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Artist: S.P.I.T.E. Title: Violence Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Vinyl reissue of this scarce cassette (Broken Flag 1982) by GARY MUNDY, recorded just before the formation of RAMLEH, and his later solo workings as KLEISTWAHR. Simple, crude and effective power electronics created with the same equipment used on later classic recordings. Ink-stamped sleeve. Edition of 200." -Harbinger Sound.
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Artist: S.P.K. Title: Dokument IIIO Format: 6 LP Box Set/T-Shirt Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $200.00 |
| "The ultimate Dokument of time of a historical band. S.P.K., a myth, a cult, a philosophy. After more than 12 months of planing and organizing this monumental release is finally realized. VOD is proud to present a limited 800 copies wooden box set that documents the first 5 years and the first stage of the band. 6 LPs with 36-page booklet documenting the time plus a T-shirt. Besides the official tape releases such as Wars of Islam, From Science to Ritual, Live at The Crypt, and Last Attempt at Paradise, this box set also includes live recordings from their first concert in Sydney in 79, the Heaven concert London in 80, the Brickwerkz concert in 82, the SO36 concert in Berlin plus a few more live documents." - VOD. |
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Artist: S.P.K. Title: Dokument IIIO Format: 6 LP Box Set/T-Shirt/3 x 7" Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $260.00 |
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"The ultimate Dokument of time of a historical band. S.P.K., a myth, a cult, a philosophy. After more than 12 months of planing and organizing this monumental release is finally realized. VOD is proud to present a limited 800 copies wooden box set that documents the first 5 years and the first stage of the band. 6 LPs with 36-page booklet documenting the time plus a T-shirt. Besides the official tape releases such as Wars of Islam, From Science to Ritual, Live at The Crypt, and Last Attempt at Paradise, this box set also includes live recordings from their first concert in Sydney in 79, the Heaven concert London in 80, the Brickwerkz concert in 82, the SO36 concert in Berlin plus a few more live documents." - VOD. Special edition with the first 3 7"s.
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Artist: S.T. MIKAEL Title: In Harmony Format: LP Label: Subliminal Sounds Country: Sweden Price: $30.00 |
| "This brand new and heavily mind-bending album is the second volume in a suite of two separate albums marking the return of the mysterious and legendary Swedish psychedelic multi-instrumentalist S.T. Mikael. Mikael spearheaded the DIY psychedelic rock/folk movement of the late 1980s/mid-90s, and he returned in early 2008, after an 11 year silence, to record some music with some friends for Subliminal Sounds. In Harmony is the natural conclusion to the recordings S.T. Mikael made with Dungens Fredrik Bjorling and Reine Fiske, which were introduced with the album Mind of Fire. Signaled from the outset with the opening track "Mother Is Calling," In Harmony is dedicated to our arch mother, Nature, and all the treasures and mysteries it contains. On his 15-minute epos, "Higher," Mikael performs as a one-man-band, offering insight into the blissful happiness he has received from that which springs from -- and grows -- in nature. As our world continues to change faster than ever, S.T. Mikaels melodic folk-rock and spiritual psychedelia tells us of the importance of partaking in the psychedelic communion and listening to each other -- before its too late. Get ready for more visions of winged creatures galloping across a thunderous and cloud-swirled sky and another glimpse into your inner minds eye. Limited edition of 500 copies on vinyl only." -Subliminal Sounds. |
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Artist: S.T. MIKAEL Title: Mind of Fire Format: LP Label: Subliminal Sounds Country: Sweden Price: $36.00 |
| "LP version. Limited edition of 500 copies only. After an 11 year silence, heres a new album by the mysterious and legendary Swedish psychedelic multi-instrumentalist, S.T. Mikael. This is part one of a suite of two separate albums. Mikael spearheaded the DIY psychedelic rock/folk movement of the late 1980s/mid-90s, with a collection of albums that now fetch up and over $1000 on eBay. During his long absence, S.T. Mikael grew more secretive and reclusive, but all the while he was still writing music. Now that hes finally back, heres a chance at last for the world to join his psychedelic world again. The music, stretching out in many different directions, has been done freely and spontaneously in an extremely relaxed and happy environment. He also joins forces with Dungens Reine Fiske and Fredrik Björling, whose musical expertise now also grace the grooves. These otherworldly acid tripper recordings now exist in the real world and S.T. Mikael proves, once again, to be a gifted songwriter and an unconventional performer with a very personal ear for acoustics and an emotional honesty seldom seen these days. Melodic folk-rock elements flow with waves of heavy fuzz-phase leads; weird, detached, haunted vocals echo over the band and the whole thing seems to teeter on the brink of psychedelic oblivion. This is not psychedelic revival, but the psychedelic NOW. His soaring vocals, surreal lyrics, fragile, folky melodies, heavy fuzz riffs, mind-bending soul funk and penchant for the spiritual and mystical make this a fascinating voyage that is so mind-twisting, soul-swirling, upper psychedelic that your third eye takes you on a joyride through an altered state! This album makes your brain start thinking in those pebble-splash-pond-mind circular expanding waveforms that reveal the password to tomorrow. The CD also contains 9 previously-unreleased vintage recordings and unique spoken introductions by Mikael." -Subliminal Sounds. |
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Artist: S.Y.P.H. Title: 4 Format: CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "Re-release of a German avant garde-punk-classic from 1981. Co-produced by Holger Czukay (Can) it was the counterpart of the Czukay-Album On the Way to the Peak of Normal, in which all the members of S.Y.P.H. also took part. The CD comes with booklet with unreleased photos and extensive liner notes by S.Y.P.H.musicians Harry Rag and Jojo Wolter." - Made In Germany |
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Artist: S.Y.P.H. Title: 4 Format: LP + CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
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LP version. Includes CD of the complete album.
"Re-release of a German avant garde-punk-classic from 1981. Co-produced by Holger Czukay (Can) it was the counterpart of the Czukay-Album On the Way to the Peak of Normal, in which all the members of S.Y.P.H. also took part. The CD comes with booklet with unreleased photos and extensive liner notes by S.Y.P.H.musicians Harry Rag and Jojo Wolter." - Made In Germany
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Artist: S.Y.P.H. Title: Am Rhein Format: CD Label: Ata Tak Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
| "As a sequel to Wieleicht this is -- in the original words of D.Diedrichsen -- the fabulous White Album of Germanys underground rock in German. S.Y.P.H.s second offering on the the Ata Tak label and S.Y.P.H.s last album in more or less its original formation with Harry Rag (vox), Uwe Jahnke (guitar also with Fehlfarben and Toon), Jojo Wolter (bass) and Ralf Bauerfeind instead of Ulli Putsch on drums. In conspiracy with the groups Mittagspause and Fehlfarben S.Y.P.H. projected Germany onto a punk and Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) plane which other groups later dissected and commercialised. S.Y.P.H. is primordial punk, Dada in its best sense as well as Trance-Rock which no weed can beat. Like no other band from the legendary early 80s scene in Düsseldorf, S.Y.P.H. -- (Smashed Yankee Pummels Homo or Save Your Pretty Hearts) -- assimilated influences from Can, the Kinks to Pere Ubu with unrivalled originality and anarchism. S.Y.P.H.s Am Rhein moves playfully in the groove. The long trek from Industriemädchen(Industrial Girl) in the late 70s to Picknick im Grünen (Picknick in the Green) is artfully dealt with. S.Y.P.H. 87 no longer stands out there alone and colossal, but for magicians meandering through 1000 ideas, building bridges from island to island, emptying out the pop marshlands sludge and enabling the essentials to come into view. And somewhere between a psycho pop odyssey and nursery rhymes, their music comes over as completely uncramped -- an aural rural sculpture. The music is a concoction of rock, film, literature and experimental -- its all there. And yet there is a concept to all this -- a critical standpoint to what officially and what unofficially exists or happens. The groups ingenuity lies in their skill to come out with the absurd without the intellectual need to make sense where it doesnt exist, with a result that the only meaningful element is what remains in the music itself." - Ata Tak |
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Artist: S.Y.P.H. Title: Rare & Lost Into the Future Format: LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Incl. never before released recordings. One of the best and most exciting, innovative German punk/wave bands from late 70s to now will be releasing a special vinyl-edition with rare and unreleased recordings of the last two decades, all individually compiled by the S.Y.P.H.-members." - Vinyl-On-Demand.
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Artist: S.Y.P.H. Title: S.Y.P.H. Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $19.00 |
| "Classic German abrasion, originally released on the Pure Freude label. First album this by group, later produced by Holger Czukay." - FE. "Original was released in 1980. German punk/new wave group. Remastered by Pyrolator." |
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Artist: S/T Title: Gorp (A Hommage to Van der Graaf Generator) Format: LP Label: Mas De Cade Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "The last thing I expect to come from Germany is a group covering songs of Van Der Graaf Generator. And to be honest, I didnt expect an album of VDGG-covers at all. This music is so highly individual and idiosyncra- tic, that it is almost impossible to reinterpret these works. Just like in the case of Beefheart, Popol Vuh, etc. On the other hand, why not? Why ex- clude the possibility of successfully reworking highly idiosyncratic mate- rial. It all depends on the creative powers of artists. Van Der Graaf Generator is still around as I discovered All that Before and Drop Dead come from their 2008 album Trisector. The job is done by S/T, a trio from Frankfurt, Germany, founded in 1993 by Martin Bauner and Joachim Ga- ertner, who present with Gorp their homage to this english progrock group. The musical careers of both men go back to the end of the 70s and that is about all I can trace about their earlier whereabouts. They are declared fans of Faust and Amon Duul 2, but also Pere Ubu, Cravats (re- member?), and many other groups inspire them. Since 1997 they re- leased several records. Gorp however is the first one meeting my ears. We hear Martin Brauner on guitar and vocals, Joachim Gaertner on organ and machines. Special guest Daniel Krieger is the drummer. The voice of Peter Hammill is of course not to be imitated. But they tackled this problem very cleverly. The voice is Bauner is manipulated, making it sound a bit distorted but penetrating, and it it not mixed on the forefront, so that making a comparison comes not to your mind. With guitars, key- boards and drums they create a full and massive sound of hybrid pro- grock. What I can say is that S/T deliver a very well executed album, with stripped down and a bit simplified arrangements and performance. The way they did it surely works." -Vital Weekly. |
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Artist: SAAL 2 Title: Weil das System Nicht Funktioniert! Format: LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Unreleased minimal and Pop-material from early 80s and their hit Angst vorm Tanzen
from the legendary ZickZack 7", collected and selected by the band." - Vinyl-On-Demand.
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Artist: SABBATH ASSEMBLY Title: Restored To One Format: LP Label: Ajna Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Restored to One is a modern response by JEX TOTH of WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE, DAVE NUSS of NO-NECK BLUES BAND, and SUNN O)))/EARTH/BORIS producer RANDALL DUNN to the musical activities of a cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment, who used music to spread their visions of Gnostic reconciliation in a time of cataclysmic change. SABBATH ASSEMBLY has recharged the original hymns of The Process Church and worked them into moving renditions that unite the trinity of rock, psychedelic and gospel into one triumphant re-awakening. The Process Church was an intensely creative, apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered 60s and New Age 70s. The influential group opened chapters in London, Europe and across the United States. Dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German Shepherds, they created their own intricately designed magazines, and promoted a controversial, quasi-Gnostic theology that reconciled Christ and Satan through deeper awareness and love. Funkadelic reproduced Process writings in two of its albums. The Process Church was accused of being part of a Satanic underground conspiracy by true crime pulps, most notably Ed Sanders The Family, which linked the Church to the Manson murders. The recording follows on the heels of live shows across the US in the Fall of 2009, at which Sabbath Assembly performed previously unrecorded original hymns of the Church. More live events are planned, along with a documentary on the Process Church by William Morris of Skinny Puppy, a video for a song from the coming release, standard CD and LP releases and an archival LP box set (including readings of Process sacred literature by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Adam Parfrey, and Lydia Lunch, as well as Love Sex Fear Death author Timothy Wyllie), and an off-Broadway theater extravaganza entitled Gaming the Gods based on the rise and fall of the Church." -Ajna |
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Artist: SABBATH ASSEMBLY Title: Ye Are Gods Format: LP Label: Ajna Offensive Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Reaching beyond the scope of Restored to One, Ye Are Gods incorporates the ritual text and structure of the Process Church of the Final Judgments highest and holiest mass, the Sabbath Assembly liturgy (after which the band is named). In these hymns of the religious movement that emerged in the late 60s as an apocalyptic shadow-side to flower power and New Age, SABBATH ASSEMBLY guides this mysterious Gnostic journey of the unification of Christ and Satan; the bliss of total submission to the gods Jehovah, Lucifer, Satan, and Christ; the wilds of the Apocalypse and a face-to-face encounter with the Angel of Death; and finally the moment of spiritual renewal in which the Processs Law of the Universe is revealed. Joining vocalist JAMIE MYERS (HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM) and drummer DAVE NUSS are GENESIS P-ORRIDGE serving the role of High Priest(ess), aka "Sacrifist"; EYVIND KANG on viola for the liturgical "Declaration of the Gods"; on a chilling rendition of the hymn "We Give Our Lives," guitarist/vocalist IMAAD WASIF; and TIMOTHY WYLLIE, an original Process Church member, providing a homily from Process Church founder Robert DeGrimstons Gods on War. Includes 20-page book." -Ajna Offensive. |
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Artist: SACCHI, FRANCA Title: En Format: LP Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
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"One of the very few female composer of early electronic music, Franca Sacchi studied at the famous RAI Studio of Fonologia in Milan in the 60s, and developed the En-static principle which included improvisation, electronic music, ritual, performance, teaching and meditation. Extremely reserved and enigmatic, Franca Sacchi has devoted her entire life to music, dance and yoga; she has been active as a conceptual artist too, and her work was also included in the notorious Broken Music exhibition. Throughout the years, she has carried on a complex multi-disciplinary research in a quest for the integration of music with other artistic expressions while at the same time radically questioning the concept of music making. Her electronic music focuses mainly on sound, which is treated as raw material and endlessly explored. Sacchis free concept of duration and deep emotional feel brings her closer to Eliane Radigue and La Monte Young, especially for the long and sustained tones which are suddenly turned into pulsations and gritty sound textures. This LP record presents her first attempts in the field of electronic and concrete music, from the late 60 to 1972." - Die Schachtel. An incredible production, as always, from this label. "Regular" edition of 300.
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Artist: SACCHI, FRANCA Title: En Format: LP Box Set Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $175.00 |
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"One of the very few female composer of early electronic music, Franca Sacchi studied at the famous RAI Studio of Fonologia in Milan in the 60s, and developed the En-static principle which included improvisation, electronic music, ritual, performance, teaching and meditation. Extremely reserved and enigmatic, Franca Sacchi has devoted her entire life to music, dance and yoga; she has been active as a conceptual artist too, and her work was also included in the notorious Broken Music exhibition. Throughout the years, she has carried on a complex multi-disciplinary research in a quest for the integration of music with other artistic expressions while at the same time radically questioning the concept of music making. Her electronic music focuses mainly on sound, which is treated as raw material and endlessly explored. Sacchis free concept of duration and deep emotional feel brings her closer to Eliane Radigue and La Monte Young, especially for the long and sustained tones which are suddenly turned into pulsations and gritty sound textures. This LP record presents her first attempts in the field of electronic and concrete music, from the late 60s to 1972." - Die Schachtel. Special artists edition limited to 60 copies in a gold leaf wooden box, individually hand drawn, signed and numbered by the artist. Amazing!
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Artist: SACCHI, FRANCA Title: En Format: CD Box Set Label: Die Schachtel Country: Italy Price: $21.00 |
| "One of the very few female composers of early electronic music, Franca Sacchi studied at the well-known RAI Studio of Fonologia in Milan in the 60s. She developed the "En-static" principle, which included improvisation, electronic music, ritual, performance, teaching and meditation. Her music focuses mainly on sound, which is treated as raw material and endlessly explored. Sacchis free concept of duration and deep emotional feeling brings her closer to Eliane Radigue and La Monte Young, especially for the long and sustained tones which are suddenly turned into pulsations and gritty sound textures. Her work was also included in the seminal Broken Music exhibition in Berlin. Originally published by Die Schachtel as a limited edition LP, this lavish, golden CD box + booklet presents her best works in the field of electronic and concrete music from the late 60s to 1972, in a fully remastered edition. CD box (digipack deluxe) in a gold-foil design, complete with a 12-page booklet in Italian and English. Limited edition of 500 copies." -Die Schachtel |
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Artist: SACHER-PELZ Title: Mutation For A Continuity Format: 4CD Box Set Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $76.00 |
| "Very few are aware of the beginning of Maurizio Bianchis adventures? Before starting the complex and compelling production of many records and tapes in the early eighties under the M.B. trademark, Maurizio Bianchi was documenting the new music scene writing essays and reviews for independent magazines. It was August 1979 in Milan, Italy and his sound was strengthening when he felt the time had come to prove his desire for something new. So he started his first solo project, under the name Sacher-pelz. He assembled a concrete equipment -- the endurance of M.B. had started. During the following few months four C60 magnetic tapes were created Cainus (August/September 1979), Venus (October/November 1979), Cease to Exist (December 1979/January 1980) and Velours (February/March 1980), a couple of copies for friends, never getting an official distribution. Surely a very private moment but still the first and only production at that time in Italy to go beyond the TG movement, the direct reference. EesT records got into possession of the original masters and decided this was the right moment to let those obscure sonorities see the night light. The tapes were remastered for a more powerful digital sound featured in this four CD boxset including the original graphics and liner notes as well as a new visionary essay, written expressly for this edition. After a long research in the archives spread around the Italian territories a few more documents were found (the original presentation text titled Sacher-pelz: mutation for a continuity, a collage titled Pure art for crime people, more graphics and reviews) and they are also included here. Edition of 480 copies." - Eest. |
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Artist: SACHIKO Title: Golden Hypnos Format: LP Label: audioMER Country: Belgium Price: $32.00 |
 "Stellar vocals and drones by Sachiko of Overhang Party; three pieces of hypnotic, gliding delight. This is Sachikos first all-drone vinyl release, in an edition of 350. Heavy-weight vinyl & paste-on sleeve with artwork created by Johan De Wilde. AudioMER. edition in collaboration with Croxhapox gallery." -audioMER. |
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Artist: SACHIKO Title: Hverfanda Hvel Format: CDR Label: Cut Hands Country: Netherlands Price: $14.00 |
| "Hverfanda Hvél is Sachikos (Overhang Party, ex-Kousukoya) third solo album, after the purple vocal haze of You Never Atone For and the equally breathtaking Kunado, released last year on Utech. This one contains two, gutwrenching live performances at Tokyos Loopline. First track features Reiko.A of former Merzbow fame and travels through a thick, hazy fog of shimmering wordless vocals before collapsing face down in a pool of electronic voodoo damage. On the second, shorter piece Sachiko breathes out her zoned out mantras and washes of cosmic vocal beauty as if shes honouring Yoshi Wadas monumental spirit. A mesmerizing mayhem for real. 100 copies in the usual square dvd cases. Spi-fi art by Witchbeam, www.witchbeam.com" -Cut Hands |
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Artist: SACHIKO Title: Kunado Format: CD Label: Utech Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"Japanese vocalist and instrumentalist Sachiko (Overhang Party, Vava Kitora, Kosokuya) looses a second, white-hot solo release. Her brilliant debut You Never Atone For on There/Musik Atlack rode gilded wings straight to the heart of the psych sun. The journey continues with Kunado. A tincture of Taj Mahal Travellers, wispy oscillations and lysergic vocals bathes the recording in delicate atmosphere as Sachikos sonic attack leaves vicious and harrowing results. A listen not soon forgotten." -Utech.
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Artist: SACHIKO Title: With Lament Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $11.00 |
| "New album by one of Japans key players in the psychedelic underground. Sachiko was also a member of legendary bands such as Overhang Party and Kousokuya among others. With Lament finds itself in the lost worlds of eerie devotional chants drowned in eternal reflections of kaleidoscopic electronic powers. Paste-on cover, silkscreened insert and edition of 100 copies." -Sloow Tapes |
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Artist: SACHIKO Title: You Never Atone For.. Format: CD Label: There Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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"Sachiko is the member of Overhang Party & VAVA KITORA, ex Kosokuya. This
album is her first solo CD." - There. Restock of this few year old release.
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Artist: SACK AND BLUMM Title: 2x5 Format: 10" Label: Staubgold Country: GERMANY Price: $10.00 |
| "After their highly acclaimed CD releases on Tom and Gefriem labels Sack (Cologne) and Blumm (Berlin) are back on vinyl and present themselves as solo musicians, each having recorded one side of this 10" mini album. Blumms side is an adventurous collage of loops, rhythms and melodies, arranged in the style of a radio play and echoing the sound world of Sack & Blumms previous duo work. Sacks five tracks are classic examples of his unique toy techno goes dada pop style." - Staubgold. |
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Artist: SACROS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $46.00 |
| "Sacros (The Sacred) was a Chilean rock band inspired by the spiritual passion and veneration for the great gods of South America, such as Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, god of the ancient Mayas and Viracocha, Lord of Tiahuanaku in the Andes mountains. Sacros recorded the debut LP on the state label IRT and the production was destroyed by the militaries. Only very few copies survived from destruction. The music goes in the same direction as Los Jaivas, Los Blops and El Congreso (all from Chile) and Lula Cortez from Brazil. It has a great 12 string Rickenbacker sounds, effects, great vocals and rhythms with an experimental touch. You can call this easy one of the rarest albums from Latin America since only a handful of copies survived. Patricio Panussis (guitar & vocals) Hernan Valdovinos (bass & vocals) and Tomas R. Herrera (percussion). The band recorded only this one album in 1973." - Shadoks. |
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Artist: SADGROVE, MARK Title: Two Rulers Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
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"The resonance of a particularly resonant aluminium metre ruler was captured in
gory detail to produce a "metallic lulaby" (side 1) and an interminable train
wheel screech (side 2). The two rulers used to make the sound were the only
available noise makers in my office while I was finishing my PhD thesis and
going completely insane." - A Binary Datum.
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Artist: SAFIYYA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Kelippah Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Safiyya is Brad Rose (Charlatan/The North Sea) and Pat Murano (NNCK/Decimus). Born of a correspondence between two fellows entrenched in parallel explorations of the unknowable and imagined, theres a mystery to the source of the sounds contained in these grooves; a mystery that reaches the top of chain, as the players involved have never met, did not discuss individual process, nor the direction of their collaborative endeavors. There is not even a record of the machines used to create this shadowy sci-fi landscape. What the listener is presented with is music that reverberates like synthetic sound made into organic instruments imitating synthetic sound. It is a fantasy world that feels a little bit too much like a version of reality with dark bags under its eyes and strange stains on its clothing. Its the music you hear after the anesthesia drip gets turned on, right before you succumb to that infernal waking sleep. Theres a clarity to the recording, a depth of field that seems normal, but with a bit more scrutiny, is unsettling and disorienting. Theres a narrative, almost cinematic or like a soundtrack to an Evanson story, but like any pinnacle of modern horror, once you catch ahold of that thread, your brain begs you to let go. The music is devoid of terroir, a fantastic blend of east and west, modern and classical, lending once again to the creeping sensation that the rabbit hole is way up there, far, far from where youve landed." - Jason Meagher. Limited to 300 lps. Jackets silk-screened by Phil Franklin and Christine Shields at Bright Spot Ink. |
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Artist: SAI, YOSHIKO Title: Mikko Format: LP Label: Bamboo Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Truly a Japanese psychedelic female acid-folk masterpiece. Released on July 25th, 1976, Mikkô was Sai Yoshikos second album, a wonderful acid-folk album on which she gets assisted by a string of big name musicians such as Kuni Kawauchi (of the Happenings Four, amongst others) to arrange the songs. Mikkô features Sais original songs, making it her first real complete album. At times the disc draws in Middle Eastern influences (sitar and tabla), but once she gets to singing, the listener is lulled into her own private, mysterious sonic world, through which one gets sucked in by her wide-ranging vocalizations. At the time of this recording, Sai Yoshiko was merely 23 years-old. Totally obscure, much in-demand by Japanese psych heads, and rather hard to track down. One of Sai Yoshikos biggest fans is Jojo Hiroshige from Hijokaidan and Alchemy Records, who eventually, 25 years after she recorded this stunning album, dove in the studio with her for the Crimson Voyage CD on which she merely attributed some sighs and moans. This album is really a stunner and a must for people into some more advanced Japanese underground historical recordings. Digitally remastered and available on 180 gram vinyl for the first time. Comes with an English translation of the original Japanese LP insert." - Bamboo. |
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Artist: SAINTE ANTHONYS FYRE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Lion Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Official reissue of ultra-rare 1970 wasted underground hard rock monster! Wild, loud, raw New Jersey hard psych beast thats been a favorite target of record collectors, dealers and swamp dwellers for the past two decades, originally released on the Zonk! label .This album is bleeding with that authentic dirty basement sound built around a solid set of catchy heavy weight tracks influenced by the holy trinity of Cream, Blue Cheer and Hendrix! The bible of underground psych rock, Acid Archives, says this about it: “This legendary private press is rated as one of the ultimate local basement hard rock blowouts by many connoisseurs. Released as early as 1970, the end result has some similarities to MC5s hallowed Kick out the Jams, but I find this a superior and more powerful album." Popular UK magazine thats majors in all things 60s and psychedelic, Shindig!, proclaims: “a masterpiece of zonked out, fuzz-drenched hard rock." The limited edition vinyl pressing comes with an insert with liner notes, press clippings, photos and lyrics + an 11" x 17" poster too." - Lion Productions. |
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Artist: SALA-ARHIMO Title: Pelko Pois Format: CDR Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"second solo release from finlands jukka, half of the live incarnation of islaja, and a real groovy guy in general. jukka made a handful of these discs for last summers usa tour, but they pretty much slipped under the radar, so now weve got a new edition for all of you who missed it... extremely trance inducing stuff here. think a pack of tiny woodland creatures gobbling mushrooms and trying to play terry rileys a rainbow in curved air over and over till the sun comes up and everyone turns back into moss. oh, and half way through they put down their organs & saxes and pick up guitars & hand drums to lay down a killer acid folk groover, just for fun.... really, i think thats what happened. very good stuff... packaged in a tri-fold art paper cover with sweet white on black phantom girl paste-on art by merja (islaja), heavy stock gloss insert & stamped black bottom cdr. numbered edition of 180 copies." - Time Lag.
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Artist: SALA-ARHIMO Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Sala-Arhimo Country: Finland Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: SALA-ARHIMO Title: Sala-Arhimo Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Islaja (Fonal) side-man and frequent tour-mate with Larkin Grimm (Secret Eye), Sala-Arhimos debut oozes a slow psychedelic radiance from a half-frozen world of hibernation. A bit of ancient Pink Floyd as reference point, perhaps some of the jazz-like moments of Fausts more gentle side, but here all comparisons end. This is another one of those you need to hear it, but theres no way to get it Finnish geniuses whose music shares much affinity with the Lal lal lal crowd (Kemialliset Ystavat, Avarus, etc.), but focuses less on the purely experimental, and more on rich, melodic drones and voice." - Last Visible Dog. |
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Artist: SALAMANDER Title: The Ten Commandments Format: LP Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "First-ever vinyl reissue of this UK 1971 album, originally released on the Youngblood label. Based on The Ten Commandments, though not proven to be Christian rock itself, the album is a nice progressive pop-rock disc showing the influence of Deep Purple and The Moody Blues, with a good dose of organ, guitar and brass. Fantastic, limited reissue in a four-way foldout poster-type picture cover, housed in a deluxe PVC outer sleeve. 180 gram vinyl, newly-remastered sound from master tapes, including an insert with liner notes by Andy Morten." -Guerssen. |
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Artist: SALLY SMMIT AND HER MUSICIANS Title: Hanaghar Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Surrealism raised its willfully mutated head on the third Groovy release, Hangahar, credited to SALLY SMMIT AND HER MUSICIANS. Claiming to be the soundtrack of the film Hangahar, the album was inspired by a casual demonstration of a made-up sung language. A full-blown recording session captured this previously unheard quantity, the better to wake the world to its allure. The Groovy gang broke out the oscillator and any other synth devices they had on hand (along with a kitchen cabinet full of impromptu percussives) to back up the operatic overtones of the mysterious eponymous chantueses via drones, riffs, chanting and, with reverb pots fully open, loads of ominous atmosphere throughout. Despite the deep feeling of synchronous accord throughout this recording, it has proved to be something of a path not followed for the once and future SALLY TIMMS of eventual MEKONS fame." -Drag City. |
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Artist: SALMIGONDIS Title: Assez De Trop Pas Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "Limited 150 copies / hand made cover The french freaks are back with 5 more guests adding more instruments: percussions, flute, alto saxophone, Trumpet and noises. Psyche Dada freak jazz mini big-band." -Bimbo Tower |
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Artist: SALMIGONDIS Title: Trop De Pas Assez Format: LP Label: Bimbo Tower Country: France Price: $22.00 |
| "Limited 150 copies / hand made cover French quintet of freaks playing improvised psychedelic noise jazz kraut muzak with drums, percussions, guitare, bass, synth, saxophone, turntables, non-identify objects, voice and crazy electronics. Broken swing and harsh dada spirit, with an early "Futura" taste." -Bimbo Tower |
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Artist: SALOMAN, GABRIEL Title: Adhere Format: LP Label: Miasmah Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "When legendary noise duo Yellow Swans dissolved just prior to releasing Going Places, it left in its wake two musicians with very distinct but very different voices. Pete Swansons post-YS technoid experimentations have been well documented, but that still leaves Gabriel Saloman, who, after leaving the group, buried himself headfirst in sounds and images that were possibly even further away from his comfort zone. Adhere is Salomans first "proper" solo album, and it finds him stripping away the blood, sweat and tears of his old band, revealing a rich seam of ominous restraint. Delicately-picked strings, piano and hocking woodblock percussion are drowned in reverb and drawn out in cold anguish giving a cracked, minimalist mirror to the work of fellow Miasmah alums Kreng or Elegi. A softly-spoken record, while Adhere pushes away Salomans noise history, none of his well-documented intensity is discarded and lost. Instead, the blistering punk nihilism is allowed to simmer and boil over in different ways, and the occasional moments of post-Cocteau Twins shimmering bliss we could just about make out on Going Places are now given a chance to shine in all their glory. Adhere is a surprising, challenging and perfectly-paced album, and fits into its very own niche, ushering in a new generation of listeners to Salomans distorted, hazy vision. Includes mp3 download." - Miasmah. |
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Artist: SALVATORE Title: Head Spinning Freely (Slowly) Format: CD Label: Sound@One Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A follow up to the The Zahir LP featuring two pieces, each in the 30 minute range. The first is a cosmic-inflicted lo-hum exercise in string interference, ringing percussion and organically gushed scrapage. The second track is slightly more rigorous, with Eastern-scale approximation amidst clouds of percussive-mist and more. Dominates the obscuro-drone parameters of its own universe with mystifying ease." - FE. Also known as K Salvatore. |
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Artist: SAMARTZIS, PHILIP Title: Soft and Loud Format: LP Label: Plates Of Sound Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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Deluxe U.S. vinyl version of an obscure Australian CD release by Samartzis. Luxurious quality production all around, #d edition of 500 copies. "Dr. Philip Samartzis, a senior lecturer and coordinator of sound at RMIT in Australia, is not a novice to the experimental music scene. He was one of the founding members of the Australian avant-turntable/noise group Gum in the 80s, and has since been composing abstract electronic music, w/ previous releases on Synaesthesia, Dorobo, Staalplaat, and For4Ears. Samartzis Soft and Loud is a modern day exploration of Japans culture and identity through the guise of modern day musique concrete. Soft and Loud was conceived in the winter of 1999 in Tokyo, Japan and meticulously completed in Melbourne, Australia in August 2003, using specifically derived field recordings (that Philip had recorded) from Japan that detail the daily existence of many of its people. The digitally altered sounds of the Japanese subway system, electronic bird calls, the mournful calling of a chestnut salesman, to the digital wash of a Japanese stream cohesively offers a sense of serenity, and calmness as well as the loud, busy and chaotic nature of a country that appears often reserved and guarded. We, the listeners, become voyeurs to the country and experience the key characteristics of Japan that defines itself as a country." - Plates Of Sound.
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Artist: SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA Title: Maltid Format: CD Label: Silence Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "The second Samla Mammas Manna album, originally issued by Silence in 1973. With two bonus tracks. Two more albums would follow on Silence under this spelling of the name, then they would change it to Zamla Mammaz Manna and finally, Von Zamla, going into the mid-80s. This group falls well into the "progressive weirdness" category that Gong, Area, and Pell Mell were part of. While some of the many short tracks have a considerable amount of "noise" (screechy vocals, strange sounds), the band has, not unlike Gong, a killer musicianship that makes Måltid a listenable (and enjoyable) offering. Not unlike early Magma or Moving Gelatine Plates, but with more of a sense of humor." -Silence |
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Artist: SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Silence Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "Exacting reissue of the 1970 debut album by this trailblazing Swedish quartet, led by composer/pianist/organist/accordionist/vocalist Lasse "Lars" Hollmer, just prior to any knowledge of anything called "RIO" (Rock In Opposition). Formed in the late late 60s in Uppsala, SMM canvassed the festival circuit (appearing on the same bill that Träd Gräs och Stenar recorded their mammoth Live Gardet 1970 album) to popular and critical appeal. Later SMM would team up with groups like Henry Cow and such to affix a politically-bent moniker to their particularly labyrinthine chord progressions. Here we get a few prog-polkas for the kids, a bit of tasteful Rhodes bob, a few Swedish-folk sounding numbers, a fast carnival segue or two, near Deep Purplesque organ snaking, etc... Altogether pleasing, crude at points, plenty of humor, handclapping." -Silence |
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Artist: SAMPS, THE Title: The Samps Format: LP Label: Mexican Summer Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "A hidden agenda from members of Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti, the Samps toe over the chillwave divide into legit, spaced out R&B dance jams, clipped together from uncharted sources and designed to insert the boogie back in your butt. Five tracks of computer funq, jittery rhythms, and heavy synth bass abuse, ready for the dancefloor in your room." - Mexican Summer. |
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Artist: SAN FRANCISCO WATER COOLER Title: S/T Format: LP Label: KDVS Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"San Francisco Water Cooler are a duo including Dave Novick and Jerry Encoe, formerly of the Santa Cruz outfit Residual echoes, whose paths recently split. Locked in a cabin centered in Fiddletown California these meter-melting redliners explode with a palette drenched in noise-filtered psychedelia, pseudo-expressionist tube-reverb stomp loops, and pop melodics shimmering beneath a murky layer of feedback squalls." -kdvs.
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Artist: SAND CIRCLES Title: Motor City Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "This is MARTIN HERTERICHs second pass around the NNF circuit in his SAND CIRCLES hovercraft (following 2011s Midnight Crimes EP), and though the general schematics and engine design remain the same-aged drum machines, afterhours analog tape echo, faded synth riffs, derelict metropolis atmospheres-Motor Citys grace and execution place it in a superior division to anything else hes tracked to date. A cool, loner narrative arc plays out across each side too: "Entering Motor City" across "White Sand" wherein theres a "Downtown Holdup" in the "Innercity Haze," before cruising back out of the urban sprawl, "Distant Lights" in the rearview, on through the "Endless Nights," "Descending Into Space." As with his last tape, the Sand Circles chemistry of transfusing reverb-refracted electronic horizon melodies with pulsing, primitivist warehouse-party drum machinery really succeeds in evoking this weirdly poignant bedroom/industrial reverie mood-sphere, and the 11 instrumentals of Motor City hit this interzone pressure point better than ever. Silver ink on black shells with torched-factory graphic-design J-cards by B BROWN. Edition of 150." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: SANDERS, PHAROAH Title: Pharoahs First Format: LP Label: ESP-Disk Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Exact repro reissue of the original 1965 ESP Disk pressing of what would become consensually known as Pharoahs First (but is here misspelled "Pharaoh"). Recorded in 1964 with Stan Foster (trumpet), Jane Getz (piano), William Bennett (bass) and Marvin Pattillo (percussion). Two side long tracks: "Seven By Seven" and "Bethera" from the most fearsome tenor saxophonist on the 60s scene." -Esp-Disk.
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Artist: SANDERSON, PHILIP Title: Hollow Gravity Format: LP Label: Puer Gravy Country: USA Price: $33.00 |
 "The first album of new material by maverick electronic explorer and former Storm Bugs/Snatch Tapes operative Philip Sanderson since his 2005s Seal Pool Sounds CD, Hollow Gravity entwines the subtly unnerving and the psychologically suggestive in these enigmatic audio constructs, their preternaturally heightened atmospheres generated from an arsenal of analog synths, primitive delay units and sequencers, and teased into formulations as sly as they are elegant, with Hollow Gravity evincing echoes of both sci-fi soundtrackers like Gil Mellé and Louis & Bebe Barron and the mischievous audio contraptions of LAFMSs Solid Eye. This is a strictly limited edition of 100 copies and is pressed on 180-gram, laser etched vinyl." - Puer Gravy/Mutant Sounds. |
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Artist: SANDERSON, PHILIP Title: Reprint Format: CD Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Reprint was originally released on cassette by Snatch Tapes in 1980 and was credited to an unknown duo called Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. Claire and Susan were infact a figment of Snatch Tapes founder Philip Sandersons imagination. In addition to running the label, Philip was one half of the DIY electronic group STORM BUGS, and regularly collaborator with a then unknown musician by the name of David Jackman (one of these tracks they did together was recent issued on a 10" by Die Stadt)." - Anomalous. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: SANDERSON, PHILIP Title: Seal Pool Sounds Format: CD Label: Seal Pool Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "seal pool sounds is the first cd release of new material from snatch tapes founder, ORGANUM collaborator, and british installation artist, philip sanderson. seal pool sounds picks up where sandersons STORM BUGS project left off sometime in 1981. sandersons diy software electronics conjure whimsical, plaintive electronic tones and rhythms: sounds that recollect the light-hearted, yet melancholy nature of 20th century zoos. (the cd) at once evokes lafms, raymond scott, marcel duchamp, and french new wave film music. seal pool is a japan-based label whose releases are inspired by chance encounters, found objects and recurring dreams." - Seal Pool. |
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Artist: SANDERSON, PHILIP Title: Seal Pool Sounds - Special Edition Format: CD/CDR/Art Box Label: Seal Pool Country: Japan Price: $62.00 |
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"seal pool sounds is the first cd release of new material from snatch tapes founder, organum collaborator, and british installation artist, philip sanderson. seal pool sounds picks up where sandersons storm bugs project left off sometime in 1981. sandersons diy software electronics conjure whimsical, plaintive electronic tones and rhythms: sounds that recollect the light-hearted, yet melancholy nature of 20th century zoos. (the cd) at once evokes lafms, raymond scott, marcel duchamp, and french new wave film music. seal pool is a japan-based label whose releases are inspired by chance encounters, found objects and recurring dreams. seal pools first cd was jonathan coleclough and tim hill - beech for john and miho." - Seal Pool. Special edition includes the regular Seal Pool Sounds CD and a special CDR of two unreleased tracks, "Osaka by Night" & "Fluorescent", all packaged in an handpainted wooden box with old photos, newspaper, etc.. Limited Edition of 25.
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Artist: SANDRA PLAYS ELECTRONICS Title: Her Needs Format: 7" Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A 7" release of primitive D.I.Y. electronics by Sandra Plays Electronics, a project founded by Karl OConnor (Regis) while he was a teenager living in Birmingham, England in the 1980s. OConnor, mostly known for his pioneering work in the techno field (as Regis, Sandwell District, British Murder Boys, and various other entities) as well as his Downwards label, began playing and recording his own music when he was 16 years old. He collaborated with friends performing in short-lived bands such as Family Sex and also recorded on his own as Sandra Plays Electronics. He was heavily influenced by D.A.F., Liaisons Dangereuses, Cabaret Voltaire, and Soft Cell, to name a few. He would eventually collaborate with Robert Görl and also Chrislo Haas in the late 90s. The tracks we are presenting here are two versions of the same song, Her Needs, both recorded in Birmingham, England. The first was recorded in 1988 during sound check at the College of Food and Domestic Arts and the second was recorded in 1999 (from the Man Has Responsibilities session) at the Ice House. Pressed on heavy weight 70 gram ultra clear vinyl, the 7" is housed in a matte double sided printed sleeve. Limited to 999 numbered copies." - Minimal Wave. |
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Artist: SANDSTONE Title: Can You Mend A Silver Thread? Format: LP Label: Missing Vinyl Country: Greece Price: $34.00 |
| "Sandstones sole 1971 privately pressed album is one of the best and rarest early 70s US psychedelic folk rock records. Although only recently rediscovered, it is very sought after from worldwide collectors both for its rarity and musical quality. Great male female vocals in an early 70s UK psychedelic acid folk rock sound similar to Tudor Lodge, Jade etc. It contains 2 previously unreleased bonus tracks, not included in the original album. Highly recommended! Limited edition, deluxe 180g vinyl, from the original analogue master tapes, exact reproduction of the original first pressing." -Missing Vinyl |
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Artist: SANDWITCHES Title: Back to the Sea Format: 7" Label: Southpaw Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A new 7-inch from THE SANDWITCHES, who are based out of San Francisco and feature ex-members of THE FRESH & ONLYS. The 7-inch contains full-color artwork and has two songs of folk style garage with a little 60s girl group influence." - Southpaw. |
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Artist: SANDWITCHES Title: Duck, Duck, Goose! Format: 12" Label: Secret Seven/Empty Cellar Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "On their latest vinyl release, HEIDI and GRACE from San Franciscos THE SANDWITCHES perform four heartbreaking acoustic lullabies interwoven with the spookiest sessions of Duck Duck Goose! ever caught on tape. Recorded and Produced by WYMOND MILES (The Fresh & Onlys) and The Sandwitches, Duck Duck Goose! features haunting renditions of Tim Cohens "Rock of Gibraltar" (a bonus track from the Two Sides of Tim Cohen), and of the Oscar-nominated ballad "Baby Mine," from what some say is the most heartbreaking moment in Disney cartoon history. Stamped on one-sided 12-inch vinyl, the initial pressing of this EP is limited to 500 copies brought to you by Empty Cellar and Secret Seven Records." -Secret Seven/Empty Cellar |
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Artist: SANHEDOLIN Title: Manjoicchi Wa Muko Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $19.50 |
| "SANHEDOLIN are a ludicrously amped-up and heavy new power trio, featuring KEIJI HAINO, TATSUYA YOSHIDA (RUINS), and MITSURU NASUNO (RUINS). Haino brings aggressive anguish and an all-consuming black fire, Yoshida and Nasuno supply a sack full of convulsive time-shifting and complex kinetic acceleration." - PSF. |
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Artist: SANJAH Title: Musen/Izu Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| Kan Mikami: vocals, guitar; Masayoshi Urabe alto, harmonica, bass blockfloten, accordion, piccolo, chains; Toshi Ishizuka drums, percussion. "Ultra-heavy first album by new PSF super group, Sanja, consisting of gravel n glass-voiced crooner Kan Mikami, the scenes heaviest tub thumper Toshi Ishizuka, and alto terrorist and veritable rock n roll breather Masayoshi Urabe. The three first played together at a concert to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of PSF Records last year, and the intensity of the heat they generated has already become the stuff of Tokyo underground legend. The trio were quickly hustled into a studio to record their first album and the results are now available for the listening pleasure of all of you who couldnt make the gig. Theres a purity of improvised one-mind destruction on display here that is humbling to witness. All three are recently playing at unprecedented heights -- Mikamis vocals and Urabes alto carve great mercury swathes through the moist air, while Ishizuka deep-shifts tectonic plates beneath their feet. Veteran Mikami watchers are in for a treat of their own, as the master revisits Karasu from his debut album for the first time in 35 years." - Alan Cummings. |
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Artist: SANSO-XTRO Title: Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "2005 was the last time anyone heard from Melissa Agate aka Sanso-Xtro on her record for Type, Sentimentalist. Since then, quite a bit has happened. Agate has relocated to her native Australia and the move has treated her well. Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain takes a lot of the ideas from her first record and dials them in, pushing everything to the next level. This collection of songs is a quiet force, blissfully confident and expertly assembled. Sansos soundworld is a fully immersive environment. On the opener, "Fountain Fountain," we get a glimpse of everything to come. Theres this carefully controlled chaos at work that is immediately hypnotizing. Agate sings simple passages toward the end, welcoming listeners into this new world as her voice floats above the fray. It becomes obvious as the album progresses that Agate is, at heart, a drummer. The staccato rhythms and percussive embellishments bring the album to life. These rapid-fire beats in conjunction with precise, half-speed instrumentation work in perfect harmony. Reminiscent of Blackdance-era Klaus Schulze at times, theres an intoxicating dizzyness that is effortlessly present in "The Origin Of Birds" and "Wood Owl Wings A Rush Rush." Agate even throws a few nods to free jazz with "Goodnight Thylacine." Her skill as a drummer is matched by her ability as a songwriter, knowing when to push it over the top and when to hold back. Album closer "Exit: Joyous Mountain," sounds like a lost Alan Lomax gem with its melodica/harmonica duet and delicate singing. "Hello Night Crow" is the literal and figurative center of the album, though. It starts with a ringing synth loop that gives nothing away until the chord changes emerge a minute in. Again, its about the slow-build, raising the tension and anticipation before melting into the sky. "You wouldnt recognize that its not there anymore," Agate sings over the bubbling waves of synths. It is beautiful and crushing." -Digitalis |
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Artist: SANTASEDE Title: s/t Format: 10" Label: Le Souffleur Country: Netherlands Price: $18.00 |
 First non-privately distributed release on Raymond Dijkstras label since 2009, following a long string of ultra-limited art edition lathe-cuts. An unlikely collaboration between Dijkstra and Tiff Lion, who has done soundtrack work for CSI and The Hunger Games. LP by the duo to follow next year on Dekorder. "The music has an obscure and surreal character hard to categorize. It certainly has filmic qualities, if only as a film of the inner-eye. The music has a psychedelic touch and elements of esotericism by its use of sitar, (primitively played) tabla and highly reverberated string instruments. The reciting of old Italian Alchemistic texts by Tiff Lion links the music further to a dark spirituality. There is a great emphasis on acoustic instrumentation played in a raw manner (among others piano-strings) giving the whole record a very rudimentary character. The use of electronics is done in such a way that its often impossible to divide acoustic and electronic sounds. The electronic instrumentation thus emphasizes the rawness of the acoustic sounds. Highly recommended for lovers of psychedelic music."
"Vanilla white vinyl with dash of brown (every exemplar has a different dash so every exemplar is unique)
Vinyl-record weight: 160 grams. 33 Rpm. Limited edition of 250 ex. With personalized downloadcard.
October 2012." - Le Souffleur.
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Artist: SANTORO, VITTORIO Title: Man Leaving Harbour On A Ship (In A Room) Format: LP Label: Vittorio Santoro Country: Italy Price: $71.00 |
| "Man Leaving Harbour On A Ship (In A Room) is the title of a sound installation (for record player, vinyl record, speakers, found photograph, steel wires) by Vittorio Santoro to be presented in June 2010 at La BF15 Contemporary Art Space in Lyon. For the art installation of this sound piece, side A of the LP record (titled Commencement) is played over and over for a whole day. The organizers will take care that the side B (titled Conclusion) is played back only the next day. In Commencement the French sound poet, artist and composer Franck Leibovici reads a fragment from the article Das Narrenschiff als Aufklaerer by Gerhard Stadelmaier, published on January 18th, 2009 on the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Conclusion features a reading by the well-known French artist Pierre Leguillon. Recorded in Paris in March and April 2010, conceived and edited by Vittorio Santoro. The silences at the beginning and at the end of each side are integral parts of the sound work. The silence had been recorded in Paris in the night between April 8th and 9th, 2010. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies. The first 5 copies (numbered 1/125 to 5/125) are reserved for the 5 installation pieces, while the remaining 120 copies have been produced for the private use of the artists. Only a handful of copies available for private distribution through the alga marghen network." -Vittorio Santoro |
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Artist: SAPAT Title: An Ox Format: CDR Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"last few copies of summer 2005 tour cdr recently found in a suitcase. tripolar attack: heavy guitar psych a la early 70s pink floyd through an epic am radio, heliocentric percussive home taper jass warple & lofi tunesmithery out of the classic rock school or velvet underground & can (+ an amon duul 2 medley!)... full length on siltbreeze hits late january." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: SAPAT Title: Halycon Daze, Mystikal Stupors/Krackhausblooze Format: 7" Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"Imagine if the Edgar Broughton Band spent their formative years in a crack house on the bayou swamping out the rock in desperate need of a shot of penicillin. Now exit that doorpass and enter again: peak to peak of Mainliner, Psychosexual RnB, Eric Dolphy-Gagaku, William S. Burroughs ghost writing a straight line diatribe for a vertiginous Howlin Wolf and Tony Joe Whites wah bleaching on the beach with a Sassquatch. While Sapats forthcoming LP/CD on Siltbreeze is a bong shot of dusty sunlight vitamin C enveloper rays, this 7" single is a quarantined crater of wasabi soup strainer knock your dick in the dirt dixie raunch. Spins at 33rpm and clocks in at nearly 15 minutes! Members of various Kentucky head units: Valley of Ashes, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Phantom Family Halo, Dead Child, Son of Earth and Kark." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: SAPAT Title: Mortise and Tenon Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Spawned from the formidable Louisville, KY collective known as BLACK VELVET FUCKERE (VALLEY OF THE ASHES, PHANTOM FAMILY HALO, KARK, etc.), SAPAT resides as the centrifugal force in this Midwestern psychedelic madrigal set in the psychosexual backwaters of the mighty Ohio River. For the entirety of the 00 decade, members have kept busy collaborating with and/or massaging the egos of various and sundry avant-pontiffs such as Robert Fripp, Magik Markers, Dead Child (David Pajos metal band) and Eugene Chadbourne-when not honing the orgone energy of Sapat. For this self-titled full-length release, Sapat has opted for a more organic sonic waft. Acoustically packed to the gills, the octet effortlessly strums and blows breezy vibes, emitting kosmisch melodies and Teutonic ambience that channel-Julian Cope-like-past giants such as Limbus 4, Siloah and Lord Krishna Von Goloka (you know, the A-team of Krautrock). Once you launch into the groups spacey and entrancing, yet calming and soothing asteroid belt, you might mistake the Ozarks for the Alps if youre not careful. And who could blame you? Youre way up there and the airs thin; hallucinatings a must." - Siltbreeze. |
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Artist: SAPAT Title: Mortise and Tenon Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Spawned from the formidable Louisville, KY collective known as BLACK VELVET FUCKERE (VALLEY OF THE ASHES, PHANTOM FAMILY HALO, KARK, etc.), SAPAT resides as the centrifugal force in this Midwestern psychedelic madrigal set in the psychosexual backwaters of the mighty Ohio River. For the entirety of the 00 decade, members have kept busy collaborating with and/or massaging the egos of various and sundry avant-pontiffs such as Robert Fripp, Magik Markers, Dead Child (David Pajos metal band) and Eugene Chadbourne-when not honing the orgone energy of Sapat. For this self-titled full-length release, Sapat has opted for a more organic sonic waft. Acoustically packed to the gills, the octet effortlessly strums and blows breezy vibes, emitting kosmisch melodies and Teutonic ambience that channel-Julian Cope-like-past giants such as Limbus 4, Siloah and Lord Krishna Von Goloka (you know, the A-team of Krautrock). Once you launch into the groups spacey and entrancing, yet calming and soothing asteroid belt, you might mistake the Ozarks for the Alps if youre not careful. And who could blame you? Youre way up there and the airs thin; hallucinatings a must." - Siltbreeze. |
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Artist: SAPAT/THE SB Title: Seed And Surgery Format: CDR Label: Free103Point9 Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: SAPPHIRE SLOWS Title: True Breath Format: 12" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Stunning five-song debut EP by this young Tokyo producer. Ghost-in-the-drum-machine rhythms layered with her exquisite Cocteau Twins vocal haze, but impeccably crafted into nuanced multi-movement compositions. Will be doing a full-length later in 2012 as well. Our fave new female artist." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SARAHS CHARITY Title: Atonic Feedback Consumerism Format: CDR Label: Reverse Country: Denmark Price: $10.00 |
| Edition of 70 in spray painted covers. Previous release on Marcia Bassetts and Matthew Bowers Heavy Blossom label. |
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Artist: SARAHS CHARITY Title: Code of Red Twin Format: CDR Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Among the metal forests of Denmark, there is Sarahs Charity. A maelstrom of expert tone work and free electricity; sounds so electric, yet still reminiscent of the flowing natural growth of fellow Danes Family Underground (it should be noted that Nicolas of FU helps out on track 2). This naturalism plus the actual sterility create a feeling nothing short of psychedelic. A wall of intense oscillation and soothing vacuous space ala Marcia Bassetts various projects. Speaking of Marcia, SC is also famed for being the only non Bassett/Bower related project to be released on the esteemed Heavy Blossom label. In a numbered edition of 150 copies in absolutely beautiful mind tripping deluxe screened sleeves by Dylan Martorell, with screened discs and an insert." - Arbor |
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Artist: SARIN SMOKE Title: It Chars Our Lips Yet Still We Drink Format: One Sided LP Label: Wholly Other Country: US Price: $20.00 |
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"The second ever Wholly Other vinyl outing is a duo of Peter Swanson (D. Yellow Swans) and Tom Carter (Charalambides, etcetera). Despite the noisy pedigree of Mr. Swanson, and the latter day scrape of TCs Horton collaborations, this is a deceptively serene collection of electric guitar trance-outs, gently building to a spiders-down-the-shirt climax full of hiss and slithering menace. Eye-popping silkscreened crypto mandala art by Liz Harris (Grouper) on the blank side, on clear vinyl so you can stare while it spins (and youll want to)... packaged in a heavy clear sleeve. Edition of 308." -Wholly Other.
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Artist: SASKER SCHEERDER Title: Boomcar Format: 7" Label: Meeuw Muzak Country: Netherlands Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: SATAN ALFA BEEL ATEM Title: Delicior Ribbon Pink Beel Format: CD Label: Horen Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
| "Satan Alfa Beel Atem is somehow related to Ziggy Atem. Ziggy produced a few cassettes that caused a minor stir a few years back and then completed his documentation with the Dry Ice System: Music Of Death videotape on the Augen video label. Satan Alfa Beel Atem takes off in a very similar vein to Ziggy Atem with this debut CD release, described as "strange technoise from outer space." Sheets of oscillating wind-like synth sounds slide all over the place and for pure screwball Japanese culture representation, this one easily maintains the pace. "Satan Alfa Beel Atem: voice, conductor; Neu Arz: computer, synthesizer; Aqua Zip: guitar, synthesizer." - Horen. |
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Artist: SATAN PLACE Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"For 19 evil years this thing has been waiting to unleashed. Slated for release in 1985 on Ecstatic Peace this historical document finally sees the dark of night. A friend of mine by the name of Anton LaBaise was an Ecstatic Peace completist. When my band Universal Indians was asked to open for Sonic Youth - Anton said "You have to ask Thurston about Satan Place!!". Many of you may remember seeing this title listed in EP ads back in the day. Thurston said it had never been released and asked if Id be into putting it out. I agreed!! So he had his bud Byron Crowley dig it up in the Ecstatic Yod archive and mail it to me. That was about 4 or so years ago. So finally my slack ass has gotten around to dubbing these things off!!! So what is Satan Place?? Satan Place is a 70 minute interview conducted in 1985 by a man known only as "Phantom Tollbooth" with a group of Satanist Teenagers from upstate New York. What he uncovered is unbelievable... shocking tales of rituals consisting of eating live frogs; drinking urine mixed with oil; sex; drugs; Ozzy and Dio; and other hideous acts which must be heard to be believed. They have guitars too! And there is 20 minutes or so that sound much like Bruce Russell waiting around for the other dudes to show up at a Dead C practice. What we have here is a very important document exploring the twisted minds of the Satanist Teenager of the 1980s. Recorded just a few short miles away from where Satanic teen Ricky Kasso butchered his freind over a bad Angel Dust deal. This is a frightning recording. Recomended only to those with a strong mind and stomache. Ltd to 100 selfish copies." - Hanson.
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Artist: SATANIC ROCKERS Title: Eviction Format: 7" Label: Quemada Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Quemada Records is very thrilled to release the debut single from Melbourne sociopaths, the Satanic Rockers, who take our beloved warm blanket DIY and douse in heavy, vile satanic goop. Imagine Paul Leary taking over lead duties for the Instant Automatons or if Mad Nanna showed a bit more Sabbath muscle . Your daughters are not safe. Full length before too long on Alberts Basement/Sunshine and Grease/Black Petal/Own Time." - Quemada
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Artist: SATO, MICHIHIRO Title: Works Of Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Playing the ancient instrument Tsugaru-Shamisen (3 strings) w/ temple-floating power. Sato is perhaps best known for his NY downtown collaboration album produced by Zorn (Hat Art 6015), but here you can hear his genius minus the interruptions. Beautiful, unique transport." - FE. |
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Artist: SATOH & SOUNDBREAKERS, MASAHIKO Title: Amalgamation Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
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"Reissue of this legendary album from 1970 featuring Hiro Yanagida, Kimio Mizutani, Mototeru Takagi. Number seven on the Japrocksampler Top 50. Divine excessive jazz-rock stylings by this batch of period-visionaries presumably recorded sometime in 1970 by Rudy Van Gelder and Creed Taylor at the Toshiba Records 1st Studio. All of that "real" psychedelic goo gets smeared about quite a bit; acoustic string flap AND electric gonzo-muff battle overdriven organ lines played by said Masahiko and his band of western pickups (Louis Haynes on drums, Jochen Staudt on bass). Furious jamming is meshed with some fine sub-George Russell 3rd-stream string/brass writhing and found-sound tape-spatter (machine guns, war-speak). Housed in a gatefold sleeve; on 180 gram vinyl." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: SATOH & SOUNDBREAKERS, MASAHIKO Title: Amalgamation Format: CD Label: Drone Syndicate Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "Number seven on the Japrocksampler Top 50, available again for the first time in over a decade!" "This preposterous piece of psychedelic avant-jazz sounds like the work of aliens, each with only one foot in our universe. Propelled by cacophonous brassy blasts, volleys of machine-gunning, ecstatically Light Fantastic rhythms and moments of Teo Macero-style Mixing Concrète (during which the whole track becomes consumed by waves of new sound); the result is the most singular mash-up of inappropriate sounds any listener is ever likely to hear. Over two side-long tracks, shaman Masahiko Satoh sends us through a sonic mind-field, baffling our senses and our sense of gravity. Located at the centre of Amalgamations giddy sessions was the frantic Detroit drumming of hard-bop legend Louis Hayes, whose role it was to play the bubbling ever unfolding fundament on which Masahiko Satohs whole trip proceeded, as though the rhythm section were a magic carpet magically pulled out from under the feet of the other performers. Over this rhythmic shaking, Satoh scattered Hammond organ around and ring-modulated his Fender Rhodes piano solos (Roland built three especially for the record), added lead guitar from super session legend Kimio Mizutani, trumpets and sax from Mototeru Takagi, scat singing from Kayoko Itoh, and strings from the Wehnne Strings Consort." -- Japrocksampler |
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Artist: SATOH & SOUNDBREAKERS, MASAHIKO Title: Amalgamation Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "One of the most tripped-out albums youll ever hear from Japanese keyboardist Masahiko Satoh, and thats saying a lot, considering some of his other avant sessions of the 70s! This ones from 1971 and a really free-form jam -- recorded so that each of the two long tunes takes up a side of the record apiece -- one with really full-on, frenzied noise courtesy of some ring modulators played by Satoh, undercut with some really heavy drums from Louis Hayes, a surprising entry for a session like this! Side two has a sound thats a bit more organic -- some spare percussion at first -- but the record then moves into noisier territory too, and even features some cool, scatting female vocals. Highly recommended! Numbered, limited edition housed in an LP replica sleeve. Digitally remastered. Sits at #7 on Julian Copes Japrocksampler Top 50 list." - Phoenix. "...shaman Masahiko Satoh sends us through a sonic mind-field, baffling our senses and our sense of gravity." - Julian Cope. |
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Artist: SATWA Title: Satwa Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"The first ever reissue of the first private press LP from Brazil. Recorded and released in 1973 by the duo of Lula Cortes & Lailson. A real lost masterpiece from any angel, and the first release of the fertile Recife psych scene of the early 70s... mesmerizingly beautiful sitar & 12 string psych ragas beaming strait for your third eye, and lifted ever higher by occasional angelic vocals or a burst of fuzz guitar... truly amazing stuff sure to turn the ears of any folk/psych fan, past or present... perfectly reproduced original artwork, heavy weight old style sleeves, double sided color insert with extensive notes & photos, and pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl. LP version is limited to 1000 copies." - Time-Lag.
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Artist: SATWA Title: Satwa Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The first ever reissue of the first private press LP from Brazil. Recorded and released in 1973 by the duo of Lula Cortes & Lailson. A real lost masterpiece from any angel, and the first release of the fertile Recife psych scene of the early 70s... mesmerizingly beautiful sitar & 12 string psych ragas beaming strait for your third eye, and lifted ever higher by occasional angelic vocals or a burst of fuzz guitar... truly amazing stuff sure to turn the ears of any folk/psych fan, past or present... perfectly reproduced original artwork, heavy weight old style sleeves, double sided color insert with extensive notes & photos, and pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl. LP version is limited to 1000 copies." - Time-Lag. |
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Artist: SAUCERS/ALLIES Title: 1978-81: East Bay Punks From The Streets Of Berkeley Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
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"Disillusionment with the "mellow 70s" was turning to rage as the US waged a proxy war in Central America, and San Francisco ignited into fiery riots after the assassination of its mayor and first openly gay city council member. The Saucers reflected these times with caustic humor and impassioned social commentary.
In 1980, the band after the departure of first keyboard player, Joey Michaels, renamed themselves The Allies, adding dynamic lead guitarist Craig Magee, formerly with Dyan Diamond (Runaways). With the addition of Magee, the band pivoted from the Saucers Farfisa-dominated garage punk to a more muscular, guitar-driven sound.
Local music producer and KALX engineer Terry Hammer worked behind the scenes to get both bands into the studio, with varied results, on display here. He also recorded a number of live shows for the two groups, and its mostly thanks to his efforts that this music survives today. After the definitive split of the band, the drummer Jake Smith went on to join hardcore punk band Crucifix, played in an early version of Faith No More." - Rave Up.
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Artist: SAUREKELLER Title: Nur der Gute Darf Leiden Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
| "After a longer Break its time to present you a true Pearl of GERMAN CASSETTE Underground from the early 1980s SAUREKELLER from Hamburg. Maybe you allready know their long gone and classic "Hiroshima" 7" maybe you dont. What we have here is a fine 180 gr. Vinyl Master featuring all kinds of NEW WAVE, youll get some MINIMAL SYNTH, some PUNK, some weird NOISE and some RAP too!!! These guys were cool and crazy and if you loved their 7" YOU NEED THE LP!!! As the title says it all "Nur der Gute darf leiden"..." -Was Soll Das? Platten. |
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Artist: SAVAGE DAMAGE DIGEST Title: #2 Format: Mag Label: Savage Damage Digest Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"The second issue of this new Bay Area magazine covering everything from 60s garage & psych to 70s punk and even 80s metal. ..features SF proto-punkers LARUE, DUCKS DELUXE, JULY, CHANTS R&B, BEDLAM FOUR, RAMONES and a special feature on guitar player ROSS THE BOSS. Also included are comics, reviews, and more. 78-pages." -Savage Damage Digest
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Artist: SAVAGE DAMAGE DIGEST Title: Issue 1, Summer 2010 Format: Mag Label: Savage Damage Digest Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Features on Teenage Head, Jean-Pierre Massiera, Brinsley Schwartz/Nick Lowe, Algy Ward & Tank, The Clean, Hanoi Rocks, Link Wray, Aussie sharpies, etc.. Nicely done.
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Artist: SAVAGE PENCIL Title: Rock N Roll Necronomicon Format: Book Label: Shock Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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"Collects Savs classic Rock n Roll Zoo strip (lates 70s/early 80s)! Pretty goddamn essential, even if I say so myself...92 pages, laminated card covers, A4 size." - Shock.
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Artist: SAVAGES, THE Title: Black Scorpio Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $46.00 |
| "India 1973. "The Savages recorded Black Scorpio, the rarest album from India, in Bombay 1973. Beside another live album this is the only album they did. An original of this beauty has been recently sold on eBay for over $3000. This heavy garage band with great musical potential, is as good as the best tracks from the well-known albums of the Simla Beat compilations. Heavy fuzz-guitar, organ, tough vocals, driving beats, wailing guitars -- Doorsy feeling all over. Some original songs and lots of good cover versions in India style underground. The original album came out with a die-cut gimmick sleeve, so this reissue has the same gimmick sleeve." -Shadoks |
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Artist: SB, THE Title: The SB Format: LP Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Only seven years after its inception, the New York improv psych band
The SB releases its oft-promised, self-titled vinyl debut. Side
As guitar / synth / electronics jam "Glass" wallows in minimal, murky, and
melodic waters; side Bs "Tu No Notas" documents a slow-burning 9-player
seance in Ohio. Black and white marble vinyl. Brown chipboard disco sleeve
with color paste-on. Edition of 125" - White Tapes.
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Artist: SB, THE Title: Who Will Feed Them Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $23.50 |
| Black vinyl with insert. "Performed by: Mark Bajuk, Tony Fasce, Silvia Feriozzi, Eric Mauer, Brent Peich, Russ Waterhouse (Watersports, Blues Control, White Tapes, etc..). The next evolutionary step from Double Leopards and Family Underground, very subtle and psychedelic music." - Qbico. |
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Artist: SCARCITY OF TANKS Title: No Endowments Format: LP Label: Total Life Society Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The group met and recorded tracks during 2007-2008 in Cleveland and Oakland. The vinyl version of NO ENDOWMENTS is available from TOTAL LIFE SOCIETY RECORDS (2008), while the CD version is available from TEXTILE RECORDS (2009). The album was mastered by Weasel Walter. The cover art is by Devendra Banhart.This Cleveland combo, led by Matthew Wascovich, has sounded a little random to my ears previously. But this effort, NO ENDOWMENTS, featuring Clevelanders Dave Cintron (Terminal Lovers, Downside Special), Ted Flynn (Theodore Vril), Andrew Klimek (X-Blank-X, Johnny & The Dicks, Death On A Stick, Ugly Beauty), Scott Pickering (Pufftube, Prisonshake, My Dad Is Dead, Spike In Vein, Happy Flowers), Nate Scheible (Self Destruct Button), Dan Wenninger (Oblique Orchestra) and Oakland, Californias Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX, Lake Of Dracula) is freeform skronk, but other parts are great rolling-CLE-word-spews in the Laughner/Kryss tradition, with instrumental moves jacked from Death of Samantha and Rocket From The Tombs, then updated like crazy. Crazy." - Byron Coley, Archivist. |
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Artist: SCARE SUPPLY aka UNIVERSAL VAGRANTS Title: Format: LP Label: De Stijl Country: USA Price: $35.00 |
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Somewhat mysterious John Olson/American Tapes related project which is more than likely the Universal Indians under a different name. Released in 1998 in an edition of 99 copies.
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Artist: SCENIC Title: Format: 10" Label: St. Ives Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Bruce Licher of Savage Republic, Africa Corps, Bridge, Tunnel Tones, Them Rhythm Ants, etc. Incredible handpainted and letter pressed sleeve. Limited to 600. |
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Artist: SCHAEFER, JANEK Title: Early Electronic Compositions Format: 7" Label: Tonschacht Country: Germany Price: $8.00 |
| "Both of these compositions were produced while I was working freelance for de Rijke Marsh Morgan architects in London. One afternoon I had a message to call a guy named Jet Mistry who worked for the lift company Thyssen. He was a chatty guy so we talked about names etc, and I decided to dedicate a track to his as I liked it so much. This was produced using an RS Integrator analogue patch bay synthesizer that Id bought around then with the profits of working a 96 hours week on a new London park competition. Another project we produced at the practice was a quirky, live, stop frame short video showcasing various projects for a touring architecture exhibition. I was asked to edit and produce the sound. Side B is a 7" mix with the spoken sections removed." - Tonschacht. |
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Artist: SCHAEFFER, PIERRE Title: Le Triedre Fertile Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
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"Recollection GRM is one more label within the Editions Mego family of labels. Its aim is to make available on vinyl the vast archives of Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM). Being released in batches of two every three months, it will present both known and lesser-known works. All releases will be re-cut at Dubplates & Mastering and packaged in new artwork by Stephen OMalley, featuring bi-lingual (French/English) texts. Some of these pioneering works have been out-of-print in this format for over 30 years, and would be a valuable addition to any serious collection of electronic music. It is worth pointing out that this series is neither a re-run of the original Collection INA-GRM series or the Phillips Prospective 21e Siècle series, but something new altogether. This is Pierre Schaeffers Le Trièdre Fertile, full version 1975-1976, with the participation of Bernard Dürr. This trihedron, Schaeffers last piece, echoes the physicists "reference trihedron," linked to the three fundamental measurements of sound: frequency, duration and intensity. The basic signs of traditional sol-fa that enable the transcribing of pitches, rhythms and nuances also correspond to these three measurements. However, it is precisely outside or beyond these parameters that, all through his life, Schaeffer researched music. Hence, qualifying this trihedron as "fertile" is the confession "of a late repentance." On the other hand, and against all odds, this piece was only composed from synthetic sounds, developed by Bernard Dürr. It is Pierre Schaeffers only purely electronic music work. Here, the synthesizer is rather monitored by sensitivity than by computation principles, thus letting uncanny structures emerge. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, March 2012. Layout: Stephen OMalley." -Recollection GRM. |
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Artist: SCHATTEN UNTER EIS Title: 1984 Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"5 track LP by SCHATTEN UNTER EIS. This is brilliant MINIMAL-SYNTH stuff from their various cassette releases from 1982-1984. Featuring Joachim of L´AVENTURE IMAGINAIRE!!!" - Was Soll Das? Platten. Edition of 300.
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Artist: SCHEDELVRETER Title: Hunker Format: 10" Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Minimal Wave is proud to announce our 34th release, a limited edition hand-silkscreened 10" of SCHEDELVRETER (which loosely translates as "Skull Gobber"), the Dutch side project of brilliant minimal synth pioneer DANNY BOSTEN, best known for his project DAS DING. The seven tracks were originally recorded in Dannys home studio in the Netherlands and self-released on a cassette entitled Hunker via his Tear Apart Tapes label in 1985. Unlike Das Ding, Schedelvreter is not pattern-based or sequenced, the synth sounds are hand played over a collage of found sounds. At the time, Danny was experimenting with a Crumar synth that was falling apart, and would sporadically create sounds that were like human voices. He created massive drum sounds by layering noise, using leftover four-track additions in reverse and some live drum recordings courtesy of his brothers tapes. The end result feels narrative and filmic, like the soundtrack to an imaginary apocalyptic movie: bleak and desolate. The newly remastered 10" release is limited to 999 hand-silkscreened numbered copies pressed on black medium weight vinyl." - Minimal Wave. |
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Artist: SCHEIBLE, NATE Title: Hawthorne Format: 3" CDR Label: Wagon Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Cleveland improv giant and multi-instrumentalist Nate Scheible throws yet another curveball with "Hawthorne," a beautiful document of miles and miles of guitar cut-up and glued together into perfect synchronicity. Based on "The Artist Of The Beautiful" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scheibles guitar playing evokes a melancholy but serene mood, drowsy and reflective. Color art with three different covers. Edition of 60 copies." -Wagon
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Artist: SCHERSTJANOI, VALERI Title: Zaum - Заумь 1981-1989 Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $52.00 |
"Released for the exhibition "Valeri Scherstjanoi - Auf dem Weg zum Scribentismus. Experimentelle Texte und Gesten. 1982-1989" at Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik), Berlin, June 2012. Presenting early phonetic poems by Scherstjanoi. Black on white hand-silkscreened cover with insert (29x29cm), black polylined innersleeves. Edition of 80 numbered and signed copies, of which only 40 are available for distribution.
Valeri Scherstjanoi, born 1950, grew up in Krasnodar in the south of the present-day Russian Federation. He is a sound-poet, writer, and graphic artist since 1968. He is the author of a number of poetry-books and has been writing theoretical texts (his own poetic theory and the practice of Ars Scribendi) as well as articles and books on the history of Russian Futurism in magazines, collections, and anthologies. He lives and works in Berlin." -Tochnit Aleph.
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Artist: SCHIBBINZ Title: Livin Free Format: LP Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
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"In 1967, a bunch of U.S. and Argentinean kids recorded a magical album which has remained unknown for many years due to its extreme rarity, with less than a handful of copies known to exist. Released in 1968 in Argentina by a label called Phonexa, the Schibbinz album could be regarded as the ultimate teen garage folk-rock album, ever. An album of fragile beauty, full of teen charm, innocent vocals, jangly guitars, charming, lo-fi sound and a lost-in-time atmosphere. It has the look and sound that can only be found on some U.S. 60s private-pressings like Rising Storm or Summer Sounds, but Schibbinz music is something else. Guerssen Records is proud to present this wonderful and mega-rare vinyl album to the world, with the production fully benefitting from the bands involvement and assistance. The original master tapes were lost, but the sound has been carefully-remastered from an original near-mint copy. Extensive, detailed liner-notes and lots of cool pictures from the bands archives are all included in a 4-page insert." -Guerssen.
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Artist: SCHICKERT, GUNTER Title: Samtvogel Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"There are records that come from the soul. No matter how primitive may be the recording techniques the musician has access to, the soul gets its way to the heart and mind of the listener. Samtvogel is one of those records. Günter Schickert recorded that amazing piece of human greatness in 1974, using the media he had at the time, putting his brain at work to find the best way of taping everything he had to say. When I was recording Samtvogel in 1974 I had only 2 Taperecorders. I played one track and while listening I added the second one. And so on. Four times. When I mixed all together I borrowed a 3rd taperecorder. And still added the last track to the master. I had a small mixer with 2 stereo and 1 mono but it was possible to pan tracks. No equalization. It all came out of my still living G2000 Dynacord guitar amplifier, of course valve, with no master, even the voice recorded through it. If I made a mistake in 1 track I had to repeat it from the beginning. And if while mixing I was not fast enough in changing the tape I had to start again. So it took me more than 3 months to get ready. Thanks to these three months of work, between June and September of 1974, Samtvogel was privately issued that same year. It would later be issued on the Brain label, with a small change in the artwork -- titles added to the front cover, which werent on the original private pressing. Brain also reissued it on the labels Rock On Brain LP series, this time with a completely different sleeve. The album contained two tracks on side one and just one on side two, and its sound has often been compared to the most explorative works of Syd Barret -- however it must be pointed out that Schickert did not need any mind spreading substances to allow his sounds to float out of his mind & soul, they just came out in the most natural way. It will also appeal to fans of the echoed atmospheric guitar work of other Krautrock innovators such as Ash Ra Temple, Manuel Götsching or A.R. & The Machines, and some may find on the vocal passages certain resemblances to Damo Suzuki on Cans Tago Mago era. The Wah Wah reissue is limited to 500 vinyl LP copies only, housed in a quality sleeve that reproduces that of the original 1974 private pressing and featuring a 4 page insert with liners and photos, sound remastered at Eastside mastering Berlin. Get this bird now, before it flies away!" - Wah Wah.
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Artist: SCHICKERT, GUNTER Title: Uberfallig Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Bureau B reissues Günter Schickerts album Überfällig, originally released in 1979 on Sky Records. 180 gram pressing. "No sooner had electronic music broken through in Germany, principally aligned in the two schools of Düsseldorf and Berlin, than Günter Schickert also began his first musical experiments. Although GAM, the group he founded in 1973, did not then release a record, he did issue his first solo effort, Samtvogel, a year later -- an album which was eagerly snapped up and re-released by the Brain label. It would take five years for Sky Records to release his next LP, entitled Überfällig (trans. "Overdue"), which proved to be the last for a number of years. This album, as its German title suggests, was long overdue. Günter Schickert had developed his own unique, forward-looking type of music, assuming an exceptional position in the concert of German electronics. In spite of the clearly discernible influence of music from the so-called Berlin school (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel etc.), Schickert is anything but a copycat. Schickert concentrated on pursuing his own ideas and pushing the boundaries of his remarkable aural creations. He is at pains to emphasize that, unlike almost all of his contemporaries, he did not use any synthesizers; his instruments are the electric guitar, his own studio with a multi-track tape machine and a comfortable arsenal of effects. Similar experiments had also been attempted by Manuel Göttsching (Inventions For Electric Guitar) and Achim Reichel (A.R. & Machines: Die Grüne Reise), but without stretching the multifaceted nature of their music to the point of microtonality, as Schickert dared to do on Überfällig. His own take on minimalism places him closer to the likes of Steve Reich and Glen Branca, free from the reach of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Schickerts use of concrete sounds and his completely autonomous way of working in his own studio presaged a stage of development more readily associated with the early 1980s. In 1979, the album was a statement of a virtuosic outsider, a guitarist and sound sculptor whose musical visions transgressed the level of expectation of a potential audience, detached from the electronic mainstream. Günter Schickert was one of the protagonists who furthered the development of experimental pop music from the outer margins. The reissue of Überfällig was, in a word, overdue." -Asmus Tietchens; Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens. |
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Artist: SCHICKERT, GUNTER Title: Uberfallig Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Bureau B reissues Günter Schickerts album Überfällig, originally released in 1979 on Sky Records. "No sooner had electronic music broken through in Germany, principally aligned in the two schools of Düsseldorf and Berlin, than Günter Schickert also began his first musical experiments. Although GAM, the group he founded in 1973, did not then release a record, he did issue his first solo effort, Samtvogel, a year later -- an album which was eagerly snapped up and re-released by the Brain label. It would take five years for Sky Records to release his next LP, entitled Überfällig (trans. "Overdue"), which proved to be the last for a number of years. This album, as its German title suggests, was long overdue. Günter Schickert had developed his own unique, forward-looking type of music, assuming an exceptional position in the concert of German electronics. In spite of the clearly discernible influence of music from the so-called Berlin school (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel etc.), Schickert is anything but a copycat. Schickert concentrated on pursuing his own ideas and pushing the boundaries of his remarkable aural creations. He is at pains to emphasize that, unlike almost all of his contemporaries, he did not use any synthesizers; his instruments are the electric guitar, his own studio with a multi-track tape machine and a comfortable arsenal of effects. Similar experiments had also been attempted by Manuel Göttsching (Inventions For Electric Guitar) and Achim Reichel (A.R. & Machines: Die Grüne Reise), but without stretching the multifaceted nature of their music to the point of microtonality, as Schickert dared to do on Überfällig. His own take on minimalism places him closer to the likes of Steve Reich and Glen Branca, free from the reach of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. Schickerts use of concrete sounds and his completely autonomous way of working in his own studio presaged a stage of development more readily associated with the early 1980s. In 1979, the album was a statement of a virtuosic outsider, a guitarist and sound sculptor whose musical visions transgressed the level of expectation of a potential audience, detached from the electronic mainstream. Günter Schickert was one of the protagonists who furthered the development of experimental pop music from the outer margins. The reissue of Überfällig was, in a word, overdue." -Asmus Tietchens; Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens. |
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Artist: SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE Title: Aktion 950908 Taipei Taiwan Format: 7" Label: RRR Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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1995 release featuring Mike Dando of Con-Dom and the Haters. Recorded live in Taipei in 1995. Schimpfluch-Gruppe is Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock) and Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant).
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Artist: SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE Title: Paris Aktionen Format: LP Label: Beniffer Editions Country: Canada Price: $24.00 |
| Brutal Document of two Live Actions performed in Paris 1996 & 1997. Aktion 961123 (the infamous "Spaghetti-Action") featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Philips, Helena Greter & Aktion 970223 featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Philips, Helena Greter, Doris Tomasoni. Edition of 500 copies. Mastered & cut by Rashad at D&M, Berlin. Co-released with Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICA Title: Kankei UFO From Zanryu-Shinen Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Volume 3 in the ongoing Japanese Avant-Garde Cassette Reissue Series. The 80s and early 90s saw a great deal of fascinating and exciting material released on cassette in the Tokyo underground. While some of the more noise-oriented stuff enjoyed a modicum of international distribution, the avant-garde material generally did not. This series, whose first release was Iro / Tamafuri (PSFD-180), aims to rescue the best of this material from historical oblivion. Schitosoma Japonica (AKA Nihon Juketsu Kyuchu) were a cracked avant-garde, recording-only offshoot of the freeform rock band Amanita. Formed around 1990, the group lived a communal existence in Saitama, on the northern borders of Tokyo, experimenting with music, magic and psychological experiments. Our basic performance style was completely freeform, utilizing prepared instruments and rejecting regular rhythms and melodic development. Our abiding themes were communication with the afterlife/cosmos and the manifestation of paranormal accidents. We would jam endlessly until our performance space was filled with the signs of blood and feverish becomings. For us, performance was a kind of ritual. The group released a clutch of barely distributed cassettes in tiny editions. This CD compiles the best of them, sifting through the detritus of a technological society to float between noise, drone and ritualized avant-garde gestures. Eight tracks, fifty-four minutes. Liner notes in English and Japanese." -Alan Cummings |
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Artist: SCHIZO Title: Schizo And The Little Girl Format: 7" Label: Red Lounge Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| "Reissue of incredible single by pre-HELDON formation led by Mr Richard Pinhas, who personally gave permissions to use these tracks for re-release. This 3 tracks Ep features some of the heaviest PSYCHEDELIC rock outings ever. Young mr Pinhas blows you away with some amazing guitar trippery. EP comes with original artwork on thick cardboard. A must have for all PSYCH-HEADS around the planet." - Red Lounge. |
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Artist: SCHIZOPHASIA Title: I & II Format: Cass Label: Nostilevo Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "if you know of what Noise Not Music stands for, apply that phrase here. this tape is a collection of their first two now out-of-print + epically raging, occasionally head-scratching 7"s. 7"s that I feel like made me re-position what I looked for in punk. for fans of Disorder, Gloom, Zyanose, Crass, Tranquilizer, Screaming Noise, Nerveskade, The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks, D-Clone, Chaos U.K., Skitslickers, No Fucker... things like that. edition of 77 cassettes." -Nostilevo |
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Artist: SCHLAUCHE-RADIO Title: Umgebuug Format: CDR Label: SHMF Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| Hand spraypainted covers. Limited to 14. |
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Artist: SCHLICK, JORG & MEGABODY Title: Farbenlehre III Format: 7" Label: Leiterwagen Country: Germany Price: $8.50 |
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Features artist Albert Oehlen (Leiterwagen is Oehlens label) and NDW legend A. Dorau.
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Artist: SCHMIDT & THE INNER SPACE, IRMIN Title: Kamasutra Format: Double LP Label: Crippled Dick Hot Wax Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
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"Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents Kamasutra -- an unreleased soundtrack from 1968 composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space. No overlap in content with the other recent Inner Space release, Agilok & Blubbo, released by Wah Wah Records earlier in 2009. Better late than never? A good four decades after its making, a rare gem is up for release: the soundtrack to Kobi Jaegers erotic and educational epic Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love. A precursor to Krautrock pioneers Can, Schmidts 1968 recording assembles Cans original line-up -- Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney -- who later went on to craft the bands seminal debut, Monster Movie. The film Kamasutra: Consummation Of Love switches between India and Germany and stars Bruno Dietrich and Barbara Schöne. A prime example of late-1960s German erotica and the so-called sexual revolution, it liberated the subject of sex from dingy red light cinemas and whisked it away to the exotic Far East, to the realm that -- more than a millennium earlier -- had spawned the erotic teachings of the Kamasutra. Fast-forward to the present day, and you will find the films well-intentioned, in parts pedagogical approach bristling with (un)intentional comedy. Many bands and composers from the late-1960s were intrigued by Eastern philosophy and influenced by sounds of the Orient. Besides several laid-back, percussive instrumentals laced with flutes and sitars, the soundtrack also features three vocal tracks: "Im Hiding My Nightingale" (sung by Margareta Juvan), "There Was A Man" (sung by Malcolm Mooney) and "Im Around You Everyday" (sung by Michael Karoli). Kamasutra was mastered from the original analog tapes by Calyx and is available as a CD digipack and limited gatefold double vinyl. Before Irmin Schmidt founded the now-legendary German band Can in 1968, he received a formal musical education and studied composition, piano, conducting and music ethnology. Amongst others his teachers were Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ligeti. Between 1962 and 1969 he conducted numerous orchestras, including his own compositions. During this period, he also composed music for various film and theater productions. Between 1969 and 1978, he worked exclusively with Can (in 2003 they received the prestigious ECHO Lifetime Achievement Award)." - Crippled Dick Hot Wax. |
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Artist: SCHMIDT, RICK Title: Emerald Cities Format: DVD Label: Light Video Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "With great early-"80s performances by FLIPPER and THE MUTANTS, this long-lost punk film classic from filmmaker Rick Schmidt is available again! This 90-minute feature is a bizarre and thoroughly surrealistic tale packed with nutty characters and general off-the-wallness, plus three FLIPPER songs ("One by One," "I Saw You Shine," and "Love Canal") and five songs from the much less well known but amazingly fun early San Francisco punk band THE MUTANTS. First released on VHS many years ago with little distribution, it is now widely available for the first time!" - Light Video |
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Artist: SCHNÿBI GAGGI PISSI GAGGI Title: Tochnit Aleph Punk Series Volume Four Format: LP Label: Tochnit Aleph Country: Germany Price: $18.50 |
| "Recorded Live in Kölliken, Switzerland 92-02-17 at 3pm. Joke Lanz - Ventilatorbass, Celèste Urech - Drums & Lyrics and Rudolf Eb.er - Vacuumvocals. Written by Celèste Urech (3 years of age) except "Elisabeth Kopp" written by Joke Lanz & Rudolf Eb.er. Limited Edition of 500 copies." - Tochnit Aleph. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER & WOLF SEQUENZA, CONRAD Title: Consequenz Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Early Self-Product Series. Collaboration with Wolf Sequenza (ex. Kluster-Eruption) in 1980. The original LP was pressed as 500 copies. Including previously-unreleased bonus tracks. 2008 digital remaster version with stickered paper sleeve, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER & WOLF SEQUENZA, CONRAD Title: Consequenz II Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The second release of the collaboration with Wolf Sequenza (ex. Kluster-Eruption) in 1986. The original LP was released on Discos Esplendor Geometrico, a great Spanish industrial label. Including 6 unreleased tracks as bonus. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: 1.7.84 Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 222 copies and sold by mail order in 1984. Including 11 bonus tracks from the same time. 2008 digital remaster version with print + stumped paper sleeve, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: 10.10.84 Format: Cass Label: Mirror Country: Malaysia Price: $11.00 |
| "Conrad Schnitzler, a previous student of Joseph Beuys, and a founding member of Tangerine Dream and Kluster, as a soloist developed the idea of the “kassetten konzert” or cassette concert, utilizing pre-recorded synthesized sounds on separate tapes, which were mixed together through adjustments of volume and equalization into a vaster and more complex piece that formed his live remix performances. Each event is unique due to the element of unpredictability in his real-time improvisations, and this is a documentation of such a performance on 10th October 1984, Berlin." -Mirror |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Ballet Statique Format: LP Label: M=Minimal Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "M=Minimal continues their collaboration with electronic music legend Conrad Schnitzler, and presents after 30 years, the re-release of one of the key works from Conrads large, adventurous back catalog. Ballet Statique is not only a musical milestone but also a highlight of music production. It was recorded in 1978 at the legendary Paragon Studio, Berlin by Tangerine Dreams Peter Baumann in the same period when other masterworks like Clusters Großes Wasser and solo recordings by Roedelius and Asmus Tietchens were recorded. Ballet Statique was first released on the German Paragon label, under the original title Con (also issued on legendary French label Egg). This album is a must-have, and not only for fans of Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never." -M=Minimal |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Blau Format: LP Label: Very Good Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
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Small stash of these late 90s vinyl issues, recently reissued on CD by Captain Trip. Limited to 500.
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Blau Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "On the Red Album Rot, Conrad Schnitzler laid down the direction his musical artistry would take. His second solo , The Blue Album Blau, originally released in 1974, offered confirmation of his intent. Maybe the "Red" and "Blue" tracks were recorded in the same session. The structure, sound and timbre of both LPs are so similar as to suggest that this was the case (an unverified assumption nevertheless!). Far more important than this historical pedantry is the fact that Schnitzler included two brand-new compositions on Blau which followed on seamlessly from the previous album. Quite simply, he had found his way, a course from which he would not stray as long as he lived. The so-called Berlin School (Berliner Schule) -- with Conrad Schnitzler one of their number -- had developed its own style of minimalist music. Clearly distinct from Anglo-American pop music, and no less removed from the minimalist art music of Steve Reich or Philip Glass, the focus here was on electronics and elementary rhythmics. The Berlin musicians showed no great interest in instrumental or vocal virtuosity, nor were they in thrall to exuberant interleaving of rhythm. With the aid of synthesizers and studio technology, they were bent on breaking into territory hitherto considered the province of a privileged elite, clouded in mystery and secrecy, resonating with uncharted sounds and noise. Blau is an archetypal example of this very phenomenon. Courage, the pioneering spirit and artistic brilliance can be detected in each part of the albums two infinite sequences. Inspired by Joseph Beuys, Schnitzler propagated those very tones beyond the musical realm, detached from tradition, the only tones capable of catalyzing the utterly stagnant pop music and new music scene of the day, injecting them with fresh impulses. Questions of harmony, melody and strict form were well and truly rejected by Schnitzler. His aural crystals shine like pearls on a string. Schnitzler uses his ropes of pearls to weave new, fantastic patterns which constantly shift like kaleidoscopes to reveal unexpected facets; they are sign-posts to spatial and temporal infinity. Schnitzlers style was really too idiosyncratic ever to set a precedent, but he was, and still is, one of the most significant inspirations for pop music in more recent times. Includes a printed innersleeve with notes from Asmus Tietchens. 180 gram vinyl." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Blau Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "On the Red Album Rot, Conrad Schnitzler laid down the direction his musical artistry would take. His second solo , The Blue Album Blau, originally released in 1974, offered confirmation of his intent. Maybe the "Red" and "Blue" tracks were recorded in the same session. The structure, sound and timbre of both LPs are so similar as to suggest that this was the case (an unverified assumption nevertheless!). Far more important than this historical pedantry is the fact that Schnitzler included two brand-new compositions on Blau which followed on seamlessly from the previous album. Quite simply, he had found his way, a course from which he would not stray as long as he lived. The so-called Berlin School (Berliner Schule) -- with Conrad Schnitzler one of their number -- had developed its own style of minimalist music. Clearly distinct from Anglo-American pop music, and no less removed from the minimalist art music of Steve Reich or Philip Glass, the focus here was on electronics and elementary rhythmics. The Berlin musicians showed no great interest in instrumental or vocal virtuosity, nor were they in thrall to exuberant interleaving of rhythm. With the aid of synthesizers and studio technology, they were bent on breaking into territory hitherto considered the province of a privileged elite, clouded in mystery and secrecy, resonating with uncharted sounds and noise. Blau is an archetypal example of this very phenomenon. Courage, the pioneering spirit and artistic brilliance can be detected in each part of the albums two infinite sequences. Inspired by Joseph Beuys, Schnitzler propagated those very tones beyond the musical realm, detached from tradition, the only tones capable of catalyzing the utterly stagnant pop music and new music scene of the day, injecting them with fresh impulses. Questions of harmony, melody and strict form were well and truly rejected by Schnitzler. His aural crystals shine like pearls on a string. Schnitzler uses his ropes of pearls to weave new, fantastic patterns which constantly shift like kaleidoscopes to reveal unexpected facets; they are sign-posts to spatial and temporal infinity. Schnitzlers style was really too idiosyncratic ever to set a precedent, but he was, and still is, one of the most significant inspirations for pop music in more recent times. Digipak reissue with liner notes by Asmus Tietchens, rare photos and six bonus tracks." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Con 3 Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. This album saw Conrad Schnitzler head further in the direction of pop music. Like Consequenz, Con 3 (1981) is a collaborative effort with Wolfgang Seidel, alias Sequenza. Con 3 is a really odd mixture of numerous ingredients which Schnitzler was capable of combining with dexterity and taste. His musical handwriting is immediately apparent in the foreground. Effervescent electronic sequences can be heard on all nine pieces, coming from somewhere and appearing to go wherever -- this is Schnitzler alright, this is his musical utopia. Then Wolfgang Seidel, formerly drummer with Ton Steine Scherben: an ideal partner for Schnitzler when it came to programming rhythm machines and sequencers for a minimalistic mesh. Another ingredient in Con 3 is undoubtedly German new wave (Neue Deutsche Welle, NDW). How could it not have touched Schnitzler? He lived and worked in Berlin! Above all, his succinct, absurd-surrealist lyrics would have suited many a protagonist of NDW. In this respect, Schnitzler revealed two hitherto hidden talents: his delivery of lyrics written by himself was both precise and incredibly assured. The fourth component of Con 3 is without question the character in the background, Peter Baumann. As producer and sound engineer, he was to Schnitzler what Conny Plank had been for Cluster and Harmonia and many others. His gentle, discreet impulses, his immense know-how with regard to modern studio technology and his perennial enthusiasm could be detected in all of the productions he created in his Paragon Studio. Years of working with Tangerine Dream honed his studio experience and his intuitive flair for electronic experiments. Those like Schnitzler who were able to work in the Paragon Studio were in exceptionally good hands. There could hardly be a more fertile alliance. Con 3 might have sounded rather disconcerting to Schnitzler listeners at the time. He had long since nailed his colors to the mast of the art scene (Fluxus, Beuys, performance art etc.) and now dared to attempt a balancing act between the high artistic aspirations of the avant-garde and the more entertainment-driven nature of pop music. Not for the first time, perhaps, but particularly emphatically on this album. Many had tried their luck at this tour de force and failed, not least because they lacked the necessary credibility. Not Schnitzler. He remained true to himself, and hence retained his credibility, integrating his new experiences and information resources wisely and creatively into his idiosyncratic and unmistakable music." -Asmus Tietchens. Includes a printed innersleeve with notes from Tietchens. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Con 3 Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "This album saw Conrad Schnitzler head further in the direction of pop music. Like Consequenz, Con 3 (1981) is a collaborative effort with Wolfgang Seidel, alias Sequenza. Con 3 is a really odd mixture of numerous ingredients which Schnitzler was capable of combining with dexterity and taste. His musical handwriting is immediately apparent in the foreground. Effervescent electronic sequences can be heard on all nine pieces, coming from somewhere and appearing to go wherever -- this is Schnitzler alright, this is his musical utopia. Then Wolfgang Seidel, formerly drummer with Ton Steine Scherben: an ideal partner for Schnitzler when it came to programming rhythm machines and sequencers for a minimalistic mesh. Another ingredient in Con 3 is undoubtedly German new wave (Neue Deutsche Welle, NDW). How could it not have touched Schnitzler? He lived and worked in Berlin! Above all, his succinct, absurd-surrealist lyrics would have suited many a protagonist of NDW. In this respect, Schnitzler revealed two hitherto hidden talents: his delivery of lyrics written by himself was both precise and incredibly assured. The fourth component of Con 3 is without question the character in the background, Peter Baumann. As producer and sound engineer, he was to Schnitzler what Conny Plank had been for Cluster and Harmonia and many others. His gentle, discreet impulses, his immense know-how with regard to modern studio technology and his perennial enthusiasm could be detected in all of the productions he created in his Paragon Studio. Years of working with Tangerine Dream honed his studio experience and his intuitive flair for electronic experiments. Those like Schnitzler who were able to work in the Paragon Studio were in exceptionally good hands. There could hardly be a more fertile alliance. Con 3 might have sounded rather disconcerting to Schnitzler listeners at the time. He had long since nailed his colors to the mast of the art scene (Fluxus, Beuys, performance art etc.) and now dared to attempt a balancing act between the high artistic aspirations of the avant-garde and the more entertainment-driven nature of pop music. Not for the first time, perhaps, but particularly emphatically on this album. Many had tried their luck at this tour de force and failed, not least because they lacked the necessary credibility. Not Schnitzler. He remained true to himself, and hence retained his credibility, integrating his new experiences and information resources wisely and creatively into his idiosyncratic and unmistakable music." - Asmus Tietchens. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Con 72 Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
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"Conrad Schnitzler was a central figure in the development of electronic and experimental music in Germany since the end of the 60s. In fact he was co-founder of the Zodiak Club in Berlin in 1968, where Agitation Free used to play intermedia shows, he also took part in the recording of Tangerine Dream 1st record Electronic Meditation (with Edgar Froese and Klaus Schulze). Then he recorded with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius as Kluster, two key records: Klopfzeichen and Kluster zwei-Osterei (after he left Moebius and Roedelius continue to record as Cluster). Founded the Eruption project, an open band for many musicians (including Manuel Gottsching), various secret performances (such the ones in the furnace room of his house in Berlin). The recording on Qbico LP pre-dates the legendary record Rot (rec. April 1973), which was part of the colored series records: Gelb, Grun, Blau, Schwarz. In fact in 1972 Schnitzler toured for the exhibition Scene 72 and in London he bought the recently born Synthie A (which was being produced near London) and gave a concert at the German Institute (he eventually bring back to Germany another Synthie A for the band Kraftwerk). The music from this concert is really raw and wild, with the instrument frequencies pushed to the limits (its much more close to the classic music of concrete masters, such as Xenakis, Parmegiani, Henry, Schaeffer, then to his cosmique electronic records, such as Rot for example). A mind-blowing performace from one of the greatest sound illusionist of all time." - QBICO.
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Con 72 Part II Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $23.50 |
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Conrad Schnitzler- Synthie A, rec. live at the German Institute, London, Spring 1972. "Second and final part of this legendary concert. For sure some of the most intense and dramatic electronic music ever heard live!" - QBICO.
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Con 85 Format: Double CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $34.00 |
| "The original was released as a double cassette on Transmitter Cassetten in 1985. Includes 52 tracks on 2 CDs. 2009 digital remaster version with special gate-fold paper sleeve. First time released on CD. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Concert Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was released in 1986. Includes 3 bonus tracks from same time. Cover art design: Matt Howarth. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Congratulacion Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Recorded in 1986. The original LP was released on Discos Esplendor Geometrico in 1988. Including 6 unreleased tracks as bonus. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Consequenz Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Commercial Schnitzler? How quickly, how prematurely are opinions and judgements bandied about when an artist suddenly changes the form of his work. Conrad Schnitzler fell under such a cloud when, after 1978, his songs, for a time at least, did not exceed the catchy compactness of pop songs, while their harmonies and rhythms seemed to be drifting towards pop. Produced by Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream) the Con (1978) album and the Auf dem schwarzen Kanal 12" EP (1980) ushered in this phase, and the private release of the Consequenz album, also in 1980 -- as the title suggests -- was the logical consequence. Consequenz is Schnitzlers first collaboration with another musician since the days of Kluster long before. In Wolfgang Seidel aka Wolf Sequenza, he found someone who not only understood the Schnitzler principle but was able to expand on it with his own input. Seidel, like Schnitzler, had started early with the development of an alternative language of music, away from the mainstream. Schnitzler actually went a step further: with the best educational intentions, he supplied a schematic drawing to go with Consequenz, illustrating in detail how his music functions, which instruments and equipment he used and how the various elements are interconnected. It is rare for an electronic artist to lay his cards quite so openly on the table, thus prompting the demystification of this new music. Consequenz conveys 12 remarkably short pieces. Remarkable in the sense that Schnitzlers early solo works (e.g. Rot and Blau) were characterized by unending sequences. Not only are the tracks even shorter than on Con (1978), their form has also shifted. Electronic drums can be heard, along with an electric guitar in places; Schnitzler and Seidel sculpt rhythmic-harmonic structures with an analog sequencer, blended with harmonies to create a somewhat unwieldy form of pop music. Little musical motifs are played without really becoming melodies capable of underpinning bona fide songs. The influence of the German new wave (NDW) may also be detected, but not enough to determine the style of Consequenz. The dozen tracks on the album remain firmly rooted in Schnitzlers sonic universe, each an individual facet of his infinitely shimmering aural cascades. And, naturally, Consequenz is electronic pop music, lacking only the commercial added value which was of little interest to Schnitzler anyway -- he didnt give a damn." -Asmus Tietchens |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Consequenz Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Commercial Schnitzler? How quickly, how prematurely are opinions and judgements bandied about when an artist suddenly changes the form of his work. Conrad Schnitzler fell under such a cloud when, after 1978, his songs, for a time at least, did not exceed the catchy compactness of pop songs, while their harmonies and rhythms seemed to be drifting towards pop. Produced by Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream) the Con (1978) album and the Auf dem schwarzen Kanal 12" EP (1980) ushered in this phase, and the private release of the Consequenz album, also in 1980 -- as the title suggests -- was the logical consequence. Consequenz is Schnitzlers first collaboration with another musician since the days of Kluster long before. In Wolfgang Seidel aka Wolf Sequenza, he found someone who not only understood the Schnitzler principle but was able to expand on it with his own input. Seidel, like Schnitzler, had started early with the development of an alternative language of music, away from the mainstream. Schnitzler actually went a step further: with the best educational intentions, he supplied a schematic drawing to go with Consequenz, illustrating in detail how his music functions, which instruments and equipment he used and how the various elements are interconnected. It is rare for an electronic artist to lay his cards quite so openly on the table, thus prompting the demystification of this new music. Consequenz conveys 12 remarkably short pieces. Remarkable in the sense that Schnitzlers early solo works (e.g. Rot and Blau) were characterized by unending sequences. Not only are the tracks even shorter than on Con (1978), their form has also shifted. Electronic drums can be heard, along with an electric guitar in places; Schnitzler and Seidel sculpt rhythmic-harmonic structures with an analog sequencer, blended with harmonies to create a somewhat unwieldy form of pop music. Little musical motifs are played without really becoming melodies capable of underpinning bona fide songs. The influence of the German new wave (NDW) may also be detected, but not enough to determine the style of Consequenz. The dozen tracks on the album remain firmly rooted in Schnitzlers sonic universe, each an individual facet of his infinitely shimmering aural cascades. And, naturally, Consequenz is electronic pop music, lacking only the commercial added value which was of little interest to Schnitzler anyway -- he didnt give a damn." -Asmus Tietchens. Includes a printed innersleeve with notes from Asmus Tietchens. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Contempora Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $27.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 500 copies in 1981. Including bonus tracks made at the same time. 2008 digital remaster version with stumped paper sleeve, miniature newspaper and debossed paper, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies." - Captain Trip. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Context Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "This is a reissue of a cassette release on Transmitter Casseten in 1981. Sound materials for Schnitzlers street performance! Including one unreleased bonus track. 2008 digital remaster version with special paper sleeve. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Control Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Recorded between 1978 and 1981. Non-keyboard electronics! The original LP was released on DYS records, an American independent label in 1981. Includes 14 tracks from T5 cassette materials. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve + miniature insert, same as the original. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Convex Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 500 copies in 1982. Including 6 bonus tracks from the Container cassette. 2008 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same as the original. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Electrocon Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $23.50 |
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""Recorded in 1980-1981. Previously unreleased full album, 14 tracks. With special paper sleeve. Digital remaster version, limited 1,000 copies!!
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Endtime Format: Double LP Label: M=Minimal Country: Germany Price: $31.00 |
| "Bureau B is honored to be able to present Conrad Schnitzlers last work. Only a few days before he passed away in August 2011, he created this unique, almost 70-minute-long work. Thirty-six parts mixed into each other create a walk through his entire work. This record is not only for fans of Conrad Schnitzler -- its like a trip through 40 years of electronic music. Schnitzler once again shows how strongly he has influenced artists such as Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never. Without his solo works and his projects Kluster, Tangerine Dream and Eruption, electronic music wouldnt be the same." - M=Minimal. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Gelb Format: LP Label: Very Good Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
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Small stash of these late 90s vinyl issues, recently reissued on CD by Captain Trip. Limited to 500.
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Live 72 Format: Double LP Label: Further Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "There are not too many names that get us more excited here at AZ HQ than Conrad Schnitzlers. Since the mid-1960s, Schnitzler has been one of the undisputed masters of electronic experimentation, and his name is synonymous with Krautrocks innovation and defiant musical vision. A prolific solo artist, he also founded Kluster (later Cluster) with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, was an early collaborator with seminal Kosmische acts Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze, and, in 1967, founded the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in West Berlin, an experimental performance space designed for the exploration of musical and political freedom (where Tangerine and Klaus both played). So, for previously unreleased material from Conrad to become available is is an exciting affair indeed-- especially for those of us not lucky enough to have been in the crowds those nights in the 70s. Further Records have done just that, taking a previously unreleased 1972 performance from the vault and giving it a double LP pressing. As Conrad explains the origins of the performance: "I was invited to be part of an art exhibition, Szene 72 (it means 1972). This was happening in Stuttgart, London and Hamburg. From the London performance there was some music that was recorded to tape, but all this old cheap tape-material does not run on a tape player anymore. This, what you have, this has survived." -Further. "This is a precious artefact of a man fully in control, and ahead of his game." -Daniel Gottlieb, Altered Zones |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Live Action 1977 Format: LP Label: Very Good Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Rot Format: LP Label: Very Good Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Rot Format: LP Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "There was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s. Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler (Tangerine Dream, Kluster). Revolution, pop art and Fluxus created a climate which engendered unbridled artistic and social development. Radical utopias, excessive experimentation with drugs, ruthless (in a positive way) transgression of aesthetic frontiers were characteristic of the period. The magic words were "subculture," "progressivity" and "avant-gardism." West Berlin, with its unique political status, was a crucible of turbulence. Founded in 1968, Zodiak Free Arts Lab was the ultimate point of convergence for subculture in West Berlin, with Conrad Schnitzler the driving force behind it. It was also here that Tangerine Dream and Kluster first met up to perform in public. Bureau B presents Rot (The "Red" Album) from 1973, Schnitzlers first solo LP. Includes a printed innersleeve with notes from Asmus Tietchens. 180 gram vinyl." -Bureau B. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Rot Format: CD Label: Bureau B Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "There was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s. Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler (Tangerine Dream, Kluster). Revolution, pop art and Fluxus created a climate which engendered unbridled artistic and social development. Radical utopias, excessive experimentation with drugs, ruthless (in a positive way) transgression of aesthetic frontiers were characteristic of the period. The magic words were "subculture," "progressivity" and "avant-gardism." West Berlin, with its unique political status, was a crucible of turbulence. Founded in 1968, Zodiak Free Arts Lab was the ultimate point of convergence for subculture in West Berlin, with Conrad Schnitzler the driving force behind it. It was also here that Tangerine Dream and Kluster first met up to perform in public. Bureau B presents Rot (The "Red" Album) from 1973, Schnitzlers first solo LP. Digipak reissue with liner notes by Asmus Tietchens, rare photos and a 20-minute bonus track" -Bureau B. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Silver Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $24.00 |
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"Recorded 1974/75. Vintage Schnitzler, available here for the first time. This recording from 1974/75 was part of the legendary colored series of albums: Rot, Grun, Gelb, Schwartz. 180 gram vinyl." -Qbico
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Trigger Trilogy Format: 3CD Box Set Label: Important Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Nice box of great-sounding unreleased recordings from Schnitzlers vault. No recordings dates or additional information is included, but this is "cold, electronic sound" at its best."-FE. "Trigger Trilogy consists of three discs each selected from hundreds of hours of Schnitzlers private recordings. Each represents one of the few unique approaches that Schnitzler takes to recording, each uniquely identified and defined by Schnitzler. Within each of these recordings one can hear how Schnitzler influenced a generation of artists not only in Germany but in the world around and how hes brought those sounds into the modern day. Its also apparent in these recordings that Schnitzler is thoughtful and enlightened, a total pioneer floating freely in a world of sound. Trigger One consists of what Schnitzler calls his Solo Voices or Solo Electronics. This particular recording happens to be rhythmically-based electronic work. Recognizing that in traditional music the melodic line is subordinate to the ensemble leaving it no true impression of its own, Schnitzler has liberated the solo voice in his own music and given it its own vocation as noise, tone and sound. Trigger Two is what Schnitzler refers to as Free Concert Mix Solos. Trigger Three, the final disc in the Trigger Trilogy, is a Con-Cert. "-Important. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Zug Format: Picture Disc LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $23.50 |
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"First time ever on vinyl of the Red cassette, which was originally released privately by Con in the early 70s in few hundred copies. Classic Con-electronic waves... endless..." 2 side-long tracks, recorded 1973." - QBICO.
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Zug Format: LP Label: M=Minimal Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
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"Conrad Schnitzlers Zug is one of the most important and one of the first electronic minimalist works that was published in the 1970s. Almost simultaneously with Kraftwerks groundbreaking Autobahn, "Zug" appeared on the legendary The Red Cassette (1973). The Wire magazine wrote about Zug: "Kraftwerk might have used similar methods to create rhythm but three decades on, it still sounds like the future." As an original member of Tangerine Dream (1969-1970) and a founding member of Kluster, Conrad Schnitzler is a creator of milestones in the history of electronic popular music. This release is rounded off with remixes by Con (1978) fan Stefan Betke aka Pole and Borngräber & Strüver. Pole and Kassian Troyer (Radian) have mastered the record, so the best quality is guaranteed." -M=Minimal.
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Zug: Reshaped And Remodeled Format: LP Label: M=Minimal Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
| "Conrad Schnitzler is an early member of Tangerine Dream and a founding member of Kluster, along with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and his works will always be important. Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer were so fascinated by his album Zug (MINIMAL 001LP), that they immediately delivered two reshapes of this milestone of electronic music. Max Loderbauer is a veteran of the Berlin techno scene, who became known with his project Sun Electric. For his current project NSI and as a member of the Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Max Loderbauer enjoys a worldwide reputation. His great cooperation with Ricardo Villalobos for the legendary ECM label appeared in many "Best of 2011" lists. Ricardo Villalobos is one of the leading techno DJ/producer/musicians. He has influenced the scene for more than 15 years. The "Aktion" mix targets with 100% certainty on the dancefloor, but is also suited to wake you up in the morning. DJs need this 20-minute mix as a tool. The "Sorgenkind" mix is not for the mainfloor but for fans of the broken beats. Everybody who enjoyed the RE-ECM work of the two will love this 15-minute mix. Schnitzler/Loderbauer/Villalobos = dreamteam. Includes a download coupon with two amazing remixes by Stefan Betke aka Pole and Borngräber & Strüver." -M=Minimal. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD & GREGOR Title: Conrad & Sohn Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Great split album by Conrad Schnitzler and his son, Gregor Schnitzler! The original LP was pressed 500 copies in 1981. Includes previously unreleased bonus tracks by Gregor. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHOFFER, NICOLAS/PIERRE HENRY Title: Spatiodynamisme I/II Format: Hardcover Book/7" Label: Editions Du Griffon Country: Switzerland Price: $120.00 |
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Beautiful 154 page oversized (9.5" x 12"), hardbound book published in 1963 featuring photos and text (in english) on the experimental spatiodynamic, cybernetic and luminodynamic scupltures of Nicolas Schoffer. The 7" record is a piece Pierre Henry composed in collaboration with Schoffer using his sculptures as a sound source (basically manipulations of him banging and scraping metal!). With several vellum and acetate pages.
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Artist: SCHOOF ORCHESTRA, MANFRED Title: European Echoes Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "Cien Fuegos presents a 1969 album from the Manfred Schoof Orchestra -- headed up by popular European avant-garde jazz figure, Manfred Schoof. Originally issued on FMP, the labels first release. Features appearances from musicians such as Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Paul Rutherford, Evan Parker. Born 1936 in Magdeburg, Manfred Schoof is one of the most popular jazz avant-gardists in Europe. He played in projects like Globe Unity Orchestra, Manfred Schoof Quintet, New Jazz Trio, and many more. Since 1990, he has taught music at the University Of Cologne and works for television and radio. He composed the music for "The Program With The Mouse." Enrico Rava (trumpet); Manfred Schoof (trumpet); Hugh Steinmetz (trumpet); Peter Brötzmann (tenor saxophone); Gerd Dudek (tenor saxophone); Evan Parker (soprano saxophone); Paul Rutherford (trombone); Derek Bailey (guitar); Fred Van Hove (piano); Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano); Irène Schweizer (piano); Arjen Gorter (double bass); Peter Kowald (double bass); Buschi Niebergall (double bass); Han Bennink (drums); Pierre Favre (drums). Recorded by an unknown engineer in June 1969, in Bremen. Produced by Jost Gebers. Cover design: Wolf Walt. Photograph by Johannes Muth." -Cien Fuegos. |
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Artist: SCHULZE AND GUNTER SCHICKERT, KLAUS Title: The Schulze-Schickert Session Format: CD Label: Mirumir Country: Russian Federation Price: $22.00 |
| "For the first time, from the vaults of electronic music guru, Klaus Schulze, comes The Schulze-Schickert Session, a rare and previously unreleased private session featuring echo-guitar pioneer Günter Schickert. Recorded on 26 September 1975 in Klaus Schulzes home studio in Hambuehren, Germany, Schulze can be heard playing an EMS Synthi A, as well as keyboards, and a Syntanorma, while Schickert plays a 12-string Framus with metal strings and also sings on a few tracks. Although Schickerts name is little-known outside of a very select circle of krautrock fans, he was a key member of the Berlin free jazz scene of the 1960s and a pioneer of the echo-guitar. Just prior to the recording of this informal session, Schickerts first LP, Samtvogel, was released on the seminal Brain label. On the two bonus tracks, found only on theCD version, Schickerts playing ebbs, as Schulze takes on the more dominant role." -Mirumir. |
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Artist: SCHULZE AND GUNTER SCHICKERT, KLAUS Title: The Schulze-Schickert Session Format: LP Label: Mirumir Country: Russian Federation Price: $28.00 |
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"For the first time, from the vaults of electronic music guru, Klaus Schulze, comes The Schulze-Schickert Session, a rare and previously unreleased private session featuring echo-guitar pioneer Günter Schickert. Recorded on 26 September 1975 in Klaus Schulzes home studio in Hambuehren, Germany, Schulze can be heard playing an EMS Synthi A, as well as keyboards, and a Syntanorma, while Schickert plays a 12-string Framus with metal strings and also sings on a few tracks. Although Schickerts name is little-known outside of a very select circle of krautrock fans, he was a key member of the Berlin free jazz scene of the 1960s and a pioneer of the echo-guitar. Just prior to the recording of this informal session, Schickerts first LP, Samtvogel, was released on the seminal Brain label. On the two bonus tracks, found only on theCD version, Schickerts playing ebbs, as Schulze takes on the more dominant role." -Mirumir.
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Artist: SCHULZE, KLAUS Title: La Vie Electronique 10 Format: Triple CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "2011 release. CD1: Unheilbar Deutsch; CD2: Walk The Edge; Havlandet; Interview 1991; CD3: Goodwill; Olé; Habla Espanol; Gaudi Gaudi; Suite Nr.3, D-Dur, 2. Satz, "Air". "Former member of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempels 10th volume of his early works. La Vie Electronique is a series of 3-disc CD releases by Klaus Schulze, reissuing material from his limited edition 50-disc CD box set The Ultimate Edition (2000), which itself collected the previously released limited edition multi-disc box sets Silver Edition (1993, 10 discs), Historic Edition (1995, 10 discs), and Jubilee Edition (1997, 25 discs), along with an additional five discs. The series began in 2009 with a plan to release all the music from The Ultimate Edition in chronological order." - Made In Germany |
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Artist: SCHULZE, KLAUS Title: La Vie Electronique 11 Format: Triple CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| ""In 1992-93 Klaus Schulze recorded about ten hours of music, not intended for record release. This music was issued in a box set and quickly sold out, so smaller collections have been reissued. Disc 1: The four parts of Film Musik contain the complete music for the soundtrack to the 1993 German TV documentary Spurensicherung. Baudenkmaler. Disc 2: Klaus called the 71-minute piece Narren des Schicksals his first symphony. It was recorded in 1992/93 for no special purpose. Disc 3: Track 1, Der Schonheit Spur, is the longer version of the music Klaus recorded 1993 as soundtrack for a film about Berlins Potsdamer Platz, and the final track (Return in Happy Plight) is the remixed version which was actually used for the film. Ein schones Autodafe was meant but not used as ballet music for Klaus opera Totentag." - Made In Germany |
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Artist: SCHULZE, KLAUS Title: La Vie Electronique 6 Format: Triple CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "CD 1 contains the second part of the Oberhausen-concert with Schwanensee and two solo pieces recorded in 1976 in the studio in Hambuhren. Fear at Madame Tussauds was recorded in April, 1977 in the London planetarium - at that time a novelty, for it was the first time that a concert was held in a planetarium. Zeitgeist is a concert which was recorded on October 17th , 1977 in front of 5500 people in the Saint Michael cathedral in Brussels, Inside The Harlequin is the encore of this evening. The recording date of La Vie Secrete cannot be exactly determined after all years any more. Recorded either in 1977/78 or 1975 this piece remains a very quiet, almost meditative jewel. In contrast to this stands Barracuda Drum recorded about 1978 with Harald Grosskopf on drums. Last but not least at the end of the third CD we encounter the Klaus Schulze of 1979: In October and November that year Klaus Schulze was on tour with Arthur Brown (Fire). There was Greatness in the Room is a fragment of the encore of concert from October, 29th 1979 in Brussels. The specific thing about this recording: Beside the voice of Arthur Brown the vocoder-voice of Klaus Schulze is also to be heard." - Made In Germany |
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Artist: SCHULZE, KLAUS Title: La Vie Electronique 7 Format: Triple CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Re: People I Know is the first of the two long pieces that Klaus played during his Dusseldorf concert in 1977. Its similar to the highly valued piece that KS played around the same time in Brussels St. Michaels cathedral. Avec Arthur: During the lengthy 1979 tour, Klaus played a long solo piece that filled the first half of the concerts as usual. After the intermission, the singer Arthur Brown joined him for the second piece. This is one of those energetic second halves. Arthur could be, and was often, very high-spirited, very good, I dare say even excellent. As here, on the 25th of October 1979 in a youth club of the Belgian town of Liege. During the peaceful part after the break (and his famous roar). Arthur sings partly in French. Merveilleux! My diary reports: Small youth club, jam packed. Good concert. Crazy Nietzsche is loosely based on Klaus well-known Friedrich Nietzsche title from the X recording session. As on the X tracks, the drumming is by the great rhythm man Harald Grosskopf. First, Klaus recorded Haralds familiar solid pulse, and for the middle part - Asketische Ideale - he was asked to add some floor toms playing. As usual during that blooming Schulze era, also this track was recorded at the Panne-Paulen studio in Frankfurt. After listening to the music for the first time after many years, Klaus told me it must be a live recording because of the sound of the Korg PS 3300 that he only played in concerts not in a studio. Judge for yourself." - Made In Germany |
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Artist: SCHULZE, KLAUS Title: La Vie Electronique 8 Format: Triple CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Klaus Schulze recorded some of his more introspective works. Albums like Mirage, Dune, and Dig It saw a significant change in his style of playing and his way of composing. While Schulze was quickly expanding his collection of synthesizers, that ultimately had its effect on the outlook of the music and the possibilities of performing that in a more exquisite way. Play a track like Synthasy and notice that Schulze has come a long way since Timewind and Moondawn. On this 8th part of La Vie Electronique theres a selection of stuff that was archived beside his official albums in those years. A large part of this 3CD-set forms the appearance of concert recordings (made on a cheap, but stereo radio cassette recorder) from Klaus 1979 tour with singer Arthur Brown. Besides the recordings that made up three sides of his monumental Live album that was released in 1980, there were plenty of other versions available of the material that Schulze played during the fall of 1979. The late seventies/early eighties work of Klaus Schulze is often overlooked and underrated by many. Hearing the material featured on this 3CD-set, one can discover the other side of that particular period when analogue was still there, but digital was about to become the power to be." - Made In Germany |
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Artist: SCHULZE, KLAUS Title: La Vie Electronique 9 Format: Triple CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "The three tracks on the first CD are a complete Schulze concert in Budapest: Budapest on the 21st of October 1982 in a huge sports arena, with Rainer Bloss on additional keyboards, but mainly he plays the electric piano. This was the only concert that was actually done from a scheduled tour through south-east Europe, together with Tangerine Dream, Rick Wakeman, KS, and Classix Noveaux with Thomas Dolby. The first title played in the Hungarian capital is based on Klaus famous Ludwig title from the album X. "Die spirituelle Kraft des Augenblicks" (The spiritual power of the moment) is still the Budapest concert. The encore. The announcement is made by Klaus Schulze." - Made In Germany |
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Artist: SCHULZE, KLAUS Title: La Vie Electronique Vol. 5 Format: Triple CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "We are proud to announce La Vie Electronique Vol. 5. The rarities of the electronic pioneer Klaus Schulz were previously released in a strictly limited edition, called The Ultimate Edition, and document the history and the rich diversity of this exceptional musician, even more impressive than on his official releases. Now these recordings, completely remastered and for the first time in chronological order, are available in elaborate editions. Every episode contains 3 CDs in high-quality vinyl look with digipack including booklet with detailed background information and comments. La Vie Electronique Vol. 5 contains music of the years from 1976 to 1977. Berlin Schoneberg was recorded in 1976 at a Berlin radio concert, Vie de reve is a concert from the same year, recorded in Reims in France. Nostalgic Echo and Titanische Tage are also solo concerts from 1976. A year later For Barry Graves has been recorded - a short concert for the West German Radio broadcasting show music extra 3. The Oberhausen Tape is a concert from 1976 (you will find the second part of this concert on La Vie Electronique 6). Finally, The Poet is a typical piece of the Moondawn era." - Made In Germany |
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Artist: SCHULZE, KLAUS Title: Richard Wahnfrieds Tonwelle Format: Double CD Label: Made In Germany Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "2 CD version of 1981 release from former Ash Ra Tempel member. Since the late seventies Klaus Schulze uses the alter ego Richard Wahnfried. The album Tonwelle was released in 1981 as Richard Wahnfrieds second. Within Klaus Schulzes universe Tonwelle remains an exceptional album today. This 2CD package contains: The original vinyl was produced for a speed of 33 1/3 rpm but by mistake, the cover said a speed of 45 rpm. For this release the fast version was processed. Both versions are now available for the first time." |
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Artist: SCHURT KWITTERS Title: 2007 Format: Cass Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"jess goddard solo; current fat worm of error singer, ex-caroliner, and ex-deerhoof.
edition of 200."
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Artist: SCHURT KWITTERS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"sewing (metal) machine music from jess goddard currently of fat worm
of error and white limousine and formerly of caroliner rainbow,
deerhoof, commode minstrels in bullface." - Open Mouth. Edition of 200.
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Artist: SCHUTTE, ULF Title: Summer 1st Ather Format: CDR Label: Meu Dia De Morte Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
| "Ulf Schütte is the dude behind a couple of Meudiademorte Releases. 1/2 of Aosuke , Cones or Scanners, the man behind Shivers, Member of Datashock and Labelhead of Tape Tektoniks. His first Solo output under his real name is a modular synth madness. could be a sound track to lucio fulcis worst nightmare. wasteland, end time and post nuclear war sounds. heavy in the 70s. the score to a yet to be done / never to be made zombi flick." - Meudiademorte |
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Artist: SCI HI Title: Lab Recordings Format: Lathe Cut 7"/CDR Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $18.50 |
| "Sci Hi is the moniker of musician and sound artist Paul Winstanley. Paul has been active for many years in numerous incarnations while in Texas and Auckland, New Zealand including P.H., LoCasta, Artificial Subterrane, Speed Cook, Paul Guilford from The Dave Dove Paul Duo, and more recently in Auckland groups such as Audible 3 and Plains. The Sci Hi sound is made from digital feedback. Sci Hi is like a school of small fish where each fish is represented by a tiny sine wave rising or falling in pitch. PW jumps in the middle of the school and all the little fishys go scattering in every direction, creating beautifully complex, multi-layered clouds of sound." - CMR. |
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Artist: SCIAJANO, DOMENICO Title: Broken Bridge Format: CD Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $15.00 |
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"Domenico Sciajno is a bass player from sicily, italy, and he recorded these pieces (45 minutes) at home last summer (the recording quality is excellent). most of the music is very intense and drone oriented, with long sub-bass tones and lots of extended techniques, but not in a "virtuoso" sense (what i dont like in most of the solo instrumental releases). some other pieces are more percussive, and even melodic sometimes.Released in the usual fringes packaging (but with a less fragile plastic sleeve !), are limited to 400 copies and seem to go away pretty fast." - Fringes.
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Artist: SCIAJNO, DOMENICO & GERT-JAN PRINS Title: the d&b album featuring: do shine o & prinsjan Format: CD Label: Bowindo Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "This is the first re-drum & re-bass album from the electronic duo of Domenico Sciajno and Gert-Jan Prins. They are both wellknown in the world of experimental electronic music, with releases on Erstwhile, Fringes, and Grob. On this album Prins analog shake-pulses and sweeps are directly plugged into Sciajnos specific powerbook aesthetics and vice versa. As a whole, the five pieces on this adventurous cd form a precision-combination of sharp computer-energy, rocking selfmade electronics ,and fluid music recombination-technics creating a grinding-spatial-musical concept, which by times reminds of Shineos & Prinsjans rhythmic- and playtechnical backgrounds on drums and double bass. " - Fringes. |
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Artist: SCIENTISTS Title: Frantic Romantic Format: 7" Label: Agitated Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SCORCES Title: I Turn Into You Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "NNFs first double lp and its a doozy. The carter/leigh murray duo digs up 4 deep sides from the vault and theyre as impressive as any weve heard. Severe quiet, lost moods, strange strings, etc. with fancy embossed jackets (designed by Marcia Bassett) plus an insert." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SCORCES/TOM CARTER Title: Beats For The Beast Format: CD Label: Free Porcupine Society Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "one track from each. scrorces - haunting/ tense/ unrelenting improvisation. emotionally draining. the tom carter track is a burnt scorched offering of psychedelic art damage." - Free Porcupine Society. Tom Carter + Scorces = Charalambides. |
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Artist: SCORPION VIOLENTE Title: S/T Format: 12 Label: Bruit Direct Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"If Jacno had been raped by Iggy Pop, missed the abortion, abandonned (sic) the child on the fringes of a Cronemberg movie; if this child survived, was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave to Alan Vega by Donna Summer, (just after releasing I Feel Love), escaped in the dark streets of a violent b-movie involving cops, militia, sweat, dirt, lizards with guns, and naked nubile women, he would feel like SCORPION VIOLENTE was THE music made for him. And eventually, he would end up killing both members of this band, and eat them, maybe calling them mummy while doing dirty things involving meat, broken records, body fluids and unheard-of orifices, most of them created for the occasion." -Scorpio Violente
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Artist: SCORPION VIOLENTE/THE DREAMS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Enfant Terrible Country: Netherlands Price: $11.00 |
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"...Scorpion Violente is up first, and seeing that they share members with The Anals, you might think you know what theyre going to sound like, but they take a left turn into dizzyingly
dour minimal electro with a dadaist flair, especially on "Force de Droite", a filter-crammed blast of raw electronic gurgling and futuristic intent. On the flip, The Dreams trade in a similar
brand of electronic fury, and their sole contribution here, "Tropique de Cancer" is a scorcher, filled with short-circuiting electronics and all manner of Hades-scraping atmospherics and harsh
oscillating vibes." - Impose Magazine. Edition of 300 copies.
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Artist: SCOTT & CHARLENES WEDDING Title: Para Vista Social Club Format: LP Label: Critical Heights Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
| "Scott and Charlenes Wedding effortlessly sprawl across the generations linking the vintage swagger of the Velvets to the off kilter pop perfection of the Only Ones by way of the Stooges and Television, like no one before them." -Critical Heights. |
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Artist: SCOTT & CHARLENES WEDDING Title: Para Vista Social Club Format: CD Label: Critical Heights Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Scott and Charlenes Wedding effortlessly sprawl across the generations linking the vintage swagger of the Velvets to the off kilter pop perfection of the Only Ones by way of the Stooges and Television, like no one before them." - Critical Heights. Includes poster booklet with 36 alternative front covers. |
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Artist: SCOTT & CHARLENES WEDDING Title: Two Weeks Format: 10" Label: Critical Heights Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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"Scott & Charlenes Wedding continue with their unique take on tales of the everyday that lit up their debut Para Vista Social Club with a new five-track EP which sees them going that much further both musically and thematically with more fantastic sound bites of everyday life. Comes on red vinyl." -Critical Heights.
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Artist: SCOTT, RAYMOND Title: Manhattan Research Inc. Format: Triple LP Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $48.00 |
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"Repressed for the first time in a few years. Astounding triple LP version of this collection of unreleased electronic music from Raymond Scotts studio, from the 1950s & 60s. Previously issued as a double CD w/ book (BASTA 9078). This vinyl edition is presented as three LPs, each packaged and in its own full color gatefold jacket, all shrinkwrapped together (the LPs are not available individually). Contains all 69 tracks found on the CD version. "Over two hours of Raymond Scotts unreleased electronic recordings from the 1950s and 60s. In 1946, Scott formed Manhattan Research Inc. (MRI), billed as Designers and Manufacturers of Electronic Music and Musique Concrète Devices and Systems. His colleague Robert Moog said, Scott was definitely in the forefront of developing electronic music technology and in the forefront of using it commercially as a musician. Soothing Sounds For Baby was just a warm-up. With MRI, prepare yourself for something beyond the pleasant parameters of pop. Scotts electronic experiments took him to uncharted netherworlds. The results are intriguing, compelling, and occasionally diabolic. Where SSFB offers relaxing ambience, the grotesqueries of MRI promise a sonic excursion to the realms of weightlessness, moon-craters, and six-armed aliens with twittering antennae. The recordings range from detergent jingles to decidedly non-commercial -- uncommercial, even -- experimental adventures in sound sculpture."-Basta
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Artist: SCOTT, RAYMOND Title: Soothing Sounds For Baby Format: Triple LP Label: Basta Country: Netherlands Price: $48.00 |
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"A limited edition (1500 sets) reissue on LP of the 3 original volumes of Raymond Scotts Soothing Sounds For Baby series, with reproductions of the original LP cover artwork/liner notes. All 3 LPs are printed separately, but shrinkwrapped together so that they can only be sold as a set. Featuring the legendary electronic music of Raymond Scott from 1963, originally issued by Epic Records."
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Artist: SCOTT, TOM JAMES Title: Crystal Format: LP Label: Carnivals Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Electronic structures of space and density, dividing. "Skire" mimics the rhythms of the sea. Saccharine phrases sweep through "Lown," and dissonance looms. The dense and transparent title track elevates tones, and cyclical melody strengthens and fragments throughout, creating swathes of luminous texture that shift the focus to new harmonic patterns. A record of candid disorientation and ecstatic effect. Clear vinyl. Edition of 350." - |
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Artist: SCRAMBLED SPICE Title: Baldhead Hoes Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SCRAMBLED SPICE Title: Part 2 Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Steve Gunn, John T (XO4) and Zac Lambsbread. |
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Artist: SCRATCH ORCHESTRA Title: London 1969 Format: 10" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
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"Two recordings made during the first public performance by The Scratch Orchestra. The concert took place on the first of November, 1969, at Hampstead Town Hall, London. Edition of 350 copies." - Die Stadt. "The Scratch Orchestra was formed by Cornelius Cardew, Howard Skempton and Micheal Parsons in 1968. Performing into the mid-seventies, the highly variant line-ups could include some of the following members: Stella Cardew, Brian Eno, Lou Gare, David Jackman, Dave Smith, Michael Nyman, Tom Phillips, Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury & numerous others. There has been little recorded evidence of the Scratch Orchestra to date (there was an LP from 1971, Great Learning Disc which appeared as part of the Deutsche Grammaphone Avant Garde boxset)." - FE.
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Artist: SCREAMERS Title: Assault! Format: LP Label: Scream! Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
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"A nice collection of recordings by the Los Angeles synthpunk
pioneers, this includes 1978 live versions of "Vertigo," "Last
Four Digits," "Magazine Love," "The Beat Goes On," "Punish or
Be Damned," and "In a Better World," plus "If I Cant Have
What I Want" and "Mater Dolores" from the 1977 Pat Garrett
demos, "Why the World" and "The Scream" from a 1978 demo, as
well as "Im a Mensch," "The Scream," and "Why the World" from
the 1978 Renee Daalder/David Campbell demos, closing with a
great quality live "122 Hours of Fear." The folder insert
features a long 1979 article and band interview by Jon Savage,
plus lyrics, photos and gig posters." - Scream!
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Artist: SCREAMERS Title: In A Better World Format: Double CD Label: Extravertigo/Xeroid Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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"Two full CDs of material from this legendary Los Angeles extreme synth-punk outfit! You get 9 songs recorded live at the Whisky on 1/6/78, 10 more recorded there the following night, two songs from the Pat Garrett demos from 7/7/77, 3 songs from another demo session, 7 songs recorded live at the Mabuhay Gardens on 9/2/78, 8 songs recorded at various live and demo sessions 1978-79, plus singer Tomata Du Plenty doing a radio ad for a show at the Roxy. All this is backed up by a fat 28-page booklet with numerous photos, posters, graphics, a band roster, and reprints of some of their press coverage." - Xeroid.
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Artist: SCREAMERS Title: Live in 1978 in San Francisco Format: DVD Label: Target Video Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"A first-time-on-DVD release of Target Videos
live document of legendary Los Angeles punk band
THE SCREAMERS. Shot live in San Francisco by JOE
REES, September 2, 1978, before an audience of
adoring fans. Seven songs, along with five
super-rare, unreleased videos shot live at the
Target Studios."
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Artist: SCREAMERS Title: Magazine Love b/w Cholo Jump Format: 7" Label: Meeuw Muzak Country: Netherlands Price: $6.00 |
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"The Screamers were part of the 1st wave of west coast punk. They were
together from 1977 - 81 and had roots that can be traced back nearly a
decade. Founding members Tomata du Plenty and Tommy Gear had performed
together in Ze Whiz Kidz, a lip-sync troupe which godfathered major
rebirths of local scenes of performance art, modern dance, punk and the
gay underground in Seattle in the early 70ies. In 1975 they formed The
Tupperwares, an all drag trio which included Rio de Janeiro, Tomata and
Melba Toast (Tommy). They performed a few shows in 1976 with the help of
various underground Seattle musicians such as Bill Rieflien (of Rev-co
fame) and members of his band The Telepaths. One of the first west coast
DIY shows was put on by The Tupperwares, The Telepaths and Meyce on May
1st, 1976, at the Odd Fellows Temple - admission was $1.00.
The spring of 1977 would see a move to LA by Tommy and Tomata where they
meet and recruit KK Barrett and David Braun, and form The Screamers.
Vocals, ARP Odessey synth, Fender Rhodes electric piano with fuzz box and
drums was what they used to create their lo fi psycho kraftwerk
performance punk attack. They became one of LAs all time biggest club
bands and they were also its most mysterious. They are renowned as the
original punk undergrounds most popular band, who vanished into thin air
without ever releasing a single record, who never officially toured, and
who were so far ahead of their time in doing away with electric guitars
in aggressive rock music that they were called techno punk back in
1978. Style and theater were also so much part of The Screamers that
nobody ever called them out for being a punk band with a full time
stylist. The legendary west coast synth punk band live at the whisky, LA, 14.9.78, red vinyl, 400 copies." - Meeuw Muzak.
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Artist: SCREAMIN MEE-MEES Title: Answer Me Format: 7" Label: Brinkman Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "More freaked-out, minimalist guitar ruckus from the man thats been turning his moms basement into party-central since the late-60s. Eternal teenager, Bruce Cole, and his drummer-buddy Jon Ashline play their garage rock several sheet to the wind, always. "PLAY LOUD ON CHEAP STEREO!" It says on the cover, "preferably with a stack of Schlitz or Pabst within arms reach" should have been added. This 45 originally came out in 1996. Grab one before theyre gone." -Brinkman |
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Artist: SCREAMIN MEE-MEES Title: Comedy Hour Format: Cass Label: Rerun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Although the Screamin Mee-Mees are best known for their 1977 EP, the D.I.Y. Punk masterpiece "Live From The Basement", the boys had been making tapes since the late 60s. They recorded goofball rock n folk songs on guitar and homemade drums, Kraut Rock-n-pot fueled white noise jams and the odd bit of comedy, organ music and other experimentations.
This cassette is a real gem Im proud to have re-discovered during one of our many excavations of Bruce Coles basement. Recorded around 69 or 70, the tape was long thought lost and not heard for a couple decades. The first side is Bruce and Jon of the Mee-Mees putting on a production of "TV shows" with songs and bits, including a variety show with the boys posing as a couple rock bands. The second side starts with Bruce and Jon recording their observations as they drove around Ferguson in Jons Javelin station wagon. After that trek, the boys head back home to play a handful of original songs. Vocals by both, with Bruce on acoustic guitar and Jon on coffee can drums. About a full hour glimpse into the minds of the Mee-Mees, a very, very scary place.
Shrink-wrapped, pro-made, chrome cassette with full color cover. CS is limited to 100 copies." -Rerun.
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Artist: SCREAMIN MEE-MEES Title: Nude Invisible Foot Phenomenon Format: LP Label: Bag of Hammers Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"..rumbles of lo-fi psychedelic punk from Mr. Bruce Cole and Mr. Jon Ashline." - Bag of Hammers. 1996 release.
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Artist: SCREAMIN MEES MEES Title: Garbage Collage Format: CD Label: Gulcher Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
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"A collection of unreleased tracks from the vaults recorded between 1975 and 1980 by St. Louis underground rock sensations the SCREAMIN MEE-MEES. Includes the cuts "Struck Out (Again)" (a redo of a tune from their debut The Basement EP), "Be Retarded," "Cmon Jimmy," "Money Back Guarantee," "A Group of Women," "No Known Antidote," "Disco For Drunks," "Too Young To Shave Part Two," and many more."
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Artist: SCREAMING DEAD Title: Children of the Boneyard Stones Format: 7" Label: Queer Pills Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Six really cool tracks from the quite rare 1982 demo cassette by this lesser-known Cheltenham UK horror/goth punk outfit, with a great sense of melody and a rebellious political stance where classic 70s punk meets the developing hardcore sound. Original artwork from the cassette release, limited pressing of 400 copies." - Queer Pills. |
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Artist: SCREAMING URGE Title: Homework Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Columbus, Ohio forms the southern point of Ohios golden triangle of D.I.Y. (with Cleveland at the north, and someplace between Akron and Youngstown to the east). From these few hundred square miles emerged dozens of bands whose musical roots flow directly from the splendidly guileless art-rock of Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu-with barely a trace of Ramones, Sex Pistols or Elvis Costello... SCREAMING URGEs "Homework" is this series theme-song. They were certainly the punkiest outfit in the gloriously experimental Columbus scene at the turn of the 80s, but the thoroughly un-punk artwork on their LPs and the EP still scares off the headbangers. They played the heck out of Columbus clubs, church halls, sidewalks and a burlesque club they rented. Major label nibbles came to naught, but they left behind a cool 45 (New Age 002) and two LPs-worth of world-class DIY-punk. Drummer DAVE MANIC went on to GREAT PLAINS." - Sing Sing. |
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Artist: SCREAMING URGE Title: Impulse Control Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"73+ stupendous minutes of raw, ranting punknroll from Columbus�?? gory years of 1980-81. A collection of Screaming Urge�??s two brilliant 12"s and their legendary (and legendarily scarce) "Homework" single in brilliant, snap-, crackle- and pop-free H2D sound. Plus cool photos and a stirring bio/manifesto from Baby Lindy, their #1 fan." - Hyped 2 Death.
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Artist: SCREW Title: Banks of the River/Devils Hour Format: 10" Label: Shagrat Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"A 10" single by legendary 60s band Screw. Screw were a psychedelic blues quintet from south London whose chief claim to fame was their support spot at The Rolling Stones Hyde Park concert in July 1969. It was subsequently written up in Richard Nevilles Play Power book. The group released no records during their brief heyday (1967-70) but Shagrat has unearthed its only two extant recordings Banks of the River b/w Devils Hour recorded in May 1969 under the supervision of Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason. With nods towards Captain Beefheart, The Misunderstood and Free, the band featured Chris Turner (harmonica), Al Kinnear (guitar), Nick Brotherwood (drums), Stan Scrivener (bass) and Pete Hossell (vocals), and they played many gigs at the time including The Roundhouse, Eel Pie Island and The London Guildhall. The 10" comes in an intricate package all designed by Savage Pencil and includes a special fold over inner sleeve (featuring photos of their Hyde Park appearance and an extensive history of the band written by Shagrat boss Nigel Cross) plus a bonus CD of Psychedelic Harps, a lengthy, exciting blues harmonica duel between Chris Turner and Pete Hossell." - Shagrat
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Artist: SCRIBBLER Title: My Old Lady Format: 7" Label: Stumparumper Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "6 songs, nearly 13 minutes of bi-polar music made especially for Scibblers extensive Canadian tour in March. One side beautiful and moving folk, the other an electrified aural thrashing of your senses. Is it really the same band? Full run edition of 300 (!) on black vinyl with hand-silkscreened jackets and hand-drawn labels. Youre going to need this." -Stumparumper |
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Artist: SCROTUM POLES Title: Auchmithie Forever Format: LP Label: Dulc-I-Tone Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Three-plus years and many hurdles overcome, the long-awaited SCROTUM POLES treasure trove has finally been unearthed! Twenty-two unreleased 1979/1980 studio and home recordings from one of the best early UK DIY pop bands. Except for the most dour and hygienically-challenged of punk collectors, SCROTUM POLES first hit the public radar via one of Hypedtodeaths first homemade Messthetics CD-R compilations of lost late-70s/early 80s UK DIY punk & pop bands. For those whose minds were blown by the seemingly unending depths of amazing slop bubbled to the surface by the Messthetics series, The Scrotum Poles "Pick the Cats Eyes Out" and "Helicopter Honeymoon" (both from their only vinyl release, the legendary, oddly-sized Revelation EP) were arguably the best of the mess. Formed in Dundee, Scotland in 1978, the scrappy Scrotum Poles exemplify wonderfully the anything-goes attitude of the time immediately following the first wave of punk, and Auchmithie Forever opens up a perfectly imperfect chapter of this exciting period. Sure, theres nods to the obvious punk forebears, and the surefire upbeat punk-pop hits are undeniable, but other dreary pop tendencies come much closer in sound to early Go-Betweens or the loping bass-driven bands appearing out of Manchester in following years. Auchmithie Forever has been painstakingly culled from hours of lost-then-found-then-lost-then-found-again C-90 cassette tapes recorded by the band before and around the recording of the legendary Revelation EP. The best of the best songs from three different tapes appear here, including different versions of both "Pick the Cats" and "Helicopter" (pop fans will LOVE the drum-less, near-acoustic bedroom version of "Pick the Cats"). Cassette transferring was a monumental task, but no expense or effort was spared to find the right balance of noise and clarity. In addition to their admitted lack of instrument mastery or traditional tuning abilities, the recordings are mucky-the tapes made muckier with 30 years of soggy English basement storage. Sticklers for hi-fi recordings will run for their lives, but those with patience (or love) for some hiss & flutter will be generously rewarded. Auchmithie Forever is available with full cooperation from the band, containing photos, clippings, lyrics and liner notes from SMEG POLE himself." - Dulc-i-Tone. Highly recommended! Restocked! |
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Artist: SCROTUM POLES Title: Revelation Format: 7" Label: Dulc-i-Tone Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Finally! After Auchmithie Forevers treasures were unleashed last year, now here comes what youve all been waiting for: a complete reproduction of arguably THE best example of the pop side (or any side, really!) of the UK DIY post-punk era. Dundees Smeg, Burt, Sid & Stripey originally released Revelation themselves in handmade, ill-fitting covers in 1980, and thirty-one years later it still deserves to be filed alongside 14th Floor, Spiral Scratch, and The Medium is Tedium. With more hits on one single than most bands have across multiple albums, the five songs here perfectly encapsulate the excitement of the UK post-punk explosion from the perspective of a teenage record fanatic. From the raging proto-hardcore Radio Tay and the untouchable bedroom powerpop of "Helicopter Honeymoon", to the gloomy Night Train and the dreary pop classic "Pick the Cats Eyes Out", Revelation sounds almost like a clunky sampling of what was happening at the time but simultaeously outdoes the bands idols with its stripped-down purity and undeniably instant catchiness. Remastered and packaged in glossy glued sleeves, and including a repro of the orginal entertaining ditto-on-gold paper insert (complete with connect the dot games and Do the Scrote dance instructions), its worth the wait! First pressing of 500 copies." - Dulc-i-Tone. |
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Artist: SCULPTRESS Title: How The Kingdom Fell Apart Format: 3" CDR Label: Firstperson Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "a live recording of the stoke-on-trent based improvising unit, here operating as a trio of MELANIE DELANEY (ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS), JOINCEY (INCA EYEBALL, WAGSTAFF, TARGET SHOPPERS etc etc...) & ANDY JARVIS (ANNA PLANETA) over 20 minutes they slowly weave a trance-inducing web using clarinet, acoustic gtr, electric gtr, percussion & toys. this is the first available document of the groups continued & varied live work over the last 2 years." - Firstperson. |
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Artist: SDM Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Gel Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
"Recorded during the early winter of 2010, this is a document of three unique individuals combing their skill and experience into a improvisational piece. The personnel for this recording is Daren Ho of Driphouse, Suzy Poling of Pod Blotz, and Marcia Bassett of Zaimph. The result is a heavy and slow meditating movment of electronics." - Gel. |
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Artist: SEA DONKEYS Title: Live At The S.S. Marie Antoinette Format: LP Label: Assophon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Sea Donkeys 2nd long player is here. All it took to make it happen was to start their own label. Enter Assophon Records, The Sea Donkeys in-house publishing empire is born. asso-001 Live at the S.S. Marie Antoinette LP is the culmination of a sound only dreamt of by todays cognoscenti. This record does not belong to any scene or movement or marketable new buzz word. This record is without geography. It is about songs! Imagine the Godz (ESP-Disk vintage) recording at the Smegma studios. Or the Velvets in Brazil. Imagine just imagine. This record is a blend of seductive pastoral folk rock tunes, free jazz reveries, shimmering strum drone, and unhinged rock!" -Assophon. Edition of 400. |
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Artist: SEA DONKEYS Title: Sympathy For The Sea Donkeys Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: Moran Tape Label Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"They need it. Part of MTL 8" Lathe Series One.
Limited edition of 40. Bound in red cloth and hand painted." Very limited stock.
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Artist: SEARCH PARTY, THE Title: Montgomery Chapel Format: CD Label: Erebus Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Fantastic new release on Erebus Records containing a 4-page booklet with band info. A primitive Christian folk-rock LP which hits some truly unique moods and sounds on about 2/3rds of the tracks. Obviously inspired by the West Coast psychedelic sounds of the era, The Search Party take compositions by their spiritual mentor, a Catholic middle-aged priest, and turn them into primitive California garage folk rock and psych with fuzz leads and raw vocals! Most Christian folk-rock LPs suffer from still having one foot left in Sunday School, but these young seminarians have definitely broken through to the other side. Side 1 ends with an unparalleled 9-minute downer folk-rock excursion with heavy soul-searching lyrics that alone makes Montgomery Chapel worth checking out, but beware -- its crude, even the female vocalist has a strange edge. Unrehearsed confessions from a basement Music Emporium." -Acid Archives |
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Artist: SEAZER, JA Title: Saraba Hakobune OST Format: CD Label: Showboat/Sky Station Country: Japan Price: $29.00 |
| "Another rarity is this original soundtrack album to Terayama Shujis last movie with music by JA Seazer (Tenjo Sajiki, JA Caesar). Released in 1984, it was Terayamas last completed movie and Seazers last contribution to his visionary and reactionary world. Saraba Habobunes soundtrack is just stunningly beautiful, far removed from Seazers trademark bombastic scores. Instead it ventures into more pastoral and almost meditative psychedelic realms filled with traditional string plucking, eerie flute, shahuhachi flirtations, esoterically floating beneath-the-surface female Orff-like choruses and ethereal shamanistic sense of poetry that create memory flashes towards a forceful nostalgia of a past not directly experienced. The whole is endowed with beauty and an austere intimacy spiced up with occasional echoes of circus side show callers that seem to recall aspirational surges out of a concealed depth of former delinquent activities. A deceptively intense, casual in feel, yet meticulous in its musical detail and lyrical transmigrative eclectic beauty. A true astonishingly beautiful and ear-filling piece of consummate art that is so hard to come to terms with. Housed in eye-popping hard cover mini-LP styled gatefold sleeve art, complete with reproduction of the original inserts."-Showboat/Sky Station |
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Artist: SEBASTIAN Title: Rays Of The Sun Format: LP Label: Acme Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Early 70s reissue of this much in demand deep folky psych rarity with lavish arrangements like Darius meets Scott Walker. Great songs. long and short, and with superb vocal melodies with acid leads, sitar, and Peppery feel on some tracks. Undiscovered psych classic! Remastered and pressed on virgin DMM vinyl limited to 500 copies pressing." -Acme |
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Artist: SECLUSION Title: Yukigafuru Format: CD Label: Some Fine Legacy Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "Seclusion is Makoto Hattori, Chako and Christoph Heemann." - Some Fine Legacy. |
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Artist: SECOND DECAY Title: Le Decadence Electronique Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Dark Entries presents, for the first time ever on vinyl, the debut full length album by German electronic darkwave pioneers, Second Decay. Formed by Christian Purwien and Andreas Sippel in 1987, Second Decay hit the underground dark dance scene with their 12" Killing Time and then worked on their debut album from 1988 to 1992. La Decadence Electronique is an album full of addictive analogue electronics that combine synthetic sounds and constant rhythms with memorable vocals. Each song has been carefully remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies." - Dark Entries. |
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Artist: SECRET ABUSE Title: Immeasurable Gift Format: LP Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "⿿The Immeasurable Gift is a testament to cathartic possibilities and the role of creation/release as a means of understanding. Recorded throughout the past three years in a variety of locations and personal moments; encapsulated by a common, unrelenting concern. Beautifully delicate, elegiac melodies concealed within curtains of dense electronic ambiance reveal themselves like the light at the end of the tunnel; a signifier of the temporary vessel form. Balancing recklessness with care and coming to terms with the inevitable; encountering the man on the shoulder, reminding us that we are all just weary travelers. In an edition of 425 records in full color proprinted cardboard jackets with printed labels and an insert; all design by Jeff Witscher." -Arbor |
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Artist: SECRET ABUSE Title: Violent Narcissus Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Secret Abuser Jeff Witscher is an enigma wrapped in a riddle rolled in cassette tape and plugged into a battered pair of towering PA speakers. Hes lived everywhere, met everyone, and inspired legions through his lifestyle, utopian fashions (refugee chic), and spellbindingly intense music. Up from Rainbow Blanket, through to Impregnable, and across the arid plains of Roman Torment and Deep Jew, Witschers maintained a singularity of vision and total commitment to execution that has wrecked us, personally, to the point of speechlessness at least a dozen times. But, despite his restlessly shapeshifting spirit, the past year plus has seen him settling slightly deeper into his Secret Abuse sinkhole style, and heres hoping he lingers a while longer, cause its a fucking winner. Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones crossfade into tortured minor key guitar laments before being slowly subsumed in a droning ocean of choked vocals and sulking, selfish electronics. Repressed, burning, and emotional like a young man pushing away everything, Violent Narcissus is as definitive a document as has thus far yet emerged from the SA canon (and lord knows theres been a grip of gems). Look long and hard; the mirror is a bitter mistress. Black LPs, mastered by Bill Hutson, housed in jackets designed by Witscher. Edition of 445." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SECRET DIARY Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: SECTION 25 Title: Always Now Format: LP Label: Drastic Plastic Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| " Produced by Factory Records sound genius MARTIN HANNETT, SECTION 25s 1981 debut LP, Always Now, bears similar aural markers to label mates Joy Division and Crispy Ambulance. Full of the late 70s/early 80s post-punk zeitgeist, here is music borne out of punks simple and urgent delivery, but with loftier artistic aims and an introspective, more complex delivery. Always Nows songs lay out a darkening landscape examining and reexamining the twilight; an aural document of the grays comprising both light and dark. The impression is not unlike Pisarros pastoral evening landscapes...but bleaker and more evocative of ghosts and the sounds of their chains. Limited edition of 1,000 copies." -Drastic Plastic |
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Artist: SEDAYNE Title: Naked Season Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $11.00 |
| "Experimental re-imaginations of English traditionals by the man who in a distant past was member of the Masstishaddhu cult. These tracks venture through dark medieval seasons of sheep stealers and John Barleycorn. Instruments played, among others, are hurdy-gurdy, voice, jews harps, crwth, citera and bones. Artwork by Sedayne, 70 copies." -Sloow Tapes |
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Artist: SEDIMENT CLUB Title: EP Format: 7" Label: Softspot Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "The Sediment Club are a 4-piece No Wave group from New York. Their debut EP puts a modern and youthful spin on familiar post-punk tropes, bringing to mind the deranged and bizarrely catchy innovations of the Contortions and early Pere Ubu. Four songs filled with existential ranting, squirrel-y atonal guitars, and spastic keyboard stabbing atop hypnotic bass lines and propulsive drums. Recorded at N.Y. Hed Studios by Ivan Julian. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies." - Softspot. Excellent new 7" by four 17-18 year old NYC kids, whos live set includes covers of the Residents and Rocket From The Tombs. Produced and mastered by Ivan Julian of the Voidoids, the father of singer/guitarist Austin (his mother being Cynthia Sley of the Bush Tetras). Highly recommended! |
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Artist: SEDITION ENSEMBLE Title: Regeneration Report Format: LP Label: Sol Re Sol Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "It is the late 1970s and recently politicized filmmaker and musician Ed Montgomery makes his way from San Francisco to New York City. His thought is to find like-minded musicians in order to create a politically-infused, free jazz-inspired performance ensemble. He starts playing in Latin groups and takes part in jam sessions at Bobo Shaws LaMama space. He finally assembles a group of musicians and starts making some seriously funky and far-out music. Released on Mongomerys Context Music label, Regeneration Report got some notice, but not what it deserved. The music is a tough blend of funk, jazz, no wave, and Latin - very strong stuff that sounds as fresh today as it did in 1981. It was the lyrics that kept the Sedition Ensemble from a larger audience. Revolutionary words with absolutely no compromise, Montgomery and McCauley attack injustice and give an analysis of the world as stark it is true. Their message is sadly still relevant today. The lazymans description of Sedition Ensemble is this: Take the stripped down funkiness of ESG and combine it with the Last Poets funk militancy, Fela Kutis horn section hipped on free jazz from the 70s New York loft scene, then add a bit of Eddie Palmieri s Harlem River Drive Orchestra. A private pressing when independent labels had weak distribution, Regeneration Report never sold a lot of records. Few copies made it off the East Coast. Nowadays, original copies fetch good money in collectors circles. We at Sol Re Sol Record are proud to reissue this great LP. The vinyl has been remastered by John Golden and is housed in an old style tip-on sleeve and includes liner notes by band founder Ed Montgomery." - Sol Re Sol. |
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Artist: SEESSELBERG Title: Synthetik 1 Format: CD Label: Plate Lunch Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
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Long delayed reissue, finally released; officially remastered from original tapes. Early electronic music of Eckhart and Wolf-J. Seesselberg from 1971-1973 created with hand made synthesizers. Originally released on a private LP in 1973 in a quantity of 600. "DŸsseldorf was the electronic / industrial wasteland that spawned Kraftwerk, Cluster and Neu. It was also the stomping ground for Eckhart and Wolf-J. Seesselberg who partly produced this excellent album there (the other location being Hamburg). Rather than go for extended electronic drones, however, the brothers came up with a selection of shorter pieces, adding variety to their record which others failed to imitate. Seesselberg have been compared (somewhat clumsily) to early Kraftwerk and Conrad Schnitzlers Kluster, but to my ears they have more in common with New Yorks Suicide and The Silver Apples (minus the vocals natch!) than any of their German contemporaries." - Plate Lunch. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: SEHT Title: Hand Full of Sleet Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Epic Sweep Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
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"Ltd to 20 copies. Stephen Clover (aka Seht) has been making beautiful minimalist drones for the past 10 years. Hand Full Of Sleet was previously released on an abscure comilpation, but here is repackaged and re-presented in two distinct parts." -Epic Sweep
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Artist: SEHT Title: Syddo Paragone Format: CDR Label: Audiobot Country: Belgium Price: $8.00 |
| "Classify under: throbbing NZ claustrophobic dub sponge. Design and art by Edward Maddison." - Seht. 2005 release. Limited to 110 copies. |
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Artist: SEIKAZOKU Title: Out Takes 1966 - 1978 Format: CD Label: Fractal Country: France Price: $16.00 |
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"Blatantly mis-monikered outing (recorded in 1996) by this new supergrouping of Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins/Musica Transonic/Koenjihyakkei), Makoto Kawabata (Toho Sara/Mainliner/Musica Transonic) and Atsushi Tsuyama (Omoide Hatoba). A welcome re-entry to the field of +12 dB analogue overload (lacking on certain recent new-japan sessions) and improv-psych-stumble featuring at least 20 different instruments in varied settings. Some unexpected passages of Moog-flash and power drumming counter sedate sections of Toho-Sara-ish eastern sun-god-altar virgin-sacrifice. A grand jostle to existing fans of this somewhat daunting scene of Japanese heavy-fumble, and a novel entry for the uninitiated." --Hrvatski. "Seikazoku is playing improvisation between progressive, psychedelic rock and modern, traditional music. Featuring 16 tracks, with drums, bass, guitar Hammond organ, Rhodes, Moog, piano, percussions, oboe, kazoo, bouzouki, sarangi, violin, hyoutan syamisen and voices. Full of ideas, effects and energy: a real new sound from Japan."
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Artist: SEISHOKKI Title: 1975-1977 Format: LP Label: Siwa Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Seishokki (roughly translates as Organs Of Blue Eclipse) was an outfit formed while its members were still in high school and active from 1975-1977 in Asahikawa in northern Japan. The onset of punk may have validated these six non-musicians decision to start a band but original member Ikuro Takahashi (who went on to perform with a veritable whos who list of outfits including Fushitsusha, High Rise, Che-Shizu and Maher Shalal Hash Baz) has suggested that a lot of their inspiration came from what was probably a misreading of early minimalism. With their musical influences as likely to be only heard of as actually heard what comes out in these recordings is a wonderfully primitive approach to the repetition of minimalism with exuberant forays into wild synth/percussion driven noise. The result is a sound that falls somewhere between the original Amon Duul LPs and Outside the Dream Syndicate with a nod towards the subsequent development of noise as a genre in the Japanese underground. These are believed to be the only surviving recordings of this band with the exception of a vocal track with lyrics concerning an eternal teenage concern deemed too mortifying for release. Limited vinyl only edition in lurid 5 color screenprinted jacket." - SIWA. Included in Julian Copes Top 50 Japanese Underground LPs of all time in the recently published JAPROCKSAMPLER book.
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Artist: SEITZ VS. MICHAEL GENDRAU Title: Seitz Versus Gendrau Format: LP Label: Misanthropic Agenda Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "A collaborative experiment by a former member of TAXODIACAE and the CRAWLING WITH TARTS dude, who use concrete music compositional strategies on found sound captured in San Francisco. On "Chorus After Rains," both use the same raw sound clips and meld their individual results together into one piece of music. "Things Lost That Will Never Be Found," a composition with live instruments, moves from a toy piano to various invented motor instruments. "Trains Will Not Stop" uses sounds from records, composed by Gendreau and re-mixed by Seitz using accelerometer recordings collected in San Francisco during 2005. Edition of 90, packaged in tip-on jacket." -Misanthropic Agenda. |
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Artist: SEJAYNO Title: Sedainty Format: LP Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Members of sejayno release a morphic aura into the air through the utilization of therapeutic breathing techniques, fumblings, and fantasies about sexual tourism. The Swedenbourgian airplane becomes reality along with the use of tubas and guitars and poetic resonance. You may know Peter Blasser as "ciat-lonbarde" or the next incarnation of dr.who imagining bob moog as interpreted by the paper circuit in the form of the seed of life. Carson Garhart is not only "cute" but was also the phantasmal skeleton in the skeletons and Severiano. Martinez is the man behind it all. Limited LP screenprinted covers." - Heresee. |
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Artist: SELLAM, MICHAEL Title: Scratch Format: 12" Label: Artkillart Country: France Price: $26.00 |
| One-sided release. "Scratch is a sound installation for which the fastest industrial robot in the world has been modified to scratch the surface of a vinyl record placed on a table. The monster machine, capable of manipulating up to 240 pieces per minute is equipped with a reading head specialized for amplifying the sound that is produced by the frenetic attacks of the metal on the record. The dynamic force of the robots arms is impossible to follow with the naked eye. The varied and surgically precise positions and accelerations are orchestrated by a computer program specially designed for the project. The raw noise is massively distributed in the exhibition space until the moment when the robot detaches itself from the surface of the vinyl to prepare for a new cycle by practicing a series of extremely fast, circular warmup movements. Pausing only momentarily to allow for a space for silence, the sonic residue of the hypnotic hyperactivity of the robot quickly fills the space again. The heavy pressure caused by the movements of the metallic point on the surface of the record produce a series of erosion lines and remove some surface material along these markings. The mutations and transformations of these objects are direct and unique results from the work sequence, raw traces of the performance. The choice of the record remains free and arbitrary and like a sportsman at the end of his career, it is not replaced until it reaches its rupture point, its saturation. Scratch is a sonic composition of 7min 22sec in duration, made up of recordings of the activity of the robot on vinyl records and their reading on a regular record player. The two sonic states of a same object creates a third state." - Artkillart |
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Artist: SEMIMUUMIO Title: Vamos Format: CD Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $16.50 |
| "Solo debut record by Jaakko Tolvi (Pymathon, Rauhanorkesteri, Lauhkeat lampaat, Kemialliset ystävät)! Mostly sample-based partybeats for children and adults, probably not for teenagers. Call it emotional, adult-oriented beat." - Lal Lal Lal |
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Artist: SEMPER, JONTY Title: The 1 Minute Silence From The Funeral Of Diana, Princess of Wales Format: 7" Label: Locus +/Charrm Country: UK Price: $8.50 |
| "This is the first part of a 2-part project by British artist Jonty Semper. The 1 minute silence from the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales was recorded in Hyde Park by Jonty Semper on 6 September 1997 as the live BBC television broadcast of the ceremony was shown on a big screen in the park. All around the world people similarly observed the ritual unfold, a communal gathering unprecedented in contemporary times: levelling divisions,uniting through grief and contemplation, loaded with specific current social and political meanings. The single places the contemporary public silence observed during the mourning of Dianas death in context with the second part of the project, Kenotaphion, produced as a result of researching, locating and anthologising all the existing archive recordings of the two minute silences from the Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London." |
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Artist: SENDER, RAMON Title: Worldfood Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "In those pre-Buchla Box days, we cobbled together whatever odd bits of equipment we could beg, borrow, steal and occasionally buy to coax whatever squeaks and chirps or sequences of noises we could from their complaining depths. -- Ramon Sender. Worldfood is a wild, psychedelic warble & drone of looped, overlayed tape pieces produced by goosing an ampex tape player with a computer calibration device. The resulting two pieces -- Worldfood III (To See With my Eyes) and WorldfoodX!! -- both part of a number of variations in a series -- make for gorgeous, careening sungazing music. Leave your glasses behind. Ramon Sender is a legendary figure in the Bay Area scene -- first paving the way for the San Francisco Tape Center with Mort Subotnick (Silver Apples of the Moon) and Pauline Oliveiros at the dawn of the 1960s where the stunningly out pieces on this disc happened. In subsequent years, he played an active role with the San Francisco Diggers -- the anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture --and co-founded the legendary Morningstar Ranch Commune in Sonoma County. Worldfood is the first in an ongoing series of archival discs to come from Ramon Senders exceptional vaults." - Locust |
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Artist: SENSATE FOCUS Title: Deviation Heat-Treated Format: LP Label: Pan Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "From behind your ear, PAN pluck a blink-and-miss exclusive: a 35-minute audio response by Mark Fell (aka Sensate Focus) to source material by Heatsick, somewhere between cover version, remix, and deconstruction. Along the A-side "X" plane, tones are exploded, harmonies refracted with HD dissonance; time is extruded, made ductile yet intangible. On the B-side, "Y" axis hydraulic undulations and roiling tones expand and contract between kinetic kink and gyroscopic funk with the pointillist, freeform choreography of a Merce Cunningham piece." -Pan. |
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Artist: SENSATE FOCUS Title: Sensate Focus 10 Format: 12" Label: Sensate Focus Country: Austria Price: $15.00 |
| "Introducing Sensate Focus. New label for neat house tracks. Released in association with Editions Mego." -Sensate Focus. |
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Artist: SENSATIONS FIX Title: Music Is Painting in the Air (1974-1977) Format: Double CD Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Essential collection of new mixes and unreleased material from Sensations Fix, the cosmically conscious, defiantly DIY enterprise of Franco Falsini and his band of psychedelic renegades." - Rvng. |
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Artist: SENSATIONS FIX Title: Music Is Painting in the Air (1974-1977) Format: Double LP Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Essential collection of new mixes and unreleased material from Sensations Fix, the cosmically conscious, defiantly DIY enterprise of Franco Falsini and his band of psychedelic renegades." - Rvng. |
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Artist: SENSATIONS FIX Title: Time to Decide Format: LP/CD Label: Mirumir Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| A compilation of rare studio and live tracks from the band, circa 1978-1980, not on RVNG Intl.s Music Is Painting In The Air... collection. On 180 gram vinyl with CD of the album. "Formed by Florentine guitarist Franco Falsini (formerly of Noi Tre) and American drummer Keith Edwards, Sensations Fix was one of the most exciting acts to come out of the Italian music scene of the 1970s. Beginning in 1974, from their outpost in the Florentine countryside, Falsini and Edwards (along with bassist Richard Ursillo) recorded a handful of excellent albums that were more closely aligned with the German Krautrock scene of the era than Italian prog." - Mirumir. |
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Artist: SEPHIROTHS KNOT (aka JOW JOW) Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Spirit Of Orr Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Western MA flagship gathering offers its first ever release through outside channels, SPIRIT OF ORR could not be more honored with their offering this collection to us. JOW JOW, also known as SEPHIROTHS KNOT or just SEFIROTH is a Free-Improv, Psych Music Collective drawing influence from a broad pallet ranging from Sun Ra to the Godz "Third Wave" with a penchant for the obscure sound or instrument. Contains members of FEATHERS, RED FAVORITE, BUNWINKIES, & SUPREME DICKS. Born from nightly imbibing of the magic antler. Feel the Wreath. Limited to 300 numbered hand assembled copies." -Spirit Of Orr. |
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Artist: SEPVIVA BELLS Title: Halloween In The Sea Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $11.00 |
| "Duo recordings by Tara Burke (Fursaxa, Anahita, Tau Emerald) and Grant Acker (Slurp Dogs), smoking one late-period Un/early Fursaxa style. A scorching blend of distorted psychedelia, hypnotic riffing and mellow vocals trapped inside a very trippy atmosphere. Edition of 170 copies with silkscreened fold-out booklet." - Sloow Tapes. |
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Artist: SERPENTINA SATELITE Title: Mecanica Celeste Format: LP Label: Rocket Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "This is the third official recording by South American space-rockers Serpentina Satelite. After the success of their album Nothing To Say, the band returned to their studio in Peru to record this more ambitious and accomplished-sounding follow-up. The album recalls all the great psychedelic bands from the past 40 years, from 70s bands like Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Düül II and Hawkwind; through to 80s bands like Monster Magnet (particularly Tab-era) and Loop and todays contemporary cosmic warlords like Eternal Tapestry, White Hills and Magic Lantern. Mecanica Celeste is a conceptually unique take on psychedelia, conceived by manipulating traditional religious songs, text ideology and poetry with heavy fuzz guitars, swirling drones, spaced-out wah solos, motorik rhythms and delayed vocals, to create a head-melting experience of an album which climaxes with the proto-metal riffs of track "Sendero," giving the band a fresh-sounding approach to the well-trod grounds of space rock: Serpentina Satelite tried to get to heaven but ended up in space." -Rocket |
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Artist: SERVANTS, THE Title: Youth Club Disco Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Servants was an indie band formed in 1985 in Hayes, Middlesex, England by singer and songwriter David Westlake. Their brand of the mid-80s jangly guitar-pop was intellectual, refined and classy as opposed to the shambolic and noisy lo-fi scene heralded by the C-86 compilation they would appear on and be connected with during their active career. After lots of lineup changes (including past/future members of The Auteurs and The Housemartins) and a string of great singles and one great LP (Disinterest) the band called it a day in 1991. Around this time, huge fan and Belle & Sebastian frontmn Stuart Murdoch was trying to locate David Westlake in the hopes of forming a band with him, before launching Belle in his school class instead. In 2006, the great Cherry Red label finally pulled together the unreleased tracks and singles into the CD Reserved from which this vinyl-only compilation is pulled. Combined with a copy of Disinterest (if you can find one) this collection is the essential vinyl document of a great band from a great era of music that can easily be thought of as what would be their debut LP. Includes mp3 download card." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: SESKIND, SCOTT Title: Chance Format: Cass Label: Chance Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "..impressively captivating and moving collection of four-tracked bedroom folk of the highest order, with an out-of-time vibe that didnt really snyc with its 1984 recording date. Definitely on the loner-ish end of the folk spectrum, with some aspects of the album harkening back to Skip Spences iconic Oar, while other moments revealed the urgency of the 80s lo-fi revolution. But most importantly, the songs were just really, really great and managed to remain haunting long past their leaving." - Michael Klausman (regarding his self titled debut LP). Original sealed copies of his 1991 private cassette, the only release after the 1985 LP, which is somewhat "known" amongst folk/psych/private collectors (and mentioned in Acid Archives despite the later date). These recordings arent quite as desolate and a bit more "lo-fi" than the LP, but still a very worthwhile listen.. |
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Artist: SEVEN DEPRESSIONS Title: Pillar To Post/Mauled By A Deer Format: 7" Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Recorded February 2006 at Burr Haven St by Shannon Walter and Damion Romero. |
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Artist: SEVEN, LARRY & JIM SHARPE Title: Burlap Fantasy Format: Double 7 Label: Plastikville Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Recent product from Plastikvilles analogue research studio. A deconstruction of the old rock hit "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain. You get two copies so you can mix your own version! The b-side ("Burlap Breaks") is a set of 4 discrete tracks spread out over 2 pairs of stereo bands (each side of a stereo channel being two separate tracks). So, with
a couple of turntables, a decent mixer, and some mischievous intent -
voila! youve got youre own version. Impress friends at parties with your
skills and taste! Tear it up in the more discriminating clubs... you
figure it out! If youre lazy, you can just play the A-side -- the
plastikville honchos do their own version..." - Plastikville. Limited edition package in burlap.
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Artist: SEVEN, LARY Title: Rotation Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "The Tapeworm launches its new publishing venture, The Bookworm, with a tidy compendium of its cover art, alongside an especially-commissioned essay by writer Ken Hollings, the author of the books Destroy All Monsters (Marion Boyars, 2001) and Welcome To Mars (Strange Attractor Press, 2008). Kens work has appeared in a wide range of journals, reviews and anthologies. He has written and presented critically-acclaimed programs for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, NPS in Holland, ABC Australia and Resonance FM and has given talks and lectures at the Royal Institution, the British Library, the ICA, Central St Martins, the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels and the Berlin Akademie der Künste. Future Bookworm booklets are currently being penned by writer/poet Leslie Winer, and graphic designer Chris Bigg (4AD, David Sylvian). "Parasitic Infestation," an essay by Ken Hollings. Illustrations from the first 25 Tapeworm tapes, including works by SavX, Derek Jarman and Leif Elggren. Cover illustration: Savage Pencil. 66pp, 110mm x 117mm, soft cover, thread bound booklet -- no ISBN. Edition of 250 copies only. Printed on Munken Print stock. Typeset in Aldine 401, Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk and Miso." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: SEVENTH DAWN, THE Title: Sunrise Format: LP Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Spooky and fragile British-sounding folk from the USA, with some progressive and psychedelic hints. Recorded between 1970 and 1976 and privately released in 1976, original copies reach 4 figures. High-quality reissue in 180 gram vinyl, in a nice package with the original artwork and unbeatable remastered sound quality. Also includes a repro of the original sticker, the original insert and a new insert with photos and liners by bandleader Heff Munson. Limited release of 500 copies only." -Guerssen |
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Artist: SEVENTH SONS Title: Raga (4 A.M. At Franks) Format: CD Label: ESP-Disk Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
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"First reissue in a while of this classic ESP stoned-folk oddity (recorded in 1964, released 1968 just before the world collapsed). One long track, 31 minutes (original tape hiss preserved) - asking for bonus material would be akin to asking for another piece of Christ the next time youre in line at church, so dont thnk that way!" - FE. "Perhaps the first band to do Indian raga with an electric rock band line up, The Seventh Sons released this very collectible album on ESP-Disk. Featuring guitarist and vibraphonist Buzzy Linhart, The Seventh Sons also served as folk-rock artist Fred Neils backing band for a time in the mid-60s." - ESP Disk
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Artist: SEVERANCE & CASSIDY Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "Severance & Cassidy was a duo playing folk rock in the late 70s and early 80s in New Hampshire. Don Severance: songwriter, guitar and vocals Gary Cassidy: bass and vocals. In 1978, they were playing clubs, concerts, and parties full-time throughout New Hampshire and into Vermont. Their sound evolved from their interest in the acoustic, melodic, and harmony-driven music that was popular at the time. Don was strongly influenced by the guitar and harmony work of Peter, Paul And Mary and the songwriting and vocals of Simon And Garfunkel. In addition, bands such as America and Crosby, Stills And Nash were on the charts adding their brand of folk rock to the musical landscape. Gary came from a background of country music, and with his deep, rich, full-range vocals and his strong bass skills, they created a sound that felt larger than most other duos in the area. If you like obscure and mellow folk rock of the 1970s, this is a must-have album." -Riverman |
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Artist: SEVERED HEADS Title: Adenoids 1977-1985 Format: 5 LP Box Set Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $145.00 |
| "Contains earliest Tracks from 77-81 plus Tracks from the Terse-Releases Earbidden, Clean, the long lost Side 3-Tape, Blubberknife,Cheesecake and various other tracks from 83-85" - VOD. "And here we have it - the ultimate produce of the new millennium. A box of vinyl discs with music from as much as thirty years ago. Could something express any less faith in the future? My guess is that we seek to capture some purity that has since been encrusted with quibbles. Its a hopeless fetish that leads in an ever contracting spiral - music is born continuously and defies attempts to capture it in decorative tombs. Nevertheless. We have here a very decorative tomb. Music made from 1977 onwards by people who would be identified for a time as Severed Heads. Much is by Richard Fielding who left in 1982. Some by Andrew Wright, gone in 1980. Some by Bradbury, left in 1985, Deering also. In each case the music has been taken from the best copy, cleaned only as much as needed and organised to fit onto long playing vinyl. It is ancient, funny, half arsed, crinkly, clever and juvenile. It was compiled by a prick. All proceeds will be spent by Fielding on horse races. Buy two because they will wear out." - Tom Ellard, Severed Heads. |
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Artist: SEVERED HEADS Title: Adenoids 1977-1985 Format: 5 LP Box Set/T-Shirt Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $162.00 |
| "Contains earliest Tracks from 77-81 plus Tracks from the Terse-Releases Earbidden, Clean, the long lost Side 3-Tape, Blubberknife,Cheesecake and various other tracks from 83-85" - VOD. "And here we have it - the ultimate produce of the new millennium. A box of vinyl discs with music from as much as thirty years ago. Could something express any less faith in the future? My guess is that we seek to capture some purity that has since been encrusted with quibbles. Its a hopeless fetish that leads in an ever contracting spiral - music is born continuously and defies attempts to capture it in decorative tombs. Nevertheless. We have here a very decorative tomb. Music made from 1977 onwards by people who would be identified for a time as Severed Heads. Much is by Richard Fielding who left in 1982. Some by Andrew Wright, gone in 1980. Some by Bradbury, left in 1985, Deering also. In each case the music has been taken from the best copy, cleaned only as much as needed and organised to fit onto long playing vinyl. It is ancient, funny, half arsed, crinkly, clever and juvenile. It was compiled by a prick. All proceeds will be spent by Fielding on horse races. Buy two because they will wear out." - Tom Ellard, Severed Heads. Special edition with T-Shirt. |
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Artist: SEWER ELECTION Title: Vidöppna Sår Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
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"Following on from his Kassettmusik release, Vidöppna Sår is an evolution in scum-brow field recordings and voice recorded to mono tape -- akin to OU Revue -- recorded on a building site. This record shows the development, as witnessed from his recent live performances, of aggressive blur build-up and ominous restraint, tape speed replacing effect pedals, going beyond the mere junk noise description and closer to the original idea of musique concrete, namely altering everyday sounds onto tape into a wholly other vocabulary. Sewer Election is Dan Johansson, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is most known for his extreme and nasty noise on often limited edition cassettes and obscure vinyl releases on labels such as iDEAL, Troniks, Chondritic Sound, Release the Bats!, Freak Animal, Segerhuva, and Gameboy to name a few. He is a member of the Swedish collective Utmarken and lo-fi group Attestupa. What separates him from the rest of the wall-of-noise heads is that he is great at creating uncomfort and filth. To experience his stuff is like experiencing pure power and energy through subtle and restrained soundscapes of a world falling into pieces. The LP is mastered by Viktor Ottosson and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket, which is itself housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. All artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan.
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Artist: SEWER ELECTION Title: Vittra Sonder Format: LP Label: Throne Heap Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"Tape manipulation and metal abuse at its absolute finest. A few minutes of primitive organ melody mark the A-side of this LP, while the flipside features some percussive stabs so sparsely placed that they could nearly be counted on one hand. Although these musical passages are brief, they are worth mentioning as they significantly compliment the overall mood & pacing of the album. Deep within the dark grooves of Vittra Sonder the musique truly meets the concrete. Recorded at Utmarken Gothenburg, Sweden 2010 - 2011. Mastered for vinyl by Viktor Ottosson. Edition of 300 in pro-printed jackets." - Throne Heap.
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Artist: SEWER ELECTION/TRERIKSROSET Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Tone Filth Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Two sides of some of the best swedish noise. Sewer Election slab is a
giant swamp of distortion you could never wade through without being
taken under. The Treriksröset side is a time distorted bog of
delay.
Comes in an edition of 100 with hand screened covers and hand
inked/drawn tapes." - Tone FIlth.
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Artist: SEWN LEATHER Title: Sikknastafari Slash Crasstafari Format: LP Label: Hundebiss Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
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"Hello, good evening and welcome. Your host for tonights show, less a performance than a bloodletting ritual, will be GRIFFIN PYN-the demonic spirit, the martyred victim, and the shaman who heals and exorcises us all through his sonic sacrifice. Are you ready to test the limits of our own mortality and immortality simultaneously? Are you ready for a spontaneous group-trance ceremony? Lets see some sweaty limbs, heads, and feet! Lets see some stomping, swaying, punching, and pulsing! Join the singularly-thinking-entity driven by infectiously minimal bass beats, seemingly ground to a pulp by the teeth of some odious beast! Were gonna do this thing, right now. You coming or staying? Edition of 300. " -Hundebiss.
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Artist: SEWN LEATHER Title: Summer Flexi Series Format: 7" Flexi Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "On his Summer Flexi, GRIFFIN PYN (aka SEWN LEATHER) declares war! He sounds pretty fuckin serious too. He aint rappin on "Unclear War", but this is some of the gnarliest booty shakin hardcore Ive heard since the first Death Grips LP. Post-industrial juke core, anyone? Anyone! Pyn drops the mic for the second cut in favor of sampling / chopping / screwing / etc. Subsonic throb, synth blasts, noise fuckery, and delayed beyond recognition samples comprise 120 lessons in Strinth. I dont know shit about The Nation Of Gods and Earths Book of Knowledge, but thanks to one of the barely audible samples, I now know that A set of 120 shouldnt be online...You need an enlightener to teach you 120 lessons...Thats a fact! WTF? Maybe Griffin is our enlightener. Thanks to a quick Wiki search, I also found out that the Nation of Gods and Earths (aka Five Percenters) coined the terms sup, G? (originally G means God, not gangsta), Word is bond, Break it down, and droppin science. Damn. Hows that for a weird history lesson? I can get down with that kind of language and, furthermore, I can get down with anybody who samples Five Percenters from Youtube. BTW, SICK artwork by Eighty-five Percenter OTTO SPLOTCH, Sewn Leather is droppin science. Are you picking it up? I am." -Lance, Permanent Records. Numbered edition of 250 copies. |
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Artist: SEX BOYZ Title: Sex Boy b/w Forming Format: 7" Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
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"2 GERMS cover songs by an Italian dracula and a American whore (a male whore)!! floor fillers in times where everyone seems to miss Cinderellas ballroom and tom tom, two places i unfortunatly never visited as i was still a foetus in those days! time has shopped and screwed us all, mainly with electronic scissors or thru older sisters with razor blades around their necks and safety pins in their cheekbones. dont go to pogo school, learn it on the streets! limited to only 150 copies!" - Ultra Eczema.
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Artist: SEX CHURCH Title: 6 Songs By Sex Church Format: LP Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Sex Church is a band from Vancouver, Canada. Their music is inspired by depression, frustration, disappointment and other such inner turmoils that are the sources of great works of art. Like bands such as The Wipers and Cheater Slicks, Sex Church takes that gloom and doom and spews it out in a punk and garage blueprint mixed with some hard driving krautrock repetitiveness as well as melodic shoegaze elements and turn something ugly into something beautiful. "6 Songs by Sex Church", their debut full length LP, shows the world what this band is truly capable of featuring moody numbers like "Old Enough" "I Dont Wanna Die" and "The Floor", as well ripping hard driving numbers like "Not Anymore" "Ghost" and "Mistaken". A perfect follow up to their single on Sweet Rot Records and a perfect record for fans of bummer rock n drone. First edition of 500" -Convulsive |
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Artist: SEX CHURCH Title: Growing Over Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The attitude may be sickly & the guitars may bleed, but this double guitar troop furrow known as Sex Church, with FX of truly claustrophobic origin seek the shiny skin inside your ear. Up until now they have left some 7 inches & an LP, but their pale limo arrives to the door & goes right on in. This record really arrives & tells a heavy tale, so please sprinkle some lighter fluid on your skin & hop into the fire." -Load. |
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Artist: SEX CHURCH Title: Growing Over Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Vinyl limited to 600 copies. Way more addictive than Oxycontin. Way more." -Load. |
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Artist: SEX WORKER Title: The Labor of Love Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Still waters run deep but wild waters run deeper. Both when fronting San Fran free-punk body-music trio Mi Ami or performing angst-dance psycho-dramas under his solo alias, Sex Worker, Daniel Martin-McCormick always succeeds in generating total motion (and emotion) and breaking the fourth wall. His vision of tranced/anguished rhythm questing hits an apex on The Labor Of Love, his LP debut under the Sex Worker guise, and weve been soaking in its dark arts for months. Pulsing, lo-fi kraut electronics bubble and sputter under hazy arcs of weirdo vocal smear. Escapist disco drum machines cruise into the horizon under a canopy of dubby accents and FX percussion, sometimes peaking in harsh frenzies of echo-scream meltdowns. All three pieces function as anthems or elegies or protest songs articulating Daniels heavy anti-sex trafficking/enslaved bodies activist agenda but you dont have to know the depths of the ethical framework to grasp the vibe. An intensely unique and hyper-personal statement from one of our favorite West Coast music-dreamers. Black vinyl LPs in jackets designed by the artist. Edition of 450." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: SEX WORKER Title: Waving Goodbye Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In a weird case of life imitating art imitating life, Daniel Martin-McCormicks sophomore Sex Worker full length, Waving Goodbye, coincidentally gets released on the very day he embarks on his transamerican relocation road trip from the Bay to Brooklyn. Waving goodbye indeed. Sad times for California, but at least his parting gift/LP is as haunting and poignant and vivid as these six dance-damaged life/love/loss anthems. A huge evolutionary pole-vault upwards from 2009s The Labor Of Love, here the SW art-pulse echo-anguish aesthetic has been refined and reborn into fresh neon-smeared street grime crooner ballads (Cool Boy, Tough Love), sprawling forlorn trancefloor fantasias (Next To You, Honeymoon Babylon), plus a killer loner-ized Corona cover. Recorded over several months in SF and mastered in Berlin, WG is clearly his peak achievement to date and weve been jamming the shit out of it. Live, he brings a bizarro entertainer/MC vibe to the proceedings so for sure go see him when hes passing through yr zip code. Black vinyl LPs in jackets designed by Mr. DMM himself. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SEXVID Title: Voyeur Format: 7" Label: Dom America Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: SEXY PRISON Title: Filth Flarn Filth Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Occult Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Member of Mayyors - recorded by Chris Woodhouse of Mayyors. DJ Rick says: Kinda like a more sample-rich Cheveu if Etienne traded blues-punk guitar strut for Peter Hook-like bass guitar? And i say sure why not. 325 picture disks, screened/stenciled/chalked covers, color inserts, hand numbered out of 325." - Occult. |
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Artist: SFERIC EXPERIMENT Title: Eight Mile Format: CD Label: Drunken Fish Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Posthumous release by this Dunedin, NZ group, compiling their long deleted Xpressway cassette along with some live recordings. Some of the murkiest exuberance produced from this land. Liner notes by Bruce Russell." -Drunken Fish. 1996 release. |
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Artist: SGNLS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Finally a proper synth punk band! Philly’s SGNLS follow in the tradition of bands like The Units rather than bands that are merely labeled “punk” by the distinction that they cannot play their synths properly. Live they are capable of synth heavy freakouts not dissimilar from Hawkwind or Heldon, whereas on record they reel it in a bit and show us some real solid songs that should appeal to fans of everything ranging from The Screamers to The Big Boys. Limited to 200 copies and comes with a fold out poster." -Blind Prophet. |
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Artist: SHACKAMAXON Title: Shackamaxon Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
| "Shackamaxon began back in 2001 when members of Double Leopards, Son of Earth and Magik Markers united to record and create music together. Since that time, the ensemble has quietly unleashed their psychedelic drift through a handful of live performances and a self-released CDr. Their self-titled debut LP presents four pieces of restrained beauty that encapsulates the Shackamaxon sound. The album begins with a side-long excursion where sparse organic textures become enveloped in cavernous layers of sound and perpetually fuzzed drones. It is a steady swell which builds to immense heights before fading into the expanse. Side two starts off with a brief introduction of fluttering tones, then diverges into an intricate passage of controlled feedback chatter and subtle reverberations. The album concludes with what sounds like a field recording from an alien rain forest, capturing strange creatures chirping and gurgling as the humidity drips from the canopy. ..beautiful cover art by Amy Borezo." - HP Cycle. |
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Artist: SHADOW RING, THE Title: Hold Onto I.D. Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Threadbare acoustic vibologists flesh out their sonic boneage with some nimble electronic gadgetism. Result: sounds to truly chuff all comers. Teeth-yellowing biscuits-and-tea from Cheriton, England." - Siltbreeze. One of their best! From 1997. |
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Artist: SHADOW RING, THE Title: Im Some Songs Format: LP Label: Swill Radio Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Posthumous final LP recorded in 2002 that completed the 10 year life cycle of The Shadow Ring. This LP was recorded in Poughkeepsie NY over a 3 week period. The atmosphere is tense and stoned. A depressing joke -- one punchline after another. Im Some Songs was recorded by Darren Harris, Graham Lambkin and Tim Goss -- a record which pays its own tribute to its own fallen heroes." - Swill Radio. Both drearily suffocating and absolutely life affirming - record of the year thus far.. easy. 2007 release back in stock.
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Artist: SHADOW RING, THE Title: Life Review (1993-2003) Format: Double CD Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"The Shadow Ring formed in the seaside town of Folkestone, England in 1993. Over the course of a decade, and through eight LPs, Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris and later Tim Goss scraped out a unique musical pathway for themselves, armed with only the barest of tools. With each release the Shadow Ring presented themselves as a group in constant flux. Naive acoustic improvisations, dour bedroom sci-fi epics, cryptic D.I.Y. theatre and glacial electronic soundscapes all became fair game in their hands. The group recorded for some of the premier underground labels of the era: Siltbreeze, Corpus Hermeticum, Swill Radio and their own Dry Leaf Discs were all at one time or another called home. The Shadow Ring were also champions of the absurd -- never playing live in their home country, they instead performed 23 shows across the US between 1995-97. The life of the Shadow Ring finally came to pass on the banks of the Hudson River in 2003. Life Review offers a celebration of the Shadow Rings oeuvre -- from the green chaos of 1993s Dont Open The Window 7" on through to the austerity of 2003s Im Some Songs LP. Featuring material from each of their albums: City Lights, Put The Music In Its Coffin, Wax-Work Echoes, Live In U.S.A., Hold Onto I.D., Lighthouse, Lindus and Im Some Songs, alongside 7" A and B sides, comp appearances, and a clutch of previously unreleased live and studio work, Life Review is an anthology that will serve both the aged fan, and the curious newcomer. Expertly mastered by long-time enthusiast Bhob Rainey, Life Review flushes out the rich sonic detail of the Shadow Rings music like never before. Housed in a deluxe six-panel digipak, with an accompanying 16 page color booklet of photos, flyers, sleeve art etc, Life Review also offers an untainted visual history of the group. With 34 tracks -- personally chosen by Graham Lambkin, and a running time of 154 minutes, Life Review offers the perfect chance to say a final farewell. One more time." -KYE. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: SHADOW RING, THE Title: Lighthouse Format: Double LP Label: Swill Radio Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"To enter the world of the Shadow Ring is to enter a surreal anti-world of bizarre song structure. Lighthouse will rank with Trout Mask Replica and Tago Mago as both one of the most avant garde and the most eccentric double LPs of all time. Unlike those two records, Lighthouse features no instrumental pyrotechnics, instead relying on odd sonic combinations, startling lyrics, and a very painterly use of minimal studio technology. Absolutely essential listening if you are interested in modernist stretching of song form with extraordinary results." - Swill Radio. Incredible release back in stock! Features Adris Hoyos and Scott and Karla IFCO.
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Artist: SHADOW RING, THE Title: Lindus Format: LP Label: Swill Radio Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Long delayed follow-up to Lighthouse. Over the last decade no other band have prompted such strong reaction as The Shadow Ring. Loved or hated, their unique and powerful sound has been totally impossible to ignore. Lindus sees that sound polarized to its logical and most satisfying extreme. Strange, claustrophobic sound-worlds build and overlap, creating a listening environment that is uncompromising, disturbing, yet always original. The mood is bleak and deflated throughout, providing a stark contrast to the carnival that was Lighthouse. The simple use of synths, electronics, tapes and voice has never been more effective. The Shadow Ring are that rare thing: a true underground band unaffected by trend or whim, and Lindus is their most supreme statement yet. Special edition of 500 copies." - Swill Radio. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: SHADOW RING, THE Title: Remains Unchanged Format: Double LP Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
"Remains Unchanged is the long-time-coming archival overview of the Shadow Ring. Spanning the full decade of their existence, Remains Unchanged offers an alternate account of the groups labor, told through 20 never-before-heard tracks across two LPs. From the lumbering monotony of 1993s Squawk with Me to the funereal glory of 2003s And What If, Remains Unchanged grants the listener rare access to the secret history of Cheritons greatest underground export. Mastered from the original tapes by Jason Lescalleet, Remains Unchanged arrives in a full color high gloss gatefold sleeve, with fold-out wall poster in an edition of 1000 copies." - Kye.
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Artist: SHADOW RING, THE Title: Some Of Us Format: 7" Label: Dry Leaf Discs Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: SHAKHNES, GRISHA Title: leave/trace Format: LP Label: Glistening Examples Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Glistening Examples is proud to present “leave/trace," the vinyl debut of Grisha Shakhnes. Formerly operating under the name of Mites, Shakhnes has been recording and performing in Tel Avi, Israel since 2008. His work has been issued both privately in limited handmade CD-R editions, and internationally though Alamut Records (Jerusalem), Mystery Sea (Belgium), and Copy For Your Records (NYC). Consider "leave/trace" a graduation ceremony, as Shakhnes steps away from pseudonymity and into the bright lights of his own exceptional music. "leave/trace" offers a compelling display of musical abstraction, blending field recordings from peculiar and mundane origins into sumptuously detailed and surreally original new forms. Shakhnes is deftly able to capture and juxtapose otherwise overlooked details of commonplace events, placing his work at the fulcrum of contemporary tape music. Never overly literal, "leave/trace" instead allows the listener to find their own way through its compositions, granting rich reward for those willing to make the journey. “leave/trace” is a beautiful LP, published in an edition of 500 copies." -Glistening Examples. "This is unquestionably Grishas most convincing statement to date, and one which cements him in the frontline of artists to watch as the year unfolds. A fabulous LP." -Graham Lambkin, KYE Records. |
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Artist: SHALLOW WATERS Title: Equal Eyes Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"the first full length of this heavily active live unit from providence, ri. there is no solid footing in shallow waters. only a suffocating hail of falling rock, strangling vines, and sinkholes. it is with rare exception that voice spits the last of breaths, the dying breaths, with such spite. like a rabbit trapped in the hole of the snakes throat, this duo comprised of members of immaculate:grotesque and em dath rir batter and tear there way through 6 tracks of power electronics eco-fallout and revolutionary anger. although there is not one moment of relief in this litany of rage shallow waters separates themselves from the pack by creating what an album and not just a collection of tracks with the focus of a sniper and the fury of napalm. get into the fight."- Hospital Productions
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Artist: SHAMBLES Title: Hello Baby/Held Me Spellbound Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Shambles were led by ex-Mandrake Paddle Steamer singer Brian Engel and their only single is made up of two absolute corkers. Hello Baby is a great hi-energy Power Pop/Glam number that is totally infectious and the B side, the wild and rockin Held Me Spellbound, is as good if not better than Jook covering Watch Your Step. More than inspired by Thats Alright Mama, Spellbound features 2 blistering lead guitar breaks that will strip your walls bare. Both tracks are wonderfully loud and bright thanks to the great Roy Thomas Baker production."- Sing Sing. |
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Artist: SHANKAR, RAVI Title: Improvisations Format: LP Label: Doxy Country: Russian Federation Price: $25.00 |
| "Some of the first eastern-jazz fusion ever recorded, finally reissued on LP. Originally recorded in 1962 for World Pacific and featuring jazz musicians Gary Peacock on bass and Bud Shank on flute, the album opens with improvisations on the theme that Shankar wrote for the 1955 Indian neorealist film Pather Panchali, by legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Fire Night was another jazz-fusion piece, recorded to commemorate the fires that were burning all around LA when this session was recorded. The remaining two tracks, however, are traditional Indian pieces and serve to juxtapose the two major styles in Indian classical music. The first piece, Karnataki, is in the Carnatic (southern Indian) style, while the second, Raga Rageshri, is in the (northern) Hindustani style (which, of course, Shankars himself was a master of). Includes original liner notes. Comes on 180 gram vinyl." - Doxy. |
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Artist: SHANNON, MIKE Title: Laguz Format: LP Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Instruments: camel bells, glass by Alison Chism, oscillator, voice / body, electric bass, field recordings, air drum, bottillia, dilruba, electronic devices, electric guitar, marimba, lira, erhu, all sorts percussion. Mike Shannon is an artist with an extensive history in sound.
starting back in the late 60s in Florida, moving to San Francisco in 1977, on to Seattle in 1994, and now in November of 2002, moving back to Florida, he has covered much territory, not only on land but in sound. most of his activity have been under- or undocumented (though a large archive exists), but he did publish cassettes of some projects through his own Joy Street Studios label throughout the 80s and early 90s. the body of work that he has amassed over the last twenty five years included so much good material, and of such varying types, it was hard to decide what to release when we started to think about issuing some of his material. there could have easily been a record of just electronic work, or of just solo acoustic instruments (western and non-western), or just natural recordings, let alone all the group work (from playing in electronic performance
ensemble Earnerve to Jeph Jermans animist orchestra, and many places in between). in the end we settled on a work which he assembled originally in 1993 (newly edited and mixed for LP with added sections from 1972), as it represented so many of these aspects and seem to flow together so well. so we have minimal sections blending a street hawker in London with electronic tones, field recordings, percussion, string sections, a dilruba solo played with a chopstick, and a section which on first hearing I thought must have been a full ensemble of people playing, sounding as it does like music from some far off lost island (in truth it ends up he played the whole thing through multi-tracking). this I hoped would serve as an introduction to the world of Mikes music, as it certainly deserves more attention. produced in a limited edition of 204 copies, with screen printed cover." - Anomalous.
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Artist: SHAPESHIFT Title: Inna Basement Style Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Zac Davis (Lambsbread), James Ferraro (Skaters), Karl Bauer (Axolotl), and Phil (Driver) |
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Artist: SHARDJA, RAVI Title: Tuneless Monoland Format: LP Label: Suara Country: France Price: $16.00 |
| Limited edition of 500 copies. Shardja is a member of the GOL Orchestra, with releases on Alga Marghen in collaboration with Charlemagne Palestine, Iancu Dumitrescu, and Ana-Maria Avram. Concrete-style works of electronically manipulated acoustic recordings. |
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Artist: SHARK MOVE Title: Chede Chokras Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $42.00 |
| "LP 450 numbered/heavy sleeve/180 gram pressing/insert. "Shark Move started playing in Bandung, Indonesia in 1970 and was founded by Benny Soebardja who played lead guitar and sang. Shark Move is one of the Indonesian rock pioneering bands who combined rock music with traditional harmonies and progressive sounds. Some songs on this LP have English lyrics. While other bands at that time were still playing sweet music, this is really an experimental recording. Unfortunately, at the end of 1970, the keyboard player passed away so Benny decided not to continue with his band and formed a new one named Giant Step. A very complex prog album which is as strong as many good UK albums of the same period but it has a little something extra which makes this album unique and great." - Shadoks. |
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Artist: SHARMA, A.J. Title: The Road Back Format: CDR Label: Nextbestway Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
| "20 years worth of his most beautiful songs" - Alastair Galbraith/Nextbestway. |
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Artist: SHARP ENDS Title: Northern Front Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Calgary, Alberta has been unearthing gem after gem of exciting new post-punk outfits recently, and SHARP ENDS are the "gateway drug" into that inner circle people been waiting to find. With an icy Tubeway Army/Joy Division/Crisis vibe that blackens the circles under your eyeballs and causes your pores to contract with its clammy, cold-wave simplicity, this is the foreboding sign of impending doom weve been so anxiously anticipating from the mysterious North. If this alluringly stark, and monolithically dark pop piques your interest, dont pass up the chance to grab this, the Sharp Ends debut single." -Horizontal Action. |
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Artist: SHARP ENDS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Kill Shaman Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Calgary, Canadas SHARP ENDS have released their first LP on Kill Shaman. After two amazing 7-inches that moved at light speed on Hozac and Mammoth Cave, Sharp Ends spent the next 9 months writing and recording the ten tracks that have been lovingly smashed into wax for this fine release. The LP contains some of the finest post-punk weirdness ever heard, channelling bits of 80s British No Wave and colliding it with a Dischord-like agressive aesthetic, Sharp Ends have a real winner here. Recordeed by RYAN SADLER, mixed by the band, and mastered by GABE DUDES; these ten tracks will blow out your eardrums. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl only, 45 RPM." -Kill Shaman |
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Artist: SHAVED WOMEN Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Greatness of this caliber hasnt come out of Saint Louis since the late great Drunks With Guns! SHAVED WOMENs debut 12" is a pretty brutal piece of wax, with equal parts 80s hardcore and pigfuck noise rock. This eponymous piece of powerful brilliance mixes Black Flag-esque choruses and tough-as-nails AmRep-y verses, bridges, and breakdowns seamlessly. Just imagine what Black Flag wouldve sounded like in the early-90s, if they ditched Henry and hooked up with a fictional emphysema-riddled Keith Morris instead. Sounds pretty righteous, huh? Not as righteous as this record will once it hits your turntable. Its a 12" EP full of no-nonsense punk fucking rock that reminiscent of a seemless mix of Francis Harold and the Holograms and Pissed Jeans. This record feels like a mutant monster truck going In The Red. A fist-pumping, melodic, instantly memorable, hooky record with 7 full-on shout-alongs to pass down to posterity. Its fucking relentless, is what it is and it sounds way more like a crew of hairy-ass fat dudes than a shaved women, but Shaved Women is an awesome band name, isnt it? I digress, those with a little less testosterone under the hood, will be stoked to hear that the last cut on side A, Same In The End, has a killer mid-tempo, groovy, downer vibe that out-weirds most weird punks going all the way back to when punk first started getting weird and the band is tighter than a pair of the tightest skinny jeans. In fact, this author would go as far as to say that Shaved Women must bring a serious amount of mosh with them when they perform live. Furthermore, Choices contains some of the most damaged bass playing Ive heard in ages and the last cut on the underside is a fucking killer Die Kruezen cover (Think For Me). This slab is on Rotted Tooth Recordings so you know its decked out with some killer screen printed artwork."-Lance (Permanent Records). Second limited edition of 150 copies with 4-color silkscreened sleeves and insert. |
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Artist: SHE Title: Outta Reach Format: LP Label: Causeway Country: Price: $16.00 |
| "She were an all-girl band from Sacramento, California, that operated between 1964 and 1971 and were led by sisters Nancy and Sally Ross. Unlike most acts ascribed to the "girls-with-guitars" genre, She was one hundred per cent authentic - they genuinely played their own instruments, sang and wrote their own striking but original material and copped one hell of a bad attitude that would put most self-proclaimed rebel boy bands to shame. Appealingly crude in their early incarnation as the Hairem, by their later years She was a force to be reckoned with. The group became a massively popular live attraction in northern California but unfortunately never made a commercial breakthrough, despite healthy airplay for their lone release on the Kent label, the classic Outta Reach. Far, far more than a mere novelty, musically and philosophically She were in a class of their own, with drop-dead good looks and such memorable tunes as Like A Snake, Piece Of You and Bad Girl. And indeed She were bad girls, getting thrown out of movie theatres and even the California State Capitol building for their disruptive behaviour and smart-ass punk attitude. Truly the female equivalent of the Stones." B Side features recordings as The Hairem. Limited.. |
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Artist: SHEARER, DYLAN Title: Planted/Plans Format: LP Label: Yik Yak Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Written, performed and recorded by Shearer in 2007, Planted/Plans is beautiful melancholic avant-pop informed by west coast luminaries such as Van Dyke Parks and Harry Partch. A nice follow-up to the Robert Martin LP (Yik Yak 013) from another Santa Cruz long-gone. Second edition of 100." -Yik Yak |
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Artist: SHEARER, DYLAN Title: Porchpuddles Format: LP Label: Empty Cellar Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Empty Cellar Records is more than stoked to present the sophomore full-length LP by San Franciscos elusive pop wizard, DYLAN SHEARER, at once a continuation of his distinctive and infectious melodic sensibilities and an evolution, fully exploring the romance and isolation only hinted at in previous releases. "There is a new specter among us. Dylan Shearers throaty baritone seems to have been borne on the slow-moving winds off some far-away coast. Plaintive and honest, his voice recalls Syd Barrett, Bill Fay, Skip Spence, and others whose words and melodies never seemed in a rush to get anywhere, yet always arrived fully formed in the listeners ear nonetheless. Porchpuddles, Shearers second full length and first for San Franciscos hodge-podge Empty Cellar records, is rare in its perfect timelessness. Sounds are heard and understood perfectly, yet the combination of these sounds is beyond a simple pop understanding. Songs of longing and songs of seeming indifference are bedded together seamlessly. Perhaps, questions about the records origin and its mysterious creator will abound, for taken at face value, Porchpuddles has little to no recognizable counterpart in todays one-hit warehouse. Indeed, there is a new specter among us; let us all welcome in the ghost of the present."-Tim Cohen. This first pressing (limited to 500 copies) comes in a classic uncoated tip-on sleeve. All LPs include a high quality download of the full album plus seven bonus tracks!" - Empty Cellar. |
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Artist: SHEARING PINX Title: Poison Hands Format: Double 3" CDR Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"Seriously: fuck international borders. These Vancouver dudes sent us the sweetest demo EVER. Gnarly skronk-shred jams that morph into free shriekback post-jazz dead-zones (in a die-cut jacket no less!!). This is like that. Except even better!! And more epic!! One disc of harsh shrapnel free-punk distortion-wave action songs, and one disc with just a single sprawling twenty minute clatter-creep shakedown. Perfect brainless/Brainiac feedback attacks for summertime. Painted-and-stamped discs in an oversized printed pamphlet with sick hands art and a photo-cornered insert." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: SHEARING PINX Title: Rituals Format: LP Label: Isolated Now Waves Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The latest SHEARING PINX LP with the new member JEXXE TAYLOR from TWIN CRYSTALS on second guitar and vocals. More of a lush psych jam style, like a blunt weapon as opposed to the more jagged lo-fi approach of the last couple LPs. This one heavy and to the point. Eight song album recorded at Nite Prison." -Isolated Now Waves |
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Artist: SHEARING PINX Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Night People Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Shearing Pinx are long running Vancouver staples and are one of the bands that seemed to really help solidify that cities underground weirdo music community to an audience outside of its own geography. This new tape in there very prolific discography is tension filled angular noisy post no wave dirge, waves of cascading guitar dread and percussion propulsion, gliding over a subtle underbelly of chimey strum and atmosphere. Technical, tectonic, chaos. Artwork by SDReed." - Night People
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Artist: SHEARING PINX Title: Ultra Snake Format: LP Label: Isolated Now Waves Country: Canada Price: $14.00 |
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"Art rock no wave/2xGtr slashing, pounding funkpunk drums. The second album from this Van City trio." - Isolated Now Waves. Silkscreened jackets.
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Artist: SHEARING PINX Title: Void White Format: LP Label: Isolated Now Waves Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Wrapped in the searing red-line of low-end distortion, the dualic Pinx are entombed for the first time on polyvinyl. Even as a duo, the cavernous cacophony of their sinusoids are preserved; null waves of guitar shreddery percolate every trough and groove while a pounding machine gun fires upon skin-covered cylinders into adjective-oblivion. Dired-Out captures their corse ritual with precise dignity, offering two minutes of harsh improv before descending into a swinging western narrative with droning vocals and pulsating guitar rhythms, ushering our frayed minds into a static groove. They. Just. Wont. Stop."-Wierd Canada |
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Artist: SHEARING PINX Title: Weaponry Pt. 1 Format: LP Label: Divorce Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Divorce was so pleased with how SHEARING PINX delivered on the Haruspex 7-inch last year that they decided to up the ante considerably and release a double LP in two parts. In return the Pinx have gone all in with the new material. Weaponry Pt. 1 is a mountain that will remain visible in the sea of astounding, bizarre releases Shearing Pinx have been pouring for the last half decade. It is made clear from the first moments of the opening track; the Vancouver trio has been committed here to tape while in rare form. This LP sets up a classic, demento-tuned twin guitar battle where a nonchalant vocal delivery squares off against the drum sets muscular fake jazz-jizz-isms. William S. Burroughs used a shotgun to create paintings. Shearing Pinx use musical instruments to wound and maim. Tunes for the unglued. Artwork by RICK WHITE of ERICS TRIP and ELEVATOR. Edition of 600 copies. For fans of Harry Pussy, No New York, Sonny Sharrock." -Divorce. |
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Artist: SHEARING PINX / SILVER DAGGERS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Arbor Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Time to tell all the 77 dudes to get hip to the 07 sound. Vancouvers Shearing Pinx and Los Angeles Silver Daggers are North Americas ambassadors for the new wave of skronk/thrash/post-whatever punk. The Pinx play angular, expertly timed, staccato waves of noise and punk. Two long songs sandwiching one short one in typical Pinx fashion. The Daggers (experts of interpreting animal sounds w/ regular rock instruments) create utterly epic art-punk jams complete with swirling synths and horns based around solid drumming and guitar/bass interplay. One track was recorded live at The Smell, coming complete with mosh philosophies, while the second track recalls David Byrnes "boombox experiments" circa Stop Making Sense. Be sure to check out their new record on Load! In an edition of 400 numbered copies on concrete grey vinyl w/ hand stamped labels in 2 color silkscreen cardstock sleeves and a long insert." - Arbor. |
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Artist: SHEARING PINX/STAMINA MANTIS Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Reluctant Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "A delicately-crafted relentlessness and precision smashing take on neon squawking with the big stack on this showdown arena 7-inch docu-drama to explain everything to you about all kinds of different infections. Trust us. Whether youre bleaching out the blood on not your sheets or trading in some stuff that you found on a construction site, its the emotional scars that will last, and you cant put a cream on those." -Reluctant |
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Artist: SHEFFIELD, COLIN ANDREW Title: First Thus Format: CD Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "This is Sheffields debut solo album. The recordings on this disc were entirely composed using other commercially available recordings. The goal was to distill the essential qualities of these works and then utilize that essence for new recordings. Only very brief sections of the original works were selected. These raw components were then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new was forged. The result is gorgeous ambient music that gradually shifts and unfolds, offering subtle nuance and quiet restraint. In a sense, it is a collection of other peoples work, but this music appears here for the first time in a new setting or, if you will, a new translation. Packaged inside two elegant printed sleeves of 100% recycled paper, this compact disc has been issued in an edition of 330 copies." - Elevator Bath. |
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Artist: SHEFFIELD, COLIN ANDREW Title: In Between Format: 10" Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "in between is an atmospheric new piece in two parts. It is possible that Colins work is best listened to peripherally, perhaps while writing or (as is the case with in between) while reading.... front cover text by ilex fenusova. The evocative writings which grace the records jacket come provided by this acclaimed poet from Texas. On transparent vinyl with lovely text-only jackets, in an edition of 295 copies." |
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Artist: SHEFFIELD, COLIN ANDREW Title: Side One/Side Two Format: 7" Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| "This is Sheffields debut (as well as the first for Elevator Bath), released in 1998. The record consists of two short pieces, each of which utilizes highly amplified machine sounds. On transparent vinyl with fold-out covers, in an edition of 475 copies." - Elevator Bath. |
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Artist: SHEFFIELD, COLIN ANDREW Title: Spring (Time) / The Bridge Format: 7" Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| "Colins sophomore effort from 1999 continues in a vein similar to that of his first record. The digital, mechanical sounds are still present but are now intertwined with deep tones and hidden half-melodies. On transparent vinyl with lovely inner and outer jackets, in an edition of 300 copies." - Elevator Bath. |
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Artist: SHEFFIELD, COLIN ANDREW & ECK RIPPIE Title: Variations Format: LP Label: Elevator Bath Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "variations is selection of works from the duo of turntablist/guitarist James Eck Rippie and sampling minimalist Colin Andrew Sheffield. After a recent cluster of live performances and even a bit of soundtrack work, Sheffield and Rippie have released a debut LP that is intriguing and beautiful. The textured ambience here is rich and subtle, simple and complex. The three pieces comprising this album were recorded live with no additional production or processing and were wholly improvised. Sheffield and Rippie have been performing and recording together for years, though variations is the first document of their ongoing collaboration. pressed on 180-gram vinyl with lovely full-color jackets, in an edition of 400 copies." - Elevator Bath. |
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Artist: SHEP AND ME Title: Cloudy Chowder Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"This record features a beautiful multi colored, meticulously screenprinted cover, front and back, with a full, half letter sized lyric booklet.
Already a true Gutter Country gem, Cloudy Chowder takes one on a voyage that is psychedelically skybound and at the same, deeply embedded in the now well established Americana folk roots undergound. Reverb drenched guitars swoon with horns and chirping voices, processed yet bare and revealing. Small but not inconsequential bass lines weave through these masterfully crafted songs, while organs and feedback at times take the center stage without taking away from the movement as a whole. Recorded pure analog onto 1/4 inch tape over the course of 3 years in 4 different states. SOUNDS LIKE: ROGER MILLER, UKE OF SPACES CORNERS, PETER GRUDZIEN.
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Artist: SHEPARD, JIM Title: Picking Through the Wreckage With a Stick Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Shepard was of course the longtime DIY writer/musician behind V-3, Vertical Slit, Iron Press, Ego Summit, etc.. Long out of print LP from the mid-90s. Handpainted/collaged jackets.
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Artist: SHEPARD, JIM Title: Plays The Songs Of Kim Fowley Format: 7" Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Clear vinyl, limited to 500 7" 5 song ep of Vertical Slit/V-3 mastermind Jim Shepard (RIP), paying homage to a true spiritual hero of non-conformism, Kim Fowley. Recorded at home on Jims 4-track in Columbus Ohio, this ep really blew some minds when it was released, and features covers of Fowleys "Face On The Factory Floor", "Animal Man", "California Hayride", "The Trip", and one bonus (backwards) track." - Anopheles. From 1996.
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Artist: SHEPARD, JIM Title: V-3/Next Album Format: LP Label: No Label Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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Very limited vinyl issue of V-3s last unreleased album. No information or tracklisting on the sleeve (though it does include an extended version of Illogical off the Ego Summit LP), just a black and white photo of Jim flipping us off. Highly recommended! Limit one per person.
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Artist: SHEPARD, JIM & CHARLES CICIRELLA Title: The Dispossessed Format: CDR Label: Shrimper Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"This entire session was recorded as you hear it - no planning or disgusting egos intervening. I came in from Cleveland, Jim already had music laid down (except for typewriter, acoustic guitar, violin, and aerosol can which were laid down live and this includes dead traffic you hear throughout the recording) I listened through headphones while reading poetry that in large part was written either that day or previous afternoon. This CD is released as an honest & quite sublime testament to Jims diverse artistic nature temperament & how when the chemistry is good and stinking, like an over satiated sun, anything can occur. Jim and I were and still very much are caterpillar astronauts and Ill miss being his friend and foil forever.... onward forward infinite." - Charles Eric Cicirella.
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Artist: SHEPHERDS Title: Loco Hills Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "Loco Hills, the debut full length from these Brooklyn bush babies, is the sound of a rolling Southwestern road trip. It is the sound of unknown terrain, and appropriately Loco Hills finds SHEPHERDS entering full band territory for the first time. A fully realized jam document, toying at times with structure, Shepherds never lose sight of the "drop everything and make music" mentality that makes them so exciting. Swirling strings, tape manipulations. Bongos and wah, fire and bone. This is our music. Features members MENEGUAR, WOODS, and THE VANISHING VOICE. Digipack and limited to 500." - Release The Bats |
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Artist: SHEPHERDS w/SHAWN REED Title: Eyes Of The World Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"a handful of our favorite figures (J Earl, Xtian, Shawn, Lucas N-Horse)
all dog-piling on top of another into a blind ball of bewildering psych
regression. havent heard LOCO HILLS yet, but these are some of the
greatest tunes outta the (extended) SHEP camp weve heard in this
lifetime. totally pro-manufactured/mastered tapes with awesome full-color
collab-artwork/textwork J-cards by the whole crew. limited to 200." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: SHEPHERDS/QUINTANA ROO Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Fuck It Tapes/Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Growth is god dudes. Gotta change, morph, MOVE, ring in new harvests and let fresh blank tapes bloom black in the sun. This shadowy C60 is a cryptic/cloaked stare-off between two recently-birthed coastal crews. Shepherds traverse the Bushwick/Brooklyn
axis, watching their flock from a high crooked branch off the Fuck It Tapes tree of life/death. Old world clatter meanders against dead-dub bass echoes while thin air prayers levitate from weary throats. A spiral-eyed masterpiece of tattered tunic improv. On the flip
is west coast crawl unit, Quintana Roo, who burrow through sub-cellar levels of spirit dust and cursed dirt worship. "Mythological Animals" ponders bowed drones, autoharp rust,
and disembodied drumming for a haunted half hour, before drifting back to tomb hum.
Painted tapes in silver-mist latticework cases, with full-color covers. Co-released with not
not fun." - Fuck It Tapes.
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Artist: SHIELDS, CHRISTINE Title: In the Sun Format: LP Label: Awesome Vistas Country: US Price: $18.00 |
| "PHIL FRANKLIN (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) nailed it when he referred to In The Sun, CHRISTINE SHIELDS first solo LP, as "ten songs of dark and light." The album is very much about opposites, the sun and moon, descent into darkness and return to light. Instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, baritone uke, and voice, with percussion by WILLIAM WINANT, guitar JOE GOLDRING (ENABLERS, TOUCHED BY A JANITOR, SWANS), soundscapes by SHEILA BOSCO (FAUN FABLES, AUTOBODY), and drums and production by TIM MOONEY (AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB). Shields musical pedigree includes ARCHIPELAGO BREWING COMPANY, GROUSE MOUNTAIN SKYRIDE, SHADY CREEK GRILS, and STEEPLE CHASE, but one could hardly be blamed if none of the above ring a bell. ABC released a CD on Brinkiman in the 90s, and Grouse Mountain Skyride contributed a track to a Kill Rock Stars Comp, but Shields is perhaps best known for her portraits of musicians, short-lived comic book Blue Hole and dark and humorous, Addams-meets-Gorey illustration work for countless small-press publications and zines. Her music, like her images, is dreamy, dark, melodic, harmonious, and high-lonesome. (That old-time influence has its hooks in her good.) If you want to make her day, compare her to Opal. You wouldnt be far off the mark." - Awesome Vistas. |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE Title: Elaborate Palms Format: Double Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Three intense sides of extended studies in synthesis and live performance.
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the kind of artist who can seemingly "turn it on" any time he wants, revealing
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racket and buzz in his head and allowing us all to peak in. Side four is a
Workbench
"Stasis Style" remix of the Elaborate Palms material." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE Title: Live In The First And Second Cities Format: CDR Label: Imvated Country: Belgium Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE Title: Merciless Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Type follow up Mike Shiflets Sufferers with a further exposition of his individual and far-reaching sound palette. A member of C Spencer Yehs revolving Burning Star Core unit, and a prolific collaborator with the likes of Daniel Menche, Chris Corsano, Pete Swanson and many others, Shiflet has honed an intensely visceral feel for tone and texture which makes his records so intriguing to lovers of experimental composition and music-making. With some production/audio mastering assists from fellow Columbus, Ohio-based musician Joe Panzner, on Merciless Shiflet engages with corrosive textures from the off, enticing us in with fractured small sounds on "Feeble Breaths" before weaving a lattice of quick-drying fiberglass strands over your cochlea, which become infested with scuttling, insipid rhythms and abstract noise abrasions designed by Panzner on the lloopp software for max/msp. This induction, by contrast, makes the second half piece of evolving horror drones in "Exodus And Exile" that much more affective, while the second side plays through as one longer, queasy composition veering from cacophonous noise to wheezing drone and chilly isolation with the contribution of cassette manipulation by Jason Zeh, cello by Marina Peterson and violin from C Spencer Yeh. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Limited vinyl pressing of 500 copies only." -Type |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE Title: Ribbons Format: Cass Label: Gameboy Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Recorded June 2003 with guitar, laptop, contact mics and accessories. Limited to 50 hand numbered copies. |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE Title: Sufferers Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Ohio-based noise upsetter Mike Shiflet has amassed an enviable amount of releases in the last decade. Tapes, vinyl, CD-Rs -- you name it, hes done it, but its taken until now for Shiflet to weld together what he regards as his defining work. The first in a series of two "proper" albums, Sufferers takes the listener to the very heart of Shiflets sound -- through the abrasive noise heard on his early releases all the way to the shimmering ambience that made up his breakthrough album Llanos. A deeply patient and rewarding record, Shiflet uses his long-practiced skills to lay waste to a gaseous collection of source recordings, bringing a chattering, disturbing resonance to what sounds like whirring hospital equipment. It is always difficult to reframe U.S. noise music without the punk, tape-destroyed aesthetic -- but like Kevin Drumm before him, Shiflet manages to push his sound into high fidelity effortlessly. Each frequency is picked meticulously for maximum effect, and if you listen on headphones, you are treated to an entirely different experience. Whether reducing the listener to an opium-fuelled coma on the shimmering "Axle Grease," or treating us to the kind of intensity Fennesz last exhibited on Endless Summer with "Blessed And Oppressed," there is a sense that Shiflet has an ineffable control over his plethora of techniques and ideas. A rare gem in a mire of half-hearted records, Sufferers grabs you by the throat and doesnt let go until the final creak. And this is only the beginning. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Limited vinyl pressing of 500 copies only." - Type. |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE/16 BITCH PILE-UP Title: Extract, Behold/Make Like a Fetus and Abort Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| Edition of 500. "Ohio has been rampant on the Ecstatic Peace play lists lately with the release of a long player earlier this year by Leslie Keffer and a forthcoming split LP by Emeralds and Tusco Terror. Like Keffer, whos moved to Nashville (to be closer to Be Your Own Pet), 16 Bitch Pile-Up and Mike Shiflet are both ex-pats of Ohio. 16 Bitch to California and Shiflet to some weird small town in Japan. Mike Shiflet weve known for years as he has produced some of the more interesting tapes and whatnot of Midwestern out-ness from his Gameboy label and from his legendary duo tour with Burning Star Core/C. Spencer Yeh of a few years back. Like the amazing beard he has sported since childhood, his music is a free-fall of acoustic wonder. He is also the cat responsible for turning on most of the world to the radical charms of three girls from Ohio wickedly named 16 Bitch Pile-Up. With a name like that you may have expected something just kinda funny but what made itself imminently obvious was that 16 Bitch was really and extremely into producing a wholly personal thrombosis of noise improvisation. Crystallized to the trio of Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers and Shannon Walter, this trio has become one of the most consistently exciting live experiences of the last five years. These recordings by both artists were done when both were still residents of Ohio and reflect that time and space right before each others exodus. They are raw and righteous and ready for you to take a bite." - Ecstatic Peace. |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE/JOE COLLEY Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Gameboy Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE/PETE SWANSON Title: Bedside/College View Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "The fifth installment in the labels Required Wreckers series features side‐long compositions that borrow as much from the worlds of noise and power electronics that Swanson and Shiflet were affiliated with in the early parts of their careers, as from techno and modern composition. Mike Shiflets Bedside utilizes disparate sources - guitar, field recordings, abstract electronic textures and white noise - to create a composition thats both warmly pastoral and defamiliar. Pete Swansons College View documents another example of his recent recordings attempt to blur the lines between techno, noise, and electronic music. College View drags Detroit dance music into a static field of electricity, and then doubles back again." - Amish. Includes 12-page booklet; wrapped in letterpressed Required Wreckers band. |
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Artist: SHIMADA, NAOMI Title: Starlight Express Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: SHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE/PEELED HEARTS PASTE Title: Live In Nippon Format: 7" Label: Dual Plover Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
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Limited to 100 copies on actual black vinyl. Long out of print.
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: Chocolate Gasoline Format: 12" Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The new 12-inch from THE SHINING PATH- ILYA MONOSOV AND PRESTON SWIRNOFF. While their eponymous album exists in the world of post-SST black-clad psychedelia and noise, the group decided that they had gone far enough in said direction and realigned themselves. Chocolate Gasoline has a less harsh demeanor, a la Accelerator-era Royal Trux if the Stones-meter was set a little closer to "Under Cover of the Night" than "Dancin with Mr. D," especially on the opener, "Lonely Hearts Killer." The remaining tracks stretch out via influences ranging from hard dub, early PiL, no wave, block-banging hip hop, and kraut-dance/industrial, if one could imagine a version of Viva more about bikinis than white overalls. Nonetheless, all of this can be played with real instruments and "rocked out" in a live setting, which is what the group intends to do." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: Fly So High Format: Cass Label: T.B.T.D. Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "The Shining Path is the "rock unit" formation of psych-minimalist duo Monosov Swirnoff. Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff have released four highly acclaimed LPs of wide-ranging music on Eclipse Records and have just released The Shining Path debut self-titled full length LP/CD on Holy Mountain this month. This cassette oozes with damaged rock, disorienting feedback, pulsing unsettling rhythms, through beautiful sheets of white noise. Their sound has been compared to a mix of Les Rallizes Denudes, Suicide, and Mars with the free outbursts of Abe Kaoru or Takayanagi. Ripping. Edition of 100. Cover art by Tetsunori Tawaraya (demonstrations)." -T.B.T.D.. |
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: Live at the Voltaire Commune Format: 7"/CDR Label: Trensmat Country: Ireland Price: $10.00 |
| "The 7" contains two raw, noisy, ecstatic live recordings from some of the very rare live shows The Shining Path played in San Diego in 2007. Both tracks are raw and relentless ... a taste of what can happen when punks get psychedelic. A blown out krautrock, wild noise space rock frenzy, some baffling mix of Can, Hawkwind, High Rise and Suicide - melting minds and destroying speakers. The additional multimedia CD features the two 7" tracks along with another livetrack, Full Throttle Revolver, and exclusive live video footage of The Shining Path." - Trensmat |
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: Take You So Low So You Can Fly So High Format: LP Label: Planaria Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "One we heard is a real rock n roll monkey called Fly So High by The Shining Path, a duo comprised of Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff. More known for their weirdo psych minimalism as Monsov Swirnoff, documented heavily by Eclipse Records the last few years, here they get down to some confused and slippery boogie-spazz with the finer elements of free spirit futurism informing the process. Fucking out there and great." --Byron Coley and Thurston Moore, Arthur Magazine. Side A is a reissue of the cassette released by TBTD Tapes. Side B is a bombastic unreleased live cut of The Path with Little Howlin Wolf and Peter Barry at Marquise Dance Hall (Brooklyn, NYC, 2006). - Planaria |
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: The Shining Path Format: LP + CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The Shining Path is the rock band version of minimalist duo Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff. Like This Heat or Metabolist, The Shining Path are a Can/Faust-loving group that also exhales expansive psychedelic guitar excess with hints of Greg Ginn and the High Rise discography while tripping balls to a violent, throbbing, not-always-so-steady, Suicide-like rhythm. Lusciously packaged in an old school tip-on jacket, the package includes a CD version of the album because, seriously, its what youll want to listen to wielding a golf club with your upper body outside the sunroof of your car as you steer with your feet. The soundtrack to all that is good and true in this world." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: SHIRAISHI & MICO, TAMIO Title: Live Duo Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Alto saxophone -- Tamio Shiraishi; Alto saxophone, piano molanica, etc. -- MICO. "A rare live album from one of the major names in the Japanese free noise underground, Tamio Shiraishi. Shiraishi was one of the major movers in the free noise/underground rock/DIY improv Minor scene of the late 70s and early 80s that gave birth to so many of the major names in the Japanese underground. He was a pivotal member of a large number of groups associated with the scene, including Keiji Hainos Fushitsusha. But Shiraishi has rarely recorded and thus enjoys far less name recognition outside of Japan. He has lived in New York City for the past decade or so, collaborating with the likes of Sean Meehan and the No-Neck Blues Band. This compilation of live recordings captures Shiraishi live in Europe, the U.S. and Japan between 2001 and 2007, together with NNCK member, MICO. Forceful, intense, chaotic improvisations for saxophone, vocals, percussion, piano etc. Shiraishis trademark ultra high-pitched dog-whistle sax and guttural vocals are showcased to full and outstanding effect." -PSF |
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Artist: SHIRAISHI, TAMIO Title: Alto Sax/Live Performances:1992-1994 Format: CD Label: Pataphysique Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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Artist: SHIRAISHI, TAMIO Title: Chikatetsu - Sax Solo Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Alto saxophone - Tamio Shiraishi. A set of unique site-specific live recordings from one of the true legends of the Tokyo underground, taped at a number of different subway stations in Queens, NYC. Tamio Shiraishi is one of the legends of the Japanese underground. For over thirty years he has continued to pursue an utterly unique eruptive style of performance interventions into consensus reality, ranging from visceral, guttural vocal explosions, intense synth blatter in an early Fushitsusha lineup, to his trademark dog whistle sonics on alto saxophone. In recent years he has been resident in New York, where he has performed with Sean Meehan, Alan Licht and sundry No-Necks. Site-specific field recordings, particularly in urban spaces, have been a long-term interest in Shiraishis work, and while he lived in Tokyo he could often been seen late at night playing with the wind on a pedestrian bridge in Shinjuku. These recent recordings from 2008 and 2009 capture Shiraishi in the NYC subway, exhaling long thin wires of aural razor-light through the tunnels, breathing in bleak, beautiful harmony with the clanks and squeals of the occasional passing subway train. Mind-blowing. Five tracks, 33 minutes." - PSF.. |
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Artist: SHIRAISHI, TAMIO & SEAN MEEHAN Title: In The City Format: One Sided LP Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "each summer tamio shiraishi & sean meehan pair up for a series of outdoor concerts in new york city always in a different location, the concerts explore unwatched and unconsidered sites of the city. (this LP) is the first release of this summer tradition. 12" vinyl with a b-sided etching by knickerbocker." - sean meehan. Recorded underneath the West Side Highway at 59th Street, NYC, by Geoff Dugan, 21 july 2001. SEAN MEEHAN - "Current performances generally find Meehan playing only the snare drum in a manner that sheds conventional usage and reconstructs the conception and function of the instrument." Meehan has collaborated with Sachiko M, Mamoru Fujieda, Michihiro Sato, Edwin Torres, Muigel Algarin, Greg Kelley, Ami Yoshida, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetzui Akiyama, Kiyoharu Kuwayama and many others. Additionally he has performed throughout North and South America, Asia and Eastern Europe. TAMIO SHIRAISHI - Shiraishi has been performing since the late 1970s, including playing drums and synthesizer in an early incarnation of Fushitsusha. His first released recordings, consisting of solo sax with broken drum machine, were included on the 1981 Aiyoku Jinmin Juji Gekijo compilation on Pinakotheca (who also released the first Keiji Haino LP). Hes currently living in NYC and occasionally collaborates with the No Neck Blues Band. GEOFF DUGAN - "Geoff Dugan has been performing, recording, and producing sonic environments since 1983. Recent projects include a binaural psychogeography recording and performance: "aberto/fechyado parque serralves" at the Serralves Foundation in Oporto and an audio psychogeographical report from New York performed at the 2002 Zeppelin Festival of Sound Art in Barcelona. Geoff runs the recording label GD Stereo that has released a series of compilation compact discs organized around psychogeography and the theory of the dérive among the various (the artists): The Architecture of the Incidental (1999) and Psychogeographical Dip (1997). Solo projects include Play in random or shuffle mode. (GD Stereo, 2001), Surface Tension (Open Circuit, 2000) and the Stomach Ache Records release Technical Comfort Formalistic Style Features (7" vinyl - 1994). Geoff is also an architect and lives in NYC." |
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Artist: SHIRAISHI, TAMIO & SEAN MEEHAN Title: Summer Concerts Format: LP Label: Old Gold/GD Stereo Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "180-gram vinyl LP edition of 510 in silkscreened jackets with art by Knickerbocker. A co-release with GD Stereo. When I first heard Tamio Shiraishi, I wanted to blow my eyes out. The opening burst of sheer overpowering SOUND of his sax on the "Our Lips Are Sealed" CD on Pure was all I needed to hear to know that I had to (a) get my hands on all his music, and (b) get a saxophone myself and have at it. Years later, here I am still trying, and there Shiraishi is cracking concrete and splitting bridges in half in New York City with his trusty horn. A follow up to the Fusetron one-sided 12", this 180 gram vinyl is a full length capturing two Summer concerts that Shiraishi and percussionist/artist/thinker/time traveler Sean Meehan put on every year in the Big Apple. I wasnt there, but Geoff Dugan was and recorded them for the rest of us poor saps. A third player should be given credit here, too, as the landscapes the duo chose for venues are just as much a part of the recording as the instruments played. The Manhattan Bridge and the municipal garage on 79th Street cradled, amplify, defy and deflect Shiraishi and Meehan. The passing traffic and trains make it a quartet. As for Meehan, I have no idea what hes doing. But its a damn fine thing whatever it is. Eat it up." - Marshall Avett, Old Gold. Highly Recommended! |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit Format: Double LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"Gatefold 2LP version, limited to 500 copies. Shit And Shine return with their fourth Riot Season album -- following Youre Lucky To Have Friends Like Us (REPOSELP04), Jealous Of Shit And Shine (REPOSECD011) and last years acclaimed Cherry (REPOSECD017X/LP017) -- after a link-up with the Load Records stable for their last release. Continuing in their usual Riot Season style, what we have on offer here is the bizarre, the puzzling and the downright groovy. The epic, drawn-out single-riff jams that make up their legendary live shows are replaced by their trademark off-the-wall lunacy, making for a fun-packed adventure akin to biking trips with friends, and the local mental as a child. 229-2299 Girls Against Shit could be the soundtrack to that summer, the beating of rats with sticks, the shooting of girls with gat guns, swimming in the rancid cut and the discovering of dead dogs and maggots. Ah, those were the days my friend." -Riot Season
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Bass Puppy Format: 12" Label: Badmaster Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "2 long tracks wherein the Shit & Shine aesthetic is applied to that of the Dub-Step (?) genre. Think the "loop-iness" & humor of Strangulated Beat-offs mixed with the more future-primitive, cybernetic, percussive interludes found on FNU Ronnies Golem Smoke, then hit it with a couple ecstasy pills and BOOM: BASSS! PUPPPPY!" - Badmaster. |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Cherry Format: CD/DVD Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Now available as Limited edition CD & DVD pressing, 1000 copies for the world. Bonus DVD features a pro-shot 35 minute performance recorded for last.fm in London November 2007. What the press have said about Cherry so far: The kind of deranged collage that damaged psychedelic warriors like The Butthole Surfers or Bongwater used to come up with. Its an album that defies any kind of neat summation. Immense! --The Wire. Not since Royal Trux and Twin Infinitives has any band released an album as recklessly inventive and sadistically fun as this greasy double helping. --Rock-A-Rolla; Absurdist, addictive, obnoxious and usurped by a general air of alcoholic wrongdoing, feral psychosis and unsettling malice. A murkier, down-the-pub Locust Abortion Technician for a 21st century world hurtling ever closer to bloody-minded oblivion. --Terrorizer."-Riot Season |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Cherry Format: Double LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
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"SHIT AND SHINE isnt a band, its a state of mind. Theyre an afternoon spent tearing up betting-slips at the bookies. A stain on your shirt that wont wash out. Shit and Shine refuse to be categorized, commodified or caught with their trousers down. Theyre a blurred snapshot of bi-polar Britain, camera-phone footage of a nation thats slowly swallowing itself whole, one mouthful at a time. Theyre a requiem for back-street cafes and grubby little places that now only exist in our memory or in back-issues of Savage Messiah magazine. Theyre a brittle, defiantly distorted soundtrack to our own cultural demise: time at the bar, gentlemen, please! Limited edition of 500 copies packaged in suitably garish sleeves. "The kind of deranged collage that damaged psychedelic warriors like The Butthole Surfers or Bongwater used to come up with. Its an album that defies any kind of neat summation. Immense!"-The Wire
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Cigarette Sequence Format: 7" Label: Skulltones Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Sewer hiss lullabies from beyond (read ENGLAND) for heavy kitchen appliances and foolish acid children." Skulltones. 300 copies. |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Kuss Mich, Meine Liebe Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Eight sprawling sonic puddles of Gibbys spittoon soaked puddle juice emerge from the hot flaps of Englands SHIT AND SHINE. Combing a dense percussive chug and a megaphoned fart helmet the band emerges with a sound closest to the neck ache of powerful metallic headbang and the distorted totality of cheap speaker decay. The band has been known to employ up to 16 separate drummers and 12 feet of vertical bass amplification, so they are no strangers to erecting long standing brown waves of sound, an onslaught of bass boomed rock totality." - Load. |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Live at Aquarius Records/WFMU Showcase Format: LP Label: Sleeping Giant Glossolalia Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
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"Recorded live in Austin, Texas during the most recent WFMU/Aquarius Records SXSW Showcase. A special piece composed for this occasion featuring multiple guest drummers in addition to the core lineup. The entire set is captured on this glorious piece of wax with locked grooves on either side to enhance the hyper-rhythmic, dromedome-tunnel vision listening experience. Full color jackets featuring photos taken by the Englishmen themselves during their Texan invasion. Limited to 500 pieces." - Sleeping Giant Glossolalia.
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Artist: SHIT DOGS Title: The History of Cheese Format: Double 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Back in the olden days before le Deluge, the preeminence of ones family totem-pole was said to have been determined by how closely your parents were related to one another (incest being best). This practice died out in most places, but thankfully not in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, lest the world might have been robbed of the chromosomally deficient genius of The Shit Dogs - the inbred kings of redneck punk! Like a southern-fried Ramones with Hapsburg chins and multiple personality crises, the Shit Dogs over the course of five unbelievably crude blasts dealing in themes of violence, cannibalism and possibly hemophilia, sound unsure if they want to be the Stooges or Black Sabbath; as the cheese whose history the band celebrates grows riper and more inhabited by the second. Hailing from the city that housed the last remaining leper colony in the continental U.S., The History Of Cheese is a soundtrack of frayed denim, resin scrapings, mildewed walls and t-shirts with cigarette burns. A bar band thug collision with accidental greatness sure to appeal to fans of the Crucified, the Imperial Dogs and Teenage Queers. Originally five songs squeezed onto one 7, the attentive quality assurance department at Last Laugh Records has finally given the 5 songs that comprise the Shit Dogs magnum opus the lebensraum they have always so rightly demanded. YOU BUY IT! " - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: SHIT DOGS Title: World War III Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "The definitive collection of tracks by this nutcase Baton Rouge punk band who have previously appeared on Killed By Death #5 and #8«, this includes the tracks from their two mega-rare 7" releases, plus their track on the legendary 1980 "N.O. Experience Necessary" compilation LP, as well as previously unreleased cuts. Imagine (if you can) a unique mix of 3-chord RAMONES-like melodies with HAWKWIND-style guitar freakouts and goofy lyrics and youve about got it. 16 tracks, plus liner notes and photos!" -Rave Up |
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Artist: SHIT SPANGLED BANNER Title: No Dolby, No DBX Format: CDR Label: Manhand Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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CDR reissue of the ecstatic yod lp from this mid-90s pre-Sunburned band.
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Artist: SHITE GIRLS/EXPOSE YOUR EYES Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Spite Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: SHITS AND GIGGLES Title: Trick Or Treat Format: LP Label: F.D.A.F.I.T.S. Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "The union of warped avant pop maestro Ariel Pink and the shapeshifting surrealists and Mutant Sounds blog co-authors in Vas Deferens Organization, Shits And Giggles is an inspired and unprecedented collision of two distinct and fully formed galaxies of advanced dream logic art fuck, with Ariels hazy/glazy universe of dissociative pop song rupture and advanced command of psychedelic song structure a virtual playpen for the pranksters in VDO to jerry-rig with plunderphonic joy buzzers, synth punk trap doors, kosmiche time machines and an embrace of willful illogic; a psychotropic melee onto whose exoskeleton has been grafted unexpected episodes of luminous grace from legendary free jazz trumpeter Dennis Gonzalez and his son, bassist Aaron Gonzalez." -F.D.A.F.I.T.S. |
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Artist: SHIVER, THE Title: Walpurgis Format: LP Label: Garden of Delights Country: Germany Price: $33.00 |
| "Psychedelia and blues-rock from Switzerland. With colour four-page large-format insert. Gatefold cover with great artwork by H. R. Giger. Strictly limited to 1000 hand-numbered LPs." -Garden of Delights |
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Artist: SHIZUKA Title: Live/Traditional Aesthetics Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Shizuka were THE great lost-in-action group of the Tokyo underground psych scene during the early to mid-90s. Led by doll-maker Shizuka, and with ex-Fushitsusha alumni Maki Miura and Jun Kosugi on hand, they created some of the most fragile and intense acid-rock of their time, but remained largely undocumented and under appreciated. The gig documented on this CD, recorded at Bears in Osaka in 1995, was long whispered of amongst the cognoscenti. It catches them at a near-divinely inspired peak of fucked-up narcotic bliss. Shizukas uncanny vocals and tremulous sense of timing washing like brown sugar over fluid nebulae of guitar and drum nirvana, peaking and churning in perfect, weightless filigrees of light, cosmic cold and invisible motion. Miuras guitar playing is just jaw-dropping. Booklet includes lyrics in Japanese and English." -PSF |
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Artist: SHIZUKA Title: Owari No Nai Yume Format: DVD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| "Visual tribute to Shizuka, one of the most distinctive psychedelic voices in the Tokyo underground, who tragically passed away on January 31st (2010). This DVD captures the last ever performance by her group, recorded live at ShowBoat in Tokyo on December 30, 2008. As ever, the focus is upon Shizukas delicate, uncanny vocals and tremulous sense of timing which meld with the overwhelmingly emotive white-hot nebulae of ex-Fushitsusha axeman Maki Miuras guitar. Together the narcotic voice and the guitar peak and churn in perfectly weightless filigreed forms of light, darkness, cosmic cold and invisible motion. At their best, the Shizuka group were one of the distinctively original voices in the Japanese psych scene. Ten tracks, 74 minutes. NTSC region-free DVD. Limited edition of 500." -- Alan Cummings. |
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Artist: SHIZUKA Title: s/t Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Debut release by this band, previously heard on Tokyo Flashback III. Pretty great 3 piece rock bank, with exquisite female vocals by Shizuka; some tracks are in a darkish, somber range with piano and cello embellishment, others have staggering, practically Haino-esque fuzz guitar throughout." - FE. 1994 release. |
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Artist: SHOCK! Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Guerssen Records present what is for them the major discovery in the Spanish psych-prog collector scene: a previously-unreleased album from 1970 by this obscure Spanish garage-psych band. Until now, Shock! were a total mystery. They only released one 45 at the time (the killer acid-fuzz punker "No se puede ser Superman") and nothing was known about the band until the label tracked them down. We discovered that prior to their 45 release, they recorded a whole album which was never released. Shocks music is underground garage-psychedelia with crude acid-fuzz guitar, effects, and English vocals: think of Agua de Regaliz, early Pan & Regaliz, Cerebrum or even obscure Brazilian bands such as Tobruk, but with a more primitive sound. The album features 10 songs, including the original versions of the two tracks later re-recorded for their only 45: No se puede ser Superman (titled here "Im Being Mad," its a different and superior English-sung version) and "I Want to Laugh" (a longer version than the one included on the 45). Remastered from the original 2-track tape (which is unfortunately not in perfect condition, but more than good enough), including an insert with detailed liner notes in English/Spanish." - Guerssen. |
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Artist: SHOCK! Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Guerssen Country: Spain Price: $18.00 |
| "Guerssen Records present what is for them the major discovery in the Spanish psych-prog collector scene: a previously-unreleased album from 1970 by this obscure Spanish garage-psych band. Until now, Shock! were a total mystery. They only released one 45 at the time (the killer acid-fuzz punker "No se puede ser Superman") and nothing was known about the band until the label tracked them down. We discovered that prior to their 45 release, they recorded a whole album which was never released. Shocks music is underground garage-psychedelia with crude acid-fuzz guitar, effects, and English vocals: think of Agua de Regaliz, early Pan & Regaliz, Cerebrum or even obscure Brazilian bands such as Tobruk, but with a more primitive sound. The album features 10 songs, including the original versions of the two tracks later re-recorded for their only 45: No se puede ser Superman (titled here "Im Being Mad," its a different and superior English-sung version) and "I Want to Laugh" (a longer version than the one included on the 45). Remastered from the original 2-track tape (which is unfortunately not in perfect condition, but more than good enough), including an insert with detailed liner notes in English/Spanish. CD comes with a color booklet." - Guerssen. |
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Artist: SHOES Title: Bazooka Format: LP Label: Numero Group Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The sophomore album that never was. 1975s power pop scorcher Bazooka was tracked at home not long after the Shoes debut, but was shelved due to a lack of funds. Never available on LP, Bazooka has been remastered from the original analog tapes and molded in 150 gram vinyl for your listening pleasure." -Numero Group. |
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Artist: SHOES Title: Black Vinyl Shoes Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Here is, reissued in full 180 gr. audiophile glory and with faithful reproduction of the original album art, one of the biggest examples of the DIY philosophy in the history of North American music. Shoes issued Black Vinyl Shoes on their own Black Vinyl Records back in 1977, setting the path so many indie bands have followed since then. The album is a classic late seventies American power pop blast that drinks from the works of Big Star, The Byrds, and others. For our reissue we counted on the help of the Shoes members, especially Jeff Murphy who provided liners notes for the lavish 4-page insert that is included. It also features a reproduction of the original round sticker and an ironable transfer to make yourself a cool Shoes t-shirt! The sound has been remastered from the original tapes and pressed into quality 180 gr. heavy black vinyl. Limited to only 500 copies." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: SHOES Title: Black Vinyl Shoes Format: LP Label: Numero Group Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The gateway LP for power popping mainliners the world over, Black Vinyl Shoes makes its return to the LP format in elegant fashion. Replica 150 gram reissue retains John Murphys original 1977 cover art, inserts, and even the t-shirt iron-on. Cut directly from the analog master tapes to disc, this is the definitive Black Vinyl." -Numero Group. |
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Artist: SHOES Title: One In Versailles Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
| "From USA, 1975. 500 numbered LPs, heavy engraved sleeve, 180 gram pressing, 2-page insert. Shoes were formed in Zion, Illinois, in 1974 by brothers John and Jeff Murphy, and Gary Klebe. The Murphy brothers and Klebe were high school friends and decided to form a band following graduation. In the fall of 1974, Shoes was in its infancy as a band. Members Gary Klebe, John Murphy and Jeff Murphy had just completed their first official recording project, Heads or Tails, recorded in a basement on a Teac 4-channel tape machine. In college at this time, Gary was an architecture student signed up to study abroad at the campus in Versailles, France. In his absence John and Jeff decided that it would be a fitting tribute and testament to their commitment to the new band to record a new batch of songs in their newly established home base in Jeffs small rented flat (referred to as La Cabane) and dedicate it to their pal Gary. The title would be One In Versailles, in his honor. The inspiration of Versailles, France became the basis of an imaginary long-distance romance between a boy and his overseas girlfriend. Despite the limited resources, limited equipment and strained working schedule, the elemental sounding One In Versailles proved to be a crucial link in the fundamental development of the band. The initial pressing of 300 copies have become sought-after collectors items among record collectors the world over. Appearing here on vinyl for the first time since its limited, 1975 pressing, the songs of One In Versailles provide a look inside the very earliest days of the band and represent a snapshot in the development of Shoes, one of the first do-it-yourself bands to embrace and capitalize on the home-recording technologies. The Shoes have released 20 recordings over the years. Really amazing album. Not so power-pop as the others. This has an underground charm, with lots of heavy guitar, great vocals and tight song-structure. It sails in-between a great wave/pop album with a touch of Spoils Of War avant-garde underground on a rough but clear ocean." -Shadoks |
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Artist: SHOES Title: One in Versailles Format: LP Label: Numero Group Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Originally issued in a quantity of 300 hand-pasted and assembled LPs, Shoes debut album One in Versailles is finally back on its intended format. This replica 150 gram vinyl edition includes facsimiles of lyric and photo inserts included in the 1976 issue. Remastered from the original analog tapes for optimum fidelity: this is the definitive Versailles." -Numero Group. |
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Artist: SHOES Title: Present Tense: Demos 1978-1979 Format: LP Label: Numero Group Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Prior to signing with Elektra in 1979, Shoes were just four guys cutting demos in a Zion, Illinois basement. Compiled here for the first time on vinyl is a track-by track reevaluation of those Zion demos, cut from the original master tapes and molded in 150 gram vinyl." -Numero Group. |
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Artist: SHOES THIS HIGH Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Raw Power Country: New Zealand Price: $6.00 |
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"A long overdue 4 track ep re-issue from this Wellington art-punk band from1980. This is how a bunch of Wellington teenagers saw the rapid rise of the no wave of the late 70s & early 80s punk rock movement. Abrasive & jarring - this was Wellington punk at its finest! MRR called it "absolutely must-have for any DIY punk fan"." - Raw Power. "Absolutely essential must-have for the developing legions of UK late-70s DIY punk fans. First track last heard on the Killed By Death DIY comp from three or four years back that was mastered about 25% too fast. This reissue of their sole 45 is at proper speed and all four tracks are killer-diller slop-pop. New Zealand amateur hour genius from 1980. Compare to GORDONS, FALL and PRATS." -MRR. Features Brent Hayward (on "vocals, comb and paper" ?!!) who later went on to more DIY greatness with Smelly Feet and Kiwi Animal.
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Artist: SHOGUN KUNITOKI Title: Vinonaamakasio Format: LP Label: Fonal Country: Finland Price: $21.00 |
| "Picture disc version. This is the second full-length release by Shogun Kunitoki, an instrumental quartet based in Helsinki, Finland. With Vinonaamakasio, Shogun Kunitoki expand the boundaries of their self-created sonic universe with a wider array of sounds and rhythms. Where their debut, Tasankokaiku (Fonal, 2005), squeezed cosmic dust into fiery balls of molten lava with gravitational push and pull and followed the planets whirring through the void on looping trajectories, Vinonaamakasio zooms in to explore the surface of newfound heavenly bodies, outlines the jagged shapes of exploding volcanoes, rolls with the moonlit waves through the cracks of sleeping, phosphorescent coral reefs, and marches in step with the six-legged insect armies making their trails through the steaming jungle. Every atom of this newborn planet of sound vibrates, synchronous to the seething psychedelic stew that throbs under the surface and burns your feet if you let them stop moving. The groups first album came out of nowhere, and established the previously-unknown band as one of the most original instrumental groups to have emerged after the post-rock boom. Tasankokaikus psychedelic mix of minimalist form and maximalist sound that draws equally from the academic avant-garde and the left-field rock canon from the 60s to the present day has won the group a small but fervent fan base. After its release, Tasankokaiku was immediately recognized by reviewers and music fans as a compelling cocktail of accessibility and ambitious aspirations, a kaleidoscopic mix of edgy 8-bit bleepiness and soft-focus psychedelia. Vinonaamakasio picks up where that record left off, but this time absolutely explodes into the cosmos with an unrelenting squall of swirling organ patterns, droning guitars, ring modulator death-rays, and an impenetrable wall of percussion, sweeping the past 30 years of Krautrock, psych, prog, and electronic innovation up into your dizzy, expanding head-space." -Fonal |
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Artist: SHORTELL, TIMOTHY Title: Windows Format: Book + CDR Label: Uberkatze Studio Country: USA Price: $48.00 |
| 40 page full-color photo book (perfect bound) with accompanying music. Shortell is AKA Brrr, and a founding member of the Anti-Naturals with Scott Foust, Karla Borecky, Graham Lambkin, and Tim Goss. "The music uses synthetic elements, industrial sounds and instruments alongside field recordings. The latter are never gratuitous, nor are they merely a window-dressing (if one will pardon the pun), but function as structural elements to the music. "Tropical Storm Irene" is a good example of this, whereby the sounds of rain are manipulated to take on the same glissando as the synthesized elements, lending the whole affair a rather maudlin tone. Shortell himself writes in the (brief) liner notes that windows serve “as a boundary and a portal between public and private in social life”. While he quickly goes on to state that this project addresses the aesthetic potential of windows, rather than the sociological functions (latent or otherwise), the last track, "Parque Hotel", sounds rather analagous to just that boundary. Murky and incomprehensible vocals are augmented by washing synth lines, as though reflecting the listeners moments of eye contact with diners while peering into a busy restaurant. Surely the albums flagship, and somewhat reminiscent of Idea Fire Companys work (it is released on the Anti-Naturals imprint Überkatze Studio, and mixed by Graham Lambkin after all)." - Cut and Run blog. |
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Artist: SHOUP, WALLY/ DAVE ABRAMSON Title: Good Curse Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Drum/sax duo by Wally Shoup and Dave Abramson. Shoup has been one of the core members of the Seattle underground scene for many years now and has played with everyone from Thurston Moore and Chris Corsano to Davey Williams and Bob Rees. Abramson is a member of local psych band The Diminished Men. A greet set of free improvisation. Fire Music with Soul. Cover art by Shoup. 70 copies." - Sloow Tapes.
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Artist: SHOWERS Title: Live in Rats Eyes Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"providence scuzz-addicts make you feel like youre sitting in a sauna
pumping out piss mist... goes from blown out heavy rock to stagnant out of
order urinal rot... one song is a cover off of flex your head comp...
edition of 50" - Zac Davis, Lambsbread.
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Artist: SHRIN Title: Rin Liminal Switch Vols 2 &1 Format: CD Label: Spirit Of Orr Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: SHRIN Title: Ventilating The Corpse Format: LP Label: Records Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"The material here was recorded in 1991, 1992, and 1995 and is of the bowed cymbal, frenetic drumming, guitar, bozouki, and chant nature. Limited to 500 copies." - Records.
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Artist: SHRINNIRS Title: Early Singles Format: LP Label: Mystra Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Contains the first three 45s plus some early unreleased tracks by New Englands political punkers influenced by The Ex, Dog-Faced Hermans, and various avant-garde movements. The Bimbo Shrineheads/Shrin/Shrinnirs have been blowing minds at endless venues since the late 80s.... And in true Dead Moon fashion, Dawn Cook (vocalist, songwriter) and Joe Malinowski (drummer & Tulpa Records executive) are still shredding around New England with their unique vision. Try to see them asap! Includes hand-painted covers with art box attached including artwork, flyers, Byron Coley liners/interviews , and more. Limited to 100 copies." -Mystra |
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Artist: SIC Title: Thought Noises Format: LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Dark Entries is proud to shed light on underground Belgian New Wave pioneers, SIC, with the career-spanning release “Thought Noises.” SIC were a post-punk band from the industrial city of Charleroi in the francophone part of Belgium. They were formed by Francis Pourcel, Alain Neffe (Bene Gesserit), Micheline Dufert, and Mario Berchicci in 1977. Francis and Alain had previously played with Krautrock band Kosmose in the mid 70s. In 1978 Alain left the group to launch the cassette label Insane Music. The new trio released their debut 7” “Voltage Control” in 1979 on Artibano Records. By 1980 Mario left and was replaced by a Korg KR-55 drum machine. As a duo, SIC self-released the “Cover Girls Smile”/ “Between” 7” in 1980, which was played by John Peel on Radio 1 in London. Unable to replicate the studio sounds for live concerts, the duo recruited three additional musicians, Wilhelm Dunker (bass), Henry Krutzen (saxophone) and Danièle Daoust (synthesizer). In 1981 their final 7” single, “Free Radio Stations” was self-released and the band recorded a demo tape to help secure live gigs. SIC continued to play live over the next two year but eventually broke up in 1983. SIC stray from more conventional post-punk, mixing the affordable Korg MS-20 and Roland RS-09 synthesizers with jazz and funk elements. All three 7”s and demos are united by strong, watery Rickenbacker bass chords reminiscent of American jazz legend Jaco Pastorius and UK bassist Mick Karn (Japan). A heavy reliance on rhythm and Micheline’s strong, insistent voice give SIC its own moody personality. More of a European group than a Belgian one, SIC take cues from Magazine, “Live At The Witch Trials”-era The Fall, Delta 5, The Raincoats and Kleenex. Their lyrics are original and autobiographical, documenting commercialism, technology and communication as we enter the 1980s. “Thought Noises” compiles all three SIC 7" singles released from 1979-1981 plus 6 unreleased demos from a 1981 recording session. All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each LP includes a lyric sheet insert. More than 30 years later, SIC are a document of a mutant strain of new wave ripe for discovery." -Dark Entries. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: A Long Way Around To A Shortcut Format: Double LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Ever shrouded, serpentine by design, the legend of the Sic Alps has at last made its way to the gates of Drag City. The new, first-time-ever-on-vinyl 2xLP reissue of A Long Way Around To A Shortcut is somehow a greatest hits of the golden not-quite-decade of Sic Alps. Well, not quite golden, either. Can gold be tarnished? Can it be done on purpose? If so, Sic Alps are artisans of the highest order -- for their music is the bright, surging sound of ye olde rock and roll radio (and the garages that tuned in), but heard through air darkened with specks of nameless obstruction. In and amongst their ingrown sounds, Sic Alps take on classic tunes from Strapping Fieldhands, Throbbing Gristle and The Zipps on A Long Way Around To A Shortcut. It is to their credit that they completely absorb their estimated predecessors and create the only sound left to them: the sound of the Sic Alps. A Long Way Around To A Shortcut was issued as a CD in 2008. It collected songs that were first issued throughout the epic years of 2006 and 2007 on two 12"EPs, three 7" singles and a cassette, plus a song from a compilation CD-R and a song released nowhere else but on the ALWATAS compilation. The records were originally given titles like United, Strawberry Guillotine, Semi- Streets, Hip-Hop Sweepers Vol 1, Teenage Alps, The Soft Tour in Rough Form-- but all these original releases are long gone, and the CDs fairly much OOP as well. Can this vinyl version be far behind? The hordes are coming, so heed well and get your own copi(es) in stock now." With full color innersleeves. -Drag City |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Breadhead Format: 7" Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Sic Alps go in and out of synch, always clicking at the 100th of a second that you wish they would, allowing both you and they to enter the reality of your tastiest imagination on the beat. The four tracks on this record are stuck together from different sessions, recorded half by King Riff at Bauer Mansion and half by Sic Alps at home. Though the sound is classic Sic, their face has been rearranged, and this time out, Mike D is aided and abetted by a whos-who of the SF gutter-gold scene: members of Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall and all of Big Techno Werewolves made tracks on the last track of this mother." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Fools Mag Format: Cass Label: Folding Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Live four-song session recorded on WFMU Radio in New Jersey." -Folding Cassettes
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: L Mansion Format: 7" Label: Slumberland Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "SIC ALPS make music with their eyes on the past but their feet firmly in the present. Bits of psychedelia, folk, garage, punk, and other fuh fairly well flow from their fingers, seamlessly worked together to render easy categorizations pointless. Over the course of numerous singles and albums, Sic Alps MIKE DONOVAN and MATT HARTMAN have carved themselves a snug niche filled with fuzz, crackle, vibes, and most of all, cracking tunes. Continuing this fine tradition is "L. Mansion," a swinging little folk / beat tune that is totally timeless / out of time in the way of Sic Alps best songs. Its as straightforwardly "pop" as anything theyve done, and a totally effective summertime single. On the flip is a banging cover of the other Donovans ode to puff-"Superlungs." Wild and thumping, the pair have definitely taken the Sunshine Superman on a little side trip to Detroit rock city." - Slumberland |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Napa Asylum Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Napa Asylum is the SIC ALPS in 2010-two and one half years since the fabled release of US E.Z.! Napa Asylum accounts for the swift tilt of time with twenty-two crafted tracks bubbling in the reverb tank. The Alps are in the summer of their years, where they suddenly find a minute to reflect on the breaking down of the years previous. Napa Asylum is overfull with Sic pleasures, echoing half-emptily like they do as the hooks slide into your flesh, animating you marionette-style to tip-tat your way across the dance-floor. Themes from Napa Asylum include reincarnation, magic and schizophrenia. The process is the flavor-and three albums in, you can still get in on the ground floor, cause Sic Alps always record in the basement. Get down your steps while you can, the songs are as short as they are bitter-sweet. But the one that ends just makes way for the one coming next." -Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Napa Asylum Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Napa Asylum is the SIC ALPS in 2010-two and one half years since the fabled release of US E.Z.! Napa Asylum accounts for the swift tilt of time with twenty-two crafted tracks bubbling in the reverb tank. The Alps are in the summer of their years, where they suddenly find a minute to reflect on the breaking down of the years previous. Napa Asylum is overfull with Sic pleasures, echoing half-emptily like they do as the hooks slide into your flesh, animating you marionette-style to tip-tat your way across the dance-floor. Themes from Napa Asylum include reincarnation, magic and schizophrenia. The process is the flavor-and three albums in, you can still get in on the ground floor, cause Sic Alps always record in the basement. Get down your steps while you can, the songs are as short as they are bitter-sweet. But the one that ends just makes way for the one coming next." -Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Napa Asylum Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Napa Asylum is the Sic Alps in 2010 -- two and one half years since the fabled release of US E.Z.! Napa Asylum accounts for the swift tilt of time since aught-eight with twenty-two crafted tracks bubbling in the reverb tank. The Alps are in the summer of their years, where they suddenly find a minute to reflect on the breaking down of the years previous. Napa Asylum is overfull with Sic pleasures, echoing half-emptily like they do as the hooks slide into your flesh, animating you marionette-style to tip-tat your way across the dance-floor. Lets away to the Tascam 8-Ball! Themes from Napa Asylum include re-incarnation, magic and schizophrenia. SUCH AS: The First White Man to Touch California ties the discovery of California to the recent mortgage crisis. Zeppo Epp tells parallel tales from Midwestern homes: Zeppo Epley drives off to never be heard from again while Charlotte Muldeen breaks up with her girlfriend and joins the Navy. And theres more, lots of it there, all dripping through a $100 preamp for your misunderstanding. Yeah, the sound reflects a minimal set-up, but dont let them fool you. The process is the flavor -- and three albums in, you can still get in on the ground floor, cause Sic Alps always record in the basement. Get down your steps while you can, the songs are as short as they are bitter-sweet. But the one that ends just makes way for the one coming next." -Drag City |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Pangea Globe Format: 7" Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Were talking about a sweet and hot mini record of Tronics songs deuced and reduced by the one and the only Sic Alps! Yeah. So heres a days Sic time put in one night, four songs worth--blathered and slaved over, and tinted in the mix for awesome effect. Some beats get softened, some are solidified with march-force pressure, tempos run a bit faster/slower in general?all informed by a fire/passion for the game that those guys and these guys play. Like when the Stones covered Chuck. Love backed by force indeed. Pangea Globe its called." -Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Pleasures And Treasures Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "THERES SOMETHING IN THE AIR...WERE NOT SURE WHAT IT IS, BUT SFS SIC ALPS HAVE HARNESSED IT AND PRETTY MUCH PERFECTED ITS SOUND. WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR IS AN HONEST BREATH OF TIMELESSNESS THAT BREATHES THE ECHO AND REVERB OF THE PAST, YET TRANSFORMS IT INTO A MODERN DAY PSYCHEDELIC ROCK MASTERPIECE. THIS IS THEIR "LOST" DEBUT LP FROM 2005 WHEN SIC ALPS WERE A THREE PIECE (CURRENT MEMBER AND FOUNDER MIKE DONOVAN OF BIG TECHNO WEREWOLVES/FOLDING CASSETTES, BIANCA SPARTA OF ERASE ERRATA, AND ADAM STONEHOUSE OF THE HOSPITALS, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM CURRENT SIC ALPS MEMBER MATTHEW HARTMAN FORMERLY OF COACHWHIPS AND CAT POWER). - Animal Disguise. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The facts, such as there are: Sic Alps will be the fifth album from Sic Alps, if you include the compilation album A Long Way Around to a Shortcut, which we do, because its on Drag City, who wrote this. Thereve been a number of singles and some splits and who knows, we may be looking at a second way around to a shortcut someday soon. First though, we deal with the cracking and recasting of the mold that comes when you start to hear the sounds of Sic Alps." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The facts, such as there are: Sic Alps will be the fifth album from Sic Alps, if you include the compilation album A Long Way Around to a Shortcut, which we do, because its on Drag City, who wrote this. Thereve been a number of singles and some splits and who knows, we may be looking at a second way around to a shortcut someday soon. First though, we deal with the cracking and recasting of the mold that comes when you start to hear the sounds of Sic Alps." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The fifth album from San Franciscos beloved SIC ALPS. Aiming for the toppermost of the poppermost, Sic and the gang wave their mangled wand-and lo! The hits just keep on a-comin. Self-titled just its just their selves. This could be the album of the year-doesnt matter what year youre reading this either. Sic Alppeal is eternal." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Semi Streets Format: 7" Label: Skulltones Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Sunshine filtering through broken windows into a moldy basement, a hammock full of leaves, fire ants bogged down in a patch of honey, sprawled upon a sandy off-peach tattered beach towel in the park: Summers come and gone. Sic Alps bring a warm haze and lo-fi fuzzed jangle to keep its memory alive. A-Side previously released as a sold out cassingle on Folding. B-Side has brand new noise.
300 Copies." - Skulltones.
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Soft Tour In Rough Form Format: 12" Label: Mount Saint Mountain Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"SIC ALPS-MIKE DONOVAN (BIG TECHNO WEREWOLVES, ROPERS, SOUNDS OF THE BARBARY COAST), and MATT HARMAN (COACHWHIPS, CAT POWER, HENRYS DRESS, etc.). Four exclusive tracks with a letterpressed tri-fold cover"
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Strawberry Guillotine Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Sic Alps toss back 3 new tracks for this seven inch. Title track
"Strawberry Guillotine" takes the listener on a guided tour of an
imagined war between the sprawling Golden Gate Park homeless
population and the more established model yacht community.
Musket blasts sound off as shopping carts laden with gasoline and
styrofoam emerge from the silent bushes and charge the blood
dimmed shores of the cement bottomed Spreckles Lake. Cover art
co-opted from 90s LA anti-legends The Summer Hits who
themselves stole it from the Walker Brothers in the first place.
Apparently Rex from Summer Hits is now homeless in London
where his long beard is black on one side and fully grey on the other.
This record is humbly dedicated to him." - Woodsist.
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Teenage Alps Format: Cass Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"SIC ALPS, A SAN FRANCISCO GUITAR/DRUMS/VOCALS DUO BRING ON A STELLAR 4 SONG EP OF PSYCHEDELIC, FUZZED-OUT ROCK FILTERED THROUGH A HAZY FOG OF THE UNKNOWN. TRULY ONE OF THE BEST BANDS OUT THERE TODAY, THIS CASSETTE IS THE PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO THEIR UNIQUE SOUND. LIMITED EDITION OF 200 FEATURING ARTWORK/LAYOUT BY G. BEAUVAIS." - Animal Disguise.
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: U.S EZ Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "U.S. EZ is the fourth long-player in the SIC ALPS canon (excluding the recent singles comp CD, A Long Way Around to a Shortcut), and their first for the Siltbreeze label. Fans of last years amazing Description of the Harbor LP will not be disappointed, especially if they want to hear Side As cosmic concrete creak, forged with the trebly, high-end neo-glam pop of Side B. The duo of MIKE DONOVAN and MATT HARTMAN outdo themselves here and it is the most fully realized Sic Alps release to date. U.S. EZ knows perfectly well what it means to be high and inside. Its not just baseball jargon anymore. If youve been jonesin for an LP that calls to mind equal parts Bob Markley and Uli Trepte, then look no further, mein dueden (und duedetten). U.S. EZ is the virtual brick of Berlin / Big Sur hash weve all been waiting to break into. The ominous deaths head fez has now been ensconced in a witchy naugahyde bonnet, thus levelling the playing field for both the psychedelically challenged and the itinerant avant garde. Sic Alps have always sprechen zie good vibes and U.S. EZ is a solid thump on all fronts. A summer tour of the States and a European one in the fall are in the works." - Siltbreeze. 2008 release. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: U.S. EZ Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "U.S. EZ is the fourth long-player in the SIC ALPS canon (excluding the recent singles comp CD, A Long Way Around to a Shortcut), and their first for the Siltbreeze label. Fans of last years amazing Description of the Harbor LP will not be disappointed, especially if they want to hear Side As cosmic concrete creak, forged with the trebly, high-end neo-glam pop of Side B. The duo of MIKE DONOVAN and MATT HARTMAN outdo themselves here and it is the most fully realized Sic Alps release to date. U.S. EZ knows perfectly well what it means to be high and inside. Its not just baseball jargon anymore. If youve been jonesin for an LP that calls to mind equal parts Bob Markley and Uli Trepte, then look no further, mein dueden (und duedetten). U.S. EZ is the virtual brick of Berlin / Big Sur hash weve all been waiting to break into. The ominous deaths head fez has now been ensconced in a witchy naugahyde bonnet, thus levelling the playing field for both the psychedelically challenged and the itinerant avant garde. Sic Alps have always sprechen zie good vibes and U.S. EZ is a solid thump on all fronts. A summer tour of the States and a European one in the fall are in the works. LP version to follow shortly." - Siltbreeze |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Vedley Format: 7" Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "In answer to the unasked, why one single when twenty-three would do so much more for this world, Sic Alps have made a 7" record that pursues both options simultaneously, choosing quantity not over quality but instead declaring them equivalent, a musical answer not simply for short attention spans but for the meticulous, the fastidious, the obsessed and the tormented, all of whom have something to benefit from music of all kinds and all of whom will find their needs met at some point when they hear every bit of the scars-on-45 double-A rendition(s) called Vedley." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS/FREAKAPUSS Title: New Trawgs III/Here Today Here Tomorrow Format: 7" Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "For this time around, Sic Alps are positively in the company of like-minded men -- and incredible men to boot! Yas, yas: our under-pop prodigies are hanging out next door to, on the litral other side of the record, their prodigal hero Zarjaz, the Tronics leader so recently covered on Sic Alps Pangea Globe 7" EP. Thats right, the still-innovatin uber-legend of the British post-punk scene has stepped from the woodwork of the Internet, where his recent Zarjaz and Freakapuss outputs lurk, and into the grooves of a vinyl record for the first time in flipping dogs ears! So, Here Today, Here Tomorrow is the vinyl debut of Freakapuss, a new classic in the somehow-unchanged-yettotally- new vein, using a bit of guitar, congas and percussion (courtesy of Steve Dore), and acid-tongued vocals to do the trick." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS/MAGIK MARKERS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Yik Yak Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: SICK HOUR Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "4 YEARS LATER...FILLING THE HOLES IN THE DISCOGRAPHY. THIS IS MINIMAL SYNTH DRONE AND LOOMING CREEP FROM MEMBERS OF HAIR POLICE/EYES AND ARMS OF SMOKE. A BLEAK SOUNDTRACK TO CLIMB THE ENDLESS CLIFFS OF A PSYCHEDELIC MOUNTAIN. PUT THIS ONE ON REPEAT AND FORGET TO BREATHE. GREAT LOOKING FULL-COLOR ARTWORK BY ROBERT BEATTY. LIMITED EDITION OF 120." - Animal Disguise. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Alien Facial 3 Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Born Again to Die Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "There are a lot of mugz you dont wanna know,: VD doctors, the Grim Reaper, the inside of a Fed Ex body bag, ex-mates, cops, silence, dentists, republicans, country music stars, ...list goes on and on....THEN= there are mugz you just want to get some sunshine from- you know who they are= just plain rad mugz, stokerz= and i gotta say....the Michigan Crew has Sick Llamaz BACK.....Heath AKA Juice AKA Fag Heath AKA Morellama= is just a ball of huge eyeballing goodness..how can you be mad at him? We used to have heavy skate shred sessions with the goofball and he would destroy the streetz, and still be smiling at the end, never breaking a sweat. You want this dude on your team. And you want the soundtrack to your boiling brain to be his Born Again to Die. Its got this amazing kinda arms-up-in-air-i-give-up-what-is -this-godamnn -sound style beaming through it. Heath man....dude aint really gonna give any clues back....cant count how many timez the crew has cornered the mug and been like: "Yo man....what the hell is going on inside "Live Birth"? Did you just record cars under an overpass and slow it down?" "....ha......that one...thats a weird one right?" "Well,...tell us....the fuck?" ".........." And repeat over the coarse of 120+ Fag Tapes, Heaths label AKA the Pyramids of Michigan. He never has properly answered a sound question, we all have our clues/ideas.. Probably wrong. Sick Llama holds the rotten essence of Midwest Basement Mystery Mind Sound inside the marrow of his weird skull, right behind the strawberry blond tuffs, unblinking bug eyes, and scandi-molded mildew skin. Born Again to Die is his debt, and any signs of progression are tossed out the windows of Ham Studios. I mean its electronics, tape hiss, and ....?????? Heath really doesnt get any better or more refined, just....... stranger AKA more strange. My man Connelly says every Fag Tape has at least a 30% "hands off" factor, meaning, seems like Llama has a nice mutant groove going on and then just jets for 10min, leaving the machine motionless. If you can tell what the hell is going on inside these grooves...bottle it and sell it, it would be ideal to have on tap.......it could be like taking a skinny dip inside the caverns of a black pool filled to the brim with soul-frying electricity waves. Born Again To Die= maybe our kids rat kids will COMPREHEND. Then maybe they can attempt to decode FUNKY PANDEMONIUM...." -JOHN OLSON (Wolf Eyes, Boy Dept. Boyz), May 2007/ "Originally released on cassette in 2004 on AMERICAN TAPES. This is the first full length LP and one of the first recordings ever from SICK LLAMA. Limited to 500 copies. Housed in a slick orange and blue silkscreened cardstock jacket featuring the usual HANSON outer droll flaps." - Hanson. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Craft Of Recognition Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| " Do you ever get ahead of yourself? I like to take things as they present themselves to me. However, taking that as a skill, then controlling what you perceive as the future or making it into what you want is an object of desire. Isnt it amazing?" - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Live Birth Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "live barf syrup gigs from Chicago, Kalamazoo, Columbus. edition 77" - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Old Possession Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "sick llama style. HAM Studios style. hand-printed b&w photo covers. edition 50 cassette." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Once Believed Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "CDR jam packed w/ new knee deep in syrup soundz. newest sick llama style experiments. you hear children calling for help but yer too stoned." - Fag Tapes |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Skin Walker Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "the best dude in "noise" right now.... total fucking braindead, too burnt out to even get high anymore type noise.... some parts sound like plastic, 5 foot circular basketballs slowly boucning and deflating on a contact micd city street late at night; others sound like if you were the size of a safety pin and were crusing through a small, tight sewer that was all curvy and fucked up and the water was almost not even in there anymore but was slowly dripping while your carrying vessel was scraping up the ground you sailed on; others sound like someone flushing a toilet while taking a bong hit..... 2nd track = live on new years, hear how fucked up the emeralds crew was.... ltd to 75" - Maim & Disfigure. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Swinging Death Format: CDR Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "sick llama style. trapped smashed and burned acid drowned sound bitches ! edition 77." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: SICK LLAMA/TREETOPS Title: Light Infection Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "colab. cassette. melting wax organ and keys. mixed down in Ham Studios. adrift in the night. edition 50." -Fag Tapes |
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Artist: SICKDOLL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "debut LP by this new and upcoming German minimal artist. The sound is raw and melancholy." Limited to 300 copies in plastic mesh sleeve. |
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Artist: SICKDOLL Title: Sohn Geht Ab! Format: 7" Label: Kernkrach Country: Germany Price: $13.50 |
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"4-track-EP (7inch) with new songs of the young german Synthi-Punk SICKDOLL (sounds like melodic minimal-wave). Handmade (painted) sleeve and limited to 300 copies." - Kernkrach.
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Artist: SICKNESS Title: Fragmented Memory Format: One-Sided LP Label: Gods Of Tundra Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Live in Cleveland on November 4th, 2010. Incredible capture of the newest Sickness directions. Breaking and tearing sound into strange silences. A bizarre atmosphere hangs heavy in the room...and refuses to leave even after the record ceases to spin. Throw your expectations in the garbage can, this is true sonic disturbance." - Gods Of Tundra. |
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Artist: SICKNESS Title: Fuck Your Punk Rock Format: Picture Disc LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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Artist: SIDDHARTHA Title: Weltschmerz Format: LP Label: Garden of Delights Country: Germany Price: $33.00 |
| "Siddhartha were formed in 1973 in Korntal near Stuttgart. They were named named after a novel by Hermann Hesse. They performed an intelligent mixture of progressive and art rock influenced by psychedelia and folk. Although their 1975 album is called Weltschmerz, all songs have English lyrics apart from Weit weg. It was released in a limited edition of 400 copies and is one of the most sought after collectors items. However, copies have always been hard to find. A 30 minute demo tape of Siddhartha which was recorded after the release of their album has disappeared. This vinyl re-issue on Garden of Delights comes with the original cover artwork and has a four-page insert in LP size." - Garden of Delights. |
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Artist: SIDEN, ANN Title: Mankinds Need Of Comfort Is Without End Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "In all stables there is a spot, at the end of the fooder trough or in the middle of the stable hall, where the sound is most compact. There we rest, leaning on our brooms, listening. It smells clean and pleasant, the animals are sated and content, that wich is supposed to be done has been done. Ones territory is expanded. All is as it should be." - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: SIEDLERHEIM Title: Westhafen Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "There are 10 Songs on the LP from various Cassettes released from 1980-1982 on the legendary KOMPAKT PRODUKTE label from Berlin. Some of the songs are taken from the legendary PLASSETTE. The sound is typical 1980´s style synth mixed w/some punk/funk." - WSDP. |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Absolutes Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
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"Screaming out of New York City, fans of Mainliner, free rock like Wolf Eyes, quiet walks in the park, Harry Pussy, Yoko Ono and herbal tea will really dig this slippery slab. This is a complete baaad-ass hate fest with sub-dermal bass, paper thin razor guitar and Axis of Evil drumfuckery. The vinyl is a strictly limited pressing and will be accompanied by a CD version on Load Records." - Riot Season.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Absolutes Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
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"Eight songs that take apart rock music atom by atom so that you are left with a skeleton of sound. Sightings still use the tools of the trade -- guitar, bass and drums -- to take both rock and roll out of rock n roll. Reference weirdo deconstructo outfits like Einsturzende Neubauten, (mid-period) Black Dice, and Mainliner. This is the sound between the guitar strings, inside the bass amp, and within a drum stick. Yes, the truth. If punk rock used to mean fucking shit up and doing it your own way, this record erects a mile high middle finger facing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame." - Load.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Arrived in Gold Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Never before has a band managed to erase themselves. New York Citys Sightings have risen to the challenge of negation with this what the fuck of a record that rolls the twenty sided dice to dematerialize any trace of guitar, bass and drums into proton dust floating microns on top of the speaker cone. Minimal, yes. Previous records have gone from favorites at magazines as chocolate and peanut butter as the Wire and Terrorizer. Past records have been steaming knee burn befuddled by German technoid impulse and Yoko-damaged Beatles-busting intensity. A new icy coolness is added to the steaming soup this time allowing the sounds of mouth breathing to open up the record into a drug-fueled nightclub beast humping a bass bin as the sun rises." - Load.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Castle Moat/Invisible Coats Format: 7" Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"I dont wanna eat McDonalds, I wanna eat Sightings!" - Jack Brewer; Saccharine Trust, , May 19, 2005. "Tour" single, edition of 500. Plays at 33 rpm, despite what the label says.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: City of Straw Format: CD Label: Brah Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Crafting a lasting personal aesthetic in the midst of our ephemeral music culture is as rare as it is cause for celebration. With the release of City of Straw Brooklyns SIGHTINGS can be counted among the few contemporary bands who have forged a unique voice amongst the racket. Recorded over a number of months in 2009 at The Ocropolis (Oneidas Brooklyn, NY studio), the bands seventh studio album becomes the crucible from which their grandest and most coherent statement finally emerges. With a deep reach beyond the spirit of their influence from greats like Birthday Party, Dead C and Jesus Lizard, City of Straw finds Sightings working at the peak of their creative powers and is the perfect re-introduction to one of New Yorks most accomplished bands." - Brah.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: City Of Straw Format: LP Label: Jagjaguwar Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Crafting a lasting personal aesthetic in the midst of our ephemeral music culture is as rare as it is cause for celebration. With the release of City of Straw Brooklyns Sightings can be counted among the few contemporary bands who have forged a unique voice amongst the racket. Recorded over a number of months in 2009 at The Ocropolis (Oneidas Brooklyn, NY studio), the bands seventh studio album becomes the crucible from which their grandest and most coherent statement finally emerges. Sightings has never presented a particularly welcoming fa?e and their sui generis music has perhaps been passed over by less discerning listeners over the eleven years of their existence, but throughout this they have created a singular body of work appreciated and touted by the likes of Thurston Moore and Andrew WK. Sightings will insist (and we agree wholeheartedly) that at their core they are a rock band working within the context of pop song-craft. As bassist Richard Hoffman told us recently, "I think everyone in the band tries to remember the value of minimalism. Ultimately I think we try to write pop music, where theres no chaff and everything has a place." With a deep reach beyond the spirit of their influence from greats like Birthday Party, Dead C and Jesus Lizard, City of Straw finds Sightings working at the peak of their creative powers and is the perfect re-introduction to one of New Yorks most accomplished bands." - Jagjaguwar.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: End Times Format: CD Label: Fusetron Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Fiery phoenix, four horsemen, or just plain ferocious, Sightings is back with another free rock H-Bomb. Comprised primarily of improvisations and recorded for the price of cassette tape, they leave no doubt western civilization is coming to an end....But seriously folks, this CD is companion to a vinyl release on the EN/OF label. EN/OF is a series of releases from the Bottrop-Boy record label. Every release contains a 12" record & an art edition and is limited to 100 copies. Sightings is paired with the German painter Daniel Richter who contributed an exclusive piece, "Das Schönste Ist Geschichte", an offset print,30x90 cm, with hand-painted elements. The LP features three tracks from "End Times" as well as another exclusive track. Richter was kind enough to lend artwork for the CD as well. "End Times" is 56 minutes of head-rinsing to take the millennarian fever to the next level." |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: End Times EP Format: LP Label: En/Of Country: Germany Price: $40.00 |
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"EN/OF is a series of releases from the Bottrop-Boy record label. Every release contains a 12" record & an art edition and is limited to 100 copies. The intention is to let musicians and artists (in)directly collaborate. The result is a true audiovisual experience from some of the most exciting contemporary artists and musicians." - En/Of.
Features the Sightings tracks Failure Of Words, Carry On, Slow Boat and Knecht Ruprecht. The first 3 are on the End Times CD on Fusetron, the 4th is exclusive to this release. ****A handful of unnumbered copies without the Richter art. Unique press-on lettering artwork.***
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Future Accidents Format: LP Label: Our Mouth Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Its kind of strange to think its been ten years since we first saw Sightings blowing minds and circuit breakers throughout the then fresh Brooklyn loft scene. Over the years, the band has taken that ball of blare they were initially known for and pulled it apart strand by strand and wire by wire to get to the transparent core of their sound while still retaining their disturbing qualities. Their past two full lengths, 2007s Through the Panama and 2010s City of Straw were obvious successful in this exploration, but Future Accidents really nails it in giving up the honest-to-god barebones goods. A rawer sprawl into the pregnant nowhere sound has yet to be waxed by these gents and ifn they ever do top this, Ill just utter the words I saw on the back of that pick-up truck the other day, HOT DAMN!" - Tony Rettman; Resident Blowhard, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Live Format: Cass Label: Spite Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Live Format: DVDR Label: Sightings Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Live at Pianos in NYC, March 2003 and Free103 in Brooklyn, July 2000. Limited japanese tour DVD.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Michigan Haters Format: CD Label: Psych-o-Path Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Rock is about danger, people. Sightings live shows sure as hell arent background music for a thrift-store fashion show. They bring the pain but good. Sightings second LP, Michigan Haters captures the sonic abandon that makes their performances such a liberating mindfuck. This Brooklyn by way of Motown trio pounds out an abrasive skronk that at first comes off as a pure denial. The primitivist, lurching rhythms, shuddery basslines and trebly guitar slashes seem conceived to prove that Sightings is more punk than you, and youre just not meant to understand. But then, wait a second. Youve been bruised, defeated, and suddenly youre floating in a river of psychedelic scree. Mark M. is yelping out some Lord of the Flies incantations. You cant pogo to it, but you can twitch all night. The violence of Michigan Haters flows in all directions; it destroys itself and the listener to reveal hidden conduits of sound, from the rubberized rumble of "Chili Dog" to the more bleached and angular "Guilty of Wrecking". Its a soundtrack for punching holes in walls and watching them bleed vital fluids. Sightings plays noise that hasnt been defused by aesthetic noodling; theyre not Sonic Youth and they dont want to be. Think DNA, Big Black, Keiji Haino if you have to think at all. Play it loud and watch the neighbors run for cover." - Psycho-o-Path. Remastered repress. |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Michigan Haters Format: LP Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Originally released on CD in 2002 by Psych-O-Path, Michigan Haters never got a proper vinyl release. So after years of Sightings and SS talking about doing a single, I finally said "Hey, Michigan Haters needs to be in vinyl. Let me do it!" The record being one of the bands favorites, they said "Certainly"...a combination of sounds which one reviewer likened to "a storm of knives." The overblown intensity was joined by abrasive twists and subtle unconventionalities. This is like listening to Terry Riley and Steve Reich though a Big Muff at 110 decibels. With Michigan Haters, Sightings started on what would become nearly a decade long reinvention of the rock & roll song." -S-S |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Or What Format: 7" Label: Freedom From Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
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"Picture: Members of Mars and the Screamers drive a truck over Gary Glitter, run his corpse over 17 times and cake the gelatinous gook Residue on the master tape of this rock and roll masterpiece." - Brian Turner (Music Director, WFMU).
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Total fried out rock from these NYC dirt merchants. Completely over-the-top trebled out production, with weekend pass outpatient rantings. Guitar, bass and drums - standard rock tools, but used to a decidedly more sinister effect. Fans of Mainliner and the Oblivians will understand, no-fi is the new Rufinol." - Load.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Terribly Well Format: LP Label: Dais Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The noise rock parade that defies definition, set out on a mission of pure volume worship that is the post-decade pilgrimage of NY-based Sightings. After eight instinctive albums, the Sightings guys show no mercy with endless annihilation of their newest material on Terribly Well. All parts destruction measured against their abrasive songwriting. Jagged, collapsing rhythm based mayhem, guitars that can be mistaken for a freight train being ripped for scrap metal, only to be held together with panic stricken bass patterns that keep their voice from the edge of insanity. An accessible album for the unacceptable; their finest record to date. Each song saws through the humanity, taking no hostages with this hectic industrial rock masterpiece. Edition of 500. Includes download code." -Dais. |
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Through The Panama Format: LP Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Bass, drum and guitars meshed together with a synthetic twine envisioned in future think tanks. Literally the sound of human progress darkened with a profound fidelity so loud the dark matter of the universe quivers in a deadly orgasm. Guitar, bass and drums reconfigured for a new purpose. This is the bands sixth album and takes the notch so much higher than previous efforts in terms of songwriting and production. With Andrew W.K. as a producer, some of the caustic curtains that swathed past albums have been parted to reveal a coldly pulsing artificial heart. And the beat of this heart sounds off in an alien tongue of bass and drums. Guitars descend like unforgiving sheets of napalm from the smoldering skyline. Songs pop out of this miasma that tick off icy coolness with piano and vocal stylings. Indeed, hot and cool. To accentuate the difference this album has versus previous Sightings records, a Scott Walker cover is included. This is a rock album, but a rock for times coming, a sound of future days. Break the chains from the days of past, listen to Sightings and evolve. Limited edition beautiful high gloss gatefold LP." - Load.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Through the Panama Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Bass, drum and guitars meshed together with a synthetic future think tanks. Literally the sound of human progress darkened with a profound fidelity so loud the dark matter of the universe quivers in a deadly orgasm. This is the bands sixth album and takes the notch so much higher than previous efforts in terms of songwriting and production. With Andrew W.K. as a producer, some of the caustic curtains that swathed past albums have been parted to reveal a coldly pulsing artificial heart. And the beat of this heart sounds off in an alien tongue of bass and drums. Guitars descend like unforgiving sheets of napalm from the skyline. Songs pop out of this miasma that tick off icy coolness with piano and vocal stylings. Indeed, hot and cool. To accentuate the difference this album has versus previous Sightings records, a Scott Walker cover is included. This is a rock album, but a rock for times coming, a sound of future days. Break the chains from the days of past, listen to Sightings and evolve." -Load.
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Artist: SIGHTINGS/TOM SMITH Title: Gardens of War Format: CD Label: Smack Shire Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Sightings love Tom Smith and To Live & Shave in L.A. with a tad too much avidity. Tom Smith has a similar problem ⿿ he loves the fuck out of Sightings. They first worked together in 1999, when TS supervised Sightings recording sessions in NYC. Tom produced a full-length album for the group in 2000; featuring Andrew W.K. on keyboards, the project was unfortunately shelved. Guitarist Mark Morgan was to have joined TLASILA in 1999 (he finally made it through the gate in 2004, as did AWK), and was also erased from the line-up of Ohne prior to the launch of their 2002 European tour. (Nothing sinister, O sisters ⿿ jus pesky post 9/11 visa hassles.) The parties remained close, cordial. Flash forward to November 2003: Richard Hoffman, John Lockie, and the aforementioned Mr. Morgan convene with Mr. Smith at Sightings low-fi basement Brooklyn lair. TS records hours of material on his laptop, but levels are too high, the sound far too digital (i.e., retro). The best stuff emerges from Mr. Hoffmans four-track cassette recordings. Sightings cull their favorite tracks, and send mixes to Tom. TS tweaks everything for six months, and hands the package off to Rat Bastard (also of TLASILA) for mastering. Tom tweaks the mastered tracks for a few more weeks, and... It aint perfect, but considering who these dudes are, its plenty perfect enough for you." - Smack Shire. |
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Artist: SIGN OF FOUR, THE Title: Hammer, Anvil & Stirrup Format: Double 10" Label: Jazzman Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Oscillating and reverberating chaotically through sonic orbs and polyphonic sound textures, The Sign Of Four is a new creative concept from the Natural Yogurt Bands Miles Newbold. Hammer, Anvil & Stirrup is the debut album from The Sign Of Four on Jazzman Records and is spread exquisitely across 2x10" LPs in hand-printed sleeves and a digipack CD. Recorded live at Chicken Shack studios in Nottingham, real musical instruments are used to create a swirling jungle of throbbing palpitations, evoking the spaced-out vibes of an unsound mind. Its an infectious fermentation of debauched instrumental chaos, sometimes calming, but often unnerving, that will leave the listener bewildered, wide-eyed and gasping for more. Housed in a hand-printed sleeve." -Jazzman. |
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Artist: SILENT LAND TIME MACHINE Title: Hope Still Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Heres something a bit different, a collaborative release with the bands own Indian Queen label. Pretty hard to pin this one down, but its a trip for sure. a rather mysterious one man band solo outing from Texas, who builds up layer upon layer of violin, viola, acoustic guitar, slippery electric slide, percussion, electronics, accordion, buried vocals, and found sounds into haunted, rollicking, thick sonic blankets of sound. Many simple parts entwined, looped, and orchestrated into an undulating whole, like naive bedroom folk-rock filtered through some blissed out minimalist phase experiment. ecstatic, post-psychedelic chamber rock maybe? Really doesnt sound like much else out there, but its instantly enjoyable, energized, and grooves freely in its own uplifting way. CD version in a tri-fold, double sided, offset printed cover. Woven Japanese inner sleeves. Edition of 500." -Time Lag. |
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: As Above So Below Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "A new six-track EP by this current NYC live staple. Eerie and experimental electronic pop from former members of SOILED MATTRESS & THE SPRINGS and CAR CLUTCH. Recent full-length album released by PPM." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: Days of Arrest Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Like any band worth paying attention to, New York trio Silk Flowers has been constantly shifting since they started. Beginning with a raw, punk-informed foundation to their damaged synth-pop leanings, each subsequent release saw the band shedding skin, bounding from reverb-heavy four-track hiss to disjointed murky instrumental sprawl, and most recently upping production to almost club-worthy standards. "Days Of Arrest" strays from the glossy veneer of their last full length and finds a much colder, hyper-focused territory than all previous work." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: Ltd. Form Format: LP Label: PPM Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Silk Flowers are a synth-driven music trio based in New York. Their songs balance parts of pop and noise with melodies that evoke emotion from the listener. Countering typical notions of electronic music as a purely recorded listening experience, Silk Flowers write their songs for live performance, creating a visceral dynamic event that fluctuates between gleeful dance music and rough-edged dissonance." -PPM |
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Post Present Medium Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Silk Flowers from NYC bring the 4 track mess and blips of pure bliss. Art world messing, samples and singing, drums, keyboard, and super original, think Kraftwerk in a garbage can wearing a trench coat. Be prepared to enter a new world. Minimal and even more minimal." -PPM |
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: September 2008-September 2009 Format: Cass/Mag Label: Silk Flowers Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Silk Flowers began in Autumn, 2008, bringing togeter Peter and Aviram of Soiled Mattress and the Springs and Ethan of Car Clutch. During their first year, the band released 2 7"s, an LP on Post Present Medium, a 12" EP on Captured Tracks, and played over 50 shows. For many of these shows, in collaboration with designer Jamil Azim, Aviram created posters; colorful, spooky, unique posters. This full color, 8 1/2" x 11" zine presents the first year of these posters, each reproduced on its own page. In addition, the zine includes an original, 11" x 17" poster from Silk Flowers west coast tour. The accompanying cassette presents exclusive recordings from this first year. The A side presents the full recording of Silk Flowers record release show, from July 2009, recorded professionally by Dan Hewitt. The B side is a 22 minute motorik collage, carefully culled from the bands massive library of practice space recordings. Edited together into a seamless whole, these snippets are transformed from nascent song ideas to a cohesive, hypnotic whole. Edition of 100." |
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Artist: SILMARIL Title: The Voyage of Icarus Format: CD Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| Reissue of this 1973 album. "Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian-themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973s highly collectable privately-pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up, No Mirrored Temple." - Locust. |
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Artist: SILMARIL Title: Voyage Of Icarus Format: Double LP Label: Locust Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| Limited double LP version. "Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to Silmaril. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of Syd Barrett, Roy Harper and Mel Lyman, by the name of Matthew Peregrine. The Voyage of Icarus captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian-themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973s highly collectable privately-pressed album, Given Time... Or the Several Roads, and their dormant, unreleased follow up, No Mirrored Temple." -Locust. |
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Artist: SILOAH Title: Siloah Format: LP Label: Amber Soundroom Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
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"Siloah from Munich was an underground band, who did release its first album in 1970. The LP is self titled, but sometimes also called Säureadler , since one of the tracks was called Acid Eagle referring to lysergic acid derived from ergot fungus, the basis of LSD which had become well-known at this time. Anyhow the music of Siloah and some other bands of that time can only be understood against the background of their experiments with psychedelic drugs. One played hippie-psych-folk; everyone was free to do and play whatever he/she liked. You can hear this when listening to the long track Aluminium Wind, especially. The original-LP is impossible to find today, so the official 180-gram vinyl reissue ( limited to 500 copies ) comes just in time." - Amber Soundroom. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: SILOAH Title: Sukram Gurk Format: CD Label: Garden Of Delights Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
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Artist: SILVER APPLES Title: Contact Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl pressing with a double-sided insert. This is a reissue of the second album Contact by 60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1969. This enigmatic duo, armed only with percussion, vocals and an early, specialized synthesizer, is often credited with giving the musical world its first electronic album, as well as having a significant influence on bands which followed in their wake; bands such as Ultravox and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. Silver Apples, named after a W.B. Yeats poem, consisted of electronics wiz Simeon Coxe and percussionist Danny Taylor. Simeon built an impressive collection of electronic paraphernalia (dubbed the "Simeon") which ultimately included a dozen oscillators, six of them tuned to bass notes which he played with his feet, an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second-hand electronic junk. Contact ushered in the bands recorded popularity and a national tour was quickly organized. Several tracks on Contact feature bass lines provided by Simeons banjo playing, but it is the clever use of the lead oscillator and new-found intensity of the lyrics that sets Contact apart from its predecessor. Such was the level of Simeons growing electronic proficiency that the intro to the albums opening track, "You And I" more than successfully recreates the sound of an airplane taking off. Silver Apples all but disappeared from the musical firmament when Kapp folded in 1970, only to re-emerge in January 1997 to perform before a celeb-packed audience at the Knitting Factory. Again, the critics were unanimous. As the MC waxed poetic during an introduction to the Silver Apples concert in San Francisco, 1968: "You are about to have probably the most unusual musical experience of your life. The music will enter areas of your mind never before opened until now. At times it may be hard to understand, but if you let the music penetrate, youll dig it." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: SILVER APPLES Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Previously reissued on CD by Phoenix Records, now issued on a limited edition deluxe LP format as well; pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl. This is the first vinyl reissue of the self-titled first album by 60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1968. Fresh off their stint as The Overland Stage Electric Band, Simeon and Dan Taylor formed their own extravagant, two-man electronic space-odyssey, Silver Apples, to remarkable critical acclaim. "Whats so amazing is that they make absolutely mind-shattering music with all this junky equipment," commented one reviewer, astounded over the then-mindbending concept of build-it-yourself electronics combined with rock drums. The debut album features lyrics by poet Stanley Warren and is an absolutely essential piece of musical history from electronic/psychedelic/rock musics ground-breaking legends. Housed in a deluxe gatefold foil sleeve containing the insert from the original release in a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies." -Phoenix |
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Artist: SILVER SHAMPOO Title: Higher and Higher Format: LP Label: Krazy Punx Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Stunt Cycles on every holiday, Snake River Canyon reenactments with Bigwheels in Evil Knievel Halloween plastic costumes, baseball card in spokes to make my BMX sound like a lethal beast, turning all of my jackets into gang like vests drawing snakes and scorpions onto my chest with permanent markers, and changing my name to Knife. I was born to ride." -Krazy Punx. New sub-label from Whats Your Rupture. |
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Artist: SILVER SHAMPOO Title: Jethro Skull Format: 7" Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Jethro Skull" is the debut EP from Texas party-rockers/mini-bike gang Silver Shampoo. The A-side consists of the title track "Jethro Skull" and "Contest". Its Whats Your Ruptures estimation that many a silent night in neighborhoods across America will be interrupted by the drunken slurring of "Jeeettthhhhrrrooooooo Skkkkkkuuuulllll". The B-side includes "Sonny Barger" and "Dogs". These are both subliminally sublime garage pop gems. "Sonny Barger" is a concise little masterpiece of bass slides, twinkling piano and "B-B-B-B-Barger" chants. "Dogs" is a sure favorite with pet lovers and simple math practitioners alike." -Whats Your Rupture |
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Artist: SILVER, THE Title: Do You Wanna Dance b/w Popper Format: 7" Label: Pop Con Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Fan Club reissue of Finnish super-rarity that Kugelberg raved about
on his "DIY" list (It ranked # 9) in Ugly Things. Originally released
in 1980 in an edition of maybe 100 copies, the A-side is a primitive,
some would say inept, take on Bobby Freemans "Do You Wanna Dance"
that must be heard to be believed. Chuck Warner said it left every
teen incompetent from Tampax to Shonen Knife in its dust. And the
B-side was astounding Suicide-style noise as imagined by 12 year olds.
Somewhere, Austin Wiggins is clapping in his grave. Numbered edition
of 500 copies with insert and originally pressed to be distributed as
part of a paper delivered at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference in April, 2004." - Pop Con.
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Artist: SILVERCORDS Title: Sapphire Staircase Format: CDR Label: Into The Lunar Night Country: Denmark Price: $13.00 |
| "the follow up to the time-lag cd-r of heaviness. this one is a bit more harsh and not as drone heavy as earlier efforts." - into the lunar night. |
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Artist: SILVESTER ANFANG Title: Kosmies Slachtafval Format: CD Label: Aurora Borealis Country: US Price: $15.50 |
| "Hailing from Flanders, SILVESTER ANFANG create free-flowing ritualistic psychedelic rock. Kosmies Slachtafval (trans. "kosmic slaughterhouse sweepings/debris") sees the band in dark, post-krautrock, heavy jam mode: guitars, bass, keys, flute and percussion combine with vocals to create a doomy, funereal feel, rich in the textures of ritual and worship. Through a series of cassette tapes and CDRs released in micro editions, these arcane Belgians have garnered a fearsome and mysterious reputation for intense musical outpouring and idolatry." - Aurora Borealis. |
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Artist: SIMEON Title: Sleepy Eyes Format: LP Label: Bobby J Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This is a plaintive and personal, yet inexplicably pop record. Stand-outs for me lie in the sprawl of longer songs like The Wind and Sweat Me (both side one) that combine the cryptic whispers and skitters of Skip Spences Grey/Afro with the boop-teet of a drum machine. Simeon is truly doing something very different, very personal, and is already far down that Misunderstood Highway. Pick him up, for his thumb and his record is out." - Luna Kafe. Late 90s release. |
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Artist: SIMMONS, CARL Title: Honeysuckle Tendrals Format: LP/7" Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Honeysuckle Tendrals is a lost recording. It resides within a canon of musical output by a singer/songwriter no one has heard of, from a place that the world has almost entirely written off. Recorded in 1999 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Honeysuckle Tendrals was Carls 2nd effort at a full length recording. He released it into the world in a miniscule edition of cassette tapes on his own Unconscious Piano Productions imprint. To say it was poorly distributed is an understatement. It was handed out to friends, and perhaps sold at various open mic nights, where he would sometimes pass off his own songs as Bob Dylan tunes to an unsuspecting audience. Incorporating numerous collage elements - and very few guitar strings - Honeysuckle Tendrals weaves in and out of song in a spacey wash of psychedelic imagery by way of nursery rhymes and fairytales. Owing influence to writers like Lewis Carroll, and filmmakers like Herzog and Lynch, as much as any musical influence, Carls music can have something of a cinematic feel. Though perhaps best classified under the floppy umbrella of "Outsider" music, Honeysuckle Tendrals displays remarkably complex arrangements utilizing a staggeringly simple arsenal of instruments: a broken guitar, sound collage, and heavily layered vocal tracks filtered through an array of effects. Think Peter Grudzien reading mother goose, The Cheshire Cat conducting the Langley School Music Project, or Bob Dylan singing singing unknown lullabies with a head full of helium. 2009 marks the 10th year anniversary of the recording of Honeysuckle Tendrals, and we at Sacred Bones are proud to give it a proper audience after so many years. The LP is an edited and slightly resequenced presentation; carefully curated, remastered for vinyl, and housed in a handmade jacket in the Folkways tradition. It includes a bonus 7"EP including two alternate takes from the LP and two outstanding, and completely exclusive non-album tracks. The CD version contains the album in its complete form. We hope you enjoy it as much as do." - Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: SIMMONS, CARL Title: Honeysuckle Tendrals Format: CD Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Honeysuckle Tendrals is a lost recording. It resides within a canon of musical output by a singer/songwriter no one has heard of, from a place that the world has almost entirely written off. Recorded in 1999 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Honeysuckle Tendrals was Carls 2nd effort at a full length recording. He released it into the world in a miniscule edition of cassette tapes on his own Unconscious Piano Productions imprint. To say it was poorly distributed is an understatement. It was handed out to friends, and perhaps sold at various open mic nights, where he would sometimes pass off his own songs as Bob Dylan tunes to an unsuspecting audience. Incorporating numerous collage elements - and very few guitar strings - Honeysuckle Tendrals weaves in and out of song in a spacey wash of psychedelic imagery by way of nursery rhymes and fairytales. Owing influence to writers like Lewis Carroll, and filmmakers like Herzog and Lynch, as much as any musical influence, Carls music can have something of a cinematic feel. Though perhaps best classified under the floppy umbrella of "Outsider" music, Honeysuckle Tendrals displays remarkably complex arrangements utilizing a staggeringly simple arsenal of instruments: a broken guitar, sound collage, and heavily layered vocal tracks filtered through an array of effects. Think Peter Grudzien reading mother goose, The Cheshire Cat conducting the Langley School Music Project, or Bob Dylan singing singing unknown lullabies with a head full of helium. 2009 marks the 10th year anniversary of the recording of Honeysuckle Tendrals, and we at Sacred Bones are proud to give it a proper audience after so many years. The LP is an edited and slightly resequenced presentation; carefully curated, remastered for vinyl, and housed in a handmade jacket in the Folkways tradition. It includes a bonus 7"EP including two alternate takes from the LP and two outstanding, and completely exclusive non-album tracks. The CD version contains the album in its complete form. We hope you enjoy it as much as do." - Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: SIMPLY SAUCER Title: Cyborgs Revisited Format: LP Label: Get Back Country: Italy Price: $14.00 |
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"Simply Saucer was Canadas first proto-punk band. Emerging in 1974 from the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario, the quartet created a distinct and original sound that was decidedly out of step with the musical climate of the day...edgy rock & roll that was a combination of early 70s punk pre-cursors (Velvet Underground, Stooges, Modern Lovers), krautrock (ala Can, Neu, early Kraftwerk) and UK prog/psyche (Hawkind, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett)...Although the only material released while the band existed was a two-song 45 rpm single, a 1974 recording session and a 1975 live set were collected together posthumously and released...in late 1989...Now long out of print, this newly re-mastered, expanded reissue is the first legitimate re-release of this material in more than a decade. Hailed as the best Canadian album of all time." -Get Back.
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Artist: SIMPLY SAUCER Title: Cyborgs Revisited Format: CD Label: Sonic Unyon Country: Canada Price: $14.00 |
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"Simply Saucer was Canadas first proto-punk band. Emerging in 1974 from the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario, the quartet created a distinct and original sound that was decidedly out of step with the musical climate of the day. While most local acts emulated the popular sounds of the era, this quartet played edgy rock & roll that was a combination of early 70s punk pre-cursors (Velvet Underground, Stooges, Modern Lovers), krautrock (ala Can, Neu, early Kraftwerk) and UK prog/psyche (Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett, both with and without Pink Floyd). Although the only material released while the band existed was a two-song 45 rpm single, a 1974 recording session and a 1975 live set were collected together posthumously and released under the moniker Cyborgs Revisited on the Hamilton label Mole Sound Recording in late 1989. Originally available only as a limited run LP, the album was later released on CD though Fistpuppet. Now long out of print, this newly re-mastered, expanded reissue is the first legitimate re-release of this material in more than a decade. It is also the first time the 1978 Shes A Dog single has been made available on compact disc."- Sonic Unyon
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Artist: SINCLAIR, DAVID Title: Take My Hand Format: CD Label: Regenerator Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Take My Hand is the ultimate Canadian Private Pressing LP from 1973, West Coast folk-rock-psych stylings with sudden tempo shifts from mellow dreamy acoustic with occasional female backing vocals to sudden bursts of electric guitar wailing. The album also has a couple of great downer tracks with sparse arrangements. Highlights include: A Tale Of Raven To Know You Three Hour Ride and This Time Around. Canadian singer-songwriter style music with some psych direction, and a strong and very pleasant West Coast feel. Fans of David Wiffen and Vernon Wray would greatly enjoy. The album was brilliantly recorded by legendary Canadian producer and artists Stan Cayer and has been fully remasters from the original tapes. Also included are 7 previously unreleased bonus tracks!" -Regenerator |
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Artist: SINGH, CHARANJIT Title: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat Format: Double LP Label: Bombay Connection Country: Netherlands Price: $27.00 |
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"Until recently it wasnt much more than some rumors on the web: an LP called Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat featuring acid house avant la lettre, that was recorded in 1982 in India, 5 years before the first acid house record, Acid Trax by Phuture. It was even rumored to be a prank spawned by Richard D. James (Aphex Twin). So it turns out, the record was no rumor. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define acid house, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh (featured on Sublime Frequencies Bollywood Steel Guitar compilation), set out to translate ancient Indian classical ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so invented house music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive. Includes extended liner notes on Charanjit Singh and the context in which the album was recorded. "...a haunting, exotic prefiguration of acids steely futurism, a bit like Kraftwerk live at the Taj Mahal, somehow summoned from the past but envisioning the future at the same time." - Resident Advisor.
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Artist: SINKING INFINITIES Title: Forever Young Format: CDR Label: United Fairy Moons Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SINKING INFINITIES Title: Thousand-Year Reich Format: CDR Label: United Fairy Moons Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| "As we now know via Mr Conrad, Mr Cale, Mr Licht and the reissue programs of the world, minimalism in its infancy had a high birth weight and screamed for its fucking dinner. No gentle whisps of wind, this, but a blunt seismic shudder that was felt around the world in countless forms but sharing at its heart a primitive, immersive love of volume, stasis and the riff that stops time. So enters this tribute of sorts from the duo of Jon Chapman (ex-DOUBLE LEOPARDS; Rory Storm & The Invaders) and Jim Currin (ex-Three Forks; Ray Off) who, without thinking about it too much, or hardly at all in fact, take some of the moves inherent in the evolution of minimal thought such as those that may be seen in the still-ongoing career of one Steve Reich and use them as a takeoff point for a blitz of soaring drone, clutzy phasing tableaus, and chronic, chronic noise, always with an ear open for those strange cross-rhythmed universes that have melted hearts ever since he first came out to show them. Somewhat indicative of the madness that enveloped the pair on their recent Australian tour, this follows on from the icy electric floatings of their debut Forever Young, and will be bookended later this year by the natural follow-up, The Life Of Riley" - United Fairy Moons. |
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Artist: SIRATORI, KENJI Title: Harakiri Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"black hole silt sludge flowing ceaselessly into a pit by this japanese
cyberpunk rambler. edition of 64." -NNF.
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Artist: SISA, JAUME Title: Orgia Format: CD Label: Discmedi Country: Spain Price: $17.50 |
| "JAUME SISA was an important part of MUSICA DISPERSA. The same year, 1971, that MUSICA DISPERSA was released, he also put out this great solo album. Crazy acid folk with lots of humour and weird vocals by Sisa himself!" - Discmedi. |
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Artist: SISSY SPACEK Title: Gore Jet Format: 7" Label: Troubleman Unlimited Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "SISSY SPACEKs "Gore Jet" was recorded in Los Angeles in the summer of 1999 by JOHN WIESE (bass, drum machine) and CORYDON RONNAU (vocals). A limited edition, one-sided 7-inch packaged in white "dj style" sleeves."- Troubleman Unlimited |
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Artist: SITAAR TAH Title: Semimimimimin Format: CD Label: Archive Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The orchestra that provided the amazing musical backdrop for Keiji Haino on the double disc Archive release Animamima. The 22-piece unit is back with this swarm-of-locusts gem of a release. Graphic and design work on the release by STEPHEN OMALLEY features an outer cover that is a four-color silkscreen, beautifully executed by ALAN SHERRY of Siwa records. Inside is a gorgeous photographic collage." - Archive. Pressing of 700 copies |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Ascent Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE as an electric entity is not without precedent, BEN CHASNY regularly performs with a full, electric band, often cascades an electric guitar solo in the middle of an acoustic jam, and has recorded entire sides of electric drone. This element goes all the way back to 2002, when a short-lived rock version of Six Organs (with the members of COMETS ON FIRE) toured the West Coast and etched a few demos to tape before moving on. Ten years later, with the idea to record new songs as a full rock band firmly entrenched in his mind, Chasny warped over to TIM GREENs Louder Studios witm members of Comets On Fire as his backing band. He emerged with Ascent, the rollicking realizationof the Six Organs full band experience." - Drag City |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Asleep On The Floodplain Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Comprised of ten blissful, primarily acoustic tunes, a delicacy wafts forth from Asleep On The Floodplain, the new album by SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE. After 2009s sonically dense Luminous Night, BEN CHASNY returned to the familiar environs of home recording to sculpt and assemble this batch of jams, freeing himself from the restrictions and deadlines studios might normally impose upon a song. Thus creating a living nest in which this material could grow and breathe, the album took longer to complete but sounds effortless-and bright with light. Much of Asleep On The Floodplain draws on imagery from Chasnys youth, a time spent in Elk River. "Dawn, Running Home" remembers sleep-overs in a friends tree-fort and the subsequent morning return to Bens own house. He wrote "Above a Desert Ive Never Seen" while bed-ridden for a week. "Hold But Let Go" was meant for a film, but never used. Maintaining Six Organs penchant for cameos, ELISA AMBROGIO Magik-ally contributes to "River of My Youth." The theopoetics of CATHERINE KELLER resonate on "S/Word and Leviathan"; while GASTON BACHELARDs poetics of reverie are felt throughout the record." -Drag City |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Compathia Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "While the acoustic based projections of Six Organs of Admittance have been pigeonholed by some as a chance-operated celestial jam unit, the group has always been about songs, and nowhere is this more apparent than on their fourth full length album, an eight-song cycle that mixes the strengths of Ben Chasnys acoustic and electric guitar with his knack for placing this on top of disparate and subtle atmospheric backgrounds. The live favorite (and rare single) Somewhere Between has been redone and finalized in a fantastic new version featuring sitar by Comets on Fires Ethan Miller. The delicate acoustic strum of the album is challenged at the end of the record on the epic Only the Sun Knows, which features some extremely heavy electric destruction guitar from Mr. Miller before Chasny takes back control and lands the album on solid ground." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Dark Noontide Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Dark Noontide is the third full length release from Six Organs of Admittance. While listeners were pleasantly surprised by Ben Chasnys out-of-nowhere acid-folk genius on earlier releases, Dark Noontide comes in a notch or two higher with another spectacular merging of dreamy, hypnotic, finger-picked melodies and psychedelia concrète, not to mention some very fine fuzz guitar. Eight incredible tracks seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backward interludes, strange strings feedback, dark, tabla-infused vibrations, and the amazing debut of Chasnys electric guitar as a lead instrument.Minds can only be blown by this album. Initiation is only a matter of time. This is the dream follow-up release that fans of Six Organs of Admittance have been waiting for." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Days Of Blood Format: LP Label: Hash Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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Limited "bootleg" recorded Fall, 2005 with Ben Chasny, John Moloney (Sunburned), and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors).
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Dust & Chimes Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Holy Mountain is beside itself with the limited edition reissue of Dust & Chimes by Six Organs of Admittance, Ben Chasnys second amazing, underground folk-psych project from behind Californias Redwood curtain. Heavy, acoustic guitar and mumbled vocalizations merge with out-there jamming in a style that has been compared to guys with LPs on Takoma, though Dust & Chimes is actually closer than anyone else is ever going to come to pantsing the first two Tyrannosaurus Rex albums. The sun is tanging, people. Really. - Holy Mountain. "After a brief, textural opening, Dust and Chimes rekindles the aplomb of "Visnu" with a mortal vs. guitar death dance called "Assyria"; it soon subsides into a calmer, introspective mood. The simple riffs are rooted in American folk, but suggestive of an Ottoman court. Six Organs stick with bare-bones song arrangements - most cuts are just dressed up with overdubbed chimes and bells, and three are direct-to-tape acoustic slices. The understated nature of the songs - often serving primarily as launch pads for extended acoustic extemporization - dictates that the album grows on the listener rather than convinces in a single play. The solos are delicate, subdued, as is the album as a whole. The structure to the songs may be too similar, but the mood is so pleasant that one barely notices, especially since the songs are broken up by other types of pieces." -Muckraker. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: For Octavio Paz Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"During the winter of 02/03, Ben Chasny sat down for a few late night sessions with wine in glass and recorded these instrumentals using just guitar and voice, and on a few songs some bells. For Octavio Paz is the first six organs record to draw from the reverberations of a nylon string guitar, resulting in some of the saddest notes yet recorded on any six organs release. Stripped of the usual sufi influenced lyrics, this record proves that the spiritual flows freer through the non-delineated form of instrumental sound. Side b features a near side long steel string epic that conjures visions of dessert orgies, appalachian witch hunts and the loading of a shotgun to be aimed at the six and twelve string bandits on the horizon... 180 gram vinyl. Packaged in a white on white screenprinted/letterpressed fold-out sleeve, with letterpressed insert. numbered edition of 500." - Time Lag.
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: For Octavio Paz Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "CD reissue of sold-out limited edition vinyl. Since the release of Six Organs of Admittances selftitled debut in 1998, Ben Chasny has played pure guitar within individual songs, but For Octavio Paz is his first full record to explore the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshipers is that Chasnys pantheon is willing to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the lexicon -- Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example -- not to mention the fact that he can stand the sound of a Stratocaster. This is the definitive guitar record from Six Organs of Admittance." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Luminous Night Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Through dark days and glowing nights, Six Organs of Admittance continues to step to the far rim of the world with purposeful strides. Indeed, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, Ben Chasny as Six Organs refuses to stagnate, or to evolve in predictable fashion; in response, he keeps moving on. This is the first Six Organs of Admittance albums with such a lengthy gap between it and its former number. In the past two years Chasny has kept busy writing this new epic, moving house to Seattle, composing soundtracks for novels and movies, and touring constantly in America and Europe (with bands like The Dead C and OM) as well as being invited by legendary post-metal group Neurosis to play their Beyond The Pale festival in Belgium. Six Organs of Admittance is such a singular experience that it is sometimes easy to forget that Ben was the lead guitarist in Comets On Fire, as well as a songwriter and guitarist for Current 93s Black Ships Ate The Sky album and half of the pan-Pacific psych-folk duo August Born. But clearly, Chasny knows heavy, having grown through times of heavy and times of light. And in answer to the question whats heavier, a pound of rock or a pound of feathers, Six Organs of Admittance has devised this for Luminous Night: a pound of rock covered with a pound of feathers -- twice as heavy, but feathery light to the human eye. With Luminous Night, Chasnys working with some heavy dudes, like producer Randall Dunn and Eyvind Kang, whose sound on viola shines with a guiding glow throughout the album (both Dunn and Kang contributed their talents to the outré arrangements of the recent Sunn O))) album). The other invaluable contributors to the album are Hans Teuber on flute, Tor Dietrichson on tabla, Matt Chamberlin on drums, and Dave Abramson on percussion. Occupying their spots with care, theyve collaborated to create something rich and vibrant, aching and new, in the world of Six Organs of Admittance. The arc of Luminous Night is wide as the sky, commencing with a stirring instrumental evocation of the Greek myth of poor Actaeon before flowing into the vocal, the vengeful, the ancient, the divine and celestial, scored with guitars, bass, viola, flute, tabla, electronics and synthesizer, as well as a buried-in-the-rain-soaked-earth-of- Seattle-then-exhumed four-track cassette that formed the basis of the instrumental Cover Your Wounds With the Sky. For its blanketing sound, Luminous Night draws inspiration from such cinematic sources as Jodorowkys El Topo soundtrack and the scores of Kurosawas samurai films, but is at the same time music that could only have come from the singular sound world of Six Organs of Admittance. What is it about the man that buries his sound in the ground? He has faith in the earth, for one. When we think of Six Organs of Admittance, we think of a man with six-string ambitions, a rambler with mystic beliefs and dark electric visions. Its a big universe and were only human, which basically means that weve got spirit and that were going to die. But until then, we live. Six Organs of Admittance has lived to tell about it on Luminous Night." |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Manifestation Format: CD Label: Strange Attractors Audio House Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "A remastered reissue of the super-limited, one-track Manifestation LP from BEN CHASNY under his SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE moniker. Originally released by Ba Da Bing in 2000, the album is a mystical blend of Chasnys avant-folk/psych complete with fingerpicked guitars, bells, chimes and vocals-courtesy of DAVID TIBET of CURRENT 93-done with lyrics based on 12th Century Sufi Ibn Arabis "Oneness of Being." Includes twenty-minutes of conceptual bonus music based on the ancient idea of "music of the spheres." Packaged in six-panel digipaks with notes by Chasny." - Strange Attractors Audio House. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Maria Kapel Format: LP Label: Pavilion Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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Small handful of last years tour LP. 500 copies in striking hand-painted/drawn sleeves. Half recorded live in Tilburg Sept 19th, 2010, the rest at home in Holyoke, MA 2011. "..Ben Chasny has been able to convert the phenomenon of a simple chapel devoted to Mary into music. The physical and spiritual have found each other. What a beautiful world.. just listen!" - Paul Spapens (liner notes).
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Nightly Trembling Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"In 1999 Six Organs released Nightly Trembling as an anti-sorcery lathe-cut edition of 30 or so. Every copy was personally sent to its owner in an attempt to create a web of consciousness that would be enhanced by the polycarbonate material that deteriorates at an accelerated rate with each listen. Consciousness was regained and inverted. Time-Lag and Six Organs are pleased to offer the sounds made for that project so you can cut the metaphysical bullshit, get loaded as fuck and come back down to earth about 40 minutes later... 180 gram vinyl. Packaged in a black on black screenprinted/letterpressed fold-out cover, with letterpressed insert. numbered edition of 500." - Time Lag.
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Parsons Blues Format: 7" Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Six Organs goes stomping wordlessly into the next phase with heavy gravity boots on. This is full-bore, petals-to-the-metals Six Organs, featuring Ben Chasny backed with his erstwhile bandmates known as Comets on Fire." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: RTZ Format: Triple LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Triple LP gatefold of long out of print and limited 4-track bedroom psych from the early years of Six Organs Of Admittance." -Drag City |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: RTZ Format: Double CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The double-CD epic called RTZ (named after the button on a Tascam 484 that returns to zero) fashions several lesser-known pieces from Six Organs of Admittances early years into a massive prismatic arc, colossal and organic like some wonder of the ancient world. How could it be otherwise? Even when existing as only one half of a record, as many of these pieces once did (and still do, somewhere), Mr. 6OOA (Ben Chasny, yall!) leans into the eternal -- letting the winds of Time scar his face and the light of All There Is burn his skin black. Grandmaster Chas has sacrificed the body for his music time and again over the years. RTZ is an iridescent chimera infull flight, viewed through stained glass. Cataloging these early non-album excursions requires a bit of leg-(and mind)work. RTZ travels back to the dawn of this century to locate Resurrection, half of a Time-Lag split 12 with Charalambides. Warm Earth, Which Ive Been Told is half of a Mental Telemetry split CD with Vibracathedral Orchestra and Magic Carpithans from 2003. You Can Always See the Sun, was part of Three Lobed Recordings. Purposeful Availments subscription CD series in 2002. And Nightly Trembling was released way back in 1999 in an edition of 33 copies, all given away for free! Thats some spiritual shit right there. Combined with a never-before-released extended piece called Punish the Chasm with Wings from pre-millennial days and youve got yourself a deep, DEEP box set, crammed into a double CD. Rich with excursions to exotic musical climes and rhythmic with prayerful chants from the dark shadows of the earth, RTZ uses strings and bells, riffs both warm and icy, glowing lead guitars, massed voices and the pure, open air for its mantras and rituals. As the title alludes, these old sounds were forged in that bastion of personal expression, the four-track recorder. When a man can record a few feet from his bed, he becomes more inclined to render his nocturnal intuitions. And when that man is Ben Chasny, he can use those remastered (but still good and dusty) early recordings to attain the ultimate goal. We should all be so lucky. Oh wait, we are -- now that weve got RTZ forever, and more." -Drag City |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Shelter from the Ash Format: LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Shelter From The Ash features a most fluid combination of electric and acoustic Six Organs of Admittance styles. Chasny went into the studio with the songs both in his mind and also demoed out, a different way of working than in previous sessions. Sure, improvisations were still a big part of the sound; within the song structures, they create dynamic sparks from the other side of the inspiration. Additionally (if you must know), standard tuning played a part for the first time in history - but dont worry, this doesnt mean that Six Organs of Admittance has come in from the drone-storm - far from it! The man who was once Torn By Wolves in an unknown key is now Coming To Get You, no matter what it takes - with a tuning any man could play, but few would use as he does." -Drag City. LP version. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Six Organs of Admittance Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "In 1998 Ben Chasny self-released an LP of his "acoustic based project[ions]" under the name Six Organs of Admittance. The resulting five-song LP is a masterpiece of diverse elements using acoustic and electric guitars, a detuned violin, organ, electronics and koto. The material covers a lot of ground: theres an acid folk duet, an epic, three-part space suite, and two short concrète-like pieces that entice hidden memories of having bees in your mouth. The final sting is the magnificent chaos of "Race from Visnu"-- a nine-minute raga in which the strings of the acoustic guitar are battled by Chasny who ruthlessly punishes them for their ability to make sound. In addition, Chasny has also included two bonus tracks from an elusive 8-inch lathe-cut that was sold to cover the cost of a plane ticket. Holy Mountain is proud to be able to make this music available once again. Rare 1998 LP reissued on CD with two rarer bonus tracks, all on CD for the first time." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Sun Awakens Format: CD Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The latest from BEN CHASNY under his SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE moniker, and his darkest album to date. You get a six-track song cycle where waves of guitars and beauty are betrayed by madness-in the prettiest possible way, backed an extended seventh song, "River of Transfiguration," featuring AL CISNEROS (OM, SLEEP) on bass." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE & JOSEPH MATTSON Title: Empty the Sun Format: Book/LP Label: Drag City Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A new novel by JOSEPH MATTSON featuring music by SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE. Available in First Trade Paperback Edition with CD soundtrack and as a limited edition vinyl LP soundtrack with Large Format Book. "Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles." Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic, cross-country race with death to bury the murdered past in Joseph Mattsons Empty the Sun, an urgent, beautifully reckless novel of transgressive loss and hunted redemption culminating in a shotgun fight with God. Includes an open-road, open-whiskey soundtrack by enigmatic and stunning Drag City recording artist Six Organs of Admittance." - Drag City. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE/AZUL Title: Split Format: Japan Label: PSF Country: LP Price: $24.00 |
| "Stunning PSF vinyl release with Japanese obi-strip. Ben Chasnys prolific Six Organs Of Admittance wields a haunted, amorphous atmosphere of prickly acoustics and occasionally jarring electric guitar on side As sidelong Furnace. The flipside is a more structured affair, with the five songs by Usui Hiroyukis Azul consisting of richly orchestrated psych folk, filled with violins, tabla, tambura and subdued vocals. Limited to 800 copies." - PSF |
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Artist: SIX WAYS TO AVOID THE EVIL EYE Title: Six Ways to Avoid the Evil Eye Format: LP Label: One Tree Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "This album is a reissue of a super limited CD-R from 2006. These are mysterious recordings that seem to be emersed in an innerspace composed entirely of serious reverb Jello, all instrumental-style with loads of tabla and slide guitar and international/continental/other worldly instruments & sounds. The artist is Dr. Eweerd Yijji (aka Ed Yazijian) who should be known for his work with serious folks like Dredd Foole and Pete Prescott (Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns) and many others (not to mention occasional live performances with the mighty Sun City Girls). this is his first solo release. Handmade silkscreened covers. with a limited quantity available." "Violinist and steel guitarist Ed Yazijian aka Dr Eweerd Yijji has played the Lee Underwood to Dredd Fooles Tim Buckley for past few decades with barely a thought to the contours of his own musical soul. For anyone expecting simply a series of solo violin and guitar readings, Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye will come as a real curveball, as the central orbit around which most of these tracks swing is mostly based in rhythmic/percussive ritual in a way that more immediately brings to mind the rain of stones that defines much of the Angus MacLise back catalog. Theres a heavy, devotional air to much of the activity that speaks of personal trance as eloquently as the works of Alice Coltrane, albeit transposed to a much more punk primitive palette of hand-drums, bows and traditional acoustic drones." - David Keenan, The Wire. |
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Artist: SIXES Title: Boxset Format: Triple Cass Boxset Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Whoa..here is it is after a demonic wait...AM
666/what better to bust it with than with that Hellfire Wildman SIXES AKA AJ AKA RJ AKA Ryan from SF, Crash Worship, Death Throes, Man Slaughter, etc. Mammoth 3 cassette set of the classic Sixes gnarl, grind. Electronic mayhem comes close to the Mongol finesse of his Electric Heavyland label LP. Six sides of
manhandled scatter and brass tax choke attack. Packaged in a handpainted case with poster. Limited to 66."-American Tapes
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Artist: SIXES Title: Submissions Format: 3" CDR Label: JYRK Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Man.. one of the first times we rolled down to Oakland, we met up with this dude and his intensely dark steez.. Dude reminded me of my buddies up in Portland who had first told me about "The Temple," which Mr. Sixes calls home.. My friends told me that their show at "The Temple" was one of the most chaotic evenings of their bands career.. tons of smashed glass, fights.... debauch... A fierce mess.. When we finally got to SEE Sixes... or more importantly, when we moved to the bay and got to SEE Sixes a LOT, Dude was REPEATEDLY crushing.. on par with other westen freaks like Wiese and Gerritt.. totally gross intensity.. So.. we bug him to do a release.. and he takes his time.. but... now were finally holding onto this SICK live recording of a set in Seattle from 2005.. Its perfect for JYRK too.. Totally a slow burner. you cant tell its creeping up on you until its too late...... edition of 200" - JYRK. |
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Artist: SIXTEEN BITCH PILE UP Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7"/Art Label: AA Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "An eerie audio hallucination: first youre swimming, then theres something outside your door.Watch the butcher knives chop as it spins." - AA. |
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Artist: SIZE Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Broad Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Size was was a Mexican synthpunk band. This release is in desperate need of a proper CD/LP reissue. Hopefully this cassette will lead to this. Fans of Los Reactors, The Units, Flesh Eaters will enjoy. All material recorded from 1978-1984." Limited to 150 copies.
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Artist: SKABBS Title: Idle Threat Format: LP Label: Jackpot Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Jackpot Records is proud to present Idle Threat, a collection of never before issued recordings from 1977-78 Lawndale, California punks, The Skabbs. In tandem with the birth of punk, these music obsessed nerds, bored and listless at the end of the 70s, became disenchanted with the increasingly plastic tendencies of modern music. The Skabbs concocted some truly outsider sounds, melding jagged Devo-esque rhythms with lightning-fast technical touches that predicted the Minutemen by a few years. Sadly, the band was cut short in 1979 when songwriter and frontman, Steven Joseph Salazar dies at just 26 years old from a life-long heart condition. In their grief, The Skabbs choose to disband burying Salazars legacy of songs with their sorrow. In retrospect, The Skabbs steadily became a scene unto themselves, making a proto-punk sound guided by a mission to simply make music that sounded less gross than Foreigner. With the exception of being recorded by SST producing genius Spot, The Skabbs were considered too weird for the art crowd and just terrified the hippies." - Jackpot. |
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Artist: SKANDRANI, MUSTAPHA Title: Istikhbars and Improvisations Format: LP Label: EM Country: Japan Price: $35.00 |
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"Housed in a silkscreened printed handmade sleeve. Mustapha Skandrani: besides having an excellent name, this man, a luminary of Algerian music, possessed a unique musical sense, able to transcend the borders of musical cultures to create a distinctive fusion of Arabo-Andalusian and European styles. Istikhbars And Improvisations, recorded in 1965 in Paris, is a solo piano album presenting a trans-Mediterranean crossover based on traditional Algerian vocal pieces known as istikhbars. Playing these istikhbars (which have roots in the Islamic Arabo-Andalusian culture which flourished in Spain) on the piano, that quintessentially European instrument, Skandrani was greeted with derision by some purists. Skandranis powerful musical vision, however, perceives the European element involved in Arabo-Andalusian musical culture, a world of exchange and co-existence, and his decision to play this music on the piano reminds us of this European influence. Skandranis modus operandi on this release is to present each istikhbar, modal in nature, then to play an improvisation based on the istikhbar and its attendant mode. This A/B alternation continues throughout. The pellucid clarity of Skandranis playing on this album may remind the listener of a modal Goldberg Variations, Bach and Glenn Gould transplanted to Andalucia. Other ears will hear the Arabic/Maghreb elements more strongly. Skandranis precise touch and clear, symmetrical rhythmic sense links both worlds, assuring us that the Mediterranean is not a barrier, but a unifier, and that the differences between the cultures are not vast. This is an admirable achievement, resulting in beautiful music of a rare charm. Mustapha Skandrani was born in Algiers in 1920, and died there in 2005. He mastered a number of instruments at an early age, and his musical prowess led him to work with the great singers and ensembles of his day, in live performances, recordings, and radio broadcasts. Later in his life, he devoted much energy to education. Istikhbars And Improvisations comes with an insert with liner notes in English and Japanese. Limited edition of 200 pressed on vinyl." -EM
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Crowned Purple Gowns Format: Cass Label: Lal Lal Lal Country: Finland Price: $6.50 |
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"Great new thing by the hyped hyper duo. The Skaters create here some slimy and wrinkled nuts of sound. Music moves like pendulum - the hypnotic balls of a running strong zebra. The tape is soaked in esoteric singing, visionary humming, rasping noises, diarrhoea drumming and perfectly far out flute playing. The Skaters are There and somehow can just stay There all the time. Edition of 200." - Lal Lal Lal.
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Dispersed Royalty Ornaments Format: LP Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"As the duo known as the Skaters and as solo artists, Ferraro and Clark,
who are flat broke and currently without phone or Internet service,
spend most of their days and late nights not working but huddled in
their bedrooms jamming, obsessively exploring through the use of
nontraditional instrumentation and the creation of abstract sound the
inside and the outside at the same time, and in the process
experiencing what Ferraro calls private imaginations. The end result
is not what you would expect -- i.e., a pretentious, painfully dry
avant-garde free-noise. Quite the opposite, its a totally out there,
vocal-dominated psychedelia, based, structurally speaking, on the
open-ended drone heard in industrial music, minimalism, experimental
electronics, folk, world music, and free jazz. And, like the best free
jazz -- the early, fiery stuff: Trane, Ayler, Sanders -- the Skaters
noise-drenched cosmic soul is driven by their need to, in the words of
Ferraro, grasp something that is beyond what you can verbalize." - Justin
Farrar.
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Dripping Avenues/Wind Drapeing Incense Format: Cass Label: Skaters Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Palm Shaper Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
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"...a blurry snapshot of a peripheral vista somewhere in the middle of a fuzz-drenched triangle including the Dead C, Avarus and Angus MacLise" Mats Gustafsson, Broken Face.
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Pavilionous Miracles Of Circular Facet Dice Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"Everybodys favourite cave people deliver another crud encrusted diamond. Over an hour of cracked throat wave insanity. A dark, smoke filled room, some lungs, and more smoke. Their best and most crazed release yet. Fucking wild!" - Chocolate Monk.
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Raising Spheres Of Crossing Angel Minds Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Receding Smokebath Format: Cass Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Talking Head Format: CDR Label: Simultaneous Hallucinations Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Untitled Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Man.... True weirdo duo dude doing true weirdo
unknown homemade guerrilla warfare jams. A joy. Totally diff to the Chocolate
Monk CD but still the same "what the..." style.. Couldnt tell you the
instruments, the style, nothing." - American Tapes.
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Artist: SKATERS, THE Title: Dark Rye Bread Format: LP Label: Humbug Country: Norway Price: $20.00 |
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"Dark Rye Bread is a reissue of a key early CD-R, originally released on Nature Tape Limb. The combination of octave-shredding distortion, wowing loops and inspired free vocal flow makes this a particularly ecstatic acid-test for fans of Hototogisu, Angus MacLise, Double Leopards, Milky Way-era Haino etc" - Volcanic Tongue "As a tool for deep-sonic exploration, the human voice doesnt see much action these days. Sure, its one of the last human confections still sweetening up most pop music (indie and mainstream). But for musicians operating on American cultures more expressively extreme outer fringes, the human voice typically plays a supporting role (at best) to electronics, guitars, laptops, etc. Renegades, however, are always out there. Take S.F. duo (sometimes trio) the Skaters. Within their universe of sound, the human voice is the omnipresent life force powering EVERYTHING. Of course, its a realization hard-earned for the listener, because this LP, Dark Rye Bread, is as statically charged -- with walls of droning feedback and crackling distortion -- as just about any electronic-noise freakout extant. However, reckless noise this isnt, not by a long shot. After several concentrated listenings, these six pieces for voice mutate into brilliant sunbursts dispersing waves of shamanic howls, cat-horny ululations, and reverberating growls that, through the Skaters thoughtful use of controlled breathing, fuse with squealing minisynths and rattling hand percussion. This ecstatic cacophony might sound as loud as industrial music, but its also as profoundly moving and archetypal as Lorcas duende echoing through the mountains of Andalusia." - Justin Farrar. Repressed - 2nd edition of 500 copies, with numbered insert and printed sleeve.
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Artist: SKATERS, THE Title: Gambling in Ohpas Shadow Format: CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
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"Does anything more need to be said about The Skaters? They exploded into the consciousness in early 2004 with Dark Rye Bread (an album about to get a vinyl reissue courtesy of Norways Humbug imprint) and blew minds everywhere with their exceptionally JOYOUS music. For those who havent heard them yet The Skaters are the duo of James Ferraro and Spencer Clark. The main instrument used by these 2 geniuss is voice, but not voice as were used to it. Ecstatic chants are looped live through archaic delay units and played at a monstrous volume through old and broken amplifiers. Occasionally a broken-leaded guitar is strummed, or a very bent tribal sounding percussion looms into the mix, but overall its those crazy gnostic-gnomic voices that dominate.
As with James Ferraros solo Wooden Cupboard project (see below) the immediate comparison that springs to mind is that of Angus MacLises Kathmandu recordings. Not everything is so chaotic on this disk, there are poignant moments of relative calm, but overall it is a remarkably distorted, energising - and joyous - affair.
Note that some of the distortion on this disk is digital in nature, a further manifestation of Ohpas will sings morsecode clicks from out the void..." - Pseudoarcana.
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Artist: SKATERS, THE Title: Physicalities of the Sensibilities... Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| ...of Ingrediential Stairways. "Uncalculated unconscious expectations within an involuntary interception (system) of detached fantasy detached provided the fantasy is born of ingredients outside of the body but determined by the unpenetrated unconsciousness this in combination with the minds ability to sight illusions creates a world in which the consciousness can travel in and out of realization of the event arising as with the tangible actions of the ceremony ascending and descending within the spectators consciousness manifest exchanged illusions. The unknowing of levels of consciousness as the procession of the ceremony transforms the imagination from inner and outer experience to one a whole motion of physical and mental interaction. Recorded in Universal City, Mexico by Spencer Clark and James Ferraro. Limited edition one-time pressing." - Eclipse. |
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Artist: SKATERS, THE Title: Rippling Whispers Format: CDR Label: Simultaneous Hallucinations Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SKATERS, THE aka THE TEMPLE DEFECTORS/CLAYPIPE Title: Split Format: Lathe Cut 10" Label: Humbug Country: Norway Price: $36.00 |
| "The Temple Defectors is James Ferraro & Spencer Clark (of THE SKATERS), presenting here a fine slab of vintage violence (from around the time they did "Dark Rye Bread" and "Gambling in Ohpas Shadow" (as the Skaters)) - essential. On the flip is some fine itinerant heavy lidded psych by Claypipe - thats Antony Milton and Clayton Noone from New Zealand. Limited lathe cut 10" to 120 copies in proper hand assembled covers, with a poster insert and resealable sleeve." - Humbug. Unfortunately priced 2008 release. |
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Artist: SKATERS/YELLOW SWANS Title: Humming Lattice Flowers Format: CDR Label: JYRK Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"We love The Skaters..... Seriously.. GREAT dudes. GREAT jams.. We met
em about three years ago in San Diego.. When we moved to the Bay, Spencer
was camping out in the Mission and holding it down........ It was great
reconnecting with the dude and he was wanting to do a YS/The Skaters split
tape.. he passed us a double CDR of "OPHA" and "Dark Rye Bread" and we
were SOLD. So we did a split tape about six months ago that we sold on
our west coast tour with Chuck Bettis that Spencer was along for a bit...
We sold all of em on tour and now I find out that the tapes selling on
Ebay for $40 or some ridiculous amount. Well.. if you dont mind the
digital format.... Heres the music actually made available in a
possible-to-order sort of way....
Errr.. The Music?? the YS track is totally odd stumblings and rumblings
and the Skaters jam is uber saturated song clatter.. Blissed out
scratchings from both units. Back in 200 handmade copies.." - JYRK.
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Artist: SKIN GRAFT Title: Black Out Format: LP Label: Tusco Embassy Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "first skin graft vinyl. 8 tracks of abrasive, negatively charged scum electronics. perfectly disgusting and abusive. three color screened artwork (lots of black ink)." - Tusco Embassy. Edition of 100. |
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Artist: SKIN GRAFT Title: Chernobyl Format: CDR Label: Wagon Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Repress of the very limited edition 2007 wagon cdr by one of the most refreshing and interesting noise projects in the midwest, Wyatt Howland aka SKIN GRAFT, who has been slugging it out with his electronics for more than ten years in the Cleveland underground. "Chernobyl," like all other Skin Grafts Wagon releases, delivers on every level. ALL KILLER, NO FILLER. Brutal and gritty electronics fester like smoldering toxic fumes filling the lungs of the unexpecting, with no time for escape. This one is a doozy, and like Under Seige 2 deals with some DARK TERRITORY. Black and white art with a double sided fold out poster insert. Edition of 75." -Wagon |
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Artist: SKIN GRAFT Title: Dystrophy Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Debut CD release for Clevelands Skin Graft. Wyatt Howland aka Skin Graft has been blasting his crude noise in the filthiest Cleveland basements and scum punk bars every two or three nights a week for the past five or so years. He has a knack for writhing in the filthy underbelly of sound using junk metal, field recordings and primitive electronics. Dystrophy is complete audio horror texture pulverizing harsh sounds of fluttering static, feedback and crushed metal. This is the sound you hear when you are stuck upside down in the backseat of a hit and skidding car. Just horrible sounds! The complete opposite to the sounds of his past collaborators Emeralds and Bee Mask. Whereas they have aimed for outer space Skin Graft has aimed himself head first into a shitty old Cleveland gutter. Always touring, always playing gigs, and always recording solo and as a member of long running Cleveland noise punks Dead Peasant Insurance as well as Power Violence heavyweights Apartment 213. Recommended for fans of Wolf Eyes, The New Blockaders, Napalm Death, Taint, Murder Corporatrion, Negative Approach, Prurient, and Controlled Bleeding." - Hanson. |
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Artist: SKIN GRAFT Title: Ruin Format: Cass Label: Sound Holes Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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Previous release on Emeralds label. "SICK... disturbin tha peace... amazing 2 sides from this bro out of Lakewood, OH....comes at you like a starved wild dog if you were a dripping piece of meat.... teeth bared and bloodied.... backed into a corner.... no escape.....
edition of 78...black/white 2 sided covers in a regular tape boxx.....RED tapes red spray......" - Sound Holes.
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Artist: SKINNIES Title: Kill The Beat Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Second pressing. "South by Midwest: that Kill The Beat by the Skinnies isnt from Bloomington, Akron or Milwaukee is remarkable as it sounds like a lost Roanoke colony of ethanol-blind subsidized dirt-farmers; like if North America had been discovered by the Minnesota Vikings or Larry Bird. Tuneful, cruddy and liberal arts obnoxious with touch-stones in the realm of the Gizmos, Muscle Beach and Homework by Screaming Urge, the Skinnies are so fly-over-state punk it hurts. After hearing this, I now completely understand why Rob Noxious ditched his date to go on a NOLA Skinnies crawl. And now you can too - dump your girlfriend, drink Coors, eat cheese-curds and buy this record." - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: SKINNIES, THE Title: Kill the Beat Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The buzzzzing voice in the intro of "Out Of Order", the sound of what sounds like a broken crash cymbal and the dubbed vocals makes this perfect." -Last Laugh. |
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Artist: SKOAL KODIAK Title: Kryptonym Bodliak Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "While Minneapolis band Skoal Kodiak has a prestigious lineage (Quad Muth, The Cows & Seawhores), theyve already released a 12" a few years back, & this record ups the ante large. Echoes of the hard funk jut up against Mars Rover squelch to create something totally timeless & new but also borne of a future so toxic that there is no escaping. I dare you to listen & not be immediately summoned to movement. Buy one, buy several, you are now a foot soldier with a flesh uniform, go out and preach the word of Skoal Kodiak from a tall structure loudly." -Load. |
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Artist: SKOGEN BRINNER Title: 1st Format: LP Label: Subliminal Sounds Country: Sweden Price: $29.00 |
| "The debut album from Skogen Brinner is a wasted, slimy, speed-freak vortex of polluted proto-metal risen from a self-loathing nurtured by an increasingly greasy wasteland called Sweden. Wicked, toxic and manic rock, psychotic vocals, gnarly guitars, cavernous bass and drums beat to a pulp. A quick glare at the cover and youre savvy on what its about. "The idea is probably to create rotten hard rock with a drive and without too many frills. Maybe you can compare us with a Z-grade flick: bad... but still damn good in a strange way." Skogen Brinner consists of four young reprobate souls; Jesper Aronsson (vocals), David Forsberg (guitar), Joel Carnstam (bass), Jonathan Eriksson (drums), who, despite their situation, are now trying to break the negative spiral of self-destruction with sound therapy. They have played, even if the result sometimes becomes terrible. They have played with each other and with their bodies, with toxins and with their strength. They have played with the values which society and parents slipped on them." -Subliminal Sounds. |
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Artist: SKOGSBERG, JOAKIM Title: Jola Rota Format: CD Label: Tiliqua Country: Japan Price: $29.00 |
| "First time official reissue of one of Swedens greatest and sadly unknown psychedelic treasure is this sole album by Joakim Skogsberg out of 1971. Tiliqua acquired the exclusive rights to this gem and this reissue comes with a remastered sound taken directly from the original master tapes and with the kind assistance of Mr. Joakim Skogsberg himself. The album Jola Rota is about Joakim Skogsbergs love for the grandiose Swedish landscapes, which has put its imprint upon his songs. On Jola Rota Joakim single-handedly created a minimal psychedelic and acid folk masterpiece infused with incredible soundscapes of derailed fuzzed out violins, soaring guitars, rattling hand percussion, droning vocals and pulsating bass rhythms, complimented by Joakims jolor, a special singing style with roots in an ancient Swedish tradition of folk music. The album was for the most part recorded out in the woods, with a portable Nagra reel-to-reel tape recorder and a simple Philips cassette recorder. Upon completion it was suggested for the album to appear on Gump Records, a subsidiary of Metronome. The music was just too underground and weird to be in Metronomes register. Apart from Joakims original recordings, some overdubs and effects were done in the studio during the autumn of 1971. Some of the droning sounds on the record were recorded in a tiny closet in Kärrtorp; a suburb to Stockholm where Joakim was living at the time. The album was pressed into approximately 1000 copies and only about 300 to 400 copies were actually sold. The rest of them were melted down and used in the pressing of other Gump records, making Jola Rota a much rumored and sought after Swedish droned-out and mesmerizing psychedelic artifact. This edition Jola Rota comes housed in high quality sturdy hard card mini-LP styled gatefold sleeve. Original artwork is faithfully reproduced and previously unpublished archival pictures can be found within the liner notes and gatefold. The liner notes are by the hand of Adam Gustafsson. Digitally remastered from the original master tapes and graced with faithfully reproduced artwork and obi. One time only limited pressing."-Tiliqua |
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Artist: SKULDEDOG Title: Spirit of Music Format: CD Label: Shroom Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Very eclectic psychedelic music, can only be described as very spiritual and very lysergic. Freak out guitar, crazed vocals and haunting melodies all woven together to create a unique listening experience. Skuldedog sounds like Loch Ness meets Jimi Hendrix for a jam session on acid in India with Ash Ra Tempel. Recorded between 1985 and 1992." - www.freakemporium.com |
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Artist: SKULL DEFEKTS, THE Title: The Drone Drug Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $16.50 |
| "First there was Skkull then there was The Drone Drug... Continuing on the same path, the sound of The Drone Drug is of a similar relentless minimalistic nature as its predesessor. This could be seen as the electronic backbone to last years amazing Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing (Conspiracy Records), creating a heavy beast with the most basic and stripped-down use of variations in drones and frequencies instead of guitars and percussion. Monotonous motor humming via drugged-out machinery and assaults of feedback attacking with a strong feel of claustrophobia. Compared to Skkull, The Drone Drug evolves more around a grim and abrasive sound, constantly toying with lo-fi aesthetics and a rough industrial edge. The atmosphere created is thick and black, bringing up visions of a dystopian society trembling on the edge of the world. Spreading the disease in a world slowly dying, The Drone Drug is poison and affect you it will. On this recording, The Skull Defekts is Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander. 4 tracks cut by an unsharpened razor. Total playtime of 52 minutes. 4-panel digipack with artwork by Daniel Fagerström." - Release The Bats |
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Artist: SKULL DEFEKTS, THE Title: Waving Format: 7" Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Limited edition of 300. Screen printed heavy duty jackets. The Skull Defekts is a band from Sweden in the very north of Europe. Their intense, monotonous, rhythmic and sexual out rock has since their start in early 2005 been spreading energies of various kinds to welcoming audiences and listeners. The DFX have also been exploring worlds of noise, the drone and psychedelic electronics on waves on releases for labels like Riot Season, iDEAL, Release The Bats and Conspiracy Records." -Important |
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Artist: SKULL DEFEKTS/THE SONS OF GOD/CM VON HASSWOLFF, THE Title: Descending The Silver River Of The DFX Format: LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Swedish drone/ritual rock group The Skull Defekts is back with a new limited edition vinyl LP. 500 copies pressed. Cover by Fredrik Söderberg. This time, we are dealing with two unique collaborations. The first one is a live recording from Fylkingen, Stockholm where The Skull Defekts met oscillator master CM von Hausswolff in a deep drone meeting. The second one is a studio recording together with the infamous performance and noise duo The Sons of God, Kent Tankred and Leif Elggren." -Important. |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: 3rd Gatekeeper Format: CD Label: HeadDirt Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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1991 release featuring Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison and Anthony Di Franco.
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Abyssic Lowland Hiss: Parts I - V Format: CDR Label: Heavy Blossom Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
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Live in Den Haag an Antwerpen, Feb 2007. Lee Stokoe: Icy Whirlwind Reaper; Matthew Bower: Cthonic Oscillation.
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Carved Into Roses / Infinityland / Singles Format: Triple CD Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Recorded together and originally conceived as a double-CD back in the dark ages of 1995, Carved Into Roses and Infinityland find the transitioning from the heavy riffs of SKULLFLOWERs early days to a more free-form sound that continues to drive MATTHEW BOWERs many guises (TOTAL, SUNROOF!, HOTOTOGISU, MIRAG, etc.) to this day. The revamped lineup of Bower, STUART DENNISON, RUSSELL SMITH (of UK scuzz legend TERMINAL CHEESECAKE) and PHILLIP BEST whacks away at both styles simultaneously, with lumbering hooks meeting rainbows of coruscating feedback. Both records start with lengthy, two-chord modal jams, anchored by the guest organ of SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH. The Singles disc collects both sides (over 50 minutes) of the four 7-inch records that were released around the same time and made largely by the same lineup. Not exactly a "singles band," Skullflower nevertheless has more than a dozen releases on the format. The alternate take on "White Fang" is even more jagged and crackling than the one on Infinityland. "Choady Foster" and "Spent Force" are huge pools of sound. Among these more straightforward tunes are oddities like the live version of "Metallurgical King," and the two sides of the Village Sorting single, a studio recording featuring TIM HODGKINSON (HENRY COW, THE WORK) blowing the roof of the place on alto." -VHF. |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Desire for a Holy War Format: CD Label: Utech Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Desire for a Holy War is mayhem piled on top of mayhem piled on top of squalls of caustic feedback. Furies spitting oaths of shrouded vengeance from ancient tongues. Plague riders dealing death on mounts of venomous ether, hooves pounding the wild earth. Matthew Bower may have reached a watershed with last years Abyssic Lowland Hiss (Heavy Blossom) but it is with Desire that he has come to conquer. Never has Skullflower sounded so severe or remorseless."-Utech |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Fucked On A Pile of Corpses Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "The most remorseless, brutal Skullflower ever. Alternating between granular lo-fi primitive rock and granular lo-fi primitive power electronics, this taut disc is a chain mail glove of hate to any lazy minds whove tainted the air with describing Skullflower as "psychedelic." But thats not to say this is an all-out total assault. There are also moments of tender acoustic balladry, its just that they dont exist. The remorseless brutal sound is primitive, but as detailed and rich as a blood-soaked medieval canvas, somewhere betwixt The Rita and Clandestine Blaze, but more brutal! Long live the New Flesh! Kether is in Malkuth, Malkuth is in Kether, but in a different way." -Cold Spring |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Malediction Format: CD Label: Second Layer Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Brand new Skullflower studio recording featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, Samantha Davies (Voltigeurs), Lee Stokoe (Culver) and Stuart Dennison (Ramleh, original Skullflower) back on drums. Three long tracks of blackened guitar wall. No one is making music that sounds like this. Comes in 6-panel digipack with artwork by Matthew Bower. Limited to 1000 copies." - Second Layer. |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Pure Imperial Reform Format: CD Label: Turgid Animal Country: UK Price: $14.50 |
| "New Skullflower CD now available on Turgid Animal Records. Recorded last year live on an Antwerpen radio station comes this new guitar wall "composition" from Matthew Bower and Lee Stokoe. This is a real CD (a first for Turgid Animal) limited to 1000 copies with artwork desinged by MB himself and pro-printed on quality grey paper in standard jewel cases. This is a seriously solid release and is for fans of modern Skullflower recordings and anyone who just loves a good harsh racket!"- Turgid Animal |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Strange Keys to Untune Gods Firmament Format: Double CD Label: Neurot Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "All must bow before the pagan wall of drone..." "So reads the opening line of SKULLFLOWERs website. Hearing their tortured, distorted, and eerily shamanic sounds emanate from the stereo for the first time in the early 90s was truly a revelation. IIIrd Gatekeeper and Obsidian Shaking Codex are two of my all-time favorite albums and have been extremely influential on the way my brothers and I approach guitar-based heavy music. To grab an instrument, drive a loud amplifier to its physical limit, and ride the drone into oblivion is ecstasy, and MATTHEW BOWER has been showing us all how it is done for 20-odd years. Strange Keys to Untune Gods Firmament evokes Wagnerian sonic bombast, a Nietzchean worldview, and a warlike cry of rebellion against the false, encased in a whirlwind both psychotropic and psychoacoustic. Each spin brings new themes to the forefront. Not easy listening by anyones standards, Strange Keys is not for the faint of heart-but those willing to submit and immerse themselves in the deep, thick waters of self-transformation will be greatly rewarded."-Steve Von Till. |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Weve only had the good/loud fortune to witness Matthew Bower perform live on one solitary occasion, but the infinite incineration he managed to detonate out of a single electric guitar and knee-high practice amp was convincing enough to last several lives. In the meantime, theres the gallons of celestial skree he bombards the listening universe with via his cavalry of audio aliases (Skullflower, Total, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Mirag), all of which radiates with Bowers iconic, influential, two-decades-deep quest to fuse the bruised with the blissed in a single white-light fist held up high. And although his specific mission for each project seems to have crossfaded a bit in recent years, its still huge news to us to be able offer up Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver, the first full-length Skullflower album to be pressed on vinyl since forever (at least the early 90s). Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver finds Bower in the more blackened, doom-damaged terrains like those stripmined on the recent Desire For A Holy War or Pure Imperial Reform -- abrupt vertical baths of blinding distortion and harmonic override spiked with cavernous cultish riffs and deeply bleak ritual moods. The blood is fresh, but the bodys unrecognizable. Charred and forgotten, this is another stepping stone on the path to the upturned altar. Black vinyl LPs in fucked-up-and-photocopied matte jackets. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Vile Veil Format: 12" Label: Noiseville Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| 3-track 12" EP. "Silk screen cover, edition of 300 made for sale at No Fun. The kings of UK guitar noise return with Vile Veil in their never ending search to see just how much a guitar can be tortured. Brilliantly debased." - Noiseville |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Village Sorting Format: 7" Label: Self Abuse Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER / WHITE MEDAL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Turgid Animal Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
| "The long-running and evil SKULLFLOWER and Yorkshires demented black metal one-man band both straddle the middle ground between experimental and all-out black metal assault, but in very different ways. Artwork by Utarms SINDRE FOSS SKANCKE. 400 copies on black vinyl." - Turgid Animal |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER/AXOLOTL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER/LIMEPIT Title: Split Format: LP Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
 2009 release (#10 on the label). Limepit is members of Sarahs Charity (Heavy Blossom, Arbor, etc). "Dark, clandestine noise from England and Denmark. Artwork by Rasmus Rosengaard. Silkscreened covers. Mastered at Dubplates and Mastering by FST. 333 copies." - Posh Isolation. With A4 insert. |
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Artist: SKULLPTURE Title: Farmyard Tapes Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "Farmyard Tapes" is a bit different from other Skullpture recordings. Its not dark and gloomy at all, but warm and almost joyful drone, at least on our scale (its not that we try to be darkngloomy, thats just the way our music most often comes out - were happy and funny lads really). It was also recorded at a different place than our other recordings, in a small shed instead of a large hall with concrete walls, and also with slightly different equipment. These track were originally supposed to be released on a split cdr with another band on another label, but unfortunately that never came about. Anyway, our thanks go to Hannu for the chance to get this music finally available to public, and although not your typical Skullpture, I think its a fine addition to our discography and your collection. "-Pekka PT on behalf of Skullpture |
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Artist: SKUNKS, THE Title: Cant Get Loose Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: SKY JUICE Title: Above The Law Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Above the Law is a 1988 action film directed by Andrew Zachariah Davis, probably best-known for being the film debut of Steven Seagal. This tribute album features the full Sky Juice rock band lineup of S.J. Jackson, S.J. Jones, Stoney Freeman, & Zac Davis and was recorded between 2004 and 2008 in various Ohio/Michigan/Massachusetts basements. Except for "Electric Engram" which is excerpted from an infamous/aborted live radio broadcast on Chicagos legendary dance station WGCI. Song titles: Asleep For Daze, Fractality, Slimescape (for James Ferraro), Prostration, Pressure Cook, Plan Of Attack (for Elisa Ambroglio), Recent Fog, Pushcart, Empty Grave, Womb Blizzard, Stable Current, Laid Out, Wall Of Mice, Suction Vent, Scrape Grate, Electric Engram, Brain Wash. Limited pressing of 375 copies, spraymounted covers, xeroxed collage insert." - Olde English Spelling Bee. |
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Artist: SKY JUICE Title: Empty Telepathy: Early Trancemissions 2000-2005 Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SKY JUICE Title: Hard To Kill Format: LP Label: Olde English Spelling Bee Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Vinyl debut from the legendary/mythical Sky Juice twins. The brothers Sky Juice Jones and Sky Juice Jackson are musical telepaths and simply have no fear, riding the groove as long as it takes to navigate the back alleys of Clevelands most dangerous neighborhoods. Severely mangled guitar gunk astral-projected from deep inside the twisted lobes of Lambsbreads Zac Davis. Unavoidable private press vibe, with mumbled cliffs edge moan & groan vocals, drums courtesy of the Corwood session-player circa "Electric End", and guitar rave-ups that share a tattered couch with The Index, Raven, Low End Lars, and Vulcan. Limited & numbered edition of 300. Paste-on covers. Photocopy collage inserts. Ohio bummer." - Olde English Spelling Bee. Features Zac from Lambsbread. |
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Artist: SKY JUICE Title: Meets Stoney Freeman Uptown Inna Dub Style Format: CDR Label: Maim & Disfigure Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Numbered limited edition of 40." -Maim and Disfigure |
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Artist: SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, THE Title: Disciples of California Format: LP Label: Jagjaguwar Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "The Skygreen Leopards started in 2001 as a duo, just Glenn Donaldson and Donovan Quinn. Working out of the Hobo Victoria district of San Francisco, theyve since recorded five full-length albums and one EP in their five year history. Over these recordings the band has been given to metamorphosis but has always managed to sound distinctly Skygreen. Their newest album, Disciples of California, continues in the alchemical tradition of change and inward-revolt. On it, the Skygreen Leopards mix pop melodies, minimal country truisms, jingle-jangling Californianism and angular folk with something the band refers to as our horse called Dire Arrow, which roughly translates into family-friendly (sans the American Censorship connotations)." - Jagjaguwar. CD also available. |
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Artist: SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, THE Title: Gorgeous Johnny Format: LP Label: Jagjaguwar Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Its been 8 years since the first The Skygreen Leopards record was released. Since then the boys have maintained their singular aesthetic while managing to dabble with faux-folk, avant garde pop, reverb-drenched lo-fi psychedelia, plastic country and blurry ballads. This latest effort finds them collaborating with Jason Quever (Papercuts) to create a melancholy world overflowing with itinerant dandies, urban streets, suburban teens, and more girls names than I care to count, all set to melodic shuffles featuring harmonies, frail piano, and romantic guitars. As always with the Leopards the rhythms refuse to be bridled, the boys resist the urge to jam, and they wont ever learn to sing properly. This will frustrate the expectations of some. Others will find a sweet shadowy hiding place in these songs -- 3 minutes to hang out with girls who race horses, boys who never learned to dance, and a dirty uncle who steals your cigarettes." - Jagjaguwar. |
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Artist: SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, THE Title: One Thosand Bird Ceremony Format: CD Label: Soft Abuse Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The Skygreen Leopards are easily the most structured of any band in the Jewelled Antler stable of projects, which is not to say that improvisation figures heavily to their sound (oh, it does). What you get are loosely-structured psychedelic folk songs arranged with banjos, bouzoukis, 12 string guitars, tape loops, Hammond organ, and a host of other instruments. One Thousand Bird Ceremony is easily their most accomplished and fully realized album yet, and its the perfect soundtrack for the summertime. The Skygreen Leopards are Glenn Donaldson (Thuja, The Birdtree, The Blithe Sons, The Franciscan Hobbies) and Donovan Quinn (Verdure)." - Soft Abuse. |
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Artist: SLASHDEATH Title: Kein Mitleid Format: LP Label: Die Taubnessel Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "One-sided LP record. After completing the Unrein Bis Zum Abend/Reise Ins Diesseits LP recordings, Arnulf Meifert decided to be available for the Slashdeath project, this time under the direction of Kommissar Hjuler and in collaboration with Mama Baer. What resulted is a kind of death-metal-pastiche or parody, spontaneously realized with nearly no instruments at all. Quite noisy and primitive screams with percussive cymbal ostinato! Black cover with no info at all, except Slashdeath in printed lettering. Edition limited to 115 copies." -Die Taubnessel |
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Artist: SLATER, NELSON Title: Steam Age Time Giant Format: 7" Label: Are And Be Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Nelson Slater is a Time Traveler whos missuon it is to Bring new Truths to the Earth Conciousness through Outsider Popular Music . Essence is the message in al songs that will Flow from AREandBE Records . The New Underground Thought Society , Lost treasuresof the underworld , Steam Age Time Giant and many friends and institutions will be set into motion on this project in thecoming days , and you are invited to participate in any way you deem apprpriate . , NELSON SLATER - 513 -488-4889 , 118 West Nixon St. , Cin. ,OH , 45220" - Are And Be. "Slater was a college buddy of Lou Reeds. Lou sported him to an LP on RCA back in 1976 and little has been heard from him since. I seem to remember he was on the bill at one of the No Fun Fests, and I heard about some CD-Rs, but this is the first actual thing Ive heard since the Wild Angel LP (if I actually ever heard it). The music is crudely wrought garage-psych with vocals and lyrics reminding me a bit of early Copernicus. Anyone who truly digs Billy Synth should get a kick out of it. " - Byron Coley (The Wire - Aug 2012). |
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Artist: SLATER, NELSON Title: Steam-Age Time-Giant Format: LP Label: Are and Be Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Everythings changed since 12/21/2012. For Nelson Slater, his current band STEAM-AGE TIME-GIANT, the world, our solar system and the future of human kind .If Nelson Slater can re-emerge from the obscurity that has cloaked him and his work for 30 years then we truly have proof that the impossible can happen. The appearance of the Death Asteroid that came to announce our doom was answered by the heroic and generous Meteor that showered wealth and hope down upon us. Embedded in the packaging and content of this new vinyl LP are keys to a survivable future for the human species. The listener follows songs through their winding path from future to past, from galaxy to neighborhood bar . And the suspicion arises that we may be witnessing the birth of a STAR. Studio creations, live blasts and tour favorites from their most recent hit parade. Production and design by Derwent, McAuley and Slater . Full color deluxe pro-printed jacket, shrink-wrapped w/ Resonator hype sticker! Collectors edition on Black , White and Nova vinyl." - Are and Be. |
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Artist: SLAUGHTERHOUSE PERCUSSION Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"mostly cymbal/horn drones (some drums) recorded in the hadley tunnel (on the bike path up [in western mass])" - Open Mouth.
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Artist: SLAVES Title: Spirits of the Sun Format: LP Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Portland, Oregon duo, The Slaves, only have a handful of releases under their belt so far, but it doesnt mean they havent left their mark. Operating in the void somewhere between shoegaze and doom, this is music that is stretched to its breaking point and epic in the true sense of the word. Barbara Kinzle and Birch Cooper know how to fit within each others movements, piling on in all the right places and knowing when to pull back. Spirits of the Sun shows their singular focus at its peak. These four dark and lush dreamscapes stretch their claws, dig in, and never let go. The Slaves have no qualms about who or what they are. The formula is simple: guitar, synth, voice. Kinzles synth-work is where the backbone begins, but Coopers caustic guitar raids are always lurking, waiting for the perfect moment to disrupt the harmonic elegance. Its these layers of smeared guitar chords and synth notes that add so much depth to each piece. It feels like youre being swallowed by a sonic abyss and its only Kinzles narcotic, sublimely towering vocals that save you in the end. Throughout Spirits of the Sun, there is a dichotomy pulling in opposite directions. The Slaves create music that is simultaneously beautiful and grotesque. Theres a twisted, dark side that is consistently being overshadowed by sounds that are overwhelming and majestic. Each aspect pushes and pulls, but the beauty and the symmetry win out in the end. By the time the album closes with the soaring "Born Into Light," it is statuesque and firmly entrenched in the deepest reaches of your psyche. Spirits of the Sun is a force and The Slaves will guide you toward your own oblivion. Mastered by Brad Rose and cut to vinyl at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Artwork by Birch Cooper. Limited edition of 500 copies." - Digitalis. |
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Artist: SLEAFORD MODS Title: Austerity Dogs Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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"Proper working class music with an edge and a vitality, a wit and wisdom all of its own. Something that those stuck in a hopeless job can relate to and use as inspiration, something to shove right up the gaffers arsehole. Jason Williamson writes the lyrics, Andrew Fearn mans the lap top, the pair of them share vocals with Williamson getting the lions share. Its a simple set up stripped to the basics, a hammering bass riff coupled to a series of rapid programmed beats. Its all you need. Everything is in the delivery though, lines are delivered in the northern vernacular, each line spat out in rapid succession, each song starts and ends the same, once the bass loop is there it pummels away until the song ends and then in a split second the next one takes its place. Fearn chips in with the odd line, theres the odd three note keyboard solo to fill in the gaps and thats about it. Twelve tracks in all, each one destined for greatness. Urine Mate, Welcome To The Club sets the tone with a rap intro by local Forest lad John Paul that mentions the the cunts in the armed labelled coats, looking at me like they want to slit my fucking throat … anyway Im enjoying mesen before it all kicks off with the single word Spectre which will mean absolutely nothing to anybody living outside Britain, there are no apologies to those who can not unravel the inner workings of the northern working class language, this is as raw as its possible to get, no concessions are made, its one of their greatest strengths. By now Im trying to think of comparisons, maybe the delivery of John Cooper Clarke, Steve Ignorant, Ian Dury, the pumping bass riffs of The Fall, the cheap synth beats of The Normal [as heard on Five Pound Sixty] but its the richness of the lyrics which linger. Some of it makes no sense at all, stream of consciousness, words repeated, wobble, wobble, wobble I dont like puddings…" - Idwal Fisher. "Just about the most brutal and bleak LP weve ever released. Debut vinyl by Nottinghams finest.No compromise, no refunds. Please acquire with due caution : this is not an extreme electronics record !" - Harbinger Sound. SOLD OUT
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Artist: SLEAZE Title: Sleaze Format: LP Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "1975 pre-Adverts LP from punk legend TV Smith. Originally released in an edition of only 50 copies. Printed innersleeve." - Sing Sing. "The 14th of June, 1975. It was a studio, a proper studio - just like the ones the proper bands recorded in. At least, it was the nearest Id ever been to one and now my band Sleaze, that had so far had to make do with playing support slots at local clubs and discos - as well as the occasional headline gig in local school halls - was about to record some of our songs, just like a proper band. We set up our equipment, the engineer placed the microphones and recorded a few minutes to check the sound, then we put the whole album straight onto tape, song by song, playing live with no overdubs. Two hours recording time, twenty pounds for the lot, plus another half hour for the engineers time splicing the tracks together, and the price of the two reels of tape. All in all, the Sleaze album cost the princely sum of £38.88. We went on to press up fifty copies onto vinyl, most of which we gave away to family and friends.... Id met a new girlfriend in the art department and not only did she have the same Iggy and New York Dolls records in her collection as I did, shed shown an interest in learning bass guitar and wanted me to teach her. Within a year wed moved to London together and started rehearsing a new band, shed changed her name to Gaye Advert... and the rest is history. I was no longer a solitary musical rebel pushing against a door that refused to budge. I was one of a multitude of rebels who felt the same way I did. This record is the sound of that rebellion trying to find its way, the door creaking against its hinges - a year before punk exploded, the door finally blew open and the music scene changed forever. " -TV Smith. |
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Artist: SLEEP ()() OVER Title: Casual Diamond Format: 7" Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"The beauty of SLEEP ()() OVER emanates from deep memory and may well be qualified as a staircase for daydreamers and or a destination for light seekers. Reflective and arboreal, spirits fond of fountains and rainbow electronics will be beckoned by the transfixing voice of this benevolent siren. Casual Diamond floats you in an ethereal super natural make-out jam. LAUREL HALO joins SLEEP ()() OVER in the rebirth phase fusing these lush sounds into a Garage 3-Step reinterpretation of title track Casual Diamond. The wind eerily blows in your direction, be on the lookout for SLEEP ()() OVER LP, coming this summer via Hippos In Tanks!" -Hippos in Tanks.
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Artist: SLEEP CHAMBER Title: SixSixSix Format: 4LP/7" Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $110.00 |
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"SixSixSix iz a collection ov material from the first 6 years ov Sleep Chamber. Mastermind John Zewizz gave permission to Theebradmiller.blogspot.com and VOD-Records to choose the tracks. The outcome reveals and demands for a renewed and extended perception of Sleep Chambers artistic synthesis of the last 30 years. On LP1 as well as the 7" you will find pure and very strong minimal synth-tunes from his very early cassette-only releases like Ze Wizz Kidz (released 82 but recorded in 79/80), Dream Distillate (82) or Music for Mannequin (83). LP2 and LP3 reveals so far unreleased recordings from 82 to 87 that range from minimal to the typical percepted Sleep Chamber-sound as known from the mid 80s. The two LPs are furthermore riddled with alternative versions, demos and unreleased tracks, based around the Admit to Desire-period. Any Sleep Chamber admirer would be in the Garden ov Eden with such a selection especially when listening to LP4 which is an unreleasd LP called Seremony, recorded in the beginning of thee Satanic Sanction Session in 1985/86. This completes the leak ov the Sleep Chamber vaults for another six years." -Vinyl-On-Demand
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Artist: SLEEP CHAMBER Title: Sonorous Invokations Ov Brian Jones Vol #1 Format: 10" Label: Manhood Country: Italy Price: $11.00 |
| 1995 release. Recorded at Roshambo Studios, 1994. "SONOROUS INVOKATIONS OV BRIAN JONES is SLEEP CHAMBERs 19th album. As on BRIAN JONES album PRESENTS THE PIPES OF PAN AT JOUJOUKA, this album is about the traditional ritual music of Morocco. JOHN ZEWIZZ of SLEEP CHAMBER impressively adapts this music by the use of flutes, horns, bells, cymbals etc., mixed with samples of BRIAN JONES. The last track contains parts of an interview done with JONES during his time in the military. The whole album is underlayed by the typical dark sounds of SLEEP CHAMBER. The result is a masterpiece of classical ritual industrial music, which can be compared to SLEEP CHAMBERs cult album SEXMAGICK RITUAL." - Fünfundvierzig. |
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Artist: SLEEP MUSEUM Title: Street Format: 7" Label: Bloodlust! Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Pressed in an edition of 300 copies; White vinyl; White labels with minimal black text; Unmarked white cardboard sleeves - sealed on three sides; Black and white inserts; True minimal- synth music, but probably not the type of thing that most people would think of; Not M.B.-style synth-drone, or other noise and industrial peripherals like that; Sleep Museum is a New York-based project that specializes in rhythmic, darkly melodic synth music, unrepentantly eccentric vocals, and dour lyrics; Utterly contemporary, yet also reminiscent of certain early-1980s "cold" music, or even electronic-era Death in June; private series number ten." - Bloodlust. |
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Artist: SLEEPERS, THE Title: Painless Nights Format: LP Label: Superior Viaduct Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "THE SLEEPERS broke up at least once before their first show on Christmas Day 1977 at Mabuhay Gardens, San Franciscos center of the underground universe. While intensely unpredictable singer RICKY WILLIAMS played in other bands such as CRIME and TOILING MIDGETS, The Sleepers were on their own rock n roll planet-somewhere between punk, post-punk and psychedelic. As Joe Carducci wrote in Rock and the Pop Narcotic, "The Sleepers were an awesome powerhouse live. They were an appropriate refinement of The Stooges, and what Joy Division might have developed into had they the balls." 1981s Painless Nights is their only album. From the opening tracks "When Can I Fly?" and "Walk Away" (featuring ALEX GIBSON & TOM RECCHION of BPEOPLE), Painless Nights captures The Sleepers fluid and volatile sound. Guitarist MICHAEL BELFERs lo-fi textures and incisive riffs serve as the perfect counterpoint to Williamss improvisational lyrics. Perhaps if the band had not broken up for the last time soon after its release, this amazing record would be even more known today. This first-time reissue comes from the original analog source and features a new insert with liner notes by Carducci and includes a digital download card." -Superior Viaduct. |
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Artist: SLEEPERS, THE Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Superior Viaduct Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "THE SLEEPERS debut five-song EP, originally released in 1978, is one of the truly essential records to come out of California in the late 70s. It is 100% punk in spirit and yet avoids every punk cliche. The bands original lineup of RICKY WILLIAMS, MICHAEL BELFER, PAUL DRAPER and TIM MOONEY operates here as a machine-a temperamental one rattling in unison. Opener "Seventh World" trudges through many tempos without repeating a single one, while Williamss astonishing, Robo-fueled voice douses the microphone with esoteric imagery. Each track creates a new template for psychedelic rock and discards it by the time the next one begins. This record inexplicably transcends the mere sum of its parts. First-time reissue in its proper 7-inch format, from original master tapes." -Superior Viaduct. |
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Artist: SLIGHT SURFACE NOISE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Worship Guitars Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| 1997 release. Hand silkscreened sleeves. The band is David Wilcox, Mike Switzer (of Avijit) and Vaughn Boone (of Dry Nod). Recorded with Steve Albini. |
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Artist: SLITHER Title: Alien Column Format: LP Label: Nashazphone Country: Egypt Price: $29.00 |
| "Alien Column is the first full length LP by the thick-smoke-filled-Michigan-basement duo of Chris Pottinger (Odd Clouds, Cotton Museum and the Tasty Soil label) and Heath Moerland (Sick Llama, Cygnus, Drug Abuse and the Fag Tapes label). Often described as a post-Wolf Eyes combo, SLITHER offer a mutant take on free jazz through their multiple electronics manipulations and dual horn tandem (alto saxophone and clarinet). An additional proof to why Michigan is currently the BEST place to be on Earth! Edition of 240 copies." -Nashazphone |
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Artist: SLITHER Title: Venom Injection/Invertebrate Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "Heath Moerland & Chris Pottinger: horns & electronics. Side A: Venom Injection, Invertebrate. Ghost-horns howling at twisted electronics, sub-humans or invertebrate." -Qbico |
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Artist: SLITHER/SIXES Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Tasty Soil Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Released for the recent European tour, limited to 250 copies! SLITHER is black-mold basement reed & electronics scum from Chris Pottinger & Heath Moerland. SIXES is satanic sludge from Oakland, California--creating doom noise from the gates of hell. Art & layout by Chris Pottinger, Offset Printed covers." - Tasty Soil. |
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Artist: SLOOWROAD Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $11.00 |
| "Space hymns from deep woods within by Sloow Tapes Bart De Paepe and Golden Roadie Matt Valentine, crawling beyond shredding wah-wah guitars and intoxicating synth, culminating in twisted chouffe raga and porkslap pulse. Reissue of obscure Heroine cd-r, 100 copies." -Sloow Tapes |
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Artist: SLOW BART SLOOW Title: Drawings Format: Booklet Label: Sloow Tapes Country: Belgium Price: $5.00 |
| "Full-colour collection of 12 pages filled with drawings by Bart De Sloow Head Paepe" - Sloow Tapes. |
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Artist: SLOWBURN Title: Futile/La Maga Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Monorail!Monorail! Country: Norway Price: $22.00 |
| "Slowburn is Fredrik and Per Gisle, minders of the great Apartment Records, Norway. Futile and La Maga are two perfectly fused gems of quiet melancholia, in the way the Norwegians do so well. Micro lathe cut edition of 41, each cover made individually." - Monorail! |
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Artist: SLUG ACID FREAKS Title: Somewhere Between The Cradle and the Lonely Grave Format: CDR Label: Threshold Tapes Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
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"Nearly a quarter of a century after they broke up, impossibly obscure UK DIY/minimal wave outfit Slug Acid Freaks have released their first “official” album through the Threshold Tapes label. Formed in 1981 in Andover, Hampshire, by Ken Pearce and Ed Pupplet, and ably assisted by regular guest Andy Broome, the band recorded 5 albums worth of material before their demise in 1986, none of which was ever made available beyond the bands immediate circle of friends. Somewhere Between the Cradle and the Lonely Grave collects over an hour of music from the bands most prolific period, 1984-85.
Without being overly deterministic, its possible to regard Slug Acid Freaks, partly, at least, as a product of their environment. In the 1950s and 60s, Andover, an ancient market town, had been designated one of Londons official overspills. The capitals allure was keenly felt, but Andovers Slug population retained a strong enough sense of hometown identity that the metropolitan influence was always recycled with a measure of “provincial” strangeness.
If even the most ardent archaeologist of DIY is unlikely ever to have heard of the Slugs, they were nonetheless active during the late heyday of the UKs home taping underground. Employing necessarily minimal means - borrowed Casios, sequencer, basic drum machine (or the rhythm programme of a home organ?) - the band recorded at Kens house on his Dads music centre and a Wien portable tape recorder. While early Human League and Devo are cited as an influence, the Slugs were also contemporaries of many of the 2nd and 3rd wave electronic/industrial bands who took up the baton offered by pioneers like Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. Despite the relative poverty of its means, Slug music is generally more carefully crafted and song-based than that of its DIY or industrial peers, never lapsing into pointless juvenilia, on the one hand, or metal dunce cliché on the other.
Somewhere Between the Cradle and the Lonely Grave has been remastered from the original tapes by Andy Broome and is released in a still barely available edition of 33 copies. Fans of Transparent Illusion, early Portion Control, John Bender, Colin Potter, Legendary Pink Dots, Instant Automatons etc., should act now to avoid disappointment!
Slug Acid Freaks - seriously, the best thing to come out of Andover since The Troggs and Twinings tea." - Threshold Tapes.
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Artist: SLUG GUTS Title: Howlin Gang Format: LP Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Slug Guts hail from the baron, heat stricken confines of Brisbane, Australia, a town as desolate as it is depressing and suburban. Slug Guts began when four degenerates had little else to do but form a band in the tradition of Pussy Galore, X (Australia not LA), and Birthday Party. In the first four months of the band Slug Guts recorded their first LP Down on the Meat which was released on Stained Circles Records (Jay Reatard, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Dirtbombs). After numerous Australian tours and one Japanese tour playing alongside Lightning Bolt, Dead Meadow, Primitive Calculators, Flipper, and Eddy Current amongst others, the band went back into the studio and recorded this thirteen-song sophomore album, Howlin Gang. The LP was recorded in a railway carriage on the outskirts of Ipswich. Taking partial influence from Christian Death, The Scientists and The Triffids, this new LP sought to take a different direction than the harsh swamp rock which characterized their first release. Howlin Gang LP features a duet with Angela Bermuda (Circle Pit) and guest appearances by Sarah Spencer (Blank Realm). Slug Guts will embark on their first US tour in March of 2011 including the Sacred Bones showcase at SXSW." -Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: SLUG GUTS Title: Howlin Gang Format: LP Label: Bedroom Suck Country: Australia Price: $17.00 |
| “The second LP from SLUG GUTS is a noticeably more mature record than their debut. While the Guts still pay homage to Australias strong swamp rock lineage, Howlin Gang brings something new to a genre that has seen too many boring recreations. Its a reverb-drenched mess thats punctuated by duelling riffs and tom-heavy drums. Jimi Kritzlers high-pitched growl is removed from this record and in its place is the baritone drawl of bass player James Dalgleish. SLUG GUTS hate Brisbane so much so that they thought recording this in a railway carriage in Ipswich would be better than staying in their home town. They seem to feed off what they see as a festering abyss. Its intentionally unsettling.” -Sam Davidson, Two Thousand Limited Australian tour LP, originally released in the USA on Sacred Bones Records. |
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Artist: SLUG GUTS Title: Playing in Time with the Deadbeat Format: LP Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Playing in Time with the Deadbeat is Slug Guts third LP and the follow up to 2011s critically acclaimed Howlin Gang (SBR-046). Playing in Time sounds menacingly desperate, ugly and malnourished. This album draws on Australias rough and agitated pub rock history, taking dregs from Australian cult icons Feedtime and Venom P Stinger. Playing in Time with the Deadbeat was written during a year which saw members of this seven piece endure trips to the mental hospital, jail, court trials, death, rehab, and bouts of violence following thousands of kilometers spent in a van. From the cacophonous gallop of opening track Scum, to the hit single potential of Adult Living, it is clear the band, have grown heaps here as both writers and players. Despite personal setbacks and numerous tragedies, Playing in Time with the Deadbeat is the definitive Slug Guts album to date; it is a focused, damaged and unique opus. With download code." -Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: SLUGFUCKERS Title: Cacophony: 1979-1981 Format: Double CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
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"This double CD set is a limited edition of #500 copies housed in a jewel case. The sleeve features photographs and a potted history of the group. The foldout insert features text, reviews, lyrics and drawings connected with the groups short history. The material on the first disc is taken from both ultra-scarce 7" Eps and the "Transformational Salt" album, whilst the second disc holds two live sets including the last ever show they did in 1981. This is an official releases done with the assistance of the band. This Australian group hold that much coverted legendary status with collectors of oddball DIY activity. It will catch the ears of those who can embrace abstract punk sounds or industrial harshness. To be filed alongside The Homosexuals, The Desperate Bicycles, The Instant Automatons, The Prats, Door and the Window, The Versatile Newts, etc etc. Avant / Post -punk madness that leave you scratching your skull . Noise historians will wonder over the use of Manson references, Burroughs samples and Anti-art manifestos way before the Industrial boys tried to claim them as their own." - Harbingersound.
"...noiser and more abrasive than most first generation industrial stuff, a hell of a lot more punk than, say, The Lewd and intelligent in a scary, vicious bullying kind of way" - Johan Kugelberg, Ugly Things Magazine. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: SLUGFUCKERS Title: Three Feet Behind Glass/Instant Classic Format: 12" Label: Insolito Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "TIME TO GET TO KNOW THE SLUGFUCKERS….. The Slugfuckers were started in the late 1970s in Sydney, Australia by Terry Blake (vocals), John Laidler (guitar) and Graham Forsyth (bass) who were all at the time students or recent graduates of the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University. Craig Wilcox (keyboard), Gordon Renouf (guitar, sax), Austin Laverty (drumkit) joined soon after. They released two extremely rare singles in 1979 which are combined on this 12" and an album in 1981. Bridging the nascence of punk, DIY, and industrial, The Slugfuckers took the true intent of punk and carried it to a logical extreme. With shouted vocals, almost rudimentary playing, volume on ten and many obligatory messy interludes they enthralled, engaged and repelled in equal parts…A raw, underproduced angry attack that bores right into your brain. "It will catch the ears of those who can embrace abstract punk sounds or industrial harshness. To be filed alongside The Homosexuals, The Desperate Bicycles, The Instant Automatons, The Prats, Door and the Window, The Versatile Newts, etc etc. Avant / Post -punk madness that leaves you scratching your skull . Noise historians will wonder over the use of Manson references, Burroughs samples and Anti-art manifestos way before the Industrial boys tried to claim them as their own." - Harbingersound. "...noisier and more abrasive than most first generation industrial stuff, a hell of a lot more punk than, say, The Lewd and intelligent in a scary, vicious bullying kind of way" - Johan Kugelberg, Ugly Things Magazine. Limited to 500 copies, its on 180 gram vinyl in tip-on jackets with the artwork from the EP and poly lined inner sleeve plus liner notes." - Insolito. |
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Artist: SLUGFUCKERS Title: Transformational Salt Format: LP Label: Dogfood Production System Country: Australia Price: $45.00 |
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Original (meaning NOT a reissue) "new"/unplayed copies of this legendary 1981 LP (recorded at M-Squared studios!), in the original fold out poster sleeve with the insert. Dogfood Prod also brought us the Negative Reaction LP, Hiroshma Chair/Culturicide LP, Severed Heads/Rhythmyx Chymx LP (RC being a Slugfuckers side project) and the first Severed Heads (still need this one if anyone wants to trade). As some of you know, we managed to get these years ago direct from John Ladliers closet and have been waiting for our site revamp before "unleashing" them. Well, thats taking forever so.. The 12" reissue of the 2 singles coming soon..
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Artist: SLUIK Title: Back to Burnsley Format: 7" Label: Minimal Wave Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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"Raw Dutch synthy wave at its best. Sluik recorded these tracks in his friend Mentals bedroom studio in 1981. John Peel fell in love with one of his songs, entitled "Back to Burnsley" and played it on his BBC radio program 3 times in one week. He told his listeners to "go buy the record!" but unfortunately there was no record to be bought. We decided it was about time that these recordings be made available to the public. Limited to 300 numbered copies with special postcard insert." - Minimal Wave.
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Artist: SMACK Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Recorded in late July early August 1968 In Lawrence, Kansas. The four Smack members were all summer scholarship music and arts students attending Kansas University (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas. All music tracks were cut live -- only over-dubbed lead vocals and background vocals. That year there were some 2,800 summer students attending a 6 week summer arts scholarship session -- 1,800 females and 900 males. Smack was born and played a gig several weeks later and the next thing you know, they were all "stars" of the campus. Someone from the university arranged for them to go in and record an album. An original Smack LP is rare as gold dust. We have only seen two copies for sale the past 15 years for massive money. The music features great cover versions played with extra-heavy fuzz guitar, vocals, bass and drums. The versions of the Cream and Hendrix songs are especially killer. The whole album (very well-produced) has a one-of-a-kind psychedelic feel. There are not many cover albums which give you another perspective on those known songs. This album does, for sure." - Shadoks. |
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Artist: SMACK Title: Smack Format: LP Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
| "Smack was recorded in late July and early August 1968 in Lawrence, Kansas USA. The four Smack members were all summer scholarship music and arts students attending Kansas University in Lawrence, Kansas. All music tracks were cut live, only over-dubed lead vocals and background vocals. That year there were some 2800 summer students attending a 6 week summer arts scholarship session - 1800 females and 900 males. Smack was born and played a gig several weeks later and the next thing you know they were all stars of the campus. Someone from the university arranged for them to go in and record an album. An original Smack LP is rare as gold dust. We have only seen 2 copies for sale the past 15 years for massive money. The music is great covers played with extra heavy fuzz guitar, vocals, bass & drums. Those versions of Cream and Hendrix songs are killer. The whole album (very well produced) has a one of a kind psychedelic feel. There are not many cover albums which gives you another perspective on those known songs. This album does for sure." Hand-numbered limited edition of 500; heavy sleeve; 180 gram pressing, double-sided insert." -Shadoks. |
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Artist: SMACK MUSIC 7 Title: From Pot To Gut Format: Cass Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Arthur pin-up girl Karen Constance slaves over a seering loop stew." Edition of 19.
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Artist: SMACK MUSIC 7/THE POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Ecstatic Peace Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "this is basically karen lollypop/karen constance (wife, sister-in-law and fellow Jock to Decaer Pinga). Smack Music 7 is her doing solo tape music, a style she refers to as Glamtronics - it is amazing, elegant and stately. The Polly Shang Kuan Band is her ever changing groop, consisting of herself and whoever else is drunk enough to partake (in this case Cecile Gilbert) a very sensuous text/test experience. edition of 300." - Ecstatic Peace. |
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Artist: SMALDONE, MICAH BLUE Title: Hither And Thither Format: LP Label: Tequila Sunrise Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "deluxe 180 gram vinyl pressed at record technology, inc., with an 8 page booklet, housed in a beautiful full color "old style/tip-on" jacket printed at Stoughton printing. limited edition of 500. Micah Blue Smaldone. A distinctive name, no? Micah? A minor Hebrew prophet. Blue? A hippy-ish middle name. Red white and? Moon of Kentucky? Smaldone.could be Italian, or Old English. I understand his grandfather (on his mothers side) fought with the John Brown Battery in the Spanish Civil War and taught young Micah plenty of the old songs - but dont ask him to play Jarama Valley in Catalan. Its just too sad. His grandfather never got over it, and the whole Comintern business still sticks in his craw. His great grandfather (on his fathers side) was the local IWW guy who saw to it that a little bit of Joe Hill was scattered in the Pine Tree State. Well, I just want to say to the country that this is a real decent, fine boy. Micah Blues got an original voice, reedy and spare, and hes a virtuoso ragtime finger-picker, too. His songs are charming, antique ditties - austere Tin-Pan Alley tunes with lyrics by Soren Kierkegaard. Like a single bright light, his music illuminates much while also casting a lot of sharp shadows, lovely, dark and deep. When he plays live, he tenses up his whole body - tenser than youd expect for a folk musician, like he might snap the strings, or snap the neck of his guitar, or just snap. But theres not a trace of irony in his music or in his performance, and I guess thats the Yankee in him. See, it gets cold at night up there in Maine, where hes from, and when you got the blank eye of god bearing down on you, and you got the Jukes and the Kallikacks next door getting high on Freon or something, it just makes a man think seriously about where he fits in. Willem de Kooning, gazing up at the star-spangled sky over Black Mountain in the forties, remarked "the universe gives me the creeps," and I imagine Micah might agree. Human consciousness may be a makeshift contraption held together with bailing wire and duct tape, but it will have to suffice. And it may well be true that regret and loss are inescapable human conditions (if you marry you will regret it, and if you dont marry youll regret that too). But it is also true that music is a bulwark against such notions of human frailty, and Micah Blues music does more than suffice. It offers balm and succor to a weary soul. "Micah is so good," Jack Rose told me, "hell make you throw your dick in the dirt!" I certainly agree with the spirit, if not the letter, of Mr. Roses sentiments. Ill have to let you personally be the judge on that score, though you ladies will have to determine some sort of equivalent for yourselves, assuming you concur." - John Jacob Niles. |
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Artist: SMALDONE, MICAH BLUE Title: The Red River Format: LP Label: Immune Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The Red River is the fourth solo offering from Portland, Maines Micah Blue Smaldone and the first to be released on Chicago label Immune. Heres what Micah has to say about it: Rather than construct a thick frame of reference for this new album, Id prefer to describe simply where Ive come from in the past few years, and then let this music speak for itself. My first solo effort, 2003s Some Sweet Day, was a collection of ragtime and country-blues, a fervently authentic homage to great influences -- John Jackson, Blind Blake, Robert Wilkins, etc., who all helped me through some tough times. 2005s Hither and Thither was much more internal, an urgent telling of germination in a harsh climate. This new one reaches a little further both into the past and the future. The title is borrowed from Red River Blues, an old chestnut that goes which way, which way do that blood red river run? From my back window home to the rising sun. I suppose this is the big theme of the album - Never fight evil as if it were something that arose totally outside of yourself. It is simple faith in the goodness of people, the depth of love, and the in |