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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Early Works Format: Cass Label: Medusa Country: Canada Price: $9.00 |
| "21 minutes collecting 8 out of print tracks from her 1st 2 7"s and cassingle. Pro-dub, silkscreen, velcrow enclosure." -Medusa. |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Go Grey Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The second full-length release by U.S. Girls is an even more fully realized excursion into a hazy alternate universe where pop vocals and muzzy scree fuse in harmony. Go Grey conjures up ambient aerosols while luminous kaleidoscopes of sound sizzle, peak, and explode. Megan Remy is a chanteuse from (perhaps) the future, guiding all who choose to sail an evocative trip through her unique aural hallucinogenic landscapes. Its a journey of lush vistas, warm currents, and complex beauties. 23nd-Century-style, of course. So come aboard and see why U.S. Girls is being hailed the Eno of the 50s--the 2250s! Can you imagine? Lets hope so." - Siltbreeze. |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Gravel Days Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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"Meghan Remy continues her one woman crusade to drain all humankind of bad blood and garbage, refilling our boots with hissed out affection while dousing us in white thunder. Hear the sound of a skull full of quartz being pounded by tiny yet powerful hands and listen to her inveigling vocals, the kind of thing Phil Spector hears in his pill poping nightmares. Note to Prog logs, this baby is a short and sweet slide (19mins)." -Chocolate Monk. Previous release on Siltbreeze.
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Introducing Format: LP Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "If the alluring moniker used by Megan Remy conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Not that theres any doubt that Remy--sorry, U.S. Girls--couldnt rise and conquer either challenge. Like fellow DIY ingenues Sally Strobelight and Inca Ore, U.S. Girls approach is deceptively ethereal and delightfully haunting; lithe, lysergic gamma rays of keyboard murk beamed over percussive bonk sort of resemble Diamanda Galas reinterpreting Suicides Red Star. And dig that cover of Bruce Springsteens "Prove It All Night," done in such an effortless, barbital lush youd swear the air was filled with mescaline. Guess what? Its not." - Siltbreeze |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Lunar Life Format: 7" Label: Atelier Ciseaux Country: France Price: $11.00 |
| "Two Rough pop ballads, destroying magnetic tapes, ghosts sounds. Limited to 300 copies, silkscreened artwork on recycled paper." - Atelier Ciseaux. |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Me & Yoko Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "There⿿s no disputing the truth that certain formats befit certain artists. Think about it: where⿿s the logic in Tangerine Dream rocking a 3-way split 3 CDR? Those fools need room to roam. Conversely, why would Orthrelm drop a 4xLP? Who needs 160 minutes of 8-second spazz songs? The medium is a message, man. And for Megan Remy⿿s brief, brave re-imaginings of guitar/voice pop rapture done under the U.S. Girls flag, the 45 RPM 7 inch single is the absolute dream medium for transporting said sounds to the interested earhole. Short and sweet (and chemical) like a sugar rush, Me + Yoko is her latest reverb-gaze drug nugget in a string of strong singles (following releases on Hardscrabble Amateurs and Cherry Burger), and it⿿s another keeper. Whistling to life with a scrap of found sound/dialogue, the song then wings into a vague, hazed-out stone-toss between 2 tired notes (a dead ringer for that famous Les Rallizes Denudes bass riff), ebbing and flowing beneath smeary streaks of white-washed vocal blur. A Top 40 single for a universe of ghosts. The B, ⿿Rise + Go, might actually be the more aching of the two, a broke-down bedroom ballad, awash in sad seas of reverb, lapping at the shores of isolated islands, gently sailing into heartbreak. Sounds lo-fi but lush, like it was recorded high on a cloud on a cheap 80s boombox. Imagine that. Black vinyl 45 RPM singles, mastered by Pete Swanson, in photocopied sleeves with art by Remy. Edition of 380." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Rosemary Format: 7" Label: Electric Voice Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Here comes US GIRLS resurrecting puzzled memories. Nostalgia to be unsure of, or maybe days lost behind thick shadow. Something is bubbling to the surface, but why is it happening? Strange, this is innocent melody at drift on waves of tape disintegration. Shes a one woman call and responder dialing up minimalist lines and beats. A loner. And of course, these two jams are crooned so hard and with such ease that we fall deep within the emptiness on either side. This is music with plenty of space for being dissolved, and sure, it could even be the gift of an inner door that opens on and on."-Pigeon Row. Edition of 300 copies. |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: The Island Song Format: 7" Label: Calico Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
| "Lead single off Meg Remys U.S. Girls on Kraak LP released on Belgian label Kraak. The A Side is a straight hit single with heavy Italo-Disco undertones, could easily slide between Julee Cruise songs on a Lynch soundtrack. The B Side, produced by Onakabazien is an incantation to the ghost of Mariahs 1990s. LTD to 300. Includes free download." -Calico. |
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Artist: U.S. SAUCER Title: Size It Up Format: 7" Label: Amarillo Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| 1993 release on Gregg Turkingtons label. Features Brian Hageman of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. |
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Artist: UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS, YUYA Title: Challenge! Format: CD Label: Columbia Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| "Legit reissue with mini-LP style packaging; includes 5 bonus tracks. "First incarnation of the legendary Japanese hard prog psych rock act Flower Travellin Band. Debut album by Yuya Uchida & The Flowers which was started by Yuya Uchida (born on 17 November 1939) who already was making some rockabilly singles in the early 60s and was one of the opening performers when The Beatles came to Japan in 1966. But when he traveled to Europe in 1967, he was immediately inspired by Cream, Jimi Hendrix and The Who. When he returned to Japan, he started the band The Flowers with vocalist Remi Aso, and the band caused a sensation in the Japanese music scene. Most of the tracks on this album are covers of songs by Cream, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, and one original song." - Columbia. |
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Artist: UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS, YUYA Title: Challenge! Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Following his self-imposed exile in Britain, soon-to-be Flower Travellin Band leader Yuya Uchida embarked on the task of creating a hand-picked band in the hope of achieving a home-grown outfit to rival groups hed been listening to in London. Legendary guitarist Hideki Ishima was his first recruit, followed by steel guitarist Katshiko Kobayashi and then the bravest move of all, the beautiful vocalist Remi Aso was asked to front the band, now named The Flowers. The bands debut LP, originally released in 1968, completely changed the Japanese musical scene, featuring as it did, hard covers of Big Brother And The Holding Company, Cream and Jefferson Airplane songs, and its ground-breaking cover art, featuring the bands members, including Miss Aso, naked in a cornfield, changed the musical landscape for ever. Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited collectors edition." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: UEHARA, KAZUO Title: Experimental Music of Japan Vol. 8: Assemblage Format: CD Label: Edition Omega Point Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| "This is the eighth volume in Edition Omega Points Experimental Music Of Japan series. Japanese composer and synthesizer artist Kazuo Uehara was born in Osaka in 1949. He studied composition in Tokyo and in New York and is a Professor of Music at the Osaka University of Arts, teaching composition, experimental music and also multi-media performance. His music has been performed in France, Germany, the U.S., and other countries and he has also performed his interactive live music and multi-media pieces at major festivals in Sweden, Bulgaria, Russia, France, Poland, Brazil, China, Korea and other countries. He was the main prize-winner at the Bourge International electroacoustic music competition in 1983. In 1990, he was awarded a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. He has been producing the International Festival for Contemporary Music in Japan since the 1980s. "Assemblage is a word from the domain of modern art. This is one of the techniques in the expression of art. The word means mixture, originally. I decided that assemblage would be the concept of this CD. A collage by Picasso is similar example. Dadaism is also another similar example. I try to express new directions in music by using the assemblage technique. Music Collage Re-Mix Version is based on the live recording of a performance from Brazil in 1989 -- a collaboration with a Brazilian dancer and her voice. Pont De lAlma De Paris was a piece composed at INA-GRM, which is well-known as the place where musique concrète was created by Pierre Schaeffer. The title of this piece Pont De lAlma is the name of the metro station in Paris. I tried to express the harmony between traditional images and contemporary images of Paris. OTO Mandala 2 -- usually a mandala is created as a visual image but in this piece I tried to create a mandala image by using sound with bandoneon by Miho Kurosawa. Sound Work 1 is the first piece I composed by using a personal computer. I used NEC PC 8-bit which came out in the beginning of the 1980s. I tried to create very simple synthesized sounds. Forest Of Gombe is a piece on the subject of nature from a chimpanzees forest in Africa. Assemblage 2004 was composed using the assemblage technique using various sounds, noises from nature and instruments like piano and biwa. Meteora Version 1.0 is the name of a strange rock from the northern part of Greece. Meteora 1 is created as acousmatic music." Housed in a cardboard paper sleeve. Including newly-written liner notes in Japanese & English by the artist. Limited edition of 400 copies only." - Omega Point. |
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Artist: UEHARA, KAZUO Title: Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol. 15: Event 73 Format: CD Label: Edition Omega Point Country: Japan Price: $27.00 |
| "From 1972 to 1973, I was based in New York for my creative activities and live performances. New York at this time was in its golden age of experimental music. Towards the end of my stay, I held a live performance entitled Event 73 to sum up my creative works in New York. The venue for the performance was The Kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center that provided spaces for innovative and emerging artists. This CD consists of a mixture of sounds that were created at a studio prior to the live performance and the sounds recorded live at the performance. I used the Buckla Synthesizer for electronic sound and also for transformation of the sound. The work has four different segments: 1) Diffusion 2) Condensation 3) Chaos 4) Revolution. Each segments meanings and sounds itself doesnt necessarily correlate to each other. Yet, the images that are evoked by each word express the chaotic world of the day." -Edition Omega Point. |
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Artist: UEHARA, KAZUO Title: Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol. 16: Early Works Format: CD Label: Edition Omega Point Country: Japan Price: $27.00 |
| "Edition Omega Point presents a collection of early work from Japanese experimental composer Kazuo Uehara. "Seoul 1982 was composed using recorded sounds as raw material to reassemble the historical soundscape of Koreas capital city, Seoul, in the early 1980s. During this time, despite the political chaos and the tension in the city under the Korean military government, I felt the lively energy in peoples lives. The raw material comprised a wide range of different sounds, including the street cries in the downtown, cheerful voices of children in the Namsang area, noise of arterial streets, and conversations of from students at the Seoul National University. Apart from that, the encounter with the Korean traditional percussion music group, Samul Nori, was such a precious moment in my fieldwork. I would like to dedicate this piece to the people in Korea, especially the original members of Samul Nori, and also to the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson who captured the decisive historic moments. Music For Contemporary Dance is dedicated to Takao Kusuno. In the 1970s, the art space Jean-Jean in Shibuya served as a popular venue for experimental music, theater, dance, etc. Within this movement, I did collaborative works with Takao Kusuno who performed as an artist and dance director. In the 1980s, Kusuno moved his base to Brazil where his outstanding performances won numerous awards until his early passing. This piece was composed in collaboration with Kusuno to explore new approaches for dance. The work has two consecutive parts, subtitled Crows Habit and I Am A Clown. It was not merely contemporary dance, nor Butoh, but it indicated the contemporary room for the dance scene of the time. His work returned home with Brazilian dancers and was staged in Japan in 2009. Science Technology Expo 85 - Music For Cell Universe was specially composed for the Health and Sports Pavilion at the International Exposition, Tsukuba, Japan, 1985. The space was comprised of 27 multiscreen films and stereophonic space. The uniquely designed space controller, the system for moving sound image, made it possible to control the electronic acoustic sound image to create virtual 3D space. Homage To Xenakis was composed at a UPIC workshop held in Tokyo in the 1980s where the composer Iannis Xenakis made remarks on each presented work. The musical composition tool, UPIC, was created by Xenakis, and was developed at the Centre dEtudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu) in Paris. This unique sound synthesis system allows the user to create music by drawing lines on the board. Xenakis originally envisaged this tool to be used for pedagogical purpose. Other than musicians, the workshop drew participants from children to adults. The piece was composed in collaboration with the computer graphic artist Masao Kohmura and others." -Edition Omega Point. |
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Artist: UFONAUT Title: Ive Got Something I Cant Explain Format: 7" Label: Saucerlike Country: AUSTRALIA Price: $6.00 |
| "Ufonaut is an exercise in one-man-bandism. The a-side of this release incorporates layers of droney guitars, drums and whispers while the b-side (the real meat and potatoes!) opens with a samplicous cut and paste jazz number and closes with drones, jingles and jangles. Grey vinyl, fancily packaged and strictly limited to 200 hand numbered copies." - Saucerlike. |
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Artist: UGLY AMERICAN Title: #12 Format: Mag Label: Ugly American Country: USA Price: $3.00 |
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Very thick 1997 issue featuring Silver Apples, Lake Of Dracula, Temple Of Bon Matin, Lightning Bolt, reviews and more..
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Artist: UGLY THINGS Title: #22 Format: Mag Label: Ugly Things Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "200 page monster edition / perfect bound / full-color glossy cover. Inside: the third epic installment of The Misunderstood Story. Torn apart by the Vietnam draft, the band members continue their various struggles. We follow steel guitarist Glenn Campbells days with Rod Piazzas Dirty Blues Band, Juicy Lucy and Joe Cocker, and Rick Browns fugitive adventures on the run from the US military and the FBI. PLUS: revelatory interviews with Ace Kefford of The Move and Chris Youlden of Savoy Brown. Fly around the world and visit The Matadors from Czechoslovakia, The Speakers from Colombia, The Wild Cherries and The Creatures from Australia, Prudy from Bratislava and Belgiums Plastic Bertrand. Johan Kugelberg interviews DIY cult icons The Popes and explains the joys of Primitive Sh*t Music. We also have stories on the very early Prehistoric Pretty Things, Brian Jones, Mel Lyman, Wild Bill Kennedy & The Twiliters and lots more, including our massive review section covering hundreds of vinyl and CD reissues, music related books and DVDs." - Ugly Things. |
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Artist: UGLY THINGS Title: #30 Format: Mag Label: Ugly Things Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "Contents: Issue #30 is a Kinks special, featuring an extensive, no holds barred interview with Ray Davies by Kinks biographer Jon Savage, along with various sidebar articles and a host of rare and previously unpublished photos, all focused on the bands 1964-68 heyday. Also in this issue: The Masters Apprentices, Ollie Halsall and Patto, 60s garage punks The Hysterics, girl garage rockers The Bittersweet, Dutch beat icons Q65, 70s Texas punks The Nervebreakers, a rundown of the greatest 60s punk compilations by Johan Kugelberg, Cromagnon, The New Nadir, and lots more, including, as always, our extensive review sections covering all the latest reissues, rocknroll books and DVDs." - Ugly Things. 176 pages, perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. |
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Artist: UGLY THINGS Title: #33 Format: Mag Label: Ugly Things Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "With Love as our major cover story, this issue is sure to fly off the shelves. In an extensive, soul-baring interview, guitarist Johnny Echols (Arthur Lees right-hand man throughout Loves classic period) tears down the mystery and the myth to reveal the true story of this seminal band. We also have a pile of other amazing stories: Dutch psychedelic freaks Group 1850, destructive Ohio proto-punks The Electric Eels, English freakbeat giants Wimple Winch and The Craig, plus The Leopards, The Syndicate, The Reekers, The Hangmen, Barrence Whitfield, Wildwood, Illes and more. Also, The San Francisco Beat, a brand new column by Cyril Jordan of the Flamin Groovies, and of course our extensive review sections covering all the latest reissues, rocknroll books and DVDs." - Ugly Things. 176 pages, perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. |
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Artist: UKE OF PHILLIPS / TOBEY, ERIN Title: Live on the Phone Format: Cass Label: Trd/wd Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: UKE OF SPACES CORNERS Title: Albumen/Ovum Format: Cass Label: Goaty Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| " Never did know how the Uke of Spaces Corners wove them mounds of spook through such innocent jam jam dillies. I reckon it is what must be the outlandish croon, or perchance that lonely electric guitar plunk. Ever it functions, sure leaves a rippling, swelling watermark of the solitary songmanship. Jangling in mulchy fullness, but reflecting a singular dream, apparition."-Valhalla |
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Artist: UKE OF SPACES CORNERS COUNTY Title: Albumen/ Ovum Format: CD Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| 500 pressed. Digipack covers with fullcolor sticker. "Paying tribute to the mighty egg, UKE OF SPACES CORNERS COUNTY take the opportunity to stretch way out on this release, with a collection of late winter early spring burners to welcome in the coming season of fertility and new beginnings. Neo-Sea shanties and dreaming yelping dogs make way for freight train field recordings and song poems, allowing a lush backdrop of defined yet spacious riffs to enter into the sonic field by means of electric, acoustic and prepared guitars, analog drum machines, stand up bass, trombone, effected keyboards, bells and fingersnaps. This is the cd version of previously released and now out of print cassette on Goaty Tapes. The cd reissue features a print of a beautiful watercolor rendition of the original cassette cover art by Amy Moon Offermann-Sims." - Turned Word. |
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Artist: UKE OF SPACES CORNERS COUNTY Title: Flowers in the Night Format: CD Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The UKES bring us all another butter country moon fried farm folk bammer to sing or bang a gong along to. Once again this release features a full band of self taught weirdo clinger and clangers carefully caressing tones out of anything from an effected mandolin to a marble in the bottom if a well tuned 5 gallon bucket. Players include Andy Neubauer, Dan B, Amy Moon O-s, Kristen Myers, Caleb Gamble, and Ben Grubb. Cover art by Janel Beckman and printed by Leif Goldburg. Insert art by Amy Moon and Kristen Myers." -- Turned Word. |
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Artist: UKE OF SPACES CORNERS COUNTY Title: Flowers in the Night Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The UKES bring us all another butter country moon fried farm folk bammer to sing or bang a gong along to. Once again this release features a full band of self taught weirdo clinger and clangers carefully caressing tones out of anything from an effected mandolin to a marble in the bottom if a well tuned 5 gallon bucket. Players include Andy Neubauer, Dan B, Amy Moon O-s, Kristen Myers, Caleb Gamble, and Ben Grubb. Cover art by Janel Beckman and printed by Leif Goldburg. Insert art by Amy Moon and Kristen Myers." - Turned Word. |
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Artist: UKE OF SPACES CORNERS COUNTY Title: So Far On The Way Format: LP Label: Trd w/d Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"I cant say if it was ale, victuals or the tuneage, but once I got into the thick of this record my whole body began to tingle & my eyes got to sparklin. It reminded me of the scene w/Lawrence Olivier in Marathon Man when he sees them diamonds for the 1st time. I got to readin the inserts & seen one of the main brains on here was Dan Beckman whod also been on that Flak Mask 7" I liked. But he wasnt scratchin out the numbers 11201 on this lotto ticket. In fact, this is just about as opposite of that as they come. Sure its been recorded all over creation, but So Far On The Way breathes deep from the flora n fauna of southern Appalachia rather than the wheezeve urban twiddley-dum. Its corn pone jocularity conjurs up an aura of Doc Snocks hickum & Dans voice is similar enough w/Pete Stampfels to lend an air of friendly Holy Modal Rounders cheer onto the porch. Theys even got the gumption to croak out a haunting dirge-like interpretation of Sun Ras Outer Spaceways Incorporated (here entitled Outter Spaceways). And guess what? It dont suck! Addin this lp in w/the recent spate of great releases whats come out over the past few months, it nestles comfortably between Lord Fyres Destruction At 2013 & The Cherry Blossoms debut (which is gonna get harped on here soon). Id say this is a dinger for comers, be they shoeless or clueless. And how bout that paste on cover & hand stitched lyric book whats enclosed?. I dunno about you, but until Pep Lester releases his lp of Avant-Bluegrass ditties, the bar for goodness starts here." - Siltblog.
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Artist: ULAAN KHOL Title: I Format: CD Label: Soft Abuse Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Steven R. Smith has had a hand in creating some of the most compelling & singular instrumental psychedelic music of the past ten years. As Ulaan Khol, Smith digs in deep with a palette of drums/guitar/organ to craft a monolithic & expansive freeform, feedback-heavy atmospheric din that bonds the disparate realms of Fushitsusha & High Rise with Popul Vuh & Flying Saucer Attack. Smith has planned a maximalist three-part suite, Ceremony. In this first installment of the trilogy, the tone is overwhelmingly bleak as the pieces (all untitled) caterwaul, moan & crumble."-Soft Abuse |
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Artist: ULAAN KHOL Title: III Format: CD Label: Soft Abuse Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "III is as immediate as a truck with failed brakes crashing through your living room wall. The third and final installment of a trilogy entitled Ceremony, its opening moments rage and wail, with distorted guitars pulling out in front of the drums like hellhounds that have slipped their masters leash. But this isnt a mono-dimensional freak-out. Smith paces himself, pulling back into brooding drones and pensive picking before lashing out once more. As befits a journey thats taken three discs to unfold, it ends with a grand gesture; the final melody is as epic as Roy Montgomerys mid-90s work, and it unfurls over a landscape of blasted wah-wah licks & feedback that somehow reconcile The Stooges and Popul Vuh." - Signal To Noise. |
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Artist: ULTRA Title: Roman Holiday Format: Double LP & 7" Label: Dom America Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "A double-LP reissue of the 1997 CD, with an additional seven tracks taken from various 7-inches and compilations-sixteen songs in total of unparalleled refinement and sensitivity (and often a great deal less). Includes a bonus 7-inch containing two previously unreleased tracks culled from the Zoll sessions. "Classic early industrial / power electronics from the American Northwest receives a deluxe vinyl treatment of their entire output. Violent cacophony reminiscent of Whitehouse and similar ilk; a beautifully presented monstrosity." Limited edition of 400 copies." -Dom America |
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Artist: ULTRA FUCK Title: Sex at the Maly Trostenets Format: LP Label: Järtecknet Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
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"Originally released as a private cassette in 2007 and later re-released the same year on Thorax. After returning to this cassette repeatedly during the years we felt it needed to be presented to a wider audience.
Sex at the Maly Trostenets presents two longer pieces of industrial tape loop works with a dry and uneffected analogue song. Never harsh or aggressive but rather focusing on texture and atmosphere. Cold, lo-fi machinery that relentlessly keeps pounding. Always minimal but never boring. The delicate ruggedness of Sex at the Maly Trostenets is simply something you rarely encounter these days. Far away from the contemporary lo-fi genre where lo-fi is not mere a description of recording technique but also embodies an idea of poor musical standards.
Recording is retrieved from original tape master making it more detailed and rich in sound than previous releases. Carefully mastered for vinyl. Comes with bigger inlay based on the original cassette artwork." - Järtecknet. Ultra Fuck is Dan Johansson of Sewer Election. Edition of 200 copies.
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Artist: UMBERTO Title: Confrontations Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Kansas Citys goblin king of neo-Giallo, brood-blooded dark fantasy soundtracking returns with his fourth official full-length, two years after the badass psychodrama of Prophecy of the Black Widow. The time betwixt was well spent, on tours (Europe twice, including the Mogwai-curated All Tomorrows Parties fest), one-off tapes and 12-inches (Welcome to the Chill Zone, Final Exit, etc.), and tweaking the mixes and minutia of the seven undead invasion omens comprising Confrontations. What instantly distinguishes this new album from the previous two is its ominous, slow-burn compositional model, building its evil temple brick by brick, basking in the tension of each new chiming, Carpenter-esque synth line or monkish doom Om for multiple measures before stirring the next substance into the cauldron. This elegant sense of patience gives the tracks a more oozing, operatic aura; these confrontations arent hostile showdowns in the woods but the creeping dread of alien-nation body snatchers infiltrating the populace. Death comes slipping. Can someone hire this genius to score the They Live remake already? X-filed highway cover artwork designed by Dionysian visualist TIM GOODWILLIE." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: UMBERTO Title: Freeze! Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "After 2 full-lengths mining vintage horror scores and Italo/Goblin-isms for inspiration, Kansas City riddler and composition whiz Umberto slow-pans his focus out of the graveyards and black widow cobwebs into the celluloid-stained artificial streets of Beverly Hills police beats and pop culture ghost-busting. Freeze! is an inscrutable but impressively legit reinvention of Jan Hammer-style 80s soundtrack cheese: soaring keyboard lines, fast-tappin piano, locked-in bass grooves, goofy canned drums, baroque purple haze soloing, etc. Put An APB On Those Bastards kicks things off with a tension-ramping Corvette cruise into the heat of the night, while Illegal Entry With Intent To Zuul is a pitch-perfect rooftop chase scene that ends with somebody falling fifty stories into a posh private pool (and is apparently also somehow about that horned dog demon that possesses Sigourney Weaver in G-Busters?). A bizarre and thoroughly enjoyable curveball from one of our fave current music-makers. Black vinyl 45s in pro-printed jackets with hilarious/hijacked Eddie Murphy artwork by Derek Goon. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: UMBERTO Title: From The Grave Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"EXPO 70 bass/synth player MATT HILL has gone solo. His debut LP under the UMBERTO moniker is an analog masterpiece heavily influenced by the classic film score work of Goblin, except arguably better. From the moment you drop the needle, youll be transported to Italy as an extra in a vintage horror flick directed by Dario Argento. This is some of the most accessible, yet totally authentic sounding music of the "giallo" genre weve ever heard. It was previously only available as a hyper limited edition CDR and cassette tape via Sonic Meditations. For fans of Goblin, John Carpenter, Zombi, and classic Italian horror soundtracks."-Permanent Records.
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Artist: UMBERTO Title: Prophecy of a Black Widow Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The one Umberto performance we had the rad fortune to bear witness to involved at least a dozen dudes, dads, and ladies all on stage wearing sunglasses at night and shredding keyboards/keytars bathed in a sea of fog machinery and strobe lights and extraterrestrially-costumed interpretive dancers. Shit was BEYOND. Umberto mastermind Matt Hill allegedly went to legit music school back in the day and used to play bass for Expo 70 (Justin/Expo released the debut Umberto tape/CDR, From The Grave, on his Sonic Meditations label) before splintering into his current electro-satanic Goblin worship guise -- and we for one cant get enough. Prophecy Of The Black Widow is his sophomore LP and though the badass evil Italo goth-synth horror-score blueprint of Grave remains, the main variation is subtle vibe-shift from 70s Argento/Carpenter-isms into more early/mid-80s new wave creep-scapes. Theres still plenty of eerie nightmare keyboard riffs and vintage witch-disco breakouts but the synths squelch with more of a neon retrofuturist bent and theres even one brazenly feel good soaring-into-the-sunset closing credits anthem (the literally-titled Everything Is Going To Be Okay). Whatever prophecy Prophecy is foretelling, were on board. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with sick fake-3D lettering and art by Seth Johnson." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: UN Title: Trans-missions Format: 7" Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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Original copies of this mid-90s release featuring Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Hototogisu, Shakamaxon, Zaimph, GHQ, etc..).
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Artist: UN CIEGO Title: L.A. Softcore Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| "NZer Andrew Scott, formerly living in Auckland, now for a few years located in Los Angeles, California. This solo record features 7 short tracks, all made with acoustic and electric guitars. A mix of guitar note plucking and strumming, drone repetition, and heavy distorted noise. Somehow all tied together beautifully, almost as if its one track. At times sounds like there is a field recording component to the recordings, but I think this is more likely ambient sounds from the rooms/locations he records in (was that a pub? was that an abandoned warehouse?)." -CMR |
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Artist: UN CIEGO Title: Vincennes Monument/Kali Gandaki Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: A Binary Datum Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANE Title: L Homme A La Camera Format: LP Label: GRRR Country: France Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: UNBORN UNICORN Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Heard Worse Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Bay Arean AARON COYES (MUMMERS EYPE, HEART OF SNOW, GROMSKULL, HISSEATERS and the Common Oracles label) fills your psych-folk-fuzz cochlea with echoes of Beefheart, Velvets, Spacemen 3, Dead C, and Kenneth Higney. Limited edition, imported from the big island of Australia, handmade recycled classical jackets."-Heard Worse |
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Artist: UNCHAINED Title: The Happy Stirrup Format: Double LP Label: New Images Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"The songs are constructed from the practice tapes of two bands I was playing in at the time, Gateway Evening Colours (with Alex Farrill on drums and Brian House on bass) and Innnocent Delights (with Miles Huston on drums and vocals and Sam Mehran on keyboard and guitar). In both bands I was playing guitar through a no-input mixer setup. Gateway Evening Colours was working on a kind of deep blues/country-rock noise-wall sound, very minimal and jammy. Innocent Delights was less rock-ish, more free, more psychedelic. The majority of the songs consist of loops cut from GEC and ID practice tapes, cut-and-pasted with a computer wave editor, and also EQd and tweaked on a computer. While the source tapes were collective efforts, the editing process was my own solipsistic endeavor. What I wanted to do was isolate moments of group-improvisational clarity, and cut and paste them into a larger composition. It was this combination of the non-control of group improvisation with the hyper-control of cutting and pasting alone on a wave editor that intrigued me. Instead of developing compositions through the act of improvising, here the improvisations themselves become the compositions..." - ND. "Originally released as a CDR in 2007, Unchained is the project of Nathaniel Davis. Also included in the reissue are a number of bonus tracks from the 2006 CDR, Anlehnung, originally released on the Paha Porvari label." - New Images. |
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Artist: UNCLE JIM Title: Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime Format: LP Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Ruling at the perpetual pivot and pole of a peerless sound world over the past 25 years, the SUN CITY GIRLS are one of the few last arab cowboys of genius. SUPERSTARS OF GREENWICH MEANTIME is the premier long player from the UNCLE JIM... a smoked out X+Y=Fuck You dialectic. Rawer than Rudy Ray Moore, shrewder than Lenny Bruce, more spoken tongue wizard insanity than Lord Buckley and more deranged than Charles Baudelaire; this is ALAN BISHOPs own personal anthology of BLACK HUMOUR, filled to the brim full of diatribes backed up by bad ass musicians (including all of the Sun City Girls). A masterpiece of the SCG cannon. Limited to 500 copies." - Black Velvet Fuckere.
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Artist: UNCLE JIM Title: Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime Format: CD Label: Abduction Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "This is a CD reissue of this previously vinyl-only, limited-edition 500-copy release, originally issued on the Black Velvet Fuckere label. Ruling at the perpetual pivot and pole of a peerless sound world over the past 25 years, the Sun City Girls are one of the few last Arab cowboys of genius. Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime is the premier long player from Uncle Jim (aka Alan Bishop) - a smoked out X+Y= Fuck You dialectic. Rawer than Rudy Ray Moore, shrewder than Lenny Bruce, more spoken tongue wizard insanity than Lord Buckley and more deranged than Charles Baudelaire; this is Bishops own personal anthology of black humour, filled to the brim with cranky diatribes backed up by bad ass musicians (including all of the Sun City Girls). A masterpiece of the SCG canon. Featuring Charles Gocher, Richard Bishop, Alvarius B, Liz Allbee, Andrew McGinnis, Specs One and Porest." - Abduction. |
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Artist: UNDER SATANS SUN Title: Demo Format: CDR Label: Sound@One Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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New metal project of Dave Nuss of NNCK (also featuring George Devoe and Arik Moonhawk Roper of Matta Llama) 8-song demo housed in handsome screened jacket. Edition of 100. "UNDER SATANS SUN is a new female-fronted 6-piece metal band out of New York City -- 2 singers who are sisters plus instrumentalists from backgrounds as diverse as NYC itself. The band name is taken from an early 20th century French existential/religious treatise in which an estranged priest meets with the devil Himself in a battle of wits. The outcome: darkness and the void. Thematically, the band actualizes the harsh intersection of the physical and the metaphysical. Religious queries and sexuality intertwine in reverence of the primeval urges of the human flesh, as well as the drive to transcend all such vulgarities in solitary pursuit of the non-corporeal. Musically, the songs are strongly influenced by folk traditions engaging love and the earth, as well as the harsher aspects of urban wasted life characteristic of the band�??s milieu. Each song is based on a strong vocal melody and the mangled interpretation of its dissolution into a sea of unbridled passion. The members of Under Satan�??s Sun seek to connect with their audience on a fundamental level by communicating about those things to which we can all relate: love and loss, sex and its abuse, and the despair and delectation of being alone."
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Artist: UNDERGROUND FAILURE, THE Title: Underground Failure Format: CD Label: Black Light Country: Sweden Price: $22.00 |
| "Swedish underground counter-culture monster album from 1971, originally released as a private pressing of 150 copies, never sold at shops at the time. These bunch of freaks were clearly influenced by Dylan, early Velvet Underground and The Fugs, but they came with a sound of their own. Stoned/druggy atmosphere alternating from acoustic/acid-folk tracks to devastating, fuzzed-out ones like Green Ocelot, which was included at #38 in the recent Punk Before Punk top 50 list in Ugly Things magazine. Limited to 500 copies, with remastered sound in nice papersleeve mini-LP replica." -Black Light |
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Artist: UNDO Title: un sperme qui meurt de froid en agitant faiblement sa petite queue dans les draps dun gamin Format: CDR Label: Squint Fucker Press Country: Canada Price: $13.00 |
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undo is Christof Migone and Alexandre St-Onge. Instrumentation: microphones. Site: mouths. "The duos variations on the microphone in the mouth theme (tape hiss on max, mumbled voices, sub-vocal sounds, etc) are like so many shades of grey. Appropriately enough, the track titles are taken from Samuel Becketts The Unnamable. And the grey cover is something Beckett himself might havewarmed to." - Phil England, The Wire. CD housed in jewel case with hand silkscreened insert and wrapped in metal wire. Highly recommended!
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Artist: UNEVEN UNIVERSE Title: Exit Human Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"One-sided lp YES!! New crew new underground new sounds just stinking NEW. Body Morph/Mossy Throats/EXBX/ Russell Street Soup Sgt/DJ Ding Dong aka Dan D aka Square D and Hellfire Holly (The Jasons, Uneven Dead, Costco, has a kool young sis) make up this Michigan Basement Free Sound Non-Movement Unit. Exit Human is they debut platter, and what a freaking mug creeper it is. Slow moving reed and lurch galore. Chamber music for ear wax from 43 BC. Forwards, backwards, whatever speed you want, the message slays the same. WARNING= stoker alert. Dive in and join us in these warm and fruitful strange waters of audio moss. Art by HHolly in the new AT record sleeve fold over style. Numbered of Edition of 100, few left." -American Tapes
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Artist: UNFOLDING, THE Title: How to Blow Your Mind and Have a Freak-Out Party Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "A rare underrated freaky psychedelic LP that will appeal to those into The Summer Of Love meets The Mothers Of Invention sounds that will delight those ears into psychedelic exploitation albums like Love Machine, Mesmerising Eye, Fire & Ice LTD or Friendsound. Featuring a mindblowing production with harpsichord, sitar, chimes and anyting that makes freaky psych sounds. A trip back to the days of LSD and free love. Comes with a facsimile reproduction of the original insert. 500 copies limited edition." -Wah Wah. |
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Artist: UNGVARY, TAMAS Title: Ite, Missa Est (Computer Music) Format: LP Label: Fylkingen Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| Original LPs from 1982. "Tamas Ungvary is a conductor and computer music composer. Since 1972, Ungvarys many compositions have been performed at the majority of the European and American festivals. Ungvary has held numerous workshops and seminars both in Europe and in the United States." - Fylkingen. |
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Artist: UNHOLY TWO Title: Kutter b/w Porkys Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"�??Kutter�?� starts out in some plodding, kind of questionable James Williamson Stooge Explosion action, but once it lets loose it gets fucking crazy �?? fast rhythm and totally solid riffs, hurdled back and forth with reverb and delay, and benefiting from very sympathetic post-production. Buzzsaw jammer, will rock. Not too sure about �??Porkys�?� as it points into a Lightning Bolt/Dan Deacon sorta artjock thing, but the same production and killer mixing helps this one out too as it gets going. A pure noise-rock single in 2008, right down to the offensive cover art; everything old is new again. Pretty rad." -Doug Mosurak...Dustedmagazine.com
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Artist: UNHOLY TWO Title: Skum Of The Earth Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Always a lightning rod of controversy, CHRIS LUTZKOs jihadist approach to punk has been beneficial in getting the word out about his local terror cell, the UNHOLY TWO. But after three years of live shows met with confrontation and polarized minds corrupted by conspiracy propaganda and subversive volume, the pivotal "put up or shut the fuck up" moment has arrived. As the countrys best hype man since Flavor Flav, Lutzko knew that all of his vitriolic soapboxing--not to mention the tweeter-busting feedback from the stage--had to be manifested in $kum of the Earth, the Unholy Twos debut album for Columbus Discount Records. On $kum of the Earth, Lutzko is aided mostly by ADAM SMITH on "power electronics" and BO DAVIS on drums, but he also invited a collection of townie notables, including the production team of TOM SHANNON (CHEATER SLICKS) & WILL FOSTER (GUINEA WORMS, and ANTHONY ALLMAN (EL JESUS DE MAGICO) on synth, to make for what seems like an all-night basement session in Washington Beach gone horribly out of control." -Columbus Discount |
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Artist: UNICORN HARD-ON/CONTAINER Title: Split Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Killer and complimentary split from two of the US undergrounds finest. A vital document of this curious shift from noise to beats in the subterranean circuits. Two slammers with disorienting-ly haunted vox from Unicorn Hard-On, one epic slab of surgical techno from Container." -Hot Releases. |
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Artist: UNITED LIGHT Title: +ve/-ve Format: 8" Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.50 |
| John Moloney (Sunburned), Mick Flower (Vibracathedral) and Tom Greenwood (JOMF) recorded Nov, 2006. |
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Artist: UNITED LIGHT Title: Let the Fuzz Format: CDR Label: Flowerhouse Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Screenprinted Limited Edition. Here is the first release from Flowerhouse Records. United Light is the group formed in Leeds this past fall consisting of Vibracathedral Orchestras Michael Flower, Jackie O Motherfuckers Tom Greenwood & Sunburned Hand of the Mans John Moloney. Cd artwork by Tom Greenwood and the sleeves are all screenprinted. These are the only screen printed ones that will go up for sale, after there may be a reissue but not screened." - Flowerhouse. |
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Artist: UNITED SUPREME COUNCIL Title: Oastem! Vibe Orchestra Format: LP Label: Eclipse Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Document of a big band made up of the entire lineups of Pelt and Rake (+ additional miscellaneous players) that gigged several times in 1996 and 1997. Whether clearing the room at the Fredericksburg Centre for the Arts or emptying the hall at the Black Cat, the band always kicked it with uncompromising true love and substantial Oastem! vibe. The long improvisations performed varied wildly from show to show, often starting with a bang and slowly expanding into open space where the interesting little details emerged. This LP is an extract from the center of a two hour performance recorded in April 1997 at Tommys in Richmond. The players are: Mike Gangloff (guitar, shenai, electronics), Jack Rose (lap steel), Patrick Best (guitar, bass resonator, conga), ~SKB (bass and percussion), V2G2 (nylon string guitar, percussion, shenai and voice), Planet C (moog, sax, percussion), Mick (dumbek and dijembe), Beth Jones (dijembe), and ??? Edition of 330 copies."- Eclipse. |
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Artist: UNITED WATERS Title: Your First Ever River Format: LP Label: Arbitrary SIgns Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "If you know the man behind United Waters (B.K.A Brian Sullivan) from anything, youll know him as the guitar thudder in Brooklyns densest duo, Mouthus. And if you were really listening to all those ninety million releases they did in the past few years, youd notice that Mr. Sullivan is a deconstructionist of the highest order. Molten riffs that would cream the face off of both Nocturno Culto and Dave Murray combined dismantled themselves to reveal rock as a gas and thin air to be nothing but a petrified turd left over in a backstage buffet platter by Michael Angelo Batio. On his debut release under the United Waters moniker entitled Your First Ever River, Sullivan continues to expose the contradiction of sound for what it is, but theres not so much discombobulated shrailing this time round to drive the point home. Brians vision on Your First Ever River sucks in the sound and vibe of mid-nineties basement dwellers, early seventies robe donning prog rockers and present day turtle necked Germans to continue his pursuit for the never knowing sound. Lets hope your there enough to bask in the revelatory glow of its sound." - Tony Rettman. |
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Artist: UNITS Title: History of the Units: The Early Years 1977-1983 Format: LP Label: Community Library Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
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"Community Library is proud to bring you the first ever legitimate reissue of San Franciscos synth-punk legends, Units! The LP features an abridged tracklist showcasing from the original 7"s and LP. Please note however the included download coupon card entitles buyers to the full 21 CD songs. The remastered audio is fantastic, for anyone who bought the original LP for $50++ only to find it had been ruined in mastering and has no low end whatsoever.....this is a chance to hear the songs in their intended synth punk glory!" - Community Library.
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Artist: UNIVERIA ZEKT Title: The Unnamables Format: LP Label: Golden Pavillion Country: Portugal Price: $32.00 |
| "A mythical Magma album recorded in 1971, during the 1001 Centigrades period. The album aims at introducing wider audiences to the zeuhl feel, with a less hermetic sound, favoring a groovier jazz-rock approach. Features the vocalist of Ergo Sum on one track as well as Tito Puentes on trumpet; otherwise this is pretty much the same line-up as in their previous album. A few dreamy moments with acoustic guitar and flutes (the track Clementine), and other typically dense moments with pulsating bass lines, mad sax and weird Vander screams punctuated by furious drumming with a groovy edge. Fully-licensed, exact reissue in gatefold cover and 180 gram vinyl. Limited to 600 copies in black vinyl." -Golden Pavillion |
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Artist: UNIVERSAL INDIANS Title: Monster Approach Format: LP Label: Killertree Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"Olson: "You Stoned?" Ramirez: "Probably" Possibly the going rate for this unit - Universal Indians had this whole other life that spewed out on the stages and floors, a couple records, a few cassettes, even a video (which will see the light of day on dvd, much later). But more at home and more comfortable slamming out psych blow-outs in the basement of 325 Foster Ave in Lansing, MI. The so-called legacy thing for MK1 Universal Indians which stretched from 94 to 97 (not 93 that all music states) was simple in the philosophy dept and may have a fools merit - Drudge up some riffs, words, jack the amps, over-distort the Rat pedals to the point of canceling itself out, throw it together for Jesse Harper executed by The Dead C, praying for a spot in the Twisted Village or Siltbreeze. And get real high. American Tapes was barely in the double digits and we attempted to capture every session, every show on Olsons handheld recorder - lo fi to the gills but solid and thick sounding like speakers takina shit. Green light was at the crossroads for stacks and stacks of tapes to be pillaged throughout last Springtime end and Summer eves until four solid cuts were culled for an LP release. And this is the shit - the first side ranges from over the fucking top heavy driving High Rise wah battle to some serious reps on Olsons traps accompanying minimal trashed-out skronk chords pushing on the VU meter to pure slimy menacing blues skuzz that dissipates into a fine, loose rubbery mess (like every song does, and yeah, these are actual songs) with the sound is so thick that the grooves are white. Side Two holds two songs meshed together with fine stewardship ala GDs Ithaca 77 Scarlet/Fire blowout for a solid side-long mother of all battalion guitar ventures. Nudging Driver UFO & The Holy Sound of the American Pipe in the UI unisound tradition in a 16 minute rant that makes this cut a pinnacle in the annals of low-brow grong for the UI books - 3 or 4 minutes of semi-coherency, the rest a blaze of solid head-fuckery, a good one to get lost in. Our version of hard, loose psych to match head on all the fancy collector jargon hustled for big bills (only to receive some waysted bar band hashing out piss bloooz). Call it pride but it needed to be solid and realer than real. The end result coincides to a cruddy mix tape (levels are screwed considering each song is from a different session) and acclimates to the shitiest of stereos. These four cuts are from 94-95, two live cuts, two prax sessions, Olson kills the drums, Ramirez hashes the riffs, the wah & mumblings. And there was another guitar lazily played by someone from somewhere doing something when she wasnt doing her homework. Limited to 300 copies on vinyl - the demon is finally at rest." - Killertree.
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Artist: UNIVERSAL INDIANS Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: UNIVERSAL INDIANS Title: Sloth Nest Format: LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Artist: UNIVERSAL INDIANS Title: Stakes And Guys Format: Cass Label: Gods Of Tundra Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Reissue of AM71. Back
in the day, UI (and duo-era Wolf) to me, always represented Michigan
sound. And this tape is exactly what makes UI such a legendary and
great band. This is the classick line up of Big Juh, GG, and Dillo the
Killo...and is an absolute headfuck from start to finish. Warped shots
of something that sounds like band, constantly moving into interesting
passages and never staying to long before its time to get to another
tripped out tape warble underwater with 3 layers of 3 UI shows on top
of each other...or something close to that. Fully Michigan. A perfect
tape." - Gods of Tundra.
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Artist: UNKNOWN Title: Mauvais Oeil, Djinns & Sorcellerie Format: LP Label: Standard In-Fi Country: France Price: $26.00 |
"Psychedelic, Religious, Spoken Word. Originaly collected in Morrocco. 100 copies, 50 yellow/50 green. Silkscreened cover." - Standard In-Fi
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Artist: UNMANNED SHIP Title: For Whom The Bowl Tolls Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"UNMANNED SHIP are active stoners. The difference between active stoners and lazy stoners is obvious. The active ones do cool shit while theyre baked and the lazy ones do lame shit. Unmanned Ship stay busy as bees in Chicago. One of the rad things the Unmanned Ship dudes do is make fucking killer instrumental rock jams. The three of em concoct quite a hypnotic brew. Its the kind of bubbly, dark, sweet porter I bee nectar fermenting into at the end of summer under less honey-friendly conditions. Coincidentally, their brand of stoner rock has the geometric and psychedelic qualities of a honeycomb. These grooves are repetitive and techincial, but never too flashy and by no means boring. A grounded rhythm section is nicely complemented by hydrodynamic guitar lines and extraterrestrial effects. Not exactly what Id deem space rock, but a bit arthropodic to be sure. In fact, this whole record would score an Apoidean documentary quite nicely. With the majority of the footage shot within the hive and featuring a substantial amount of bee carnage of course, this would make the PERFECT soundtrack to a Planet Earth chapter on bee fights. Id buy that for a dollar! This hyper limited, hand-screened, hand-numbered LP full of heavy, buzzing, intoxicating rock is HIGH-ly recommended for stoned drones. The Queen would never approve, but fuck that bitch-shes fucking all of us." -Lance Barresi (Permanent Records) Limited to 300 copies with silkscreened jackets.
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Artist: UNS (ZEV) Title: What Does The Brain Have To Do With It Format: Double CD Label: C.I.P. Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "ZEV has been exploring and breaking ground in the audio and textual fields since the mid 1970s. Although best-known for his metal-based percussive performances, uns, his electronics and vocal-based whirlwind, was one of the most innovative (and individual) audio experiments of the early 1980s. unss combination of sound poetics and voice treatments with dense sonic landscapes resulted in challenging, unique, and rewarding audio. A historical testament to the challenge uns presented appears on the first track of this 2 CD set, when some of the audience members -- in addition to repeatedly shouting Die! as the set concluded -- shout out for Flipper. Given the ire Flipper drew from their audiences, the fact that the audience preferred that disconnect to the disconnect uns was creating speaks volumes about the gauntlet uns had thrown down. Even when uns was active (1980-83), recordings were extremely difficult to come by and live performances were infrequent. This new 2 CD set presents four live performances, with only fractional snippets previously released anywhere. For fans of: uns, ZEV, Lieutenant Caramel, sound poetry, musique concrete." - C.i.P. |
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Artist: UNSWORTH, CATHI Title: Johnny Remember Me Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "Cassette-only release. Edition of 250 copies. Two readings of the short story Johnny Remember Me by its author Cathi Unsworth and by Pete Woodhead (O Yuki Conjugate/The Sons Of Silence). Cathi Unsworth is a writer and editor who lives and works in London. She is the author of three pop-cultural crime novels, Bad Penny Blues, The Singer and The Not Knowing, and the editor of the short story collection London Noir, all published by Serpents Tail. Cathi has written on music, film, art, fashion and culture for Sounds, Bizarre, BFI Flipside, Mojo and Uncut, amongst many others. Her collaborator on this release is Pete Woodhead, an electronic composer who cut his musical teeth as part of O Yuki Conjugate and The Sons Of Silence and is now best known for his soundtrack contribution to the hit British zombie movie Shaun Of The Dead. "He stood at the back of the room, in a smartly cut pale blue suit, so cleanly shaven his skin still had a rosy glow from the razors kiss, thick brown hair set into a shiny pompadour that looked as though it had been set in plastic. His bulbous dark blue eyes darted around the cellar, and he pulled on a cigarette fretfully. For a second it seemed that he was too nervous to come across the floor, but then his eyes became still as they settled on what he was searching for. With a sudden sense of purpose, he walked towards Johnny. And that was when all the trouble started." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: UNUSABLE SIGNAL Title: The Day Of Shadow Bells Format: Cass Label: Since 1972 Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"olson solo organ drones" - Since 1972.
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Artist: UNUSABLE SIGNAL Title: Universe in Terrors Format: CDR Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Second release of processed organ recordings. Skull sipping time shifts tear your brain in dual dungeon horrors. Like shaving the radioactive moss from the insides of your eyes. Handpainted case edition of 50." - American Tapes.
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Artist: UP Title: Rising Format: CD/DVD Label: Applebush Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"Its common to name the MC5 and the Stooges among the forefathers of what they call punk rock, but it was their associates in a third band, the Up, who could more accurately be identified as the real precursors of punk. In fact, if you trace the punk rock lineage back to the Ramones -- and many do -- the connection is even clearer, because the Ramones were really little more than a watered-down, cheapened clone of the once-mighty Up of Detroit and Ann Arbor. This determined quartet of killer skinnies from the Murder City were not as skilled in music and stagecraft as their stablemates in the MC5, nor as charismatic as their colleague Jim Osterberg (Iggy Pop) and his band The Stooges, but they dedicated every fiber of their being to playing high-energy rock n roll that was designed to inspire their audiences to leave the square world behind and come and join the revolution. This complete Up recordings/deluxe packaging includes a DVD of unseen footage plus a set of facsimile gig flyers/booklet that includes extensive liner notes by American Michigan Rock specialist Ken Shimamoto, with involvement from original bassist Gary Rasmussen. The 16-page booklet includes never-before-seen photographs of the band." -Applebush
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Artist: UP-TIGHT Title: Live 2003 Format: CDR Label: Up-Tight Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: UP-TIGHT Title: Live at the Lucrezia Format: DVD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "52-minute DVD (all region, all format) of Up-Tight playing at their best. Incredible sound quality, the video is close-up and personal. Unless you have been lucky enough to catch this tremendous live band on tour, this is the only way you are going to experience the real thing! Black-clad and with an ominous aura created by their distorted guitar epics, burnt-out ballads and raucous mantric jams, Up-Tight are seriously not to be messed with. Heading up the second generation of Japanese psychedelic rock acts (following on from Fushitsusha, Kosokuya and Shizuka) theyre one of the best live groups in Japan. As you might expect from their name, theres a chiselled intensity to their playing which displays some startling post-Velvets stances. With the power to lay down spontaneously loose, acid-fried and drugged garage psych jams of hypnotic guitar squall, and a line of impassioned and fathomless vocals that are capable of kicking you right in the gut, Up-Tight have a mesmeric feel to them, unmatched by any peers." 2-sided DVD that is both NTSC & PAL compatible."-Last Visible Dog |
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Artist: UP-TIGHT Title: Sweet Sister 1994-2003 Format: CDR Label: Up-Tight Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: UP-TIGHT Title: The Beginning Of The End Format: LP Label: 8mm Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
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"It is a rare feeling when music can give you the sensation like a bullet through the head, and you call it a pleasure. Well, that is what happened when we first listened to these four tracks from The Begininng of the End the new studio album from Japanese garage-psych heroes Up-Tight. We played the disc once and we were speechless. Why? The reason was easy: We got a picture of a band at its creative zenith. The Lp opens with Our Own Portrait, guided by mantric drum beating, rigid bass pulsations and T.Aoki providing a vortex of massive fuzzed guitar. A Song For Your Pain is a beautifully inspired ballad, with a melancholic voice floating on a carpet of melodic soft psychedelia. Side B is the Beginning Of The End, for real! The Destruction is a trippy improvisation, with amps on fire and instruments in a state of pure sonic catharsis. Introducing the title-track as the final chapter, with Aokis raucous crooning that evokes smoke and dark shadows, then collapsing into a wall of guitar squall. Our ears are still blowing! And its time to play this record again. Get ready for a long trip cause there is no turning back with this incredible new album, Up-Tight takes the tradition of Japanese psych-rock and brings it to a brand new level of crazy intensity and destructive power.
Available on vinyl only. Second edition of only 120 copies. brand new artwork, with insert. " -8mm
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Artist: UP-TIGHT Title: Up-Tight Format: CDR Label: Up-Tight Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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"Up-Tight are a noxious young trio from Tokyo, all acolytes of the legendary Japanese psych group Les Rallizes Denudes, who augment their sound with crushing, Sabbath-styled dynamics, earsplitting acid leads and beautiful Velvets-inspired ballads. The opening Melt Rain filters the thug rock of UK geasers like The Deviants through a PSF aesthetic, with epic levels of feedback and sustain. If song structures are mostly kept loose, allowing for lots of noisy improvisation, generally the disc is anchored by heavy riffs. Just when you thought youd got to grips with Tokyos paradigm destroying psych scene, this one hits like a sucker punch." - David Keenan.
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Artist: UP-TIGHT & MAKOTO KAWABATA Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Galactic Zoo Disk/Eclipse Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
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"Heavy psych monsters from Japan UP-TIGHT joined by the master himself, MAKOTO KAWABATA. Limited edition CD in a jewel case. Produced and mixed by Kawabata as well." - Galactic Zoo Disk.
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Artist: UPPERGROUND ORCHESTRA Title: The Eupen Takes Format: LP Label: Morphine Country: Italy Price: $24.00 |
| "The formidable Lebanese/Italian jazz nomads release a long player of deepness on Morphines new live series. Limited edition of 400. The LP is packaged in a silk-screened outersleeve with artwork from Bill Kouligas (Pan Records, Berlin). The Eupen Takes is a live document clearly showing what the collective is normally improvising on stage, a chaotic but still tight blend of jazz, kraut and electronics, where nothing is previously planned, and analog synths and spaced out sounds melt with instruments in a natural and free approach. The Eupen Takes LP contains the second half of the June 2011 show at the Meakusma stage, Eupen Muzik Marathon." - Morphine. |
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI Title: A Brute -Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone Solo Format: LP Label: Tiny Smile Country: Japan Price: $130.00 |
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Incredibly expensive release in a numbered edition of 100 copies by Urabe, who many consider the new Kaoru Abe (though Urabes sound has grown to be more space filled than Abes ever was). The LPs feature one performance from 1987, two from 97 and one from 2000. The three most recent shows took place at Kid Ailack Art Hall (a block away from Modern Music), one of which includes a gnarled spit valve solo or something.. Great stuff. The striking sleeve is similar in construction to the PSF lp from a few years back.
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI Title: Flag of Midsummer Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Alto saxophone, harmonica, chains, metal, accordion, bells, toy flute -- Masayoshi Urabe. Metal junk, cello, etc. -- Kiyoharu Kuwayama (track 2 only). A new solo album by Masayoshi Urabe is always a cause for rejoicing. This is his first since the frankly frightening Ware Wai Seidei No Kyojyo Zo on PSF in 2003. Urabe rarely plays live now, but this live album catches him in action in a converted saki brewery on the shores of Lake Biwa, near Kyoto. The damp heat of midsummer in this part of Japan seems to have worked its magic on Urabe, and this is an altogether gentler performance than normal. Over one long solo track, he bends his breath and body to the air in his saxophone, his tones blending with the sound of the insects outside the venue. A shorter second track captures him in a rare outing on accordion, toy flute and harmonica together with Kiyoharu Kuwayama. Another radical, effortlessly convincing album from the master of contemporary rock n roll breathing." -PSF |
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI Title: Rock N Roll Breathing Format: VHS Label: There Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
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"Masayoshi Urabe Solo Harmonica, Chain, Alto, Soprano Sax, Tambourine and Bell performances along with graphic artwork showcase. 1 hour running time. Housed in hard case with insert in Japanese and English - numbered edition of 200." - There.
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI Title: Soingyokusaiseyo (All Soldiers, Prepare for Suicide Attack) Format: LP Label: Elevage De Poussiere Country: France Price: $18.00 |
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"A beat-up light fixture hangs from a weathered ceiling, as the glint of a red light bulb spills along the length of its electric cord. Masayoshi Urabe stands underneath, in a half-penumbra of light. His saxophone is fit into his folded body, as he releases riffs of heavy rock. The atmosphere is thick with cigarette smoke and wisps of smoke that fly off from the movements of his body, heated by two bare light-bulbs nearby. Through moments of intermittent illusion, you can see the bright flash of a drum set deep in the stage, or sense the murmur of sidemen who would stir up such a smoky aura. A theatre of apparitions, of pure hallucinations provoked by ritual, the music reverberated with its double: Masayoshi Urabe has transformed the tiny stage of the Cave 12 in Geneva into a new-york-like heavy metal stadium, his solitary presence swings into action on stage like a horde of savages - a rock-n-roll animal. The audience must have prepared for the show by an endless loop of listening to a vulgarian best of Lou Reed record. This will be the most rock-like of his three shows in April 2001, for which the audience has prepared its ears as delicately as it prepped its hair, in a pre-concert ritual taking hours before the show.
In each concert of his series, Urabe invoked the invisible at the foot of the walls where he found himself, and fought against the traces of ghosts who still yet haunt the club spaces - the artist Yayoi Kusama in the room of the Contemporary Regional Art Fund in Dijon, the legendary sets people described - or that we told him about while speeding along the highway between shows, militants of speed or direct action like Yoko Ono, Albert Ayler, Sam Peckinpah. Each night spelled an encounter with a different phantom. Another night, the mythic echo of a concert by Haino Keiji infused the grand wooden room of the Totem de MaxŽville. Masayoshi deployed returning, seductive riffs and their feedback, and attacks with the sword-like edge of his saxophones bell; drawing out an immense space to the point of stamping of a floorboard, he imposed a tentative victory over this incarnated marching band, before the static silence of the last transformation of a ghost rider. I cant believe what I no longer know thats the ghost I want to hold CIRCLE X "Puerto Rican Ghost (After Mars)" 1992 ... evenings to catch the phantom and its echo." - Yves Botz.
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI Title: Urklang Format: CD Label: Tiliqua Country: Belgium Price: $16.00 |
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"Japanese-born Masayoshi Urabe is a saxophonist who boasts a fearsome sound but, unlike Arthur Doyle, he incorporates long blocks of stony silence into his music. On Urklang - his latest solo disc, which presents two live performances, one on alto, the other on soprano - he painstakingly carves these silences into huge, ominous icebergs. The overall effect is such that even the slightest cry from his horn seems impossibly portentous, especially when he roars through the extremes of the altos upper register." - David Keenan. With beautiful hand assembled miniature gatefold jackets.
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI & CHIE MUKAI Title: Dual Anarchism Format: LP/Video Set Label: Siwa/There Country: USA/Japan Price: $44.00 |
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Artist: URABE, MASAYOSHI & CHIE MUKAI Title: Dual Anarchism Format: Video Label: There Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
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"After years of pleading Siwa finally convinced Chie Mukai and Masayoshi Urabe to offer up this much needed document of their ongoing collaborative work. The original recordings were culled from live performances between1990-2001 and were then edited by Urabe. Chie Mukai should be known to many for her work within the more structured confines of her band Che-Shizu but she also has an impressive history in improvised music that goes back to her time as a student with Takehisa Kosugi in the mid 70s. The Che-Shizu albums and her two previous solo releases (a CD on PSF and the out of print LP on Siwa) have introduced a select few to the meditative drone of the er-hu (a traditional two string violin) but here she can also be heard on vocals, piano, toys and various percussion instruments. Likewise Urabe, known mostly for slowly wrenching unfathomable screams from his alto saxophone expands his instrument choices to employ a soprano saxophone, some percussion, harmonicas, chains and a particularly vicious electric guitar. This is passionate, physical and highly individual improvised music with an intensely human soul. A companion video released on the Japanese "There" label is also available and does more to explain the physical nature of these performances than any audio document could. But you have to buy the LP first. This is a vinyl only edition of 400 copies and comes in a silkscreened sleeve." -Siwa.
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Artist: URABE/TOSHIAKI ISHIZUKA, MASAYOSHI Title: Natsu No Sebone Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Alto saxophone, bells - Masayoshi Urabe; percussion - Toshiaki Ishizuka. Thrilling, blood-shaking, soul-scraping and defiantly non-sexless improv set from two Japanese titans. Recorded live at the Apia club in Tokyo in December last year, this set showcases Urabes uniquely physical approach to improvisation -- ferociously concentrated, contorted, sweating and eruptive with physical power. His lines seem to boil up from his flesh, with gurgles, gasps and rasping breath defining sparse, sonic regions in which silence itself seems to breath. Ishizuka is the perfect foil, providing subtle shade and balance around Urabes transformative sculpting of space. One track, 58 minutes. Comes with a booklet of evocative black and white photographs of the event by Tatsuo Suzuki. The title translates as The Backbone of Summer." - FE. |
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Artist: URANIUM ORCHARD Title: Four For Survival Format: Cass Label: Cold Vomit Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Some of you out there might be aware of those crazy Christians who make up the truly disorienting SoCal based band, Dry Rot. Their debut LP from last year, Philistine, was one of the most bizarre and disturbing full lengths to come out in a coons age, referencing everything from This Heat to the Minutemen to Void within a scant album side. Drew and Jordan from the band have a new “project” called Uranium Orchard, and the four song demo tape they just did up might rival their other band in sheer fuckedness alone. Theres pretty much no reference to Hardcore in the sound, but just like they do in Dry Rot, they glop together a bunch of sound references unconsciously that shouldnt stick together, but somehow do. A lot of it sounds like the takes on Captain Beefheart that came out of the UK in the late 70s (such as the fore mentioned This Heat), but then theres all these weird electronic surges going on in the background and spacey parts that sound like “Angel Rat” era Voivod. Like I said before, these guys… theyre real weird." - Tony Rettman, Rettsounds. |
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Artist: URDOG Title: Garden of Bones Format: CD Label: Secret Eye Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| ⿿Tight and textural psych rock by three of Providences finest. Driving, tribal drumming, fuzzed-out Farfisa, and searing guitar licks. Atmospheric yet rocking, this is music to which you can shake your booty ⿿ Secret Eye |
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Artist: URINALS Title: Negative Capability Format: CD Label: Warning Label Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "2008 repress! "Now in their 25th year, what better time to reissue this collection of songs that inspired a generation of punk, art-punk, post-punk, and pop-punk bands, from the Minutemen and Gun Club to Yo La Tengo and Butthole Surfers, in addition to newer bands such as The Dishes, The Reds, and ST-37. A 31-song collection featuring such Urinals classics as Im a Bug, Black Hole, and Ack Ack Ack Ack, in addition to a selection of madcap covers such as the Jetsons Theme, and songs by Soft Machine and Roky Erickson. Recordings were made between 1978 and 1980, during the heyday of American punk. Includes the complete Urinals, Another EP, and Sex/Go Away Girl 7" material, 3 tunes from long out-of-print compilations, several unreleased studio and rehearsal pieces, and samples from the bands archive of live tapes, including their very first performance as a three-piece." - Warning Label |
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Artist: URINALS, THE Title: Another EP Format: 7" Label: Superior Viaduct Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Originally released in 1979 on the bands own Happy Squid Records, THE URINALS second 7-inch picks up where their first left off. Bookended by the slow-building pressure of "Black Hole" (covered by The Gun Club and Grass Widow, among others) and rapid-fire surge of "Ack Ack Ack Ack" (famously covered by the Minutemen), Another EP shows what happens when dynamic songwriting meets condensed attitude. Essential recordings that are best appreciated in small doses, repeated over and over and over. Limited edition color vinyl." -Superior Viaduct. |
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Artist: URINALS, THE Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Superior Viaduct Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Hailing from the late-70s underground of Los Angeles, THE URINALS were often called "the American Wire" for their graceful tension, wild energy and trademark brevity. Recorded with a sole microphone and guitar / bass running through a single amplifier, their debut 1978 EP defies its limitations while defining The Urinals unique aesthetic. "Dead Flowers," "Hologram" and "Last Days of Man on Earth" are not simply classic songs, they are venerable punk haiku-raw and unrestrained. Limited edition color vinyl." -Superior Viaduct. |
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Artist: URINALS, THE Title: Sex/Go Away Format: 7" Label: Superior Viaduct Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "THE URINALS third 7-inch, from 1980, demonstrates the groups increased technical proficiency and fuller production that the same members would later bring to their next project, 100 FLOWERs, under which moniker they produced an outstanding album (also available on Superior Viaduct). "Sex" and "Go Away Girl" (penned by David Nolte of The Last) are propulsive, lo-fi statements that lay waste to the A-side in under three minutes-classic Urinals form. Faithfully restored with test tones on the B-side to ensure your hi-fi is set properly for these sounds. Limited edition color vinyl." -Superior Viaduct. |
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Artist: URPF LANZE Title: Procession of Talking Mirrors Format: LP Label: Audiomer Country: Belgium Price: $26.00 |
| "The person behind Urpf Lanze is Belgian visual artist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, who is mainly known for his large-scale ink drawings that offer a hermetic blend of weirdo characters, medieval iconography and surrealist decors. His artwork started gaining some attention a few years ago when renowned avant-garde lutenist Jozef Van Wissem started using Vanhaelemeeschs work to decorate many sleeves of his recorded output, including his collaborations with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, noise legends Smegma, free-folk band United Bible Studies and fingerpicker James Blackshaw. Next to doing exhibitions in places like Tokyo, New York and Paris, his drawings appear regularly in zines and underground publications all over the world. He also runs the audioMER label together with designer Jeroen Wille and has provided artwork for records by Jack Rose, Robbie Basho, Mauro Antonio Pawlowski, Cian Nugent, Graveyards, Second Family Band and many others. Urpf Lanze is the moniker of his rather unorthodox solo guitar project, under which he has been playing for several years now. With an acoustic guitar that lays flat on his lap, tuned to unwieldy scales, he brutalizes the instrument in an oddly musical way. As if this wasnt enough, he lays down some vocal work that goes from ventriloquist-like whines and mumbles to deep and guttural grunts. The result is a rather unhinged and demented music. Imagine the rawness of Bill Orcutt, the more frightening sides of Loren Mazzacane Connors and the absurd stylings of Wilburn Burchette all wrapped into a Lovecraftian sonic nightmare. Procession of Talking Mirrors is his first full-length solo album. Recorded live on a 4-track tape recorder, these six tracks offer a mixture of Japanese folk music, free psych, scratchy Delta-blues recordings, damaged lo-fi and aggressively percussive fingerpicking. While some tracks may carry a more melancholy tone, others seem closer to acoustic death metal than any kind of folk music. However you may describe it, it is most definitely not a record for the faint of heart." -Audiomer. |
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Artist: USA IS A MONSTER Title: Geronimo Format: Picture Disc 7" Label: Lovepump United Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Brooklyn, NY duo USA IS A MONSTER take a break from their prolific, terrifically noisy Load Records catalogue to release two acoustic songs with Lovepump United. This surprisingly quiet release from the normally skronktastic band is a lush, psychedelic exploration recorded with a seven-piece ensemble at The Werehouse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The vinyl itself is an extremely limited, beautiful full-color picture disc 7-inch with artwork by the band." - LU. |
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Artist: USURPER Title: Lets Just See What Happens Format: LP Label: Rel Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "REL is proud to present the debut LP of the Scottish duo Usurper (Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff). Creating a sound nearly impossible to describe, Usurper combines obsessive metallic clunk, destroyed voices, broken horns and dropped marbles (?), into dense fields of activity. Working towards an intuitive sound logic all its own, Usurper creates a surreal, comic structure that is unmatched and an energy that will make you laugh as soon as you shake your head in bafflement. The B side features a trio set with the addition of Sticky Foster (A Band, Prick Decay, Coffee) who blends seamlessly into the group. The LP is a one time, hand numbered edition of 200 copies with bold design featuring Malcy Duffs illustrations silk screened by Ashley Paul. The inside features a liner note pocket housing the full 24-page comic 2.1.3 by Duff." - Rel. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Alitaja Ylimina Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Alitaju Ylimina" is the first vinyl album by Finlands Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies in a marvellous fold-out sleeve with a full-colour drawing by Uton himself on the outer sleeve and some fierce black&white illustrations by dutch artist Christelle Gualdi inside. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere and currently travelling and recording in India. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. The music of Uton is no exception there, drawing inspirations from psychedelia to free jazz to pure ecstatic drones and noises using a wide range of acoustic instruments from various parts of the globe and a bulk of electronics. Recorded in glorious lo-fi the mystery of Hirvonens sound is difficult to pinpoint; sheer ravishing beauty, elegancy and variegation is stashed behind a wall of grey, inscrutable haze - gorgeous melodies and voices, reeds and alien sounds gleaming through the mist from time to time, shimmering like diamonds through layers of dust. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) will be released on LP by Dekorder later this year." - Dekorder. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Buddhamania Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| ⿿more magical droney sounds from the mystic forests of Tampere..." |
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Artist: UTON Title: Echoes in the Wonderland Format: LP Label: DNT Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"After countless releases on labels such as Housecraft, Digitalis, Dekorder, Sloow, etc. and his own label, Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam, UTON finds a new home with DNT. Echoes in the Wonderland is the first full-length LP by Finlands JANI HIRVONEN since 2009s Unexplained Objects (Dekorder) and is no less weird than his previous excursions from the outer regions of the cosmos to the minds innerspace. As the album title could say, this is a way to the "wonderland" (also called the "other side"-many names been used during the history of humankind), which shouldnt be mixed for the adventures of famous Alice-even it might give some idea about what is going to happen, but thats just a start of it all-the start of nothing else but listeners mind. What are the "echoes" then? They are something which are coming from beyond to here where we stay-this album being a link between these worlds; inside & outside; like they are working together. Psychedelic transmissions of consciousness. Bizarro alien communication thats difficult to pinpoint, Utons "sheer ravishing beauty, elegancy and variegation is stashed behind a wall of grey, inscrutable haze-gorgeous melodies and voices, reeds and alien sounds gleaming through the mist from time to time, shimmering like diamonds through layers of dust." (Dekorders words) Co-released with Finnish label Ikuisuus in a unrighteously limited pressing of 275 with full-color pro-printed jackets designed by Uton himself. The DNT edition is limited to 110 hand-numbered copies." -DNT.
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Artist: UTON Title: Live In Death Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| "UTON plays ballads for the new earth. covered under a blanket of tone colors and nature cones, this brain is transferring a total new spectrum of trance. including a super guest-appearance by BRIDGET HAYDEN. full color cover and insert, painted tapecase." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Live in the Center of the World Format: Cass Label: Black Horizons Country: US Price: $8.00 |
| "Double a-side tape, played in reverse on the B, this documents an Uton live show. More abrasive than recorded output. Acoustics, vocal mantras, and pulsating drone that leave you confused when it is all over with. Offset printed gold on platinum vellum, clear labels "touched by the golden hand" in an edition of 100 copies on hi-bias chrome tapes." - Black Horizons. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Mystery Revolution Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "One of Finlands best kept secrets returns with a new album, and a sonic excursion through the Finnish forests unlike any other. Massive drones are balanced by the hypnotic dance of flutes, bells, and keyboards. Underneath everything runs a mind-altering stream of fuzzed-out brainwaves. Every corner you turn, theres another smiling nymph, begging you to follow the golden path into the mystic woods. UTONs minimalist rumblings are there to infect and enchant, and never fail to impress. "Utons a genius & I always love his art, album titles & cryptic noise mud-slides. Great forestdrone, shortwave, bowed guitars? ... I dont know what he uses, but it all sounds mysterious & subconscious, dreamlike."- Glenn Donaldson, Jewelled Antler. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Radio Olio Metaphysica! Format: Double CDR Label: Om ha sva ha ksha a la va ra yam Country: Finland Price: $15.00 |
| "first disc recorded in july/august 2007, collecting sounds and tunes together with experimental new methods. from small no-fi dada sounds to space-ambient atmospheres to acoustic pseudojazz to psychedelic moonshine to screaming guitar feedback to violin scratches... making a tour to the mind of what is. second disc, The Book of Beginnigs, is mostly recorded early 2006, and shows the another deep-drone-dream-realm of Uton. few tracks with J.Koho (from Kulkija, Free Players, Tulasi etc.), and also some help from Vanessa Rossetto (Mighty Acts of God, Pulga etc.), Brad Rose (the North Sea etc.), Maxime Primault (Enfer Boreal) and Magnus Olsen (Elektronavn). comes in beautiful silkscreened clothe-sleeves and small booklet."-Om ha sva ha ksha a la va ra yam |
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Artist: UTON Title: s/t Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $16.00 |
| "2 new tracks from Finlands one-man psychedelic army. Dark and atmospheric, nodding slightly towards his CDR on Gold Soundz, the brilliant "XXX", but even more haunting and mesmerizing, but with the light occational tinkles of a piano being hit by a mudslide... Edition of 51." - Gold Soundz. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Shiva Blues Format: CDR Label: Om ha sva ha ksha a la va ra yam Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "free-drone-trance-noise guitar feedback improv. using couple of distrortions and echo chamber effect pedal, and an old radio/tape-recorder as an amplifier. no overdubs here, three tracks, pure sound. kind of dance music."- |
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Artist: UTON Title: Straight Edge XXS Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| ""Straight Edge XXS" is the 2nd vinyl album by Finlands Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies on the Dekorder label. It comes in a gorgeous full-colour collage sleeve assembled by Hirvonen himself. While Utons last Dekorder album "Alitaju Ylimina" (and most of his other recorded works respectively) are hazy lo-fi drone masterpieces for the most part, this is a completely diffferent affair. Recorded straight to tape within one month, right after returning from a 6-month trip to India, these songs (if you could call them songs) are completely out-of-this-world; very short and crazed sketch-like pieces sounding like a Nonesuch Explorer LP of long lost field recordings from an as yet unexplored continent. Or is it World Music from an unknown planet recorded by those Sublime Frequencies guys from mysterious short wave transmissions? Well, it is all that and more. It is pure ecstatic expression channelized through Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Noise and rural ancient Folk Music from all over the world in a completely naked, predominantly acoustic setting. One of the purest forms of music you could imagine; while all the familiar Uton elements remain evident in a hazy backcloth. Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) is released on LP by Dekorder simultaneously." - Dekorder. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Unexplained Objects Format: LP Label: Dekorder Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Unexplained Objects" is the 3rd vinyl-only LP by Finlands Uton for the Dekorder label, like his previous Dekorder albums released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies in a beautiful full-colour heavy duty sleeve designed by Hirvonen himself. While the last albums explored rural soundworlds from the outer reaches of this planet and hidden places of the inner human (and animal) mind, he has finally left planet earth completely and is now reaching out for outer space and alien communication. Hirvonen seems to have traveled the spaceways, bringing home folk music and field recordings from faraway planets and alien cultures. Erich von Däniken beware! Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases. Uton has previously released dozens of CDs, CD-Rs and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) has been released on LP by Dekorder as well." - Dekorder. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Were Only In It For The Spirit Format: CD Label: Digitalis Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "For the past five plus years, Uton has been one of the most consistent projects to come out of the snowy confines of his native Finland. His output has been constant, but the quality is always great. His drones have always been underscored with a sense of melody and a keen utilization of the space where the music was created. These songs are not icy or glacial, though, like one might think. Uton has an uncanny ability to inject an inviting sense of warmth and spirit. Were Only In It For The Spirit is ghost music; barely there and out-of-sight in the blink of an eye. The man responsible for these masked-spirit journeys is Tampere native, Jani Hirvonen. Hes collaborated with the likes of Jan Anderzén (Kemialliset Ystävät, etc), Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra), & Anla Courtis (Reynols), among others. When it comes to enchanted, sprawling drones, Hirvonent is a true Rennaissance man. He is joined by Vapaas J.P. Koho on all tracks, who complements Hirvonens delicacy with subtle hints of chaos. Were Only In It For The Spirit continues to trek through new worlds of sound, polishing off the once-rough edges of Utons sound into something that acts as a beacon in the void. Dark, brooding drones for guitar and electronics flicker and fade like a distant, stellar horizon. Hirvonen is a master craftsman, and Koho is his perfect foil. The two play off each others every move and produce an end result that rivals anything Uton has released previously. Were Only In It For The Spirit is a magical piece of work." -Digitalis |
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Artist: UTON Title: XXX Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz Country: Norway Price: $12.00 |
| "A new great album from the Tampere, Finland psych-noise favourites. Quite a bit more intense and claustophobic than many of his previous albums. Perhaps somebodys put something funny in the drinking water... Uton has released many albums the last 2-3 years on Pseudo Arcana, Jewelled Antler and his own imprint Haamumaa. Edition of 100 copies." - Gold Sounds. |
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Artist: UTON & TOMUTONTTU Title: Hevoset Format: Cass Label: Haamumaa Country: Finland Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: UTON & VALERIO COSI Title: Käärmeenkääntopiiri Format: CD Label: Fire Museum Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Perhaps this collaboration was destined to happen, and were overjoyed that it is happening here! Tampere, Finlands Uton (Jani Hirvonen) and Taranto, Italys Valerio Cosi (who is ? of Pulga) are two of the most creative and most prolific musicians working in experimental music at the moment, and on Käärmeenkääntopiiri, Uton and Valerio have mastered a sound that combines elements of psychedelia, free jazz, Krautrock, environmental sounds, drones and more for an ecstatic listening experience. A mélange of electronic and acoustic instrumentation join together as naturally as the coming of the tides. By turns meditative and forceful, introspective and extroverted, all the while commanding undivided attention from the listener. This is experimentation that remains inviting even in its darker passages. 2007 has been a banner year for both of these musicians, and this release finds them in top form, creating a work that shows exactly why they are in such high demand. Käärmeenkääntopiiri will leave you hoping this is the beginning of many more collaborations between these two." -Fire Museum. |
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Artist: UTON/CLAY FIGURE Title: Split Format: CDR Label: Haamumaa Country: Finland Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: UUHUU Title: Buck Format: Cass Label: Tapetektoniks Country: Germany Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: UV POP Title: No Songs Tomorrow Format: CD Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "UV PØP were an early 80s post-punk group from the South Yorkshire region of England. Their sound was regionally bleak and they used staccato, angular guitars lines, with vocals ranged from spoken repeated mantras to whispered and shouted political poetics. The Rough Trade charts for one week in 1982 tell a very interesting story. Alongside acts of the caliber of Sisters of Mercy, Robert Wyatt, Sex Gang Children and Virgin Prunes are UV PØP, their place well-earned." -Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: UV POP Title: No Songs Tomorrow Format: LP Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "UV PØP were an early 80s post-punk group from the South Yorkshire region of England. Their sound was regionally bleak and they used staccato, angular guitars lines, with vocals ranged from spoken repeated mantras to whispered and shouted political poetics. The Rough Trade charts for one week in 1982 tell a very interesting story. Alongside acts of the caliber of Sisters of Mercy, Robert Wyatt, Sex Gang Children and Virgin Prunes are UV PØP, their place well-earned." -Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: UV RACE Title: Acid Trip Format: 7" Label: Sweet Rot Country: Canada Price: $7.00 |
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"Fourth single from Melbourne, Australias UV RACE and just the like the other three, this one is fantastic. The A-side sees the band pushing forward into somewhat newer territories with "Acid Trip" their hazy/dreamy take on psychedelic pop, albeit with the typical UV Race retardo-punk bent. The flip "Speed Freak" is a more direct two minute burst of UV Race greatness. Expertly recorded by MIKEY YOUNG (Eddy Current Suppression Ring) with perhaps their best sleeve art yet. New LP, Homo, coming soon on In the Red." - Sweet Rot.
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Artist: UV RACE Title: Homo Format: LP Label: In the Red Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"2007 saw the first recording from Melbourne, Australias The UV RACE-a self-released tape featuring four songs of primitive thud, minimal assemblage and high-energy expression. Over the next three years the band has continued to show dedication to these themes with a string of cassettes and singles and their 2009 self-titled debut full-length, and their sophomore album Homo delivers on the promise of these early releases. Working again with EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING guitarist MIKEY YOUNG at the recording and mixing stages, The UV Race developed the songs over several sessions. Their willingness to explore is clear, from the psychotic bedroom confessional of "Girl in My Head" with its confident teen-heat swagger, to the seven-minute closer "Homo," where nods to the Ramones enclose a psychedelic freak-out reminiscent of the closing minutes of The Stooges Funhouse. In between, the band explores influences ranging from their Australian proto-punk and garage fascinations to American country, Krautrock and UK post-punk, citing the Velvet Underground and the Saints as influences. Includes members of TOTAL CONTROL and STRAIGHTJACKET NATION. Includes digital download coupon." -In The Red
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Artist: UV RACE Title: I Hate You Format: 7" Label: Fashionable Idiots Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Four brand new cuts of UV RACEs unique Aussie punk meets name it KBD slop. A fantastic effort from these Australian knobs, dont miss it." - Fashionable Idiots.
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Artist: UV RACE Title: Malaria Format: 7" Label: S-S Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"In the beginning, the U.V. Race were the product of two rural Australians imagination. Throughout high school, Al & Marcus had the band but no sound. A few years go by and Al moves to Melbourne and joins Straight Jacket Nation with Daniel -- they play speedy hardcore. Marcus moves to Melbourne and with his pal Al, Daniel, Moses and Emily, U.V. Race made some noise. After some playing around, they released a great single on Aarght! Records and a split tape with pals Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Enter S.S. Records and this new record, Malaria, the U.V. Races second record. Four songs long, the UVs take their influences (X, Cramps, Electric Eels, VU, etc.) and get loose. While the songs are songs, nothing is too planned out as the band thrives on spontaneity. Captured on tape by Eddy Current guitarist Mikey Young, Malaria is yet another great record to come out of todays Melbourne DIY scene." -S-S
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Artist: UV RACE Title: Racism Format: LP Label: In The Red Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "God is saying this to you: Racism is the third album by Australias most genius avant-tards THE UV RACE, dragging melodious pop songs through a devolved, malodorous glam-punk aesthetic. It continues the stylistic jump from their self-titled debut to sophomore full-length Homo, further exploring the possibilities of the first wave of punk, incorporating orchestral arrangements and gutter-glitter psych stomp, like if Vom tried to write their own Forever Changes; like if the Electric Eels backed up Bolan or if The Fall put out a record on Crass Records. There are tuneful lamentations of heartbreak and loss alongside very debased, toilet-humor punk licks; Lovecraftian psych-cult morbidity at one moment and rousing anti-anthems against self denial the next. It has been an especially productive year for the band-they are about to launch their first feature-length film, Autonomy and Deliberation, and the soundtrack LP recorded for the film comes alongside Racism, a split 7-inch with Native Cats (on Ride the Snake), a split live LP with Eddy Current Suppression Ring (on Almost Ready, originally released on a limited run of cassettes back in 2008), and the Gypsy King single (from Racism, on HoZac). All this, plus the output of the numerous other Melbourne bands in which members of UV Race play-Asps, Dick Diver, East Link, Guy & Marcus Blackman Experimentation, Lower Plenty, School of Radiant Living, Soma Coma, Straightjacket Nation and Total Control-reveal a relentless commitment for the sake of the song. LP includes digital download coupon." -In The Red. |
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Artist: UV RACE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Aarght Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
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"Crude proto-punk reminiscent of the glory days of VOM, Modern Lovers, Zakary Thaks, Electric Eels, Crime, and a whole host of historic losers. Aaarrggght! Records are very proud indeed to present you with this killer slice of idiot savant punk rock.
"The full-length debut masterpiece from Melbourne avant-tard six piece. Following two limited-edition (and now highly sought after) seven inch singles released here and in the USA, the UV Race have fulfi lled the potential only hinted at on those EPs. Produced by Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring.
"Bringing to mind some of the cornerstones of mid 70s proto-punk (Modern Lovers, Gizmos, Electric Eels and the like), the UV Race likewise avoid rote punk trappings with their really quite sophisticated use of piano and saxophone, and the over-riding presence of singer Marcus introverted musings on life as a small town misfit. His sincerity and unconventionality is what makes the UV Race compelling listening." -Aarght
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Artist: UV RACE/EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING Title: Split Format: LP Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Live at Missing Link Records - May 2nd 2008. Great sets from Australias finest! Comes with full color sleeve, two sided insert, and download card of entire show!!" - Last Laugh.
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Artist: UW OWL Title: Old Birth of New Death Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"First in a four-part series of recordings based on Gene Wolfes four-part "Book of the New Sun" series. Torture-meditation drones, spatial field recordings, acoustic guitar, gothic synthesizer washes, fragmented spoken-word, and a deeper investigation into the longer format. Hand dubbed C-36 with letterpressed wrap-around cover in metallic gold ink. Edition of 100." -Phaserprone.
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Artist: UW OWL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"U W OWL has finally found their first proper release after making numerous small edition CD-Rs and contributing a track on United Bamboos They Keep me Smiling compilation curated by Hisham Bharoocha (x- Black Dice, Soft Circle). This LP features ten songs chosen from a mass of recordings between 2003 and 2004. Electrical currents, desolate sound scapes, dark tunnels, late night jams and structured waste recorded on a broken dust-filled concrete basement floor in Bushwick - Brooklyn, NY. 333 copies. 140g Vinyl. Packaged in a self assembled dye-cut and letterpressed jacket by Jonas Asher, with insert." - Phaserprone.
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Artist: UZLU, RAZOUL Title: Lost and Found Adventures Format: LP Label: Monolisa Country: Belgium Price: $18.00 |
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"The six pieces, now released by Monolisa Records, are part of a private tape released in 1992 by Razoul Uzlu (aka Raymond Dijkstra). The music on this album, created through automic writing, is a kind of imaginary animation music with a nice blend of collage and harmony, from sober sweetness to neurotic alienation. Multitracked synthesizer with voices and noises are the basic ingredients of these adventurous mono recordings. The cover of the record, also made by Razoul Uzlu, is a collage of selected prints of old engravings and texts. This is the first Monolisa release in an edition of 500 copies with stamped and numbered innersleeve." - Monolisa.
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