure can be derived from the works of minor artists. The case of Tod Dockstader is instructive: when "for lack of academic qualifications" he was denied access to the electronic music facilities he needed, was there not great beauty in the pieces he nevertheless created and in his determination to make music without those facilities? His name was never seen on the labels of top record companies. But he influenced quite a few people -- Richard James quoted him, and others then referred to his work. Some of his records were reissued, and what one could call the rehabilitation process continues. The same applies to many other composers. All such stories spell a passion for music, and weave myth. At the turn of the century, there were efforts to find new sources of sound -- a number of machines were exhibited, including Thaddeus Cahiels Telharmonium in 1887 and the Dynamophone presented to the New York public in 1906; they generally played well-known romantic or post-romantic pieces. After a few flamboyant skirmishes described in the previous volume, the postwar period saw the arrival in 1951, of Wladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening in New Yorks Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. When audiences of the 50s and 60s first heard Varèse, Pousseur, Stockhausen, Berio, Ussachevsky, Yuasa, Dockstader and Mumma, what did they feel? Perhaps a sort of break -- an epistemological break, like it must have been for the first audience of Monteverdis Orfeo. They left the auditorium completely stunned, because they had never heard anything like it. Artists on volume 2 include: Wladimir Ussachevsky + Otto Luening, Autechre, Luc Ferrari, Laibach, Alan R. Splet, SPK, Tod Dockstader, Johanna M. Beyer, Morton Subotnick, Captain Beefheart, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner, Hugh Davies, Daphne Oram, Sun Ra, Kim Cascone, Yoshihiro Hanno, Meira Asher, Woody McBride, Lasse Steen/Choose, Arcane Devices, and Percy Grainger." -Sub Rosa |
| Artist: V/A Title: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 6 Format: Double CD Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $19.00 |
| "Sub Rosa presents the sixth volume and penultimate installment of the highly-acclaimed and successful Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music series. As usual, it culls old historical pieces, little-known gems, and even a few previously-unreleased tracks from the greatest Japanoise bands, a few representatives of the younger generations (from all around the world), and some rare tracks from the 80s, and it all ends with a lull that lets transpire what may be felt as a kind of indefinable mystery. The avant-garde ushered in the possibility of a new music, then it scattered into small communities whose best-known protagonists are totally unknown to people outside that particular circle. We are facing this fragmentation, and one form of avant-garde ends up scattered into several (not exclusively musical) forms. It is not in avant-gardes nature to create one elementary form for each individual. Other phrases used include "forays," "breakthroughs," "pushing the envelope," and then, of course, "going too far." Tracks on this sixth volume comprise more than 2 1/2 hours of music, with many rare and unpublished tracks. Housed in a 2CD digipack sleeve, including a 52-page booklet full of notes and biographical info. Artists include: Tetsuo Furudate, Stephen O Malley (Sunn O)))), Pain Jerk, Zev, Hijokaidan, John Duncan, Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Robert Piotrowicz, Incapacitants, Sachiko M, Torturing Nurse, Israël Martinez, Ata Ebtekar/Sote, Daniel Menche, John Wiese, Joseph Nechvatal, Henry Cowell, Pain Barrier, Julie Rousse, Dick Raaymakers, Ultraphonist, Tzvi Avni, Else Marie Pade, ILIOS, Bird Palace/Cristian Vogel + Pablo Palacio, and Stummer + Liesl Ujvary.s" -Sub Rosa |
| Artist: V/A Title: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 1 Format: Double CD Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $19.00 |
| "In a rare moment of synchronicity, all 6 volumes of this series have been repressed and are in stock all at once... "Sub Rosa presents part 1 of a vast anthology of noise and electronic music to be released during the next years in seven volumes. An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 1 begins in the 1920s, with the Russolo Brothers, and looks at each decade in turn -- Varése, Cage, Schaeffer, Xenakis, the great pioneers -- and shows the first traces of a music that was necessarily revolutionary: electronic music, created from nothing (and hence to be entirely invented). Some pieces on these CDs are certainly classics, but there are others, which, though old, were distributed informally or never even released. The more contemporary pieces are, wherever possible, previously unreleased. In fact, more than the half of what we listen here is unreleased and unpublished. This 2xCD comes as a Digipak with 24 page booklet." Artists include: Luigi & Antonio Russolo, Walter Ruttman, Pierre Schaeffer, Henri Pousseur, Gordon Mumma, Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad & John Cale, Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide & Martin Tétreault, Survival Research Laboratories, Einsturzende Neubauten, Konrad Boehmer, Nam June Paik, John Cage, Sonic Youth, Edgard Varése, Iannis Xenakis, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Pauline Oliveros, Ryoji Ikeda." -Sub Rosa |
| Artist: V/A Title: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 2 Format: Double CD Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $19.00 |
| "2010 repress, originally released 2003. Sub Rosa presents the second part of the highly acclaimed and successful series Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music. This 2nd volume explores the early days of pre-electronic music (Percy Grainger, Johanna M. Beyer) and features some rare or unpublished pieces by main composers of electronic music (Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Tod Dockstader, Morton Subotnick, Hugh Davies, Luc Ferrari) as well as unreleased tracks by musicians who are cornerstones of the 90s electronic scene: (Autechre, Aphex Twin, Scanner, Kim Cascone, Yoshihiro Hanno), as well as tracks from the acid movement (Woody Mcbride, Choose) and the industrial scene (Laibach, Spk). Without forgetting some free-jazz (Sun Ra) or rare stuff from Captain Beefheart, Daphne Oram, Alan R. Splet (David Lynchs sound designer on Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Dune). Like Volume 1, this second part is an absolute must for anyone interested in the roots and history of electronic music. The 2xCD comes in a deluxe digipak with a 24 paged informative booklet." -Sub Rosa |
| Artist: V/A Title: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 4 Format: Double CD Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $19.00 |
| "2010 repress, originally released 2006. Sub Rosa presents the fourth volume of the highly-acclaimed and successful Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music series. This installment promises to be the pivoting axis in the seven volume set, with 75% rare tracks and music never before heard. In the previous three anthologies, Sub Rosa outlined the historical sites at the advent of concrete and electronic music: Pierre Schaeffers workshop studio (Vol. 1), the Princeton Electronic Music Center in Columbia, New York (Vol. 2), and the WDR Studio in Cologne (Vol. 3). After the pioneering work of these formative studios, their was a quick worldwide development of similar-intent facilities, popping up throughout Europe and America, but also in Brazil, Mexico and Japan -- countries where there was a will to create music that was radically new. This compilation features a classic cadre of artists from all over the globe, who are true cultural instigators in the field of electronic sound experimentation. Including new creations from China, Brazil, Norway and Hungary, as well as some classic and unpublished material from legendary composers such as Ligeti and Lucier and very rare documents from Robert Wyatt and François Bayle. Like the previous three volumes, this fourth installment is an absolute must for anyone interested in the roots and history of electronic music. The 2CD comes in a deluxe digipack with an informative 40-page booklet. Featuring: Steve Reich, Gyorgy Ligeti, William Burroughs, Alvin Lucier, Olivier Messiaen, Vibracathedral Orchestra, François Bayle, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, James Whitehead, Loop Orchestra, Halim el-Balh, Jean-Claude Risset, Beatriz Ferreyra, Maja Ratkje, Laurie Spiegel 6, Stephen Vitiello, Erik M, Wang Changcun, Chlorgeschlecht, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Milan Knizak, Rallizes Denudes, Andy Hawkins, John Watermann and Jean-Marc Vivenza." -Sub Rosa |
| Artist: V/A Title: An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 5 Format: Double CD Label: Sub Rosa Country: Belgium Price: $19.00 |
| "2010 repress, originally released 2008. Sub Rosa presents the fifth volume of the highly-acclaimed and successful Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music series. This installment highlights pieces illustrating a technique (Claude Ballifs "Points, Mouvements"), a country ("Shur, Op. 15" by Alireza Mashayekhi), a studio (Helmut Lachenmann at the IPEM), and historic (François Bernard Mâches "Prélude"), and radical ("Spectrum Ripper" by Masonna/Yamazaki "Maso" Takushi) works that have ripped apart ancient definitions. All this organized with internationalism in mind and, for once, a focus on the voice -- not as sung words, their traditional facet in music (from pop songs to lieder and operas), but as the word itself, recited, distorted, rendered abstract or disaggregated and screamed (the incantation so often a part of rock and noise music). Like the previous four volumes, this fifth installment is an absolute must for anyone interested in the roots and history of electronic music, with many previously unpublished, rare tracks comprising more than 2 ½ hours of music. The 2CD comes in a deluxe digipack sleeve with an extensive 54-page booklet. Other artists include: Charlemagne Palestine, Pere Ubu, Sutcliffe Jügend, Li Chin Sung aka Dickson Dee, Rogelio Sosa, Christian Galaretta, Richard Maxfield, Wolf Vostell, André Boucourechliev, Mauricio Kagel, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Raoul Hausmann, Gil Joseph Wolman, Leo Kupper, Josef Anton Riedl, Sten Hanson + Henri Chopin, Dajuin Yao, Ground Zero, Club Moral and Dub Taylor." -Sub Rosa |
| Artist: V/A Title: Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 1 Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The equator runs through only ten countries on earth and I bet that you cannot name them all without consulting a map. Indonesia is one of them and the only nation in Asia with the equatorial stripe impaling it. There are so many different cultures spread-out on these islands, that it would take several lifetimes to experience them all properly. Within this umbrella of diversity is one of the worlds richest and most dazzling sound museums. Sumatra is the northwestern entry point to the great archipelago. It is a large island approximately the size of California. There are jungles, mountains, swamps, various forms of myths and folklore, hustlers, Padang Food, Tigers, the Durian, dozens of cultures and languages, and more music than youve ever been allowed to hear. The selections on this CD are a combination of droning beat pop, pseudo-gypsy songs, jungle folk trance, and other improbable traditional and hybrid styles heard by only a handful of outsiders. These recordings are from old cassette tapes received as gifts, in trade, or purchased from sources in Sumatra in 1989. Some of the tapes are unmarked with the artists unknown, yet all of them are decaying documents of various sound quality containing some of the most eccentric artifacts ever uncovered from this fascinating island." - Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Radio Java Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Java is the center of Indonesian culture. Three out of every four Indonesians live on Java. It is the home of some of the most elegant musical styles to be found anywhere. To the veteran international sound collector, Javanese music is no secret. For the uninitiated, rather than going through an introductory outline of Javanese music history, I will wish you away to the internet, a library, or bookstore where you can find plenty of information on the subject. The selections on this CD are a combination of random radio excerpts sequenced in collage form and assembled in the summer of 1989. This disc is a highly unique document featuring many angles of Javanese sound finally slipping through the cracks. Among many other oddities, youll hear several examples of Javanese pop (from Dangdut and Keroncong to Hard Rock and Disco), news snippets, folk music, radio commercials, Jakarta DJs, The west Java Sundanese sound, spooky theatre extracts, and high-octane Jaipongan variations that are completely over the top. There has never been anything like this." - Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Night Recordings From Bali Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The island of Bali is Indonesias most popular place. With the modern beach resorts at Kuta and Legian, the lovely, tropic interior of palm-covered hills and rice paddies, and a rich variety of art, dance and music, the island is a destination of choice for travelers around the world. But, regardless of their increasing role of servicing an ever-demanding tourist industry, the Balinese are a strong-willed and tight-knit society. The island is a tiny enclave of Hinduism within a massive nation of Islam, yet, their Gamelan music is faster, tighter, and louder than their mighty neighbors to the west, the Javanese. Balinese Gamelan stylings and the Ketchak dance are legendary throughout the world and have been immortalized in sound recordings and on film for decades. But, beneath the creeping exterior of a pseudo-western culture slowly overtaking an amazing tradition of unique human expression, the moods of the island are governed by magic and superstition. The hills, forests, rivers, and crossroads are alive with tales of demons (Leyaks) and a flesh-eating Ogress (Rangda). A lesser-known darker side of Balinese life secretly balances the lighter side tropical paradise of tourist brochures. This CD is entirely composed of field recordings from August and September of 1989. The majority of the recordings were made at night in and around the villages of Peliatan and Ubud. Amidst the excerpts from Gamelan and Ketchak are sounds of the forests and mysterious crossroads where packs of dogs seem to take on forms of angry demons. Also encountered here are odd folk stylings for flute and drum, outdoor village theatre, and other sound anomalies from the center of Balinese culture." - Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: I Remember Syria Format: Double CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "A jaw-dropping expose of music, news, interviews and field recordings from one of the least-known quarters of the Arab world. The country of Syria has been politically and culturally exiled for decades by the western media leaving little known of its rich heritage of art, music and culture. Recorded and surgically-assembled by Mark Gergis from two trips to Syria in 1998 and 2000, disc one of this 2-CD set features recordings made in Damascus and is a virtual documentary of sound from the legendary Capital including street scenes, a wedding, a mosque interior, spontaneous live music and interviews with citizens, radio broadcasts, a song about Saddam Hussein, and the mystery of an underground city called Kazib. Disc two extends to Greater Syria with the same approach capturing live musicians, political opinions, radio excerpts, an interview with an anonymous homosexual, and unique sound documents from this small but highly-influential corner of the Middle East." - Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Bush Taxi Mali: Field Recordings from Mali Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Bush Taxi Mali is an aural tour through the heart of Mali. These field recordings were made by Tucker Martine in 1998 while travelling throughout the West African country. This blend of bluesy Ngonis, clamoring street sounds, the stunning voice of Jalimusa Amanita Diabate (of the famous Diabate family), passing radios, Fulani flutes, runaway sound systems and chants from the Dogon country creates a unique portrait of Malis rich musical heritage. Eventually Martine found himself in the backseat of a beat up Peugeot on his way to the village of Kela, a Jeli village, where the songs and traditions of the Mande people have been scrupulously preserved. Many of the musical performances heard on this disc were made during that visit. Bush Taxi Mali is a strikingly original tapestry of the ancient traditions of Mali in the modern era." - FE |
| Artist: V/A Title: Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "There is a legend in Burma stating that swarms of male dragonflies gather to join in choruses of high-pitched tones to court their mates. The ones that dont succeed in mating eventually scream so loud that their chests explode and they drop dead to the ground. These recordings are a tribute to this legend. Droning cicadas, dragonflies and other insects display their charm as masters of the High Frequency Airwaves recorded live and unprocessed by Tucker Martine in the lush settings of Laos, Thailand, and Burma. Enter the supernatural world where Entomology and Electronica converge in a tropical hallucination of alien sound. Anyone whos ever wondered if these strange symphonies could be recorded or preserved as precisely as they sound in the field need look no further! Martine has done it and you will be transported to the exact experience one would encounter in these mysterious lowlands. Liner notes by Hakim Bey!" - Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Radio Sumatra: The Indonesian FM Experience Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The music and production encountered here represents a cross-section of Sumatran FM radio and to a greater extent, whats happening now in Indonesian culture. From the signature sounds of Sumatra (Melayu, Minang Pop, the Batak ballad) to the widespread Indonesian phenomenon of Dangdut, this exclusive FM only Radio Collage will leave your skull shattered, wondering why its taken so long to be turned-on to the modern pulse of the worlds fourth largest country. Some of these selections come from Java and other parts of Indonesia via the FM airwaves of Sumatras major cities. Islamic Folk, Gambus Rock, and gorgeous anomalies are also placed in the mix amidst brief news reports, advertisements, prayers, and karaoke call-in shows. Many of the station IDs could be mistaken for American or European networks and much of the music is highly influenced by western pop/rock/punk/metal/rap/etc. But beyond these obvious comparisons is an explosive musical kaleidoscope; still fresh, somewhat sincere and naive, and a bit resistant to the grasp of the worlds cultural export Moguls. This is an essential listening experience. There is undeniable evidence here of how Indonesians have crafted some of the worlds most thrilling popular music....yet the rest of this world somehow refuses to recognize it....that is, until now! (Recorded, assembled and edited by Alan Bishop/ 2004)." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 2 Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra (Volume 2) expands our presentation of the worlds least-known, outstanding musical improbabilities. From the infectious trance beat of Sumatras Folk Dangdut music, featuring Rabab (Violin) or Saluang (Flute), to the highly-refined and glorious Orkes Gambus (Orchestral Arabic music with Gambus literally meaning Oud), said to have been brought to the island by Islamic settlers from Yemen, the 18 tracks featured here will instantly convince the listener of the expressive beauty and diversity that Sumatra has contributed to the world music theater. Most of the musicians on this release are Minangkabau or Minang people who are devout followers of Islam as well as the worlds largest Matrilineal society (a Minangkabau child is the descendent of his/her mother, not father). These tracks (chosen from stacks of old cassettes) were recorded from the 1960s through the 1980s and are all but dismissed by many Sumatrans who seem to prefer a more contemporary sound. This is an assortment of relics from a forgotten period of transition in Sumatran music when psychedelic organs echoed underneath arabic string sections and rustic violins sawed atop trance beats from poorly-lit night markets. The Minang sound is like no other and it represents a vital link in the somewhat cloudy history of Sumatran music. Keep in mind that this is NOT a document for the mere purpose of preservation, although it may serve as such. This IS among the very best music youve never heard and you need to hear it NOW!" - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Harmika Yab-Yum: Folk Sounds From Nepal Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Harmika Yab Yum is a divine blend of Radio excerpts and field recordings from Nepal compiled by Robert Millis. This exciting mosaic snares among other oddities, a King Cobra snake charmer, the sounds of slaughtering buffaloes and guns firing amidst a Durga Puja festival, dreamy folk music, Sarangi and Harmonium players seeping in from unknown radio signals, pounding drums, praying monks, child choruses, street sermons, loudspeaker promotionals, and quiet footsteps at the top of the world. Millis has produced many curious audio works as a member of the group Climax Golden Twins and this collection of Himalayan ephemera captures the timeless beauty of the worlds highest Kingdom, land of the rhododendron, the Kumari (a living goddess), and the legendary Yeti. (Recorded in Kathmandu, Pokhara, Gorkha, and other undisclosed locales in 1996)." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Streets of Lhasa Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| Latest amazing batch from Sublime Frequencies, the label overseen by Alan Bishop/Sun City Girls. The label defines itself as "a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research, and the pioneering recording labels of the past including OCORA, SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS, ETHNIC FOLKWAYS, LYRICHORD, NONESUCH EXPLORER, MUSICAPHONE, BARONREITER, UNESCO, PLAYASOUND, MUSICAL ATLAS, CHANT DU MONDE, B.A.M., TANGENT, and TOPIC." "Streets of Lhasa lifts us to the high plateau of Tibet where anonymous street balladeers sell folk songs for a living and ghostly voices drift in an ambience of time forgotten. Children, birds, trains, prayers and a traditional temple activity called bian jing (where monks discourse about scripture and punctuate their points by clapping loudly) provide the backdrop for this disc with the folk music of the street taking center stage. These enterprising musicians sing passionate songs and play instruments like the Erhu and the San Xian. The recordings are as clear as the strings of these banjo and violin-like instruments scathed by leather fingers of the high, thin air. Tibet has been under Chinese control for nearly half a century and their leader, The Dalai Lama, resides in exile to the south in Dharamsala India. Buddhism remains of primary importance here and chants of song and prayer are heard throughout the plateau. This ornamental carnival of sound was recorded by Zhang Jian (of the Beijing-based sound collective fm3) on the streets of Lhasa, ZhaDa and Shigatse in August 2003. Liner notes written by Steve Barker (ON THE WIRE/BBC)." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Choubi Choubi! Folk & Pop Sounds from Iraq Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Meticulously selected from Iraqi cassettes and LPs found in Syria, Europe and the Iraqi neighborhoods of Detroit, Michigan, this unique collection of folk and pop styles displays a wealth of outstanding music that is exclusive to Iraq and has rarely been showcased abroad. There are many reasons why Iraqi music stands alone in the dynamic world of Arabic music: one example is the unbelievable rapid fire machine-gun rhythms fluttering atop the main tempo. This is the work of a unique nomadic hand drum called the khishba -- also known as the zanbour (Arabic for "wasp"). A style prominently featured here is the infamous Iraqi choubi -- a driving rhythmic style that can include fiddles, double reeded instruments, percussion, bass, keyboards and oud over its signature beat. Other styles featured are the basta (an urban Baghdadi style), the bezikh , and the pulsating hecha . Also heard is the mawal -- a vocal improv that sets the tone of a song, regardless of the style. Additionally there are three cuts from Jaafar Hassan s 1970s record, Lets Sing Together . Being a folk-rock record, its a true anomaly for Iraq. Hassan was a mouthpiece for the Iraqi Socialist movement just a few years before Saddam Hussein . But most of the music in this collection was produced during the Saddam period between the 1980s and 2002. Since the 2003 invasion and the wholesale disassembly of the country, classic tracks like these may already be part of a disappeared past." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ethnic Minority Music Of Northeast Cambodia Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "For the first time ever from this part of the world, here is a recording that documents the ceremonial animist music from the mysterious tribal villages of Northeast Cambodia. The Tampoans, Krungs, Kavets, Braos, and Jaraîs of Ratanakiri Province and the Phnongs in Mondolkiri Province have been living amidst each other in this region for centuries, preserving and expanding their unique cultural heritage, sometimes at peace and other times in conflict with one another or with foreign invaders. The music includes hypnotic gong ensembles, guitar ballads, bamboo flute and unique local instrumentation such as the gungteng (a 10-string instrument comprised of a bamboo tube holding 10 metallic strings with a dried gourd as resonator) and the mum (a unique one-string Krung instrument bowed with a bamboo using the mouth as a resonator, attached by a string between the instrument and the mouth). The superb singing styles and vocals present throughout are absolutely mesmerizing. These tracks sound like nothing youve heard before, all magnificently documented, transporting the listener into the heart of each performance. Recorded on location by Laurent Jenneau over a 2-year period from 2003-2005 with his revealing liner notes and a detailed tracklist included within." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan vol. 2 Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol. 2 Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "This is volume two in the Sublime Frequencies series, Molam: Thai Country Grooves From Isan. Molam is a multi-faceted folk country music native to Laos and the collection of rural Northeastern Thai provinces called Isan. Molam is an umbrella term used for numerous lam styles. It literally translates to "expert singer" or "expert song." Featured here in volume 2 of this series are lam phun, lam thuy, lam plern, lam dern and lam sing styles of molam recordings from the 1970s and 1980s. All of these forms are built from a tradition that is centuries-old. A few examples of molam/luk thung (Thailands national country music) hybrids are also featured here. In the late-1960s, at the onset of molams modern genesis, electric guitars and organs were introduced alongside the extant folk sounds of the khaen (bamboo mouth-organ) and phin (Thai lute). Hybrid styles were formed with an electrified sound that jived with tradition while creating something entirely new. Much of the music relies on stock formulas, designed primarily to showcase the stylings of various singers from the region. But, as this brilliant collection demonstrates, the rules tend to bend a bit as more adventurous groups experiment with the genre and the production. Sound effects, flamboyant vamping, odd vocal styles or trick intros and finales based on popular rock themes show up now and then, among other playful and dynamic shifts, making for some exceptional listening. So join the folks at Sublime Frequencies in their perpetual and confounding love affair with Thai Isan Molam. Enjoy this rarely-heard music, culled from vintage cassette and vinyl recordings, rescued from the silent places in which theyve rested for the past decades." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Thai Pop Spectacular: 1960s-1980s Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: US Price: $15.50 |
| Thai pop history has been largely ignored and neglected by the international musical community for far too long. By the late 20th century, Thai pop music had developed as many faces as localized roots music such as molam or styles like luk thung or luk krung (each with their own respective pop-sectors). Bangkok -- always the hub of the Thai recording industry -- attracted musicians and singers from across the country that were both informed by tradition and inspired by the wealth of international sounds entering the region via radio and phonograph. Jazz, for instance, had a profound influence on early Thai pop music, the King of Thailand himself being a noted jazz composer. This superb collection features modern Thai music styles combining with elements of surf, rock, funk, disco and comedy, revealing the use of clever instrumentation, brilliant vocals, great arrangements, twisted breaks, and resourceful production techniques. Discover the Queen of Luk Thung, the 1960s "Shadow Music" sound, classic tracks from Thai films, blazing examples of Bangkok disco from the 1970s, legendary Thai comedy pop, and the most outrageous version of "The Night Chicago Died" youll ever encounter. Thick horn sections, wah-wah guitars, tight drums, and funky organs help round out this astounding set which proves beyond a doubt that the Thai were a completely unique and powerful force during the 1960s, 70s & 80s global popular music explosion. - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Music of Nat Pwe: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar (Burma) Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: US Price: $15.50 |
| ... Vol. 3. In Myanmar (Burma), many people believe in ghost spirits called Nats. These spirits are historical figures who met tragic or violent deaths. They are said to possess the power to assist or devastate the lives of those who recognize them. A Pwe is a ceremony held to appease a Nat. Pwes are arranged daily throughout Myanmar for many purposes including the achievement of success in business, a happy marriage, or improving ones health. A Nat is summoned through a Kadaw; the flamboyant and charismatic master of ceremony dressed in elegant costume. The Kadaw is a spirit medium, singer, dancer, storyteller and magician who exposes the crowd to a living incarnation of the Nat. Cash money is thrown and cigarettes and whiskey are hand-delivered by the Kadaw to the willing faithful. Audience participants are often ecstatic, spontaneously launching into trance as the Nat spirit possesses their bodies while the melodically ornamental and thundering sound of the Nat Pwe orchestra plays on as perhaps the last great internationally unknown musical juggernaut existing anywhere. This collection of music documents the phenomenon known as the Nat Pwe orchestra. There is absolutely nothing like it anywhere else on earth. If you are looking for some music to groove to, soothe your mind, or relax to, this is NOT for you! This is some of the most jarring, intense and maniacal music being created on earth today. Your head will be spinning amidst the cranked reverb and echo of the vocals as they swirl like locusts in a floating graveyard as the bells, cymbals, and tuned metal bars crash and spill down an endless staircase, while the hand drums and Hsaing-Wang circle of rhythm pound the beat in and out of a million twists and turns until youve either had enough or you get with the program. Turn it up and submit. This is what its ALL about, schoolboy! - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ethnic Minority Music Of Southern Laos Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "This is a collection of landmark recordings by Laurent Jenneau, documenting music created by the Harak and various Brao ethnic groups in Southern Laos. This is the second release in a series of spectacular field recordings from some of the more remote ethnic minority communities in Southeast Asia. On this release, you can hear the true historic roots of Molam music (now a venerable popular music style in Laos and Thailand) played on the khaen along with vocal styles from this region. Also featured here are gong ensembles, various stringed instruments, cymbals, drums and sung poetry all captured live on location with the ambient sounds of the surrounding villages. These recordings were made in Xekong, Champasak and Attapeu provinces and because much of this music is unknown, this is probably the first time recordings have ever been released of indigenous music from these remote areas of Southern Laos. Features insightful liner notes by Laurent Jenneau and an extended track listing with added information about each track recorded." - Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ethnic Minority Music of North Vietnam Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "This is the third volume in a series of tribal village music compiled by Laurent Jenneau from his continual journeys into the more remote tribal areas of Southeast Asia, featuring field recordings of the Giay, Lu, Red Zao, and Black Hmong peoples from North Vietnam. The five selections presented here by the Red Zao are of an unusual vocal style called Baozoo. The Baozoo singing technique can either be a responsive song, or canon singing where a lead singer has his or her words repeated with delay by one, two or three singers. Youve never heard anything quite like it before. The instruments used in other selections include kheng (bamboo mouth organ), jews harp, bamboo sticks with coins, and the piem zat (a reed instrument or oboe affiliated with Baozoo singing). Recorded in and around Sapa, this CD includes an extended track list with added information about each track recorded along with insightful liner notes by Laurent Jenneau with an excerpt included here: "The Lu are the most mysterious to me. First Im easily impressed by people who have radically different beauty criteria; their way to blacken their teeth with a thick layer of black stuff makes every smile special. They seem to have been established in northwest Vietnam since the 12th century. The Giay, like the Lu or Lao, belong to the Tay Kadai language group. They are well established in northern parts of Vietnam and Laos, but emigrated from China 200 years ago. They have three styles of singing for different occasions; for a feast, for night drinking or to sing farewell to someone." - Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Proibidão C.V: Forbidden Gang Funk from Rio de Janeiro Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "Proibidão is the name given to a certain kind of electronic funk music produced in Brazilian favelas, especially in Rio de Janeiro where it started to appear in the beginning of the 90s as a parallel phenomenon to the growth of drug gangs along the citys more than 600 slums. A raw mix of live funk vocals and Miami bass structures, these anonymous funk tracks are spread illegally by DJs and gang-sponsored parties. Proibidão is a raw musical genre that captures the dark side of Brazilian favelas. The explicit lyrics of apology to drug gangs and the violent content makes them illegal to broadcast through radio or as live public events. Proibidão can only be heard in the bailes or dances that the gangs organize and that run every day of the week in different locations in the slums around Rio. The production of a Proibidão occurs in different ways. A DJ spins Miami bass rhythms straight from sample CDs, and an MC talks on top of it, mainly live in street bailes and then recorded through a simple multichannel to a minidisc or simply straight. No mix is done and only sometimes an extra production is done. The gang leaders, to spread the respect and love for the gang as well as hate to the other gangs, finance the bailes and hire the DJs and sound systems. At most parties, this is recorded live and spread then as an mp3 or CD to different other DJs and bailes. Its life runs a minimum of 6 months and depending on its popularity, it can go on for more than one year. The selection featured on this CD compiles music recorded live during the beginning of 2003 in different favelas from Zona Sul, South Rio de Janeiro -- a zone once controlled by the drug gang called Comando Vermelho, mainly responsible for the citys growing rates of homicide and power corruption, as well as Rios and Brazils growing drug consumption. C.V Comando Vermelho (Red Command) is a criminal organization that was founded in 1979 in the prison Cândido Mendes, on the island Ilha Grande (RJ), as a connection of common prisoners and militants of the Falange Vermelha (Red Phalanx), which fought the military dictatorship. During the entire 1990s the criminal organization was the strongest in all of Rio de Janeiro, but today the principal leaders have been arrested or are dead, and the organization is not as strong. The Comando Vermelho still control parts of the city and seeing streets tagged with "CV" is common in many favelas in Rio de Janeiro. This CD is in no way an apology for these groups, but a document to portray a moment in time in Rio de Janeiros musical and social history. All audio imperfections are left as they were when collected, as these tracks are the only remaining documents of this music. Recorded and assembled by filmmaker Carlos Casas, courtesy of some anonymous MCs and DJs in different bailes along the favelas of Zona Sul, Rio de Janeiro during March-April 2003." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp of Latin American Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "...Psychedelia Vol. 1. "Latinamericarpet is a non-stop collage of vinyl artifacts culled from stacks of forgotten LPs of the 1960s and 1970s from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Isle de Pascua (Easter Island). Historically, Latin America was part of the "new world" that Christopher Columbus "discovered" in 1492, which soon was brutally conquered by the Spanish and Portuguese. Obviously it was only a "discovery" from a Eurocentric perspective because, in fact, on these vast lands there were hundreds of advanced native cultures living for centuries. However, after countless years of violent colonization and internal wars, the independence emerged on the whole continent, launching a group of new countries with their own unique identities. But what is Latin America nowadays? A complex answer for a complex puzzle: some people would say its a huge cocktail that combines -- in a more or less chaotic way -- the ruins of pre-Columbus cultures and diverse European traditions mixed with a high dose of pseudo-tropical weathers, Latin manners and unstable economies... although thats also a simplification: Latin America is just Latin America, and it deserves to be "rediscovered." But lets go straight to the record. This compilation brings together some glittering sounds from LPs that have been somehow forgotten over the years. Although most of the tracks presented here were recorded during the peak of the psychedelic era in the late 60s and early 70s, this is not a collection packed with guitar group psychedelia, although there are a few unknown gems here that qualify as such. There are also pop and folkloric songs, childrens songs, odd instructional record excerpts, and a few other anomalies from our neighbors to the south. These selections are only brief samples of what was made in Latin America in those glorious years, but while we wait for further works that can bring to light more sounds from this "undiscovered" continent, just relax, turn on your stereo and keep this magic Latinamericarpet flying." --Compilation liner notes by Albano Costillares (Argentina)." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway Format: DVD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Filmed in 2005 by Hisham Mayet, predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh, Morocco, Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway captures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and unfiltered on the home turf of the worlds most dynamic string and drum specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth. Ancient mystical brotherhoods have been flourishing for centuries in and around the cities of Marrakesh and Essaouira in Morocco where the trade caravans have gathered from their long journeys across the Trans-Saharan Highway. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must-see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins and the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes! Color; 60 minutes; digipak; all-region DVD; NTSC format."- Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sumatran Folk Cinema Format: DVD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "A film by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls), Sumatran Folk Cinema is a psychedelic collage of images and sounds from the heart and soul of the islands culture with the main focus on music. Witness classic dangdut rock music, street and country scenes, raw TV excerpts, Minang orchestras, night markets, a variety of folk musicians, audio/visual artifacts and much more wrapped in a 60 minute kaleidoscope complete with an epic soundtrack. Sumatra is the northwestern entry point to the Indonesian archipelago. Its 40 million inhabitants are primarily Muslim and speak the national language of Bahasa Indonesian. Most of the film was shot during a span of two weeks in August of 2004 in and around the cities of Medan, Padang, Bukitinggi, and Padang Panjang. It features a variety of street musicians, nightclub acts, folk groups, and incidental happenings that surround musicians in their daily lives. This film has no narration nor is it meant to express any particular theme or agenda. This is intuitive folk cinema and film collage, shot on location as it unfolded and assembled in an attempt to capture the essence of being there. All material was shot before the "Tsunami" of December 26, 2004 destroyed the city of Banda Aceh and the northwestern coastal areas of Aceh province. The Bandah Aceh segment was shot by David Martinez in 2003. The additional footage of the GAM (Free Aceh movement) rebels ambushing a government motorcade was filmed by Billy Nessen in 2001. GAM has since declared peace with the Indonesian government, given up their weapons and filtered back into Aceh society. All region DVD contains bonus footage of musical performances and trailer segment. Color; 60 minutes; digipak; NSTC format."- Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Bollywood Steel Guitar Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Bollywood Steel Guitar is the most comprehensive collection to date of steel guitar pop instrumental music from India. All 21 tracks featured here were film hits from 1962-1986 and all the masters of the steel guitar sound from the period are represented: Van Shipley, Kazi Aniruddha, S. Hazarasingh, Sunil Ganguly, and Charanjit Singh. An entirely different approach that rocks, swings, and grooves through some of Indias most beloved film tunes, the electric steel guitar as lead instrument transforms the already infectious melodies into a multitude of higher sound dimensions. This CD was compiled and carefully selected from rare LPs over several years by Stuart Ellis. Here are some excerpts from his liner notes: "The term Bollywood originally referred to Bombays (now known as Mumbai) Hindi language film industry. Although there are a number of other studios that produce films in other languages, more recently the definition has been expanded in the West to describe pretty much all films produced on the sub-continent. But where in most countries a films soundtrack would merely be used as a promotional tool for the film, in India, film music has become an industry unto itself with playback singers and dance numbers. The music is just as important as the film and lives on long after the film has left the theaters. These songs are, for the most part, the pop music of India. As with most popular music, other artists sometimes recorded cover versions of these songs. Of these musicians, a small number specialized in instrumental arrangements and created what could be called the elevator music of India. While there were a few who used the harmonium or mouth organ, the most popular instrument used in these instrumental favorites was the steel guitar.""-Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Shadow Music of Thailand Format: LP Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| ""Shadow Music" was a broad term given to the Thai guitar pop movement of the 1960s and the groups that came out of it -- all under the profound influence of early Western rock and roll. British instrumental wonders The Shadows (as in Cliff Richards & The Shadows) were the origin of the genres title -- also coined "Wong Shadow" or early Thai "string" music. Shadow records were often marketed as "Thai Modernized Music" which it was in the truest sense. Traditional Thai melodies were given the Shadow treatment -- incorporating rock, surf, a-go-go, exotica, soul, blues, Latin and otherworldly styles of the times. Inventive compositions and instrumental genius meet the occasional odd vocal arrangement and the results range from plaintive guitar and organ-driven lullabies to full-blown electric garage folk-psychedelia! Featured on this collection are a handful of the leading recorded artists from the time; P.M. Pocket Music, The Son of P.M., P.M.7, Jupiter and Johnny Guitar. Throughout the 1960s, these groups forged a unique and highly self-referential Thai sound. This is a one-time pressing of 1500 LP copies and each of these beauties comes in a full-color, heavy-duty tip-on gatefold jacket featuring gorgeous original Thai Shadow LP artwork, and of course, 180 gram vinyl -- so dont sleep on this one." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Radio Myanmar (Burma) Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "The Union Solidarity & Development Association (USDA) has grown to become one of the most pervasive organizations in Burma, claiming over 22 million members (nearly half the countrys population). Very little is known of the USDA to the outside world, but it has become embedded throughout the social infrastructure of the state. Its widely-published statutes expressing the importance of state sovereignty and public solidarity can be found in all mediums throughout the country: newspapers, television, billboards and radio broadcasts. Known as the "Three Main National Causes," "Four-Point Peoples Desire," "Seven Point Road to Democracy" and "Twelve Political, Economic and Social Objectives," each broadcast day begins with their recitation. Most of the recordings featured in this radio collection were captured in Yangon during March and April of 2007. With the authorities attempting to control all information coming into or leaving the state, rarely does the world catch a glimpse inside Burma. This is a special opportunity for listeners to delve behind the headlines and into the airwaves; to hear for themselves the sounds, rhythms, and voices of urban Burmas radio experience, unfiltered by the international press or state-spokesmen. Myanmars Voice broadcasts nearly 24 hours a day across much of the country, playing an assortment of Burmese classics; USDA pledges; and recitations of articles published by the state-run The New Light of Myanmar Times. Due in part to the near-blackout of all foreign music on state airwaves, the few FM stations that do exist in Yangon and Bago divisions, transmit a rather bizarre assortment of music from 7am to 9pm: synth ballads, hip-hop jingles, and internationally popular songs re-recorded in Burmese. This release also features assorted tracks recorded between 1994-2002, highlighting many wonderfully strange and beautiful pop, folk, and classical music styles. There are vast resources easily available to anyone interested in learning more about Burma or the USDA; this recording is simply intended to showcase the extraordinary sounds rarely heard beyond its borders." -Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Bush Taxi Mali: Field Recordings From Mali Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Bush Taxi Mali is an aural tour through the heart of Mali. These field recordings were made by Tucker Martine in 1998 while travelling throughout the West African country. This blend of bluesy Ngonis, clamoring street sounds, the stunning voice of Jalimusa Amanita Diabate (of the famous Diabate family), passing radios, Fulani flutes, runaway sound systems and chants from the Dogon country creates a unique portrait of Malis rich musical heritage. Eventually Martine found himself in the backseat of a beat up Peugeot on his way to the village of Kela, a Jeli village, where the songs and traditions of the Mande people have been scrupulously preserved. Many of the musical performances heard on this disc were made during that visit. Bush Taxi Mali is a strikingly original tapestry of the ancient traditions of Mali in the modern era." -Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: 1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This is a CD reissue of the limited LP pressing which sold out almost immediately upon release in 2008. This is Raï music from Algeria as youve not heard it before. In the early 1970s, a new group of singers and musicians were operating on the northwest coast, and what they pioneered was a sound that eventually reached worldwide status by the end of the decade; however, their names are relatively unknown to this day outside Algeria. This crucial and defining period of the development of Raï is criminally ignored and overlooked by Algerian music historians and Raï fans. Due to censorship and government-controlled music diffusion, this scene and lyrical style was forced underground and banned from broadcasts, yet slowly built a small following around the seaside cabarets of Wahran (Oran). This period witnessed the rise of artists such as Groupe El Azhar ("The Flowers" group) and Messaoud Bellemou, who can comfortably be considered the Godfather of the modern Raï sound. His group, LOrchestre Bellemou, rewrote a heritage of centuries by using modern instruments and especially the trumpet, which became, during the 1970s, the backbone of the Wahrani genre. Reinterpreting the gasba melodies on trumpet, Bellemou backed singers such as Boutaiba Sghir and Sheikh Benfissa who carried on the lyrical tradition of their forefathers singing about daily preoccupations and problems as well as love affairs, alcohol, or simply owning an automobile! Toward the late 1970s, Cheb Zergui brought a newer ingredient: an electric guitar with a wah-wah pedal. Thankfully, the late 1960s saw the development of vinyl pressing in Algeria. This new industry allowed many small artists including the Wahrani "scene" to record and release singles documenting their repertoire. This compilation is a selection of this proto-Raï scenes vinyl 45s. CD insert features photos of the musicians & informative liner notes by the man who compiled it, Hicham Chadly." -Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Shadow Music of Thailand Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This is the CD issue of the sold-out limited LP vinyl release from 2008. "Shadow Music" was a broad term given to the Thai guitar pop movement of the 1960s and the groups that came out of it -- all under the profound influence of early Western rock and roll. British instrumental wonders The Shadows (as in Cliff Richards & The Shadows) were the origin of the genres title -- also coined "Wong Shadow" or early Thai "string" music. Shadow records were often marketed as "Thai Modernized Music," which it was in the truest sense. Traditional Thai melodies were given the Shadow treatment -- incorporating rock, surf, a-go-go, exotica, soul, blues, Latin and other worldly styles of the times. Inventive compositions and instrumental genius meet the occasional odd vocal arrangement and the results range from plaintive guitar and organ-driven lullabies to full-blown electric garage folk-psychedelia! Featured on this collection are a handful of the leading recorded artists from the time; P.M. Pocket Music, The Son of P.M., P.M.7, Jupiter, and Johnny Guitar. Throughout the 1960s, these groups forged a unique and highly self-referential Thai sound. Includes an 8-page insert featuring the gorgeous original Thai Shadow LP artwork and liner notes by compiler Mark Gergis." -Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Siamese Soul: Thai Pop Spectacular 1960s-1980s Vol. 2 Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This second volume in the Thai Pop Spectacular series brings together regional artists from across Thailand. Some were modest pop players of their time, while others were major stars. Siamese Soul features 1970s hard-grooved roots funk, hypnotic Luk Thung tracks from the Northeastern Thai countryside, 1960s rock & roll and 1980s groove anomalies. All cuts come heavily laced with electric organs and guitar, thick horn sections, the traditional khaen, driving bass and stunning vocal performances with a richness that can easily be called Thai soul music of the highest order. These creative sounds formed by hybrids with Western instrumentation and genres, result in an incredibly dynamic music that is distinctively Thai. Selected from cassette tapes and vinyl found buried on bottom shelves in rural locales, these tracks serve as further evidence of a vital Thai pop scene thats been kept from Western ears for far too long. This CD comes with a 16-page booklet of amazing exclusive photos documenting the era with translated song titles and liner notes by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop." -Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Singapore A-Go-Go Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Sublime Frequencies works its way down to the tip of the Malaysian peninsula with this superb collection of Singaporean 60s beat, pop and "off-beat cha-cha" classics compiled from original vinyl 45s. These 22 supercharged beat-a-go-go tracks defy a common held belief that the Chinese couldnt rock, groove or swing back in the 1960s. The vocals are sung in the dialects of Mandarin and Hokkien and they soar, with catchy hooks atop groovy, clever beats. Theres plenty of electric guitar, organ and crazy percussion rocking and twisting behind it all, at times reaching quite a mad and freaky state of affairs. The records finale, "Happy Lunar New Year," sung by Linda Yong, may be the weirdest New Years greeting ever recorded. Every single cut is a winner and it never lets up, from start to finish. Although most of the lyrics focus on love, innocence and festive atmospherics, theres an epic vibe to the music that rivals other extremely well-recorded and unique pop styles emanating from the surrounding Southeast Asian scenes during the late 1960s. Seminal bands of the period like The Stylers and The Silvertones are well represented here, backing up a wide array of popular vocalists with Charlie Electric Guitar Bands Sound of Japan ripping it up on four brilliant instrumental tracks. CD comes with a 16-page booklet featuring gorgeous, full-color photos of the original 45 sleeves and extended liner notes from compiler William Gibson." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ecstatic Music of the Jemaa El Fna Format: LP Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "For centuries, the Jemaa El Fna (Rendezvous of the Dead) has remained the stage for one of the most spectacular social forums on the planet. By day, this central square in the city of Marrakesh, one of Moroccos great imperial cities, fosters a kaleidoscope of entertainment for its local inhabitants; storytellers, acrobats, magicians and snake charmers all create intriguing displays of bewitching spectacle. As the sun sets, the evening grows frantic with the pulse of the crowd; it is then that the night musicians set up. Free from the restrictions and expectations of light entertainment for a tourist crowd, these musicians manifest ecstatic performances that animate the audience and players alike. The groups represented on this album; Troupe Majidi, Amal Saha, and Mustapha Mahjoub, are working and carrying the torch of their musical heroes nightly in the square. These songs come from the repertoire of Moroccos greatest musical exports: Nass El Ghiwane, Lemchaheb, Jil Jilala, Larssad, and many others from the Chaabi (Moroccan popular music) canon and are given a raw, emotional and fiery interpretation. Instruments are powered by car batteries and blown out through megaphone speakers. These recordings represent a rare opportunity to hear this music at such close proximity taking in all the power and passion of the performances. The raw fidelity captures an unflinching immersion of what is simply some of the greatest street music on earth. Recorded by Hisham Mayet in 2005, a few of these performances were featured in his film Musical Brotherhoods From The Trans-Saharan Highway (SF 041DVD). This collection also contains tracks not present in the film for a more potent snapshot of the ecstatic Jemaa El Fna. Limited edition LP comes in a beautiful full-color gatefold jacket with photos of the musicians and liner notes by Hisham Mayet." -Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Ethnic Minority Music of Northwest Xinjiang, China Format: CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Laurent Jeanneau and Shi Tanding have returned from the northwest corner of Chinas Xinjiang province with an amazing batch of recordings collected during the weeks leading up to the volatile Uyghur uprising of 2009. Armed with their trusty audio gear, the couple was set on getting married and recording various styles of regional ethnic music near the Chinese border with Kazakhstan. However, the local authorities suspected that the pair had other intentions, shadowing and interrogating them wherever they went. Their marriage in Shi Tandings home town of Ili would have to wait for another time (the marriage documents were delayed in processing deep within the Chinese bureaucracy) but the recordings, preserved here, display several magnificent and unique varieties of traditional Islamic folk music with traces of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish influences heard throughout. The players are Kazakh, Uyghur, Kirgiz and Mongol Erut musicians performing on a wide array of local stringed instruments including topchar, komuz, rushtar, rawab and tchang. One amazing example is Kurmanjiang Zaccharia, a Kazakh string virtuoso, whose lightning-fast fingers blaze up and down the neck of his two-stringed dongbra. Another is an epic 10-minute vocal muqam performed by a trio of Uyghur musicians on satar, tambur and dotar. Also featured is a Kazakh singing-style called Ay Ikesse performed by Aken (improvising poet-singers utilizing dongbra accompaniment), Kirgiz songs sung in the Manas style and played on the komuz, and Mongol Erut bai boor den instrumental pieces. The CD comes with a 16-page full-color booklet featuring photos of the musicians and informative liner notes chronicling the journey, instruments and styles documented, and background information on the performers by Laurent Jeanneau." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: My Friend Rain Format: DVD/CD Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "My Friend Rain -- A film by Robert Millis (color/38 minutes). Filmed throughout Southeast Asia by Robert Millis between 2002-2004, My Friend Rain is an abstract homage to the endless monsoon cycles of rebirth and destruction. Dreamy musical segments, fleeting glimpses, odd sounds, temple shrines, tropical backdrops, decay, death, languid afternoon rains, and mysterious celebratory events take the viewer from soaked mornings in the lowlands of the Irrawaddy Delta to humid nights on the streets of Isan province. Two tracks originally released on Millis Leaf Music, Drunks, Distant Drums CD from 2002 can now be witnessed for the first time in this film: an amazing elephant mahout playing a song on a leaf with his mouth and a Burmese marionette orchestra musician performing expertly on tuned drums. The overall experience is an impressionistic collage of sight and sound captured live and in the moment on location in Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. Along with the DVD which features 12 minutes of extra footage and deleted scenes, the package includes a bonus CD with the films soundtrack of traditional and popular music culled from live performance, cassette and LP archives. Some of the soundtrack highlights: a gorgeous Thai Luk Thung track by Waiphot Phetsuphan, a classic Khmer performance by Pan Ron, one of the Queens of Cambodian music, and an epic Burmese pop rendition of the Bee Gees "How Do You Mend A Broken Heart," alongside folk performers, street musicians and a traditional Burmese orchestra. Robert Millis, original co-founder of both Climax Golden Twins and AFCGT, also co-produced the Victrola Favorites: Artifacts From Bygone Days (DTD 011CD) book/CD project on Dust-to-Digital and is a frequent contributor to the Sublime Frequencies label. DVD/CD comes in a 2-disc jewel box with a full-color insert. DVD is NTSC format, region free." -Sublime Frequencies |
| Artist: V/A Title: Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 Format: Double LP Label: Sublime Frequencies Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "The long-awaited foray into the Vietnamese rock, pop and soul sound of the late 1960s and early 1970s is finally here. Saigon Rock & Soul delivers the goods international retro collectors have been searching for in vain for many years -- and it delivers beyond belief. Every song is a mini-masterpiece, be it heavy acid-rock psychedelia, horn- and guitar-drenched funk grooves, or gripping soul ballads reflective of life during wartime. The tracks that form this collection cut a window into a rich musical Vietnamese music scene that has long been obscured, and for the most part, forgotten. As the scope of electrified Vietnamese music from the 1960s and 1970s begins to be revealed, it becomes evident that this was among the heaviest and most eclectic musical scenes of Southeast Asia at the time. These songs tell of war, love and what war does to love. All of them were recorded in makeshift studios and even U.S. army facilities while the Vietnam War raged -- and were issued by a handful of Saigon record companies on vinyl 45s and reel or cassette tapes. Westernized forms of music in Vietnam had appeared during the latter 19th century, and especially during the early 20th century, under the influence of the French colonizers. Tan Nhac (trans. "modern music") always incorporated both domestic and international sounds, and continued to develop alongside Western musical trends. During the 1960s and 1970s, pulp ballads were being recorded by leading crooners of the time who alternated between modern and traditional forms of regional music. When the electric guitar hit the streets of Saigon, Vietnamese renditions of contemporary instrumental trends such as surf-rock, beat and twist soon emerged, followed by some pretty deep soul sounds inspired by Motown radio hits as well as funk grooves brought on by James Brown and his contemporaries. By the mid-1960s, Vietnam had been ravaged by war for years. American G.I.s had become a standard fixture in Saigon, as did many of the cultural artifacts they brought with them. This certainly included the music. The sounds of rock and roll dominated the radio waves, and Saigon nightclubs were teeming with new sounds. Musically, The Shadows and The Ventures soon gave way to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones as an enthusiastic set of young Vietnamese rockers signed on to the lifestyle, always eager to hear the latest musical trends the G.I.s would bring in on LP or tape. This era saw the birth of a vibrant rock scene, yet rock music and anything that came close was commonly referred to as "soul" in the Vietnamese genre-listings. Like many cultures in Asia, Vietnamese music is recorded, marketed, listened to and disposed of in a relatively quick manner. This level of advanced ephemera ensures a degree of difficulty when trying to unearth and discover cultural histories. Literally, most of the music heard here has been brought back from the dead. Artists featured include some of Vietnams most popular at the time: Elvis Phuong, Hung Cuong, Mai Lei Huyen, Le Thu, Thai Thanh, Giao Linh, Mai Lei Huyen and the CBC Band. This limited edition 2LP vinyl release features 70 minutes of classic original recordings compiled by Mark Gergis housed in a beautiful full-color gatefold jacket with extensive liner notes." - Sublime Frequencies. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 3 Format: LP Label: Subliminal Sounds Country: Sweden Price: $27.00 |
| "Finally on vinyl, volume three of the legendary Thai Beat compilation including 5 (!) awesome extra tracks that were not previously available on the CD! Incredible and ultra-rare recordings from Thailand in the 1960s. The amazing Thai Beat A Go-Go Vol 3 concentrates on Shadow music string bands, cosmic surf instros, mad garage/beat, mystic go-go organs, wild guitar rave-ups and psychedelic mind-benders, exotic female singers, wild Moog funk, disco madness, funky and soulful with extreme sensuality and emotions, surreal and groovy, all with a totally otherworldly Thai flavor. Experience the blossoming Bangkok night club scene with the exotic bar and lounge go-go bands! These recordings have a sound thats completely inexplicable, despite the use of standard rock instrumentation and song structures combining a fascinating and primal version of rock n roll, surf, r n b -- sometimes all in one song. Dont miss this ultimate Thai 60s compilation. Limited edition of 1,000 copies worldwide. Housed in a beautiful full-color gatefold sleeve." -Subliminal Sounds |
| Artist: V/A Title: Dry Lungs V Format: Double CD Label: Subterranean Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "This specially packaged double CD features contributions from 24 outstanding experimental and industrial artists from Europe, Japan and the US. Included are ARCANE DEVICE, CONTROLLED BLEEDING, CRANIOCLAST, DESACCORD MAJEUR, ETANT DONNES, FAT HACKER, HIJOKAIDAN, MICHAEL HOVACSEK, INCAPACITANTS, PAUL LEMOS, MASONNA, MERZBOW, CHRIS MORIARTY, NULL, JOE PAPA, PGR, PHALLUS DEI, HELENE SAGE and BERNARD VITET, SKIN CHAMBER, SOLMANIA, CARL STONE, TRANCE, UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANE, and VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA. Compiled and with extensive notes on the artists by Paul Lemos, with artwork by Arthur Potter. The packaging includes a large and quite elegantly printed folder inside a 6 by 12 slipcase." - Subterranean. Original copies of this 1992 release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Dry Lungs IV Format: LP Label: Subterranean Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| Includes Controlled Bleeding, Dissecting Table, Minus Deltat, Helene Sage & Francis Gorge, Un Drame Musical Instantane, The Gerogerigegege, Heinrich Mucken, Printed At Bismarks Death, Robert Rich, James Levine and Paul Lemos. Original copies of this 1988 release. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Club Foot Format: LP Label: Subterranean Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A limited red vinyl repressing of this 1981 high-quality studio compilation album featuring several of the jazz- inspired bands that came together at San Franciscos artpunk showcase, Club Foot: the LONGSHOREMEN, the ALTERBOYS, NAKED CITY, BAY OF PIGS, and the CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA (augmented for this recording by the HIEROGLYPHICS ENSEMBLE). Critically acclaimed (count raves by author Greil Marcus among others), this has gotta be one of the more original and entertaining bunch of weirdos ever recorded. Yes, it is possible to experiment and have fun at the same time, and heres the proof. Numbered pressing of 450 copies, original fold-out packaging, with new insert." - Subterranean. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Okkulte Stimmen Mediale Musik Format: 3 CD Box Set Label: Suppose Country: Germany Price: $65.00 |
| Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007. "No comprehensive collection of audio documents of paranormal phenomena has been published so far. This audio box consists of three CDs. The first contains examples of trance speech, direct voices and clairvoyance. The second CD contains recordings of xenoglossy and glossolalia, including ethnological material. The third CD presents paranormal music, rappings, and other poltergeist manifestations as well as so-called Electronic Voice Phenomena. Although occult phenomena are an integral part of cultural history, their reality is discussed controversially. For the recordings collected here, the question was not so much whether such phenomena are real or manipulated, illusion or deception, supernatural-otherworldly or simply of human nature. They are rather presented as authentic documents with their particular atmosphere and their characteristic intensity. Our goal was to demonstrate, with a phenomenological overview, the audible diversity and the width in form and content of such phenomena. Some of the audio examples could hardly be categorized because paranormal events admit different interpretations. For instance, when is a poltergeist case a case of possession, or vice versa? Or how clear and reliable is the distinction of xenoglossy and glossolalia? This collection is decisively determined by the availability or sparseness of the material. Only for Electronic Voice Phenomena there is a cornucopia of examples; most other documents, such as the recordings of mediumistic seances before the second world war, are unique rarities." - Andreas Fischer, Thomas Knoefel (from the liner notes). Includes 40-page booklet. Recordings include "Voices From Possessed Children: Janet (11) and Margaret (13)" (1978), "Minnie Harrison And The Christmas Party Sitting: Sam Speaks Through Trumpet.; Douglas Materialises and Speaks" (1954), trance-breathing from the 1930s, "compositions from the other side, received, recorded or played via spiritualist mediums" and a lot more to keep you up at night. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Anti-Naturals Art Cards Format: Art Cards Label: Swill Radio Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "A series of 20 postcard-sized images, printed to commemorate Anti-Naturals Night. Mostly color. Art by Graham Lambkin, Karla Borecky, Tim Shortell. Photographs by Scott Foust. You know they are excellent. Packaged in a map-print envelope." - Swill Radio. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Lasting Format: Cass Label: Swill Radio Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A friend of mine who is in the business tells me that the stock of chrome cassettes should start to run out around the middle of this year as no one is producing them anymore. This is distressing in that not only will it lead to the sad demise of Pineapple Tapes, but also because I do all of my music with a stereo field cassette field recorder and a 4 track cassette machine. I feel like Ive finally become really good at putting together music this way and now it will be obsolete. Just like me! Putting that aside, I thought it would be great for Pineapple Tapes to go out with a bang and what better bang than an international compilation 90? So, I invited some of my friends and associates and Lasting has emerged. I must say that everyone sent excellent tracks and I did my best in sequencing the material, keeping in mind the great From Brussels With Love tape. The artists are listed below. Salud Lasting! Foust!, Karla Borecky, Graham Lambkin, Emeralds, BRRR, Dead Girls Party, Tim Goss, Frans de Waard, Asmus Tietchens, Ian Middleton, Vikki Jackman, Weyes Bluhd, Matt Krefting, The Collection Of The Late Howell Bend, Andrew Chalk, Idea Fire Company." -Swill Radio |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration Format: CD Label: Table of the Elements Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "John Faheys death -- he is believed to have died in the explosion of a house during the filming of Michelangelo Antonionis Zabriskie Point in 1969 -- is shrouded in confusion and camouflage. His remains were never found, and the question remains: did Fahey purposely stage his own death for his own occlusive purposes? Faheys collusion of folk, blues, ethnic and modern classical methods, which suggests both the trickster and the shaman, has attracted a cult of musician followers over the years, ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime. But his unsolved disappearance inspired another cult, which worships Count Saint Germain, a Rosicrucian adept who is said to have never died and has assumed various identities over the centuries. Disciples of this sect, heard on this record, believe Fahey -- The Great Koonaklaster -- to be the most recent incarnation of Saint Germain. They view Faheys music as a synthesis of Saint Germains abilities as a classical composer and skills as an alchemist, and have absorbed his guitar style in order to pay homage to him. A variety of ritual services are contained within, and there is much to be gleaned from these Koonaklasterians offerings; whether or not you choose to accept this immortal motherf#cker of the 20th century as Saint Germain is up to you." - Table of the Elements. Artists include Jack Rose, Greg Malcolm, Ben Vida, Sir Richard Bishop, Michael Hurley, No Neck Blues Band with John Fahey and Coach Fingers, Lichens, Badgerlore, R. Keenan Lawler, Pumice, David Daniell. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Red Room DVD Format: DVDR Label: Tapeworm Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "features scummy, rough basement videos from COTTON MUSEUM, SICK LLAMA, EVENINGS, CHARLIE DRAHEIM, JIMBO EASTER, METAL DUNGEON, SPYKES + more. All sets are recorded live at my house (the red room) in kalamazoo, michigan. there are also various extra footage included between sets." - Tapeworm. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Prayer Is The Answer Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
| Great late 90s comp w/ Five Starcle Men, Faxed Head, Evil Moisture, Harvey Sid Fischer, Flossie and The Unicorns, Kingdom Scum, Bastard Noise, CIA Dry Ice System, Harry Pussy and more! |
| Artist: V/A Title: Dennis The Menace Buttflaps Format: CDR Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $18.50 |
| Features Maher Shalal Hash Baz as well as GG Allin, Murder Junkies w/Jeff Clayton, Jad Fair, Harvey Sid Fisher, Total Fucking Destruction (ex Brutal Truth), David Woodard, L.A.O., Smallgoodz, Bobby Fischer, Rich Hoak, etc. Cover art by Mike Diana. |
| Artist: V/A Title: God Came Between Us Format: CD Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Finally out. The compendium of psychedelic/electric/experimental/noise music from the late 60s to nowadays. Most of the tracks are previously unreleased. featuring; Tiny Tim, Gregg Turkington (aka Neil Hamburger), Glen Meadmore, The 3 Nieces (Eugene Chadbourne, Don Bolles & Joseph Hammer), Silver Apples vs Tom Smith, Dave-iD Busaras (ex Virgin Prunes), William S. Burroughs, Surfers of Romantica, Destroy All Monsters, Culturcide, Raymond Scott, Anal Magic and Rev. Dwight Frizzell featuring Black Crack and The Sole Survivors, Totem Pole of Losers, The Dead C, Decaer Pinga, The Three Doctors, Christine 23 ONNA, Evil Moisture, Beyond Joy and Evil and T.Mikawa (from Incapacitants) Cover art by the English outsider artist, Ian Pyper. Limited to 500 copies." - Temple 777. |
| Artist: V/A Title: What was Violence? Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "A compilation of selected tracks from the 1st Beast 666 Tapes release BST-001 VA - All You Need is Violence - only 50 copies made + BONUS. Featuring The Hantarashi (3 tracks), The Hum, Violent Onsen Geisha and Eye Yamatsuka (Solo throat). Each copy numbered. Ltd 100. Cover artwar by Survival Unit." - Temple Of Be Saint 777. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Hip Hop Shop Sweepers Vol.01 Format: CDR Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "w/ Blood Stereo, Alvarius B, Smegma, Sick Llama, Sic Alps, Robedoor, Portland Bike Ensemble, Kawasome Yoshihiro, Witcyst, The Punks, Nautical Almanac, Charles Balls & Crank Sturgeon, Id M Theft Able, Porest, Sounds of North American Adult Bookstores, Glamorous Pat, Maths Balance Volumes and Tsupoornu. Shiny full color print. Pro copy. Ltd.100. Cover artwork by Glamorous Pat." - Temple Of Be Saint 777 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Do Less Or Format: Cass Label: Temple Of Be Saint 777 Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
| "w/ Lisa Suckdog, Raionbashi, Don Bolles (GERMS) & Yoshihide Otomo, Dylan Nyoukis, Bisciglia Bohman Hammer (LAFMS), AMK, Vitamin B2, Andrew Smith (ex Billboard Combat), Suckdog (as a Band), Usurper, Lieutenant Murnau, Id M Theft Able, Andrew Coltrane, Jeph Jerman, Ummo Music, Arts & Crafts Building and The Gerogerigegege. A compilation of oral performance, found sound mix, field recording, physical sound art etc. All tracks are new or previously unreleased. Cover art paintings by Andrew Smith." -777 Was 666 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Nice: An Anthology of Peter Eden Productions Format: LP Label: Tenth Planet Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| 1999 release. All tracks from 1966-73. "Psych-based overview of the activities of 60s producer Peter Eden -- includes the Fingers, Crocheted Doughnut Ring, Bill Fay, former Incredible String Band member Clive Palmer, etc. 16 tracks (many previously unreleased), insert with Eden/band bios, photos etc., 1000 copies on 190 gram vinyl." -Tenth Planet. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sonic Protest 2008 Format: Double CD Label: Textile Country: France Price: $16.50 |
| "Textile Rds presents "Sonic Protest 2008" a compilation created to accompany the sonic protest festival held in Paris last december. Featuring mostly unreleased and rare tracks from bands who appeared at this events. (see tracklisting below) this compilation captures the spirit of this wild and iconoclast festival. This double CD set (for the price of 1 CD) is in a 7" record sleeve and a silkscreened protection bag." - Textile. Features BRAINBOMBS, Noël AKCHOTE, CATALOGUE, REINES DANGLETERRE, BERG SANS NIPPLE, SALMIGONDIS, STANLEY KUBI, ALVARO, GOL, LEIF ELGGREN, Joëlle LEANDRE, Charlie O., Fred NIPI, DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN, DIMENSION X, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, PARENTHETICAL GIRLS vs. DEERHOOF, Claus VAN BEBBER / Michael VORFELD, THE SKULL DEFEKTS, ERO BABAA, A.H.KRAKEN, SAUVAGE, SHIT AND SHINE, Jean-louis COSTES , and ICH BIN. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Journal of Popular Noise Vol.1 - Issues 10-12 Format: Triple 7" Label: The Journal of Popular Noise Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Journal of Popular Noise is a semi-annual audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact. Limited edition of hand-folded, letter-press printed copies. Within the package are 3 issues, each in the form of 7" vinyl records. Every issue conforms to the same prescribed editorial structures but is composed by a different artist or group. This set contains issues 10-12 featuring (respectively) Climax Golden Twins, Pwrfl Power, and Linda & Rons Dad. The packaging folds out to a beautiful letter-pressed poster containing information about the Journal, the musicians, and the compositional process." - The Journal of Popular Noise. Numbered edition of 300. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Journal of Popular Noise Vol.1 - Issues 13-15 Format: Triple 7" Label: The Journal of Popular Noise Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "The Journal of Popular Noise is a semi-annual audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact. Limited edition of hand-folded, letter-press printed copies. Within the package are 3 issues, each in the form of 7" vinyl records. Every issue conforms to the same prescribed editorial structures but is composed by a different artist or group. This set contains issues 13-15 featuring spoken word records from Andrew W.K., Felt Letters (featuring Ian Svenonius), and Walker & Cantrell. The packaging folds out to a beautiful letter-pressed poster containing information about the Journal, the musicians, and the compositional process." - The Journal of Popular Noise. Numbered edition of 100. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Err On The Good Side Format: LP Label: Three:Four Country: Switzerland Price: $29.00 |
| "Err on the Good Side is the first volume of a compilation series devoted to musicians, programmers, reviewers, disc sellers or whoever involved in music activities that we love. We offer them the opportunity to share their passion for it by curating a record. For this first volume we have asked ali_fib, the most interesting and adventurous gig promoter in Paris, to handle it. The result, Err on the Good Side, reflects their own musical tastes and friendships. Except Chambre 1, Ilitchs introductory track (which was released in 2005 as part of Thierry Müllers limited-edition picture disc, Rainy House) and Amen Dunes contribution Diane (here offered in its extended version; an alternative take will be released by Locust Music), this record is made of previously unreleased material and has been compiled using a very simple idea of symmetry: most of the tracks here have been assembled as pairs based on musical affinities. Featuring Sir Richard Bishop, Duane Pitre, El-G, Steve Gunn, Ben Nash, Hitch, Mike Wexler and more. Numbered edition of 504 copies with glossy insert and download postcard." -Three:Four |
| Artist: V/A Title: Bishkek is Burning Format: 7" Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "The first underground Kyrgyzstan compilation ever! With songs ranging from pop-punk to ska-punk to post-punk to unclassifiable, this includes one tune each from MILK VOKYDAS, SHUGAR, GARIK MITYAEV, HALLIGANI I RA and YA VES ZELYONYI, and was released in June 2004. Numbered pressing of 500 copies, fold-out sleeve with lyrics and liner notes." --Tian An Men 89 |
| Artist: V/A Title: Dushanbe Punkers and Rockers Format: LP Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "From Tajikistan comes this compilation of 9 underground rock bands with 13 songs, including ZLO (minimalist dark rock & death metal), RAGNAROCK (hardcore thrash), ZAPADNY KVARTAL (shoegazer pop), ZVUKOVAYA ARTYEL (postpunk), TRUSH-OBA (dark, 90s-style hard rock), KHOROG ROCK BAND (80s-style rock), KIDE & THE JEANS COMMUNITY (melodic rock), NOCH (postpunk), and IEROGLIF (rock). Released in July 2006 in a limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies with a glossy full-color sleeve, including liner notes." -Tian An Men 89. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Paxta-Core Format: LP Label: Tian An Men 89 Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "Eight underground bands with 15 songs, largely on the dark, angry and political side, from the central Asian ex-USSR nation of Uzbekistan! With TUPRATIKONS (hard rock), SUCHIY POTROKH (psych-rock), RED-AKTSIYA (noisy FLIPPER-esque postpunk), HARDCORE-OPA (garagey hardcore), SKISSERZ (folk-rock), BROGEN BOGEN (ska-punk), SLEZY SOLNTS (postpunk with female vocals), and BGMOLTSY I GROBOVERZHTSY (brooding electro-post-punk). Recording quality is pretty much straight outta the basement rehearsal room, but in Uzbekistan you probably take what you can get... Limited pressing of 500 hand-numbered copies, glossy full color sleeve." --Tian An Men 89. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Cherrystones Word Format: CD Label: Tlon Uqbar Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Remember all those rock magazines with covers proclaiming that "rock is dead!"? Remember that girl at the party who told you that the guitar was "played out" and "too limited?" Thankfully there are people in this world like MR. CHERRYSTONES who patiently waited to rock a psychedelic block party from London to NYC with his new compilation Cherrystones Word. Reflecting his punk rock roots, but coming out at a hip hop angle with an astounding knowledge of music and a native intuition of how to tear shit up in clubs, Cherrystones is the sound of psychedelia-soundtracks-folk-rock-prog-noise-moog-and-library-records. His compilations have a beautiful flow like a radio transmission from planet dada. This personal-journey-by-DJ is genuinely disarming as he uncovers track after track that thrills through being dusted down for fresh consumption, from the Led Zeppelin-esque qualities of DEAD MOON to the crazed, Dylan-like THE DEVIANTS on to the Arthur Lee-ish MIDNIGHT CIRCUS. Debut release on the Tlon Uqbor label, fierce spawn of contemporary psych repository Holy Mountain." - Tlon Uqbar. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The End Of The Fear Of God By Various Artists Format: CD Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
| "All source material by swiss hardcore/noise legends FEAR OF GOD (1987-88), reworked/covered by (in order of appearance) RLW. N.O.G., NORBERT M?SLANG, RUDOLF EB.ER, SUDDEN INFANT, STROTTER INST., SOVIET SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION, SUNTOUR, ANDREW PHILLIPS, SCHURER, UNHOLY GRAVE, KEVIN DRUMM, BELA KISS, EVIL MOISTURE KILLER NUTS, HECKER, EYE YAMATSUKA, R. H.Y. YAU, THE IDEALIST, GOREBITCH, MASSACCESI, KURE KURE TAKURA, DYLAN NYOUKIS, MIKE PATTON & KID 606, GENETIC TRANSMISSION, ERIC BOROS & JASON FLOWERS, STRESS, JASON KAHN, DJ SMALLCOCK, IMPERATIVE, SHOJI GOTO, THE GLANDS OF THE EXTERNAL SECRETION, JIM O?ROURKE, DROPDEAD with OUTOSUSHI, K2, DORIS TOMASONI, KOUHEI MATSUNAGA, EVA REVOX, MERZBOW, KEIN BABEL, BLACKJEWISHGAYS FEAT. DJANGO, EVA D., OMMYTH, MEDIEVAL MOISTURE, HUMECTANT INTERRUPTION, SAICOBABA, RABID DOGS, J.C., DAVE NOYZE, DJKILLROY VS. VON WURSTFINGER, RM74, RAIONBASHI, VICIOUS CIRCLE, ECRASE-MERDE, ATTA, SHITE MINOR, VOICE CRACK, THOMAS ANKERSMIT, SILVUM, RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK, TAKEDOWN UAV, THE HATERS, RUSSELL HASWELL, THE NAUTILUS DECONSTRUCTION, CHICKEN & MONKEY, BLOODSTAR VS. SAALSCHUTZ, PITA, SEAMAN STAYNES & MASTER BAITS, ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI, and THE MACHINE GUN TV. This is the Stone on Fear of Gods grave. 12-page booklet including You Cant Reason with Logic, a short-story by G.X.Jupitter-Larsen. Compiled by Dave Phillips & Tochnit Aleph. Mastered by Rashad at D&M. Edition of 1000 copies." - Tochnit Aleph. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Nohio Format: 7 Cass Box Set Label: Together Tapes Country: USA Price: $36.00 |
| "A lot has changed in the 4 years since I found the box of medical noise cassettes that would inspire the Nohio tape series. Many of the artists featured no longer live there, some projects no longer exist, and a whole new crop of sickos has clawed up into place. Each volume of the original tapes were released in an extremely limited edition of 30-33 copies and featured one of my favorite Ohio artists on one side and the found med fucked sounds on the other. The project served as a transition from my involvement with Epicene (who the original tapes were co-released with) and living in Ohio to Together and moving to Portland. The box represents a sliver of what was going on in Ohio at the time but is a personal snapshot of the weirdo scene in Ohio circa 2004. For this set Mike Shiflet has provided a bonus side of heavily concentrated visceral nerve noise not a part of the original series, which serves as a tribute to Ohio friends. Plus the inclusion of my favorite "found medical sound" side with the name Samuel T. Washington enscribed on the original. All boxes feature heavily painted, silkscreened artwork, with all over tape labels and strange silkscreened patches all glued together and clear gunked over. This an edition of 100. Includes Leslie Keffer, Iovae, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, Ultra // Vires, Jason Zeh, To-Night Golden Curls, Steam Drapula, Organs, Yes,Collapse, Burning Star Core, Crack In Iraq, Sword Heaven, Mike Shiftlet, and Samuel T. Washington." -Together Tapes |
| Artist: V/A Title: Imaginational Anthem Volume Two Format: CD Label: Tompkins Square Country: US Price: $14.50 |
| "Released in October 2005, Imaginational Anthem Volume One featured two generations of important acoustic guitarists, from John Fahey and Sandy Bull to Jack Rose and Kaki King. Volume Two expands and builds on this theme with 70+ more minutes of guitar magic -- all previously unreleased on CD in the US. 23-year old UK 12-string upstart James Blackshaw opens the record, while the late master Robbie Basho, a clear influence on Blackshaws style, closes it. Bashos track is the only live recording by this groundbreaking guitarist ever released. Riches abound on Imaginational Anthem Vol Two, with new recordings by former Takoma roster alumni Peter Lang (who made an album with John Fahey and Leo Kottke), Billy Faier (an original Greenwich Village folkie whose late 50s Riverside records inspired a fellow crack banjo player, Steve Martin) and an archival home recording by Fred Gerlach (a favorite of Jimmy Page). The new breed is well-represented by fascinating figures of today -- Smith, Carter, Sparhawk, Kraus, Rose and Blackshaw. Legendary singer/songwriter Michael Chapman, whose first albums for the Harvest label in the 60s are now seeing the light again, contributes as well." - Tompkins Square. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Nippon Folk, Japanese Blues Format: Cass Label: Trilogy Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "A disparate collection of 20th century folk recordings, from several regions of the islands of Japan. Magicians; a traditional rain dance performed with umbrellas; a devotional to a hot spring - sung at the baths with the tempo pounded out in the water; Tsugaru shamisen, the percussive style specific to the north; work songs and dances of field and sea. Thunder crack, horse-back rhythms from a pre-concrete, pre-economic bubble era." - Trilogy. Compiled by Howard Williams from Honest Jons Records. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Drone Records: A Selection of Drones Past: Singles 1993-2000 Format: Double CD Label: Tumult Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "An incredible collection of some of the best tracks from the early years of German vinyl-only drone label, Drone Records. An institution in the underground music community, every Drone release is ultra limited and hand assembled by the artists themselves. This compilation collects some of the most amazing early works, originally vinyl-only, available here on CD for the first time ever, from Maeror Tri, Alio Die, Dual, Ultra United, Delphium, Inade, Aube, Vance Orchestra, Osso Exotico, Klood, Vir, Reynols, Spear, Dronaement, Toy Bizarre, Tarkatak, Francisco Lopez, Kallabris, Yen Pox and Die Feinen Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim. A completely mesmerizing collection of droning, drifting bliss." - Tumult. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Marvelous Sound Forms Format: Double LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "When most labels clear their vaults, one is usually reminded of old Roger Corman horror movies. The detritus of the shambling dead stagger forth beneath an unfortunate sun, groping blindly for the unwary listener, as a cultured English narrator sepulchrally utters that there are things Humanity was not meant to know. Heres ours. Marvelous Sound Forms is a collection of stray tracks from the TV elite, all once shelved for various reasons but now forming a special picture of that time we call the "early 90s" when bands like the Crystallized Movements, Magic Hour, and B.O.R.B. roamed the galaxy. The Crystallized Movements were Connecticuts long lived last hope. At the point at which these tracks were recorded, the Crystallized Movements were Wayne Rogers (good evening guitar), Kate Biggar (piss off guitar), Scott McLeod (whose holy bass playing shook Lucifer in the very Pit itself), and Teri Morris (fearless pounder of every inanimate object within reach). Marvelous Sound Forms features four crystallizations from their peak era. BORB is one of the labels eternally cryptic projects. Three extraterrestrial visitors periodically touch down in a field in southern Vermont where they are met by label staff. A zorbnoid-to-analog converter is hastily assembled, and the BORBans interstellar ramblings are downloaded to tape by these intrepid TV staff for Earthly distribution. Two tracks are here, one Blast Off-era track (originally considered too ridiculous even by the band) and one meditative post-In Orbit excursion (once slated for a never finished fourth LP). Magic Hour melded the powerhouse guitar overload of Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar with the melancholy flow and throb of bassist Naomi Yang and drummer Damon Krukowski. The results balanced acoustic poise with electric roar, psychedelic rush and funereal stateliness. A band that was truly dark, as opposed to just being poorly-lit. The tracks featured here include their last studio moment together-- an Untitled improvisation from 12/95. A Wayne Rogers solo cut rounds out the set. We hope you enjoy this collection of juvenilia and dying breaths." -Twisted Village. |
| Artist: V/A Title: De Nagalm Op De Kopf Format: CD/Mag Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $23.00 |
| ""A collection of sounds that represent Ultra Eczema pretty well although some of the recordings on this comp are over 5 years old. A variation of odd, "funny", retarded, great, noisy, free, off, loud, harsh, sad and brutal tracks by NOISE NOMADS, KRYSTAL KNIGHT, HACKY PACK ZAC SAC, MUDBOY, CEMENT FUTURE, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY I CANT READ, CARDS ON MY CUNT, PRURIENT, EX MEMBERS OF JOSH HYDEMAN, CLOACA & VOM GRILL, XO4, BURNING STAR CORE, KITES, DEFNEG, TUMBLE CAT POOF POOFY POOF, TRASHBUSTERS, ANTHRO REX, ERIC BOROS, BLOATED EGO AND THE COMPLIMENTS, MOUTHUS, MIX APE SYNB, ORPHAN FAIRYTALE, UNICORN HARD ON, MUSLUX, GREY SKULL, BLACK TIE RUBBER PUSSY, GOD WILLING, BOBBY COLOMBO WITH SILVER CINDY & JB DE KUNST!!! The CD comes in a cover designed by DENNIS TYFUS, JOSHUA BURKETT, NOISE NOMADS, and BILL NACE." -Ultra Eczema |
| Artist: V/A Title: La Bamba Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $31.00 |
| "Fifteen years ago hat and cacti collector DANIEeL DE WERELDVERMAARDE BOTANICUS (Cassis Cornuta) deejayed two hours of versions of "La Bamba" on the now-defunct situationist radio show RTVS (Radio Centraal, Antwerp). The spirit of these drunken, on-air yell-alongs and sing-alongs of yore join us in the here and now on this international compilation LP, released to coincide with Ultros Exemos La Bamba Night(mare), February 28, 2009 at Scheldapen in Antwerp, and evening event where more than 300 different versions of "La Bamba"-recordings and live-were performed. This LP included covers of "La Bamba" by SUDDEN INFANT, FLORIS VANHOOF, ANGST HASE PFEFFER NASE, BROMPTREB, ANLA COURTIS, SMACK MUSIC 7, KOMMISSAR HJULER, MITT LAND OCH LEO, HUMAN HAIRS, DANIEL DE WERELDVERMAARDE BOTANICUS, REMORK, REIJO PAMI, GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION, JAN VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, RUBBER O CEMENT, LUDO MICH, MAMA BAeR, TOMUTONTO, VVM & THE SYNTHETIC VOICE OF GAEOUDJIPARL VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, DANIEeLLE LEMAIRE, KRAUS, and FRICARA PACCHU. 400 copies." - Ultra Eczema. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Sound Poetry: A Catalogue Format: Book Label: Underwhich Editions Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
| Restocked after 2+ years.."An historic assemblage of texts, essays, statements, biographies, discographies, photos and more. Published in 1978, and still an informative document on some key practitioners of this 20th century art form." Edited by bpNichol and Steve McCaffery. Includes Greta Monach, Paula Claire, Jackson Maclow, Bob Cobbing, Bernard Heidsieck, Paul Dutton, Sten Hanson, Henry Chopin, R. Murray Schafer, Owen Sound, Dick Higgins, Larry Wendt, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Ake Hodell and many more. Original 1978 edition of 1500. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Reportage: Spela Själv Format: LP Label: Unknown Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Exact reproduction LP of a Swedish release from 1970. A bit of confusion surrounds this release: The album has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they arent featured on it. Bo Anders Persson did, in fact, in collaboration with Solvieg Bark, compile, edit and release this album. Bo Anders Persson, was a member of the legendary Swedish bands Harvester, International Harvester, Pärson Sound, and Träd, Gräs Och Stenar. Solveig Bark was one of a few young composers that, through the UNM (Young Nordic Music Festivals), would become a contemporary of Erkki Kurenniemi, Folke Rabe, etc. Reportage: Spela Själv roughly translates to Play Yourself. It contains field recordings of amateurs playing/making sounds. Raga Concrète, if you will. A fine, rare, and lovely piece to behold." Highly recommended! |
| Artist: V/A Title: A Range Of Greatdividing Format: LP Label: Unwucht Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "This compilation documents obscure rock made by a small group of friends in Australia who operate mainly out of sight, but have produced some odd sheer bloody brilliance over more than 20 years. Ever dreamt about members of Dragnet era Fall jamming with an unplugged feedtime down a metaphysical phone line? SHOPTOPROCKERS did & then reinterpreted that dream in the kitchens & halls above shops in Sydney & Melbourne.?Originating from Queensland EXILES FROM CLOWNTOWN either eat diamonds & shit rock, or eat rock & shit diamonds ... you decide. Sydneys 3 TOED SLOTH are long extinct, their psychic throb beat however has been picked up by highly attuned individuals from as far away as Southern Bavaria & Philadelphia PA. We strongly recommend young Kraut worshippers everywhere listen to Melbourneresidents ROCK BOYCOTT & DEEP BRAIN THROMBOSIS if nothing else it will save wear & tear on their precious Neu & Faust reissues.?So, get im Rhythmus der Zeit with A RANGE OF GREATDIVIDING from the island continent of Australia - Its always now time in the never never.?300 copies screen printed with die cut covers from UNWUCHT of South Germany, the land of milk & fhn psychosis. Originally released on cassette & cdr in an edition of 50 each by greatdividing." - Unwucht. |
| Artist: V/A Title: United Bamboo-They Keep Me Smiling Format: CD/Hardcover Book Label: UUnited Acoustic Recordings Country: Japan Price: $35.00 |
| Beautiful hardcover book (embossed, full color) and CD on this Japanese fashion labels recently established music division. Compiled by Hisham Bharoocha (ex-Black Dice). Features music and art by SAMARA LUBELSKI (Hall of Fame, Tower Recordings, Metabolismus, new solo LP soon on Destijl), GANG GANG DANCE (members of Cranium, Actress, Angelblood, ssab songs, etc.. debut LP on Fusetron), BLACK DICE, WHITE MAGIC (Mira of Quix*O*Tic), EXCEPTER (2 LPs on Fusetron), ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, BLOOD ON THE WALL, DELIA GONZALEZ & GAVIN RUSSOM (DFA.. "Russom is a master electronic technician who builds all his own keyboards. These homemade Moog style keyboards are used to make this magical space age music." - UUAR), ANGELBLOOD (Rita Akkermann, Liz and Brian of Gang Gang Dance, and Dave Nuss of NNCK), TERRESTRIAL TONES (Eric of Black Dice and Dave of Animal Collective) and more.. Suggested retail is $39.98. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Freak On! Format: CDR Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| With Sunroof!, Richard Youngs and Vibracathedral Orchestra. Limited CDR from 2001. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Paper Rad Uniform Format: 7" Label: Vicious Pop Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| Features Extreme Animals, Fortress Of Amplitude, DJ Jacky Jexx and Dr. Doo. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Die Grosse Untergangsshow - Festival der Genialen Dilletanten Format: CD/DVD Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $56.00 |
| "Including the legendary concert at Berlins Tempodrom on the 4th of September 1981 with participation and Bands like, Blixa Bargeld und Gudrun Gut, Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frieder Butzmann, Leben und Arbeiten, Sprung aus den Wolken, Sentimentale Jugend, and many more of the Berlin early 80s-Scene." Includes: a DVD, a CD, an LP-sized booklet and a T-shirt, all in a heavy duty box, limited to 500 copies. The DVD is NTSC format for North America, region free. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Die Grosse Untergangsshow - Festival der Genialen Dilletanten Format: Double LP/CD/DVD Box Set Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $86.00 |
| "..legendary concert at Berlins Tempodrom on the 4th of September 1981 with participation and Bands like, Blixa Bargeld und Gudrun Gut, Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frieder Butzmann, Leben und Arbeiten, Sprung aus den Wolken, Sentimentale Jugend, and many more of the Berlin early 80s-Scene. Different version to the above, with the same contents, plus 2 LPs exclusively. Box-Set with DVD / CD / LP-sized-Booklet / T-Shirt, limited 500 copies. This more expensive version includes a 2LP, which is a longer, different recording. Its a little confusing what the differences are between the two versions, the label described it to us like this: "The Lp-2 Set is an audience performance, a bit rougher but longer (e.g. Einstürzende Neubauten Kollaps is 7 minutes on DVD/CD but 10 minutes on Lp) J and it contains bonus to the CD/DVD (CD/DVD appr. 70 minutes each, 2LP 2 is 100 minutes in total)." - Vinyl On Demand. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Viva Negativa! A Tribute to the New Blockaders Volume I Format: 4 LP Box Set Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $85.00 |
| Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders incl. collaborations with/reworkings by 75 avant garde/industrial/noise artists. 2 volumes, 4LPs each. Typically insane presentation from VOD! Each set numbered to 500 copies. "The New Blockaders were one of the UKs most consistently defiant and formally hostile experimental groups. Starting with their name, they combined a masked mythology with a militant anti-art/anti-music stance which manifested itself in a series of obliterating aural documents. For all their lack of any public profile, TNB have had an absurdly disproportionate influence over the development of noise music." -The Wire. Oren Ambarchi, Anomali, Ashtray Navigations, Emil Beaulieau, Benzo, Maurizio Bianchi, Cisfinitum, Controlled Bleeding, Dieter Muh, Evil Moisture, Freiband, Grunt, The Haters, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Komafuzz, Kraang, Lockweld, Massimo, Daniel Menche, Thurston Moore, MSBR, Nocturnal Emissions, KK Null, Pita, Plethora, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, Scanner, Silvum, srmeixner, Asmus Tietchens, Treriksroset, Vortex Campaign, V/Vm, Keith Fullerton Whitman, John Wiese, Nobuo Yamada, ZEV. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Viva Negativa! A Tribute to the New Blockaders Volume II Format: 4 LP Box Set Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $85.00 |
| Second volume of the New Blockaders tribute box, total of 8 LPs between the two volumes! Featured here: AMK, Art Break, Aube, Bloxus, Alexei Borisov, Broken Penis Orchestra, Cheapmachines, Courtis, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Aaron Dilloway, Embudagonn 108, Eshak, Government Alpha, Idea Fire Company, Incapacitants, Lasse Marhaug, Merzbow, Kiyoshi Mizutani, mnortham, Jim ORourke, Dave Phillips, Plexia, Putrefier, Christian Renou, RLW, Damion Romero, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Spiracle, Sudden Infant, Giancarlo Toniutti, Brendan Walls, Withdrawal Method, Wolf Eyes, Achim Wollscheid, Violent Onsen Geisha, \. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Snatch Paste: An Assortment of Snatch Tapes Format: LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "Compilation of one of the best DIY-tape labels of the early 80s compiled by Philip Sanderson (former member of Alien Brains, Storm Bugs, etc.) from the three Snatch Tape Compilations 1-3 (originally released (1978-81) with the odd extra bonus drawn from other Snatch Tapes." Artists include: David Jackman (Organum), Storm Bugs, Mannequin Movies, Philip Sanderson, Tony Clough, The N4s, Alien Brains, Karls Empty Body, Orior and Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. Limited vinyl edition of 500 copies. Higher price due to having to restock from a different source. |
| Artist: V/A Title: The Insane Box Format: 4LP/7" Boxset Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $115.00 |
| "Insane Music, run by Alain Neffe, has been one of the greatest and biggest tape labels promoting the international cassette-culture of the 80s. Label-owner Alian Neffe got approached by VOD to compile a 4LP Box with a 7" of his band/projects I Scream, Bene Gesserit, Subject, Human Flesh and Pseudo Code. Alain Neffe looked deeply into his archive and found many obscurities and unreleased material in combination with 80s tape classics and compiled this wonderful box-set. All box-sets will also contain a 2-track EP of newly recorded, mixed and produced songs by Bene Gesserit in the same spirit but with new equipment." -Vinyl On Demand |
| Artist: V/A Title: M-Squared Rare Recordings 1979-1983 Format: 5 LP Box Set + 10" Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $135.00 |
| "Pardon Me For Barging In Like This... "This boxed vinyl set is a treasure trove of rare and out of print noise from the vaults of the legendary early 80s M.Squared label in Sydney, Australia. M-Squared has been probably the best-known independent-label in the late 70s/early 80s, also famous for their incredible rare and sought after vinyl-releases of Makers of Ded Travel Fast, Systematics, Scattered Order or SPK. The heavy box features previously unreleased tracks from Scattered Order, The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast, Systematics and Height Dismay and out of print tracks and forgotten gems appearing on vinyl for the first time from Prod, Patrick Gibson, Shane Fahey, A Cloakroom Assembly, East End Butchers, Pleasant Peasants, A Volatile T-Shirt .... All gloriously re-mastered for the 21st century and your aural excitement. The box contains a wide range of sounds, from experimental and avant-garde, from wave to minimal-synth. If you call yourself an adventurous explorer in sound and music and if you are open-minded from both sides, either minimal or experimental, then you cant miss this one." Initial copies include a bonus 10", What We Did In The Evenings, featuring a rare 1981 live performance by the Systematics." -Vinyl On Demand |
| Artist: V/A Title: Top Notch - Hits From The Hive Format: LP Label: Wantage USA Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "This is Missoulas first exclusive, entirely vinyl compilation! Features EX-COCAINE (Siltbreeze, Not Not Fun, Killertree), POOR SCHOOL (Ecstatic Peace, Killertree, etc.), VOLUMEN (Wantage),JOHNNY APPLE (ex OBLIO JOES), and a pile of excellent, touring newcomers: CHIN UP MERIWETHER!, RAZZMTAZZ, DUEL, CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES, THE HILLS BROS, TRAVIS SEHORN & PEBBLE LIGHT, TWO YEAR TOUQE, EYES LIKE CANDY and RIDDILIN QUE. Top Notch! is an excellent example of the weirdo/punk/hippie amalgam that defines western Montanas independent music. NIKI hand-picked the gems that make this thing up, then hand silk-screened the covers (which features artist WALLY CATTONs psychedelic artwork). This comp rolls seamlessly from free-jazz locked-grooves, to Oneida-like space pummeling, back over to some of the "New Weird" stuff and back to thoroughly sticky, excellent pop and even some thuggy psychedelia. Hand-numbered edition of 312 copies on colored vinyl." -Wantage USA |
| Artist: V/A Title: This Is An Insane Insane World Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
| "LP comes on 180 g HEAVY VINYL w/ insert featuring all the informations on tracks and artists. 11 Songs of FINEST BELGIAN MINIMAL SYNTH from the early 1980s featuring the following Bands: BENE GESSERIT, PSEUDO CODE, HUMAN FLESH and SUBJECT. Once again, this record is full of BELGIAN MINIMAL SYNTH TRUFFELS!!!"-Was Soll Das? Platten. |
| Artist: V/A Title: No Platform For Heels Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "The first of a series of reissues of classic compilation LPs. This was originally released in 1982 on Tender Hooks Records and features such legendary artistes as The Digital Dinosaurs, Missing Persons, Product Of Reason and the mysterious (but strangely familiar) Stan Tomato Band..." - Waterden. Tender Hooks was a subsidiary of Deleted Records ( Fuck Off Records, Door & the Window, etc..) and Stan Tomato Band is actually the Instant Automatons. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Love An Devotion Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Originally released in 1982 on LP by Deleted and Fuck Off Records. Features multiple tracks by the Instant Automatons, Hamburger All-Stars and Blue Midnight. |
| Artist: V/A Title: We Couldnt Agree On A Title Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Released a year before No Platform For Heels on Colin Potters ICR label, this compilation album is a considerably more diffuse collection than its successor. While its unlikely to please all the people all the time, there is at least something here for everyone, whether its the ambient minimalism of Robert Lawrence and Philip Johnson (of Doof, who are included on I Hate the Pop Group), the galloping bedroom-electronica of Those Little Aliens and Mr Potter himself, the classic 80s jangle-pop of The Walking Floors or the Captain-Beefheart-in-a-West-London-squat craziness of The 012. This record also includes one of my personal favourites, the dark masterpiece 9am by The Victims Of Romance with its brooding instrumentation and Jo Jordans tortured, Patti Smith-esque vocal." - Waterden. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Reverse Engineers; February 19 - March 19, 2005 Format: Book Label: Weird Shadow Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Second Reverse Engineers catalog (this ones printed on glossy stock); this time featuring Tony Conrad, Ernest Gusela, Christian Jankowski, Natalie Jeremijenko, Barbara Lattanzi, John Olson, Paper Rad, William Pope.L, Dylan Reiff and Joe Korsmo, Aida Ruilova (!!), Brain Springer and Haim Steinbach. |
| Artist: V/A Title: Willkommen Im Weltraum - Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come Format: LP Label: Weltraum Country: Germany Price: $29.00 |
| "Willkommen Im Weltraum - Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come is a view back to the days when the future sounded best. Spaced out organs, obscure library grooves, astrosonic sounds and early electronica. Ancient science fiction, the Signs of the Zodiac, psyched-out drum-machines and the first singing computer. With music from Attilio Mineo, Mort Garson, Dorothy B.Carr, the Electrosoniks, Cecil Leuter, the Mindexpanders, Gerhard Narholz Electronic Studio Orchestra, Ma Jinao and many others. Vinyl only, in a beautiful silkscreened cover, limited edition of 1000. Artists: Michael Weisser / Otto Luening / Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mindexpanders, The Zodiac, Roger Roger, The Electrosoniks, Gary Schneider, Ma Jinao, Heinz Heindel, Dorothy B. Carr, Ataraxia, Karl Reger + Odo Warth, Cecil Leuter, Phil |