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So check this out: the distro keeps growing and GROWING. so I mean, lots of stuff is added constantly, almost daily. (newest newest stuff always at the top, and it goes down from there). But think about it, if you only look at the first dozen or so releases, you're really only looking at what I've added in the past week or two. You could be really missing out on ancient records from like, SEPTEMBER or earlier. So please, help yourself help yourself, and scroll baby, scroll!


Last Updated 11:30 AM PT 1/5/09

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henry kuntz - speed of culture light" 4Xcassette boxset (belgium import/extremely rare) $30
"an insight in the light of a free spirit. in the 70's, Henry was the editor and publisher of the internationally acclaimed newletter BELLS. his first musical output dates from 1977, when he played tenor saxophone on HENRY KAISER's album Ice Death. since the early 80's, Henry started to focus on solo music, using instruments like saxophone, flutes, musette, violins, gamelan, rhaita, etc. in 1986, he formed the free jazz troupe OPEYE. Henry ran the beautiful HUMMING BIRDS recordlabel, on which he produced several lp's, cassettes and cd releases of solo and group improvisations. Speed Of Culture Light is a retrospective boxset (with material ranging from 1980 until present day) and shows a wide and varied collection of free jazz jams, solo improvisations and beautiful 6-track meditations. in 2008, we will release a compilation album of the HUMMING BIRD EARTH SERIES cassettes, wich was a series of 5 ethnographic tapes recorded by Henry in Bali, Mexico, Bolivia, and Guatemala between 1985 and 1991. -- factory dubbed tapes. comes in full color covers and in a plastic box. also included are extensive liner notes by mr Kuntz himself." -bread and animals
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treetops "deep purple infinity" cassette (belgium import) $8
"the 80's healing scene has found ressurection in the body of ARBOR head MIKE POLLARD aka TREETOPS. soothing tunes for a new step into the self. i don't know if anyone remembers AEOLIAH, but this album made me think about his psychological new age meditation pieces a lot. this IASOS affilate made music for a healthy living (tm). TREETOPS steps on this path as well, but travels more out there, more vague. synthesized sounds of a new beginning surrounded by the crunch of the media. deep inside this tape, the message of healing is encoded. if psychotronics is a new genre of music, this guy is one of the portholes to the genre's heart." -bread and animals
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oneohtrix point never "transmat memories" cassette (belgium import) $8
"this audio tape is a leaked document of the MONTAUK research group. DANIEL LOPATIN has been sent over to 6037 A.D. and these are his interpretations of the inscriptions of the pedestal on wich he saw the golden horse. in another time-track, Daniel is also known as Duncan. these are smooth 80's conspiracy tech vibes. space bleeps. sequencer waves wich would give PETER BAUMANN the goosebumps. and polysynths and electronic thunder storm that will keep the thought of BERNARD SZAJNER alive. this is awesome! O.P.N. also plays in INFINITY WINDOW, together with BLACK EGG Taylor, and is a member of the space research pod ASTRONAUT." -bread and animals
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nonhorse "the rare tape zero" cassette (belgium import) $8
"g lucas crane. the breakdancer. g lucas crane. the tapemanipulator. g lucas crane. the new york city guide. g lucas crane brings us a 60 minutes roundtrip of weird fidelities and strange sounds. i enclose what the mind of lucas communicated me through resonating electric wires. i wrote down this given information using the technique of automatic writing: "its tape one in the goblin universe series. the rare zero tape is the only tape to survive the arson of rozwell labs 2029. it was one of 6, the rare one through rare 6 were all holding sound patterns corresponding to analysis levels, the audio detritus left over from mental examinations. the exposure to these tapes responds to latent interdimentional experiances, womb style, aeomeba style. the silver disk is the symbol of the gobiln universe and altered opened mind in general. its yer "classic" unidentified flying object. a smooth, silver disk that turns pink red orange hues when its about to punch through off into the multiverse. apparently, it also turns blueish purpleish when landing. awesome mode! anyway. the rare zero tape survived and was taken to the quarentine site in los alamos NV, approching the rare zero tape causes an audiable "swarm of bees" sound to increase in anger and intensity the closer one gets. touching the rare zero tape with skin causes negative aura proxisms and results in instant death. listening to the rare zero tape does not kill, just touching the original. a military robot was charged with dubing the master and sending it to you. it is the sound of perliminary examination. the further 6 levels have been lost. good god." -bread and animals
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pink buffalo "viscid veils" cassette (belgium import) $8
"Eric Fry delivers a novel of warm loops, draft experiments and strange sound collages. this album has a genuine 80's, early 90's hometapers feel. the feeling of a minautaur soundsculpture in the mix of a bowl of baby woodrose, interfered by the touch of insight similar to the classic Super Nintendo gameportal. this is pretty grown up visions about Honey I Shrunk The Kids. it is an explainable "unexplainable". inflatable knowledge from a world that was presumed far beyond our 3-D structure. a page of mystery...." -bread and animals
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kraus "the facts" cassette (belgium import) $8
"RESTOCK!! a 30 minutes book on tape. Kraus, drumpad for acts like THE AESTHETICS and THE FUTURIANS, gives the humble an insight to his path of life. from deep listening spacesounds towards bubbly synth excursions: this is a unique vision. Pat Kraus manages to sound like the BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP run through the minds of alien creatures. this is truly my imaginary BAD CHANNELS OST. currently, Pat is working at an lp for ULTRA ECZEMA, because society wants more...." -bread and animals
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muntjac "warp" cassette (belgium import) $8
"Paul Grimes, member of the now defunct DEATH CHANTS walks a surprisingly personal path on this album. very outside the common psychedelic genre he draws a path of his own. on WARP, Grimes scrapes together a faboulous blend of easy listening, light marbles and more retro space tunes. a hot mix of elements of KITARO, JOE MEEK, and even some hits of an introspective DENNIS WIZE. fantastic stuff for the upcoming summer hangovers. " -bread and animals
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math balances volumes "s/t" cassette (belgium import) $8
"okay, i saw these guys live on the nice Color Out Of Space festival last year, and what they presented was one of the best shows i saw in 2007. a truly weird blend of smoked out psychedelic rumble played by a guitar player and a tapeplayer. people were crying for help during their set due to the high level of insight and knowledge that was being transmitted. because after all, i guess one cannot understand everything and it hurts to be "in the unknown". but anyways, my mind tripped out so heavily on their live / life information that i couldn't resist to hassle them into a tape release asap. and this is it. this is misissipi blues played in the local arcade. this is a collage of synchronicity. these are the workings of Babalon... and when i was playing the mastertape for J C Scanner, his individual scannercells collectively popped out as well, so this album is co-released with the Zeikzak (http://www.jellecrama.com). all the tapecases come with individually unique painted / colored / stickered / ??? artwork by our little brothers. information is pain. " -bread and animals
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diamond lemonade "ghost light blankets" cassette (belgium import) $8
"solo outing by the head behind the Tape Tektoniks imprint. DL offers strange readings straight from across the German borders. this cassette contains rebirthed tapeloops and other analog environments of the past (and probably future, but this i cannot decipher), resonating between 420 to 450 MHz. Ghost Light Blankets is a certified valid ticket that will give you access to enter the porthole that man calls "the hangover". by the way, i think this guy might have been secretly reading EXCALIBUR, the deadly and locked away L R Hubbard book about the facts, secrets & reason of life. so think twice before you listen...." -bread and animals
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duncan cameron "s/t" cassette (belgium import) $8
"dolphins into the future side-project. duncan cameron was involved in the Montauk project. he was the medium they used to transmit the brain frequencies. but more important, duncan cameron lived on different timetracks. more than dolphins into the future, this tape focusses on pure / clear synthesizer music and ambient sci fi spheres. but on side b, the timetracks are switched, and one suddenly hears a collage of taped percussion sounds. it's maybe a sort of organum pondering on persona isolation. only in this case, defenitly not the kind of self-implemented isolation to reach for better knowledge of oneself / the mind / mind programs / the others / chrestos / life...." -bread and animals
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james ferraro "last american hero / adrenaline's end" cassette (belgium import) $8
"amnesia smoke out & prototype James Ferraro makes his big goodbye america statement. side a is an "in memoriam" for the last american hero. a lost full moon features on the rise and decay of a man of honor and honesty. "twisted" ecstacy for the double thinkers out there. mic fleetwoods mindframe after the decay and abandonment of the survivors of the coked out mac. side b is the sound of clear, of adrenaline's end. a tackle for all your engrams. a broad view on how it feels to be uplifted into infinity. uplifted into a vast clear sky of self fullfillment and a deep metaprogrammed brain activity radius." -bread and animals
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floris vanhoof "de onzichtbare hand van voltage control" cassette (belgium import) $8
"abstract synthesizer works from this Professor In Usable Knowledge and full-time McD's clientele, Floris Vanhoof. while being a core member of R.O.T. and an independent movie maker, recently he started to consentrate more on his love for technique and synthesizers. this album is a repress of his first self-released tape, released a while ago, but only gotten into the hands of museum programmers and synth music forum nutters. strange, abstract and minimal sounds, codes and unusuables, made with the ems vcs3 synth. a deep view behind the arches... vanhoofke recently released a cassette album on breaking world recs, and is working at a vinyl record for ultra eczema. " -bread and animals
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w ravenveer "ogenloos" 1-sided cassette (belgium import) $8
"coded person W.V. is a respected member of the Antwerp core of autodidact musicians. while others of that core try to get into the circle of wrong, W.V. keeps focussing on his own brains and hands. not interested in getting to play at local art exhibitions or braindead gatherings, W.V. gives room for his own moments of contemplating braindeadism. his main translation is the synthesizer. on this album, we are given a carefull peak in one of the two professions of W.V. profession one is spaced out code patterns wich we will look into soon on a split with our pals at Breaking World Records. profession two is the progressive synth emotional pondering in the old school style. and we look at it NOW. this cassette is the deep blues of ADELBERT VON DEYEN in the mix of a lonely soul and a misunderstood heart. intensely fantastic with a touch of pure. this is melancholic, deep down under communications in the esoteric energy structure." -bread and animals
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Robedoor "Rancor Keeper" LP $13
"Vinyl reissue of 2007 full-length CD on Release The Bats. This version is freshly remastered, has all new artwork.Limited to 500." (seaclave records) "...they have distilled the finest points of their murky haze into something more brutal than atmospheric. Whereas some of their recordings revel in a dark, euphoric pastiche, Rancor Keeper sits more on the confrontational side, pummeling listeners with thick buzz-saw drones, moaning vocals, and cavernous percussion. From the jarring opening of “Empty Temple,” which butts in somewhere mid-performance, Rancor Keeper begins in the deep end and continues to thicken over the course this first piece. Things are more delicate on “Abyss Whisperer,” although tension remains high, the band never knowing whether their washed out drum chants will begin to clip and get swallowed in noise. It’s this push and pull, albeit with a narrow spectrum of sound, that makes Rancor Keeper’s subtleties as strong as its onslaughts. In “Wendigo Psychosis,” Robedoor let themselves off their leash one final time for a speaker-bleeding meltdown, creating one of the most intense moments of their recorded history. It’s a strong release for Robedoor: a must for any fan and a good introduction for newcomers to form an opinion with." Tiny Mix Tapes review
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Raccoo-oo-oon "s/t" 2XLP $20 BACK IN STOCK/OUT OF PRINT!!
"All things must come to pass, if you love something set it free, it’s better to burn out than fade away, blah blah blah. No platitude can mask the permanent bummer of a favorite band breaking up in their prime, and such is the case with Iowa City’s most untamed civic treasure, feral-psych foursome Raccoo-oo-oon, who decided to dissolve this year after nearly half a decade of radical and galvanizing activity (tapes, tours, t-shirts, etc). Fortunately they’re generous sorts, so their parting gift to the fans/haters/planet is a vicious, thorny wilderness of endless, nameless songs heaved across four fried sides of black vinyl. Crawl a mile in their shoes. As far as R.I.P. band statements go, this self-titled monster is tough to beat, by far the most ambitious slabs of sounds the RAC pack has ever put together. Doomed, desperate prog-rock flailings decay into hollow purgatories of dimly pulsing ambience, only to re-erupt into pissed percussion firestorms and experimental electricity. There are a few moments of Behold Secret Kingdom-style focus, but for the most part the mood remains raw and acidic, four souls on edge, backs to the crowd, channeling everything they have left inside. It’s deconstruction time again. Nearly 80 minutes of music, mastered by Pete Swanson, housed in reinforced double LP jackets with “Andy/Daren in repose” photo artwork, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 500." -nnf
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Lydia Lunch/Suicide split 10" $14.50 (limited to a criminal 2,000 numbered copies)
"Lydia Lunch. Known to Rev & Vega as the Baby Faced Killer who they so kindly chaperoned through that lost downtown night world crucible from where both their futuristic, and highly influential, black arts would be born. Artistic Kings & Queens from the dumpster side of town. Lydia gets all wet and dirty with thought of what young Frankie Teardrop might do to her, over a twisted frug of an electronic beat-nicked soundscape by David Knight. Rules are for breaking. Here we like to break our own. So our tried and true E.P. format of inviting a young 'un to try their strength on the Vega meter is torched in grace and favour of blessing the planet with one THE great lost Suicide archive items. This is the thirteen minute epic 1976 recording of Suicide dropping da' bomb on what was then known as "Frankie Teardrop, The Detective vs The Space Alien". Yowsa, yowsa ya all. Wrapped in the sleek horror-show of the Met Police's recent publication of an X-Ray of some teens head with a knife in it. Frankie T thru Alien eyes perhaps..... Lights out kiddiewinkies
A Lydia Lunch - Frankie Teardrop (5:33)
B Suicide - Frankie Teardrop vs the Space Alien 1976 Demo ( 13:04)
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Sonic Youth "Goo" 4XLP box set $28 *THAT'S ONLY $7 A RECORD!!*
"The Deluxe Edition of Sonic Youth's 1990 album Goo includes thirty one songs: the original album remastered; remixed and remastered versions of the band's 8-track demos; the album outtake "Lee #2" (previously unheard with vocals); rehearsal outtakes "Tuff Boyz" and "Isaac"; "Can Song" (a never-before-heard demo of "The Bedroom"); the Beach Boys cover "I Know There's an Answer"; "Dr. Benway's House," the band's contribution to William Burroughs' Dead City Radio; B-sides "The Bedroom" and "That's All I Know Right Now" (the latter a cover of the Richard Hell/Tom Verlaine pre-Television group Neon Boys); and the promotion-only "Goo Interview." A 16-page book is included with an interview-essay by Byron Coley, an essay by Mark Kates, and never-before-seen photos." -goofin
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Sonic Youth "Dirty" 4XLP box set $28 *THAT'S ONLY $7 A RECORD!!*
"Sonic Youth's landmark 1992 album Dirty was re-released in a double-CD deluxe edition package by Universal Records in April, making it part of a series that includes classic albums by Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, and The Who. The corresponding quadruple-LP box set on the band's own Goofin' Records imprint includes: the original 15 album tracks; nearly two dozen bonus tracks culled from B-sides ("Genetic," "Hendrix Necro," "The Destroyed Room," "Is It My Body," "Personality Crisis," "The End Of The End Of The Ugly" and the eight-minute epic "Tamra"), outtakes ("Stalker," "Youth Against Fascism" and "Wish Fulfillment"), and rehearsal tapes from the period (the previously released "Little Jammy Thing" and previously unreleased songs "Lite Damage," "Dreamfinger," "Barracuda," "New White Kross," "Guido," "Moonface," "Poet In The Pit" and "Theoretical Chaos"); an eye-watering trove of full-color artwork; and essays from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and journalist/co-conspirator Byron Coley. The band's eighth official album, Dirty reflects the influence of touring partners such as Mudhoney and Nirvana; indeed, the team behind Nevermind -- producer Butch Vig and mixer Andy Wallace-- helped to craft an explosive, intense yet melodic rock album which would become arguably the band's most commercially and critically successful work to date.
The ultimate Dirty set features more than 20 previously unreleased and hard-to-find B-Sides, outtakes and demos
Photos, artwork and liner notes from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Byron Coley
A classic from the year punk broke " -goofin
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V/A "California" 10XLP Box Set $70 (that's only $7 an LP!!)
absolutely essential if you're into noise. 10XLP box set featuring a full side each by:
AMPS FOR CHRIST
THE CHERRY POINT
JOE COLLEY
CONTROL
GERRITT
GX JUPITTER-LARSEN
MOTH DRAKULA
OSCILLATING INNARDS
OPEN CITY
DAMION ROMERO
RUBBER O CEMENT
SIXES
THE SKATERS
SOLID EYE
SPASTIC COLON
TRALPHAZ
JOHN WIESE
XOME
RHY YAU
YELLOW SWANS
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Heather Leigh Murray "Devil If You Can Hear Me" LP $12
"Heather Leigh’s set at last year’s Colour Out Of Space festival in Brighton was everything music should be: personal, deranged, profound, loud. Her song mode meshes astral-traveling electric pedal-steel guitar with a wasted sense of Western expanse and a lyrical, drugged vocal mood, and the results are weird and wonderful. Devil If You Can Hear Me, her debut vinyl full-length, spills across three varying arenas of psychedelic privacy, loaded with loaded statements, wild Charalambides-ish tunnel-digging, and an almost Jandek-ian jam-driven wanderlust. An intense, brave step forward/outside 2006’s phenomenal Jailhouse Rock CS on Fag Tapes and her string of solo CDRs on Volcanic Tongue. Black-vinyl LPs in matte jackets with a “Heather-in-sunlight” cover photo plus some of her abstract/confessional drawings on the back. Edition of 500." -not not fun
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Inca Ore "Birthday of Bless You" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
"This one has been a dream since the start. Literally, as Eva Saelens wrote us one day out of the clearest blue saying she had a dream one night that she sent us her brand new album and that we fell in love with it and released it. Well the dream’s become reality, as her latest spirit quest in pursuit of the inmost voice dazzled us instantly and lingered like déjà vu. An 11-song slideshow of psychedelic secrecy, rippling whispers, and private ghost ballads, Birthday of Bless You finds Inca Ore at her most lithe and longing, shifting focus from microscopic mood meditations to wide-lens surrealist romance fantasies in a heartbeat, then back again. A black-lit bedroom soon forgotten, a midnight garden of lucid sound, an LP to have and to hold. Mastered for wax by Pete Swanson. Black vinyl in jackets with collage-art by IO, plus a full-color 11x11 collage insert. Edition of 500." -nnf
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Ettrick "Feeders of Ravens" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Prepare for sudden death. San Francisco brutalizers Ettrick finally deliver the full-length destruction they've been threatening for so long now. Feeders of Ravens is definitely the most potent collection of harsh jazz violence the duo's ever laid to tape, showcasing all their classic kill-moves: slaughtering saxophone dialogues, jittery percussive fits, raging horn/drum self-annihilation, etc. What escalates their improv attacks above just blind frenzy is the warped telepathy Jacob Heule and Jay Korber exhibit in their playing, wordlessly intuiting one another's energy upswings and downturns. And nowhere is this psychic connection more apparent (and demonic) than on "Raven Harvest,” the LP's final onslaught. Searing sax blasts burn through the ear drum, giving way to splatter paint percussion flailings and scraping metal, which then slowly take shape, coagulating into a dense, aggressive avalanche of pummeling, white-hot drum rapture. Life into death into life. Black LPs in pro-printed jackets with majestically sinuous, Haida-style cover art (and memento mori raven back art). Limited to 350." -nnf
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Black Monk "Flowstone" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Flowstoned and dethroned, finally. Last year’s bored/burning summer spell of Eagle Rock entropy birthed a numb drum ‘n drones duo dubbed Black Monk. The aesthetic of inept, free-punk drumming and red-eyed, void-surfing low-end infinity found output on two micro-limited cassette releases (one on Buried Valley, one on Zac/Lambsbread’s Maim & Disfigure) and one weedian live show (in Tempe, AZ) and then the scholars split to separate coasts. Fortunately for us/you, Flowstone comes crawling outta the caverns of a babeless summer on a slab of black wax, collecting their out-of-print Murmur CS and half the V CS, plus an unreleased side-long wastoid-land of subterranean percussion and roaring magma. Just in time for 2012. Black vinyl LPs in stark pro-printed fold-over covers plus a poster of arcane team scribble by BM. Limited to 270. Co-released with Arbor." -notnotfun/arbor
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Los Llamarada "The Exploding Now" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Monterrey, Mexico is the second biggest city in Mexico, one of that country's intellectual hubs, and home to Los Llamarada. These four youngsters met while studying psychology and decided to take their brains and fill them with noise. Good thing for you because what they came up with is a great murky noisy claustrophobic no wave mind storm. While touches of Mars, very early Sonic Youth, and even Patty Waters show up in Llamarada’s sound, what mi amigos are pounding out is pretty much all their own. Am I excited about this one? Damn right, I am. And once again, like all the other bands Ss released before you ever heard of them (A Frames, Cheveu, Nothing People, a bunch of Tete de Bebe bands), I urge you to take a chance with Los Llamarada (pronounced : Los Yama-RAda). 600 copies, screened sleeves." -S-S Records sample1 sample2 sample3
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Magik Markers "Feel the Crayon" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
"This is a moment of heavy honor dudes. Magick Markers scrawled a permanent place in NNF’s heart the first time we jammed their deranged-shaman society-ripper “White Bikini” at max volume. Instantly became a total dream to carve that magik on sike-adelic vinyl. This IS that dream. Originally released as a limited-run 7-song CDR by the awesome east coasters, Apostasy Recordings, the wax edition of Feel the Crayon shaves 2 of the emptier tracks (for length/sound quality purposes), creating a harsher, denser document of their ecstatic feedback questing. Pressed on purple-haze vinyl, in color-washed hand-screened jackets with lunatic utopia artwork by George W. Myers of Grey Skull. Also comes with a hand-numbered 16-panel art-zine of additional GWM creature visions/drawings." -NNF
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Magik Markers "Boss" LP $15 (long out of print)
"2008 repress! Limited vinyl version of the most accessible Magik Markers album (CD is on Ecstatic Peace), on their very own label Arbitrary Signs. "Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, BOSS documents the Markers with a previously-unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. In a 2005 interview in The Wire, Elisa Ambrogio said, 'I want [The Magik Markers] to concentrate on music and focus inward, to concentrate on our own language of sound.' BOSS stands as the Markers' first stab at getting to the meat of this ambition. With a mix of blues simplicity, an almost Sonny Sharrock wailing and a janky Americana punk reminiscent of Pat Place and Roky Erickson, Ambrogio avoids preciousness like a rash. On BOSS, a tent rises right out of the empty plain and we are thrust into a full-blown revival show with no audience and no lights; it is just Elisa preaching, Pete blowing Gabriel's horn, and the mad wind of the prairie blowing all around. They are each hand-screened individual works of art & very very limited." -arbitrary signs
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Blues Control "s/t" LP $13
"As you may or may not know, it can sometimes get pretty hairy being in a record store when some smelly denim clad-dude walks in asking for the blues. If you're lucky he's wearing a belt when you point him over to the records that are now relegated to an open spot on the floor. That's just one scenario because who doesn't love those other blues that are fondly recalled with names like Blues Addicts and Blues Creation. And let's not forget that other queen of the blues-Barbara from "Just Farr a Laugh." Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts [think Harold Budd] for guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse to cut through, whittle and lay waste to. It's a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, a lazy stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian-and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, did I mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album? So is there a blues angle to it? Yeah, but you've got to bury yourself in it or dig your way in. Come out stinking if you want." -holy mountain Boiled Peanuts mp3
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Cloudland Canyon / Lichens "Exterminating Angel" collab. LP $13
"This collaboration between the mellow, Memphis-meets-Germany duo of Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan (a.k.a. Cloudland Canyon) and Chicago's great rock 'n' roll concierge and knower-of-mystics Mr. Robert Lowe (a.k.a. Lichens) was born on a trip to the West Coast of the United States a few years ago. Exterminating Angel's single 30-minute track uses voice, guitar, samplers, and ARP synthesizer. You've heard of the unmade science fiction epic whose would-be director proposed using different big-name progressive bands to perform a soundtrack for specific planets used in the script; here then are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft that's a combination Death Star and Taco Bell from the 1970s filled with cement Mayan temples and pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed reptilian beings. Every so often a bell goes off to break the spell and presents convincing evidence of this record's special journey." -holy mountain Exterminating Angel mp3
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OM "Conference of the Birds" LP $13
"Comprised of two songs that build on OM's use of cyclical rhythm, riff, and vocal intonation, the duo's new album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub, and psychedelia. The band's lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality, and freedom from the physical body. Engineered by Billy Anderson and produced by the band, Conference of the Birds progresses beyond their debut, Variations on a Theme, with more fully realized songwriting and production." -holy mountain At Giza mp3
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OM "Pilgrimage" LP $14
"The 3rd sacred voyage of drone mantra purity from Om! Helmed by the master rhythm section of Chris Hakius (drums) and Al Cisneros (bass) (both formerly of Sleep) Pilgrimage contains four brand new songs featuring the gropus unique use of riff, cadence and chant. Lyrical themes address the processes of mind, psychic reality, astral and causal planes of being, and the nature of the soul. Pilgrimage was recorded and engineered by Steve Albini at his Electrial Audio studios in Chicago and produced by the band. Mastering was handled by Bob Weston (also of Shellac). Of particular note is how much the song-writing has developed and in turn makes the dynamics of the songs much more intensely powerful. The present journey finds the band expanding their vision into new territories. Deluxe 180 gram Vinyl, gatefold jacket, version of the 3rd album from OM! Clear vinyl (limited to 550 pressing). Lacquer master cut by Bob Weston. SOUNDS HUGE!!" -southern lord
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Zomes "Zomes" CD $12
"A lot of people mention the "L" word when talking (or whispering) about Asa Osborne. It's not Lungfish we're talking about here (he was their guitar player), but rather "Levine," as in Keith Levine. It seems Mr. Osborne witnessed a fight with Keith Levine as one of the combatants. Levine subsequently lost a tooth and--this is the strange part--Osborne grabbed it and has used the tooth as a guitar pick ever since. I know—weird. Zomes' self-titled album is full of beautiful Seesselberg-sized chunks of loop-like melodies that effervesce while Osborne brings them to life. There is a cinematic quality to the material here that recalls "library music," East German Indianerfilmen soundtracks, and even Blues Control at their most humid." -holy mountain
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GHQ "COSMOLOGY OF EYE" LP $16 (out of print/high wholesale cost)
"first proper release from this headspinning acid/drone/raga crew thats been quietly haunting the northeast for a couple years now… for this album the band was marcia bassett (double leopards, hototogisu, zaimph, un, etc.) steve gunn, and pete nolan (magik markers, vanishing voice, etc.)… heavily dosed trips into eastcoast trance primitivism, gushing with mantric meshes of strings and voice. centered around bassett & gunn's acoustic guitar freeflow, and wrapped up in layers of hovering vocal mist, buzzing drones, percussive clatter, and nolan's subtle but massively psychedelic electric guitar moves. over five extended tracks things slide along from bone rattling minimal vibrations, dip into opiated folk beauty, and then blow things wide open with a full side of fevered, acid soaked raga lift-off… keep that third eye open folks… pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl and packaged in a sweet two color letterpress printed heavy black artboard cover, with a nice 8x10 photo insert shot by tom carter. hand numbered edition of 850 copies." -time-lag
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Cloudland Canyon "Lie in Light" LP $12
"It appears there is a second "kosmische musik" period in full bloom around the world at the moment, not so much "kosmische" as in "krautrock" but instead "cosmic". Just here at kranky we have the celestial symphonies of Stars of the Lid, the guitar circle prog-psych of White Rainbow, the astral folk explorations of Lichens, the cut and splice electro-motorik of Andrew Pekler, the alien space-blues of Valet, and now the half German, half American duo Cloudland Canyon who actually bring the full-on "krautrock" on. You can play pick the influences if you like, but you can do that with any group. Cloudland certainly owe a debt to the German underground of the 70's, but they have also added flourishes of baroque pop and even a tinge of the 80's New Zealand scene into their sound. That they have ingested these influences and then delivered something as dynamic as this album without sounding like rote imitation is what impresses. The album is anything but one-dimensional, as they traverse a wide swath of territory. From the lock down groove of the opening track "Krautwerk," to the dense buzz of "White Woman," through the pastoral pscyh of "Heme" and on to the gentle wash of the closer "Mothlight," Cloudland Canyon have created an eclectic and rewarding listen. This new album follows the Silver Tongued Sisyphus EP on kranky, and their Exterminating Angel collaboration with Lichens on the Holy Mountain label. Ezra Buchla, whose father Don builds the legendary Buchla synthesizers, guests on viola and synth. Simon Wojan also plays trumpet and writes music for King Khan & the Shrines, while Kip Uhlhorn previously toiled in The Red Scare as well as Panthers" -kranky
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Cloudland Canyon "Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004" LP $14
"Spanning three years of studio work, Cloudland Canyon was born when Uhlhorn, touring Europe with Panthers in 2002, met up with German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan. Tapes were exchanged, and a handful of improv performances across the Atlantic forged a promising creative pairing, one that would take shape when Wojan made the trek to Brooklyn later that year. Through a week's worth of 12 hour days in the recording studio, armed with as many instruments and computers as they could find, the two assembled the basic tracks for Requiems Der Natur: rattling, sprawling experiments that fused their musical discoveries, which take the shape of its container, then rapidly spill out and fill whatever size of space they're given. Within, strictures of German new age and electronic music of the '70s haze into field recordings mottled with analog burble and echoes of woodwinds. Shambling, modal organ ruminations detour browned-out meditation hang sesh. Blue-eyed drunken soul collapses upon swarms of meticulously composed synthesizers into a yellowed, rejoicing howl. Bulkheads of battleship-grey sound are dry-docked and meet the sun for the first time, then the solitude of night. Smoky Mountain fingerpicking rests for seemingly connected moments against an ever-changing backdrop of technology. Contributions by The Double's Jacob Morris, Turing Machine/The Juan MacLean drummer Jerry Fuchs, and Uhlhorn's wife, Kelly Winkler, fortified the sessions with further points of view." -tee pee
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Charalambides "Joy Shapes" 2XLP $16
"To say that the words "unique" and "singular" are over-used in describing music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist's work would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken new ground in the primitive/folk/mystic/improv/psych valley in which they toil. This new album is certainly not for the faint of heart. Five songs stretch and crawl over 75 minutes, with Christine Carter finding a new fearlessness in her voice that will draw comparisons to Patty Waters or the early work of Meredith Monk. Joy Shapes is the first studio album recorded by Charalambides in a long time. The main tracks were recorded in June 2003, with subsequent overdubs, mixing and mastering done throughout the summer and early fall of 2003 including one night of vocals recording done in what Tom Carter calls a "lost evening."

Christina Carter: electric guitar, voice, bells
Tom Carter: electric guitar, lap steel guitar, acoustic guitar, chimes, wind wand
Heather Leigh Murray: pedal steel guitar, psaltery, voice" -kranky
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Tom Carter "Shots at Infinity 2" LP $15 (high wholesale cost)
"Shots at Infinity 2 contains two long live tracks in the same mode as volume one, but more cut loose and blown out, recorded in Nemo Bidstrup's record store and Burnt Hills' basement jam zone. Tom Carter is a guitar player best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone iconoclasts Charalambides. Since 2000, however, he has become increasingly active as not only a solo artist but as a collaborator. He has performed with improvising musicians as diverse as Thurston Moore, Jandek, Tetuzi Akiyama, Matt Valentine, and many others, as well as being a key member of groups like Badgerlore (with Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance), Friday Group, Mudsuckers (with Robert Horton and the Yellow Swans), and Zaika (with Marcia Bassett of the Double Leopards and Hototogisu)." -important
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Christina Carter "Electrice" LP $13 *OUT OF PRINT*
"Long anticipated licensed vinyl reissue of Christina Carter's most recent kranky CD release, with beautifully hand-painted, signed, and numbered covers. An experiment in palette limitation, using only the barest match-sticks of form and lyrics, Christina constructs a shimmering puzzle of austere beauty. Edition of 500, almost gone already. "Subterranean song writing ... eliminating excess elements ... more cinematic or sculptural, feeling of being a human body... piano-like guitar... two personal songs, two universal songs ... idealization and memory... songs created instantly, not knowing what i was going to sing about until i sang... inspired by 60's album art and band photos of floating heads, slight physical 'defects' and skeletal uncoordination, anachronistic futurisms, the idea of 'drone' (4 different songs from the same basic musical elements), dance choreography, and living with chronic pain..." -wholly other
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Bark Haze "Traum" picture disc LP (comes with CD!!) $18 *BH has member of Sonic Youth*
"The Monolith series combines two like-minded artists on the same one-sided, reverse-cut LP by hard-panning one recording to the right and the other recording to the left. By adjusting the panning controls on his or her turntable, the listener is free to control the degree to which the two recordings melt into one. Each edition in the series isÊlimited to a one-time pressing of 500 picture disc LPsÊfeaturing a Monolith inspired painting by Ned Clayton and includes a CD with individual songs and stereo mixes. Monolith: Jupiter is realized by two fre(e/ak)-jazz duos: Traum and Bark Haze. On the right is Bark Haze, the duo of Gown (Andrew MacGregor) and Thurston Moore. Bark Haze explores the interplay between two unbridled electric guitars. This recording focuses on restraint: an intimate melding of the minds through careful abuse of the strings. On the left is Traum, in this recording the duo of Hell Hall (Graveyards) and Zac Davis (Lambsbread). The project is Hall's continuation of Graveyards' from the gutter ode to jazz's influence on noise. This recording combines Hall's creative and controlled drumwork and percussion with Davis' schizophrenic/ADHD guitar hallucinations" -music fellowship
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Mindflayer "It's Always 1999" CD $12
"Robo generated psychic booty pulse coupled with metro scrambled drumstick action. Battle station personnel on this disc includes Brian Chippendale of LIGHTNING BOLT and MEERK PUFFY of FORCEFIELD. The duo have oscillators working overtime in the psychic war deck and gabba friendly drums. This CD is a re-release of a barely available record from the Ooo Mau Mau record label from 2001. The record was recorded in the halls of FORT THUNDER, a deserted cultural bunker/state of the art Dunkin Donuts in Providence, RI. The record has been re-mastered for loudness and delicacy, so pay heed. The sounds on this record are the hustle and bustle of bass-bin boom on the space throughways of the Milky Way circa 3167 A.D. Slowed beats with the force of tree roots hitting supertanker hulls. Vast radio dish networks with squelch and pulse tremors using solar systems as tweeters and white dwarfs as shredded woofers. Your head is caving in, your eyes are melting. Time is space and colors are sound. All is brown, hail the ramparts, to the battle stations! " -load
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Mindflayer "Take Your Skin Off" LP $14 *THIS BEAST HAS BEEN OOP FOREVER!*
"mind flayer is the synthesis of b. chippendale (lightning bolt) and mr. brinkmann (meerk puffy, force field, mc brinkmandibles, danse asshole, krap). like having your brain sucked out at the bottom of a dungeon, mind flayer rip and tear at your psyche with psionic skill and power. take your skin off captures the band like no other release they have done before, a complete record with connections to the astral plane. get out you players handbook and study up on your illithid interpretation techniques." -bulb
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ROBEDOOR- "Endlessly Blazing" LP $13 *BACK IN STOCK!!!*
"Eagle Rock, CA's Robedoor are back with another doomed out K-hole. Slow creeping drones building to some nice loner caveman pound/ real song territory. Three tracks in just under 40 minutes. edition of 500 with full color jacket. Artwork by Jeremy Earl. "Another bowl of black wax lit up and littered into the smogset. Another half hour in the haze, burned and overturned. "Endlessly Blazing" loads together a trio of semi-recent resin sessions: the A is a sidelong sinkhole into lava and quaaludes, the B starts with a sprawling spiral sweetleaf ballad before convulsing into a pissed withdrawal of dread drums, electronic fumes, and damaged howling. Hold it in as long as you can" -?"-woodsist
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Robedoor "Shrine to the Possessor" LP $16 (high wholesale cost)
"New batch of brutal minimalism from Robedoor on their first vinyl full length, Shrine to the Possessor. This one is pure darkness - no light, no air, just tortured souls and echoed cries. Three epic droning processionals built from the heaviest, thickest low-end tones. The sound of indentured servants from a scorched dustbowl wasteland. Caveman aesthetic pushed to its limits by recording to eight analog channels. Robedoor's storied back catalog includes full length CDs on Release the Bats and Interregnum, collaborative albums with their sisters-in-arms Pocahaunted on Digitalis, Ecstatic Peace, and Blackest Rainbow, and countless other long sold-out CDRs and tapes, several on the band's own label, the undeniably prodigious Not Not Fun, as well as on Ruralfaune, Chocolate Monk, Chondritic Sound, and many others. Recorded by Bobb Bruno at Bored Fortress HQ in Eagle Rock, CA. Artwork by Andy Spore. Includes silkscreened 11x17 poster. Limited and numbered to 500. " -music fellowship
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Sword Heaven "Entrance" LP $13
"SWORD HEAVEN is a Columbus duo using sheet metal, electronics, horn, drum and treated vocals to bring a supercluster of black clouds into your zone. While there is an undeniable black tone of metallic grime hanging over the proceedings, this music will appeal to those wanting something absolute in their lives. Yes, name check pre-industrial dive bombers like the SWANS or GODFLESH, but realize that will not prepare for the all out bombast this duo spreads on your toast. The band has 7 inchers and LP sides on undy mainstays record labels like NOT NOT FUN, DEATHBOMB ARC and CEPHIA’S TREAT, as well as a split LP with fellow Ohio cyanide spritzers, LAMBSBREAD. This is their full-length debut. Make no mistake, this release will be noticed and fans of exxxtreme soundz and bold smells will bow down and spill proper restitutions of pig blood stained dollars at their local record shack or illegal download center. " -load "Town Hag" MP3
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Traum "Built for Nothing" 1-sided LP $12 *OUT OF PRINT*
"Suburban Michigan is a breeding ground where every weirdo has a label, a band, and a handful of secret/under the radar collaborative projects. Here Graveyard’s Ben Hall and Lambsbread’s Zac Davis create a monolithic one sider influenced by too many private press jazz records and abstract instrumentalism. Davis turns in his effect pedals for nothing; pure clean tones plucked up and down scales and bridges so uniquely that it is easy to confuse the guitar for a sax. Ben Hall drums like a man with four arms; constant rattling trap tapping and assorted pots and pans clattering, flowing completely smoothly. A perfect union of sound. In an edition of 300 copies in screened chipboard sleeves by Anthony Decanini." -arbor
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Woods "How To Survive In + In The Woods" LP $12
"Originally released on cassette (don't even get me started) at the tail end of last year, Release the Bats have done a 'proper' cd now, but luckily it still sounds as if it was dubbed to cassette on faulty equipment. Lo-Fi indie folk at it's best should really sound like this though, as if the band have no idea how to program their video recorder or send an email let alone successfully mix an album on their own. All the hiss, noise and crumbling decay gives this record a quality which could maybe be compared to an album such as My Bloody Valentine's 'Loveless' - not that they sound the same, but that the noise and imperfection is the key to the success of the music. If you're looking for an engaging rock record with the same wanton abandon witnessed in the best of 'New Weird America' look no further, Woods are choppin' great." -shrimper
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Naked on the Vague "Blood Pressure Sessions" LP $12
"Lucy Phelan and M.P. Hopkins hail from Sydney, Australia. Behind a basic framework of keyboard, bass, and vocals (and all manner of tinkered-with percussion) Naked on the Vague's distinct aggregate of sound calls to mind everything from SPK to Mars and beyond. Or, as they're fond of calling them in Philly, "the Death Star version of Times New Viking." Originally released in 2007 on CD by the fearless Australian Dual Plover label, The Blood Pressure Sessions ventures into a darker realm than their debut 7-inch (also on Dual Plover) had erroneously suggested. Propelled by the sharp, rhythmic snare drum beat and anchored by thunderous, fuzzed bass-lines and stinging, swinging organ and synth fills, Phelan and Hopkins take turns rounding out the vocal duties, giving the whole of their sound a sonorous curtain of ecstatic foreboding. Betraying a gallows wit, the band refers to their music as "apocalyptic pop," which could be construed as both drowning and waving. Coming from the label that brought the world both The Dead C and Shadow Ring, Naked On The Vague is a perfect fit in the Siltbreeze discography." -siltbreeze
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Ex-Cocaine "Esta Guerra" LP $12
"Forged in the Garden City (that's Missoula, Montana to you, piker), Ex-Cocaine is the formidable, sneer-wielding duo of Bryan Ramirez (guitars, effects, vocals) and Mike C (percussion, hexes, spells). Their debut LP from 2005, Keep America Mellow (on Ramirez's Killertree label) brought to light heavy august vibes steeped in the tippled, woodbine 'n' cider electro-folk of Michael Chapman, Steve Peregrine Took, Roy Harper, and other more reclusive Anglo biscuit-snuffers whose works haunt the archives of Kissing Spell and Shadoks. On their second effort, Ex-Cocaine throw down hard, evoking a gnarled bonfire with flames that roar thunderously like the detuned, rockist clang of Dead C's Harsh '70s Reality, and burns evenly like the smelted, Rust Belt psychedelia of Stone Harbour's Emerges. Vinyl-only and limited, the sparks are flying off this one already. Catch it if you can. " -siltbreeze
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Dead C "Secret Earth" CD $10
"The elegance of howling guitar noise was fully realized when The Dead C appeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rock music is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfelt singing of the African-American South, they express the tenets of alienation in society with unrelenting force-- a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morley's monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world--nothing is more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. In its career, The Dead C has oscillated between two poles. Recent albums explore drones, electronic loops, and musique concrete. However, their new album, Secret Earth, proselytizes oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming, and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material. Along the axis of The Dead C's recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh '70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. To coincide with this release, the band will be playing rare, select shows around the US in mid-October. They have not been to the east coast in over a decade, and will be visiting some places they've never been (cheers, Seattle). In addition, Ba Da Bing is teaming up this fall with Jagjaguwar to reissue their two essential Flying Nun albums from the eighties-- DR503 and Eusa Kills. If there was ever a time to explore the earthen extremes this magnificent band surveys, it is now. " -ba da bing
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Oneohtrix Point Never "A Pact Between Strangers" cdr $7.00
"Newest release from OPN aka Dan Lopatin, certified 'King of the Arpeggiator.' Sounds like it Could have been recorded ankle in a puddle deep in Amplified Galapagos. Though Dan has already carved out his own sound-niche I must again stress that this is one of his finest, most focused works to date. First track 'the Pretender' has a kind of Anthony Phillips circa '87 vibe, ie. frito layers of sawtooth dentistry while the second track recalls mid/late-period Eno along the lines of 'Nile: An Ancient Egyptian Quest.' Since I as of yet have not mused to the public on the ridiculous, current proscription of the term 'new age' I am forced to explore new ways of expression. There is an incorrect stigma attached to the term at present because in 2008 people still associate it with the survivors of the downfall, propagators of cheesy presets and Yanni qualities INSTEAD of actual COOL shit that Sounds Good. Basically, listen to a Suzanne Doucet tape on Isis from '84 which sounds good and like this CD and not regurgitative Windham Hill releases and media perception of the term. But I digress..John says Dan has a knack for snax, starburry chola yummys. Last track is totally Prisms-era Michael Garrison possibly in the style of Jarre, finger calisthenics. Handpainted CDRs with this strange interference paint which actually allows you to see into other dimensions when you look at it. Every CD has a unique design unto itself. Interference paint is a polymer emulsion(paint) containing titanium-coated mica flakes. Painted over a dark color you see the labeled interference color. Painted over a light color you see the complimentary color. The color changes depending upon the angle you're viewing the paint at. It's impossible to represent the effect in a picture as it is a phenomenon which exists through motion, movement.. I find the tracks on this release are successful in that they too operate on a similar level. Have you ever read Binkley's 'Piece: Contra Aesthetics?' Now that our nation can collectively take a deep breath for the next four years, it is time to straight chill and listen to the music at hand!! " -gneiss things
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God Willing/Privy Seals split LP $12
"God Willing and Privy Seals are two of the prime purveyors of meditative harsh tones. God Willing’s guitar and oscillatior drone has been reaching epic levels of hypnosis lately and this piece is a great example. The repetitive nature of textured signals act like the swaying charm of the pocket watch: onward march. Matthew Sullivan has been crafting his Earn project recently, and this, one of the final Privy Seals recordings acts as a logical bridge. Heavy, hi-end guitar and tape interlacing: a harsh movement, but possessing transcendently soothing qualities buried under the deprivation of distorted tones. At the end of the hallway a door lies open. A long overdue document of the LA Diaspora. In an edition of 300 LPs with silkscreened chipboard covers by Ren Schofield. " -arbor
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OUTER SPACE- "PERFECT VACUUM" cassette $6.50 *OUT OF PRINT FROM LABEL*
"John Elliott (of Emeralds, Lilypad, Daylight Savings Time) has spent many years mastering his MS-10. This tape from his young Outer Space project is an exploratory trip into the deep caves; synthesized water drips into stalactite formation. Heavy “what’s it” zones, broadening the boundaries: refusing the molds of synth drone by creating something entirely singular: uncharted. In an edition of 150 tapes with full color art and labels. " -arbor
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TEN THOUSAND THINGS- "CROOKED ON CHROME" cassette $6
"Heavy mechanized factory zones, synthetic industrial murk: this collaborative project between East Coast mainstays Geoffrey Mullen (of the Rare Youth label) and Scott Reber (aka Work/Death) reveals a polyphonic wasteland. Covered under layers of tape sludge and deep bass exists a synthesized ambiance, eerie like dark nights in the warehouse district. In an edition of 100 tapes printed on silver cardstock with tape labels. " -arbor
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C. SPENCER YEH + LASSE MARHAUG "THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES" 7" $5
"This collaborative work between US improviser C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and European sound artist Lasse Marhaug is one of the most diverse and rewarding efforts by either artist. It is the result of hours of recording, cut up and spliced together, giving the listener a glimpse into various short snippets of the sessions. Harsh quick sonic blasts, violin scrapes and drones, field recordings, vocal exercises, room clatter and more are used in the process, but the way that they are assembled and woven together provides a nonstop experience that goes best with highly concentrated listening. Still the result is so varied that something new can be heard on every listen; a recording so intense you can never truly grasp what is actually happening; most definitely a highlight in both artists’ discographies. In an edition of 400 7”s in proprinted foldover sleeves with art Jose DeDiego and an insert. " -arbor
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darwinsbitch "steel hum" cassette $6
"finally, the bitch is here. marielle v. jakobsons is the brilliant mind behind the elusive darwinsbitch. her music is rich in texture and portrays an aural depth that you can't quite pierce. "steel hum" is an introduction, an effort to bring you into the fold in anticipation of her spellbinding debut full-length, "ore." but what "steel hum" has is an organic sense of place and a path forward.jakobsons employs numerous methods with a focus on synths, tapes, and violin. what she creates is a slightly-uneasy soundworld, constantly teetering on the edge of collapse. these sides are like a rocking ship drifting back & forth in deep grey seas. you're not sure if you should just enjoy the view or vomit your dinner over the side. "steel hum" is caught in the space between. limited to 99 copies w/ custom stamped art. " - digitalis
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sky limosuine "telepresence" cassette $6
"i love me some sky limousine. rarely does a project's moniker so perfectly encapsulate its sound, but in the case of sky limo it couldn't be more true. "telepresence" alternates between gooey synthed-out goodness and schizoid tape collage efforts. it all flows like a crystal river deep into the trenches of your frontal lobe.the journey that is "telepresence" will take you all over the globe. blips of eastern-tinged cacaphony fit snugly against hiss-drenched jamborees, all leading into uplifting synth passages and quiet solemnity. like i said, i love me some sky limousine. limited to 50 copies, japanese paper cover stylings." - digitalis
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mortuus auris & the black hand "s/t" cassette $6
"this uk outfit plumbs the depths on their self-titled debut offering, searching for the caustic mud that makes things tick. mortuus auris & the black hand are an analog for the demons trapped beneath the seas, whispering sweet missives to a disenchanted world of black. casios and synths intermingle with field recordings and god knows what else in an effort to block out the sun. these three efforts take hold immediately, whirring their way into your bones. mortuus auris hold their own against stifling winds, blasting out of the gates and into a sonic crevice. bleeps and bloops pulse like an electronic heartbeat waiting to be put out of its misery, hopeful that what awaits on the other side is bathed in liquid silver. limited to 50 copies, forensic-style cassette labels. " - digitalis
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katchmare "soft cavern" cassette $6
"katchmare is the solo moniker of nick hoffman who runs the excellent scissor death label up in illinois. "soft cavern" is a dense listen and perfect for the oncoming bitter cold that winter brings. using little more than guitar and microsynth, hoffman laces the hanging branches with burned-out silver streamers and acid-soaked confetti. there's something about "soft cavern" that is simultaneously disorienting but familiar. you're sure you've been here, but you can't quite figure out when. there's a vague, sinister undercurrent that flows through the cavern walls, but it's constantly kept in check by hoffman's able, delicate touch. these drones are entangled in each other, like a sonic spiderweb of bliss. limited to 50 copies." - digitalis
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Sean McCann "Phase Pools" cdr $7
"Where to start. Sean had this ready for me at the end of the summer and when I exposed it to my ears I was blown to pieces. This is a conceptual album where every single track ties into the next, a constant glorious flow of goodness which explores many different facets, from gorgeous violins to mind numbing synthesis-almost bordering the lines of electro pop at times even, I'm amazed. 10 tracks in total, loud lush and brilliant. Edition of 58 copies." -cloud valley
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White Rainbow "Prism of Eternal Now" 2XLP $18
"With the release of ...Eternal Now, White Rainbow has surpassed typical solo project territory and is now a virtual elemental force. At a somewhat brief 71 minutes, his kranky debut pulses and flows with mantric chants, clattering percussions, sighing sustains and guitar leads unashamed of their scorching transcendence. He breathes new life into archaic sub-genres such as progrock, new age, and hippie folk incantations, while never stooping to the negative aspects of any of them, and at the same time remaining a step ahead of the technologically crippled and virtuosuo-less looper pedal scene. Prism of Eternal Now leaves behind the bounds of gravity for a free floating meditational headtrip of inner space exploration." - marriage records
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Valet "Naked Acid" LP $12
"Naked Acid is the second solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka Honey Owens. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states and the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off with the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet with Adrian Orange, and tracks 3, 4 and 5 are collaborations with Mark Evan Burden (Silentist) on drums." From the gentle narcotic haze of the album opener "We Went There," which is dissected by Honey's trademark incendiary guitar work, to the lazy alien country blues of "Fuck It," and through the hyperventilating rhythmic distortion of the closer "Streets," Naked Acid is a fever dream of ghostly incantation and smudged psychedelia." - marriage records
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A.M. Shiner "Bananarchy" C100 cassette $6.50
"Sulfuric post-music debut by the young & troubled Andrew Michael Shiner, whose sonic vernacular on this special edition long playing cassette never strays far from snotty concrete chomping noise. Side A is seven widely varied attempts at funneling assaultive energy thru a black hole in the hopes of its emergence as a pure & beautiful force of healing through the white hole on the other side. Just barely making it there and catching glimpses of the toxic information field being refined in the analog shitstorm is enough to let this single side roll out the length of a full album. Side B matches the first fifty minutes with two more minimally-oriented pieces that include Andrew’s first ever “metahistoric live performance” (were you there? probably!). All is finally capped by a half hour time-freezing monolith wash guaranteed to mellow any harsh incurred by contact with the bananarchic agenda. Also look out for new chapters of the A.M.S. crisis to unfold soon on Housecraft and Sound Holes. Hand numbered edition of 80 pro-dubbed black & white c100 tapes in vinyl album with cover collage compiled from a year’s worth of strung out doodles from A.M. Shiner’s old bummer-job phone log." stunned
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Kabyzdoh Obtruhamchi "Kabyzdoh Obtruhamchi" cassette $6
"Yes we’re going to have to learn how to pronounce yet another tricky project name, but in this case it’ll be highly worthwhile, as soon many will be talking about Kabyzdoh Obtruhamchi. Sergey Kozlov is Russia’s newest exporter of excellent jams, and his solo c50 arrives as a thankful surprise with its sky-rending hybridization of eastern european guitar spree & 70s snowdazed modal folkrock. Resonant drums burst through the giant aluminum churn of guitar, voice, and percussion arcing overhead. Dancing between poles of hot motion & cool mass, Sergey’s impressively energetic numbers establish themselves long enough to each become deeply meaningful, essential scenes in his pan shamanic expression. Big countries produce big stories, and we’re glad to roll out the first of more hours to follow from Bryansk’s psych music representative. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted c50 tapes in clear shells w/ gold foil liner & double sided color jcard. " - stunned
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Mi Ami "Ark of the Covenant" 12" $12
"Heavy and frantic dub punk from San Francisco's Mi Ami, featuring Dan and Jacob of Dischord's Black Eyes. A spacious exploration of 21st century paranoia and psycho-sexual body terror. "I don't wanna live, I wish I was dead." Debut release from Lovers Rock. Limited to 500 copies, 45rpm, 140 gram vinyl, hand screened covers." -lovers rock
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the julie mittens cdr $10 (netherlands import)
"Oh fuck yeah. Stoked beyond belief to finally drop this. Last September The Julie Mittens dragged their suitcases filled with (un)Holy Fire across the Atlantic to play a couple of hard earned gigs. Their first time ever in the States and they sure realized they couldn’t leave without leaving behind scorched earth. Cellars got torn down and basements wrecked, a band on fire from Syracuse to Virginia. This release is evidence that the tour was a massive succes, recorded live in Albany NY, the Dutch trio unleash two face melting jams much in the vein of Fushitsusha but with the spirit of the most out there freejazz units (think late period Coltrane, Raphe Malik, Evan Parker et al) branded in their way of playing. " -cut hands
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uneven universe "worm hole" cdr $10 (netherlands import)
"It’s still a damn shame Haunted Castle is no more but sometimes something great has to make way for something awesome. And at this point, the unbridled rawness of Uneven Universe is a fair match for the brooding beauty of Haunted Castle. Comfortable in the grimiest parts of Michigan’s underground gutters, Dan (Haunted Castle, Cardboard Sax) and Holly (Cardboard Sax, with John Olson too) put a twisted dirge into the world of fucked up freejazz. Raw and uncompromised chunks of saxophone collide with a barrage of molten electronics. Often creating an Industrial vibe but transferred to the freejazz wastelands so many great bands of today roam in. Edition of 50 with art by Matthew Junkin. " -cut hands
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jason rohm "suicide" artbook + compilation cdr $10 (netherlands import)
"Originally intended to celebrate the first anniversary of Cut Hands waaay back in Januscary but since it’s never too late to celebrate in the oh 8 here it is and goddamn if it wasn’t worth the goddamning wait. Jason Rohm paints a grim picture that’s both realistically nerving yet bizarrely funny. The tale of a desperate soul in a world that’s tied by rules and akward questions, almost comic like in subtle detail. Suicide has 32 pages of black and white drawings, with text in English and awkward Dutch. The compilation provides a harrowing soundtrack. Tunes by Andrew Coltrane, Sick Llama, Warmth, Droughter, Bottom Feeder, Raperies (Like Draperies), Ex-Cocaine, Robedoor and Josh Lay. 125 copies made, limited availibility, so act fassssssst. " -cut hands
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vorg vessel | "the queen of fish mountain / illuminated by stripes" cd-r + 3" cd-r $12 (netherlands import)
"Another stunning project courtesy of psychfiend Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Dragonfrynd). This man does not sleep, nor shouldn’t he. Just like on the Dragonfrynd album there’s no drums on this double album. No guitars either this time. Just miles and miles of tripped out organ jams. Straight lines get transformed into a sprawling, blurry ocean of dubby overtones. Space age slowjams….this must be what shroomheads in love dance to. Sweet. 50 copies in slimline dvd cases with six page booklet and art by Peter Friel. " -cut hands
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andrew coltrane "symphony of black holes" 3" cd-r $10 (netherlands import/out of print)
"New entry into the vastly expanding discography of this Michigan basement wrecker. Check out his brutal burners on American Tapes, RRR and Middle James Co., come right back if you’re man enough and try this one right here. Symphony of Black Holes delivers crude streams of skullcracking sewer noise. Not a ray of light to be found in this putrid dirthole, all black, no joy. 50 copies in mini dvd cases. Artwerk by fartjerk. " -cut hands
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6majik9 "the space between" cdr $10 (netherlands import)
"Sucking up fluids from middle earth and releasing them through weirded out psych jams, 6majik9 represent a blossoming Australian underground centred around the ever incredible Musicyourmindwillloveyou label, Brothers Of The Occult Sisterhood, Terracid, etc. Enough loner vibes on this one to loose yourself in for a couple of days on end. Rural murmur, entrancing drones, minimalist percussion trails, baby’s crying, uknown magickal devices emitting electronic incense, the smell of wet leafs, the moon bigger and brighter than usual. 69 copies in square dvd cases with b/w artwerk and inlay. " -cut hands
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starving weirdos "sudden fear" dvdr $10 (netherlands import)
"First dvd release by this bunch of freakzone jammers and it’s definately one that stands out from the pack of music dvd’s released nowadays. Sudden Fear comprises slowed down footage from the 1952 film noir by the same name, starring the mighty Joan Crawford and Jack Palance as they get stuck in a web of crazy paranoid romance. The Weirdos soundtrack the black and white scenes with one of their most elegant pieces to date. Entrancing, psychedelic swamp magick, you know how they do. All with amazing eye and ear for the visual aspect of this multimedia performance. Originally performed for the Experimental Film & Music Night in cooperation with the Humboldt International Film Fest. 150 handnumbered copies, in slimline dvd cases with drawn cover art by Jason Rohm, an insert and a medium sized poster. " -cut hands
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Telecult Powers "Amazing Laws of" cdr $6
"So wipe the dust off of your ouija board, reshuffle your deck of tarot cards, and hem the stitches on your voodoo doll. Some real-deal mystical shit is about to go down. Keep a tight grip on your salvia pipe, for it may be your only companion on this dark voyage. Some local myths turned heroes in this mind-expanding duo. Trade in your distortion and delay for magickal boxes of pure analog spirit. Nobody has kept it realer than these guys." - abandon ship records
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Predator Vision "II" cassette $6
"Self-released earlier this year, this one finds PV at their most predatorial. They are ceaseless infinity jammers with a hunger for psychsploration and a tight yet loose style that can sometimes seem too good to be true. This being their second release, one can only wonder what's in store for them. Featuring Mr. Ducktails himself: Matthew Mondanile, Real Estate's Etienne Duguay, and Ben Daly of Wavehead. Keep an eye out for their split LP with Sun Araw to be released on Not Not Fun." - abandon ship records
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Totally Dad "Video for the Snake" cdr $6
Three hell-hermits from Middleton Street extra choose to live like field mice. one yea cooks, one ha cleans, and one cuts doh paper. if they notice the night late has begun, they drop their gold duties and fold instruments into towels bang. It has all been full saved. Somebody does it better than." - abandon ship records
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the julie mittens cdr $6 (abandon ship version)
"Oh fuck yeah. Stoked beyond belief to finally drop this. Last September The Julie Mittens dragged their suitcases filled with (un)Holy Fire across the Atlantic to play a couple of hard earned gigs. Their first time ever in the States and they sure realized they couldn’t leave without leaving behind scorched earth. Cellars got torn down and basements wrecked, a band on fire from Syracuse to Virginia. This release is evidence that the tour was a massive succes, recorded live in Albany NY, the Dutch trio unleash two face melting jams much in the vein of Fushitsusha but with the spirit of the most out there freejazz units (think late period Coltrane, Raphe Malik, Evan Parker et al) branded in their way of playing. " -abandon ship
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Wavves "s/t" LP $13
"lo-fi beach punk anthems by San Diego's Nathan Williams. beautiful timeless melodies on top trash can guitars and blown out drums.14 tracks in 35 minutes. follow up full length to be released by De Stijl." -woodsist
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Magic Lantern "s/t" LP $14 (already out of print from source)
"MagicLantern came into being at the mid-point of the decade, sparked into existence by a simultaneous period of musical discovery for Philip French, William Giacchi, and Cameron Stallones. Inspired by the psychedelic approach to musical tone and structure in various eras and genres of rock (not at all excluding Germany and Japan in the '70s), the three realized they ought to make use of the new creative tools they'd stumbled upon, and began jamming the summer away in twin poles of Long Beach and Whittier, CA. Over the course of a year they recorded every jam and compiled a full-length's worth of home-studio demos which later became their self-released CD-R. At the same time, each member was developing solo and side projects to channel parallel universes of sound. A year after their first jam together, MagicLantern decided to make the leap to playing live and recruited good friends and like-minded musicians Chip Knechtel and Gavin Fort to be their marathon rhythm section. The jams from their CD-R were used as the blueprints for the band to develop a raw, stripped-down sound that emphasized hypnotic rhythms and improvised guitar duels. After being invited to play at the Tee Pee Records showcase "Manifest Destiny" in August of '07, th' Lantern kept up a steady diet of shows in LA and Long Beach for the next year, earning a local following and two highly limited tapes on Not Not Fun Records. Through the spring of '08 they began writing new material as a band and developing the new songs live. In the summer they recorded these jams with sound wizard Bobb Bruno, which led to the Not Not Fun LP High Beams that September. At this point the band had fully emerged from transition into a shared creative vision of five musicians, each possessing a singular voice, all united in the common goal to engage both mind and body through good vibrations." -woodsist
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SUN ARAW- "Boat Trip"- 12" $13 *BACK IN STOCK!*
"Boat Trip might be some hidden soundtrack to Donkey Kong warp-whistling straight into Ayahuasca Country. In about twenty minutes Sun Araw manages to navigate a psychedelic jungle cruise through canopy din & spooked drone, then he noses the boat out of the water and lifts into uncharted dub-spheres. The back half of this entranced tour is like being (fortunately) trapped inside an old Upsetters jam played at half-speed with twice the shaman-chant and reverb drenched percussion. Normally we wouldn't trust taking this kind of trip with just anybody, but with wheel and rudder alike in the hands of Magic Lantern co-captain Cameron Stallones, we can sip our yage-of-choice in peace and share the Sun Araw vision as one. Originally issued on Stunned Records as a limited CDR, here it gets the deluxe vinyl treatment. Limited to 500 on black vinyl." -woodsist
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Wagon Tongues "Shadowrock Destroyer" cassette $6
"You can live in LA/Southern Cali for 40 years and still not traverse all the fucked up fringe boroughs and forgotten neighborhoods sprawling outwards in every direction, no matter how hard you hit the highways. And as long as we’ve been rooted out here, we’ve only had reason to venture into the sun-dead desert no man’s land of Beaumont on one occasion, but the place speaks volumes about the weird water which hometown garbage-folk-chaos ensemble Wagon Tongues have clearly been drinkin’ their whole life. A creepy meeting ground of olde-tymey Wild West relics and trashy meth-dealing truckstop culture, it’s an ideal breeding ground for drifters, criminals, and creative youth with singular visions. Which is pretty much the name of the game on Shadowrock Destroyer, the Tongues’ most recent EP of deranged collective chemistry. The A, “Fire In The Hole,” is a raw free ritual of stomping drums, loops, teen screams, guitar noise, and pots and pans, conducted in a crappy basement with cavernous reverb and black mold on the walls. Confusion is king. The B rises up in a similar cloud of clatter but swings with a folkier gait, sunlight brain-fry chords, dusty horns, and possessed babble bubbling over into an ecstatic tumbleweed hayride into the sunset. Squint yr eyes, raise your hand, seek the shadows. Pro-dubbed yellow cassettes with hand-brushed tape labels in cases with hand-numbered full-color masked band photo cover artwork, and wrapped with a hand-cut patch of brown picnic cloth stickering. Edition of 100." -nnf
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Topaz Rags "California Ash" cassette $6
"People in the West blame weird moods on a string of things: the wind (those Santa Anas), the end (of the country), the moon (crescent is cursed), even the movies. But it doesn’t matter which is right/real, because the effect is the same, freaked souls in a trapped environment, lotuses floating on a lake littered with bodies. Topaz Rags is a new late night downer trio devoted to mapping these sour times and long goodbyes, and California Ash is their 2-sided elegy for the Golden State’s darkest ghosts, the rich hills full of fire, the day after the kool-aid. Back-alley bass lines plod under smoky piano shadows, drums stalk a straight line in a house with the power out, a trumpet mourns from a warped 78 spinning in the basement. Wasted, grey, DIY drug jazz lost somewhere between Bohren & Der Club Of Gore and some half-destroyed pre-digital Portishead demo. Gold-on-white pro-dubbed cassettes in spraypainted cases with doomed hippie chick portrait cover photo and bedecked with a hand-cut shred of neon palm tree fabric. Edition of 100." -nnf
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HNY "Mute In The Dust" cassette $6
" Dudes can dispute it, but the feminine mystique is real – especially in the realms of haunted interior-psych voice musique. A lotta our favorite ladies (Inca Ore, Grouper, U.S. Girls, etc) have the “private dreamer” communion ritual down to a science, whether due to talent, vision, chromosomes or some combo of the 3. We wanna add another siren to the squad: HNY. When not buried in work as the sax/bass-playing half of Social Junk, she’s found time to drop a couple stellar solo joints over the past year-ish (scope her Here You Can Touch The Sky for proof), but they may have gotten more lost in the shuffle than seems fair, so we’re jazzed to present Heather’s newest full-length collection of woozy diary drift, Mute In The Dust. Nine song-stories of naked keyboards, 3 AM spirit loops, and creaky attic narratives that blur the line between bedroom voodoo ceremony and otherworldly suicide note. Recorded entirely outdoors on a tiny side porch in West Oakland, Mute tip-toes the HNY mythos out of the shadows and off the deep end. Dive in. Pro-dubbed tapes in white cases with hallucinatory guitar-girl cover art (3 different color paper possibilities), and housed in hand-painted canvas pouches. Edition of 100." -nnf
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Secret Abuse "Violent Narcissus" LP $13
"Secret Abuser Jeff Witscher is an enigma wrapped in a riddle rolled in cassette tape and plugged into a battered pair of towering PA speakers. He’s lived everywhere, met everyone, and inspired legions through his loner lifestyle, utopian fashions (“refugee chic”), and spellbindingly intense music. Up from Rainbow Blanket, through to Impregnable, and across the arid plains of Roman Torment and Deep Jew, Witscher’s maintained a singularity of vision and total commitment to execution that has wrecked us, personally, to the point of speechlessness at least a dozen times. But, despite his restlessly shapeshifting spirit, the past year plus has seen him settling ever deeper into his Secret Abuse sinkhole mode, and here’s hoping he lingers a while longer, cause it’s a fucking winner. Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones crossfade into tortured minor key guitar laments before being slowly subsumed in a droning ocean of choked vocals and sulking, selfish electronics. Repressed, burning, and emotional as only a young man pushing away everything can be, Violent Narcissus is as definitive a document as has thus far yet emerged from the SA canon (and lord knows there’s been a grip of gems). Look long and hard; the mirror is a bitter mistress. Black LPs, mastered by Bill Hutson, housed in jackets designed by Witscher. Edition of 445." -nnf
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Super Minerals "The Thaw" cassette $6.50 (second edition) *BACK IN STOCK*
"We spent weeks farming through three and a half years worth of Super Minerals' greatests recordings to birth The Thaw, the massive C120 collection we released in early '08. But as edition-of-100s are wont to do, the CS sold out fast and vanished into the yawning past. Which is cool, but we felt this classic deserved a 2nd go-round for the united global earhole, so we fashioned a new edition, and here it is. Exact same music ("murky sunlight string-jangle, jungle Om heatwaves, distant insect whirr, phantom flute whispers, deep drugged rainforests of vibrant harmonic hallucination"), on the exact same high quality pro-imprinted chrome cassettes, but this time each tape is housed in a unique hand-cut full-color wraparound piece of brain-hazed new age art, and tied with a piece of sea glass scavenged in Fort Bragg, CA. Edition of 100." -nnf
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Sepviva Bells "Halloween In The Sea" C63 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Duo recordings by Tara Burke (Fursaxa, Anahita, Tau Emerald) and Grant Acker (Slurp Dogs), smoking one late-period Un/early Fursaxa style. A scorching blend of distorted psychedelia, hypnotic riffing and mellow vocals trapped inside a very trippy atmosphere. Edition of 170 copies with silkscreened fold-out booklet." -sloow tapes
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Talugung "Distant Flying-apart" C35 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Mystical trip from Canada, heading for deep exotic zone and ethnic space. Acoustic improvisations and clouded forest rhytms on various instruments, including homemade ones. Ideal companion to your morning meditation. 70 copies." -sloow tapes
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Second Family "Dirty River" C35 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Crunching, raw and abstract psychedelic blues improvisations by this collective featuring Clay Ruby of Davenport and Burial Hex fame. Tasty keys, moody rhythms and two long, relaxing and dirty tunes. Edition of 70." -sloow tapes
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Muffin "Tane" C35 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Tremendous fragile folk and pop songs with gentle hints of psychedelia by this female Japanese singer/songwriter. Lonesome late-night transmissions from a bedroom somewhere in Tokyo. 80 copies." -sloow tapes
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Gnod "The Somnambulist’s Tale" 1-sided C100 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Kosmische Musik from Manchester speaking through hypnotic percussion grooves and splashes of synth delayed into eternity. Cover by Fliss Horrocks, 90 copies." -sloow tapes
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Cursillistas "Expanses Growing" C35 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Murky beauty channeling its way from underneath layers of 4-track tape hiss. Acoustic guitars, percussion, voice and undefined analogue ambience. Homegrown is the way it should be. Edition of 70." -sloow tapes
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Peonies "Infinity Has No Exits" C40 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Continuous fascinating and mysterious vocal harmonies unfolding into raw infinity. This acid-soaked haunting psychedelia truly has no exits. 100 copies." -sloow tapes
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Area C "Darkens The Mind" C50 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"A fountain of sounds opening a gateway beyond the mist of time and most likely not going to bring you back home before dark. 100 copies." -sloow tapes
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Hisato Higuchi "Wind Chimes In The Head" C45 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Guitar-moanings from the Otherworld drifting away through the clouds of a black Japanese night, dissolving into silence. Cover art by Ritsuko Ozeki - 'Netting F'. 100 copies." -sloow tapes
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Pink Luminous Invocation "The Pink Sea" 1-sided C60 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Riding high on the lazy waves of pink twilight, this journey sets off with an illuminated chorus of exotic northern sounds before inhaling a nasty smoke of dark feedback. 100 copies." -sloow tapes
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Dreamer’s Cloth "Total Descent To Mind Beach" C20 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"New Age meditation dance party on tropical beach, getting one with nature under a relaxing shower of multi-colored fractals and shining keys. It’s only the dreamer who moves mountains. 70 copies." -sloow tapes
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Ben Nash "Magnetophone 8" 1-sided C60 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Subterranean substances flipping over into parallel visions of increased awareness. Bringing the aura of inspired nakedness to fruition. Exposing percussion by Brett Womersley. 70 copies." -sloow tapes
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Mike Tamburo and Matt McDowell "Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era?" C50 cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Vibratory energy forms dropping out with molecular and cellular guitar phrases in trance-like babble. Two pot-smoking guitarists harvesting their daily supply. Edition of 70 copies." -sloow tapes
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Dlx Othr "Nineties Youth Experience" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!
"Controls more or less permanently set for cat shit and a hammer. Gutter-sourced and wooden-fingered collage of twin guitar assault from the latest iteration of the ongoing Bee Mask/Skin Graft collab. Disgusting patinas on elaborate bronze machines. Hot coals/black holes uneasy contemplation energy, with an unexpectedly quiet/majestic finish. Mark McGuire (Emeralds) and Nate Scheible make cameo appearances, amid fragments culled from wasted home jams and performances at the Tower2012 in Cleveland.-deception island
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The Reel Deel "Marked for Death" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!
"Here's one for those of you who particularly cherished Hot Air Balloon Ride's "Oktoberfest" c30 this past winter, a release that garnered such critical accolades as "shows no signs of being anything other than dicking around for just long enough to be worrying." The Reel Deel, captured in action at Cleveland's Doubting Thomas Gallery, is the trio of John Elliott (Emeralds, Outer Space, Hot Air Balloon Ride), Ryan Kuehn (Thursday Club, Dr. Quinn Medecine Woman, Hot Air Balloon Ride), and myself, in tapes-only mode. This was a ridiculously killer/annihilated February night, of which I remember mostly all of us standing around a table laughing hysterically and the room glowing yellow while I tried to make my eyes focus on a massive fucking heap of tape. Giant flapping jaws of the cosmos tunnel jams, decked out in stoned giggling and paranoid whispers. Seriously counterintuitive water features. Comments from those in attendance included, "I knew that Jerry was here." No shit." -deception island
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Bee Mask/Astronaut "The World is Transformed and all the Heavens Sing for Joy!/Will they Remember F-Zero?" split cassette $6
"A fat streak of grease on the wall while the room turns itself inside out. Post-kundalini awakening pissing words in the proverbial horse ear. Fucked Lee Perry-style deep tape scum/shimmer-oriented reworking of live sessions from WCSB. On the reverse, the late Massachusetts synth trio Astronaut, featuring Daniel "Oneohtrix Point Never" Lopatin, reach dizzying extremes of paranoia and lfo-heavy entheogenic ritual dread/churn in shadowy "final" sessions, coming on in a more blown out and breathless fashion than on any side to date. Full black light trails/campfire mode, complete with appropriately face-melting peaks." -deception island
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Tricorn & Queue "Continual Passage" cassette $6
"Tricorn & Queue have captured the hearts & minds of many of us this year with their previous two ultra hypnotic tapes on Digitalis and Housecraft. Well, the headbands are wrapped, the hidden entrance has been found, and now Housecraft's own Jeff Astin steps again into the thick of a cosmic ritual passageway on his latest quest for the ultimate philosopher's tone. Launching out from the remnants of magnetic decay that closed the last release, here T&Q cast similar cycles of satellite purr and crackling naturescapes that unfold like nocturnal blooms. The humid loops gradually increase in secretive tensions that linger long after the final decibels fold back around to the first step of the journey. Stay on the good path with one of our favorite sound & craft outfits around. Hand numbered edition of 120 pro-dubbed c40 tapes in blue shells with gold ink imprinting and color j-card." -stunned
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Brave Priest "Precious Summers" cassette $6
"These Portland bud-n-beard powered bros absolutely shred their way through the most killer motor-psych sessions of the year! The night we first heard Brave Priest's "No Blood" single which kicks off this tape was admittedly some sort of epiphany, and got our total attention for sure. Dudes-in-mention Matt McDowell, Dan Barone, and Brain Thackeray (all formerly of the excellent Dark Yoga) perfectly nail us with serotonin rushed northwest grunge-fried vibes that remind everyone to just relax & ROCK. The troupe rips through a trio of gnarly jams on Side A, ranging from drowsy garage-prog slowburnin' to quaking metal spinouts. Side B is a single 12-minute epic that twists and arcs toward a pinnacle of hot psych purity. Hit play and pump yer fists to the dawn of a new day. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed c30 tapes in logo-imprinted yellow shells with 3rd eye cover art by Cameron Stallones." -stunned
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Masons / Molten Honey "In the Basement of the Temple / Molten Honey" split cassette $6
"During the winter of 2005, NY filmmaker Matthew Lessner (Darling Darling; By Modern Measure) and his then 14-year old sister Sophie fortuitously gained late-nite access to the basement of their hometown's Masonic Temple. Creeping under dark cloaks and employing the sense of sibling telepathy, the two managed to set up their gear and capture the session of what is now their delirious 2008 debut tape side In the Basement of the Temple. We've enjoyed playing this demo the last few years for any Stunned houseguest wanting the ultimate nutso explosion of graveyard confetti punk. We also can't think of a better bush-era sayonara statement, hence the three year wait on properly unleashing this fifteen-minute flash. Totally freaked out, all manner of esoteric energies pent up behind the boiler room doors of the lodge are channeled furiously thru the duo – Sophie's lacerating clarinet feedback & guitar punctuations bleat in perfect pulse to Matthew's neon war cries and punished drum kit. One would think flipping this tape over might provide some relief from the A-side's secret society onslaught. But that's exactly where John Frank's Molten Honey awaits in a den of sound dementia, hammering his former psych'd folk styles into even more obtuse angles of guitar rattle, contact mic probe & synth key slap. This self titled B-side provides eight vastly different post-2012 snapshots that wiggle their mercurial imagery under our mesmerized gaze. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed c30 tapes in imprinted hot orange shells & fold-out color j-card." -stunned
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Dead Machines "London Dungeon" one sided lp $15 BACK IN STOCK!
"Waaaayyyy black in 2002 the Olson-ORourke duo jetted over the pond to meet Dylan and Karen in Brighton, hang for big Ds birthday, soak in the craggy UK atmosphere. Crazed Dylan held a weird show somewhere in London, at the KFDMs dude club, with strange painted walls and a movable stage. Young traveler Big Js eq blew up right before the gig, so DM had to share one electronic set-up and reeds, etc. Was a truly strange night, some punter kept yelling something at us, you can hear it on the record, but cant tell what hes yellin - but it doesnt sound like a wish of good luck. Milch Grande and Dylan also played and I think that [sic] Goldie jammed as well.Heres the DM set, an odd one for sure. Playable at any speed, color vinyl, edition of 200 with a live photo from the gig." -American Tapes
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V/A - NO STATE = NO SOUND - one-sided LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!
"Comp lp with one minute of silence from: NO FUCKER, IRON LUNG, HIVE MIND, ALISHA WARNING, BODY MORPH, HELLFIRE HOLLY, BIRTH REFUSAL, THE HAUNTING, 16 BITCH PILE UP, SICK LLAMA, AC & KHURST, DAMION ROMERO, HAIR POLICE +others!!!! Fucking amazing...sounds like the Folkways SOUNDS OF THE SEA lp. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Edition of 100 copies." -american tapes
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UNEVEN UNIVERSE - EXIT HUMAN one-sided LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!
brand new one-sided lp by uneven universe on american tapes. members of haunted castle
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Full Scales "Triple Trebles" one sided lp $15 BACK IN STOCK!
new 1-sided lp by full scales, which is john olson (wolf eyes, dead machines, american tapes, etc.) on organ. released by american tapes
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MUDBOY "IS:IS" cassette $6.50
"Possibly the most unique release in the GOT catalog..and i fucking love it. Let the total psycho-delic organ and electronics float in your brain until it's disturbed by an alien reciting text, presumably from its homeland. The vocals become another instrument and lull you into a true Martian Timeslip. Also present on this tape is 2 more aliens, known by most as Rodger Stella and Steve Kenney. Part of Mudboy's Impossible Duets series. Get abducted. Edition of 50." -gods of tundra
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CANNIBAL FREQUENICES cassette $6
"I found this master buried underneath the dirt in the woods next to my builiding. It was covered in mud and mostly rotted. Turns out MIKE SHIFLET recorded this, dug a hole and threw it in there 2 years ago. Now its been unearthed and its time to for the rot to soak into your stereos. Fans of Shiflet's eariler GOT tape "Drones and Spits" should be chomping at the bits for this one. Edition of 50." - gods of tundra
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Nonhorse "Slow Child" 7" $5.50
"A CONFIRMED TAPE BLISS; ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS ON THE MOON." -young tapes
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MOSSY THROATS "LEAVES OF THE MIND" cassette $6
"INTANGIBLE GROWTH, RELAX WEIRD; NEW YOUNG ZONES FLOW IN WITH TOTAL FLUIDITY. " -young tapes
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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER "RUINED LIVES" cassette $6
"SYNTHESIZED BEAUTY IN ITS ENTIRETY, INSPECTION OF THE GALAXIES WITHIN US ALL." -young tapes
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"V" "We Are Crossing Fences Through Rocky Fields " cdr $7
"Formerly released as a c47. High altitude glass ceiling echoes over low canopy woodland daze via wind, string, and buried vox. Perfect for misty morning tent warp and disappearing acts. And there's a bonus track this time around. reissued edition of 30" -housecraft
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Herons "Walk Upright" cassette $6
"Atonal drifts converge like opaque clouds, cracked with piercing light. Warm strings both meanderingly plucked and stroked, organ drifts, tapes, effects, feedback, and high ceilings comprise/compromise a subtle, but not bashful, transporting, slow moving passage over frozen terrain. edition of 52" -housecraft
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Wavering "Soaking Systems Vol. 2" double cassette $10
"Long at work mail collaboration between Blake Westerby and Jeffry Astin. It's a Soaking Systems so the tapes can be played together, but in this case it's just as effective played one side at a time. Slow-swirling sandwiched field recordings, crackling mantras, distant vocal nebulas, and fleeting icy drones fill every corner of an other-worldy stereo spectrum. Get lost in whatever quadraphonic combination you please. edition of 75" -housecraft
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Corsican Paintbrush "Fascinators" cassette $6
"Eva and Brad Rose here working synth, voice, and various unknown acoustic sources into a throbbing, sliding mesh. Three tracks covering something like a perilous desert exodus to crystal cave sleep and eventually into a self-dissolving ecstatic encounter with Other where delayed bowed strings merge with concentric chants. edition of 72" -housecraft
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Pan To Scratch "What is Kept and What is Thrown Away " cassette $6
"This just plopped in my mailbox one day--mysterious, addictive tape from Tony/Endless of Drunjus quilting endlessly taped found sound and vacant drones. LP due out soon on Earjerk. edition of 48" -housecraft
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andrew coltrane "synth tapes vol. 5" cassette $6
"I wish i could remember the first stack of bones from michigan superscuz andrew coltrane, but in the past year or so i've been buried under such an epic pile of a.c. fuzz that it'd be near-impossible to figure out where it all began. point is, he is a machine who never sleeps, never eats, i dunno... he just keeps going like his life depends on it. from junkyard electronics to heaps of rotten metal and there and back again, coltrane's always got new tricks up his sleeve. 'synth tapes vol. 5' is exactly what it says it is - the fifth volume in an ongoing exploration of analog sound constructed with only, you guessed it: synths and tapes. the sounds on here are looped and stretched and dragged into pits of black mud. underneath the drowning, though, lives the vaguest and most unexpected hints of melodies and hooks, just enough to fool you and suck you in. next thing you know, you're tarred and feathered and dreaming of your next root canal. fucken genius. limited to 91 copies, cassette inspired art by stone baby's cory card." -digitalis
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soundpressings "s/t" cassette $6
"oklahoma turned out to be crimson red this year, but for those of us living here, we know that this place is a fucking hole of an enigma. case-in-point: soundpressings. this newly unearthed oklahoman gem came out of nowhere to blow our brains into piles of swiss cheese. the inimitable danny mitchell comes to us from out west in norman (via nathan young's stomping grounds in tahlequah). soundpressings, though, is all over the map. hearing soundpressings is like wandering into a mountain of lost & found tapes from a million different sources, all playing at once. mitchell crafts these collages together in an original and addictive way, finding sweet, ghosted-out drones in the midst of a sheet of noise or a plodding, electronic rhythm. once you enter his domain, you never know where exactly you'll end up. oklahoma's not dead yet. limited to 80 copies, full color covers by mitchell." -digitalis
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the polyps "isla & emma" cassette $6
"when i first heard the polyps i was immediately drawn in. this solo/sideproject from raf spielman of the golden hours is perfect, disjointed bedroom pop. over the course of more than a dozen songs spielman weaves a basket of hooks that you will find yourself humming until dawn. mostly written on guitar, the accompaniment of melodica, ramshackle percussion, and of course spielman's distinct voice bring these songs to life. "isla & emma" is a short and deliciously sweet journey. while many of us anxiously await the next installment of the golden hours, this is just the sugarfix needed to get you through. so simple, so good. limited to 95 copies in handpainted sleeves and handpainted wraparound covers, each one different." -digitalis
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Raccoo-oo-oon "s/t" CD $12
"Everything's coming to a end with the swansong from Iowa City's Raccoo-oo-oon. Following up last years critically acclaimed Behold Secret Kingdom (RTB/Not Not Fun), the final album takes everything up a notch and shows a band taking their last breath and laying down the last bricks in their fairly short history. The album blends together all different parts of Raccoo-oo-oons discography, taking cues from the utter freeform punk madness of The Cave Of Spirits Forever (Time Lag), building something completely new of the era that was Behold Secret Kingdom and yet delivering echoes of the eclectic Mythos Folkways recordings. The album reeks of desperation and a feeling of going down with nothing to loose at all. A fucked up future-prog mayhem that is all over the place and at no known place at all at the same time. Genuinely uncomfortable, desperate and just beautiful, this album will surely be remembered as the most important recording that Racco-oo-oon ever put to tape. Minds are melting, new grounds are covered and things will never be the same. A playtime of close to 75 minutes over 7 tracks. Mastered by Pete Swanson. Mini gatefoldsleeve with black felt. 2xLP version on Not Not Fun. The band members are now playing in acts such as Wet Hair, Trash Dog and Pukers. " RTB
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Treetops "Giant Earth" cassette $8 (UK import)
"Arbor Mike births tone float and directs natural drone with purest human edge perceptible." -sickhead
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Birds of Delay / Nackt Insecten split cassette $8 (UK import)
"Birds of Delay, recorded in Cambridge earlier this year. "Turned Froo Silt" doses up shots of strangled moan with layers of something approaching melody struggling to break through the murk. Probably with great shoes on. Nackt Insecten side crams four jams into fifteen minutes without a hit single in sight. Varying levels of scuzz, consistent intensity, or whatever..." -sickhead
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ashtray navigations/nackt insecten - "mouth /astrid" split cassette $8 (UK import)
""Mouth" gave me visions of Phil Todd circumnavigating the globe, skimming over the clouds in a silver glider before swooping down and busting t
hrough the Earth's crust to body-board recklessly on subterranean rivers of lava. I doubt that was what Ashtray Navigations had in mind but it's a nice image. 20 minutes of dense warped outer-space sound and buried ecstatic guitar heroics. The B side by request features a couple of Smackt Injecten keyboard workouts. (The last guitar strings broke back in October). Watch out for super high flying ill-advised vocal drool." -sickhead
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Jazzfinger/Lanterns split cassette $8 (UK import)
"Two 30 minute voyages. Jazzfinger vibe is dark and dense. Lanterns is more like dazzled and bloodshot." -sickhead
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changeling & nackt insecten - "trans atlantice mindmelt vol 1" split cassette $8 (UK import)
"Noisedroners from the USA & Scotland unite via the modern technological wonders of cassette tape and snail mail." -sickhead
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axolotl / infinity window split cassette $8 (UK import)
"This took me to a higher plane and left me there. Pro Dubbed fancy pants." -sickhead
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seaworthy "codes adrift" cdr $6
"two tracks of fluttering, peripheral drone and fragmented guitar from sydney's seaworthy. packaged in hand-made sleeves sealed with wax, into which we've shoved the disc (inside a typewriter-written inner sleeve) and a photo by our friend anwyn crawford. limited to 100 hand-numbered copies." sound&fury
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scissor lock "thawing voices" cdr $6
"three-part song suite from teenage prodigy marcus whale, aka scissor lock. the thing about thawing voices is, it's all made with marcus's vocal cords: no instruments, just his voice, looped, layered and subtly manipulated. 75 hand-made copies in wax-sealed envelopes and screenprinted inner sleeves." sound&fury
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shoeb ahmad "sea songs, dead ends and sleeping pills" cdr $6
"exploratory soundscapes and leftfield pop from canberra's shoeb ahmad, recorded during a year-long stay in the coastal town of wollongong in 2006. features contributions from machinefabriek, plinth, felicity mangan, m.rosner and william ryan fritch. 75 hand-made copies in wax-sealed envelopes and screenprinted inner sleeves." sound&fury
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mirrored silver sea "continual ascension" cdr $6
"debut album from tim condon's mirrored silver sea. an eclectic mix of shoegaze guitars, tinkling pianos, mulched beats and swirling noise. i've always had trouble describing this disc, and usually fall back on comparisons to other artists: liars, my bloody valentine, library tapes, elegi, nine inch nails... it's pretty spectacular in its scope." sound&fury
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THE NETHER DAWN /1/3 octave band split cdr $6
"Hand-numbered edition of 100 split release featuring two time-gouging trance performances, the first from a duo Nether Dawn consisting of Antony Milton & Jon Dale who generate almost Fushitsusha-levels of disrupto drone before settling into a nicely zoned Gown-style guitar/vocal hypnotic. 1/3 Octave band make it with bows of arcing steel & the sound of the horizon slowly breaking from the earth. Comes in the usual swank wax-sealed envelopes with an original Kodak print." -sound&fury
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Raccoo-oo-oon "Behold Secret Kingdom" LP $13 *BACK IN STOCK!!*
"You know what they say: beautiful tribal spirit psych lies in the eyes of the beholder. So enter the kingdom and hold the secret in your hands. Iowa City’s prodigal sun-starers offer up the fruits of their deepest inquest yet into the heart of the heart of the country. Eight wilderness rituals of swirling percussion, mossy guitar noise, forest howls, and animal instincts that unfold and erupt with more focus, intensity, and complexity than anything else in Raccoo-oo-oon’s discography thus far. The songs were tracked in the studio with warmth and power by Mike Dixon and then given a heavy mastering job by Pete Swanson, so sonically the vinyl shines and burns and explodes in all the right places. A crushing statement of electric alchemy by one of our favorite bands in the world. Black vinyl LPs in awesome pro-printed jackets, plus an insert, with Midwestern magick color visions/nature photography art by the band. Co-released with Night People." -nnf
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Raccoo-oo-oon - Mythos Folkways 5 "Future Fusion" cassette $6
"Final installment in the Mythos Fokways series, recorded late summer 07 by Mike Dixon in Chicago, mastered by Pete Swanson, the companion piece to the epic final double LP on NNF/RTB. Dark drifting psych rock, circular and uplifting, guitars weave around atmospheric electronics and R. Garbes signature propulsive drumming. Late dead encrusted shrine rock for the end times. Art by Garbes/Reed." -night people
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CARLOS GIFFONI- "THE ABSENCE OF ESSENCE" 2X7" $11
"Carlos Giffoni’s heavy synthesizer work recalls the crushing, massiveness of early industrial music. Completely consuming the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. These four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful but with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the 7” format does not harm Giffoni’s work which normally exists in extended lengths; instead very succinct and unwavering compositions result: creating four vignettes of grey industrial zones. As the person responsible for No Fun Productions and the No Fun Fest, this Brooklyn transplants presence in the current progression of the genre is undeniable. In an edition of 400 2x7”(one on white vinyl and one on black) sets in gatefold sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives." - arbor
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P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.- "NARC GRIND / I CAME HERE TO DIE" CASSINGLE $4.50
"Recently formed LA skate punk crew, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. consisting of Britt from Robedoor/Not Not Fun and 2/3rd’s of Black Black bring two quick tracks utilizing SoCal sunshine vibes, skateboards, and a “fuck authority” attitude. Dr. Pepper and scab fueled thrash: grind the pigs; skate or die. Jam this tape on repeat at yr favorite skate spot; positive negativity. In an edition of 75 tapes in cassingle style O card sleeves with black and white art/tape labels by the band." - arbor
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TREETOPS / WALTER CARSON- split cassette $6.50
"Recent Treetops zones since relocation to NY have seen deeper focus into keyboard exploration. Presenting here two heavy, focused slabs separated by a brief meditation. Always in a process of self contemplative progress: the product of living ten stores above the never quiet street. Darryl Cook’s Walter Carson project has been spot on for years., creating a confusing haze of synthesized ambience and heavy acoustic clatter through bows and junk abuse; slowly melting into blessed,zoned deep repetition. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color art and tape labels." - arbor
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BEE MASK- "HOW SOFTLY SINGS THE KETTLE, HOW SWEETLY CHIMES THE CLOCK" $6.50
"Recent East Coast transplant, Chris Madak has been ripping the air with his Bee Mask drones for some time. Here he juxtaposes Harsh, heavy tendencies with intricate synth work, creating dynamic pieces operating on multiple levels with a deep sense