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Artist: L Title: Holy Letters Format: CD + 7" Label: CCD Country: Japan Price: $30.00 |
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"Holy Letters is a barely-circulated masterpiece of deeply felt self-expression. Recorded in 1989/1990 by Hiroyuki Usui, Holy Letters beautifully captures the spirit and substance of a half-dozen of the key sub-underground pillars of sound. Working with guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium, bass, drums, cello, field recordings, digeridoo, and more, Usui-san blends delicate folk, psychedelia, and experimental sounds into a mostly subdued but undeniably glowing suite. The layered but careful instrumentation on tracks like the epic "Holy Letters" and "Troll" backs the alternately plain-spoken and crooning vocals perfectly. Odd touches like snatches of throat singing and bowed vibraphone leap out of the mix at just the right time. There are overt references to the blues (the first track is an oblique cover of "Cold Was The Ground") - but other than the occassional slide guitar touch, the connection is overwhelmingly in the timeless feeling and atmosphere. I can hardly think of anything else like "Holy Letters," but suffice to say if you like Richard Youngs, Popol Vuh, Six Organs of Admittance, Tim Buckley, acid-folk, japanese underground - anything like that - this is an essential purchase. Really, Im not doing it justice.
Holy Letters was self-released by Hiro in 1993/1994 or so, primarily to be given away to friends. A handful of copies were sold via Tokyos Modern Music/PSF operation in Japan and by Forced Exposure in the US, but other than that, it disappeared completely. The copies we have are from Hiroyukis original numbered pressing. The CD is accompanied by a two song 7" and housed in a beautiful oversized color gatefold sleeve.
Hiroyuki Usuis name pops up in several intriguing places in the apparently still underdocumented Japanese underground lexicon. While he now concentrates mostly on Digieridoo (and his profession of garden design), he once played drums in Fushitsusha (late 70s/early 80s), A-Musik (with the legendary vocalist Phew), Marble Sheep, and several other true-underground outfits." - Bill Kellum.
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Artist: L Title: Holy Letters Format: CD Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A domestic release of HIROYUKI USUIs 1990 barely circulated, underground acid-folk masterpiece. Working with guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium, bass, drums, cello, field recordings, digeridoo, and more, Usui blends delicate folk, psychedelia, and experimental sounds into a mostly subdued but undeniably glowing suite. Includes the tracks from Usuis original CD and 7-inch package, along with a 10-minute bonus track from the original sessions. Packaged in gatefold folio sleeves with a 20-page booklet with unpublished photos and new liner notes by Usui and BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE) translated into both English and Japanese." - VHF, |
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Artist: L.O.S.D Title: Sublivian / Astral Being Format: 10"/Sculpture Label: Disques Le Carotte Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "L.O.S.D. is Laboratory of Sonic Discovery from Amsterdam the Netherlands, the project of Peter Fleur and also in collaborations with Radboud Mens. Both have been active since the early 80s as soundmixers on various radiostations. With this project there is always a search for Organic electronics and a way to create a living sound. Also known as remixers under the name L�?SD creating a different style of sound in the realms of rhythm. For L.O.S.D. this means that it can keep concentrating on the more experimental works." - discogs.com. Sealed original copies of this 10 inch e.p released in 1998. Comes on clear vinyl, packed with a screw to a dense, multicolor paper-mache disc. |
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Artist: LA COFRADIA DE LA FLOR SOLAR Title: La Cofradia de la Flor Solar Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $17.50 |
| "Named after a student artistic community 50 km south of Buenos Aires, The Brotherhood Of The Solar Flower was originally formed in 1968 by three of the musically inclined participants. After a compilation appearance and RCA/Vik 7" their only LP, produced by Billy Bond, was finally released in 1971 on the Microfon label. With fourth member Kubero Diaz on lead guitar, the group created a slightly-stoned mix of acoustic/electric fuzz guitars and phased vocals, and the album went on to become one of the most highly-regarded Argentinian rock LPs, alongside releases by Almendra, Vox Dei, etc." |
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Artist: LA LA VASQUEZ Title: Hello Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Get on the party train with La La Vasquez. After playing their first show at Upset The Rhythms Yes Way last year theyve run riot in in sweaty rooms up [and sometimes down] the UK matching laid-back vocal harmonies with wicked shouts. Now theyre moving on from their savage days with a melodic set of fuzzy jams that are a must hear in 2010. Au Pairs, Young Marble Giants, Bikini Kill, K Records... whatever, they love that stuff but theyre on their own track." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Blood Moon Riders Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Dont be fooled by the King Diamond-style logo. This liberation of inverted progressive surf rock from psychedelic epithets plays like a fan-fiction account of Dick Dales meeting with Sonny Sharrock at Amon Dueuel IIs rehearsal space to discuss the "post-rock" epidemic. Unlike so many other instrumental soundtrack bands who employ ho-hum, choose-your-own-adventure tactics, LA OTRACINA sticks to the rails of their own twisting corkscrews and spine-snapping dives. This work does not lend itself to the standard-fare apathy of background music. Blood Moon Raiders is its own ride, with its own ticket, and the doors are locked after take-off. Pinch some headphones to your dome and situate the rest of your form into a beanbag as you navigate the fibrous landscape of a black-light poster. The tracks flow from a subtle new-age contingency to violent bouts with Laotian street gangs. Remember to pack a sack lunch and strap on a machete before mounting this electric buck-bot. Dont fret-the intention has always been to crack open your skull or drown you. Includes a free MP3 download." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Crystal Wizards of the Cosmic Weird Format: CDR Label: Sky-Fi Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"It all began with some kind of roadhouse kosmische showdown scene on some rickety lunar bar, with all kinds of fucked up looking creatures, with scales or tails and multiple eyes and all that, all lookin grimey, just making a stop on their way to proxima centauri, coming down off a fistful of Benzedrine, tired and disgruntled, chainsmoking and drinking neon green booze, spurs on their space boots and all that. You know, cacophony.... and then some jiving band of lizards was taking the stage and laying down a sick cosmic sludge, from a skronk ruckus, into the depths of some eerie zero gravity subconscious neu transmutations, to some sonification of sun ra s nightmares.�?� - Sky-Fi.Adam Kriney from Owl Xounds. Previous release on Holy Mountain.
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Gardens Of Blackness Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"A CD-R version of the now out-of-print cassette released last year on the Digitalis Ltd label. Adventures in psychedelic sound collage, improvised meditations, and sky-soaring ambient textures of LA OTRACINAs boundless sonic universe. 3 songs, 21 minutes, professionally printed CD-rs and full color inserts, limited edition of 50!" -Colour Sounds
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Reality Has Got to Die Format: Double LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Since 2003, LA OTRACINA has been hell-bent on creating highly visionary music that melds sonic ideas from the outer reaches of heavy and weird. The Brooklyn group has released three full-length albums and twelve mini-albums, along with a slew of splits and compilation tracks on labels including Holy Mountain and band founder ADAM KRINEYs own Colour Sounds Recordings. La Otracinas new double-album is the first to feature drummer Kriney as lead vocalist, which catapults the trio into their most cohesive and focused release to date. Reality Has Got to Die showcases the bands mind-blowing ability to evoke the timeless space-rock magic of Hawkwind, the prog-improv wizardry of King Crimson, the fuck-yeah of early Metallica, and the synthesizer mind-warp of Tangerine Dream, all fused in a Krautrock state of mind. This musical journey through deep and heavy sound worlds envokes images of the emerald beyond and the darkest future alien universe, while also staying rooted in the tradition of rock n rolls ever-winding history. But dont confuse this for faux-New-Age blabber-this is street-wise and from the gut, straight from the minds of three men living their art, sacrificing everything and manifesting a boundless sphere of music, ideas, and imagery. LP version includes a download." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: The Risk Of Gravitation Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| ⿿The Risk Of Gravitation is the stunning new Summer 08 Tour mini-album by Brooklyns LA OTRACINA, who have long wandered and forged sounds in the hidden lands of heavy psychedelia and progressive space music. This 7 track 32+ minute excursion is a major paradigm shift for the group as drummer Adam Kriney is now on vocal duties as well, adding yet another layer of epic intensity to the swirling chaos of Evan Sobels Fender Bass VI low-end destruction and new guitarist Philippe Ortanezs ecstatically angular bliss-out. This disc shifts between tracks of classic LA OTRACINA free-form freakout brilliance and their current vocal-heavy jams, which put the progressive psych back into early heavy metal while exploring realms of dark doom-sludge thunder and the graceful complexity of early Canterbury jazz-rock. Refusing to be quantified, it is clear that LA OTRACINA remain in an orbit of their own, seeking out the cosmic weird and channeling it through hard rock power! First press limited edition of 100 numbered copies." - Colour Sounds Recordings |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Tonal Eclipse of the One Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "La Otracina was formed in Brooklyn, NY, in the summer of 2003 by drummer Adam Kriney and guitarist Joshua Anzano (now of Tee Pee Records Titan) to penetrate the deepest and most surreal realms of psychedelia, prog, and Krautrock, with an emphasis on exploration. Taking heavy nods from psychedelic forefathers (Flower Travelin Band, Guru Guru, King Crimson, Neu!, Yes, Agitation Free, Blue Cheer, Amon Duul, etc.), their music is also rooted in a deep understanding and appreciation of free jazz/improvisation and the wizardry of minimalism - not to mention the extreme sounds of the Japanese underground. La Otracinas brew of cosmic music is a ride across the galaxy, a slice of magical lemon wedges, a rainbow of crystallized comet dust. La Otracina is Adam Kriney on drums, Ninni Morgia on electric guitar, and Jordon Schranz on electric bass. KindaMusik listed La Otracinas Love Love Love 2 CD as one of the top 20 best psychedelic albums of the new millennium, along with releases by Six Organs of Admittance, Bardo Pond, Ghost, and Tower Recordings." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Woven Wanderers Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "BRAND NEW STUDIO ALBUM! Yes, these sonic spacemen have just finished yet another studio album, this one channeling yet even newer ideas into their boundless sphere of psychedelic transmissions! Quite different from their current "space-metal" live show, this new studio album swirls between worlds of loner cosmic psych-folk meditations, 70s european electronic-progressive space music (i.e. - HELDON/TANGERINE DREAM/CLUSTER/SPACECRAFT/PULSAR), overblown freak-rock improvisation and heavy-dark-brooding New Music-meets-Industrial sound-collage mind warp! 9 songs, 35 minutes, professionally printed CD-Rs and full color inserts, 1st edition of 100!" - Colour Sounds. |
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Artist: LA REVOLUCION DE EMILIANO ZAPATA Title: La Revolucion De Emiliano Zapata Format: LP Label: Therapeutic Country: Spain Price: $31.00 |
| "1971 saw the release of the first album by this Mexican rock legend, one of these albums you must own. Probably the best acid rock album ever made in Latin America and among the best worldwide, plenty of fuzz guitars and excellent compositions. A real classic in all senses. New and limited reissue, featuring the rare original fold-out poster." -Therapeutic. |
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Artist: LA VAMPIRES & ZOLA JESUS Title: LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Virtual reality trans-time zone collab between So-Cal sample sister LA Vampires and Madison, WI (though soon to be LA!) neo-Siouxsie Zola Jesus. Despite the distance the respective vibes vibe beautifully. Cold dub rhythms echo down grimy corridors while heartbroken tag-team femme howls come bleeding out of the horizon drenched in spectral delay. Theres a few bangers (Bone Is Bloodstone, Looking In), a few ballads (In The Desert, Vous), and a couple quasi-covers (Searching, No No No), so every mood is given its due. Local photographer (and drummer) extraordinaire Caitlin C. Mitchell even lays down some smoky trumpet on one track. Additional deep space Moog and production duties were handled by City Terrace studio wizard M. Geddes Gengras. A dark, gleaming gem of a 12", and cool step sideways for both artists. 45 RPM black vinyl LPs in disco-hole sleeves with artwork and layout by Manda Beth Brown. Edition of 600." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: LA VAMPIRES FEAT. MATRIX METALS Title: So Unreal Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Episode two in season one of the LA Vampires Collab Chronicles finds her joining forces with elusive alien discotech-head Matrix Metals of the nomadic Outer Limits Recordings cabal. Blurry ornate cassette-loop architectures groove and grind under jazzy Casio canopies while Ms. LA Vamps screws it all down and layers in additional square wave keyboard lines, echo chamber FX, drum machine detailing, low-end throbs, and sings lead on a gold spraypainted microphone. The entire LPs got that melting-on-the-dashboard warped-world tonality of all the best Outer Limits tracks, and the fried radio-rhythm Matrix beats definitely coax out a cool hidden sunbleached LA V faux-pop vocal style not evident on any of her previous vinyl. Elaborately 4-tracked over the summer and microscopically mixed by M. Geddes Gengras, So Unreal is exactly that, and a rad synergistic statement by both parties. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with glamour-style Nagelized portrait/collage artwork by recent LA transplant/BFF Spencer Longo, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 600." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LA VAMPIRES GOES ITAL Title: Streetwise Format: 12 Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Four-song 45 rpm EP of raw 90s-style body workouts by NNF head mistress LA Vampires and Brooklyn rhythm-head Ital. Gritty dancefloor anthems filtered through tape-hiss and graffitid concrete. Jacket art by Spencer Longo. Limited edition of 700." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LA VIERGE DE NUREMBERG Title: Le retour de Format: LP Label: Bloc Thyristors Country: France Price: $20.00 |
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"Jac Berrocal, voice & trumpet, Jean-Noël Cognard, drums & percussion, Philippe Thiphaine, guitar (from Heliogabale), Quentin Rollet, alto saxophone, Ben Ajrab, bass, Rivkah, voice & keyboard." - Bloc Thyristors.
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Artist: LABELLE, BRANDON Title: Automatic Radio Format: CD Label: Fringes Country: ITALY Price: $15.00 |
| "This new Cd by Brandon Labelle includes three new compositions: "Speaking in Tongues": Conflating "human speech" with "animal speech"--a mimicry that draws thetongue outside "idiolectical" usage (to speak as a good boy should)--language and the body become part of the same mechanism of conveying a message; though in turn, this conflation emphasizes the schism that ruptures this process--the tension inherent in "speaking as a body (sensuality)" and "speaking as an individual (social behavior)". "Multitude-Solitude": This work was commissioned by Kunstradio and was produced during a 3-daystay in Vienna in August 2000. In response to the invitation to make a work for radio I decided to produce all the sound-materials while in Vienna, drawing upon a direct relationship to the city and my experience there. This process consisted of primarily two activities: firstly, amplifying pre-recorded sounds of "crowds" from various events and functions in public spaces in Vienna, and re-recording them--in essence, overlaying public spaces and public crowds on top of each other and highlighting the "multiplicity" of overheard voices, and through this, how language becomes abstracted when it is situated against public space; secondly, taking a series of walks around Vienna with contact microphones taped to the bottoms of my shoes. What resulted from these walks was a kind of sonic residue of the meeting between body and space, between private experience and public environment, underscoring how as an individual one is always part of a greater situation." "Pillow Talking"(in collaboration with l. chasse): This work was produced as a parallel performance to a concert by John Hudak at 7hz, San Francisco, September 2000. The parallel performance occurred through recording Hudaks own performance by placing contact microphones on a glass floor from a mezzanine within the performance space. In addition, a second contact microphone was mounted on a metal cooking funnel which I then placed inside my mouth. In essence, the final work is a combination of Hudaks performance and the subsequent "translation" of it as recorded through the microphones. This "translation" is in turn mediated through the architectural structure of the performance space, the metal funnel and through the cavity of my mouth. Edition of 500 copies in oversized cardoboard folder, with a color photo by Renato Rinaldi. Includes the text "Automatic Radio" by Brandon Labelle." - Fringes. |
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Artist: LABELLE, BRANDON Title: Dirty Ear Format: CD Label: Errant Bodies Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Hyper-constructions, neurotic representations, micro-compositions designed as counter-sonorities to specific locations or settings... ⿿ environments ingested and regurgitated as audible fantasies... * Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, bodies, and cultural fictions. Through his work with Errant Bodies Press he has co-edited the anthologies ⿿Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear, ⿿Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, ⿿Surface Tension: Problematics of Site and "Radio Territories". His installation work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including "Sampling Rage" (1999) Podewil Berlin, ⿿Sound as Media (2000) ICC Tokyo, "Bitstreams" (2001) Whitney Museum New York, ⿿Pleasure of Language (2002) Netherlands Media Institute Amsterdam, ⿿Undercover(2003) Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde, and ⿿Cross Lake Atlantic (2007) Enrico Fornello Gallery, Prato, and his writings have been included in various books and journals, including ⿿Experimental Sound and Radio (MIT) and ⿿Soundspace: Architecture for Sound and Vision (Birkhäuser). He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, ⿿Phantom Radio, was presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany and at Casa Vecina, Mexico City in 2008. He is the author of ⿿Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006)." -Errant Bodies |
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Artist: LABREQUE, PAUL & VALERIE WEBB Title: Trees, Chants and Hollers Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Duo weaves a cautious, dreamy folk spell, reminiscent of the vocal impressionism and effected acoustic sonics of Charalambides, beautiful stuff charged with a sense of desperation and love lingering on the edge of loss. Ties to Sunburned Hand of the Man and other Boston area ensembles, like Bright." - Lee Jackson. |
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Artist: LACHENMANN, HELMUT Title: Guero Für Klavier Format: LP Label: Edition Rz Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
| "1990 release. All works by experimental composer Helmut Lachenmann: ("Guero" for solo piano), ("Pression" for solo cello) & ("Grand Torso" for string quartet)." -Edition Rz. |
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Artist: LACY, STEVE & JOE MCPHEE Title: The Rest Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "In June of 1977, when they shared a double bill in Basel, Switzerland, STEVE LACY invited JOE MCPHEE to join him for a duet to close his set, for which McPhee elected to bring out his own soprano saxophone. The main part of Lacys performance was issued on the classic Clinkers LP (Hat Hut 1978); after thirty-six years, Roaratorio delivers The Rest, a one-sided LP marking the first and only time theyve played together. The simpatico meshing of their distinctly individual voices points toward a shared history on a different plane. Includes download coupon." - Roaratorio. |
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Artist: LAIBACH Title: Gesamtkunstwerk Format: 5 LP Box Set + DVD Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $204.00 |
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"This ultra-deluxe leather-bound box set comes in a cross-like holder for the five vinyl discs and also includes a DVD with two outstanding live performances from 1982 and 1984 plus a large poster, ten postcards, a metal enamel-badge as well as an extensive 36-page booklet illustrated with archive photos of Laibachs hometown, Trbovlje. The box focuses on Laibachs early years as a provocative performance music and multimedia group and includes early studio and unreleased recordings in combination with many legendary live-documents from the 1981-1986 period, all previously unreleased on vinyl. LP1 contains unpublished and rare, early 80s studio-recordings plus 1982 live recordings from former Yugoslavia from Belgrade (Serbia) and Zagreb (Croatia). LP2 contains two performances from Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 1982 and 1984. Side A from the Novi-Rock-Festival 1982 and Side B from December 1984 at Malci Belic Hall. LP3 contains two Berlin (Germany) performances from 1983 and 1985: the live Berlin Metropol 1983 tape known as Vstanjenje V Berlin released by Galerie Skuc and the Berlin Atonal performance on February, 17 1985. LP4 contains two performances from Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 1985, which were previously released on the Staalplaat Tape Ein Schauspieler. LP5 contains the concert in the village of Hum near Nova Gorica (Slovenia) in 1986 which was the first (semi)-legal concert in Slovenia after their performance ban in 1983. The DVD will include two more former Yugoslav live performances from 1982 and 1984." - Vinyl-On-Demand.
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Artist: LAKES Title: Crossed With Leaves Format: 7" Label: Quemada Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Lakes is the solo outlet for Sean Bailey’s not so cheery take on the world. Sean has been a constant in the Melbourne musical landscape for quite a while. In addition to running the Inverted Crux label he has played is such diverse group settings including, but not limited to, Paeces, Wasted Truth, Tax, and The (Australian) Vivian Girls. Lakes is Sean’s bleak punk, dark folk creature. There is no mistaking the Lakes signature sound, but those who have been following Lakes development over the course of 12 releases can attest that Sean has methodically built on to the gothic Lakes skeleton heard on the earliest releases to where we last heard from him on last year’s Winter’s Blade LP where the Lakes monster was given quite a bit of muscle in large part to a tweak in the recording process. This single picks up where Winter’s Blade left off with perhaps with an extra level of heavy and gloom applied to the structure." - Quemada |
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Artist: LAMB, GARRY BRADBURY, DAVID BURRASTON, OREN AMBARCHI & ROBIN FOX, ALAN Title: Wired Open Day 2009 Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "Wired Open Day 2009 is a vinyl-only release documenting live performances by Alan Lamb, Garry Bradbury, David Burraston, Oren Ambarchi and Robin Fox. Held outdoors during the evening of October 31st at The WIRED Lab, in rural South West, New South Wales, Australia, this 2LP is a document of the event; the result of an artist-in-residence program to explore the sonic possibilities of The Wires, landscape scale installations in rural NSW. The WIRED Lab is an artist-run initiative founded in 2007 to foster art/science collaborations in a rural environment. The initial focus of this project was to establish a site to preserve and expand on The Wires, a distinctly Australian invention that was pioneered by Australian artist Alan Lamb since the 1970s. Wiredlab.org notes that, "Lambs formal investigations of The Wires started in 1976 with his discovery of a 1km stretch of abandoned telegraph wires on a farm in the Great Southern region of Western Australia ... Lamb learnt to record them and later devised compositions with these recordings. When these telegraph lines eventually decayed, Lamb commenced building wire installations primarily for recording. Like the scale of the original telegraph wires, these purpose-built wire installations were not of a domestic scale, they too had a deep connection with nature and spanned 100s of meters across the rural landscape. Although principally functioning like a giant æolian harp, it is not only wind that plays The Wires, it seems that on their own accord The Wires often harmonically sing, vibrate or roar as they react to environmental factors, thereby creating a unique and infinite instrumentation of itself and its surrounds, in the words of David Burraston they are natures microphone." The four sides of Wired Open Day 2009 display the expansive range of the Wire installations built by The Wired Lab. Commencing at sunset, Garry Bradbury and Alan Lamb coax a gentle eco with acoustic recordings into deep and sonorous reverberations on side A. David Burraston and Alan Lamb focus on droplets of zaps and wire oscillations at twilight, with side B culminating in a downpour of crackling spray. At nightfall, Oren Ambarchi applies his mastery of condensed and layered tones on side C, with shuddering overtones, husky drones and rich clusters of sustain. Robin Fox concludes, in the dark, on side D, mashing off-kilter rhythms with a tumble of staccato bursts and fuzzy crunch. An edition of 500 double LPs in hand-numbered matte-varnished Stoughton tip-on gatefold jackets, Wired Open Day 2009 was mastered by James Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram virgin vinyl. This release features photographs from the site and text by Sarah Last, founder of The WIRED Lab and Curator of Wired Open Day 2009." -Taiga. |
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Amateur Doubles Format: LP Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Amateur Doubles is the brand new solo LP by Graham Lambkin -- two-part improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic. Dangerous, tedious, pointless and timeless, Amateur Doubles is a perfect snapshot of life on the open road. Expertly mastered by Jason Lescalleet, Amateur Doubles arrives in a high gloss full color gatefold, on clear vinyl, in an edition of 500."-Kye.
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Draining The Vats Format: Cass Label: Swill Radio Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"Draining The Vats
represents the begining of a new era, or a spacemans grave. Has Graham
Lambkin gone to bed with a headache, or gone to bed with an idea? Draining
The Vats will address all your concerns." - Swill Radio.
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Dripping Junk Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Penultimate Press Country: UK Price: $52.00 |
| "Penultimate Press is proud to announce the publication of Dripping Junk- an all new collection of graphic work by Graham Lambkin (Shadow Ring). The 100 drawings gathered in Dripping Junk were made over a period of five days during a recent trip to Miami FL. Lambkins eye and pen guide us through a confusion of local observation. We find ourselves transported to the opulent sands of South Beach, the strip malls of Dade County, and the many tourists spots one would expect to engage. Yet Lambkin allows us to view these sites through his own distorted lens. This is not the Miami of common expectation. Lambkin throws us headfirst in to a hallucinogenic netherworld where logic and common sense cower in the shade of the palms. A world where fantasy and reality mix effortlessly and are drank as the cocktail of choice. A world where the skunk ape is king. Dripping Junk contains 100 black and white drawings printed on high-quality paper and comes as a beautiful limited edition large format hardcover book of 250 copies. The cd contains exclusive material to this release." - Penultimate Press. |
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Dumb Answer To Miracles Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Penultimate Press Country: UK Price: $38.00 |
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"Limited edition book - 250 copies. The first 100 are hardcover, signed, numbered with cd attached. The remaining 150 are hardcover, numbered with cd.
Cover Illustration Graham Lambkin."
"Dumb Answer to Miracles is the first official publication of writings by Graham Lambkin. Previously 20 copies of a signed private edition entitled Tomb of Speed were circulated amongst friends, collegues and mail order customers. This collection gathers all the Tomb of Speed writings, a handful of Lambkins lyrics he wrote for the band Shadow Ring and many unpublished works.
These writings entertain as much as they baffle, happily wandering the glorious pastures of open bewilderment. The ordinary dons the fantastic, the uncanny flirts with the comical and a private world is open to those with an explorative constitution. What response can one gain from such writings? Its this uncomfortable familiarity or comforting unease that haunts the entire oeuvre of Graham Lambkin. The beautiful odd. The eldritch normality. The leek in milk sauce." - Penultimate Press.
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Millows Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Penultimate Press Country: UK Price: $29.00 |
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"The third release in series of publications focussing on the art of Graham Lambkin following Dumb Answer to Miracles" and "Dripping Junk" ("Dripping Junk" still available).
Millows brings together two previously unpublished works, both dating from 2004.
Full colour hardcover book with factory pressed cd (unpublished audio works from 2004, 20 mins running time). A limited edition of 500 copies." - Penultimate Press. |
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Poem Format: LP Label: Kye Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
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"Poem is Graham Lambkins (Shadow Ring, Tart, Transmission, etc..) first solo LP, and it is a doozy. Slowed down voice, water sounds, a little bit of radio, and some odd hisses and hums all combine for a very linear and yet insane listening experience. The sound soon becomes a strange syrup that surrounds the listener in its devilishly well-crafted coccoon. The editing is very subtle, but very rewarding to the patient listener. And: (1) this is one of the top records to listen to with that last drink at 5 or 6 AM (it works!); and (2) this can easily sort out the contenders from the pretenders at any social gathering. A real favorite of mine." - Scott Foust.
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Salmon Run Format: CD Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"This is the first release of all new material in six years. Salmon Run is an epic confusion of high and low art. A place where vocal gymnastics, water gardens, string quartets and broken beer bottles can mix openly together, creating new and fantastic constructs of sound. Salmon Run was originally going to be a concept CD about the North American Sasquatch. Its great to be back." - Graham Lambkin. New release from 1/3 of the Shadow Ring.
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Softly Softly Copy Copy Format: CD Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Softly Softly Copy Copy is the brand new CD by Graham Lambkin, following on from 2007s Salmon Run (Kye) and 2008s collaboration with Jason Lescalleet The Breadwinner(Erstwhile). Softly Softly Copy Copy is a two-part tape composition - a shoreline odyssey where man and beast wrestle for absolute rule. Recorded and mixed in upstate New York over a two year period, and aided by the talents of Samara Lubelski -violin, and Austin Argentieri -acoustic guitar. Mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs. Comes housed in an elegant 4 panel digipak." -KYE. |
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM & JASON LESCALLEET Title: The Breadwinner Format: CD Label: Erstwhile Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet are both highly respected artists, with small but intensely hardcore followings. Since 2001, theyve been gradually moving closer towards realizing a collaborative project, and The Breadwinner is the results of two years of recording, reworking and polishing. Lambkin first entered the public consciousness at 19 when he formed his band The Shadow Ring, in Folkestone, a small town in Kent, England. The band was memorable and built an rabidly passionate fan base because of its sui generis approach, blending elements of folk, noise, cracked electronics, and surrealist poetry, while radically changing the overall formula with each release. A decade of increasingly skewed and inspired work culminated in 2003s Im Some Songs, constructed long distance as Lambkin had relocated to the US in 1998. Over the last few years, Lambkin has primarily worked under his own name, most notably with 2007s brilliant Salmon Run, a precursor to The Breadwinner. Lescalleet has gradually and painstakingly built a compelling discography over the past decade. He uses reel-to-reel tape decks to explore the textures of low fidelity analog sounds and the natural phenomena of old tape and obsolete technology. He is one of a growing list of master producer/musicians, whose skill lies as much in reworking, assembling and mastering the material available as in creating it (or helping create it) in the first place. He has worked with such wide-ranging artists as Ron Lessard, Joe Colley and Phill Niblock, and has released a string of superb solo discs in Mattresslessness (Cut), Electronic Music (RRR) and The Pilgrim (Glistening Examples). This is his second release for Erstwhile, after 2001s Forlorn Green (w/Greg Kelley), and his third is already in preparation, a duo with Bhob Rainey, planned for release in early 2009. The material for The Breadwinner was recorded at Lambkins house in upstate NY, over two recording sessions. The duo treated the entire building and its surrounding grounds as a studio, welcoming in outside sounds, which were later kept or eliminated as they felt appropriate. The subtitle on the front cover is ⿿musical settings for common environments and domestic situations, layering numerous submerged fragments to find beauty in everyday life." -Erstwhile |
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM & TIMOTHY SHORTELL Title: Motion Paintings Format: DVD/Book Label: Uberkatze Studio Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Awesome video and sound work by two of my heroes. There are 15 different motion paintings, each accompanied by loop based music. The motion paintings are abstract videos of colourful and impossible organic processes. Beautiful to look at and superbly complimented by the soundtrack. All camera shot. No annoying digital effects. I cant say I have ever seen anything quite like Motion Paintings rare beauty. Outstanding work." - Swill Radio. Graham Lambkin = 1/3 of The Shadow RIng. |
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM / JASON LESCALLEET Title: The Food Chain b/w Nice Ass Format: 7 Label: Glistening Examples Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: LAMBKIN/JASON LESCALLEET, GRAHAM Title: Air Supply Format: CD Label: Erstwhile Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Follow-up to the 2008 collaboration The Breadwinner (ERST 052CD) from Graham Lambkin (The Shadow Ring) and reel-to-reel virtuoso Jason Lescalleet. Their second release in an eventual trilogy." - Erstwhile. |
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Artist: LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL Title: Demon Channels Format: Cass Label: New Age Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"work of radio demons inspiried a.m. radio crystals
from James ferraro of Skaters." - New Age.
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Artist: LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL Title: Dial: 747 Creepozopid Format: Cass Label: New Age Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"..recorded at rollercoaster studios, Pasadena , CA Nov 7 video mind cruisers eternal holiday Aloha from the tide wash Clorox capital of the world. Palms nightshade Deteriorated socio-masodrones Hollywood nightmare worship live from "alien in the closet" and "iguan bongs" thanks paradise tag sniffers monopoly child R.B. and flamingo in the night channels. Recorded by J.C. Peavey and James Ferraro (Skaters)" - New Age.
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Artist: LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL Title: Little Deuce Coupe T.V. Dinners Format: Cass Label: New Age Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"Recorded at Rollercoaster Studios, Pasadena , CA by J.C. Peavey and James Ferraro (Skaters). Bram Stokers plays sax on "Dentist on the Beach" - New Age.
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Artist: LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL Title: Mix Up Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL Title: Roach Motel Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"recorded at Drive Through studios by James ferraro (Skaters) for
Pacifc Surveillance Video in L.A. california
thanks to: bloodshot jeanies,R.B., Monopoly child" - New Age.
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Artist: LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"Reissue mix from previously released cassette tapes on cd-r. From smoking out hismajesties U.F.O/DIAL 747-CREEP.../DRACO SHOP BOP/ and some unreleased tracks from that period" -New Age
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: (U Are Now Slipping Into) The Xans Of Time Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Alien Smoke Out Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Blake The Next Nick Lachey Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Check Yr Head Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Could You Be Loved? Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Dont let them fool ya, Or even try to school ya! oh, no! Weve got a mind of our own, So go to hell if what youre thinking is not right! You can fool some people sometimes, But you cant fool all the people all the time." - Bob Marley. Limited & numbered edition of 200 copies, paste-on covers. |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Drug K-9 Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fucking both sides rule! Free shredders. Soul sessions. If you want to grind a curb, grind a curb. Fucking do whuteva you want to do! Feedback, Xerox, Jazz HxCx from Bunty Station, Ohio. Lambsbread, a trio consisting of guitarists Kathy O’Dell and Zac Davis and drummer Shane Mackenzie. Amazing!" - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Flat and Old Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Floating Inside Baloons Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Foiled Again Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Kiedis Got Clean With Help From A Magical Elk Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Killing Yourself To Live Vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "first 4 gigs from summer "killing yourself to live" tour w graveyards/bloodyminded/demons..... cbus/chi/mn/iowa..... chi and iowa have c spencer yeh on vocals, sounds like someone gargling with wood chips.... other 2 are lambs trio..... completely raw sound...... no fucker were at some of these gigs..... edition of 60" - Maim & Disfigure. |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: King Of The Crop Format: 7" Label: Skulltones Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Bombed out basement brutality from three midwest dwellers. It would be a copout to merely mention a certain feline/feminine privates named band, so instead lets say theyve soaked a Nervous Breakdown 7" in stale bongwater and let it rip. Blown out guitar heat threatens to smoke out punked percussion. Heavy meanderings seem to signal some sort of blood speckled truce by the end of second side. Yeah, this is a hardcore 45." - Skulltones. Very last copies! |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Levitation Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Paid In Full Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"real trashed out boombox jams, recorded late night, probably in an opiate haze.... cover features diddy, lebron james, dwayne wade and some other mugz.... edition of 60" - Maim & Disfigure.
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Police In Helicopters Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "newest rank basement jams.... recorded 4 am style, everyone almost passing out..... each time it seems the riffs get longer and longer and the explosions stay a bit more restrained, take longer to happen.... sounds like sabbath or moses trying to take their songs apart, but theres too much gunk in the way... edition of 60" - Maim & Disfigure. |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Ram Up U Party Format: Cass Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "includes one live jam from last tour and one basement jam..... recorded 100% handheld style" - Maim & Disfigure. |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Return To Sender Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Rodnet King Was On PCP That Night Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"cd of newest lambsbread recordings, going deeper into sub-sab repeition territory, holding off for a long time before the blast..... willie d says "fuck rodeny king", and while i dont agree, its cool he was dusted.... edition of 100" - Maim & Disfigure.
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Shit Gayz Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Steal Yr Face Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Straight Ahead Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Take Me To Your Dealer Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"alien series....... best poster ever.... you can make that joke everytime you see an alien and its still funny.... edition of 60" - Maim & Disfigure.
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Under the Bridge Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Waking Sleep Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD Title: Wigger Bounse Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LAMBSBREAD/SWORD HEAVEN Title: Split Format: LP Label: Lost Treasures Of The Underworld Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| 2007 release. Silkscreened covers, edition of 300. |
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Artist: LAMP OF THE UNIVERSE Title: Earth, Spirit & Sky Format: LP Label: September Gurls Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
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"3rd Album by the acid folk/psychedelic project of Craig Williamson from Hamilton, New Zealand (known also from heavy/stoner rock band Datura). The sitar-driven, mantraesque songs on Earth Spirit & Sky mark another step forward on Craigs way to conveying a meditative, mind-expanding musical experience. Earth Spirit & Sky appears to be an epic unit made up of 8 songs. Craig uses sitar, acoustic/electric guitar, tablas, flute, blissed out voice and blends elements of space/folk/blues with sounds from the Eastern shore for hippiesque psychedelia. Imagine an exotic incarnation of Ethereal Counterbalances Rod Goodway jamming with Spacemen 3, Holy River Family Band, Saddar Bazaar and reaching/producing a trancelike phantasmagoric state... First edition of 320 with paste-on 4-colour silkscreen print featuring a psychedelic lapwing, handmade by the SG Art Department." - September Gurls.
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Artist: LAMPS Title: Niels Bohr Was An Excellent Ping Pong Player Format: 7" Label: Dull Knife Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "You know THE LAMPS from their fines releases on In The Red Records. Fans have been waiting a while for these two favorites to be released. "Niels Bohr" has to be considered one of, if not the best song yet from the Los Angeles trio. Its guitar riff jackhammers into your brain before giving way to a deadpan chorus that is catchy as hell. The flip side, "Ive Been on a Lot of Camels," is a killer noisy number in the Amp Rep tradition, and is the perfect foil to the A-side. In fact, lets just call this a double A-sided 7-inch." -Dull Knife |
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Artist: LAMPS Title: Songs Of Sexual Frustration Format: 7" Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"L.A.s Lamps have done two great albums and a handful of singles that have established them as one of the most consistently good bands going. Songs of Sexual Frustration will do nothing to break the Lamps stride. Here they throw primitive fudge on songs by Devo and the Pissed Jeans, fucking them with a gimpy, grimy shuffle. 600 pressed." -S-S
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Artist: LANDED / SNAKE APARTMENT Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Corleone Country: US Price: $5.00 |
| "A vicious new EP split between SNAKE APARTMENT and LANDED. You get SAs "Ugly Poltergeist" and Landeds "Tip of the Whip." Only 500 pressed, so dont you sleep." - Corleone. |
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Artist: LANDRY, DICKIE Title: Fifteen Saxophones Format: LP Label: Unseen Worlds Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Reissue of this little known classic from founding Philip Glass Ensemble member Richard Dickie Landry. Following two jazz LPs issued on the Chatham Square label (which he co-ran), Dickie Landry released Fifteen Saxophones, a set of 1974 recordings done with engineer Kurt Munkacsi, on the Northern Lights and Wergo labels in 1978. Fifteen Saxophones simultaneously demonstrates Landrys boundary-pushing saxophone and his understanding of the minimalists long-form treatises on sound. Using intricate Revox tape delays on Fifteen Saxophones, Alto Flute Quad Delay, and the side-long live document Kitchen Solos, Landrys strong personality as a player shines through a brilliant wall of sound. It is unsurprising Landry was a fixture in the same New York scene that spawned artists like Richard Serra - something equally monumental exists in the pieces found on this album. This reissue includes new liner notes by Clifford Allen and period photos by Gianfranco Gorgoni." -Unseen Worlds
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Artist: LANE, MARK Title: When The Night Is Cruel Format: Double LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $38.00 |
| "The package includes two chocked full LPs of 80s tracks (29 in all) that include rare songs previously not made available on vinyl, never heard and previously unreleased material, as well as classics from that era that have not been available on vinyl for nearly three decades. The two discs will be packaged in one of those 70s style gatefold covers first popularized by the progressive bands of that time. It will contain rare Mark Lane photographs of that era, and liner notes that include interesting facts about each track. If thats not enough it will be a limited edition of only 600 copies making these beauties extremely rare." -Vinyl-On-Demand |
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Guitar Army of One Format: LP Label: Cord-Art Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Cord-Arts flagship artist returns with yet another exciting slab of guitar anti-heroics. And, as the title suggests, hes more confident than ever. In addition to the finger-style excursions upon which he has virtually made his name, "Guitar Army of One" shows Lane moving further into the realm of multi-track dabblery, where he constructs charmingly precarious platforms to support his more indulgent six-string ventures. Recorded at home to 4-track cassette, so poptones these aint; but we think that listeners with an ear for the veil of haze that clouds-up certain Impossible Recordworks will embrace the fidelity here. Numbered edition of 350 copies with paste-on cover and silk-screened lettering." - Cord-Art.
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Known Quantity Format: LP Label: Cord-Art Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Willie Lane is a New England-born guitarist mostly known for his sporadic appearances (both live and recorded) backing Vermont duo MV & EE, but he is also prone to indulge occasionally in solo endeavors. Fans of MV & EEs cottage label Child of Microtones will remember Mr. Lanes "Recliner Ragas" disc of several years ago, documenting a legendary session from early 2003 that MV engineered and produced at his home in Guilford. "Known Quantity" finds Lane sequestered in Philadelphia apartments with a tape machine, coaxing ragas and abstract blues from acoustic guitars as well as walking the plank of a pedalboard with his dangerously heavy Les Paul copy. The recordings date from 2006 to 2008 - a span of time that encompassed a considerable range of shifting moods and approaches in Lanes playing, in addition to yielding ample refreshment breaks.
edition of 350 numbered copies with printed labels & a not-so-shabby 11"x17" folkways-style paste-on." -Cord-Art
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Recliner Ragas Format: CDR Label: Child Of Microtones Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Recliner Ragas Format: LP Label: Humito Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Vinyl edition of Lanes first recordings, originally released in 2006 on Child of Microtones. An unbelievably potent and unique brew, this record is one of the finest specimens of modern day guitar soli. Recliner Ragas is, as the liner notes so aptly put it, the fruits of a winter spent exploring the possibilities of nature/total sound as religion, independent study, low wage exploitative manual labor and general isolation while cultivating giant modal blues ragas in his one room studio flophouse. The vibe here is just dripping with this sense of deeply personal inquiry, a man-guitar-cosmos triad wherein all are one Utilizing intricate, yet simple, environmental refraction to create a tactile sense of space, Willie plays rings around yr skull, completely circumventing rational cortices in favor of direct mainline transmission. The effect on the listener is spellbinding, truly psychedelic in a way few modern records can touch. Indeed, this one can easily be filed alongside any classic higher-minded string sounds, from Fahey or Bull to Popol Vuh or Heldon, without any sense of retread or nostalgia. Effortless runs and flows, this is timeless music, universal in nature. In another time, Willie would be a lauded court musician; in 21st century America, he works in a library, and employs a deft wit to navigate the cruder aspects of earthbound life, while continuing to charm his scrabbly blues muse in recent recordings on his Cord-Art imprint. And while his recent records have seen him drawing out more layered arrangements and varied tones, Recliner Ragas displays a singular vision, the kind of window into a private universe we dig here at Humito." - Humito. |
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Sleepy Hands Format: 7" Label: Cord-Art Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"...hes gone & put out this most excellent 7", Arrested For Decay/Sleepy Hands, again on Cord Art & its easily my favorite little record thus far in this wee year. These two works spark n flare with Jesus Acedo like motifs, the harmonics & melodies on both sides fan glowin embersve desert ragas that seem psychonautically informed via moments found within grooves one might encounter on the 1st Black Sun Ensemble lp. Even the sleeve art...looks...vaguely...Why, the whole thing is a goddamn Pyknotic conundrum I tell ya! Hand numbered edition of 350 & once the words out, not even the snappiest department store Santall have a chance at it." - SIltblog.
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Artist: LANGHORNE, BRUCE Title: Hired Hand OST Format: LP Label: Scissor Tail Editions Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"BRUCE LANGHORNE, one of the most in-demand session guitarists of the 60s, is probably best known for playing on several of Bob Dylans best records, including Bringing It All Back Home and Blonde on Blonde. He actually played with just about everybody in the late 60s folk-rock universe-Fred Neil, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, John Sebastian, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Odetta, Richie Havens and others. Langhorne performed live with Dylan at Newport, produced records for Ramblin Jack Elliott and was the real-life inspiration for "Mr. Tamborine Man." His crowning achievement however may be the soundtrack he composed for Peter Fondas directorial debut, The Hired Hand. Surprisingly, for such a seasoned veteran of the booming folk scene, this was Langhornes first solo record. Recorded in the garage of his Laurel Canyon home in 1969 using an Echoplex and a two-track Revox tape machine, the album features an assortment of period instruments from the old west-fiddle, dulcimer, recorder, banjo, upright piano, harmonica and Langhornes National steel string guitar. The spacey, hypnotizing score was a perfect match for Fondas atmospheric western and along with Vilmos Zigmonds stunning cinematography and some top-notch performances from Warren Oates, Verna Bloom and poet Michael McClure, heavily contributed to the films underground success. The movie was part of Universals "semi-independent series in which the studio, hoping to score the next Easy Rider, turned five young filmmakers loose equipped with small budgets and complete artistic control. Sadly, The Hired Hand didnt go over so well with mainstream audiences (although American Graffiti, another Universal "semi-independent" feature, certainly did). Nevertheless, both the film and Langhornes score have lived on as cult classics. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl in an edition of 1,000 copies." - Scissor Tail Editions.
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Artist: LANHAM, ERIC Title: The Sincere Interruption Format: LP Label: Spectrum Spools Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Spectrum Spools announces the release of Eric Lanhams The Sincere Interruption, his first long-playing record under his own name after performing for years under various solo guises such Carl Calm and Palmetto Moon Electronic Group and as one-half of the Caboladies equation. Commissioned back in the summer of 2011, it was finally recorded in March 2012 and its been well worth the wait. Lanham has crafted a very special set of improvised electronic compositions which rise above many of the contemporaries of his ilk. With an eye on both the origins of electronic music as well as the not-so-distant past, The Sincere Interruption was recorded in superb fidelity with great attention to sound placement and frequency variations. Elements of late 90s-early 00s Mille Plateaux/Warp-styled disjointed rhythms are bent into surgically precise and meticulously pieced concrète/electronic form, crammed with information-overload situations and infinite variables to ones listening perception. Its a challenge to hear the album the same way twice with the sheer amount of action and peculiarity happening over the duration. While there are, indeed, busy moments throughout, tracks like "21:00" and "No Ordinates" display an attention to control and deep focus, relying on an idea which develops and evolves seamlessly in subtle variation while retaining a repetitive nature. An outstanding effort and a great addition to the ever-evolving Spectrum Spools catalog. Complete with an outstanding master and cut by CGB and Dubplates and Mastering." -Spectrum Spools. |
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Artist: LANTERNS Title: Blue Beads Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $10.00 |
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"Meandering drones resonating in eerie Taj Mahal-like mushrooms stuffed
with chimes, ebowed strings, subtle electronics and other shimmering
nightly meditation tools. Edition of 70." - Sloow Tapes.
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Artist: LANZ, JOKE Title: Noise In My Head Format: Book Label: Pica Disk Country: Norway Price: $49.00 |
| "Insightful portrait of a remarkable artist who in 1989 launched the noise / performance art / installation project SUDDEN INFANT in connection with the SCHLIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE collective. One-hundred-sixty pages with photos from installations, performances and actions; drawings, paintings, poetry, manifestos; visual discography; concert posters and flyers; essays by RUDULF EB.ER, LEIF ELGGREN, DANIEL MENCHE, STEVE UNDERWOOD, MARK WHARTON, DREW DANIEL, and an interview with the guest of honor himself. Edition of 300 copies, hardcover." - Pica Disk. |
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Artist: LANZ, JOKE & RUDOLF EB.ER Title: Liederliches Format: LP Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"A collection of 36 one-minute cut-up absurdities and insanity perpetuated by JOKE LANZ (SUDDEN INFANT) and RUDOLF EB.ER (RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK), both of whom are founding members of actionist group SCHIMPFLUCH. Pressed on 140-gram marbled vinyl that plays from the inside-out, and is packaged in beautifully printed sleeves with art by Eb.er." - Blossoming Noise.
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Artist: LARD FREE Title: Gilbert Artmans Lard Free Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"The first album by Lard Free, simply titled Gilbert Artmans Lard Free, is released in 1973 on the Vamp label. It has been recorded and mixed in April that year, the recording session taking place for only 36 hours in a London studio. But thats enough time for the band to showcase the adventurous spirit of Gilbert & Co. Theres drums and sax of jazzy, repetitive inspiration, free-rock guitar licks and an always present AKS synthesizer that produce one of the essential works of Europes musical avant-garde on its time. After this brilliant recorded legacy, Lard Free split in 1978, with Artman dedicating his time to his more successful project Urban Sax. Featuring : Gilbert Artman (drums, piano steinway, vibes), Herve Eyhani (bass guitar, arp synthetizer), Philippe Bolliet (all saxes), Francois Mativet (guitars). Gatefold sleeve." -Wah Wah
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Artist: LARD FREE Title: III Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"The third and last Lard Free LP is released in 1977 on the Cobra label recorded in two different studios between January and March that same year. Besides some new musicians, another step forward in Artmans constant evolution is the use of the recording studio as an additional instrument that offers a whole lot of possibilities to creative expansion. The results are amazing : under an apparently lineal structure theres thousands of sound brushtrokes that feed themselves back to create a strange and provocative post-industrial picture. Gilbert Artman (orgue, piano, arp synthesizer, vibraphone, drums premier), Xavier Baulleret (guitares), Yves Lanes (synthy-ems), Jean-Pierre Thiraut (clarinette). Includes a 4-page insert of liner notes and a poster on the other side." -Wah Wah
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Artist: LARD FREE Title: Im Around About Midnight Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"Lard Frees second LP, Im Around About Midnight, was recorded in Paris in a three day session and released in 1975, also on Vamp. There is a totally different line-up from that of the first LP and it features long time friend Richard Pinhas, with whom Artman explores (in his own way) some sound passages of strong Heldon inspiration, although in a less immediate register, building an organic layered sound that emanates a certain shadowy formal beauty. The strong Artman-Pinhas connection is also confirmed by the inclusion on Heldons Third of the track Pale violence under a reverbere, on a different mix and different title, Méchamment rock. Featuring : Gilbert Artman (drums, percussions, vibes, hammond organ, steinway piano, tenor sax), Richard Pinhas (guitars, bass guitar, arp synthetisers, synthi vks 3), Alain Audat (synthi vks 3, tenor sax, clb), Antoine Duvernot (alto sax, flute). Gatefold sleeve." -Wah Wah
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Artist: LARD FREE Title: Unnamed Format: LP + 7" Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Issued on vinyl format for the first time ever, Unnamed is a collection of 1971/1972 Lard Free lost recordings that documents an interesting, primitive period of the band and shows Artman & Co. moving freely in different directions : jazz, noise and the most radical musical improvisation. Contains a bonus 7" (tracks: A1. "Cuve Perpetuelle"; B1: "A Chacun Son Boulez") and a 4-page insert of liner notes and a poster on the other side." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: LARSEN Title: LLL Format: LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "LLL is a live, LP-only release, put out as a companion to Larsens full-length, La Fever Lit. LLL features Larsen, along with frequent collaborators Johann Johannsson, Baby Dee and Julia Kent. Material recorded live in Italy and Austria and packaged in a deluxe, thick 3-color screenprinted jacket by Monoroid. 500 made." -Important |
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Artist: LARSEN Title: Musm Format: Double LP Label: Enterruption Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Italian experiment rock doing soundtrack pieces. one LP = music, other LP = screenprinted art edition" - Enterruption. |
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Artist: LATE Title: The Thomas Gordon EP Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Freedom From/20 City Country: USA/JAPAN Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: LATRINE PSYCHOLOGY GUILD Title: Weighted Ghost # H Format: Cass Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"What
started a completely confusing underground group sect joke turned into an
ongoing series from a new unit..... The first alphabets A-J was for the crew only
handed out at crew gigs, now opened up for public consumption. Various short
tapes of various strange styles, electronics, sounds, tapes, reeds,
environments, all small editions until we hit Z. All in hand painted black ink
calligraphy style sleeve." - American Tapes
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Artist: LAU NAU Title: Nukkuu Format: LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"180 gram deluxe gatefold vinyl version. "Nukkuu (Finnish for Sleeps) is the long-awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish femme folk fave, Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract and emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new-found tranquility of her remote surroundings. Conceived in tight attics and vacant dens on off-hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately-crafted nine-song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness."- Locust
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Artist: LAU NAU Title: Valohiukkanen Format: CD Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Recorded in 2011 on Kemiö Island, in Turku, Tampere and Stockholm, this is Lau Naus long-awaited third LP, Valohiukkanen. An articulate work of delicate beauty featuring nine new Lau Nau originals and one cover version, it is adorned by an array of instrumentation, and enhanced by the integration of rhythm and percussion -- a thing rarely heard on Lau Nau albums. Although its safe to say the mood is still firmly rooted in the shadowy side of life, we are occasionally taken to a disco -- yet that, too, sounds as if it may have been organized by Death. Tonally and texturally rich and immersive, the new record includes contributions from Pekko Käppi on jouhikko, Jaakko Tolvi on drums, Antti Tolvi on bass and alto clarinet, Kristian Holmgren on guitar, synths and percussion and Matti Bye on grand piano and celesta. The cover photographs were taken by renowned Finnish photographer Susanna Majuri, as part of her "Imaginary Homeland" series. Lau Nau is the musical alias and persona of Laura Naukkarinen. Her debut album, Kuutarha, won acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and Dusted, with The Wire naming the LP amongst their top 50 albums of 2005, and citing her Philadelphia show of that year amongst "60 concerts that shook the world." Valohiukkanen continues the path laid down by her previous records, but if her psych-folk roots are still visible then the branches are further reaching, the music imbued with a timeless, cinematic breadth of vision. Retaining her penchant for a fragile, spectral other-ness, these 10 interrelated snapshots draw the listener towards Naukkarinens idiosyncratic, finely-honed sound-world, unconsciously paralleling other luminaries such as Smog, Sigur Rós, or Linda Perhacs with her singular sense of purpose." - Fonal. |
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Artist: LAU NAU Title: Valohiukkanen Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $22.00 |
| "Recorded in 2011 on Kemiö Island, in Turku, Tampere and Stockholm, this is Lau Naus long-awaited third LP, Valohiukkanen. An articulate work of delicate beauty featuring nine new Lau Nau originals and one cover version, it is adorned by an array of instrumentation, and enhanced by the integration of rhythm and percussion -- a thing rarely heard on Lau Nau albums. Although its safe to say the mood is still firmly rooted in the shadowy side of life, we are occasionally taken to a disco -- yet that, too, sounds as if it may have been organized by Death. Tonally and texturally rich and immersive, the new record includes contributions from Pekko Käppi on jouhikko, Jaakko Tolvi on drums, Antti Tolvi on bass and alto clarinet, Kristian Holmgren on guitar, synths and percussion and Matti Bye on grand piano and celesta. The cover photographs were taken by renowned Finnish photographer Susanna Majuri, as part of her "Imaginary Homeland" series. Lau Nau is the musical alias and persona of Laura Naukkarinen. Her debut album, Kuutarha, won acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and Dusted, with The Wire naming the LP amongst their top 50 albums of 2005, and citing her Philadelphia show of that year amongst "60 concerts that shook the world." Valohiukkanen continues the path laid down by her previous records, but if her psych-folk roots are still visible then the branches are further reaching, the music imbued with a timeless, cinematic breadth of vision. Retaining her penchant for a fragile, spectral other-ness, these 10 interrelated snapshots draw the listener towards Naukkarinens idiosyncratic, finely-honed sound-world, unconsciously paralleling other luminaries such as Smog, Sigur Rós, or Linda Perhacs with her singular sense of purpose." - Fonal. |
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Artist: LAUGHNER, PETER Title: Cinderella Backstreet/White Light White Heat Format: 7" Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Peter Laughner (August 22, 1952 �?? June 22, 1977) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Laughner remains a rather little known figure; nonetheless, Richie Unterberger described him as "probably the single biggest catalyst in the birth of Clevelands alternative rock scene in the mid-70s."
He led a variety of groups (including Mr. Charlie, Cinderella Backstreet, Peter & The Wolves, The Blue Drivers and Friction) but his most enduring contributions were to Rocket From The Tombs and the early work of Pere Ubu. In addition to all this, he wrote for Creem magazine.
Laughner was a voracious rock fan and writer, and was heavily influenced by Lester Bangss writings. Like Bangs, Laughner worshipped Lou Reed, but also drew inspiration from folk and blues figures such as Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie. He was a unique, visceral lead guitarist, influenced by Richard Thompson, and was briefly considered as a replacement for Richard Lloyd in Television , a band whom he championed from their earliest days.
Laughner had severe drug and alcohol abuse problems that led to his death by acute pancreatitis in 1977 at the age of 24. Rumors to the effect that Laughner was despondent, even suicidal, at the time of his death have been contradicted by Laughners last known message, written and mailed to Cleveland singer Ruby Port on the evening prior to his death. This letter revealed his intent to move to a retreat in the Ohio countryside, where he could write new music as well as rest and regain his health. Bangs wrote a eulogy for him. Laughners only known entrance into a recording studio was for the Pere Ubu single sessions, though he left behind countless lo-fi live, rehearsal, and demo recordings. In 1994, Tim/Kerr label released Take the Guitar Player for a Ride, a 15 track compilation drawn from these tapes. This compilation has since gone out of print." - Wikipedia. "70s genius preserved." - FE. First side solo 1975, the flip live, full band, in 73. Original copies of this 1987 release.
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: Amis & Amish Format: Cass Label: Peippo Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Amis & Amish is a solo split tape of Jaakko (side A) and Antti (side B). Jaakkos side is made with 2 violins and Anttis side with mouth harmonium and voice. Cheap, deep and sheep... Packed in a 7" sleeve with huge faces on it." -Peippo. |
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: Mystery of Hyyry Format: Cass Label: POK Country: Finland Price: $7.00 |
| "This is hot oat! Lauhkeat Lampaat have found new views for their sounds. What used to be a mountain is a huge pile of bubble gum now and what used to be a straw is now an old tree dropping its seeds on your head. Call it free, call it improv, anyway the brothers and their guest have done something special for you. Hand made sleeves." - POK. |
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Aanet Country: Finland Price: $7.50 |
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"..duo with flutes, table drums and little percussions. They play improvised music with some hints of ethnic or folk music, sometimes they can be really funny, sometimes meditative. I havent sold this record yet to foreign countries, but here in Finland people have liked it alot. Handpainted minimalisitic covers." - Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Aanet. Byron Coley mentions something in the new WIRE about these guys being like early Gods. Cool stuff and very limited.
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: Taikaa Takataskussa Format: CD Label: Peippo Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Once upon a time there was a world famous free jazz band Rauhan Orkesteri. All their instruments and half of the players were taken away, leaving only two peasant brothers and a pile of garbage. They abandoned melody, rhythm and the shine of chrome and started to build from the garbage the Stormy Temple of All Miniatures, which they open for You right now. This is the top peak of Lauhkeat Lampaats work." - Peippo. |
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: The Most Pollo Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $24.00 |
| "LL = Antti Tolvi, Jaakko Tolvi + special guest Lau Nau on side A. Rec. March 2006 in Kiila, Finland. "Focus on sound, very delicate and alien improvisations... see you in the weird forest with never heard before little birds/little creatures..." - Qbico. |
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Artist: LAUREL HALO Title: King Felix Format: 12" Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Hippos In Tanks proudly announces King Felix from futurist visionary Laurel Halo. On King Felix Laurel Halo says hello to the world in the most ingenious fashion: effortlessly blending the classical and modern worlds in a presentation of tonality via a production method that is wholly new and refreshing. Infused with extraordinary leads, pads and sequences Halo clearly demonstrates her skills with tone generators taking stylistic incentives from the likes of Air and Milla Jovoich. Above the steadily flowing ocean of sine waves lie some heavy vocal harmonies making a salient impact on our brains and their avatar like counter parts all the while accelerating life at a rapid pace - boyz to men. A guest appearance comes from fellow electronic romantic Oneohtrix Point Never who ends the record with an impassioned edit of Metal Confection." - Hippos In Tanks.
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Artist: LAURENT, PHILIPPE Title: Hot Bip Format: LP Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Minimal Wave is proud to present a full length LP by French mastermind Philippe Laurent. The LP is entitled Hot-Bip, a pseudonym Laurent used throughout the 80s and 90s and also the title of his 1983 cassette on Fraction Studio. Hot-Bip features tracks recorded between 1979-1988, most of which have either remained unreleased or only previously appeared on scarce 80s experimental cassette compilations. Laurents music can be described as spacey synthpop, containing much depth and range. It is edgy, political and pushes the limits, transforming his sound beyond one specific genre. Hints of classical influences as well as electro influences can be heard. Hot-Bip showcases Laurents best musical output from the 80s and includes some very avant-garde pieces from as early as 1979. A limited edition of 999 hand-numbered copies, this LP is pressed on 180 gram, translucent red vinyl and housed in a black and white matte printed heavyweight sleeve." - Minimal Wave. |
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Artist: LAURICE Title: Best Of Laurice Volume 1 Format: LP Label: Mighty Mouth Music Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "70s rock meets mainstream British pop in an explosive style fusion of pre-punk, glam, psychedelic and gay themed musical gems by controversial British rocker LAURICE. Recorded in the early to mid-70s at various studios in London, UK, these tracks, many previously unreleased, demonstrate the versatility and originality of a singer-songwriter who challenged societys rules. British rock was always LAURICEs roots. From the pre-punk underground classic hits When Christine Comes Around/I?m Gonna Smash Your Face In to the heavily impassioned openly gay anthem He?s My Guy and the highly sexualized gay lyrics of Wild Sugar, to the S&M master-slave darkside of Born To Serve, LAURICE constantly challenged himself and his musical peers to explore out of the mainstream music box. His influences ranged from Lou Reed and Cream, to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and various 70s British pop bands. Take a listen to this treasure trove of incredible tracks. LAURICE was a star, far ahead of his time, and suffered mightily for fighting the conventions of the day." - Mighty Mouth Music. |
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Artist: LAUTEN, ELODIE Title: The Death of Don Juan: An Opera In Two Acts Format: CD Label: Unseen Worlds Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "CD debut of this 1985 post-minimal landmark by Elodie Lauten. Lauten has been active in the downtown New York classical and punk scenes since moving from France in the 1970s. The Death of Don Juan is a breakthrough for its lyrical minimalism in combination with drama that actively engages a contemporary emotional experience. Originally self-produced and released as a small LP edition on her own label, it has been touted ever since by Kyle Gann, who adds notes to this edition, and was recently included on one of Alan Lichts Minimal Top Ten lists. Features performances by Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo." - Unseen Worlds |
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Artist: LAVELLE, BRIAN Title: Avalonian Format: CDR Label: Apollolaan Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| ""Avalonian" is an incredible work, following and adding to a tradition on this subject by artists, musicians, writers and great minds over many years. "Avalonian" was created by Brian Lavelle incorporating Guitar, bass, synthesizer, electronics and field recordings. It was recorded mainly in Edinburgh, Summer 2009; and completed in Avalon, September 2009. Seeking out the Occult Knowledge and mysteries of Avalon over 45 minutes of unmissable, essential music." -Avalonian. |
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Artist: LAWSON, JULIET Title: Boo Format: CD Label: Sunbeam Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Released to critical acclaim but low sales in 1972, Juliet Lawsons sole album which originally appeared on EMIs Sovereign label has long been overdue reissue. An eccentric, infectious record that showcases her plaintive vocals and gift for melody, it features support from saxophonist extraordinaire Lol Coxhill as well as members of folk-rock legends Trees Never previously available on CD. Complete with bonus tracks." - Sunbeam. |
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Artist: LAZARUS Title: The Trickster Format: LP Label: St. Ives Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "St. Ives has long been in love with the songs of Trevor Montgomery. Performing as Lazarus, Montgomerys nascent body of work began (after he left new kosmiche group Tarentel) in 2001 with the glorious Songs For An Unborn Sun (Temporary Residence Ltd.). Since then, two additional full-lengths have been released, further illuminating Montgomerys beguiling voice as both singer, arranger and lyricist and having earned him many comparisons to classic heavy bellowers such as Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. After being commissioned by St. Ives to do a record, he decided to gather some songs together influenced by and referencing his teenage years. According to Montgomery: At the time I was polarized by meth, riding trains, heavy psychedelics, and a love of spending my time in the mountains walking around in the woods. At 14, I tried to sell my soul for the ability to draw the female form in perfection, I skirted death several times, always seeming to be saved at the last minute by some good soul or random occurrence. All and all leading me to believe that the coyotes and crows of the canyons were watching out for me. The Trickster in many forms, laughing and crying. Recorded wherever he could find space, but mostly in a photography studio in Old Town Orange, California owned by his brother. All songs were written, performed and recorded by Lazarus (William Trevor Montgomery). As with all St. Ives records, The Trickster is available in limited edition (300 copies), each with unique hand-made art, done by the artist. Brown-colored vinyl." -St. Ives |
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Artist: LAZLAUD, ARNAUD Title: Elan / Le Malade Roi Format: 7" Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
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"The translucent red record opens with "Le Malade Roi." As soon as the needle touches this 7" sublime synthlines are offered from the speakers. Vocals are contributed by Xavier Paradis, vocals that blend seamlessly with the crisp beats and a solid tempo to produce a track that would warm any club floor. "Le Malade Roi" is a piece that captures the addictive analog sound of quality New Wave, blending some heartbreak lyrics with some pure electro sound. Synthesizers flow onto the flipside with "Elan." A clean and warm drumulator style backing props up some amazing analogue work before vocal slide in. Once more, that addictive and magnetic aspect is there as choice melodies are combined with deep lyrics. The track comes to a close with a fantastic, energy filled synthesizer solo; bringing this lovely New Wave snippet to a close.
There can be only one complaint with Arnaud Lazlauds release, it is too short. Two tracks is a tease. These pieces are what New Wave was, and what it can still be; music that calls the listener back again and again. Two tracks are not enough, and more is needed. But, this is hardly an issue to gripe about. This is the height of recommendation and endorsement.... Hardy congratulations to artist and label are deserved, but such quality must be maintained and this can be easier said than done." - Igloo Magazine. Limited edition in "taped bandage" cover.
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Artist: LAZY FARMER Title: Lazy Farmer Format: CD Label: Sunbeam Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"This 1975 ultra-rarity was released only in Germany. Featuring the talents of band member and British guitar legend Wizz Jones as well as ex-COB member John Bidwell, its a haunting collection of beautifully-arranged folk standards and original songs, along with a handful of glorious cover versions. This release has been produced with the full collaboration of the band, as originals are now highly sought-after. This is the first chance to hear it without paying hundreds of pounds." -Sunbeam
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Artist: LAZY SMOKE Title: Corridor Of Faces Format: LP Label: Jackpot Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "In a genre built on obscured and unsung genius, Corridor Of Faces transcends and stands out as a true psyche masterpiece. Rising above any number of recently unearthed late-60s anglo-pop platters, the sole offering from small town Massachusetts phenomenon Lazy Smoke is a cohesive, solid, classic album in every sense. Ten songs that weave into one-another, painting some beautifully drifty sonic picture as they go. The first remarkable trait of Lazy Smokes sound is the lead vocals uncanny similarity to John Lennon. If that likeness was the whole story, we would have a Beatles sound-alike on our hands, and that would be that. Upon digging just a little deeper below the surface, we instead find a darker tone and a patient, eerie and almost shut-in feeling resonating through the songs. While bands like The Beatles and The Left Banke were singing about love, lament and hallucinated travel experiences, the songs on Corridor Of Faces get sincerely dark right away. Even the seemingly-light teenage love-themed Sarah Saturday shares an undercurrent of on-the-edge uncertainty and dread. Its this undercurrent that calls to mind comparisons to Forever Changes-era Love and the more damaged end of the pop spectrum. Originally privately pressed in MA in an edition of only 500 copies in 1968. Features original cover art, printed inner sleeve with rare photos and band history." -Jackpot. |
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Artist: LCDD Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Not so long ago Olaf Ladousse (visual artist doing his D.I.Y. graphzines QUE SUERTE! And collabrating to silkscreen editor Le Dernier Cri) started to build circuit-bended toys that he called doorags in a tribute to an amazing US Arizona duo. To spread the good news around the globe LCDD ("Los Caballos De Düsseldorf" = The Düsseldorf Horses), was formed by 4 musicians who usually play in the Spanish punk scene. LCDD is an improvisation collectiv, a scenic platform, an open band. There is no fix line-up. Anyone willing to play the doorags are wellcome! This is the 2º Lp from LCDD. Its totally improvised. Doorags are directly plugged in the mixer and then you start to hear the accelerated toys cacophony improvising towards a hypothetical trackThe perfect soundtrack of a crazy bedroom full of demented broken toys going insane!! On this record (limited 300 copies), along with the four original members, joined Potro Oscilante (Poulin Oscillant) with his theremin on the track "Clop Clop Hum" and Fela Borbone (Ulan Bator Trio) with his Mierdofon on the track "Mierdofon" - Bimbo Tower |
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Artist: LE DRAPEAU NOIR Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Chironex Country: France Price: $27.00 |
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"This dream project of European improvised music-an octet comprised of members of HUNTER GRACCHUS, CHORA, and PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES-should get Euro-sceptics lathered. Rambling cacophony erupts in big-band formations, with the sound sitting somewhere between various Jooklo projects and the sprawling insanity of The A Band. Multicultural folk influences are strong; East / West primitivism escapes the vacuum of the trivial object, forging live and simmering performances." -Chironex
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Artist: LE FORTE FOUR Title: Boris The Spider/Priceless Format: CD/7" Label: Cortical Foundation Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
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"This edit of Le-Forte Four is wedged between their former incarnation as The Patients and their debut LP that was put together in the electronic music studio at Cal Arts in 1974. Edited by Rick Potts in 1973. All the references made in their debut Bikini Tennis Shoes LP, from Speed Racer to Zappa to Looneytoons to the Moog, is very clearly foretold in the Boris The Spider/Priceless edit. Includes Extended Grunge and Arguments From The Patients reworking of The Whos Boris The Spider that was later submitted to the Norwegian Electronic Music Festival and rejected. First time available. The release includes: a 7" repro of the very rare Slimey Adenoid and the Pablums The Residents b/w Joe Potts Mother Daughter, CD of Le Forte Four Boris The Spider/Priceless. Hand numbered edition of 700 copies." - Cortical Foundation.
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Artist: LE QUATUOR DE JAZZ LIBRE DU QUEBEC Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Tenzier Country: Canada Price: $20.00 |
| "Formed in 1967, the Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec (QJLQ) was a force to be reckoned with in post-Quiet Revolution Quebec. Between 1967 and 1970, the QJLQ shared the stage with artists such as Louise Forestier, Robert Charlebois and l’Infonie. It promoted improvised music as a means of bringing about real social and cultural changes in Quebec. In 1970, the QJLQ established a colonie artistique in Val-David. It also acquired land – the Petit Québec Libre – in an effort to offer artists and political activists a communal place to exchange ideas. From 1970 onward, Quebec’s first free jazz ensemble turned to contemporary avant-garde music for further inspiration. As the decade unfolded, the QJLQ became more radical both musically and politically. Tenzier’s new release constitutes a rare opportunity to hear the quartet at its most potent. This session was recorded at Radio-Canada’s Studio 13 on 13 May, 1973." -Tenzier |
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Artist: LE REVELATEUR Title: Fictions Format: LP Label: Gneiss Things Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Le Revelateur, aka Roger-Tellier Craig, who has previously played guitar in bands such as Fly Pan Am and Godspeed! You Black Emperor, is now pursuing synth and electronic music similar to Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never but more reminiscent of some artists on Sky and Innovative Communication, such as Laurie Spiegel." -Gneiss Things |
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Artist: LE SANG SONG Title: Le Sang Song LP Format: LP Label: Dragnet Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"If youve been following underground music of Seattle, you might have already heard music by CRAIG CHAMBERS before. If you havent, you will now. Chambers is the creative force behind LE SANG SONG, the name for what originated as a solo recording project for songs that for the most part are quieter than those of his other excellent bands (THE LIGHTS, LOVE TAN). Le Sang Songs basic framework is simple: get a good rhythm going, a rolling bass line or laconic guitar strum, paint the corners with more rhythms and harmonies. The result is the same kind of late night living room vibe that I get from listening to heavies like Syd Barrett or Skip Spence. While Chambers draws from folk styles, he pushes his songwriting and varies Le Sang Songs instrumentation to include violin, thumb piano, and other noise makers. Chambers is also an excellent lyricist, something uncommon these days, when vapidity is standard fare. The lyrics are carried by a keen sense of vocal melody. Recorded in 2007, the album sat neglected. Determined to give Le Sang Song the audience it deserves, I dusted off Dragnet Records and decided to put it out myself. Live performances of Le Sang Song are Chambers accompanied by his lovely wife ADRIA GARCIA on guitar/vocals, MATTHEW FORD (Love Tan, FACTUMS, YVES SON ACE) on drums/percussion, a yours truly, MIN YEE (A FRAMES, AFCGT) on bass/vocals."-Min Yee. Edition of 660 copies.
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Artist: LE SON DE LOS Title: Grass Pillow Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "First album from mysterious free-floating acoustic improvisation trio Le Son De Los who had a stunning track on the Tokyo Flashback 7 compilation. The group have apparently been together for several years, exploring performance in a variety of outdoor spaces. They consist of Yuko Hasegawa, Shizuo Uchida (Hasegawa-Shizuo, Kito Mizukumi Rouber), and Masahiro Deguchi (Gendai Sokkyo). Hasegawa and Uchida previously played together in Onna-Kodomo - one of the great, lost late-night Tokyo drone improv groups of the nineties. Theres a similar sense of subtly shaded space and poised atmosphere here, as Hasegawa threads wordless threnodies around the breathy lines of flute, and the strangely accented spaces created by Uchidas bass. Simultaneously fragile, melancholically beautiful and unsettling. File with your Taj Mahal Travellers, Nijiumu and Toho Sara records. Five tracks, 48 minutes. Gatefold papersleeve with obi." -Alan Cummings |
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Artist: LE SON DE LOS Title: Old SUn Format: LP Label: New Vague Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"Following their debut CD on PSF, this is the second album by the trio of Yuko Hasegawa (Onna-Kodomo), Masahiro Deguchi, and Shizuo Uchida (Hasegawa/Shizuo, Nijumu, Onna-Kodomo). Improvised acoustic pieces for guitar, voice and bass that somehow coalesce into almost song-like folk forms. The album is housed in a four color screen printed sleeve and is released in a vinyl only edition of 285." - New Vague. Listen here. |
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Artist: LE STELLE DI MARIO SCHIFANO Title: Dedicato A Format: CD Label: Relics Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Mario Schifano was a leading Italian pop artist, and a friend of The Rolling Stones and other prominent 1960s countercultural figures. Inspired by Andy Warhols association with The Velvet Underground, in 1967 he decided to sponsor a band. The album that resulted combines a lengthy improvisation with five shorter, psychedelic-influenced tracks, and is a landmark in the development of Italian rock. Pressed in tiny quantities, it was released in November 1967 (with artwork designed by Schifano), and original copies have sold for thousands of Euros, making this long-awaited CD reissue especially welcome. Includes background notes." -Relics |
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Artist: LE TON MITE Title: We Need to Grow to Giant Size Format: CD Label: Yik Yak Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Baptized in the flames of the music world as openers for the likes of Deerhoof, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and Calvin Johnson, Le Ton Mites "off hand influences simmer amid a mire of Morse-code tones resulting in the spirit of the guitar being thrown to the ground if not the actual instrument itself" (LA Weekly). Based in Olympia, Washington, Le Ton Mite takes its cues from broken folk to reinvent the wheels of rock. The trio of vocalists, duo of guitars and solo keyboard play songs based on group improvization and the boiled down compositions of ringleader McCloud Zicmuse. "We Need to Grow to Giant Size" documents the seed from which the band has indeed grown. This recording is a limited edition of 500 numbered copies in handmade letterpressed packaging designed and printed by Zicmuse." - Yik Yak. |
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Artist: LEARY, TIMOTHY Title: The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"The readings presented here can best be regarded as radio-signals sent out from a satellite tracking station to the explorers floating freely through space. The instructions can be attended to or ignored but at least they provide a kind of basic signal around which the voyager can orient his explorations. We dedicate this recording to the the many men and women whose accounts and reports of their explorations in the interior universe have helped us prepare these maps. -- Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner. The Psychedelic Experience is a rare, early document of the emergent hippie era issued in 1966 on Moe Aschs Broadside records. Join the legendary father of LSD with Ralph Metzner & Richard Alpert (aka Ram Das) as they indulge in the fruits of their research. Two extended tracks of spoken meditations accompanied by occasional Tibetan Bell: Going Out and Coming Back naturally line this journey. Features archival photos, 12 pages of original notes and remastered sound." - Locust
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Artist: LEBEDUNG Title: Live In Opera Format: CDR Label: Slippy Town Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Great post-prog Czech band recorded live in 1999. They work out on Crimson/Zappa/Beefheart-like rhythmic complexities with raw punkoidal energy and improvised room to move. Its all very Czech-sounding (think Plastic People and DG 307), but for some unknown reason, the lyrics are in French. Fans of early Pere Ubu and Birthday Party should dig. Edition of 100." -Slippy Town. |
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Artist: LEBRECHT, NATALIE ROSE Title: Rrrrrr/Drrrrrr Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Abaton Book Company Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Greenpot Bluepot is the musical persona of NYC based artist Natalie LeBrecht. Devoted to studies in sound, texture and emotion, Miss Bluepot creates an intriguing sphere of her own in her artwork, somehow preserving a fantastic sense of humor within the process...Fans of Meredith Monk, early Smog, maybe even Patty Waters should take note of her sometimes unnervingly candid moments of word and sound..." - JoAnn Colagiacomi. |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: Dust On Common Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Wierd is proud to present the debut LP by Led Er Est Dust on Common. This the bands first full-length release shows the three piece clearly breaking out of the Wierd minimal synth underground they have been a vitally integral part of since its inception in Brooklyn to create an undeniably contemporary set of highly crafted and restrained, icily psychedelic pop songs.
Synthesizing countless disparate musical influences from first wave British industrial music to house, disco, and the largely unknown cold wave (aka La Vague Froide) tradition in Northern Europe, the 9 killer trax on Dust fly by, straight out of the frozen hot, lonely cold plains of vocalist Samuel Kklovenhoofs native central Texas. After digesting a few songs of this rich dust, the listener can do no other than lie down in the wild wierd Laredo bunker to revel in the refreshingly brisk blast of hedonistic analogue pleasure dancing through the airwaves in the sky above...Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Led Er Est!" -Wierd
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: May Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Following up their excellent Wierd Records debut LP "Dust on Common" and a limited European split-12", Led Er Est return with a new 12" EP, the aptly named "May," their second release on C/T. The trio describe the record as a ".. collection of theme-based songs, almost like a dark sci fi film soundtrack..." The songs were written at various points some were written on the long drives over their last European tour. Side A opens with the dancefloor friendly "Lonsome XOXO", "a song about a girl obsessed with death" while "Plants" contains a cosmic disco bassline and use of 12-string guitar, showing their influences fall outside the narrow margins of electronic music. This is further evidenced by "Madi la Lune" a nod to British underground songwriter Bill Fay. Side B gets darker and heavier with the apocalyptic sci fi synth punk opener "Opto 5." This mood continues into "May" and ends with the instrumental brain melter "Drosophilia Melanogaster." "May" is available for digital and vinyl release and is a precursor to their forthcoming LP on the brilliant Sacred Bones label." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Lunatic, freak-synth, perfect for gritting your teeth and flipping out in those chilly months." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: The Diver Format: CD Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Led Er Est emerged from a series of jam sessions that core members Shawn OSullivan and Sam De La Rosa started having in early 07, using bass guitar and some cheap drum machines and synths. They were inspired to record music largely by 70s synth prog, and 80s lo-fi electronics and industrial music. Owen Hutchinson joined the band for their first live show, at the Wierd party that December. In November of 09 Wierd Records released their debut full length. In spring of 2010, they toured Europe with Xeno and Oaklander, playing shows in the UK, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Italy. Subsequently they released a 7" and then the May EP on Captured Tracks. Led Er Est did a brief west coast run with Soft Moon last fall and just played SXSW. On stage and in the studio Led Er Est create a thick wall of atmospheric soundscapes using vintage analog recording devices, samplers and synths using sci-fi soundtracks and cold wave as reference points." -Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: The Diver Format: LP Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Led Er Est emerged from a series of jam sessions that core members Shawn OSullivan and Sam De La Rosa started having in early 07, using bass guitar and some cheap drum machines and synths. They were inspired to record music largely by 70s synth prog, and 80s lo-fi electronics and industrial music. Owen Hutchinson joined the band for their first live show, at the Wierd party that December. In November of 09 Wierd Records released their debut full length. In spring of 2010, they toured Europe with Xeno and Oaklander, playing shows in the UK, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Italy. Subsequently they released a 7" and then the May EP on Captured Tracks. Led Er Est did a brief west coast run with Soft Moon last fall and just played SXSW. On stage and in the studio Led Er Est create a thick wall of atmospheric soundscapes using vintage analog recording devices, samplers and synths using sci-fi soundtracks and cold wave as reference points." -Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: Untitled Format: Cass Label: Throaning Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| Hand-numbered, tour-only release from 2010. |
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Artist: LED ER EST/ ANCIEN REGIME Title: Split Format: LP Label: Mannequin Country: Italy Price: $15.00 |
| "Mannequin had a dream and it has come true, a split vinyl between Led Er Est (New York, US) and Ancien Régime (Rome, Italy). Led Er Est hailing from Brooklyn are one of the leaders of the new cold wave and minimal synth scene, signed to scene leaders Wierd Records and recently released their ‘Dust On Common album which could have quite happily been released on Mute in 1979 alongside Fad Gadget and The Normal. Cheap drum machines and synths hammer away relentlessly forming a post-industrial soundscape for sombre yet emotive vocals. Ancien Régime hailing from Rome, moving closer to the spirit of the 80s new wave, the bands sound incorporates influences from 80s dark wave music and modern indie-alternative rock. For the 12 Split the 4 tracks were produced by Alessandro Adriani with a full analog synths and drum machines setup at Mannequin studio. " -Mannequin. |
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Artist: LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, THE Title: Early Recordings Format: 5 LP Box Set Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $102.00 |
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"This 5LP box features the very early 80s tape recordings by The Legendary Pink Dots (80-82) including Kleine Krieg, Chemical Playschool 2 - edition 2 which is Chemical Playschool Vol.1 and 2 plus outtakes and Live in Cologne 1983." -Vinyl-On-Demand.
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Artist: LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY, THE Title: Paralyzed!: His Vintage Recordings 1968-1981 Format: CD Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Killer presentation of the earliest recordings of this Texas hero, including all 4 of this singles for the Mercury label, cut in the late 60s. Plus unreleased tracks and the 1984 album, Rock-it To Stardum. Typically great EM Recors booklet with old photos and lyrics, etc." - FE. "It might be the weirdest piece of music ever committed to tape in Fort Worth. On Paralyzed, an explosion of madness recorded at Sound City Studios on Camp Bowie Boulevard in 1968, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy thrashes away at a single guitar chord over a rudimentary two-beat, tunelessly bellowing indecipherable lyrics and whooping like an Indian in an old western movie. In the middle of the song, theres a drum solo that sounds like someone dropping trash cans down a flight of stairs, followed by a blatting bugle. The pandemonium starts up again only to subside, like the end of an epileptic seizure. Hearing the song for the first time is disorienting, to say the least. Its impact is both hilarious and primal. Norman Carl Odam is an unlikely musical hero. Thats the name the Leges parents gave him when he was born, in Lubbock in 1947. But since high school, hes called himself the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. He has an extremely limited vocal range, has trouble singing in time, and can barely play his instruments. Yet, some surprising people like him. Chameleon-like British rocker David Bowie based his Ziggy Stardust character on the Lege after receiving a copy of Paralyzed from Mercury Records upon signing with the label in 1968." - EM. |
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Artist: LEGUAY, YANN Title: Cutter Off/Discsection Format: LP Label: Artkillart Country: France Price: $40.00 |
| "Cutter Off / Discsection is a noise dissection of a vinyl record. In anatomy, a dissection consists of opening up a body according to a predefined protocol. In geometry, a dissection problem involves cutting up a figure to rearrange the pieces into another given figure. A progressive mix began on a blank disc, using surgical material connected to a contact microphone. Handmade embossing cover. Handmade dissection of each record on the side A. Every piece is unique." - Artkillart. |
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Artist: LEITKEGEL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Prescription Disc & Acme Country: UK Price: $48.00 |
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PRESCRIPTION SERIES: These are the remaining copies of the ACME labels late 90s Prescription series. This run of 8 LPs was inspired by the private pressings phenomenon of the late 60s early 70s. All are editions of 99 copies on 180 gram audiophile vinyl (cut from original quarter inch master tape by direct copper plate lacquers) with handmade jackets and were until now only available via yearly subscriptions of 4 LPs for 100£ (which comes to about $170.00 for 4 LPs). "To Insure the mystique of these recordings, we will be destroying the master tapes and metal work of each release ensuring that these releases can only be accurately enjoyed via this vinyl format" - Acme. "Recorded at Sun Dial studios,this band is the project of ANTHONY CLOUGH keyboardist/flutist from the original line-up of SUN DIAL presenting his first recordings for over 7 years!!! Features Gary Ramon on some tracks and represents the first recorded reunion of original Sun Dial members since "Other Way Out" period. Neu/early kraftwerk direction with mesmerizing hammonds/spaced moogs/keyboards ,fuzz bass." - Acme.
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Artist: LEMAIRE, DANIELLE Title: Darling Format: LP Label: Inner Landscapes Country: Netherlands Price: $20.00 |
| "In may of 1998 Danielle Lemaire brought out the LP Darling.The LP contains 48.21 minutes of music,with hits like "Will we eat ice cream?"/"Boomboom"/"Darling" and authentic soundtakes from travels of Danielle through the Netherlands, the Arabic Emirates, Poland, Ireland and the United States during some years.The record is dedicated to Lucia Pamela." Edition of 300. |
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Artist: LEMAIRE, DANIELLE Title: De Poppenspeeldoos Format: Cass Label: Inner Landscapes Country: Netherlands Price: $12.00 |
| "40 tracks; 20 pieces of original mechanical organ and musicboxes; 20 known and unknown songs of Danielle Lemaire. 1999" - Inner Landscapes. |
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Artist: LEMAIRE, DANIELLE Title: From Nothing They Come Format: Cass Label: Inner Landscapes Country: Netherlands Price: $12.00 |
| "Cassette with 60 minutes of music, 34 pieces, homemade.Most of the songs are done at home by Danielle. Some pieces are from liveperformances in Tilburg,1998, Eindhoven 1998 and Amsterdam 1997/1998. Unique." - Inner Landscapes. |
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Artist: LEMAIRE, DANIELLE Title: It All Begins With Singing Format: Cass Label: Inner Landscapes Country: Netherlands Price: $12.00 |
| "Cassette ,60 minutes,with new songs,some sung live at the Art Academy of Den Bosch,september 1998,and several pieces from rehearsels and playing at home and at TROEP,an estafette-exhibition held in Tilburg,in the summer of 1998" - Inner Landscapes. |
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Artist: LEMAIRE, DANIELLE Title: Perfect Surroundings Format: 10" Label: Inner Landscapes Country: Netherlands Price: $20.00 |
| "EDITION OF 200. 11 beautiful songs and electronic pieces. 2005 release." - Inner Landscapes. Partner and collaborator with Jan van Den Dobbelsteen (see titles listed below). |
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Artist: LENGUAS LARGAS Title: I Fee Format: 7" Label: Tic Tac Totally Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Debut 7". Lenguas Largas employ cold, minimal, post-punk stylistic leanings and tosses them through everything in the kitchen sink to arrive at its unique sound. 3 tracks. "I Feel" is a real killer, but its all solid." -Tic Tac Totally. |
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Artist: LENS CLEANER TRIO Title: CD + Lenscleaner Format: LP Label: Ceiling Country: ARGENTINA Price: $15.00 |
| "This LP started out as a recording of an improvised by Jose Marchi (guitar), Marcelo Aguirre (drums). and C.D. (electronics). After which C.D. took the recordings disassembled them and constructed new sound shapes from the various pieces. C.D. calls the resultant sound "electro-acoustic rock". Early tracks on side A are faithful to the original recordings; strange polymorphous jams featuring nimble but muscular drumming, and a large vocabulary of guitar scrapes and molten distortion. But soon we start to hear the tracks fold into themselves, the sense of time and space distorting as if some powerful psychotropic drug is starting to kick in. Emerging from these folds in space, the listener enters new locations; guitars that echo like chimes through radio static into places both soothing and menacing, organic and manufactured- a deeply ambient space, yet jagged as broken glass." - The Ceiling. |
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Artist: LEON, CRAIG Title: Nommos Format: LP Label: No Label Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"CRAIG LEON, producer of late 70s albums by Suicide and Blondie among many others, recorded two solo records in the early 80s of proto-techno minimalist drone, including NOMMOS, for John Faheys Takoma label. Long considered a classic of electronic and cosmic music, as well as being a total anomaly for Takoma, NOMMOS is an album that sounds as if it could have been produced any time from its actual conception in 1981, up until the present. A pure mass of eye blinding expanse set adrift into the world. One time pressing, paste on front and back covers."
"Most people should recognize the name of this artist. However, most people will recognize the name of this artist when its paired with a production credit, not as...well, the artist. Craig Leon is, of course, one of the seminal NYC punk/New Wave producers who brought us so many excellent things from that scene, ranging from Suicide to Blondie. And hes continued his production work on up to the present day, of course. Still, very few people know about the electronic albums hes made himself. And thats a shame, because theyre fine, fine drone-a-delic stuff. Especially his first, "Nommos". Used as a soundtrack for a dance work by Twila Tharp (as was a lot of nifty NYC stuff from this general period), "Nommos" is supposedly based on African rhythms and the like. But really, its always reminded me more of some sort of missing link between the proto-industrial rhythm and drone of Suicide and the whole minimalist drone/static/repetition method as in Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, etc. Youve got the rhythm generator thing going on. Youve got the synthdrones. Youve got the constant repetition. The whole hypnotic but not necessarily relaxing vibe. Much of the album uses the nifty-but-simple trick of comb filtering to make the drums/rhythm box ring on a certain pitch. And then over this, Leon builds up layers of more drones. And more. And even more. And then sometimes, as in "Donkeys Bearing Cups", also adds a bunch of evil, headwarping processing to this. End result: hypno-brainmelt. On the first side of this, both "Ring..." and "Donkeys..." are fairly fast-paced affairs, constantly rhythmically pulsing, droning, buzzing...like the discoid equivalent of some mutation of LaMonte Youngs "The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys" pieces. But "Nommo" slows things way down, with this discontinuous, jerky, almost bluesy-type beat, over which everything just slowly builds chordally, like some weird heat-mirage architecture. Its a serious eyes-roll-back-in-head sort of thing...blissy, hypnotic...off in a kosmische sort of zone, but at the same time not really having that kosmische sound to it. Side two kicks off with a harsh, bzzzaaating rhythm, also jerky, and incomplete-sounding. But in this case, instead of building up a chord, Leon builds the components of the rhythm pattern. One bit here, another bit off in the reverb zone out there somewhere, and so on as this insectoid buzz-hum starts to key up and ripple away, a bit disquietingly perhaps. Then a voice...an actual voice, yes...and then another, joins this, sometimes tunelessly, making odd birdcall-like sounds, ahhs, wails, vocal line fragments, and so on. Whoevers doing this isnt credited, but I can say that it reminds me some of Meredith Monks primal-vocal type work. Eerie, spacy...quite trippy. Then BAM!!! suddenly were dropped without warning into the fast, frantic rhythm-box groove of "She Wears a Hemispherical Skull Cap". Its abrupt, almost startling, because you get locked into the former and chucked headlong into this. But as a chordal, hymnlike polysynth starts to arch over this, you just sit back and go yeahhhh.... as the dronebliss just washes over you in one long I-chord being played out and with. Theres things here that, like I said, remind one straightaway of Suicide. But its never really as abrasive an experience as Martin Revs great work with that duo. Instead, its more blissed-out. You could also draw some comparisons with some of the more motorik Kraut stuff; theres a sonic kinship here with, say, Clusters "Zuckerzeit". But its the obvious minimal/drone school linkages that really draw things together here, from the buzzdrone beats to the washing chords and hummmmmmmming synths. Head music? Oh, yes...yes, indeedy. But also, the sort of head music that anyone with an astute ear for an electronic beat can gravitate to. As for where to get this these days...no idea. Its odd that Takoma, which is usually known for folk-type releases, put this out, because its about as antithetical to a folksy-sounding record as one can get. But its very much worth hunting down if youre into the robotiker groove-trance brainhum sound its got." - Julian Cope. Very highly recommended! SOLD OUT
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Artist: LEOPARDS Title: Kansas City Slickers Format: LP Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "By 1977, the year of Kansas City Slickers release, most bands had happily ensconced themselves in one niche or another--one was either Punk or Power Pop or New Wave or ---- (fill in the trend of your choice), but The Leopards fell into no such handy category. Kansas City Slickers was unique for its time--certainly no other record of its day sounds remotely like it--and remains so today. Back then its uniqueness baffled critics who, in the few places where the album was actually reviewed, did little more than point to the albums Kinks influence. While the influence of The Kinks, The Beach Boys, The Easybeats and other Sixties groups is indeed evident on the album, such a superficial assessment does not begin to do justice to the cornucopia of sound on Kansas City Slickers. Herein rock n roll meets ragtime, old Hollywood musicals and other forms of early 20th Century American music, a delightfully original melange you will not taste elsewhere. Recorded and mixed at Moon Studios--ie, the basement of Dennis Pashs parents house on Maggie Lane in Kansas City, Kansas--the production and muscianship reaches a level of sophistication not often associated with basement recordings. Even so, protected by lack of technology from slick by-the-rote machinations of the professional studio, Kansas City Slickers retains its basement charm. When Dennis Pash and Kevin Sanders first decided to release privately pressed records as The Leopards in 1975 it was quite a revolutionary strategy, the DIY ethos of punk still a few years in the future. The world would simply have to catch up at some point in time. Judging by the appreciative audience Kansas City Slickers has grown over the years--this despite its exceeding rarity (only 1,000 copies of the album were pressed)--that time may very well be now." - James Marinovich. |
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Artist: LEOPOLD, PERRY Title: Experiment in Metaphysics Format: LP Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "First-ever official vinyl reissue. The absolute cornerstone of acid folk and psychedelic folk, 1970s Perry Leopold masterpiece still remains today as THE ONE to compare with when new psych-folk vintage records are discovered. Still no one beats him, and they probably never will. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl with newly-remastered sound. Includes a repro of a 1973 promotional flyer and an insert with liner notes by Patrick Lundborg." -Guerssen. |
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Artist: LEPER PRINT Title: Coma Format: 7" Label: Die Stasi Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"One-man army Leper Print brings three shots of gnashing-teeth DIY to the lunch counter. Get a seesaw and you slap this monster on one end and Home Blitzs "Live Outside" on the other and the thing is dead level. Light and dark, good and evil, balance! Leper Prints third and most luscious banger weaves like a drunken monkey in a ski mask." - Die Stasi
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Artist: LERMAN, RICHARD Title: A Matter of Scale and Other Pieces Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Richard Lerman has been active in music since the 1960s, and yet only having two previous releases: Travelon Gamelon LP on Folkways and Within Earreach CD on Artifact Recordings. This is a collection of live pieces using Richards trademark amplified small sounds from piezo discs along with other instrumentation in live performance (including a recording from inside the Houston Astrodome). Unique use of blowtorch on metal and amplified drinking straws." - Anomalous. |
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Artist: LERMAN, RICHARD Title: Music Of Richard Lerman 1964-1987 Format: Double CD Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $27.00 |
| "Every bicycle rider will dream of "Music for Bicycles," if it really exists. Sure, you know "Bicycle" sung by Queen, and "Tour de France" by Kraftwerk, but REAL bicycle music DOES exist! Travelon Gamelon (Music for Bicycles), realized by the sound artist Richard Lerman used real bicycles as musical instruments. Performed in the 1970s-1980s, he realized that the music for bicycles sounded like gamelan music in Southeast Asia. No joke, its serious, a real true story. Travelon Gamelon had only ever been released as an album on Folkways Records in 1983, including 4 tracks of promenade and concert versions. It was long out of print and became a very hard to find, sought-after album for experimental/industrial music fans. This long-awaited re-issue is its first-ever CD release. This one and only original performance is not only an unrivaled experimental piece but also is the ultimate "industrial" music that will appeal to heavy noise/industrial music listeners. Music Of Richard Lerman1964-1987 is a 2CD collection, with the Travelon Gamelon (Music for Bicycles) album on disc one with an unissued bonus track. And disc two features other various soundworks of Lermans entire pieces performed and recorded from 1964-1987. Both discs are CD-Extra (CD enhanced) including movies of his scarce performances on QuickTime and scores/diagrams for those works on PDF file. The liner notes were written by Arthur Sabatini and Richard Lerman himself. English & Japanese texts. A lot of photos within a heavy booklet, as usual. Packed in a duo case." -Em. |
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Artist: LES BLOUSONS NOIRS Title: Les Blousons Noirs 1961-62 Format: CD Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $16.00 |
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"2007 release. A must-have for every fan of weird music and people who dig Hasil Adkins, The Shaggs, Los Saicos and other types of primitive rock n roll. Taken from the WFMU blog: "I was half-expecting this LP that arrived featuring gobbledy-gook, electric-guitar-played-with-mittens French covers of Johnny B Goode and Be Bop A Lula to be some kind of elaborate prank on the Norton/Crypt crowd, but the Born Bad labels JB Guillot assures us of the bonafide primitive genius of Les Blousons Noirs, whose 1961 and 1962 EPs have just been issued on a single LP. If this is indeed the case, these guys have ascended to the automatic altar of Hasil, King Usniewicz and the U-Turns for pure stupe-rock greatness, and even predate The Shaggs by half a decade. Says JB: Maybe its the first proto punk/DIY in the world ... if I have a good memory, Chicken Walk (Hasil Adkins) is from 1961, too. Even in France, nobody knows Les Blousons Noirs, this band is really the greatest discovery of my life as a record-digger. I have searched for members of this band for five years, but to no avail. I have published want ads in national magazines, talked with all the biggest French 60s collectors, etc.) but never found anything. I met an old guy who worked with 60s bands from Bordeaux, and in his opinion, Les Blousons Noirs were a couple of "pieds noirs" ("black feet" -- French people who lived in Algeria during the French colonization. The studio Guilain where both EPs were recorded was located on a street with a clothing manufacturer on it. The guy thinks the band worked at this manufacturer and that they were only in Bordeaux temporarily. It could be one of the reasons we have never found them. Wowza." -Brian Turner, WFMU. |
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Artist: LES CLUB DES CHATS Title: Yes Madame! Format: 7" Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Raise Afred Jarry from the dead in order to front a band and Ill talk LE CLUB DES CHATS into backing him up. Why? Because no one makes absurdist romp like this Parisian trio. If you got their mad debut 7-inch, you know what I mean. If you dug their tune on Tete de Bebe, then you got a taste. Here is another dose. Seven great, compact songs, nothing like anything S-S has put out before, but fitting sniggly in this eclectic mix of bands weve got going here. Want to twist your brain around something while you shake your head in joyous amazement? Four dollars will do it for you. Some of Miaou-Miaou. A tad of Minie." - S-S Records. |
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Artist: LES CONVERSIONS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Kelippah Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Recorded up at Black Dirt Studio. Les Conversions are: Jason Meagher(NNCK, Coach Fingers, Black Dirt Studio), Pat Murano(NNCK, Decimus, Blah Blah BLah), Dave Shuford(NNCK, D Charles Spear, Rhyton)." - Kelippah. Silkscreened covers by Bright Spot Ink. Limited to 300 copies. |
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Artist: LES GOTHS Title: Rêve de Silence Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
| Numbered edition of 500, heavy sleeve, 180 gram pressing, with 2-sided insert. Originally released in 1968. "Here is the other great surprise. The unreleased album recorded for EMI France of Les Goths. They have released only 2 rare singles for EMI: I Remember / Turn Over and Le jour était gris / Out Of The Sun in 1968. The band: Gino Frascone - guitar & vocals / Bruno Frascone - drums & vocals / Bernard Faucher - bass & vocals recorded a complete 10 track album, which we are proud to release for the first time. Les Goths 2 singles became cult status in France. The music influence was Cream and Jimi Hendrix and the guitar parts reminds us of Randy Holden. This French psychedelic band from Normandie is perhaps one of the best albums from that time ever recorded in France. Every track just right and a great honor to have it on Shadoks Music. French and English lyrics. Incredible heavy psych from France!" - Shadoks. |
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Artist: LES OLIVENSTEINS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "The best-ever French 77 punk band, next to Metal Urbain. Killer and cult and a true must-have. This is an official reissue, with a lot of unissued tracks. "In a particularly raw moment captured on the disk you are holding, the singer (whose name escapes me) shouts derisively at the audience, Vivement que je sois vieux, tout sec et tout rugueux?" (trans. I cant wait to be old, dried out and bumpy). And indeed, it required not only the passage of three decades, with their corresponding toll on these two-bit heroes, but also the benevolent determination of JB Wizzz and the utilization of space-age technology to transform crusty cassettes, forgotten in a dusty corner, into something vaguely listenable that resembles an album of the Olivensteins. Obviously, this is not precisely the record that we dreamed of making in 1979. It certainly would not have contained bits of concerts. (But finally, who knows?) However, the sonic dabbling that you will discover on the demo of Euthanasie and some rather strange tracks like Le Spécialiste are surely examples of what we wanted people to hear at the time. All this will astonish you, proving that (yes, yes!) the Olivensteins possessed unsuspected abilities, had a taste for originality and could occasionally transcend being simple morons. Naturally, certain compulsive freaks, itching for their nerdy thrills, will complain that we have not unearthed other morsels from our repertoire for this album. But even if certain songs like Le Doryphore, Né Pour Dormir or Pétain Darlan Cétait Le Bon Temps (which takes direct aim at the stupid Nazi Chic that was trendy at the end of the 70s) are not found on this somewhat incoherent compilation, it is only because no version exists that is even close to listenable. If you dont manage to understand all the words, or if the wretched singing bothers you, dont worry about it: fortunately, this is not an album of syrupy French chansons!" -Eric Tandy (singer). |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: & Yellow/Rallizes House Session at Fussa Format: Double CD Label: Dead Flower Country: Japan Price: $45.00 |
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"A big session of members of and around Rallizes with psychedelic band Yellow (ex-M).
Best for beginners of Rallizes as well as maniacs of Rallizes. Attached chronological table of Dead Flower."
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Archives of Dizastar Sources 20 Discs - Vol 6, # 11 & #12 Format: Double CD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $62.00 |
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#11 Live 1973; #12 New Rock Festival 1974. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Are You Rallizesed? Format: Double CD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $42.00 |
| Live Shizuoka, Stupa, 1974. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Denudés were formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. The bands name apparently means "fucked up and naked," which more than adequately describes their music. Formed by band leader Mizutani Takashi, the music remained remarkably familiar over the years, and is best described as high volume, raw, lo-fi, repetitive, feedback-drenched guitar-noise fests with nods in the direction of The Velvet Underground and Blues Creation, but without the electronics. Radical left-wing politics were never far from the bands agenda, with one original band member (Wakabayashi) being involved in the Japanese Red Armys hijacking of a flight to North Korea. Consequently, the groups live appearances became less frequent and increasingly clandestine. All the bands albums were released in very small quantities, and because of the groups reputation for secrecy and violence, as well as the difficulty in tracking down their recordings, Les Rallizes Denudés has assumed almost mythical status. Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes sits at #11 on Julian Copes list of top Japanese albums. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Denudés were formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. The bands name apparently means "fucked up and naked," which more than adequately describes their music. Formed by band leader Mizutani Takashi, the music remained remarkably familiar over the years, and is best described as high volume, raw, lo-fi, repetitive, feedback-drenched guitar-noise fests with nods in the direction of The Velvet Underground and Blues Creation, but without the electronics. Radical left-wing politics were never far from the bands agenda, with one original band member (Wakabayashi) being involved in the Japanese Red Armys hijacking of a flight to North Korea. Consequently, the groups live appearances became less frequent and increasingly clandestine. All the bands albums were released in very small quantities, and because of the groups reputation for secrecy and violence, as well as the difficulty in tracking down their recordings, Les Rallizes Denudés has assumed almost mythical status. Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes sits at #11 on Julian Copes list of top Japanese albums." - Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Cable Hogue Format: 2CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Another crucial release from the highly influential and reclusive Japanese psychedelic noise band Les Rallizes D�nud�s. Originally formed in 1967, the band was known for its ties to avant-garde theater groups (as typified by Shuji Terayamas troupe) and leftist political groups, and their feedback-drenched live shows and use of strobe lights and mirror balls onstage earned them comparisons with The Velvet Underground. In 1970, bass player Moriaki Wakabayashi was involved in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351, orchestrated by the Japanese Red Army. Singer Takashi Mizutani was allegedly offered a role in the hijacking, but he turned it down. Cable Hogue is a CD release compiled by Mizutani from the original tapes he used for the Rallizes video which was released in 1992. Digitally remastered. Housed in a numbered, limited edition 2CD card wallet." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Cable Hogue Format: Double LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Another crucial release from the highly influential and reclusive Japanese psychedelic noise band Les Rallizes Denudes, now available for the first time on vinyl. Originally formed in 1967, the band was known for its ties to avant-garde theater groups (as typified by Shuji Terayamas troupe) and leftist political groups, and their feedback-drenched live shows and use of strobe lights and mirror balls onstage earned them comparisons with The Velvet Underground. In 1970, bass player Moriaki Wakabayashi was involved in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351, orchestrated by the Japanese Red Army. Singer Takashi Mizutani was allegedly offered a role in the hijacking, but he turned it down. Cable Hogue is a release compiled by Mizutani from the original tapes he used for the Rallizes video which was released in 1992." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Cable Hogue Soundtrack Format: Double CD Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $84.00 |
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More from Univive.. Compiled by Mizutani in the early 90s (tracks seem to span quite a few years) as a soundtrack to Ethan Mousikes Rallizes film. Players include Mizutani Takashi, Nakamura Takeshi, Nagata Mikio, Shoda Shunichiro, Hiroshi, Mimaki Toshirou
Takada Kiyohiro, Noma Yukimichi, and Takahashi Youkai. Actual CDs (NOT CDRs).
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Cradle Saloon 78 - Standard Edition Format: Double CD Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $70.00 |
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UNIVIVE is a Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. Recorded 1 November, 1978 at Bell Commons, Aoyama, Tokyo, with Friction opening (not on the CD). Now pared down to 2 CDs from the original 4CD set. Actual CDs, NOT CDRs
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Critical Trip Format: Double CD Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $76.00 |
| UNIVIVE is a Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. Disc 1 - recorded on May 13, 1987 at Rokumeikan, Meguro, Tokyo. Tracks 1.3 and 1.6 previously available on UNIVIVE-010. "1987 treble-quality performances in the theater crying deer! . Live 87 years in particular have a strong element of jazz rock, together with quite a valuable document of the groups final point. " - ? Disc 2 - recorded on July 13, 1974 at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo. Previously issued, in 2006, as Disc 1 of the 4xCDr version of UNIVIVE-008. Actual CDs, NOT CDRs. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Deeper Than the Night Format: LP Label: Echoes From The Earth Country: Germany Price: $45.00 |
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"European bootleg, theoretically limited to 300 copies, priced to kill. One of the daftest cover jackets weve seen (imagine a low grade color xerox, taken from across the street). I believe this is copied from the long-gone 2nd official Rallizes CD released in 1991 [MIzutani/Les Rallizes Denudes (SIXE 0203)], although no details are provided. "Legit" Rallizes material has been on sale for a total of about 5 days over the past 40 years (some kind of record?), so dont feel so bad about having to suffer over this one." - FE. "One of the most sought after Japanese underground psychedelic/acid rock bands. Recorded in Kyoto, Japan in 1970, and for the first time ever on LP. Contrary to their general recognition, the musical style in this album is totally loner acid folk. The A-side includes totally downer and psycho-atmospheric songs, with desolate vocals, beautiful & spiritual. Whereas the B-side features an over 22 minutes long track called The Last One, a slowly building epic with aggressive vocals, totally trippy and freaked out drenched in psychedelic fuzzy & distorted phased-out, feedback guitar-outbursts with effects and echo all over the place."
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Double Heads Format: 6CD Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $150.00 |
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UNIVIVE is a new, Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. New CD (non-CDR) version of the massive Double Heads 6 CD Box Set, with completely different artwork and layout. Subtitled "Legendary Live - Yaneura Shibuya, Tokyo 1980-1981".
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Double Heads Format: 6CD Box Set Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $68.00 |
| "Between August 1980 and March 1981, Les Rallizes Denudes (or The Naked Larryz, as the long-lost acetate they are rumored to have recorded for Virgin Records in the mid-70s dubbed them) played seven concerts in and around Tokyo. Never officially released, illicit ninth generation cassette copies circulated in Japanese fan circles for many years, attaining a whispered, Holy Grail status amongst initiates to the Rallizes cult. High quality soundboard versions were finally released by the secretive Univive label in 2005. Three of the best of these concerts are collected on Double Heads, all recorded at Yaneura, a small club in the teeming neon teen shopping mecca of Shibuya in Tokyo. Together, these three concerts comprise a singularly pivotal moment in Les Rallizes Denudes development -- as well as some of the most glacially psychedelic music of their long career. This numbered, limited edition 6CD box set contains a booklet with liner notes. Digitally remastered." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: End of Heavy Groove Format: Double CD Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $72.00 |
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Part 1_ Unknown Live1976, Part2_1976 Summer, 30, July. UNIVIVE is a new, Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Eve Night 1983 Format: Double CD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $60.00 |
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Live 1983 at Housei University.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: France Demo Tapes Format: LP Label: No Label Country: France Price: $28.00 |
 "300 copies.Pro-printed w/coloured insert and handstamped label. Studio Recordings, Classic Rallizes themes, great loud sound." These may be recordings from 88-89. Or maybe not..
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Fucked Up And Naked, Vol. 2 Format: Double LP Label: Fucked Up And Naked Country: Germany Price: $38.00 |
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More scorched live sessions from these Japanese legends. This double LP is culled from various live soundboard tapes spanning 1969 to 1981 (different material than the Live 77 which was the first Fucked Up And Naked release) - not much more info than that. Very worthwhile. Full color paste on jacket
"mostly live material from 80 and 81, plus one much earlier track (Smokin Cigarette Blues) lifted from the officially released 67-69 Studio et Live disk."
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Great White Wonder Format: 4CD Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $132.00 |
| UNIVIVE is a Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. Supposedly subtitled "77 Live & Rare", which implies thats the recordings are not the same as on the previous version of Great White Wonder. The dates that i can read are 1976, 1977-07-22, and 1977-08-13. ??? Includes extra booklet with info (in japanese) and photos. Actual CDs, NOT CDRs. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Great White Wonder Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $60.00 |
| "Originally released in 2006 on the Univive label, Phoenix Records presents this highly-collectable, numbered limited edition 4CD box set of three live gigs spanning 1974-1977 and one bonus disc of live material from a 1980 gig of legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Dénudés. The group was formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. As news of new rock music made it to Japan from the UK and the USA -- mostly via rock magazines and music papers, with most LPs tough to find even on import -- something was lost in translation in Japan that allowed it to mutate well beyond its original remit. Rallizes took rock music at its word while envisioning it as both unnecessarily complicated and too stupid by far. In doing so, they formulated an inspirational blueprint that would go on to have a marked effect on everything that came after them in Japanese underground music. Its a music thats as loose as it is uptight, as sophisticated as it is punk-primitive, as radical as it is simplistic. Digitally remastered. Includes a booklet with liner notes." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Great White Wonder Format: 5LP Box Set Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $92.00 |
| "Originally released in 2006 on the Univive label, Phoenix Records presents this highly-collectible, numbered limited edition 5LP box set of three live gigs spanning 1974-1977 and live material from a 1980 gig of legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Dénudés. The group was formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. As news of new rock music made it to Japan from the UK and the USA -- mostly via rock magazines and music papers, with most LPs tough to find even on import -- something was lost in translation in Japan that allowed it to mutate well beyond its original remit. Rallizes took rock music at its word while envisioning it as both unnecessarily complicated and too stupid by far. In doing so, they formulated an inspirational blueprint that would go on to have a marked effect on everything that came after them in Japanese underground music. Its a music thats as loose as it is uptight, as sophisticated as it is punk-primitive, as radical as it is simplistic. Includes an insert with liner notes." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Hana Matsuri - Le Festival De Fleur Complet Format: CD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $38.00 |
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Live at Le Festival De Fleur in Gotenba, Japan, April 8, 1975. ACTUAL CD - not a CDR. Semi-official release limited to 200 copies.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Hanging Dance Party Format: Double DVD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $68.00 |
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Double DVD (NOT DVDRs) live set of two seperate audience recorded films, from July 10, 1994 at Kyoto University. (Region 2, so Japan/Europe only otherwise you need a multi-region player).
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Heavier Than A Death In The Family Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Phoenix Records releases the oft-bootlegged Heavier Than A Death In The Family by legendary Japanese rock/psychedelic noise band Les Rallizes Denudés. This "album" is in fact, a blistering assemblage of live performances (all recorded in 1977, except for "People Can Choose," which was recorded in 1973) which sits at an esteemed #3 position on Julian Copes Japrocksampler top 50 list. Reverb so heavy, it will split your frontal lobe in two. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Heavier Than A Death In The Family Format: Double LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $34.00 |
| "Phoenix Records releases the oft-bootlegged Heavier Than A Death In The Family by legendary Japanese rock/psychedelic noise band Les Rallizes Denudés. This "album" is in fact, a blistering assemblage of live performances (all recorded in 1977, except for "People Can Choose," which was recorded in 1973) which sits at an esteemed #3 position on Julian Copes Japrocksampler top 50 list. Reverb so heavy, it will split your frontal lobe in two." - Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: High Or Die Format: LP Label: Les Rallizes Denudes Country: Price: $30.00 |
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Second and final pressing of 200+ copies (for a total of 370 or so). Features different material than the two double LPs. Spray painted stencil jackets.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Laid Down 76 Format: 4CDR Boxset Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $115.00 |
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Out of print 2005 Box Set (Univive No.2). Disc 1 is a lost "Rock Magazine" demo, Discs 2 and 3 are from the Dizastar Archives, and the 4th Bonus Disc is called "Wild Concert" (possibly an alternate version of Live77. ?).
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Laid Down 76 Again Format: CD Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $40.00 |
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UNIVIVE is a Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. "Live 22 July 1976 at Shibuya Yaneura" 2005 release. Actual CD, NOT CDRs (was previously released as CDR)
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Le 12 Mars 1977 A Tachikawa Format: Double CD Label: Over Level Country: Europe Price: $26.00 |
| "..double CD release in fine packaging of what are considered the best recordings of the most obscure group from Japan (if not the world); a lengthy band history follows, but here is the short version?Japanese radicals make big noise and put out very few records (in small batches), which makes them legends and makes the records very very expensive; the Live 77 is a document of extreme feedback and distressed guitar with Mizutanis detached vocals laid over languid rhythms-unbelivable in intensity, outpowering Fushitsusha as Japans ultimate rock band; some might call them the ego to the Taj Mahal Travellers id, while others would see in them the legitimate origin of the Acid Mothers Temple and all other Kawabata or Haino infused collective music of Japans recent past." - Over Level. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Live 1972 Format: CD Label: Over Level Country: France Price: $17.00 |
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"Second Rallizes bootleg on this label, the most "overground" of all Rallizes affiliated labels. "Legit" or "authorized" material from this mythical group is seen about as frequently as Loch Ness himself. There are only 2 words printed anywhere on this CD (besides the groups name): "live" and "1972". Say no more." - FE. "Live material from 1972. This band was a major inspiration to groups like High Rise, Kousokuya, Acid Mothers Temple and Keiji Haino. The absolute peak of Japanese psychedelia." Official description: "Early hand-held audience recordings (dig those tape flips!) from 1972. Frequently compared in sound and spirit to the Velvets and The Dead, for this slogged-out set Hawkwind may be more appropiate. Play it loud enough and youll think you are there, holding the mic..." - Over Level.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Live 77 Format: Double LP Label: Fucked Up And Naked Country: Germany Price: $60.00 |
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Vinyl issue of, arguably, the preeminent recordings by this beyond-legendary Japanese acid rock/psych freak out powerhouse. If your not aware this would be an ideal place to start. Black jackets with paste on cover.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Live @ Kinjou Gakuen University: October 30, 1976 Format: CD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $38.00 |
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ACTUAL CD - not a CDR. Semi-official release limited to 200 copies.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Live May 25 1975 Yaneura Format: CD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
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"A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth (we think). These are all regular pressed CD releases (not CD-Rs). Were not sure why, how or whatever. What was the question again? This first one was apparently originally released in 2006. Live @ Yaneura May 25, 1975." - Ignuitas
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Mars Studio 1980 Format: 3CD Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $98.00 |
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UNIVIVE is a new, Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. Complete Mars Studio sessions, Recorded September, 1980. UNIVIVE-001.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Mars Studio 1980 Format: 4CD boxset Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $60.00 |
| "The best-known studio recordings by Les Rallizes Dénudés is the legendary Mars Studio sessions from 1980. The tracks were laid down during the tenure in the group of guitarist Fujio Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi is one of the more notorious figures in the Japanese rock underground. He was born to a Japanese mother and a black British father, brought up in a reformatory before channeling his anger and energy into a series of rock bands including Group Sounds garage rockers The Dynamites and proto-glam stompers Murahachibu. Yamaguchis sojourn in Rallizes lasted just over a year, from early 1980 to March 1981, but the weightless, languid weird-form blues created by the meshing of Mizutanis billowing feedback and Yamaguchis acid-etched lines has been regarded by many Japanese fans as one of the groups peaks. The fourth disc in the set comprises a live show from the same period as the studio recordings. Recorded on September 11, 1980 at the Yaneura club in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, this show was previously released under the title Double Heads September, though it was not included in the Double Heads 6CD document of Fujios tenure in the group. Numbered, limited edition 4CD box set including a booklet with liner notes. Digitally remastered." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Metal Machine Music 82 Format: DVD Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $85.00 |
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Live 1982 at Keiou University. NOT a DVDR.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Mizutani 2 with Association Love Songs Format: Triple CD Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $98.00 |
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More from Univive.. Expanded edition of one of the few official albums released by Rallizes during their existence. The original was made up of select 1973-75 material, but this includes all of the material from the original session tapes, plus a Dec 13, 1980 soundboard recording, and on the 3rd disc, some demos from 1976. Actual CDs (NOT CDRs).
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Naked Diza Star Format: 3CD Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $96.00 |
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UNIVIVE is a new, Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs. Great comp of various tracks from 1973 - 1987, with a bit of info on each track, as well as a UNIVIVE catalog.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Neu Products Era Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $115.00 |
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Latest installment in the Univive Rallizes onslaught. Discs 1 and 2, titled "In The Studio"; 3 and 4 "Marvelous Live". No dates listed but the general consensus seems to be that these are 80s era recordings. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: One More Night Tripper Format: 4CDR Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $115.00 |
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UNIVIVE is a new, Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. Two shows, spread out over 4 CDRs,
recorded in 1980, the first at Tokyos Hosei Daigaku on
November 24th, 1980 and the second at Tokyos Yaneura in Shibuya
recorded December 13th, 1980.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Studio Rehearsal 1979 Format: Double CD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $62.00 |
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Limited to 200 copies. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Tripical Mindbooster: Winter 1981-1982 Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $132.00 |
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UNIVIVE is a Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. "Disks 1 & 2 recorded on November 6, 1981 at Hosei University Student Hall, Tokyo. Disk 3 recorded on December 19, 1981 at Yaneura, Tokyo. Disk 4 recorded on October 2, 1982 at Keio University. Disks are mistakenly printed "Winter 1980-1981"." Actual CDs, NOT CDRs.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Twin Silver Format: Double CD Label: Ignuitas Country: Japan Price: $66.00 |
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"Disc 1: Revival of the Legend, Disc 2: Mizutani2". Predominantly solo acoustic recordings Mizutani. ACTUAL CDs - not CDRs. Semi-official release limited to 200 copies (?) packaged in DVD style case.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Volcanic Performance (+ "Bonus Disc") Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $118.00 |
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Disc 1 : Live 11/03/1975; Discs 2 & 3 : Live 7/25/1976; Disc 4 : "1979 etcetra"; Bonus Disc: Laid Down 76 Again (?? another bizarre curveball thrown at us by Univive). ACTUAL CDs - not CDRs.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Wild Trip In The West - Longest Night Format: Triple CD Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $115.00 |
| UNIVIVE is a Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. "..a marathon performance on the occasion of their first concert in Kyoto since 1976, included a full night long marathon concert at the auditorium of the West Kyoudai! (1983) WILD TRIPS is truly a tour de force to live up to the name of the package." - ? Actual CDs, NOT CDRs. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Wild Trips Format: 5CD Box Set Label: Univive Country: Japan Price: $116.00 |
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UNIVIVE is a new, Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs. Impressive comp of various live soundboard recordings from 1976.
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Yodo-Go-A-Go-Go Format: CD Label: 10th Avenue Freeze Out Country: Europe Price: $17.50 |
| "AKA Flightless Bird Needs Water Wings. The beginners guide to Les Rallizes Denudes! Now available everywhere in the free world!" "Seemingly endless sonic flame-throwers of phased white noise streak across your inner landscape, as stupidly loud and overly-backlit lead guitar emissions perpetrated by a perpetually be-shaded longhair pummel the similarly be-shaded but barely adequate musical backing that sags and creaks under the wattage. Occasionally, lead vocals of a singular variety are provided by said be-shaded mad axeman, whose paranoid personality ensures all songs are delivered in a voice of querulous subterranean gargling from beyond the valley of Alan Vega. My giddy aunt, whats this, then, a Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy from the Underworld? A rough guide to Japrocks most intuitive non-career movers? Has the worlds most revolutionary rocknroll band released a compilation album of leader Mizutanis most frequently requested tracks due to overwhelming popular demand? Ja, mein hairies, this certainly seems to be the case. For, with the arrival of this superb Flightless Bird compilation, obsessive fans of Les Rallizes Denudés (are there any other kinds?) finally have a proper early career overview of Mizutani & Co. at their fingertips, a 70-minute-long super distillation of this most contrary of bands choicest musical moves executed between 1967-82, a superb sounding and partly/mostly chronological trawl through the freaked out and perpetually-yelping mindscape of singer and avant-avalanche guitarmonger Mizutani, and his sinister-yet-interchangeable pool of black clad world-to-rights acolytes." --Head Heritage |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES/TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: OZ Days Live 73 Format: LP Label: OZ Days Country: Price: $30.00 |
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Small unearthed stash of this reissue that mysteriously surfaced 4-5 years back.. This is one half of the infamous V/A OZ Days Live 73 double LP.
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Artist: LES TEMPS HEUREUX Title: En Ces Jours Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
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"Numbered edition of 450 copies, heavy sleeve with textured & engraved artwork, 180 gram pressing. "Les Temps Heureux (The Happy Times) made only a tiny demo pressing in 1972, France, under the title En Ces Jours (In Those Days). Acid folk with poetry lyrics, loner vibes, psychedelic guitars, well-crafted songs, six of them in English, two in French. Four guys hanging out night after night to create their first album in a basement studio following their one and only ambition. This album is very special and became instantly one of the real musical surprises for us. It beats most UK albums of the same style. They must have had really happy times in those days, very creative times full of aspiration." -Shadoks.
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Artist: LESBIAN Title: Power Hr Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Yep, the bands name is LESBIAN (members of GOLGOTHAN SUNRISE, ASVA, and THE ABODOX). Why? Well, equally cool names like Black Sabbath, Venom and Pentagram were already taken. But also, the name Lesbian evokes pure, sexually charged freedom-and thats what rock music is all about. But enough about the name, lets talk about the Lesbian sound; its heavy, melodic, dramatic and dynamic. The Seattle-based quartets multifaceted debut album Power Hr heralds the birth of The New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal. Each of the albums four tracks shifts moods, dynamics and styles. In any given song, Lesbian deftly lunges from black metal-style blast-beat-and-16th-note-guitar-lines into 70s styled stoner rock riffing and then leaps into lush melodic passages reminiscent of Godspeed You Black Emperor!. The band blends the best elements of many styles of metal: doom, thrash, black, progressive and, yes, even good old "heavy" metal. Produced by RANDALL DUNN (Sunn O))), Boris, Earth) and packaged with artwork designed by STEPHEN OMALLEY." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: LESCALLEET, JASON Title: Fantasy and Electricity b/w Dictaphone Music/Organ Music Format: 7" Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Jason Lescalleet has been a monolithic presence in underground culture for nigh on 15 years. Here towers a man who has steadily advanced a music of great focus and originality. A man whose craft is born from that which others pronounce dead. Jason Lescalleet stands at the intersection where musique concrète, power electronics, tape composition and minimalism touch. His is a voice that is heard on the world stage. That is recognized and described.
Through his recorded work and in live performance Jason has known the company of such great men as Joe Colley, John Hudak, Phill Niblock and Greg Kelley, to name but few. His art has found publication on such revered imprints as RRR, Erstwhile and his own Glistening Labs. And it is with no small pride that Kye now adds itself to the list.
Fantasy and Electricity is Jason at his most forward-facing. A shimmering futuristic stomper pried from the ballrooms of Cologne, whilst Dictophone Music/Organ Music offers two miniature studies, both rich in granular detail.
Fantasy and Electricity arrives in one of three sleeve designs each sporting original photography by Jason, in an edition of only 100 copies. For the fortunate few the fantasy is about to become a reality." - KYE.
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Artist: LESCALLEET, JASON Title: Pilgrim Format: Picture Disc LP/CD Label: Glistening Examples Country: USA Price: $36.00 |
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"An audio documentation of this electronics-and-tape artists coming to terms with the death of his father. The LP documents a performance JASON LESCALEET gave after discovering his father had terminal cancer; its floor-rattling flux of abrasive, low tones invokes the purr of a Chevys engine Lescalleets father discusses in a letter reproduced on the record jacket. A snippet of the final conversation he had with his father is buried in a heat-haze of tape hiss and air conditioner hum. The CD further extrapolates on Lescalleets fathers email; its 74 minutes move from dreamlike bell tones, through abraded, metallic hum, escalating into fierce, brutalizing waves of noise which then cut to a recording of Lescalleets daughter singing the Irish folk song "Molly Malone" at her grandfathers request. The book in which the CD is mounted has plenty more text and images. If you arent staggered by The Pilgrim, theres something wrong with you."
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Artist: LESLIES MOTEL Title: Dirty Sheets Format: LP Label: Out-Sider Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "This unreleased U.S. album from 1972 is now available on vinyl for the first time. Originally from Louisville, KY, Leslies Motel line-up included several members from The Oxfords as well as Blues Project drummer Roy Blumenfeld. They played explosive, bluesy hard-rock with powerful vocals and stunning guitar/organ, in the same vein as early Allman Brothers or Ten Years After. Remastered sound from the original master tapes. Includes an insert with liner notes and rare pictures. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl." -Out-Sider. |
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Artist: LESSARD, RON Title: DIY Practitioner Format: Book Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $24.00 |
| "Submerging a found image with an iconic squiggle has become a signature look for an aesthetic that has travelled now into its fourth decade. This release is a dedication to a person who is up to this point not officially recognized as a visual artist. If you follow the noise thing, the tape thing, the weird thing or the massachusetts thing you may have an original piece of artwork in your record collection worth well over the price of admission. Beniffer Editions replicates the tireless efforts of the experimental scenes most valiant visual manipulator. Rons technique derives from the necessity to put good noise product out there. His work is quick, uses stuff thats lying around, and is built like a tank often due to a colored strip of duct tape. His one off collages on many releases such as "The Best", "Moonlight In Vermont", "The Dog Lady Tapes", 1000 Locked Grooves" display the rigor of a dedicated pioneer. Theres no music with this book. If there was it wouldnt be a release by Ron Lessard. This 36 page handprinted book contains six 4 color screen prints, twenty-four 2 color prints, and six 1 color prints. Each book, in true form has an original collage submitted by the artist specifically for this publication. A one time pressing of 120." -Beniffer. |
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Artist: LETTUCE PREY Title: Atlatl Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Edition of 300 copies. Chipboard covers silkscreened with a Sufi-inspired design. Block printed titles in blue paint." -Catsup Plate |
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Artist: LEUKERS, ANTONIA Title: Hasenlove Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| ""Hasenlove" is the debut musical release of Hamburg visual artist Antonia Leukers. Shes a founding member of "Institut Hasenbart", a 10-piece artist collective dedicated to a meta-scientific research of hares and related social, zoological and aesthetical phenomena in reference to the art world and pop culture. Leukers has previously created stitched, sewed and animated sculptures while casually growing cucumbers, working for a local in-vitro fertilization hospital and advising young people on erotic issues as a German Dr. Ruth for a popular Online magazine. Inspired by a journey to Island, hearing local travel guides spontaneously interweaving their narrations with sudden outbursts of folklore chanting and an encounter with Wolfgang Müllers (Die Tödliche Doris) strategy of transforming and combining his (pseudo-)scientific, documentary and social research into a musical and artistic performance she started to elaborate her fellow artists lectures with musical renditions. As a passionate DIY home-recording artist she has soldered her own microphones, used cheap toy instruments, gameboys and minidisc recordings of kitchen sounds to create her very own bricolage comic universe. By recycling corny AOR mainstream Rock/Pop songs into some oddly disturbing and wonderfully weird rabbit love songs with newly-made German lyrics and combining these with some truly strange original compositions (ranging from freeform collage to distorted techno to deranged singer/songwriter stuff), she has created a musical love story in 7 parts. Spiritually influenced by (though not really sounding alike) German "Neue Deutsche Welle" artists such as Der Plan and theatrical and surreal performance bands like The Residents her versions of popular love songs sound like a teenage/female Andrew Lloyd Webber on bad acid. This 1-sided vinyl-only picture-disc LP is a strictly limited edtion of 300 copies. Both the gorgeous design and ornamental etching on the b-side have been done by fellow Hasenbart founding member Renate Nikolaus." - Dekorder. |
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Artist: LEVEN SIGNS Title: Hemp Is Here Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"Leven Signs Hemp Is Here came and went in 1985, as both a cassette release (Unlikely Records) and vinyl release (Cordelia) in the blink of an eye. The duo of Peter Karkut and Maggie Turner managed to craft one of the strangest, most affecting albums of new wave experimentalism of the era, but due to the albums impossible-to-find status, its been largely forgotten and continuously overlooked ever since. A chance encounter with the cassette version of Hemp Is Here led Brad Rose of Digitalis on an internet scavenger hunt before tracking Karkut down. Through the years he has continued developing his various artistic pursuits, recently having his short film Sunflower Supermodel shown at the London Short Film Festival. Turners path is a bit foggier, though her collaboration with Karkut continues. But what is it about Hemp Is Here that makes it such a special record? At times it feels like a modern, electronic take on gamelan music with crashing rhythms and modal melodies corrupted via bewildering sonic processes. Karkut layers organ sequences over and over, constructing songs that have more in common tonally with music youd hear in gothic cathedrals than any sort of school of electronic music. Think of a more diverse, Eastern-tinged Flaming Tunes and you might be getting close. On the surface, Karkuts complex compositions seem at odds with Turners often-detached, stunning vocals, but its the dichotomy of those two disparate elements that latch on and dont let go. All new artwork by Pete Karkut. Remastered from the original tapes by James Plotkin, cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin." -Digitalis.
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Artist: LEWIN-RICHTER, ANDRES Title: Musica Electroacustica Format: LP Label: Hemisferio Country: Spain Price: $26.00 |
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ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTER Biography: "Born in 1937 in Miranda, Spain, Andrés Lewin-Richter studied engineering at Barcelona Polytechnic University. In 1962 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to continue his studies at Columbia University, where he began musical studies with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mario Davidovsky and Edgar Varese. He was Teaching Assistant at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City from 1962-1965. During this time he composed music for the film "The Gondola Eye" by Ian Hugo, and worked as the sound engineer for the Alwin Nikolais Theater Ballet.
In 1966 Lewin-Richter promoted the City of Mexico Music Conservatory Electronic Music Studio, and he established the Barcelona Electronic Music Studio in 1968. He is a founding member of the Phonos Electronic Music Studio in Barcelona, which opened in 1974. He has acted as Secretary of Música Abierta (1960-1962), Executive Director of the music ensemble Conjunt Catalá de Música Contemporánia (1968-1973), and Secretary and Vice-President of the Catalan Composers Association (1976-1991, 2000-2004). At present he is Secretary and Executive Director of the Phonos Foundation, and Lecturer of the History of Electroacoustic Music at Pompeu Fabra University and the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona.
Lewin-Richter has created compositions in the electronic music studios of Columbia University (NewYork), Phonos (Barcelona), Alea and CDMC (Madrid), GME (Cuenca), EMS Stockholm (Sweden) and Musik Hochschule Basel (Switzerland), and Aveiro University (Portugal). His compositional work is mainly electroacoustic, including numerous pieces for instruments and tape, and music for ballet, theatre, film and video." Re; Musica Electroacustica: "Early 80s issue, also on nice laminated cover, focusing on two decades of Lewin-Richters electro-acoustic compositions. From the Columbia-Princeton days of ESTUDIO I & II to his own personal tribute to the Baschet brothers sound-sculptures (BASCHETIADA) via his 70s collaborations with painter Ernesto Fontecilla (FONTECILLA MIX II). Cover (again) by Ernesto Fontecilla." Original, unplayed copies of this 1982 release on ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTERs label.
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Artist: LEWIN-RICHTER, ANDRES Title: Secuencia III Para Anna.. Format: LP Label: Hemisferio Country: Spain Price: $26.00 |
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ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTER Biography: "Born in 1937 in Miranda, Spain, Andrés Lewin-Richter studied engineering at Barcelona Polytechnic University. In 1962 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to continue his studies at Columbia University, where he began musical studies with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mario Davidovsky and Edgar Varese. He was Teaching Assistant at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City from 1962-1965. During this time he composed music for the film "The Gondola Eye" by Ian Hugo, and worked as the sound engineer for the Alwin Nikolais Theater Ballet.
In 1966 Lewin-Richter promoted the City of Mexico Music Conservatory Electronic Music Studio, and he established the Barcelona Electronic Music Studio in 1968. He is a founding member of the Phonos Electronic Music Studio in Barcelona, which opened in 1974. He has acted as Secretary of Música Abierta (1960-1962), Executive Director of the music ensemble Conjunt Catalá de Música Contemporánia (1968-1973), and Secretary and Vice-President of the Catalan Composers Association (1976-1991, 2000-2004). At present he is Secretary and Executive Director of the Phonos Foundation, and Lecturer of the History of Electroacoustic Music at Pompeu Fabra University and the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona.
Lewin-Richter has created compositions in the electronic music studios of Columbia University (NewYork), Phonos (Barcelona), Alea and CDMC (Madrid), GME (Cuenca), EMS Stockholm (Sweden) and Musik Hochschule Basel (Switzerland), and Aveiro University (Portugal). His compositional work is mainly electroacoustic, including numerous pieces for instruments and tape, and music for ballet, theatre, film and video." Re; Secuencia III Para Anna: "Early 80s issue on nice laminated cover from Lewin-Richters mid to late 70s pieces, many of them written specially for sorprano Anna Ricci. From pure electronic sounds, to deeply treated vocal bits via tape collage and sound poetry. Covert artwork is a painting by Ernesto Fontecilla." Original, unplayed copies of this 1982 release on ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTERs label.
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Artist: LEWIS, ALEXANDER Title: A Luminous Veil Format: LP Label: Blackest Ever Black Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "A Luminous Veil is the debut release by Alexander Lewis. Six tracks of heart-sore modern industrial and S-M techno created using synth, microphone, and pedals. Recorded in one take with minimal computer processing or post-production. Limited edition of 500 copies only." -Blackest Ever Black. |
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Artist: LEWLEWAL DE PODOR Title: Yiilo Jaam Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Hailing from northern Senegal, LEWLEWAL DE PODOR is a Pulaar guitar centric band that draws from the folk stylings of Fouta Toro. Featured on last years compilation Ishilan n-Tenere, their first ever full length ranges from mellow acoustic jam sessions to electrified hip shaking concerts. Recorded by CHRISTOPHER KIRKLEY. Comes with booklet and portrait studio photo. Old school "tip-on" cover. Co-release with Sahel Sounds." -Mississippi. |
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Artist: LEWLEWAL DE PODOR Title: Yiilo Jaam Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Hailing from northern Senegal, Lewlewal de Podor is a Pulaar guitar centric band that draws from the folk stylings of Fouta Toro. Featured on last years compilation Ishilan n-Tenere, their first ever full length ranges from mellow acoustic jam sessions to electrified hip shaking concerts. Recorded by Christopher Kirkley. Comes with booklet and portrait studio photo. Old school tip-on cover. Co-release with Sahel Sounds." - Mississippi/Little Axe. |
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Artist: LEXIE MOUNTAIN Title: Boys Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Everything that is good and bad about the things you think, about the sound of your own voice as imagined in the mind of another person, each sound you made alone and some made not for speaking but for blaming. LEXIE MOUNTAIN "Boys" is a minor document of soul noise diva karaoke, collaborative cave-chanteuses rippling with roquefort vibes, and the slippery wet nightgown that is her songsmithy. Now available in seven tracks, thoroughly inconsistent and saucily inelegant, for your unjoyment. LEXIE MOUNTAIN embareasses her private sector and forms of it a gift, a suggestion or a collapsing wig: whichever suits you best." - Heresee. |
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Artist: LEXIE MOUNTAIN Title: Stone Shit Unicorn Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "The mighty Ms Mountain, Baltimores Queen of Tape Hiss and swagger squats down and lays another fine egg of head scratch. Lowbrow tape collage of all her chops, from backyard jam band to psychic accapella damage to ear/soul laceration and further still. All executed in her own street-level avant thug style. Like the sacred mushroom this will take you beyond mangled." -Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: LHD Title: Curtains Format: CD Label: Troniks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: LHD Title: Young & Restless Format: CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "sonic dissemination from LA with love. long lost first album finally sees the blight of day. over sixteen minutes of LA SMOG TONES. harsh crust from the hearts of Phil Blankenship (the cherry point) & John Wiese (LHD, Sunn O))) & sissy spacek). CDep limited to 1000 copies." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: LIBEREZ Title: The Letter Format: LP Label: Alter Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "This is the first album by Liberez, a group formed by recording engineer John Hannon and Pete Wilkins in Southend. The project began life exploring a deconstruction of the traditional "band" form before expanding to a quartet with the addition of vocalist Nina Bosnic, and multi-instrumentalist Tom James Scott. Musically rooted in improvisation, the band sought a progression from the loosely described "noise rock" sound at their inception into more abstract territories. The tracks were recorded as a mixture of sessions at Hannons studio and external locations where fleeting incidents were captured on crude equipment such as mobile phones and portable cassette recorders. It was a piece of text written by Bosnic that gave birth to the initial concepts that formed the backbone of The Letter, and new ideas with regards to incorporating her voice were then created within the group. Bosnics vocals on this record bear little resemblance to traditional singing or melody, but instead use the inflection and cadence of speech to play with syntax. The repeated phrases and deconstructed sentences give the record an unusual and disconcerting atmosphere, acting as a sinister bedfellow to the sharp and broken sound of the guitar and heavily treated drums. While these instruments may represent rock n roll, Liberez are content to take influence from the likes of Robert Ashley rather than Chuck Berry. The Letter is a bold first statement from a group who are taking full advantage of what they have at their disposal, and proudly displays the vast frequency bandwidth that they now work within. Limited edition of 300 copies. " - Alter |
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Artist: LIBRARY ASSISTANTS Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: No Fans Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
Richard Youngs & Liam Stefani. 50 copies.
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Artist: LICHT, ALAN & SHIRAISHI TAMIO Title: Open For Kevin Drumm Format: Cass Label: Freedom From Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: LICHT, ALAN & SHIRAISHI TAMIO Title: Our Lips Are Sealed Format: CD Label: Pure/RRRecords Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: LIEBERMAN, JUSTIN & C. SPENCER YEH Title: Object Lessons Format: Picture Disc LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Object Lessons" and what of this ten-song collaboration between artist Lieberman and Yeh ? Perhaps the influenced musically discussed is somewhere starting between mutual love of various artistic and musical genres certainly -- sound poetry, psychedelic rock, Japanese scum noise, Japanese psychedelic rock, listy lists, but certainly embodies more the present-time sensibilities and whims of both between the two artists to combine for something perhaps neither strictly adhering to any imitation. Perhaps to this record appropriately lets step back to New York artist Justin Liebermans 2009 sculptural and multimedea work "The Correctors Custom Pre-Fab House" -- a description from the debuting gallery follows -- "The Correctors Custom Pre-Fab House is inspired by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Browns 1972 book, Learning From Las Vegas, which provides an in depth examination of what they call the decorated shed, a simple structure with elaborate signage. Using the urban sprawl of Las Vegas as an example, they posit this architectural style as a means to enrich the symbolic content of post-modern architecture. The Correctors Custom Pre-Fab House is a steel dwelling covered with a multitude of objects including a 1970s snowmobile, a life sized Jolly Green Giant, foam filled inflatable toys, an illuminated Fedex sign, and a 7 foot shark. Accompanying the house is a sculpture of the Corrector, a character inspired by the fictional figure, Nobusuke Tagomi, from Philip K Dicks novel, The Man in the High Castle. The novel follows Tagomi in a fictional future fifty years after Germany and Japan defeat the Allied forces in World War II. Liebermans interpretation of Taogmi is that of an avid collector of all things pop culture, whose collecting habits extend to the exterior of his home. Within the house, there is a computer equipped with a program that enables the Corrector to archive each object with an informational text about the objects history, which is then projected onto the adjacent wall of the gallery. Created in the style of a Katamari video game, the program features texts on each object taking various forms such as objective accounts, plagiarized product descriptions, aesthetic meditations, poetry, short fiction, satire, and prose. The program is available to play at www.thecorrector.org. These texts were then transformed into the record, Object Lessons, a musical collaboration between Justin Lieberman and C Spencer Yeh. The record is a spoken rendition of select object descriptions that were reworked into an ... musical format." Full-color gatefold jacket, depicting abovementioned objects piled up in a grassy field, and the empty dome waiting for occupancy, and inside special ullistrations for both ten tracks -- with fullcolor picture disc LP showing the Corrector statues head in both sketch and final form. Manufacture stopped around 250 copies." - What The..? |
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Artist: LIECHTI, PETER Title: Kick The Habit Format: DVD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by Peter Liechti, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Also native to eastern Switzerland is Voice Crack, the everyday household electronics duo of Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, whose musical workings are explored as part of Liechtis vision. Whether clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century of progress. Kick That Habit is a short, tense film comprised of flashing images: footage of Voice Crack rehearsals and concerts is juxtaposed with visual shards of the fall and winter landscape of the area between Alpstein and the Bodensee. Utilizing color and black-and-white footage as well as combining the visual and the acoustic in an expression that subtly synthesizes the two, Liechti delineates a world of existence through sound and geography. Like the world the rest of us live in, its a world of beauty, quiet tragedy and the endless march forward. NTSC, 42 minutes, 4:3, mono, all-region." -Drag City |
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Artist: LIECHTI, PETER Title: Signers Suitcase: On the Road with Roman Signer Format: DVD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Signers Suitcase (aka Signers Koffer) is a kind of road movie across Europe -- from the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the scenerys magically-charged contours, immersing yourself, letting yourself be infected, then traveling on. And what better traveling companion than the elusive artist Roman Signer? A quiet roommate -- but always with something unexpected up his sleeve. A road trip requires finding the right places. On the road through Signers Suitcase, Roman Signer brings his chosen spots alive using a variety of tricks from his kit bag, launching brilliantly simple operations with a combination of gunpowder, fuses, rubber boots, balloons, stools, small tables and other seemingly random items. All his endeavors result in a marvelous visual display full of poker-faced humor that has earned him a place on the cover of Gastr del Sols Upgrade & Afterlife, as well as the sometimes-title, Roman Signer: The Buster Keaton Of Art. Signers Suitcase is also a journey through a state of mind, a tightrope walk from fun to melancholy. Mental and physical risk promote stimulus of the senses -- and sudden crashes and abrupt changes of mood determine the rhythm and atmosphere of this cinematic journey. Peter Liechti, whose collaboration with Voice Crack, Kick That Habit, was just reissued by Drag City, saw a calling in Roman Signer: the preservation of work that so resolutely resists commercial evaluation...or at least the capturing of it photographically, so that in some way it would endure. The sensuality and simple clarity on the one hand as well as this unimpeachable, almost religious being on the other were the challenge of filming Roman Signers work. On the cinematic journey we made together, Roman Signer in a way dictated the route; the film improvises as we proceed on our way." - Drag CIty |
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Artist: LIED MUSIC vs BOY BAND TAX RETURNS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $26.00 |
| "lied music is a musique concrete/inprov project of JOHN FAIL, -who did an amazing 4 cassete box on spencer yehs drone disco label- together with underground film maker LUKE FOWLER from glasgow, sensitive soundcollages drowning in a bath of electro acoustic beauty mixed with BOY BAND TAX (aka vernon and burns, who did and awesom lp on gagrin records) strange aproach to samples and field recordings, very strange combination, and again, like a lot of stuff on ultra eczema sounding very much like old collage stuff like nurse with wound or sensitive soundseekers like new blockaders etc.. cover is a fucked up bizar mix of a melting monster and a tiger by d tyfus." - Ultra Eczema. |
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Artist: LIFE PARTNERS Title: Teenagers In Trouble Format: 7" Label: Ride The Snake Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Still unsure how Life Partners morphed from one of the most painfully high-pitched live bands Ive ever seen into this uncircumcised Arab on Radar/Sockeye style party rock band, and doubtful Ill ever get to find out. But back to the heres and nows ⿿ theyre a four-piece again, with trumpeter Greg Kelley wiggin out up front with singer Dave Dougan. ⿿AIDS of Spades has a nice lowrider quality to it, woulda fit well in a Cheech & Chong movie. ⿿Teenager in Trouble is even sillier, with some really off lyrics about pregnant, at-risk teens fuckin and drinkin. Im smiling, and smiling again. Memorable shit from what sounds like the party foul of Boston; where others tear down, they build up. First release on a new label co-run by librarian Chris Strunk. Great work!" - Doug Mosurock, Dusted Magazine. |
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Artist: LIFT BOYS Title: Lift Boys Format: 12" Label: Lift Boys Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Limited (500?), under-the-radar "gallery edition" release by yet another Yamantaka Eye (Boredoms, Hanatarash, etc..) side project.. This definitely leans towards the dancier side of things.. (and it is NOT the Anarchy Village/Anarchy Way 12"..). Very last copies.
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Artist: LIGHTBOX ORCHESTRA, THE Title: First Contact! Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "First Contact! brings together highlights from nearly half a decade of recordings by an extended and ever changing superstar lineup of Chicago jazz, punk and rock musicians under the tutelage of cellist/ leader Fred Lonberg-Holm. What youll hear on this disc is an uproarious gathering of sonic jouissance featuring composer, songsmith and producer Jim ORourke, laptop guitar cum electronics-whiz Kevin Drumm, Jeb Bishop, Guillermo Gregorio, members of Town and Country, Pillow, TV Pow, and dozens of other bright lights from this citys creative gene pool on acoustic instruments, homemade sound concoctions and blistering digital and analog electronics as they explore elements of sonic growl, guttural hornspeak, and wistfully spaced out playing. But this isnt just some dandys hoity toity conceptual affair. Counterpoised somewhere between video game warfare and an explosive Arkestral moog freakout from many a Sun Ra episode, this superb collection begins surely enough teetering on the edge of a sonic collision that sets the pace for a grand, adventurous listening experience that just as easily blends the pointilism and angular attack of classic European free music with the raw, blissful emotional group flow of mid-1970s Henry Threadgill." - Locust |
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Artist: LIGHTBULB Title: Live: First Show Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "LETS here it for the kids... technically they are 12 now, but this was recorded when they were 11 and it is a toasty oven cooker, sounds from the minds of children whove grown up in the belly of the music beast. Coming soonish will be their studio album which is already recorded and just needs to be mixed down and pressed, ((IM DOING THAT NOW, they be doing a BEATLES COVER))" -Heresee. |
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Artist: LIGHTNING Title: 1969 (Lost Studio Album) Format: LP Label: American Sound Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"Very last copies, from an unexpected warehouse find! First time on vinyl only release of this complete unreleased album recorded prior to their eponymous debut LP P.I.P by Minneapolis band Lightning, featuring members of the original Litter, like Zip Caplan, for instance. Also contains two White Lightning songs as taken from a carefully cleaned acetate." - American Sound. 1969 recordings, mid 90s issue.
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Artist: LIGHTNING BOLT Title: Earthly Delights Format: Double LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "After scrapping two entire full lengths, LIGHTNING BOLT is finally ready to unleash new music to the masses. Taking the lessons of extreme metal, blood-brother marrying them to expansive and explosive song form and applying it to Olympic training methods, Earthly Delights uses electric stimulus to shock smile technology to worldwide domes. This is what 2,000 years of evolution and the invention of electric instrumentation introduced into the tank of hook force can do to you. This record has the sound of a ten piece band with a much tighter pay scale, matched with the sonics of military cartoons. Swank artwork by BRIAN CHIPPENDALE." -Load. |
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Artist: LIGHTNING BOLT Title: First Record Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "This is a CD re-release of the LP-only release from 1997. Added to this CD are bonus tracks that were first available on a cassette companion to the 1997. The LP was had silk-screened covers and was available in an edition of 750 copies. Since 1997 quite a bit has happened with Lightning Bolt. Theyve received lots of press in publications like AP, the Wire, Index, and lots of others. Load Records is proud to present this first release in a new format from this shape-shifting, form-destroying, ear-crunching unit. Although their live shows have been marked by jet blasts of delicate sound shapes, this release shows sees the band playing with long sticky pieces of sonic taffy. It was recorded in the bands Fort Thunder space, this CD shows them using delicate tools to kill very large creatures. This record is long and elaborate in its power but has some surprising delicate moments. The record also pulse with hyper-humanoid percussion matched with bowel loosening bass doing infinite hammer-ons to the gods." - Load. |
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Artist: LIGHTNING BOLT Title: Oblivion Hunter Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Since forming in 1994, Lightning Bolt has taken a zig-zag path to recording, playing and touring. Following in this pattern is Oblivion Hunter, a collection of the bands epic recording sessions over the last few years. From the get-go the sound is amped-up and free: bass sounds jump out of the speaker cones that conjure up ears in alien propulsion systems, nights in faraway wind tunnels, and brutal beatings at Gitmo. Drums and assorted FX pop in and out with the resolve of a finger quivering over the A-bomb button, drunk on power. This LP is one of the few necessary things in your grim stretch of existence, played by a band with 20 years of total conviction to the destruction of your ear drums." - Load. |
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Artist: LIGHTNING BOLT Title: Wonderful Rainbow Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"The much anticipated follow-up to 2001s album Ride the Skies, Wonderful Rainbow pulls out all the stops. Recorded loud and proud over a year, this record grabs your throat with 8 songs of bass so nasty it seers human flesh on contact and drums so mighty they liquefy brain cells on impact. Yes, reference two-piece/crazy/heavy rock bands like RUINS, SLAYER and (Soul Discharge-era) BOREDOMS, but youll come up a few cents short on every pound of this two-ton heifer. LIGHTNING BOLT fill rooms all over this land, and this record is gonna fill the bill for those wanting extreme and heavy rock music taken to the top of the mountain. This is also useful for late-nite dance parties." -Load.
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Artist: LIIMANARINA Title: First I Look At The Tits - 1997 Out-Takes Format: Cass Label: 80/81 Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "..9 unreleased tracks from a 1997 recording session. Released early 2011 in a limited run of 100, the band immediately sold them out while on a reunion tour throughout Finland. The re-release will see 250 copies made, on 30 minute chrome tapes. Comes with a fold-out j-card featuring artwork by the band, and American flag tape labels." - 80/81. |
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Artist: LIIMANARINA Title: The Puute Plays Liimanarina - Live At Le Piss: Pillunpuute, Perusnegatiivisuus, Yleinen Saamattomuus & Tappiomieliala Format: LP Label: Temmikongi Country: Finland Price: $21.00 |
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"Most albums sold in America a Finnish anarchist folk-rock or punk, outlaw country (or even, fuck, avant-garde AOR: aa ijien own opinion) plays the glue-fucking-creak release their first live nitteens nearly a quarter of a century-long earthly journey. This is also the first time through the ages, when they have anyone to save a live performance suosilla. In fact, they have not heard that either bothered or even want to record your own performances, let alone listen to them. "Im notve never interested in anything, youve determined what part, of other such stage. Sit cause its over, move on to others, preferably a couple of outdoor activities. The next album, the next gig is always trkeempi such previous" explains the bands set, singer and guitarist Olli "Amoco Cadiz, "Valdez-clack, who has made all the Liimiksen words except those of the Finnish language, Mikael developer of" Coke "Agricola, came up with it before. Dust-covered cobwebs among the history books show that the glue-fucking-creaking last public appearance would be in Dublin on 16/06/1904. The reason for the LNs [amerikanenglantilaisittain, Ellens] silence, at the end of the 90th century onwards has been mainly in the fact that Olli is leillyt / lived longer periodeja North Ameriikoissa and the British Isles, inexplicably basiallisesti B has baikoissa that start ... Boise Idaho ... Bethlehem ... Belfast, Bristol, Brixton, Brrrrrrrrum. Own words, Olli has now come to visit only and not to be here, "brezhnevilisess police state, where gossip and back attacks have come to faith and piittaamisen place." Believes that this level will also nails the indie rock business for the end game is just about the exploiters and the exploited. "There is nothing to steadily pay anything, all pitis ilmatteeks do ... something for nothing is everybodys plan." Oh yes, indeed. Meanwhile, the LN of all the other discs, Halloween, trumpets and drums played the Christmas Karri Place, ROPERTIES is piirrellyt comics suttaillut toilets and walls. The bands other current members, suomi talande bttre Folk, lead Guitarrista Lasse Larsson Keep your aura, and the bass player with Teemu B-52 Widow are a better band, [and who knows what other] lack soitelleet The lack of addition. Grandma kickers and Childmole Station poppoissa. The forthcoming "Heather president, the prime minister Jesus to all of you," Finnish tour Liimanarinaakin legendary (if it is even possible - well, at least more sotureitansa lost along the way) Cockpits Orchestra Scrooge "Croesus," my-luck-Seppl, oral solution, Teemu, Peter on bass, because poeka you have cheap holidays in other peoples deprivation and misery in sunny New Belsen." - Temmikongi via Google auto-translate.
Confusingly credited to "The Puute", this is LIIMANARINA, minus Kake Puhuu. This is their first release since the 1995 Drag City record (the "First I Look At The Tits" 97 demos cass doesnt count) and it seems like, thankfully, they havent really "evolved" too much. "..a caveman-level Finnish take on the chopped-line, mussed-hair, skeletal-rockabilly-period Fall that everyone goes glassy-eyed over, the 80-83 period." - Ryan W, Static Party. Recorded live at Lepakkomies, Helsinki 1.10.2010. SOLD OUT
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Artist: LIL SKULL Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: No Label Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
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"The skeleton in your closet uses your toys to make a din of minimal proportions. the soundtrack to your sleepless night. Will morning ever come?" - ? From the same camp that brought us the elaborately packaged Dean Brown lathe cut/box set/diorama a few months back. This one doesnt quite top the Brown release but it comes close.. Edition of 30 in hand assembled gatefold pop up sleeve.
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Artist: LIL SKULL Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Lil Skull Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
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"A string of guitar, eye of newt, hair of a violin bow,wing of bat and the skin of a drum all go into the potion. The crackle of the fire and the bubbling of the couldron sound your demise. A hex on you all!" - Lil Skull.
yet another incredible package from the Lil Skull camp.
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Artist: LIL SKULL Title: Untitled Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Lil Skull Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"The snapping of the sails, the whistling in the rigging, the cracking of the mast and the shuddering of the timbers, the thudding on the hull. These things all point to our fate. We are to meet our doomed brothers and sisters in Davy Jones Locker, for God is banishing us to the Briney Deep!" Yet another excellent chapter in this series of elaborate handmade sculpture/lathe cut releases from New Zealander Dean Brown. This one beautifully folds out/props up into a seascape backdrop with the bell tone/drones on the record making the perfect soundtrack to the visual.
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Artist: LIL SKULL & TARA MEREDITH Title: Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Lil Skull Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
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"Every bump-in-the-night, what -was-that-? and its-too-quiet-! of your nightmares are stiched together to tell the tale of a small girl, alone (?) in an old house. What happens when its not just the wind ?" - Lil Skull.
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Artist: LILBURN, DOUGLAS Title: Complete Electro-Acoustic Works Format: 3CD/1DVD Label: Atoll Country: New Zealand Price: $66.50 |
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Major historical artifact of electronic music, issued on CD for the first time. This boxset features 3 CDs of audio, plus a bonus DVD disc; packaged with 2 booklets of notes & photos. Impressively done. "Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) is considered the father of New Zealand music. After considerable success, he rejected composing for acoustic musical instruments and turned wholly to the creation of electronic works because he felt they would more accurately portray New Zealand in its own right, without reference to European musical forms." - Atoll.
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Artist: LILES, ANDREW Title: Miscellany Deluxe Format: Double LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $43.00 |
| "Much of the music included in this set is exclusive to this vinyl version of Miscellany. Andrew Liles has compiled a comprehensive anthology including as much varied, interesting and unreleased material as possible. He spent many an afternoon sifting through piles of cassettes seeking the oldest and arguably most definitive pieces of music from literally hundreds of hours of tape. The earliest recordings on these discs date back to 1984. Find a New Husband was made on Liles fathers very cheap Amstrad tape-to-tape system. The tape machine ceased to work properly shortly thereafter. This track was the result or many hours of rewinding and re-playing and re-recording, and thus began Liles fascination, obsession and addiction with tape-manipulation, sound FX and recording techniques. Listening back to some of these works reminds us of the archaic and laborious fashion in which music used to be created and assembled. In hindsight the merits of working with tape compared to digital technologies seem to be the random nature of what would happen. Tape bleed, mishaps, the low-fi quality and errors seemed to give unique and often unpredictable results. Many of Andrew Liles early experimentations and accidental consequences are included in this collection. Also included are selections from his two self-released cassettes under the name Lividity. The Lividity tapes were given away to friends and sent as demos to assorted labels. Some 20 years later it is very doubtful that any of them exist other than the two remaining copies Andrew Liles has kept tucked away in some forgotten corner." -Vinyl On Demand |
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Artist: LILES, ANDREW Title: Miscellany Deluxe Format: Triple LP/T-Shirt Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $106.00 |
| "Much of the music included in this set is exclusive to this vinyl version of Miscellany. Andrew Liles has compiled a comprehensive anthology including as much varied, interesting and unreleased material as possible. He spent many an afternoon sifting through piles of cassettes seeking the oldest and arguably most definitive pieces of music from literally hundreds of hours of tape. The earliest recordings on these discs date back to 1984. Find a New Husband was made on Liles fathers very cheap Amstrad tape-to-tape system. The tape machine ceased to work properly shortly thereafter. This track was the result or many hours of rewinding and re-playing and re-recording, and thus began Liles fascination, obsession and addiction with tape-manipulation, sound FX and recording techniques. Listening back to some of these works reminds us of the archaic and laborious fashion in which music used to be created and assembled. In hindsight the merits of working with tape compared to digital technologies seem to be the random nature of what would happen. Tape bleed, mishaps, the low-fi quality and errors seemed to give unique and often unpredictable results. Many of Andrew Liles early experimentations and accidental consequences are included in this collection. Also included are selections from his two self-released cassettes under the name Lividity. The Lividity tapes were given away to friends and sent as demos to assorted labels. Some 20 years later it is very doubtful that any of them exist other than the two remaining copies Andrew Liles has kept tucked away in some forgotten corner." -Vinyl On Demand |
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Artist: LILJENBERG, THOMAS Title: Experiment With Time Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "The sound for this CD was recorded live in January 1982 at Galleri Mors Mössa in Gothenburg as a part of Serial Aktion. Serial aktion was the first piece I did that was based on variations wthin a serial, repetitiv form and during the 80´s was followed by more exhibitions and performances with the same theme. During the 48 hours that the performance lasted I markd my presence in time and space by firing three pistol shots at three targets at three given points in time (at 0 hours, at 24 hours and at 48 hours). The sounds of these shots and all other sounds in the gallery were recorded on a 60-minute cassette tape, which was immediately played and recorded together with all the other sounds on another tape recorder. In that way the 48th and last tape contained all the sounds that had occurred in the gallery during the entire performance, layer upon layer, distorted and re-formed through time and space and the natural wear and tear on the cassette tape. My actions were determined by the tape being played, that is, by what I did the hour and hours before. As with the sound these actions grew, hour by hour, into a more complex and layered form." - Firework Edition. |
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Artist: LIMBUS 3 Title: Cosmic Music Experience Format: LP Label: Batsching Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Formed in Heidelberg in 1968, Limbus were a most unusual band who grew a unique music out of jazz, folk and avant-garde roots. On their debut album New Atlantis (subtitled Cosmic Music Experience), they had become the acoustic trio Limbus 3, and had broken out beyond free-jazz, enthused chaos and delirium into a weird ethnic music concoction, and naturally with overtly uncompromising results." - Steven & Alan Freeman (Crack In The Cosmic Egg). Edition of 500 copies. Been 4-5 years since weve had this.. Highly recommended!
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Artist: LIMINANAS Title: AF3458 Format: 7" Label: SDZ Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "21st Century pop music, somewhere between the delicious deviant sounds of 60s psychedelic ye-ye, Back-from-the-Grave style garage-fuzz, The Velvet Underground and the outsider world of Catalonian artist Pascal Comelade. Jangly and innocent, worthy of absinthe-like hallucinations." -SDZ. |
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Artist: LINDBLAD, RUNE Title: Objekt 2 Format: CD Label: Pogus Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: LINDBLAD, RUNE Title: RL Format: LP/CD/Booklet Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
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"RUNE LINDBLAD by JEAN-LOUIS HUHTA, BROMMAGE DUB, LEIF ELGGREN, EDVARD GRAHAM LEWIS, KENT TANKRED, B J NILSEN, CM VON HAUSSWOLFF, ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF, MAGNUS HAGLUND, and RUNE LINDBLAD. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition RUNE LINDBLAD (1923-1991) curated by CM von Hausswolff at Färgfabriken, Stockholm February 10 - March 18, 2001." - Firework Editions.
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Artist: LINDO & THE HAMMER, SHERIFF Title: Ten Dubs That Shook the World Format: CD Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Superb 13 Aussie dub tracks from 1981 to 1988 by Loop Orchestra member Sheriff Lindo aka Anthony Maher. Surprisingly almost home recordings, under the style of heavy roots reggae but experimental also industrial sense. Original vinyl release limited to only 250 copies. Echo, delay, phasers, ring modulators, full on!" - EM. |
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Artist: LINDSTROM, MATS Title: MIG Format: LP Label: Ideologic Organ Country: France Price: $21.00 |
| " (MIG) produced by Pro Arte Foundation for JSC "Klimov" Aviation Engines Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2011. Recording assistant: Vladislav Petrov, producer: Ekaterina Puzankova. "IBM" tracks recorded at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, April 2012. "ONE" tracks premiered at San Servolo, Venezia, Italy, December 2008 together with Anna Kochs "Scratch Memory." "Give Us the Tools ...." was premiered at Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Germany, July 2006, dedicated to Hugh Davies. "Children Of Paradise" is a tape part remaining from the piece "Sörmländsk Tragedi" for childrens string orchestra, premiered at Kulturhuset Stockholm and Sveriges Radio P2, February 2003. Mats Lindström works as a composer and a musician, often with strains of live electronics. He often works with intermedia, scenic elements and visual arts as a complement to the music, and has worked both with music for concerts, theater and dance as well as radio art and sound installations. Formerly an engineer in the electronics industry, Lindstrom has designed and constructed a number of unique electronic musical instruments and apparatuses. Ideologic Organ curation and art direction by Stephen OMalley." -Ideologic Organ. |
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Artist: LINEA ASPERA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Dark Entries is proud to present the debut album of contemporary British band LINEA ASPERA. Linea Aspera is the London duo of RYAN AMBRIDGE (Synths/Programming) and ALISON LEWIS (Vocals/Synths). They began the project in November 2011, technically drawing inspiration from electronic music from the early 1980s. Within the duo, Alison writes and performs all vocal elements, while Ryan is responsible for the writing and performing of the electronics, as well as recording and mixing of the final recordings. For their debut album they utilized small, simple analog synthesizer set up: Roland SH-09, Roland Juno 6, Vermona DRM MKiii, Korg Poly 800 and Analogue Solutions Semblance. Linea Asperas sound includes clear influences from early electronic body music, classic synth-pop and, in some instances, industrial and noise. Lyrically the band incorporates the sciences of osteology, neuroscience, and anthropology weaving a new medical language around themes of desire, despair and renewal. Linea Aspera serve up an icebox of dark doom riding on Alisons powerful vocals with a soft but sharp touch. All songs have been mastered for vinyl by GEORGE HORN at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each LP is housed in a specially designed jacket by DOVILE SHURPO and includes a full sized insert of all lyrics." - Dark Entries. |
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Artist: LINEAR MOVEMENT Title: On The Screen Format: LP Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"The thirteenth release on Minimal Wave is Linear Movements On The Screen LP, a collection of songs originally slated for release in 1983. Linear Movement is Belgian mastermind Peter Bonne (A Split-Second, Twilight Ritual, Autumn) joined by Peter Koutstaal, and Lieve Van Steerteghem on vocals. Some tracks appear on the exquisite Pulse Music cassette (released by the Micrart Group) while the rest are previously unreleased. Linear Movement was featured on V/A The Lost Tapes LP with their highly acclaimed The Game, described as an "unstoppable pop song". Due to so much interest in this song, we decided a full LP needed to be released and so we present it to you: hand-numbered, limited pressing on 180 gram vinyl, and accompanied by a large glossy postcard photograph of the band live. These songs are perfect for the dance floor and for home listening too!" -Minimal Wave
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Artist: LIQUID METALS ALTERNATIVE SOUNDTRACK TO: Title: Digital Overdrive Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"futurnetic Delray toxoid music for morph level liquid glue punks
james ferraro for Pacific Surveillance Video, 2008" - New Age. James Ferraro of the Skaters.
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Artist: LIQUID STONE Title: Here Comes the Weekend/Because of You Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "From the small town of Buckingham, 60 miles north of London, Liquid Stone was a four piece band that was formed by Ronni, Mick and Muz in the mid Seventies . Various line-ups centred around the key member, Ronni Sunderland (vocals and rhythm guitar) and Mick Prod (backing vocals and lead guitar) but it reached the pinnicle of its career in May 1980 with Ian (Muz) Murray on Bass (also vocals) and Ian (Tanner) Tansley on drums . After supporting the UK Subs at Friars in Aylesbury, the Subs were so impressed they asked Liquid Stone to accompany them on their Brand New Age tour of the UK and in May 1980 the two bands toured the country playing to audiences from St Austell to Hull and culminating in a gig at the famous Rainbow Theatre in London. The band were well known for their energetic and professional performances. Always a crowd pleaser, Liquid Stone decided to cut their one and only single, Here Comes the Weekend in 1979. All still teenagers at the time the band made their way North to Red Ball Studios in Market Drayton to lay down the tracks but it wasnt until 1981 that the single was formally released. This didnt stop the band topping the offical Oi! charts in 1980 with a live recording of the tracks. Liquid Stone continued to rock clubs and venues around London for the next couple of years and all the members are still playing today." - Sing Sing. |
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Artist: LIQUOR BALL Title: Break n Run Live Format: LP Label: Feast Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Once again SF displaced and sceneless Bay Areans LIQUOR BALL are back with another sonic onslaughtering. The follow up to the bands Gradys Record Refuge LP, and recorded just a few months apart, Break n Run Live shows the versatility of these loser drunks. Pulling up the waders for their classic San Francisco gutter psychedelia. Caught live in 29 Palms California in the late summer desert heat of 2008 at the world famous Marines watering hole, the Break n Run. Two side-long blasssts guaranteed to destroy speakers and piss off everyone around you! Includes members of NOTHING PEOPLE, BAD TRIPS, INTERNATIONAL HELLO, MONOSHOCK and AMERICAN WASTE. Limited to 540 copies." -Feast |
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Artist: LIQUOR BALL Title: Evolutionary Squalor Format: LP Label: Rocketship Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The infamous LIQUOR BALL return with another live dose of full-on blown rock action. Joined by legendary sax man STEVE MACKAY (STOOGES) among others, the band tears through a live set recorded at Gradys Record Refuge in Ventura, California, April 4, 2008." - Rocketship |
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Artist: LIQUOR STORE Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Yeah Buddy!...The debut single from Sarim fronted NYC punk powerhouse, LIQUOR STORE. Each record comes with a coupon redeemable for a free personal pizza at Moustache in the east village." - Almost Ready. |
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Artist: LIQUOR STORE Title: Yeah Buddy Format: Double LP Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Literally years in the making, this double LP serves as the epic statement that a certain resident of New Jersey (hint: its not Snooki) has been desperately trying to make for years. But he has been lacking in one key arena – Youth. Liquor Store are true sub-urban punks raised on mountains of pizza, bottomless kegs of Budweiser, and enough ennui to kill a normal human. Luckily, these doods are anything but normal, and theyre sprawling, yet focused, twin platter rolls up the heavies (Ramones, Dictators, Creedence, Motley Crue, Adrenalin O.D.) of this ridiculous rock n roll existence, and smokes a giant doobie of Truth, Justice, and The American Way. Take a hit. Hold it in." - The Commish. |
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Artist: LIQUOR STORE/NATURAL CHILD Title: Split Tour Format: 7" Label: Almost Ready Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: LITTLE CLAW Title: Human Taste Format: CD Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Little Claw was born in Detroit, Michigan during the Great Eastern Seaboard blackout of 2003. Having nothing to do, nowhere to go, Heath Heemsbergen and Kilynn Lunsford began playing their acoustic guitars and singing into the darkness. An auspicious beginning to be sure. Even now, Little Claw are still strumming and screaming into the void. Formed originally with Jamie Easter from the Piranhas on drums, the band played a string of shows, starting with their debut performance with legendary Ohio art-punks the Bizarros, which then led to the recording of the first Little Claw LP with Warn Defever (His Name Is Alive) The album was released by Ypsilanti records in 2005. Jamie left the band in the summer of 2005 and after one show as a duo, Hendrik Deherder joined up on the drums. A second LP was recorded with Matthew Smith (Outrageous Cherry) in his Hamtramck living room mid-2006 and was subsequently released by Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace label in 2007. Later that year, there was a release of a split 7" single with Michael Yonkers on X! records. Little Claws move from the urban nightmare of Detroit to the more subtle cloudy terrors of Portland, Oregon prompted some more augmentations to the line-up: Adam Svenson (of Seattle improv band Du Hexen Hase) took over the caveman beat on the drums, freeing up Henrik to bang the synth and add additional percussion. On the road and on recordings, the Little Claw sound is graced by the touch of Toledo native, Damon Sturdivant (Puffy Areolas, Tyvek) on additional percussion and synth." "But what do they sound like anyway? They sounded like the greatest godammned fucking band on the planet the time we saw em. Two minimalist drummers, a guitar dude with a nice underhook rhythm rip and a girl with a badass no wave slather tongue tearing hell out of her slide guitar given half the chance. And not all hellbent rage either -- some nice licorice melt drizzle crud groove too. Fuckin awesome." -Thurston Moore |
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Artist: LITTLE CLAW Title: Human Taste Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Brand new LP by this fiery Portland, Oregon art-garage trio. This is the LP edition of the CD released on Ecstatic Peace! Records. Comes with a double-sided 11"x17" poster." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LITTLE CLAW Title: Race To The Bottom b/w Feeding You Format: 7" Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Hey, whaddya know, another 7"! Were knockin these things out like Kosher corn dogs at the state fair. And we aint got a singles club or nothin! This time its Little Claw thats delivering the goods, two new tracks ( Race To The Bottom/Feed You) that careen off the walls of your skull like drunken Valkyries lashing through the halls of Valhalla. What would Odin think? Who cares! Our own Roland S. Woode sez; "The evolution of Little Claw has been wondrous to behold & now their beguiling cluck has found its way into the Siltbreeze ranks. On what is their 5th vinyl outing, the band has laid down 2 distinct tracks & they are mightly gallops of ambidextrous charge. Race To The Bottom rakes across the nodules of your brain w/serrated glee while Feeding You could be a cosmic transmission from futuristic denizens who have carved Terrence Mckenna pancreas into psychedelic sweetbreads & gobbled them for lysergic sustenance. The sound is, as one of the main pie tasters from Bull Tongue recently opined, "Fucking Awesome"! Edition of 400 copies". - Siltblog |
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Artist: LITTLE CLAW Title: Spit And Squalor Swallow The Snow Format: CD Label: Ecstatic Yod Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "CD version of 2007 release on Ecstatic Peace! Little Claws batter-rock style provokes a lot of aggression on both sides of the audience/performer divide. Originally from Michigan, they relocated soon after this album to the moister turf of Portland, Oregon (home of JOMF, Smegma, Meltzer, etc). Little Claws rituals are tribal, their tongues unknown, and their recordings for XL, Siltbreeze, Ypsilanti and other labels have taken maximum r&b in many bizarre directions. This CD reissues a newly-mastered version of their second LP, originally issued by Ecstatic Peace! in 2007. It is a monster of form-disruption and includes some of Kilynn Lunsfords most easily comprehended songs. Beauty wears many skins. Heres the proof." -Ecstatic Yod |
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Artist: LITTLE GIRLS Title: Youth Tunes Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Canadian lo-fi creepazoids fuck about and blow minds. Fresh from their releases on Paper Bag and Mexican Summer and blog buzz, these manaics yet again deliever the goods. Two tracks, black and white sleeve." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: LITTLE GOLD Title: Completely Fucked Format: 7" Label: Heart Break Beat Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "LITTLE GOLD is CHRISTIAN DEROEKs new band. Christian was one of the two founding members of WOODS, as well as the beloved but deceased MENEGUAR. Little Gold is killer power pop-think Costello, Ted Leo, etc. This is his second release as Little Gold, the first was the well-received full length LP, On The Knife, that came out on Adagio830. The 7-inch is a limited edition of 300 on translucent orange vinyl with a download coupon included." -Heart Break Beat |
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: Brave Nu World Format: LP Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Finally this ones out and ready to ship!!! After 18 years James Pobeiga aka Little Howlin Wolf, Shadow Drifter, Buccaneer Bob, Deacon Blue, etc/// returns with his next LP- BRAVE NU WORLD/ Hands down this is his most challenged work to date! An instant damaged visionary outsider classic/ Recorded at Diamond Eyes in killer LHW style: flowing over dubbed/bounced 4 track. These will be flying outta here in no time, dont sleep on this one." - Heresee. |
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: Cool Truth Format: CD Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Wolfs-1985-self-released-singular-vision-free-jazz-world-blooz-what- the-fuck-flow-unsynced-multi-tracked-masterpeice....available for the first time. Gots bar codes and shrink wrapped, nice! A MUST HAVE ! SEROOUIUSLLY" -Heresee. |
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Moran Tape Label Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"The First Man at his best.
Part of MTL 8" Lathe Series One.
Limited edition of 40.
Bound in black cloth with dark paintings inside and out." Very limited stock.
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: Singles Vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Collection of Wolfs self released 45s; raw sounds from this visionary american outsider." - Heresee.
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: Singles Vol 2 Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Second collection of Wolfs self released 45s; raw sounds from this visionary american outsider." - Heresee.
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Artist: LIVER & BACON Title: Format: 3" CDR Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Fatty, pan-fried electronics from a Climax Golden Twin and the goon behind Secret Records. 2 Seattle shows mixed in a stereo slop. Edition of 48." - Palsy. |
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Artist: LIVERPOOL Title: Por Favor, Sucesso/Marcelo Zona Sul Format: LP/7" Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $46.00 |
| "Brazil 1969/1970. "Liverpool is one of our favorite bands from Brazil. The LP Por Favor, Sucesso (Please, Success) comes together with the ultra-rare 7 inch EP Marcelo Zona Sul, a Brazilian movie from 1970 (you can watch a film-clip on Youtube). This flower power art rock album stands out among the other Brazilian psych albums. It is as good as Modolu 1000 but with better composed songs, influenced by the British Underground, with great guitars, Hammond, effects, complex compositions, uplifting vocals with lots of soul, Allman Brothers style wailing guitars, wah-wah, sometimes sweet and mellow, sometimes extra heavy psychedelic -- all with a great touch of Brazilian music. Perhaps one of the best albums from South America. All original tracks -- 19 in total (including the 6 EP tracks). Enjoy this one." -Shadoks. |
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Artist: LIVES OF ANGELS Title: Elevator to Eden Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Dark Entires is honored to reissue the long out of print debut album Elevator to Eden by LIVES OF ANGELS. Lives of Angels was the brainchild of GERALD OCONNELL from London, England. In 1974 he worked at CBS studios mastering recordings from tape to disc. By 1977 he joined his first band MYSTERY PLANE, led by school mate Mark Harvey and later joined by his soon-to-be wife Catherine. Gerald branched off in 1980 forming Lives of Angels as an outlet for his own compositions. He recorded, produced and played all of the instruments on "Elevator to Eden" between 1981 and 1983, using a primitive set up of drum machines, one keyboard, guitar and a tape echo. Influenced by the Krautrock sounds of Neu! and Amon Duul II as well as US psychedelic rock, Lives of Angles crafted their own unique post-punk sound. Elevator to Eden was originally released in 1983 on cassette by Color Tape Records, the label started by Gary Ramon of Modern Art. Then in 1986 Fire Records remixed and re-released the album on vinyl but the band was not happy with the mixes. This reissue features the original 4-track cassette mixes of Elevator To Eden on vinyl for the first time ever. The LP includes 9 songs featured on the original Color Tapes release. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by GEORGE HORN at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley directly from the original master tapes. Each LP comes with unreleased photos, original artwork and a lyrics for all songs." - Dark Entries. |
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Artist: LIVING BREATHING MUSIC Title: Happiness Is Fabulous Format: CD Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "What would the soil say? A fair speculation from the lands oldest apostle..."God made the Earth and the Earth was round and the Earth stood still in its roundness... thus gave rise to the color green... the amorphic quality of this color sprang life ... the first sounds involved gurggling Cro-magnon hemorages ... the rest is adequate history ... hamburgers hotdogs hermaphrodites haunted house huge hard hair ... this is my recollection, I am soil!" A true testament of Northern Californian 4:20-vibe/freak-out unfurled for the rest of the world ... a live non-stop excavation of classic Impulse! ether fused a la Cro-Magnon(artists alone decide ...) with a utilitarian nod to "New Weird-ness" and Finnish-psych-spooge... recorded in Davis, CA "Live in Studio A" Sept. 2004 ... 4 colors, 500 copies, collaborative artwork... why does acid cost so much? Features members of Klondike & York, Antennas Erupt, My Whole Hand Was Wet, Tally Band, and Black Bottles." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: LLOYD ARTHUR 3 Title: Spheres Of Nothing Format: LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Mystically tinged, high-energy alto sax/drums blowout (plus some added cello scrapings on Side A) for those who like their jazz a little bit primitive and a whole lot free. Its uncertain as to whether or not the 3 in Lloyd Arthur 3 refers to a trio of unspecified members or just 3 times Lloyd Arthur. What *is* certain is that Spheres of Nothing is an unrelenting tribute to the spirit of purification through fire, occupying the spaces between classic ESP free jazz, Japanese live-fast-die-young iconoclast Kaoru Abe and a touch of [Lloyds pick] Swedish scuzz rockers Brainbombs." - Twisted Village. |
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Artist: LLOYD PACK Title: Know Your Lloyd Pack Format: 7" Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Captains log, stardate 10.3.12: The Lloyd Pack 7" ep is finally realized. We had picked up a distress signal some weeks back, the call letters unclear, but seemingly emitted from a slow & hostile planet known only as URP. The data transcribed mentioned project (Lloyd Pack), title, (Know Your Lloyd Pack), participants (Russell Walker, Letha Rodman Melchior, Dan Melchior) & facilitator (Siltbreeze). Upon listening to contents, our forward team-though eager albeit without much depth-quickly attempted a single comparison to former Siltbreeze inhabitants, the Shadow Ring regarding sound & style. However, Chief Science Officer Roland Woodbe dismissed this as naive & noted the possibility of an Excalbian conspiracy in such a hasty summation. Woodbe elaborated a deeper analogy, finding in his historical dissection hints to century old former galactic explorers such as Collective Horizontal, 49 Americans & No Half Measures (for example). When presented with the compositions of Lloyd Pack myself I found CSO Woodbes comprehension to be most evolved. That said, the Know Your Lloyd Pack ep occupies its own unique aural atmosphere too. Its drollery is of the highest Anglo-Saxon order, its ambience as crisp as a Gloustershire perry. Overall I have found its essence most logical and as any species this side of 40 Eradani A is aware, with only 300 pressed, its shelf life is surely not long for the galaxy. A portion of all sales will go to the Letha Rodman Melchior Cancer Fund. Peace and Prosper to all. Sincerely, Tiberius Surak Starfleet Commander." - Siltbreeze. |
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Artist: LLOYD, MARTIN Title: LAmant Electronique Format: 7" Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Minimal Wave presents an exquisite 7" EP release by Martin Lloyd entitled "LAmant Electronique". Martin is mainly known for his Oppenheimer Analysis (Minimal Wave) and Analysis (Survival Records) projects, yet through the years he recorded over two dozen tracks on his own, most of which never saw the light of day. The four selected tracks were recorded between 1980 and 1984 in his own "Feedback Studios" in Battersea, London. Martin Lloyd delivers vocals via the vocoder and carefully layers synth melodies which range from upbeat and danceable, to what could be the soundtrack to a 1981 post-apocalyptic science fiction film. The record is pressed on white vinyl with a hea vy black jacket (spot gloss) and is limited to 999 hand-numbered copies." - Minimal Wave.
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Artist: LO JENGI Title: Dans Les Toilettes Du Paradis/Elakoon Mummo Format: 10" Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $16.00 |
| "The French trio Reines DAngleterre performed in Finland in 2009 at Mental Alaskas 10 year anniversary. At some point during this visit, someone had an idea of recording music, which led to a random group of people playing in a small basement room. The album was Recorded at Katajanokan Pommisuoja, Helsinki, by Asko Kananen on March 30, 2009 and edited by él-g and mixed by Mim in Brussels. Lö Jengi is Reines DAngleterre, Islaja, Amon Düde and The Hoopo. On clear vinyl." - Fonal. |
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Artist: LOBDELL, STEVEN WRAY Title: Live At Club Donut Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "STEVEN WRAY LOBDELLs (DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD) second full-length solo album for Holy Mountain was recorded live in December in a small Portland, Oregon donut shop (actually on a loft above the toilet), and unleashes some of Lobdells most over-the-top torrents of Echoplexed guitar frenzy. Elliptical, psychedelic rhythms merge with his trademark fat guitar signal to produce intense leads that demand comparison to an ocean on fire or planet-sized sunspots. John McLaughlin meets Wolf Eyes. Amazing stuff." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: LOCELLE MARE Title: Serpentement Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "The solitary project of Thomas Bonvalet initially focused on the nylon string guitar, taking short, dynamic and abrupt forms and limiting itself exclusively to the acoustic possibilities of the instrument. A radical posture, it constantly threatened to put itself at an impasse, seeing itself forced into metamorphosis and movement. The instrument thus became less and less identifiable. At the periphery it absorbed the sound of objects (metronome, tuning forks...) deviating from their common usage, integrating the breath and the sounds rising from the instrumental gesture, splitting up to reveal a new fleeting form. Amplification has also progressively taken an essential part in this new instrumentarium/organism. However, there remains this same subterranean voice, the consideration of detail and tension, the seeking of possible points of sudden revelation. “Serpentement” is the fourth recording of "locelle mare" and was recorded by Adrian Riffo, in the Protestant temple of Bergerac (France), in november 2011. Instruments: mechanical metronome with bell, harmonica reeds, six string banjo, amps, microphones, feet tapping, hand clapping, six string ukulele, tuning forks, timer, mouth organ, Harmonicas, concertina, dry poppy pods ,whistlings,... Thomas Bonvalet, (born October, 1977) lives in Alpedrete, Spain. Guitar player of the band "Cheval de frise" between 1998 and 2004, he made is first solo show under the name of l’ocelle mare in September 2005. He toured Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, USA and China." - Bimbo Tower. |
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Artist: LOCH NESS MONSTER Title: Mosaic 44 Format: LP Label: Hamster Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
 Somehow we still have copies of this LP from the stash of Alan Jenkins, main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, Cordelia Records, etc. "Steven Elsey met Martin Howells while at art college in 1983. They started writing and recording their brand of early industrial pop together in that year and produced two vinyl releases on Hamster Records as The Loch Ness Monster – Indusrial Poppies (1985) and Mosaic 44 (1988). These releases saw them both take on aliases – Steven Plesiosaur and Nils Phlamethrower. After the 1988 release they recorded one off tracks for compilations then had a 20 year rest." - Four Fins.
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Artist: LOCKWOOD, ANNEA Title: Early Works 1967-82 Format: CD Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "EMs original selection of her early works which had once featured on Source: Music of the Avant Garde, you know its a now-legendary magazine for new & experimental music in 1967-1973. (SOURCE featuring artists were ALL important new music creators incl. Cage, Tudor, Ichiyanagi, Rosenboom, MEV, Chopin, EMS studio, Riley, Neuhaus & more & more!) . This CD incl. the album Glass World (originally issued on Tangent Records in England, 1970), and trippy ritual shamanic tape piece Tiger Balm (1970). Also her most notable works, series performances Piano Transplants (1967-82) is now re-realized on one single special booklet, containing Piano Burning, Piano Garden etc. Annea Lockwood was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1939 and lived in London and Cologne from 1961-1972, studying at the Royal College of Music and the Musikhochschule, Köln, and freelancing as a composer-performer. Since 1973, she has lived in Peekskill, New York, and taught on the faculty of Music at Vassar College, New York from 1982-2001. Her music has been presented in North America, Britain, France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Italy, Belgium, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand." - EM. |
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Artist: LOCKWOOD, RICHARD Title: In the Doorway of the Dawn: The Chronicle of a Song, Vol. 1&2, 1972-2012 Format: Double CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Across two discs, In the Doorway of the Dawn presents almost 40 years of previously-unheard songwriting from Richard Lockwood, renowned as the driving force behind early 70s Sydney folk-psych icons Tully, and for his work with the similarly revered Extradition. In the process of working with Richard on the reissue of Tullys landmark recordings Chapter discovered that the very private songwriter had never stopped recording after the end of his much-loved band -- only that he had lost interest in making his beautiful, transcendental music available to others. It took some persuading for Richard to agree to a solo compilation, but In the Doorway of the Dawn justifies the effort beyond measure. Mostly recorded to cassette four-track, and played impeccably on every imaginable instrument by Richard himself, In the Doorway of the Dawn reveals a singular songwriter with an unswerving focus. Of the 33 songs presented here, virtually all are written in tribute to spiritual master Meher Baba, whom Richard discovered in the late 60s and whose influence wholly transfigured the remainder of his life. Suffused in equal parts with serenity and yearning, Richards songs have a grace that is almost unequalled. Of special note are the settings Richard recorded of works by Australian poet Francis Brabazon, named "the poet of the age" by Meher Baba. Over the course of decades, Richard interpreted many Brabazon poems, of which five are presented here. The span of these recordings begins with live solo performances in 1972 (just after Tully had disbanded and Richard had joined fellow adventurers Tamam Shud) and continues right up until late last decade, with home recordings made by Richard in Melbourne. For 40 years, Richard wrote songs that could have been classics. But he was content merely to write them, sing them, sometimes record them, offer them to his Beloved Meher and then put them away in a box of cassettes in his cupboard. Complete with extensive liner notes, lyrics and photos, In the Doorway of the Dawn is a revelation, the lifes work of a rare talent, even rarer for his lack of concern with public recognition." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: LOCUST Title: Youll Be Safe Forever Format: LP Label: Editions Mego Country: Austria Price: $21.00 |
| "Youll Be Safe Forever marks the first release from Locust in 12 years. Mark Van Hoen, who made a string of influential releases as Locust on R&S records in the 1990s, all but retired the alias at the end of that decade. In May 2012, Van Hoen was invited to perform a live set on WFMU radio. In order to make the set more spontaneous and add a further dimension, he asked friend and fellow musician Louis Sherman to collaborate. While improvising new material in Shermans Brooklyn rehearsal studio, it swiftly became obvious that the material sounded like Locust. Inspired by joint explorations with found sound sources and ambient textures, and sharing a pan-dimensional immersion in the length and breadth of analog and digital recording, the duo performed a series of tracks live. This material, combined with previously-recorded tape tracks dating back to 2006 form the bulk of the album. The melancholic depths of electronic music explored in those improvisations, expanded further through subsequent sessions at Van Hoens Woodstock, NY studio, have resulted in this latest entry in Locusts impressive discography. The record showcases prime examples of Van Hoens compulsively hypnotic beats and abstracted pop vocals -- already hallmarks of his collected work since 1993 -- manipulating a global variety of samples in Celemonys Melodyne software to weave a unique sonic tapestry, as inviting as it is intricate. Paired with Shermans evocative synth improvisations -- an immediately visceral element new to Locust -- these collaborators have crafted a shattered landscape that bridges two perspectives of progressive movement in electronic music under a single name. Sherman, an American from Baltimore, comes to the band armed with a vast knowledge of the history of electronic music. This, combined with Londoner Mark Van Hoens known musical pedigree, maps the complete topography of a landscape -- its shadow and light, depth and height, mesmerizing complexity and ethereal simplicity -- with a break-beating heart and alchemical ear." -Editions Mego. |
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Artist: LOG STORE Title: Baring Head Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Secret Safari Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: LONG DISTANCE POISON Title: Gamma Graves Format: Cass Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Hand-numbered limited edition of 100 copies. "Long Distance Poison present an irresistible concoction of convergent psychedelic and analog electronic energies, everything from a love of nature, and Rothko-like visual aesthetics, to musical influences like Sky Records, John Carpenter soundtracks, minimalism, and a less-hyper Mother Mallard or post-Phaedra Tangerine Dream. Theyve released some excellent tapes, on Life Like, Cryptic Carousel, and Digitalis Limited, releases that capitalize on the bands strength in long-form electronic composition with a wealth of improvisational wiggle-room. Theres a ground concept for each section of each piece, but that merely serves as a taking-off point for LDPs pulsating extrapolations, typically about 30 minutes in length total, or longer. Theyve been wowing local Brooklyn audiences for some time now, and part of the fun of their shows is the opportunity to experience the band finding their way in the moment, watching the clay of their ideas take on form and urgency as they go." -Wm. Berger, host of "My Castle of Quiet" on WFMU |
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Artist: LONG, BRAD Title: Love Me Again/Come To Me Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "In and out of unrecorded regional combos since the late 1960s, Logansport, Indiana music store owner Brad Long issued this, his lone single, on his own Music Stand label in the summer of 1977. Featuring a warm, lo-fi basement pop sound with stylistic roots firmly grounded in the mid 60s, both Come to Me and Love me Again evoke a hazy mood reminiscent of early Twilley. Also included with the release were a series of press releases, a section of which listed Longs heroes as Roger McGuinn, Paul Revere and the Raiders and Joe Meek." -Sing Sing. |
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Artist: LOOPOOL Title: Parthenogen Format: CDR Label: Audiobot Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
| "Two lengthy pieces of music that are hard to pin down. They use electronics, guitars, sound effects, synthesizers, all mentioned here with a big perhaps, because its not known. The music is loosely improvised, but the name of the band hints towards some sense of looping sounds. Loopool loops their sounds through delay pedals. An endless stream of sound without any hierarchy or structure." 2006 release. |
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Artist: LOOSERS Title: Logic On Its Head Format: 10" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Portugals greatest export (besides cork and textiles) continues its dusky, creeping bleed of six-limbed psychedelic windmilling. Loosers have always excelled at ripping strange spatial curvatures out of drums, electronics, and exotic moods, and Logic On Its Head serves up two more classic black platters of sidelight ritualism. The A drapes incense and chimes atop an old copper bowl of ringing tones and tentacle percussion fusion that slow-burns a sweet smoke you never wanna exhale. Dont. The B, Daeh Sti No Cigol, is even more perverse, as backwards as its title and dusty as a mosque. Sudden gestures flutter in the dusk and the sky turns purple. Really commanding and liberated in a way few improv outfits achieve so easily. Impending double LPs on Eclipse and Qbico should only escalate their visionary aura."- Britt/NNF. Two-color silkscreening on fabric-photocopied, hand-stamped sleeves. Black vinyl. Edition of 340. Split with Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LOOSERS Title: Love Has Come Around Format: One-sided LP Label: Troglosound Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
| "This new record of the restless Loosers present the band in a surprising and mind-blowing rock shape. Three long trippy songs spacing from the hypnotic guitars and supergroovy bass and drum riffs of Love has come around, to the mysterious mediterranean atmospheres of The Moment, passing through the almost psychedelic beat sound of Dont let go... Travelling the ways of love. black vinyl, handmade collage ltd edition of 180 numbered copies" -Troglosound |
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Artist: LOOSERS Title: Natives Are Restless Format: Double LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $42.00 |
| "Recorded in 2005/2006 in Portugal and Europe... and they like to dance to the sound of tribal music!" -Qbico |
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Artist: LOOSERS Title: Otha Goat Head Format: Double CDR Label: Ruby Red Country: Portugal Price: $18.00 |
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Artist: LOOSERS/OWL XOUNDS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $9.00 |
| "Loosers from Portugal continues with their psychedelic free noise jams after releases on labels such as Qbico, Ruby Red, Meudiademorte and Woodsist. A quiet and subtle guitar-driven piece, feels like a slooow and hot Sunday afternoon. The flipside has more crude and dirty out there jazz madness from Brooklyns Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy, featuring Adam from Holy Mountains La Otracina. 420 copies, all on black vinyl." - Release The Bats |
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Artist: LOPEZ & ZAN HOFFMAN, FRANCISCO Title: Concert For 300 Magnetic Tapes Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette release limited to 300 copies only. Created from live performances in Spain (Madrid, Alcalá de Henares and Gijón) in 1994, using 300 tapes received from around 200 different artists from the international home-music cassette network. Remixed and mastered at Messor Studios, Antonio García Studios (Madrid) and Zidslick Studios (Louisville, KY) in 1994. Re-edited, re-mixed and re-mastered by Francisco López at Mobile Messor (Paraguay) in 2010. After years of exchanging self-released music on cassette and collaborating via post, Francisco López and Zan Hoffman embarked in 1994 on a somehow surreal small tour of live performances in Spain. By mixing their own sonic materials and recorded stuff on cassette received directly from hundreds of underground artists worldwide, they carried out live recombination shows with eight cassette decks and a shared mixing board. A synthetic/distilled edit of the most interesting moments arising from those live composition sessions is now released on this cassette by The Tapeworm." -The Tapeworm |
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Artist: LOPEZ, FRANCISCO Title: Absolute Noise Ensemble Format: Double CD Label: Blossoming Noise Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "francisco lópezs absolute noise ensemble 2CD set featuring: alain wergifosse, albert mestre, antón ignorant, carlos medina, césar góngora, christian dergarabedian, daniel menche, ferrán fages, francisco lópez, games addiction, ilios, io casino, joe colley, jorge haro, koji asano, masami akita, mego laptop orchestra, michael gendreau, michael northam, oren ambarchi, philippe faujas, roc jiménez, ruben garcía, russell haswell, shunichiro okada, víctor nubla, zbigniew karkowski, zipperspy, alan courtis, amy denio, antonio garcía, audiopeste, bernhard günter, don campau, elliot sharp, eric muhs, frank koustrup, geoff dugan, gonçalo falcâo, john hegre, john hudak, john wiggins, jon tulchin, jorge mancini, jørgen teller, lasse marhaug, ludovic poulet, mason jones, mike honeycutt, minuit, oren ambarchi, ralf wehovsky, reznicek, scott konzelmann, stephen fenton, steve peters, tetsuo furudate, wojciek. Deluxe gatefold packaging." - Blossoming Noise. |
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Artist: LOPEZ, FRANCISCO Title: Untitled Format: CD Label: Anoema Country: Finland Price: $14.50 |
| "On the new Untitled (2005) CD the Spanish composer Francisco López presents four recently composed pieces which span a broad dynamic as well as stylistic range. Together these constitute a fascinating and intense research exploration into the deep essence of sound. From sizzling jungle atmospheres to rumbling subterranean drones and microscopic details, this is a Francisco López tour de force. In addition to three pieces based on environmental recordings, Untitled (2005) features also an instrumental composition Untitled #111 (For Jani Christou) performed by the noted German Zeitkratzer ensemble. Unsuprisingly, either way the sound is 100% Francisco López. On this release Mr. López might be unsually forthcoming about the sound sources he uses (as specified on the sleeve) but the dedication for the creation of absolute music remains the same." - Anoema. |
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Artist: LOPEZ, FRANCISCO Title: Untitled Single Piece 5 Format: 7" Label: 90% Wasser Country: GERMANY Price: $6.50 |
| "Number 5 in this ongoing series & F.L⿿pez walks the untitled single path consistent. All the sonic power & intensity that Francisco L⿿pez is wellknown for, compressed into 2 short & intense pieces of sound, Limited edition of 500 copies." - 90% Wasser. |
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Artist: LORCHESTRE NATIONAL A DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU MALI Title: LOrchestre National A de la Republique du Mali Format: LP Label: Mississippi Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The National A Orchestra was founded by the new government at Malis independence. They later divided into A and B formations. The A Orchestra was led by Keletigui Diabate, a multi-instrumental virtuoso. An album of incredible Malian music reissued for the first time since the 1970s. Eight tracks with beautiful vocals and guitar work. This is the second in a series of six Mali music LPs we will be reissuing from Sterns." - Mississippi. |
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Artist: LORD FOUL Title: Killing Raping Burning/The Devils Advocate Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "This an absolute time capsule of blasphemous American Black Metal, a collection of the only material (two demo cassettes) ever recorded by Louisville, Kentuckys LORD FOUL between 1993 and 1994, whos only member "ROACH" played and recorded every instrument. A hateful document from the early metal underground! This vinyl is a single-sided etched art edition, with beautiful artwork by BRYAN BURK of Dark Horse Tattoo carved into the B-side. ..comes in a thick cardstock matte finish sleeve with new foil embossed artwork (Also by Burk.)" - Dais. |
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Artist: LORDS OF FALCONRY Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "LORDS OF FALCONRY are a rock group with a spectacular psychedelic edge. Songs blast green, inferno-like hard rock, funneling clouds and stripping away sludge, turning it into the waltz-like sound of mastodons stomping across the tundra. Classic heavy psych is alive in tracks that interweave soft voices and loud guitars that continuously pummel and enchant at every turn like a seven-headed cobra. C.S. Lewis had better watch his step! If psychedelia is quixotically naive, then LORDS OF FALCONRY is its 21st-century doppelganger or spectral double wise to the ways of the fallen world. In an era of organized play dates and close parental supervision, there are already enough people ready to cooperate. LORDS OF FALCONRY offers what is missing-real rock music. Formed in a quest to find the lost note, LORDS OF FALCONRY examines the intersection of a mystical crossroads between the fourth dimension and their own 3-D universe. Since both members are a bit insolent and rather unrealistic about much of reality, the fact that LORDS OF FALCONRY even exists is remarkable in and of itself. LP includes a free download." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: LORENZ LORENZ Title: Er Begann Sein Steak Zu Essen + Drei Minuten Ei Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $34.00 |
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Complete reissue of the 1981 cass, originally on Du Bist So Gut Zu Mir, plus "Drei Minuten Ei" (Three Minute Egg). 100 copies, silkscreen cover. Featured on the first "Kassettentater - Deutscher-Kassetten-Untergrund 1979-1983" LP from 2002.
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Artist: LORSSON Title: Pariskunta vietti... Format: 3"CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
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"mind-blistering beatings and primitive howl (musically and vocally) in short sharp bursts from this demented 80s band" - Boa Melody Bar.
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Artist: LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY Title: Blorp Esette Format: 4 CD Label: Transparency Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| 2011 remastered edition. Remastered in June of 2011 by Ju Suk Reet Meate. Perhaps the only logical follow up to the historic LAFMS: The Lowest Form Of Music 10CD box on RRR, is this 4CD compilation based around the 2 LP volumes of Blorp Esette which Ace Farren Ford released under the LAFMS umbrella in 1978 (Vol. 1) and 1980 (Vol. 2, a double LP set). Both of the LPs featured cover & label art by Don Van Vliet which as been reproduced on this CD reissue. Capt. Beefheart cover art was quite a coup for the times and these LPs have long been some of the most desirable LAFMS artifacts (but basically never available to anyone outside of the LA underground at the time of their release). The four CDs are packaged with a 32 page booklet of artwork and notes, and include nearly 3 hours of previously unreleased tracks! The LAFMS bridged the gap. Features performances by: Smegma, Le Forte Four, The Reverend Toad-Eater, Electric Willy Trio, the Di-Dee Dos, Ace Farren Ford, Rick Potts, Doo Dooettes, Henry Kaiser, Dennis Duck, Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Ace & Duce, Child Molesters, Jerry Bishop, Nopar King, The South Pasadena Free Music Ensemble, Gage Kenady, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Reverend Marty Nation, many more. "In January of 1976 the non-musician comedy team of Ace & Duce officially joined ranks with the newly formed Los Angeles Free Music Society for the legendary Spaghetti Works show in what was then truly old towne Pasadena with fellow stalwarts Le Forte Four and the Doo-Dooettes. When we had begun our forays into free music we had figured to be lone venturers without peers, yet at this point we found ourselves in a sort of like-minded union. Enthusiasm reined supreme, who soon led us to the question of doing an album. For reasons that seem to escape me now, we decided to do a various artists compilation. Response was plentiful, so much so that before it was done plans were underway for a volume 2., which grew to become 2 records. It was a lot of fun. It was also a nightmare. Technology had not yet reached us, and suddenly we had many reels of tape and cassettes, all of varying quality or lack thereof, many with little or no information as to what exactly was on them. We were, in fact, forced to master volume 2 in mono due to varying levels and other technical hardships. Now due to the vision & lack of good sense on the part of Mr. Sheppard, we present the Blorp Esette experience, including volume 2 in stereo as originally intended, and many of the tracks that could not have been included in the original volumes due to time constraints and other maladies, with many new surprises." - Ace Farren Ford. |
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Artist: LOS DUG DUGS Title: Smog Format: LP Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "The second album (1972) from psychedelic guru Armando Nava and his band is in Spanish this time, as all other Mexican bands were by now singing in English. The recording sessions were tumultuous: after the band -- now stripped down to a power trio -- had recorded just three songs, Nava stormed out of the sessions and locked himself in his house for fifteen days. Everyone on the outside worried about his safety, but Armando was fine: he kept himself busy reconfiguring the entire album, including penning the punishing riffs that form the central motif of the mesmerizing twelve-minute medley that explodes over the albums entire first side. So again, as with the genesis of the Dug Dugs debut album (also available from Lion Productions), the end result of all the tumult surrounding the band was a great album. Theres no doubt that the Dug Dugs toughened up their sound on Smog: to some people they sound like a crazy Mexican version of Jethro Tull, and to others like a Spanish speaking incarnation of MC5. No matter how you look at it, this is tremendous progressive-influenced hard rock, with a new chunky sound. It is clearly among a small group of elite recordings from the psychedelic age; it is also possibly the best Mexican hard rock album of all time." -Lion Productions. |
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Artist: LOS INICIADOS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Los Iniciados was the sister project of cult synth punk band El Aviador Dro from Madrid, Spain. They formed in 1981 as a performance art group to combine music and theatre, and to initiate a break from the traditional band line-up. They had ever changing members whose identities were concealed by masks and costume during the live show. These 4 tracks are selects from their original cassettes, most of which have been previously released but are long out of print." - Minimal Wave.
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Artist: LOS JAIVAS Title: El Volantin Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $43.00 |
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"This first ever album by Chilean band Los Jaivas had no name but it always was called El Volantin . It was only release in Chile in a small limited run for a real private label. Thats why someone could call it the rarest album from Chile, way rarer than Aguarturbia, Kissing Spell and Embrujo. Perhaps not as much sought after but rare as gold-dust. The music is real trippy and you can compare it close with the Lula Cortez Paêbirú album. Long passages of trippy sounds waving into fuzz guitar songs. There is a more acoustic side of the album and the second side is all electric. Really amazing music for everybody into acid trips into the wild South American wilderness. I am sure that this album was banned after 1973 when the Chilean government became nasty to musician from another planet." - Shadoks. Great record!
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Artist: LOS LLAMARADA Title: Against The Day Format: 7" Label: Avant Country: Italy Price: $8.00 |
| "This Mexican band released one LP and one 7" on S-S records. Now we have this new three-song ep: 500 black wax copies, full color glued sleeve." -Avant |
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Artist: LOS LLAMARADA Title: Gone Gone Cold Format: LP Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Gone Gone Cold marks Los Llamaradas third and final album. Since their first album on S.S., The Exploding Now!, Llamarada has made some of the most striking psychedelic punk of the last decade. In the spirit of Red Crayola and 13th Floor Elevators, Llamarada approach to psych is devoid of rules, trends, or convention. Like Mars, they feel their way through sound, finding songs in the playing. However, while The Exploding Now! and their second album, Take the Sky, reflect the bands (then) excitement with their future and possibility, Gone Gone Cold looks at present day Mexico and its never-ending drug war. On Gone Gone Cold, fans of Los Llamarada will hear their oft-noted claustrophobic sound, but the songs a less settled than before. Confusion trumps structure, until a riff or pulse builds in intensity and the song enters into panic. Or a song starts at a panicked pace and unravels into a single phrase. There still is the subverted surf-guitar and male/female chant/vocals, but the drums are stronger and keyboards more insistent -- sounds desperate for a way out." S-S |
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Artist: LOS LLAMARADA Title: Restless Light Format: 7" Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Its been a couple years and some since the world has heard from LOS LLAMARADA. Aside from some emails back and forth describing the deterioration of Llamaradas hometown, Monterrey, under siege in the Drug War, I hadnt heard from out friends down south. Then in Fall 2010 I received nine cassette tapes full of Llamarada recordings, pretty much most of the stuff theyd been working on over the last two years. I spent the next few days going through them, quickly realizing that there was more material than an album could handle. So Llamarada and I plucked out a couple of killers for a 7" (and started working on the other cuts for a full length later in 2011). To start, Llamarada gives us their jump on Rezo Por Voz, a classic by Argentinian rock legends Luis Alberto Spinetta and Charly Garcia. In the Llamarada way, what you hear of Rezo Por Voz in The Restless Light are hints and dustings of the original. This is no straight cover, but a psych punk romp of claustrophobic proportions. Flip the single over and we have A Current, an original taut and moody, a guitar drones spaghetti western style over a tense plain. Drop this into the opening scene in El Topo and I wouldnt complain. Cover art by HERLA ALARCON. 500 pressed."-S.S. |
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Artist: LOS LLAMARADA Title: Take The Sky Format: LP Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"New album on S-S from Los Llamarada entitled Take The Sky. Originally slated for an earlier 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 (dont worry, it still has an eerie lo-fi sound), it has been replaced by sharp psych stun guitar which will make your jaw drop." -S-S
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Artist: LOS NATAS Title: Toba Trance Vol I/II Format: Double LP Label: Nasoni Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
| "Exclusive vinyl pairing of the outstanding 2002/ 03 psychedelic albums by this Argentinian stoner trio." - Nasoni. |
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Artist: LOS OVNIS Title: Hippies Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
| Numbered edition of 500; heavy sleeve; 180 gram pressing; includes two double-sided inserts and one poster. "When we are talking about really rare and great albums from Mexico, such as El Tarro de Mostaza, Kaleidoscope etc. Los Ovnis Hippies is perhaps the second rarest one right after Kaleidoscope. The band already made four LPs with cover songs for the same label. The 1968 Summer of Love and the political protest of the young rebel culture created the desire to produce a stronger album with own songs, heavier garage sounds and counter-culture lyrics. This album became something the Mexican society in 1968 was not ready for. It was too idealistic and too psychedelic to become popular and the original label released it with no promotion at all. Thats why this album became so good and so rare. Los Ovins are five musicians from Mexico City . Strong garage songs, great Spanish vocals, amazing guitars, organ and rough sounds. Like a musical punch right in the face of the Mexican middle-class society. No more nice guys." - Shadoks. |
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Artist: LOS PINOCHET BOYS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Hueso Country: Chile/USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Hueso Records presents its latest vinyl release, an icon of the 1980s Santiago punk scene, never-before published by any music label: Los Pinochet Boys. The record contains the only two studio-recorded songs from 1984:"Botellas contra el pavimento" and "Musica del General", which remained shelved for 28 years on the original tapes of the band members. Now Hueso Records is releasing them to the public for the first time on a 7-inch vinyl, especially mastered and printed in the Czech Republic and in the United States. Jorge Gonzalez of the legendary Los Prisoneros, an important witness of the events, writes: "So the sound of the "Pinochet" was the cross between two non-musicians and two virtuosos with a deep knowledge of tradition. They sounded like nothing else around, they came from nowhere and were not aiming for any kind of success. And yet the two songs that they recorded in the studio are brilliant today, especially when contrasted to the pale efforts of their contemporaries Botellas contra el pavimento, sung by Dani, should have been played over and over on the radio, should have been a classic, should have existed to be shared.The B side, Musica del General, although more traditional, shines as one the greatest examples of Santiago Hardcore, with all their voices galloping through the streets." - Hueso. |
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Artist: LOS ROCKETS Title: S/T Format: 10" Label: Electro Harmonix Country: Spain Price: $20.00 |
| "A rare psychedelic gem from Nicaraguas Los Rockets, including their 1968 debut LP with covers of Cream, Peter, Paul & Mary, Duke Ellington and Los Brincos, plus some terrific cumbia beat instrumentals which were hugely successful when they were released. Los Rockets were one of the first and most relevant bands in Nicaragua during the 60s and early 70s, regular performers at legendary venue La Tortuga Morada and owners of their own famous club, The Happening. Reissued on vinyl for the first time." -Electro Harmonix. |
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Artist: LOS SAICOS Title: Demolicion Format: 7" Label: DisPeru Country: Peru Price: $15.00 |
| "As the sticker on this hand-numbered, limited to 500 copy exact replica of the mega-rare original single edition says: "SO DAMN FIERCE THUS WAS PUNK BACK IN 1965."Red vinyl. Great extra poster included! Saicos released all but one single through the small DisPeru label, thereby unleashing "Saicomania" and leading the way for dozens of bands throughout Peru. They became legends, and many myths were created due to their short existence and mysterious disappearance. Their anthem Demolición was one of the biggest radio hits of the year in Peru—and simply put, it is one of the most insane 60s punk songs of all time. Raw, snotty, and raucous." -DisPeru. |
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Artist: LOS VIOLADORES Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Beat Generation Country: Spain Price: $21.00 |
 "Los Violadores ("The Rapists") were formed after Los Testiculos, a seminal band from the Argentinean punk scene, stopped playing. Stuka on bass and voice, Harry B on guitar, and Sergio Gramatica: this was the bands first line-up. They started playing live in 1980 at small and selected clubs. People quickly paid attention to these rude boys, who played a chaotic brand of rock n roll. Due to the dictatorship in Argentina, police often showed up to cancel shows. Censorship enforced by the dictatorship forced them to use the name Los Voladores ("The Rockets") at some of their first gigs. They had two major enemies: the military regime and the hippies. Yes, the hippies. Los Violadores were always in a fight with the usual old legends from the 70s, such as Seru Giran, Leon Gieco, and Spinetta Jade. In 1983 they recorded their first LP, one of the hardest, loudest, and dirtiest album ever recorded in Argentina. In this recording the band had their classic line-up: Pil Trafa on vocals, Stuka playing guitar, Robert "Polaco" Zelazeck on bass, and Sergio Gramatica on drums. Titles such as "Mirando la Guerra por TV," "Guerra total," "Mujeres Vengan a Mí," and "Viejos Pateticos" (a song covered by the American band Los Crudos) were aimed like spit at the face of the military regime, the cops, and society generally. After lots of horrible bootlegs, Beat Generation is proud to announce the first ever official re-release of this classic album, with the original artwork and inserts. Absolutely a must have for everyone into South American and global punk. Limited to 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl. Comes with the original cover and lyrics insert." - Beat Generation.
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Artist: LOSE, BRUCE Title: Whats Your Name/Waking To Sleep Format: 7" Label: Subterranean Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Very weird 1983 solo single from Bruce Lose of Flipper. First song has drum machine, echo/vibrato guitar, distorted bass, phase shifting/distorted guitar, rambling, abstract lyrics, and a Flipper-like slow beat with repetitive bass pattern. Other song has drum machine, tapes, bass notes from some instrument, even weirder lyrics...sounds a lot like early Royal Trux, actually. (Hey, could Hagerty, a professed Flipper fan, have possibly COPPED HIS SOUND FROM THIS?)" - Tim Ellison/Modern Rock Mag. Original copies of this 1983 single of homemade rhythm box electronics by Flippers Bruce Lose. Some have compared this to primitive new wave recluse John Bender, which isnt too far off. Restocked yet again. |
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Artist: LOST AARAAFF Title: s/t Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Hainos first band, recorded 1971; piano, percussion and vocals, from his "influenced by Albert Ayler" period. Amazingly out performance." - FE. |
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Artist: LOST ANCHOR Title: A Process Group Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "New mysterious lurk un drag sound collage group, already with a couple of compilation tracks milling about. Klanging electronic strangeness, completely lost anchor jam style. Music for a soundtrack of a void First Responder. Opposition WITH flow..Full color art in new mega color assault cardboard sleeve style." -American Tapes |
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Artist: LOST DOMAIN Title: An Unnatural Act Format: LP Label: Negative Guest List Country: Australia Price: $22.00 |
| "Brisbanes improviser extraordinaires, THE LOST DOMAIN, have been launching sonic missives into the stratosphere for over 20 years now. "An Unnatural Act. What you do.... You take what you have....a resonator guitar, a mandolin, 3 fuzz boxes, a 5 watt valve amplifier, a 44 gallon drum, some old records....and you acquire a 3-in-1 home stereo with dual tape decks with record and overdub functions....and you tap into what youve been listening to, what youve been living your whole life, a stream running free through pre-war blues, songsters and saints....and you feel it when youre sober even, and you do it when youre fall down drunk....and somehow, over a couple of tumbledown, turnaround months in 1990 you commit An Unnatural Act. And it contains both kind of breakdowns, it has stolen voices, a cover (sort of), a love song, a piece by Samuel Beckett, sensitive feedback, a back beat, insensitive jokes, the sound of losing it, a tribute, a debt being paid in part, a groove found, an entirety." Edition of 500 copies." -Negative Guest List. |
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Artist: LOST DOMAIN Title: Blondes Chew More Gum Format: Double LP Label: Negative Guest List Country: Australia Price: $27.00 |
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"Originally recorded in 1995 and seeing vinyl here for the first time-as it were always intended-Blondes... is arguably the LOST DOMAINs first masterpiece and surely represents the groups creative zenith. The record might appeal to fans of Jandek or the People With Chairs Up their Noses, not specifically in sound, but in the skewered approach and unhinged intent. Three drummers forge a tribal, free landscape, grounded by SIMON ELLABYs (aka RAGTIME FRANK) vocals and the virtuous guitar work of PAPA LORD GOD & spiritual group leader DAVE MACKINNON. What results is one of the finest rocknroll records ever cut in Brisbane, Australia." -Negative Guest List
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Artist: LOST DOMAIN, THE Title: Drunken Sailor Format: 7" Label: Negative Guest List Country: Australia Price: $10.00 |
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"A companion piece to the recent reissue of Blondes Chew More Gum, these recordings are from 1999 and welcome Jeffrey "the Professor" Wegner into the
Empire. A burly, skronky take on traditional "What Would You do With a Drunken Sailor" and an immortal piece of clatter/shimmer entitled "Pool"." -Negative Guest List
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Artist: LOST TRIBE Title: Lost Tribe Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Blind Prophet Records is very proud to present the debut album from Richmond, VAs Lost Tribe. Lost Tribe play apocalyptic post-peacepunk darkwave but with with a solid d-beat & crust backbone that makes this a record both for punks and dark music freaks alike. The atmosphere is comparable to that of The Mob, New Model Army, or The Chameleons but with the power of Discharge or Amebixs rhythm section. It goes without saying that their live show is not to be missed, and you can expect a healthy dose of smoke machines, sweat, studs, and leather. Features members of Aghast, Empty Grave, Syndrome, and Caves Caverns. Comes in a deluxe foil embossed gatefold jacket with a printed inner sleeve (with lyrics!) and pressed on 150-gram vinyl. Limited to 500 copies." - Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: LOTUS EATERS Title: Wurmwulv Format: Double LP Label: Taiga Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "Lotus Eaters is Stephen OMalley (Sunn O))), KTL, etc.), James Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher, etc.) and Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, etc.). Previously issued on CD, Plotkin has remixed, remastered and rearranged Wurmwulv for this vinyl edition using alternate takes from the original recording sessions. The 2LP also includes reworked material from Lotus Eaters self-titled 7" released by Drone Records. 52 minutes and 29 seconds on 3 sides of direct metal mastered 200 gram virgin vinyl, the 2LP has a drawing by Turner etched on side D. Housed in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket designed by OMalley, Wurmwulv features Stephen Kasner paintings printed on linen-textured woven paper, a spot varnished interior and flooded pockets. The Kasner paintings and Turner drawings included were created specifically for this vinyl edition of 1,000. Reconfigured for vinyl, Wurmwulv is a solvent-soaked carpet ride into loose soil. Worms writhe over cilia as moist roots lick and graze skin. The dampened howls of wolves reverberate through water freezing into creaking crystals. When oxygen levels reach a critical low, a cacophony of clanging metal provides an inhalation of humid air." -Taiga |
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Artist: LOTUS GROUP Title: The Lotus Group Format: CDR Label: Om ha sva ha ksha a la va ra yam Country: Finland Price: $10.00 |
| "European hippies jamming their minds to the walls in hotel room, in the holy city of Pushkar early 2007, using violin, frame drum, maracas, mouth organ, flute and sounds from the throat and lungs. Noisy rattle racket free imrov." - Om ha sva ha ksha a la va ra yam. |
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Artist: LOU CHAMPAGNE SYSTEM Title: No Visible Means Format: LP Label: Medical Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Originally self-released in 1984 on Pterodactyl Records, No Visible Means is the work of Canadas own LOU CHAMPAGNE. Lou Champagne was active the Ontario music scene and also performed with other local musicians from that region as well. The "Lou Champagne System" was the real-time guitar synth solo act of Lou Champagne. Due to his knowledge of electronics, he was able to link his guitar, synth, and synthetic drums into a working one-man solo act that was playable with floor switches and pedals. The overall effect was the sound of a full band. No Visible Means was recorded in 1981-1982 and mixed in 1983. It consists of 9 works of unrelenting sonic bliss. The music can be described as synth-heavy, textural punk with a very diverse palette of styles drizzled in for a truly unique listening experience. "Dont Say Im Here" opens the album with a bang showcasing Lous angular guitar effects and emotionally powered vocals. "Propaganda Frustration" is a thick, modulated affair with overtones of minimal disco and motorik motifs that commands attention on the dark dancefloor. "Machine Muzik" is a standout track with effects-laden jagged guitar hooks drenched in a haze of electronics. From beginning to end, No Visible Means is a synth-punk masterpiece and will surely appeal to connoisseurs of the darker, synth-based outer limits of post-punk and jagged guitar-heavy new wave. Available in the past only in limited quantities from Mr. Champagne himself, No Visible Means has been long out of print. Medical Records is proud to reissue this LP with original reproduction artwork. Original 1/4" analog tapes were restored, transferred, and remastered by GEORGE HORN at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. This reissue is officially licensed from Lou Champagne. LP also includes original "nuclear circuit map" as an additional insert (with lyrics on flipside of insert). Presented on high quality 180-gram white vinyl in a limited edition of 1,000 hand-numbered copies." -Medical. |
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Artist: LOVE CHANTS Title: Skirts of Rain Format: LP Label: Quemada Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "..debut 12"EP from Anthony Guerras new band Love Chants. Anthony runs the Black Petal label and is back in Australia after some time in Japan. Anyway, hes joined up with Michael Zulicki (Mad Nanna, Alberts Basement) and Matt Earle (XnobbqX, Breakdance the Dawn) for Love Chants. Really pretty stuff. And each one has a genuine one of a kind painting from Mr. Guerra affixed to the jacket." - Quemada. |
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Artist: LOVE CRY WANT Title: s/t Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "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, Youngs own Lawrence Of Newark, Sun Ras 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. Heres 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 its 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. - Weird Forest. 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. Package design by Aaron Winters. Limited to 500 copies with deluxe Stoughton tip-on style gatefold jacktets. |
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Artist: LOVE IS SO FAST, THE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Exact details on the origins of The Love Is So Fast are vague; essentially, it was a project created by Danyhell and Estrella (currently in Los Llamarada) intended to flesh out bedroom improvisations and act as an inner search for a sense of skeletal (pop) structure amid the morass of postmodern rock effluvium. Performed live and recorded in one take, the five hazy, languorous tracks certainly charge the ions with positive, crystalline zip, creating an electron hole that sounds like alien transmissions from a long-ago Mars. Not the band, friend, the planet! Fans of the debut LP by Los Llamarada (S-S Records) will be downright giddy with the Precambrian narco-menace that comes carbonating off The Love Is So Fasts archival recordings. Or, as the band says themselves: "This is the music we dreamed of but couldnt play." Grab the peyote, I think Im Frida Kahlo." -Siltbreeze |
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Artist: LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE Title: Love Will Make A Better You Format: CD Label: Drone Syndicate Country: Sweden Price: $10.00 |
| "Number six on the Japrocksampler Top 50, available again for the first time in over a decade!" "Commencing with singer Akira Fuses goggle-eyed one-day-old-baby innocence, Love Live Life + 1s album opener The Question Mark escorts us through an eighteen-minute free-rock R&B adventure like nothing before or since. Clanking harsher than even the title track of Funkadelics Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow, and twice as long; cosmic as the Cosmic Jokers Galactic Supermarket, and gnarly as John McLaughlins out-there-a-minute axe excursions on Miless Right Off or his own Devotion solo LP, do these guys fight for their right to party! The mellower second side includes the insanely brilliant eight-minute epic Shadows Of My Mind, in which Akira Fuse sings like some drunken Italian baritone, while atonal swooping strings and crazy brass support/undermine him; then its off into a juggernaut bass-heavy clatterthon with duel-axe outrage of the highest level. And how about that title track whose catchy bastard licks unashamedly rip Slys I Want To Take You Higher, but still have you singing along with Fuse? The record closes brilliantly with the demented Facts About It All, which opens like Fuse laying a grunting 6/8 James Brown/Eric Burdon ballad on us. But no, this miniature R&B opera says in 2 minutes and 56 seconds what prog bands took a whole side to say. All hail visionary genius Ikuzo Orita for uniting his fave guitarist Kimio Mizutani with the errant free-jazz Gibson 335 of Takao Naoi, whose brittle spittle pops permanent wheelies around these slippery rhythm tracks. Also hail Orita for recognizing the genius of these songs of sax player Kei Ichihara, for trusting Akira Fuses professionalism and open-mindedness, and for seeing this 33-minute-long classic to its unlikely conclusion." - Japrocksampler. |
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Artist: LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE Title: Love Will Make A Better You Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Phoenix Records releases a fully-remastered edition of the 1971 sole album by Love Live Life + One. There were several progressive psychedelic groups in Japan in the early 70s including the short-lived Love Live Life + One. The band played a few live gigs and released this lone album before disbanding. The group consisted of 9 musicians and the "plus one" seems to refer to vocalist Akira Fuse who had been a pop vocalist since the mid-60s, appearing on albums since 1967. Most of the musicians were obscure except for keyboard player Hiro Yanagida, who was a member of the highly-acclaimed Foodbrain and later Strawberry Path, whose album When The Raven Has Come To The Earth was released the same year as Love Will Make A Better You, and guitarist Kimio Mizutani who was in the band People that released the massively rare Ceremony -- Buddha Meet Rock. Love Live Life + Ones only record is a mix of blues-based psychedelia that pushes into progressive and even avant-garde realms at times, while the skronky sax-playing even recalls the edgier end of the jazz spectrum. An original, innovative and extremely rare piece of Japanese psychedelia. Limited edition pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a gatefold sleeve with the original artwork and the original illustrated LP lyric sheet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LOVE TAN Title: Miscellaneous Night Feelings Format: LP Label: Kill Shaman Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "LOVE TAN used to be called PYRAMIDS, but have recently decided to change their name. Hailing from Seattle, Washington, this duo incorporate a wide variety of sounds and rhythms. The vocals range from falsetto to baritone, the guitar can sound sparse or punishingly full, and the drumming can go from methodical to off-kilter, and all in the same song. This is their debut LP." -Kill Shaman |
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Artist: LOVE TAN Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Sweet Rot Country: Canada Price: $6.00 |
| "LOVE TAN used to be called PYRAMIDS (which is what the labels on the record say), but have recently decided to change their name. Hailing from Seattle, the six songs on this EP display the wide range of sounds the band is capable of, which is all the more impressive considering that they are only a two piece made up of MATTHEW FORD (FACTUMS, ex-INTELLIGENCE) on drums and CRAIG CHAMBERS (THE LIGHTS) on guitar. The vocals range from falsetto to baritone, the guitar can sound sparse or punishingly full, and the drumming can go from methodical to off-kilter, and all in the same song. This is their debut release, which will be followed shortly by a full length on Kill Shaman. For fans of Tronics, The Urinals, The Prats, etc." - Sweet Rot |
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Artist: LOVECHILD Title: Love Child Plays Moondog Format: 7" Label: Forced Exposure Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "A tribute to the legendary NY street musician, Louis Hardin, a/k/a Moondog. Includes six beautiful minutes of droning-mantra guitars on "All Is Loneliness" and three more." -Forced Exposure. |
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Artist: LOVERS ANONYMOUS Title: The Big Dipper Format: 7" Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $10.00 |
| Voice, female steps and piano recorded and mixed in Stockholm, 2000. |
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Artist: LOW END LARS Title: Crystal/Arcade/Supertsar Format: 7" Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "More madness from the madman of Lars. Two scorching completely in-the-red gutbucket blues rock stomping mumblers on one side.. Ultra stereo Pong electronics bounce from the flip." - Bobby J. Mid-90s release. |
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Artist: LOW END LARS Title: s/t (a.k.a Indian Head) Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "An ethereal excursion manned primarily by reverb-soaked guitar, Low End Lars plays s ome mind expanding downer space-core that either makes you feel like youre on drugs or ups the ante on that last dose you took." - Luna Kafe. Mid 90s release. |
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Artist: LOW LIFE Title: Sydney Darbs Format: 7" Label: Negative Guest List Country: Australia Price: $10.00 |
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"The feller Brendon over at Negative Guest List is a busy budgie. Gots all mannerve suds goin down; a fanzine, lps, double lps, singles, eps, bookin shows, a bit of distro, that moustache….hey Mr. publican, gimme what hes havin! Cant say Is found no duds yet, but it did take me a minute to wrap my nog around Low Lifes ‘Sydney Darbs ep. There was somethin sticky in the mix that hinted at Box Of Fish residue, but overall it moves along in very driven & dark tones what fantastically transported me back to the streets of London, circa 1982. There I tailed these 3 blokes whiles theys whispered sweet nothings into ears at Illuminated & Small Wonder, only to surrender the goods over a parsnip bundt cake (w/vegemite icing, yum) at the Crass compound. Makes sense. Shit, after all that imaginary walkin, even I was peckish!" - Siltblog.
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Artist: LOW RED CENTER Title: Low Red Center Format: 10" Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "S.S. Records is really happy to release vinyl debut of Low Red Center. While their sound centers around electronics, to call them a minimal synth band or electronica or post-punk is selling them short. Low Red Center not only have a great sound, but they have great songs, and a couple of ace singers. Originally a studio project, in 2004 Low Red Center morphed into an improvised group. Containing members of Voxtrot, Oblong Boys, Pataphysics, Spoon, NonoBangBang, and other Austin bands, LRC staged shows that involved heavy costuming, theater, dance, and, of course, music. Eventually, many of these improvised pieces were molded into songs. In the words of Chad A., The object of Low Red Center is an exercise in improvisation and communication. Surprising ourselves as musicians by experimenting and discovering on stage, in front of an audience is of our goals. Restraint and listening are our approach to playing. A dedication to succinct presentation prevents unwanted jamming and convinces the audience that what we are performing are practiced, pre-written songs. The sound we have in mind is minimal and somewhat alien, with a vague film noir feel. This tension is frequently broken with a faster, more jagged post-punk approach. The recordings present a studio translation of our live principals, but with the luxuries of production embellishment and craft. Everything was performed (no sequencing) on analog electronic synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and electric guitar and bass. All the drum machines were actual individual organisms, breathing with us in the studio--nothing was sampled and rearranged. No computers were used. Influenced by Cluster, John Foxx, Tuxedomoon, Bruce Haack, Crash Course in Science, Silver Apples, Raymond Scott, and Goblin, you can also hear Relando & the Loaf, Devo, the Plastics and others in their sound." - S-S. |
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Artist: LOWER Title: Someones Got It in for Me/But There Has to Be More Format: 7" Label: Five Four-O Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "On this new 7" youll find two songs that Copenhagen based rock band Lower chose to dig up from the past. These two songs flirt with a bigger sound than what youd find on the Walk on Heads EP. Both of the songs were featured on their long gone demo tape. Here they are, re-recorded in Copenhagens south end with Nis Bysted in 2012. These songs are finally revealed for a wider audience. Die-cut covers with a full color inner sleeve." -Five Four-O. |
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Artist: LOWER Title: Walk On Heads Format: 7" Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Critical angst from Copenhagen. US Edition of the debut vinyl EP released earlier this year on Escho." - Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Deep Space Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Take a dose of LSD & THE SEARCH FOR GOD-the highly anticipated debut from these San Francisco space-rockers. This masterful collection of five lysergic-dipped, guitar-based gems is delightfully reminiscent of the early Creation Records sound. Turn it on and tune in to a psychedelic trip, where swirling guitars and playfully flirtatious boy/girl vocals travel through dreamy pop hooks and fuzzed out drones. This brilliant EP makes it clear why the bands astonishing live performances up and down the West Coast have firmly established them as the up-and-coming darlings of the underground psychedelic, space rock, shoegaze community. Limited to 1,000 copies." - Deep Space
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: BigJar Solo Sets Format: DVD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $18.50 |
| "As the title would suggest, this represents footage James filmed of all three members of LSD MARCH (SHINSUKE MICHISHITA, IKURO TAKAHASHI, MASAMI KAWAGUCHI) performing solo sets at Phillys best book store, BigJar, while on a short US tour in the fall of 2006. Shinsuke and Masamis renderings represent a Japanese working of psychy folk for guitar and vocals. Ikuro offers a contrasted short piece of oscillator assemble that is firmly rooted in the avant-garde, with overtones of conceptualist art, found sound, and experimentalism. The release comes packaged in a folded heavy stock cover with a pressing size of 550 copies designed and silkscreen by JASON KILLINGER from BIRDS OF MAYA." - Archive |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Constellation Of Tragedy Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Constellation Of Tragedy is the sixth full length album from Japans LSD March. Apt comparisons are often made of LSD March being a cross between The Velvet Underground and Les Rallizes Denudes. Constellation Of Tragedy is their most well-recorded and refined album to date, coming to a climactic close and featuring leader Shinsuke Michishita playing guitar, Theremin, music box, bass, harmonium, & harmonica." - Important Records |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Empty Rubious Red Format: CD Label: White Elephant Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Empty Rubious Red Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "...originally released in 2006 on their own white elephant imprint (a longer version of empty rubious red was reissued later that year as a limited edition cd on the incredible archive label), both versions sold out in about a minute. Its actually more like a solo outing by lsdm front-man shinsuke michishita (on voice, guitar, bass and percussion), accompanied on two tracks by legendary drummer ikuro takahashi (high rise, fushitsusha, tamio shiraishi, kosokuya, che-shizu, maher shalal hash baz, nagisa ni te, etc). most of the songs here are intimate, in-your-inner-ear ballads, hypnagogic and melancholic, achy hangovers from the third velvets LP ⿿ sorrowful birds on the last tree in the universe, thinking themselves into being, then forgetting themselves, then remembering again. except for the title track, that is ⿿ an 8-minute doppler-effect trance that gets you wasted on polonium 210, sets the dials of the kabbalah for the heart of the sun, and clicks "send." we could describe the overall sound here as late night psych. Its a pretty hackneyed term at this point, but try to remember how it used to be a downright poetic handle for the genre, conjuring those sleepless hours between 3 and 5 a.m. when the acid-drenched mind emits showers of sparks into the abyss. Light fuse and get away! we dont know what sorts of childrens clothing well see when trend analysts start recommending late night psych as the compass for designers, but its bound to be interesting. just remember, when you see saucer-eyed tots on the deck of a starship with their heads plugged into andromeda, you heard it here first. *european manufactured 180 gram lp housed in a stoughton old-style sleeve with j-card style obi." - Tequila Sunrise. |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Kanashimino Bishounen Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $13.50 |
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"Kanashimino Bishounen is the third album proper from LSD March following a
pair of Japanese only releases on the Gyunne Cassette and White Elephant
labels. These live recordings performed by the trio of Shinsuke Michishita
(voice,guitar), Masami Kawaguchi (guitar) and Ikuro Takahashi (drums)
feature five tracks that encompass a free form psychedelic approach to music
that is inimitable in spite of its customary points of origin. Song
structures are loosely pieced together and are distinguished by elevated
guitar work and washes of glorious noise. The music is as expansive as it is
destructive. Pressed in an edition of 415 and housed in a beautiful B&W
printed jacket." - HP Cycle.
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Nikutai No Tubomi Format: Double CD Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| A double-CD edition of 500 numbered copies in a full-color book bound case. "It gets so lonely in the belly of a whale. But the acoustics are fantastic. The pitch and yaw of its cavernous gut lowing with a long, guttural song burst. This is met by a loud, wailing which drone swells up as millions of gallons pass through tons of ambergris. These massive internal sound collisions resonate into a monstrous feedback of even greater proportion than the beast itself. And Jonah smiles. This is the sound of LSD MARCH. Be the body of Christ and let the whale take of YOU. LSD March is a Japanese psychedelic rock group, based in the city of Himeji. It is led by singer and guitarist SHINSUKE MICHISHITA. The group is named after a track by krautrock group Guru Guru. Michishita has also played with Magura Mozart and Doodles." - Beta-Lactam Ring. |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Shindara Jigoku Format: LP Label: Siwa Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Shindara Jigoku is the fourth LP from Shinsuke Michishitas LSD-March. A slightly more contemplative affair than the blow to the senses that was their recent LP on HP Cycle. The line-up on this is once again Michishita (guitar, vocals) with Masami Kawaguchi (guitar) and Ikuro Takahashi (drums)." Small repress in black jackets.
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Under Milk Wood Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The new LSD March album, Under Milk Wood, is their first full length since 2007s Constellation Of Tragedy for Important Records. With grace (in the rock sense), style, humor & the perfect touch of heavy riffage this tremendously unique and original recording is a classic of the new Japanese underground. Recorded at Black Snowflake Studios in Japan, Under Milk Wood is a fascinating ghostly rock album full of clean untreated restraint, as a grounded calm compliments Takahashi Ikuros drumming. It isnt until midway through the record that the heavy riffage begins to slowly become buried beneath the white blizzard blanket that is the remainder of the album. Much critical praise awaits this fine album and its likely to become your favorite snow-storm record, too. Let the electric snow fall." -Important |
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Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: Did You See?/Spectacular of Passages Format: 7" Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "Two stunning exclusive tracks finally unleashed after (too many) years on the shelf, just in time to coincide with Samaras wonderful new album Future Slip on Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace! label. A sweet little dose of hushed and fragile melancholy folk-pop-drone fluttering. Samaras unmistakable slow-bliss songforms are at their most stripped down and psychedelically entwined, with thick hovering violin tones, distant reverbed atmospheres and gentle swirls of quivering guitar feedback all lifting things just high enough. Totally bleary-eyed and beautiful, hitting that perfect spot just between your heart and gut. To these ears its that golden zone where the sound of her past in bands like Hall Of Fame, Tower Recordings, Metabolismus, etc., merges effortlessly with her sublimely structured solo vision. Packaged in silver and black on bright red offset printed art paper covers, with simple hand stamped labels. Edition of 400 copies." - Time Lag. |
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Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: Future Slip Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "LP version with glossy insert. Samara Lubelskis 5th solo LP Future Slip serves up a gorgeous and friendly collection of bittersweet melodies, sinister basslines, gestural Polaroid lyrics, and spot-on drumming garnished with sprigs of fuzz, paired with a guitar Riesling. It is a record of knowledge and innocence, of truth and fairytale, of wonder and clarity. Envision France Gall performing the songs of Sterling Morrison and Mo Tucker with Ralph Molina on drums. The show is at a loft across Bowery from CBGBs and the only person in the audience at soundcheck is Jandek, cross-legged in the middle of the floor. Produced by Thurston Moore. And here is the result: Future Slip is a worldly record, a record which offers a taste of the new dimension but warns of guru bummers. To a sunny day it adds the shadows which allow the perception of depth. On a rainy day it offers a selection of cakes. Anyone who does not dig this record deserves our pity, as they know nothing about the joy or sadness of life." -Ecstatic Peace |
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Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: Parallel Suns Format: LP Label: Social Registry Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "With Parallel Suns Samara Lubelski has flown into a higher orbit with her merger of the fuels of folk, psychedelia and pop. They combine into a potent mixture that gives her compositions a vibrancy that shimmers in the reflection of their power. The music streams down and ends up in your ear through dappled arrangements that are warm and bright while still having them shaded with darkness from both the lyrics and sound." - Social Registry. |
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Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: Spectacular of Passages Format: CD Label: Social Registry Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Spectacular Of Passages is Samara Lubelskis second entry into the world of psychedelic pop: Ten perfectly arranged pop songs rounded out by musical contributions from members of Metabolismus, The No Neck Blues Band, Lady Bug Transistor & The Clean." - Social Registry. |
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Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: Spectacular of Passages Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "There is certainly nothing wrong with chanteuses ⿿ we are quite lucky to now have a fair few in our aural midst as some of the younguns seem to take off ⿿ but neu-folk composer Samara Lubelski is absolutely not a chanteuse by nature. In truth to her pedigree in Metabolismus, Tower Recordings, Hall of Fame, the Sonora Pine, Pacer, Matt Valentine et al., shes a master of atmospheric textures at both juggernaut tempi and languorous sonic canvasses, her part as one of whole. Samara, with dew-flecked voice and slippery strung chords, makes that languor a tour of both honeyed breakfast plate and the midday crackle of dried grass. Third as bandleader, ten new classics of deliciously effusive songcraft, Passages joins Lubelski with The Cleans Hamish Kilgour and otherworldly luminaries Matt Heyner (NNCK), Christian Frederickson (Rachels), and Cynthia Nelson." - Destijl. |
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Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: The Fleeting Skies Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Although Samara Lubelskis presence in the psychedelic / folk scene of the last 10 years hasnt necessarily been widely stated, its been solidly felt. Thru her work with Metabolismus, The Tower Recordings, Sonora Pine, Hall of Fame and so many others she has proven to be fully talented and widely diverse. While the work of her contemporaries might bespeak of dark forests, moss and mushrooms, this is a rec of sunshine, dutch tobacco and fine wines. This one is a big statement. If the last 10 years were practice, and they werent, then The Fleeting Skies is the big game. Put your money on her. Recorded in NYC and Degenfeld Germany, The Fleeting Skies features the playing of PG Six, Cynthia Nelson and Tim Barnes." - Destijl.
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Artist: LUBELSKI, SAMARA Title: Wavelength Format: LP Label: De Stijl Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "First lady of winds and stars Samara Lubelski returns to her once and future label home for her sixth album, Wavelength, and the spheres harmonize at the news. Wavelength comprises a dozen new arrowed whispers, Samaras feathery touch on guitar and microphone now so at balance with the elements that the whole, her music and the air it enters, become inseparable. Dont be fooled by the persistent psych-folk labels she gets - oh, they may be accurate as far as modern usage goes, and that scene is now as it was then, but Wavelength is an electric record through and through. Everything comes to life in light, the guitar speaking in radiant strums and felt-tip leads, her violin calling up everything that glows and grows in the dark. Funny how nature always seemed to work everything out fine on her own before we showed up, huh?" - De Stijl. |
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Artist: LUCA, GHERASIM Title: Two Poems Format: LP Label: Alga Marghen Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Alga Marghen proudly presents an LP edition including two experimental sound works by Gherasim Luca, created in close connection to Sten Hanson who invited the Rumenian artist at Fylkingen in the very beginning of the 1970s and made him discover the possibilities of the advanced EMS electronic music studio of Stockholm. The two recordings presented here are quite unique as they are the only poems by Gherasim Luca created through the use of electronic manipulations. As Henri Chopin wrote some years later in his legendary Poésie Sonore Internationale book, Ghérasim Luca made a big impression at the Third Stockholm Festival in 1970. Luca was born in Bucarest in 1913. Before leaving to Israel, he had a leading role among the Roumanian Surrealist group. He eventually moved to Paris where he lived until the end of his life in 1992. Gherasim Lucas work is very personal, giving his poems a very uncommon and ironic character. Again Henri Chopin underlines that in his recordings, which are not many, he superimposes his very warm voice, marked by his Roumanian accent; its a sound wonder. In fact Luca is not a sound poet. He is more a speaker who managed, without complex, to enter into the Fylkingen studio vortex. On 4 tracks and with 32 loudspeakers, thanks to his superb voice and his instinctive knowledge of the electronic studio which amplifies words, he gives great pleasure to the listener, even if the latter can not understand French. Autres Secrets Du Vide Et Du Plein (April 1971) and Crimes Sens Initiales (April 1972) were both recorded one track at the time on a 4 track tape and afterwards subjected to electronic treatments. They were recorded in Sweden at EMS and first performed at the 1971 and 1972 Text-Sound Festivals of Stockholm. Edition limited to 385 copies, also including the reproduction of a wonderful drawing by Gherasim Luca on the front cover, a photo portrait of the author by Gilles Ehrmann from 1959 and an essay by Henri Chopin." -Alga Marghen |
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Artist: LUCAS, TED Title: Ted Lucas Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "The music of Ted Lucas has circulated through CD-Rs and blogs for years now. Although primarily known for this, his 1975 self-titled album (sometimes referred to as The OM Record), a legacy of hundreds of tapes decisively reveal one of the psychedelic eras most criminally-overlooked talents. Lucas studied with Ravi Shankar. He was the "exotic instruments specialist" for Motown and played sitar on many of their most famous productions. He rubbed shoulders with Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent and every other major player on the Detroit scene. His pioneering early psych rock bands The Spike Drivers and Misty Wizards managed to become legends with nothing more than a handful of singles. Stanley Mouse, prime image-maker for the Grateful Dead and friend of Ted, adapted the cover for Ted Lucas from his artwork for Jimi Hendrixs unfinished last album. Its the first appearance of the space scarab -- the UFO that would later become Journeys symbol. From brief, spontaneous ditties, predating the lo-fi indie movement by 20 years, to the epicly psychedelic sitar guitar ragas in Lucas signature loose string tunings, Lucas never wavered from his visceral, intensely honest vision. A self-taught master of many instruments and consummate do-it-yourselfer, Ted created a home studio and worked out new ways to tune his guitars. The pride he took in his craft and his attention to detail were inspiring and exasperating to all who knew him. His wit was legendary. The reasons for Lucas failure to break out of the Detroit scene would require, and probably deserve, a book-length investigation. His career provides insight on the difficulty of self-publishing and self-promotion in the pre-internet age. Without a doubt, things would have turned out very differently had he come up today. Lucas voice is unspeakably mellow, his guitar unbelievably gentle, and his arrangements absolutely impeccable. Do not miss this album." - Riverman Music. |
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Artist: LUCAS, TED Title: Ted Lucas Format: LP Label: Sebastian Speaks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The music of Ted Lucas has circulated through CD-Rs and blogs for years now. Although primarily known for this, his 1975 self-titled album (sometimes referred to as The OM Record), a legacy of hundreds of tapes decisively reveal one of the psychedelic eras most criminally-overlooked talents. Lucas studied with Ravi Shankar. He was the "exotic instruments specialist" for Motown and played sitar on many of their most famous productions. He rubbed shoulders with Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent and every other major player on the Detroit scene. His pioneering early psych rock bands The Spike Drivers and Misty Wizards managed to become legends with nothing more than a handful of singles. Stanley Mouse, prime image-maker for the Grateful Dead and friend of Ted, adapted the cover for Ted Lucas from his artwork for Jimi Hendrixs unfinished last album. Its the first appearance of the space scarab -- the UFO that would later become Journeys symbol. From brief, spontaneous ditties, predating the lo-fi indie movement by 20 years, to the epicly psychedelic sitar guitar ragas in Lucas signature loose string tunings, Lucas never wavered from his visceral, intensely honest vision. A self-taught master of many instruments and consummate do-it-yourselfer, Ted created a home studio and worked out new ways to tune his guitars. The pride he took in his craft and his attention to detail were inspiring and exasperating to all who knew him. His wit was legendary. The reasons for Lucas failure to break out of the Detroit scene would require, and probably deserve, a book-length investigation. His career provides insight on the difficulty of self-publishing and self-promotion in the pre-internet age. Without a doubt, things would have turned out very differently had he come up today. Lucas voice is unspeakably mellow, his guitar unbelievably gentle, and his arrangements absolutely impeccable. Do not miss this album. " - Sebastian Speaks. |
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Artist: LUCAS, TREVOR Title: Overlander Format: LP Label: Klimt Country: France Price: $25.00 |
| "Little-known and long out-of-print album by one of Australias greatest singer-songwriters. Primarily known for his work in the UK with Fairport Convention and Fotheringay (with wife, Sandy Denny) in the early seventies, Trevor Lucas released this album of traditional Australian folk songs in 1966 on Reality Records. Intended to introduce British audiences to the Australian folk tradition, songs like The Overlander and South Australia make the uniquely rough life of the Australian outback come alive." - Klimt. |
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Artist: LUCEY, CHRIS Title: Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest Format: CD Label: Rev-Ola Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| 2002 release, repressed. "Chris Lucey...the man who never was..... star of one of the most mysterious, rabidly collectable and expensive West Coast folk-rock albums of all. A monster on Ebay, revered by Julian Cope, and buzzing through every psychedelic web site on the net. Produced by Marshall Lieb, Phil Spectors Teddy Bears collaborator, sounding like Arthur Lee demos backed by a punk version of Tim Buckleys band, sung and written by a man who worked with The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Kim Fowley, P.J. Proby, Lowell George, and Curt Boettcher among other luminaries, but still managed to fall through the cracks of history. Bobby Jameson... subject of the most lavish and expensive Billboard ad supplement ever (for which the invoice is still outstanding), star of Mondo Hollywood and best remembered among L.A. scenesters for jumping off the roof of the Riot House on Sunset and walking away. A glimpse of that Mondo Sunset Strip underbelly that never really got represented at Monterey. On the mysterious Surrey Records, released under a pseudonym, and boasting a blurred snapshot of Brian Jones jamming in a club on the Strip as its front cover with a jazzy version of Bobbys song Girl From The East, better known as recorded by garage-meisters The Leaves... what was going on here God only knows. But a West-Coast classic from the Twilight Zone... yes, indeed." - Rev-Ola. |
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Artist: LUCKY DRAGONS Title: Dark Falcon Format: LP Label: Marriage Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Appearing originally in the fall of 2002 as a limited CD-only release from the pioneering indie electronic label 555 Recordings, Lucky Dragons first full length Dark Falcon circulated widely through burned CDs and tapes traded amongst friends. Now this mythical mixtape creature is getting a royal reissue treatment from Marriage Records, coinciding with the release of Lucky Dragons newest full length, Dream Island Laughing Language. This is where the Los Angeles-based collective learned how to make a record: culling from two years worth of accumulated field recordings and tender homemade spirituals, each of the 21 tracks hangs together in a delicate reinventing of traditional song structures. For all of its densely layered nostalgia and boldly digital textures, this is a lucid and revealing listen, a microscopically poetic vision into the process of blossoming collaboration between good friends in hard times. Cassettes traded through the mail, chance snippets of radio from a friends bedroom, firecrackers in the street, drums in the living room, overheard conversations, every sound is to be listened through: a window perpetually opening. Spare and gentle, explosive and candid, all of the collectives prolific output relies on this record as its foundation." -Marriage |
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Artist: LUCKY DRAGONS Title: Dream Island Laughing Language Format: LP Label: Marriage Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The eighteenth release by Los Angeles-based Lucky Dragons details the continuing pursuit of a humble and ecstatic, drippy and explosive, smoldering and upset music for our experience in America right now -- messages of unrest have long failed to be clearly understood, solitude and empty organization have given way to a very current volcanic desire for togetherness. Genre has never been less important -- influences and ideas are consumed and digested and released in the spirit of a culture larger than music as it is bought and sold. This is world music for a world that doesnt care about music as we have packaged it for the last 100 years. You could call it post- noise, or post-anything you like, but we would prefer to call it pre-something. For this recording, the time is 2007-2008, the place is California. The name of the record refers to the landfill-island in Tokyo harbor where the original lucky dragon now lives -- dream island-- and to the creation of imaginary languages -- laughing language -- that can be used to express things our own languages cant. As with Lucky Dragons legendary live performances, these recordings strive to create a space where community and memory and ritual and perspective all come together as a crystal and then vibrate and shatter. Includes 24-page booklet of drawings." -Marriage |
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Artist: LUCKY DRAGONS Title: Open Power Format: LP Label: Teenage Teardrops Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Lucky Dragons... create ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what their music actually sounds like always fall short of the magic they are making. I guess you could say it sounds like -- ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Lucky Dragons live show, though conducted via computers, is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward. On white vinyl, with poster." - Teenage Teardrops |
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Artist: LUCKY DRAGONS Title: Vrais Noms/True Names Format: 7" Label: Atelier Ciseaux Country: France Price: $11.00 |
| "Its still a bit too early in this big empty house. In the yard, an unsound choir seems to grin childishly and fishily to the neighbours around. Sarah Anderson and Luke Fischbeck, LUCKY DRAGONS, live in Los Angeles and have been recording for about 10 years albums (on Marriage Records, Upset the rhythm) which are as extactic as well as precisous. Their new ep Vrais noms/ True names (limited to 350 copies + free mp3s) is available now on Atelier ciseaux records (Paris/ France). 9 tracks for less than 12 minutes, with an artwork by SUMI INK CLUB and screenprinted covers on recycled paper." - Atelier Ciseaux. |
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Artist: LUGOSI Title: Dawn Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "Lugosi existed in Wellington, New Zealand from the mid to late 1990s and consisted of players Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, With Throats As Fine As Needles, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label boss etc), Andrew Savage (Sunship) and Leon Schutz, with a guest appearance on track two by Clayton Noone (Armpit, CJA, The Strange Girls, Root Don Lonie for Cash label boss etc). Dawn is the groups only CD release to date, following a trickle of fantastic and long out of print miniature edition lathe records and cassette tapes mostly published on Kneales Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label. The six improvisations on the album were recorded in the Lower Hutt Baptist Church in 1998. With electric guitars and keyboards the group creates multiple layers of swooning feedback loops, drifting guitar notes and riffs that interweave - sculpting rich harmonic drones that fall in and out of rhythm with sprinklings of intermittent percussion. CMR is delighted to bring this set of crisp recordings out of the vaults to a wider audience of wanting ears." - CMR. |
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Artist: LUGOSI Title: Yellow Five Aluminum Lake Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: LUIE LUIE Title: Touchy Format: LP Label: Penstar Country: Sweden Price: $28.00 |
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"Swedish import. Exact reissue of the ultimate incredibly strange/outsider/one-man-band. Privately released in 1974, originals of which are now extremely hard to find. You can check the Song In The Key Of Z CD comp for an exerpt of this LP, he invents a discombobulated dance called El Touchy, plays all the instruments, including guitars, drums, horn and the worst and most bizarre Moog synthesizer ever! This record will have strange music collectors, djs, rare groove hunters and samplers go in to orbit, when they hear it. Limited to 300."
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Artist: LUIE LUIE Title: Touchy Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Some years ago, a Los Angeles area collector stumbled across an orphaned copy of Touchy in a thrift store. It was shared through tape trading networks and bootlegged on vinyl -- now, Companion Records is proudly offering this first official Touchy CD release. Luie Luie has to be the most jaw-dropping one-man band lounge act found to date. Touchy serves as a conceptual dance album, an experimental album, as well as a sort of healing LP for 60s burn-outs. What can his music be compared to? Nothing that we know of. Luis Johnston is a Southern California screenwriter, painter, and musician whos spent the past 30 years working in almost complete obscurity. But hes also written and starred in a feature film and shaken hands with Elvis Presley. Luie has been playing live at various restaurants, lounges, and country clubs for three decades and is still going strong. He released a handful of 45s in the 70s and one full-length LP, Touchy in 1974. And he continues to record unknown quantities of yet-to-be-released CDs. This deluxe CD version is housed in a digipak sleeve, includes 2 Touchy buttons, a 20-page booklet with rare photos, concert flyers, art work, and a new introduction from Luie himself which sheds some light on his original inspiration for the album." - Companion |
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Artist: LUNCH, CHRISTIAN Title: Unreliable Sources Format: LP Label: Alternative Tentacles Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Released in 1990. Produced by JELLO BIAFRA. Four tracks. First appeared on the landmark Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation. Atypical industrial electro-rock tracks from this techno-wiz gone haywire. Features three tracks remixed by HYPNO LUXA and HERMES PAN. A collaborator on The Witch Trials project with Jello Biafra and Adrian Borland, CHRISTIAN LUNCH also contributed the classic "Jokes On You" track to the long out-of-print Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation." - Alternative Tentacles. |
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Artist: LUNDBORG, PATRICK Title: Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life Format: Book Label: Lysergia Country: Sweden Price: $31.00 |
 "A groundbreaking new book from the author of the highly-acclaimed Acid Archives, published by Lysergia: Psychedelia: An Ancient Culture, A Modern Way of Life is Patrick Lundborg and Lysergias greatest achievement so far. The product of 20 years of research, the 500+-page work is likely to prove as pioneering as the preceding Acid Archives, which went through five reprintings and received favorable reviews in leading magazines such as Mojo and The Wire. A larger number of people are exploring psychedelic states of mind in the world today than at any other point in history. Their shared experiences form the outline of a vast underground culture, whose steady influence upon society can be traced across thousands of years, back to Amerindian plant drug cults and the psychedelic celebrations in ancient Greece that gave birth to our Western society. But the full scope of this psychedelic culture, and its many expressions in the past, has remained poorly understood or even unknown. Psychedelia has usually been taken as a metaphor, or a symptom of something else, even though its true nature is singular and unparalleled. Psychedelia by Patrick Lundborg is the first-ever book to present psychedelic culture in its full complexity and range. Out of a colorful history that spans 3,500 years, emerges a philosophy and way of life that is as dazzling and rich as the psychedelic experience itself. As this book shows, psychedelia is a living underground culture, engaged in constant dialogue with its mainstream counterpart. Psychedelias creative, visionary presence in art, rock music and pop culture is thoroughly examined, highlighting many unique and at times unknown works and traditions, from William Blake to Philip K. Dick, from Eden Ahbez to Shpongle, from Haight-Ashbury to the beaches of Goa. The 20th centurys misguided attempts to reduce psychedelia into a branch of psychology or religion are given a critical, sometimes controversial look. A case is made for psychedelic philosophy, a fresh, unprejudiced model to replace the failed interpretations of the past. In the third millennium, psychedelic culture may be standing on the brink of a mystery greater than anything encountered in the past. This mystery comes forth in chapters on ayahuasca and DMT, and has reverberations far outside the realms of psychedelia, cutting into vital questions of consciousness and evolution. Most of all, psychedelia is a celebration of life, in the here and now and in the deep realms of inner-space. The final chapters of Psychedelia discuss the challenges and rewards of the psychedelic experience, as mastered by shamans and teachers from various entheogenic cultures. 520 pages with a 16-page color inlay in a perfect bound small quarto; 9.5 by 6.5 inches." - Lysergia.
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Artist: LUNDON,ROBERT S. W./ROSY PARLANE Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Imperial Country: New Zealand Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: LUNDVALL, TOR Title: Sleeping and Hiding Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This is a very special release for us, having admired Tors artwork and music since first hearing him over a decade ago! Originally recorded in 2005 and intended as the third and final chapter in the series which included the beautiful albums "Last Light" and "Empty City", Dais Records is proud to release the latest album from Ghost Ambient composer Tor Lundvall: "Sleeping and Hiding". Dark and beautiful soundtracks for afternoon daydreams and moonlit forest walks. Limited to 500 hand numbered editions." - Dais. "Sleeping And Hiding (or two things Im very good at) was recorded in what seemed like the blink of an eye during the Spring of 2005 and then shelved while I concentrated on other projects. I originally intended this album to be the third and final chapter in the series which also included "Last Light" and "Empty City". Listening to it now, however, I feel this album stands alone in its own unique space. Musically, its an enitrely vocal effort and somewhat more song oriented than my previous releases. Several of the tracks were inspired by evening drives through the woods, watching the copper-pink sunlight reflecting off bright yellow-green blossoms. Other tracks were inspired by specific events, such as Falling Trees which was recorded after my next door neighbor cut down all of the oaks in her backyard, forever changing the view from my porch. The Dead Period is a personal favorite which describes a space I still find myself falling into. The final track Sleeping manages to conjure up the precise atmosphere of one of my earliest childhood memories: Lying in bed during a bright afternoon as the strange sounds outside lulled me to sleep." -Tor Lundvall |
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Artist: LUNDVALL, TOR Title: The Seaons Unfold Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
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"This release contains Tor Lundvalls three epic original Winter, Spring, and Summer albums “Ice”, “The Mist”, and “Under the Shadows of Trees” remastered, repackaged, and with 10 unheard bonus tracks across all three. Also included is the new Autumn collection, “Turning” – which features the ambient tracks from “Autumn Calls” plus six unreleased pieces and alternate mixes recorded between 1992 and 1993. (For full details on the bonus material see our homepage posting from Tor!)
Matte finish box with gloss-overlaid artwork, containing art booklet and 4 CDs with 83 tracks in total." - Dais.
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Artist: LUNDVALL, TOR Title: The Shipyard Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Tor Lundvall has graced us with yet another remarkable album this year. Previously, Lundvall had introduced himself to Dais with his masterpiece album Sleeping & Hiding and struck lightning twice with the resilient The Seasons Unfold box set and now we are humbled to be crafting the strings with the curation of his most recent effort. The Shipyard was recorded during the dramatic season change-over of 09/10, during which time Lundvall was immersing himself in portrait studies of local maritime themes and nautical life at the docks. This instrumental collection of songs composed the soundtrack to the final renderings of these conceptional ideas put side by side, for which semblance he is most know for. Limited to 500 hand numbered vinyl copies (comes with a free MP3 download coupon) with artwork by Tor Lundvall." -Dais. "In the Autumn of 1990, I documented a handful of spontaneous audio experiments on a portable tape recorder. One of these pieces was a quiet instrumental entitled In a Shipyard. I worked on a few variations over the following months and then I put the track to rest, hoping to expand on the idea at some point in the future. Almost 20 years later, I finally started recording an album based on the themes and images this old track evoked. The Shipyard in Winter was the first new recording to take shape. This track was constructed around the soft, mechanical loop I used in my original demos. I then altered the loop to construct The Shipyard at Dawn and The Shipyard at Night, both of which appear on the album. The Shipyard in Winter and another out-take entitled Safety in Grey were released on the Tursa compilation “With Friends Like These” in 2010. The nautical and industrial sounds on the album were created from scratch and come from some surprising sources. The distant, sluggish melody on Under Snow Conditions is actually a slowed down fragment of distorted piano from Blankets of Snow (an out-take from the “Ice” sessions). The two final tracks, Blue Rain Ships and Grey Rain Ships, were constructed by running randomly overlapping tape loops from my archives, so there is an element of chance in these pieces. “The Shipyard” is my first entirely instrumental album since “Empty City”. Like that previous album, the recordings continue to explore my fascination with man made structures interacting with their natural surroundings. The music has a strong sense of place and it recalls the atmospheres and landscapes I had hoped to capture so many years ago." -Tor Lundvall |
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Artist: LUSSU & MAGNEETTI Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Lussu & Magnetti Country: Finland Price: $12.00 |
| "lussu and magneetti are a finnish-american duo from helsinki. they joined forces in early summer of 2006 and began recording in lussus appartment shortly thereafter. their debut release is noisy, droney music: vignettes of drum beats laced with ethereal voices and reverbed guitar. at times, it unleashes harsh episodes of distorted rhythms and noise, other times, a dark universe of "spooked-out" earthy tones coming from either the finnish forest or the "spin-cycle" of your washing machine. this limited editon of 150 copies is beautifully decorated with pressed leaves handpicked near the road of a main norwegian highway. delicate and unique, this cd-r release greets its audience with both visual and aural delights... new project from jonna karanka (kuupuu), so you know its gooood! very lovely packaging too." |
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Artist: LUSSU JA PAMI Title: Lussu & Pami In Total Tunnel Format: Cass Label: Huutomerkki Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Lussu & Pami in total tunnel was recorded on several afternoons in 2006 at Lussu (aka Kuupuu)s place. the sound of people unwilling to progress past their teens. performed on various keyboards and broken equipment mostly. some material hints towards melancholy, some towards moronation. the common aim is oblivion." - Huutomerkki. |
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Artist: LUSSURIA Title: Ghost Entanglement Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Long awaited first LP of phantasmal electronics domain. Seamless sound collage taking you through all the various rooms in the house. While blindfolded you reach for things familiar but everything feels different in the dark. A state of ambience is interrupted by deja vu. For fans of early CMI, Mlehst, and the atmospheric end of Goblin. Paste-on sleeves with insert. Edition of 200 copies." -Hospital
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Artist: LUXURIOUS BAGS Title: Happening Format: 7" Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: LYD Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Sunwest Country: Spain Price: $30.00 |
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"Finally a reissue of this unique piece of vinyl in its original format, housed in a druggy psychedelic sleeve. This heavy psych acid killer was released as a one-sided acetate, with no picture sleeve, in Hollywood in the late 60s. 20 minutes of fuzz, wah-wah and stoned vocals that are sure to blow away the toughest psych-heads. The original is as rare as it gets, with only one copy to be known. Here we present you the ultimate reissue of this rarity, with a reproduction of the original label and as a one-sided vinyl, just like the original. A 20 minute trip without the need to flip the record." - Sunwest.
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Artist: LYD)2 Title: Elefanta Poteket Bukentaur Format: 7" Label: Norway Rat Country: NORWAY Price: $5.50 |
| "If like me you sometimes wish to have your dusted fuzz rock built up around melodic structures youll find this little piece of pink vinyl very enjoyable. The a-side is the most intensely rocking one, starting out like an uncontrollable volcano of raw, pounding Dead C-esque noise before gradually keys are brought into the mix and distinctly slow things down to something very repetitive and hypnotic. To a large extent, that comes from the drum playing which is excellent throughout, very heavy and rhythmic but somehow seems more inspired by jazz and Krautrock than of classic rock. The b-side is more jam-like, combining powerful drumming with guitars and electronics into a tidal wave of sound where every instrument is clearly visible yet obviously a part of something much bigger. This is an impressive debut that comes recommended both to fans of throb rock, post-rock and of the heavier side of things Krautish." - Mats Gustafson (Broken Face). |
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Artist: LYDSOD Title: Ancient Age Format: LP Label: Nest Recordings Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Debut record from Brooklyn-based group LYDSOD on the Nest Recordings label. Devoted to an ideology of non-stop recording, "Ancient Age" is a psychedelic petri dish displaying the reassembled highlights of a year and a halfs worth of group improvisations . For each session a reel of tape is loaded onto the machine and the members embark on a journey led by the core unit of JZ Barrell on drums and Patrick Hambrecht on sampling keyboard. Guest players Alice Cohen, Zach Layton and Nick Anderson reflect the resulting axis of sound back at them, only to have it sampled again into a sonic hall of mirrors. "Ancient Age" contains the distilled essence of these 18 months of recordings, in one potent dose. Additional guest players include Hamish Kilgour (The Clean / Mad Scene), Linda Hagood (Double U / Smack Dab), Danny Tunick and Chris Talsness. One-time limited and numbered pressing of only 115 copies with full-color spraymounted covers." - Nest Recordings. |
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Artist: LYE, LEN Title: Composing Motion Format: CD Label: Atoll Country: New Zealand Price: $18.00 |
| Very cool sound-art document, based on the unique metal sculptures of New Zealands legendary visual artist, Len Lye. Fans of Harry Bertoia, Ellen Fullman, Bill Fontana, etc., take note! "This CD makes available for the first time modern stereo recordings of the sounds of his sculptures, and provides an introduction to Lyes fascinating soundworld. Len Lye was one of the most innovative artists of his era. Based in New Yorks Greenwich Village during the 1950s and 60s, Lye was a leading figure in the development of kinetic art. He designed and built a series of moving, sound-emitting sculptures that are breathtaking visually and sonically." Sound crazy people vibrate to sound and this disc is for them; its got some of the sharpest astringent zings of sound that ever cut the air, maybe because its all made with doctors blade steel, some of it the sharpest. ... All I know is that when its set up in motorized vibrating and shaking devices, and struck with strikers, it cuts a new sound groove. - Len Lye (from program notes for an intended LP, which never got made). |
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Artist: LYNCH, JULIAN Title: Droplet On A Hot Stone Format: 7"/CDR Label: Underwater Peoples Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Julian Lynch is from Ridgewood, New Jersey. The songs featured on this 7 single were originally created for the 2008 album, Born2Run. The recordings contain acoustic and electric guitar, a drum kit, a keyboard and Julians voice. Everything was recorded on a TASCAM Portastudio 424. While the initial taping began in Julians family basement (birthplace of the Alex Bleeker and The Freaks debut), the brunt of the work took place in an empty apartment in Madison, Wisconsin. In a new town with no furniture, Julian recorded the album. Born2Run was originally made available as a tape by Wild Animal Kingdom Records, in 2009. Julian also produced 75 copies of the album on CD-R. Since its minimal physical debut, Born2Run has been lovingly featured on countless MP3 Blogs such as Dayvanzombear, Forlorn-Valleys, Bee Boo Bee Bop, A Cassette Cathedral and Prisms of Fame. Julians music can now be found all across the world wide web, sweet messages often dangle beneath. Julians second LP, Mare, is coming out on Olde English Spelling Bee this summer. Includes CD-R of Born2Run in its entirety. Pressed on sky blue virgin vinyl." - Underwater Peoples. |
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Artist: LYNCH, JULIAN Title: Mare Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Second full-length album by Julian Lynch. Recorded in Madison, Wisconsin and Ridgewood, New Jersey in 2009 and the beginning of 2010. Download coupon included." - Olde English Spelling Bee. |
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Artist: LYNCH, JULIAN Title: Music For How Mata Hari Lost Her Head And Found Her Body Format: 7" Label: Soft Abuse Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Filmmaker Amy Ruhl was beginning work on her first film, an allegorical biography of the courtesan, dancer and spy Mata Hari. Spurred from talks about a using gamelan to score the film, Ruhl asked Julian Lynch to contribute songs to the film & he delivered five new instrumentals. Drawing on both Indonesian music and his own bedroom psychedelia proclivities and casually evoking 1970s Pharaoh Sanders, Lynchs songs came to anchor key scenes in the film. Vinyl includes gratis download." -Soft Abuse. |
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Artist: LYNCH, JULIAN Title: Orange You Glad Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Orange You Glad" is the debut full-length lp from Julian Lynch, following a string of self-released cd-rs and a recent split 7" with his childhood friend and frequent collaborator Matt Mondanile of Ducktails on the Underwater Peoples label. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Julian has had a busy summer playing countless shows both solo and as a member of Predator Vision, Ducktails, and Real Estate offshoot Alex Bleeker & the Freaks. This album is comprised of 4-track home recordings made in his hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey and also in Madison, Wisconsin where he is a graduate student in ethnomusicology. His interest in Indian & South Asian music blossomed several years ago when he was living in Washington, D.C. and working for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. This exposure to their vast library of world music has informed his output, and he blends instruments such as harmonium & tabla with guitar-rock instrumentation. Also of note is his use of circular breathing techniques on the clarinet - often a focal point during his meditative live shows." - Olde English Spelling Bee. |
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Artist: LYNCH, JULIAN Title: Terra Format: LP Label: Underwater Peoples Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Julian Lynch grew up in Ridgewood, NJ, where, as a youth, he learned to play clarinet and guitar. In high school, he performed in bands alongside future members of Real Estate, Titus Andronicus, and Family Portrait. During a year spent studying in Scotland, Julian collaborated with Gary Caruth of Sad City. While working for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in Washington, D.C., he played drums with the band Hairizona. Julian moved to Madison, WI, in Fall 2008 to begin a Masters program in Ethnomusicology. In Madison, he recorded and released three CD-Rs under his given name: Born2Run, Birthday and Garden is Adventure. In 2009 and 2010, Olde English Spelling Bee released two LPs by Julian Lynch, Orange You Glad and Mare, respectively. Julian continues to live and record in Madison, where he is currently enrolled in a joint PhD program in Ethnomusicology and Anthropology. We at Underwater Peoples are incredibly excited to be a part of his next LP, Terra." - Underwater Peoples. |
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Artist: LYTTON, PAUL/NATE WOOLEY Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Brokenresearch Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Melee trumpeter Nate Wooley and 30yr Evan Parker trio drummer Paul Lytton match up for this cross-generational slugfest. Wooley is in full pan-compositional, poly-formal, post-structuralist trumpet acrobatic mode with no visible safety net and really why would he need one? For his part
Lytton shows why, along with John Stevens and Tony Oxley, he is one of the three cornerstones of English improvised percussion. Using a rig that
focuses on small percussion and electronics, that he was one of the first improvising drummers to develop, Lytton shows a balletic sense of physicality and timbre that acts as foil and foe to Wooleys post-Dixon
excoriations of trumpet idiom." -Brokenresearch
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