The following records are sold out, and some are also out of print. Nothing from this list can be ordered at this time, if we restock, it will be moved to the appropriate section. But you can still have fun looking at all the pretty pictures and descriptions!!! This page can also help give you an idea of the type of stuff we carry. Also feel free to ask if we plan on restocking any of these.
***************************** Archers by the Sea/Kawrelia Soul Collective split cassette $6
"A glorious split from foreign land brothers and sisters. The A side's
got Vincent Caylet, a french-man who has been dropping little fog
clouds for the past few years as one half of Monks of the Balhill and
sittin' solo as "V" and The Pistil Cosmos. Now as Archers by the Sea
he works out a set folk songs, overflowing with precious melodies and
covered in layers and layers of heavenly memory-clouded reverb, warm
tape hiss, and in-the-red muffles. Over the course of these five
tracks he pulls it all together into ear-filling dense beauty. On the
flip side are Kawrelia Soul Collective, a family of folks from the
Republic of Karelia, with a room full of pots and pans and an affinity
for making kitten noises. Delay-stuttering acoustic lullabies, coos
and squawks, junk percussion, and the great feeling of the open air.
Water-colored and handwritten tape labels in a embossed sewn-felt
pouch with an insert and a painted-tied-pouch of shells found on the
banks of the Gatton Rocks swimming hole. Edition of 50." -cabin floor esoterica
************************************************************** Gorman "Farm Bells" cassette $6
"this tape is the perfect companion for those dreary
lonesome mornings when all you can see is the steam from your
breath. when all you can feel is your desire to sleep, to dream.
sparse and minimal with the winter cold wrapped right around it,
these sounds submerged creep through your blood blue veins
and crawl towards the surface. a slow motion trip.
created simply, in a certain meditation it seems, with
tambourine, tibetan bells, effected banjo, drone guitar
and contact mic vocals. hand numbered clear tapes with art on
one side, wrapped in a green leaf pressed recycled paper pocket
tied with hemp. collage art insert by j.
limited ed. of 28." -tired trails
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Sean McCann "Lower Decks" cassette $6
"A collection of early recordings by San Fransisco's prolific Sean McCann. Oddly enough, these recordings sound as well executed and lush as some of his most recent work. Ranging from crystal clear drones to delicate piano pieces, field recordings you can't help but place somewhere familiar from your own youth and some of his most dense guitar work on tape yet . All in all a perfect reason to take a moment and look back on a simpler time." -ekhein
******************************************************* RELIC TAPE $9 (swedish import)
"Anthology tape with this shortlived Gothenburg act which consisted of members from Gloomy Sunday and Sewer Election. This compiles the studio album which was never released as well as the Unchained Satanic Lust demo from 2006. Bleak and disturbing sludgy doom metal. 8 desperate low life anthems. 100 copies." -utmarken tapes
******************************************* Muffin "Tane" C35 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
"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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Sam Goldberg "Live" cassette $6
"Three live cuts, two recorded live on Ryan (Dr Quinn) Keuhn's Radio show, the other at 75 Blake Street in New Haven. The first side, "Wanderjahr" is particularly different than most of my live sets. Recorded using a synth and a record player rather than reverberated guitar. Art by John Elliot." -pizza night
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Telecult Powers"A Beginners Guide to Hoodotronix" cassette $6
- Two spectacular zones of homemade synth exploration from the best new act in NYC. Although, they have been performing for years and years (much of which spent in Cleveland,OH), they are just now entering a full realization of the sonic partnership between Matt and Stephen of TP. The well deserved acclaim they are currently receiving on the east coast comes as no surprise to the Cleveland crew. Sit close to the speakers and let your wildest imaginations come to life. Art by the one and only, Witchbeam." -pizza night
************************************************** dino & nic "plays theme from dino & nic" double cassette $10
"catholic tapes is pleased to announce the debut chunk of recordings from dino and nic, an italian-american digital synthesizer group featuring dino st. claire (face worker) and nic llamb (flower man). influenced by both the plasticity of the digital synth flavor palate and the idea of being italian-american, dino and nic sculpt a crisp amalgam of ascending washes, pocketed sequences and finely chiseled digi-glyphs across two cassettes. while the techniques or modes exhibited across the recordings vary, there's a generally inorganic fidelity found throughout that should raise the eyebrow of even the most casual analog fetishist, all the while nourishing the lcd-burnt. white vinyl 2xcs cases w/ insert. chrome tapes." -catholic tapes
*************************************************** Pan to Scratch "Oxbow Crossing" cassette $6
"Environmental and banjo improvisations recorded at the Oxbow River Crossing, in rural Wisconsin." -object tapes
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Dead Machines "Having Holding Patterns Backwards Vol. One" c40 cassette $6
"The first of a grip of new DM material from massive rehearsal sessions previous to Sweden's No Fun whoolop. New ultra stripped down lo tech homemade machine exorcisms in all sorts of audio twister contortisms. Electrical mangel couple mediation continues and lurches forward strong. If you were going to insulate a building, its akin to this tape but using a collection of dried tongue salvia for coatings over a nice common-brick veneer exterior finish. A Building Code Nightmare!! Color covers. Edition of 40. AM-839" -american tapes
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Dead Machines "Having Holding Patterns Backwards Vol. Two" c90 cassette $6
"Second magnetic comp of tracks pulled together from pre No Sweden Olzone couple late evening jammerz. The interior plot of a building with askew rise/run stairwells assembled all over the basement walls. No sense flow style homemade electronic excursions. After the jam, the Tovinator went straight for an OD of Gossip Girls. "XOXO" Color covers edition of 40. AM-842" -american tapes
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Night of Desired Objects "Nighttime Schedule" c90 cassette $6
"Nighttime Schedules including submerging your head instead a bees nest at the bottom of a murky river, drinking hourglasses full of crushed lung membranes seasoned quiet breaths, lying a bed covered in blankets of magic insect shells, and dreaming of meetings with mothers w/o facial features in middle of a rotten fruit field while they play somber tunes on strings from dried rings of discarded muscle tissues. Backwards. Electric and acoustic afternoon music enfant terrible. Color Covers edition of 40, numbered. AM-843" -american tapes
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Invasion Status "Live For Traffic" c20 cassette $6
"Not live for Windwood and crew silly, Live for rush hour traffic on Howard St. Bunch of cars speeding up to hit the entrance ramp for US 96, most likely going home. Soprano sax, wooden flute, and double trouble horn explorations in real time, with traffic speeding by, unknown that's its being captured. Bite into a reed, make your own future/present. Raw homethought via home stewed brass and pvc. Color covers, edition of 40, numbered. AM-851" -american tapes
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Infecto "Painted Pangs" c60 cassette $6
"First tape by this INFECTED new unit. Looking to spread painted pangs of creeping electronic somber New Years End soundtracks to massives of purging hog-things. Live and INZANE studio four track abstractions galore from SLOBBER MAN. Drooling, repetitive and on the chase of a Plot Plan of a castle surrounded by transparent columns, all leading nowhere. Blueprint reading for braile abstractions. Making a building out of wheat waste and rotten husks. Nasty Sound Alert! Strange maps from strange internal zones. Color covers Edition of 40. AM-849" -american tapes
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arizona jaguar "1993-2009" cassette $6
new project featuring daren ho (raccoo-oo-oon) mike pollard (treetops, arbor records) and peter friel (young tapes). c10. limited to 48 copies. label description: "glistening in the sun." -white circle.
******************************************************************** Excavacations/Nick Stone & Clovis split cassette $6
"I've never been in a long distance relationship, but this might be close enough. Resonance from either side of this tape might be responsible for blurring Hubble photographs in the future. There is a sort of pursuit in this split, echolocation, steadiness. Buy two copies in case one evaporates." -offices of moore & moore
******************************************** BODY MORPH- "NEGATIVE FACE" cassette $6
"Dan Dlugosielski (of Uneven Universe, Mossy Throats, etc) has kept his Body Morph project relatively wrapped up until recently with only a few limited releases on his own Excitebike as well as stellar appearances American Tapes and Gods of Tundra. Body Morph finds Dan at his simplest; a minimal take on strange-fidelity. Smooth saxophone waves wash over a dense bed of electronic warmth, mirroring the ambience of the ocean. Sonic contortions from a willing pallet; a fresh sense of control. In an edition of 100 tapes with textured cardstock covers and printed labels." -arbor infinity
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wether "welcome to the rigid swale" cassette $6
cassette on husk records. sold out from source
**************************************************** Korperschwache "Fear The Hex" 3X-cassette $14
"Black Canyon Drone starts things off right away with a blast of hyper distorted guitar and doesn't stop for the remainder if the cassette. Hidden melodies float in and out, with the occasional riff and drum beat surfacing. Death Disco slows things down with stumbling drums over layers of murk and blackened filth. Dissonance and Submission finishes everything off with walls of buzz and shards of feedback. Not for the open-minded. " -peasant magik
****************************************** Sarah's Charity "Mirror of Abundance" cassette $6
"Squealing feedback and tortured guitar movements spread overtop thick black, droney buzz. Think Hendrix, but he accidentally set himself on fire. Or maybe Wall without the Wall? Simultaneously overwhelming and lulling. " -peasant magik
****************************************** N.213/JESSE TAYLOR split cassette $6
"N.213 delivers the fagnoize dance numbers, and JT is twisted dark disco heavy. First solo release by JT who you may know from TWIN CRYSTALS and Ch. 3x4...... /// Ltd. 47 copies." -INW
****************************************************** MODERN CREATURES Split Forgery Vol.3 Cassingles Series cassette $6
"Kick ass dirty trixx brought by Vancouver's very own Modern Creaps!! All infiltrating the B-sides of yr Top 40 icons>>>featuring the brilliant track: "TOOK YOUR GIRL" + ?/// Ltd. 59 copies" -INW
****************************************************** Nimby detrivore full length cassette $5
"pretty much out of ideas with this set up but before i felt like that here are 6 songs." -detrivore
****************************************************************************** yo mi me conmigo full-length detrivore cassette $5
"Josh Harringa's solo device is all over the place just like his resume.
Drum intensive 'loveless' sectors blown onto recycled tapes. Full length fits on side A, side B is a mystery major label artist from the 80s-90s." -detrivore
********************************************************** CHOUSER/GUSSY DOWN split cassingle $4
"Circuit bent pulsating emerging harshness from chouser. Amphetamine Reptile-esce fat dude punk by skinny kids is Gussy Down." -detrivore
************************************************************** CUTICLE/SINGLE INDIAN TEAR split cassingle $4
"house music by Daren Ho [of raccoo-oo-oon] and I. Instrumental trip hop future hijackings by Single Indian Tear." -detrivore
************************************************************** Anakrid - "Crash your Putrid Minds" cassette $6
""Confused alien clockwork music on this release". Thick and strange beats fill both sides of this tape, always floating in a thick synth syrup and filled with finely crafted loops. Squeaky doors and backwards footsteps. Upcoming releases that are sure to impress. Hand made j-card in the same style as the previous Anakrid tape, color labels in an edition of 100 on hi-bias chrome tapes." -black horizons
******************************************************************************* DAVENPORT "Recycled Music" cassette $4
RRR Records. Madison, Wisconsin’s most unruly musickal skull-cult, Davenport. Eerie psychic vibes and scorched earth folk death hymns emanate from battered acoustics, amplifier ghosts, demonic rural clatter, and doomed calls of the wild. (not the labels own description, nor mine)
******************************************************************************** Dead Luke - "Cosmic Meltdown" cassette $6.50
"Dead Luke’s Cosmic Meltdown is a full length album full of disenchanted wandering, psychedelic annihilation, working man blues, and torched pop mysticism. Some great stuff here from this prolific Madison WI resident. With previous releases on Sacred Bones and an upcoming LP on Floridas Dying this tape is a great primer for the newer more psych rock influenced songs Luke has been crafting. Cosmic Meltdown has a bit of a bitter broken heart vibe, and it fits really nicely with the blasted reverb soaked approach. Art by SDReed." -night people
********************************* Abe Vigoda "Skeleton" cassette $6
"Shit is cliché, but ya can’t fight the fact that time changes EVERYTHING (or wait, maybe it's money?). Either way: we’re pretty old but not so old we’ve forgotten the cradle days of early Abe Vigoda shows when they only liked Smashing Pumpkins, short shorts, and boating shoes, and their sets were short spiky blasts of post-Unwound lo-fi outsider-punk (a la the Sky Route/Star Roof LP). That was a long time ago. But like all good bands the Vigodans have re-invented themselves a half dozen times over since then, and it’s been a totally rad ride to witness the evolution/transformation, especially since their journey’s culminated in the total sparkling tropic magic sunbath of Skeleton, the best AV record ever. Years of fiddling with delay pedal settings and intricate bass/drums equations somehow resulted in a weird, bright, upbeat island punk sound that’s as catchy and life-affirming as it is tripped-out and overwhelming. Who knew? Catch these die-hards at a show in yr neck of the woods any day now; they are now on PERMA-TOUR. Pro-dubbed cassettes in a “Columbia Records”-style super legit J-card. Edition of 200." -not not fun
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Sbarro "Floating" cassette $6
"Recorded inside of a bucket of original recipe while climbing a ladder made of
the moon... our moon... All jokes aside... this is the debut release from a new band." -smooth tapes
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Telecult Prowlers "Twilight of the Oscillators" c60 cassette $6
"a c60 reissue of our cdrs "Dedicated to Robert Moore" and "Twilight of the Oscillators" -temple of pei
***************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** meditations "precipice" cassette $7
"with a name like meditations, you'd probably assume something with a spritual bend would be coming up the tubes. but no worries - these sprawlers are looking to take you deep down into the muddy depths. this trio absolutely kills it on "precipice." blown-out, brooding synths pummel your senses left and right while vocals from hell taunt you into taking the fall. this is one dark fucking ride, a cut-up masterful mess. specks of light try to escape in the form of distant, bright melodies but they're quickly destroyed by the impending hellacious mess. awesome. edition of 65, pro-dubbed purple monsters." -digitalis
************************************************************** the shitty listener "constant stranger" cassette $7
"the shitty listener is the current nom de plume of jewelled antler acolyte, jason honea. "constant stranger" collects recent & past excursions, a sort of best of if you will. many of these songs were on criminally limited (we're talking 30 or less, babies) tapes/CDRs, so now you can suckle on them for the first time. disjointed folk strums with whimsical vocals - it doesn't get much better. honea tackes it a capella on occasion only to singe the hairs on the back of your neck. it's such a beautiful, disjointed mess. edition of 90, pro-dubbed on a clear day." -digitalis
************************************************************** ossining "s/t" cassette $7
"ossining was always in the cards. this is the collaboration between yours truly (the north sea) and kevin danchisko (sovetskaya gone). synth excess, volume 1. pro-one vs. juno. journey through black sand beaches and white heaven. etc etc. mad men. all the fucking way. edition of 70, pro-dubbed crystal blue." -digitalis
************************************************************** m. geddes gengras "triptych of the divine & blackened arts" cassette $7
"m. geddes gengras aka ged made his bones in the duo he christened with his bro, cyrus, aka antique brothers and in his original solo guise, fantastic ego. but gengras has been throwing knives at the wall in recent years, changing things up. now a full-time member of robedoor, vibes, and the band formerly known as pocahaunted, more importantly he's built himself an epic modular synth setup. on "blackened arts," that baby sings. stone-cold electronics will fry your circuits, teasing you with endless corridors through dark space. gengras bends tones to his will, creating an aural moonscape that stretches to infinity. you're not going to find much better modular synth explorations out there. edition of 80, pro-dubbed red death." -digitalis
************************************************************** cyquoia "age of aquarians" cassette $7
"from the washed-out minds of housecraft head honcho jefry astin and his floridian partner-in-crime evan galbicka comes a late farewell to the tropics before treks to the mountainous north. cyquoia have much in common with their housecraft brethren like tricorn & queue and xiphiidae, yet this duo has it's own trail to the flourescent pink sea mapped out in gold. these blissful drones feel as though they're being drowned in a summer storm. astin & galbicka barely keep their heads above water, but with every breath drawn they churn out an endless flow of synthetic guitar waves. the sound just rolls over you in waves. who needs gold at the end of a rainbow anyway? edition of 80, pro-dubbed on lilac tapes, gold labels." -digitalis
************************************************************** sovetskaya gone "live in the darkness, die in the light" double cassette $12
"i will tell you, kevin danchisko has fried my synapses on so many occasions this year, i've completely lost count. it's no secret that sovetskaya gone has quickly emerged as one of my absolute faves and as a digitalis anchor. so all that being said, "live in the darkness, die in the light" has been in the works for almost six months now, but the wait will prove worth it. nearly an hour of new synth explorations for moog & ms2000. exquisite packaging designed by danchisko. this is the stuff you want to hear when you dream. just a pure liquid beauty. art edition of 30 in repurposed film cannisters / regular edition of 60 in black vinyl album. pro-dubbed." -digitalis
************************************************************** Body Collector "Acidic Maze b/w Cold Bred Scum" cassette $6
"Long-form metal morphing and tape-loop slime from Body Collector. For his sophomore EXBX release, we see a more warped side of the Body Collector spectrum of black cloud sound walls. Raw, unsettling sound worlds stretched and destroyed. Edition of 70 with full-color, fold-out art. C45." -exbx tapes
************************************************************ rambutan/derek rogers "street secrets" cassette $6
out of print tape on existential cloth recordings
********************************************************************* BURNING STAR CORE 'AMELIA' 10" $12 (UK import)
"First in the series of six 10"s by C. Spencer Yeh entitled 'Mes Soldats Stupides 96-05'. Hard to find reissues on vinyl for the first time. Includes insert with design by guest artist Robert Beatty (Hair Police)." - no fi
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Mattress "Heavy Duty" CD/LP $10 (please specify which you want)
new lp released by reluctant recordings. hear them here: http://www.myspace.com/rexmattress
********************************************************* 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
******************************************************************** V/A "Radio Malaysia" cassette $6
"Malaysia is a den of consumerism as the now-aged concept of post-modernism has not hit their recent first-world lifestyle. The basic impressions of underground music follows: Crust and thrash bands are the rage while Black Metal is deemed as anti-islamic and thus recordings of Satan are banned from the country, unless one has the money to bribe the customs agent. The last noise show to occur was in a flashy bar of a mall whose Pyramid-themes take on the post-modernity sans irony. This happened to be a Justice Yeldham set. They shut his sound off after a few minutes because tourist customers were leaving the outdoor techno bar in flocks. So what do the common people listen to on the radio? Radio Malaysia presents a sound of various FM-band frequency scanning. The multi-cultural hub provides sounds ranging from pop in the style of Mandarin, Cantonese, Indian, and some American disco, while another spectrum provides traditional tunes of Indian raga and Islamic prayer and a bit of foreign conversation." -gel tapes
************************************ plankton wat "our solar beings" cassette $7
"all love to the master, dewmah has arrived. dewey mahood is probably best known these days as being the non-bindeman third of portland's fuzz kings, eternal tapestry. but when he's not burning down houses, he moonlights as the inimitable plankton wat. fractured folk-infused meanderings with warm strings and organic dressing. mahood's vocals are the ideal accompaniment to these bright, understated anthems. minimal percussion and mbira pick up where the vocals leave off, finding a balance with the acoustic haze. it's been a great year for plankton wat (check his DNT lp!) and eternal tapestry, and "our solar beings" is another vital feather in his discography. edtion of 80, golden red suns." -digitalis
************************************************************** Explorers "Bermuda Telepaths" LP $12
"Bermuda Telepaths is the latest title lifted out of the fruit-and-photocopy-strewn Outer Limits Recordings archive and into the ears of the world at large. Recorded under the never-again-used Explorers moniker and first edited into album form about a year ago, this hallucinatory patchwork trip into the ether synthesizes all of OLR’s deepest loves – boombox fidelity, quick cuts, keyboard loop sorcery, underwater pop, general mind surfing – into a humbly hypnotic whirlpool of energies. Apparently there was a concept/thesis behind the album’s genesis somehow involving psychic powers, lizard people, and the Bermuda Triangle, but the details are hazy. Which befits the audio in question. Read your palm. Take a walk in your thoughts. Explore away. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork designed by the artist, plus a copy shop poem insert. Edition of 330." -nnf
**************************** Expensive Shit "Powwow With Chopper" cassette $6
"Named (hopefully) after the scorching ‘75 Fela LP that was inspired by an incident where Nigerian cops planted a joint on him but then he ate it to destroy the evidence and then they detained him till they could inspect his feces (can you believe that?!), Expensive Shit are a wrecked wrecking crew from Austin that specialize in braindead riff carnage of the rawest order. By their own interweb admission they consider their influences “sludge meditation” and “winging it” and their band policy is “no practice, we play anywhere.” That said, Powwow With Chopper – the band’s first public release as far as our we know – road-blasts through gnarly terrain: pulsing avalanches of zen distortion, basement garbage drums, mono-chord ascension marches, etc. No maps, no artifice, just now-minded in-the-blood-red street fighter rock chaos. Pro-imprinted tapes in wild double-sided full-color J-cards with crazy “Zangief chain fight” artwork by Pittsburgh rip-nagogic scholar Spencer Longo. Edition of 128." -not not fun
*********************************************************************** Faceplant - "s/t" cassette $6.50
"Faceplant is Aaron Coyes from Peaking Lights solo recordings generated from his distinct home built pile of electronics and hand-made modular synths. Rhythmically propulsive space tones glide over a broken landscape of fractured cut up noise bursts and dystopian uneasiness. Faceplant sounds like the dark corners of Peaking Lights dreamy ethereal world. There is sometimes something nice to uneasy listening. Artwork by RGarbes." -night people
********************************* Wild Safari - "Cave Sequins" cassette $6.50
"Wild Safari is a mystery synth/electronics duo with connections to Pink Priest who record shimmering walls of atmospheric dream time music. The kind of jams that are perfect for headphone headspace, late night time spent in mind jungles and deep space orbits around tropical new planets. Isolating lush and uplifting. Art by SDReed. " -night people
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1958-2009 II cassette $6
"Second in the series of collaborations between Alex Twomey (Mirror to Mirror) and Matthew Sullivan (Earn). Synthesizer and guitar ballads. Slow and hypnotic songs for the grieving process. Taking things a little slower. Building things a little bigger. Dedicated to Michael Jackson. 1958-2009." -ekhein
******************************************************* derek rogers & hashem assadullahi "tape loop sax hiss" cassette $6
out of print tape on existential cloth recordings
********************************************************************* lakes "monument of nests" cassette $6
"i'm honestly surprised that lakes AKA sean bailey isn't more of a household name. through the years, he's put out some killer damage on his inverted crux label and his own projects (paeces, lamp puffer w/ peaking lights' aaron coyes, wasted truth, etc). well, "monument of nests" is one of his best and we're damn pleased to make it available again. originally self-released in a micro edition, it's now hear to stay. disjointed, deconstructed pop songs that lean heavy on primitive, almost tribal rhythms and ramshackle instrumentation. acoustic guitars sound like they've been overblown to smithereens. makeshift electronics find their way through the fog, splattering everything in waves of analog fuzz. all the while, bailey's deep, monotone vocals spell the end for anyone who moves to close. punk in spirit, fucked in sound. edition of 70, clear as day." -digitalis
************************************************************** pummeler "s/t" cassette $6
"i don't know if there's a more aptly named project around than denmark's pummeler. mikkel dunkerley is bounding around down in the murkiest depths. this stuff feels like it's been stripped bare by vultures, the bones left to freeze in the scandinavian air. distant metallic pings call you to your grave. these are heavy, black masses you can't avoid without being swalloed whole.
dunkerley's use of varying textures is exceptional. his work is minimal yet enthralling. each piece, no matter how long or short, feels like an expansive wasteland of sound. listen once, you hear one thing, listen again and it's something else entirely. it's time you rolled it all downhill. 60 copies, pro-dubbed & erupted."- digitalis
**************************************** Saudade "The Hooded Ones" cassette $6
"Fragmented songs emerge from layers of delayed guitar, keys, and everything else these guys could get a hold of." -peasant magik
****************************************************** WHITE - TEARS OF PISS TAPE $9 (swedish import)
"Remastered reissue of the debut tape from White, which is another sideproject from Dan Johansson (Sewer Election/Ättestupa). Sleazy electronics that reeks of cruising culture, cheap drugs and smelly, old porn rags. Originally released in a very limited amount of copies on Spanking Ritual/Harsh Head Rituals in 2007. Tears Of Piss was followed by the Tormented tape on Segerhuva last year. Playtime of 30 minutes. Both tracks repeated on the B side. 50 copies. " -utmarken tapes
******************************************* SEWER ELECTION - RASET TAPE $9 (swedish import)
"Recorded during 2008 in preparation for the Sewer Election US tour which happened in May last year. A-side shows early signs of what would be fully executed on Bristning a little bit later, with the same organic approach. The B-side is a via tapeloops deconstructed version of the first side. 36 minutes. Second press of 50 copies. " -utmarken tapes
******************************************* Topping Bottoms "Towers Of Spines" cassette $6 *WOW*
"Don’t even bother trying to fathom the name, it’s a bottomless game. Here’s what we do know: Topping Bottoms are a loose liberated squad of itinerant Tokyo drifters that traffic in a billowing, burned out brand of post-millenial psych-loitering that feels like someone slow-motion shattering a lava lamp over yr skull and letting the fluorescent slime drip-drop into yr eyes. That good/weird. Featuring sometime members of an odd constellation of other projects (Ainotamenishis, Evangelista, Duchesses, etc), the semi-steady TB line-up (Kate, Masaki, Tracy, Ryo) wields shadow-sleaze PSF guitar licks over dark drugged drumming lightly splattered with Bore-junk electronic sludge. Towers Of Spines is actually a reconfigured and re-sequenced version of an earlier OOP self-released CDR (on Ryo’s own Create Evil imprint) but packed out with a fresh unreleased live cut tracked at a riotous spring 2008 performance. Tapes come in insane double-sided fold-out silkscreened j-cards designed by Ryo which are in turn housed in stunning exterior cassingle-style art shells, all done up in a spectrum of shades and art-paper variations. Basically: the visual quotient on this tape is huge. Edition of 150." -nnf
******************************************************* Blank Realm "Dirty Ark" cassette $6
"killer C33 companion album called Dirty Ark (culled from the same sessions as the LP) housed in yet another radical silkscreened J-card courtesy of Ryo." -nnf
******************************************************* Sun Araw "Sun Ark" 7" $6
"Left coast karaoke machine enthusiast Cameron Stallones leaves no loop unturned in his endless questing for the ultimate kaleidoscopic island-psych cocktail, and relocating from the LBC to Glen Rock (half Glendale, half Eagle Rock) freed him up to construct his own hermetic jam cove – dubbed Sun Ark Studio – thereby ratcheting up his workaholic-ism several levels. And so this Sun Ark 33 RPM single serves as both a love letter to his new musical HQ and a curious vinyl document of Araw’s next next-wave. Dubby basslines and reverbed drum pad action still reign hard but the song construction is less western and more liberated than ever before (echoing his new all-solo live set up), with micro-cycles of flute, voice, FX, and organ cascading down like fuchsia sunset light across the plastic rhythm section. “Bump Up (High Step)” is a warped reggae club heartbreaker, flangy cheese guitar leads and jungle rattles, a constant chorus. “Live Mind” is the B side, and it’s descended from the Heavy Deeds lineage, lots of equatorial sweat, low end pulse, dry funk guitar, bucket percussion, etc. A cool new boat trip on an evolved vessel. Black vinyl 7 inches in glue-pocket jackets with art by Stallones. Edition of 500." -nnf
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Infinite Body cassette $6
"Two short and sweet sides by Los Angeles' Kyle Parker. Dizzying and degraded melodies to black out to. A perfect moment. A lasting impression. US tour this spring with Earn." -ekhein
******************************************************* ORCS "JAW BONE" cassette $6
"a monolith of sound, followed on the flip side by a series of developing vignettes of squealing mutant radio hiss. a thick black soup falling from the speaker cone"-different lands
******************************************************* Trudgers "Bedrooms on Fire" cassette $6
"Brent Mitzner’s Trudgers project seems so inert and so real, but somehow eludes simple account. It’s probs the disconnect between his meticulous multi-instrumental song craft and the thick austerity of his neo-goth baritone that makes this six track charger transcend the catalog. A vision of industrial unhappiness that condenses the whole history of popular music into bit-sized fuck you’s and synthesizes California sun daze with cold/late night cogency (read: almost danceable). "- goaty
******************************************************* HEAVY WINGED - TAKING THE VEIL TAPE $9 (swedish import)
"Another slab of sheer, remorseless destruction from Brooklyn's finest
face-melting psych warriors. "Taking the Veil" was originally released
by the band in a micro-edition of around 30 copies for Terrastock '06.
Far too beautifully ugly and perfectly brutal to bless so few, here we
have two 20+ minute tracks brimming with cascading streams of
sick tonal lava, thumping low-end shitstorms, and a barrage of
utterly wrecked, carnivorous bombast that'll have you running,
tail-between-your-legs, back to your PSF and Alchemy collections
to rest your shattered cochlea. " -utmarken tapes
******************************************* REAL ESTATE s/t LP $13
"Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past. The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat. Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun lingered a little longer over suburban roofs. And with three quarters of the band holding down Garden State roots its no surprise that a bit of Jersey indie-pop heritage sneaks its way into their sound, lifting the most sun streaked moments from The Feelies and Yo La Tengo and filtering them through the kaleidoscope of memories aimless drives through parched neighborhood streets. Martin Courtney's songwriting has a way of wrapping up the immediacy of youth with the ennui of age for the perfect shade of bittersweet bliss, mind you though, much heavier on the sweet than the bitter. Add to this Mondanile's (Ducktails/ Predator Vision) shimmering guitar strains full of equal parts sea foam and beer foam, pepper in the boardwalk clatter of Duguay's drums Bleeker's staccato low end and the perfect afternoon is just a lawn chair and boom box away."-Andy French / Raven Sings The Blues. woodsist records
*************************************************************************** Sun Araw "Heavy Deeds" LP $14
"Heavy Deeds, indeed man. One of our So-Cal hometown heroes steps back up to the vinyl plate with a new set of songs that are at once loftier, sweatier, deeper, groovier, and wilder than anything he’s done before (and that’s not said lightly, cause we were stupid-huge fans already). Five focused tracks meshing together the cosmic feedback of The Phynx with the sunshine ecstasy of Beach Head and the equatorial swelter of Boat Trip, plus a potent mainline of primitive rhythm, drug funk, and broken glass, it’s a sick step sideways for the Sun Araw solar system, and an easy contender for Album-of-’09 status. Check the blazing wah streetfight that breaks out mid-way through “Get Low,” the magic brainbath haze soaking into the joints of “Hustle And Bustle,” or the endless feel-good float-away of the climax of “All Night Long;” these are mountaintops, these are trophies, these are heavy deeds. Here’s to hoping the Araw-iverse keeps on keeping on. Mastered by James Plotkin with lil’ Stevie screengrab jacket artwork designed by Stallones, plus a full-color pro-printed double-sided insert. Edition of 600, 400 on marbled blue wax, 200 on black." -nnf
***************************************************************** Blues Control "Local Flavor" LP $12 *POSSIBLY ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!*
"A few years back, former Quiet Sun / Roxy Music / 801 behind-the-scenes mastermind Gill Manzanera--no relation to guitarist Phil Manzanera (whose real name is Philip Targett-Adams)--offered up a beguiling reminiscence of those heady days to the Swiss fanzine Sombre Reptiles:
"What we were trying to do, you see, was harness the future into the present. However, we were severely at odds with technology, a ring modulator on a Fender Rhodes and a bit of funny business through an analog synth being about as far as one could go then. The work with Quiet Sun was the foundation, then later Phil and Eno built upon that within Roxy and if only Ferry had acquiesced to Brian having a go at 'Bogus Man,' I think the results would have been stunning (as well as longer-lasting). But alas, so then for 801, the decision was to incorporate the progressive and avant garde through a chamber of fusion (so to speak), the results of which are undeniable. Mind you, this was all during the burgeoning punk era, so it took a bit of time for some to settle in with what was happening. But isn't that the future, really; someone has to be the first out the door to know if the rest of us will need a jumper or not. It was all quite brilliant in that way, absolutely so, I should think." Hmm, well, that all sounds... quite English. Oddly enough, that sliver of quinine-sotted nostalgia could be used as a swab of historical DNA pap to describe the fantastic newest shimmer from Blues Control. While past releases have been beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia and billowing fog of ambient space, Local Flavor is the one where all the chickens have come home to roost. The opening track "Good Morning" is practically a sideways step into boogie rock (horn accompaniment provided by none other than Jesse Trbovich and Kurt Vile); with the proper seismic shift, it could almost be heard as an alternate reality take on "Re-make/Re-model." It's easily the band's longest stomp in the forest of rock since their debut cassette, and, man, them boots leave a bruise! The remaining three tracks morph and ebb harmoniously--in true Blues Control fashion--the timbre occasionally elegiac, yet more often riffing on a plane that has yet to be transcribed. Local Flavor is 801 plus an extra one (8101, if you will), providing an unimaginable future that will take your breath away. So make sure you've paid your oxygen bill, because there are no free rides in the 82nd Century." -siltbreeze
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VAMPIRE BLUES "Turkish Petroleum Company" cassette $8 (UK import)
"Swirling drones smothered in pure electric guitar anthems from two Jon's, one being Jon of The Hunter Gracchus / Singing Knives, and the other being Jon from Serfs. This is their debut release and is a real beauty, psyched out blues for a dark back room in hut out in the woods. Limited 100 hand numbered copies." -blackest rainbow
*********************************************************** Oneohtrix Point Never 'Russian Mind' LP $13
"Transcribed by the Material Eye Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia. 6 baseless marble pillars not yet completed, covered in white strata against the backdrop of a simple three-dimensional plane with soft edges. 1. Synesthesia outside venue. 2. If you lived here, you'd be home right now. 3. Lopatin designs preset "Prismata" ascribed to Trujillo, 2003 and goes downstairs for air. 4. He comes from a long line of shovelers 5. Life On An International Space Station video 32min / falls asleep. 6. An astronaut beyond his prime and no longer able to carry out his father's work rests in a hospital bed in a room on the east wing of a orbiting infirmary, facing a window overlooking a grove of holographic birch trees. Hums.. Limited to 500." -no fun productions
****************************************************** Dylan Ettinger & The Heat "Smokin'" 7" $5
"We had heard a couple cassette outings by this Bloomington young-bloomer over the last 4-6 months and each one hit us better than the last but nothing had prepped us for Ettinger’s most recent evolution into neon skyline chase scene soundtracker and that’s part of what makes it so amazing. For Smokin’ he wrangled together a small posse of close comrades (enter The Heat) and tracked a sick session of smoky synth themes, Corvette noir moods, echo dystopia, faded voices, and sleazy Miami sax. The A, “Smokin,’” is the more ballad-y of the pair, sad and smooth, just fired-from-the-force, midnight cruising on the strip, no one to call. The B, “Miami Heat (The Stakeout),” amps the tension, camera zooming in over palm trees and blue-lit swimming pools, a deco mansion on the coast, the place is surrounded, the heat is on, all that. A cool sleaze-psych vision, sickly executed, by a rad fresh energy from the underground. Fingers are crossed there’s more where this came from. Black-vinyl 7 inches, plus a photocopied insert, in full-color sleeves with art by NNF. Edition of 380." -not not fun
*********************************************************************** Dreamcolour "Spiritual Celebration" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!! SECOND EDITION
"There’s currently a glut of bands dog-paddling around the trans-continental psych-pond with names involving words like ‘color,’ ‘dream,’ and ‘infinity,’ and Ventura County brass-groove arkestra Dreamcolour are smack thick in the middle of this ’08-‘09 nomenclatorial zeitgeist (though to their credit they use the British spelling). Yet, semi-ironically, the mood of the zones they explore on Spiritual Celebration are wonderfully vintage, with a strange, reverential “out of time” quality that seems decidedly non-NOW. Hand-drums beat along with a steady, easy lope, saxes are crooned (not skronked) smoothly up towards the sun, Farfisa trills further brighten the corners. There’s no damaged FX-abuse or lo-fi freakouts; all minds are fused into one gently simmering open-air spiritual jazz homage. Echoes of Don Cherry abound. The tape is split into three chapters: a stunning 20-minute A-side hayride (“Spiritual Celebration”), a briefer horn flurry piece (“Sun Ritual”), and a gorgeous lunar meditation chamber (“Moon Ritual”). A great West Coast force with an exotic back catalogue and a killer live vibe, worth keeping tabs on. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with full-color marker/collage J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 100." -nnf
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Pedestrian Deposit "Recycled Music" cassette $4
RRR Records. the dude who does emaciator's old project.
***************************************************************** social junk "champs 09" cassette $7
social junk tape on digitalis
************************************************************** EVAN MILLER "TRANSFIGURATIONS ON LAP-STEEL GUITAR" LP $13
"Iowa City’s Evan Miller is never one to stay in the same rut for too long. His earlier releases were composed of Fahey-esque spells, heavily emotional acoustic guitar work emanating tones of nostalgia and simplicity. On “Transfigurations” a new zone is crafted with lap-steel guitar and tape collage, creating equally nostalgic music from the other end of the spectrum: delicate, minimal drones. Tones interweave and textures evolve: it is Evan’s most personally progressive work, combining past themes and reinterpreting them on another medium: electric lap-steel guitar. Mastered by Pete Swanson. In an edition of 450 full color pro-printed cardboard LP sleeves and printed labels designed by Jeff Witscher (Secret Abuse / Callow God)." -arbor
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Body Morph "Bone Alone" cassette $6
new tape by dan of uneven universe/mossy thorats/exbx tapes/etc.
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mold resin "plays behind the door II" $6
new tape by mold resin on exbx tapes. limited to 18!!!
********************************************************** The Mossy Throats and Ryan Jacari "Boys Will Be Boys" cassette $6
"Uh oh, sounds only a mother could love. But probably not her either! Totally ugly rager sound from tapes, vocals, LOUD electronics, LOUD metal scraps, LOUD everything. Two side-long waves of alien feedback. Edition of 40. c-47, with xeroxed art. EXBX-064 " -exbx tapes
****************************************** Temples "Bestial" cassette $6
"Two 20+ minute long track inspired by Jens Bjornboe's Moment of Freedom."-peasant magik
****************************************************** Foot Village "Fuck the Future 2" CD $10
"In anticipation of their upcoming full length "Anti Magic" on Upset the Rhythm, LA's FOOT VILLAGE have compiled a
second batch of vinyl only tracks. Four humans (you know them from Gang Wizard, Friends Forever, Rose for Bodhan
and A++, and as members of 2008’s Boredoms 88 drummers performance) emerge from the apocalypse, exploring the
primitive wasteland and creative a new nation of their own, using only drums and their voices. Housed in a digipack
made using partially recycled material, with art work by Brittany Gould (Married In Berdichev!), "Fuck the Future 2" collects the material from: their split LP with Black Pus (Deathbomb ARC / DNT), two recent 7”s (on Too Pure and Rock Is Hell), the “Pisspounder” triple LP (w/ Sword Heaven, Aa, Grey Skull, Rainbow Blanket and Dreamhouse also on DBA) and the recent, wild, collaboration 12” with Health, Captain Ahab and Jason Forrest on Ravesploitative,… assembled and
mastered together by Pete Swanson." -gilgongo records
************************************************************* Ducktails LP $14
"Plastic palm trees. Beach scene snowglobes. Airbrushed neon sunset hotel paintings. All shining examples of potent Fake Escapism at work, in real life. And if you’ve ever wondered what the audio equivalent of this kind of cheap coastal utopian simulacrum is, take a good listen to the recorded works of Mr. Matt Mondanile aka Ducktails, a crazy talented suburban New Jerseyan who serves up masterpiece after blasterpiece of shimmering, smoke-and-mirrors exotic fantasia, rainbow psych-pop muzak for imaginary helicopter rides over crystal lagoons and lost waterfalls. His self-released tapes dropped over the past year-plus have seen his basement guitar/rhythm hypnosis instincts gently arcing upwards into a total art form, and this, Ducktails’ debut full-length LP, is the absolute zenith of the vision. Lazy island percussion loops under blissed horizons of hovering synth colors, warm jangly wah-wah guitars lap like waves alongside casual hammock-chilling vocals; song titles like “Beach Point Pleasant” and “Dancing With The One You Love” further articulate Mondanile’s mood agenda: maxin’ & relaxin’. A few numbers get a bit more tripped/spaced in a loosely post-Pacific City model, but those parts function less like a drug ride and more just like the hazy time of night after the beach bonfire’s burned out and you pass out on the sand, holding hands with someone special, staring up at the stars. What do you see? Endless blackness? Or a new BFF? Black vinyl LPs mastered by Graham Lambkin (of The Shadow Ring) housed in matte jackets with cover artwork by Jan Anderzen (of Kemialliset Ystavat/Tomuttontu), plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 600." -nnf
******************************************************************** Mossy Throats "Cold Lunch" cassette $6
"Cold, vibrating tapes and low-crawling soundscapes get covered in seaweed and served for lunch. For fans of non-music. A second edition of 30 with full-color, fold out art. C47." -exbx tapes
**************************************** The North Sea "Daytona" cassette $6
"Daytona is an epic drone work formed of textured synthesizer and layered electronics. The North Sea’s (Brad Rose) high-density sound projects degraded memories that lead to abandoned tunnels and empty into sunset skies. Both noisy and meditative, this gorgeous piece is the perfect compliment to lone autumn walks. Definitely another exciting addition to the North Sea catalog." -gift tapes
****************************************** Dreamcolour "Solar Gaze" cassette $6
"A MASSIVE, throbbing, wailing, thrashing jammer squashes itself onto the a side of this c51. The B side gets there, but not before you do the dead man's float through a warm mineral mud bath." -earjerk
********************************************** Dirty Beaches - "s/t" cassette $6
"Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai who has been living in Montreal for the last few years but has spent time in California, Hawaii and China and has plans to move to Vancouver soon. The aspect of distance, moving, upheaval seems significant to Dirty Beaches sound and aesthetic, drifting, weaving, pulsing... somber droney garage pop tunes, that seem to float off in some distant geography. Sonically there in your head but out of touch. the sound has a disconnected but beautiful feeling, a series of mental refractions going on, like looking into the infinity mirror at a packed night club from some old technicolor movie while good looking people from some other uknown lands dance around you. Strange stuff that feels right in its strangeness. " -night people
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Mossy Throats “D.N.A. Mismatch” cassette $6
"Stunned electronic systems. Shocked, froze, reversed, slowed. Taped response melded with constant electric torrent. Edition of 30, with full-color fold out art. " -exbx
************************************* Truth Syrum "Why We Look at Our Neighbors" cassette $6
"Why We Look at our Neighbors documents Will Kapp’s move from Iowa City to the West Coast last fall. The songs parallel personal displacement, straddling the line between brazen, youthful mid-west basement scuzz and new found pop intimacy/bald, romantic holism. The little punk almost gets in touch with nature, but he still swears by the half-stack and the DigiTech Grunge pedal his mom got in for the Christmas."- goaty
******************************************************* HNY "Dead in a Year" cassette $6
"Heather loves playing with her bros in Social Junk but sometimes you just have to be alone, let some fem energy loose in the headspace and be a girl in the 21st century. This time, however, there’s no fancy ersatz spiritual dazzle—no pleasant gold-lining on the drone clouds. On Dead in a Year Heather gets brutal: the vocal mantras don’t dissipate into nebulous drone ephemera, but hold their ground as a physical human reactions that almost hit the grunge wipeout USA nerve. Before you know it she’s punching the deep-base drum machine, discharging synth breakdowns ala The Dream and calling you out on your shit." - goaty
******************************************************* TULUUM SHIMMERING - 'IN THE GREAT SWAMP YOU WERE CONCEIVED' cassette $6
"A luscious hill rises up from the undulating swampy mire. Slurping and grumbling as it grows. A gentle earthquake causes upholstered rocks to tumble slowly down hill into the sludge below. Upon union, sludge and rock conceive new forms paddled with patterns, unravelling feverishly, soaking up every ounce of liquid. " -rotifer cassettes
*************************************************** Om "God is Good" LP $15
"God is Good is Om’s fourth studio album, and the first with new drummer Emil Amos (Amos made his first official recording with Om in the single “Gebel Barkal/Version” on Sub Pop last summer). It’s a big change, obviously, for a two-piece, and a fairly unqualified success. Amos, who also records with Grails, Holy Sons and Shrinebuilder, is far more flamboyant than Chris Hakius, less tethered to the steady chink of cymbals, more apt to range free-form over toms, rims and, in places, various hand drums. Listen, for instance, to how he keeps time in the simmering “Meditation is the Practice of Death,” a click and clash of cymbals measuring the four beats, but, in between, the hands and feet floating free of tempo in abstract flurries and syncopated slashes. “Cremation Ghat I,” the album’s fastest and most percussive track, hurtles ahead on clipped, rim-shot 16th notes, the bass speeding in tandem, turning almost funk against a revival hall backing of handclaps. Throughout the album, Amos makes the most of his kit’s variation in pitch, the high clipped tones of sticks on rims, the resonant rumble of low toms, the various notes elicited from different parts of the cymbals. Om has never been a super melodic band – you can pick out most of the riffs on a handful of black piano notes clustered round E Flat – but the drums have become a good deal more tonal and varied. There are also a handful of other instruments in play, a cello and piano in the long “Thebes,” a flute in “Meditation,” some sort of Middle Eastern woodwind in “Cremation Ghat I” and sitar plus string section in closer “Cremation Ghat II.” A sort of minimalism is still in play, with short ideas repeated until your sense of time collapses, sameness building until the slightest change raises the ante. Like Pilgrimage, God is Good borrows its cover imagery from Greek Orthodox icons, its polyglot spirituality from a range of religious traditions. The lyrics, fairly indecipherable even when the words themselves are plain, are chanted in clusters, usually following the bass’s minimal melodies, and evoking Allah, St. Paul’s roadside conversion, and Hindu mythology without much differentiation. God is good, it seems, but not very particular about what you call him. And while everything is kept at a smoulder – the words unclear, the tempos slow – this new Om album is anything but boring. It moves at its own pace through vast spiritual landscapes, and if you can’t quite make out the melody drifting in from miles away, just wait a bit and it will come clear." -drag city (dusted review by jennifer kelly)
********************************************************* Wavves "s/t" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
"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
******************************************************************** keith fullerton whitman "hallicrafters, inc. / 10 POKE 54272+INT(RND(1)*25),INT(RND(1)*256) : GOTO 10" cassette $6
"two utterly satisfying pieces of electronic music for automatic processes and modular synthesizer. to me, this just about sums up keith’s uncanny ability to blend technical prowess with an innate musicality - something that i find to be pretty rare in the world of “academic” electronics. side a features an old shortwave radio (made by hallicrafters, inc.) run through keith’s ever-expanding modular set-up, while side b is fueled by old commodore patches being processed by an iphone and sent to the suitcases..." -rare youth
******************************************* Hochman & Hopkins - "Live NYE" cassette $6
"Jonathan Hochman (Holy Balm, Pagan Dawn) and Matthew Hopkins (Naked on the Vague, Near Tapes etc.) are from Sydney AU and this is there live Synthesizer project focused around otherworldly tonal eruptions, trance inducing electronics washes, science fiction fucked vocal sludge, and generally weird psych synth vibes. Lost mind submarine rides, drifting sitting at the point where the desert meets the sky, volcanoes erupting onto cities, all moving along past out of your control in your ears and across your mind. Artwork by SDReed." -night people
****************************** CHARALAMBIDES "Rose/Thorn" LP $15
"Blissful Klang Industries vinyl issue of two vintage side-long improvisations performed by Christina and Tom Carter as a duo. Far removed from their more recent song-shaped enters, the pieces here (recorded in 2000) strive for a different kind of goal, stretching out exquisitely complex organic drone tones that draw on organ, various sustaining (bowed?) instruments and a line in supremely elegant pedal steel glissando whose esoteric delights are matched only by Christina's unceasingly remarkable voice. The interweaving microtones shift around with an intricate harmonic nuance, Tom's slowly morphing guitar strings vibrating with a beautiful motion blur effect while organ chords stretch out into the horizon and wordless utterances float around the ether. There's not a great deal of value in further describing what this sounds like, just flick through the Jukebox samples Buy while it's still around." -klang
****************************************************** JEN PAUL "1965 GHOST" cassette $6
"guitar trances, metronomic melodies, haunted voices, indistinct conversations and telephoned messages are all obscured in a shoegaze gauze" -different lands
******************************************************* YUHASZ - "12 | 28 VARIATIONS" cassette $6
"a wandering, instrumental song cycle. new details and themes emerge with each listen. hard to believe a work this massive can exist on a cassette tape"-different lands
******************************************************* TULUUM SHIMMERING "THUNDEROUS SLIT-GONGS ON ISLANDS OF CLOUD" cassette $6
"slowly built temples of sound, wherein the conventional measures of time are rendered absolutely useless" -different lands
******************************************************* PINK DESERT "SEE YOU LATER" cassette $6
"a phrase used at parting, and not necessarily implying that the person being addressed will be seen later by the speaker"-different lands
******************************************************* ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER - SCENES WITH CURVED OBJECTS TAPE $9 (swedish import)
"Hot on the heels of the Zones Without People LP (Arbor), Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never is back with a limited tape on Utmarken. Selections comprised of live and in-studio performances, Summer 2009 Ridge Valley Digital. Tomaso Albinoni appears on 'Adagio In G Minor Screw' courtesy of mimioware inc. Teddy Pendergrass disappears on 'Let It Go' courtesy of the industrial revolution violator and subject to severe penalties and will be prosecutedt to the full extent of the jam "Melancholy Descriptions of Simple 3D Environments" aired on Rare Frequency, WZBC Newton, Massachusetts 90.3 FM 7.23.09. "Piano Craft Guild Edit" was assembled using multiple recordings of a live performance at The Piano Craft Guild in Boston, Massachusetts on 6.2.09. Total playtime of 30 minutes. 100 copies." -utmarken tapes
******************************************* Altar of Flies - Eremiten cassette $9 (swedish import)
"After loads of releases during the past years Altar of Flies have evolved into a beast. With the help of vintage electronics Altar of Flies creates organic and gloomy sounds. This is the first release after a longer break and is really something extra. The three long tracks on Eremiten feels like a weekend in hell, tormented and claustrophobic. " -klorofyllkassette
******************************************* ABOLICAO - 'VERSAZI YENISEI' cassette $6
"Deep gusts from inlands satiating harvest. Painted fabric j-cards. Artwork by Jeffry Astin." -rotifer tapes
*********************************************** Robedoor "Pagan Drugs" 7" $6
"Pair of dungeon bummers recorded in the trio formation at the same east L.A. hillside studio where the Raiders LP/CS was tracked. Deeper into the isolation, down to the resin, a long lost walk through dog alley. Written/taped/mixed from Feb-April 2009. White Vinyl. Includes MP3 download card (192 kbps)." -ketchup cavern
*********************************************** Robedoor "Raiders" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Following their 2008 East Coast tour with Woods and Pocahaunted the Robedoor agenda has mainly been: hibernating in the City Terrace zone above east LA, adding a drummer/modular synth dealer, and letting the smoke rise. Raiders is the first RBDR LP since 2008’s Endlessly Blazing and is the result of almost six months of slow-burn transformative tape machine meditation helmed by Mr. Ged Gengras. Bummed guitars, loner drone tones, low caverns of reverbed drums and rumble, echo dislocation, and dead voices cascade down into the isolated highways. Song modes are carved out and then left to rot. Features early trio live set staples like “Indo Shadow” and “The Downcast Eye.” You can’t stick your hand in the same black river twice. Change or be changed. Pro-imprinted cassettes in J-card appropriation of LP artwork. Edition of 100. " -nnf
********************************************************* Padna "Siberia / Hinterland" cassette $6.50
"Geiger counters, crystal radio sets, sonar consoles, and broken walkie talkies chatter their way through a binary snowdrift on the opening side of ‘Siberia/Hinterland’. Chilly, spooked, and Siberian for sure, but it could just as well be an eerie code transmitted from the dark side of Pluto. Who knows? Brooklyn’s Nat Hawks might begin to answer, as he is the purported brains behind this sprawling enigma. He’s also responsible for running the totally fresh label LittleFuryThings and performing in avant NY outfits like Christian Science Minotaur. Clearly, his solo Padna role is no stranger to wrangling strange cargo such as found at the front of this c56. Side B’s ‘Hinterland’ reciprocates these anti-drone motions with a brightened palate of its own. Seven protean orchestrations run a whole rainbow range of opaque tones. Both sides of Padna’s coin are landed on throughout the trip, flipping from dark atmospheres to warped merrymaking at a whim. Being introduced to these creations has definitely been one of the highlights of Stunned HQ’s listening year, and echoes of the Padna endeavor are bound to be near. Limited edition of 100 pro-dubbed & imprinted c56 tapes with insert card and double-sided color jcard." -stunned
*********************************************** v/a "Legends Of Benin" 2XLP $22 (german import)
"Analog Africa presents Legends Of Benin, a collection of super-rare and highly danceable masterpieces recorded between 1969-1981 by four legendary composers from Benin: Gnonnas Pedro, Antoine Dougbé, El Rego et Ses Commandos and Honoré Avolonto, each with a sound all their own. What you are about to hear is distinctively Benin -- a thick brew of agbadja, soul, cavacha, funk, Afrobeat, and Afro-Latin sounds all mixed in with heavy traditional rhythms. Gnonnas Pedro is the king of modern agbadja: a rhythm hugely popular in Togo, Benin and Ghana, based around three pieces of percussion, each with a different tone. Traditionally a rhythm used during burial ceremonies, Gnonnas adopted and modernized it in the mid-'60s, calling it "Agbadja Modern." The track "Dadje Von O Von Non" was originally recorded in 1966 and is Gnonna's first modern rendition of agbadja. Also featured here is the crazy, kick-ass funk track "Okpo Videa Bassouo" recorded in 1973, as well as the sublimely contagious track, "La Musica en Verité." Honoré Avolonto was one of Benin's most prolific composers, releasing Benin's most successful LP in the late '70s. That album was recorded with Black Santiago, a band fronted by amazing trumpeter Ignace De Souza, another legend, with whom he recorded the Afrobeat track, "Dou Dagbe We." Avolonto has fronted some of Benin's most powerful bands and some of those "partnerships" with Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and Les Commandos are presented here. Beware -- killer Afrobeat meets frenetic funk. El Rego et Ses Commandos were responsible for Benin's first Afro-soul-funk track with the support of Ghanean singer, Eddy Black Power. The "Jerk" scene in Benin was triggered by the success of "Feeling You Got," and its infectious accordion riff. "E Nan Mian Nuku" is an Afro-Latin tune combined with a kind of bossa nova, and "Vimado Wingnan" is Benin's most sought-after funk track. Out of all the artists here, Antoine Dougbé is the least known even in Benin, but he created his own style which he dubbed Afro cavacha -- a fantastic mixture of Congolese rhumba, Latin sounds and traditional vodoun rhythms. All of his vinyl releases, especially the ones released on his own Editions Dougbé Antoine label, are incredible and have become some of Africa's most sought-after collector's items." -analog africa
********************************************* UTMARKEN COMPILATION 10" $12 (swedish import)
"Gothenburg 2009. There's something in the air and something is stirring in the eclectic underground. Brewing magic, movements in every corner and truly exciting times. This is a small document of the first year of Utmarken with four acts contributing one track each. Street Drinkers, the soloproject of Viktor from Ättestupa, uses layers of synths and vocals to create minimal and dreamy music reminiscent of Wet Hair and Peaking Lights, but with a unique Swedish touch. After the feedback-mayhem on the Gothenburg Blood Cult Tape, Källarbarnen is now back with a more subtle and somewhat mellow track, here using synths, drums, bass and vocals. All lights are out and everything is falling apart. White is Dan from Ättestupa/Sewer Election, and the project should be known from the tapes on Harsh Head Rituals and Segerhuva. Hitting it hard with distorted synthbuzz and vocals, it ends up like the bastard child of Suicide via filth, crime and abuse. Ättestupa ends everything with the best song they have done, a haunting and intense piece called Änglamakerskan. Freezing winds evokes the mean spirit of an long forgotten era. Total Swedish coldness and there is no way back. The 10" comes with liner notes by Matthias Andersson as well as a photo collage from Utmarken. All tracks were recorded at Utmarken between fall 2008 and spring 2009. Mastered by Pete Swanson. Front photography by Andy Liffner, mugshots on the back by David Eng. " -release the bats
***************************************************** Thoughts on Air/Tricorn and Queue split cassette $6
new tape on housecraft
*********************************** sundog peacehouse "brosound" cassette $7
"the first time i heard this trio i was absolutely smitten. sundog peacehouse are chris mucci, sal farina and austin redwood and will soon be taking over their native pittsburgh by lulling everyone into a codeine coma. shimmering walls of heavily-processed vocals, guitars and samples ease you down into emerald green pools of total bliss. pure waves of spiralling sonics drench you and hold you close. there is something so unbelievably comforting about this music that it's impossible to get away from, impossible to ignore. having shared bills with caboladies (past) and bardo pond (future), you get any idea where these soaring aural dreams are going to take you. sundog peacehouse are stunning, simply put. don't wait around for the surf to break you out, just stay sunkissed and in love. edition of 70, fuschia waves to the stars." -digitalis
************************************************************** dream safari "river submersion" cassette $7
"following up his recent burner on excitebike, dream safari is back in the haze clawing his way to the summit. these miniature trips are lost inside a maze of urban caves with nothing but a burned-out lantern. cyclical vocal drones that rise and fall like an ancient sea creature escaping from a blackened abyss. these are the sounds of dying ghosts. drenched in reverb and delay, there's only one way out and that's straight done. dark & hypnotic, you know the rest. editon of 65, pro-dubbed in the light." -digitalis
************************************************************** Time Life "Drumlins" 7" $6
"To those not well versed in the studies of esoteric land mass terminology, the word “drumlin” might be pure WTF. But to Heidi Diehl and G. Lucas “Non-Horse” Crane it’s the key to a musty trunk ripe with memories, magic, mystery. In plain terms it describes a specific sort of glacially-carved hillock endemic to upstate NY (and Antarctica and Greece) which in recent years and regions have been utilized as dumping grounds for mining town industrial slag. A childhood spent summering on such junkyard drumlins spawned the strange smoggy swan-songs of Drumlins, Time Life’s vinyl debut. Decaying tape loops rumble beneath somberly sung lyrical riddles and bowed-string tonal arcs. Electric Appalachian regression fantasies. Metal mountain music. All of this and more (more or less). Black vinyl 7 inches with snowflake stickers in hand-cut full-color cardstock fold-over sleeves with drumlin collage by Manda and adorned with 2 pairs of (the hills have) eyes. Edition of 252." -nnf
**************************************************************** TSUKIMONO "TIME CANVAS" 2xLP $18 (swedish import)
"Long anticipated vinyl version of Tsukimonos grandiose Time Canvas, originally released as a limited CDR on Kning Disk spring 2007. A true gem when it comes to drone-based music, this recording still stands out as Tsukimonos finest moment. Each track is based on a sample on one specific instrument. Slow and quiet and big and brutal at the same time. Incredible beauty indeed. The deluxe 2xLP version also comes with a side-long bonus track recorded in 2008. Letterpressed silver ink on black cardboard sleeves. Liner notes by Matthias Andersson (RTB Records), PM Jönsson (Sound Of Music/Sonic), Gustav Rosengren (Kalligrammofon) and musician Viktor Sjöberg. Also comes with a coupon for a digial download of the album, which also includes The Lesson, a second bonus track. Limited to 525 copies." -release the bats
*************************************************************** Robedoor "Exorcist Blues" cassette $6
new tape by robedoor on monorail trespassing
******************************************************************* Blues Control "s/t" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
"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
***************************************************************** Mark Mcguire "Solo Acoustic Vol. 2" LP $16 (high wholesale cost)
"The second installment in VDSQ’s (Vin Du Select Qualitite) Solo Acoustic guitar series curated by STEVE LOWENTHAL of Swingset Magazine. Solo Acoustic Vol. 2 features melodic ballads and new songs from EMERALDS guitarist MARK MCGUIRE that spark new innovations and memories thought to be lost. Packaged in letterpress sleeves with a picture of the guitar used on the recording." -VDSQ
********************************************************** 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
******************************************************************** social junk "born into it" CD $12
"Social Junk have blasted through walls, east & west, over the past few years cranking out some serious sparklers along the way. Now after dropping a megaslice of deliciousness on Not Not Fun last year, this duo follow it up with a journey through the mother earth canal. "Born Into It" stretches across the lands with thudding percussion and hypno synth excursions. Waves of swirling vocals from both Heather Young and Noah Anthony. You may have just been born, but stretch those wings baby because it's time to fucking fly. There's no going back once you take the first plunge on "Born Into It." Immediately, through no fault of your own, you'll be drawn in and tied down. At times it feels like Young & Anthony are scouring the lands, taking in whatever technological progress they can find and chewing it up and spitting it out into a gloriously dissonant pile. This is music for the next wave; music to find your way back to the sun. Social Junk are soaring like never before and "Born Into It" is their latest testament to a new world. Limited to 500 copies." -digitalis
************************************************************** Sean McCann "Phylum Sigh" CD $8
"Remastered CD issue of sold out DNT tape. Includes extended mixes and an additional song. Full-color art, shrink-wrapped. 9 songs, 63 minutes. Limited to 200 copies" -roll over rover
******************************************* James Fella / Shivers split cdr $8 (german import)
"James Fella is the Gilgongo label head and member of Soft Shoulder and Tent City. Rhythmic electronic weirdness and wilderness, oursider sounds and dazed clarinets lead you through the zone and back. Shivers offers one long track of total clinical cut up bustle. Feedback exploitation / head in the dryer style." -tape tektoniks
******************************************* Wet Hair "Dream" CD $8
"Wet Hair is Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes from the now defunct Raccoo-oo-oon. It started out as a soloproject of Shawn but after a while Ryan joined in as well. After several tapes and a 12", the duo is now unleashing Dream, their first fullength album. Four long tracks of analog synth atmosphere and industrial trance punk. Sure some Raccoo-oo-oon echoes can be heard if putting an ear close to the speaker, but Wet Hair is in many ways different. Melodic, upbeat, focused, dark, warm, cold, catchy, and confusing at the same time. Hints of everything from Suicide and Public Image Ltd to Spacemen 3 shines through. Dream has a strong nostalgic feel, fragments from the past is passing by and at the same time we get a strange glimpse of the future... Glowing stuff. " -release the bats
********************************************************************** DUCKTAILS "BACKYARD" CD $8
"Ducktails is Matthew Mondanile from New Jersey and Backyard is an anthology of his first recordings. Raw-sounding and shimmering 3-minute diamonds, longer trance-inducing journeys into heated minds and blurred visions of the Pacific City... This is laidback music for late, late summer nights. Though being remastered to suit the CD format, the roughness from the casssettes are still here. Included here is all the tracks from the II tape, the 1992 demo tape, the split tape with Mudboy, some stuff from the Dreams In Mirror Field session as well as some new cuts. Playtime of close to 74 minutes. Glossy 4-panel digipack." -release the bats
******************************************************************************* Foot Village "Fuck the Future 2" CD $10
"In anticipation of their upcoming full length "Anti Magic" on Upset the Rhythm, LA's FOOT VILLAGE have compiled a
second batch of vinyl only tracks. Four humans (you know them from Gang Wizard, Friends Forever, Rose for Bodhan
and A++, and as members of 2008’s Boredoms 88 drummers performance) emerge from the apocalypse, exploring the
primitive wasteland and creative a new nation of their own, using only drums and their voices. Housed in a digipack
made using partially recycled material, with art work by Brittany Gould (Married In Berdichev!), "Fuck the Future 2" collects the material from: their split LP with Black Pus (Deathbomb ARC / DNT), two recent 7”s (on Too Pure and Rock Is Hell), the “Pisspounder” triple LP (w/ Sword Heaven, Aa, Grey Skull, Rainbow Blanket and Dreamhouse also on DBA) and the recent, wild, collaboration 12” with Health, Captain Ahab and Jason Forrest on Ravesploitative,… assembled and
mastered together by Pete Swanson." -gilgongo records
************************************************************* Binges "Return to Whatever" cdr $5
"Binges are a hometown favorite here in Chicago. Up until this point their music has existed to the public in one form: the live set. For the benefit of those outside of Chicago, the duo, comprised of drummer Chris Robert and guitar/bass/drum/mic/tape dude Anthonyy Decanini, recently teamed up with Midwestern Raccoo-oo-oon to cover the west coast with their syncopated improvisations. It is only fitting that their first release be made up of live material(recorded to DAT tape and mastered with the utmost care). Decanini creates a vast number of growing and receding loops from his guitar, bass, contact mic, tapes, and other sources which act as the perfect foil to Robert’s percussion(a serious thing to behold). It isn’t so much one person acting as the leader as much as the two creating an absolute sonic union of sounds blurring the line between free jazz and noise. In an edition of 200 screened CDRs in screened sleeves." -arbor
*************************************************************************************** STEPHEN STEINBRINK "Ugly Unknowns" CD $9
"STEPHEN STEINBRINK makes his 11 song debut release under his own name after playing and constantly touring as
FRENCH QUARTER for the past several years. His last full length has been a personal favorite and this new one has
shaped up to be the same. Blissful and uplifting survival songs recorded throughout Arizona at various friends' homes.
Urgent, sincere and real. " -gilgongo
************************************************************ 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
********************************************************************* 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
*************************************************************** 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
************************************************ Tent City cdr $5
"Past the desert smoke and arid dust trails of Arizona lies an Oasis of broken folk. Occupied by Tent/City, this area is like a river of creativity and blessed drones. Six artful dwellers armed with instruments ranging from pots and pans to synths and guitars, pianos and flutes, have the perfect recipe for clattery commune psych. Taken out of their natural habitat and thrown into the studio they offer these five tracks to the coyote spirit. The first three tracks act as studies focusing on different pairings of the featured instrumentation. This culminates in the fourth track, an epic 12 minute long jam full of rotted synth, flute prayers, electric guitar with hints of the raccoon’s good blessing, all over a foundation of unwavering percussion. In an edition of 90 triangle stickered cd-rs with an insert all in a hand sewn paisley pouch complete with button clasp." -arbor
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Mattress "Heavy Duty" CD/LP $10 (please specify which you want)
new lp released by reluctant recordings. hear them here: http://www.myspace.com/rexmattress
************************************************* Big Nurse "Time Trip" cdr $5
"wonderful romp down memory lane and back" -high density headache
****************************************************************** The Pope "Sports" CD $7
"The Pope sound something like an kamikaze Fokker Jachtkruiser on a midnight strafing run over London. Humongous flak guns fill the sky with steel in a vain attempt to bring them down, but nothing can keep this chugging, lethal bird from being aloft. As you should know, the Pope is bulletproof, and when it's ready to drop it's payload, pulverization results. The Pope comprises two men and their wall of overdriven solid state power. They come from the land of avocado trees and Colin Farrell sightings, but rather than play Jane's covers, they go the route of mighty forebearers like godheadSilo, Karp, Unwound, and Hammerhead, Steel Pole Bathtub and the Whip as well as contemporary nut-jobs like Lightning Bolt and Big Business. Sports is a theme record, interspersed with wild soundbites from real-deal sporting events. The music ranges between triumphal and milataristic metal to wild spasmodic blasts. Daniel "Bad Dudes" Haworth made sure that this was their best recording to date, and the good people at Golden Mastering cranked it up so it practically turns itself up, once lodged in the player. At 17 total tracks and thirty plus minutes, it's ambitious and labored-over piece of work that is set to break minds from here to Bishkek. RIYL: godheadSilo, Karp, Hammerhead." - Wantage
************************************************************************** Shepherds "Loco Hills" CD $10
"Loco Hills, the debut full length from these Brooklyn bush babies,is the sound of a rolling southwestern road trip. It is the sound of unknown terrain, and appropriately Loco Hills finds Shepherds entering full band territory for the first time. A fully realized jam document, toying at times with structure, Shepherds never lose sight of the "drop everything and make music" mentality that makes them so exciting. Swirling strings, tape manipulations. Bongos and wah, fire and bone. This is our music." -Release The Bats
************************************************************************** alphabets "pow sound" cassette $7
"what an absolute revelation. alphabets is the brainchild of denver savant, colin ward and his first ever tape, "pow sound," is the bedroom dance party of your dreams. total synth overload and excess like somebody stole all the jewels hollywood has to offer and hid them in ward's keyboard. cut & paste pop bliss that is heavy on the heavy beats. seriously, the beats and the hooks are the stars here. you can't help but get sucked in and shake your ass. days later, the songs will be stuck in your head, you'll be humming the shower... from here on out, it's over. don't fight it. give in. enjoy. it's over. edition of 70, aqua blue beauties." -digitalis
************************************************************** Xiphiidae "Pass Hidingly Seek" cassette $6
new tape on housecraft
*********************************** James Ferraro "Clear" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
""Clear" and "Discovery" were originally released as two companion CDRs by James Ferraro (of the whole Skaters / Lamborghini Crystal / 90120 / Splash / Nirvana axis) and comprise the August 1974 (Taj-Mahal Travellers) of his discography. Both albums contain absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes one want to reference Klaus Schulze or Bobby Beausoleil. "Clear" bursts with flam beats and a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp, while Discovery is comparable to Daft Punk's album of the same name but played in reverse at 16 rpm through a boombox in a boiler room.
These two records contain the sounds of pulling out with tapping beats of fluid dropped on a soft convertible top (open), much like those fictitious Giorgio Moroder songs for the upcoming Olympics in Atlantis or a reworking of that award-winning song from "Revenge of the Nerds"--or is it "Wonderwall"--into a theme for a future ski jump at the Great Pyramids. Are you ready for the lizard people to compete? Now available as mastered vinyl LPs with a digital download." -holy mountain
******************************************** James Ferraro "Discovery" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
""Clear" and "Discovery" were originally released as two companion CDRs by James Ferraro (of the whole Skaters / Lamborghini Crystal / 90120 / Splash / Nirvana axis) and comprise the August 1974 (Taj-Mahal Travellers) of his discography. Both albums contain absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes one want to reference Klaus Schulze or Bobby Beausoleil. "Clear" bursts with flam beats and a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp, while Discovery is comparable to Daft Punk's album of the same name but played in reverse at 16 rpm through a boombox in a boiler room.
These two records contain the sounds of pulling out with tapping beats of fluid dropped on a soft convertible top (open), much like those fictitious Giorgio Moroder songs for the upcoming Olympics in Atlantis or a reworking of that award-winning song from "Revenge of the Nerds"--or is it "Wonderwall"--into a theme for a future ski jump at the Great Pyramids. Are you ready for the lizard people to compete? Now available as mastered vinyl LPs with a digital download." -holy mountain
******************************************** Mayyors "Deads" 12" EP $10
second pressing of new 12" by sacto's mayyors
****************************************** Six Organs of Admittance "Luminous Night" LP $13
brand new lp on drag city
********************************************************* julian lynch "orange you glad " LP $15
"Orange You Glad is the debut full-length LP from Julian Lynch, following a string of self-released cd-r's and a recent split 7" with his childhood friend and frequent collaborator Matt Mondanile of Ducktails on the Underwater Peoples label. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Julian has had a busy summer playing countless shows both solo and as a member of Predator Vision, Ducktails, and Real Estate offshoot Alex Bleeker & the Freaks. This album is comprised of 4-track home recordings made in his hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey and also in Madison, Wisconsin where he is a graduate student in ethnomusicology. His interest in Indian & South Asian music blossomed several years ago when he was living in Washington, D.C. and working for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. This exposure to their vast library of world music has informed his output, and he blends instruments such as harmonium & tabla with guitar-rock instrumentation. Also of note is his use of circular breathing techniques on the clarinet -- often a focal point during his meditative live shows."-olde english spelling bee
******************************************** Heavy Winged + Inca Ore "Ring Mining" LP $14
"Been waiting multiple years for this mind-melting meeting-of-minds to finally manifest itself in physical form, and there’s actually a story behind it. Rewind to 2006: Heavy Winged is an active, Brooklyn-based psych-rock band who’ve yet to dissolve into the bi-coastal logistical tangle they exist as now; meanwhile, Eva/Inca Ore is on tour (for The Birds And The Bees maybe); meanwhile, Nick Bindeman happens to also be in NY hanging out. Since all are friends or friends-of-friends, Heavy Winged ask Nick and Eva to come jam with them at a show at Northsix for the heck of it. They do. The set is a charged, psychotropic cyclone of ragged electric weight and possessed pixie shriek, stomping up and down over several damaged mountains of riff-wreckage. Miraculously, someone thinks to record the performance. Jed Bindeman sends us a copy. Our speakers implode, we high five. Fast forward to Fall 2008: Heavy Winged record a new 20-minute epic (“Into The Fog”), send it to Eva, and she records her own hypno-bliss keyboard mirage over the top. Eureka. So goes the nearly three-year history of Ring Mining, a slow-burn triumph of long-distance collaborative patience and alchemy between two of our favorite creative institutions. Mine on, you crazy diamonds. Black vinyl LPs mastered by James Plotkin and housed in jackets with mountain-collage artwork by Eva Saelens, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500." -nnf
*********************************************************** Bent Spoon Duo "Fossils of Slumber" cassette $6
"Chris Dadge and Scott Munro of Calgary take a different approach than Schnüffler to the act of breathing new life into improvised experimental music. The close listening and quick interactions are there but instruments, players, forms, and listeners all seem damaged. It's as if the Art Ensemble traveled in a time machine with all their tiny instruments to the present day but got all fucked up in the process. edition of 56" -holy cheever church
********************************************************** Sean McCann / Black Eagle Child "New Molluska" split cassette $6
"Another 'twofer here, this one being the second in a (hopefully) long chain of splits between Sean McCann and Mike Jantz (BEC). SM's side features squished synth and dripping strings, while BEC's side journeys to new lands, sailing from peninsula to peninsula until sundown. Produbbed, purple shells - limited to 100 copies. " -roll over rover
********************************************* Emeralds "Allegory Of Allergies" 2xLP $20
"“About a month ago, as I watched Emeralds levitate a packed house at Brooklyn’s Glasslands, I couldn’t help but wax a bit misty-eyed, recalling the years we all spent orbiting the basements of the upper midwest with a cabal of like-minded fuckups. This opportunity to revisit Allegory of Allergies isn’t exactly helping me regain my composure, and for that, I’m profoundly grateful, insofar as time, distance, and a seriously killer record can put a pretty impressive sentimental gloss on virtually anything, from spacing out and driving two hours past the gig in a thunderstorm to blasting the Gods of Tundra c120 on a half-dead portable deck while scrambling to dodge a sketchy eviction threat. Those, apparently, were the days. In its formal aspect, Allegory shares much with the recent and justly lauded What Happened, though in nearly every other sense, they're night and day. Where the extended vignettes of What Happened share a certain crystalline expansiveness and astral sheen, Allegory offers a crumbling labyrinth that's at once humid and frigid, crammed to the gills with moss, lichen, cobwebs, brick dust, rotting boards, peeling paint, and narrow shafts of light. It’s a blurry and bleary vision, in which John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire improvise on synths, guitar, voice, and tapes like three cats batting at an enormous calder mobile, a sound thoroughly native to the moldering interiors and indigenous dystopian/psychedelic culture of the American Rust Belt. Those approaching this work for the first time will have much around which to warp/wrap their heads. Emeralds are possessed of a slow-burning, Cluster-like sense of patience, an accompanying willingness to assume the appearance of burbling sideways in low gear while stealthily turning the universe on its edge, a rare mastery of perspective and scale, and an ability to make audible the slipperiness of the slope between harmony and timbre. Just as crucially, they manage to be ambitious and sprawling without compromising their aura of raw immediacy and handmadeness. It is precisely this sort of fried grace that secures Emeralds’ place in the history of vernacular experimental music and situates Allegory of Allergies squarely in its hallowed canon of epic double LPs.” — Chris Madak" -weird forest
*************************************************** Six Organs of Admittance "Dark Noontide" LP $12 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Dark Noontide is the third full length release from Six Organs of Admittance. While listeners were pleasantly surprised by Ben Chasny's out-of-nowhere acid-folk genius on earlier releases, Dark Noontide comes in a notch or two higher with another spectacular merging of dreamy, hypnotic, finger-picked melodies and psychedelia concrète, not to mention some very fine fuzz guitar.Eight incredible tracks seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backward interludes, strange strings feedback, dark, tabla-infused vibrations, and the amazing debut of Chasny's electric guitar as a lead instrument. Minds can only be blown by this album. Initiation is only a matter of time. This is the dream follow-up release that fans of Six Organs of Admittance have been waiting for." holy mountain
****************************************************** christopher riggs "live in michigan" cassette $6
"christopher riggs is 1/2 of the soulcrushing duo, trauma (w/ graveyards' ben hall), but has been cranking out mounds of cryptic debris in his own right for years. "live in michigan" documents one of his rare live performances, recorded in december of 2008. riggs turns his guitar into a sonic chainsaw, dismembering strings and notes with the precision of a blind surgeon. this is not a safe environment and soon you'll feel your bones cracking under the pressure. good stuff. limited to 60 copies, smeared & beered." -digitalis
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Chris Riggs "Dead in Michigan" cassette $6
"Raw and mangled guitar explorations from the undisputed champ of current six string skronk. Furious brutal guitar damage recorded directly to tape. A unique take on guitar death with an element of the classic no rules approach. Don't miss this guy on the road jammin' solo or in free music gangs like trauma (with Ben Hall)." -pizza night
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Theo Angell "First Recordings" C-90 cassette $6
"Unearthed recordings from 1994/1995 featuring Theo solo except for a fewsampled answering machine messages. Recorded before Theo was in Hall ofFame/Jackie O Motherfucker. Lost first solo recordings that have not beendistributed in any way prior to this release (the only other person, otherthan myself and Theo, to hear them has since passed away). Program repeatson both sides. Creepy how contemporary this sounds." -really coastal
******************************************* Sparkling Wide Pressure "For All From Lucy" cassette $6
"Private blotter voyages narrated with melancholic folk psychedelia accessibly infused with a headfull of introspective starburst haze 'n glaze. Edition of 40" -housecraft
*********************************************************** Przewalski's Horses "Pripyat Holidays" cassette $6
"Noodling romantics meandering high on nostalgia, digging deep in six-string dust. Edition of 44" -housecraft
***************************************************** Autoerotic Asphyxiation/Vestigial Limb split cassette $6
"Controlled burning. All you can do is destroy the things around you; blistering, mortally damaged. Liberation is imminent. edition of 40" -housecraft
******************************************* 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
*************************************************************************** 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
********************************************************************** 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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WORMS IN DIRT/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
"Brooklyn's Worms provide the serene glance into freeeeeform angles. Featuring members of Cutter, Fxxxing Lion and AST. ...... SHPX let out a studio jammer and a live something something. //// Ltd. 50 copies." -INW
****************************************************** Social Junk "Concussion Summer" LP $12
" The greater midwest 'hood is responsible for so much of the U.S.'s most living musics it seems like lately. Out here on the west we tend to get a bit blissed and burnt and, conversely, eastern seaboarders can fall into a condensed-consciousness that sometimes doesn't translate well to those outside their bubble. But in the middle country there's often a rawness that's honest and real and really clears the ears/mind, and for our tastes Ashland, Kentucky's Social Junk are champs at this direct, red-blooded approach. Somewhere between the Bible Belt brutality of Sword Heaven and Tusco Terror and the sticky southern electronics of Pax Titania or even recent Wet Hair, SJ navigate an interesting interzone, boiling together ominous loops, mangled sax, heavy riffs, various vocal moods (pissed, lost, aggro, angelic), militant tribal drumming, and a mess of electric atmospheres into something genuinely gripping and wholly their own. And right on the eve of both a behemoth bi-coastal tour (six weeks long!) and a brave re-location to CA's Bay Area, we are amped-as-shit to announce their vinyl debut after a million killer limited tapes and splits. Concussion Summer rumbles through noisy drum circles, hypnotic thrash, and even a couple creepy ballads, with Noah Anthony and Heather Young's co-dependent chemistry channeled into eight concise hybrid pieces of perfect/classic JUNK. High-time, and fully worth the wait. See them soon. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Hair Police's Robert Beatty. Edition of 435." -notnotfun
***************************************************************** Matt Carlson "Stereo Face" cassette $6
"Matt Carlson’s recent solo efforts venture into the sounds of early electronics pioneers. As a member of the minimal noise drone trio Bonus & former member of the Parenthetical Girls, Carlson’s efforts have included pop music, noise, free improv and performance art. His new work, Stereo Face, is modular synth wizardry all over the stereo field and steeped in science fiction themes that nod at the 1960’s while simultaneously hyper-driving towards the future." -gift tapes
****************************************** SIR RICHARD BISHOP 'PLAYS SUN CITY GIRLS' 7" $7 (UK import)
"First release in NO-FI's Archive Series recorded live at Morden Tower, July 2005, and featuring SCG classics from Torch Of The Mystics: 'Space Prophet Dogon', 'Esoterica Of Abyssynnia" and a touch of 'The Vinegar Strokes'. Live recording by Andrew Hodson." -no fi
************************************************ Sean McCann - A Wind in Their Way" cassette $6
"crisp recordings of heavily layered and processed strings, created with much attention to detail. another in a seemingly endless chain of top-quality material from McCann. Edition of 125, color covers and labels." -monorail trespassing
********************************* Metal Rouge "EPHEMEROPTERA 1-5" 5x cdr boxset $25
new boxset by metal rouge that collects the five cdrs in the Ephemeroptera series. limited to 50 copies released on seymour records. (that photo is not of the boxset)
***************************************************** ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER "ZONES WITHOUT PEOPLE" LP $13
"Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never represents a rift in time; an isolationist expedition into the archaeology of sound that utilizes the analog polysynth as a means of organic creation. “Zones Without People” is the second record in the OPN trilogy; acting as a bridge between the drifting, nebulous landscapes of “Betrayed in The Octagon” and the finely detailed sound sculpture of Lopatin's present work. An exercise in ‘in between-ness’: reconciling noise and melodicism, drone stasis and the transience of concrète, and the amorphous zone between 70s Kraut synth music and 80s techno. Arpeggios and sequencers play a key role in this amalgamation, as these forms of repetition create an attachment to a certain sentiment neither human nor machine. The record reflects this transformation; the A Side has distinct emotional flourishes, while the majority of the B Side seems to be overtaken in cold, mechanized melodies; attempts at teaching a machine to feel. The final track “Hyperdawn” is a solution to these two disparate modes of interpreting stimuli: a pure union of veins and patch cables. In an edition of 500 copies in proprinted cardboard sleeves with pro printed labels and an insert by Christelle Gualdi." -arbor infinity
********************************************* RALE "WHISPERING GALLERY" 12"EP $11
"Following recent tape releases on Young and Ekhein, Bill Hutson’s Rale project should no longer be an elusive one. His modular synthesized low-end focus reaches new depths with each release; managing to provide a richness in texture and a deep listening experience in slow moving forms. Hutson exercises a dedicated control and mastery in composition as a result of his overwhelming knowledge of the potentials of sound. Far off organ chords become enveloped by an atmospheric heavy air; melody isn’t shunned, but obscured. Frequencies arranged seamlessly, with a modest approach; like the growth of a grey cloud. In an edition of 400 12” EPs cut at 45rpm in proprinted cardboard sleeves with printed labels." -arbor infinity
********************************************* Blobs "Hey Hello" cassette $6
"Lieven Martens (Dolphins into the Future, Taped Sounds) and Eva Van Deuren (Orphan Fairytale, Pluim) are sea sponges on this tape. Edition of 100" -goaty tapes
********************************************* Jah Lion "Dub Bible" cassette $6
"Summer recordings of this improv trio. The Rover family having too much fun? Features an appearance from underground reggae's future star ... RAS Iretha-Franklin III... This dub goes to 11. Hand-painted rasta tapes, numbered insert, limited to 40 copies. " -roll over rover
*************************** The North Sea/Bones of Seabirds split cassette $6
"Prolific, heavy Midwest and Southeast minds join up for an unprecedented analog synth tag team. Brad Rose leads the way with two distinct burners. One swirls between beauty and menace while threatening to suck you into its hypnotic vortex—a place you’ll surely want to go. The other burrows straight into your skull and blows rainbow bubbles in your grey matter. Ryan McGill goes the distance on the flip with a sidelong piece that sculpts a gentle, soothing pulse into a towering monolith and finishes with a truly hellacious descent—the likes of which haven’t been heard on a BoS recording in quite awhile. With full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub." -anathema sound
*************************** Bestia Ferida 'Live Wounded' cassette $6
"3 piece from barcelona Bestia Ferida (means "wounded beast" in catalan)....Arnau Sala of Ozonokids and Adrian De Alfonso with Marc Cunningham of Mars...playing something that simultaneously touches on past/current free mind melt and focused blistering stumble and then shreds all of that for crackling-pure sound...This release is a compilation of different live acts around Barcelona, all of them during year 2008 at places like la Pedrera, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Convent de Sant Agustí, Sala Apolo and Sala Big Bang. " -scumbag tapes
************************************************ Ugly Husbands / Old Softy - "Salmon-Chanted Evening" split cassette $6
"A total 'twofer. Exceptional work from both artists, complementing and completing eachother's music. Stew's work mirrors the sound of plants digesting magnetic tape, only to be sewn back together by your Gamma. And if U.H.'s side represents the deep soil, then Old Softy's sound is ringing in the wind, floating by the moon. By far my favorite tape this year. Edited/mixed together by Sean McCann, who also plays on each side.
Produbbed tan shells, unique hand-glued collages on each case, limited to 100 copies." -roll over rover
*********************************************************** AARON DILLOWAY "CHAIN SHOT" CD $8
"DIGIPAK CD reissue of my CHAIN SHOT LP which was originally released on LP by THRONE HEAP. Contains a 28 minute bonus track and copies ordered directly from HANSON come with a 11x17 full color poster. Below is a review of the original LP:
'With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two side long pieces, 'Chain Shot' and 'Execution Dock' respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before just scraping right through and aiming for the insides. In a genre that has quickly turned into a broad and often inaccurate description of a certain breed of every-man experimental music, Dilloway sticks to the old-fashioned definition of noise, doing battle with the materials in front of him as he continues the construction of his impressive body of work.
Dilloway, a former member of noise-titans Wolf Eyes, has recently been releasing solo work that explores much more abstract and thoughtful terrain than his previous group's onslaughts. 'Chain Shot' is more a sound collage than anything, and while it is a heaping glob of muddled debris, it is also a highly controlled one. Looping samples on top of samples, Dilloway builds a slowly encroaching beast before slowly disintegrating it, bone by bone. This is some highly textural and immediately emotive soundscape work.
'Execution Dock' begins with a repeating loop of what sounds like the beginning and the end syllables of some nut's conversation with a lamppost. In the distance sounds a pained song of sorts, like a rodent's death cry, or maybe its birth one. I'm guessing maybe this is the horn, though it would be tough to be certain about much of anything here. Delayed creaks and groans float in and around as the vocal sample dissipates, leaving you sloshing through the mud puddle only to realize that its a tar pit the size of La Brea.---HENRY SMITH, http://earconditionednightmare.blogspot.com/' " -hanson records
************************************************************************************* Emeralds & Dilloway "Under Pressure" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
"2008 collaboration between EMERALDS and AARON DILLOWAY. aka the KEITH EMERWAY sessions. Emeralds zoneing / Dilloway mangling their sound and adding some grit." -hanson
********************************************************************* the north sea/current amnesia split cassette $6
"car commercials' david sutton takes it to the streets on his side of this megawatt splithour. "delusions of the triangle" is a journey through the underbelly, seedy & poignant, like a lost prayer to magic mountain. hypnodrones galore. sutton bends and twists aural shards into glasslike works of art. i want to keep on livin' in his world.
the north sea is shimmering like a sunken stone, drowning in a torrent of silver piss. voices and chimes blown apart in an epic battle to be king of nothing at all. underwritten with a wall of synth dreams and other churns. edition of 80, pro-dubbed with the four horsemen of the apocalypse."- digitalis
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Pocahaunted "Passages" LP $14
"The latest from Los Angeles/New York drone/pop/noise duo POCAHAUNTED. Limited edition of 500 copies, so don't sleep. " -troubleman unlimited
**************************************** Pocahaunted "Chains" LP $14
" Originally the vision for Chains was "fucked up Tom Tom Club palm tree pop" (or something) but, as often happens when Manda and Bethany get in the studio with too much smart water and too many wisecracks, shit changed as soon as the 8-track tape started to roll. Oh well. The results are still rad and weird, 4 diverse songs that dance between post-rocky grooves, shoegaze drama, drugged funk, and Fleetwood Mac. The LP also does a good job of capturing what the Pocahaunted live set was like for most of the spring of '08: torrential, dramatic, rhythmic, estrogenic. Bobb Bruno kicked in some serious arrangement assistance, and pro-friend Josh Klinghoffer helped with some sick drum stumbles too. On champagne pale yellow vinyl second pressing baby blue vinyl, in jackets with art by the band. On Cali Dewitt's labor-of-love Teardrops label." -teardrops records
******************************************************************* The North Sea "Hundred Flowers" cassette $6
"Brad Rose as been channeling some seriously heavy vibes lately. Picking up where Ajilvsga left off, Rose spews forth even more thick unholy shimmer. Hints of past pursuits loom just beneath the surface, lush forest drones are completely overpowered by caustic metallic doom." -peasant magik
****************************************** Ajilvsga "Three Heaps of Skulls" cassette $6
"With their third release for Peasant Magik, Ajilvsga push their sound even further. Huge slabs of densely layered scum continuously churn while Rose and Young summon shards of electricity from the high heavens." -peasant magik
****************************************** Primal Scream/Suicide split 10" $14
"The Scream get all glam-rocked up for this bouncing, sing-a-long led by Bobby "Stardust" Gillespie with the luverly stealth viciousness that is The Miss Kittin. A record that makes us think of Pans People, tight yellow and blue satin shorts and big, big hair. The B side features a version of Suicide performing "Ghostrider" from an only recently rediscovered demo taping of that first legendary album.......
partnered with a slinky, Roxy Music-esque rendition of D.F.C. by Devastations, long tall leader, Mr Conrad Standish.
A late night seduction reprise to the Primal's disco dong waggle.The perfect three course meal served on this very vinyl platter.
A Primal Scream - Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne 3:33 (2007)
B1 Suicide - Ghostrider Demo 1976 (2:47)
B2 Conrad Standish Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne 6:10 (2008)" -blast first petite
********************************************************** Bruce Springsteen/Suicide split 10" $14 *OUT OF PRINT/2ND EDITION LIMITED TO 4000*
"A
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - DREAM BABY DREAM 6:55
The Boss solo, live from his 2005 Devils & Dust Tour pays tribute to Mr Alan Vega.
A haunting interpretation of the Suicide classic, a heartfelt lament for "lost America".
Surely should be THE alternative Obama campaign song !
B1
SUICIDE - DREAM BABY DREAM (MIDNIGHT SPECIAL LIVE TV 1978) 3:51
Recently recovered from a lost Suicide vault......1978 The Cars are America's biggest band. ....they air their own live TV "Midnight Special" nationwide on NBC and invite their pals Suicide.
America, untouched, sleeps soundly through this event, gathering it's strength to throw shoes at Mr Vega & Mr Rev when they open for The Cars on the stadium tour.
B2
BEAT THE DEVIL - MR RAY 5:30
Sadly now defunct contemporary New York band. Singer Shipa Ray tears Suicide a new one!" -blast first petite
************************************************************ the north sea & fabio orsi demix "far & wide" cassette $6
"this unearthed excursion was found behind a bucket of dust in the hallowed cellar of the north sea past. tanpuras explode under beds of drones and field recordings. junkyard rhythms resonate inside the blacked-out hole in a dead oak tree. couples travel hand-in-hand through the streets of berlin, looking for the last taxi to take them straight to moscow square. fabio orsi and your fearless leader take each others tracks apart, piece by piece, and reassmble them into something shiny & new. "far & wide" is certainly a ghost from the past, waving goodbye and never to be seen again. killer cover art by dream magazine's george parsons. limited to 79 copies." -digitalis
************************************************************** 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) " -Blast First Petite
*************************************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** 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
**************************************************************************** SHEARING PINX "AMMUGAMMU" 2xcassette $12
"Four sides each a piece of the Pink. SHPX/Les Beyond/N.213/Mongst all share the stage in tribute to Pink Floyd's amazing "Ummagumma" 2xLP!!!. Housed in a recipe box in Aqua, Red, and Blue. //// Ltd.50 copies" -INW
**************************************************************** SHPILBERG/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
"Quebec City's Shpilberg skronk it up and SHPX deliver the bomb to the drum. /// Ltd.50 copies" -INW
**************************************************************** SINDRE BJERGA - 'Crystal Cranium, Diamond Head' cassette $9 (uk import/limited)
"Solo live blurt from 25 June 2008 from Sindre Bjerga, one half of Bjerga/Iversen. Background drones hit in immediatley accompanied with some minimal scrapes and sputtering kinda growth aura from aforementioned drone, there's a real static vibe cruising through this. Occasional clunk and taps blur away as the heavy dense drone consumes the lot like an electric mist, with feedback clots clogging up your lungs, and creepy terror sounds." Limited to 50 hand numbered copies, each with indvidual handmade weird paper and an insert, everyone looking entirely different." - blackest rainbow
********************************************************************** Ajilsvga "Last of the White Buffalo" cassette $6
"Sometimes it's primitive and baked in the clay-infested dirt that sucks most of the life out of the dust bowl that is Western Oklahoma. Sometimes it's drenched in caustic rain in Green Country, out near the foothills of the Ozarks. But the obscured rhythms, the sludge, and the decaying bits of black magic wisdom that suckle the young ones dying on the vine? Fuck 'em. They never were of this world anyway." -abandon ship
********************************************************************** KAEZM- "HYDROGEN FALLS" cassette $6
"Denmark is a place teeming with half fried organic drone crews such as Sarah’s Charity and Family Underground. Kaezm is the solo output for Nicolas Kauffmann of FU; here he channels electricity through criss-crossing patterns creating a midrange din full of lament. Nic’s drones move with static builds from a variety of sources and multiple levels of echoing chorus: airy, buzzing mantras tinged with Middle Eastern vibes and a deepening sense of time beat down like an incessant rainfall in a storm of hiss. In an edition of 100 labeled tapes with full color art by Nic." -arbor
******************************************************************** Treetops/Dan Marino split cassette $6
"Subterranean Midwest boys sure got some reputation, but Treetops and Dan Marino represent a novel and downright invigoratin’ duality. Treetops rips through effects with overwhelmin’ honesty. Scrapin’ up amplifier discharge and molding passages of raw sentiment and ageless boon. Dan Marino pairs truth in field recording with a burbly gurgle and solid crystal synth. Less destructo, more dazer. Something for everybody, straight from the jabbers of our young future!" -goaty tapes
********************************************************** Bjerga/Iversen "Empire of Dirt" cassette $5
"Bjerga/Iversen have been exploring the sound ghosts of the grey area for 3 years now. Deep studies in amplified clutter, tape hiss and the mesmerizing nature of the psychedelic drone has resulted in close to 40 records and a bunch of gigs through Europe and the UK as well as Norway. No rest, no second thoughts, no quality control (some might say) but always in the "now sound", always mucking about, always trying to catch that ghost..... This is a live set from the Overtoom 301 club in Amsterdam, recorded April 6th, 2007" -Sindre Bjerga: Tapes, contact mikes, guitar, kitchen utensils -Jan-M. Iversen: Electronics. -abandon ship records
*************************************************************** Jacob Smigel "Eavesdrop: a wealth of found sound" CD $10
"a collection of anonymous recordings found at thrift stores, yard sales, and in trash bins over the past four years. These unaltered tracks come from audio or micro-cassettes, 8-Tracks and home-recorded records. Many of the clips are segments from audio diaries, tape-letters, the sound of road trips, fights, crying, family moments, telephone conversations/messages, or the amusements of children or the mentally handicapped. A minimum of editing or manipulation was used in the making of this album. I did not add music to the tracks (or mash them up), but instead served as preservationist (or curator) to present the listener with the most powerful recordings in their natural state. Some are funny, some are ridiculous, others make no sense. A few are so 'perfect' I can't believe I actually found them. Eavesdrop is a scattered documentation of what I call "the golden age of personal recording (1965 - 1986)." It is about the wonder that is putting our experiences, feelings, and lives down on tape. The album's ~80 minutes is spread over 40 tracks. The album includes 28 pages of track notes, transcripts, background information, and additional resources. Album art is a collage of found photos collected over the past two years, and each CD comes with unique 'found scraps.'" (self released)
************************************************************************ Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation" 4XLP box set $28 *THAT'S ONLY $7 A RECORD!!*
"Daydream Nation was Sonic Youthis sixth album, their first double LP, and their last for an indie label before signing with Geffen. Widely considered to be their watershed moment, Daydream Nation catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie bands could enjoy wide commercial success without compromising their artistic vision.
The original 1988 album has been remastered under the bandis supervision. The bonus platters begin with previously unreleased live performances from the Daydream Nation Tour. Culled from performances at CBGB in New York, The Paradiso in Amsterdam, and several other primo venues, iLive Daydreami includes live versions of every song on the original album. Added to that are four studio bonuses: iWithin You, Without Youi (a Beatles cover from the NME-sponsored charity Beatles tribute album Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father), iComputer Age,i from the Neil Young tribute album The Bridge, iElectricityi from the Captain Beefheart tribute album Fast And Bulbous, and a cover of Mudhoneyis iTouch Me, Iim Sick,i originally released as a Sub Pop 7-inch single. Lee Ranaldois original demo of iEricis Tripi concludes the album." -Goofin
************************************************************* Wet Hair "Glass Fountain" LP $13 *A MUST BUY*
"Welcome back. One of NNF’s total favorite active bands return with a second full-length (most of which was recorded during the same sessions that birthed their debut LP, Dream) and we are pleased as spiked fruit punch. The Reed/Garbes duo mainly sticks to their guns, mining the same post-Suicide art-trance vein they perfected on Dream, but with Glass Fountain there’s an added emphasis on the disembodied, oscillator pop mode that Wet Hair often toy with. Fountain’s five tracks include some of the band’s simplest but catchiest songs (“Crucifix In The Waves,” “When The Right Time Comes,” etc), mesmerizing organ melodies over plink-plonky vintage drum machines with weirdo soulful singing and outer space electronics, like an outsider-punk Silver Apples or something. Hard to say exactly what universe Wet Hair are operating in and that’s probably part of why we love it so much. A killer record that gets better each spin. In jackets with art drawn and designed by the band, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 600 (400 on opaque lavendar vinyl, 200 on black)." -nnf
**************************************************************** BURNING STAR CORE "The Very Heart of the World " LP $13 BACK IN PRINT!!
"Personnel:
CS Yeh - Violin, Voice, Guitar, Organ, Drums, Electronics, Piano
Robert Beatty - Organ, Percussion, Electronics
Trevor Tremaine - Guitar, Trumpet, Percussion, Drums
Mike Connelly & Mike Shiflet - Presence
Jeremy Lesniak - Percussion
Jim Mcintyre - Guitar
Julie Roessler - Introduction on Side B
Sara O'Keefe - clarinet
Ellen Molle - viola" -thin wrist records
******************************************* Absinthe Minds "Rising Kulo Summit" b/w "Passage of the Wicked, River of Time" cassette $6
"Mangled tape. lo-fi, mucked up, too close to the band, deck onthe floor boards, picking up every vibration. every drop of the crowds sweat. this is an indie-reject hell. This is absinthe minds. Nice live recording from the new york tour jams. Looks like the boys took a little bit of the midwest along when they dropped this on NYC. Plains Indian Style. But Plains Indians ancestors back from the dead and pissed style. Upon arrival back in the home territories the Minds souls just kept heading west... God damn if the boys dont lay out a total fucking zombie SURF ROCK tune! Absinthe Minds stylee! For real so but dont be sceered! 45 copies on unholy white and bloody sunset red cassettes. " -earjerk
********************************************** Earth Station - "Control Belief" cassette $6 <
"Earth Station is Mike Pollard (Abror Rec./Treetops etc.) and Peter Friel (Young tapes) new now age, space suit, field studies in the deep trenches of mars, power ambient band. Tidal waves of glacial synth murmur, the kind of intentionally epic stuff that you can't help but like if you let yourself truly drift off. The end is coming and this what it might sound like. Space music for earthlings. Total harmony, total control. Artwork by SDReed." -night people
****************************** Treetops/Lithium Dreams - "split" cassette $6
"New Split from Negative Aggregator Tapes. Ambient, drifting, space music for android minds, and contemplation. Treetops is Mike Pollard (Arbor Rec. etc), Lithium Dreams is Jon Broges (Emaciator etc.)Jeff Witscher (Secret Abuse etc.) and Cole Miller (Human Hands etc.)" -negative aggregator
************************************************** EARN "PERSON" cassette $7
"THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT, ... FORWARD" -young tapes
*************************************** ÄTTESTUPA LP $18 (more expensive restock/Swedish import/out of print) BACK IN STOCK/OUT OF PRINT!!
"There is a myth that elders in the old Sweden was thrown down from a big mountain or height when they no longer was for any use in the farms and households. This place was called Ättestupa. And that is the name of a new band from Gothenburg. Dealing with an old era of Sweden, this is music that reeks of plague, desolate countrysides, heathen rituals and long, harsh cold winters. The debut album is a journey back to a forgotten world, an anti-urban masterpiece. With members from Leafes and Sewer Election, it would be easy to call Ättestupa off as an mix of those two acts when it comes to the sound, but there is definitely way more to it than that. With traces of dark folkmusic, 70's German prog and even some small black metal hints, this is mean-spirited stuff with an truly unique atmosphere. Slow and monotonous percussion, deeply buried vocals, crude electronics and droning guitars, tortured synths and flutes... Extremely lo-fi and extremely bleak. Two tracks ('Tjälen' and 'Den Stora Sjukdomen') and a playtime of 40 minutes." -release the bats
************************************************************ NTHnthsthSTH - A UTON & ANTONY MILTON COLLABORATION LP $17 (more expensive restock/Swedish import/out of print) BACK IN STOCK/OUT OF PRINT!!
"Finland and New Zealand meets again on this second collaborative album from Uton and Antony Milton (first one released as a limited CDR on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon back in 2004). A perfect clash of two beautiful worlds over 2 sidelong journeys divided into 5 shorter segments intersecting with each other. Field recordings, layers of majestic droning sounds, buried voices, percussion... Recorded in Linnavuori and Wellington from 2005 to 2007. Full colour artwork by both Jani Hirvonen and Antony Milton and liner notes by Jon Dale." -release the bats
************************************************************************* EASY RIDER - 'THE GOLDEN FAIREST' part 1 cassette $6
"New development from Vienna's Stefan Kushima. Airy two part pilgrimage through lulling soils. Cover artwork by Stefan." -rotifer tapes
*********************************************** EASY RIDER - 'THE GOLDEN FAIREST' part 2 cassette $6
"New development from Vienna's Stefan Kushima. Airy two part pilgrimage through lulling soils. Cover artwork by Stefan." -rotifer tapes
*********************************************** The North Sea "Electioneering" cassette $6
"Vibes from Brad Rose, also known as the North Sea. Righteous electronic swelling, ebb and flow. Buzzing gigantic sound. Recent jams on Stunned, Root Strata, Peasant Magik, and his own Digitalis. Edition of 70 with full-color, fold out art. C23." -exbx tapes
****************************************************** Smycken - "Video Haze" cassette $6
"Smycken are from Goteborg Sweden, they inhabit the same type of unpredictable sonic and musical realms that alot of there more Northern neighbors from the Fonal Finnish family of bands seem to inhabit. A sort of collage aesthetic binds together the unhinged synth pop sensibilities of Smycken with forays into field recordings, vocal freakouts, psychedelic electronics, and woodsy folk eruptions. Something shinny, cosmic, and glacial is always ridding over the sounds, mutating them together through weaving synth oscillations and vocal mantras, that seem to highlight the pop sensibilities of this recording as much as they blur them." -night people
************************************************** v/a "AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST" 2XLP $22 (german import) BACK IN STOCK!!
"Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo '70s. This compilation highlights forgotten raw & psychedelic sounds. Featuring PICOBY BAND D'ABOMEY, ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO, NAPO DE MI AMOR & SES BLACK DEVIL'S, R. DAMAWUZAN, TIDJIANI KONE, DISCAFRIC BAND, LE SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU, LES VOLCANS DE LA CAPITAL and others." -analog africa
****************************************************** Circulation of Light cassette $6
"Magic material here. Gnostic Audio. A stillness pervades. Liquid piano. Transcendental Medication. Solo Project of Nathan Ritter of Kinither" -earjerk
********************************************** Ducktails "Landscapes" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Stories are forever and i got to get back to PIPELINE, which is hitting the screen right now, and its definitely not about surfing and reminds charles of when Ebay and you stayed at the New York Dante's microchip apartment and it was so hot and you guys passed out next to each other in your undies exclusively like siamese pipeline limbo style, if i had hoagie it would have been Chazzi to Chucky in like 4 doners and sixty seckies." -oesb
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odd clouds "shamblers" cassette $6
odd clouds tape on fag tapes
********************************************** keith fullerton-whitman "taking away" cassette $7
"this doozy has been a fleeting idea in the cosmos for a while now, but finally has poked its head through the electric ether and made an appearance. "taking away" is massive. two side-long 32 minute pieces for modular synthesizer that harken back to '70s minimalism and muted exorcism. each ride is like a golden river of dreams pouring through electronic excess. pointillist forays fall in-line perfectly with the hypnotic whirrs of subtle, synthetic manipulation.
in all, whitman is at his best here. he finds the cracks between the crevices, lighting a new path along the way. edition of 200, pro-dubbed on high-bias cassettes." -digitalis
************************************************************** DEATH "...FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE" LP $13
"Every time a reissue of a remarkable, lost record comes out, it’s difficult to resist the temptation to compile an amazed laundry-list of bands it mysteriously prefigures. Death’s …For the Whole World to See provokes such a response. Some licks sound like Husker Du. Some quivery vocals evoke H.R. of Bad Brains.
But better, perhaps, to view Death’s seven-song oeuvre as the logical bridging of a lacuna rather than a before-its-time aberration. Of course it makes sense that, in mid-’70s Detroit, three black brothers (Dannis, Bobby and David Hackney) might have gotten as into the Stooges and MC5 as into Funkadelic, that they might have synthesized the sounds of FM rock radio just as their white peers ransacked soul and funk. The Hackneys released a single, recorded and shelved an album, and then moved to Vermont with their family. They morphed into a reggae band. Time passed. The EP slowly acquired a cult record-collector following. Tapes were unearthed, and here we are.
Death’s music falls somewhere between ’70s hard rock and the more stripped-down, straightforward garage rock one might deem proto-punk. Obviously influenced by Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, most of their songs span multiple parts and time signatures. “Let the World Turn” even features a drum solo. With the exception of that song, a reverby slow-jam, the album stays uptempo. It’s replete with wonderful, memorable moments, like “Freakin’ Out,” which mixes a classic-sounding garage riff with an unexpected chorus that sharply repeats the title phrase over a snare beat. “Rock-N-Roll Victim” avoids hard-rock cliché by augmenting the drums with handclaps. " -dusted review, drag city records
***************************************************** Best Coast "Make You Mine" 7" $6
7" by new project of bethany costentino (formerly in pocahaunted) playing poppy folky stuff link released on group tightener
********************************************* Ajilvsga "Red Crow" LP $13
"Red Crow was originally released as a cassette in a limited edition of 13 copies for sale at a show Ajilvsga
performed in Oklahoma in November 2008 and has been reissued on vinyl in a limited edition of 100 copies.
The duo comprised of Brad Rose (The North Sea / Foxy Digitalis ) and Nathan Young (Peyote Tapes) offer up
some deep and heavy buzzing drones for your summertime consumption. Screen printed LPs covers by Morgan
in Oklahoma." -amethystsunset
********************************************************** Mist "Mist" LP $13
"Vinyl debut from the Ohio duo of MIST (john elliot and sam goldberg). Following up their "certain expansion" and "stole colors" cassette releases on pizza wagon, MIST offer up two full sides of their best material yet. Electric Organs. Beautiful and dreamy preogressive synths, kosmik string synth zone. Mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. Limited to 500. Pro printed covers. front cover photo by Ashley Krantz. " -amethystsunset
********************************************************** Inca Ore "Silver Sea Surfer School" LP $13
"Eva Saelens’ life quest has taken her from Michigan to Oregon to Oakland back to Portland and back again, with several overseas explorations and inner journey road trips thrown in for good measure. Whatever path she’s on is long and winding and hidden in the shadow of overhanging cherimoya trees. Fortunately she maps her migrations with haunted, exotic breath-and-electricity sphinxes ranging from 2006’s Brute Nature Vs. Wild Magic to last year’s brainwashing Birthday Of Bless You LP. 2009 finds her offering up another psychic harvest unto the world, Silver Sea Surfer School, a new nine-song pipeline ride that floats through a whole new web of voice orbs and tape hiss and keyboard balladry. If anything, Silver Sea is Saelens’ weirdest hour, layered in abstract environments, whispers, distant poetry, free percussion loops, with sudden passages of heart-dissolving ghost-piano beauty (“Shine On From The Heaven Above,” “Adventure In Light”). Heavily impressive, and a brave pearl-dive into even more personal waters for the Inca Ore lifeforce. LPs come in jackets with art by Saelens, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 500 (40 on clear ocean-water vinyl, 180 on marbled blue/white, 280 on black)." -nnf
********************************************************* Tricorn and Queue "Maize Among Whispers" cassette $6
"Such an organic feel is captured everytime Jeffry Astin gets his fingers in something. His project with Kane Pour, Tricorn and Queue is no exception. We get the earthy mic in the dirt, but also this time an floating airiness. A whistle of wind repeats and repeats and creates a stream of rippling sound you can really sink into. Recorded Oct '08 at the southwestern corner of the narrowing synagogue of wavering light, vanishing hours on high." -object
********************************************** Matrix Metals "Flamingo Breeze" cassette $6
"The Southern California mythology glints in the irises of certain dreamers more radiantly than it does in others, and few crews have begun capturing the imaginary high life of neon Corvette rides, Ray-Bans at night, and sea-breeze mind-surfing better than the Outer Limits Recordings collective. They operate under most radars but their output is a radical Rubik’s Cube of riddles, tape hiss, and tranced pop utopias. Matrix Metals is casually referred to as an “alien lounge music” project, but that’s not even the half of it. A hotwired collection of fringe-vision vignettes that roves from ghost club beats to astral 80s TV theme songs to loopy interdimensional dub-funk and beyond, Flamingo Breeze is a capitalized question mark in the NNF canon, and a recent obsession of ours. Anonymous pro-dubbed white tapes in cases with full-color “VHS box collage” J-cards designed by the artist, plus an insert and 2 tickets to a Matrix Metals performance at a fictional club in the future. Edition of 125." -nnf
************************************ Heavy Winged "Spreading Center" CD $8
"Two new long tracks from Heavy Winged, following up releases on Three Lobed, Archive, Not Not Fun etc. Massive and big-sounding stuff, but with more subtle and quiet openings and endings, and without ever loosing the abrasive feeling of being dragged in grit and dirt forever and ever. Driving and powerful proto-psych-metal that manages to sound very much improvised and extremely focused and precise at the same time. Both tracks recorded live, Loudun recorded in Davis, California on 6/30/08. Strigoi recorded in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York on 11/2/07. Limited one-time pressing of 500 copies. Dual Plover gatefold sleeve with black felt and artwork by Twin Vixen. Play it loud. " -release the bats
********************************************************************* Heavy Winged "Blacc Lust" CD $12 *OUT OF PRINT!*
"this gang of power-driving rock really have their flavor of overdriven high rise-style proto-metal-psych noise down flat. blacc lust reissues two long out-of-print parts of the band's discography that were originally released in tiny CD-R micro editions (a serpent's lust from an edition of 100 on digitalis, and blacc stork from an edition of 50 on students of decay). a little over an hour of good, heavy times. from a one-time pressing of 500 hand-numbered copies housed within arigato! paks bearing original artwork by beverly shana palmer." -three lobed recordings
******************************************************* FAMILY UNDERGROUND: Salt of the Sun - CD $13
"New minimal full-length album from Family Underground that abandons the drug-hit-sally-inside feel of early Velvets jags for the sound of the last gasp of Lou Reed's long-suffering amp in the final seconds of 'Black Angel's Death Song' extended to oblivion. Comes in a fold-out four panel digipak."
************************************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** matt endahl/christopher riggs "tangible but not communicated" split cassette $6
"electric guitar and piano are turned into instruments of shimmering drone and harsh noise until everything breaks down into a no-fi free jazz jam. c-30 cassette edition of 72" -holy cheever church
************************************************* mike khoury/christopher riggs "my words came out slow and odd" cassette $6
"violin and bowed guitar eat each other alive. c-30 cassette edition of 78" -holy cheever church
************************************************* christopher riggs "riggs home security" cassette $6
"solo electric guitar. side A is super slow, underwater strings. spent too much time listening to the Squid and playing with the reverb on a broken guitar amp. high-pitched guitar feedback dominates side B with a brief interruption from a choir of fuzzed out 12-string power chords. c-30 cassette edition of 43" -holy cheever church
************************************************* Christopher Riggs "Fat, Sassy, and Mean as Hell" cassette $6
"Live tape dedicated to Nate Wooley. April 2009 midwest tour opening for Wally Shoup and Ben Hall. Each night a different composition. Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis fit on the tape. Includes compositions from Unverified Records' "Amazed Nova" and Pizza Night Tapes' "Dead in Michigan" plus something unreleased. c-30 cassette edition of 48" - holy cheever church
************************************************************** LOOSERS "Aint No Party Like A Holy Ghost Party" cassette $8 (german import)
"psychedeliv drumm-n-chant carneval from our portugues friends.till now they're radest recording. this 30 minutes are totally outa space. limited to 100 copies. silkscreened covers and package by thomas weirich." -meudiamorte
******************************************* CONES "USE YOUR ILLUSION III" cassette $8 (german import)
"Cones features Marcel Turkowsky and Ulf Schutte both members of Datashock and involved in other projects/labels like Aosuke, Tapetektoniks, UUHUU, Shivers and more.
Lo-Fi Cosmodelic tape manipulation.A frantic amalgam of beauty and audio psychosis. More Kegeln. Limited to 100 copies." -meudiamorte
******************************************* PAX TITANIA "orphaned daughter of..." cassette $8 (german import)
"progressive synth music never sounded that weird. half man half oscillator aka christopher cprek (formerly of warmer milks) pulsates through four pieces like being wired to his equipment... total outsider sounds." -tape tektoniks
******************************************* Shearing Pinx - "s/t" cassette $6
"Shearing Pinx are long running Vancouver staples and are one of the bands that seemed to really help solidify that cities underground weirdo music community to an audience outside of its own geography. This new tape in there very prolific discography is tension filled angular noisy post no wave dirge, waves of cascading guitar dread and percussion propulsion, gliding over a subtle underbelly of chimey strum and atmosphere. Technical, tectonic, chaos. Artwork by SDReed." -night people
****************************** Uneven Universe "Tarot" cassette $6
""Uneven Universe floats up from the ratty basement in a cloud of looping sax blurts and claustrophobic horn noise, not unlike fellow Michigander brass-abusers Slither. But Uneven Universe's creep-scapes are way less free jazzy and way more private tarpit meditations, bleeding into ragged sections and then diffusing back into separate saxo-tone groans. Long, hairy jams that don't leave the house for weeks at a time and trace smoggy constellations on the asbestos ceiling rot. A new no man's land for old ragers." - cassette gods .Some really weird/gross Yeast Curd style no-fi sqeaks on the b-side. Assorted, pro-printed collage covers. " -scumbag tapes
******************************************************** Tricorn & Queue "Perennial Language" cassette $6
"Tricorn & Queue have always reminded me of the beginning, of first rays and mitosis. I could hear the notes move, crawl, and multiply, albums made through the process of cell division. This one is different, a lesson from the master in the moments just before creation. There's focus and thought, maybe an attempt at rest, a last bit of respite before the work begins." -offices of moore & moore
******************************************** Christian Science Minotaur "Map 3 (of 9)" cassette $6
"Driving songs, but not in an Crue way. More like you just drank too much soda and now the steering wheel is sticky. Been waiting to put this out for far too long, and totally worth the wait."-peasant magik
****************************************************** 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
***************************************************************** andrew coltrane "DMT shadow" cassette $6
"coltrane weaves another mess on top of the rotting remains of last night's leftovers. "DMT shadow" is a drill straight to your frontal lobe. entirely blown out with axxe, ring mod, & delay, AC is on digging tunnels to china and spewing up molten lava and space dust like it's going out of style fast. a total headfuck. edition of 75 copies, pro-dubbed with dirt & spice."- digitalis
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SUPER STREET 23 "dark halos" all live comp. cassette $6
"featuring: treetops, cotton museum, chain fight, infinity window, sick llama. amazing live, raw sounds! listen to the fun again or hear what you missed out on. edition 77." -fag tapes
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body collector/mossy throats "modern punk teaches communism" split cassette $6
"tape edition of 30 split release with nurse tapes" -exbx tapes
********************************************************** blue sabbath black fiji/ajilvsga split cassette $6
"it's 4 am, it's time to sober up and there's no black coffee to be found. cold shower? not an option either. so what's left? blue sabbath black fiji and their mind-warp shotgun electronics and percussive blasts. your girlfriend might be passed out on some other dude's house, but don't worry about it, this mix of raging electronics, sludge guitars and soft, sweet crooning will make it all okay. ajilvsga? we'll keep drinking blackened mud until the cows come home. limited to 85 copies, handstamped zoo-in-suits theme." -digitalis
**************************************************************** some of my best friends are... black guys cassette $6
"now faux liberals around the world can feel better about their white, upper class lifestyles with the help of one simple and inspired drone cassette. you'll be all the rage at that next mixer or cocktail party when you can tell everyone about how some of your best friends are... black guys! little will they know that you're talking about this new mexico duo of alan george ledergerber and raven chacon (kilt, cobra//group, etc). "some of my best friends are..." stretches time out ad infinitum with piles of crusty drones and scabbed-over electronics that can only dream of breaking the skin. you may not know black guys yet, but once you do, you're definitely going to love them. limited to 50 copies. " -digitalis
**************************************************************** Gorman / Do Tell split cassette $6
"Gorman emerges from a mound of earth, climbing further into blank woods, ghostly chants in tow. Do Tell is parting seas with tonal miracles, divining hazy, time-altering slow motion portals from the recesses of your sepia mind. edition of 60" -housecraft
****************************************************** Sword Heaven/Tusco Terror split cassette $6
"Two of Ohio's heaviest team up for this killer beast. Sword Heaven surprise with a sparse track of spacious scrapes, creaks and throbs. Heavy sub-terran primal mind scape shit. Tusco Terror deliver a collection of dense, damaged burnt-psyche bad assery. There's a reason Hanson Records called them 'the crudest project in the midwest.'" -teen action
************************************************* 16 Bitch Pile Up / Twink Bully split cassette $6
"both sides recorded live in Columbus, June '07. the infamous bitches were back home for a weekend during their summer tour and i caught some of the ecstatic joy on tape. the next night Twink Bully (members of Sword Heaven, SevenLiesAboutGirls, Anna Ranger) unleashed their gaytanic, animagical wads of sonic jizz on a dat tape during a jam at the Animal Hammock. got that too." -teen action
********************************************************* Hoor paar Kraat "Graduating from Clocks to Watches (Eureka Tapes Vol. II)" cassette $6
"The sound world that Anthony Mangicapra inhabits is totally unlike any other. Each listen reveals hidden elements and previously unheard sounds. Singular drones conceal a fragile universe of manipulated field recordings and mangled reverb. Meticulously constructed and skillfully executed, Hoor-paar-kraat displays a serious mastery of craft, frequently unheard of in an over saturated scene." -peasant magik
****************************************** Cyquoia/The Qoast split cassette $6
"Cyquoia pensively gather glowing leaves fallen from a grove of yesterday's trees, once overlooked, now startling. All systems invert and explode at the industrious hands of side Qoast. edition of 44" -housecraft
*************************************************** Floris Vanhoof "A fudge too much" cassette $6
"a lung full of slugs, one dude from Brussels delivers up two sides of homemade/modified synths, tape delays, phasers and oscillators. mostly chunky-like and decayed there are upbeat beat moments. the whole tape is wrapped in analog warmth and perfect lemon freshness. full color artwork by george w. myers." -breaking world records
********************************************** sachiko "with lament" cssette $9 (belgium import)
"New album by one of Japan’s key players in the psychedelic underground. Sachiko was also a member of legendary bands such as Overhang Party and Kousokuya among others. ‘With Lament’ finds itself in the lost worlds of eerie devotional chants drowned in eternal reflections of kaleidoscopic electronic powers. Paste-on cover, silkscreened insert and edition of 100 copies." -sloow tapes
************************************ aswara "s/t" cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Space hymns echoing in swirling psychedelic synth patterns, zoned guitartones and out-there primitive percussion. Featuring members of Death Chants and Muntjac. Devotional raga wrapped in appropriate silkscreened offering. 80 copies." -sloow tapes
************************************ kawaguchi masami’s new rock syndicate "live in japan 2007" cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Kawaguchi Masami (Miminokoto, LSD March, Broomdusters) returns with his New Rock Syndicate, recorded live in Tokyo. Monster guitarpsych feedback screech and heavy dosed garagerock insanity. 100 copies." -sloow tapes
************************************ Mike Tamburo and Matt McDowell "Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era?" C50 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
"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
********************************************************************* andrew coltrane "the os innominatum" cassette $6
"Downer-style minimal basement drone environs from Andrew Coltrane, some of his most ‘vacated’ sounding electro-acoustic sorcery and the perfect marriage of the Hermitage and Fag Tapes aesthetics. What could be better? Hand-numbered edition of 77 copies." -fag tapes
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TRAUMA "the calming effects at the ocean" vol.7 cassette $6
"Straight outa the Broken Research recording booth comes this on going series between centipede hands guitar and scorpion shell drums (Hell Hall of Graveyards). rattling discussions. hand-numbered edition 50." -fag tapes
************************************************************* Soft Peace "Soft Peace" cassette $7
"'The dome is perfect. It is generally agreed upon what that we understand these “new curved shapes”. Remind yourself of its unprovoked depth, capacity for the wormiest and the warmiest and the purist visitants.' -Valhalla. Letterpress fold-out poster covers, edition of 50 on green shells." -goaty tapes
*************************************************** Mossy Throats "Electric Marsh" cassette $6
"Electric Marsh is a hot slab of disgustingly likeable psychedelic mess. Clattery Squelches of electronics and sax. Dan D's current jams (in acts like Uneven Universe, Body Morph, Cardboard Sax) are some of the sickest in the midwest. The rising sun of ferndale, some say. Anything that he touches turns to absolute gold, showing incredible control on the most bizzzzare zones. Couldn't be more stoked to drop this one. " -pizza night
************************************************************ 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
********************************************************** 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
*********************************************************************** 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
**************************************************************** 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
**************************************************************** SHPILBERG/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
"Quebec City's Shpilberg skronk it up and SHPX deliver the bomb to the drum. /// Ltd.50 copies" -INW
**************************************************************** WORMS IN DIRT/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
"Brooklyn's Worms provide the serene glance into freeeeeform angles. Featuring members of Cutter, Fxxxing Lion and AST. ...... SHPX let out a studio jammer and a live something something. //// Ltd. 50 copies." -INW
****************************************************** Nimby detrivore full length cassette $5
"pretty much out of ideas with this set up but before i felt like that here are 6 songs." -detrivore
********************************************************************** Pedestrian Deposit "Recycled Music" cassette $4
RRR Records. the dude who does emaciator's old project.
************************************************** WHITE PRISM "A SERIES OF SCREENS" cassette $7
"SWAYING BLADES, HIGH ASERIES." -young tapes
*************************************** California Son - "California Sun" cassette $6
"California Son is mystery music played by Iowa native weirdo clown of reknown, Charles Free aka the Savage Young Taterbug. Pure California dreaming on this one, songs for shitty headphone jammin while working the nine to five at the upstate pot plantation. Sleep on your drug rug under the sun, and let the weird vibes creep in. Lost mind time for sure, the sound of the 60's played warped speed slow for golblin ears and dogs. " -night people
************************************************** Malibu Falcon "How Is Hell Fact Met? All Of Them Witches" cassette $6
"Hello, history lesson: those who forget the past are condemned to check it out via limited cassette reissues. Or something like that. Malibu Falcon was an early aughts act from Portland, Oregon that existed sporadically in impulsive electrical fires of shows and recording sessions and starred west coast lifers like Eva Inca Ore and Nick Bindeman (plus others) amongst its ranks. Shows were rare, releases even more so, and the combined forces of life and other band commitments soon dissolved the Falcon before a wider awareness could be achieved. Alas. So we are lucky to have on hand this salvaged anthology of 60 minutes of prime time heart-of-weirdness MF legacy. Low basement bass lines pulse under primitive sheets of guitar feedback while Eva alternately whispers, banshee screams, and rants fucked up poetry stories about LSD, boa constrictors, and stealing babies. Their general audio vibe is so heavily art-damaged it’s impossible to tether to any specific scene; too mind-fried and visceral for experimentalism but way too raw and psychotic for any kind of psych rock/pop association either. Total crevasse music, lost in limbo, PSF DIY dreams, dead end riffs, untapped, unconscious, confusion isn’t sex. For fans of freaks. Pro-dubbed tapes with collage art J-cards by Eva Saelens copied on metallic paper. Edition of 100." -nnf
**************************** Pocahaunted "Live From The New Age" cassette $6
"Bands are people are jobs/schools are cities are lives are lifestyles. Paths veer, verge, converge, diverge. And so it comes to pass: Live From The New Age is the final Pocahaunted release with the original Amanda/Bethany arrangement, before the band evolved onwards to the new line-up. It is what it is. And Live From The New Age is a 40-minute cassette collecting 3 vintage live performances showcasing their classic shapeshift spellbind powers, backed by an array of beloved collaborators: Bobb Bruno, Jeremy Earl, Cameron Stallones, Jarvis Taveniere, Andy Spore, Ged Gengras, etc. The whole family tree is here, stretching against the sky, sunlight, storms, lightning, laughter. Soak it in or shut it out. Pro-dubbed and imprinted cassettes in cases with psychic healer J-card artwork designed by Amanda. Edition of 200." -nnf
**************************** Terror Bird - "Sociopaths are Glam" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Terror Bird is Nikki Never from Vancouver's Modern Creatures solo outlet. One of the finest recordings released in any format on Night-People, Terror Bird is honest, heartfelt, nostalgic pop music, layered in touches of dark ambiance and glittery sheen. Centered around Nikki's amazing voice and dirgey piano arrangements, Sociopaths are Glam references classic 80's and 90's dark pop without any historic worshiping or posturing. Couldn't be more excited to just sit around and listen to this amazing album. Artwork by SDReed." -night people
****************************** Sun Araw (feat. Matthew Lessner) "In Orbit" cassette $6.50
"Sun Araw’s Cameron Stallones & filmmaker Matthew Lessner are longtime Stunned brothers that go back with us before the music, the tours, the films, the label, you name it. As tireless globetrotters, both have spent the last year beaming their respective good messages far and wide to the delight of audio aficionados & visual art subversives alike. Marking a Second phase in all our geosynchronous friendships, ‘In Orbit’ finds these dudes collaborating on ascendant planes of high mind where outer Los Angeles and Inner Space bisect. Deep dubby howlin, Farfisa organ hang-gliding, gooey tempos, and trademark shimmering ‘Araw-guitar licks are the hybridized fruits harvested here. Along with your candy, flip this tape as needed. Happy to say, there’s no limit to the number of orbits it can (and will) make through your stereo and ours. Special edition of 222 pro-dubbed & imprinted c30s with jcard design by Cameron." -stunned
*********************************************** The Twerps - "s/t" cassette $6
"The Twerps from Melbourne Australia are one of the best indie/guitar pop bands I have heard in a long time, and there is alot of good lo fi pop floating around right now. Its surprising more attention hasn't been allotted them already. Comparisons to prior down under bands from Australia and New Zealand from the 80's and 90's come to mind, but the Twerps rock in there own contemporary way evoking a real tasteful and straightforward approach that just hits the nail on the head. The approach is totally dynamic uplifting, and well composed... low key rock music with hints at 60's garage rock and pysch pop that doesn't rely on blown out production to create atmosphere, its already there in the song writing, in the reverb soaked guitars, in the contemplative vocals. Killer stuff from this new band just getting going. " -night people
************************************************** The Savage Young Taterbug "Boys of the Feather" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Couldn't be more excited about this one, first offering from the smoked out styles of Iowa City's very own Savage Young Taterbug. Teenage road warrior, dead head punk, perma triped wanderer, Taterbug lays down his tape collaged world of free flowing Americana psych bliss. Little bells, dustbowl ballad guitars, stand by me youth cult dreams, and Manson family mind fucks, its all here, even hope for a better tomorrow and a positive spirit for today which can say alot in these droned out wasted times. Let the light inside yr skull. Artwork by SDREED." -night people
************************************************************ Enfer Boreal "Devotion" cassette $6
"Lost melodies now remembered and given new life. "-peasant magik
****************************************************** Kane Pour "Cat on a Paisley Shawl" cassette $6
new tape on housecraft
*********************************** Josh Burke "Imagination" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Aqueous bliss like clear skies filling a model moon with shadows of light and breeze. edition of 75" -housecraft
******************************************************* Nonhorse "evileye broadcast" cassette $8 (german import)
"new tape manipulating by Lucas Crane from Vanishing Voice / Time Life. Comes in a little fold out cover by Jeremy Earl (Fuck It Tapes / Woods / Meneguar)" -tape tektoniks
******************************************* DAVENPORT FAMILY "At the Foot of Zodiac Mountain" cassette $8 (german import)
"one sided 35minutes long jam. their very last jam withmask of the davenport clan on their faces, free-form improvisational folk performed on walpurgis, clay rubys brithday by clay ruby, t endless, woodman, johnny d, billy lee, nico kain, aaron laurant, tyler olson.limited to 230 copies." -meudiamorte
******************************************* time life "es tut mir leid" cassette $8 (german import)
"new tape by TIME LIFE aka lucas nonhorse crane and heidi diehl of the vanishing voice. lucas' alien technology cassette tape wizardry and heidi's somnambulistic guitar and hypno vocal skills building thick wave-like blankets that will guide you to a misty landscape hidden behind vapor hill." -tape tektoniks
******************************************* Pulse Emitter "Grass" cassette $6
"Fellow NW-based Pulse Emitter, the solo project of modular synth mastermind Daryl Groetsch, has created a beautiful work, half of which is reminiscent of his self-released Meditative Music series, while the other half delves into the weirdo world of sub-earth root structures crawling with insects. Grass is one of my favorites from his recent discography and Gift Tapes is extremely honored to present one of his works." -gift tapes
****************************************** Dolphins Into The Future "...On Sea-Faring Isolation" LP $14
"A casual interweb cruiser could be forgiven for confusing Dolphins Into The Future the “band” (aka the one-man tape-loop blue-age ambient project executed by Belgian Cetacean Nation ambassador Lieven Martens) with Dolphins Into The Future the book (written by dimensional traveler Joan Ocean concerning her 20-year-long real life spirit quest to commune with a school of 200 wild Hawaiian Spinner dolphins). And, to be fair, they’re a LOT alike. Both deal heavily in trippy, drifting logics, vibrational holograms, and an overdose of psychedelic pastel artwork. But Ms. Ocean’s books are out of print so instead we have ...On Sea-Faring Isolation, Mr. Dolphin Martens’ vinyl debut under the DITF banner, after a 2-year string of increasingly blissed tapes and CDRs. Composed of three interwoven pieces per side, Isolation is one of those baffling magic eye LPs that seems to dissolve yr memory of it during the very act of listening. Turquoise webs of billowing synth smoke curl and dissipate into grey horizons of open sea field recordings. The wooden mast of a ship creaks quietly while astral bells toll away in morning fog. You are alone. This record could make a sailor homesick, and Joan Ocean weep. Beautifully composed and sequenced, with just the right amount of wobbly porpoise sonar prisms bubbling up from the deep, this LP exceeded all our expectations (and they were high). A fantastic voyage into the pan-dolphinic dawn. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets with aquatic-loner artwork by Martens himself, plus a photocopied album review/interpretation by DJ Bongo Man. Edition of 375." -nnf
*************************************************************************** HANNA HIRSCH "TALA SVART" CD $8
"The very much anticipated debutalbum from Stockholm's Hanna Hirsch. Following up several seveninches, Tala Svart takes the bands powerful pop sensibility to total perfection over 14 tracks. Self described as "awkward Buzzcocks", Hanna Hirsch continues to dig deep into the underground popular culture of the last 30 years or so, here creating a minor masterpiece of beautiful powerpop. All 14 tracks are A-side single material. Life elevating and absolutely necessary music. Mastered by John Golden (Sonic Youth, Superchunk etc). Dual Plover styled glossy gatefold-sleeve with black felt with artwork by Siri. 20 page booklet. Split release with Diskret Förlag. Points of reference (mind you, more in feeling than actual sound): all early Rough Trade 7"s, France Gall, Modern Lovers, Greetings From Asbury Park-era Springsteen, Broder Daniels Forever, Germs, Tar... Feathers, The Starvations." -release the bats
******************************************************************************* THE SKULL DEFEKTS "THE DRONE DRUG" CD $8
"First there was Skkull then there was The Drone Drug... Continuing on the same path, the sound of The Drone Drug is of a similar relentless minimalistic nature as its predesessor. This could be seen as the electronic backbone to last years amazing Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing (Conspiracy Records), creating a heavy beast with the most basic and stripped-down use of variations in drones and frequencies instead of guitars and percussion. Monotonous motor humming via drugged-out machinery and assaults of feedback attacking with a strong feel of claustrophobia. Compared to Skkull, The Drone Drug evolves more around a grim and abrasive sound, constantly toying with lo-fi aesthetics and a rough industrial edge. The atmosphere created is thick and black, bringing up visions of a dystopian society trembling on the edge of the world. Spreading the disease in a world slowly dying, The Drone Drug is poison and affect you it will. On this recording, The Skull Defekts is Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander. 4 tracks cut by an unsharpened razor. Total playtime of 52 minutes. 4-panel digipack with artwork by Daniel Fagerström." -release the bats
******************************************************************* Bobb Bruno "Dreamt On" CDep $8
"Limited edition - hand numbered - 100% Bruno. Only 108 will be made....It sounds like you graduated top of your class, trained hard, became an astronaut, flew to the moon, and then found out it was actually made of cheese. " -vosotros
********************************************************************** Heavy Winged "Feel Inside" CD $10
"A brand new three-track release from Portland/ Brooklyn based unit, HEAVY WINGED, following a recent reissue CD, and the excellent Three Lobed release Blacc Lust. Feel Inside is a long playing journey into psych-noise dronedom, and has been hailed as being akin to the Bardo Pond brothers recording in the lo-fi/high-fuzz-induced kitchen of the Goslings. Packaged in double cover center opening sleeves with an outer vellum overlay shell designed and executed by CHASED MIDDAUGH. Single pressing of 600 copies." - Archive
************************************************************************* PLANKTON WAT "Visions of Otherness" cdr $8 (UK import)
"Follow-up to last years CDR on Stunned and cassette on DNT from Dewey of Eternal Tapestry/Jackie-O Motherfucker/Bloodbiker... Opening with some very nice guitar layered with relaxed vocal bursts, the following tracks have a super nice guitar vibe to them. 'In the Realm of Magic and Death' has a more distorted dark aspect to it with an almost tribal ritual drum layering. The disc climaxes with an almighty piece entitled 'Transfiguration of Infinite Nature', wailing guitars, pounding drums, droning vocals... Expect more from the Wat on BR later in the year! Limited to 200." -blackest rainbow
*********************************************** Predator Vision "II" cassettecdr version $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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The Parasails "Skyife" cdr $6
dreamy new age-ish snyth/guitar work. released on future sound recordings. some of the best music I've heard this year
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SASQROTCH "Slipping The Reaper Tongue" CDR $7
"This one has been on the cards for a long time, and after over a year of waiting the master dropped through my mail box. These dudes have had releases on BR label buddies Not Not Fun and DNT, and this is a steady paced doom tinged rock out beast, there's no joy found here. Two tracks, one studio, and a nasty live piece recorded at LA's Echo Curio, lined with sax blurts, guitar shreds, psychedelic swirls, and smouldering drums. Limited to 75 copies in bleak black envelopes with paste on japanese art paper and packaged with a skeletal leave and a hand numbered insert." -blackest rainbow
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BLACK EAGLE CHILD "Kite Excursions" CDR $7
"Mike Jantz from Milwaukee has been laying down some seriously amazing far out folk inspired drone dreams recently with some damn fine tapes split with Sean McCann and Pistil Cosmos (formerly 'V'), and here is a collection of drones weaved with field recordings and meandering guitar meditation. Super blissful! Limited to 75 copies packaged in a stamped purple envelope with paste on cut out art, and a hand numbered insert." -blackest rainbow
********************************************* "V" "Standing Still In the Celestial Sphere" cdr $6
"Second solo statement from Monks of The Balhill member, Vincent Caylet. Found within are pink guitars, accordion dreams, smoke, and ash. Songs move in an almost airy, whimsical fashion, while occasionally hinting at the black within. 2007 might have been the banner year of the French Psychedelic Underground, but 2008 will be the year of the Monks. Black CDs housed in white cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art and handmade marble paper. Hand stamped and numbered." -peasant magik
****************************************** Century Plants "Bloodrise" 3" cdr $5
"Howling monolithic massive live set from this explosive duo. Nightmarish fog cutter sonics ebb and throb with a dark sinister undertow... unlike anything else you’ve heard from them. This one documents them opening for Dead Machines in summer 07. Molten lava inspiration was flowing down into the basement that night, and the proof is right here. Total power focus. Echoes of Robedoor, Throbbing Gristle, Birchville Cat Motel, and countless other sonic terrorists can be heard, but Century Plants stir things up into their own unique brand of madness. The 3" cdr is painted black and wrapped in a foldout sleeve held together by an obi strip, a hand numbered edition of 100 copies." -peasant magik
****************************************** Uton "Mental Connections" cdr $6
"Metaprogramming transmissions of concealed order leave only clues of its 'enhancing' work. edition of 60" -housecraft
************************************** Metal Rouge "Salt Stones" cdr $6
"It has been a longtime desire of ours to work with Andrew Scott & Helga Fassonaki of Metal Rouge, before Stunned was even a twinkle in our eye in fact. If there’s one thing we’re convinced of, it’s that these two are some of the most raw and intrepid aural magicians out there. And ‘Salt Stones’ is everything we could have hoped from them after years now of shaking in our shoes whenever they plug in around town for another anthem unto the heavier of heavenly bodies. Keeping in step with their no-bullshit, stripped-back live actions, here we encounter a merging of energies old and new as Andrew & Helga boost off from 90s NZ free noise styles, lending honorable nods to earth-quakers A Handful of Dust, Gate, and Dead C. But ample room is left for Metal Rouge’s own signature ear-splitting/life-affirming gamma rays. We’ve no choice but to rise higher than ever into the ultraviolet spectrum as Metal Rouge continue their liberated refinement, casting chunks of 6-string trance, extreme jazz vocals and black metal into the blistering, beautiful gas inferno of ‘Salt Stones’. Limited to 90 black cdrs in sari cloth lined vinyl case with transparent insert and flower." -stunned records
********************************************************* IXCHEL - "Dreams Of" cdr $7BACK IN STOCK FOR THE LAST TIME
"Ixchel is the duo of Timothy Hurley (Quetzolcoatl / Bonecloud) and Barry Semple.
Nine out-worldly fantasy melancholic dreamer songs." -leaf trail
*************************************************** Enfer Boreal "Noiseless Moonbeam Thrill" cdr $6
"Elevated trance and gaze laid directly to thin air. Sources range from green brain magnetics to heightened bionic circulations. Energized hypnosis for micro satellite systems. This is what your white cells hum at cedar knees under wolf cry. Edition of 60" -housecraft
******************************************************** 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
******************************************************************* 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
********************************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** 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
**************************************************************** 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
************************************************ 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
************************************************ 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
************************************************ VISHNU WOODS "Riley Rile/Shaman Tapes etc" cdr $6
"Unearthed recordings reconstructed from a suitcase mysteriously marked "V.Woods". Trip through RileyRile's too long in the sun baked meditations and Shaman tapes etc collage of ritual based drones. Epic tracks of harmonium, accordian, baglama saz and singing bowls all fed through massive effects pedals, this Woods serves up expansive cosmic gateways in confined spaces. Persian surgeries, Alice's organ, and deep space listening. Curry stained folkwaste covers, braille numbering, & luggage tag. limited to 44 copies." -folkwaste
****************************************************** HUNTON QUINTET - "Rugcode Reader" - CDr $6
"Finnish psychedelic masters Uton and Anti unleash a new beast as the Hunton Quintet. Heavy hazy woven jams as Zelig Concrete and Agent Stepanoff. Clay whistles, wooden electronics, animal hide drums. Serious carpet tripping deep in the dark woods. 6 tracks straight outa Porvoo, Finland - namecheck all things Finnish and hard to pronounce: www.myspace.com/huntonquintet Deluxe handcrafted gatefold sleeves. Limited edition of 99." -folkwaste
****************************************************** Fossils From the Sun "Somebody's Gotta Lose" 3" cdr $4
"The latest release from Ray Hare's (Century Plants, Burnt Hills) Fossils From the Sun is a 19 minute sonic geography where fuzzed guitar propulsion buckles into static beats and shaken vox damage. Think Omit's desolation, Spacemen 3's nod and Alan Vega's terrorism. Refract that through the brutality of Century Plants Bloodrise and Somebody's Gotta Lose appears on the horizon – a dub of the sun." -abandon ship records
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skullflower Obsidian Shaking Codex cdr $5
new cdr on rrr records
**************************************************************************** Warmer Milks "Let Your Friends In" CD $10
"The current line up of Warmer Milks is probably not what it was yesterday or what it is today. Hell, there is talk of it changing up for next month. Blame this on schizophrenia or an urge to not run in circles but it's how things have always been for the loose group. Founder Michael Turner started Warmer Milks in 2003 and has refused to go backwards regardless of outside (or in house) opinions since it's inception. Warmer Milks have toured by themselves throughout the United States as well with the likes of Six Organs of Admittance, Bonnie Prince Billy, Arbouretum, Howlin' Rain and others The band did an extensive tour throughout Europe winter of 2007 and will be back on said continent Summer 2008. Let Your Friends In is another chapter in the more brash, aggressive side of Warmer Milks catalog. Leaning more towards skate punk and black metal, the group touched on intensities left behind from nerd critically acclaimed Radish On Light (Troubleman Unlimited 2006) but with a more street rock cum vomitorium feel. The flipside to the first track is a spook gang romper, drumless yet still punching the walls with a force no other rock can manage. The "Let Your Friends In" sessions went down in Shelbyville, Kentuckee at Rove Studios home to engineer Paul Oldham (Speed To Roam, Bonnie Prince Billy Band, ex-Broadcast Choir and Royal Trux) where various members present during the "Soft Walks" sessions (coming March 2008, Animal Disguise) took time to record this scorcher. Featuring usual WM attendees Michael Turner and Greg Backus the two lengthy cuts on "Let Your Friends In" also boasts the addition of Shawn David McMillen (Austin, TX solo artist, Iron Kite member and former member of Ash Castles) on guitar and Paul O. on dead wah guitar. Where the group has flirted with heavy rock in the past, it is easy to say that group now owns heavy rock. " -release the bats
************************************************* c spencer yeh/sick llama split 7" $5.50
"The malformed compositions of C. Spencer Yeh and Sick Llama come from opposing spectrums of noise music, though their similarities are undeniable. Whether it be Yeh’s solo piece for violin or Sick Llama’s gunked tape work, the spirit of improvisation shines through. On Yeh’s track, the churning sounds of metal scrapes and light tinges, like crossed electric static and growing, buzzing drones are the result of one violin. His unique approach to the instrument marks him as one of the most exciting improvisers today whether it be with his solo work or through his work in Burning Star Core. Sick Llama’s untitled piece is one of his most concise and interesting tracks; crushing and dirty with the hiss of tape static. Coming from the stoned mind of Heath Moreland of Fag Tapes, the expected tape aesthetic is transferred to vinyl with a compilation of cut up compositions, evoking a series of mystery sound sources. In an edition of 400 7”s in proprinited fold over sleeves with art by Maya Miller of Heavy Tapes/Religious Knives." -arbor
************************************************************************* Steve Gunn cdr $6 LAST COPY!!
"Steve Gunn from GHQ solo outing reissue from Onomato label, 2007. Not many people have had the chance to hear these recordings, based mostly around his acoustic guitar improvisations and inspirations from travels in Morocco. Vocal help on last track from Heidi Diehl (WWVV, Vanishing Voice, Time-Life)." -abandon ship records
************************************************************ The Goslings "Occasion" CD $10
"Hollywood, Florida family/band Max and Leslie Soren have been unleashing their private bouts of punishing ceremonial sludge-gaze for the past half a decade now, and there’s been some total titanic highlights (Between the Dead, Grandeur of Hair, etc). But the grunge swamp graveyard they seem to unearth their moss metal from must be profoundly fertile ground, because each new song-cycle they lay to tape is somehow even more miraculously brutal and shimmering and visionary than the one before it. This phenom holds true for Occasion, The Goslings’ newest and maybe deepest doom/beauty inquest. Eight thundering masterpieces of molten slime riff majesty, nightstalker drums, and soaring-into-the-sun female vox that crush the earth, bleed, and breathe in humid darkness. Ranging from the Slowdive-meets-Skullflower transcendent descent of “Motorcade” through to the quaking basement funeral of “Little Horn,” Occasion is a glorious passage into The Goslings’ hidden holy land. Mastered for optimal audio gravity by James Plotkin, and housed in a swank six-panel wallet-style metallic-ink digipak with artwork by the band." -nnf
***************************************************************** Pulse Emitter - Deadly Space Missions - CDR $5
"File under: cosmic fear noise. Daryl Groetsch blessed us with two slow jams for modular synthesizers. The first track is a mammoth, while the second one is a drony excursion into outer space. Packaged in 12" X 5" optical bag silkscreened by canedicoda. Edition of 200" -8mm
************************************************************* Weirdo/Begeirdo "live in LA & Goleta" cdr $5*BACK IN STOCK!!*
featuring members of robedoor and pocahaunted. their sound"changes every release..now they're broken up. they sound sorta no-wave on this one.
********************************************************************* RACK RASH - REMEMBERS THE ISLETS OF LANGERHANS 3" CDR $4 LAST COPY!!
"Technically a reissue of a tape that was 'released' in an edition of, i think, 3. Tim Sheldon from fat worm of error commits to tape (now a 3" cdr) processed guitar and gamelan to land your ears on a lush landscape, or a mini-scape, like a pulling a piece of food out of your teeth and a lilypad comes out with frogs jumping off. large statements in the subtlety. A great follow-up to the Oxbow Meads release on the great Yeay! label. Full color fold out packaging. " -breaking world records
************************************************** Thousands "overflow'd & gush'd out" cd-r $5
"when the curtain opens on the lone figure at the head of the stage as he blows his harmonica, hoping to conjure spirits from the layers of dust on the floor. wailing vocals light the balconies and waft their way toward the smoky heavens of the lushly decorated ceiling. thousands is the sister of the mighty (VxPxC), but this extended family vision is a much larger beast. on "overflow'd & gush'd out," thousands are six. disjointed melodies reclaim the horizon from fractured guitar lines and sporadic drum blasts. thousands move like a machine across the landscape, sucking up everything in their path, inviting it all in to join in their revolt. rebelling against what? that's not all that important when it sounds so damn good. 100 copies" -foxglove/digitalis
************************************************************************* apple snails "only on a macadam road" cd-r $5
"following up releases on crocomodile and an exquisite split cassette w/ the mighty acts of god on DNT, jeffrey mitchell's apple snails take a whole new approach on "only a macadam road," and the results are stunning. it's full of ambient drones that sound like they were born in the northern lights. the road is bathed in darkness, but tiny fragments of light seep through the murk every so often in the form of acoustic melodies and glockenspiel bursts. it's music that transports you far, far away. we've been working on this one for what seems like forever... so long in the making that the inserts actually say foxglove132, but good things certainly come to those who have waited for this apple-eyed gem. 100 copies" -foxglove
***************************************************************************** sindre bjerga "sinking slowly, dissolving quietly" cdr $5
" from the frozen city streets of stavanger, norway, sindre bjerga offers up six new sulphuric platters to keep you warm at night. "sinking slowly, dissolving quietly" does nothing of the sort. it is in your face, wrapped tightly around your skull like thick, well-oiled fog. these dense tracks are mind-numbingly dense. bjerga's assault is full-on and never lets up. heavy, distorted guitars and monstrous organ drones pulsate like a dying star, quivering under it's own weight with nothing left to hold it up. it's bjerga's organ playing that gives this a more organic feeling than much of his previous work. but don't be fooled into thinking that this won't destroy you. total aural alchemy. 100 copies" -foxglove
******************************************************************* ducktails / julian lynch split 7" + dvdr $7
--Track List--
A1: Ducktails - Parasailing
B1: Julian Lynch - Topi
B2: Julian Lynch - Garden 2
Including DVD with music videos created and directed by Richard Law. -underwater people
****************************** REAL ESTATE 'FAKE BLUES' / 'GREEN RIVER' 7" $6
"Debut UK single by New Jersey's Real Estate. Released on Monday 20th July 2009.
1 - Fake Blues
2 - Green River
"Real Estate are awesome" - Pinglewood" - half machine records
****************************************** JOHN WIESE "SPECTRAL HAND" 7" $8 (german import)
"JOHN WIESE is one half of BASTARD NOISE, SISSY SPACEK and did collaboraties with people like SUNN 0))), WOLF EYES or THURSTON MOORE (SONIC YOUTH).
He released a ton of records on labels like ELECTRIC HUMAN PROJECT ,AMERICAN TAPES or his own label HELICOPTER and maybe you know his remixes for
CRIMSON CURSE, THE LOCUST, THIS MACHINE KILLS etc. " -meudiamortey
******************************************* U.S. Girls "Me + Yoko" 7" $6
"There’s no disputing the truth that certain formats befit certain artists. Think about it: where’s the logic in Tangerine Dream rocking a 3-way split 3” CDR? Those fools need room to roam. Conversely, why would Orthrelm drop a 4xLP? Who needs 160 minutes of 8-second spazz songs? The medium is a message, man. And for Megan Remy’s brief, brave re-imaginings of guitar/voice pop rapture done under the U.S. Girls flag, the 45 RPM 7 inch single is the absolute dream medium for transporting said sounds to the interested earhole. Short and sweet (and chemical) like a sugar rush, Me + Yoko is her latest reverb-gaze drug nugget in a string of strong singles (following releases on Hardscrabble Amateurs and Cherry Burger), and it’s another keeper. Whistling to life with a scrap of found sound/dialogue, the song then wings into a vague, hazed-out stone-toss between 2 tired notes (a dead ringer for that famous Les Rallizes Denudes bass riff), ebbing and flowing beneath smeary streaks of white-washed vocal blur. A Top 40 single for a universe of ghosts. The B, “Rise + Go,” might actually be the more aching of the two, a broke-down bedroom ballad, awash in sad seas of reverb, lapping at the shores of isolated islands, gently sailing into heartbreak. Sounds lo-fi but lush, like it was recorded high on a cloud on a cheap 80s boombox. Imagine that. Black vinyl 45 RPM singles, mastered by Pete Swanson, in photocopied sleeves with art by Remy. Edition of 380." -nnf
*********************************************************** 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
***************************************************** 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
**************************************************** Dunebuggy "First Ride" cassette $6
"Rock and roll at its essentials require very few things to excite the mind, which Iowa City's Dunebuggy satisfy these very well. Taterbug croons on the microphone while holding down the base sound with the guitar while Ryan Garbes of (Wet Hair and Raccoo-oo-oon fame) keeps things steady with the rhythm kit. A pseudo -Les Rallizes Denudes (裸のラリーズ, Hadaka no Rallizes) cover appears on the first track as well!" -gel tapes
************************************ 51717 "Sch" cassette $6
"Fusions of sounds rarely occur with success without it turning into world-class garbage. Fortunately, "Sch" is a rare success indeed as 51717 brings out the best of the east and the west. The tracks appear like romantic synth reflections of anonymous Hong Kong cinema music, while taking advantage of the ambient possibilities of synthetic electronics. "Sch" is a beautiful and confounding amalgamation of digital and analog song." -gel tapes
************************************ Emeralds "s/t" LP $15
"Brand new full length from Cleveland's Emeralds recorded Aug-Sept 2008. Proper follow up to their debut LP 'Solar Bridge', 'EMERALDS' takes the thick drone sound of that LP and transforms it into an even more abstract and strange place. Visual music that lifts the listener up and transports them through tubes of sound occasionally to be swept into the opposite direction by an unexpected entrance into another world entirely. An intense journey that drops you off in a place just beyond death. Edition of 1000 copies on randomly swirled colored vinyl with full color sleeves and insert featuring photography by the band. Recorded Aug - Sept 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional field recordings by Aaron Dilloway. Mastered by James Plotkin." - Wagon
*********************************** Driphouse "Sewer Mist" cassette $6
"Inspired by winter walks over manholes, "Sewer Mist" paints a landscape of a dull-gray vision New York where foul mist and dirty snow, peppered with sand and concrete are realized on a Roland Alpha Juno-1. Micro-loops and plenty of digital clipping are to be heard from what could be a misinterpreted, post-industrial Kosmische sound." -gel tapes
************************************ Pukers "Born In The U.S.A." cassette $6
"breaking up are still undetermined, but fortunately for those hungering for the ear-ache sounds of the duo, former Raccoo-oo-oon member Andy Spore pulled some new hits from the archives. Some songs vaguely sound like rehydrated covers of Led Zepplin "Stairway to Heaven" or the Beatles' "Yesterday", or even Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The U.S.A." but rest assured, these sounds are wholly unique Pukers experience." -gel tapes
************************************ Second Family Band "Our Way is the Right Way" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
"It's a dirty new age and we are set in our ways. Ingest these two crunchy jams. edition of 75" -housecraft
***************************************************** Tee Pee - "s/t" cassette $6
"Tee Pee, prolific one man recording project from Miami is at it again after a bunch of tapes and singles from labels like Florida is Dying, Hozac, and Jerkwave. This one is pretty different though, the eclectic aspects of Tee Pee seem to be kind of spread out on these songs, spaced out, given time to stand on there own, a more minimal, darker, more atmospheric vibe prevails here that hints a bit more towards loner psychedelic guitar and improv then any prior Tee Pee recordings have. Still present is the punchy, noisy psychedelic synth punk of Tee Pees beginnings here and there, but its fused with an almost worldy sound, something really eclectic and unknown. A progression for sure. " -night people
************************************************** Tyvek “Live on Cass(ette)” cassette $6
"Blown to outer space recording of Tyvek’s 2nd gig ever! Amazing raw punk, some jams you know, and some rarely heard ones, like “Duck Blinds” and a Mekons cover. Recorded January ’05. Edition of 200, with full-color fold out art." -exbx
************************************* Bone Patrol U.S./Varlet Tarsod split cassette $6.50
"Luke (Dead Luke, Jerkwave, etc) and Aaron (Peaking Lights) chill on the dual guitar/just hang out Bone Patrol status. The flip side is Luke solo with his desert music proyecto. Edition of 100" -goaty tapes
********************************************* Cro Magnon/Circuit des Yeux/Bird split cassette $6
"Short tape by Katie and Haley. A-side is their collaborative project, Cro Magnon, conjuring apocalyptic no-core anxiety. B-side features each of their solo projects: Circuit des Yeux (Haley) slows it down with “Fire Signs” and then Bird (Katie) deconstructs/microtunes the acoustic rock song with free, downloadable software on “Swamp Cry Edition of 100" -goaty tapes
********************************************* 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
*********************************************************************** Barn Owl “The Conjurer” LP $14
"excellent summoning of darkened light from this bay-area duo, hot on the heels of several well-received titles on root strata, blackest rainbow, not not fun, their own electric totem, and digitalis / foxglove ... taking their cue(s, at least in part) from earth’s recent “doom americana” phase, there’s plenty in the way of slow, lumbering rhythms, played on heavily tremelo’ed guitar(s) and plodding drum-kit ; but for every measure of cinematic/pentatonic glory, there’s an equal dose of popol-vuh (hell, even organum, or artemiev at that) -esque flute & vocal droning that tempers the “power trio” cathars into something much more meditative ..." -root strata
********************************************************* Dirty Beaches - "s/t" cassette $6
"Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai who has been living in Montreal for the last few years but has spent time in California, Hawaii and China and has plans to move to Vancouver soon. The aspect of distance, moving, upheaval seems significant to Dirty Beaches sound and aesthetic, drifting, weaving, pulsing... somber droney garage pop tunes, that seem to float off in some distant geography. Sonically there in your head but out of touch. the sound has a disconnected but beautiful feeling, a series of mental refractions going on, like looking into the infinity mirror at a packed night club from some old technicolor movie while good looking people from some other uknown lands dance around you. Strange stuff that feels right in its strangeness. " -night people
************************************************** Gnod "The Somnambulist’s Tale" 1-sided C100 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
"Kosmische Musik from Manchester speaking through hypnotic percussion grooves and splashes of synth delayed into eternity. Cover by Fliss Horrocks, 90 copies." -sloow tapes
******************************************************************** BURNING STAR CORE "Brighter Summer Day" LP $13 BACK IN PRINT!!
"Burning Star Core's first vinyl full-length and first widely available recording after numerous private releases
that began surfacing in 1993. Massive layers of sustained SOUND driven thru violins and electronics direct to climax --
backed by broken organs dropped into shifting darkness and cracked Computer hypnotics.
Abstract/Concrete (sensual) Satisfaction. After years of obscured operations, another question answered, another step past the cognizant few." -thin wrist records
******************************************* The Savage Young Taterbug - "River Mortis" cassette $6
"Well Taterbug is back with another release for Night-People. Even more dust and grime this time around, even more Americana smoke collecting in the recesses of your brain while you soak up these torched tunes. The dirtiest heartfelt heartland music you will ever hear... played by Taterbug... teenage wastoid mother fucker... Huckleberry Finn/ Peter Pan creep... lost in a cornfield for life searching for that mystic tee pee in the sky filled with pretty young boys and drugs." -night people
************************************************** Ryan Garbes - "Born Under the Sun" cassette $6
"Ryan Garbes returns to his solo recordings after spending heavy time playing in Wet Hair and working on his Exterminator remix series. Some things have changed for sure, on this tape of Spectrum/Spacemen 3/ VU inspired tunes, Ryan drops head first into a sticky pool of reverb drenched burnt electric instrumentation. Its not as if the sensibilities of past solo recordings are gone, its as if the noisy rhythms have been refined and perfected, distilled into full on drone pop perfection. Ryan's keyboard and synth playing really flow on this one, leaving his gooey melodic pop centric vocals to be the big surprise. Great stuff. Expect a 7" from Arbor soon." -night people
************************************************** v/a "the blend" cassette $9
"A 122 MINUTE COMPILATION OF VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILED
THROUGHOUT 2008. DUBBED IN REAL TIME ON HIGH GRADE
CASSETTES WITH DOUBLE SIDED ARTWORK, INSERT & LABELS
BY JEFF ASTIN (HOUSECRAFT). IN AN EDITION OF 200 WITH
UNRELEASED TRACKS BY:
DUCKTAILS, LILYPAD, MAGIC LANTERN, PEAKING LIGHTS,
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, TREETOPS, INFINITE BODY,
GOLIATH BIRD EATER, HAIRMAIDEN OF THE TOTEM ROBE,
THE NORTH SEA, DRUIDS OF HUGE, SOCIAL JUNK, GORMAN,
SHARED NEEDLES, CURSILLISTAS, SKY LIMOUSINE,
THE MOSSY THROATS, UTON, THOUSANDS, PINK DESERT,
CHILL REFLECTIONS, THOUGHTS ON AIR, SOUL MANURE,
SLASHER RISK, TERRORTANK, CITY CENTER, LANTERNS,
TEETH COLLECTION" -slime city
************************************************** Caethua/Ancestral Diet split cassette $6.50
"Clare Hubbard (Caethua) and Andy Neubauer (Uke of Spaces, Flak Mask, Impractical Cockpit) play the koner synth holy carols. Edition of 100 with white imprinting and letterpress inserts." -goaty tapes
********************************************* Cosmic Charlie - "Melting in Someone else's car" cassette $6
"Charles Free aka Taterbug's smokin grass in space project, still home fried in Americana grease and the great outdoors via drainage ditch run off but Charlie adds just a touch of that space murk to this one." -negative aggregator
************************************************** Sewn Leather - "s/t" cassette $6
"Sewn Leather is scum anthem, beat heavy, new wave trash. Dance party tunes for dead beat punks, dirty weirdos, and those who aspire to morbid underground lifestyles. Essentially the wrong kind of party jams for the wrong kind of party. Mixed by Ryan Garbes for maximum crusty fidelity, the closest recorded document thus far to hit as hard as the raw live shows. Always on tour or sleeping on your friends couch. Artwork by SDReed." -night people
************************************************** Mudboy "Mudbeats 3 (metal usa)" cassette $6
"Strap yourself to a chair or the roof of a train and prepare for the third volume of mudboy's beat tapes. Non stop, fearless, focused beats that only can roll and gurgle out of an old organ/synth. straight, heavy modified organ beats accompanied by minimal melody from the synth/organs, serious music, for dark late night walks, chase scenes, and serious head bobbing. silk screen covers by R. Lyon" -breaking world records
********************************************** 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
********************************************************************** Wire "Pink Flag" LP $14
"Originally released on Harvest in 1977, Pink Flag is perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk. Exhibiting severe art school damage, Wire careens at breakneck speed through 21 songs in 36 minutes to create an album that has influenced bands for nearly thirty years. Original artwork. 180 gram audiophile vinyl." -4 Men With Beards
******************************************************** White Rainbow "New Clouds" 2XLP $17
"A few things have changed for Adam Forkner since his last White Rainbow album from 2007, Prism of Eternal Now. A national tour with fellow kranky heads Valet and Atlas Sound, and countless hours jamming with Portland avant-music collective Rob Walmart inspired him to hunker down and dig deeper into his personal vision of what head music can be. The success of Prism… finally catapulted Forkner's White Rainbow project from the deep semi-obscure trenches of the west coast psychedelic/noise underground into the fickle arms of a slightly wider audience. In a perhaps misguided reaction to the ever-widening trend of musicians trading in a pound of adventurousness for an ounce of "accessibility", Forkner has turned White Rainbow into an even more spontaneous and open-ended musical project and has shaped this new double album into a dense, lengthy exploration of the relationship between hypnotic, circular, fourth-world drum rhythms, acid-boogie guitar, and drifting sheets of fuzzy psychedelic drone. The tracks on New Clouds are a tug-of-war between stasis and change, the desire to meld the meditative effects of a near static drone with the uplifting trip of free-flowing compositions. Slowly melting fluorescent sunsets morph into drapes of psychedelic fog, rumbling over cacophonous rhythms." -kranky
******************************************************************* Eternal Tapestry "Mystic Induction" LP $15
"In today’s NEW new age one of the roughest audio landscapes to rehydrate and re-vivify seems to be ye olde ‘rock/roll.’ Too much schooled skill turns it to wanky puke, too much braindead string-mangling ends shit up in a puddle of noise drool. That hallowed middle ground is tough to hammer a stake into. But Portland posse Eternal Tapestry chase worms in that kinda moist soil all day and foggy night, and the two sides of glowing garden shroom-harvest they present on Mystic Induction makes a strong case for their status as psych-rock resurrectionists of the first degree. The LP opener, “Emerald Forest of Peace,” weaves a languid path through ET’s bright life as a short-lived five-piece (they’re down to a trio again now), with mossy bass and blissed drums kissing the slow-motion wah fireworks exploding above in the rain-drenched air. It’s a slow glide that continually threatens to ignite before eventually slipping into electric silence. And on the B jam (“Transcendence”), they make good on the threat of the A, riding a vertical riff into a howling storm of light and Jed Bindeman drum frenzy that leaves the rest of their recorded discography in the dust. Also marks the best use of wordless vocals ever captured on an ET track during the band’s brief window with diva Janina Angel Bath on the mic. Planet rock is no longer a cold dead place. Black vinyl LPs in fabric-collage jackets with artwork by guitarist Dewey Mahood. Edition of 450." -nnf
*********************************************************************** Burning Star Core "Challenger" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Following on from last year's superb double header of Blood Lightning 2007 and Operator Dead... Post Abandoned C. Spencer Yeh returns with yet more essential solo disclosures, and he's sounding more approachable than ever. Challenger begins with a melancholy, slightly ambiguous sequence of tones, which eventually find themselves intruded upon by some abrupt field recorded sounds. As a second track, 'Beauty Hunter' makes a more fiery, more familiar clamour, distorting and morphing what you'd presume to be Yeh's violin. It's in the album's quieter moments that things get really interesting: I genuinely have no idea what's going on to make the odd, ambient clacking that is 'No Memories, No Plans', and the strange organs and mechanisms behind 'Un Coeur En Hiver' make for a strangely emotive, magical mixture of sonic upsets. Perhaps best of all, 'Mezzo Forte' is probably one of the weirder things you'll get to hear this week. It starts off with some truly bizarre vocal layering and manipulation, before simple, quite stately piano chords set out an intro to something that never quite happens, and waves of kinetic, frenzied noise gets piled on... it's all very odd, but utterly magnificent stuff." -plastic records
********************************************************************** 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
************************************************************************** Emeralds/Quintana Roo "BUBBLE QUIET COMPLICATION / BEHEADED DYNASTY" split LP $25
"Blessed waves of beautiful sounds build and decay into perfect pieces of music. From opposing locations and opposing approaches to drone, Ohio’s Emeralds and LA’s Quintana Roo juxtapose themselves with skillful perfection. Emeralds’ epic synth composition “Bubble Quiet Complication” marks the acts first vinyl appearance, and possibly heaviest work to date. A tribute to the sine waves of 70s, this massive grower oscillates and progresses completely discretely; impossible to follow and completely transcendental. Bass heavy subsonic patterns work their way underneath the beauty, completely proving and reinforcing this bands recent acclaim. Quintana Roo (comprised of members of Robedoor, Pocahaunted, and Changeling et al.) take a more natural/native approach to their craft. A massive horn blasts marks a call to arms on “Beheaded Dynasty”. Twinkling chimes and electric textures help paint a natural base. Hand drums start the onward march to oblivion, met along the way by a blessed to infinity bass line building to an organic overload. In a numbered edition of 450 emerald green LPs with printed labels and proprinted cardboard jackets with an insert all from the psyched psyche of Devon Varmega." -arbor
**************************************************************** Quetzolcoatl - "Living" cdr $7
"A personal, meditative, moving journey, through time, mind, worlds and dreams.
Crafted from piano artifacts played over a time period stretching several years and in more recent months channelled through loud fractured and working speakers in empty rooms and a cabin, combined with my voice and detritus to create 10 blissful, hopeful yet melancholic pieces that all combine to create the world that is LIVING." -leaf trail
******************************************** "I'm Melting" #1 artbook and cassette $8
"Brand new series of EXBX artbooks. 18 xeroxed pages of brand new EXBX visuals, plus a tape of sound meant to be played with the book. The full-on A/V EXBX experience!! Editon of 50, C47, EXBX-065." -exbx tapes
********************************************* Chapels "Last Night of the Earth" cassette $6
"House of Alchemy label head Adam Richards continues his ‘09 resurgence with this solo project which latched to our ears a few months back and didn’t let go. Chapels is the name of Adam’s game, and if that sounds harmless enough, let’s just reserve our thoughts until his full tidal force of moan-riddled gearing and howling industrial waves crash over us. ‘Last Night of the Earth’ comes as a refreshing blast to the mind’s rafters, departing from so many other experimental acts in its choice use of otherworldly hiss & masterful analog groans. Each tape side features two central squalls separated by sprawling transitions of environment that evoke the alternating cycles of violence & stability in gaia’s seasons. Every pass over Adam’s flickering work reveals new jewels that appear icy hard on the surface, but cracked open they spill a multihued yolk over the final night’s canvas. Numbered edition of 100 painted & pro-dubbed c30 tapes in clear shells w/ red foil liner & double-sided color jcard; designed in energy of EARTH." -stunned
*************************************************************** 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
*********************************************** Sean McCann - "Coppicing" DVD-r $6
"The first video available from Sean. Twenty minutes of visual and auditory regeneration. Features some easter eggs, so look around. Comes with a download of the soundtrack. NTSC DVD-r, limited to 100 copies." -roll over rover
*************************** Emeralds "Fresh Air" 7" $8 (high wholesale cost, limited) *LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER* BACK IN STOCK!!
"At long last, A Soundesign is pleased to present the first 7" record by Cleveland's Emeralds. "Fresh Air" is a glimmering example of why Emeralds are one of the most loved progressive soundscape bands in the world. Side A is a cycling of sounds unlike anything you've heard from them before, truely beautiful and uplifting. Side B is a bit more subdued and hypnotic, a real space oddesy. Clear vinyl 7" record with full color glued slip package. The cover image is a scan of a hand manipulated slide by David Russell." -sound design
************************************************** Island's Eyelids - "Eyelands I" cassette $6
"We are proud to present Rover's first dip into the East coast, mailed in from an old high school friend. Island's Eyelids, formerly known as Realax or J Wolf, somehow managed to capture the sounds of New York sewers and Central Park joggers and blast them both into the stars. First time I heard this tape I was walking, by the end of it I was running. As always, comes with a high quality download of the album.
Produbbed ocean blue shells, color artwork, numbered insert, limited to 100 copies. " -roll over rover
*************************** Edgar Wappenhalter "Spuiglavementen" cassette $6.50
"Steve Marreyt of Sylvester Anfang and the KRAAK label has a handful of old tapes and just a twinkle of psych pop wunder. Edition of 60" -goaty tapes
********************************************* pink buffalo "viscid veils" cassette (belgium import) $8 BACK IN STOCK!!
"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
***************************************************************** Xiphiidae "Equal Phesance" cdr $6
'Seemingly hidden in a sedimentary layer of the collective subconscious, is the ever-more-detectable hum of an arriving world, calling for receptive ears and accesible memory banks upon which to unfurl its banner. edition of 60" -housecraft
************************************* The Rebel "Aiming Low" 7" $6 (italian import)
"The Country Teasers frontman Ben Wallers (Scotland) is back! Four songs, 2 twisted pop gems, a very nice cover designed by The Artist, surprising sleeve notes partly en français s’il vous plait. Aiming Low 7” promotes an album to come at the end of this year on Junior Aspirin." -lexidisques
**************** black joker "watch out!" LP $15
"Fully re-mastered vinyl edition of what was originally a Europe-only cassette released in an edition of 80 copies from the solo project of Spencer Clark of The Skaters/Vodka Soap/Monopoly Child et al. Spencer describes Black Joker as being more drone-focused and with faster percussion than the recent Monopoly Child sets. Indeed, the percussion is thrifty and up-front, with arcs of criss-crossing time signatures generating maximum space/time confusion. The combination of trance-informed momentum and bubbling electronic sci-fi tones sounds closest to one of the Sun Ra Arkestra’s most future-visioned takes on “Ancient Aethiopia” while expanding on the classic post-Angus MacLise feel of all of the best Skaters material. Comes with pro-printed 80s style 12” maxi-sleeves with liner notes by Fortean authority, itinerant visionary and Skaters road mangler in-absentia Charles Berlitz. ”…the drifting of desert sand sculptures appearing within crystaline miraged mountains during a cycle in which the gleaming of sand star sparkled night is blown, floating towards dawn, as the racing of the camels amongst the sunbound mirages expend dimensions of presentation for these sculptures, which, as wind diminishes and returns, a sand is cast to represent the variety of dimensions interacted : as symbold vision, where the atmosphered wind senses the stars amongst the sand, the camel within the mirage, and the mediation of an experiences whole motion of interaction...” - David Keenanolde" english spelling bee
******************************************** vega stereo "festival 3000" cassette $6
"vega stereo is another side to the story that is alexey AKA analog concept. once again, this comes straight from russia with a bullet. vega stereo is a duo with his wife, nastya. this one is just as synthed-out as the analog concept double, but you're in for a whole different ride. laced with minimalist beats and vague, nu-age stylings like a bed of golden feathers, vega stereo is going to whisk you away. it's obvious these cats grew up on detroit techno and hypnotic ambient waves. beautiful stuff from the rough & tumble. edition of 70 pro-dubbed pirate style."- digitalis
**************************************** Rangers "Low Cut Fades" cassette $6
"This west coaster coasted into our worldview semi-recently with a long, loopy tape of tape hissy guitar anthems (that should see the light of vinyl on Future Sound Recordings later this summer) and we were immediately on board the Rangers zamboni. Low Cut Fades is an even fresher work, loaded to the tip-top with bedroom fantasy riffing, home-tracked keyboard trips, and teenage pop haze. It’s got a lot of that post-Ariel Pink ghost radiowaves mood, and here he chooses to ditch the vocals (there’s a decent bit of singing on his earlier album) in favor of getting down and loose and lost, and the glove fits, man. Expect more from this Bay Area time-traveler. Pro-dubbed tapes with full-color labels in J-cards with art designed by Mr. Rangers himself. Edition of 100." -nnf
**************************** Black Eagle Child "Black Lodge White Lodge" cassette $6
"Although entropy is my favorite physical concept, propulsion is a close second. It's not so much the lack of gravity that attracts me to space--it's the lack of friction. The closest approximation would be in the doldrums, the land underneath where all the air currents meet. There it's completely calm on the ground while above you is the collision of every breeze, gust, and torrent in the world." -offices of moore & moore
******************************************** Sean McCann - "Jasmine" cassette $6
"98 clear tapes with white imprinting. In 4x6 re-sealable
baggies, with oversized full color covers. Most feature
full-color printed inside spread, about 20 feature hand
cut and glued orange vellum "sunspots" designs.
Composite of photos from summer roadtrips through
the SouthWest by Nicholas Longworth and Tevia Romaine." -OMM
**************************************************************** Pukers/Lifers split cassette $6
"Pukers is Andy Spore and Olga Balema from Iowa and now L.A. ...thrash scum gods who get down and even play some smooth piano on here! On the flip is Andrew Lifers from 420 High street in New Brunswick...(now Baltimore??) and the dudes got a nack for making scummy basement noise with enough uncomfortable pauses and fuck off harsh blasts to please any true disciple of scum enlightenment. " -scumbag tapes
********************************************* gown "for the maples" LP $18
"gown (aka andrew macgregor and otherwise known as one-half of the bark haze with thurston moore) moved from western wassachusetts to nova scotia in mid-2007. before he moved, he wanted to have one big audio blow-out to remember the grand old mass times. with that goal in mind, gown went into the studio with the sunburned hand of the man gang (represented this time out by john moloney, sarah o'shea, ron schneiderman and taylor richardson) to melt some audio consoles. for the maples represents a portion of that recorded output and believe us, it's some massive stuff. sunburned's thick funk presents the perfect background for gown's shredding guitar-play. extremely hot stuff, especially the massive side-long "bending close."" -three lobed
************************************************** Parasails "Skylife" cassette $6
"Come Join us 500 feet above the Atlantic Ocean for the 1982 Summer Season. Enjoy the views of your favorite Beaches and wave to your friends below as you check out schools of Sealife. Parasails is a new projectfrom purveyor of feel-good tunes, Matt Mondanile (Ducktails, Real Estate). More of the lo-fi, tropical nostalgia his fans have come to expect, but this time instead of sitting on the beach, this tape takes you for a dream-like flight above the coastline. Limited to 100 copies!" -el tule tapes
******************************************************** Pulse Emitter "unearthly" cassette $8 (german import)
"Two loooooooong tracks of super heavy modular synth research from worlds favorite chief engineer daryl groetsh. these recordings defy the laws of nature and leave you lost somewhere at the rear end of a vast universe. side a sounds like Galactus playing pinball with planets in slow-motion. the flipside is a crawling ether mattress drone in classical void style. Ltd. to 100 copies." -tape tektoniks
******************************************* Color Dream "Reminisce" double cassette $12
"UNEARTHED." -young tapes
******************************************************************* BACK IN STOCK! 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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AJILVSGA "White Crow" cassette $8 (UK import)
"The consistently mind numbing crushing noise project from Nathan Young and Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis) tears apart this cassette release, a black swarm of god knows what tearing your mind apart. If you dug the North Sea cassette we released last year, you should def check this shit out. Limited to 100." -blackest rainbow
*************************************************** Meth Teeth - "s/t" cassette $6
"This is a re release of Meth Teeth's Indian Spirits Demo from last summer's nationwide tour. Long time Night-People pals, Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once. LP on Woodsist soon. Artwork by SDReed. " -night people
****************************** Hanging Coffins - "s/t" cassette $6
"Hanging Coffins are a strange new pysch punk band from Eugene OR. Night-People got exposed to these dudes Chrome esque, creeped out, dark, druggy jams via there cassette on Madison's Jerkwave Tapes, and this new cassette is just as good, and maybe even weirder. This is a stark album not in its lack of fullness of instrumentation or composition but in its isolated downer feelings and mood, there are times when something brighter and slightly uplifting shines through the fog of the menacing psychedelic guitar grit, but for the most part this is damaged primordial alien rock and it rips. Artwork by SDreed." -night people
****************************** Invasion Status / Pink Chunk Jass Band "The Listener" split cassette $6
"Me and Olson's split with our favorite band from up north. Invasion Status once described their sound to me as, "like blood/circulation, never gets better or worse, just is." Unbelievable tape and home-made reed sounds. Pink Chunk's side is a total mess. Some of our best drum sounds, like millipedes rollin around on your dishes. Horns totally ignoring the drums. Full-color fold out art. Edition of 70" -exbx tapes
************************************ TRAUMA- "CALMING EFFECTS OF THE OCEAN VOL. 3" cassette $6
"The third chapter of Trauma’s six part series (other volumes on Fag Tapes, Excite Bike, Tapeworm Tapes, Holy Cheever Church, and American Tapes) finds the Detroit duo of percussionist Ben Hall and guitarist Chris Riggs adrift in texture. Neither’s role can be distinguished; a seriously strange and pure approach. Percussive guitar and melodic drums intertwine denying all points of departure. The piece constantly advances incessantly in a blur of energy; almost non-human: like a field recording of playerless instruments outside during a rainstorm. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels." -arbor infinity
***************************************************************** Wet Hair "Dream" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!! *ALBUM OF THE YEAR*
"When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers Raccoo-oo-oon called it quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes Wet Hair, a synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer Shawn Reed and keyboardist/drummer Ryan Garbes, and Dream is the band’s debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned krautrock keys, and fucked up outsider crooning, the LP’s four tracks careen across a spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Recorded at Flat Black Studios by Luke Tweedy and mastered by Pete Swanson, Wet Hair’s cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Reed and Garbes, plus a pro-printed full-color 11x11 insert." -nnf
************************************ Pet Coffins cassette $6
"Pet Coffins came to me out of nowhere, and I instantly fell in love. The kind of music I would imagine acid fried bubblegum would listen to. Number four in the leftover cassette series." -peasant magik
****************************************** Super Minerals "the Vooh" cassette $6
"110 clear tapes with white imprinting. In 4x6 re-sealable baggies,
with oversized full color covers, and inside spread has hand-
stamped design in red ink. Art by Nicholas Longworth, the
photo is in Big Sur." -OMM
*************************************************************************** Truth Syrum - "The Taker's Mistake" cassette $6
"Truth Syrum is one of the newer solo projects in the Iowa City weirdo underground. Will Kapp (spent some time in Pukers) as Truth Syrum creates strange loner mutant junk folk with damaged electric guitar, weird distorted vocals, and subtle noise textures. A bit like something you might hear out of New Zealand ala the Expressway label in the early 90's wtih a nod to contemporary junk art aesthetics and fried pysch guitar. Artwork by Will and RGarbes." -night people
****************************** Ryan Garbes "Exterminator Sunshine 2" cassette $6
"Ryan Garbes of Wet Hair and formerly of Raccoo-oo-on remixes favorite youth-oriented urban music featuring Iggy, Crass, the Impressions, and more. This is a print version of the previously online-only release. See exterminatorstarshine.blogspot.com for more releases and details." -gel tapes
******************************** Real Estate "Fake Blues" 7" $5
new 7" by band with the ducktails dude. it's good, limited, and on woodsist
**************************************************************** Christopher Riggs "Burn Out to Renew" cassette $6
"Two compositions for electric guitar. Side A was later performed in Toledo and Side B in Columbus. Never to be played again. c-30 cassette edition of 32" -holy cheever church
************************************************************* Inca Ore "Birthday of Bless You" LP $13
"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
************************************************************************* Full Scales "Triple Trebles" one sided lp $15
new 1-sided lp by full scales, which is john olson (wolf eyes, dead machines, american tapes, etc.) on organ. released by american tapes
********************************************************************* Dream Safari "Buried Mics" cassette $6
"Transcendent sound from new heavyweight sound machine: Dream Safari aka Ian Najdzionek out of RIVERHEAD, NEW YORK. Blissed-out vague drips of crystalline tones, stretched in natural cave reverb. Beautiful negative space, no-fidelity JAMS. Wasteland new age in good form. Edition of 70 with full-color, fold-out art. C40." -exbx tapes
********************************* DuneBuggy - "s/t" cassette $6
"Dune Buggy is Ryan Garbes and Charles "Taterbug" Free, expanding on both members obsessions with classic garage, punk, and pysch rock tunes and images. Dune Buggy is the pop realization of these obsessions. 20 minutes of catchy organ, guitar, and drum driven punkers delivered in Iowa City basement scum style haze. Cleaner then you think it will sound but with enough grit to keep it grimey, who new these two could play it this cool? Teeny bop, youth cult Armageddon rockers. Expect more on NP and Gel by Dunebuggy in the future. Artwork by RGarbes. " -night people
****************************** Blank Realm "Mind Peril" cassette $6.50
" So many steaming heaps of uniquely fried brains litter the “down under” underground landscape (Australia, NZ) you begin to worry for their greater wellbeing, health, sanity. But, at the same time, it’s hard to complain ‘cause those same forces have done wonders for the world’s weirdo CDR collections. Paeces, Lakes, all the Bros ‘o’ The Occult Sisterhood shit, Castings, Terracid, xNoBBQx (most of those Breakdance The Dawn bands, actually), Naked On The Vague, etc. – there’s a damn ARMY of Australasian gangs throwing up freaky signs and bizarre strains of audio consciousness, and we are all the richer for it. But our favorite such clan for the past year plus is Blank Realm, outta Brisbane. They’ve been emitting a steady smokestack of work-in-progress documents showcasing their pan-genre collective symbiosis the last couple years and each new cloud they puff out is a headier, heavier beast than the one before it – and Mind Peril shows they’ve yet to even fucking plateau. Self-released by the band early in ’08 in a micro-edition of a few dozen, we were fairly floored by it, and offered to spread the gospel a bit more. Listen up. Crouched hermetic energies arc upwards into unified spirals of electric heavens, animal clatter, basement trance, and zoner drums. 8-limbed songs grapple up from 4-track floors. Rituals retch into wrecked rock songs. Vertical motion for formless heights. This is Blank Realm at their blankest and best. NNF edition has a new track sequence, and is pro-dubbed on high-quality chrome cassettes, as befits this sprawling C54 classic. In oversized, hand-stamped, spray-painted cardstock sleeves with hand-ripped rainbow-tissue collage artwork. Edition of 100." -nnf
************************************************************************* Tête de Bébé comp. LP $9
"Ten releases ago we gave the world Babyhead, our look at the state of punk rock. The record got great reviews and was touted as what a compilation should be. To celebrate our twenthieth release, SS, Sr. put together Tête de Bébé with some help from French rock & roll luminaries Jack Volt and Seb Normal. This time S-S Records focuses on 12 bands from France and Belgium, all doing very different things to this thing we like to think of as punk rock. Of course that means nothing straight forward here. Instead this noise gets a unique Francophone twist. Bands/artists here are Volt, Crash Normal, Kania Tieffer, Le Club des Chats, Cheb Samir & the Black Souls of Leviathan, Cheveu, Crack und Ultra Eczuma, Lawrence Wasser, Lili Z., The Electric Guitars, Dragibus, & The Normals. For all of you who know that France has been turning out some of the best rock and roll as of late, this will be a much expected treat. For those of you who still cling to the tired cliche that the French can't rock, be prepared to have your world shattered. On white vinyl. 1000 pressed." S-S Records
************************************************************************* "Babyhead" comp LP $9
"A seamless "state of punk" compilation that spans from free jazz to drunken swagger. Thirteen cuts exclusive to this record, by A Frames, Antennas Erupt, The Blowtops, Blutt, Country Teasers, Crash Normal, Duchess of Saigon, Guinea Worms, the Intelligence, Klondike & York, The Piranhas, Sexy Prison, & Unnatural Helpers. Those names alone should sell you on this fucker, but let me tell you this: No one has given this damn thing anything but praise. Blastitude writes "The thing I like about this record is that it's not a punk comp, it's not a garage comp, it's not a trash or thrash comp, it's not a noise-rock or no-wave comp, but is indeed a punk trash garage noise thrash gnash rock wave comp (add your own hyphens), with just a toe or two dipped in the neighboring ponds of poppiness and straight experimental. In other words, it's all just happening, baby, and no one here pre-registered for a style before they had their first practice." People tell us, "Damn, I never buy comps. Comps suck, but this thing is freaking fantastic!" and then they kiss us and cook us dinner. No cd issue, vinyl only. On white vinyl." S-S Records
***************************************************************************************** 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
*********************************************** Drunjus "Enceladus" cdr $6
"The sound of mud, trees, crickets, and mosquitoes in sloooow motion. Hazed out Dream Porch sessions, field recordings from Cherokee Marsh, and full on drone assaults from Woodman, Endless, and, local analog synth compatriot, Crystal Dragon. Black CDs housed in black cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art, printed transparencies, and handmade paper. Hand stamped and numbered" -peasant magik
********************************************** 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
*************************************************************** eyeballs / gareth hardwick split cassette $8 (UK import)
"Gareth Hardwick's steady stream of quality releases is gathering to be one of the UK's best current minimal drone catalogues around... here he gives us a 3 part trip of pure slow motions... Flip the tape and you have Richard Dawson's Eyeballs project, whose debut on Blackest Rainbow caused a stir with the few people who managed to lay their hands on it. Here Dawson's side is bleaker and darker than expected, gives me the full on feel of the Twin Peaks woods... feels like the vast emptiness of that claustrophobic wooded area. Low and lulling. Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 150 copies." -blackest rainbow
**************************************************************** Gang Wizard "Live in Paris" 3" cdr $4
"We claimed to be touring Europe with just the bare necessities. We claimed that any amp and drum situation would work for us. Paris put this claim to the test. The drum kit was a snare, a kick, and a street sign. The amplification was a single blown out PA. So we ran two guitars, three full electronics set ups and the vocals through the PA, and just went for it. The massive amounts of signal cancellation transformed five musicians into one single Frankenstein. The street sign didn't work as a cymbal, so dump a dump had to do. But somehow this became the most powerful set of the entire tour. Insistent throbbing distortion that somehow is a rock band, except when the PA would overheat and only vocals/drums remained. Rowdy French speaking audience imitating whatever they thought our gibberish lyrics were. Most told us the set was too short, but twenty minutes spent hanging off the edge of chaos felt like ages to us. We're very proud of this performance. This is what music sounds like when you work for it. Too many universal rock bands are just doing it to bring themselves pleasure. Doing it for the pleasure of the audience sometimes means that the performer doesn't have fun at all. Which is 100% ok, since the only thing that matters is how the audience feels." - abandon ship records
****************************************************************** Ducktails "Ducktails II" cassette cdr version $6
"COMPILATION OF CHILL JAM/ROCKERS" -self released
************************************************** Real Estate "Suburban Beverage" 7" $6 (comes with cdr)
"a fuzzy, sweetly simple sea chantey (or in this case, I guess a "lake
chantey") that reminds you of how awesome that last bonfire of the
summer was, until the cops showed up and you had to run for your life.
The song wafts in on a slinky bassline playing all by its lonesome, and
then a sleepwalking slide guitar (ready for a couples-only dance on prom night),
tapping cymbals, and Courtney's reverbed voice complete the picture,
leaving plenty of open space to stick your head inside of. "Black Lake"
is a jangly, hazy slice of nostalgia for those of us who still have
love for America's forgotten playground." (pitchfork review) underwater people records
***************************************************** High Wolf "Animal Totem" cassette $6
"For some reason unexpected pleasures are superior to the expected variety, at least 9 times outta 10. And so it was when we happened upon the dizzy/fizzy music of French loop enthusiast High Wolf for the first time, regarding whom we had zero preconceived notions. Cheers to open minds/ears then, cause the High Wolf audio worldview is weird and wobbly and one that should appeal to all lovers of tripped out, swelter-zone equatorial electronics. Animal Totem is High Wolf’s debut release, and it piles wavy, tranced keyboard melodies one on top of the other into a pulsing ritual heap of colored smoke. Elsewhere he slips in sunset fuzz-guitar lines and temple meditation tones and even dangles down some flanger-flecked synthetic percussion like a bunch of mellow yellow bananas. Take a look up/down/all-around. Overall it’s a rich, ripe rumble in the escapist-psych jungle. Future trips are booked on Long Beach drone/craft emporium Stunned Records, keep an eye open. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with full-color animal-collage artwork by Amanda. Hand-numbered edition of 100. " -nnf
************************************************ Warm Climate "Edible Homes" cassette $6
"With an unmatchable tenacity that depends on little much else than a power source, guitar and clarinet, Seth Kasselman has spent over a decade making some of the more truly idiosyncratic music we’ve had the pleasure of being hit with. The mere range of styles his Warm Climate project has taken on would be enough to daunt any four-piece band of fulltime songwriters. But ‘Edible Homes’ is proof that it only takes one Seth to take the piss out of a dozen genres at a swipe on these two 20-minute rollercoaster tape sides. It’s nearly impossible to describe just where exactly this ride takes the listener except that it’s a rich amalgamation of rock, classic pop, free jazz, dance, drone, tribal noise, broken toys, and psych riffing that testifies to Warm Climate’s versed knowledge of sound in its myriad of cultural forms. Like twisting the dial through the whole range of A.M./F.M. channels, not because any are tiresome, but because each one is enrapturing. All we can do is let the accumulation scoop us toward a nexus that wipes the cultural palate clean, and indispensably so. Hand numbered edition of 120 pro-dubbed & imprinted c42 tapes in lime shells w/ extended length double-sided color jcard; designed in energy of FIRE." -stunned
*************************************************************** beach fuzz "hole of hellos" 1-sided cassette $8 (uk import)
"Manchester has some crazy scene going on, so many bands/artists keep coming out of there its insane... so here's a nearly 20 minute document from one of these bands, Beach Fuzz. This trio features members of Stuckometer, Axis Mundi, EYEHAI, and Manccc's Golden Lab Records head honcho himself, Nick Mitchell. Wild shit goes on here, kinda space drone rock or something. Double sided artwork, for a one sided tape... first time we jammed that, looks real sweet though. Limited to 64 copies." -blackest rainbow
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Sam Goldberg "Winter Hallucinations: III" cassette $6
"The third of four tapes in the series. Cold psychedelic reverberating guitar. Limited to 50" -pizza night
************************************************************** Peaking Lights "Imaginary Falcons" cassette $6.50
"Since you asked, here’s a new truism we vibed out of the cosmos: Isolation (not Necessity) is the Mother of Invention. ‘Cause distance makes the heart grow radder, remember? And drift-pop duo Peaking Lights (aka epic newlyweds Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis) have proven this in spades, by beating a sweet retreat from the big city to a cool commune deep in the rolling, wooded hills on the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin, where they’re free to bond with the land, breathe easy, and levitate lofty organic magic from their unique analog electronics mainframe. It’s like they say: location, location, location. Apparently the big sky country is hittin’ their bloodstream like an exotic opiate, because their latest full-length, Imaginary Falcons, digs deeper and flies higher than anything else they’ve ever laid to tape by miles (which isn’t to say their early shit isn’t sick too; it is). Seven strung-out sing-song serenades of Suicide-style drum machinery, groovy lost ghost candle crooning, dubby keyboard echoes, gentle guitar gestures, and narcotic harmonia, woven into an expertly sequenced lucid dream you never wanna wake up from. This is the sound of Peaking Lights peaking; hold it yr ear as long as you can. Already dangerously high on our “One To Beat For ‘09” file. Pro-dubbed cassettes in cases with pro-printed full-color J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 150." -nnf
***************************************** keijo "just enough" cassette $6
"a new greeting from an old friend. we're pretty damn excited to have keijo back on the books charting new courses through the stars. more finnish blues from the wise master himself. shambolic to the core, each note bellowing sweet nothings into hearts & minds, looking for a warm, cozy corner to ball up in and sleep the frosty, frigid night way. this is exorcism, baby, all the way home. limited to 50 copies." -digitalis
**************************************************************** sloowroad "s/t" cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Space hymns from deep woods within by Sloow Tapes Bart De Paepe and Golden Roadie Matt Valentine, crawling beyond shredding wah-wah guitars and intoxicating synth, culminating in twisted chouffe raga and porkslap pulse. Reissue of obscure Heroine cd-r, 100 copies." -sloow tapes
************************************ BIRD COSTUMES "NATIONAL GLASS" cassette $6
"Serious journey into the trancer meltdown! Sweatlodge soundtrack and pleasantry come forth to be the ONE to love. Sweet sweet guitar tonal ecstacy from former member of such amazing bands like HUSTLER WHITE and ME CON: Daniel Osbourne....Also playing now-a-days with SUBARACHNOID SPACE! ... taking Portland, OR. by storm! Vancouver loves Bird Costumes! Comes packaged in a beautiful self standing bird ladies! Big thanx to Aja Rose Bond for help in creation/assembling. //// Ltd. 60 copies." -INW
****************************************************** KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN- "DREAM HOUSE VARIATIONS" 4XCS $25
"Keith Fullerton Whitman’s first release in over two years manifests itself in an inspired take on aural perception. “Dream House Variations” is a meditative experience, comprised of four cassettes intended for simultaneous listening. The variations themselves are reworkings of two endless loop cassettes through Doepfer Analog Modular Systems; KFW exacts his technical mastery through dense filtering, panning, and modulation of the source. The octophonic nature of the set creates an infinite amount of listening experiences, not only due to the syncing of the tapes, but also placement within a room and the equipment used for playback. The music becomes a part of the room much like the quadraphonic intentions outlined in Eno’s “Ambient” series. Each experience creates new instances of counterpoint, melding tonality, and individual senses of perception eliciting the source of the variation: mind or machine? In an edition of 150 four tape sets in oversized vinyl cases with full color cardstock covers, silver cardstock inserts, and printed labels." -arbor infinity
************************************************************************ sunn 0))) "Dømkirke" 2XLP $18
"Last year sunn 0))) was invivted to perform at a ancient cathedral in Bergen Norway . The performance was captured via 24 track mobile recording and the resuluts were pressed onto double 180 gram vinyl. This recording will be available exclusively on vinyl only. There will not be a digital release (cd or downloads). Pure analog! The 0))) lineup for this performance includes Attila Csihar (Mayhem) on vocals, Steve Moore (Earth, Ascend) on the churchs' legendary pipe organ and Norwegian native Lasse Marhaug on electronics. The packaging for "Dømkirke" was designed with the utmost attention to detail and quality that perfectly compliments the audio content. Each 180 gram vinyl comes in a heavy stock, full color inner sleeve that features stunning photographs from the performance. The cover of the gatefold jackets feature exclusive art by Tanya Stene (Burzum, Ulver, Darkthrone). The jackets themselves are ultra-durable extra thick cardboard stock with thick, luxurious lamination. These were modeled after the Impulse! labels' LP jackets from the '60s. This package is durable, built to last and serves as the perfect shelter for this archival release.Behold the glory!" -southern lord
****************************************************** Emeralds "Solar Bridge" LP $15
"Starting out in 2005 performing live sets using only televisions as sound sources, EMERALDS has grown in recent years into a monster of HEAVY improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully effected guitar. Born out of the midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the INTENSE HEAVINESS of their midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. They have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers w/ a VERY DIFFERENT though EQUALLY INTENSE assault of COSMIC DRONE POWER!
HANSON RECORDS is proud to announce EMERALDS - SOLAR BRIDGE, the trio's first full-length album after numerous cassette and cd-r releases on such labels as American Tapes, Chondritic Sound, and the bands own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album opens with the side long 'MAGIC' where the band builds a quiet drone into an extreme thick sawblade of swirling noise as beautiful as it is menacing. The flip is yet another sidelong journey titled 'THE QUAKING MESS', a track that stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a Göttschingesque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. Fans of the smooth tones of 'New Age Of Earth' era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's 'Heathen Earth' should take note, as EMERALDS may be their new source for electronic drugs.
Limited to 668 copies on blue vinyl, housed in a 2 color silkscreened sleeve w/ the usual 'HANSON DROLL' flaps. " -hanson
*********************************************** Magic Lantern/Hop Frog Kollectiv split LP $13
what ML said about it: "Hey Everyone, we're very pleased to announce the release of our first new music since HIGH BEAMS! We're moving on up, beaming some tracks for a new full-length, so this flowering acoustic session should provide some bubbling, skeletal excursions to the edge of the leaves and back. A love song to Florian Fricke. Deep thanks to HOP-FROG and URCK RECORDS for the high-minded tunes and the loving care for the object."
************************************************** Cloudland Canyon/Mythical Beast split 12" $12
"This fair pairing has been in the wings for a few years now by our count, but tripped things come to those who wait, so better late-as-shit than never. Cloudland Canyon have been spanning geographies (Brooklyn, Germany, Memphis) and genres (krautrock, drone, psych-pop) since at least 2002, but only recently has their technological studio-sorcery began to gather steam and affect the more far-flung populations (powered in no small part by their partnership with Kranky Records). Anyone who's gotten lost in CC's latest, Lie In Light, knows this duo is currently at the pinnacle of their potency, and their offering here ("Harvest Hunt") is a fantastic mechanical motorik ascent into symphonic hypnosis. Comparisons to classic Teutonic psych outfits of yesteryear are warranted but inadequate: this is music of today, for tomorrow. On the flip, beloved Not Not Fun in-laws Mythical Beast return to the vinyl spotlight with two luminous soul meditations conjured during the past winter's grey maze of days. Both ballads burn with Corinne's voice-for-the-voiceless defiance, wind-draped and incensed by Jeremiah and Aaron's subtle electric string energies. Naked music for open spaces, empty skies, endless nights. High-audio 45 RPM LPs (NNF's first!) in matte-jackets with cloud-skull artwork by Blackblack beauty Diva Dompe. Edition of 415." -nnf
******************************************** 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
************************************************************************** Sun Stabbed "The World Upside-Down" cassette $6
"Following up a killer cdr on Pseudo Arcana, the French duo of Pierre Faure and Thierry Monnier return with over 40 minutes of expertly crafted, drifting guitar feedback. Ranging from Sunroof!-esque shimmering skree to glacial amplifier buzz." -peasant magik
****************************************** Mike Shiflet/Ryan Jewell split cassette $6
"Deep minimalist head shit from these Kill-Bus wizards. Both sides possess a stark, solitary quality. While Shiflet bathes in shimmering sheets of digi-bliss Jewell drills deep into the subconcious. A personal favorite for late nights and still mornings." -teen action
***************************************************** God Willing "On Dishless Days" cassette $6
"Two absolutely stunning sides by Ren (formerly of dynasty and gang wizard.) Guitar and Tone generator rumbling in and out of dischord, maximum tension and presence in a simple drone. rarely do i think of something as a dissonant drone AND beautiful. b/w artwork by lauren pakradooni. c18." -breaking world records
***************************************** MIKE SHIFLET "OPENING ACT" cassette $6
"two more doses of shiflet drone, blazing here in the live variety, recorded earlier this year in st louis and cleveland. for those not in attendance, you can acquire mike's sleeperhold synth styleings here and get a second chance to wipe your brain off of your shoulders." -905 tapes
*********************************************************************** Lateral Hyetography "Some Girlzzz" cassingle $3
"Single Only tape release from LA's Really Coastal label. Recorded near the California blue line stop in Chicago (electric version, side A, rocking out) and then California proper (acoustic version, side B, blissed out with gospel layers). Acoustic and electric versions share the same skeleton but have different outgrowths and inward motion/measures of internal control and assembly. A very rare synthesizer from the late 70s appears for one of the first times on record on side B, before getting swept away in the fury and undeniable wetness of a gospel water celebration that quickly makes it into an awkward paper weight. First edition of 95 handnumbered copies pro-dubbed to chrome tape and printed with glossy paper to bring out the cover and inner sleeve models. People first." -really coastal
************************************************** Hunters and Gatherers Zine, Issue 1 + Vibes 3" cdr $12 (limited to 75)
"Featured in this issue:
Interview with Ged Gengras
Poems by Andrew Scott
Recipes by The Parasitic Fantasy Band
Drawings by The Lucky Dragons
Reviews by Sam Hamilton & Andrew Scott
Words & Drawings by Helga Fassonaki
Live 3" CDR by Vibes
********************************************************** Xiphiidae "Crystal Marvelous Fruit" double cassette $11
"Whoa. Here we have an absolutely essential double cassette by the wasteland new age BOSS, Jeffry Astin. Everybody knows his amazing Housecraft label, relinquishing the most hazy and exciting home-made sounds to your stereo brain world. This doubler contains tracks recorded over a few years, many MANY different zones. Total new age to crude tape workouts to beautiful foggy drone to ???. All unreleased and ready to finally be heard by human minds. Edition of 100. Double c-60, with full color fold-around art." -exbx tapes
************************************************* Chris Riggs cassette $6
"You might know Chris from his guitar swallowing in Trauma or his amazing cult solo cassettes on his Holy Cheever Church label. Here Riggs turns his mutations on reeds instead of strings. Sax and electronics machinations reach trance-inducing heights of warped depth. Completely weird new instant-classic! Full-color fold out art. Edition of 70" -exbx tapes
************************************ 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
***************************************************************** Super Minerals "The Gooh" cassette $6
"Recorded at an altitude of infinity, these two west-coast giants have touched the dazzling pinnacle and continue to send back bombs of transformative ether for fertile minds. There's a perpetual unfolding motion with this project that sucked me in from the first time I'd heard 'The Thaw' (released twice now by NNF). Here, that dynamic is ever-more-refined and, again, totally magical. However if your eyes begin to foam violet, you may have had too much of the Gooh. " -housecraft
************************************************************* the north sea "TOTAL FOOTBALL" 2X-cassette $9
"my love for football (soccer, for us yanks) is probably fairly apparent to most, and that love is borne out of watching the genius that was the greatest generation of dutch footballers in their sparkling orange. i knew i eventually wanted to do something in tribute, and what the hell - two tapes of synthed-out goodness for van basten, gullit, rijkaard, and koeman (and also cruyff, who can never be ignored). so here it is, total football once more. limited to 80 copies." -digitalis
**************************************************************** Ondo "654 65 - 694 33" cassette $6
"Obsessively composed guitarscapes. Industry stretched to the point of total collapse. Bleak and without redemption. " -peasant magik
****************************************** Sean McCann "The Truth Is Marching In" cassette $6
"Blistering circus whirl and warble. Reminiscent of wandering around a casino in the early morning. Slot machine melodies pan in and out of focus, all memories of the outside world fade, and everything around you is covered in a smokey haze." -peasant magik
****************************************** 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
***************************************************************** 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
***************************************************************** A. Jarvis "She Is Also Phasing" cassette $6
"Three tracks of total John Carpenter worship. Sweeping synths, pulsing bass lines, and Kurt Russell. Jarvis takes hints from Carpenter's classic sound and manages to incorporate elements from all of his previous work: swells of feedback, analog shimmer, and subtle, but damaged, percussion. Like all of his previous work, this is absolutely perfect. High bias chrome tapes, pro-printed covers." -peasant magik
****************************************** Xiphiidae "Wake Of The Hoods" cassette $6
"Xiphiidae is the solo project of Housecraft’s main man, Jeffry Astin. Side A is full of air-conditioned drones, nature sounds, and delayed guitars. Very sleepy, indeed. Side B could possibly be a recording of someone eating dinner while thousands of insects run wild over various stringed instruments." -peasant magik
****************************************** Pink Buffalo 'Bearded Tooth" double cassette $9
"Squids and skins shine in battery powered sub-atomic fusion, stewed electric under a darkened sun. edition of 50" -housecraft
**************************************** Sparkling Wide Pressure "Seven Inside and Out" cassette $6
"Frank Baugh has a real ability to conjure super lucid memories from the furthest crags of our cranium whenever his Sparkling Wide Pressure begins emitting its visionary environs. Of the many corners he turns in his half hour visitation between chilly realities & possible alternate dream spaces, we’re guaranteed to always be adrift in the soothing detritus of a quickly fading analog past. With ‘Seven Inside and Out’ Frank asks, are these warm dream worlds we imagine sad hoaxes or attainable endeavors for the future? Half-soldered circuitry tends to be the slit in the fence Frank takes advantage of here by deftly slipping through nostalgic loops & blurred drones. Given its relatively brief runtime, this cassette displays a vast scale of vision skilled in its admixture of loner synth dirges, hope-thirsty distant wails, and anti-gravitational guitar cycles. The combinations here pair perfectly with the thoughts of dawn & vibrations of dusk. Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes in mustard shells and double-sided color jcard." -stunned records
********************************************************* Om "Variations on a Theme" LP $13
"OM reunites one of the most powerful rhythm sections in rock music; Al Cisneros [bass, vocals] and Chris Hakius [drums] both ex-members of the legendary Sleep. "Variations on a Theme" is comprised of three long songs employing a series of rhythmic chants whose cadence-like textural drive conveys flight. The album's numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space.
"Variations on a Theme" is a series of vibrations and flow. The opening track, "On The Mountain at Dawn" is the thematic blueprint of the entire album; a transportive series of differentiated verse with sets of solid groove. "Kapila's Theme" furthers the motif while the closer "Annapurna" breaks the spell, where the final wash of sound reflects the infinite." -holy mountain
******************************************************* Rambutan "Fallen Smoke" 3" cdr $4
"Fallen Smoke captures the live debut, from April 2008, of Rambutan, the solo project of Eric Hardiman from Century Plants and Burnt Hills. Vastly different than either of those units, Rambutan finds Hardiman in a completely new mode, with no guitars in sight. The results are hauntingly beautiful, intensely personal, and utterly compelling, with a warm, organic feel throughout. The music builds in intensity ultimately hypnotizing the listener in its gathering tractor beam of psychedelic gauzy haze. Jump right in." -abandon ship records
************************************************************** Monks of The Balhill "Ten Ways To Get Out Of The Water" cassette $6
"Vocal mantras, decaying guitars, and found sounds combined in totally refreshing way. Both sides constructed from similar pieces, but distinctive enough to show the endless stream of ideas pouring from these two Vincents. Made with love, guitars, wind instruments, field recordings, and tigers. Art by Adriane Dalton." -peasant magik
****************************************** 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
******************************************************************************* astronaut/family battle snake split cassette $6
"new york city and london are both total fucking meccas. in those meccas lurk the glorious electronic madness that are astronaut and family battle snake, and honestly i don't know if i can think of a better pairing for this split. astronaut is the duo of daniel lopatin (oneohtrix point never) and andy plovnick (healing feeling) who conjure a whole host of mystic spirits on their side, "empty pyramids." this sprawling piece of synth maximalism finds it's diamond through the sonic looking glass underneath a river of sea ice. this is hypnotic music that whisks you away on a cumulus cloud. family battle snake is the greek god himself, bill kouligas. fbs arches over the analog plane on "parallel prime/eye river." synth squalls bathe in liquid reverb, eventually falling through an emerald hourglass until you realize you're floating on a rocket to the moon. kouligas is on some kind of heavily tripped journey these days, and i'm glad on this fucken ride. limited to 86 copies with geometic-inspired art & labels." -digitalis
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Eternal Tapestry "spring 2009 tour" cassette $6
self released tour tape, with unique watercolor covers, only available from DNT (and from them of course, catch them on tour if you can!) *the cdr and tape have DIFFERENT music/recordings*
*************************************************************** Eternal Tapestry - "The Declining Star" cassette $6
"A real beast of a psych rock band, Eternal Tapestry (members of Heavy Winged, JOMF, Tunnels etc) kick it in the red with their melodic instrumental blasts of post PSF atmospheric epics and power trio freak outs. Ultra tight driving propulsive rhythm section work out provide the backdrop for layers of intricate guitar fuzz. Just the right amount of letting it rip and holding it back. Art by SDReed." -night people
********************************************************** Infinite Body "A SERIES OF FALSE AWAKENINGS" 1 SIDED LP $11
"Kyle Parker is Infinite Body. Like most of Southern California’s harsh noise youth crew (Impregnable, Privy Seals, Pedestrian Deposit), IB is the polar opposite of Kyle’s former project, Gator Surprise. There is something about the shift from creating unrelenting, harsh noise to ambient dreamlike drones that works perfectly; flowing with dedication and intensity from similar veins. Infinite Body’s debut cd “White Hymn” was a masterpiece of blurred lights, colorful, but heavy synthesizer and vocoder pieces. “A Series of False Awakenings”, his follow up to that CD from the winter, shows a seasonal change, with a heavy presence on field recordings: children in parks, chimes, and the spring ambience of light winds and birds’ songs. An elevated sense of reality: entirely surreal. Kyle’s thoughtful and sincere work is certainly some of the most well executed around and the upcoming Infinite Body/Emaciator split LP on Monorail Trespassing will only further solidify this. In an edition of 300 LPs with proprinted foldover sleeves featuring art by Kyle."-arbor
******************************************************************************** NASA "Diamonds & Wood" cassette $6
"These post-everything (noise-rock, kraut-punk, thrash-psych), post-Floridian (they live all over the place now...Canada, East Coast, etc) post-teens (somebody’s 20) have a savvy knack for mainlining that exact slow-burn basement car crash guitar/drums symbiosis that makes us wanna simultaneously mosh, steal a skateboard, and put out a tape. The previous NASA cassette on NNF (Bummer Daze) rolled in more of a groove-damaged Blues Control-on-glue mode, and the production was kinda clean and line-in sounding in places. But Diamonds & Wood (in addition to being the name of a bangin' Underground Kingz song) is in fact an earlier NASA album, recorded back in 2006 and originally released in an edition of 24 on their own H Tapes imprint. We’ve always wanted to reissue it for more ears, and happily that day has come. A staggering hour-long descent into frenzied depths of overdriven riffing, drum abuse, and distortion psychosis that seems to get inexplicably more and more lo-fi as it grinds on, this is what the teenage garage bands of America in our dreams sound like (not far off from a wasted, rawer Heavy Winged). Sloppy, shredding, surreal, sick, and stupid in equal parts, NASA at the height of their Epcot Center-based powers are nothing if not a shining example of low/high/no-art primitivism in its most gutter and uncut form. Take it or leave it. Pro-dubbed and imprinted tapes in silver-misted cases with full-color wood grain/bejeweled artwork designed by Amanda. Hand-numbered edition of 100. " -nnf
************************************************ Sean McCann "Frame of Mind" cassette $6
"Sean McCann hardly needs introduction around here after having delivered his breathtaking album ‘Sway’ on Stunned in summer ‘08. One might initially assume ‘Frame of Mind’ to be a simple continuation of last year’s highwater mark. But mere seconds into this c38, we’re affirmed that these freshest of Sean’s crops are in the grip of a holy orbit unconcerned with what has come before. This is his transition from occupying a seat in the symphony to tapping the conductor’s wand at the podium. Opening night’s hush and poise is palpable as the framework’s magnitude is unfurled against a hazed rainbow canopy. Then, the presentation of some massive whirling chrysanthemum emitting gold-flecked clouds of brass vibrato, chamber orchestra drone, bowed strings, and vast fields of guitar & synth sun worship. Every time Sean dips his ladle into the pool of higher soundstates we pay attention. On ‘Frame of Mind’ he seems to have dropped in the deepest bucket he could find. Let’s drink up. Hand numbered edition of 120 pro-dubbed & imprinted c38 tapes in melon shells with double-sided color jcard." -stunned
*************************************************************** Albero Rovesciato "Ancient Shining Drums of the Covered City" cassette $6
"Albero Rovesciato’s members Francesco Cavaliere & Marco Lampis are native to the mystic isles off Italy but now they roam Berlin, presumably because they have smashed all the percussion instruments in their homeland. All we know is we’re glad we located them with some remaining objects and intact drums, because few troupes can make us simultaneously smile with delight and scamper for cover when they rev up like this. Cavaliere & Lampis emerge from the badass Italian sound collective Phonorama, so we know they mean business once they open their trick bags and begin spilling out wares of leftfield musique concrete & cybertimes junkyard gamelan. Before-and-after shots of their performance spaces provide evidence that a typical Albero live action reduces much of their tools to splinters & powder. This isn’t to imply that things are sloppy, however. Not for a second. Crystal recording fidelity on ‘Ancient Shining Drums’ benefits the wheezing-blurting-whacking fits of OCD voodoo, ensuring that we have never heard chaos sound so lean & tangible before. Marco puts it best when mentioning he & Francesco’s desire “to escape from pedals and digital effects, to approach and find material contact with the instruments, to arrive at PYRAMID LEVEL.” Hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed & imprinted c30 tapes in blood red shells, insert card, and double-sided color jcard. " -stunned records
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social junk/kraken fury split cassette $6
split cassette on husk records. sold out from source
**************************************************** Driphouse "Axe" cassette $6
"The "Axe" release strays from the formula of the Night-People blue-shade trilogy. More digital sequencer featuring analog electric guitar from the Raccoo-oo-oon alumni. Arpeggiator meditation." -gel tapes
*********************************************************** 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
***************************************************************** 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
***************************************** Magic Lantern "High Beams" LP $14
"After far, far too long lost in the merch-less dark, the LBC’s most married band, Magic Lantern, finally beam down the blinding full-length psych-statement we always knew they had hidden inside. It only took the Southern California sector a single 5-song demo plus a handful of incense-dense komische live flights to fully fall under the spell of ML’s oncoming headlights, but now the rest of the globe can hop on the band’s wild wagon. Hold on. High Beams throws out the total 20-sided die of the their illuminative powers, from stomping, storming show staples like “Deathshead Hawkmoth” and “Vampires In Heat” through to Sun Araw-vibed chime trancers (“Feasting On Energy”) and even a good time acid-addled feedback boogie (“Cactus Raga”). These are all of the Lanterns’ classic long-form anthems, captured in glorious high-def thanks to Bobb Bruno’s attuned production/recording capabilities and a radiant mastering job courtesy of James Plotkin. The riffs rip, the drums destroy, and the organ burns a hole in the sun. Walk into the light. Black vinyl LPs (with full color center labels) in glossy jackets with flag photography by Cameron & Erica Stallones, plus a fried-eyed, full-color 11x17 poster. Edition of 500." -nnf
************************************************************************* quetzolcoatl - "up and down dream valley thruway" cassette $7
"Cassette reissue of a cdr that come out a while back on American Grizzly, slightly re-edited for this tape version... Quetzolcoatl is the solo project of Timothy Hurley who runs the awesome Leaf Trail label, and also plays in another two great bands Bonecloud and Ixchel... Previous Quetzolcoatl releases have been on Ikuisuus and (VxPxC)'s Phanto Limb Recordings. Awesome almost tribal drone blurring almost in a kinda folk vibe... very psychedelic... and damn good! Limited to 50 copies, Lilac tapes, and beautiful full colour sleeves designed by Tim." -blackest rainbow
******************************************************************************************** Trauma "The Calming Effects of the Ocean vol. 2" cassette $6
"Part 2 of the 6-part series on Fag Tapes, Arbor, Holy Cheever, Tapeworm, and Am Tapes. Strange sea of furious percussive guitar and thundering drums. Eventually becomes a single, soothing wave of energy. Riggs/Hall continue to deliver basement insanity. Full-color fold out art. Edition of 70" -exbx tapes
************************************ hellvete "een duvelse zak is nooit gevuld" cassette $9 (belgium import)
"Evil Silvester Anfang boggart passing the gate to the Other World, sucking Lilith’s breasts on stones of fire while conjuring peacocks of pure form. Flowerpower romance of 80 copies." -sloow tapes
******************************************************************************** The North Sea "Elixir" cassette $6
"Brand new solo offering from Brad Rose finds him at his absolute heaviest, drawing inspiration from recent studies of African history: "The House of Kinlaza was formed from the dynasty started by King Alvaro VI. The Kinlaza came to power by overthrowing the House of Kimpanzu, which had occupied the throne from Garcia I's overthrow until Alvaro's ascension. The Kinlaza continued to rule Kongo until its civil war, when Kimpanzu and Kinlaza kings occupied or claimed the throne." This compliments the new Ajilvsga tape very nicely." -abandon ship
************************************************************************** peter broderick "ten duets"cassette $6
"there's not a lot left to say about peter broderick. after a number of incredible albums on type, tours across the globe solo and with efterklang - the dude has already gone places at an early age most of us only dream. score one for the good guys, then.
"ten duets" is exactly what it sounds like. each track is a duet between two different instruments - sometimes improvised, sometimes composed, but always absolutely stunning. instrumentation includes violin, banjo, mandolin, guitar, piano, voice, field recordings, & more. it's a beautiful document showing another side of broderick's immense talent. edition of 300 pro-dubbed tapes."- digitalis
**************************************** Eternal Tapestry "Altar of Grass" cdr $6
"Eternal Tapestry is a psych super-group. It features Nick Bindeman (Jackie-O Motherfucker, Tunnels) on guitar/vocals, Jed Bindeman (Heavy Winged, Bloodbiker) on drums, Dewey Mahood (Jackie-O Motherfucker, Plankton Wat, Bloodbiker) on guitar as well as Bob Jones (Evolutionary Jass Band, Oregon Artifical Limb Co., Fruitface) on bass. This planet rock element released last year by Solar Commune and Hyperblasted Recordings proudly presents its reissue. Keeping the original artwork and making a new style layout (by KENO), presenting a new visual of their music. Planets and rock. Space and music. Psychedelic. Words. Words. Words. Trying to describe the vibes of Eternal Tapestry. Difficult. Let their music speak. It's easier." -hyperblasted
************************************************************************************ (VxPxC) "Stoned To Death" cdr $7
"(VxPxC) are an LA trio that skillfully and seamlessly blend multiple styles
from psych, drone, pop, shoegaze, dislocated rock and the undescribable
to create an evolved entity, a beautiful "otherworldly being" presented in the form of a hand crafted cd.They create music projected straight from the heart with the purest of intentions and the simple joy of playing and releasing music they are passionate about. "Stoned To Death" is a new life (in all regards) among the forest of cassettes, CD-rs and countless future LPs and CDs to be released by this trio. Here they are creating worlds within worlds within worlds within worlds......The sounds are from a distant universe, never our own. They are neither reality nor dream but of some deeper primitive expression that flows from the core of your spirit and rattles it about with pinches of hope, melancholy and out of body explorations." -leaf trail
********************************************************* Residual Echoes "Phoenician Flu And Ancient Ocean" LP $12
"Phoenecian Flu And Ancient Ocean is another seething mish-mash of psychedelia, krautrock and free-noise-- the perfect follow-up to last year's highly regarded self-titled debut LP. Partially self-recorded and partially recorded in the studio, Phoenecian Flu and Anciet Ocean is full of absolutely staggering material. The endless riff-santiy of "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is followed by billowing smoke, then a fuzzy-wuzzy pop number that finally shoots itself when the smell of smoke turns out to be an amp that was on far too loud for far too long. That piece of reverbed noise insanity might've been all were it not for the depraved psychedelic dub and Monoshock tribute that follows. Odes to the acoustic guitar and former gods of the six-string close the album. What does it sound like? Everything and nothing, baby." -holy mountain
***************************************************************** U.S. Girls "Introducing..." LP $12
"If the alluring moniker used by Megan Remy conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Not that there's any doubt that Remy--sorry, U.S. Girls--couldn't rise and conquer either challenge.
Like fellow DIY ingenues Sally Strobelight and Inca Ore, U.S. Girls' approach is deceptively ethereal and delightfully haunting; lithe, lysergic gamma rays of keyboard murk beamed over percussive bonk sort of resemble Diamanda Galas reinterpreting Suicide's Red Star. And dig that cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Prove It All Night," done in such an effortless, barbital lush you'd swear the air was filled with mescaline. Guess what? It's not." -siltbreeze
******************************************** La Otracina "Blood Moon Riders" LP $12
"Don't be fooled by the King Diamond-style logo. This liberation of inverted progressive surf rock from psychedelic epithets plays like a fan-fiction account of Dick Dale's meeting with Sonny Sharrock at Amon Dueuel II's rehearsal space to discuss the "post-rock" epidemic. Unlike so many other instrumental soundtrack bands who employ ho-hum, choose-your-own-adventure tactics, La Otracina sticks to the rails of their own twisting corkscrews and spine-snapping dives. This work does not lend itself to the standard-fare apathy of background music. Blood Moon Raiders is its own ride, with its own ticket, and the doors are locked after take-off. Pinch some headphones to your dome and situate the rest of your form into a beanbag as you navigate the fibrous landscape of a black-light poster. The tracks flow from a subtle new-age contingency to violent bouts with Laotian street gangs. Remember to pack a sack lunch and strap on a machete before mounting this electric buck-bot. Don't fret--the intention has always been to crack open your skull or drown you." -holy mountain
************************************************************************** Bee Mask/Skin Graft split cassette $6
"one side each from this pair of young Cleveland noise masters. the Bee Mask side features sporadic appearances by Nate Scheible on drums, taking Bee Mask's usual shimmering sheets of sound to exciting new worlds. Skin Graft's side delivers, with all the crackling pulsations, burnt drifts, and shattered voices this dude evokes so well." -teen action
******************************************************** RAGLANI- "CLASSICALLY SPRAINED" cassette $6
"Joe Raglani has been creating music in St. Louis for years, with one of the keenest ears for space and form as well as a deep dedication to detail. His organic arrangements evoke the sort of feeling that any great work does, allowing a glimpse into the artist’s inspiration at the time of creation. “Classically Sprained” is no exception; worked and reworked from an innumerable amount of sources (modular synth, banjo, horn, voice, piano, and more), every placement is deliberate, nothing feels out of place or excessive. One of Raglani’s most uplifting releases to date; some songs exist on borderline pop territories, while still ripe with a modern take on a Berlin School sense of composition and Eluvium-esque emotive sensibilities. An ineffably great album; together with his recent Kranky record certifying a singular take on music-making; contemporary bedroom composition of the finest quality. In an edition of 150 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels." -arbor infinity
**************************************************************** EXERCISE- "FIELD OF DREAMS" cassette $6
"Chicago duo Exercise, comprised of Brett Naucke (Faceworker/Catholic Tapes) and Mike Pollard (Treetops/Arbor) find themselves at their most focused yet. Dual analog synthesizers in perfect harmony evoke a filmic sense of stasis; light and airy textures existing with an acute sense of high-mid range concentration. Soft pleasure and light contemplation; recorded in the middle of Chicago winter where the grey skies are as bright and glaring as the sun on a clear day. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color cardstock covers and printed labels." -arbor infinity
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"I think Chris Madak was born after impact in a car crash, and his Hyperborean Trenchtown will enter the world in a similar fashion. The album resonates a future sound vision that can only come from an old soul destined to further pave the paths laid by electronic and minimalist pioneers. Thorough audio examinations covering every facet of sound/tone property as a whole will reveal astonishing new layers listen after listen. Undeniably pure processes of creating and sustaining sound visually, sonically and otherwise brings a mathematical and scientific accuracy that hasnt been seen since the days of Lovely Music Ltd. or GRM. The album’s two side-long cuts are divided into two displays of versatility with varied sound sources including amplified acoustic instruments, hand-made electronics, phonography, and more. Brilliant textures and audio hallucinogenic time/space wormholes create infinite listening possibilities for this album. Few albums can create such a disorienting tunnel that it sounds as if the record has multiple albums locked within itself — you can hear these sounds and interpret them in so many ways that only time can unlock its many possibilities. Great albums only gain significance and this is surely no exception. Listen to this record on your turntable and stop time completely or melt into the past or the future with it — your choice. — John Elliott" -weird forest
*************************************************** fletcher pratt "mind gunk vol. 14" c60 cassette $6
"when you've got 13 previous installments of a series under your belt, you obviously know what you're doing. fletcher pratt's "mind gunk" series is definitely no exception. as with previous beasts, vol. 14 is an epic maze of tape collage, synth sprigs, acoustic skronk and general analog chaos. it's all over the map and you're likely to lose your head along the way, but isn't a little fun always worth the risk? limited to 40 copies with random covers." -digitalis
**************************************************************** Drunjus/Xiphiidae split cassette $6
"Guided smoke in 7 chapters. A word could be said about Atlantis, or self-discovery giving way to cosmic redemption and earthly mystery. Edition of 88" -housecraft
************************************************ Cyquoia/The Qoast split cassette $6
"Cyquoia pensively gather glowing leaves fallen from a grove of yesterday's trees, once overlooked, now startling. All systems invert and explode at the industrious hands of side Qoast. edition of 44" -housecraft
*************************************************** 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
********************************************************** 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
********************************************************** Mudboy "Eno Trouble/Midiwards/Happy Birthday Song" cassette $6.50
"'Blocky critters jam up in the webs in my ma’s bakelite every once in a while. She tell me I ought to investigate so I brung my earphones and muffled the two-step gothgroove. Check it out!' -Valhalla. Edition of 100 on purple shells with full-color artwork." -goaty tapes
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SKY LIMOUSINE "backs to the future" cassette $6
new tape on fag tapes
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DREAMERS CLOTH "MARBLE HALLS/ ENDLOS REICHENBERGER SCHORLE POOL" cassette $6
released on future sound recordings
******************************************************* DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE "voyage shopibo coast" cassette $8 (belgium import)
released on pacific city
*********************************************** 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
***************************************************** andrew coltrane "DMT shadow" cassette $6
"coltrane weaves another mess on top of the rotting remains of last night's leftovers. "DMT shadow" is a drill straight to your frontal lobe. entirely blown out with axxe, ring mod, & delay, AC is on digging tunnels to china and spewing up molten lava and space dust like it's going out of style fast. a total headfuck. edition of 75 copies, pro-dubbed with dirt & spice."- digitalis
**************************************** AC/The Mossy Throats "Feral Twins" cassette $6
"Me n' AC's split tape of ??? sound. AC side are two heavy stalag slabs of archival analog synth. Gnarly and heavy and just not moving. Mossy side is extra slow room tape loops and home-made electronics sit in the window and just hang like some plants. A total nowhere zone! Edition of 50, w/full-color fold out art." -exbx tapes
**************************************************** andrew coltrane "the os innominatum" cassette $6
"Downer-style minimal basement drone environs from Andrew Coltrane, some of his most ‘vacated’ sounding electro-acoustic sorcery and the perfect marriage of the Hermitage and Fag Tapes aesthetics. What could be better? Hand-numbered edition of 77 copies." -fag tapes
************************************************************* Disappears "Live Over the Rainbo" cassette $6
"If you missed picking up the limited tour CD-R from Chicago’s next-big-thing in underground rock, Plustapes has got your back! Re-pressed on your favorite Ludditian medium - the irreplaceable cassette tape - Live Over the Rainbo captures Disappears’ stellar live show from 10/26/08. Encapsulating that moment when post-punk first took notice of the power soaring electric guitars can have and slowly morphed its sound into what we now lovingly called shoegaze, it’s tough not to get caught up in Disappears’ subterranean grooves! Prepare yourself now, because we have a feeling 2009 is going to be a big year for these Chicagoans." -plus tapes
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BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI "Stamini Stamina" cassette $8 (UK import)
"French duo of Charles and Janin, totally wild I don't really know what to say about it... crazy jams and total insanity, i'm not sure these guys sound like anyone else right now... like some kinda kraut noise destruction... Limited to 100." -blackest rainbow
***************************************** Ryan Garbes - "Shit Education" cassette $6.00
"Garbes is back at it, blown over saturated tape punk psychosis, harsh head psych fusion rippers, another slab of destroyed rock greatness. This one even more catchy then the last. Like listening to your guts fall out on the floor while some rockers annihilate a house party in the background. Totally a sound of its own, influenced by all the greats with deluxe double sided silkscreened fold out covers by the man himself." -night people
***************************************************************************** Neon Tempal - "Midnight Moods " cassette $6
"Neon Tempal is Pascal Nicholas solo project, currently centered in Lyon France, this central England transplant spent times in groups like Stuckometer, Cars etc. Midnight Moods is centered around Pascal’s intimate, intense, and immediate drumming, and improvised percussion generated soundscapes. Occasional vocals and an assortment of other instruments come into the mix, but the feeling of live immediate playing is always at the forefront. Fans of the Actual Series of BYG LP’s take note." -night people
************************************************ XRay Eyeballs "s/t" cassette $6
"XRay Eyeballs is OJ and Carly (from NYC rockers Golden Triangle) new drum machine driven dark punk project. Bathed in reverb, low fi sheen, and weirdo grit, XRay Eyeballs sounds like two drifter kids covered in makeup and glitter trying to escape a dead city skyline proclaiming there love for each other as the world just passes them by. Creeped out and charming all at once. If the world died but the songs kept playing. Artwork by SDREED." -night people
************************************************************ TREETOPS- "PERMISSION / WHEN I WAS YOUNGER" LP $12
"Spirited youth and the intense magnification of focused energies chart the recent zones for Treetops. Utilizing tapes, casio keyboards, vocals and a variety of other sources, the path to earth bound nature drone is firmly rooted in electricity. Like the combination of the glacial drifts of massive rocks and the movements of air, the sources meld into blissed out meditative drones: ceremonial music rising into the future to get out of the past. Infinite ancients; constantly progressing, constantly evolving. Mastered by Pete Swanson (D. Yellow Swans); in an edition of 300 copies in proprinted foldover sleeves featuring photography by Kyle Parker (Infinite Body). The B-Side features a remastered and extended version of the “When I Was Younger” 2xc10 (arbor69) from last winter." -arbor
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Eternal Tapestry "spring 2009 tour" cdr $6
self released tour cdr, only available from DNT (and from them of course, catch them on tour if you can!) *the cdr and tape have DIFFERENT music/recordings*
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Eternal Tapestry "Mystic Induction" cdr $6
solar commune cdr reissue of out of print LP. limited
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Eternal Tapestry "Vibrations New Dawn" cdr $6
solar commune cdr reissue of out of print notnotfun cassette. limited
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sagas/plankton wat split cdr $6
solar commune cdr. limited
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evan miller/taiga remains split cassette $6
"recently, two of the most meticulous and well crafted ambient/drone workers paired up here for a perfectly balanced split. evan's side is flawless lap-steel/micro cassette piece. as is becoming his trade swelling and peaceful waves underneath with fluttering and sparse movement on top. alex's side is a bit darker. a slower pace, more obscured and abstract, haunting or foreboding. ideal for your changing mood." -callow god
******************************************** 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
******************************************************************************* Sean McCann/Ajilsvga split cassette $6
part of the skull bundle series on digitalis. not available anywhere else!
*********************************************** Sean McCann "Midnight Orchard" cassette $6
"Side A holds a chorus of bowed strings played at half speed. One 40 minute tune followed by a five minute wake up call. Side B holds sixteen sideways country iterations and looped mellow underground tones." -roll over rover
************************************************************************************ 16 BITCH PILE-UP/MIKE SHIFLET "Make Like a Fetus and Abort/Extract, Behold" split LP $12
Edition of 500. "Ohio has been rampant on the Ecstatic Peace play lists lately with the release of a long player earlier this year by Leslie Keffer and a forthcoming split LP by Emeralds and Tusco Terror. Like Keffer, who's moved to Nashville (to be closer to Be Your Own Pet), 16 Bitch Pile-Up and Mike Shiflet are both ex-pats of Ohio. 16 Bitch to California and Shiflet to some weird small town in Japan. Mike Shiflet we've known for years as he has produced some of the more interesting tapes and whatnot of Midwestern out-ness from his Gameboy label and from his legendary duo tour with Burning Star Core/C. Spencer Yeh of a few years back. Like the amazing beard he has sported since childhood, his music is a free-fall of acoustic wonder. He is also the cat responsible for turning on most of the world to the radical charms of three girls from Ohio wickedly named 16 Bitch Pile-Up. With a name like that you may have expected something just kinda funny but what made itself imminently obvious was that 16 Bitch was really and extremely into producing a wholly personal thrombosis of noise improvisation. Crystallized to the trio of Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers and Shannon Walter, this trio has become one of the most consistently exciting live experiences of the last five years. These recordings by both artists were done when both were still residents of Ohio and reflect that time and space right before each other's exodus. They are raw and righteous and ready for you to take a bite." -ecstatic peace
************************************************************ Antique Brothers "Season's Feast" cassette $6.50
"You don’t need a cassette description to school you on the knowledge that blood is thicker than water, but if that’s what it takes to make the lesson stick, so be it. Or, if you want a shortcut, just peruse the discography of Connecticut-bred brothers Cy and Ged Gengras. They’ve been harvesting jams together under the Antique Bros banner for, shit, almost four years now, and in that span have trawled through a thousand different hybrid strains (creep-folk, math-psych, chaos improv, etc). But the inter-family familiarity hasn’t bred contempt (take THAT, old proverb); on the contrary it’s spawned a secret psychic/musical language the rest of us ain’t privy to. And, despite a hefty local bias (Ged’s an LA/NNF hero, drums for Pocahaunted, Robedoor, AND Vibes), we can still say with honesty and confidence that Season’s Feast is easily our fave Antique B full-length to date. The ragers are dense and bearded, the acoustic passages evocative and hazy, the ambient lulls sticky as fresh resin. There’s a flow and a focus here that’s rare within the AB discog, and it makes for more meat on the bones, more flames in the fire. If yr already a fan, you’re in luck; and if you’re new to the Antique canon, THIS is the place to start. Pro-dubbed tapes with hand-typed/stamped labels in bags with full-color art by Amanda. Edition of 100." -nnf
***************************************** 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
******************************************************************************** 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
***************************************************************** 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
********************************************* la otracina "gardens of blackness" cassette $6
"pretty stoked to finally be dropping a bomb from la otracina, one of my absolute faves from the past few years. these brooklynites know how to bring in it in all forms from all directions. "gardens of blackness" is everything you'd hope it was: heady dark drones that flirt with the world of metal more than ever. drummer/vocalist adam kriney let's go on the a-side, hollering and wailing like tomorrow's nothing but a distant dream. other times you end up dredging up some serious murk from the bottom of the pool. hints of tape collage come out of nowhere and eventually it mellows out for a pretty even high. it's cohesive and all over the map all at the same time, definitely showcasing their new direction since their last record on holy mountain." - digitalis
************************************************* Expo '70 "White Ohms" cassette $6
"Space effortlessly drifts and FX-riddled loner folk jams glisten in its wake. "-peasant magik
****************************************************** Sun Araw "Beach Head" LP $14 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Sun, surf, and self-hypnosis: all the core particles for a perfect Pacific zone dream-day/daydream. And Beach Head is the soundtrack, in case you were wondering. Hot on the heels of May’s masterful coconut-dub Boat Trip EP comes Magic Lantern-bearer Cameron Stallones’ latest loner luau under the Sun Araw umbrella, and it’s an equatorial escape of the highest order. Unlike his NNF debut, The Phynx, Beach Head drops the drones and cosmic distortion (for the most part) in favor of slippery banana peel smoke stacks, undulating tropical hallucinations, and crystal/coastal moods. Waves, rare birds, and swaying palms cameo in the background. Across the LP’s four snaky rhythm reveries Stallones maps a loose, blissed void of voice, island bass-lines, and shimmering sunset electricity, inviting all to drift in and float on. It’s a total hit parade, top to bottom, might as well glue it to the turntable and weld the whole rig into yr yellow convertible and park that shit in the sand. Fans of Ducktails, imaginary Jimmy Buffet demos, and long walks on the beach will sleep easy on this grass mat. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert, with artwork by head beacher C. Stallones. Edition of 420." -nnf
************************************************************** Mythical Beast "Scales" LP $13
"One of our favorite covens comes home to roost; break out the champagne/goat’s blood. We’ve long been fans-turned-fanatics of nomadic power trio Mythical Beast’s burned-out blackened sabbath songs, but even our mountainous expectations for their long-awaited debut were toppled by the reality of Scales’ reptile alchemy. Financed by Greg Weeks of Espers and tracked in a legit East Coast studio on generous banks of sick vintage gear, this 8-song LP is the aesthetic culmination of nearly four years of tours, trials, and twilit travels to the heart of the heart of the country. The results rip. Drone-ballad classics from their haunting 2006 demo like “Cycle/Circle” and “Chaos Spinner” reappear here in freshly realized forms, alongside a hefty handful of brand new tunes, ranging from quaking soul vox torch trancers to ritual string psych-rock skeletons. All pressure points are hit. The M Beast white magic wonder wheel is alive and hell-bound. Easily the high point in a discography already full of highs. Transparent yellow (streaked with black) vinyl LPs housed in glossy jackets with a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 500. " -nnf
*************************************************************** 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
******************************************************************** Six Organs of Admittance "RTZ" 3XLP $21
"An immense 3LP retrospective from Ben Chasny's Six Organs Of Admittance, making his hard-to-find turn of the century recordings available once more. All the music compiled here is derived from non-album sources, collated from releases like 2000's Time Lag split with Charalambides ('Resurrection'), the 2003 Vibracathedral Orchestra joint release on Mental Telemetry ('Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told') and 2002's 'You Can Always See The Sun' from the Three Lobed subscription series. The music from this period segues between cosmic drone, ephemeral clatter and downright alien exoticism in which Chasny riffs on Eastern harmonics and instrumentation with an effortless fluency. As ever, his immense guitar chops line every recording, well and truly setting Chasny apart from his peers. The final selection on the first disc, compiled under the banner Punish The Chasms With Wings, draws on material recorded between 1998 and 2001, unearthing Six Organs output that's hitherto never been released in any shape or form. The final phase proves to be especially of note, revealing Chasny's supernaturally florid fingerpicking style, taking a highly original, more left-hand intensive slant on the Takoma sound that was to undergo a resurgence in popularity not long after these recordings were made. The second disc is taken up by the supremely rare Nightly Trembling album, initially released as a lathe cut in an edition of just 33 copies in 1999. Time Lag reissued the album in 2004, but it's only now, thanks to this Drag City release that this music is likely to remain widely available in the public domain. The thirty-seven-minute long-player opens triumphantly with a sublime nineteen-minute voyage (whose title reflects that duration: 'Redefinition Of Being Featuring Creation Aspects Earth, Air, Water') into bluegrass otherness, fusing American and Brit folk influences into a single majestic tract. When compiled as a single, expansive volume, this epic of Tascam fourtrack ingenuity becomes a remarkably cogent statement - a blueprint for the deluge of bedroom psychedelia and homespun avant-folk that's since come to permeate the sounds of contemporary Americana. Excellent." -drag city
************************************************************** Sleep "Sleep's Holy Mountain" LP $15
"Setting heavy metal's evolutionary clock back to the stone-age days of Saint Vitus with their debut Volume One was seemingly not enough for San Jose's Sleep, who decided to time travel all the way back to the pre-historic days of earliest Black Sabbath with their second album, 1993's Sleep's Holy Mountain. Indeed, while Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun and Monster Magnet's Spine of God are more frequently cited as the most influential and important albums in launching the American stoner/doom metal scene, not even these landmark releases compare to Holy Mountain for sheer devotion to unadulterated doom and copious weed consumption. In fact, as monolithic opener "Dragonaut" descends into a bass solo at its conclusion, one would be forgiven for expecting the band to segue straight into "N.I.B." — such is their similarity to classic Sabbath. Instead, they grind into "The Druid," which despite a quick nod to the Sabs' "Electric Funeral," actually begins to establish Sleep's personality, as riff upon massive riff in the form of songs like "Evil Gypsy/Solomon's Theme" and the groove-heavy "Aquarian" flow from the speakers like molten lava. In an age of machine-gun double-bass drums, Sleep's most startling quality had to be their seemingly endless patience. As they slowly embark upon the mammoth power chords of the title track and "From Beyond," they also prolong the buildup of tension before delivering a final release of cathartic proportions." -allmusic review
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Bongo "Live at Sleazy's" cdr $6
Bongo has members of Ducktails and Predator Vision. released on future sound recordings. some of the best music I've heard this year
*************************************************************************** The Futurians - Untitled Space Junk - Cassette $5
"Punk rock from the year 3000. For who's already familiar with the band from Dunedin, NZ, you know what to expect: primitive drums, walls of guitar feedbacks, synth-weirdness and vocals dialled directly from Saturn. Amazing. 100 copies, silkscreened." -8mm
******************************************************************************** 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
*********************************************************************** pete fosco "autumn fire blues" cassette $6
"our man in ohio knows when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em cuz on "autumn fire blues," he's burning the whole thing into a pile of silken ash. fosco just plain rules. his skill in crafting soaring guitar drones is up there with the best of 'em. "autumn fire blues" takes what he started on last year's "dust, american dust" and pushes it over the edge and into the abyss. anchors of bleed drip from the ceiling coating everything in a thick layer or crimson bliss. this is music for the last season. music for the last days, to see us off into the heavens as they crumble. pure magic.
pete fosco. for life. look for a digi lp later this year. edition of 85 copies, pro-dubbed like solid fucken gold."- digitalis
**************************************** 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
***************************************************************** Trash Dog "Namaste" cassette $6
"Another blast of scummy low fi thrash/hardcore sludge from Iowa City’s Trash Dog, definitely there best release to date. The quality on this one is an all around step up, short and brutal, with some drifting riff driven annihilation feedback purge finding its way onto the B side. Rolling with a deep lineup of Gretchen, Witscher, Garbes, and Miller, this ultra limited release from fall of 08 needed to find its way around again. Lost mind, fucked life, void gang, shit and failure anthems. Artwork by RGarbes. " -night people
************************************************************ Blessure Grave "Unknown Blessure" cassette $6
"Blessure Grave is new blood San Diego folk, goth, post punk, drawing resonance to alot that has come before but they keep it fresh and interesting. A lot of good repetitive hooks on this one with some bleak winter hell, frozen world, dead heart vibes makes for a dark listen. Blessure Grave must have spent some time in the colder northern wastes of the American vastness before ending up in Southern Cal. Tons of output from this prolific group on the horizon, keep yr ears open. Artwork by SDREED. " -night people
************************************************************ Tricorn and Queue "Ragged Bright Degrees" cassette $6
"Twilight out-of-body adjustments, stillness in the nervous system. edition of 75" -housecraft
******************************************************** Blueshift "Ghost Singers 3" cassette $6
"if you haven't heard any blueshift releases yet, hurry up and pick up the russian tsarlag/ Blueshift split LP! this tape continues her treks into abandoned buildings, opening the suitcases of dust, must and rust, air whipping through violin strings, the sounds of breathing, a real treat. full color art by george w. myers." -breaking world records
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BIRTH REFUSAL "phantom of the sewer" cassette $6
"Schooner Cove H X C . Jeff Olson and Mike Corvette of Wolf Eyes / Hair Police ect... the music of thrown away souls forced to die in slow motion painfully. hardcore fucking waste zone of rotting death. spectacular sounds! edtion 77." -fag tapes
************************************************************* the north sea "almost perfect illusion" cassette $8 (UK import)
"Brad Rose of Digitalis has been busting the North Sea jams for quite sometime, and in the last year or so its developed from being a luscious garden, to a complete metallic desert of industrial waste land, Christian Bale and his co-stars would probably feel at home with this being the soundtrack to the next Terminator flick, and who knows, maybe it will be? The A side, Cyclones, is a pure doom soaked 11 minute beast. Side B's Milk Money is a fuzz layered nightmare of scolding blowtorches burning at your face and mind... Intense and bleak. Bleak forestry cover art, pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 100 copies" -blackest rainbow
************************************************************* Ajilvsga "Buffalo Altar" cassette $6
"By now, underground lurkers and cassette junkies should be well familiar with the dark path Oklahoma's Ajilvsga has trod throughout the past year. On Buffalo Altar, Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis, etc.) and Nathan Young show no sign of letting up as they unleash two intense barrages of overdriven analog synth. Resting comfortably in the red, this is an unsentimental expression of the natural world in all of its primitive, ravaging glory. Full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub." -anathema sounds
********************************************************************* Sun Araw "The Phynx" LP $15
"All wild, natural organisms have roots, and some even say they’re a good thing to return to from time to time. For instance, right now. In the wake of the jazzed reactions garnered by his Beach Head album and split LP with Predator Vision, today seems as ripe a time as any to re-introduce yrself to chapter one of Cameron Stallones’ Sun Araw saga: The Phynx. Originally released on NNF as a micro-edition CDR in early ’08, this four-song scorcher blinded us the first time ‘round, but now, fully re-mastered by James Plotkin and spread across 12 inches of black vinyl, these raw electric stomping grounds sound positively holy. Our first-time descrip read: “Spanning Spacemen 3 garage cosmos, Starving Weirdos coastal séance, and a healthy stratosphere of pan-dimensional astral feedbackers, The Phynx is a fantastic four-track suite that floats freely from form to formlessness in the blink of a third eye. A great journey into white light dirge and dead distortion blues, and as killer a debut full-length as a label/listener/fan/head could hope for.” All of this rambling was, and remains, true blue. Edition of 500, housed in matte jackets with new back artwork." -not not fun
***************************************************** Ashtray Navigations "Use Copenhagen 69 Guitars & Park Drive Effects pedals Exclusively" LP $12
"Ashtray Navigations conjour up a debut LP of atypical extendo psyche smeared skronk." (1997) -siltrbreeze
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SHEARING PINX/STAMINA MANTIS-Split-7" $5.25
new 7" by shearing pinx and stamina mantis. released by reluctant recordings
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STEVE HAUSCHILDT "resplendent" cassette $8 (belgium import)
one of the new lights in synthesizer music which i'm very excited about. giving romance / beauty a place in music again, Steve brings a short contemplation of prose poems. a collection of beautiful incantations and scetches that could be directly channeled from a digitalised, fully updated mind of the Sona Gaia emporium of pretty meditations. Steve also plays in Emeralds.
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DUNCAN CAMERON "s/t" cassette $8 (belgium import)
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, not the kind of self-implemented isolation to reach for better knowledge of oneself / the others / the mind / mind programs / chrestos / life....
*********************************************** orphan fairytale "satellites that serve us" 1-sided cassette $9 (uk import/limited)
"After a long wait... the tale finally arrives, one insane trip of moon safari keyz from Belgian Frozen Corpser Eva. One side of pink cassette acid fuelled child like far outness that only the OF can jam so well. One of the most psychedelic-ly far out surreal trips to come out on the label so far, each one comes in individual space covers with a hand numbered black and white insert of crackle screen space weirdness. Limited to 100." -blackest rainbow
************************************************************ 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
******************************************************************************* Ajilvsga/Capricorn Wings- "Rites of the Solemn Ceremonies" cassette $6
"There’s nothin more potent than the movements of our earth. It aint just rumble and rip, it’s a soundin of shift. Some sorter fundamental restructuring of the plates on which we reside. Gives a source of connection. All this time spent treatin the earth like the pit for those of fallen-flesh, we done forget this significance of even havin a motherland. No two bands unearth (haha) this tectonic thunderin more adroitly than Ajilvsga and Capricorn Wings, capturing the hum and thud, the true resonance. No way to explain how, cept maybe they got huge ears as to hear lowness something terrible." -goaty tapes
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POD BLOTZ "goat rock" cassette $8 (belgium import)
Golden State member and dream encyclopedia Suzy Poling writes a novella of marble textures. at the center of a mystical place called Goat Rock, Suzy creates radiant tunes with a team of reel to reel tapes, voice and electronics. manifestating a full album with both lush vortex dreams, concrete sounds and more crude abstract patterns. Goat Rock is a complete, sparkling liquid mercury bath into a higher level of clean.
*********************************************** color dream "skywalker" cassette $8 (UK import)BACK IN STOCK!!
"New project from Arbor ruler (aka Treetops) Mike Pollard with former JK Taper, now Mr Young Tapes, Peter Friel... four space related close encounters of the drone kind... sweet and simple, guaranteed to leave you floating somewhere totally cosmic in the outer reaches of mind and space!!! Black and white sleeve and insert designed by the Color Dream boys. Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 100 copies. " -blackest rainbow
*************************************************************** lithium dreams "omega prism" cassette $6
"subconscious, deep sleep synth journeys and duck calls channeled through the high priest, omega egg -- completely improvised, yet totally fluid; such is the power of the egg. for time travel, magic spells, and webspinning. from the deserts and beaches of space to you. soon, all will bow before the egg. edition of 90, full color covers and glossy labels." -monorail trespassing
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Mist "Certain Expansion" cassette $7
John Elliot of Emeralds and Sam Goldberg. Released on Pizza Wagon
*************************************************** UTON - "Attack of the Aether Sun" cassette $6
"Solar mutations heat the core to smoldering white eternal. Doves disintigrate in slow-motion gradiants across a flowering panorama." -housecraft
********************************************************* Mossy Throats "Pattern for No-One" cassette $6
"Mossy Throats on TRANCH! About a c70 of metal mediation and brainscan electronics" (member of uneven universe) -trench tpes a
********************************************** Nautilus "Big Shadow" cassette $6
"Nautilus is NYC based muscian and artist Heidi Diehl's (Time-Life, WWVV etc) solo musical outlet. Airy landscapes of droning, vibranting, glacial subtlety, and atmopsheric instuermantls blend with decaying walls of sounds, none harsh or overpowering, all flowing in and out of each other in harmony. Voiced over the land, a symetry and wide vision of an endless horizon, drifting, falling and climbing, finding the way and loosing it again. Art by SDReed. " -night people
************************************************************ Sky Limousine "Midnight Heat" cassette $6
"New tape from a previous era in J. Burke's Sky Limo project. Vague white static globs over beautiful tones. Vocal tapes babbling ancient midnight rites. Sky Limousine takes no-fidelity to a strange new place! Full-color fold out art. Edition of 70" -exbx tapes
************************************ emeralds "grass ceiling" cassette $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Beginning with a gentle tangle of guitars, Grass Ceiling oozes into a sweet syrup of room tone, dilated chords, and faded, tape-worn ambience. Reminiscent of a murkier Growing or a Nine-Beet Stretch-ified Sonic Youth intro, Emeralds display extreme reverence for their sound sources, giving simple held sounds a gripping presence. The sheer beauty of the first track (all are untitled, if silences signal different tracks) ebbs into the in-the-red rawness of the second, which tops a gritty throb with medievalized chorals straight outta the catacombs of Columbus, only to be defaced by a searing blast of noisy electric heat.
The B-side opens with distant helicopter chug and the windy breath of the sacred, its cycles a somber greeting to an ink-black night inhabited by huge, heaving beasts lumbering in the bass frequencies. The breath gathers into near vocals, oddly similar to the scabbiest of black metal hissers, while the motorized pulse devolves into bat-cave sonar blips. The B is full of odd sounds that forgo the monolithic density on A for a more cluttered, frightening sound world, in which the almighty drone is no longer an ecstatic presence—an annihilation of consciousness and invitation to unity—but an indicator of things unknown, worthy of fear and paranoia. " -stylus magazine review
************************************************ Absinthe Minds "The Song Of Returning Light cassette" $6.50
"Every other blue moon or so someone will inquire if we think there’s a unifying trait shared amongst the bands on NNF. The answer given is usually “maybe,” but when it’s “yes” it’s qualified by the opinion that we like hybrid forms of creativity (purity is wack), juxtaposed shit, intermarriages, collage art, etc. Enter Wisconsin’s Absinthe Minds, a great cryptic trio that drive our point home by dripping a uniquely cross-purposes sonic slime from their ragged amps that we’re tempted to term “industrial raga.” Their mode meshes the mechanistic with the mystical, to awesome effect. Negative machines grind beside bubbling cauldrons of steam-psych synth, crystal prism vocals reverberate in cold concrete chambers, naked primitives with closed eyes chant and dance on broken generators in an empty parking garage. Contrast is king and The Song Of Returning Light soundtracks the coronation. Ab Minds’ past tapes found them sprawling with more of an overtly bleak agenda, but here Dead Luke & Co (plus guest GF Zola Jesus on one track) have balanced the darkness with the light (albeit dead grey light) for a sick 6-song C56 of interzone angst and grim zen moods. Like metal dragged across a prayer mat. Namaste, wasteland. Pro-dubbed tapes with hand-painted labels in cases with full-color J-cards designed by Amanda. Edition of 100." -nnf
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FM3 Buddah Machine II $22
"A unique 'soundbox' from China, which is causing senstation worldwide. A totally dazzling item which causes jaw-dropping delight everywhere - Alan Bishop bought twenty-four of these on sight, Brian Eno bought eight (how's that for apocalyptical math?). FM3 are a duo of Christiaan Virant and Chinese keyboardist and computer musician Zhang Jian - based in Beijing. The Buddha Machine is a hardware loop player, built kind of like a little AM radio (available in 6 different colors, shipped randomly), but without all the nonsense - total genius from out of nowhere. "The Buddha Machine is a small soundbox made in China which comes with an integrated speaker, a volume control, mini jack-out and a switch to choose between nine different loops which are stored on a small chip and can be directly played by this mini soundsystem."
*********************************************************** THURSTON MOORE/KOMMISSAR HJULER und MAMA BAER split cassette $7
"The bearder flippin his hammer at Pieta or that lady who crinkles up the rosies for a Cy scribble. Institutionalized or I reckon almost slaughtered, I coulda put money on your anxious wish for destruction. But first let's deconstruct the "song" as this here taper follows a linear narrative from structure to not-structure. - Valhalla." Edition of 150 on imprinted shells with full color artwork." -goaty tapes
************************************************ IGNATZ "A CANINE AND A KITTEN IN THE CAR" cassette $7
"Despite an insistence on boo damage southernizing I declare and for certain an entanglement of multifocused labors. Ignatz isn't no blackface minstrel show, there ain't any reappropriation in the downspook twang. What you're hearin hollering is the residual concoction of imperial conquest; tropical annexation. It's an Herbal, by god, with impressionist charm. No yarns on the cracked nut. Find a glow or otherwise "grasp the stalk". - Valhalla." Edition of 100 with full color artwork." -goaty tapes
********************************************************** Pocahaunted "Gold Miner's Daughters" cassette $6
"Man, what can I say about our #1 west-coast/east-coast dreamer homegirls that hasn't already been said by the cavalcade of killer wax and hazy live sets? Pocahaunted have blown up the zone in a big way over their just 2 year recording career, starting back in the day with the Moccasinging tape on NNF. This totally killer cult cassette only hinted at the unimagined sonic rainbow that the girls were gonna release into the atmosphere. Gold Miner's Daughters offers 3 new tracks ranging from a beautiful dreamy live deluge to totally strange femmaddness. We couldn't be more thrilled to have this in our catalog!! Edition on 200, with full-color fold-out art and xeroxed inserts." -exbx tapes
************************************************************** FLOWER MAN "PEPPERMINT STEAMROOM" cassette $6
"ALIEN INSPIRATION, TECHNICAL INCANTATION." -young tapes
*********************************** ANDREW COLTRANE "PLAGUED ORPHANS" cassette $6
"ORGANIC CYCLES OF MANIPULATED EARTH-BOUND MATERIALS." -young tapes
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Caboladies "Constellation Deformity" cassette $6
"Recorded underneath of a Roman bathhouse in the middle of a Moroccan cometary,
forgotten about and then remembered last Tuesday during a BBQ sesh on top of a skyscraper
in the middle of the moon... but not THE moon... one of the other ones." -smooth tapes
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Flower Man "Viewers Like You" cassette $6
"Viewers like you was made possible by the The Hope for Human Trust Foundation, Gloves Without Homes, Sanitary Solutions for Solitary Confinement, The Absentee Foundation, and Flower Man." -smooth tapes
********************************************************* Wet Hair "The Beach" cassette $6
"Tape from most recent west coast tour, features different versions of songs that will be released on a forthcoming lp and cd, plus some songs that will not." -night people *DNT'S FAVORITE BAND OF 2008!*
************************************************************ celer "cassette compositions" cassette $6
"huntington beach's husband/wife duo celer lull you into an enchanting, yet slightly uncomfortable stasis with over an hour full of solemn piano-based drones. "compositions for cassette" is distilled in glass and sent down a river of molasses. what danielle baquet-long and will long do is set this decaying, enchanting journey on it's course. they built the multiple cassette loops used to create this minimal symphony, this ode to american pianists of the 1920s. "compositions for cassette" is a funeral march of ghosts through alien fog, lost in a world that no longer exists for their original beings. in the end, it's only the whispers in the air that remain, a near silent elegy for notes and nooses left behind. stunning." -digitalis
**************************************************************** Sepviva Bells "Halloween In The Sea" C63 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
"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
******************************************************************************* Peonies "Infinity Has No Exits" C40 cassette $9 (belgium import) BACK IN STOCK!!
"Continuous fascinating and mysterious vocal harmonies unfolding into raw infinity. This acid-soaked haunting psychedelia truly has no exits. 100 copies." -sloow tapes
******************************************************************************* 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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Antique Brothers "Hot Shit" cassette $6
"About to drop some other serious albums on NNF and Stunned, this tapefeatures side-long blissworks that will gravitationally-bind you toanything with a clear boarder. Features the new drummer for Pocahauntedand Robedoor playing with his brother and others. Thick and enjoyable." -really coastal
*************************************************** Dukkha "Hail and Farewell" cassette $6
"Endless repetition. Keys spin over down tuned sludge, FX ridden guitars suffocate themselves, and utterly massive swells consume all laid before. TRUE SHEFFIELD BLACK PSYCHEDELIA." -peasant magik
****************************************** Travellers "The Sound of Travellers" cassette $6
"Picture this: You’re dressed suit-and-tie, briefcase in hand, accelerating from a trot to a sprint in an attempt to catch the closing doors of the elevator ahead. At the last possible second, the doors react to your frantic tug. Success! Breathing heavily, your eyes slowly take in the Port of Singapore expanding in size through the window of the ascending glass elevator. Rising through one of Singapore’s many modern skyscrapers in the heart of the Downtown Core, your ears perk to the groovy sound leaking from the elevator’s speakers. It’s a lilting groove, not quite out of the garage but certainly with a bubblegum sheen. Or is that a hint of surf-pop that you hear? The slight echo of Eastern modes makes the case for it to be a local product; or is that more tropical, a sound that stems from further East in the Pacific? Just then, you notice you’re not alone in the elevator. A local businessman – smaller in stature than yourself and wearing a pristinely wrinkle-free black suit with a dusty yellow cowboy hat – stares out the glass elevator. He appears harmless, but there is something mischievous about him. It’s that cowboy hat; it’s just so damn authentic but so culturally displaced. Then the music kicks in again, such an appropriate accentuation to the moment. The guitar begins to twang against a galloping groove… wait… Is this the soundtrack to a Far East Western? Or is it Chinese Go-Go? Some sort of offbeat Cha Cha? However you want to describe it, it’s The Sound of Travellers!" -plustapes
*********************************************************************** The Pistil Cosmos "Smoking Clouds In the Land of Fire" cdr $6
"The French psychedelic underground’s recent sweep of cdr & tape gems owes much to Monks of the Balhill member and “V” galactic guide Vincent Caylet. Lately, his parallel solo project The Pistil Cosmos has been fleshing out a rather grittier and at times noisier underbelly to his other works’ more peaceful star-eyed realms. 'Smoking Clouds In the Land of Fire' steps into 2009 as the salvo that says the scene in France is maintaining some serious chops. Album opener “The Dreamt Language” taps into echoing caverns of shrouded gallic ancestors, their chants hushed under a menacing moon. Twin opus “There’s No Ghost Here” features over twenty minutes of cascading overtones & startling infrasound resonating like a pulsar, dissolving the parameters of modern drone in a rainbow blur. Deep in scope, wide as our minds can go, be sure to tune in to this particular cosmos. Hand numbered edition of 90 white cdrs in vinyl case with insert card and full color art. The French psychedelic underground’s recent sweep of cdr & tape gems owes much to Monks of the Balhill member and “V” galactic guide Vincent Caylet. Lately, his parallel solo project The Pistil Cosmos has been fleshing out a rather grittier and at times noisier underbelly to his other works’ more peaceful star-eyed realms. 'Smoking Clouds In the Land of Fire' steps into 2009 as the salvo that says the scene in France is maintaining some serious chops. Album opener “The Dreamt Language” taps into echoing caverns of shrouded gallic ancestors, their chants hushed under a menacing moon. Twin opus “There’s No Ghost Here” features over twenty minutes of cascading overtones & startling infrasound resonating like a pulsar, dissolving the parameters of modern drone in a rainbow blur. Deep in scope, wide as our minds can go, be sure to tune in to this particular cosmos. Hand numbered edition of 90 white cdrs in vinyl case with insert card and full color art. " -stunned records
********************************************************* Ghost Brames of the Cerf "Static Aero" cdr $7
"Forest-temple worship and destruction from Angers, France. Conjures a hand drawn world in my head. Features
Florian Tositti (The Reggaee, Capricorn Wings, Xochipilli, The Cosmic Mandoliners) and Jacob Garet. 4 songs of gradually changing storms of fantasy hypnotism, beamed from the earth beneath branch shadow." -leaf trail
****************************************************** Bonecloud - "Teenage Lycanthropy" cdr $7 BACK IN STOCK FOR THE LAST TIME
"Over 70 minutes of beautiful white light healing vibes spread out over 5 songs. All music recorded in the summer of two thousand and six in the "frozen earth cabin" in Dublin, except "sea cave" which was recorded live to cassette at Lazybird." -leaf trail
******************************************************** Treetops "Shine With Youth" cassette $6
"Pollard is the crowned prince of fuzzed ambients. Recorded before departure to his now chillstead NYC, Shine With Youth is a mellow fragile experience that offers a heavy relentless psychedelic headtrip at the same time. Like following the north star via walking on eggshells. Safe and scared, shaky and certain. This tape represents just one of the many sick drops from Mike P in 08. Laying it down, like he does best, durastic use of reverb, absolute tunnel zone. Reverb shifts time to a slow lul and catches what fingerwork he does into an intricate weaving of riffage and steady drawn out bliss absolutely soaked." -pizza night
************************************************************ 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
***************************************************************** 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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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
******************************************************************* Hairmaiden of the Totem Robe "Lured to the Ground" cassette $6
"Total losers fall on guitars and eventually uncover mom's new age books in the attic. edition of 40." -housecraft
****************************************************************** ANDREW COLTRANE "Chromosphere 1+2" cdr $7
"Interstellar work from the legendary basement of Andrew Coltrane. Abyss level drones that are soul crushing and pure ecstatic joy. 40 minutes of force feeding black holes, burning treetops, melting psyches through glowing heavy beauty. AC weilds sax with charred electronics to masterfully merge the electro and acoustic planes, the results are cosmic meditations beyond mere noise. Essential listening for anyone who thinks they ever knew anything. Handstamped chrome covers, ink blot inner sleeve, each one unique. Edition of 59 copies" -folkwaste
****************************************************** BROTHERS of the OCCULT SISTERHOOD "EJe" cdr $7
"This is it. Smoke inhaled and blown out into the wide oceania sky. The moon just became brighter. Pathways revealed by songlines through high planes, drifting inward through oblivion. Ancestral footsteps, creaking cellos, smeared brown analogue electronics, alchemy rising, drums expanding, tied together by a delicate web of guitars... mere words fail the dark beauty of the Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. In its invocation "Eye Joy Event" blinds the nonbeliever... converts the reverted. 7 tracks ensure you'll never be the same again. Musicyourmindwillloveyou forever. Mystic woodcut prints on ouija board sleeves. Edition of 66." -folkwaste
****************************************************** Metal Rouge 'Ephemeroptera Vol. 3' cdr $7 (self released)
self released cdr in an edition of 50. I only have a few copies of this
****************************************************************************** LOOSERS/OWL XOUNDS 7" split 7" $5
"Loosers from Portugal continues with their psychedelic free noise jams after releases on labels such as Qbico, Ruby Red, Meudiademorte and Woodsist. A quiet and subtle guitar-driven piece, feels like a slooow and hot Sunday afternoon. The flipside has more crude and dirty out there jazz madness from Brooklyn's Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy, featuring Adam from Holy Mountains La Otracina." -release the bats
********************************************************** Law of the Rope "Beasts Will Have You" cassette $6.50
"Old folks often spout off to kids about not gettin’ in the car with strangers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t release cassettes by them. Good thing, too, cause bands creep outta the woodwork all the time with hoods on their heads and a fine master in their hand, and who’re we to give ‘em some inquisition shit? Law Of The Rope is an alleged trio (Nadine, Legin, and Beatrix Oppression, in case yr wondering) from the “United States Minor Outlying Islands” (yeah right) who mine a very idiosyncratic vein of isolated bedroom black metal somewhere between the more downtempo miserablist symphonies of Xasthur, the deranged 8-track stream-of-consciousness grooves of Lurker of Chalice, and the harsh arctic blasts of Wold. We’re no experts on the subject, but Beasts Will Have You holds its own against all those touchstones, and even adds a nice non-metal dimension to a lotta the songs that free ‘em up from the genre’s restrictions/expectations. The tape’s 2 16-minute-ish sides stalk through the spectrum of foul moods, at turns caged and violent, other times awash in arch-gothic negative grandeur, fleshed out with somber strings and icy life-in-prison-style keyboards. Bleak is back. Pro-dubbed & imprinted cassettes in black-on-black devourer art cases with black-and-blood paper fangs glued to the plastic. Edition of 100." -nnf
************************************************************************* STRANGE WATER- "ENVIORNMENTS" cassette $6
"The first Strange Water release was a daunting, drenched c60 of confusing murk; now: clarity. Dan Dlugosielski (Uneven Universe, Body Morph) and Mike Pollard (Treetops) create a focused and directed new age piece, consisting of keyboards, electronics, and sax stuck in a Rileyian trance. Two minds melted into one. Smooth moving, everything shines; the clearing of the sky after a storm. A lone track stretched across both sides of the tape. Infinity is now, loop forever. In an edition of 75 tapes with full color art and labels." -arbor
********************************************************* Z-Gun Issue #2 zine $4
"It is 56 pages and has stuff on Sightings, Drunks with Guns, the Fabulous Diamonds, AmRep Records, Enfant Terrible Records, film scores, and tons of reviews."
********************************************************************** ELEKTRONAVN "Cosmic Continuum" cdr $6
"Elektronavn AKA Magnus Olsen Majmon is a Danish sound sculptor that shapes a claustrophobic, almost physical experience with haunting drones constructed from an arsenal of instruments such as clarinet, distorted voice, guitar, organ, flute, gong, harp, field recordings and percussion. The music is pretty much impossible to lump into any particular genre but there is a significant folk vibe that runs through a lot of the music, even the more experimental and psychedelic parts. This might have something to do with the ample use of exotic instrumentation, but the end result goes far beyond folk music, providing an abstract gateway of overtones that are bent beyond the world of imagination to a spiritual figure, greater than you and me." -ikuisuus
******************************************************************************************** MANIACS DREAM- "ZANZIBAR" LP $13
"Finland is the epicenter of collective music making. Under the name Maniacs Dream, members of Finnish bands such as Avarus, Fricara Pacchu, Kemialliset Ystävät, and more come together to create blown out free rock. Their unique/bizarre approach to music making, constantly questioning the construction/deconstruction of sound creates songs at times recalling the electro acoustic clatter drone of Avarus crossed with tribal rhythms and intergalactic kraut rock guitar zones. Total sonic freedom with a punk ethos directly influenced by a trip to Zanzibar prior to recording this record (which is a reissue of the long sold out tape originally released on Lal Lal Lal in 2006). In an edition of 450 records on light blue vinyl with printed labels and full color proprinted foldover sleeves with art by Benjamin Bergman and an insert." -arbor
************************************************************************************* 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
******************************************************************************** INFINITY WINDOW- "ARTIFICIAL MIDNIGHT" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
"New York synth duo Infinity Window have been crafting their game for well over a year without much documentation. Comprised of Dan Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and Taylor Richardson (Prehistoric Blackout), this LP shows them at the pinnacle of self-realization. Equally influenced by John Carpenter and the Taj Mahal Travelers, they create traveling music; music that has the power to transport and overwhelm the listener with vibes outside of those presently available to them. The A Side consists of two tracks, both clouded in a heavy haze of fog, dark and heavy though their clarity exists underneath the shroud. The B Side’s lone track “Skull Theft” is the full circle realization of the first two tracks: a light is illuminated and the fog begins to clear. Mastered by Keith Fullerton Whitman. In an edition of 500 LPs with full color pro-printed cardboard sleeves and printed labels with art by Robert Beatty (Hair Police / Burning Star Core)." -arbor
***************************************************** joe montana "shifting spaces" cassette $6
"peter friel changes things up again and again, keeping us all on our toes while he looks for the flea flicker from the heavens. miles of green grass stretches toward the synthetic horizon. everything is fuzzy like a dream and all you can do is ride these pads to through the golden skies. limited to 75 copies." -digitalis
**************************************************************** Peaking Lights "Imaginary Falcons" LP $13
"This is the debut full length LP by Madison Wisconsin's Peaking Lights. Members Indra Dunis (Numbers/Rah Dunes) and Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes) created a stunner that's full of hypnotic analog electronics, pulsing drum sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, and Indra's warm drifting vocals. This record is all its own, everything it needs to be, and it won't disappoint any expectations of its harmony and beauty. Groovy, spacey, heartfelt music for a new age. Art work and silkscreen by Shawn Reed. " -night people
************************************************************ Peaking Lights "Two for Ceremony" cassette $6
"Another killer release by Night-People's favorite group, Madison WI's Peaking Lights. Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis cut this session for a late 08 west coast tour with Wet Hair, and it rips on in that beautifully dreamy, sparkling synth layered style of haunted electronics, dubed out organ beats, and cascading washes of psych blown guitar fuzz that is only Peaking Lights. Art by SDReed." -night people
************************************************************ Jeans Wilder "Antiques" cassette $6
"Jeans Wilder is new loner fuzz under the rug bedroom pop from San Diego that sits both on the sunny side and under the night time. Nostalgic, hazy, real pretty and low key, this one shines when it needs to for sure. Hushed melodies abound and peak through the weird fog for a little bit of glory in the sun when the feeling is suited. Play at night on your headphones, thinking about lost love, abandoned dreams, and what’s next. Artwork by SDREED. " -night people
************************************************************ Oneohtrix Point Never 'Betrayed in the Octagon' LP $13
"Oneohtrix Point Never is Daniel Lopatin's project of polysynth epic electronic sound. Cascading melodies, holistic drones, and folding tones combine to create a dichotomy of sound that reflects on the organic discovery of our nature and the infinite possibilities within our enclosed human systems. Betrayed in the Octagon is a frozen fantasy, a liminal record that brings to mind caves and other hidden places where life started billions of years ago. OPN is a lost soul from the polysynth epoch giving a nod to the old masters while moving trough the systems of 21st century life and reflecting them in the pure beauty of total electronic moving sound. Originally released as a cassette on Deception Island in 2007, Octagon was the first OPN release. NFP is proud to bring it back re-sequenced and re-mastered for vinyl as the first OPN LP. Artwork by Chris Madak. limited to 300 copies." -no fun
******************************************************************* Dead Black Arms "Lake Reflection Catalyst" cassette $6
"The last time Copenhagen’s Claus Haxholm dropped a Stunned release under his Doom Riot moniker, it caught the ear of many seeking drones of timeless celestial import. Including Julian Cope, who recently called it “guaranteed guestlist entry into the Underworld… a righteous and coherent statement of intent that should have y’all returning again and again.” So we asked Claus back, and this time he returns in Dead Black Arms garb to resume the Danish bleak-streak. ‘Lake Reflection Catalyst’ lasts half as long as the last go-around so it makes sure to burn twice as hot over dual/dueling 20+ minute sides. Listening closely, one becomes privy to a dawning horror wrought high above mirrored waters — a startling, unprepared realization and the ensuing paradox. The scene holds especial tension given Dead Black Arms’ relentlessly minimal approach to guitar and percussion drone. Often stripping back all semblance of tone in order to chase down forces of sheer electricity, Haxholm’s obsessive pursuit bares his instrument’s power to sculpt stark new forms. Yet somehow an array of subtlety is preserved in the crush of naked timbre, affirming that details are never overlooked by Denmark’s dark son. Hand numbered edition of 100 painted & pro-dubbed c46 tapes in clear shells w/ blue foil liner & double-sided color jcard; designed in energy of WATER." -stunned
*************************************************************** 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 andm R. Garbes signature propulsive drumming. Late dead encrusted shrine rock for the end times. Art by Garbes/Reed." -night people
********************************************************** Predator Vision "s/t" cassette cdr reissue $6 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Influenced by watching the movie Predator while listening to soft rock records of Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, and Todd Rundgren. This documents an acid- drenched jam recorded in the basement of Skylight Horizon Studio in Northampton, MA. Featuring Matt Mondanile and Ben Daly on guitars and Etienne Duguay on drums. Mixture of Neil Young amped guitar lines with krauty Guru Guru progressive feel. Definite on the beach zoner Yahowa 13 style. 60 minute dual guitar and drum slayer. Full color covers with color sticker on tape." -future sounds
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Caboladies "Psychic Birthmark" CDR $6
smooth tapes
********************************************************* Monks of the Balhill "Lost and Hide Side" cdr $6
"Wind and water joined in blurred air find two Vincents stretching guitar vapors like bright shadows over root bark. edition of 50" -housecraft
*********************************************** A.M. Shiner "The Sunny Hour" cassette $6
"Through a narrow slant in a cobwebbed shanty, A.M. stares hypnotically at a rising sun whilst sanding electronics in a neo-ritualistic haze of sawdust and smoldering vegetation. edition of 50" -housecraft
****************************************************** blank realm "street bananas" cassette $6
"blank realm has evolved over the past few years from some of the best droners in the land of oz to doing something far more disjointed, original, catch, and honestly, fucking genius. they exist in the same zone as their breakdance the dawn brethren, but have easily etched their own fractals in the sand. everything is played and sung like it's being drawn out of a thick haze. you can never quite see it, but bits and pieces slowly reveal themselves so you can connect the sparkling dots. "street bananas" finds its groove right away, and at times will have you wanting to shake your ass out on that stretch of empty highway that leads straight to the fucken moon. hell, blank realm even through a few pop missives out of nowhere that you'll hum until the day you implode. i think i'm ready to move down under where everything... everything is baked and/or fried. limited to 77 copies that give homage to 1983." -digitalis
*************************************************************************** MV & EE with the Golden Road "Gettin' Gone" 2XLP $18
"Last year, MV & EE delivered two of the definitive entries into the contemporary psych-folk canon: the sprawling masterpiece 'Mother Of Thousands' and its more concise, upscale sibling 'Green Blues'. Getting' Gone marks something of a departure from the beautiful mess-making of those albums, instead opting for a more focussed approach to classic rock templates, albeit with the distinctively obscure lyrical approach that's so much a part of the Matt Valentine mythology. Inevitably this album has drawn comparisons to Neil Young, and the duo certainly aren't shy of acknowledging Shakey's influence: they've been known to turn out an astonishing cover of 'Powerderfinger' from time to time - and heck, they even went and called their dog Zuma, but this isn't quite the Crazy Horse-inspired opus they've always threatened to make. If anything, the album's far more reined-in than you might expect, focussing on solid riffing and structurally sound songwriting. That's certainly not to say there's anything conservative about Gettin' Gone, it's just a little more ordered than the far-out transmissions we're used to from MV & EE. After the opening, electrified tones of 'Susquehanna (Sole Art Trample)' the album proceeds through a sequence of bluesy numbers, surely ranking as the straightest songs these guys have ever committed to tape. On 'The Burden' Valentine's guitar is as beautifully played as ever, and the double-team vocal locks into that familiar, wasted country vibe whilst Doc Dunn's soaring pedal steel casts a majestic authority over everything. Just when you're thinking how sanitised it's all starting to sound a towering fuzz guitar solo lumbers into the frame and lacerates the mix nicely. Similarly gorgeous is 'I Got Caves In There', whose reverberating psych tones benefit from aloof Erika Elder vocals and florid acoustic digressions. 'Mama My' is a different beast altogether, an all-out rocker with Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis setting his purple Jazzmaster to one side, instead manning the drums with a thumping authority while MV lets rip with a wah-wah dirge. 'Speed Queen' is probably the closest the album comes to Crazy Horse, even approximating Young's frazzled, crunched-up '70s amp sound. Similarly, 'Country Fried' taps into an elongated, altered-state country rock twilight zone that ticks all the right boxes, balancing great songwriting with magnificent, untethered guitar passages. On Gettin' Gone, MV & EE consolidate their position as two of the standout figures in the American underground, pinning down with absolute authenticity - and no small measure of instrumental prowess - a sound that has nothing to do with fads or labels like psych-folk. This is just rock music of the very purest, very finest kind. " -ecstatic peace
***************************************************************** Marble Sky "Sway" cassette $6
"winter seclusion from frozen fields. absolutely flawless and well-paced synth / guitar work -- bursting through thick clouds and shining bright, but always near the darkness. somewhere, something is wrong; somewhere else, Dreams are Coming True. edition of 125, full color covers and glossy labels." -monorail trespassing
************************************************ earn "down the well" cassette $6
"an epic achievement -- moving from layered cello (courtesy scott 'work / death' reber), to blissed-out post-shoegaze guitar (what MBV should've become; check the 'barrier' sample), to gritty, dark subtlety; ending with an unsettling document of audio voyeurism. narrative and honest, true stories. edition of 125, full color covers and glossy labels." -monorail trespassing
************************************************ Vortex Trio "Live Dead" cassette $6
"A group of cool kids out in AK. Sent me their tape on TRANCH and was hooked!! Sounds are vast arches of vague waves and endless loops that die in the static. Can't believe this is a trio! Not LIVE like a gig, LIVE like your life..... DEAD!! Edition of 60, w/full-color fold out art." -exbx tapes
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ELM 'Woven Into Light' cdr $8 (UK import)
"Solo project of one half of Barn Owl, Jon Porras... and its an absolute mind blower. Following his previous release on Digitalis (that vanished in the flash of an eye), here's a new 7 track album of meandering drone laced with guitars, vocals, harmonium and harmonica... Opener 'Rising Smoke Woods' sounds as though its been recorded at the top of a hill at the close of day, slow, bleak, guitar with distant waves of vocal telepathy, far out chimes, and a mellow building drone that turns into an almost doom riff from the looming darkness. 'Solemn Night Prayer' has an almost nomadic wanderer feel to it, with its whispering flutes, fuzzed riff and repetitive guitars foot stepping around and around. Album finale is with 'Waves Break Into Beams of Light', which is a hazy mist of shaky drones layered over one another. Limited to 250 hand numbered copies, pro manufactured CDRs with simple stark on disc print." -blackest rainbow
************************************************************ 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
***************************************************************** 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
*********************************************************************** 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
***************************************************** 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
*********************************************************************** 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
********************************************************************* 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
********************************************************************************* 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
*********************************************** 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
*********************************************************************** Treetops "Giant Earth" cassette $8 (UK import)
"Arbor Mike births tone float and directs natural drone with purest human edge perceptible." -sickhead
********************************************************* 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
**************************************************************** Astronaut "Sans Noise Suitcase" cdr $6
"recorded live at PA's Lounge, Somerville, MA - March 23rd, 2007.
first ever Astronaut show,
reportedly inspired by visions of an imaginary species of drone babes.
edition of 50
" -housecraft
*********************************************** SHEARING PINX "INFINITE SIBLINGS" 2xCDR $12
"A collection of SHPX tracks from the 9 of the first split cassettes + 2 new unreleased radio tracks. /// Ltd. 50 copies " -INW
**************************************************************** BOT/SHEARING PINX split cassette $6
"BOT are a new young band from Sudbury, ON...and they are fire breathing little maniacs! Such a nice breath of gasoline. /// Shpx are giving birth a lot these days.//// Ltd.50 copies. " -INW
**************************************************************** N.213/JAMES FELLA split cassette $6
"N.XXX brings tears of sexual extraction! //// JF is at the helm of Gilgongo and destroyer in Soft Shoulder and Tent/City awsomeness! /// Ltd. 49 copies. " -INW
**************************************************************** ACRE/MONGST/DEFAULT JAMERSON Triple 3"CDR Set $15
"The conjoined forces of some epic noise drone psycke-OUT shit! From USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA comes the complete takedown. CDRs come in 7inch sleeve with printed art by d.g.l.r., and are attached to a random 45 with silk-screened B-side! Totally amazing!!!!! /// Ltd. 100 copies." -INW
****************************************************** quetzolcoatl "forever bleeding canyon cloud" cdr $7
"ireland's timothy hurley has carved out his own ocean in the back alleys of dublin as quetzolcoatl and as 1/2 of bonecloud. "forever bleeding canyon cloud" is a fuzzed-out parlay of ghost drones and atmospheric wreckage. hurley bends and twists minimal instrumentation and chants into a massive, bubbling concoction of stuck souls wailing for freedom. it's a murky proposition, but in the end the bliss will come. looped walls of feedback scorch the walls surrounding the kingdom, and by the time the last track fades away, the organic ruins left behind are nothing short of beautiful. " -foxglove
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andrew coltrane recycled cassette $5
new tape on rrr records
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pulse emitter recycled casette $4
new tape on rrr records
****************************************************************************** dubdrip / nimby - "smoke tinged perception / flotation device" cassingle $4
"A smoke-tinged song by raccoo oo oon's main psycher, Driphouse [Daren Ho]. tribute to sleng teng which is less a genre than a reggae casio setting. nimby side slices a three minute flight over clouds." -detrivore
******************************************************** RYAN GARBES/SKYE CIELITO split cassingle $4
"Garbes ('oo oon, wet hair) gives us two (?) pieces to flick the puss out of our eyes and realise our freedom. Skye does cello loops and siren hypnotic vocals on this live track." -detrivore
************************************************************** TATERBUG/PRUDES split cassingle $4
"T'bug is a recent Iowa City transplant transient, this track is beautiful and pretty close to how he describes: "12 year olds tripping out in the desert singing." Prudes is Gretch (trashdog) and Candita while they briefly hungout for a weekend and flipped out with pedals, cellos, and throats." -detrivore
******************************************************** Emeralds "Emeralds" cassette $6.50
"These midwest druggies really know what they are doing... Guitar synths, and tapes hallucinations that sound like they could maybe be an unedited ULTRA recording. Fans of the surreal sound of NWW and company should check these boys out..." -hanson
************************************ Earth Crown - "Say Fuck You to the Beast" cassette $6
"Earth Crown is Door, and Door is Earth Crown, Door moved down to Baltimore's annihilated warehouse district a few months ago from his legendary former address Castle Puppy in New Brunswick NJ and the change seems to make sense, the sound collected on this tape relates to the deserted post apocalyptic feel of the cities most lost inhabitants and streets. Sci Fi sythy feedback fuckers, crust nihilism, industrial pulse wars, termination soundtracks, ultra control feeding into chaotic electronic spew, dystopian rules. Door is dialed into a dark cold future. Ragging and minimal, music for replicant dreams. Art by Door." -night people
******************************************************************** UNEVEN UNIVERSE "SOLAR GRAPES" cassette $6
"the dan and holly duo always bring the party when it's time to roll through michigan. either they are exercising crack head ghosts out of the half crypt attic or talking down cops while a solid jason goes to hell / smoke session occurs on a ferndale couch, it's constantly a good time. but the real time to shine comes when they spill battered sax vibes down the walls. i got to see uneven universe batter horns into deep creep mode in a lansing spider hole and was hooked. think tarpit jazz, heavy on tar, light on jazz." -905 tapes
*********************************************************************** Plankton Wat — "Crystal Wizard" cdr $6
"Having been dazzled by his Alchemy of Darkness cassette out earlier this year on DNT, then watching him fry it sky-hi in Eternal Tapestry & Bloodbiker, we at Stunned had no choice but to get ahold of Dewey Mahood and see if there was any more psych wizardry to share with us. Turns out there was, and in Portland’s Owl House studio Crystal Wizard was born. Here, syrup dipped 4-track guitar delights are fingerpicked into existence simple-like. No need to rush in something so damn noble and zen-field spare. Gradually, drums and bells adorn the pieces which funnel to greater layers of complexity, until all becomes a swirl of beckoning light and void. Limited edition of 100 hand numbered cdrs in plastic case with tripped out color art and insert card by Dewey." -stunned records
******************************************************** My Cat Is An Alien / Valerio Cosi "Stories From The Vacuum" split 7" $5
"A truly ethereal pairing from Italy. While MCIAA has already established a massive offering in all formats, this 7"is Valerio's first vinyl appearance proper. His side is dominated by free jazz sax loops and trance vocals, with moments of twinkling percussion and electronic euphoria. An amalgamation of improv styles pulled off in a way only Valerio can. On the flip is a beautiful example of the lush guitar ambiance, wordless vocals, and alien space toy sound effects that the Opalio brothers are known for. Gold ink offset printing on metallic vellum, clear vinyl with gold ink on white pro-printed labels. Edition of 500." -black horizons
******************************************************************************* pocahaunted / robedoor "hunted gathering" 2xCD $18 LAST COPY!!
"There's a savage battle raging in the hallowed streets of Los Angeles, being fought by prehistoric megaliths spewing lava from their mouths. These acid-tongued shamans are interested in one thing and one thing only, and that's to raze this city to the ground. Okay, perhaps it's not so apocalyptic, but hot off the heels of opening for Sonic Youth, dirt worshipers Robedoor and their native sisters Pocahaunted have unleashed an army for the ages with "Hunted Gathering." Drones painted with black holes collapse under their own weight while the archangelic voices of Pocahaunted birth a brand new world of spirit decay. "Hunted Gathering" is both a split release and a collaboration. Each band offers up their own malfeasance while collaborating on the epic final eponymous track. The union of these two groups is a natural combination. Two members are married and run the Not Not Fun label together and they share amps and practice space, for example. But there's also something about both that is visceral and raw. Robedoor's subsonic doom is washed down with a smooth chaser of Pocahaunted's reverberating soul sounds. Recorded by the inimitable Bobb Bruno at the NNF/Bored Fortress studio space across many moons in 2007 and mastered by Yellow Swans' Pete Swanson, "Hunted Gathering" is an essential feast for fans of doom-infused drones and Stevie Nicks. These hunting & gathering songs from the Eagle Rock air also feature appearances by the aforementioned Bruno as well as Changeling mastermind, Roy Tatum. Climb the totem pole and let these mutant beasts put you under their psychosis spell. "Hunted Gathering" is full of antiquated sounds soaked in electric mud. Robedoor and Pocahaunted are your brothers and sisters in conjuring and the gatekeepers to a lost universe of sonic enchantment." -digitalis
************************************************************************ smgsap "Chrysalis Cycles" cdr $6
"shea M. gauer and scott A. peterson are smgsap, and Chrysalis Cycles is their third full length release in nine years as a group. The layered soundscapes here testify to a pair of improvisational artists with ears for excruciating detail – meticulous gatekeepers on the threshold of analog/digital transfer banks. Moans of plate tectonic energies lay a groundwork for the duo to unleash a wide variety of insectile oscillations and zaps of errant particle collisions. By the conclusion of the four cryptic cycles, it’s hard not to be convinced that somewhere, maybe right under your nose, a creature has undergone a magical, chemical reconfiguration. Ltd. 69 handnumbered cdrs in heavy cottonpaper pouches with fold-out color insert." -stunned records
************************************************************** ZAIMPH 7" $5.50
"In the past Marcia Bassett(of Double Leopards, GHQ) has proved her versaitility under the Zaimph name; from the depraved feedback and tone fury of her “Sexual Infinity” CD on Hospital Productions to her delicate electric guitar and vocals waves on the “Mirage of The Other” LP on Gypsy Sphinx. This untitled 7” release further proves this fact by recalling her earliest roots in the Siltbreeze band UN: vocal mantras and delicate strumming are placed over a hypnotically evolving base of looped piano, feedback, and strings. The end result is something beautiful that twists the lines of classification, picking up little points of reference from her past bands and laying out a path towards the future. In an edition of 500 7”s in proprinted full color foldover sleeves with art by Marcia. Mastered by Josh Stevenson." -arbor
*********************************************************************************** XYX Sistema de Terminacion Sexual 7" $4
"Stumbling on Los Llamarada was great (as well as pure luck) and led me scouring the web for other bands from Monterrey…and there were more and some good ones too, but nothing that really knocked me out. Then a few months ago, Mou from XYX emails me and says, "We are friends with Llamarada and in some other bands that play with them. Here's something that you might like. Check it out." And me being a nice guy took a trip to XYX's myspace page. I listened and liked. Liked a lot. A whole lot. I asked for more songs and said, Let's do a record. "When?" Now! ….and here it is! Four great songs with overblown bass and drums and really cool fucked vocals. XYX has a looping sound that reminds me a bit of Hubble Bubble, but in a post punk context. The songs (even when they are longish) are compact, but still full. XYX is a great band and this is a very cool record...and it is selling very fast." -s-s records
************************************************************************************* Treetops "Brighter Light" cdr $7 *BACK IN STOCK!!*
"Mike Pollard is basically the man right now, not only does he do this
awesome project called Treetops thats had some killer stuff on
Ecstatic Peace, Not Not Fun, DNT and Gilgongo, but he runs one of my
favourite labels Arbor. So i'm psyched to be releasing this disc from
him. Sounding like some kind of 70s cavern ritual nightmare
throughout, tapping, churning weirdness with occasional patterred
drums, shattering cymbals, and more full on room engulfing
density-intensity. Comes in full colour collage sleeves designed by
Bethany of Pocahaunted. Handnumbered edition of 100 on black bottomed
cdrs.". -Blackest Rainbow
************************************************************************************* Expo 70 "Animism" CD $8
"Expo 70's first official CD release. These are some of the heaviest and darkest drones ever created by him and has one critical acclaim from everyone. Amazing artowrk in a perfect digipak desinged by Expo himself. This is a must have." -kill shaman
**************************************************************************************** Yikes! "Whoa Comas/Blood Bomb" CD $7
"Mr. John "Coachwhips" Dwyer leads a ragtag group of miscreants from such other bands as Fuck Wolf, Sic Alps, and Techno Werewolves into a heaving battle of guitar distortion and walls of mania. Somewhere between Coachwhips and Pink and Brown. In other words, really fucking good." -kill shaman
********************************************************************************** The Pope "Society of Friends" CD $4 *BACK IN STOCK!!*
"Ex-members of the Rattlesnakes and the Manifolds, they are religious, republican, and utterly revolting. They hate you and your condom-using, liquer-drinking, pot-smoking, sodomizing, sweaty ass. Bass and drums to the extreme. Enough effects and thwap to make your eyeballs leak blood. Though completely sarcastic, the first release for this super-duo, entitled Society of Friends, is a highly anticipated 20-minute full-length. Think chaos a la Lightning Bolt." -Satellite City
*************************************************************************************************** VxPxC "Struggling with Heavy Clouds" cdr $4
"Brand new CDR from the trio of Grant Capes, Justin McInteer and Tim
Goodwillie recorded in LA. Wavering multi instrumental
folk-psyche-drone-blues lulling jams/songs across 4 tracks, total
bliss-heaven-hell-blurgh. Comes in the same lightweight paper as the
WWVV with fold out all over artwork by Darryl Norsen. Limited to 110
handnumbered copies." -blackest rainbow
***************************************************************** Warmth "leave your wet brain in the hot sun" CD $7
"'Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun' is a thick blanket of unsettling doom. The smell of death is in the air, floating in-and-out of range like a black cloud. Warmth's mixture of distorted, haunted synth loops, hijacked guitar frequenices, and various injections of dirt-soaked piano fuzz. Thompson's drones are reminiscent of Andrew Chalk and Mirror in the way they lure the listener in during the early stages with his quiet and methodic approach. They're soothing and soft, but totally misleading. Once the eyelids start to get heavy, Thompson runs you down with discordant, often abrasive, missives. He plays this dichotomy up to perfection, and shows an amazing understanding of composition and layering. As each electronic swirl draws you in closer, like a moth to a buzzing streetlight, you get lost in this aural concrete labryinth. "Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun" will bury your mind under piles of dust. Warmth is painting the town with a gang of spectres on his back, sandblasting diseased tones through everyone's eardrums. For fans of Double Leopards, Hive Mind, and that ilk, it is only once you're destroyed that you'll be totally satisfied." - digitalisindustries
****************************************************************************** Bri White/James Fella split 7" $4 *LAST COPY!!*
"Split 7" from two busy-bodies from Arizona. BRI WHITE (Flux Conquistador, Foot Ox), who usually creates pretty piano based singer-songwriter music, offers a six minute piece which is both beautiful and haunting (primarily using a weird piano / violin hybrid instrument called a pianolin, which is obscure enough to not even have an article on wikidpedia about it), and falls somewhere between the blurry lines of Spires That in the Sunset Rise and White Magic. (She is currently up in Portland)! JAMES FELLA (Soft Shoulder, Tent/City) offers layers of clarinet, guitar, vocal-based sound and noise in a piece that is much more calm and quiet than the majoirty of his usual sound / noise / splice work. Full color covers enveloping thick blue (w/ splashes of white) vinyl." - gilgongo records
********************************************************************************************* ACRE- "MONOLITH" LP $13
"Portland's tone wrangler Aaron Davis (aka Acre) has been blasting the world with his massive-but-barely-there feedback swells for quite some time with releases on Black Horizons, JK, and more. His first LP offering brings about the Acre essence quite well. Massive walls of shoe-gazed feedback are some how tamed into smooth, quintessential drones. This is not the sound of synthesizers or keyboards, but a single tone being modified and replicated into a monolithic piece. Stasis so strong it is hard to realize the power of these two side long tracks until they end, forcing silence back upon the listener: direct hypnosis and transcendental zoning. In an edition of 200 records in pro-printed fold over sleeves." -arbor
****************************************************************************** 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
********************************************************************************************** MV + EE with The Golden Road "Drone Trailer" LP $12
"Orbiting the earth in Vermont is Matt "MV" Valentine, once the brawn of the Tower Recordings, and Erika "EE" Elder, CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture and The MV & EE Medicine Show. Together with their dog Zuma, they run the Child of Microtones library of exploratory music--sometimes their own lunar blues, sometimes finger-picking-style noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier folk. Drone Trailer is a consolidation of the previous musical high-life of the duo's space shanties for the 21st century. In other words, MV & EE explore their unique mix of lunar raga and astral string band music, with a couple deep-space burners/covert jams such as opening blast "Anyway" thrown in to bust it all open. Nobody is gonna mind if they hear a little Crazy Horse and prime-era Dead here as well!" dichristina
*********************************************************** The Skull Defekts "The Drone Drug" LP $13
"In their own words, Sweden’s Skull Defekts are “all about rhythm, repetition, and all energies in sound.” The concept manifests itself in two distinctly different forms. On 2007’s Blood Spirits and Drums Are Singing, the band showcased their more “rock”-based sound described by Julian Cope as an amalgamation of Chairs Missing-period Wire, Audionom, and ’70s German proto-metallers Tiger B. Smith. However, the DFX, as they’re sometimes known, also have an alter-ego under which their sound becomes a harsh wall of droning noise and psychedelic industrial bowel churn. It is that persona that is embodied on The Drone Drug. Drone is often associated with music that is essentially ambient in nature. While The Skull Defekts do create an ambient aura, The Drone Drug has more in common with the terrifying atmospheres created by noisier cohorts like Prurient then the minimalism of Tomas Koner. The sound is grim, black, and abrasive; mechanical, filthy, and unnerving. This limited-edition LP (500 copies) is the first of two by the DFX to be released by Actual Noise, with the second, Skkull, coming in the near future." -actual noise
***************************************************************** 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
******************************************************************************************** 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
********************************************************************** Ducktails "1992 Demo" cassette $6
" First release by Ducktails. Recorded in a backyard toolshed in the summer in Western Mass. This tape features faded oldies rock songs with a tropical flavor. Soaring beach boys guitar lines meets ariel pink underwater backing band. Meant for listening in a car with the windows down, you'll keep playin these jams over and over again. A must listen. Includes the single "Pizza Time" Full color covers with color sticker on tape." -future sounds
************************************************** Predator Vision/Sun Araw split LP $14.25
"Two loose electric crews grind the great ghost-pipe in the sky on this sweaty slab of black wax. East Coast triad Predator Vision hit all our pressure points last year with a pair of rank/dank self-titled tapes, both of which trailblazed a shaggy path through curtains of cavernous moss via slow-burn low-end/drums rumbling (Ben Daly and Etienne Duguay, respectively) and fucked up outer space shredding by big dog Matt Mondanile (aka Ducktails). Near-perfect new age psych rock but without the trappings of either genre-hole. This is PV’s vinyl debut, and their A side monster, “Real Aliens,” alternately levitates/bulldozes through four main movements: tripped, trashed, free, and feel-good. All zones worth wandering through! Share the Vision. On the flip is hometown hero Sun Araw/Cameron Stallones, whose fertile crescent of Long Beach drugged out mantric world soul psych shows no signs of drying up. If anything, “Hey Mandala!” might be the most far out, deep down, revved up magic 8-ball he’s yet to throw into the public’s eye/ear. Buoyed up by hairy low-lidded free trumpet courtesy of Phil French (of Magic Lantern/Super Minerals), the track explodes in a narcotic cyclone of digital drums, voices, and waves of wah, before slowly phoenix-ebbing into a sick floor-shaking rhythm machine. Shit is funked up. Like nothing he’s done before, and all the better for it. Black vinyl LPs, mastered by Casio Mon, in glossy pro-printed jackets with island/jungle art designed by Stallones. Edition of 475." -nnf
************************************************************************ Skullflower "Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
"We’ve only had the good/loud fortune to witness Matthew Bower perform live on ONE solitary occasion, but the infinite incineration he managed to detonate out of a single electric guitar and knee-high practice amp was convincing enough to last several lives. In the meantime, there’s the gallons of celestial skree he bombards the listening universe with via his cavalry of audio aliases (Skullflower, Total, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Mirag), all of which radiate with Bower’s iconic, influential, two-decades-deep quest to fuse the bruised with the blissed in a single white-light fist held up high. And although his specific mission for each project seems to have crossfaded a bit in recent years, it’s still huge news to us to be able offer up Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver, the first full-length Skullflower album to be pressed on vinyl since forever (at least the early 90s). Taste The Blood... finds Bower in the more blackened, doom-damaged terrains like those stripmined on the recent Desire For A Holy War or Pure Imperial Reform: abrupt vertical baths of blinding distortion and harmonic override spiked with cavernous cultish riffs and deeply bleak ritual moods. The blood is fresh, but the body’s unrecognizable. Charred and forgotten, this is another stepping stone on the path to the upturned altar. Black vinyl LPs in fucked-up-and-photocopied matte jackets. Edition of 500." -nnf
******************************************************************************** My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" LP $14
"Isn't Anything was good enough to inspire an entire scene of My Bloody Valentine soundalikes, but Loveless' greatness proved that the band was inimitable. After two painstaking years in the studio and nearly bankrupting their label Creation in the process, the group emerged with their masterpiece, which fulfilled all of the promise of their previous albums. If Isn't Anything was the Valentines' sonic blueprint, then Loveless saw those plans fleshed out, in the most literal sense: "Loomer," "What You Want," and "To Here Knows When"'s arrangements are so lush, they're practically tangible. With its voluptuous yet ethereal melodies and arrangements, Loveless intimates sensuality and sexuality instead of stating them explicitly; Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher's vocals meld perfectly with the trippy sonics around them, suggesting druggy sex or sexy drugs. From the commanding "Only Shallow" and "Come in Alone" to breathy reflections like "Sometimes" and "Blown a Wish," the album balances complexity and immediately memorable pop melodies with remarkable self-assurance, given its difficult creation. But Loveless doesn't just perfect the group's approach, it also hints at their continuing growth: "Soon" fuses the Valentines' roaring guitars with a dance-inspired beat, while the symphonic interlude "Touched" suggests an updated take on Fripp and Eno's pioneering guitar/electronics experiments. These glimpses into the band's evolution make Shields' difficulty in delivering a follow-up to Loveless even more frustrating, but completely understandable -- the album's perfection sounded shoegazing's death-knell and raised expectations for the next My Bloody Valentine album to unreasonably high levels. Though Shields' collaborations with Yo La Tengo, Primal Scream, J Mascis, and others were often rewarding, they were no match for Loveless. However, as My Bloody Valentine fans -- and, apparently, Shields himself -- will attest, nothing is." -allmusic review
************************************************************ The Hospitals "Hairdryer Peace" LP $12
"The Hospitals "Hairdryer Peace" As far as the future goes, or out of nowhere shit or whatever, this was the only completely forward thinking album of 2008 to knock my head off. The old Hospitals is still buried in there, but this new version is incredible and operating on a whole new plane of psychedelic insanity that completely blows the old stuff away. They key to its greatness is in main Hospital Adam Stonehouse's mix, but the contributions of Rob Enbom and Rod Meyer from Eat Skull and Chris Gunn from the Hunches obviously heighten things. Described by Adam as the soundtrack to a psychotic breakdown, it is definitely a disorienting listen. It cops various moves that are normally strictly the domain of the more experimental underground but it's all used to serve the song and or vibe of the album. What separates Hairdryer Peace from that kind of stuff is the fact that this is an album of songs. And as far out as it can get, there is an actual emotional intensity to the album that you just don't find on most underground records. And like a good Led Zeppelin album or whatever, a lot of different moods are conjured over the course of it: heavy tranced out riffs, weird pop, cracked folk, disorienting noise, paranoid vibes and it also this beach vibe that runs throughout which connects it with the cover art. Highly recommended. Not a party record and definitely not background music. This is best listened to loud, alone and with herbal assistance. (Scott Simmons)"
*********************************************************** barn owl/tom carter split LP $16 (UK import)
"Newest Blackest Rainbow hot on the heels of some truly killer releases from the artists involved, both who seem to have really pushed there sounds and vibes to new levels this year... Barn Owl's side has been mastered by local jammer Ben Nash, and its three tracks of sparse drone layered with bleak guitar epic-ness, tingling chimes and dark mountainous whispers. The guitars here sound delicate and beautiful, but it remains bleak and empty, if you enjoyed their LP on Not Not Fun then this is a real treat. Tom Carter's 16 minute 'Train Kept' follows pretty damn nicely from his recent 'Shots At Infinity' releases on Important, a far cry from his more psychedelic folk experimentations, here he slashes and riffs like many a legend, and maybe, just maybe, it's a slight tribute to a certain band too? This is a fully wild piece of work. Black sleeves, pasted stark landscape cover, with a insert of liner notes. Limited to 380 copies." -blackest rainbow
********************************************************* Om "Live at Jerusalem" LP $17
"In December of 2007 the mighty duo that is OM made a pilgrimage to Israel to play for its people. Their pinnacle performance unfolded at 4 Aristobolus Street in Jerusalem the site of Uganda Records. The band played for over 4 hours on this evening! The tracks: "Flight of the Eagle" and "Bhimas' Theme" were captured and the transmission of these recordings were flown back to the United States where the vinyl lacquers were made by Bob Weston . Southern Lord in cooperation with OM present you the listener with this 180 gram black vinyl transcendental offering: OM-"Live at Jerusalem". Limited to 3,100 machine numbered copies. " -southern lord
********************************************************** 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
***************************************************************************** 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
************************************************************************************************* 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
******************************************************************************** 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
**************************************************************************** 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
************************************************************** 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
************************************************************************ Christina Carter/Pocahaunted split LP $15 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Been beautifully blissed on this pairing for months now and we’re amped it’s finally public unveiling time. Christina Carter has trekked around this country (and planet) countless times in the past decade plus, both by herself and with Tom Carter in Charalambides, and the constant gypsy-drifting has weathered her song-stories down into spare, spiral reflections on life, death, and afterlife. Here she lays down four perfect vignettes of acoustic guitar pattern, softly sung desperation, and dangerous intimacy. A beatific bring-down. Sisters-with-voices Pocahaunted handle the B side wax, and their two tracks span the psych-ward spectrum from doomy warpath exile ("Sweat Lodge") to octave-climbing estrogen ecstasy cloud-tripping ("Silk Fog Traveler"). Both were recorded by Bobb Bruno at Eagle Rock HQ across summer '07 and cling like cotton to the memory banks. Marbled-peach vinyl LPs in matte jackets with hooded/devoted artwork by Carrie Dietz. Edition of 500." -nnf
****************************************************************************** Foot Village "Friendship Nation" LP $10 *LAST COPY!!*
NEW FULL LENGTH LP from Los Angeles "post apocalyptic / electricity free hardcore" band, consisting of four drummers /vocalists unleashing primal and brutally catchy scream-alongs. Members of destruction jam/van band FRIENDS FOREVER (Load), free noise unit GANG WIZARD (Load/Ecstatic Peace/Gilgongo) and DEATHBOMB ARC mastermind Brian Miller. CD version released in Europe on TOME. Alternate decription: "Foot Village is the first nation built after the apocalypse. Foot Village have a duty to rebuild the world, a new nation out of the ruins of civilization atop the ruins of Hell, after the oceans have all evaporated. All we know so far is revealed on their first album World Fantasy, a collection of songs about other
countries. Now Foot Village have created their own country and the songs on Friendship Nation, recorded by Jonathan Snipes of Captain Ahab". -gilgongo records
******************************************************************************** Ducktails "Acres of Shade" cassette $6.50
"“Acres Of Shade” is a departure from past Ducktails zones. Mondanile turns away from his lofi bedroom pop vibes, moving towards synthesizer cycles. He does not sacrifice his youthful style and tropical nostalgia; just rethinks the way it is expressed. Drifting drones lift in the air. Features all new material: “White House With Green Shutters / Surfs Up”. In an edition of 100 tapes with full color covers and printed labels." -arbor
*************************************************** Outer Space/Oneohtrix Point Never split cassette $6.50
"Outer Space’s John Elliott and OPN’s Dan Lopatin are arguably the two leaders in the analog synthesizer revival. Both constantly raise the bar with their bands(Emeralds and Infinity Window, respectively), though their solo work is a great gauge of personal innovation. Here, Outer Space (as a solo project) goes into truly unchartered territory, using synths as well as sound collage, the meticulously recorded “Evaporating Door” took months to be fully conceived. Combining Kraut influences such as Tangerine Dream with musique concret and John Cage, Elliott creates what truly is his bravest work yet. On the flipside, Lopatin digs deep into the OPN archives, presenting his first composition with a sequencer from 2004. It is interesting to see its use that early in his work because it is as relevant and integral to the current OPN zone as ever. The following track recalls the deep space drone vibes found on the “Betrayed In The Octagon” cassette. Atmospheric movements with uplifting and personal flickers of light. In an edition of 200 tapes with full color art and printed labels." -arbor
*************************************************** Treetops "Melancholy" cassette $6.50
"Created for the Winter 2009 Midwest/Northeast tour with Infinity Window and Sick Llama, this progression represents a slight divergence from recent Treetops movements. Guitar and casio recordings pushing aside personal boundaries and mental blocks. The final recordings before rethinking the equation. In an edition of 50 tapes with full color art and printed labels." -arbor
*************************************************** Topaz Rags "Tarot Harem" 7" $6
*members of pocahaunted/robedoor* "Eagle Rock’s most reclusive comedown crew creep back into the blacklight for their vinyl debut with a pair of loosely more focused excursions into cold soul music and post-beatnik jazz shadowplay. Dress accordingly. Recorded in the weeks preceding the ritual void sessions that birthed the California Ash cassette, both tracks here tread the grey but groovy haunted interzone between bummed DIY ghost bop and outright goth lament. It’s a fine line, watch it closely. “Tarot Harem” is the A side, and it feigns a pure funeral mood before slowly stirring to life with erotic spectral voices, distant trumpet, and a swingingly narcoleptic rhythm section. The B is “Black Honey,” which tip-toes a similar path through 3 AM city streets while forlorn piano notes fall like light rain, the drums gently rev up, and vocals scat about “black tar black tar” and how “the beat goes on.” It does. This is the wrong side of town. Hang around if that’s yr thing. Black vinyl singles in hand-silkscreened, photocopied, and die-cut sleeves with topless nature nymph/burnout artwork. Edition of 250." -not not fun
************************************************** analog concept "magic generators or types of a.s. pushkin/general plan of a town block" 2Xcassette $10
"analog concept is one of those demos that comes along all too rarely, but that you have to pinch yourself over and over again to be sure that its real. this project is the brainchild of a mysterious russian named alexey. in my mind, he's a bit of a legend. here's what he says about himself: "a man of middle age, having philological education and musical school for boys in the past. alexei took part in many musical projects. grown up on detroit techno and having memories of 'acid rains and raves' of past century." and to that i say fuck yeah. so what is analog concept? it is simple and magnificent. alexey collected loads of different soviet-era analog synths and recorded mountains of hypnotic, swirling synth jams. they're zoners to the nth degree. you sink into the buzzing circuits, lost like an epic russian novel. this is the real fucken deal. over two hours of analog delight that will make you long for the days of cold war technology over and over and over. mother russia, bringing it home. limited to 70 copies." -digitalis
******************************************************************************* Treetops "Eternal Sky" cassette $6
"big mike makes an important step forward; his deepest, most focused and personally regarded effort yet, first of many. slowly building tracks, with clear keyboard tones resting beneath distant background chords and textures. submerging. edition of 125, full color covers and glossy labels." -monorail trespassing
************************************************ 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
************************************************************** 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
*************************************************************** 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
****************************************************************************** Super Minerals "The Thaw" cassette $6.50 (second edition)
"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
******************************************************************************** "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
*********************************************** Herons "Walk Upright" cassette $6
"Atonal drifts converge like opaque clouds, cracked with piercingf 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
*********************************************** axolotl / infinity window split cassette $8 (UK import)
"This took me to a higher plane and left me there. Pro Dubbed fancy pants." -sickhead
********************************************************* Raccoo-oo-oon "Behold Secret Kingdom" LP $13
"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
********************************************************* Gown - "truemanville" - CDr $7
"Andrew McGregor is onto something really good. Time well spent with Thurston and Sunburned combines with an exile in Nova Scotia to yield this deeply fryed trilogy. Epic burnt instrumentals recall the entire Harmony of the Spheres, but these are no mere guitarscapes, truemanville's triptych is all at once fragile and
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