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They released their only album in 1992. Jay Hinman (currently of Dynamite Hemorrhage) noted Dadamah's solitary place in the NZ underground in his Superdope fanzine: 'Dead C. might blare and scrape, the Terminals might twist and wind, but Dadamah positively shimmer with beautifully earthy lo-fi Velvets \/ Ubu sound.' Limited edition singles on the Seattle-based Majora label followed the LP, earning Dadamah praise as 'one of the most overwhelmingly great exponents of layer-shifting drone-on master-rock' in the Forced Exposure catalog. Roy Montgomery's soaring droning guitars were offset by Janine Stagg's stabbing organ and gurgling moog synths, and Kim Pieter's vocals ebbed and flowed, somehow evoking Patti Smith, Ian Curtis, and David Thomas simultaneously. 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We first issued this as an LP-only in 1990, but it has been o\/p for a number of years (a CD version was licensed by Shock UK and briefly available, but has been long o\/p as well).\" - Forced Exposure. \"This is one mindfuck of a noisefest. Imagine if Metal Machine Music-era Lou Reed had been invited to Brotzmann's Machine Gun sessions. You're still not close. Likes beasts of burden locked to a single axis, the circles the trinity treads shaft deep, inside which they explode depth charges which reverberate to the core of your being. Now and again one might pull away to release heart piercing shrieks into the foul night. 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Their second album featured the band working in live tandem with TRANS, the Birmingham, Alabama duo, already well-known in improvising circles.\"- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Idio-Savant\/Shakers_in_a_Tantrum_Landscape_1979\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003eHere’s another obscure improv gem. Idio Savant are another group of noisemakers from the Southern US (Virginia, not quite as far south as the Raudelunas crew). This quartet of Pippin Barnett, Dan Finney, Martin McCavitt, and Paul Watson put out this LP in 1979 on the Artifacts label. Three quarters of this group would go on to found the more song-oriented Orthotonics, and other members worked with the Famous Actors from Out of Town, Curlew, the Ululating Mummies, Nimal, and others. 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For many his obscurant references to what is already an obscure contempo side can be so layered -- as if the review is some kind of lit cuz to Jodorowsky's spiraling labyrinthian masterpiece of surrealist Espanola 'huh?' cinema, The Holy Mountain -- that the narco-eclectic desire to actually hear what the fuk this accredited gourmandizer is -- in various temperaments -- jazzed about, that you actually find yrself hunting the lathe cut edition of minus three and sending all yr rent money to grip it -- 'Coley wrote about this -- s'posed to be 'insane''. He and Ted Lee have been manning the formidable and replete Feeding Tube emporium for a few years now in the wilds of Western Mass and what at first appeared to be an unlikely pair have become quite a prolific bastion of bonkerism rock and experimental otherness like a water tap stuck on unthreaded gush. 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Time is of the essence and music is time, so are thoughts and words like diamond juice dripping from the corners of Don Cherry's pocket trumpet maw -- at least that's what I hear when I hear these cats yowling half past the end of nowhere on a fence behind our collective houses full of records, books, and nudie mags. Life is fuckin sweet.\" --Thurston Moore, London 2022\" - Feeding Tube Records.","brand":"Feeding Tube","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":43802815693019,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/FTR685LP_CU.jpg?v=1671052485"},{"product_id":"manning-barbara-dont-let-it-bring-you-down","title":"MANNING, BARBARA – Don't Let It Bring You Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e1990 release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"tracklist_3QGRS\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr data-track-position=\"A\"\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"trackPos_2RCje\"\u003eA\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"artist_3zAQD\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"trackTitle_CTKp4\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"trackTitle_CTKp4\"\u003eDon't Let It Bring You Down\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"credits_12-wp expanded_3odiy trackCredits_iogpt\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eGuitar, Vocals, 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The Hams’ legendary and elusive sole release was promoted — as an exclusive — through Systematic via the backdoor in the summer of 1987 amidst the distributor’s fog of bankruptcy. The Hams’ label, Down And Out, was equally mysterious, having previously released one LP (Prominent Disturbance) and one cassette (The Turks) to little or no fanfare. Since none of the Systematic sales staff at the time have any memory of carrying these titles, the shroud of speculation only enhances their existence. The Hams 12\" did receive a hale and hearty endorsement in the pages of Forced Exposure at the time, comparing them to (surprise!) The Smashchords. Accurate enough, let’s face it, there wasn’t a whole lot out there for this to stick to. However, there was no real way to get the thing. Adorned in a plain white disco sleeve, presumably the few that got out into the wild before the Chapter 11 axe came down were as in-store play copies. No one has an idea about how many were originally pressed, either. All of this helping to build its quiddity among collectors. The Smashchords comparison notwithstanding, The Hams 12\" is every bit as much of an anomaly. Literally two dudes on guitar and drum, jamming. No vocals, just heart. It could have easily come out on SST in its waning, Byzantine era, sounding like Painted Willie collapsing into a black hole of Turkish barbarism. Or yourself, evaporating into the abyss of any Montrose album, shattered on Tuinals, struggling to redefine life itself. Basically: not for everyone. But with only 200 pressed, Zaius Tapes have that covered.\" - Zaius Tapes \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Zaius Tapes","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":43958618194139,"sku":"","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/NzctNzU1NS5qcGVn.jpg?v=1676406744"},{"product_id":"muslimgauze-turn-on-arabic-american-radio","title":"MUSLIMGAUZE - Turn on Arabic American Radio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The relationship between \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBryn Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's music as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuslimgauze\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the track\/album titles he would provide (sometimes right on the tapes he would send in for release, but often determined later, sometimes even giving two different pieces months apart the same title, accidentally or not) has always been a little mysterious. Jones himself can no longer be asked, and as you continue to investigate the swathes of material he provided, you hit sources like the DAT or DATs that make up the contents of the new double-LP \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurn On Arab American Radio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Nine tracks, the first LP\/four tracks titled \"Turn On Arab American Radio,\" and the other LP\/five tracks labeled only \"Arab American Radio.\" None of them sound particularly radio-esque, although given the simultaneous vastness and ornate focus of Jones's Muslimgauze work that gap between name and sound is far from atypical. Instead, here the de rigeur percussion loops that underpin this particular set of tracks, while occasionally clipping into the fierce distortion that Jones either loved to use or couldn't get away from, steer away from both the more consistent application of that distortion as well as the Middle Eastern and Asian influences he often used. It'd be a stretch to call anything here basic boom-bap production but they come closer to it than a lot of Muslimgauze production. And while those loops are, as always prominent, they're not actually the focus; settling into steady vamps as structures for Jones to pursue an extended and often more gentle exploration of the other sample sources he has here. There are stringed instruments, the sound of water, but most prominently or strikingly the human voice. Nothing is in English but tone and the occasional word (\"familia\", \"passport\") still provide guides. There are ululations, snatches of melody; but most often speech, dialogue, often tense and harried sounding. Is this what Jones was thinking of or referring to with his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArab American Radio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e? As with so many other questions about Muslimgauze, we'll never know the answer to that one. (Most pertinently in this case we might wonder who appears here, and what the context of these recordings is. But Jones never provided that with his submissions.) Here, even though those inexorable loops pound on, indefatigable, that emphasis on some of the people Jones chooses lends a measured gentleness to much of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurn On Arab American Radio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, at least within the context of his body of work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Nine tracks, the first LP\/four tracks titled \"Turn On Arab American Radio,\" and the other LP\/five tracks labeled only \"Arab American Radio.\"\u003cbr\u003e- None of them sound particularly radio-esque, although given the simultaneous vastness and ornate focus of Jones's Muslimgauze work that gap between name and sound is far from atypical.\u003cbr\u003e- Instead, here the de rigeur percussion loops that underpin this particular set of tracks and steer away from both the more consistent application of that distortion as well as the Middle Eastern and Asian influences he often used.\" - Forced Exposure \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Staalplaat","offers":[{"title":"2LP","offer_id":43995559231707,"sku":"","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/ARCHIVE034LP_CU.jpg?v=1678225685"},{"product_id":"cat-bells-club-the-s-t","title":"CAT \u0026 BELLS CLUB, THE - S\/T","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"In 1992, under the guise of the Cat \u0026amp; Bells Club, eighteen-year-old Cheriton residents Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris self-released three tapes—two yellow cassettes and one pink—documenting their earliest musical efforts at S.H.P. studios (Lambkin’s bedroom in his parents’ house). The lowest of all lo-fi recordings, these tracks were laid down live, directly into a boombox with no overdubs. Relieved of their academic expectations and plunged into the workforce, the duo aspired to enter the annals of rock history, making their own primitive teenage overtures to Marc Bolan, the Incredible String Band, Whitehouse, and the Godz. Lyrically and spiritually the Cat \u0026amp; Bells Club had much to do with Bolan’s early Tyrannosaurus Rex project, but with a hyperlocalized Folkestonian twist that nonetheless maintained his penchant for chevaline. While much of the Club’s repertoire comprised freeform instrumental try-outs—untuned charity shop guitars and coffee cup drum kits—a number of songs featured Lambkin’s original lyrics, read by both members of the band, dramatizing the comings and goings of anthropomorphic animals and musing abstractly on the minutiae of daily life in Cheriton (their native C-Town). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTaking their moniker from a mishearing of “the jester’s bauble, cap and bells,”' a line from Incredible String Band’s “The Iron Stone,” the duo operated for a brief year under the increasingly esoteric influence of the Fisheye mail-order and then fledgling Forced Exposure fanzine, and from the airwaves via Radio 1’s John Peel show. This collection was compiled by Lambkin in the early aughts for an unrealized release on his now defunct Kye label, but barring a few tracks on a retrospecti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eve \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e″\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e issued by Siltbreeze in 2010, hardly any of these recordings have been heard beyond a handful of hangers-on, inner-circle drinking allies, and the most devoted of fans. 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A must for all Don Cherry fans.\" - Forced Exposure.","brand":"Trading Places","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":44156307833051,"sku":"","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/TDP54100LP_CU.jpg?v=1687280076"},{"product_id":"chamellows-rat-hearts-1","title":"CHAMELLOWS - Rat Hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is the first full-length release by Chamellows (aka Sleeping Bags), originally released in 2006. Chamellows is a project by Laura Naukkarinen (Lau Nau) and the visual artist Mikko Kuorinki. Some of these songs have been recorded as far back as 10 years ago. Some were previously released on 50-150 limited edition 7\"s and cassettes. They still sound fresh and new today, almost like a more demented Moldy Peaches album or The Shaggs at their best. 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Before their disbandment in 2002, this shambolic rock outfit, formed by a group of rowdy teenagers in southeast England, left behind a mighty run of eight LPs, a handful of 7\"s, and a spate of raucous live shows and cryptic zine appearances on both sides of the Atlantic, all which have bolstered their enduring word-of-mouth mystique. Beginning this year with the first-ever vinyl pressing of the self-released pre-Shadow Ring tape \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Cat \u0026amp; Bells Club \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(1992), Blank Forms Editions is conducting a systematic retrospective of the storied group, including a multi-year LP reissue effort and a forthcoming comprehensive CD box set and a nearly five hundred page book. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecorded in summer of 1994 at S.H.P studios (frontman \u003ca data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"d86ba9ff-3996-4dfc-b6e8-666d62be01d6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blankforms.org\/contributors\/graham-lambkin\" title=\"Graham Lambkin\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.blankforms.org\/contributors\/graham-lambkin\"\u003eGraham Lambkin\u003c\/a\u003e’s parents’ home), the group’s sophomore record \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePut the Music In Its Coffin \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a more sinister, saturnine affair than their debut \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"shopify_product\" data-entity-uuid=\"a818b6e1-6710-4f36-9b81-ceb46cf01a76\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blankforms.org\/publications\/the-shadow-ring-city-lights\" title=\"The Shadow Ring: City Lights\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.blankforms.org\/publications\/the-shadow-ring-city-lights\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCity Lights\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoffin \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas many listeners’ introduction to the Shadow Ring, who had hitherto self-released their music, courting a steady stable of international fans through the magazine and mail-order catalog Forced Exposure. For their follow-up, the duo reached out to the ascending Philadelphia label Siltbreeze, whose eclectic roster of sneering, low-fidelity rock and noise connected disparate subterranean scenes from rust-belt America to the English Midlands, Dunedin, and beyond. As luck would have it, Siltbreeze proprietor Tom Lax was already a fan of the band’s first record and arranged to release both a 7” and their “difficult second album.” The connection proved to run deeper than vinyl—within six months, Lax would pick up the pair from the airport for their spring 1995 US tour. This episode marked not only their first trip to the States but their first live performances at all, formally introducing the Shadow Ring to the American underground and solidifying the allure of the Folkestone pair. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the get-go, the record has a menacing, vile ambience. Its opening track “Horse-Meat Cakes,” inspired by an anecdote by pulp author Philip K. Dick about how he and his wife subsisted off low-grade pet food when he first arrived in San Francisco, sets the tone lyrically and sonically. Subsequent tracks are filled with Rabelaisian body horror and sinewy, haptic diction. “I try to pass out vital organs, convinced that they are waste,” intones Lambkin in “Heart, Liver \u0026amp; Lungs,” before a chorus of detuned guitars kicks in, nearly drowning out the speaker’s account of consuming chevaline intestines. Later songs similarly detail vernacular cooking (“Caribbean Porridge,” about a cornmeal hangover cure), bodily processes (“Nocturnal Middle Rumbles,” about nighttime defecation), and creaturely conflict (“Crystal Tears” and “Spin The Animal Dial”). The album’s makeshift percussion and teenaged rawness resembles the verve of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCity Lights\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, while its screeching strings and gnarly distorted vocals give it a sparse, miasmic atmosphere that look towards the uncompromising, otherworldly experimentation of the band’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHold Onto I.D. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(1996) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLighthouse \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(1997), making this one of the Shadow Ring’s most distilled musical statements.\" - Blank Forms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blank Forms","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":44309745959131,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/BF-039putthemusicinit_scoffincover.jpg?v=1696643665"},{"product_id":"vine-and-gareth-davis-anthony-fluorescent-standard","title":"VINE AND GARETH DAVIS, ANTHONY - Fluorescent Standard","description":"\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFluorescent Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, guitarist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnthony Vine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and clarinetist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGareth Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e present two luminous and serene worlds of harmonic sound. The duo entwine sustained tones, glowing with the resonant hues of their instruments, into enveloping and expansive atmospheres. Clarinet sonorities, swelling guitar chords, and tumbling elegiac piano fragments drift quietly through time in elusive cycles that subtly change and expand with each return. Every vibration is interconnected, aligned and fused attentively, causing the instruments to dissolve into themselves and emit residual vibratory energies, like fluorescence. What emerges is a music that invites quiet contemplation and rewards deep listening. While Vine and Davis met through the world of modern classical music, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFluorescent Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e finds itself in the realms of drone, ambient, and new age. The music is grounded in early minimalist aesthetics of composers like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Monte Young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePhill Niblock\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, but also shares the sensibilities of contemporary artists like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFennesz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSarah Davachi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStars of the Lid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\" - Forced Exposure\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Cassauna","offers":[{"title":"Cass","offer_id":44907783815387,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/SAUNA078CS_CU.jpg?v=1709155209"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.fusetronsound.com\/collections\/force-exposure.oembed","provider":"fusetron","version":"1.0","type":"link"}