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Last Updated 2:00 PM PT 1/21/12
**************************************************************************** Yellow Swans/Oakeater split LP $14
"A rather appropriate unearthing takes place on this record, as Yellow Swans are posthumously paired up with Chicago's Oakeater. First up is Yellow Swans, with a single side-long track that should please fans of their later, brighter more psychedelic sound as well as those of the more rigid, structured and even melodic sound found on their final LP. Masterfully mixing huge guitars, shards of mixer feedback and discreet loops. Oakeater on the flip side performs the funerary rights with three tracks that fall somewhere between a satanic ritual and a cosmic synth trip, with meditative vocals, throbbing synthesizers, and distant piano lines. On the label and art/design end this was a collaborative effort between Black Horizons and Dead Accents. Comes packaged in a custom euro-style sleeve, offset silver ink on black linen paper. Black vinyl with silver on black center labels in an edition of 500 copies." -black horizons
**************************************** CAETHUA / SHEP and ME split LP $13
"Originally released on cassette in 2008, these fantastic recordings finally get the deluxe vinyl treatment they deserve. These newly remastered tracks reveal a remarkable subtlety, having been previously obscured by poor dubbing techniques and the inherent limitations of the cassette format.
All has been clarified. Clare Hubbard stays busy with her musical projects Ancestral Diet and Sports, but she might be best known for her folk-based work as Caethua. Her side is entitled "Wrecks and Rescues", and is an epic and dusty side-long track of beautiful creaking folk-craft. In the winter of 2008, Clare recorded herself at home in Bloomington, IN. She delicately layers synth, strings, horns, electronics, percussion and vocals, along with 5 years worth of field recordings taken from the St. Lawrence River and her wanderings through swamps, fields and forests. Soft tones and organic rustlings blend beautifully with melancholy string plunk and blown-out electro growl to create a brilliantly shimmering psychedelic-folk masterpiece. Shep and Me's side entitled "Tube Mind" is more firmly rooted in traditional Americana folk and blues music, yet still manages to keep itself wedged into a pretty strange corner. All five tracks feature Matthew Himes collaborating with H. Caleb Gamble. Both sing and play nylon and steel stringed guitars in addition to using tape loops, french horn, lap steel, live percussion, drum machines, electronics and waveform oscillators to present a uniquely twisted vision of contemporary folk music. Masterfully recorded to 1/2" 8 track tape by Ryan Fontaine in Minneapolis MN, May of 2008. Plaintive and stark gutter-country songs about seasonal shifts and the horrors of these modern times." -lighten up sounds
**************************************** Li Jianhong "Lovers with Cloisonne Bracelet" LP $13
"Hangzhou's Li Jianhong has been performing alone and in the duo D!O!D!O!D! for several years, but he only caught Western ears last year with the monumental San Sheng Shi, released by Philadelphia's Archive CD. Oceanic and desolate, Lovers with Cloisonne Bracelet cements Li as a distinctive voice in modern noise. The two halves of this record are an ideal introduction to Li's music: "Lovers in Misery" offers a restrained, electric swell; "Time in the Mirror" wallows in Hototogisu-an guitar hell. Without sacrificing pacing for density, Li has crafted an album that decimates the retrograde psychedelic guitar landscape and trivializes the petty violence of much harsh noise.
Edition of 350 180 gm. LPs in heavy-stock linen-paper sleeves hand-screened, -cut, and glued by Reuben Little of 43rd Parallel Press." -tipped bowler
**************************************** Nova Scotia / Eye "A Million Corpses of Dead Bees" b/w "High Road" split 12" $13
"Tipped Bowler returns to the fertile soil of New Zealand to cull two choice improvisations. On the A-side, Wellington’s Nova Scotia delivers “A Million Corpses of Dead Bees,” an eighteen minute free-rock burner. Growing from violin sine-squeak and distant shortwave, the piece gains momentum with its patient drumming and resolves into a saxophone swarm shot through with synthetic scrabble. On the reverse, Dunedin’s Eye comes off colder and more aggressive. “High Road” throttles the listener with Schnitzler-ian electronics, militant percussion, and guitar strangulation before collapsing into coda of cymbal taps and glassy string-work. Rigorous yet unbound, these pieces shine a light on a musical community few of us can witness firsthand.Issued in an edition of 250 150-gram black LPs in elegant black-and-white matte sleeves screened with consummate skill by Siwa." -tipped bowler
**************************************** Astral Social Club / Tomutonttu "Wet Wheel/ Hot Wheel" b/w "Syvät Svyät" split 12" $13
"Two of Europe’s finest collide on a 12” 45 RPM platter loosely inspired by the club single. On “Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel,” Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house, but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. On cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-goodness body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that the flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages. On the reverse, Jan Anderzén of Tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genre’s neon shimmer and linear logic. “Syvät Svyät” overflows with cuckoo loops that briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. One must focus to follow the train of musical thought, but Anderzén’s humor and intuition reward the effort." -tipped bowler
**************************************** Bitchin' Bajas/ Faceplant split 12" $12
"The Bitchin Bajas & Faceplant projects really need no introduction. Bitchin Bajas is the solo synthscapes of one Cooper Crain, maybe better known as a member of modern krautrock masters CAVE. With Bitchin Bajas, Crain creates worlds of sound, crafted from analog synthesizer and organ tones, not entirely too far removed from certain elements of Harmonia, Edgar Froese, or Cluster. Crain is definitely bringing a vintage sound to the table here. Clean, distinct arppegiated tones floating and bouncing, drifting and forming zones of their own. This is real deal psychadelia at its finest.Faceplant is the solo work of one Aaron Coyes, of Peaking Lights and Rahdunes fame. Peaking Lights have made a sturdy name for themselves playing homemade synth-driven psychedelic, dub-infused drone-pop. With Faceplant -- described as Coyes' ''solo modular hessian noise trance project,'' he is mining a somewhat similar terrain. Driving percussive beats are slathered in dubby echo, while sweet synthesizers hover and chime; it's definitely a groovy affair. You can't listen to this and not shake your ass, just a little bit." -bathetic
**************************************** Buffalo Moon "Selva Surreal" LP $12
"In 2010, Buffalo Moon brought you “Wetsuit,” their debut release that made everybody want to go to the beach and get drunk and fall in love. More than a year later — after a stop at the gorgeous melodic shores of the “Black Magic/Low Tide Moon,” 7" — the Buffalo are leading you away from the coastline, waving a pennant that reads Bienvenido a la Selva. If “Wetsuit” was playing love games in the sand, “Selva Surreal” (Surreal Jungle)— the new LP we are proud to release on Moon Glyph— is five young pranksters splashing euphonious paint in the Rainforest, trading in their cool blues for deep velvet and crimson. Fires are blazing. Cannons are blasting. Machine guns are pounding. And that’s just in the first single, “Chica de Luna". “Salt in my Mouth” and “Amores Perros,” take you back to those sandy beaches but with tighter craftsmanship and more sophisticated swagger. “Raspberry Sorbet” and “Moses Baby” consult sexophone aficionado Michael Lewis to accomplish their schmoozy bedroom peccadillos. Indeed, in these hallucinatory wetlands, genre shifts hit you like catapulted coconuts, but if you can duck all the madness and sonic booby traps, you find the album for what it is: a feral portrait of a Blakean Innocence expiring before our ears. The Kids of Irony are alright, America, they’re just entering the Jungles of Experience. And it’s wild out there. " - moon glyph
******************************************************** Dead Luke "Meanwhile... In The Midwest" LP $12
"Amidst pilfering of collective bargaining rights, the storming of public buildings in union protests, and subsequent recalls of elected officials, a bubbling of proletariat discontent in Madison, WI has shed light on a region of the country often overlooked. Emerging from this unrest comes Dead Luke’s second full length and first Moon Glyph release, "Meanwhile… In The Midwest", which takes the portentously hazy half-songs contained within his debut LP and solidifies them into a raw, lysergic-crystalline acid cocoon. In the album’s final moments we are greeted to the triumphant drifting of “Endless High,” a fuzzed-out call to arms for the No Coast. On “God Of Nothing” Luke conjures a hymnal drone of weaving elements peaking into a self-contained nihilist jam. While harkening back to the nebulous "American Haircut", Luke now unleashes his vexed voice in parallel with a movement currently percolating to a once apathetic surface. " - moon glyph
******************************************************** Dead Luke "American Haircut" LP $13
"Its bright and sunny out, the birds are chirping, and summer is in full swing, but in here American Haircut is filling the air with a cold haze of serious downer-vibed psych. No sun in these parts just dead vegitation and an iced over ground where a ghostly voice repeats over and over "You know you're bringing me down." So put on your coat, alter your mind, turn out the lights, and get lost in the nine extended jams that fill this album. DEAD LUKE has released three killer singles (two on Sacred Bones, one on Sweet Rot) as well as a number of tapes, and a collaborative 12-inch with Zola Jesus, and this is his first LP. Limited to 500 copies." -floriday's dying
******************************** Oneohtrix Point Never "Replica" LP $15
"Replica is an electronic song cycle based around audio procured from TV ad compilations. These sample-based meditations are as lyrical as they are ecological, featuring re-purposed “ghost vocals” which serve as narration for Lopatin’s signature amorphous, ambient passages. Lopatin’s Juno-60 is still prominent, but Returnal’s placid, synthetic surroundings are accelerated through darker, more unpredictable terrains via Lopatin’s use of samplers, analog filtering, tape-op, piano, plate reverb and sub-bass. The result is a heightened sense of music as part and parcel of an overall sonic terrain." -software
**************************************** Ford & Lopatin + Shannon Funchess + Tamaryn "Snakes" b/w "Flying Dream" LP $14
"For our 100th release, Mexican Summer proudly presents an extremely special one-off: two productions from Ford & Lopatin quite unlike anything heard from them to date, featuring guest appearances from label mates Tamaryn and Shannon Funchess.In ‘Higher Than Air’ gentle, filtered arpeggio pulses teem and bump up against long-form bursts of orchestral harmony. Between hanging moments of space featured vocalist Tamaryn draws us through the track’s thick layers with a hushed patience, choruses bolstered and split to ribbons by razors of emotional synthesized brass.‘Snakes’ then unexpectedly contrasts this, beating its way out of the speakers as an erratic EBM sweat storm, rave riffs flashing in cycles over stripped down drum machines. Light Asylum’s Shannon Funchess contributes her incredible voice to the fray, grimly intoning and passionately decrying doom-laden promises before a melancholy finale." -mexican summer
**************************************** Ford & Lopatin "Channel Pressure" LP $14
"Channel Pressure is the full length debut from Brooklyn-based production duo Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and Joel Ford (Tigercity), formerly known as Games. Improvised sessions were instead recorded over 3 months at Mexican Summer’s headquarters and synthesizer legend Jan Hammer’s home studio in upstate NYC. The recordings of these were then spliced, sampled and reconstructed, growing unexpectedly into an imaginary soundtrack for the adventure of Joey Rogers, a kid who gets brainwashed by a gigantic television.Talent was enlisted from childhood pal Al Carlson for engineering, Prefuse 73 for mixing, and guest vocals from friends Autre Ne Veut and Jeff Gitelman of Stepkids. The result is a pristine presentation of chaotic material; layers of glitch, Krautrock, synthpop, ambient, prog-fusion and hardware shredding melded into just 14 tracks of multi-focus post-pop edits. " -software
**************************************** Real Estate "Reality" 12" $18(expensive wholesale)
"New Jersey’s Real Estate has successfully captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, in the dreaded hours before work or school claims your life again. The band’s sweet, loose pop ballads recall a modern-day Everly Brothers, drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears. Six new songs, and not a moment too soon." -mexican summer
**************************************** Ducktails "Killin The Vibe" 12" $15
"A new EP from MATT MONDANILE’s DUCKTAILS. Basically a single for the song “Killin the Vibe” featuring PANDA BEAR, DENT MAY and JARVIS TAVANIERE, this EP also includes two exclusive unreleased tracks and a live version of “Killin the Vibe” featuring SPECTRALS (UK, Slumberland) as the backing band. Beautiful hand drawn art by LAUREN PAKRADOONI. Limited Edition of 500 copies. First record on New Images Ltd. Plays at 45rpm." -new images
**************************************** Jonas Reinhardt "Powers Of Audition" LP $13
"JONAS REINHARDT continues his cosmic flight inward on this latest release. The instrumentation from his debut album expands here to include acoustic drum patterns, guitars, and woodwinds alongside synthesizers and electronics. Together, these voices seamlessly twist and meld into a singular aural journey. This is music of the spheres for an electronic era where new age visions are re-imagined through a lens of experimental rock. The titular concept behind the album, drawn from ideas of the post-war avant-garde, refers simply to the human capacity to audition sound and fill in blanks where the composer leaves space for interpretation. Jonas explains: "Each of the songs is meant to engage the listener's innate power of audition to fill in intentionally left blanks. These occur throughout the recording where there is either diminished narrative resolution or explicit sectional movement meant to provoke an auditory response." The result is a mesmerizing journey to cracked and digitized moonscapes where Reinhardt's transparent relationship with instruments, sound, and form are made whole and hints of a beat-centered future are just around the corner. " -kranky
**************************************** Steve Hauschildt "Tragedy & Geometry" 2XLP $18
"Perhaps the least prolific and quietest of the three members of Cleveland trio EMERALDS, STEVE HAUSCHILDT is usually found at their live performances playing the serious scientist as foil to the other two members more animated stage presence. As a teen, Steve bypassed the typical young music fan obsessions over punk and hardcore musics, drawn instead towards mid-late ‘90s techno/electro-revivalism and finding himself alone in an electronic universe of his own choosing. Steve has always considered himself more of an artist than a musician, and sees his work both in group and solo settings as much a visual experience as it is an aural one. The title Tragedy & Geometry is an ambiguous but subtle reference to Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy) and Polyhymnia (Muse of Geometry), or more specifically the collision/overlap of what they invoke. The opening track is also a direct reference to “Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence”, the painting by the French artist Charles Meynier on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The album is a treatise on the idea that technology is becoming more disposable as it's becoming more accessible, and how this circumstance has a more evident/direct effect on the interpersonal, i.e. relations, with others in the so-called 'Age of Information.' What results is a gorgeous, flowing, floating world of post-kosmische musik, Steve Hauschildt’s first widely available release, and his first major statement as a solo artist. " -kranky
**************************************** Mark Mcguire "Get Lost" LP $18 (import)
"And yet another killer album from the ever-productive MARK MCGUIRE (EMERALDS). It just keeps getting better, as he delivers another fine set of tunes in his perfected style. A few more electronic elements than usual and even some voices, but still the unique blend of feel-good riffs, electric and acoustic loops and melodies that just stick in the head. This album is chockablock with short hits and one long jam of blissed-out McGuire ambience. Awesome. Electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, and guitar-synthesizer recorded digitally between June 2010 and July 2011 in Westlake, Ohio and Portland, Oregon. Mixed at Hardbodies, July 2011 by Mark McGuire. Mastered and cut by HELMUT ERLER at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Photography and art by Mark McGuire, 2011." " -editions mego
**************************************** Mark Mcguire "Solo Acoustic Vol. 2" LP $16BACK IN STOCK!
"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
**************************************** Outer Space "s/t" LP $15
"John Elliott’s Outer Space project is a laboratory for electronic investigation. Acting as a continuance of the studies of mid 20th century electronic music composers such as Nik Pascal and Laurie Spiegel, Elliott’s music is deeply indebted to the inner workings of the electric signal. Acting almost as a meditation, through the simple gesture of translation Elliott’s process begins to reveal itself as electricity is converted into acoustic pressure and potential; the melody of physics. The six recordings on the album are each a microcosmic view into Elliott’s practice; a keystone, illuminating his solo practice as well as his work as a member of Emeralds. Composed and recorded over the past three years without the use of digital synthesizers and arpeggiation; a record closely connected to a personal path, attempting to make sense, to understand one’s journey. Mastered by Keith Fullerton Whitman; pressed in a second edition of 350 copies on black vinyl with full color gloss covers and black and white printed inner sleeves." -arbor
**************************************** PALE BLUE SKY SHADES OF GREY" 12" $13
"Pale Blue Sky is the new project from Mike Pollard (formerly Treetops). Shades Of Grey is the project’s genesis; a long considered transition uniting the organic drone-work of the former project with compositional structures. The recordings embody a delicate sense of distance; staring out at the moving landscape obscured by the mediation of the window. Through blurred fidelity the origin of melody is placed under microscopic inquiry; an exploration into the moment of tonal interaction. Pale Blue Sky utilizes repetition and non-linear movements, attempting to reconcile simplicity, form, and sentiment through modes of difference. Placing focus on spatial concerns, as well as emotive potential, the five songs contained within are each different embodiments of the possibility of the transformative decay of remembrance. An ephemeral glimpse; the moment has already passed. For quiet, distanced listening. Mastered by William Hutson, cut at 45 rpm. In an edition of 400 copies with full color glossy jackets, printed inner sleeves, and printed labels." -arbor
**************************************** Rangers "Pan Am Stories" 2XLP $23
"Tape-warped phantom band Rangers finally unleashes the grainy, soaring, expansive prog-pop opus we always knew was floating inside the fretboard (and imagination) of multi-instrumentalist mystery maestro Joe Knight. The north Dallas-raised, San Fran-residing head Ranger grew up taking classical guitar lessons from a dude who claimed to have ‘toured with the Dead,’ and some of that brain-wonked jam agenda obviously seeped into the young Knight, who began recording his own loose, lo-fi jangle sprawls in 2005. But whereas last year’s critically lauded Suburban Tours LP found him condensing his cassette-crushed alien pop into 3 minute radio nuggets, Pan Am Stories uses the reverse strategy, letting each blurry strum pattern coast away and ride the breeze a bit before steering it into a fresh counter-melody or flanged-out guitar comedown. The extra breath and space gives the 13 songs a real sense of freedom and lightness and flight, layered in gentle blankets of fuzz, silky reverb, and audio collage riddles. A total saga, and a summit achievement of next-level invention for Knight as a musician (it’s insane he played/recorded every instrument on this thing!) and artist. Have been soaking in these tracks non-stop since we first heard ‘em this summer and are thrilled to get to share Stories with the world. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Carl Saff, who worked on Suburban Tours too) in gatefold jackets with micro-detailed collage art by Mr. Rangers himself; interior artwork by Knight and Anthony Yuen. Edition of 850." - not not fun
******************************************************** Sapphire Slows "True Breath" 12" $13
"A fresh voice is hard to find – especially in these days of such dense digital air (‘in the Shadow of the Power of Babble’ internet philosophers say). So it was with nuanced joy that we found ourselves spellbound and seduced by this young Tokyo gem-gleaner’s neon gallery of dynamic Casio nightlife masks, each of which is impeccably crafted and swathed in a fog basket of her effortlessly haunting Cocteau Twins-y shadow vox. There’s a wonderfully hushed vibe to Sapphire Slows’ most translucent tracks, beats materializing out of stray radio waves and metropolis static, electric piano memories washing away into the silent skyline of skyscrapers, synths congealing like synthetic whispers. The perfect soundtrack to urban insomniac wandering and wondering and lingering too long; almost like a Toyko take on Night Bus. True Breath is her stateside debut EP after one previous 7 inch on Big Love, and 2012 should see a full-length plus some global gigging so soak in her subtle night moves now while the breath is still warm. Black vinyl 12 inches in bilingual new wave patterned shadow portrait jackets designed by A & B Brown. Edition of 500. " - not not fun
******************************************************** Maria Minerva "Cabaret Cixous" LP $13
"Estonian Euro-beat enchantress Maria Juur aka Maria Minerva has had a lively 2011 already – releasing a chic suite of glamour-pop abstractions via her debut, Tallinn At Dawn, as well as a sultry, sideways bedroom disco EP (Noble Savage) on 100% Silk – and it’s still summer. But time is money and money talks (or something) so rather than let a hot streak go cold Ms. Maria has crafted a fresh 11-song dream ride down fascination street, which we’re pumped and proud to unveil: Cabaret Cixous. Apparently there’s a tradition/inside joke amongst a fringe strain of Estonian bands where you have to name yr album something with ‘cabaret’ in the title, but regardless of one’s knowledge of this micro-custom, Cab Cixous is a gorgeous, gauzy thrill, slip-streaming from cracked-crystal karaoke pop singles (“These Days,” “Ruff Trade,” “Soo High”) to slow-motion synth-washed ballads (“Lovecool,” “Spiral”) to radical miscellzanies (the alien soundsystem banger, “Laulan Paikse Kaes,” a cellphone-fidelity Abba cover, etc) and beyond. A beautiful, bizarre record, full of the weird vision and hazed-out soulfulness that’s everything we love about music. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with retro-CGI landscape art designed by Estonian visualist Ronald Pihlapson, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 700." - not not fun
******************************************************** KWJAZ s/t LP $13
"San Franciscan Peter Berend’s mystery mixtape unit, KWJAZ, flashed forth this debut self-titled slab of “post-plastic sublime decomposed luxury grooves” on cassette via his own rarified Brunch Groupe imprint early in 2011 and the 120 listeners lucky enough to grip a copy know who they are. It only took half a listen before we green-lit this tape-degraded gem for vinyl treatment and we are dee-lighted to present it thusly. Comprised of two side-long suites, “Once In Babylon” and the oddly monikered “Frighteous Wane,” KWJAZ nimbly ebbs and flows the proceedings through airy cloud-jazz passages (complete with smoky crystal vibes keys and narcotic hiss-hazed horn sections), bouncy weirdo dub-funk vignettes, stretched-out syrupy synth stews, and smooth faux-Steely D soft-rock abstractions, all without ever sounding schizo or style-hoppy. A major feat, and a real riddle of an LP that deepens and ripens with each spin. Hopefully you were savvy enough to catch him on his recent coast-to-coast summer tour with Swanox and Sudden Oak; if not, tune in to this. Black vinyl LPs (mastered at Dubplates in Berlin) in jackets with cosmic floral artwork by Austin Cho/Casey Grr. Edition of 700." - not not fun
******************************************************** Robedoor "Too Down To Die" LP $13
"LA’s most downer erosion architects continue their 6-year-deep narco drip into psych-streaked bleak house, the latest saga of which is Too Down To Die, the band’s first full-length since March 2010’s Burners LP and the journey there-and-back was a cryptic and crooked crawl. The entirety of Side A is dominated by “Parallel Wanderer,” a lumbering kosmische bruiser triptych and consistent live staple that spills from astral ambient dread (bathed in crystal piano and trademark MGG modular synth textures) into a loner riff march before detonating into a wasted ghost-rock vacuum. The B features a suite of songs new and less-so, from the industrial headbanger “Universal Migration” to the nod-out braindead negative throb closer, “Afterburners.” Out of step and out on the ledge. Recorded at Green Machine in East LA and cut at Dubplates in Berlin. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with blasted orb artwork plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 600." - not not fun
******************************************************** Robedoor "Raiders" LP $13 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. LPs in jackets with cover photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 500 (250 on marbled grey, 250 on black)." - not not fun
******************************************************** Robedoor "Burners" LP $13
"Recorded and mixed from April-September of '09 at the same East LA hillside studio (Green Machine) where Raiders was tracked. The goal with Burners was to make a record fusing the recent-ish song-based structures of Raiders and the Pagan Drugs 7-inch into some of the older-style ROBEDOOR drone-sprawl architectures. All songs were written/sculpted over the course of constant live shows ("Burning Man" in particular was an '09 live staple). Mastered by JAMES PLOTKIN. Limited edition of 500 copies." -important
***************** Jonas Reinhardt "Music For The Tactile Dome" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!
"The hermetic kosmische lexicon of San Fran-based synth synthesist/composer Jesse Reiner (Jonas Reinhardt’s founder and principal architect) has been simmering and swelling at a steady clip the past few years (2010’s Powers Of Audition was def a highlight), but the added talents of drummer Damon Palermo (Mi Ami), bassist Diego Gonzalez (Citay, 3 Leafs), and guitarist Phil Manley (Trans Am, more) has levitated the JR Experience to a whole new head-music hall o’ fame. Recorded in Berlin, mixed in SF, then mastered/cut back in Berlin at Dubplates, Music For The Tactile Dome is easily the most deep-trip micro-focus Jonas odyssey to date, nine technicolor fractals of glittering synthesizer skyways and master-crafted pulsing kraut terrariums. A handful of tracks (“Smokey Jotus,” “Hander Zader,” etc) invoke more of the classic live JR vibe, with propulsive cold-grooved rhythm sectioning, but by and large Dome is designed for heavy headphone communion, an expanding magic eye tapestry of brainwave activity constellations. Those who caught their Euro tour last year with Rene Hell know how expert this crew reigns in the live environment so go see them if/when they pass through your area code; on tour with Cloudland Canyon currently. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with beautiful spectrum-assemblage cover art by Sean Patrick. Edition of 650." - not not fun
******************************************************** Peaking Lights "936" LP $14 BACK IN STOCK!*album of the year*
"Sometimes it feels so simple: two of our favorite people in one of our favorite bands release one of our favorite records of all time. 2009’s Imaginary Falcons was its own genius slushpile of tape-hissy drift-dub haze anthems, no question, but 936 takes every facet of the Peaking Lights mighty diamond and shines it to fluorescent perfection. The songwriting is insane; “All The Sun That Shines,” “Amazing & Wonderful,” “Tiger Eyes (Laid Back),” etc, all seep into yr mindstream and float there like melodic gold dust. Indra Dunis’ silky soul-jazz keys and tranced vocals have never sounded so exquisite, and Aaron Coyes busts out the best bass/drum loops and sneaky dub guitar of his musical lifetime. Recorded by Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios in Iowa City (where both the NNF Wet Hair LPs were tracked) and mastered in Berlin, 936 retains the cool crate-digger grit of their earlier highlights, but within a much more vivid spectrum of sound. Could not be more jazzed and honored to unveil this total groove-wave classic. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with vintage/bootleg art by the band. Edition of 600. " - not not fun
******************************************************** Peaking Lights "Imaginary Falcons" LP $15
"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
************************************************ Topaz Rags "Capricorn Born Again" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
*members of robedoor/pocahaunted* "Grey clouds stay grey. Low light situations birth low-lit moods. It's all bummer clockwork. West Coast lurk-jazz triad Topaz Rags return to vinyl with their debut long player, Capricorn Born Again, an eight-song comedown recorded/mixed from spring-to-fall of '09 via a complex 4-track/boombox assemblage method. Everything creaks and hisses, there's smoke in the air, players at the end of their ropes, lyrics washing over faded raga ballads, slinky electric piano bar depressions, shadow gauze cavern pop. The bell jar is half empty, obviously. Slow dive and sink in. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Pete Swanson) in jackets designed by Amanda. Edition of 400." - not not fun
******************************************************** Blank Realm "Heatless Ark" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
"We’ve touted this Brisbane clan on multiple occasions in the past (the Mind Peril and The Returner tapes on NNF) but they say the third time’s the charm and clearly that’s true because not only is Heatless Ark Blank Realm’s vinyl debut, it’s also by far the weirdest, deepest, punkest, freakiest, aka BEST album the band’s ever made. And so for all these reasons (and more) we are happy as heaven to offer it up for the world. The porous BR line-up allows for a lot of instrumentation flux and this transience translates on record here to a strange range of agendas: open electric ecstasies (“Fabulous Terror Index”), dissonant outsider-wave art-punk (“Saint Tegram,” “Heatless Ark”), loner Jandek-y demos (“Blues Helix,” “Blues Helix 2”), slow-diving femme-sung dream-gaze (“Till I Clear My Own Name”), and beyond. Varied, wild, and intensely ambitious, this LP establishes Blank Realm as high on the high heap of the rich Australian underground, with miles more expansion potential. Hopefully western world touring plans can congeal soonishly to drive the point home. Black vinyl LPs in beautiful metallic ink smoke-ritual jackets (these jpegs don't do them justice) screenprinted by art-wizard Ryo from Topping Bottoms. Edition of 400." - not not fun
******************************************************** Inca Ore "Silver Sea Surfer School" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
"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 roadtrips 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)." - not not fun
******************************************************** Wet Hair "Glass Fountain" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
"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). " - not not fun
******************************************************** Heavy Winged + Inca Ore "Ring Mining" LP $15 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
"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 are 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. " - not not fun
******************************************************** Heather Leigh "Jailhouse Rock" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK/OOP!
"It’s been a while since Scorces sorceress, Jandek collaborator, and Volcanic Tongue branch manager Heather Leigh has ventured out on vinyl under her own name. And it may be a while longer, as Jailhouse Rock is in fact a wax reissue of a long OOP 2006 cassette classic on Michigan crud factory Fag Tapes. It was a fave of ours that year (and every year), so it feels extra celebratory to be able to offer up a freshly remastered (by Pete Swanson) LP edition of the album for global re-appreciation. Sprawling, long-form descents/ascents into mythic electric disorientation, powered by her trademark recipe of FX-soaked pedal steel and voice. Jailhouse feels loosely more aligned with a mid-aughts drone/noise aesthetic than the outsider dirt road Americana of her Devil If You Can Hear Me LP (also on NNF), but the distinction is a slight one. Side A swims in swooping sheets of vox and tempestuous wind tunnel dynamics before slowly dying away to wheezing disembodied harmonica. The B piece begins in a more overtly beautiful mode, a trinity of crystalline notes picked and stretched until they’re transformed into a rapturous sky of textural distortion. Sensual and vertigo-inducing in equal measure. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with brand new paint/collage artwork by Heath Moerland (of Sick Llama, Slither, Odd Clouds, etc). Edition of 400. " - not not fun
******************************************************** Blank Realm "Deja What?" LP $17 (expensive wholesale)
"BLANK REALM’s wax follow up to their debut LP on Not Not Fun. This second album sees the band delving deeper into pop territory while still keeping their feet firmly rooted in the shimmering haze of garage rock psychedelia. Sounds like something you would find hidden at the bottom of your dad’s dusty collection. Your dad is a stoner. " - bedroom suck
******************************************************** Blues Control "Puff" LP $13ABSOLUTE CLASSIC! TOP 10 LPS OF PAST DECADE
"RE-PRESSED!!! Blues Control is Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse, a piano, guitar, and tapes duo from New York. Puff is their first full-length record, after two cassette-only releases. "Puff is the work of two modern gris gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and doper's remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far."—James Jackson Toth" -Woodsist
******************************************************** Blues Control "Local Flavor " LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!
"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
******************************************************** Miles Davis "Live-evil" 2XLP $23
"Originally released in 1971, Live-Evil is one of MILES DAVIS' most extraordinary records. Here, on a double album comprised of both live and studio recordings, the electric sound that Davis first unveiled the year previous emerges as a fully formed and powerful beast. Featuring one of his finest bands, which included JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, KEITH JARRETT, GARY BARTZ, JACK DEJOHNETTE, and Brazilian percussionist AIRTO, LIve-Evil is a stunning exploration of the outer limits of Jazz, and one of the most influential records of the '70s. Absolutely essential. 180-gram vinyl pressing. Gatefold sleeves." - 4 Men With Beards
******************************************************** Sun Ra "Space Is The Place" 2XLP $22
*note: email if you would like us to carry other Sun Ra reissues (they are indeed a little pricey, but worth it! we only want to order them to meet demand, as they are pricey)
"The soundtrack to the legendary Space Is The Place movie featuring some of SUN RA’s most adventurous and uncompromising compositions ever: vocal chants, harsh synthesizer and organ blasts along with film dialogue, heavy percussion and just all around weirdness. Featuring front cover design by CURTIS SCHREIER (a founding member of the Ant Farm art collective). An amazing, and important piece from the extensive Sun Ra catalog and a must have for Sun Ra and avant-garde cinema collectors alike." - sutro park
******************************************************** gärden sound "black summit" LP $13
"When it comes to blown-out psychedelia, the first current band I want to hear is Eternal Tapestry. When it comes to desolate desert blues, that band is Barn Owl. Those are two pretty potent names in the world of experimental music right now so when 4/5 of them join up for some Portland sessions, that's good news for us all. Gärden Sound is the quartet of Dewey Mahood and Jed Bindeman of Eternal Tapestry (as well as Plankton Wat & Heavy Winged, respectively) and Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti of Barn Owl. "Black Summit" is their first charcoal-lined foray into the deep and if you can't get lost in this haze, there's not much hope.
Immediately evident is the incredible restraint shown by all four players. They're not being timid or trying to feel each other out, but there's an obvious level of comfort and understanding between each. With three guitars and Bindeman's trademark drumming, it would be easy to drown everything in full-on sludge but Gärden Sound are too damn good to play that game. Opener, "Forbidden Paradise," sets the scene. Methodical guitar works lull the listener into a solemn state of comfort while Bindeman adds to the hypnosis with tribal-infused narcotic rhythms. The build-up is slow but gets you ready for the knock-down blasts of "Beast of Burden." Heavy stomp and zoned-out, smoked-out guitar riffs that blow the roof to oblivion. This is music that needs to be played as loud as you can stand it.
"Hidden Origin" calms things back down, contemplating the next move while finding its way through the blackened labryinth concocted by Porras, Caminiti and Mahood. Each guitarist finds his own path as they lead each other to the prize. The 14-minute closer, "Obsidian Sky," brings everything home. Sprawling riffage like a dense forest of apocalyptic crumble. Desolation takes hold as the molasses drones take shape and form themselves into an unpassable mountain of debris. It's mind-bending and cathartic; a sonic temple crushed to ash so it can rise again. Gärden Sound prove worthy opponents, ably standing on their own and stomping out their own trail toward the stars." - digitalis
******************************************************** Duppy Gun Productions "Multiply/Earth" 12" $13
"The first in a series of new outer orbit dancehall 12-inches recorded in Los Angeles and Portmore, Jamaica by DUPPY GUN PRODUCTIONS (aka CAMERON STALLONES of SUN ARAW and M.G. GENGRAS). Features DAYONE’s cut “Multiply” backed with EARLY ONE’s “Earth.” Includes vocal and instrumental versions of each. Mastered, cut and pressed on 45 rpm vinyl at Capsule Labs, LA. Packaged with a silkscreened poster insert. Another bullet from the Duppy Gun." - duppy gun
******************************************************** High Wolf "Atlas Nation" LP $14
"France’s High Wolf possesses a natural-born ability to zero in on the tones most conducive to inducing transcendental states. Prolific without wearing out his welcome, this guitarist and manipulator of effects boxes looses fervid streams of fever-dreamy drones that suffuse any room they enter with mystery. High Wolf’s tracks carry the uncanny sense of sounding as if they’ve been sluicing since the beginning of time, and that he had the graciousness to siphon them for teasingly brief absorption before they shimmer off to the vanishing point. This elite droneur is one of the few musicians who could title a release A Guide To Healing without it coming off as an ironic gesture or a laughable boast. (Cop that 7” and try not to get a spring in your chakras.)
Atlas Nation—recorded in 2010 after a long trip to India and Nepal—deepens High Wolf’s penetration into the mystic. He evokes an uneasy peace with a new breed of tribal psychedelia shorn of all hokey signifiers. “Fuji Descent” starts the album with what could be a languid, paradisiacal soundtrack to a scrapped Alejandro Jodorowsky film. “The Dawn of Man” is a stark, stoned processional burrowing into malarial climes where guitars squawk in ominous tongues and congas cave in chests and clear brush with a vengeance. “Raagni” magnifies and psychedelicizes Rapoon’s mantric, ritualistic hand-drum patter and tropical-forest drones while hinting at Don Cherry’s jazz-raga peregrinations. High Wolf claims that “Haiti” was “recorded in a couple of hours [on] the day of the big earthquake in Haiti, so it's the darkest/saddest HW track ever.” It’s a fittingly miasmic, climactic threnody.
Think of Atlas Nation as a surreal aural travelogue that takes a giant step beyond Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music—a humid milieu teeming with alien tonalities and oracular currents. It’s as welcome as a new, improved entheogen on the streets. " - holy mountain
******************************************************** James Ferraro "Clear " LP $15 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 $15 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 "Far Side Virtual" LP $17 (expensive wholesale)
"JAMES FERRARO paints a 21st century still life on his debut album for Hippos In Tanks. The record is called Far Side Virtual. Each song, a melodious reflection of the moment NOW, comes shrink-wrapped in HD fidelity as glossy as a 2012 Toyota Prius. Ferraro’s muse is some enigmatic modern metropolis, where the streets are as slick as iPads, and where the symphonies ring with Macbook message alerts. Through the steam rising from our latte mocha chinos, he invites us to gaze out at the dreamy disorientation of our digital lives. Imagine a Darius Milhuad-guided tour of 5th Avenue. Imagine a Whole Foods bakery that sells only cakes emblazoned with frosting replicas of Camille Pissarro's “Haying at Eragny.” These are the surreal utopias Ferraro brings to life with sixteen swirly-pop concoctions sure to sell out at the candy stores. So slip in your ear buds, and welcome to Far Side Virtual." - hippos in tanks
******************************************************** James Ferraro "On Air" 2xlp $24
"Electrocuted Moon Hair, Cone Headed Space Punks in Fast Forward Neo Tokyo's Virtual Flat Screen Pop Stars, Jetset Tabloids Zebra Print Moon Boats Splattering Ketchup Packets are just some of the themes that pour out of the Musical Imaginarium of JAMES FERRARO’s highly anticipated Fully Restored and Remastered Version of the 2009 Limited Edition CDR Classic On Air, featuring the online hit singles “Cinderella,” “On Air,” “Flashy Kamikaze” and more. Take a electric bite out of the Space Age Glam Sound of Metal Spaz Punks combing their 30 ft Tall Green Mohawks under Saturn's Post-American Desert Skies and find out what happened after MTV laser-ed their logo into the moon. Made available by Underwater Peoples Records, two LPs fully loaded with Pop Art Mania guaranteed to give all the 21st Century Digital Children a fresh breath of Glam Rock Magic! Twenty-five tracks." - underwater peoples
******************************************************** Flower Man "Inversion Fortuite" 1-sided 10" $11
"Chicago-based FLOWER MAN (aka CABOLADIES’ CHRIS BUSH) gives us his latest, an electronic suite weaving motorik vibes into Badalamenti ambience. One-sided 10″ record with silkscreened artwork on the B-side." -Monofonus Press
******************************************************** JOVONTAES "Things Are Different Here" LP $13
"Jovantaes are Lexington, KY. They emerge from (and possibly define) my town's peculiar skate/Kraut/nihil/garage axis, evoking the smell of stale Miller High Life and burning couches: stumbling match-grip surf rolls, howling chorused-out guitar, droning Adderall haze, and a singer who makes Will Shatter sound like Scott Walker. Imagine Moolah playing at a beach party on the edge of the Kentucky River, big gray globs of unidentifiable garbage drifting silently past and the dense wet air becomes gridlocked with mosquitoes"- Trevor Tremaine (Hair Police)
The current line up, and longest running, consists of Mark Murray on guitar and electronics, Reid Small on drums and vocals, and Josh Blaine playing bass and home modified electronics. Recorded mostly at Small's Void Skateshop in Lexington, "Things Are Different Here" is a fresh look at the future of underground improvised music." - hello sunshine
******************************************************** THE POLYPS "Ants On The Golden Cone" LP $13
"Raf Spielman was born and raised on the West Coast. He is active in the fringe music community through his Eggy Records label, and has released music on the Night-People, Digitalis and Not Not Fun labels, among others. After a handful of cassettes and a 7" under the Polyps moniker, this debut LP is his most realized statement to date, having been assembled from a year and half's worth of sound and field recordings. "It's never right, because it doesn't have everything in it," de Kooning. A book of his drawings was recently published by Container Corps Arts Press. " - hello sunshine
******************************************************** Shearing Pinx "Night Danger" LP $13
"Finally! Part two of the SHEARING PINX epic masterwork of scuzz guitar worship. Night Danger drills even deeper into the sonic chasm opened up with Weaponry—abstract visions of punk, noise, and aural violence of all sorts stabbing through the psychic crust. Far underground, the Shearing Pinx once again carve out a brave musical universe to disfigure and rule. Art by RICK WHITE. Co-released with Isolated Now Waves." - divorce
******************************************************** Stellar Om Source "Trilogy Select" LP $16 (expensive wholesale)
"Trilogy Select is the second full-length vinyl LP from Netherlands-based electronic musician CHRISTELLE GUALDI under her STELLAR OM SOURCE moniker. The album consists of a selection of tracks from her CDR trilogy released last year ("Crusader," "Alliance," and "Ocean Woman") hence the title Trilogy Select. It was recorded between 2006 and 2009 in a variety of locations including The Hague, Lisbon, Paris, and New York and features the track "Rites Of Fusion," which is a collaboration with DAN LOPATIN of ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER. The original CDR tracks were re-edited and meticulously sequenced and then remastered by CARL SAFF in Chicago. Packaged in amazing full color high-gloss jackets designed by Christelle along with a double-sided color insert that features the artwork from the original 3-CD set. Also includes a download coupon. " - olde english spelling bee
******************************************************** Tomutonttu s/t LP $20 (expensive wholesale)
"Kemialliset Ystävät member Tomutonttu (Jan Anderzén) goes it alone on this intriguing release. The Ystävät-ness is there, but stripped down to the frame with a minimal synth breeze blowing through it. Beautifully lyrical and layered abstractions combined with a finely hewn composite of experimental dada electronics (ala early Die Todliche Doris or P16.D4). A few little Kraut-isms top off the tonic at no extra charge. “This is the music that the mothership had in the tape deck just before dropping Kemialliset Ystävät off in the 12th century.” Limited to 300 copies on 220 gram vinyl." - beta-lactum ring
******************************************************** Tomutonttu "Elavana Planeetalla" LP $16 (expensive wholesale)
"The second release on MATT MONDANILE’s (REAL ESTATE, DUCKTAILS) just-launched New Images imprint. “JAN ANDERZEN is a Tampere based artist who rearranges images and sounds and makes the music of TOMUTONTTU audible. Read streams, mutilated voices, groovy animal noises and records other people have made are some of the ingredients Anderzen uses to mold his ecstatic music. Someone described it like this: a confusing close-up of music, a microcosmos of strange sound events and dirt flying around in stereo space, interacting with a logic all of their own. Elavana Planeetall is his newest work and his most accessible to date."—New Images. Plays at 45rpm." - new images
******************************************************** MARIA MINERVA "SACRED & PROFANE LOVE" 12" $13
"Producer and chanteuse (and fashion icon and social satirist and heartbreaker) Maria Minerva is the groove-gift that keeps on shimmy-givin.’ Her forth effort this year – after the wildly weird, how-low-fi-can-you-cry ‘Tallinn At Dawn,’ the boy-you-turn-me upside down disco EP ‘Noble Savage,’ AND the salty sweet gauze-ahh strip tease ‘Cabaret Cixous’ – comes just in time for Santa, baby. ‘Sacred and Profane Love’ wraps it up with a bow: drugged-out drag choruses, saucy pans, lines of echo-coke, head-trippy candy flips, layered bangs, crooked hooks, top forty flirting, pop weaseling, sand dune sparkle, dream reels. With a wily wink Minerva serves allusions to the other gay nineties, reminding one of a ‘Post’-era Bjork or a Sampladelic Lady Miss Kier or a Deeper and Deeper Madonna. Sensual in every sense of the word. Maria Minerva just turned it up, so you better bring your M game. * spiced with special guest remix-er Ital’s flamboyant he-gives-me-fever flavor on ‘Luv So Strong.’" -100% Silk
******************************************************** MAGIC TOUCH "I CAN FEEL THE HEAT" 12" $11
"Groove into Magic Touch’s pleasure factory, a floor-to-ceiling inventory of disco-covalence, guitar gush rush, even-better-than-the-real-thing sample soaring, and jumpin’ jackin’ flash. The A side has you feeling the burn after a serious night of get-down. Or tasting the burn after a serious night of get-up. Flip to the B side when you’re looking for love in all the ripe places. A vice is nice, but pills will never thrill you like the sensation of Magic Touch, that feverish fantasia of sweet heat. Let his fingers do the work, let the magic take you away, and please pump up these jams. If only to stop the longing…“I Can Feel The Heat” features bonus shredding by So-Cal amigo Josh Anzano and “Clubhouse” stars additional instrumentation by Miracle Clubber Honey Owens." -100% Silk
******************************************************** INNERGAZE "SHADOW DISCO" 12" $11
"Innergaze your innerself – it’s a Rorshark shock of broken dreams and disco balls, cracked make-up mirrors for lipstick stains and smears, and sugary sweet Tom Collins highballs to spill and then slip on. Innergaze makes dance music to stumble around to, at 3 a.m., when the dry ice is dried out and you can’t find your fur coat. There’s taking candy from a baby and then there’s taking candy-colored cocktails from a stranger who’s dosed you with Innergaze’s bump and fuzz and slo-mo vo-co’s. For writhing on a cold white leather couch in the air-conditioned club. Or for wearin’ white leather and gettin’ way laced. For Brooklyn Babes and Waldorf Astoria Queens and Bushwick Billionaires. Bubbles and trance for the Bridge and Tunnel set. Based on a lifetime of nighttimes, the syrup n’ synth soundstage for romance, tragedy, and a few glassy-eyed, glossy-mag’ed dream sequins. Strictly ballroom, strictly Freudian, and strictly speaking from the Innergaze Shadow Disco: Are you my mother, lover?" -100% Silk
******************************************************** JD EMMANUEL "Trance Formations: Ancient Minimal Meditations" LP $15
"Re-issue of the AMM tape recorded between 1981 and 1985 by JD Emmanuel, a new age composer who has received a lot of praise from people like Lieven Martens and John Olsen. These recordings signify Emmanuel's praise to the course of the day. Starting off slowly, with morning synth meanderings, walking through midday, running in the evening and closing the day with midnight meditation. "Somewhere hidden in the deepest part of the Self is that special place, where One can go within to the most ancient part of one's Self and connect with the origin of Self. Ancien Minimal Meditations reaches into that special place of creation of the Self and its Oneness with the Creator of All." -aguirre
******************************** LIEVEN MARTENS & ADA VAN HOORENBEKE "ETERNAL LANDSCAPES" LP $15
"Collage of continuous sound recordings by Lieven Martens (Dolphins Into The Future). Created for two expo's by Ada Van Hoorebeke and re-worked for release on vinyl in March 2011." -aguirre
******************************** Stellar Om Source "Heartland's Suite LP $15
"LP by Christelle Gualdi which compiles little masterpieces from the same time period when "Trilogy Tapes" was released. With influences ranging from new age to experimental electronic music Christelle creates a wonderful and carefully layered album. After the release of the Trilogy Tapes on Olde English Spelling Bee last year and the Rise In Planes from 2009 this is Stellar Om Source's second third vinyl release to date. More to come!" -aguirre
******************************** EXPO '70 "INAUDIBLE BICOASTAL TRAJECTORY" LP $15
"New LP with two looong Improvised tracks by Justin Wright, recorded during his tour last fall 2010. The A side was recorded at Zebulon Bar, New York with accompanying visuals of the film Fantastic Planet. The B side is a live performance from KJFC in California. Dedicated to the open road and lush landscapes of Earth, you are a great wonder." -aguirre
******************************** Sean McCann "OPEN RESOLVE" LP $15
"We are proud to announce the vinyl release of Sean McCann’s OPEN RESOLVE, a seminal recording of sound collage and experimental synthesizer music from one of the brightest musicians in underground America. “[A] hodgepodge of found and created sounds, swirling into McCann’s black hole at their own leisurely pace. While McCann is quite adept at churning out dynamic textures from more conventional instruments, manipulations such as those on Open Resolve offer an enriching look into his creative process.” - tinymixtapes" -orange milk
******************************** Weyes Blood "The Outside Room" LP $13
"Natalie Weyes Blood (originally Weyes Bluhd) has existed in the grime-ghost fringe-music catacombs since at least 2006, starting as a conventional folk singer in an unamplified universe, then transforming into a more a crouched/hieroglyphic electronic chasm style, culminating in a European tour with Axolotl. After two seasons of hibernation and a relocation to Baltimore, she materialized her ‘Blood In Bluhd Out’ evolution and began writing/playing the darkly haunted narcotic drifter ballads that make up The Outside Room, her first official full-length. The entire album was recorded, mixed and produced by Mering herself, then mastered by good friend Graham Lambkin. The record has shadows of The Shadow Ring in the oddly creaking ambient sounds and stark, nuanced production, which lend the eerily beautiful neo-Nico death-folk laments a more modern, art-skewed sheen. There’s still echoes of her old drone/tape-ghost-clouds moods on tracks like “In The Isle Of Agnitio” and the long, bells-laden outro to “Romneydale,” but the bulk of the LP is swooning and sweeping, with Natalie’s gorgeous, quasi-Teutonic vox leading the way. A subtly mesmerizing long-player, very “out of time,” and strangely untouched by contempo influences. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with cool screengrab/photocopied artwork by the artist, plus an 11x17 lyric sheet/mini poster. Edition of 480." -not not fun
*************************************** Tecumseh "Sea(s)" 12" EP $10
"Tecumseh presents here their second vinyl release for Black Horizons, two concise and highly listenable tracks clocking in at 11:00 and 10:00 minutes for the A and B sides, respectively. The first track starts with singular sub bass, plodding forward in the trademark meditative manner the band has gained a reputation for, fading into the dual guitar attack with a riff that sounds locked into place like a freight train and electronics that are as always subtle and tasteful. On the other side the band moves into some weirder territory, with faint mumbled, almost mechanical and somehow processed vocals, this time giving way to pure minimal drone, accentuated by more window shaking low end. Then suddenly, the riff kicks in, and it is possibly the thickest, most expansive example they have put forth yet, drowning out any sound within it's vicinity, a black hole for anything positive. The rift fades out, and we are left with acid rain electronics, making muddy the charred Earth that remains. Limited to 333 copies in 3-color screen printed sleeves courtesy of Seizure Palace. " -black horizons
*************************************** GAY BEAST "To Smithereens" LP $10
Gay Beast formed mid-2005 during a fit of anxiety towards Midwestern passive aggression and as an attempt to make music that was queer in composition and aesthetic. Wielding a battery of drums, scraped and hammered guitars, chanted vocals, retro-future synths, saxophone, and other electronics, the trio (Angela Gerend, Daniel Luedtke, Isaac Rotto) build songs on grounds that adjoin complexity and catchiness, a space where both abrasion and tunefulness inhabit. With releases on DNT, Gilgongo, and Skin Graft, Gay Beast have garnered a reputation for uniqueness on the rock fringe, their sound being both too weird for the stereotype of a “gay band” and “too gay” for the noise-rock set. Upon examination of the influence blender, one finds remnants of Devo, Captain Beefheart, equatorial pop-rock from the 60s and 70s, no wave, and feminist theory. This concoction, delivered via Gay Beast’s unique political approach to composition, is explored heavily on their third album “To Smithereens”, appearing on Skin Graft Records. “-skingraft
************************ ARAB ON RADAR "Soak The Saddle" LP $10
"Arab On Radar were one of those rare groups to rise out of the muck of '90s post-Grunge with a unique sound and presentation. They were equal parts simian punk rock (complete with demented ass-touching and other monkey-like rituals) and cutting-edge psychedelia (the band mapped out a new synaethesial frontier that Frank Zappa or Faust would no doubt have been eager to explore). “-skingraft
************************ MADE IN MEXICO "Guerillaton" diecut gatefold LP $10
Short description: Providence-based No Wave influenced punk, combined with Reggaeton sounds.... Like Teenage Jesus and the Jerks mixed with Calle 13, or Daddy Yankee. Post-Punk with a Dem Bow beat, and a revolutionary flavor… the soundtrack to Simon Bolivar’s march through The Americas.
includes former members of La Machine, and Arab On Radar. Guerillaton is the highly anticipated follow up to MADE IN MEXICO's debut LP "Zodiac Zoo". Available on compact disc and as a limited edition Diecut Gatefold Vinyl LP. “-skingraft
************************ Locrian/Century Plants split LP $12
"Tape Drift’s first excursion into vinyl presents this massive split LP from two duos, one from Chicago, one upstate New York. These groups have been honing their unique and personal brands of sound for years, and both approach the task in similar ways, drawing equally from noise, drone, psych, kraut, minimalism, and metal influences. Each band offers up their best recorded work yet here, raising the stakes another huge notch. The Locrian side demonstrates their phenomenal range, and beautifully adds to their well established oeuvre with new and complex elements. Century Plants make their first appearance on wax, and show how far they’ve progressed in a few short years, bringing two subtly dark tracks that build in intensity. A slow burner, this LP is the rare split that sounds like a unified whole, and the pairing makes perfect sense. Intense building waves of sound, dense drones, feedback, power electronics, noise, psychedelic guitars, swirling synths and vox are all in the mix in ways only these two bands could pull off. A dark, dense, and ominous record, Dissolvers is also deeply cloaked in mystery and spaciousness. Mastered by James Plotkin for maximum heavy spectral sound, this is a must own record for noise, drone, psych, and metal heads alike. With design by Terence Hannum of Locrian, and art by Scott Treleaven, the LP is packaged in a black jacket with silkscreened silver leaf ink, and a special double-sided color insert. " -tape drift
******************* Daughters Of The Sun "Ghost With Chains" LP $14
"Long-running Twin Cities horsepower trio Daughters Of The Sun have been subtly chugging out their faded-tattoo spirit-in-the-sky psych exhaust for at least half a decade now but we didn’t catch the drift till March ’09, when we got to witness a packed post-midnight smoke-soaked Minneapolis loft set and waved our lighter with the masses. Ghost With Chains is their third official full-length (not including some EPs and a killer split) and it’s as beautifully moon-burnt and highway-swept as anything they’ve done. Recorded in August of ’09 at Nicollet Park, the LP’s seven songs swerve from spectral Sturgis road-burners (“Hexagram,” “Bell Of The Barrier”) to lower-keyed percussion meditationals (“Busted Realm,” “Ghost With Chains”), spiced with the occasional earth-toned ghost drone piece or floating flower acoustic mantra-ballad. The magic is, it all works. The D.O.T.S. gang co-run a tape label, Never Ender, and each helm their own exile-consciousness solo project (Camden, Elven Thief, Wavepool), so roots run deep. Unbreak the Chains and scope ‘em on tour next time they pass through yr local badlands. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Oakley Tapioca, plus a full-color pro-printed insert. Edition of 490." -nnf
******************************************************************* Daughters of the Sun "Visions of the Ocean Head" LP $13
Visions of the Ocean Head was originally self-released in 2007 as a limited screen printed CD. The lineup consisted of Bennett, Nick and Ryan. Chris Rose (Vampire Hands) was in a early incarnation of the band and helped write some of the material. Several of the songs are fan favorites that are still included in the band s live set today. The record was recorded at Old Blackberry Way with Neil Weir and was mastered at Magneto by Brooce Templeton. Now this classic debut full length is finally available on vinyl in a limited pressing of 300. Jacket artwork was painted and designed by Lisa Luck. Daughters of the Sun have rapidly become one of the best psych-rock bands in the Midwest which eventually caught the attention of Los Angeles label Not Not Fun who will release the band s new LP Ghost with Chains . DotS have been road warriors the last 4 years touring the entire country several times over. They have been featured in the Black Angels curated Austin Psych Fest for the last two years and will be headed down to Austin in the Spring of 2011 to play a number of shows as part of SXSW." -modern radio
******************************************************************* Vampire Hands / Daughters of the Sun "Skull Judge" split 12" $13
"When Colin Johnson left local psychedelic powerhouse Vampire Hands last year many people wrote off the band as finished. The now three-piece however, continued to play on – lacking the frenzied energy of their dual percussion sets perhaps, but still drawing crowds. Now the group has released their first EP as a new entity, Skull Judge, and having listened to it, I am happy to report that Vampire Hands is anything but finished. Where the band’s signature sound no longer has Colin’s eerie high pitched vocals, bassist Chris Bierden is more than able to fill in with a howl of his own. Guitarist Chris Rose’s singing struggles a bit under the added weight, but his vocals too give the songs a rough hewn quality that is listenable in its own right. Skull Judge is actually a split EP with the B-Side taken up by one epic seventeen minute track of distortion-fest from Daughters of the Sun. “Dry Ice” takes a little while to get its legs, starting with about six minutes of distortion and minimal guitar before the drum and maraca rhythm kicks in and the thing begins to take off. Add in some more drums eventually, as well as discernible guitar licks, and reverb-laden vocals, and at around the nine minute mark the tune has built into an epic piece of slightly tribal sounding psychedelia. It’s a rewarding, if bizarre, listen if you have the patience for its length. DOS’s live shows have started to turn them into a must-see local band lately, so I am happy to see that their massive sound translates well to magnetic tape. Hopefully this single will lead to lengthier studio releases in the future. — Jon Behm " -modern radio
******************************************************************* MY CAT IS AN ALIEN & BJERGA/IVERSEN: s/t - LP $15
"2 psyched-out sides from the collaboration between mighty Aliens and Norways own answer to Hall & Oates - Bjerga/Iversen. These sides are boiled down from about 2+ hours worth of material recorded last summer in the stunning alpine village of Luserna San Giovanni, just outside of Torino, Italy.
Space electronics, weightless freestyle strings, buzzing voices from the outer heliospheres and garbled and warped messages from the great beyond handed down on recycled trashcan tapes.... celestial harmonies from a neon universe...
There was a double-exposed rainbow over the foot of the Western Alps this evening in late June, and you can hear the colors seeping through the cracks...
Both My Cat Is An Alien and Bjerga/Iversen have extensive discographies and both units have collaborated a lot with others, as this is an important part of our musical universes. So we were all happy to work on these recordings together in a full-blown extensive and focused session.... The recordings are edited by MCIAA.
Edition of 268 copies in ultra-cool neon-colored silkscreened jackets, 5 different varieties.". -Ikuisuus
************************************************************************** MONKS OF MALASPINA: Volume One - LP $15
"The MONKS OF MALASPINA debut release is a phantastical psychedelic mystery musical filled with dark woods wonder and honey comb clouds over sparkling fjords from deep within the mountains of Canada's British Columbia. Highway 101 ends here, or like this new record, begins. Members of the band call up roots from First Nation relations with Jesuit missionaries co-mingled with a diverse offspring from a free love commune started in the 1970's. Most of the music on this record is gloriously strange with a capella outbursts both finely tuned and guttural. Decomposing abstract rock anthems stretch out alongside primitive beat-boxing. There are more familiar sounding songs as well giving the whole album an aura of storytelling magic, like it is all based on some fabulous old book. M.O.M. was produced and arranged by Theo Angell who lead the group into some pretty tripped out improvisations. Quotes Theo: "The film, I mean the album, is like an abstract musical of sorts. There are some lyric-less 'soungs' where Raven meets Hanuman for instance and they tangle in an epic battle in the sky. Or the one where they try to conjure up the feeling of a month of rain in their mind. The world of the Monks is populated by a drinking man-beast who is missing a foot and a bear who ravishes the garden and fruit trees of the Cryptic Master and the Kinetic Gardener of Ronanda. Some of the songs address particular members of the band, "Forthwith Lorraine" for instance. "Taking Off Your Feet" is a re-occuring theme, by which they mean trippin' the way out or getting seriously unsettled. They've really come up with their own syntax and insider myths where even the humor is mystical in nature. They're an odd group of C.O.P. s (children of hippies) with very little outside references. I played this for someone and they said it reminded them of the Holy Modal Rounder's 'Moray Eel' album. Besides using their voices they also play the autoharp and guitars, as well as "the staff". I tried to get them to play a live show but they insist on recording the sequel first. We'll see. I told them they were Fjord Folk." The Monks of Malaspina are Sofar Lorraine, Pournt Falster, Freel Bequelle, Frist Clupps and Thlowlth Fissure. The album was engineered by Dreetmont Accel with mastering by Josh Stevenson. ." -Ikuisuus
************************************************************************** The N.E.C. / Jovontaes -Split 10" $10
"Layers of rich, sonic depth crowd the simple songwriting at the center
of the N.E.C.'s side of this split 10-inch EP. A spiral of guitars,
hiss and reverb melt into a thick shag carpet of sound with "Old
Medicine." "Aria Girl" drags out a haunting and hypnotic rock mantra
that mutates into a morphine tribal haze. On the flip side, Jovontaes'
"Paradise City" holds a formless, experimental quality as it lumbers
like a freight train, focusing on a single, plodding pace where all of
the action happens in the periphery. Each side counters the other with
a slur of damaged, psychedelic dirge. The N.E.C. side stretches out
into the ether, while Jovontaes guides its song on an intensely inward
journey." -creative loafing review. released on double phantom records
************************************************ Emeralds "What Happened" 2XLP $24 (austrian import)
"After the runaway success of their 'Does It Look Like I'm Here?' album Editions Mego is chuffed to release these vintage synth-guitar improvisation jams recorded straight to tape 2007-2008. Previously released as a CD by No Fun this is now the definitive vinyl edition of this material, and serves as archival insight into the development of their sound over the last years." -emego
********************************************************* UTON "Unexplained Objects" LP (german import) $16
"Unexplained Objects“ is the 3rd vinyl-only LP by Finland’s Uton for the Dekorder label, like his previous Dekorder albums released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies in a beautiful full-colour heavy duty sleeve designed by Hirvonen himself.
While the last albums explored rural soundworlds from the outer reaches of this planet and hidden places of the inner human (and animal) mind, he has finally left planet earth completely and is now reaching out for outer space and alien communication. Hirvonen seems to have traveled the spaceways, bringing home folk music and field recordings from faraway planets and alien cultures. Erich von Däniken beware!
Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases.
Uton has previously released dozens of CD’s, CD-R's and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) has been released on LP by Dekorder as well. "-dekorder
******************************************************************** XELA "The Divine" LP $16 (german import)
"Limited edition of 500 copies!
"The Divine" marks the second phase in the trilogy proposed by John Twells aka Xela. Crawling out of a castle dungeon in pursuit of its predecessor, "The Illuminated", this LP finds itself trapped in an abandoned church somewhere in a damp Southern wilderness. Church bells chime and rattle through the record's first piece, echoing and distorting through a fog of chattering voices and prayers. Tape loops stumble over tape loops and the solemn, ecclesiastical drone slowly decomposes into thick, crackling noise. Through the mists choirs sing, heralding the introduction of the second side of "The Divine" which takes the human voice into cavernous and smudged, yet strangely alluring territories. There is almost a Basinski-like charm to this work as the choirs effortlessly degrade into an unrecognisable mud of harmony and abrasiveness. This is music informed by a religious world; Xela has edged from the scriptures of cults and secret societies to the spires of organisation and power. God is in the detail. "-dekorder
******************************************************************** Mark McGuire "Living With Yourself" LP $19 (german import)
"Mark McGuire operates chiefly as guitarist in the legendary Emeralds., however he also has racked up an impressive set of solo releases over the last few years (albeit mainly in small to micro print runs).
Living With Yourself is his new album and we at Editions Mego hope to meet any demand which may arise from this fine selection of modern crafted guitar tunes. Focusing on his family, early friendships and the problems that inevitably develop through years of knowing someone, it takes McGuires sound even further out, and contains some his most accomplished songs to date.
The opening track is fine example of McGuires magic technique of taking a lone acoustic guitar then transforming the track into bliss-out electro wash looping off into the distance. And tracks like ‘Clouds Rolling In’ and ‘Brain Storm’ take off where such McGuire classics as ‘The Marfa Lights’ (which incidentally is planned for a future reissue) left off. While connoisseurs of his sound will find all they desire in here, many superb surprises await around every corner. These are songs that cruise, bubble and rise to the top." emego
************************************************** Pocahaunted "Make It Real" LP $13
"After a six-month hiatus, a complete line-up overhaul, a trip to SXSW, a UK/EURO tour, and a full year-plus of only playing shows and writing songs and amassing totemic objects, finally Pocahaunted return to the recorded realm with their first album since 2008. Time flies when yr having not not fun and all that. Make It Real collects seven of the band’s 2009 live staples for a 40-minute-ish collage of basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment. Recorded barefoot and shirtless and direct to tape at Green Machine Studio in summer ’09 by M. Geddes Gengras and featuring guest bamboo sax by jazzmaster Alex Gray (of Dreamcolour/Deep Magic) and mastered by James Plotkin. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with warped LA post-Parliament utopia artwork by vision wizard Spencer Longo. Edition of 500." -not not fun
*************************************** Love Cry Want "s/t" 2xLP $20
"Nearly 40 years after its creation, Weird Forest is proud to release this seminal jazz album for the first time ever on vinyl. The incendiary grooves captured in this wax defy description. It is not free, funk, fusion or fire music — it encompasses all of these sounds and then blasts far beyond them. Featuring the late great organist, Larry Young (Miles Davis circa Bitches Brew, Tony Williams’ Lifetime, etc), this album is mandatory listening for fans of Miles Davis' “Live Evil” fusion era, Young’s own “Lawrence Of Newark”, Sun Ra’s cosmic explorations and even Japanese guitar terrorists like Keiji Haino and Masayuki Takayanagi. Beautifully packaged, Weird Forest-style, in a deluxe double-gatefold cover and remastered for vinyl by Weasel Walter, the Love Cry Want 2xLP is an essential document of a criminally unheralded group. Here’s the scoop:
“June 1972.
“The times were filled with darkness and turmoil. This music, of loving, of crying, of wanting, makes a powerful statement. It is awash with the anguish of the times, yet it heralds the promise of better days to come.
“Love Cry Want was a legendary jazz fusion group based in Washington D.C., and led by guitarist, Nicholas. This recording took place during a series of concerts in Washington, held across from the White House in Lafayette Park, and featured the late, great jazz organist Larry Young, who had just recorded the historic “Bitches Brew” LP with Miles Davis and had left the Tony Williams Lifetime and guitarist John McLaughlin to combine forces with Nicholas and drummer, Joe Gallivan.
“This second incarnation of Love Cry Want featured the triumvirate of Nicholas, Gallivan, and Young performing some of the most important music in the history of jazz. No record company would release this music, which was ahead of it's time.
“Nicholas, who pioneered the development of the first guitar synthesizer (in association with Electronic Music Laboratories) performs on the first prototype guitar 'synth' along with fellow musician, Joe Gallivan, who pioneered the development of the drum synthesizer with inventor, Robert Moog.
“June 1972, Lafayette Park.
“Richard Nixon was President. There was a nasty war going on in Vietnam, good people were rioting in the streets and cities were aflame. During this series of concerts outside the White House, President Nixon ordered aide, J.R. Haldeman, to pull the plug on the concert fearing that this strange music would “levitate the White House.” This is that music, remastered for this first time-vinyl release by Weasel Walter.”
Personnel:
* Nicholas: prototype guitar synthesizer, ring modulator, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, water, hi-tension wires and wailing dervish
* Joe Gallivan: drums, steel guitar, moog synthesizer, and percussion
* Jimmy Molneiri: drums and percussion
* Larry Young: Hammond organ.
" -weird forest
**************************************************************** Starving Weirdos "Self-Hypnosis" 2xLP $20
"What’s going on here? Well, a couple sides of Self-Hypnosis were recorded in a concrete racquetball court (and a couple of sides weren’t) which has been mysteriously transformed into the legendary Black Ark Studios and Lee Perry is going NUTS with the ol’ echo effects. A tiny clatter in the background suddenly rushes up to your ear-bones, magnified into giant sheets of rubberized steel plates which bounces as high as you are. The backwards flow-motion is set on fire as the storm approaches. Various liquids are aerated while dub insects skitter about the killing floor. Little crashes, hither and thither, mostly between the buildings — not causing much damage at all. Oh oh, those voices sound pretty serious. Time to go? Nope. These here farming combines sure are hard to start up but, boy, when they do you’re in for a thrashing. Ham radio on rye. Moldy rye. Mutter all you want and loop it, why don’tcha? The other two side are not rock and roll or hoochie-coo. The mystery is killin’ me! Is that a giant wet thumb rubbing on a window? Aren’t you the big man, buster! I like how the guitar gets sucked into a vortex and then keeps popping out and scaring me. It’s all bone saws and throwing stars. Ducks and covers. And where is that humming noise coming from? Oh, now I get it. Awesome! Lemme play this again! —Dennis Yudt" -weird forest
**************************************************************** ALTAR OF FLIES "FÖRRUTTNELSEN" LP $17 (swedish import)
"First vinyl fullength from Mattias Gustafsson aka Altar Of Flies. Since the start in 2006, this prolific artist from Mjölby, Sweden, has done releases on Cipher, Husk, Hästen & Korset, Nil By Mouth and 905, just to name a few. Förruttnelsen is the first new release on RTB since the split LP with Sewer Election which was released early 2008. More organic and mostly recorded live to tape, Förruttnelsen shows a side of Altar Of Flies more reminiscent to the sounds of his live shows. This is more minimalistic in it's approach, weaving together tapeloops, field recordings, junk abuse and raw disciplined electronics creating an claustrophobic and bleak soundscape. Everything slowly builds up towards the abrasive 14 minute long title track closer, making this an monumental journey in all it's gloomy glory. Recorded between April and December 2009. 5 tracks, 41 minutes. Mastered by Viktor Ottosson (Ättestupa). Full colour artwork by Daniel Fagerström." -release the bats
**************************************************************** BLESSURE GRAVE "JUDGED BY 12, CARRIED BY 6" LP $17 (swedish import)
"Founded as a duo by T. Graves and Reyna Kay in September 2008, San Diegos Blessure Grave blurs the lines between the goth, postpunk and neofolk genres. The pair has since developed the project into a full band while building a cult-like following, scattering various vinyl and tape releases on boutique labels around the globe. Citing Killing Joke, Death in June, March Violets and The Cure as influences, Blessure Grave injects a pop sensibility into songs otherwise doomed to dreariness, creating an interesting mix of old and new but dark all around. The music initially appears rather simple, but quickly reveals the fact that the songs are fully fleshed-out and genuinely memorable. The album provides the perfect soundtrack for contemplating today’s troubled times or for simply being swept away with the nostalgic 80’s vibe that permeates much of the recording. The band does not waste a lot a time allowing tracks to drone on: the songs are short and to the point, with the average track approximately three minutes in length. 12 tracks. " -release the bats
**************************************************************** UTMARKEN COMPILATION 10" $14 (swedish import) *BACK IN STOCK!!*
"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
***************************************************** ALEX BLEEKER & THE FREAKS "s/t" LP $13
"ALEX BLEEKER & THE FREAKS' self titled album was recorded live on June 11th, 2009. The bulk of the session took place in the basement of JULIAN's childhood home, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The group consists of ALEX BLEEKER (REAL ESTATE), MATT MONDANILE (Real Estate, DUCKTAILS), MARTIN COURTNEY IV (Real Estate) and JULIAN LYNCH. Some of the songs mirror the boys' collective disposition, that of a gentle and warm young man. Others however, invite the listener in for a glimpse at that same boy's restless, virile soul. A sensitive type may describe it all as Raw, Live, Honest Rock and Roll with Heart. Alex Bleeker & The Freaks have been friends since High School and as healthy, red blooded American men so often choose to do, they've channeled their romantic energies into an electrified musical powerhouse. It's as classic and genuine as an adolescent's Playboy collection or a fat, bald man in a Red Corvette." -underwater peoples
***************************************** UKE OF SPACES CORNERS COUNTY BAND “FLOWERS IN THE NIGHT.” LP $12
"The UKES bring us all another butter country moon fried farm folk bammer to sing or bang a gong along to. Once again this release features a full band of self taught weirdo clinger and clangers carefully caressing tones out of anything from an effected mandolin to a marble in the bottom if a well tuned 5 gallon bucket. Players include Andy Neubauer, Dan B, Amy Moon O-s, Kristen Myers, Caleb Gamble, and Ben Grubb. Cover art by Janel Beckman and printed by Leif Goldburg. Insert art by Amy Moon and Kristen Myers." -turned word records
************************************************************* JAMES FELLA / TIMELOAD FOWL - split LP $12
"James Fella (Soft Shoulder, Tent/City) offers a live recording from May 2009: Shifted sax, crackling electronics and skeletal guitar drifting across 18 minutes of crowded, Ye Olde Bike Saviors Co-Op living room sound. Debut vinyl release from Timeload Fowl, sound / noise project of the already established visual artist, R. Sawyer of San Luis Obispo: grim, bleak, but secretly meditative and beautiful.
Includes a collaboration with James that offers more of a thick brutal / buried approach. Short run LP, art by R. Sawyer (Rainbath Art). " -gilgongo records
******************************************************* LITTLE WOMEN - "Teeth" LP $12
"“Official BIO”: Brooklyn quartet Little Women formed two years ago to create music that blurs the line between structure
and spontaneity. The group’s sound distilled from a broad range of influences that stretch from classic Chicago free jazz thru pop music, punk rock, math metal, and harsh noise. Little Women never stop pushing into new sonic territory: splitting overtones to create ghost notes, violently disassembling their instruments onstage, and attacking written and improvised
material with equal ferocity. During performances band members often experience side-effects more commonly
associated with prescription drugs such as nausea, dizziness, and internal bleeding. Little Women stomp all over
genres, creating some of the most adventurous, in-the-moment, wrenchingly honest music of their generation."Teeth" is 20 minute piece, recorded in one long, single take, covering an impressive range of sound, and is an intense
and dynamic presentation of what they are doing as a band. Art work by MICK BARR (Orthrelm, Crom-Tech, Ocrilim, etc). Also: Members of Little Women have recorded and/or performed with some of the top names in jazz/improvised music such
as: Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Mark Dresser, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, George Garzone,
Chad Hugo (The Neptunes), Gerry Hemingway, Joe Morris, Matt Wilson, Michael Formanek, Mat Maneri, and Dave Koz. Members of Little Women also play in bands such as Zs, Extra Life, Cutter, Period, Archaeopteryx." -gilgongo records
******************************************************* Inca Ore, Tunnels, Argumentix, Ghost to Falco "post-alarmist Dracula safari" LP $11
"post-alarmist Dracula safari" the 12" in dedication to Alarmist, a post-animal band from portland OR from 2004-2005. They influenced the people that saw them play and took your carpet for a joy ride once or twice while you knew them. Nick B (drums) aka TUNNELS donates some tracks of psychedelic pop unlike other recordings under the same name. Recorded during the last few days of the band and after the break up. Eric C.(guitar) aka GHOST TO FALCO brings you 2 tracks one almost like a 1 minute western dirge the other more in the traditions of GHOST TO FALCO style recordings. James S.(vocals) aka ARGUMENTIX dabbles in the world of industrial beats and stories of a world left behind in 3034. Assisted on these recordings by Hando on sax. Eva aka INCA ORE(vocals) delivers a chopped and screwed version of some of her recordings mixed with clips of ALARMIST live shows she picked up from Friend Mansion a few years after the fact. On the first track of side crocodile you can hear the ode to ALARMIST by M.Remy (U.S. GIRLS) as she calls in to a radio interview the band was doing. Non of the 4 solo artist sound anything like what ALARMIST was doing and non of the solo projects sound a like. This is a great collection of eclectic music. pressing of 300. 12" black vinyl " -omsb
*************************************************** BURNING STAR CORE 'WSBC/SSS' 10" $12 (UK import)
"Second in the series of six 10"s from C. Spencer Yeh, launching immediately into a giant feedback epic that slowly reveals delicate harmonies beneath a sea of howling distortion.
This edition comes with insert insert design by John Olson (Wolf Eyes)." - no fi
************************************************ Shearing Pinx "Weaponry" LP $13
"Divorce was so pleased with how Shearing Pinx delivered on the Haruspex 7" last year that we decided to up the ante considerably and release a double LP in two parts. In return the Pinx have gone all in with the new material. Weaponry pt. 1 is a mountain that will remain visible in the sea of astounding, bizarre releases Shearing Pinx have been pouring for the last half decade. It is made clear from the first moments of the opening track; the Vancouver trio has been committed here to tape while in rare form. This LP sets up a classic, demento-tuned twin guitar battle where a nonchalant vocal delivery squares off against the drum set’s muscular fake jazz-jizz-isms. William S. Burroughs used a shotgun to create paintings. Shearing Pinx use musical instruments to wound and maim. Tunes for the unglued. Artwork by Rick White of Eric's Trip / Elevator / Rick White Album. Edition of 600." -divorce records
********************************************* JAMES FERRARO CITRAC 2XLP $22
"The CITRAC collection presents one of James Ferraro’s most cinematic visions; showing his recent mode of soundworld creation in top form. By shying away from pure musical creation and opting towards the organic birth of sonic universes James finds a new way to tell a story. Evoking vastly imaginative imagery, this 80+ minute suite spanning two LPs, contains the previously released “Postremo Techno Mundus Symposium”, excerpts and alternative edits from Liquid Metal’s Alternative Soundtrack to “Digital Overdrive”, and the all new “Digital Tribe”. Presenting deep-nightmarish atmospheres of surveillance and captivity on through the rush of the open road; the hypnotic, lo-fi result is one that could only come from Ferraro’s alien mind, eternally stuck in a 1980s vision of an impossibly archaic future. In an edition of 400 double LPs with full color printed inner-sleeves in pro-printed black and white cardboard sleeves and printed labels by James." -arbor infinity
********************************************* Little Claw "Human Taste" LP $13
"brand new lp by portland's little claw. not not fun
**************************** Gowns "Red State" LP $10 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Brilliant noise-folk from these super talented and well-known artists. Gowns bring a whole new poratrayal of synthesized sounds and organic instruments." -kill shaman
**************************************************************************************** SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN "FIRE ESCAPE" 2XLP $20 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Limited edition vinyl (edition of 1000) with bonus track and new artwork by Eye (Boredoms)" -smalltown supersound
****************************************************** Gang Wizard "GOD-TIME-MAN UNIVERSAL CONTINUUM CALIBRATION DISC" LP $9 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Follow-up album to 2007's "Byzantine Headache" on Load Records.
What really sets this Gang Wizard album apart is that it was recorded in
an actual studio. The load album and albums on Ecstatic Peace were all
recorded at home through one mic into a 4track. So, after 10 years of
being a band, Gang Wizard breaks tradition. The results are a dense
network of sparkling electronics, brittle guitars, and intense vocals that
will surprise even the most well-listened GW fan. A landmark." -lost treasures of the underworld
***************************************************************************** BACK IN STOCK!! Gang Wizard - "The Atlas of Cancer" LP $9
"This was origionally planned to accompany their winter 07 European tour.
10 years and running, LA's Gang Wizard deliver an LP of live recordings
from a line-up including members of Foot Village, Yuma Nora, Kevin Shields
and Dynasty. " -gilgongo records (co-release with deathbomb arc)
*************************************************************************** Tent City "Drought" one-sided LP $12 (limited to 300) BACK IN STOCK
"Tent City play free-form sound / music; broken folk meeting crackling noise, somewhere between artists such as Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Don Cherry, The Dead Machines and The Davenport Family. Twenty minute live set recorded in Feb. 2006 at a show in Phoenix, AZ with The Dead Science, after one of the longest recorded droughts in Phoenix history. Limited to 330, "Drought" is Tent/City's first "proper" record, following several short-run and sold-out releases on Not Not Fun and Night People, and is a one-sided clear record, the B-side being multi-screened and color-blended. This labor of love was a long-time in the making and is finally ready to be unleashed."- gilgongo records
*************************************************************************** Mammatus "The Coast Explodes" LP $12
"Mammatus's second album The Coast Explodes straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects. The music is heavily influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness. "Excellent Swordfight" is a continuation of the same story told in the debut's "Dragon of the Deep." "Pierce the Darkness" explores being a light in a dark world. "The Changing Wind" is a pipe-led psychedelic folk tune that could have been sited by Ghost's Second Time Around and the shanga vibes of the forest in the Autumn. It unfurls into the title track which encapsulates the massive fury of the ocean." -holy mountain
*********************************** DEAD MACHINES- "PLAYS INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS" 1 SIDED LP $11 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Michigan heavy domestic-electronic couple Dead Machines always create records that confuse and intrigue. They are the forefathers of broken gear / appliance / wind instrument basement jamming and have their niche dug deep. “Invasion” exists on the borders of existence- room ambiance is present, but the sounds are totally alien. Twisting mixer feedback and found sound source into a twisted collage of life outside the “Pod”: harsh and awakening, but at times giving way to the trance of the machine lull. Don’t fall asleep. In an edition of 450 LPs with full color pro-printed cardboard sleeves with art by John Olson." -arbor
********************************************************** Sonic Youth "s/t" 2XLP $14
"Sonic Youth's eponymous debut EP, reissued in a deluxe double- LP edition on the band's own Goofin' imprint, was recorded in late 1981 at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and originally released on composer Glenn Branca's Neutral label. The album is loosely based on compositions the newly formed group had performed at that year's week-long Noisefest event (and remains the only recorded document of an early line-up featuring actor Richard Edson on drums). The newly remastered vinyl also features extra live material from a 1981 gig, and a track from a previously unheard studio session." -goofin'
******************************************************************** Los Llamarada "Take the Sky" LP $11
"It has been almost a couple years since Los Llamarada took the world by surprise with their much raved about vinyl debut "The Exploding Now!" Monterrey, Mexico's premier underground band's claustrophobic psych punk won praises from everybody from Siltbreeze's Tom Lax to Z Gun's Ryan Wells. "When's the next record?" has rung in my ears for the last year. Well, now it is here! "Take the Sky" was originally slated for a February release, we held off on putting it out until we built this into one serious killer. While some of the murk of the first is gone (don't worry it still as an eerie lo-fi sound), it has been replaced by sharp psych stun guitar which will make your jaw drop. I've previewed this for a few people (Rick Ele, Ryan Wells to name two) and everyone has walked away amazed. To quote Rick Ele: "Damn." 20 Jazz Funk Greats says "This bulking contraption is propelled upwards forever upwards on an invisible matrix of relativistic wind patterns, oars spinning in a foreboding cycle to a rhythm that would make the Red Crayola proud in its parabolic slash metronomic derangement". Of course, I am biased, but this is a great record… Hear "Future Scream" for some proof. " -s-s records
******************************************************************* Hototogisu/Burning Star Core "s/t" LP (collab) $13
"...This all-improvised studio meeting is the perfect reconciliation of both tendencies, of Hototogisus obsessive layering of strata after strata of violently conceived noise and of Burning Star Cores epic, post-Kraut thunder-punk style. Bower has long been on record about his opposition to anything approaching dialogue in improvised music, favouring a senses-devouring simultaneity over anything that might pass for actual exchange, so its no surprise that there is little on this new record that sounds even close to conventionally improvised music. Instead, it feels more focused towards the zone where energy begins to spontaneously birth form, where the monomaniacal pursuit of the nowhere zone bears fruit in the shape of a music that transcends its constituent parts while being totally based around – and rooted in - the individual response to the moment. BXC play it ginchy and garage-pop right from the start, simultaneously inverting and amplifying Bower and Bassetts vertical constructs with drums that sound like they might have been lifted straight from the most flower-power parts of the Silver Apples back catalogue and bass patterns that are as tactile and rock-anchored as Cans Holger Czukay. To hear Hototogisus music given this kind of injection of dynamic energy makes them seem more obviously sourced in classic rock music than you might otherwise have guessed, with a dense, implosive sound that feels like a hyper-distilled take on all of rocks most outlaw aspects, the feedback that makes you feel like you could explode in a ball of electricity, the anti-gravity effect of heavy fuzz, the seductive, alien tongues. Its certainly the most garage band side that either of the groups have cut to date, albeit in the form of a Gnostic, post-acid re-think where the vibration is more important than the outer forms, where energized enthusiasm makes for a more fundamental guiding principle than verse/chorus/verse and where the only direction left is out. Which is another way of saying it feels genuinely bad-ass. In an era where even the best groups seem polite, pro, participatory, democratic, this is music that is disregarding in its overwhelming power, exhilarating in it irresponsible spontaneity. And in an underground scene where self-conscious notions of avant-garde and free improvisation have long displaced any concept of an intuitive rocks off-style, well, it feels like a re-connection to the source. So file this one closer to Kill City or Sticky Fingers than Persian Surgery Dervishes or The Black Album and feel the gravity of your whole record collection shift." - David Keenan. (yik yak records)
************************************************************ Raccoo-oo-oon "s/t" 2XLP $20 BACK IN STOCK/OUT OF PRINT!!
"All things must come to pass, if you love something set it free, it’s better to burn out than fade away, blah blah blah. No platitude can mask the permanent bummer of a favorite band breaking up in their prime, and such is the case with Iowa City’s most untamed civic treasure, feral-psych foursome Raccoo-oo-oon, who decided to dissolve this year after nearly half a decade of radical and galvanizing activity (tapes, tours, t-shirts, etc). Fortunately they’re generous sorts, so their parting gift to the fans/haters/planet is a vicious, thorny wilderness of endless, nameless songs heaved across four fried sides of black vinyl. Crawl a mile in their shoes. As far as R.I.P. band statements go, this self-titled monster is tough to beat, by far the most ambitious slabs of sounds the RAC pack has ever put together. Doomed, desperate prog-rock flailings decay into hollow purgatories of dimly pulsing ambience, only to re-erupt into pissed percussion firestorms and experimental electricity. There are a few moments of Behold Secret Kingdom-style focus, but for the most part the mood remains raw and acidic, four souls on edge, backs to the crowd, channeling everything they have left inside. It’s deconstruction time again. Nearly 80 minutes of music, mastered by Pete Swanson, housed in reinforced double LP jackets with “Andy/Daren in repose” photo artwork, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 500." -nnf
************************************************************************ Sonic Youth "Dirty" 4XLP box set $28 *THAT'S ONLY $7 A RECORD!!*
"Sonic Youth's landmark 1992 album Dirty was re-released in a double-CD deluxe edition package by Universal Records in April, making it part of a series that includes classic albums by Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, and The Who. The corresponding quadruple-LP box set on the band's own Goofin' Records imprint includes: the original 15 album tracks; nearly two dozen bonus tracks culled from B-sides ("Genetic," "Hendrix Necro," "The Destroyed Room," "Is It My Body," "Personality Crisis," "The End Of The End Of The Ugly" and the eight-minute epic "Tamra"), outtakes ("Stalker," "Youth Against Fascism" and "Wish Fulfillment"), and rehearsal tapes from the period (the previously released "Little Jammy Thing" and previously unreleased songs "Lite Damage," "Dreamfinger," "Barracuda," "New White Kross," "Guido," "Moonface," "Poet In The Pit" and "Theoretical Chaos"); an eye-watering trove of full-color artwork; and essays from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and journalist/co-conspirator Byron Coley.
The band's eighth official album, Dirty reflects the influence of touring partners such as Mudhoney and Nirvana; indeed, the team behind Nevermind -- producer Butch Vig and mixer Andy Wallace-- helped to craft an explosive, intense yet melodic rock album which would become arguably the band's most commercially and critically successful work to date. The ultimate Dirty set features more than 20 previously unreleased and hard-to-find B-Sides, outtakes and demos
Photos, artwork and liner notes from Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Byron Coley
A classic from the year punk broke " -goofin
********************************************************************** Los Llamarada "The Exploding Now" LP $13 BACK IN STOCK!!
"Monterrey, Mexico is the second biggest city in Mexico, one of that country's intellectual hubs, and home to Los Llamarada. These four youngsters met while studying psychology and decided to take their brains and fill them with noise. Good thing for you because what they came up with is a great murky noisy claustrophobic no wave mind storm. While touches of Mars, very early Sonic Youth, and even Patty Waters show up in Llamarada’s sound, what mi amigos are pounding out is pretty much all their own. Am I excited about this one? Damn right, I am. And once again, like all the other bands Ss released before you ever heard of them (A Frames, Cheveu, Nothing People, a bunch of Tete de Bebe bands), I urge you to take a chance with Los Llamarada (pronounced : Los Yama-RAda). 600 copies, screened sleeves." -S-S Records sample1 sample2 sample3
*************************************************************************** Cloudland Canyon "Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004" LP $14
"Spanning three years of studio work, Cloudland Canyon was born when Uhlhorn, touring Europe with Panthers in 2002, met up with German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan. Tapes were exchanged, and a handful of improv performances across the Atlantic forged a promising creative pairing, one that would take shape when Wojan made the trek to Brooklyn later that year. Through a week's worth of 12 hour days in the recording studio, armed with as many instruments and computers as they could find, the two assembled the basic tracks for Requiems Der Natur: rattling, sprawling experiments that fused their musical discoveries, which take the shape of its container, then rapidly spill out and fill whatever size of space they're given. Within, strictures of German new age and electronic music of the '70s haze into field recordings mottled with analog burble and echoes of woodwinds. Shambling, modal organ ruminations detour browned-out meditation hang sesh. Blue-eyed drunken soul collapses upon swarms of meticulously composed synthesizers into a yellowed, rejoicing howl. Bulkheads of battleship-grey sound are dry-docked and meet the sun for the first time, then the solitude of night. Smoky Mountain fingerpicking rests for seemingly connected moments against an ever-changing backdrop of technology. Contributions by The Double's Jacob Morris, Turing Machine/The Juan MacLean drummer Jerry Fuchs, and Uhlhorn's wife, Kelly Winkler, fortified the sessions with further points of view." -tee pee
***************************************************************** Sword Heaven "Entrance" LP $13
"SWORD HEAVEN is a Columbus duo using sheet metal, electronics, horn, drum and treated vocals to bring a supercluster of black clouds into your zone. While there is an undeniable black tone of metallic grime hanging over the proceedings, this music will appeal to those wanting something absolute in their lives. Yes, name check pre-industrial dive bombers like the SWANS or GODFLESH, but realize that will not prepare for the all out bombast this duo spreads on your toast. The band has 7 inchers and LP sides on undy mainstays record labels like NOT NOT FUN, DEATHBOMB ARC and CEPHIA’S TREAT, as well as a split LP with fellow Ohio cyanide spritzers, LAMBSBREAD. This is their full-length debut. Make no mistake, this release will be noticed and fans of exxxtreme soundz and bold smells will bow down and spill proper restitutions of pig blood stained dollars at their local record shack or illegal download center. " -load "Town Hag" MP3
********************************************************* Traum "Built for Nothing" 1-sided LP $11 *OUT OF PRINT*
"Suburban Michigan is a breeding ground where every weirdo has a label, a band, and a handful of secret/under the radar collaborative projects. Here Graveyard’s Ben Hall and Lambsbread’s Zac Davis create a monolithic one sider influenced by too many private press jazz records and abstract instrumentalism. Davis turns in his effect pedals for nothing; pure clean tones plucked up and down scales and bridges so uniquely that it is easy to confuse the guitar for a sax. Ben Hall drums like a man with four arms; constant rattling trap tapping and assorted pots and pans clattering, flowing completely smoothly. A perfect union of sound. In an edition of 300 copies in screened chipboard sleeves by Anthony Decanini." -arbor
************************************************************************************ God Willing/Privy Seals split LP $12
"God Willing and Privy Seals are two of the prime purveyors of meditative harsh tones. God Willing’s guitar and oscillatior drone has been reaching epic levels of hypnosis lately and this piece is a great example. The repetitive nature of textured signals act like the swaying charm of the pocket watch: onward march. Matthew Sullivan has been crafting his Earn project recently, and this, one of the final Privy Seals recordings acts as a logical bridge. Heavy, hi-end guitar and tape interlacing: a harsh movement, but possessing transcendently soothing qualities buried under the deprivation of distorted tones. At the end of the hallway a door lies open. A long overdue document of the LA Diaspora. In an edition of 300 LPs with silkscreened chipboard covers by Ren Schofield. " -arbor
***************************************************** Goliath Bird Eater/Sasqrotch split 10" $11
"LA’s rep as a hometown to heaviness is backed up by a lotta props: Richter Scale-wrecking earthquakes, Vin Diesel racing an army camo hummer down Sunset Blvd on a daily basis, Buzz Osbourne loitering at pretty much every flea market within walking distance of a greasy spoon, etc. Oh, and the sick & twisted Sunn amp-manglings emanating from the respective lairs of Goliath Bird Eater and Sasqrotch. Duh. GBE is the half-decade-strong gauntlet through which Eagle Rock-based Teen Choice Award-winner Bobb Bruno gives voice to his solitary metal ruminations, and oftentimes riffs germinate in his brain/fingers for YEARS before being finally committed to 8-track tape. After a string of shaky drummers but SLAYING tapes/CDRs, he solidified shit enough to lock this timeless psych-crusher in the can. “Blood Silk Road” slow-rides a one-note rock monolith into the void before post office local (and Wilco wild card) Nels Cline steps in to wail an absurdly eyeball-shredding guitar solo that crescendos the song into a black light hurricane of repetitious death. Kill me now please. Highland Park’s Sasqrotch cruise in a scummier mindset, rolling together depraved sax attacks, freakish costumes, and even the occasional bouzouki curveball intro into their mythically hirsute spliff before torching it in a blaze of drums and drop-tuned oblivion. Their B offering, “Menstrual Cyclone,” is a fairly archetypal document of the road-tested freeform ripper they were jamming live for most of the latter half of ’07. Suck it down. Black vinyl 10 inches in printed jackets, plus a hand-numbered insert, with artwork by French electronic enigma Kikifruit. Edition of 400." -nnf
************************************************************************* Ex-Cocaine/Yellow Swans split LP $12
"Two storied USA duo institutions share war stories across twelve miles of raw wax, and the rest of us are lucky enough to eavesdrop. Missoula, Montana’s Ex-Cocaine continue roping that weird rambling wind that seems to stir the soul and keep America mellow, and the pair of anthems they jam out here encapsulates the whole breadth of their sea-to-shining-sea cosmosis. Plainsong guitar lassoes around loose-limbed percussion flame-fanning, building and burning till a boss bonfire glows on the horizon, then they close out the side with a ragged and earnest Meat Puppets cover that’s become a live staple of late. Real and roamin’. On the B, Yellow Swans channel a supreme slice of psychedelic eulogy that cuts twice as deep with the knowledge that after many a summer (they birthed in 2002-ish) dies the Swan. Pete and Gabe’s DYS saga has spanned the decade and their impending non-existence will be lamented all over the world, so the more 11th hour record books they want to stencil with their electric synergies, the better for all of us. R.I.P.eace out. In a stunning “sexy legs” kaleidoscopic masterpiece art jacket by Religious Knife Maya Miller. Half on bleached olive vinyl, half on black. Edition of 600." -nnf
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